October 2013 - Board Meeting

Area 515 Board Meeting October 7, 2013

Agenda

• 1 year anniversary celebration

• Select date

• Activities/projects

• Building prep work

• iExplore

• Projects to share

• 501c3 status

• Website Functionality

  • Calendar of events

  • Join request

  • Pay dues

  • Photos?

  • Other

  • How do we make this simple?

• Winterizing the building

  • Blowing insulation into attic

  • Replacing some of the storm windows

  • Steve repairing the boiler

  • Plastic over windows

  • Longer term

• Fundraising

  • Goal outlines

• Mission

First Anniversary Celebration will be November 2 from 10-6

Clean-up/work days on October 19 (8-12, 1-5), 20 (1-5), 26 (8-12, 1-5), 27 (1-5) Get list of people who want to show things Soldering class - order Simon kits/badges from Adafruit Set up ability to accept donations, renew memberships and set up new memberships Marketing

• Bailey - Register Juice, Amici for coffee

• Tom - DM Partnership, DMSC, Local Yokels and/or Mo Rub

• Shawn - Info on website

• David - Linux group

iExplore on October 29

Set up starts at 3:30 in Olmstead building at Drake University Makey Makey fruit piano project Bailey to request funding and request 5 people to attend

510c3

No report

Winterizing building

Brady and Tom to create list of items and identify materials for use on clean-up/work days Tom to get on Steve about boiler

Fundraising

Adafruit

Classes

Soldering - one at year anniversary (David) Arduino - Starting after boards arrive, most likely in January (Bailey) Welding - arrange class(es) to be held at DM Bike Collective (Tom)