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November 2014 - Board Meeting
- Financials
- Membership status - how are we doing? What should we do to bring in new members?
- Do we want to have Jeff under our lease?
- The door-parts are actually on order
- Plan for the garage
- Bylaw review-example would be procedure for removing members
Call to order: 18:15 members present: Ray, Tom, Nabil, Sean, Barry, Bailey
- rumors of 3 new members
- ideas for recruiting
- gift to iowa bike coalition
- gifting to corps
- ray has concerns about practicality, and fitting in with the culture - no vetting of the recipient
- classes / merch
- sparkfun plans on hold, need to decide what lines to carry
- there were further concerns about the $1000 minimum, it was decided to go with adafruit until we know demand
- another arduino class planned for Feb.
- need help for website content
- now that we're official, we can do kickstarter / crowdfunding campaigns
- donations
- tom has a meeting with his corporate "head of global donations"
- tom mentioned we have refusal on existing space, jeff would prefer to sublease from us
- the majority opinion was that the risk was not worth the reward vs. him taking on his own lease
- sean advocated that expanding into that area would allow us to claim the middle area
- vote to take jeff under our lease failed, but we'd be happy for him to come in on his own
- parts still on order, no further status update
- tom will contact
- if they keep failing, do we pass?
- that would be bad as it may limit large tool availability - repurpose the current front room as the heavy area?
- could we trade for the rest of the space?
- security
- contact emma from tikly about the sets from lovejoy
- pallets / chain link
- layout
- needs cleaning
- determine what's ours and what's not
- need to scare off the oldsmobile that parks in our spot
- cleanout
- plans are afoot tonight
- if the keys work
- tabled for next month
meeting adjourned: 19:05
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