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<p>Created page with &quot;== Board Meeting: == === Time &amp; Location === February 16, 2025, 4pm virtually via Big Blue Button === Minutes === *This year each person on the board will report on their individual projects so we can keep everyone on task *Issac (President Shop Cat) **Spark - our lease is ending this year fall and we have the option to renew for a five years ***We will need to decide what to do about renegotiating that **Documentary - Issac thinks they are done shooting - at least t...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Board Meeting: ==<br /> <br /> === Time &amp; Location ===<br /> February 16, 2025, 4pm virtually via Big Blue Button<br /> <br /> <br /> === Minutes ===<br /> *This year each person on the board will report on their individual projects so we can keep everyone on task<br /> <br /> *Issac (President Shop Cat)<br /> **Spark - our lease is ending this year fall and we have the option to renew for a five years<br /> ***We will need to decide what to do about renegotiating that<br /> **Documentary - Issac thinks they are done shooting - at least the group stuff<br /> **Maker Education Meetup is this Tuesday at KM about 5-6pm - inviting them to stay for cookout and following<br /> **Building opportunity - we have had one come up and will be viewing it even though we&#039;re pretty sure it&#039;s not for us - we want to foster willingness and gratitude for the lead<br /> **Maker Market - we have been offered to work with Vestival but unsure if we are going to do the market with them or if we will participate in any way<br /> **Scholarship program - we are funded to do three this year :tada:<br /> **Steps House (local program for people get back on their feet) has approached Issac to meet and talk about shared goals and supporting each other - not sure what they have in mind but we&#039;ll find out I guess<br /> *Sue (Treasurer)<br /> **Someone donated a lovely sum to us from their IRA distribution<br /> **Someone else donated to the scholarship fund and got matched by their employer<br /> **New norm on expenses - $150/mo for potluck, the general fund will be absorbing costs for propane and welding gas to pull the lift off the zones<br /> **Already ready to put more in the money market account<br /> **Sue is working on trying to get set up for people to do ACH and subvert Paypal and Quickbooks entirely<br /> *Tracy (Membership Dictator)<br /> **Membership count: 351<br /> **Tracy will begin her quarterly purge in March so make sure your dues are paid up<br /> *Russell (Community coordinator)<br /> **Talks and Crafts - Russell is filling up the schedule with cool stuff and working with Daryl about putting stuff on the websites<br /> **Newsletter - making progress on content, format, etc. and hoping to get one out next month <br /> ***Will Issac do horoscopes?<br /> ***Lots of great information and plenty of tomfoolery<br /> **Tool instruction videos - Russell is working with czars about making checklists on some tools, more reference materials and after all that - maybe some videos<br /> **Russell would like to announce that Larry is the new Hack Rack Ambassador - to help keep it contained and cleaned up<br /> *Jondale (Technical director)<br /> **Single Sign-on - one of his goals of the year to move everything to our own cluster and move all of our services to single sign on - make it easier for members to access all of the sites<br /> ***It has been confusing in the past since there is separate logins for website and MM - so click Jondale&#039;s link in All Members<br /> ***We possibly can help people on Tuesdays<br /> **Mesh Central - allow czars to access to any machines that are in their zone (that are connected to the network)<br /> **Also hoping to do a refresh on haxdb (the membership database) and invite other people to help with that <br /> **Mayor&#039;s Maker Council - talked about Dogwood Arts Festival - will be much the same as last year - hopefully more demos/workshops from us this year<br /> *Daryl (Communications)<br /> **Working on website refresh, infrastructure, etc.<br /> **Now working on the plugins and the store and needs access to all the things<br /> *Sean (Creative director)<br /> **Pecha Kucha - do we all want to go and check it out - maybe one of us do one in the future<br /> **Sean knows someone from Ramblin Man podcast so might try and get KM featured<br /> **What is the best time ahead to put our classes on Social Media so that members get first run?<br /> **Sean is working on a brand guideline<br /> *Billy (Facilities)<br /> **Offline tags and parking tags- Billy is looking for holders and decided best to make some holders (anyone want some laser and Inkscape experience?)<br /> **Vertical storage - working on cleaning that up and making spots available<br /> **Greenhoe asked for a power drop<br /> **We should talk about shop air compressor - the proposal was missing the addition of the paint booth and looking to confirm layout and who will pay for it<br /> *Other stuff <br /> **Sue wants to be the ambassador for a December holiday gift exchange<br /> **Next meeting March 16, 2025<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> === Votes ===</div>

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