Weekly Staff Meetings/2014-12-30

Staff meeting note 2014 Dec. 30th
Attendance: Lucio, Amanda, Lio, Berni, Mika

Wednesday Open night

• Amanda - automatic foosball counter
• Lucio - the black mamba
• Ezure - open-source segway

Members

We have 100 members.

MINI

• We got the signed contract! Needs PAUL's signatures!

Microsoft

• Got confirmation last week. LIO to call on Tuesday (NOW)

Backdoor issue

• door keeps breaking, we can lock, just cant unlock
• LIO will try to fix lock on backdoor using the old XCJ lock

T-shirts

• ROGER working on t-shirts; status? *dead issue*
• roger has samples.. cannot see them. 30rmb/shirt + 15rmb print

WeChat

• Can do wechat payments.
• 300rmb + business license, Amanda to do.
• Bank transaction denied. MIKA to try again.

Jingan activity center

• Asked for Feb 1st 8:30am to 11:30am for XCJ to run workshops, want 4 independent workshops 2 Chinese, 2 Western.
• Age: under 15 yrs old
• event: Middleschool near XCJ
• Amanda to find out age groups, and if they are staying for an allotted time, and how many to expect.
• event for all elementary schools and middle schools.
• Paul to contact community on that.
• any objections please speak up.
• Toothbrush - by Amanda.
• Lio to do badges soldering workshop
• activities to host in 2015: 3 before CNY, 10 after

Hackathon - TechYiZu

• 17/18, workshops the week before
• arduino workshop by KEVIN in XCJ
• laser cutter workshop by LUCIO

Residence programming

• Invite (foreign?) hackers to come to Shanghai for X weeks, paying for stay.
• Let's try once and evaluate. Budget: 3000/mo RMB
• AMANDA to find the first victim
• XinCheJian can provide official invitation letter

Workshop Requests

• Serial workshop for Arduino - thanks, will consider it for next year.
  • Serial Workshop Design

guns

• remove laser gun from space
• AMANDA to ask ANDREW to remove it once he's better

machine room

• LUCIO to clean up
• build shelving
• hide dangerous/redundant tools and machines
• need some new tools/wrenches, good quality. XINFAB/XCJ 50/50?

New CNC

• Big CNC, 25k: XCJ can buy one, if needed. XINFAB can pay part of it.
• CNC needs hourly fee, 35RMB/hr, to pay for maintenance
• LUCIO prefers to build a new CNC, 6k.
• Amanda: crowd funding? LIO: doesn't make sense, what's membership for? LUCIO: just try it and see
• Proposal: crowd fund CNC for XINFAB, to build one. LUCIO and AMANDA drives this.

business license

• need to renew license for a QR code
• Accountant to follow up. AMANDA to check with her.

cameras

• p2 advises xcj to make sure cameras are recording for bathroom hustlers using the space as a cut through.
• need to confirm that it restarts on power outage: LIO to check

Electronics room

• need to clean up E-Room

Rat

• p2 to close the hole. Done.

staff meeting/party for planning 2015

• planning in January
  • what did we do
  • what did we do well
  • what did we not do well
  • where we want to be by the end of 2015
  • special invites: Ricky/minlin/david
• Party

XinFab access

• random people passing through to go to toilet or xinfab
• just ask: XinFab has non-members coming through
• toilet: P2's problem. Should be only-members

Make for kids

• Who can represent XinCheJian? Lio: Founders, Staff, Members

Accelerators

• PCH wanted to have event/meetup in XCJ. When? March. Willing to pay. Sponsorship?
• This is new. They're commercial, investors. Need to confirm with the rest of staff. AMANDA
• Lucio: let's make a rule and vote for it.
• Tie it to sponsorship? Any sponsor to host 1 event/mo.?

Visitors

• Visitors only on Wednesday Open-night
• 1 member can bring 1 guest during other times, need to be accompanied and can only stay once/short-term; see Policy
• Random visitors: "Come back on Wednesday, or leave." Need appointment or member to accompany.
• Day pass? NO.
• AMANDA to print the rule and stick to the rule

Laser Printer

• EDWARD will bring new toner during the holidays