Weekly Staff Meetings/2012-10-16

* Location       : XinCheJian
* Scheduled Time : 19:45
* Start time     : 20:30
* End time       : 
* Staff Present  : Ricky, Kevin, Mika, Paul, Valentin, Jia Qi, Freda, Stephany, Lio, Edward
* Others Present : Sherry, Lenny, Lucio

REVIEW: LAST WEEK

• Space meeting

PLANNING: URGENT

• Incorporation!
  • Talk to David

• Revenues for Workshop at Xinchejian
  • 50/50 - Split from workshop organizers and Xinchejian
  • Kevin (TODO): Draft a workshop document?

• Halloween
  • Lio(TODO): W+K party - Halloween. Find out the dates.
  • Lio(TODO): Otherwise we want the rooftop for the event.

• Swarm Robots
• Sunny's thing

• 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
  • Ricky's on it.

• 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

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.
  • Kevin and Lio: Waiting on vendor registration

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