Milwaukee Makerspace Wiki

User Tools

Site Tools

You are here: start » boardmeetingagenda » 2021-12-16
boardmeetingagenda:2021-12-16

This is an old revision of the document!

Table of Contents

Milwaukee Makerspace Board of Directors Meeting - November 18th, 2021

Agenda

  1. Intro
    1. Take Attendance:
    2. Cheers:
    3. Previous Minutes:
    4. Financial Projections:
  2. Updates on Ongoing Business
    1. Marquette SAE Team
    2. Norwich Lease
    3. Maker Faire
    4. Make48
    5. Space Improvement Day on ???
    6. Membership Engagement
    7. Neon Area Proposal
  1. New Business
    1. Member Topics
      1. Open for guests
  2. President's Minute

Introduction

Attendance

Present
  • Tim C
Absent
  • NA
Guests

Cheers

  • This month's libation of choice:
  • Provided by: Faith F

Previous Minutes

  • Meeting called to order by Tim at:
  • Last months meeting's minutes

Current Financial Projections

  • Update from Jeff M
  • Membership is currently (Maximum was 380); Minimum was ~240 during Covid.

Ongoing Business

Marquette SAE Team

  • All set through end of February

Norwich Lease

  • Due to rise in price of natural gas and inflation rising at 6%, the price per sq ft in the new lease (current lease expires 12/3/21) needs to be adjusted in the new lease
  • Proposal: Lease to increase $0.015 per square foot for a 3 year lease (increase of $165/month)
  • 1 or 3 year lease
  • Tim C will notify the membership

Update on Lease

  • Need final updated total leases sqft
    • Will inform membership that all future lease signings will be voted on

Maker Faire Milwaukee

  • Call vote to reallocate remaining $3000 of budget
    • Ayes:
    • Nays:
    • Abstains:

Make 48

  • Proposed dates in July, 2022
  • Membership given primer via sizzle reel in recent newsletter
    • Early support from Area Champions

Space Improvement Day

  • Move to January
  • Focus on Lenox
    • Move board desk to increase clean craft space

Membership Engagement

Storage Proposal

  • Proposal by Tim: all new members must attend Space Improvement Day before being allocated storage space
    • Encourage new members to interact with current members and the BOD
    • Helps ensure large groups of volunteers
    • Adequate persuasion/reward for volunteerism
    • Will be done on the honor system.
    • If current members want storage space, they must have participated in an SID within the last 2 to 3 months.
  • Vote to change rule to reflect the above proposal
    • Tim C will alert the membership of the proposed change
  • No action taken, BOD vote slated to occur at December meeting, to be implemented in new year

Final Storage Proposal Voting Terms (need to agree on this to be sent membership-wide)

  1. Any member who wants to add storage space will be required to attend a space improvement day, or have already attended a SID in the past 2 or 3 months
  2. If the member cannot make it to space improvement day, they will be required to find and take on a general improvement task around the space (anything from cleaning to working with an area champion on specific tasks). We are leaving this pretty open. As long as people are being excellent and doing what Mr. Rodgers would do, we leave it to individuals to determine what they view as “adequate” effort based on skill, time, etc. This will extend to community-centered tasks as well, like running a workshop, training, or hands-ons for members or the community.
  3. There will be minimal tracking. Like with most rules and regs, the space relies on us keeping ourselves and each other honest

Membership Signup Materials

  • Tim 7/8ths through script for new member video
    • Upon completion will do rough recording for commentary/feedback
    • Will break up information between the 2 tours and signup video (goal: have video be ~10 minutes long)
  • Feedback on mission statement

Neon Sign Bending Area

  • Jake set up area, first class when?

New Business

  • MMS Merch
    • Alden suggests making the merchandise
    • Consider a 2 tier program
      • Make some merchandise and use a 3rd party vendor for additional upscale products (fleece pull-overs, etc)
    • Or use a third party vendor
  • Prusa Partner Program
    • They get marketing, “Prusa Certified Technicians,” networked resources
    • We are one of 5 spaces being approached
    • They send us a free printer (MK3s+)
    • We get referral codes to give to people for discounted printers, they act like partner codes so we get store credit
    • They can make us custom curriculum on their Prusa Academy website for us specifically to use

Pre-Planned Membership Proposals

  • Anderson: mushrooms!?

Member Topics

Close

  • Meeting was adjourned at: : pm
boardmeetingagenda/2021-12-16.1639702875.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/12/17 01:01 by wildapricot-campbell_timothy

Page Tools

Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki