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Minutes for 2025-10-14
Meeting Location
Meeting was Called to Order At: 19:30
https://i3detroit.org/hangout and at i3Detroit
If you'd like to be added to the attendance list, please message your name in the thread in #meetings on Slack
Hybrid Meeting Etiquette
- Be excellent.
- Attendance and voting can be found in the #meetings slack channel.
- Please show up early if you are concerned about your audio.
- If there is no one waiting to speak feel free to do so at the next opportunity.
- If there is someone waiting to speak, please say that you are raising your hand in the google call chat. (This will be demonstrated)
- Please refrain from other side conversations, these can be distracting for the rest of the meeting and make it difficult for the chair to keep track of what's going on.
- If you're in the space remember that having a single person speaking at a time is helpful for those attending online.
Introductions
What does being excellent at i3 mean
An experienced member explains what being excellent at i3 means to them
Experienced Members
- Jeff: People use tools and don't put them away. People take electrical tape...
- AJ: Waiting until the mic gets handed to you!
- Bran: Cleaning up after yourself and more! Aim to clean up a little more than the mess you made
New Members & Guests
- Drew!
Show and Tell
- David - 3D Printed thread snip holders and locks for slatwall in sewing zone.
- AJ - made a shark
Old Business
- Auto zone Survey
Outstanding Action Items
New Business
Upcoming Events
I would like to thank everyone who did events and kept events going. -Thomas
- Volunteers to host upcoming Friday tours?
- Up coming Events Calendar
- Need people to teach classes.
- halloween-party
- anyone volunteer to run?
- Date? 25th? 31st? 1 Nov?
| Date | Event | EventBrite Link |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2025 | Memberification and paperwork | |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Member Meeting | N/A |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Intro to Infrared Thermography Class- Classroom | |
| 17 Oct 2025 | In-Person Friday Night Tours! | |
| 18 Oct 2025 | Sewing and elab buildout | |
| 18 Oct 2025 | EMPUG 1 PM | |
| 19 Oct 2025 | Sewing and elab buildout | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | BOARD MEETING | |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Kicad PCB Workshop | |
| 24 Oct 2025 | In-Person Friday Night Tours! | |
| 24 Oct 2025 | Still Life Art 2025 | N/A |
| 25 Oct 2025 | Sewing and elab buildout | |
| 31 Oct 2025 | In-Person Friday Night Tours! | |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Member Meeting | N/A |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Member Meeting | N/A |
Lock The Gate If The Garage Door Is Open!!!!!!!!
- Read above
Discussion Topic: Communication
- Added by Aj
- What does everyone think of our current communication methods?
- Show of hands: who knew we had a "Board/Leadership + Members Meet n Greet" two Mondays ago? (29th)
- Thoughts on cleaning up the bulletin board right by the front door and making it usable for space updates + activity?
- One of the first things people see when they walk in
- Could have different focus sections -- upcoming classes & events, i3 & Zone updates, a suggestion box or donation box... maybe a section for members to advertise something they're working on or request help
- Can be cleaned up / reviewed each member meeting (or board meeting, for suggestion box)
- What can we do with all the photos there currently? Another bulletin board, hang them up somewhere (rope/ribbon + clothespins), a scrapbook?
Expansion buildout, scary edition
- How about a seasonally themed build day? I was thinking of bringing a crockpot of chilli and pumpkin tortilla chips, haunted house to eat. Others can bring whatever they like, if they want. We can stream thematic tunes that keep us happy and motivated, and it'll be scary how much we'll get done. Probably the 19th or the 25th. I could push something out to the list to get some more hands in Elab.
Zone updates
- Presentation covering results from member survey.
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- Zone is running well.
- Planning to do some laser make and takes for the holidays next month.
- Still some more organization to do.
- Planning on holiday themed make and takes next month.
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- 4x8' and 5x10' tables are progressing. Buildout is next on Sunday October 19 at noon.
- Got business card holders / index card holders (for yellow tags / name cards) put on the lockers and more of the storage plots by the laser zone the other week!
- Took measurements of all existing Storage Plots. This info will be available when claiming plots once Storage is set up in the new CRM.
- Reminder that you need to put a parking permit on anything you are leaving for a nonzero amount of time, and that you should not be leaving things on the tables in Commons / Classroom
- Reminder2 that you need permission from the Zone Coordinator to leave something in a zone, or from a Board member / officer if you need to leave something for more than 4 days
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- Last weekends event went great! We had just over 30 robots and it was a smooth event! A big thanks to everyone who helped out! I am tentatively looking at running the next event on April 11th, so start designing and building now! I'm also looking for some suggestions on how best to store the arena, as we want to move it from large project storage to the space behind the couches (next to the graveyard), and I'm unsure the best way to secure the arena to the wall.
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COWBELL
Broom Party!
Birthday party!
Action Item Summary
No action items.
Proposal Summary
No proposals.
Meeting Metrics
- Time completed: 20:34
- Attendees: 13
Attendance
- Chair: Matt
- Secretary: Daniel
- David Henry
- Evan Greene
- Sid
- Jan
- Thomas
- Frank
- AJ
- Paul A
- Brian
- Florian D
- Paul
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