Weekly Staff Meetings/2012-05-15

(repeated from last week cancelled meeting)

Location

• XinCheJian
• Time: 19h00 - 20h00

Attendants

• Clemence
• Edward
• Lio
• Ricky
• Min Lin
• David

late:

• Andi
• Kevin

Visiting: Nelson, Infy

Props

• Edward, Paul, Lio, Mika, Ricky, Hector, Spencer, Infy, Kevin, Russell and others for moving to the new space
• Clemence, Paul, Edward, Qichen, Lio, Mika, Sunny, Angie, Andrea, Little Edward, Russell, Ricky, Min Lin for Maker Carnival
• Edward, Paul, Lio, Mika, Spencer for unpacking and setting up the new space
• David for taking care of new space negotiations and company setup
• Infy for taking care of the space during Maker Carnival
• Lutz (...and Edward) for Swarm Robots group initiative
• Habib, Andi, Min Lin for Italian team building workshop negotiations
• Min Lin for collect money for the uC (ATtiny...)
• Ricky & Kevin & Otto & Valentin for getting the proposal
• Valentin cutting the table
• Kevin for joining the staff meeting

Agenda

• Opening party
  • Rooftop BBQ with DJ
  • Thursday, May 24th, Wednesday 7pm to 11pm
  • Makers Portrait

• 22nd, 23rd: Chinese TV show invitation (湖南卫视天天向上)
  • Paul and Edward are really down on this participation
  • David, Qichen and Rockets...
  • 3d printer guy from Beijing
  • forward to other hackerspaces

• Past workshop
  • May 12th 10AM: 3D modeling workshop (160RMB, 5 hours)
    • Lutz was here, Ricky came...
    • Two instructors with 4 person signed up and nobody came in
    • Quality control, more free/cheaper trials
    • Workshops on workshops
    • Show preparation and practice with a video teaching
    • Don't have enough workshop
    • Who want to police those workshops?
    • Never do morning

• Upcoming events/workshops
  • May 19th: TEDx workshop, Joule Thief (Paul?), 50 persons, RMB100
  • May 20th 1PM: Little Edward's Arduino piano workshop (NOT HAPPENING)
  • May 20th: Occupy TEDx Shanghai (English and Chinese)
    • 18 minutes of presentation for XinCheJian
    • People's Square, theater
    • free lunch
    • 9am - 19h00 (hackers don't do morning)
    • David... Ricky? Paul? Nelson? (XCJ, OpenHardware)
    • Rehearsal TEDx May 19th

• • June 2nd (and 3rd if possible): Children's day celebration
    • Children's day focus
    • Sunny and Min Lin taking the lead, but Min Lin will probably be in Beijing
    • Clemence will help
    • Spaghetti bridge competition
    • Squishy circuits
    • Blinky light soldering
    • Building swarm robot and line follower workshop
    • Promote the children workshops during the summer

• • June 10th 9AM: Italian Allianz team building workshop, 40 persons (split 50%/50%)
    • Min Lin, Andi, Lio, Lutz helping for the workshop
    • 10K RMB
    • Espresso machine (temporary)
    • craft robot (chopstick junior)
    • Nelson will do a practice run on the instructions
    • Practice workshop before June 20th, afternoon
    • Kit to be sold RMB500

• Members updates
  • New members: 37 active members
  • Basic membership does not include daytime
  • Badges: stakeholders (gold)
    • Send emails from the ecofair
  • Startup membership
    • Paul, Edward: no dedicated space, consider increasing this (1200->1500/person, co-working space), 9-5 only
    • selective (no goddamn Web 2.0 here, mobile apps); no Internet cafe
    • Corporate membership for W+K? ask them to cover individual memberships
    • Pricing: teachers * time + material

• resources in the new space:
  • we have 3 water jugs but no working water machine (last one got thrown out as it was no usable), xinchejian should consider buying 3 a month for the community with the understanding we can drink from any water machine :)
  • internet.. it's working! YEAH! just took 2 weeks...
    • can do authentication just not accounting for now.. radius accounting is broken.
• machine room:
  • ONGOING: cut the table and weld on a new cross bar and afix to the wall

• computers
  • need to put them in place.. run another drop cable
  • Dell computers with Microsoft
  • Migrant workers people support
  • List of hardware
  • We can resell
  • EC2

Followup

• Company updates
  • insurance (we need insurance? how mmuch is? liability 25RMB/year/person)
  • Delegate agreement (all signed except for Michael)
  • 1 month

• Maker Carnival projects to be shipped back:
  • rat trap
  • hanging interactive worlds
  • useless machine
  • Arduino Keyboard
  • line follower
  • ...still waiting...

• Mini-Maker Faire in September in Shanghai, O'Reilly
  • Science Faire
  • Ricky Ye organizing them
  • Discuss with Rockets

• Soccerbots
  • Spencer, Lutz, Edward, Valentin (Spencer is out of the country on 19th)
  • Kevin and me: proposal, Otto
  • Nelson is interested in joining
  • 30 days terms
  • don't worry about it until it happens...
  • can't buy VAT fapiao...

• Camera: Infy to take care of it.