Date, Time, location 04/28/2016, 7­ 9 PM, Makerspace, MeetingMinutes_20160428 Attendees​
(* not present) Dave Collier, Tom Grace, ​
John Hopkins​
, Steve Keinath, Brian Soltis, ​
Al McGilvra*​
, Bill Steusloff*, Mark Proffitt, Jason Braden Minutes Agenda Secretary​
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: Meeting Minutes on Google Drive, updated and approved as is. Treasurers Report: Total Available Restricted Savings 9,134.44 9,134.44 0 Checking $105.59 105.59 Internet Savings $1300.81 1300.81 PayPal $205.10 $205.10 Petty Cash $227 $227 Total $10,972.94 $10,972.94 0 Quickbooks ● Accountants are working all the numbers, Tom pays the bills, and bank accounts, etc. Accountants are handling the IRS side. ● Filling out a form 1570 and Tom signs it that we have less than $80,000 purchased equipment. Bill advises that we are within the law and to leave it at that. Major Bills ● Liability Insurance ● DNO Insurance ● Electric Bill ● Gas​
/ Electric Bill ● Internet (will be upgrading from $70 to about $90/month) ● Water ­ one time charge $75 + $32. Prob around $30 month 1 of 7 Foundation / Grants / Fundraising Report ● Camiel Thorrez​
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Received $3000 for general support. ● Jackson Community Foundation​
­ We were awarded $500.00 towards security which we had 4 cameras installed by comtronics. We owe a report to JCF with pictures to show the camera work. Tom to provide the report.​
Next deadlines are: letter of intent 8/1/2016. App deadline 9/12/2016. ○ One idea is for the STEM roadshow, which after discussion is separate from the Makerspace. ● Crowd Funding​
­ Dave started indiegogo crowd funding and Steve, Brian, Mark invited to help edit it. Most of the forms are filled in and will be working on a video soon. michigan magnets, name on website, buttons, t­shirts. Money raised for this campaign will be for daily operations. One Year Anniversary Launch Grand Opening ​
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. ● Ceiling Tiles​
­ Bill installed 5 ceiling tiles. No revenue yet. ​
Price to be $150/Year or $15/Month. ● Handcock ​
­ $2000.00 no restrictions ● Benja­men​
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Quarterly fund raising, JAMA group $100 each quarter. John interested in finding out if the Makerspace can be on the Benja­men donation list. LED Project​
­ Consumers contacted Tom, John working with Stephanie Bashan. YouTube Group Report​
­ Tom asked for mission statement, goals, strategy to help understand their direction. They are still meeting otherwise. Junior Achievement Saturday Report​
­ Couple more sessions, one more customer to fill. Will not be meeting in the summer, and will meet in the fall. ​
Need to have a post mortem / lessons learned on how the sessions went. Will need the CNC equipment here, the kids will need to do the work, the mentors will need to be here and active, Bill Blakemore will be the lead next time. Bill Rayl and Connie have keys and codes. Need some roles / responsibilities defined. Bill Farrant equipment. Bill Rayl suggested turning down the contract and working with JAMA to acquire the equipment. Tom will talk to Bill Rayl to work the acquisition of the equipment. Baker College Coding League Report 2 of 7 Baker College is paying for their membership. contact is Dr. Sherwood (Dean of ?). He can forsee having up to 15 students at a time here. Dave is proposing to bill them at the end of each month to help with the.billing process. NetBeans and CodeBlocks. Good kids. Dave would like to get them a key and code. Ian Wood and Tim Fee(?) are main contacts, and both will get the key and the code. Dave to text them to identify how many students were participating and bill each month retroactively. Membership Report ● Active Paypal ­ 24 Active Pay Pal Payments. Estimate $614 for Apr/2016 New Paid and Left Tom Vendittelli Ryan Hovater Sam Durocher Brian Ransom Cory Latocki Devin Hauenstein Will Rogers Anthony Gilbert Steve Ansuini Dan Varani New Keyed Members Dale Fay Meet up Groups / Member hours / etc. ● Monday afternoon ­ Bob Duzuira ● 1st Thursday ­ 3D Printering ­ ● 2nd Thursday ­ Arduino ­ ● 3rd Thursday ­ Raspberry Pi ● 4th Thursday ­ Makerspace Build Night. ● Woodworking night ­ Every Tuesday night 7 ­ 9:30 (Mike Semenchuk), 9:30 ­ 11 PM (Brian Soltis) ● Shop Night ­ Wednesday night 6 ­ 8 PM. Dave Kalen ● Thursday / Friday ­ Dave Kalen ● Travis Stephens once a month Photography class ● Youth Online ­ Wednesday night ● TBD ­ Tuesday Game night (Friar / Craiggers) ● TBD ­ Friday QuadCopter night (warm weather) 3 of 7 ●
TBD ­ Society of Creative Anachronisms (SCA) ­ ​
John talked to them, in winter they were meeting at airport library, and in summer at Cascades. Classes ​
­ Future Saturday classes will be held 9 to 11 AM. ● Pallet Craft Class ­ ​
Oct/2015 was successful. ● Intro to Arduino​
­ Last class Saturday 12/5/2015 4 people. ● 3d Printing​
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TBD ● Intro to Raspberry PI​
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TBD ● Intro to Programming class ­ TBD. Brian / Steve ● LInux class​
­ Brenden Tuck (?) / Dale Fay (?) ● Blender Class​
for 3d modeling­ ­ Kevin from Kalamazoo proposed 2 classes next year. John to work on coordinating. ​
John to follow up. ● Intro to Electronics Part 2 ­ Interfacing to Micros ​
­ Al McGilvra taught class 1 in Jan/2015. 2nd class is 4/9 & 4/16. ​
3rd class TBD, discussed creating a simple micro board “ourdrino”. ● Ceramics ­ Schedule class ­ tom to follow up with Tim Friday. ○ Ask Tim Friday to come down July 30 7 PM ○ Shelving for glazings, etc. ● Small Engine​
classes ­ John working to find instructors. ● Intro to Welding class​
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Dale Fay ­ Targeting June Welding class on a Saturday in June geared towards members at first to test out the class. ● T­Shirt Build project class night thing ­ Steve TBD a date ● Woodshop Safety Class ­ Mike S held and recorded by Sarah and Rebecca. Next class is April 28, 2016. ● New Member Orientation ­ Brian will schedule it every other month 4th Thursday of each month when no board meeting. ● Wood box craft with Lathing material ­ Brian ● Fusion CAD Class ­ Ask Jason Braden if he is interested in teaching this class. Facilities​
­ ● Signs. Discussed keeping signs simple. Keep green / white color scheme. Pursue Mike’s signage and some solar lights. Mike to pursue green / white to carve into it. ● Awnings. Tom to call John about consumers awning sign. Tom talk to Greg. ● Dave K, Jason B, Mike S to form facilities committee. Website​
­ ● Wiki Report ● FAQ ● Member Pictures ­ continue to add new member pictures Events​
­ ● JIN Meetings ­ 4th Tuesday each month ● Concatenation Convention / SCIENCE FICTION & FACT CONVENTION ­ 5/21 ○ John Hart, Steve Tucley, Steven ?, with Craig Price came down and offered a chance for us to have Makerspace events to coordinate with their big event on Sat Oct 15 at Jackson College. Big event is Walter Moseys (?) author. Technology meets science fiction. ■ Jul ­ Learning Fair ■ Aug ­ Planetarium ■ Sep 17­18 ­ Meggacon 4 of 7 ●
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■ Oct 15 big event JAMA i can make it camp it July 12, 13 at camp mcgregor Jackson Learning Fair ­ July 14 / 15, 2016 ○ Rope Making ○ LED lights / meters ○ 3D Printer (Dave’s on Thursday) ○ Robotic Arm (Dave) Detroit MakerFaire​
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July 30 ­ 31, 2016 ○ Jackson Makerspace will NOT have a separate booth this year, will work with DAve K, ModelT STEM booth Jackson library anniversary of star trek in August 19,20 One Year​
Anniversary Launch Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Indiegogo Party Makerspace tool sale, possibly in the Fall. Concatenation Convention ­ 10/15/2016 at Jackson College Halloween Pumpkin Carving ­ Oct/2016 ○ john mentioned the pumpkin carving company from makerfaire. Jackson Thanksgiving Parade ­ Nov/2016 ○ Giant moving couch ○ Giant fire breathing robot Christmas Potluck ­ Dec/2016 ●
Project / Committee ● Facilities ­ ​
Jason / Mike / Dave K​
are willing to handle this. Write up committee workings on WIKI ○ Welding Area ○ Upgrade ■ electrical ■ machinery ■ acquisition ● Marketing / Advertising ­ n/a ○ Ceiling Tiles ○ Guest Groups ● Fundraising ○ ● Facilities Maintenance ○ bathrooms ○ garbage ○ recycling New Business ● Officer elections next meeting in June​
! ● Junior Achievement discussed in JA section above ○ Bill Farrant machines ­ discussed having Bill Rayl work with Career Center and that Jackson Makerspace will not work directly to acquire machines. ● Dale Fay Dentist machine ­ good machine if dentist wants to donate it but is an expensive machine. ● Need to Identify Spending Priorities. Items listed here in no particular order. ○ Photo printer needs ink. $80 each ○ Welding Area 5 of 7 ●
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■ Walls ­ ½” concrete board ■ Curtains. Tom / Dave K to measure and order ■ Welding masks ■ Gloves ■ Supply cabinet ○ Metal working Belt Grinder. $200 ○ Plasma cutter consumables. $100 ○ 165 Amp DC, 240 Volt Inverter TIG/Stick welder, $209.99 Item # 61792 ○ Good Heavy Duty Utility Sink and Plumbing ○ Dave K discussed Sandblasting ­ must be done out in the bay. Discussed getting a roll up door BUT is not desirable as the snow plow uses the bay to turn around. Jason brought up idea and discussed creating a Monthly Make of the Month program to have people submit items they make each month and to have the items voted upon and then provide an award to the maker. Possible ideas were cash prizes, or monthly fee waiver, etc. Discussed Detroit Maker Faire booth ­ will NOT be having a separate Jackson Makerspace booth. Dave K / Model T Stem will see about getting a bigger booth and have some JMS representatives help out. CAD computers had numerous viruses on them. Rob Smith had to work on them to remove the viruses. They have been disconnected from Internet access. Discussed needing a “Broke Process”. What to do when things break. Requiring members to contribute time to keep open hours 1 hour/month. (from last month) Trello Review​
­ Did not review, Review Blocked Doing To Do Action Items 1. Machinery List from Tom (per Bill’s round table). Tom 2. Update WIKI for membership at sole discretion of the board, discrimination. Brian 3. Check with Randy for sending a thank you to UofM. Tom 4. Jackson Community Foundation report. Tom 5. Report and bill Baker college students. Dave C. 6. Schedule next 3 D printing class. Dave C. 7. Schedule next Intro to Arduino class. Steve K. 8. Research class teaching honorarium for instructors to incentivise teaching more classes. Brian 9. CAD computers ­ lock them down so no software can be added. Rob Smith 10. Track active paying members better. Tom / Brian 11. Follow up with Travis Stevens on photography club status. Brian 12. Scheduled New Member Orientation for June 23. Brian 13. Welding area concrete board for walls. John 14. Welding Curtains. Dave K / Tom 15. Welding Ventilation / Squirrel Fan. [ ] 16. Welding Masks. Dave K 17. Welding Gloves. Dave K 18. Add Broke Process to WIKI. Brian 6 of 7 Motions 1. Vote on Keyed Members ­ n/a 2. Voted to increase internet service speed up to the next level so bill would be $90/month 3. Voted to order Ooma device for phone service for Makerspace. Ooma device should be around $100 and monthly fee will be around $5/month. RoundTable ● Bill S => ○ machinery list from Tom ■ what we won’t accept ■ what we have ■ what we want to get rid of / surplus ● surface grinders ● stomp shear ■ what we want ■ what we are still looking for ● John H ○ Really wants Embroidery machine, thinks it would be a good draw for the space. ○ Foundry equipment ○ Glass ○ Ceramics ○ ○ 7 of 7