Weekly Staff Meetings/2016-12-06

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Staff Meeting Notes 2016-12-06, 20:06
Staff: Chris,  Ricky, Freda, Roger with Kevin, Andi
Notes: Chris

Props and Announcements

  • 4 years of meetings already
  • Alec and Chris are hosting the auction night

Past events

  • Rudi holiday camp started, two people signed up and moved in the venture
  • Eduardo canceled his workshop last Sunday
  • Camilo one signed up

Coming Week's Events and Workshops

  • 3D modeling workshop crowdfunding
  • Alec AI workshop (using spreadsheets to build a chatbot)
  • Henry: Friday night robot meetup, starts from next week
  • TBD: Follow up PCB workshop by Paul
  • Rudi: robot camp

Wednesday Open Night

HOST: Chris

  • Alex: touchable remote
  • Alec: XCJ auction night
  • Teacher Huang

Workshops

  • Alipay name is wrong on Huodongxing, fixed! Waiting for 20th to get money.

Sponsorships

Sponsorships updates:

  • XinCheJian at Crystal Galleria
    • Pay Chris for the organization
    • May sponsor us, allow us to put posters
    • Get 15% from the projects there for referral
    • Do more outreach to people that don't about XinCheJian
  • Need more articles: That's Shanghai, City Weekend
    • One media came to visit, may write an example
  • December 14th, Alec Walker takes the job.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iSLw91aLQ8PCK_CglqJRu7DruZ7LRldtBhgMUGvtCFs/edit#slide=id.g1993b52ee7_0_5

Xinchejian Rules Changelog

Rules Changes: rules_changelog

Space Safety (0 weeks no incidents)

  • last incident: glue gun left hot on an electric wire
  • sensibilization
    • send out incidents elsewhere
    • make old and new members read about the charter
  • Enabling the individual members to call out individual safety first.
    • Call out safety to group, have a discussion, address objections.
    • if objections not addressed satisfactorily
    • Enforce safety workshop usage
  • Ban for people that present a risk as collectively assessed

Physical security also include making sure we don't get things stolen

Xinfab-Xinchejian Relations

https://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Relationship_of_Xinfab_and_Xinchejian

  • workshops are 50% / 50% split of workshop
  • belt sander is broken (belt needs to be changed)
  • bandsaw, turns on, magnetic switch needs to be replaced.

...moving to a new space EOM. Lucio's sister-in-law is the space manager

Xinchejian Cleanup

  • Total failure
  • Members don't maintain.
  • Track these who don't clean and announce it. People should nag these ones don't clean up.

XinCheJian Online Shop shop.xinchejian.com

Proposal: online shop full of cool ideas

  • From makers to makers
  • Projects BY members (XinCheJian Members)
  • Need to have a profile
  • Disclaimer: project are not owned by XinCheJian, projects are by members
  • Customized logo "XinCheJian Member" (Andi)

Implementation:

  • Use the wiki: shop.xinchejian.com
  • Physical store: use the shelves (demo product + profile)

Roger sent Wiki stuff to staff, no reply

Meeting on Saturday for the products

  • wants to name the products
  • clean up project shelf
  • throw away old shit
  • add new products there
  • Urban Farming second class will be ending this week. Will finish the documentation on Wiki.
  • Party will be on Saturday night probably.
  • Next Wednesday will be presentation time.
  • Biolab next meetup will be on Saturday.

Space Manager Transfer

  • Freda will take over Chris's role.
  • Chris will remain XinCheJian for a long time.

Coming up

  • Not enough money in the official business account to pay the rent
  • Ricky to take responsibility for the space