Weekly Staff Meetings/2011-09-13

• Location: XinCheJian
• Time: 7pm
• Attendants: David, Lionello, Paul, Felix, Min Lin, Ricky and Michael

Props

• Paul and Lio for taking care of the space
• Paul and Clemence making the interactive plant work!
• David for SHARISM
• Lio for repairing the fridge
• Michael brought new toys to the space!

Quick Recap of last week

• SHARISM
• Interactive plant is on exhibition
• Sold 2 Arduino starter kits online, got more buying requests
• Quadcopter first flight tests

Agenda

• Our Events
  • Wednesday meetup: Ricky & Min Lin Hackerspaces visits debriefing
  • Saturday 17th morning: Emergency First Response
  • Saturday 17th 2pm: Android & Robots workshops for beginners
  • Sunday 18th 2pm: FPGA workshop
  • Oil recycling workshop
  • Roboracing
  • Follow-up on InsectBot workshop requests

• Events we're participating in
  • Rare Earth at Bridge 8: interactive plant in exhibition until September 14th
  • Toy Hacking contest: deadline is this September 15th
  • China Maker Faire call for projects submission ends September 15th
  • Barcamp: September 24th

• Space
  • Paying rent for next 3 months
  • Space sharing with GoodToChina and moving to LightArtStudio's space
  • Safety signs
  • Safety waiver form

• Promotion
  • Magazine interview follow-up
  • Hackerspaces Passports & Stamps
  • Smaller size stickers
  • Element14's Ben Heck Callenge
  • "Introduction to Arduino" comics Chinese translation

• Hardware
  • Nanode board
  • Custom Arduino board design (RMB1000 bonus)
  • Open 7400 Logic Competition, submission ends October 21st, [1]
  • XL STAR blog needs Chinese translation
  • Element14 is offering a Texas Instrument's MSP430 LAUNCHPAD for exchange of Chinese blogging

• Stanford AI Class:
  • Weekly study group at the space

• Closing
  • TODO items