MEMBER MTG + Potluck, Fri, Sept 14, 2018 @ 7pm

DMS General
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https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/6336

On the second Friday of every month there is a Membership Meeting.
With FOOD. Woo-hoo!
Not a requirement to bring food to share. All are welcome.
But if you can bring food, it makes the meeting oh so much better.

Per the Rules, “Duties of the Committee Chair: (provide) reports on the status and activities of the committee at the monthly membership meeting.” To keep the meetings as productive as possible, Chairs, please submit your monthly reports in WRITING on Talk. Thank you.

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@John_Marlow Can we get a pin for this?

Also I’m very interested in the contents of this members meeting, unfortunately I wasn’t able to book a flight to make it in time. Could someone maybe record the audio?

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#4

Is there an agenda for this meeting!

that should have been a question mark opps

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@Kriskat30 can speak to that. The President presides over the member meeting.

Committee chairs, if you submit your reports in writing (even a paragraph), that leaves time for the membership to ask questions of whomever.

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I just posted out meting notes on talk, is this sufficient for counting as reported?

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#7

sounds good to me!

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#8

Is there a central place to which they should submit, so people don’t have to go fishing all over Talk to find it? Or failing that, a place where they could link to their reports?

#9

In previous months, most reports have been either a link or a paragraph inserted as a reply on these Member Mtg announcement threads. Seems to work just fine.

I’ll start. Laser’s meeting minutes will serve as its report this month: https://talk.dallasmakerspace.org/t/september-2018-laser-meeting-minutes-including-rules-change/42564

#10

Traditionally, this would be inserted into the wiki, where the template for the meeting agenda has space for each committee.
Some folks would put a link to their TALK post there, which I liked because it let us keep the agenda neat and tidy.
Of late, it’s been “all over the place”, with minutes/notes on “committee/member drives”, on TALK, and maybe some on the wiki… Seems like it’d be a good thing to converge to a consensus on, but we’d need committee chairs to so do, and then follow through with (or, in the new tradition, begger the BoD until they pass a rule requiring something specific so we don’t have to work in groups of more than 3 to reach “consensus”).

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#11

I think there is a specific format for reports coming soon, It sounds like a good idea and easy to do.

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#12

Ceramics:

Meeting minutes are available on our wiki. For those that are more interested in a quick overview-

  1. Chair Elections will be held Friday, Sept. 14 @7. We’ll knock that out first for anyone that then wants to scamper off to the membership meeting. If you would like to leave a proxy vote, I will be there early.

1.5) Committee meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of the month, effective in October.

  1. Christmas in September! Get a head start on Christmas, pottery is an achingly slow process with multiple, long stages. Come November the turn around times between creation and final result begin to creep longer and longer. We are offering classes throughout the fall centered around getting your holiday needs taken care of before the rush. Following Christmas in September…Christmas in October! Keep an eye out for upcoming ornament classes.

  2. Atmospheric firings. We are incredibly excited about the Expansion yet still lament the lack of a yard to build sketchy and dangerous kilns in. But thankfully, due to incredibly generous local artists, we are making field trips to fire pieces in atmospheric kilns. Coming this fall: Another round of raku and a soda fire. If you have questions about these: cmcooper0 on Talk and at gmail.

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Creative Arts:
Meeting minutes are on the wiki thanks to Nick.

  1. Elections - Nicole Franczvai chair and Shay Galland co-chair
  2. Meetings will be 2nd Thursday - Next meeting November 11th
  3. Printer was purchased but returned, printer/large purchases will be discussed (tentative) at the December meeting after expansion is fleshed out
  4. November should be the discussion for furniture acquisitions for the expansion
  5. Current budget - $29,764.79
  6. Talked over leather and fibers and general room needs see the poster in the room for orientation and desires
  7. Open House plan as of right now found below
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Digital Media:

Meeting was held on 9/9. @thespacemaker was elected. Expansion discussion was brought up at a second meeting to ensure a wider audience and was confirmed to request the door into the Audio booth be moved from current lobby to inside Digital Media. This will be easier to control sound as well as limit individuals inadvertently interrupting a recording session. This was brought up with Expansion team and confirmed. A keyboard was purchased on behalf of Digital Media. Awaiting receipt from @Kriskat30.

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GlassWorks Committee meeting
9/7/2018

There was 8 in attendance

The vote was unanimous for Anita Willis to be the chair. 8 person attendance votes, and 2 proxy votes.

We have started to define our department rules. The first item discussed was children participating in the Glassworks space.
It was agreed by all present
Unless specified otherwise in a project class, persons under 16 years old may not cut glass or operate equipment in the GlassWorks space.

Persons 16 years old, or older may operate the grinders, saws, sanders, and cut glass with an adult actively involved with their project, after they both have completed the GlassWorks 101 class. A 16 years may not operate the equipment If the adult is not standing with them supervising while they use the equipment.
A distracted parent working on a different project while the child is working with the equipment or cutting glass is not acceptable.

Kiln operation is 18 years old and above.

Persons abusing the equipment or not cleaning their work space will receive 1 verbal warning, the 2 nd offense they will be band from this space until they retake the GlassWorks 101 class. The committee will define a 3rd offense at the next meeting.

The floor plan was distributed again for the committee to review. Everyone in attendance agreed 1 kiln, work tables, chairs, and 2 equipment tables, and rolling table for the microwaves and 2 cabinets could be purchased as soon as we have a move in date. We are now looking at the best value in pricing and quality for these items.
It was discussed instead of one long table for the equipment that 2 tables would be better. It was agreed by all present this would made the equipment tables more flexible for our space needs.

Anita Willis will get things started for the Open House Demo, then the vice chair Diane Rhodes will be in charge of the Open House display and microwave demo’s
Please keep an eye on talk, we will be asking for volunteers to help. A day will be scheduled for volunteers to prepare glass pendants to be fired in the microwave kilns for this event, and people to man our tables in the Interactive room during the event.

It was approved in our last meeting and lightly discussed in this meeting, Once we have our space 101 Glassworks class is a required class to be able to use our space. This class will be detailed, all students will hand cut glass, and cut glass with the equipment. This will be similar to the 101 Woodshop class. The class will also be emphasizing Clean up procedures, and personal safety protection. Classes have already landed on the calendar so our makers will be ready to start making once we have our space.
The committee also agreed in our last meeting, a list of persons that have taken the class be displayed within the space. If your name is not listed as completed the full class you may not use the equipment. We will be defining this more at our next meeting.

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#16

What time does the meeting start?? The wiki says 8pm but the calendar event says 7pm.

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I’m sure the calendar is correct … this is what I was told and others have been told. Although, we may and most likely will go through 8pm and onward.

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Can anyone record the meeting (audio or video) if quorum is reached?

#19

The wiki needs to be updated then because it clearly says “On the 2nd Friday of each month, there will be an Official Monthly Membership Meeting at 8:00pm.” And the empty meeting agenda says meeting time is 8pm.

https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Category:Meetings

Calling for greater attendance isn’t going to be successfully if you’re unclear on the time. Myself, I may be able to make it (albeit a little late) to an 8pm meeting, but I cannot make it to Carrollton by a 7pm meeting time.

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Also, we might want to change the cutoff for new agenda items. Right now it says the Sunday before … in contrast board meetings have a 48 hour cut off.