Maker Faire Committee Meeting 2016-12-13

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Roll Call

| Logan Pajunen | Dominic Canare | James Lancaster | Lisa Rundstrom | James A Seymour

Old business

Relieved from the board:

  • Exploration Place Maker Faire partnership with Jan Luth
    • Proposed partnership agreement
    • Curt: "We need to make sure we have backing in our organization before we commit to this."
      • Proposal: recruit and build committee before signing formal agreement
    • Concern: how much / do we need to budget for this

@DECISION: Committee will relieve this from the board and provide mission critical updates

New business

  • explain need for expanded scope
  • offer primary roles and define them

@TODO (James, January 27, 2017): Gather dates for regional MakerFaires and build a planning calendar


  • discussed initial points of contact for specific roles
    • Malissa Long Wilson - Program assistance for new features
    • Tim Collins - Curation – making decisions on the submissions
    • David Springs - Sat night party
  • Days fair will happen 22-23 of July
  • Planning for about 75-100 booths
  • after party
    • generally thought by EP and MakeICT that Saturday night is a good
    • having it at ERP may be a possibility
  • ERP has 20 acres to fill
    • bubbles
    • Iron working
    • drones
    • powerwheels race
  • EP plans to have their creator space
  • STEM/STEAM projects
    • perhaps invite center for the arts to art
    • Lisa R may head up a project
  • Discussed People draw
    • Best robotics
    • Lego robotics
    • Ham Demonstrations

@TODO (Logan, December 24, 2017): get James the Standards paperwork from EP and the Feedback from the last two years @TODO (James, January 27, 2017): Plan next Committee meeting @TODO (EVERYONE, January 27, 2017): Brainstorm Who should come and what demonstrations we should have

Decision Summary

    Task Summary