Weekly Staff Meetings/2012-10-09

* Location       : XinCheJian
* Scheduled Time : 19:45
* Start time     : 20:00
* End time       : 20:45 
* Staff Present  : Ricky, Kevin, Mika, Valentin, Freda, Edward
* Others Present : Sherry

Note: No energy for meeting.

REVIEW: LAST WEEK

• What happened? (Nobody knows)

PLANNING: URGENT

• SPACE ISSUE
  • Kevin: Went to meeting. Will do a short write up of what was discussed.
  • Need to talk with G2C and Transist about issues (scheduling space, etc.)

• NEWSLETTER
  •  ??

• SPACE SCHEDULE

Monthly planning

• Arduino Workshop
  •  ??

• 3D printer Workshop / Assembly / Printing
  •  ??

• Maker Carnival Shanghai - Min Lin
  • No update yet...
  • November 2nd to 4th (Friday - Sunday)
  • @Shanghai Youth Creative Week (Century Park, Pudong)
  • Activities: Exhibition, hackathon, workshops, guests from abroad
  • Latest update
    • Possibly very small because we have a lot less space than before
    • Mitch tweeting about this
  • Projects selection: need at least 40 projects in total
  • Workshops: at least 10 with material (to get sponsorship)
    • TODO(DFRobot): Soldering
    • TODO(Edward): ALF (show off useless machine)
    • TODO(Mika): LED heart (to be confirmed)
    • TODO(Paul): Joule thief
    • TODO(Lutz&Spencer): Swarm robots
    • TODO(SunnySr): squishy circuits
    • TODO(David): Ardublock
    • TODO(???) Sell DIY kits, t-shirts []
  • TODO(Mika, Yihan, Valentin, Angie, Freda): LOGO, sticker, t-shirt, posters, event flyer, logo pin, hackerspace passport, SH maker faire stamp, workshops stamps
    • DONE: Got logo from Beijing Maker Carnival, Wenwen from DFRobot will modify it for SH Maker Carnival

• Write up of Barcamp on Xinchejian website (DONE - Kevin)

Long-term or ongoing follow up

• INCORPORATION
  • TODO(David): Report on status of corporate entity -- STILL NEED TODO
  • Faren Issue 法人 (Legal Representative)

• Roboracing Workshop 201208 and Roboracing Event 201208 - 26 Aug (Edward)
  • TODO(Edward): do a blog post about the workshop and roborace -- STILL NEED TODO
  • TODO(Mika): nice decorative image for blog post -- STILL NEED TODO

• Microsoft sponsorship
  • MSFT interested.
  • TODO(Kevin): To extrapolate some viewing / demographic stats for Lio
  • Proposed Price: 2718 RMB / month
  • Kevin: Will spend 10 minutes thinking about this.

• The space is the project
  • WIP(Min Lin) : add parts prices
  • TODO(James): rails are in: buy material, install rails (reimbursed by XCJ)

• WISS International school wanted workshop (Analog Line Follower)
  • DONE(MinLin): take the lead - contacted WISS waiting for reply
  • TODO(Min Lin): reply to WISS and fix the date
  • Hosting ALF and Swarmbot workshops (can also go to WISS to do it, if space is a problem)
  • 40 students of 15 years old (can be divided into sub groups)
  • 80 RMB per head per workshop (this is the price I told them) / 200 RMB Swarmbot
  • Weekday only (Friday is preferred)
  • From 9:30am to 2pm (preferred)
  • We need 3~4 people to handle this
  • Need volunteer to host the workshops
    • TODO(Paul,???): standby for doing this event during the weekdays...