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meetingagenda:2016-07-12 [2016/07/06 18:19]
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 ===== Reflection ===== ===== Reflection =====
  
-  * +  * "In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first." - George Carlin
  
 ===== Topics ===== ===== Topics =====
  
   * [[:2016events|Events for 2016]]   * [[:2016events|Events for 2016]]
-  * Post-meeting Discussion on Bylaws revisions +  * Dr. Sheppard and others from USPTO will be vising next week during the meeting 
-    * targeting 7/12 for the initial discussion of proposed revisions, followed by a vote from 7/19 thru 7/26+  * Proposals for Bylaws revisions 
 +    * targeting 7/19 for the initial discussion of proposed revisions, followed by a vote from 7/26 thru 8/2
     * allow board standing committees to help with workload     * allow board standing committees to help with workload
     * hardship suspension of membership     * hardship suspension of membership
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     * split election cycles to aid in continuity of the board of directors     * split election cycles to aid in continuity of the board of directors
   * **Safety Note:** Please turn out the lights, after verifying nobody is in the area you are about to darken!   * **Safety Note:** Please turn out the lights, after verifying nobody is in the area you are about to darken!
 +  * **Safety Note2:** Capacitors can be bad.  See Pete.
      
 ===== Member Topics and Announcements ===== ===== Member Topics and Announcements =====
  
   * Tuesday night is trash and housekeeping night.   * Tuesday night is trash and housekeeping night.
 +  * MMS is hosting the MPD's neighborhood safety meeting at the space, next one is on July 27th at 6 p.m.
 +  * Maker Faire is September 24th and 25th, and call for makers is closing soon. See Carl with questions.
 +  * Folks going to get the Tormach tomorrow meet immediately after the meeting to coordinate vehicles and such
 +  * Sand blaster training is immediately after the meeting
   * Meeting Adjourns   * Meeting Adjourns
  
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 ==== Project Updates ==== ==== Project Updates ====
 +  * Wolfgang showed off Scott Smith's pottery made with the raku kiln, which Wolfgang glazed and fired
 +  * Pete made a mini drill press out of scrap and drawer slides from the hack rack
 +  * Carl is working on a smart mirror running on Raspberry Pi for his tiny bathroom
 +  * Tom turned a hunk of steel into a smaller, lighter hunk of steel (nuts for the Groton mill, made on the Bridgeport)
 +  * Jake is making his senior film (look for it on Facebook and Indigogo - look for "Rook")
 +  * Isaac finished painting his car, and finished the cooler holder for his car
 +  * Mark is working on a Core XY 3D printer
 +  * Keith spent 3 weeks building a cedar fence
  
 ==== Guest Introductions ==== ==== Guest Introductions ====
 +  * Dave is from Texas and is moving to Milwaukee, heard about us from an auto shop and a wood shop
 +  * Todd has been aware of us since we started, and finally came to visit, currently messing around with motorized bicycles
 +  * Brian learned about us from gallery night, and is interested in wood, metal, pottery and electronics
 +  * Tanya found us from the entrepeneurs and inventors club in Racine, and is interested in programming and hald-held gaming devices
 +  * Erin came with Brian, is a photographer
 +  * Jill lives in the neighborhood, and saw the article in the Bay View Compass, and is interested in arts other than the ones she does currently. She brought her mom!
 +  * Jason is a recent college grad
  
 ==== Recognition for AWESOMENESS ==== ==== Recognition for AWESOMENESS ====
 +  * Wolfgang welded a muffler for a moped on the spur of the moment 
 +  * Tom thanks Bill W for rebuilding the draw bar for the Groton 
 +  * Tom Gr. thanks Tom K for teaching on the Bridgeport 
 +  * Thanks to Tom K for cutting shelves for Amy 
 +  * Marc thanks Wolfgang and Rik and Jake for help with his artwork, which was in a gallery show
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