Community Meeting #9
Regular community meeting of Vaasa Hacklab Wednesday 2016-06-01 @ 1930
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The_Plenum_Pattern
Something along these lines. Feel free to add topics
Minutes
community meeting, every first Wednesday of month, at around 1900.
Upcoming interesting events
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3D-scanner gathering on Thursdays @ 17:00
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HSF 16½ event coming on 10.6. - 12.6. @ Helsinki Hacklab
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registration still open! @ http://hsf.hacklab.fi/
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makerday.fi domain has been reserved. Ideas for future events?
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7.6. Hack the lab
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8.6. Hack BBQ
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“Hack the lab” day
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Fix and organize stuff
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(Code Asylum)
Status of wood workshop?
- vaasanverstas.fi domain has been reserved.
- Charlotta has a few idea-drafts for the logo. Discussion to continue in 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 wood work side. 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?
- Wordpress event registration system to be taken into use instead of TITO? (Mikeful)
- Course interest system?
- Feedback/survey system - happy or not type of feedback?
- See http://kirjoitusalusta.fi/vaasahack-kurssit
Community status
- Member count
- 41 (2015/37)
- mailing list count
- ??around60
Hacklab t-shirts
- T-shirt weather is about to come. T-shirts are needed.
- text on both sides, front: hacklab logo. back: vaasa.hacklab.fi
- printmotor (?)
- nobody took the responsibility yet. Volunteer is still missing.
Idea: Hacklab book swap box
- “Leave a book = take a book”
- shelf
New flyer?
- A proposal for our new flyer has been on the whiteboard for a while. Still waiting.
- What do we want our new flyer to say and look like?
Future plans
- Newpapers to be stored somewhere. Physical ones at the moment in a box somewhere.
- John’s workplace basement as a source of closet?
- 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
Membership management (Noobidoo)
- “Asylum”, coded mostly by Helsinki Hacklab
- Currently being tested
- Development/ideas at https://github.com/hacklab-fi/asylum
Status: Grant applications?
- Miika, Thomas, Sami, Anders
- Management: Avustusanomuksia?
Monetary issues
- a woodworking/storage fee of 10€/m2/month of larger or longer projects?
- Holvi pro account, asylum
- 8€/month
- gives 50 pieces of “free” invoices
- free account has 50c/per invoice
- credit card
Internet/Dataplan
- Status? ATM not changed
- How to make Anvia interested to sponsor fiber to us, like to VES in same building?
Status 3D-scanner -project?
- mounts for pis and cameras
- needs rj45 cabling (there is some now, enough?)
- needs lighting
- noobidoo
- needs a nVidia (CUDA)
- 3d-scanner gathering on Thursdays @17