Meetings/2011-12-06

Meeting

When
Date	December 6th, 2011
Time	7 PM
Location
Venue	New Era Cafe: 10 Massilon Rd, Akron, Ohio
Address	New Era Cafe: 10 Massilon Rd, Akron, Ohio/address
Coordinates	New Era Cafe: 10 Massilon Rd, Akron, Ohio/coordinates
Organizational Meeting

This meeting is an organizational meeting, where we work out the details of starting up SYN/HAK. If you've got something to add, feel free to add it to the Topics section below prior to the meeting.

Topics

• Forming a board
  • What positions do we need, and what responsibilities will they have?
  • How will the election be handled?
  • When will this be done by

• Social meetings potentials
  • KSU glass - met with Sean Mercer from the hotglass shop he is willign to give us a tour/demo at any time
  • Elyria Fablab - we could arrange for a field trip
  • Jason from KSU Archtiecture is willign to demo grasshopper and firefly
  • WardJet[1] waterjets - just started to work on this, but we potentially could get a tour of the facilities

and/or have them come speak

• Space potential
  • met with John M at UARF and he wants a digest of the organization so he can pitch this to the owner of the thirsty dog brewery building-

apparently there is space that might be available cheap - need this asap

• met with Jason from KSU Architecure who suggested a local business owner in Akron who might have space - need digest as well - would

prefer to pitch UARF first

• other concerns
  • need to increase membership on the announce list - currently only 10
  • need to come up with collateral to give out - ideas
  • need to update site with photos of the events

Proceedings

Attendees

• Chris
• Devin
• Markus
• Rick
• Zeek
• Trever

• Discussions about temp storage space
• * Trever should clean his garage
• * Rick mentioned maybe some space

• Non-profit discussions
• * Bylaws of noisebridge
• * Board of AREA and directors
• * Board of directors, they elect the board officers
• * 125$ for Ohio charter (Ish)
• * Publication 557
• * Find out the costs, have an election
• * Directors elect/appoint the officers

• Discussion about January social meeting
• * Field trip? Demo, preferred.

Potential options for starting a non-profit:

• Officers must be on the board
• The board and officers are the same
• Board size: define a min/Max size, 3-11
• Fund the fee through kickstarter
• Space at thirsty dog brewery if we're friends with the university!?!?

Tasks

• Mission statement
• Board size
• Use a P.O box till we get a space
• Statutory agent: possibly an attourney
• Filing fee total
• Synopsis
• Proof that we can improve the economy, create jobs, starups, etc
• Form the board of directors, get commitments
• Find incubator price
• Field trip to Columbus or maker's alliance to find out what hoops are needed
• Poke technical schools for interest

Available Directors

• Markus Vogl
• Trever Fischer
• Rick Neemer
• Devin
• Chris Egeland
• Jimmy/ricky, if they are interested

• Officers
• * Two champions: drive the space, promote the space, everyone looks up to them
• * Secretary: notes, organizational/adminstrivia
• * Treasurer: money
• * Operations manager: does it, physical facilities

Action points

• Devin to look for building and spaces
• Trever to discuss and drive incubator space
• Markus to discuss thirsty dog, get synopsis
• Trever to write synopsis
• Trefer to look up filing fees
• Trever to collect bios for directors
• Organizational meeting for 2nd week of jan
• Social meeting for the 3/4th week of jan, pending on who we can get to come for demo or tour
• Devin to discuss tour options with workshops
• Devin to talk with other schools
• Rick, chris, and zeek to talk with ham clubs
• Markus and Chris to make presentation to present us to other groups
• Directors decided by end of next org meeting.
• Address for synhak, probably trever's
• Rick to associate Dennis with our paperwork
• Rick to allow Devin to store stuff in trailer