Committee:committee_meeting_2012.09.08

Date: Sat 8th

Location: Perth Artifactory

Meeting opened 2.30pm

• Skot McDonald, Chris Bashol, Brett Downing, Jason Muirhead, Nick Bannon, Daniel Harmsworth, Jenna Downing
• Apologies from Peter Dreisiger, Brendan Ragan

• Jenna D new Secretary, Brendan R deputy Secretary
• Daniel H new Treasurer, Jason M deputy Treasurer
• Peter D new Membership Officer
• Nick B new Chair, Jason M deputy Chair
• Skot keeping position of Events Manager/Deconflictor
• Anton keeping position of Infrastructure tzar, Brett minion to Infrastructure Tzar

• Chris (AV) and Brendan will join Skot in the new Events sub-committee

• ACTION Will start wrangling organisers to decide on dates (esp Arduino events), perhaps put up a year planner above the bar

• Skot has a few audio events in mind, Industrial and Solid State, which should be good money-raisers

• Skot remembers there is a Crypto party coming up

• ACTION

- Lighting rig

- Washing machine, dishwasher

- Backyard plan

- Gantry crane with guard-shark

• Jason: today we are sitting at $2403, needs to be more like $3600 after rent?

• skip bin has been getting much use and has crept up to $100 /month (included in prev figures provided in AGM treasurer report)

• one new member, David Lark, as of this month. No new members in August

• 3 new associates who have paperwork and will join up soon

• David Lark accepted, passed unanimously

• Nick spoke to his girlfriend who works at Masters, they are booked up until next year both sat/sun. huge queues.

• We've already tried Bunnings, but they don't know what a Hackerspace is. Too much red tape.

• Is it worth the TIME? Just need someone who is willing to push it

• ACTION Nick, Anton to visit Bunnings and write a ltter to head office

• Committee approves the formation of the fundraising subcommittee comprised of Nick, Anton, and other volunteers from the list

• Next meeting in a month for those settling into new roles

• Sat October 6th 11am

• Skot suggests that meetings be broadcast more broadly to get the general membership more involved, especially for sub-committees.

• ACTION Send a link out with minutes to core so that the general membership can actually read them

• Daniel has been tipped off about a cheap back-up lasercutter option failing Lotterywest

• one like they use at TAFE: 80W 5500

• cheaper option! 40W 3500 - no raster, much less features.. but cuts stuff

• Nick suggests raising 5500 is almost as easy to raise as 3500..

• We're almost at 4 month wait for Lottery West to get back to us

• ACTION Daniel to chase that up. Grant Chaser

• Grant Subcommittee formed: Daniel: tech-related grants, Jenna: Art-related grants, Skot: Audio-reated grants

• ACTION Daniel and Jenna and Brett and Anton to work with Adam (TAFE) on a fabrication workshop for creatives

• ACTION Skot to get the window cad machines all set up (vcarve, visual studio, blender, $99 Alibra? putty) ready for running CAD/CAM classes

• ACTION make sure committee gets all the committee stuff (wiki permissions etc)

• ACTION Skot will start wrangling organisers to decide on dates (esp Arduino events), perhaps put up a year planner above the bar

• ACTION Nick, Anton to visit Bunnings and write a letter to head office

• ACTION Jenna send a link out with minutes to core so that the general membership can actually read them

• ACTION infrastructure sub-committee

- Lighting rig

- Washing machine, dishwasher

- Backyard plan

- Gantry crane with guard shark

• ACTION Daniel to chase up Lottery West

• ACTION Daniel and Jenna and Brett and Anton to work with Adam (TAFE) on a fabrication workshop for creatives

• ACTION Skot to get the window cad machines all set up (Vcarve, visual studio, blender, $99 Alibra? putty) ready for running CAD/CAM classes

• ACTION Daniel make sure committee gets all the committee stuff (wiki permissions etc)