Meeting 20100603

Makerspace Agenda/Meeting

• Makerspace intro (5 min)
  • anyone new, please introduce yourself!
• Makerspace business (15 min)
  • hand out flyers to those @ the meeting - please pass them out or put them up!
  • budget:
    • current funds: $4670 of $6000
    • current members: 22
    • subscribing members: 13
  • dues: sign up on the website for recurring donations -> Thanks to everyone that has signed up so far!
    • $370 for May (10 people)
    • $490 for June (13 people)
  • What You Can Do:
    • call the owners of buildings you see to find out the monthly rate, lease terms, and square footage!
    • flyers
      • post them!
      • refresh the postings!
    • tell your friends and coworkers
    • drop a note on any relevant mailing lists, forums, or news groups you're on
  • past events
  • upcoming events
    • A-Kon (21) - Friday, June 4, 2010, through Sunday, June 6. Sheraton and Westin Hotels Downtown Dallas
    • BarcampDallas5 or Google Group Barcamp Dallas - June 12, 2010, 9a-5p *or* July 17 *or* July 24. 15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX, 75248 (214) 613-4444
    • Dallas Tech Fest - July 30, 2010 8a-5p. UT Dallas.
  • updates
    • Adafruit Group Buy !!!

Minutes

20100603

• 1904 starting
• DMS business
• Coupon code "LASTYEAR" for techfest (from Eric)
• 1916 questions
  •  ?what social PR do we have?
  • have meetup.com, twitter
  • Need linked-in acct
• questions more about social PR
  • IRC channel,
  • wiki
  • mailing list
• 1918 what we're doing tonight
  • Makerbot production
  • robotic papercraft
  • Glenn has the new TI watch (about $50)
  • Eric brought mini-arduino
• question about how to determine when we can get the space
• Ed explaining the budgetting 1921
• have a vote on the 12th to free up the funds so that we can go forward w/ the space.

Group Project

Attendees