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Minutes

See MIBS_Simplified_Rules_of_Coordinated_Consensus_through_Chaos#The_Meeting_Agenda for agenda template

June 7, 2011

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Reimburse Ben $75 for the battery that burned out after a year
    2. Buy a new UPS for Interlock $200
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. [Treasurer]
      1. (We are waiting on 8 members/associates to pay)
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Old Business
  6. Adjournment

Minutes

Meeting Start: 7:27

Annocuments:

As per discussion on mailing list no working on cars in the parking lot. This is not permanent.

Consent Agenda

1) No objections: Passed 2) No objections: Passed

Officer Reports

  • President: (not present, see President)
  • VP: see Vice-President
  • Treasurer: see link
  • Secretary:
    • Lathe is space and mounted
    • Restricted access because we don't know how to use it... yet

Member Reports

  • JustBill:
    • Went to Butle Hamfest
      • Ran into president of HackPittsburgh
    • Carl and Bill will find UPS
      • Possbily get battery for old UPS instead
  • Nick
    • Hamfest (in Rochester)
      • A few people have moble rigs (higher power!)
      • Toughbook for awesome moble action
      • Got a projector (on permenent loan to interlock)
  • Ben
    • Thank Bill for cleaning the server rack!
  • 2nd floor space (talk with Larry)
    • Good canidate for moving -- Other space with the opportunity to expand
  • Jamie:
    • Girls Nite:
      • At least a weekend retreat
    • Converting HD to speakers -- come by to find out how to do it
    • Became a HAM

Members Present: AntiTree, Ben, Carl, Nick, JustBill, Steven, Alex, Jamie

Meeting End: 7:40

May 3, 2011

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Approve the Sexual Harassment Policy as detailed on the wiki.
    2. Start garbage service with Waste Management, which will total about $41 a month for a 96 gallon wheelie bin with weekly pickup.
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Old Business
  6. Adjournment

Minutes

  • Meeting Start: 7:16
  • No objections to last months minutes

Consent Agenda

  • Sexual Harassment Policy: Passed
  • Garbage Service: Passed

Officer Reports

  • President:
    • Went to barcamp, AWESOME TALK
  • VP: see Vice-President
    • BSides!!
    • Got Ham License
  • Treasurer: (see summery handout)Treasurer
    • Wepay is a pain, not going to use anymore
    • working on IDEDCRS system
      • New system for keeping track of finances
  • Secretary:
    • Robot @ Bsides!

Member Reports

  • Alvero:
    • PCBs!
      • Samples and awesome LED strip, approx. $25/meter
  • Carl:
    • Thursday (Mercury fest)
      • secruty conference (free if you pre-register)
      • Carl will be giving a talk
    • VPS/website
      • hopefully it'll be up (can someone help?)
  • D. Joe:
    • Linuxfest (at fishbowl, innovation center)
      • New faces,
  • Biodiesel, 3rd round -- much better if you follow directions.

11 members present: D Joe, Carl, Alex S, Jamie, Just Bill, Von, Mark, Beard, Wayne, Nick, Alvero

Meeting end: 7:40

April 5, 2011

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. New Members
  5. Member Reports
    1. Deejoe
  6. Old Business
  7. Adjournment

Minutes

  • Meeting Start: 7:17
  • No objections to last months minutes

Consent Agenda

(no items)

Officer Reports

  • President: see page President
  • VP: see Vice-President
  • Treasurer: (see summery handout)Treasurer
    • Overall back in the black (positive) and things are looking good
    • 26 paying members
  • Discussion about BarCamp and lighting talks @ BarCamp
  • Secretary: (no report)

Member Reports

  • D.Joe:
  • Carl:
    • Donating virtual server
      • Installed Wordpress, SQL, et al.
      • Need help doing the rest
      • Ben will help!!
  • Bill:
    • Our virtualized services are ready and awesome
      • If you want a talk on how to do it - there's one seat left!
      • We are comfortable on hardware (but will take more)
      • If you're looking for a server -- talk to Bill
    • Minecraft (no one has been on)
  • Jamie:
    • thesis show opening was last Friday
      • thanks everyone for showing up
      • You can visit on Saturday from Noon to 4pm
  • Now that she's free -- girls-only-type workshop
    • looking for practical project

Alvero:

  • been working on PCB layouts for projects
  • wanted to share PCB fab houses on Wiki

March 1, 2011

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Approve/ratify Conflict of interest policy
    2. create an officially supported project page using We-Pay to generate money to purchase a USRP for the space.
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
      1. Total Dues Income: $940
      2. Total Members: 26
      3. Standard Members: 14
      4. Student Members: 4
      5. Associate Members: 6
      6. Non-paying: 1
      7. Barcamp Funds: $85
    4. Secretary
  4. New Members
    1. Scott L. (associate)
    2. James W. (standard)
    3. Francis A. (associate)
    4. Al M. (standard)
    5. David K. (associate)
    6. Elliot W. (associate)
    7. Ryan T. (associate)
  5. Member Reports
  6. Adjournment

Minutes

  • Meeting start: 7:33
  • No objections to last months minutes

Consent Agenda:

  • Conflict of interest -> new business
  • (USRP project) No objections

Officer reports:

  • President: (see wiki page)
  • VP: (not present, see wiki page)
  • Secretary: (none)
  • Treasurer: (see above for totals) - we are in the black this month (yay)

Member Reports:

  • Ben
    • USRP (software defined radio)
    • we want to buy one (with we-pay) -- Please donate
    • This radio can RX and TX on a wide range of frequencies and has many applications
      • both HAM and security
  • Bill
    • Next project phase of phone system is to get out-going calls with VoIP
    • Discovered minecraft!!
      • wants to create a minecraft server for interlock
        • members-only for-now
    • Network admin meeting this Thursday!! 7pm
  • D.Joe
    • thinks he has bio-diesel

New business:

Conflict of Interest
  • Brian
    • didn't dive into it deep enough, can we toss it around more (as long as it doesn't hold Steve's application up)
  • Steve
    • Can we have a policy-web page (with nice print style-sheet)
  • It has been decided that we will wait until the next business meeting to pass consent agenda #1
off-topic
  • Jamie
    • Ask about newsletter (or announce-list)
  • Carl
    • we talked about it
  • Jamie
    • Question about board-members/ how things are paid-for/ money handle
    • do we want to start a committee (or do-group)?

Meeting End: 7:54


Attendance: Carl, Brian, Wayne, Steven, D.Joe, Just Bill, Jammie, Von, Ben, Alex, Al, John

February 1, 2011

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Create New Membership levels
      1. Friends of Interlock - These are people on the Interlock mailing list or receiving the Interlock "newsletter" (if we ever create one).
      2. Non-Voting Member - People paying $25/month and signing a membership agreement will be allowed to use all the facilities at the space but will not have a vote on business matters and will not receive a key to the space.
      3. Full Member - People paying $50/month and signing a membership agreement will have 24x7 access to the space via a key, full use of all facilities and the right to vote on any and all business matters.
      4. Student Member - Full time matriculated students paying $35/month and signing a membership agreement will have all the rights and privileges of a full member.
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Adjournment

Minutes

Initialization

19:13

Consent Agenda

No objections: Passed

Officer Reports

President
  • Wiki=Spam
    • We need long-term fix, accounts disabled right now
    • 1st Global Hack-a-thon
      • Stream out and in
    • Cupcake:
      • Tube within-tube
      • lost by postal service :(
      • Well, it didn't get there yet
  • CNC board router
    • Getting last set of bearings
  • Signup for lighting talks!
VP
  • See wiki page
Secretary
  • (nothing)
Treasurer
  • Everybody paid (much rejoicing)
    • ~$3000 in bank, $230 in cash
    • Rent and Frontier to pay still
    • Taxes and all the jazz too

Member Reports

  • Steve
    • Frontier sucks (we know this)
      • met with owner of wireless ISP, could be taking care of Interlock!
      • Next month's consent agenda will likely have new ISP
      • Question about having both ISPs for a month to verify service
  • Ben:
    • Failed switch caused most networking problems
    • other problem due to frontier
  • Going to buy Phone card
  • Joe:
  • Zen kernel on black pedestal box
    • Caused hardware errors :(
  • JustBill says another box gave him "fits"
  • Going to be making a box from other parts
  • Bio-diesel
    • Ingredients
      • Found NaOH (yay)
      • May be making bio-diesel
  • Jamie:
    • Thesis date: April 1st (no joke)
    • Booksmart studios, On Anderson Ave

January 4, 2011

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. NULL
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Adjournment

Minutes

Attendance: Brian B. Alex, Ben, Brian S, Nick, Wayne, Carl, John, Mark, Carl, Jaimee, JustBill, Chris

Initialization

19:32

Consent Agenda

NULL

Officer Reports

  1. President:
    1. Not much
    2. Annual meeting, more follow-up needed
    3. CNC router, getting parts laser-cut
    4. Going to laser-cut factory, possible trip, going to Lima
  2. VP:See wiki
  3. Finance:15 members, 11 reg 3 student
  4. Secretary: Alex's first meeting as secretary

Member Reports

  • Ben:
    • new couch, new chair, new lockers, new shelves, cisco gear (for IPv6)
    • presentation at 2600 on Friday
    • chart of junk is gone, (can get cart back if needed)
  • Carl
    • member levels
      • more discussion tonight, to go on agenda next month
  • D.Joe
    • Blew breaker (oh knowes!)
    • Keep path to breaker open please
    • Has web-power-switch
      • if you want to use it talk to D.Joe (GPG-keys and such)
      • Examples access point and project box
  • Bill
    • Phone system is live
    • Connecting with "northwestern" phone network
    • looking for FSX FXO card
    • VMware environment is up
      • looking for 64-bit system with virtualizition key
      • wishlist on the way
    • Thursday is net-op meeting 7pm
      • After Thursday meeting is show how to make power supply from ATX supply for ham


New Business

No new business

Adjournment

19:43

December 7, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. NULL
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Adjournment

Minutes

Attendance: Brian B. Alex, Ben, Brian S, Nick, Wayne, Carl, John, Mark, Carl, Jaimee, JustBill, Chris

Initialization

19:32

Consent Agenda

NULL

Officer Reports

  1. President
  2. Vice-President
  3. Treasurer - 14 paying. Payouts even
  4. Secretary - Mostly gave report on Network Meeting. Key points - Network meetings are now on the First Tuesday of the month.

Member Reports

wayne - Sparkfun kit finally put together -- loves the workbench and tools that we have acquired. Will be converting Apple IIc power supply. Looking for 43cubic feet of helium for a good price for a balloon camera project. Interested in weather balloon project.

Joe - We got a vmware ssh bash in host for remote access. pull down video screens up for projector

Alex - Wheels are on robot. Needs a mech egineer to help mount motors on robot. Seeking help!!!!!

New Business

No new business

Adjournment

19:41

November 2, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Interlockroc.___ domain renewal: transfer all of the domains to their own GoDaddy account and update the contact information to use an email address that goes to the officer list. Renew interlocroc.org for 3 years. Renew interlockroc.net and interlockroc.com for 1 year.
    2. Soldering Equipment - Interlock part of purchase -- ~$125
      1. Purchase item #2 on Wishlist: Soldering, -- already has 50% member pledges
      2. Purchase remaining items Wishlist: Soldering (items 1,3) when there is 50% member contributions.
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. New Business
  6. Adjournment

Minutes

Attendance: Brian B, Mark, Alex, Carl, JustBill, Brian S, Jay, Andrew, Steve

Initialization

19:24

Consent Agenda

  1. Approved
  2. move to new business

Officer Reports

  1. President
  2. Vice-President
  3. Treasurer
  4. Secretary

Member Reports

Drew - vistited HackDC and enjoyed their hackerspace and their old style arcade game.

Brian S - CAM pizza is solidfied for discount. Dial from the phone at the space and get a %25 discount. Mention Interlock from any other phone and get %15 off.

Steve - fundraising for the HAM antenna for the roof. Possible starting of Technical HAM class based upon interest.

New Business

From above #2b - Soldering extra's. After discussion no objection.

Adjournment

19:40

October 5, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Spend $200 on promo drink tickets for the Rochester Security Summit after party, to be given out from the Interlock table situated in the summit's CTF room.
    2. Spend $150 to sponsor Barcamp Rochester. We will get our logo on their tshirt and website, as well as a table at the event where we can schmooze and sell shirts.
    3. Spend $150 to purchase the Harbor Freight tools listed here: Wishlist:_tools
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer - We currently have maintained our membership level. We had a loss of one and a gain of one. We have enough funds to cover all three of consent agenda.
    4. Secretary - Treasurer had given my report.
  4. Member Reports
  5. Old Business
    1. Approve network acceptable use policy and its addition to the membership agreement.
    2. Approve mutual discounts with Coworking, and associated logistics.
  6. New Business
  7. Adjournment

Minutes

Attendance: Drew, Nick, Brian, Joe, Ben, Carl, Mark, Bill, Jaimee, Wayne

Initialization

19:05

Consent Agenda

  1. Approved
  2. Approved
  3. Moved to new business by Joe - After discussion it was Approved

Officer Reports

  1. President
  2. Vice-President
  3. Treasurer - We currently have maintained our membership level. We had a loss of one and a gain of one. We have enough funds to cover all three of consent agenda.
  4. Secretary - nothing to add.

Member Reports

  1. Carl - Electronics class will begin soon. They will be 8:00 PM on Tuesdays and will run for at least 5 classes.
  2. Drew - Posters for Barcamp will be put up and wanted to propagandize the Hungerford.
  3. Mark & Wayne - They have started a spotlight "Batman" project. May need some specialized lights.
  4. Wayne - Working to put a showing of "Get Lamp" together.
  5. Jaimee - Her show is Oct 07. 5-8 PM

Old Business

  1. Approved
  2. Approved

New Business

  1. Consent Agenda 3 - Joe had a question regarding spending of money for money and future purchase of tools. Suggestions include cost matching. He will discuss outside of meeting and consent to purchase of current agenda list.

Adjournment

19:29

September 7, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Approve network acceptable use policy and its addition to the membership agreement.
    2. Approve mutual discounts with Coworking.
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. New Business
  6. Adjournment

Minutes

Attendance: Carl, Ben, Nick, DeeJoe, Brian, Mark, Andrew, Chris, John

Initialization

Meeting started at 8:15, and hour later than usual due to a scheduled class conflict.

Consent Agenda

Network AUP and Coworking discounts are objected to by Deejoe and others. Moved to new business.

Officer Reports

Officer reports are linked in the agenda above. No report from the Secretary or Treasurer.

Member Reports

Ben gives a report on the new Asterisk box, and other networking developments.

New Business

Network AUP is considered half-baked by most members in attendance. It is suggested that the language needs to be updated before it will be approved.

Coworking discount numbers are generally acceptable, but the logistics of how to implement the discounts is not specified. That information will need to be specified before approval.

Adjournment

Meeting adjourns at 8:30

August 3, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Move Septembers meeting to 8:00 PM
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Adjournment

Minutes

Attendance: Bill, Wayne, Nick, Ben, Brian, Mark, Joe, and Carl

Initialization

19:10

Officer Reports

President - See link above

Vice President - See link above

Treasurer - Members late with monies: 3, members 30+ days late: 3, members 60+ days late: 2. Reminders sent to all, door shutoff for 30+ and removed as member 60+. Please pay and email Treasurer if any issue. 11 members paid (10 regular and 1 student).

Secretary - Proud Mary 19:11

Member Reports

Carl - Informed group about the fairly busy Linux workshop this past weekend. Several helpers and people showed up to learn and install linux. Needed someone to make sure that Linux Workshop doors need to be open Aug 21st buy a member. JustBill volunteered. He is also thinking of setting up one of the Make Nights to do build your own NAS installs - more info to follow on mailing list. Carl has also volunteered to teach a basic electronics class after the upcoming Processing/Arduino class mentioned on the mailing list.

Joe - LUGOR will be starting their meetings soon. See Joe for details.

Consent Agenda

Due to upcoming Processing/Arduino class it was proposed to group to have Septembers Board meeting at 8:00 as to not interfere with the class. Nobody objected. Motion passed.

New Business

Just a reminder that there is an upcoming 5 week class on Processing and Arduino. Many members have expressed interest and will be doing the class. More info [1] . See you there.

Adjournment

19:28

July 5, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
    1. Renew our Meetup.com service at $72 for six more months
    2. Reimburse Beardicus for non-pre-ordered Interlock t-shirts (less than ten at the moment) and hold in "inventory" for future sale.
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Adjournment

Minutes

Members Present

Attendance: Carl, Mark, Ben, Brian, Wayne, Nick, Bill

Initialization

19:45

Officer Reports

President - He made a summary of Interlock updates. We were at FOSSCON and held a table.

Vice President - see report

Treasurer - Multiple finances discussed. More detailed report to follow but it was about income, members, and total expenditures.

Secretary - Hi My name is "Just"Bill and I'm the new secretary till next voting cycle. Please forgive me for any of my mistakes.

Member Reports

Nick - Just wanted to announce that BinaryMan (Chris) received his HAM technical license.

Consent Agenda

Moved to new business due to Treasurers report

New Business

  1. Renew Meetup.com - Mark will float the cost and the Interlock will keep an open purchase order for reimbursement until fund get more soluble.
  2. Reimbursement for T-Shirts. Same as #1 will keep open purchase order until funds are more available. Brian will fund until then.

Adjournment

20:06

June 1, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
  3. Member Reports
  4. Adjournment

Minutes

Members Present

Attendance: Carl, Nick, Mark, Brian, Steve, Bill, Ben, Wayne

Initialization

President starts the meeting at 7:15. Minutes from last meeting are approved.

Officer Reports

President gives his report (linked) Vice-President gives his report (linked)

Member Reports

Steve gives a member report on an intranet portal he's developing for Interlock... wikis, blogs, files, events (and much much more!)

Adjournment

Meeting adjourns at 7:30.

Addition

Change in officers. Alan Dipert and Ashley McClelland have left the organzation. Brian Boucheron is the new president. We are still looking for a Secretary.

May 4, 2010

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. The Consent Agenda
    1. Approve the bylaws
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
  4. Member Reports
  5. Old Business
  6. New Business
  7. Adjournment

Minutes

Members Present

Brian, Alan, Ashley, Mark, Alvaro, Carl, Ben, Steve, Nick, Rowan, Jim, Wayne

Initialization

President starts the meeting at 7:08. Last meeting's draft minutes were approved.

Consent Agenda

No objections.

Officer Reports

President gives his report (linked)

Vice-President gives his report (linked)

The Treasurer gives her report. Membership is down 1 from last month, expenses are as per usual.

Member Reports

Carl mentions the Linux workshops for the next two months (see the calendar)


Adjournment

Meeting adjourns at 7:26.

April 20, 2010 (Special Meeting)

Agenda

  1. The Consent Agenda
    1. Approve petty cash budget
  2. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-president
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
  3. Member Reports
  4. Old Business
  5. New Business
  6. Adjournment

Minutes

Members in attendance: Brian, Mark, Ashley, Alan, Joe, Jim, Rowan, Carl,

President starts the meeting at 7:10

Consent Agenda

Consent agenda passes without objection.

Adjournment

Meeting is adjourned.

April 6, 2010

Agenda

  1. Draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. The Consent Agenda
    1. Special meeting, April 20th to discuss improving recruitment, modifying our budget, improving our finances.
    2. Approve Bylaws
    3. Approve Membership Agreement
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-president
    3. Treasurer
      1. Approve Budget
    4. Secretary
  4. Member Reports
  5. Old Business
  6. New Business
    1. Hospitality budget
    2. Cleaning supplies
    3. Hacker of the Month Funds
    4. Inventory
  7. Adjournment

Minutes

Members Present: Brian, Mark, Steven, Carl, Ben, Nick, Alvaro, Rowan, Alan, Ashley, Tim

The president begins the meeting at 7:08

Minutes from the March 3 meeting are approved.

Consent Agenda

Joe objects to passing the bylaws. Moved to new business. All other motions pass.

Officer Reports

President gives his report (Linked) Vice-President gives his report (Linked)

Treasurer gives her report on the state of our funds and membership. Budget can be viewed at the Google Docs site.

Secretary has nothing to report

Member Reports

Rowan reports on the IP web camera and LV jack boxes.

Tim reports on networking. Network will be complete by 4/7/2010, minus boxes for jack.

Old Business

NULL

New Business

  • Bylaws

The issue stated is that the bylaws don't make it clear what the powers of the board of directors vs. the membership. Language is proposed to make this clearer.

Rowan brings up a concern about term limits for board of directors and officers.

Joe proposes that the board members be given some power for action between meetings.

Bylaws are not passed and are deferred to the next regular meeting.

  • Hospitality budget is discussed, but not passed. Summary is that $20 would be budgeted each month for First Friday supplies and other essentials. Details will be provided at later meeting.

Adjournment

Meeting is adjourned at 7:53

March 9, 2010

Lightning Talks:

Signed Up: Alan(Machines that think), Alvaro(Orienteering, Remote Backup), Andrei(Contemporary Art), Ashley(Learning Programming), Beardicus(Wee Booklet), Ben(irssi+screen), Carl(Cat5, Soldering), Jason(Low Impact Local Network Recon), Justin(Go, XSS/XSRF Demo), Joe(Pymol Molecular Viewer), Mark(XSS/XSRF), Steve(Free Public Wifi), Remy(Open Video Chat Program team Intro)

March 2, 2010

Members Present: Brian, Mark, Ashley, Alan, Carl, Joe, Wayne, Nick, Ben, Steven

The president begins the meeting at 7:11.

Consent Agenda

NULL

Officer Reports

(Reports were provided orally, with no hardcopy transcriptions)

The President reports on the general status of the organization.

The Vice President gives an update on the status of the networking project.

The Secretary has nothing to report, and requests future officer reports be provided in writing for more comprehensive minutes.

The Treasurer has nothing to report this month.

Member Reports

Joe presents his knit n900 cozy and clues us in to virtualization plans for the space

Steven nominates himself safety dictator, explains plans to abuse his power

Old Business

NULL

New Business

NULL

Adjournment

TRUE

February 23, 2010

  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Organization Updates
    • Project Updates
    • Open Announcements
      • Lightning Talks

February 23, 2010

  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Organization Updates
      • Move in timeline
      • MIBS reminder
      • March 2nd first meeting
    • Project Updates
    • Open Announcements
      • Lightning Talks

February 15, 2010

  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • 15 Min MIBS review/walkthrough
    • Organization Updates
    • Project Updates
    • Open Announcements

February 9, 2010

  • Agenda
    • 15 Min MIBS review
    • Introductions
    • Last Week Meeting Review
    • Organization Updates
    • Project Updates
    • Open Announcements

February 2, 2010

  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Last Week Meeting Review
    • Organization Updates
      • Bank Account/Paypal
      • Meeting Changes
        • Consensus through Chaos
        • Official Meetings monthly but weekly open nights
        • Officer roles review
        • Voting Scenarios
    • Project Updates
      • First Friday Organization
      • Door Security System
      • Other member projects
    • Open Announcements

January 26, 2010

  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Last Week Meeting Review
    • Organization Updates
      • Bank Account
    • Project Updates
      • Door/Security System
    • Open Announcements
  • Minutes
    • Bank account: in motion. Waiting on some paper work
    • Door project: learning about the ibuttons
    • Sneyha: outreach meeting.
      • Need ideas for first friday
      • planning on a green screen
    • RemyD: Who else comes out for first friday?
      • Sneyha: A ton of the people in the building
    • Carmen: has a project related to inventoring computers
    • Discussion about doing classes
    • Alan: Haiti relief outreach
    • Rowan: HAM radio group
    • Alan: be kind on IRC
    • RemyD: www.opensource.com - news portal for open source articles
    • Sneha: wine tour
    • RemyD: Stallman is coming to town on Feb 23
    • Steve: Enable effing SSL on google apps!

January 19, 2010

  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Last Week Meeting Review
    • Organization Updates
      • Changes to bylaws
      • Changes to member agreement
    • Project Updates
    • Open Announcements
  • Minutes

1/19

  • introductions, alan, deejoe, carl, brian, steve, nick, josh, alex, ben, bill, ashley, mark, jon, chris, remy

carl outreach summary:

    • join first friday
    • video commercial
    • running robots
    • barcamp in april
    • lightning talks at barcamp
    • fosscon - june - remyd is an organizer
    • linux workshop outreach went well - 12 people came - next one in February
    • maybe talk to Lugor about doing hands on workshop after a lugor discussion
    • writing workshop to teach anyone how to write
    • ashley: keep writing focused
  • lightning talks again
  • alan: want to also give back to the community like linux workshop
  • alan:bylaws and membership agreement
  • alan, ashley, mark, brian and others met to go over bylaws and mission statement
  • changes are on the wiki
  • ashley: maybe do a mock mibs walkthrough
  • alan: share the google doc to everyone
  • alan got the EIN
  • thursday mark, brian, ashley, alan, will be going to the bank
  • question: josh: how open are finances
  • answer: everyone: as open as you want to be. meetings will have
  • ben: if anyone has suggestions for the space design, make them known now
  • steve: internet connection
    • the acct rep received fax
    • she's going to let us know install date
  • alan: programming for beginners class
    • work with python group in Rochester
  • brian: beginning electronics
    • make magazine has beginner electronics book
    • good for doing a class or group
  • dude: we can get cheap stuff from radio shack and the internet has parts
  • joe: bulk silly putty reminder
  • steve: bulk coffee/tea maker
  • chris: organizational membership to amazon
    • you can pull out technical books
    • view them online but access to TONS of books
    • not sure on the costs
  • Brian: Pledgie
    • people can join and pledge their amount
    • when it gets the amount it does whatever they've been planning (silly putty)
    • another space used it successfully

January 12, 2010

  • Attended: Carl, Avezou, Mora, Steve, Brian, Chris, Rowan, Andre, Sneha, Remy, Shawn, Carmen, Josh, Gina, Jimmy, Christina, Alvaro, Rachel, Brian, Ashlee, Ben, Mark, Ryan, Justin, Nick, Alan, Alex
  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Last Week Meeting Review
    • Organization Updates
    • Voting:
      • IRC
    • Project Updates
    • Open Announcements
    • EVENT: Lightning Talks

January 5, 2010

  • Attended: Ryan, Dawn, Carl, Steve, Josh, Alvaro, Alan, Bryan, Joe, Andrei, John, Ashley, Justin, Rowan
  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Updates
      • Recap of SCORE meeting (Alan)
    • Anything else?
  • Discussed
    • SCORE
      • With lawyer, 501(3)c process 6mo - year, $1000 - $1500
      • Importance of mission statement
    • Separation of concerns: member agreement vs. bylaws
      • agreement is for limiting liability and other bare minimums
      • bylaws part culture, part rules
      • bylaws are really only about starting and stopping processes
      • we need a solid mission statement to define ourselves and guide decisions/priorities
    • Outreach, community service, donation possibilities
      • "Linux Q & A" days

December 22, 2009

  • Agenda
    • NONE: relaxing discussion

December 15, 2009

  • Attended: Brian, Jim, Nick, Avezou, Carl, Sneha, Steve, Ben, Ashley, Carmen, Joe, Bryan, Paul, Tim, Alvaro, JP, Joshua,
  • Agenda
    • Introductions
    • Updates/Announcements
    • ISP Options: Steve S.
    • Intro to Wordpress (brief): Ben W.
    • Projects
    • Discuss next weeks Lightning Talks
    • Holiday events, potlucks, parties, hoedowns?
    • Best time to meet in the future
  • Discussed:
    • Introductions, met a few new prospects
    • Ben's Wordpress intro presentation
    • Discussion of our use of Wordpress and how we want to handle posting
    • Steve's ISP presentation
    • Wooby talks lightning, and projects
    • Deejoe gives a passionate lightning talk about plastic bag storage

December 8, 2009

  • Attended: Mark, Brian, Steve, Dan, Andrei, Joe, Carl, Carmen, Sneha, Matt, Ben, Bryan, Josh [...]
  • Agenda:
    • 7: Introductions and updates, go over MIBS meeting rules
    • 7:30: Hackerspace Presentation: Mark
    • 8: Move to new space
  • Discussed:
    • Introductions
    • Officers announced. Mostly people on the lease or incorporation paperwork.
    • Mark presented a bit on MIBS rules
    • Hackerspace presentation
    • Sneha discusses public outreach activities
  • Caravan to the temp space for discussion and beverages

December 1, 2009

  • Attended: Carl, Ben, Jimmi, Kristina, Steve, Ashley, Andrei,
  • Discussed:
    • Bylaws went over a lot of the details.
    • Bylaws: Decided to have an official meeting once a month unless otherwise requested
    • Discussed dues
    • updated everyone on lease signing status
    • Ashley updated us on documents for incorporation
    • Voted on whether or not to get the temp space or skip it and wait for the real space. Agreed to get the temp
    • Introduced new members discussed goals of the organization
  • Action Items:
    • Directors: Sign lease and setup temp space

November 23, 2009

  • Attended
    • Mark, Brian, Ashley, Alan, Sneha, Carmen, Carl, Bryan, Ben, Jeremy, Rich
  • Video: Part 1
  • Discussed
    • Basement space at 1115 Main Street
      • $390 + electricity
      • Ready by February
    • Temporary space available immediately
      • $280 + electricity
    • Network connectivity options
      • Business class roadrunner $79 a month
      • Netsville
    • Dues
      • Start payment 1st of December
      • Application form
    • Business checking accounts and accounting
    • First Month's rent
    • Logos
    • Wiki/Website stuff
      • maybe looking for a wiki with better ACLs
      • decision to departmentalize functions - wiki, website, blog, etc
    • Dues through paypal for first month
    • Bryan shows his illuminated bidness card
    • Discussion about who will be the incorporators
    • Presentation ideas for future meetings
      • Python intro class
      • Wordpress tutorial
      • Software Defined Radio
    • Ham radio discussion
    • Future meetings may have first 1/2 hour as business-related matters, come afterwards if you're not interested in the nitty gritty of forming the space
  • Actions
    • Mark: Setup paypal account and email address
    • Mark: Put together a membership package
    • Alan: Put membership form online
    • Goal: Have membership dues on December 1st
    • Goal: Sign lease on Monday November 30th

November 17, 2009

  • Attended: Mark, Sneha, Carmen, Ashley, Alan, Jimmi, Krystina, James, Justin, Robert, Joe, Ben, JP, Brian, (David)
  • Recordings - Part 1- Part 2
  • 1st meeting streamed online (ustream)
  • Decided on Interlock as a group name.
    • interlocroc.net, .com and .org domains have been acquired
  • Discussion about three potential locations
    • Griffith Ave
      • 3000/$1500 a month
      • No security deposit
      • Utilities = $200 a month
      • A bit too pricey
    • E Main St
      • 1000/$450
      • 2000/$725
      • Utilities = $150 a month
    • Village Gate
      • 500/$325
      • Utilities = $60 a month
  • Talking about the budget
    • Would prefer it to be about $35, but it will probably be higher at first until we get more members
    • Looking at 501.c3
    • Contacts in Buffalo chapter could be useful with this business setup
    • Dues
      • $50 - Normal
      • $35 - Student
  • Trip to Buffalo Chapter
    • Visit to see what they have there
    • After thanksgiving, on the weekend
      • Important for sponsorships

Action Items For Next week:

  • Form a holding company (LLC, S-Corp) to get a bank account
  • Focus on making the Main St. building work (talk to Felix, discuss details, find temp location)
  • Plan for best way to form an NFP
  • Create a focus group for developing a website

November 11, 2009

  • Location: Spot Coffee
  • Attended:
    • Mark, Brian B., PT, Sneha, Dan, Carl, Andrei, Bryan, Josh, Ashley, Alan, Carmen
  • Discussed:
    • Summary of goals thus far, for new attendees.
    • Updates from members about spaces scouted, etc.
      • Sneha: 1000 square feet, 600 a month, Portland Ave., with storefront
      • Look into spaces near the Public Market? High rent for RR55 ($900)
        • Other spaces besides the refurbed railroad area? Space above cheese shop area?
    • Introductions
    • Show and Tell
      • Bryan
        • guitar hacks
          • tuning geegaws
          • patents
      • Andrei
      • Mark
        • lockpicking sets
        • garmin gps units, wardriving discussion
        • defcon badges
        • bump key discussion
      • Brian B.
        • bookbinding
        • sketchbooks
        • Ponoko business cards
        • Makerbot contact: sample print will be mailed out this weekend, hackerspace discount is available
        • laser cutting, found Class Act Engraving in Akron, NY. Epilog laser reseller
      • Carmen
        • suitcase computer
    • Random discussion
      • Kegerator w/ Nagios monitoring
  • Actions
    • None specified

November 6, 2009

  • Location: Spot Coffee
  • Attended:
    • Mark, Carmen, Sneha, Ben, Brian B, Stephen, Bryan S, Andrei, Tom, Josh, David, Karl
  • Discussed:
    • announcements from last week - flyers, wiki
    • attendees' backgrounds and vision for the space
    • rough plan of action re: naming, incorporation, non-profit filing
    • future meeting ideas, including demos and presentations
    • (EDIT)
  • Actions:
    • contribute to the wiki
    • think of names
    • (EDIT)

October 28, 2009

  • Location: Spot Coffee
  • Attended: Mark, Jeff, Carmen, Brian, Alan, Eric, Joe, Andrei, Bryan, Greg,
  • Discussed:
    • ideas
    • made flyers
    • other spaces
    • meet and greet
  • Actions:
    • Mark: setup a wiki
    • Mark: print out flyers

October 21, 2009

  • Location: Spot Coffee
  • Attended:
    • Jerel, Matt, Mark, Jeff, Greg, Jimmi, Krystina
  • Discussed:
    • meet and greet
    • buffalo hackerspace
  • Actions:
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