2015-07-29 meeting minutes

In Attendence: Nathan, Daniel, Kyle, Steve, Jay, David, Joey, Neal, Chris Dadd, Dave, Apple, Heath, Vic & Hans, and Derek.

Concerns about subletting:

Possibly threatens our nonprofit status

• shouldn't, still obviously about education & outreach

Options: 1. We take the whole space 2. we sublet from Nahas 3. We sublet part and Chris sublets part

• contract drawn up, signed
• no guarantee people would like it in the future
• walls will have to be built, more complexity & risk

Makerspaces are acommercial

• not necessarily anticommercial
• some members don't want to subsidize businesses
• Gives us the ability to grow
• will get more members in the fall and winter
• Growth equals problems (herding cats, etc)
• don't want to be the London Hackerspace
• forcing issues/deadlines seem antiethical to hackerspaces

Time pressure

• "for $600/month, we could buy some cool shit"
• warehouse nearby has 30,000 sq ft for rent
• another building would be awesome, but more responsibilities
• Not our mission to be a landlord
• we've adjusted to large projects in the past

We can not afford it -Vic

• can't assume more space equals more members
• members could pledge a years worth of money, if the money comes close to pledging enough, we could get the space
• we could get a grant/s to help cover
• all that is moot with the deadline

John Perry writes grants

• getting a unimog to make compost with

14 members paying $40/month would cover it

• Still could work with Adam Nahas later on
• if the option comes up again, we could relook at it

Misc.

Clean up date sometime in September

• decide things to keep, sell, trash…

Adam Nahaus has other things going on, we will see what happens

Lift Placement

• general consensus is 45°

Vote:

To rent the warehouse

• Aye: Heath, Dave, Joey
• Nay: Chris, Nathan, Neal, Steve, David, Kyle, Jay
• Not voting: Apple