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2018-05-07 Member Meeting Minutes (MMMMM 9)

Date: 07 May 2018

Location: Hacman, Wellington House

Minutes taken by Cone

Agenda

Standing Items

  • Reports from teams
  • Board
  • Craft
  • Laser
  • 3D Print
  • Documentation
  • Procurement
  • Electrical
  • Events
  • Social
  • Wood

Member Submitted Items

  • Summary of what MMMM is and isn't - is a regular meting, is not something that has any particular power.
  • Do we want to sell PCBees to members? Or let people sell them as kits/assembled/just boards? If so do we want to discuss pricing?
  • The more people that come to MakeFest the better. It's freaking awesome.

Submissions from afar

Proceedings

Start

19:30:15

Approval of previous minutes

Approved

Reports from teams

  • Board: Business as usual, nothing to report. Board would like to thank members who took part in Maker Faire for their efforts, the event took in over £690!
  • Craft: No report
  • Laser:
  • New joystick has been ordered, will be fitted once it arrives. Should be more reliable. Long-standing hardware fault.
  • Long engrave bug still there
  • Cable tied coiled tube to prevent motor stalling.
  • 3D Print: It's about to run, at the time of meeting. Everything has been fine with it.
  • Documentation: "Nope". No report.
  • Procurement:
  • Rossy did a run, people keep bying things which is good.
  • Darth vendor to be put on Free Vend with honesty slot. For MDB, speak to Nottingham space.
  • Electrical: We still have lighting.
  • Events:
  • MakerFaire was FUCKING AWESOME!
  • MakeFest coming up, so call for members to attend.
  • Greg to sort system to pace people out.
  • Ellen takes Alex's box, declares "mine now".
  • Discussion of batteries from IKEA
    • Meatballs?
  • Social: Twitter is a thing. Discussions on how awful Birmingham New St begin, and go one for some time. Discussion of rail industry is stowed so the meeting can continue.
  • Another complaint about Pacers
  • Wood: "Has anyone got wood?"
  • Richard: "Um"
  • Lathe has gone in!
  • Wood lathe almost there!
  • Waiting for PPE pledge drive, someone needs to go and buy them.
  • Wiki page updates for the shelves, Richard to ask for money back.
  • Red bandsaw rehbilitated, green bandsaw still fucked.
  • Someone AGAIN stolen the plastic bit that fits into the aluminiom extrusion on the guide of the table saw.
  • Greg is 3D printing a new one.
  • Action: Oops posters!
  • Discussion on eye protection being mandatory at all times in woody dusty, stems from the wood lathe risk assessment. Needs more thought of the wood lathe.
    • Tools can throw things across the room
    • Action for wood team: consider.

Member Submitted Items

MMMM - what it is and isn't

  • Informal power but no formal power.
  • Acts as a heartbeat
  • Community still exists and is alive
  • Board listens to the outcome of the MMMM, and what the members say.
  • It can set its own rules, Parlimentary style.
  • Discussion goes back to Pacers, and whether we can get to Birmingham on a pacer.
    • NOT GOING HERE.

Do we want to sell PCBees to members?

  • Sell in vending?
  • If members want to add value and sell for higher, that's up to them.
  • If they want to donate that's fine.

Submissions from afar

None

AOB

  • Formation of metal team!
  • Weldy Grindy telegram chat.
  • Consists of whoever can be bother.

  • New pilar drill, needs new capacitor.

  • We formally ban mice from the space for theft of edible products.

  • Things need to be kept in boxes.
  • This all stemmed from cooking in the space and JIT (Just In Time) washing up practices. Now we don’t have a cooker because insurance we should prevent food being left out.
  • Please take a bin out if you see bin bags.

  • Action: print out directions on how to find big bins.

  • Sportsball next Wednesday.

  • Realisation that in weldy grindy, people had wandered off and no realisation that everyone had gone.

  • If you are leaving someone in the space by themselves, please tell them so they know they are lone working.

  • “Dear members please have basic social skills”

  • Member storage?

  • Tas working on writing something up, to put to membership.

  • Something for next MMMM.

  • Next meeting at 4th June 2018 19:30.

  • Meeting ends and Wilhelm screen begins.

20:08 concluded.