Weekly Staff Meetings/2012-05-29

• location: XinCheJian
• Time: 7:30pm to 8:45pm

Presences

• Lio
• Kevin
• Paul
• Stephany
• Valentin
• Ricky
• Sunny
• Freda

Late: Andi, Infy

also in the space: Abe

Props

• Min Lin and Andi with Lutz for doing a test run on the chopsticks workshop
• Sunny Sun, Freda and Min Lin for the kids maker carnival organization
• Ricky and David for taking the space meeting and pushing for a later time
• David, Lutz, Kirk and the other German guy for last Thurday meet your maker shoot
• Freda for the flash introduction video

Challenge from the last weeks

RepRap not working (Valentin)

The fun chemicals

Be more inclusive of the Chinese members

• Find how to do this
• Type of activities
• Onboarding and welcome to XCJ
• Speak CHINESE!
• Bilingual Slides

Welcoming and integrating new members

• Bilingual flyer for new members
• Gatherings for interacting between new members
• target for membership, membership bidding/replacement

More members!

• handprints in paint
• plaque

Agenda

• Mondays space meeting topics
  • Showed the email

Young Makers carnival/helpers

• Friday June 1st, space cleanup EVERYONE
• Event opens at 13h00 on Saturday
• Please fill out: [1]
• space
  • common area (lobby and meeting)
  • outside parking
  • roof
• expecting more than a hundred persons
• introductions: Ricky & Clemence
• layout, plan, schedule needed (Paul and Sunny)
• spaghetti bridge at 3pm (Kevin)
  • ...maybe outside...
• Popcorn machine
• Rooftop and ground floor for kiddy maker carnival
  • Will probably rain on Saturday

Italian team building workshop

• Italian company coming to Shanghai team building exercize and build a robot
• The PR agency is asking for a fapiao (no one that is taking care of it is here)
  • add 10% on top for a generic FAPIAO (tax bureau)
• Lio will take care of it! YEAHHH! Need a contract

Corporate rates

• "if Microsoft want to send all their employees... half a million RMB"
• ...corporate rates for the workshop...
• evaluate the Italian team building workshop

Startup membership

• no dedicated work area, 9am to 6pm (daytime), communal property
• we've already had hardware startups (Rudy Electric Bike, Sous-vide Cooker, Lophilo)
• 1200 RMB/month is too low, just a desk is 2000 RMB/month... 1200 RMB/month at Peopl squared
• being selective, projects must be suited
• 200 RMB still apply for storage
• Regular members only supposed to come when keyholders are here
• End of studies projects?
• Sponsoring Lophilo...

Storage rates

• price is suitable to get more funds for people who can afford it
• need enforcement - inventory of who's using what (shelf space included)
• project box
• people don't know about it, need advertising
• expiration of storage
• concerns about safety? should be locked!

NEXT WEEK: budgeting and finances (revenues and spending), what are the goals

• prepare financial reports
• Kevin to lead it - collect the information, look at the history
• Kevin to follow up with Min Lin

??? wifi network

• it's working, done
• secret handshake to get it
• don't publically announce

Wednesday topics

Official opening times and staff members responsible

• need to develop some regular schedule for our prsence
• fix the wifi presence counting
• Monday 7-9pm: ???
• Tuesdays 7-9pm: Stephany
• Wednesday 7-9pm: Paul (apart from 2 weeks time)
• Thursday 7-9pm: ???
• Friday 7-9pm: ???
• Saturday 9-9pm
  • Open: Paul
  • Close: Ricky
• Sunday 9-9pm
  • Open: Lio
  • Close: Valentin

• During the day if Ricky or Valentin can commit to days/other people

Followups

• Posters for space (Andi)
• Pricing model for 3d printing/milling
  • 1RMB/gram + 1RMB/minute of printing (estimated in software)
  • 20 grams + 3 hours printing = 200RMB
  • CNC: must evaluate based on material (uses the drill differently)
  • plus basic rate

MISC

Priorities

• the space is the project
• events they happen and successful, memorable

Shanghai Maker Carnival in September 2012 (pushed by Yangpu)

• budgeting in June

MIT Hackathon in November

• XCJ + ?Techyizu? + Ideo
• Microsoft (ok, Lio) to work with Hackathon?
• what's the theme? proposed by MIT, hardware for sure
• Lio wants to participate to the software hackathon organized Techyizu
• Edward is planning that one (need help for that one)

Event with TheSpace

Animation

• Freda asking for feedback