Weekly Staff Meetings/2012-06-05

• Location: XinCheJian
• Time: 7:30pm
• Start time: 7:37pm to 9h07pm

Presences

• Stephany, Edward, Min Lin, Lio, Ricky, David, Lutz and Infy, Kevin
• Stephany left early

Props

• Stephany gets props for paper cover for naked light (22 to do this week!)
  • Stephany and Kevin becoming staff members
• Props on Min Lin getting the 3d printer
  • Sunny postponed to when he's coming...
• Sunny Sun, Freda and Min Lin for the kids maker carnival organization
  • Edward, Sherry, Paul, Lio, Ricky, Kevin,
  • Clemence, Stephany, Rockets, Qichen, Lutz
  • ...for helping out, it was lots of fun ;-)
• Nelson for help designing the LED pin
• Paul for organizing the components
• Paul and Lio for repairing the CNC

Agenda

Lessons learned from Young Makers carnival

• very good event, kids entertaining
• cleanup is very messy but with kids helping
• kids burned themselves with the hot glue
• learning effect
• newspaper on the paper
• eggdrop: to be tested
• paper structure: trash paper, build a structure (chair)
• spaghetti bridges: more for parents than kids
• children compete with the parents
• less material, less messy and less involved
• coke cans for weight
• price?
  • cleaning fee
  • 150RMB for the whole event (maybe >200RMB glue)
  • Grand prize (may get too competitive?); photo for spaghetti bridge winner
  • increase the price
  • increase price for soldering, playdoh...
• feedback overall has been good
• more events this summer, to be organized by Sunny

Update to staff:

• Rockets and Michael Liao removed from staff for now (still stakeholders)
• also removed He Qi Chen

Vote: retirement of the following members from staff as these members have become busy/pursing new directions:

How to honor their support

• Pin
• every staff member after n staff meetings (stamp)
• Yi Zhang, Rockets, He QiChen, Michael Liao, Angie

Upcoming Sunday morning: Italian team building workshop

• Lutz, Min Lin, Lio and Andi (Edward may join)
• Details here: [1]
• Finishing test chopstick junior
• Setting up on Saturday night, Event Sunday morning at 9
• Total participants: 47 people
• Give XCJ patch as souvenir (470rmb @ 10rmb each) -> Min Lin check that we have enough
• Fapiao and payment issue (Min Lin will take care of it)
• presentation at the gala dinner, but they don't want to pay for dinner (so we shouldn't go)

Lophilo sponsorship

• Lio and Edward don't care
• Use in project for free or discount on request
• Links and logos

Visit from Sino-Finnish design school of Tongji

• July 10th, 2pm to 6pm, Tuesday
• 25 students + teachers
• Workshop? Min Lin to get the price, David to do this workshop
  • farming workshop?

Robotics workshop at International school in Minhang

• Wednesday afternoon
• 30 kids, aged 8~11
• David and Qichen proposed to teach Ardublock
• 1 hour workshop for each group
• Computer lab?
• referral fee for XCJ

New free 3D printer coming soon

• Gift from WeisTek [2]
• Props to Min Lin for following up
• 9000RMB sale value, no assembly required, plug and play
• Receipt from XCJ
• Gift contract: link? sales? referrals?

Chinese TV Show

• Postponed to July
• Asking for laowai to participate: Lio to check out the show
• Weekday? not possible... to Hunan, all expenses paid

Wednesday topics

• only one topic on fab houses, email went to translation already.
• Lio: to do a presentation on the machine room lock
• hackaday video

Paul away from June 9th - 20th

• someone to cover the wednesdays email _and_ hosting the event.
• Lio will do the hosting, Edward will do the emails

Show Staff boxes for reference

• Get out boxes of capacitors from shelf - 10 for 1 rmb pricing on them
• get out microcontrollers from cupboard - pricing on them
• price is for same value: should we change it? next meeting.

Soldering cupboard

• show staff soldering cupboard, all unused soldering stations should be put away here

More keys cut

• Someone to get them cut for new staff members
• Some of the keys (flat) are more expensive
• Key situation changing - FOLLOW UP NEXT WEEK

Roster for opening/closing the space

• Sign up or get signed up if you are on staff.
• This week
  • Thursday evening: Lutz open/close
  • Friday evening: Edward open/close
  • Saturday: Lio to open, Lutz to close
  • Sunday: Italian workshop opens, Ricky close
  • Monday: Edward (guarantee 8pm)
  • Tuesday: 7h30pm staff meeting

Others using XinCheJian space to store and work, non xinchejianers.

• empty boxes
• painting/used paint sticks just being shoved in our cardboard boxes
• our storage boxes are being consumed by G2C..
• Table for our computers with power
• Whatever is in our boxes is ours
• there's rubbish everyday being dumped in the middle of our area
• take pictures

MISC

Priorities

• The space is the project
• Light covers
• 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)

Followups

• Light shades! (Stephany and Kevin + Susan G2C)
• Welcoming and integrating new members
  • Bilingual flyer for new members
  • Gatherings for interacting between new members
• Target for membership, membership bidding/replacement
• Handprints in paint
• Plaque
• 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