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Member Meeting March 6, 2018
March 6, 2018
Minutes of the Regular Member Meeting of Fair Use Building and Research Labs A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation held on March 6, 2018 at the Organization’s space. The meeting was brought to order at 8:05 pm by Eric Rivas, Chairperson and President. Quorum was established.
The following board members were present:
- Eric Rivas, President
- Beth Ritter-Guth, Vice President
- Jenny Shane, Secretary
- Neil Flynn, Treasurer
- Rick Anderson, Trustee
- Zoltan Sisko, Trustee
The following board members were absent:
- Jean Consorti (Trustee)
The following members were present:
- Bill George
- Jim Oslislo
- Star Morin
- Ben Jorittsma
- Mike Coughlin
- David Peins
The following guests were present:
- Scarlett Menendez
- Brian
Scarlett Menendez - unanimous yes
We have the specific laser fund, which is about $2500.
We should encourage guests to donate when they visit fubar, especially if they come to 3D print or fix things.
If anyone donates to the space, check to see if your employer will match the donation.
The budget is available for members to review, ask Neil at the officer’s meeting.
Scarlett: could have a fundraising table at local fairs or colleges for donations/selling merch
Star: Important to consider terminal membership capacity
We want a sign-in method that provides us a method of follow-up contact.
Rick is putting together a group to work on an electronic guestbook using a google form, if this then that, and a raspberry pi. Discussion to follow member meeting. Could use one of Star’s touch-screen monitors.
Star purchased the phone booth in the freight elevator. If nothing happens with the phone booth in 6 months, it goes. We will revisit the issue of large project donations at the next officers meeting. Vote to accept donation of the phone booth: 10 yea votes, 2 nay, 1 abstention.
16 guests-- an excellent turnout. A good outreach event.
Another game night coming up this saturday.
Big thank you to everyone who came out! Everything went well with autonomous. Provided a good pattern for future autonomous events.
Beth: There are missed opportunities to publicize Fubar when people are too focused on power racing/autonomous. We need designated people to talk up fubar when others are working.
Rick: opportunities to have general fubar booth with merch.
Dave Peins is collaborating with Chibitronics to run a circuits on paper booth.
We are going to run a training session for fubar volunteers who will help with the paper circuits.
Need to brainstorm ideas for a large-scale collaborative artwork for people to create and add to at the event. Event tentatively scheduled for open hack on March 15th. President to email Baltimore Hackerspace to ask for volunteers for USAS&E Festival. David will post about what parts we will be getting from chibitronics.
Jean will be running the event this saturday from 1 to 3. We will be soldering light-following “robots”. Contact Jean to let her know if you can volunteer (or just show up).
Purpose of the event is to build a collaborative day-long project. Contact Eric if you would like to run this event.
Name will change to women’s maker coalition. Participants are willing to pay for materials. People want to build things that they can take home at the end of the night. Need volunteers to run single-night projects. We are trying to do one event per month, for two hours. Might have a women’s PRS team. Beth thanks Jenny for helping.
Events with good publicity and a definite focus get turnout. Please see Beth to schedule events.
Closing
The meeting was adjourned at 9:31 pm.