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: $5160 of $6000
    • current members: 23
    • subscribing members: 14
  • 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) <FIXME>
  • 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
    • Dallas Tech Fest - July 30, 2010 8a-5p. UT Dallas.
    • BarcampDallas5 or Google Group Barcamp Dallas or BarCampDallas5 - August 21, 2010. 15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX, 75248 (214) 613-4444
  • updates

Minutes

20100617

• 1908
• 1914 Ed starting meeting
  • Makerbot re-assembly/fixing
  • Ice tube clock
  • R2 popup bit
• talk about the space
  • 1680 sft
  • need to sign lease, extinguisher, elect, inet
  • move-in date is July 1st
• 1918
• fundraiser was good
• one thing we dont have is the positive cash flow if you are signed up please turn on the recurring payments
• 1919
• getting items for the space
  • some stored at probotics
  • some at peoples' homes
  • need to do any work prior?
  • suggest we don't worry about it until the 1st meeting there
  • they will clean the carpets
• 1922
  • there's already a gigantic walk-in closet behind the main area; would make a great dark room, etc, it might have to go away.
  • front offices are all air-conditioned
  • the warehouse is not
  • we'll need to get some fans
• 1926
• end of intro stuff
• 2037 still going

Group Project

Attendees