Weekly Staff Meetings/2017-03-28
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Staff Meeting Notes 2017-03-21, 20:10-21:00 Space manager: Freda OLD Staff: Ricky, Ricky, Paul, Kevin, Andi, Eduardo NEW Staff: Eduardo, Ivan, Lee, Nelson? Notes: Eduardo
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 Safety (0 weeks no incidents)
- 8 Biolab
- 9 Sponsorships
- 10 Marketing
- 11 Artable partnership
- 12 Governments
- 13 Space Manager discussions
- 14 Project Room & Machine Room
- 15 Online social presence
- 16 UTSEUS Connected Environments Workshops (http://utseus.com)
- 17 XinCheJian Dinner
- 18 CNC
- 19 FlashForge
Props and Announcements
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- EF wanna cooperater with xinchejian about kids workshop at 16th and 22th April
- UNIVERSAL laser cutter company will donate the new machine to xcj
- P2 give us machine room rebuilt quotation is
rebuilt will begin at this week
Past events
- arduino class has 2 people ... not good,cancel the workshop and rearrange it .
- wearable class had canceled
- rearrangement april workshop
- review all of workshop ,and classified them
- NELSON: Suggestion for more BIGGER CURRICULUM:
He is going to do a google docs with a guideline to build the curriculum. JAMES: approach to an organization to see what are their needs in terms of collaboration with xinchejian to do a curriculum.
Coming Week's Events and Workshops
- EF need us to prepare the contract. Lee gives to Freda a contract to work on.
- April 3th 18:00-21:00 Ricky and leo : IOT workshop (10 students at least)
- April 23th: RESCHEDULED: Workshop from Roger on hydroponics no more info about advertise.
Wednesday Open Night
Wednesday March 22th 2017
- 安迪: 0 排放生活模式 |Andrea : zero waste life style
- 黄曾新: 物理实验 |Teacher huang: physic experiment
Interns
- Interns:
- We're listed on: http://reachx.org
- Intern task: setup Trello and maintain and display
Members update & financial update
- 2 members for 6 months, 2 members for 1 year = 18 months memberships (paid to Alipay)
- bank accounts status,french embassy transfer 14k to xcj official account, please check it.
- PAUL just to check.
==New Company to be registered
- Find an agent to help to set up the business--> P2 can help.
- Paul to close the old one and take the money out of the old account.
- need to decide the structure of the new xinchejian (farren, investors, etc)
NELSON to write a draft of the new organization.
Space Safety (0 weeks no incidents)
Safety Awareness
- Read about safety on wiki.
Ongoing Notice
- 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
- Will update on space when you have e coli.
- 4-5 no showing up.
PAUL to give feedback
NELSON:
- set up a structure to talk about xcj staff topics efficiently.
- Think on an idea of how to do a continuous auction.
Sponsorships
Sponsorships updates:
- Brainstorming about sponsor pitch
- Sponsorship brainstorming
- KEVIN is pitching to Chinaacelerator.
- 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:
Auction postponed till April, Alec Walker / Chris takes the job
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iSLw91aLQ8PCK_CglqJRu7DruZ7LRldtBhgMUGvtCFs/edit#slide=id.g1993b52ee7_0_5
- Roger to contact NakedHub, maybe do the auction there
Government
- Freda waiting for goverment feedback about the sponsorship. Wednesday freda will follow up.
Chinaccelerator:
- Talking with China Accelerator for sponsorship (KEVIN?)
- EDUARD to talk with KEVIN
Marketing
ALMOST DONE -- ANDI TO PRINT BY MAR 28
- Products info card Roger & Andi: Paul follow up.
- 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
- Vice Xinchejian documentary video will be published in December
Artable partnership
NO UPDATE
- Zoe - Artable video website: recording video (name)
- selling classes on hacking and art
- populate her platform with content
- specifically for the Chinese audience
- Teacher Huang said he can make the video.
- 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 directly
- creating video with other makers (Danny Koo from Xinfab)
- PROPOSAL/APPROVED: ACCEPT THE TERMS ARTABLE FOR VIDEO
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
- buy them at the end of March, waiting on confirmation
Space Manager discussions
- Freda to setup new Huodongxing to payment@xinchejian.com - Paul follow up
- We get a PAYG Sim + Phone. - TODO PAUL (8 weeks late)
- Announcing new rules:
- XCJ stuff keep only 6 months over June
- NEW STAFF TO DECIDE
Project Room & Machine Room
NEW MACHINE ROOM
- P2 confirm the rebuilding floor plan, waiting the worker team to make it (tomorrow), Mini will answer us details at 29th March. STILL WAITING TO KNOW WHEN.
- Universal laser cutter machine will move in after rebuild the machine room, freda and teacher wang
- Sofa race car and outside board need to be moved , cuz P2 rebuilt the reception.
WHERE TO RELOCATE to SOFA CAR (Freda to ask Mini if Sofa can be in the bicycle place).
- New Location: Not accepted. We have to find a new one (Helicopter team doesn't want to move there)
- Project room
- FREDA to ask kin for 5k
- Helicopter simulator to move to another Xinchejian location in Minhang and pay rent to Xinchejian at Jingke station
- Ask kin fix the CNC machine with workshop this week
- free space for xcj 700m2 for remove helicopter team out.
- Branding
LEE to give a proposal to help other organizations on how to set up a hackerspace with xinchejian brand. FREDA proposes to train teacher.
- Machine Room
- sent Blueprint, Minnie said will confirm with bob
- cost 2-3 days for build and move it
- wanting on agreement for the room
- Setup a door between the spaces
- Add a camera
- Clean the stuff near by back door,and move to new machine,
PROPOSAL:
- NEW STAFF TO CHECK THIS PROPOSAL
- cost of space beyond hotseat and desk space for a seat: 200 RMB / square meter
helicopter project: simulator 80X200cm project room:280x265cm ____________________________ 7square meterX200=1400/month
Uban farmy 300X90cm +1m2 ____________________________ 4square meterX200=800/month
bio lab freezer100x200cm +desk 0.5m2 ____________________________ 2.5square meterX200=500/month
Online social presence
- XinCheJian meetup.com: 300 followers on Meetup
- Facebook and Twitter access also - Follow up paul with twitter
UTSEUS Connected Environments Workshops (http://utseus.com)
- IoT Raspberry Pi kits (with some profit margins) were bought by XCJ - French consulate reimbursement of 14K incoming
- french embassy need us confirm the money arrived or not.(ask paul)
- PAUL TO CONFIRM
XinCheJian Dinner
- we have the coupons for restaurants
- NEW STAFF AND OLD STAFF PARTY
- NEW STAFF TO FIND MORE NEW STAFF
- THEN PARTY
CNC
- Kin will fix it this weekend! - NO FIX. Waiting for after hoverpen moves out.
- And he bought a new big one.
FlashForge
- 3D Printer for free - FlashForge : Want us to do a workshop (summercamp)
- prepare a summercamp using FlashForge and Universal: LEE and FREDA design summercamp.