Weekly Staff Meetings/2014-09-23

Date: 2014 09 23 / Sep 23, 2014
Attendance: Lio, Amanda, Kevin, Andi, Paul, Mika

Sponsorship

MINI

• Everything on their side.
• Just waiting on them
• LIO is going to send digital and ping

Microsoft

• Lio - checked. No news, went to the manager

Frog

• NEED INVOICE
• ACCOUNTANT will send to Paul at Frog directly
• PAUL will try to get it done this week

Hai'er

• No news

Samsung

• ANDI will check up on girl. He forgot. Will follow up.

Finance

• We should make that monthly
• KEVIN and AMANDA - talk through monthly sheet

Membership

Number of members

• 15 Sep 2014: Registered 50+
• 15 Sep 2014: Active 45+

Membership IT System

• Paul did not touch

Membership System

• Envelopes: Arrived. Good. Thanks Amanda
• Andrea: Design a chop - COMPLETED! Already given to Lucio.
• LUCIO: Will make a chop - NOT COMPLETED.

NEW POLICY: Passports for everybody

Members.xinchejian.com

• Website -- STILL DOESN'T WORK
• LIO to stinkybad teach in stinkybad.com/hoe

Events

Hackathon - 20 - 21 SEP

• KUDOS: To Amanda
• Attendance: 25 people
• Projects: 8
• Atmosphere: Was good
• Pictures: Amanda sent to Jiaqi
• Upload Pictures: Google Drive, One Drive.
• FLICKR: ANDI to find the stuff.
• SUMMARY of the EVENT: AMANDA to write. AMANDA to send it to KEVIN
• We gave 1 month membership for attendees

WHAT WAS GREAT:

• A lot of crazy useless projects
• People really enjoyed it
• Free food... (LIO?) AMANDA to pay Lio 200 RMB. but

WHAT COULD IMPROVED:

• CLEANING is a problem. Need a trash can next time? Trash box. More bins.
• RECYCLING stuff -- dump stuff to be recycled.
• DF ROBOT Sponsorship was not sponsorship -- very limited suggestion. Only thing they produce.
• We should set a standard amount (6000 RMB? minimum)

Ideas:

• We should do this more regularly (every 6 months)
• Right size, and even too crowded

• We (Xinchejian) should provide basic hardware
• What are we short on?
  • Multimeters
  • Power sources
  • Connectors
• Supplier: All the tool kits on the table
  • If DF Robot could do this...

• Bigger prize could help
• Sitting in the corner not doing anything, so didn't take it seriously

Prize

• Creative prize - got to work
• Most complete prize - got to work
• Judging criteria - Should be decided before the event (Marcus)

Techyizu Cooperation?

• Differentiation or Cooperation
• Seriousness vs not seriousness

- - - -

ROBOT MONDAY 7-9 PM

• Good

FLEXBOT MEETUP Biweekly 10 AM -12 PM Saturdays

• Questionable...
• He only has assembled kits, not enough
• They will do electronic watches this weekend.
• Still ok for now. But will monitor

POLYMORPH MEETUP Biweekly 7-9 PM Thursday

• Will meet on Thursdays

BERNIE's GROUP Thursday

• Will explain to Amanda

POLICY on Meetup meetings

• ALL ATTENDEES HAVE TO BE XINCHEJIAN MEMBERS - confirmed

POLICY on Posting on Website

• When we feel like it is regular enough (and not just a one-off thing)

Internet

• 40 people is the max
• Edward is representing Xinchejian
• 2x problems last week
• Network is not good
• 40 MB line... (1 MB line)
• NEED TO DO experiment -- if it can connect to Hero Center when that happened.
• Their router is the limiting factor
• Lio suggests - Xinchejian wifi only for members
• Wednesday -- tell people to connect to Hero Center
• PAUL can bring a second wifi unit, and make it switch on and off
• PAUL LIO and EDWARD to work this out

Website

Get rid of MAKE Plus

• Thanks Lio

Meetup.com

• 6 month trial is expiring
• $70 USD per 6 months
• DECISION: Keep it.

Workshops

Arduino Workshop

• WHEN: 28 September 2014, Sunday 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• LIO not looking forward to it, goddamn it.
• 7 people signed up
• Edward and Paul to join in the fun

Jing'an Activity Center

• Rudi talking to 20 children about whatever / robotics
• Saturday
• We get money (1500 RMB to activity center), splitting with Rudi
• AMANDA to follow up

Jing'an Activity Center

• Flexbot - Already set up
• SEAN is going to handle this
• October 18
• Nothing to do, and we're charging 3000 RMB (split with Sean)

The Situation of Design in China

• WHEN 23 October 2014 THU 7:30
• Students from European Institute of Design
• Open to members
• Lecture: Industrial design in China
• Must be member to attend

Spaghetti Bridge Training - Xinchejian

• Want someone to train their teachers on Spaghetti Bridge
• November 12th, Wednesday 9:00 - 11:30 AM.
• Already booked...
• 30 teachers
• Payment - 150 RMB - 4500 RMB payment
• They pay materials

Spaghetti Bridge Workshop - Xinchejian

• December 5th, Friday (Time not set)
• Want to chaperone, help them run it, their responsibility
• 20 kids - 3000 RMB

Maker Carnival - OCTOBER 18-19

• LIO confirmed will do spaghetti bridge.
• ROGER confirmed will do hypdroponics. Sent application form to Belina.
• LUCIO to look into how to make a 3D Printer - 700 USD (materials) + 500 RMB (class) (confirmed but as Xinfab)
• PAUL - looking for projects. If any help cool.
• ANDREA - contacted them DF Robot, only one booth. We want more space. ANDREA to handle this.
• Attendance: Andrea, Paul
• AMANDA - Will ask the participants to showcase their projects for Maker Carnival

Monthly Makers Hippie Thing - Creative Collective - Hangout

• LIO OWNS THIS
• LUCIO also to attend
• Xinchejian to attend it
• Wednesday - 8-10 PM - 1:00 AM
• Have a stand at one of their things - nightmarkets
• Bernie's girlfriend, Audrey
• At Dada
• OCT 15, NOV 12, DEC 10
• OCT 15: LIO volunteers to man the stand
• Need projects - bring there
• EDWARD to help with car
• ANDREA to help

DAFF - October 25

• Agreed to go: LUCIO, LIO, AMANDA, RUDI
• Next step: AMANDA confirm this money, confirm what we're agreeing to
• No money, no go

Sponsor Logo

• ANDI to do it, print the logos (NOW)

Wednesday

Speakers

• LIO - talk about toilets
• AMANDA - To contact hackathon people to talk tomorrow
• AMANDA - Follow up with LUCIO for some dude
• Yang He - Aviation platform - starting a community, like a model of Xinchejian
• PAUL to send

Other Events

• Sept 20-21 -- Hackathon
• Oct 18-19 -- Barcamp Shanghai
• Oct 25-16 -- DAFF
• Nov 15-16 -- Hack Shanghai
• hackshanghai.com 24-hour, 100,000 prizes. NYU

Space

Storage

• AMANDA contacted Taobao, took pictures
• LIO proposed off the market shelf
• EDWARD to purchase off-the-market shelf and attach to ceiling
• EDWARD to send link, AMANDA to pay

Shelves (Blue)

• EDWARD to send the link
• ROGER to discuss with EDWARD
• AMANDA to purchase

Kitchen

• We have oven, and induction stoves
• Roger says we need shelves, can't unpack
• PEOPLE SQUARED see if we can get display space

Finances

• Huodongxing - Supposed to be transferred to Xinchejian... DONE