Weekly Staff Meetings/2015-11-24

Staff Meeting Notes 2015-11-24, 20:34 to
Notes: Paul
Staff:  Ricky, minlin, chris, sean, (late - 39minutes) andi, (late - 42minutes) kevin.
Observers: wang

Thumbs up / Props / Congrats

• Leo launches indigogo - pluggable PCBS - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/enhanced-arduino-uno-including-ftdi-and-isp - just launched

STAFF ISSUES

• People on staff dont visit the space enough outside of staff meetings

License Update

• Government needs company to update three licenses into one.
  • Need: business license original and copy, tax registration license original and copy, Certificate of Organization Code original and copy, company stamp.
  • Paul looking for paperwork

le souhait Offers Discount on Beer

• Le Souhait Offer XinCheJian members a discount of 20% off on beer.
  • Do we accept it?
  • If we do, how do our members show their membership?
    • pick up a flyer from xcj

Template for proposal for XinCheJian

• done, written, now market it and translate it.
• in your fucking email - kevin!
• auto responder - thanks kevin.

DFRobot Vending Machine Sponsorship Cooperation Options

PROPOSAL/ONHOLD (MIN LIN TO FOLLOW UP): Vending Machine Donation with us managing the inventory

• Result:
  • DF-ROBOT wants to control stock - does not conflict with dfRobot products
  • Request a 20% space to be kept for XCJ (tshirts example, memberships)
  • No rev-share on XCJ products
  • Request 30% of price sold
  • Trial period - 6months trial

This Week's Events

• CNC workshop - 28th
• Magician - leon - 28-29th

Wednesday Open Night

• Host (Chinese/English): Chris
• Announcement: Paul (newsletter), CHRIS (WeChat)

• Presentations - Host: Chris
  • Leon: magicman
  • Teacher Huang: physics demos

• Announcements
  • Intern - MIA
  • t-shirts for sale for 100RMB for non members, 50rmb to members
    • to demonstrate at open house, free gift for 1 year members.
    • 3 people done it
  • Profile page on wiki for all staff.
    • picture
    • intro

EFLEDPANEL

• Minlin pushing to get LED bar donated to XCJ

XCJ trademark

• Paul says useless
• Kevin says do it, for 800 rmb just do it.
  • paul to do

Problems this Week

• figure out what we need for replacing missing ram.

Hacker scholarship

RICKY/CHRIS: to announce Hacker Scholarship ("Lioship" see below)

The hacker scholarship grant is marketing, propose project, have budgets, mentor, signup as partner, propose timeline, propose budget, 3 months, display at the space, property of the space.

PROPOSAL/ACCEPTED:

• • any one staff member can sponsor a project
  • create a wiki page on projects (on wiki.xinchejian.com) and send it to the staff@xinchejian.com
  • purchase the components out of the already approved total hacker scholarship budget of 3K RMB (total)
  • reports how the money got spent at the staff meeting weekly
  • fast track limited to first THREE projects

• PROPOSAL/APPROVED: Fingerprint scan project hardware to be reimbursed
• Budget for Fingerprint? 2262rmb remaining.

IT

• install Windows computers with BIzspark licenses
  • not installed yet, windows 10.1en
  • todo: installl the gawd dam windows

Sponsorships

• CHRIS to setup with DFRobot ordering account -> managers@xinchejian.com
  • AMANDA to change the ordering account email
  • MINLIN: if not, will sort it out with ROCKETS

• More sponsorships?
  • CHRIS: Altium high-end PCB design (waiting on proposal for licenses - update after CNY);
  • ANDI: potential lead at Google, no pitch yet (cheap-mobile-for-India guy that is very keen to help hackerspaces)
  • LIO: Lio is following up with Microsoft, guy is not getting back to him; follow up; follow follow up
  • proposal by Andi: sponsor a position
  • Ricky: Google sponsors projects that scale.

Group picture of staff

• need to print the page, wiki, new website (profile)
  • Amanda to get new picture of staff members \o/

more people building stuff at space

• More usage during the day at the space

XinConnect

• ANDI: will share a demo - on github, xinchejian
• ANDI: will publish wires - on github, xinchejian

Cloudflare/SSL

• paul to give ricky access to XCJ machine

Bouncer is broken

• Investigate, broken, report back to git issues.

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