Weekly Staff Meetings/2017-02-21
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Staff Meeting Notes 2017-02-21, 20:15-21:00 Space manager: Freda Staff: Ricky, Kevin, Roger, Eduardo, Ricky, Paul Notes: Ricky Guests:
Contents
- 1 Props and Announcements
- 2 Past events
- 3 Coming Week's Events and Workshops
- 4 Wednesday Open Night
- 5 Interns
- 6 Members
- 7 Space
- 8 Finances
- 9 XinCheJian Cleanup
- 10 Space Safety (0 weeks no incidents)
- 11 Biolab
- 12 Xinchejian Rules Changelog
- 13 Sponsorships
- 14 Marketing
- 15 Artable partnership
- 16 Biggerlab Relationship
- 17 Governments
- 18 Space Manager discussions
- 19 Project Room & Machine Room
- 20 Programmable switch
- 21 Online social presence
- 22 UTSEUS Connected Environments Workshops
Props and Announcements
Props to Freda and Maciej for workshop money
Past events
- The 3rd week of February: 1.4K + from Maciej 2 hours workshops
- February 12th: Valentine day speed dating income 600 (5 girls & 5 guys)
Coming Week's Events and Workshops
- Maciej - Ukulele workshop, Very expensive, nobody apply for that, will be CANCELED
- March 4th weekend: Teacher Huang: physics experiment: induction wireless
- March 19th: Toky team - Toky robots workshop
- March 26th: Workshop from Roger on hydroponics
- weekly open workshop: open on Sunday up to 3 hours (workshops)
- weekly (Monday): tool training and workshop: NO TRAINERS
- (WongWeiDa out of hospital, will coming soon)
- Kin?
- Follow up PCB workshop by Paul (after holidays, for after Chinese New Year)
Wednesday Open Night
Wednesday February 22nd 1. 李伟琛: 感知交互该怎么玩?/Weichen Lee: How to play perception interactive? 2. 杜丽亚:物联网开发套件 /Li Ya Du: IoT Dev Kit 3. 黄曾新:物理实验/Teacher Huang: Physical experience (project from kids) 4. 陈敬源:智能网络机器人/Augest: Intelligent Network Robot
March 1st
1. 闫Leo Yan: heating machine 2. 黄曾新:物理实验/Teacher Huang: Physical experience
Interns
- New intern Roger helped with the WeChat
- Will (student in senior high school): helping with translation
- We're listed on: http://reachx.org
- task
- setup Trello and maintain and display
Members
- total this week (Freda total): 18 people work here daily on average, renewed 25 members
- last 2 weeks: 10 new members, nine one month and one 6 months
Space
- Freda to setup new Huodongxing to payment@xinchejian.com
- We get a PAYG Sim + Phone. - TODO PAUL (3 weeks late)
- Put together an overview of XCJ and what we do for Government after spring festival: ALREADY DONE
- They want buy our class and pay money for kids competition
- Freda to own and share to larger group
Finances
- Ricky to take responsibility for the space - current owners (Mika and Edward) need to make the change
- Freda to kick off process
- change email
- Edward wants to change investor
- To transfer biz from Qingpu to Jing'an for local support - Freda to support
- Paper, stamp to go to Qingpu (next week Paul) already go to Qingpu for search which company we register, but over 6 company use this register address, Freda need help:(
- Move to Jing'an cost 3-4 months, and pay 6000+ for work - Did you guys confirmed ?
- Check with accountant, impact on business
- Check with P2 if we need to change anything on our business license,Bob talk to Minlin and Freda together
XinCheJian Cleanup
- Freda: will continue the cleaning after spring festival, machine room rebuild beginning. P2 Space designer will give blueprint. Cost 2-3 days for build and move it.
- Rock refused to let us work in the work time
- met with Bob for negotiating for rent for machine room and blueprint
- post picture on the group -> set it aside in outgoing table -> throw away
Space Safety (0 weeks no incidents)
- INCIDENT THIS WEEK: metal stuff from top shelf of urban farming fell down, hurt freda head
- RESOLUTION: custom shelves (particulate board, Fenyang road)
- 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
Biolab
- Last Saturday meet up (2 people came!, but no staff for service and meet up) - will push harder after Chinese New Year
- main people are busy, this Saturday at 14h30 meetup for Biolab
- Looking for safety hood for Biolab; to be built out of plexiglass. Ventilation (installing fans, hole, platform)
Xinchejian Rules Changelog
Rules Changes: rules_changelog
Sponsorships
Sponsorships updates:
- Brainstorming about sponsor pitch
- Sponsorship brainstorming
- Need more magazine articles: That's Shanghai, City Weekend
- One media came to visit, may write an example
- Monthly press cycle: 2 months, press release
- Auction postponed till March, Alec Walker takes the job
- Government (after Chinese New Year)
- Funding presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C8VTO6WinbDAe8Y3Fy0m6qeHM4UyRVwWpmjdYRJXWvQ/edit#slide=id.p
- ON HOLD UNTIL WE MOVE TO JING'AN
- Precious Plastic Proposal pending (Adele, Andrea to follow up with the proposal so we can move forward)
- Metal shifu
- Have a quote for precious plastic (25K per set)
Marketing
- Documentary maker want to take a video at XCJ (Makers/Hackers). Agree or not? AGREE TO TALK (make sure it's political)
- short 1 minute kids/adults/entrepreneurs tech presentation of their problem at open night, make more parents aware of XCJ. Agree or not? AGREE TO TALK
- Founder of drone and make member to go to Inner Mongolia together to do drone race. Agree or not? AGREE TO BUILD COMMUNITY
- Race cost money, we can get 10% of the ticket price (~2000 RMB registration; accommodation & tickets) -> NO
- Mushroom Cloud and StarSpace want make Bluetooth group forum, but no money ask xinchejian member to mushroom cloud join this meeting, Agree or not? NO
- Promote to send the invitation to conference invite March 10th at Innospace
- Send to Eduardo since he uses Bluetooth
- Products info card Roger & Andi)
- take pictures
- wants to name the products
- clean up project shelf; throw away old shit
- add new products there
Artable partnership
- Zoe - Artable video website: recording video (name)
- selling classes on hacking and art
- populate her platform with content
- specifically for the Chinese audience
- already ask Eduardo and Maciej ,They refused and want take video by themselves, Teacher Huang said he is super busy.
- Terms
- Topline (??) 70%/30% Artable/XinCheJian for Artable produced video
- Our own channel
- Andi to volunteer to find the presenters to give the workshop
- PROPOSAL/APPROVED: ACCEPT THE TERMS ARTABLE FOR VIDEO (Andi to meet her next Wednesday)
Biggerlab Relationship
- Document presented and discussed with Rock
- Rock ask us move machine out. machine room rebuilt beginning.
- https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0BwhmhC9QhaSFdGU4OGswakhLZ28
- Counter-proposal for the machine room (Roger)
Governments
- Government want buy our Kids workshops
- Marble maze, Arduino, Wearable tech, Kids Maker Fair, XCJ summer camp
- already sent their choices and prepare to apply money for us
- to be delivered in kids center by members
Space Manager discussions
- Bring up new constraint for the space at the staff meeting, please ask for review (WeChat, email)
- Announcing new rules:
- XCJ stuff keep only 6 months over June
- ask bio lab move
Project Room & Machine Room
- FREDA: asks for applicants from members for project room (2K/month equivalent for branding, workshops, money, equipment)
- FREDA: ask for more update from helicopter simulator project, report on progress and evaluate their contributions to XinCheJian.
- Kids helicopter workshop: 1K to 2K RMB
- V2 will be finished soon, will run a series of workshop (many classes)
- Meetup with helicopter workshop
- Project room
- Setup a door between the spaces
- Add a camera
Programmable switch
Needs setup
- set range of time (10h-22h)
- set period of time (distance: 1h)
Online social presence
- XinCheJian meetup.com: 10K followers on Meetup (Paul to follow up with Amanda for access)
- Facebook and Twitter access
UTSEUS Connected Environments Workshops
Sino-European School of Technology (http://utseus.com)
- Visits at XinCheJian on Wednesday
- Workshops, using the space as members (non-exclusive)
- IoT Raspberry Pi kits (with some profit margins), purchase by members, issue fapiaos,