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Agenda for 11-01-2016

Chair: Charlie Rysenga

Introductions

Experienced Members

• Leora - Board Member, Kiln & Jewelery Zone Coordinator
• Alec - Member Advocate, Commons area coordinator
• Charlie - President, likes lasers and radiation

New Members & Guests

• Tony - CAD modeller, interested in machine shop
• Heather - interested in ceramics
• Clayton - returning member after a couple years away

Show and Tell

• Tony - laser engraved burlap sketch book cover

Old Business

Vision Survey

• Part Two of the Vision Survey will be open through this Friday. Please fill it out if you have not yet done so. Your input counts!
  • Should take about 10 minutes
  • Part 2 is mainly focused on the future, Part 1 was focused on where we are now.
  • FIrst part had 51 responses

Hazel Park Art Walk

Went great, thanks to everyone who donated art to show off

New Business

Announcements

Pot lock

November 12 - A group work day/potluck to improve the space

• Brainstorming workshops will be held for the week leading up to it (to flesh out plans and make lists of required tools and supplies)
  • Zone Coordinators are highly encouraged to come to a planning session to get zone specific tasks ready
  • Check the calendar for times
  • Volunteers to run brainstorming workshops are still needed for every day except Tuesday and Friday

• E-mail will go out to the members' list tonight

November Community Meeting

The theme of the third tuesday community meeting will be Cider and Donuts

HackerNest Social Meet-Up

• 7 -10 pm on November 10
• "Connect with your local tech community" in a "chill, friendly, unpretentious" atmosphere.
• Snacks and beer will be provided.

New Independent Hobby Shop

• At Lahser and 11 Mile

Zone updates

Bicycle Shop

• n/a

Classroom

• Tomorrow night (11/2) at 7pm, the classroom will host a free, public workshop on conflict resolution.

CNC Zone

• n/a

Commons Area

• n/a

Compute Zone

• James O'Dell is the new coordinator. Please contact him for any concerns, problems, or suggestions. Let me know when equipment is not working.

Craft Room

• Kevin wants to do embroidery machine classes, so please ask him if you want to schedule one!

Electronics Lab

• n/a

Fab Lab

• n/a

Graveyard

• n/a

Infrastructure

• The todo list is on the wiki, anyone wanting to help out should check there for a list of tasks, anyone that thinks something should be done can put tasks there

Injection Molding

• n/a

Jewelry Zone

• Jewelry Interest Group will be meeting at the end of this month.
• Demo of "broom straw" casting this Thursday (11/3) at 4 pm
• If anyone wants to become certified on any of the jewelry equipment, contact Leora or Tanya or e-mail jewelry@i3detroit.org

Kiln Zone

• Large Ceramic Kiln is UP thanks to Kara
• Small Ceramic Kiln is UP.
• ToDo for next potlock, wallmount digital controller and switchbox and make new DPST switchbox and make new 50A extension cord.
• Kiln zone now has a nice selection of glass for stained glass making (NOT for kiln use since it is of unknown COE). There is a group forming that is interested in a beginning stained glass class. Write kilnzone@i3detroit.org if you would be interested in attending the stained glass class.

Laser Zone

• Wolverine has a new tube, and it works! Both lasers are functional again!
• Due to some PC issues, only the laser laptop is there right now. Should have a second PC back in place sometime this week.
  • Incidentally, Lasercut/laser drivers stopped working the same day a bunch of Windows 10 updates were automatically installed. Coincidence?

Machine Shop

• Trying to get the gib (sp?) on the mill fixed, it may be down for a couple days.

Media Lab

• James O'Dell is the new coordinator. The media zone needs to be reorganized into a useful area. Starting work on it this weekend.

Sky Zone

• n/a

Tool Crib

• Potential distributor to stock fasteners and order us tools/supplies is being investigated
• Complete rebuild and reorganization planned for pot lock

Tree House

• n/a

Vinyl Zone

• Still up and running. Let Charlie know if things are out of stock or blades are getting dull.
• Wants to do a class on glass etching soon, so bug Charlie to set that up.
  • Typically do sandblasting, but we also have supplies for chemical etching.

Welding Zone

• n/a

Wiki

• n/a

Wood Shop

• n/a

Space Project Updates

• n/a

SIGs

i3 DetroitSat

• Just about done documenting the laser-cut Helmholtz coil rig and in the process of publicizing it.

i3 MotorSports

• n/a

HAM

• n/a

Letterpress

• There will likely be a letterpress class for holiday cards coming up soon. Stay tuned.

Sewing

• n/a

Meeting Metrics

• Time completed: 8:00 pm
• Funds appropriated: $0
• Attendees: 20

Action Items

No action items.

Proposals

No proposals.

Attendance

1. Charlie Rysenga
2. Mike Fink
3. Alec B
4. Lewis Dennison
5. Clayton McCord
6. Tony Klein
7. Richard Hillier
8. Chris Bush
9. James O'Dell
10. Nate B
11. Leora Druckman
12. Nick Andersen
13. Kevin Flory
14. Steve Nowicki
15. Dave Scholl
16. Tony Slover
17. Gary Morin
18. Ken Goodrich
19. Heather Goodrich
20. Matt Carpenter