Meetings/2012-03-13

Meeting

When
Date	March 13th, 2012
Time	7:30 PM
Location
Venue	Rocknes in Fairlawn
Address	Rocknes in Fairlawn/address
Coordinates	Rocknes in Fairlawn/coordinates
Bylaws Discussion

Agenda for Syn/Hak Meeting on Tuesday, March 13, 2012

NOTE: This agenda is only a recommendation. This was originally written for Chris Egeland's personal use, but was shared in the name of openness with the group. Any recommended changes are more than welcome.

Also note, the minutes may not cover all items in this agenda. Items not in the minutes will need to be discussed at a later date.

Expected Attendees

Board

• Trever Fischer
• Chris Egeland
• Markus Vogl
• Devin Wolfe
• Gaurav Saxena

Non-Board

• Penny Golightley
• Ricky Elrod
• Rick Nemer
• Ian Palencar
• Kevin Zita

Items to Discuss

• Carpool to Maker's Alliance
  • Chris to lead
• AGBA status
  • Discuss want/need list for items/equipment should AGBA assist in getting us going
  • Figure out space (square footage) and facility (utility, architectural/design) requirements
• Misc space status
  • How is the hunt coming, etc
  • Devin to lead
• More bylaws discussion about officer removal, appointment, etc
  • Trever to lead
• Fundraising ideas
• Discussion regarding Ingenuity Festival
  • Markus to lead
• Brainstorming for fun meetings
  • Anyone is open to suggest ideas, no lead needed
• Discuss possible requirements for licenses from state and city governments to stay legal (Trever to inquire with SEED Legal Clinic?)
  • Trever to lead
• Discuss becoming 501(c)(3) tax-exempt from IRS
  • Chris has IRS 501(c)(3) form
  • Trever to discuss with SEED Legal Clinic
• Initial discussion of membership dues levels
  • Proposed levels (starving hacker, student, geek, uber geek, etc)
  • A la carte system ($x/mo + usage of equipment, storage, etc)

Minutes

Attendees

• Trever Fischer
• Chris Egeland
• Devin Wolfe
• Ian Palencar
• Kevin Zita
• Penny Golightley

As a side note...

• Chris was actually prepared and brought a schedule and stuff. Hats off to Chris!

Start of Meeting-20:05 AGBA Requirements

• For the uninformed AGBA is Akron Global Business Accelerator
• A list of things that we need was sent to the agba and was also sent to everyone on the devel mailing list
• Trever showed everyone a map of SF, CA's hakerspace, Noisebridge's, floor plan to give attendees an idea of what a finished hakerspace should look like
• Ryan Rixx (our guy from HeatSync labs in Arizona) suggested having a co-working space so that way we can garner some interest. A space where we will be on a regular basis.
• Chris suggested that we also have a place for board meetings that aren't restaurants.

Searching for a Space

• Devin found a place by Radio Shack that could be used. Devin will call the appropriate people for that
• Trever found some places in his neighborhood that may work

20:16 Pause for food

• An undetermined amount of time later...

Carpool to Maker's Alliance

• Saturday a few people will go up to see the place and Tuesday we will have a a large group going to see the space
• Tuesday the 20th we will carpool to MA @6
• Information for this will be emailed to you. If you want to go RSVP
• Saturday we will leave Akron a 1pm in front of Dick's in Fairlawn

20:55: Ingenuity Festival

• Chris gave a recap of our ideas for the Ingenuity Festival. This includes lockpicking and perhaps some mini-classes
• Any other ideas for this would be great. This happens in the second week of september
  • build your own simple electronic
  • optical illusions
  • cheap but showy science experiments
  • Take aways would also be a great idea

20:12: Fun meetings

• SYN/HAK social
• hdr industrial surplus (has to be early afternoon so perhaps on the weekend)

21:15: Member dues

• How much would you be willing to pay for membership?
  • Everyone's input on this would be great. If you are reading this you should let us know how much you are willing to pay
  • There will be different lvls of membership (see member dues page on this wiki)
• Dues are nit being collected but if you would like to donate to the space then please contact Trever Fischer

21:23: Devin left us :(

21:28: How officers are elected

• Noisebridge actually elects the board and the board appoints the officers.
  • This wasn't favored

21:32: End of meeting