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
- 10.10. ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING @ Hotel Vallonia, registration closed: D, http://vaasanseutu.fi/tapahtuma/13532/1476090000/
- 15.10. MAKE THE BOOK OF FINDINGS EURO! / Buy books for € 1 @ main library, recurring event, http://vaasanseutu.fi/tapahtuma/13669/1476525600/
- 28.10. Starting your own business THEME DAY @ Hotel Vallonia, http://vaasanseutu.fi/tapahtuma/13531/1477645200/
- 28.-30.10 @ Botniahalli, http://vaasanseutu.fi/tapahtuma/4384/1477821600/
- 23.-24.11.2016, Vaasa Game Days @ university, http://vaasagamedays.fi/
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
- T-shirt order page up at Holvi https://holvi.com/shop/vaasahacklab/product/846c5dcb842b503f4e7fef7576fa7118/
New flyer?
- A proposal for our new flyer has been on the whiteboard in wolfgar’s google drive for a while. Changes needed?
- https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4OwhUDJOt4xMFJEcmhGRW5XUGc
- 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.
- 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)
- Named “Asylum”, coded mostly by Helsinki Hacklab
- Currently being used for membership and space fees. Feedback?
- Development/ideas at https://github.com/hacklab-fi/asylum
Status: Grant applications?
- Miika, Thomas, Sami, Anders
- Management: Avustusanomuksia?
Monetary issues
- We got Holvi pro account and credit card
- Members should support Hacklab by paying more monthly fee if able