[Imc-makerspace] March Membership Meeting, Sunday (3/30) @ 6pm

[Gergana Slavova]

Hello my peeps,

Our monthly membership meeting is this Sunday, 6pm at the Makerspace
(Basement Room #16 in the UC Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway Ave
in Urbana).

Here's a quick agenda:

*) Opens
    -- Mailing list move to @makerspaceurbana.org
    -- Post a list of workshops on the website
 *) Membership/Financial Update
    -- Financial status
    -- 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 (due Monday, 3/31)
         $) 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)
               #) Colten to get that done
*) Help Desk
*) RFID lock project
  *) Py-CU
*) Past events:
    -- Visit from Radical Homemakers from Bloomington, IL (Wed, March 12)
    -- Hardware Freedom Day <http://www.hfday.org/> (Saturday, March 15)
    -- Open Hours & Arduino's 10th Birthday celebration (Saturday, March 29)
  *) Upcoming/potential events:
    -- Family Science Day @ Redbird Arena, Normal, IL (Saturday, April 5,
2014, 11am-4pm)
    -- MU table @ Midwest Zine Fest: postponed
    -- LED workshop @ Dr. Howard Elementary (Wed, April 16 or 23)
    -- 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)
          $) MU is recipient of 2014 Urbana Arts Grant!  Reception on
Thurs, April 3 @ 5:30pm at Pizza M
    -- Space Jamboree <http://spacejamboree.com/> participation (Brian)
      -- Potential Orpheum workshops
    -- Glass bead workshop (Dena)
    -- Urbana's Market @ the Square; Art @ the Market
    -- Touch synthesizer workshop (Saturday, April 19, 3pm)
          $) Hosted by IEEE, open to collaboration with MU
    -- Potential sewing workshops with Shared Threads
    -- Google Glass workshop (Liz)
    -- Jamie Nelson from UofI's Emerging Technologies group
          $) Panel on Makerspaces & Illinois Emerging Technologies Report
    -- U of I Public Engagement Grant collaboration with Design for America
group
*) Other things of interest:
    -- Edible Book Festival
<http://www.library.illinois.edu/ediblebooks/>(Tuesday, April 1 @
University YMCA)

If there's anything else, bring it with you to the meeting.

See ya,
~Gergana
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