Thanks, Gergana, for facilitating the meeting!<br><br>After I left, it occurred to me that a really great event to have -- for the benefit of new members/visitors -- is a way to<br>introduce ourselves in terms of our specific interests and projects. ( We probably should have done better<br>
introductions last night.) What would everyone think of just a Show-and-Tell event? (A one-hour micro-mini Maker Faire?) Champaign Movie Makers has a monthly program of invited speakers. Is that something else we might want to start up?<br>
<br>-Stewart<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Gergana Slavova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gergana.s.slavova@gmail.com">gergana.s.slavova@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to everyone for coming! We were glad to see a few new faces :)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Attendees: Stewart, Derek, Jeff, Brian, John, Erich, Barry,
Gergana, Sunah, Colton<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Opens</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in">- Website server crashed again,
site is down; would be nice to have someone in charge of this so downtime is
minimized; Chris is working on getting someone</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Chris started new
makerspace-keystaff mailing list; to be used for business-related manners, not
applicable to full listserv<br>
<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Membership update</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Chris is working towards getting
us more volunteers, networking opportunities, etc.; he can provide an update
next time</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Help Desk pulled $80 last week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span> </span>-
Potential recruits could come from Community Informatics club<br>
<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Website domain renewals: makespaceu.{org, com, net} and
makerspaceurbana.{org, com, net}</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Jeremy already renewed them for
another year.<span> </span>Thanks, Jeremy!<span> </span>He will get reimbursed<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Do we need all of them? Point is moot due to renewal; will bring this up again in Sept/Oct
'12<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Jeremy to continue as point of
contact; Erich will talk to Jeremy this week to clarify</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
- Upcoming events<br>
*) Mitch Altman visit (Feb. 26 - March 1)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Stewart already in contact; Mitch will
be doing Tech Knowledge on that Thurs morning</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Can also do a potential workshop with the
Makerspace while he’s here<br>
*) Maker Faire (April 14)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- no activity due to
maternity/holidays/busy time</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Erich will update list once things
start to pick-up<br>
*) Another movie night</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in">- Feb. 12</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Potential movies:<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin-left:40px">- Tron / Tron: Legacy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin-left:40px">- Real Genius</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin-left:40px">- Weird Science</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin-left:40px">- War Games</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin-left:40px">- Blade Runner</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin-left:40px">- Live Free or Die Hard<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Gergana will poll the Facebook members<br><br>
- Possible projects:<br>
*) Robot for indy sci-fi short film</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Stewart will follow-up with
filmmaker to check on timeframe, funding, etc.<br>
*) DARPA's MENTOR Makerspace program</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- No interest<br>
*) 24/7 video telepresence with another hackerspace</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Postpone until UC2B is a reality;
could then do this with someone local (FabLab?) <br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>*) Portable desk
idea; Makerspace is interested; Chris to send out more details once available<br>
*) We should also start thinking of possible workshops
for 2012</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Community-oriented workshops
focusing on houses with new internet access through the UC2B project (coming later
this year); Sunah to give an update in the Feb/March meetings<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in">- Maybe repeat pewter casting
workshop? Person to teach it last time might have left town</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">- Come with ideas next time!<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Let me know if I missed anything.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Peace out,</p><p class="MsoNormal">~Gergana<br></p>
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