December 1 2014

Governance Committee (Dom)

• Business plan (Dustin)
• How to move forward with grant money (John)
• Accelerator/incubator idea (John)
• Property on Commerce Street

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

	Count	Change
Facebook	<FB Total>	<FB Change>
Twitter	<Twitter Total>	<Twitter Change)
Google+	<G+ Total>	<G+ Change)
Meetup	<Meetup Total>	<Meetup Change)

Topics

• Downtime over the weekend

Finances and Fundraising Task Force (Jens)

Status

Account	Balance	Change
Bank	$112,390.84	+ 99,175.93
Paypal	$2,044.29	+ 373.84
Total	$114,435.13	+ 99,549.77
Member count	34	+ 2

Topics

• No topics

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• Need to start calendar for next year

Special Projects Brigade (looking for a leader)

• Project triage (Barb)
  • Review what we're doing, decide what's important, make choices
• Bus
• Little Free Libraries

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

Upcoming Events

• Robot Sumo (Dec 12-13)
• Chibitronics Sticky Circuits Dec

Other topics

• Screen printing
• Safety Sultan
  • Need to post general use guidelines by equipment

devICT (Seth)

Upcoming Events

• None reported

Other topics

• No topics

Miscellaneous and community topics

• Attracting members, being active (John)
  • Directed hack day
  • Arduino Tuesdays?
• How to make the 'space more work-friendly (John)
  • Force board members to bring projects in
• Member-owned tools (John)

Ended @ 1905

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Notes (minutes?):

Dustin biz plan update

- would like help getting market data from WSU CEBR(?)
- we need to review goals and objectives after Dustin's latest edit
- will continue to send sections out for review with deadlines; review goals and objectives by Friday evening **ALL**
- hope is that biz plan will help establish goals and be available when seeking funding

Grant money plan

- need to designate wood shop point person **TOM**

Incubator space

- Talk around town of creating a space
- We will participate in the discussion **JOHN**

Location

- set soft deadline of Jan 15 to make a decision

Finances

- grant deposited

Members

- need to confirm that new members are getting a welcome letter via WildApricot **MIKE**

Special Projects

- need to make sure we have buy-in from people to run projects before agreeing (eg instructables) **BARB**

Bus

- got insurance!!
- title being signed over to us soon

Little free libraries

- doors almost complete
- will deliver to TOPS before year end; install in spring? **BARB**

Robot Sumo

- invite people to Facebook event!
- set ticket cap **GINA**

Screen Printing

- getting info on equipment to buy  **KIP**

General use guidelines

- need call to arms to recruit people to write these for equipment **DOM**

devICT

- received non-profit access to SLACK

Loaned equipment

- are we going to accept it?
- insurance? **JENS**
- how do other do it?  **JOHN**

3D printer

- next workshop plan **DOM AND JAMES L**