2012-01-04 Minutes

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Roll Call

Board Members

• Dominic Morrow
• David Hayward

This meeting was not quorate

Members

• Kate
• Andrew
• Daniel
• Hayley
• Liz

Full Minutes

Time	Name	Minute
21:03	Nachimir	Nottinghack Board meeting, January the 4th about to begin.
21:03	Nachimir	Hello
21:05	Nachimir	Roll call: Dominic M, Kate B, Andrew A, David H, Daniel, Hayley T, Liz.
21:05	Nachimir	Item 2: Actions.
21:07	Nachimir	Only action done: Gas costs done. All others: Either not complete, or members not present. Most carried to next month.
21:08	Nachimir	Action: Dominic to send chaser email out to people.
21:08	Nachimir	Tony S: Has measurements for spray booth/shed, but not costs. Will complete next week.
21:08	Nachimir	Item 3: Financial Update
21:08	Nachimir	http://wiki.nottinghack.org.uk/wiki/Financials_December_2011
21:09	Nachimir	Start bank balance: £1929.04
21:09	Nachimir	Out: £748.52
21:09	Nachimir	In: £1069.52
21:09	Nachimir	End: £2050.14
21:09	Nachimir	Paypal Start: £35.76
21:09	Nachimir	Paypal End: £35.76
21:09	Nachimir	Membership: Start: 68
21:09	Nachimir	New: 6
21:09	Nachimir	Ex: 0
21:09	Nachimir	End: 74
21:09	Nachimir	Average membership due: £13.87
21:09	Nachimir	In/Out Breakdown:
21:09	Nachimir	Outgoings
21:09	Nachimir	BizSpace: £576
21:09	Nachimir	Talk talk: £28.74
21:09	Nachimir	Other: £143.78
21:09	Nachimir	Income
21:09	Nachimir	Membership dues: £956.62
21:09	Nachimir	Donations: £
21:09	Nachimir	Events: £
21:09	Nachimir	Pledges: £103
21:09	Nachimir	Workshops: £10
21:10	Nachimir	Financials end.
21:14	Nachimir	Item 4: EMF Camp
21:15	Nachimir	Dominic describes CCC: Massive camp at an airbase in Germany for electronics, coding and crafts. Jonty and Russ have formed a company to run a similar camp in the UK. Donnington looking like the favourite location, and Nottingham Hackspace will probably be involved in some capacity.
21:16	Nachimir	If people available for those dates, look at the website and register your interest: www.emfcamp.org Will be in the summer, probably in August.
21:16	LWK_mac	still early days for organising untill site is confirmed,
21:17	Nachimir	(Yeah, lots of "probably" in Dominic's description)
21:17	Nachimir	No questions.
21:17	Nachimir	Item 5: Keeping the space clean.
21:18	Nachimir	Board have authorised purchase of a good quality mop bucket (i.e. industrial).
21:18	Nachimir	Dominic proposes: Hiring a cleaner. Everyone generally agrees so far.
21:19	Nachimir	Andrew Armstrong suggests: Ask building management if anyone else gets a cleaner in, might be a cheaper option for us. Action for Dominic.
21:21	Nachimir	Dominic: We could ask the cleaner that does commmunal spaces, but would rather have someone we can fire if they're rubbish.
21:21		Rahlon left the chat room. (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
21:22	Nachimir	Item 6: Sponsoring a Makership for LVL1 ( http://www.lvl1.org/2012/01/01/lvl1-awarding-two-new-makerships-in-2012/ )
21:22	Nachimir	Dominic describes makership programme.
21:22	Nachimir	Suggests it would be nice for us to sponsor one.
21:23	Nachimir	Dominic proposes $60, as they ask sponsors to send $5 per month.
21:23		Rahlon joined the chat room.
21:25	Nachimir	Hayley suggests we run one right now, then sponsor one elsewhere later.
21:25	LWK_mac	aye
21:25	Nachimir	David H: Other way around. Better off sponsoring one for good PR now, and running our own much later. Latter has other overheads beyond the money.
21:25	Nachimir	Kate: We should speak to LVL1.
21:26	Nachimir	(Action: Dominic to chase James H on insurance policy)
21:26	Nachimir	Action: Kate to email LVL1 about hackership.
21:26	Nachimir	*makership
21:26	Nachimir	Action: Dominic to raise it on mailing list.
21:27	Nachimir	Item 7: A.O.B.
21:29	Nachimir	David: Global Game Jam going ahead. Action: Raise on mailing list, draft blog post.
21:29	Nachimir	Andrew: Window being fixed?
21:29	Nachimir	Dominic: They've been measured this week and will apparently be fixed in a few days.
21:31	Nachimir	Hayley: We moved in the 2nd of May? Are we going to commemorate in any way?
21:31	Nachimir	Dominic: Our second birthday will be the 13th of February.
21:31	Nachimir	David: Suggests one for an open day, one for a members party.
21:32	Nachimir	David: Think May would be better for an open day, weather better, people more inclined to go out.
21:33	Nachimir	Dominic: February, second birthday of Nottinghack party for members.
21:33	Nachimir	Kate: 5th of May, bank holiday might be a good day.
21:33		Rahlon left the chat room. (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
21:33	Nachimir	Action: Kate to take on members party for February.
21:34	Nachimir	Action: May open day to be added to next agenda.
21:35	Nachimir	(Late Entry: Pat).
21:35		Rahlon joined the chat room.
21:38	Nachimir	Dominic: Proposed weekend of workshops, as soon as February, with whole weekend of workshops of various types.
21:38	Nachimir	Kate, David: Too soon. Would negatively affect attendance.
21:39	Nachimir	Hayley: A lot of organisation to do with teachers too.
21:40	Nachimir	We should go out and ask who wants to run what.
21:41	Nachimir	Dominic suggests early March, 3rd and 4th. We could push it back to April, but people wouldn't think about it until too late.
21:43		parag0n_ joined the chat room.
21:43	Nachimir	Dominic: "There's no way, that Maker Faire will be the first weekend in March" *laughter from all*
21:44	Nachimir	Actions: Dominic to rough out idea for it. Approach potential teachers for it.
21:44	Nachimir	(Some discussion of who might like to run workshops).
21:44	Nachimir	Meeting closed.