Notional agenda (I can’t attend as I will be overseas so please adjust this as you wish):
Things that require committee actions/decisions:
We’ve failed to hire an electrical contractor to make the improvements we need. Imagine an electrician is standing in the space right now, and all they have is a piece of paper. Write something down that would result in an accurate quote for what we want done.
Are we receiving invoices from ACTPG?
Have @csirac2_ & @jambulance fixed email yet? So the members database looks like it works? (it is recording membership updates, but errors out sending email confirmation)
Just that they must be at the space with a specific parent or guardian
I should have written this differently: we have increasing interest from parents and schools, and I just feel we’re under-prepared to accommodate minors at this point. At the very least we just need some policy somewhere that specifies either that minors must be accompanied with parent/guardian, or we develop some more robust systems for having minors in our care for specific, planned events (Eg. workshops).
Last week Electronics Wednesday featured my presentation “Introduction to FPGAs”. There was sufficient interest to progress to an FPGA workshop. I am currently planning a series of lab based sessions to run over several weekends, probably 2-4 hours once a month.
FPGA development boards can be expensive. Manufacturers offer significant discounts for students. I would like to approach Digilent (and possibly their Australian distributor BlackBox Consulting) for a group buy at academic pricing without having to provide a bunch of student ids. The justification for this will be along the lines of MHV being 1) community workshop 2) non commercial 3) self education purposes.
As I would be doing this under the MHV banner I seek committee approval.
Workshop attendees are expected to provide their own dev boards. MHV member funds are not sought or required.
Date: Sun 27 May 2018 15:51 AEST
Attendees: [Adam, Tony, Amr, Ben, Steve, Jamie]
Notes
Tony reports the paperwork for commbank tokens has been rejuected by the bank due to being filled out by hand. Tony has filled out the form again using the online tool and printed it. Committee members to sign. Tony will then process with the bank again.
Tony moves we, as a committee, accept the motion that we agree to logdge a combiz application for electronic banking tokens.
Steve seconds.
Vote passes unamiously.
Jamie raised the inspection report from ACTPG.
Cover the 240V relays at the door powering the Signs.
Adam points out this is 12V not 240V.
We will put a cover on it anyway.
Report to be collated for lights, powerpoints, etc for repairs to be sent to ACTPG for action.
Floorplan, circles. Listing problems.
Access needs to be clear.
TO BE ACTIONED TODAY.
Working Bee: Date picked 23 June 12:00 for lunch until we’re done.
Trailer tip runs
Clean up the right side of the garage
Clean up the outside area
Put on lunch.
Will be ruthless with chucking things. Need lots of comms.
GammaCON
Ben leading proposal writing.
Pis, MAME, 3D printer + tokens, Amr’s movie trailer, Arduino.
Should get a banner printed. More stickers? (At least take the stickers we have).
Cashflow, Membership
Email comms out to members about situation and calling for donations; explaining what finacial contributions mean for the space, and what a suggested amount is.
Would be good to have an understanding of regular contributions; could be a script to read the export from bank and provide general numbers/trend over the last while.
Do we need to start a budget, and start looking forward.
Starting to track the internet; both payments and usage.
Some system to understand what it costs to run the space
We would like to track things like the fridge stocking, internet, etc
Box in the space to throw reciepts into?
Recognising that these are a type of contribution.
Next committee/community meeting dates set, as well as AGM.
Jamie to organise meeting with Joffy on a Tuesday night 7pm to talk internet links.
CoC update to include explicit mention of supervision of minors by a legal guardian
