New Laser Cutter Project 2014/2014-02-19 Pledge Drive End meeting

Agenda

• Pledge drive money:
  • New payment deadline (date of order) - new pledges would have to be instantly paid
  • Payment methods (some are non-members)
  • Who tracks/sorts all of this
• Money above £4000: What to spend it on
• Laser cutter area - improvements?
• Re-induction weekend
• Inductions
  • Cost of inductions?
  • Cost to pledge people?
  • How to get an induction - cleaning up the process?
• Workshops
  • Ideas, themes
  • Rough dates
• AOB

Meeting Notes

People: Dominic, Andrew, James, Ian, Anthony, Al, Jon.

Deadline on pledges:

• Set for 28th of February
• Allow for emailing Andrew privately if any issues

Payment method:

• BACS payment
• Cash if really needed
• Laser and initials in reference (eg: LaserAA)
• Members will mark wiki with if they have sent it
• Dominic will track this

Reassess on the 28th of February, email directly if needed.

Laser cutter area improvements:

• Not sure where things are on the laser cutter is
• Has it's own base
• Move out table, move in laser
• Clear area in the hack the space day before the month it should arrive

RFID system for using the machine; two possible options:

• • Accrue time
  • Lock out laser
• Allows responsibility as well (no going "oops!") if peoples time is tracked
• Takes responsibility
• Daniel may look at this a bit
• Matt Little, Dominic, Martin could work out a way to turn off the control board and leave the cooling and laser separately.

Booking system?

• Can come later
• Talked about this; basic rules, such as 10 mins in lost the session
• Needs some kind of display to show if it is booked

Usage:

• Issues perhaps if you just use the laptop to edit the files and don't cut
• Possibly see later what patterns are (but Dominic has seen people not see what people are doing)

Delivery times:

• 12 day build time (might not apply to large scale laser)
• Loading docket takes 6-8 weeks; sometimes plus customs time
  • Can track the ship!
• Roughly 10 weeks total

Inductions for new people:

• Required for safety - keep watching so it doesn't burn!
• No idiots guide in book form too, so easier to do in person
• 45 minutes or so. Booking would be needed.
• Currently: Inductions are £20
  • Half and half cost currently (£10 in pot, £10 for the inductee)
• Currently: not many people doing it
  • More people can do inductions - would require perhaps some additional help

Inductions for pledge people:

• Everyone now has a free laser cutting induction
  • Majority at the weekend which Martin and Dominic will be doing
  • Others done by interested parties: James, Dominic, Andrew said they would help
• Later pledges up to the deadline may get them case by case (no £5 pledges for a free induction for instance)
• Cutoff date of 1 or 2 months

Induction bookings:

• Email address - laser team - would be used
• Clean up wiki page - not using it anymore!
• Booking system would be beneficial if created

Workshops on the laser:

• Last two workshops ran at a loss
• Garantee by paying for laser time; maybe a bit more for materials + watching
• Democratic/lassie-faire to do it based on booking from the person running it
• Dates: Can just arrange as go along
• Types: Depends on people!

AOB:

• Nothing