Community10 2016-10-05

Community Meeting #10
Regular community meeting Wednesday of Vaasa Hacklab 2016-10-05 @
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The_Plenum_Pattern
Something Along These Lines. Feel free to add topics

Minutes
community meeting, every first Wednesday of the month, at around 19 in the 3 0 , after eating.

Upcoming interesting event

Status of wood workshop?

  • vaasanverstas.fi domain has been reserved.
  • Charlotta has a few idea 's, drafts for the logo. Discussion to continue in the telegram / IRC
  • More promotion needed for wood workshop. Printed material to be Considered.
  • Slow progress at organizing the woodworkshop. Can do more.
  • Hoping to get more electricity (hardware) to tie wood work . Installing is not a problem.
  • Multipage webpage system to be checked.

Courses (what to organize)

  • Lists of previous courses to website. List of course reports etc.
  • A separate page for courses?
  • Word Press event registration system to be taken into use Instead of TITO? (Mikeful)
  • Course interest system?
  • Feedback / Survey System - happy or not, the type of feedback?
  • See http://kirjoitusalusta.fi/vaasahack-kurssit
  • List courses for the fall season
  • Orange Basics of Data Mining / “Become a data scientist in 4 easy steps: D” (mikeful)
  • Basics of artificial intelligence / “Witness a computer magic trick: D” (mikeful)
  • Web Programming, again (mikeful)
  • Wintertires for bicycles/cars
  • saippua (slaitila)
  • finnish (:
  • Homemade shampoo / toothpaste (thursday 20.10.)
  • DIY keyboard (show & tell, noobidoo, mikeful)
  • IOT / ESP 8266
  • hartsituostus, resin printing
  • Wearable electronics, augmented reality (VR)
  • Woodwork safety
  • Painting, sanding
  • Knitting, magic loop
  • Silver (25.10. charlotta)

Community status

  • Member count
  • 62 (2015/37)
  • mailing list count
  • ??around70

Hacklab t-shirts

New flyer?

Future plans

  • Newpapers to be stored somewhere. Physical ones at the moment in a box somewhere.
  • Storage policy
  • Bonk rotation already in active use.
  • Blogpost/RTFM page about this topic?
  • “Do Not Hack” tagging projects
  • Make sure the workshop in total is feasible in economic calculations.
  • Branding “Vaasan verstas” -puutyöt -> new blog vaasanverstas.fi?
  • Info display (mikeful)
  • https://kirjoitusalusta.fi/vaasahack-infodisplay
  • No change

Membership management (Noobidoo)

Status: Grant applications?

Monetary issues

  • We got Holvi pro account and credit card
  • Members should support Hacklab by paying more monthly fee if able