Weekly Staff Meetings/2016-12-20

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Staff Meeting Notes 2016-12-20, 20:00-20:30
Staff: Chris, Ricky, Freda, Roger
Guests: Shanshan, Ivan
Notes: Paul

Props and Announcements

  • Ricky for finding a project for the new interns
  • Chris for training the interns

Past events

  • Alec AI workshop (using spreadsheets to build a chatbot)
    • 21 interested people, 10 people signed up, 8 people showed up
    • 160 RMB / workshop
  • Henry: Friday night robot meetup, starts from next week (3 kids showed up)
  • Rudi: Robot camp (this is last week)

Coming Week's Events and Workshops

  • TBD: Follow up PCB workshop by Paul (after holidays, for after Chinese New Year)

Workshops

Wednesday Open Night

HOST: Chris

  • River: 3d printing PCB hardware
  • Intern: Yiluo will present her project
  • Roger will talk about Biolab : capsicin extraction with ethanol

Scouts

  • Coming on the Jan 14th - 9AM, 12Noon, 30RMB/scout deal (with parents) - Paul to support

Interns

Xinfab-Xinchejian Relations

  • Xinfab moving out today. Our equipment has been taken from Xinfab
  • Everything from in the little rooms is there.

Space

  • Paid 3 months upfront (January, February, March)
  • April, May from the official account
  • Kevin exchanging with Bob, probably take over two little rooms (storage, machine room)
  • Shanshan on the case: doesn't meet requirements so far.
    • Zhabei is an option.
    • xinzhalu/zhongshan bei lu
  • Additional spaces
    • Pudong Jiangjiang offering space
    • Luozhuangzhong / Alex

Finances

  • Not enough money in the official business account to pay the rent
  • Ricky to take responsibility for the space - Ricky to update staff 20th of December.
  • Edward wants to change investor ^-(o.o)-^

Space Manager Transfer

  • Freda will take over Chris's role, January 1st 2017
  • Chris will remain XinCheJian for a long time.

Sponsorships

Sponsorships updates:

  • Need more articles: That's Shanghai, City Weekend
    • One media came to visit, may write an example

Auction postponed till February

  • December 14th, Alec Walker takes the job.

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

Government (January 14th)

Space Safety (1 week no incidents)

  • 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

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.
  • Kevin to help (?)

Marketing

  • Products naming: Delivery in Chinese New Year
    • wants to name the products
    • clean up project shelf; throw away old shit
    • add new products there

Biolab

  • Biolab presentation day on Saturday (6-7 persons showed up)
    • only 2 specifically for Biolab
    • lack of marketing
  • Looking for safety hood for Biolab
  • Smelly (peppers in the oven)
  • Ventilation (installing fans, hole, platform)

Xinchejian Rules Changelog

Rules Changes: rules_changelog

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