[Imc-makerspace] February Membership Meeting, Sunday (2/23) @ 6pm

[Gergana Slavova]

Hi everyone,

Looking forward to seeing you at our monthly membership meeting this
Sunday, 6pm at the Makerspace.  Here's a quick list of some things we'll
discuss.

*) Opens
    -- Mailing list move to @makerspaceurbana.org
     -- Google Glass update
    -- Clean-up signs put up in the space!
    -- News-Gazette article on the Makerspace!
    -- Purchase an iRecycle battery
kit<http://www.batteryrecycling.com/Products/195/373/iRecycle+Kits/iRecycle+Kit+35>
    -- Getting a table saw?
*) Membership/Financial Update
    -- Financial status
         $) Stripe account update (Erich)
          $) Membership levels
    -- Funding ideas
         $) Selling bike light cross-stitch kits on Etsy
         $) Will also do a general ask of anyone who has ever visited the
space
         $) Food Co-op round-up monthly donation: hold off until summer
         $) Py-CU workshop
         $) Yahoo! Employee Foundation (YEF) funding
         $) Put up a "Did you enjoy the space?  Donate here" sign next to
the donation jar
          $) Should we have a wider range of soldering kits?
         $) Funding from Acorn Media for Help Desk
         $) Awesome Foundation grant (for TUFL workshops?)
         $) 3D printing keychains for a $1
         $) We should have a list of 3D printer usage rules (including
donation amounts)
*) Help Desk
*) RFID lock project
  *) Py-CU
*) Past events:
    -- Py-CU's first year anniversary (Saturday, Feb. 1, 6-9pm)
    -- Mitch Altman's Cool Kits workshop @ MU (Saturday, Feb. 15, 2-5pm)
 *) Upcoming/potential events:
    -- Hardware Freedom Day <http://www.hfday.org/> (Saturday, March 15)
    -- Zine Reading event with Tomas of Rad Dad (Monday, March 17)
    -- Family Science Day @ Redbird Arena, Normal, IL (Saturday, April 5,
2014, 11am-4pm)
    -- MU table @ Midwest Zine Fest (Saturday, April 12, 2014)
    -- MU table @ Champaign Public Library's 2014 Home School Fair
(Saturday, April 19, 10am-noon)
    -- MU hosting a Cadet Girl Scout troop (potential Saturday)
    -- PyCU's Women's IT and Computing Open House (Saturday, May 31, 1-4pm)
    -- 4th Annual UC Mini Maker Faire (Saturday, Sept. 13)
    -- Space Jamboree <http://spacejamboree.com/> participation (Brian)
    -- Arduino Workshop - sometime in March?
     -- Potential Orpheum workshops (Gergana)
    -- Glass bead workshop (Dena)
    -- Aromatherapy workshop with the food co-op (Emily)
    -- Urbana's Market @ the Square; Art @ the Market
    -- Skot from UIUC's ECE dept wants to do a 60 note polyphonic analog
synthesizer workshop
    -- Presentation/Visit from a new Bloomington hackerspace
    -- Questionnaire from UIUC student re: Makerspace Urbana
*) Other things of interest:
    -- Inclusions & Exclusions Reading Group (Wednesday, Feb. 26, 12-1pm @
GSLIS 341)
          $) Dr. Kate Clancy's Women in Science: Welcome but Not
Welcome<http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation/2014/01/14/women-in-science-welcome-but-not-welcome/>blog
post

See you soon!

~Gergana
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