Weekly Staff Meetings/2017-03-07
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Staff Meeting Notes 2017-03-07, 20:50-21:30 Space manager: Freda Staff: Ricky, Kevin, Ricky, Roger 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 update & financial update
- 7 Space
- 8 Organization
- 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 Xinfab
- 18 Governments
- 19 Space Manager discussions
- 20 Project Room & Machine Room
- 21 Programmable switch
- 22 Online social presence
- 23 UTSEUS Connected Environments Workshops
- 24 XinCheJian Dinner
Props and Announcements
- Freda got government to propose contract curriculum development
Past events
- no workshops
Coming Week's Events and Workshops
- End of April weekend: Teacher Huang: physics experiment: induction wireless delay
- March 9th xinchejian junior maker passport workshop start and helicopter team have students
- March 19th: Toky team - Toky robots workshop
- March 26th: Workshop from Roger on hydroponics
- weekly (Monday): tool training and workshop: NO TRAINERS Who responsible this workshop?
- (WongWeiDa in hospital)
- Kin have students at wed night
- Follow up PCB workshop by Paul (after holidays, for after Chinese New Year)
Wednesday Open Night
Wednesday March 8th 2017
- Lee presents project weather balloon robot
- Cubipal IoT
- University students presenting apps platform (help people find Sciences & Tech projects)
- Teacher huang: physics experiment
Interns
- New intern Roger helped with the WeChat
- Will (student in senior high school): helping with translation
- We're listed on: http://reachx.org
- Intern task: setup Trello and maintain and display
Members update & financial update
- 4 persons for 6 months, 4 persons for 1 month = 28 months memberships (paid to Alipay)
- bank accounts
Space
- Freda to setup new Huodongxing to payment@xinchejian.com
- We get a PAYG Sim + Phone. - TODO PAUL (5 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, ppt already sent ,but they think it very expensive to them,
- Freda to own and share to larger group
Organization
- 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
- (depends previous step) 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
- lots of communication issues in the process
- errors in the paperwork (3M instead of 30K)
- PLAN B: open a new company and transfer trademarks and money to new company
- faren and stakeholders
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)
- Freda had a piece of metal fall on her head from shelve above door
- fix shelves, fix wires above door
- fix chair legs (before flipping over)
- 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
- ROGER?
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 / Chris takes the job
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iSLw91aLQ8PCK_CglqJRu7DruZ7LRldtBhgMUGvtCFs/edit#slide=id.g1993b52ee7_0_5
- renovations is coming up, might conflict
- Roger to contact NakedHub, maybe do the auction there
- 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)
- talking with China Accelerator
Marketing
- Products info card Roger & Andi
- take pictures -> Andi
- wants to name the products -> waiting for the text copy from Roger (will email it again)
- 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
- Get the pitch and send it to the XinCheJIan group through Freda
- instead of waiting for Andi to match presenters for Artable, just ask member direclty
- PROPOSAL/APPROVED: ACCEPT THE TERMS ARTABLE FOR VIDEO (Andi to meet her next Wednesday)
Biggerlab Relationship
- rebuilding the machine room to get out
Xinfab
- Paid out 3K to Jade/Xinfab
Governments
- Government want to 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
- proposing 100K to purchase content, contract tomorrow
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
- helicopter simulator to move to another Xinchejian location in Pudong and pay rent to Xinchejian
- Jingke station
- Project room
- Setup a door between the spaces
- Add a camera
Programmable switch
Andi programmed it last week but left no explanation and not using the time controlled plug
Online social presence
- XinCheJian meetup.com: 300 followers on Meetup (Paul to follow up with Amanda for access)
- change email address of meetup.com to meetup@xinchejian.com
- Facebook and Twitter access also
UTSEUS Connected Environments Workshops
Jessica at Sino-European School of Technology (http://utseus.com)
- IoT Raspberry Pi kits (with some profit margins)
- purchase by members (Nelson), issue fapiaos, waiting for French consulate 14K
XinCheJian Dinner
- we have the coupons for restaurants