POTLUCK + Member Meeting, this Friday, July 13, 2018...or "why is everything better with food?"

[heyheymama]

https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/5761

@Committee_Chairs…time for reports. Woo-hoo!

Do you want to spend more time eating, listening, asking questions, visiting, and eating?
Have we got the option for you! Submit your reports on Talk!

[EthanWestern]

Blacksmithing Committee meeting report for this month can be found at:
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Blacksmithing_Committee_Meeting_20180617

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the member meeting!

[HoarseHorace]

Printmaking Committee meeting report:
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Printmaking_Committee_Meeting_20180609

See you on Friday!

[cmcooper0]

Quick Fired Arts Report:

We had a very successful western and obvara Raku Workshop offsite last month at a local potter’s home and will be heading back once it cools down a bit for a second round focusing on terra sigilatta and horsehair raku. We will also be having a Slipcasting Mold Workday on Saturday, July 21st from 2pm — 4pm for anyone interested in helping decide which molds will become part of the committee’s library.

Perhaps most exciting was a very successful Train the Trainers session which was well attended. Our get together was less about the specifics of any one tool and more about what the committee could do to help new and first time instructors. We covered supply purchasing, the calendar interface and answered a lot questions about how teaching at DMS works. A lot of ceramics classes are best taught as multiple sessions and so we also discussed options for co-teaching and finding helper buddies. All in all, a great evening and I hope to see everyone back with some new and exciting ceramics classes in the next few months.

[tombakerftw]

Digital Media Report:

• New Equipment!: replaced stolenrecorder with a new Tascam recorder, bought LED lights with stands and barn doors, bought camera flash and remote, bought sand bags and clamps bc we didn’t have any.
• We have refined the rules around reserving the Digital Media room. (shortening maximum session limits, asking members to note how long they will tie up the room)
• There has been discussion about buying a new camera, but I’m not convinced it is needed at the moment, one reason for that is…
• We still don’t have a solution to account for equipment. I’m thinking about offering a bounty for anyone who can create a RFID badge system comparable to the one in 3D fab.

[Nate]

I’ve heard there’s something new about interactive room as well…

[heyheymama]

Laser June Report.
Quiet month. Praise the maker gods.

(06/17/2018) Added yellow chains and signs restricting access to areas behind lasers to authorized maintainers.
(06/25/2018) Ordered transfer paper, swiffer, lenses, lockbox, putty knives.

JUNE 2018 CLASSES

JUNE 2018 USAGE
Laser 101: 761 authorized users. (vs. 684 in May)
Logins: 199 unique logins out of 917 logins, over 31 days. (vs. May: 193 uniques out of 925 logins, over 30 days.)
Square Payers: 141 unique credit card payers, made 403 transactions, paid $3048 gross. (vs. May: 153 unique credit card payers, made 383 transactions, paid $4140 gross.)
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