Weekly Staff Meetings/2015-12-15

Staff Meeting Notes 2015-12-15, 20:40 to
Notes: Andi
Staff:  Chris, Kevin, Amanda, (late: Roger)
Observers: ---

Thumbs up / Props / Congrats

• We got JD event! Rented the space for 2 hours for our regular rate. 7.30-9.30

STAFF ISSUES

• People on staff dont visit the space enough outside of staff meetings
• People on staff don't visit the space during staff meetings.
  • Staff to attend at staff meeting at least twice per month.
  • And be on time is never on time.

Proposal:

• At least do 2 meetings per month.
• Amanda to form a proposal on minimum responsibilities of staff

License Update

• Government needs company to update three licenses into one.
• Accountant have everything and it should be done by the end of the week. Amanda and Chris are handling it.

le souhait Offers Discount on Beer

• Le Souhait Offer XinCheJian members a discount of 20% off on beer.
  • They just give us flyers to show there and they will give us the discount.
  • Chris is receiving the flyers.

Template for proposal for XinCheJian

• done, written, now market it and translate it.
• kevin to follow up with ricky to create the autoresponder for the partnerships.

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
• Kevin to write to Minlin to get final proposal.
  • Minlin sent us a proposal without the requests above
  • Minlin get back to DFROBOTS

This Week's Events

• Atmel-JD Hardware Experience sharing salon. Thursday 17th/12.
  • Do promotion on social media channels (done)
  • Prepare water (bought)
  • Need wireless mic ( Amanda on it)
  • Chris will be there to help.

Wednesday Open Night

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

• Presentations - Host: Chris
  • Rock: Make with a purpose (making and design thinking together)
  • Zhang: Differential mechanisms
  • Yao: How to be a full-stack developer
  • Teacher Huang: physics demos

• Announcements
  • 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
  • Minlin... news?

XCJ trademark

• Paul says useless
• Kevin says do it, for 800 rmb just do it.
  • paul to do
• We are waiting Paul. Paul sign and chop!

Problems this Week

• figure out what we need for replacing missing ram.
• chris to ask leoyan to find out what need to be bought.

Hacker scholarship

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

• weekly update: remote control for xinchejian light. an old chinese guy is doing it.

IT

• We got a licence for six mont from Altium, need to be installed.
  • Leoyan can do it with the ram?

Sponsorships

• CHRIS to setup with DFRobot ordering account -> managers@xinchejian.com
  • AMANDA to write instructions and publish it.

• More sponsorships?
  • CHRIS: Altium high-end PCB design (waiting on proposal for licenses - update after CNY);
    • Follow up on a training session
  • 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

Group picture of staff

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

XinConnect

• ANDI: will share a demo - on github, xinchejian
• ANDI: will publish wires - on github, xinchejian
• Online again by the end of the year!

Cloudflare/SSL

• paul to give ricky access to XCJ machine

Bouncer is not stable

• Investigate, broken, report back to git issues.

Cards

PROBLEM: mini wants to give us only 20 cards. F@ck that.

• PROPOSAL: 1 year + special cases. (Chris to menage i)

More Hackerspaces opening up

They can get in touch with us on staff@xinchejian.com

ISSUE: XF

• Lucio away
• Sean is leaving too
• who's gonna maintain our machines?

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