Weekly Staff Meetings/2013-07-02

Start Time: 19h30 End Time: 20h30

• Staff meeting presences:

* Edward
* Min Lin
* Sophia
* Lionello
* Paul
* Jimmy
* Ricky

• New intern tomorrow night:

* Chinese with good English skills
* Knows electronics
* Intern coming in
* TODO(MinLin to send intern email to jimmy)

• Robin use of the space

* Evenly split in the use and concerns about contribution to the space
* Signed up a few up members
* Welcome members in Chinese
* How often in the space: everyday
* Hacking with business school classmates
* 3 months (django release OpenSource)
* anyone brought in the space should be members
* using a space as a company to save money
* sticking around the staff meeting

• Roboracing:

* conflict with Make+
* need someone to do the introduction in Chinese
* can use the big screen
* do slides for the competition (pre-recorded video on Youku)

• July 7 Make+Midterm Demo on Sunday

* conflict with roboracing
* Event on Sunday
* Roger agreed BBQ (RMB50 to RMB100) will use the smoker
* Will start 2am to 4am, someone needs to be 10am
* TODO(rngadam): 9am for the BBQ
* Swiss consulate pulled out from the event (possibly because of our lack of participation)
* TODO(Valentin); helps with screen printing t-shirt just for fun (next day screen printing)

• Recap of French Consulate event from Valentin

* appreciate everything, thanks for helping
* intern taking care of it
* more events every month
* need quiet in xinchejian, move to the roof
* audio setup wasn't working
* TODO(*): overflow room
* TODO(Paul/Valentin): take pics, learn how to use the audio setup

• Wednesday talks

* TODO(Lucio): follow up paper shoes speaker (designer) welcome / UT lab guy
* TODO(Sophia): follow up Bianna (processing workshop)
* TODO(Spencer): has two presentations, two subjects (kickoff project, accessibility)
* TODO(Ricky): hackers+founders Ronan Berder presentation follow up for quick announcement
* Announcements
 * Make+, Roboracing announcements

• Astronomy workshop

* for kids, no charge, an hour explaining how it works (do it on Wednesday)
* weekend morning
* when, setup the event, publicize the event
* TODO(Ricky): follow up with proposal of astronomy event 40 RMB / hour

• Summer camp ideas

* TODO(Sophia) : talk to Freda and to Amber to propose the idea
* maybe too late for this year for international
* Chinese schools
* TODO(MinLin): forward interest from Nanjing kids to
* TODO(MinLin): forward dad interested
* David is organizing
* Host summer kids workshop on the weekend

• Camera

* Paul bought all the cameras (RMB35)