Weekly Staff Meetings/2011-11-29

Props

• Ricky - Panda Board/spying at 4am..
• Rockets - Chinese updates
• Edward - useless machine workshop and recent translations
• Minlin - drinks (again) (again)
• Michael - still donating stuff! PC!
• Michael - taking care of the makerbot group
• David - media man! Slashdot, reddit, hackaday..
• infy - judge at roboracing
• Paul and Clemence - hard work on a commercial project!
• Angie - posters and flyers design
• Michael - letting other people like Ricky break his stuff and fixing it
• Min Lin - getting the Nanodes
• Ricky Ye - DFRobot donating hardware, boxes, magnets
• Lio - letting us use xs5.mondoxs.com

Agenda

• Wednesday topics
  • Tobias will present on his latest work, especially daning life hub
  • MakeSense presentation
  • Window farming
  • any others?

• Finances
  • selling more kits
  • inventory
  • paid for projects
  • daytime space usage
  • getting more people to workshops

• Membership
  • helping new members integrate
  • membership rooster tracking and contribution enforcement
  • Membership adjustments
    • discounted December membership
  • recruiting more staff volunteers
  • redistributing Min Lin's tasks

• open staff positions
  • Treasurer
    • income/outgoing - monthly
    • organizes the rent/talks to founders for more money
  • Event manager
    • schedules events within the space and people, confirms events with people based on signups
    • Encourages and guides people to get content together to promote event
    • handles external media for events
    • posts events to the site

• Events
  • recent events review
  • Next months workshops
  • Holiday opening times
    • who's going to be here when?
      • Paul in thailand for Christmas, back for NewYear away for CNY
  • December/January event schedule
  • Parties? secret Santa?
  • Guest hackers program
  • funding more expensive workshop (Quadcopter)
  • Robo-Racing - changes
    • proposal to put on hold until feb
    • add in line following category
    • more workshops before the event
    • change to every 2 months not every month

• Marketing
  • collective article writing
  • translations

• space
  • cleanliness
  • trash
  • security system

• New Space
  • winter is coming! = cold
  • pitch for space
  • w+k
  • Jeremy's
  • Rain's