Meeting 20100506

Makerspace Agenda/Meeting

• Makerspace intro (5 min)
  • anyone new, please introduce yourself!
• Makerspace business (15 min)
  • hand out flyers to those @ the meeting - please pass them out or put them up!
  • budget: <BUDGET ITEMS>
    • current funds: $4100 of $6000
    • current members: 19
  • dues: sign up on the website for recurring donations
  • What You Can Do:
    • call the owners of buildings you see to find out the monthly rate, lease terms, and square footage!
    • post flyers
    • tell your friends and coworkers
    • drop a note on any relevant mailing lists, forums, or news groups you're on
  • past events
    • Hackerspaces Call-in - Sunday, May 2, 2010, 3pm-4pm (CDT).
  • upcoming events
    • Roborama 2010.a - Sat, May 8, 2010, 12p - 3p. North Garland Branch Library, 3845 North Garland Avenue, Suite 550 Garland, TX 75040-8599
    • Richardson Wildflower Festival - Friday, May 14, 2010, through Sunday, May 16, 2010. No booth or table (way too expensive!)
    • DFW Dragon Boat Festival - Sunday, May 16, 2010. No booth or table available; we will be performing some aerial photography and possibly distributing some fliers
    • Windpowerexpo Dallas - Wednesday, May 19, 2010, through May 26. Wow that's expensive!! Dallas Convention Center
    • DMA nights - Friday, May 21, 2010, 6p - 12a. DMA, downtown Dallas
    • A-Kon (21) - June 4-6, 2010, Sheraton and Westin Hotels Downtown Dallas
    • BarcampDallas5 June 12, 2010
  • updates

Minutes

• 1913 introductions
• 1918
• 1922
• 1934 Discussing what the space would provide
• 1937
• 1940
• 1944
• General discussion
  • Glenn mentioned a wind power convention to add to schedule and akon
    • windpowerexpo.com May 23-26 Dallas convention center
    • A-Kon (21) a-kon.com June 4-6
• 1948 More introductions
• Alan ran into someone at SXSW who was mentioning DMS
• John says he may have seen us on twitter or maybe facebook
• John recommended Art Bytes (sp?) at the DMA
• There is a DPRG contest coming up, be there for a vote
• 2002
• 2100
• John recommended using wufoo.com for polls/votes
• Mark suggested meetup.com; others mentioned surveymonkey.com
• 2105

break out for discussions (no limit)

Attendees

Name	Relation to DMS
Jason Grant
Alan Hatchett
Mark Havens
Glenn Pipe
Steve Rainwater
Peter Smith
John Syrinek