BoardMeeting201505

Board Meeting: May 17, 2015

Time & Location

• Meeting Located at Tech 20/20 board room
• 3:00PM-5:00PM

Attendees

Voting: Sam M. Doug L. Jondale S. Issac M. James B.

Attending: David B.

Minutes

• 3D Printing Meetup Group is good idea but punted due to time constraints.

• Jondale appointed Tech Director.

• We are now categorized as a vocational school instead of a factory in new space plans. This means making some minor changes to the plan involving the bathrooms. Same is working on a P&L statement.

• Speak this upcoming Tuesday about volunteers.

• Sam gave us a financial update. Still being converted fully over to Quickbooks.

• Need to improve visibility of ticket system. Assign open items to someone.

• Website in development. New hosting will be used for development and then switched when ready. Think about wording to use on webpage.

• Issac prioritizing new access system. The interface is well under way. The next step determining hardware. James will be making recommendations.

• Outreach

[in progress]

Agenda Items

• revisit 3D printing Meetup group
• revisit Tech Director/Secretary
• space move update
  • Sam - P&L Statements to Justin
• volunteers to help with the move and remodel
• financial review
• review Trouble Ticket Items
• Check webpage update status
• Makhan's ticket system
• Outreach
  • National Maker Faire (June 12-13)
  • Revisit Nashville Mini MakerFaire
  • Revisit Chattanooga Mini MakerFaire
  • Revisit Atlanta MakerFaire
  • Full Scale Millennium Falcon Project
  • National Week of Making
    • Pellissippi MakerPalooza
• Fighting machine tourney update
• Library Outreach update
• grants
  • Creative Placemaking update
  • ABC update
• UTK Business School Final Report
  • review Final Report
  • communication
  • website redesign
  • assign actionable items
• Hosting/Domain/SSL
• Google Apps Non-profit
• Press releases going forward
• Advertising budget
• Upcoming calendar