Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20180821

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Agenda for 08-21-2018

Chair: Vivian

Introductions

Experienced Members

  • Paul L says hi and he's running for board and is organizing stumping after the meeting
  • Kevin thinks he is one of the most and least experienced members here

New Members & Guests

  • Rory is here as a new member who does leatherwork and painting. He found i3 online when searching for spaces like this.

Show and Tell

  • Paul A has spent the past couple weeks cleaning and organizing all of the video games in the commons.

Old Business

Elections

  • POC: Secretary
  • 15 candidates have accepted nominations so far. Deadline to nominate and respond is tomorrow, 8/22 at 11:59pm. And please nominate before the very last minute.

New Business

Right to Repair

  • POC: John (@Coogle)
  • Meeting with Rep. Wittenberg on Aug 30, 5:15 pm at i3 to discuss legislation
  • Right to Repair's view is we as consumers have the right to repair things we buy and not be forced by a manufacturer to only allow them to do repairs. We currently have this for cars and the goal is to extend this to electronics.
  • Coogle contacted his Rep (who is also Ferndale's Rep) and he'll be here for an hour to meet and discuss possibly introducing this legislation in michigan.
  • There's a slack channel #right-to-repair to discuss.
  • Plan is to have a smaller group meet with the Rep to not overwhelm him.
  • Paul A: What's the current state of the law? What happens if we repair a phone?
  • Coogle: The manufacturer doesn't have to give you technical information or support to be able to repair a phone, and it voids the warranty.
  • Nate: I can't repair your phone without schematics.
  • Matt H: And some hardware like iPhones require authorized parts.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, Aug 21 (today)
Directly after the Broom Party: Board Election Stumping; meet the candidates and ask them questions
Wednesday, Aug 22
11:59PM: Nominations for the Board Election close
Thursday, Aug 23
8-9PM: Electronics Lab Orientation
Saturday, Aug 25
11AM-1PM: Michigan Makerspace Operators Meetup (at the Lansing Makers Network)
1-4PM: Detroit Autonomous Vehicle Meetup
4-6PM: Stitch 'N' B!tȼħ
Wednesday, Aug 29
7-9PM: i3Detroit (semi-)Monthly Sew Up
Thursday, Aug 30
5:15PM-?: Right to Repair Meeting with Rep. Wittenberg
Monday, Sept 3
All Day: Labor Day
Tuesday, Sept 4
7:30PM: First Tuesday Member Meeting; Voting for the board election closes at end of meeting.

Upcoming PotLock

Saturday September 8, Noon-6PM

  • There is a task and shopping list here.
  • Zone Coordinators: Please add entries for tasks and supplies you desire.

Announcements

  • There was a piece on Maker Faire on WWJ recently and Vivian was featured briefly in an interview.

Zone updates

Craft Room

  • New iron is ordered and will be installed soon.
  • Kevin reminds that he offers watercolor and oil painting classes upon request.

Electronics Lab

  • There should be some new parts drawers with things we haven't stocked before.

Fab Lab

  • Zone seems to be running great, no issues reported.

Jewelry Zone

  • Lew: We moved around the jewelry zone.
  • Planning to better affix some fixtures to the wall/treehouse floor above te wall.

Laser Zone

  • Wolverine has been running well. Bumblebee has been mostly good with a couple glitches reported.
  • Had several successful classes last week on laser maintenance and using Fusion 360 for laser cutting.
  • Let Mike know if you're interested in seeing thsoe happen again or any other class ideas you have.

Welding Zone

  • We had some good classes recently.
  • If you're interested in more classes, slack or email Jody, he's very flexible with scheduling.

Space Project Updates

  • Fire Marshall is coming for an inspection Friday morning. We should have everything ready for that now.

COWBELL

Meeting Metrics

  • Time completed: 8:55
  • Attendees: 27

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Attendance

  1. Mike F
  2. Matt C
  3. Sean W
  4. Mel G
  5. Nate B
  6. Kevin F
  7. Mark F
  8. Paul A
  9. Jody R
  10. Andrew M
  11. Jan H
  12. David H
  13. Paul L
  14. Bradlee W
  15. Cassie C
  16. Pamela T
  17. Lewis D
  18. Rory C
  19. Matt H
  20. James O
  21. Nickolas A
  22. Dave S
  23. Martee H
  24. Cyrille G
  25. Steve N
  26. Andy L
  27. Vivian S


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