2012-01-04 Minutes
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Roll Call
Board Members
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Members
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| 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. |