Weekly Staff Meetings/2013-12-17

Date: 20131210
Present: Paul, Edward, Kevin (minutes), KJ, Lucia, ShanShan, Sara, Mika 

PROPS

• LIO - Introduction to D Workshop - 7 sign ups, 2 attendance
• JONATHAN - Cleaning up the machine room
• DAVID - Startup Weekend Maker Edition
  • Not enough mentors, Needs improvement
• DAVID and SHANSHAN for hosting the talks.
• EDWARD fixing the door bell.

Wednesday

• 4 presenters
  • Startup Weekend: Sonic Watch, Pleasure Underwear, Movable Gallery
  • Edward met a guy who is giving a talk, representative of something 3D Printing

Accounting

• Edward: Needs to spend time half-day from work to find someone to get it done.

Lucio's Space for Mechanical Tools

• If we find a new location...
• Take care of all the machinery, and can outsource the machine room stuff
• He takes care of certification

Do we need a new space?

• Don't have enough space (laser cutter, CNC , 3D printers,)
• The Nest?
• Any other suggestions / options?
• Current space -- too small.
• Freda - contact
• Start looking into contacts

Projector

• LIO failed.
• Next steps - purchase or find a person to fix
• EDWARD - Bring to electronics market to fix.

Holiday Schedule

• Christmas Dec 25: Wednesday... LIO and other to host, and write newsletter
• New Years Jan 1: Wednesday... VACATION DECLARED

Missing Hotplate Mystery

• SOLVED: Susan
• Nothing to do

Movie Night - Fridays

• Organized by Roger
• FILM: Nacho Libre
• FOOD: Nachos
• Please come, just tell Roger
• Also functioning as half-ass Christmas party

Workshops

HYRDOPONICS WORKSHOP

• ROGER
• Proposed Dec 28 - Saturday 2:00 PM
• Roger to get the info
• ROGER to send
• AARON to post

BLINKING HEART - POSTMORTEM

• MIKA
• Dec 22 SUNDAY 1:00 PM
• MIKA -> AARON to give the information

D WORKSHOP - POSTMORTEM

• WHY U NO SHOW?
• Was there a miscommunication for dates... ?? uh oh.
• FUTURE ACTION: BE CAREFUL ABOUT DATES
• Promote better?

PINEWOOD CUB SCOUTS

• Jan 11 and Jan 18
• Remember. Need some staff. Do some training.

XINCHEJIAN RULES

• Staff should pay membership fees - if no objections this week, it will pass.
  • Objection on email
  • Goes back for another week??

Xinchejian Membership System

• Official membership sign-up times will be wed night and Sat.
• Need to train staff to be able to sign up members with new process (e.g. getting card printed). Note: People can sign up anytime, but membership cards will be printed on Wed and Sat.
• Paul committed changes
• http://github.com/xinchejian/graham
• EDWARD -
• http://members.xinchejian.com
• EVERYONE PLEASE TEST
• Please push bug reports to github issues

Actions item to complete over following week (A)

• Jimmy to print out Xinchejian code of conduct pdf. Paste one next to the money box.
  • Waiting on Jimmy

• Edward, Paul, and Jonathan to install security cameras weekend of 12/14
  • Nothing done
  • Still need to look at Taobao for cameras