Meeting #290 Agenda for March 15, 2016

• Put “meeting tonight” sandwich boards outside doors 1 and 3
• Ask guests to sign the guestbook
• Project Updates (Show & Tell!) from Members
• Member Recognition for Awesomeness
• Guest & New Member introductions

• “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - A. Einstein

• Events for 2016
• Shakespeare in the Park looking for donations for their silent auction
• Thanks to everyone at the Woodworking Show!
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• Makers needed for Maker Plaza at UWM (Pete, Molly)
• Screen Printing Demo after Meeting, 8pm or so… (Pete)
• Maker Faire Milwaukee Planning Meeting Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 at 7pm!
• Are we falling behind on maintenance?
• Milwaukee Makerspace 2016 Annual Meeting - Nomination period for at-large board positions opens tonight (2 positions)
• Safety Note:
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• Tuesday night is trash and housekeeping night.
• Meeting Adjourns

• Space Tour starts immediately following meeting, meet in front lobby.
• Any interested new members, see a Board Member to discuss the sign-up process.
• One On One Introductions of Members to Guests

• Kathy showed off the painted cork board which will be installed in the craft lab
• Wolfgang showed off his unintentional tie-die T-shirt (tip: don’t put your pens in the dryer with your T-shirts)
• Mark donated a $400 auto-darkening welding helmet donated by Miller Electric
• Tom asked that we do a blog post on welding classes and the donation
• Karen showed off historic (90 year old) Girl Scout uniforms that she is mendging
• One of the members showed off Bismuth crystals she made
• One of our neighbors stopped in to remind us to please park on the opposite side of the street (even side today)
• Larry asked if there was any progress on putting up signage to let members know what side of the street to park on
• Tom suggested we print out signage and attach them to the posts outside “MakerSpace - park this side“
• Lance introduced the new named board members. Welcome!
• Pete and Molly (his student) told us about Zoom Milwaukee and the Maker Plaza. They’re looking for exhibitors May 26-28 (see 2016 events for more details)
• Larry and Pete have EggBots (for Easter!) they can loan out
• Larry suggested a mandatory name tag policy - he was asked to refer this to the board
• Landscaping and mowing - DL asked Rik will provide this service this summer - he confirmed he would
• DL reminded members that she will be enforcing the parking ticket policy - clean up your messes

Awesomeness!

• Tom K and Bill2 were saluted for helping with a band saw stand
• Mark O also thanked Bill for helping with one of his projects
• Pete put together the booth at the woodworkers show, Lance thanked everyone to attended
• Stephanie helped a member get set up on Etsy
• Dan tamped down the irate neighbor who came to express frustration on our parking on the “wrong” side

Guest introductions

• Derrick found the ‘space via a web search
• Jeremy saw a poster at American Science and Surplus
• Al is from the neighborhood, and learned about us at the Woodworker’s Show
• Moira heard about us through word of mouth
• Peter heard about us through a neighbor of ours
• John found us through the Internet
• Kurt introduced himself
• Alicia introduced herself
• Molly heard about us from Pete and via Maker Faire
• Faith introduced herself
• Nick, Robert, Michael and Pat are from MSOE
• Brian is studying EE at MSOE, and was brought by a friend

Nominations for at-large board positions

• Scott Swanson was nominated and seconded, and accepted the nomination
• Adrian Volden was nominated and seconded, and accepted the nomination
• Amy Haffner was nominated and seconded - she was not present to accept