Expansion - James
- Electrical quotes getting finalized and ready to send out. Reached out to a couple of plumbers for quotes. Replace water heater and sump pump.
- Art - Divider wall for bathrooms are on order. Want us to have a loading dock and a pallet jack. Whoever signs for it needs to inspect it closely, damage has to be reported immediately. Bringing bathrooms up to fire code.
- Charles has been working on ventilation for jewelry, ceramics and glass. Rich hasn’t approved yet. Charles quit a couple of weeks ago. Had no idea what was going on.
- Max was told had the ballast and LED lights - do not need an electrician. Jim Hartnett can help Max.
3D Fab - Max Kirkland
- Max - Filament theft. Scanner should be running in a few days.
- Wed replaced the Formlabs with the Brightmule. Up and running now - nothing is wrong with it. Will need to talk to the board - ridiculous replacing again due to design problem. Will come in and have to sit in the back again.
- Max would like someone to call and yell at them and Max isn’t good at yelling.
- Waiting on board approval for 2 months for computers that they need. Max will add to the agenda.
- Max will add another agenda item to increase stipend to $200-250/month because now buying resin.
- People aren’t paying for resin and filament.
- Working on some pieces for Cosplay SIG for Fan Days
- Mushashi is working on a robot but hasn’t seen him in a few weeks
Automotive - Not present
Blacksmithing - Joe Brown - Vice Chair
- Tent/demos at Western Days in Lewisville
- Need signage, business cards, fliers. Reach out to PR. Needs a big sign and a banner.
- Sept 27 and 28 - Friday and Saturday
- Downtown Lewisville
- Need people to hammer steel and to talk to people walking up.
- Had open forge last weekend.
- Patrick took video with a drone
Ceramics - Not present
Creative Arts - Lara, CA Vice Chair
- Completed the move, flooring
- Volunteers for CA helped with flooring
- Almost at completion, nail down transition strips
- Put up the flat file
- Wide format printer - still having some problems. People working on it. Hope it will be available mid-October.
- Russell Crow volunteered time last night to look at it.
- Thinking about a welcome to the new area pot luck but will join in monthly pot luck
Digital Media - Kevin
- Took from 3 computers to 11
- Scrounging stuff and fixing other people’s things. Upgrading so can have their old stuff.
- Now we can have classes where we have enough seats for honorarium.
- Adobe licenses have expired
- Open to teach all of the graphics, CAD, 3D modeling
- Not just digital media - things can take and use on CNC machines, 3D printers, HAAS, etc.
- VR training
- Requested headsets
- Go Engineering asked if they could come over and teach some free Solidworks classes.
- Working on product photography booth, 3D printing parts.
- A lot of people really like the idea and everyone is pitching in.
- Guest speaker - in town so will try to bring him by DMS
- Working on grants
- Waiting for PR to give go ahead to buy a piece of brass to make a cool plaque for Mesquite park
- Taking inventory
- Requested RFID
- As people take 101 classes, putting them into A/D
- One of the only committees that has 0 stipend
- Audio booth
- Judy - Received confirmation from infra that licenses were ordered
Education - Draco, Carreinn
- Creating pamphlets for teachers
- New SIGs - Tabletop gaming, D&D
- Toastmasters public speaking SIG - help speak to students
- Will have an upcoming meeting with teachers
- Classes are full with 8 people and then 2 people show up.
- People just sign up and then forget
- Calendar reminders has been disabled
- Change calendar to blacklist people who don’t show up to classes?
- Remind teachers to take attendance. Steve Blanchard wanted to send out notice to remind teachers to take attendance.
- They think that Education should control the calendar
- Doug - Toastmasters
- Table topics - Thinking on your feet
- Saturday office hours for constructive feedback
Electronics - Art Givens
- Classes will be put on
- Amateur radio has become very active. North wall
- Those who use the lab don’t come to meetings. Difficult to keep track of consumables. Best way to take care of OOS consumables - PM Art on Talk.
- Nick & Brady teaching arduino
- Dale - soldering classes
- Raspberry Pi - Vintage software people - Brady, Stan, Dale
Glassworks - Not present
Hackerspace
- Election on the 19th
- Software Dev & VCC merged into a new committee called Hackerspace. Focused on Raspberry Pi stuff
- Garage sale - things to donate to the committee and sell.
- Member owned items
- Payments will be rendered as donations to DMS
- Hackathon
- Contest with prizes
- Max - GoFundMe question about garage sale.
Hatcher’s - Not present
Infra - Not present
Jewelry & Small Metals - Anne
- Casting an issue because so involved and so much equipment
- Big undertaking to do casting from beginning to end
- People just come in and take stuff
- Wants lockers and RFID - good stuff will be locked up.
- Maybe Pearce can put small set of hammers and pliers on the regular tool wall.
- Have been in red toolbox for a long time but they were moved to automotive.
- Cairreinn - Jewelry and soft metals
- Art - Universal problem, finds tools in the e-lab. Take tools home and spray paint. Shrink tubing. Art did this for glassworks.
- Recurring issue that committee is having
- Johnny starting lapidary classes
- Help out with Marketing & PR to get a booth at bead shows. Volunteer work and plug Makerspace.
- Earmarked money for expansion and don’t think it’s been taken. Ready to give money out of Jewelry budget for expansion
Laser - Josh - Vice Chair of Laser
- Has brand new computers.
- 4 are installed and have one spare
- Laser MT day first Sunday of every month. Meeting, Maintenance, Pot Luck
- Chair - Andrew K
Machine Shop - Bob K, Charles Proctor
- One of the two vice chairs
- Wiring was cited by fire marshal and trying to get into compliance. Saw was damaged and another saw was purchased.
- Someone thought that a saw was on the freebie shelf and took it.
- Freebie shelf is a headache for the machine shop area.
- Blocks egress from fired arts and machine shop.
- Band saw - working on for several months
- HAAS lost Nick Silva as a teacher. Very demanding class to teach, Nick burned out.
- Sherline mini-lathe
- HAAS work day next Saturday
- Committee seems to be full. 10-12 people usually show up for the committee meeting.
Metal Shop - Kris
- Helped Jim change out the slats in the dynatorch.
- Have a new welder
- Everything is running smoothly
Motor Sports - Not present
Printmaking - Judy
- New teacher - photo silk screen
PR - JJ Perry
- Purchasing an expo kit
- Meeting next Sunday at 2pm
- Makerspace day at state fair
Science - Not present
Vector - Not present
Wood Shop - Mark Salas
- Running fairly smoothly
- Got rid of maintenance/neglect issues
- Need teachers for Wood Shop Basics
- Mark - Can’t teach as many classes right now and Mike has a difficult time keeping up.
- Lara - Had some people ask wanting to teach wood shop classes. They want to teach one class but not all 4 classes.
- Teaching everything in the wood shop can take more than 4 hours.
- Experience level
- Lathe teaching which is shorter
- Tell them to talk to Mike/Mark
- Felder is installed on a limited capacity. Working on solution.
- Coils were cleaned out this week thanks to Tim B
- Theft issues going on in the wood shop - off camera.
- Treading water and waiting for expansion. Haven’t heard a lot of news. They need new camera(s)
- Art - Expansion discussed venting the Felder into 102. Not sure what the status is but prevent heat buildup into the wood shop.
State Fair Outing - James
- Everyone pick a day to go. Better to go at night, 6-7 pm when it’s cool.
- Group buy to get a discount if people are interested.
- Meet up at Big Tex for pictures, go look at work that was submitted and then everyone can do whatever.
- Wednesday bring a canned goods day?
- Green line @ Farmers Branch station goes straight to State Fair
- JJ has induction speakers
- All wear something DMS
- Price break on tickets for groups of 20 or more.
- James will contact the fair to find out if we can get nonprofit pricing on tickets
- $4 ticket on Wed with a canned good
- Take the train to the fair park station
- Once they give everything back - late October - week or so after the fair closes
- Take over the lobby and do an artist reception
- Might be able to coordinate with a monthly pot luck
Pot Luck
- Went really well
- PR has a budget
- Lara will help more with the pot luck
- Chili cook-off - no beans
- Turn into small fundraiser?
- If you have any ideas for a pot luck come see Lara
Freebie Shelf
- Put the freebie shelf behind 3D Fab?
- Discuss with logistics
- Higher traffic area and not behind something
- People more likely to grab stuff off of it
- Art - Any reason why the gantry can’t be moved over to 102?
- Draco - Idea about the Freebie Shelf
- Equal shelves and put a sign on each level.
- Week 1, 2, last chance and move the labels where last chance gets tossed.
- A lot of work
- Max - Problem with freebie shelf - people put trash on it.
- Half of the stuff that was on the freebie shelf is now on pallets to the left of automotive.
- Video to see who is putting stuff on pallets
- Art - Some of the stuff in 102 was stuff that got pulled from the freebie shelf and stored somewhere with the intention to use in the garage sale.
