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Bi-monthly meetings
- One week is organizational
- Other week is "themed" to make it more promotional
Possibly talk with the guy behind MakerGear to come and demo at a future meeting
- Rick Pollack
Chris Yank, digital graffiti wall demo sometime
Deadmau5 discussion and Trever discovers zooming on a mac.
Fab lab ideas!
Akron Digital Group and Akron LUG discussion
- Bring some ADG/ALUG/SYNHAK action!
Member dues and fundraising
- Kickstarter ideas
  - $125 gives you 3 months and a warm fuzzy?
- Member dues
- Buy your own supplies
- Startup cost for materials and tools
- Pay per the hour for various membership levels to use big fun ~~toys~~tools.
Tool ideas
- Hand tools
- Bridgeport (later?)
- Lathe
- Drill press
- Bandsaw
- Grinders
- Add yo' things to the Hardware List!
- Charge to be trained on a mill!
Promotional stuff!
- Flyers
- A theme for next time
- Pull in people who are between the two groups and can't pick
- Theme ideas
  - MakerGear
  - Show and tell
    - Arduino magicks we've done already
    - RFID door thing from the ham club
    - Robots
    - Plug Computing
    - Embedded ARM
- Four weeks to promote meetings
  - Two meetings a month, one is themed, the other is organizational, boring, dry, and full of importance.
Next meeting is in four weeks: Meetings/22-11-2011
- Arduino Magicks or MakerGear
- Maker's Alliance
- Buchtellite
- Zipline
- Possibly open up a student chapter on campus?
Trever rants about UAF/SAF funding for student organizations (spoilers: it stinks)

Trever
- Talk to engineering student organizations
Chris
- Emailed MakerGear contact - CORRECTION: Chris did NOT contact MakerGear, to be done by Trever or Markus. Email phuzion@synhak.org for contact info if needed.
Markus
- Will contact MakerGear for Meetings/22-11-2011