20180322 BOD Notes

Attendees:

BOD: Chris K, Mike Y, Tanju B, Jay D

Members: Brain F, Jay S,

Notes:

Planning Agenda

• Introduce Mike as new role for Safety & Equipment Director
• Financial update
• Membership update
• New Items & Updates
  • Apr 2-6 Engineering For Kids doing a day camp at the Station for spring break week. Its on our meetup
  • May 19 MakerFest at Red Top Mtn State Park May 19th
  • Jun 10 Nation of Makers Conference in June (Santa Fe, NM), Adam Savage promo video http://bit.ly/2HS1SFl
  • Jul 21 Mini Comic Con at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center
  • Oct 27 ATL Maker Faire & Powerwheels is back to 2 event
  • Follow Up/Final decision for Private Event request on a Saturday night in April
  • Other items

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Discussed

• Introduced Mike as new role for Safety & Equipment Director

Membership Update: February might be a new record for new member volume with 7 new members joined. However it was offset with departure of 4 people. The primary draw for new members continues to be meetup events and activities at the Station.

Gumroad Summary March 2018

____________________	__Feb__	__Mar__
New Member Total	7	2
* Maker	5	0
* Student	2	2
Canceled Total	4	0
* Maker	1	0
* Student	3	0

Total Summary

• 46 Total Members as of March 22
  • 30 Makers
  • 15 Students
  • 1 Premium

Financial Update:

• February was rough, we had to pay all of the utilities moving fees
• Down to only losing to ~$250 per month at this time
• Our current runway is 8 months at current run-rate
• We need approx 5-6 more Maker Members to be sustainable

• Taxes have been filed and accepted by the IRS
• The new financials have been filed in the BOD records for Feb

General Discussion

• Venue request for a private party has been withdrawn. Per member poll, majority of members were ok with the request but several raised concerns about the space being closed off
• Mike Y going to poll members of interest in tools to start soliciting donations from companies
• General discussion with Mike organizing a monthly shop safety class, consider coordinating with a space build out
• Heads up about Spring Break Camp with Eng For Kids. There will be kids at the space during business hours that week. Be aware
• Upcoming Events noted in next section below below
• PowerWheels racing has been requested for Maker Faire , however there is currently no lead organizer for the race. We will need to work with the Faire organizers to make a race happen, perhaps may be easier to make an exhibition race happen
• General discussion about making marketing videos working with Jay Starling, focused activities on going discussion in the #marketing channel on Slack
• Discussed adding a second Open House on a Saturday as a one-off, to be scheduled by Chuck and Jay S. Want to keep the current Thurs night event as-is and then supplement that with a Saturday

Upcoming Events:

• Apr 2-6 Engineering For Kids doing a day camp at the Station for spring break week. Its on our meetup calendar
• May 19 Red Top Mountain Maker's Festival - Saturday May 19th https://wiki.themakerstation.com/Red_Top_Mountain_Maker%27s_Festival_2018
• Jun 10 Nation Of Makers Conference NOMCon - June 10-11 https://www.nomcon.org/
• Jul 21 Mini Comic Con at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center
• Oct 27-28 Atlanta Maker Faire is back to two days