20180524 BOD Notes

Attendees:

BOD: Tanju B, Jay D, Joshua M, Chris K

Members: Alex C

Notes:

Planning Agenda

• Financial update
• Membership update
• New Items & Updates
  • Recap MakerFest at RedTop
  • Freeside talking about collaborating on some sort of Gala/Silent Auction to show off local maker work... targeting this fall
  • Jun 10 Nation of Makers Conference in June (Santa Fe, NM), Adam Savage promo video http://bit.ly/2HS1SFl
  • Jun 23 Cobb County Arts & Culture Podcast on June
  • Jul 21 Mini Comic Con at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center
  • Aug 30-Sept 3 DragonCon Parade + Maker & Alt History (Steampunk) Tracks
  • Oct 27 ATL Maker Faire & Powerwheels is back to 2 event
  • Other items

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Discussed

Financial Update:

• We have money in the bank. Yay! Starting to turn positive
• We can cover this and next month's rent and utilities
• Utilities discussion: finding members are leaving the door open from office to shop like trying to get the AC cooling back there. We need to stop this, add a door closer and communicate to everyone that we are not cooling the back.
• Will have a formal report for next meeting

Membership Update:

Gumroad Summary May 21, 2018

____________________	__Feb__	__Mar__	__Apr__	__May__
Member Total	41	46	49	50
Maker	23	25	27	29
Reciprocal	1	1	1	1
Student	10	13	15	14
Old Maker	4	4	4	4
Old Student	2	2	1	1
Premium	1	1	1	1

General Discussion

• Fireproof safe donated by Chris is now available to be used as a flammables cabinet or anything else. Will post to Slack to get member input
• Red Top Mountain Maker Fest was pretty small. We had a great spread, but turn out was low.
• The recent Saturday Open House had a good turn out, definitely want to repeat again as possible
• Good turnout for the Battlebots season premiere. People had fun.
• Freeside talking about collaborating on some sort of Gala/Silent Auction to show off local maker work... targeting this fall
• We need to schedule another build-out for clean-out and in particular need to get a light switch installed for the shop lights
• Need Chris to order paper towel refills for the dispensers and more toilet paper.

Upcoming Events:

• Jun 10 Nation Of Makers Conference NOMCon - June 10-11 https://www.nomcon.org/
• Jun 23 Cobb County Arts & Culture podcast recording at the Station
• Jul 21 Mini Comic Con at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center
• Aug 30-Sept 3 DragonCon Parade + Maker & Alt History (Steampunk) Tracks
• Oct 27-28 Atlanta Maker Faire is back to two days