Weekly Staff Meetings/2015-02-10

Staff Meeting Notes 2015-02-10
Attendance: Lucio, Amanda, Lio

Welcome teacher Huang

• TEACHER Huang to bring some missing tools into XinCheJian
• TEACHER Huang to help people realize their projects
• AMANDA to help organize some workshops for Teacher Huang
• TEACHER to send us an explanation of his proposals

Bosch

• Valentines Day; cancelled.
• Xinchejian needs to issue fapiao; done

Urban Planning Museum - Hackerspace Demo

• Xinchejian needs to provide projects
• 1 March - 19 April
• FREDA to find out the details

Xinchejian Meeting and Party

• Party scheduled March 26

Who is XCJ Staff? / How it is managed?

• ANDREA: Make a board to show staff.
• AMANDA: Make a board to show general rules (how the space is run)

Transparency for Finances

• Should XinCheJian try to show all of its finances.
• What about rent? Are we allowed to disclose the rent? KEVIN to ask Bob
• Berni: only positive/negative
• AMANDA to put the info on the wiki?
• LIO suggest to create a fund for "future", put X amount in the fund every month (this is by name only; will make our balance sheet more sane by having less "profit")

Proactive on holding Advanced Workshops

• EDWARD ??
• LUCIO ??

Events, event calendar

• Better Calendar System (Google is blocked) LIO: Outlook?

Sponsorships

• Microsoft: LIO to follow up... Did; no reply...
• BMW: did not pay, has been two weeks. LIO to follow up. No reply.

Competitions

• LIO: roborace was cool, do it again
• TEACHER: can invite people to international competitions
• TEACHER & LIO: organize competition

Projects: Idea: Awesome Foundation

• BERNI: Get a bunch of people together -- to donate some money to help one project

Project Corners - Showing projects that are in motion

• People take over a part of the space; ANDREA to drive

Marketing - expanding reach

• Reaching out to factories RICKY

Roger's stuff

• Some is for future workshops
• Need to clean up / install / setup / store / throw? AMANDA to contact him/organize workshop
• ROGER to send mail of staff
• How to lower the electricity cost for Urban Farming project?