# Community8 2016-05-04

**URL:** https://discourse.hacklab.fi/t/community8-2016-05-04/497
**Category:** Vaasa
**Created:** [October 20, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.hacklab.fi/t/community8-2016-05-04/497 "2016-10-20T09:29:01Z")
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### Author: ![kengu](https://discourse.hacklab.fi/user_avatar/discourse.hacklab.fi/kengu/32/1019_2.png) [@kengu](https://discourse.hacklab.fi/u/kengu)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.hacklab.fi/t/community8-2016-05-04/497/1 "2016-10-20T09:29:02Z")

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**Community Meeting #8**

Regular community meeting of Vaasa Hacklab Wednesday 2016-05-04 @ 1930  
[https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The\_Plenum\_Pattern](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

- 3D-scanner gathering on Thursdays @ 17:00
- HSF 16½ coming on around 10.6.2016 @Helsinki Hacklab
- registration is already open @ [hsf.hacklab.fi](http://hsf.hacklab.fi)
- 12.5. Vaasa Lennokkikerho @ Fanny-talo
- 21.5. Air combat, klo 11, Vaasan lentokenttä

NASA SpaceApps Challenge

- Järjestettiin, oli kivaa. Oltiin Pohjalaisessa ja Vasa Bladetissa.
- Etukäteen juttua myös Iltasanomissa
- More hacklab & hackathon marketing needed for future purposes.
- Great co-operation with MUOVA.

Newpapers to be stored somewhere. Phjysical ones at the moment in a box somewhere.

[makerday.fi](http://makerday.fi) domain has been reserved

Status of wood workshop?

- [vaasanverstas.fi](http://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?
- Course interest system?
- Feedback/survey system - happy or not type of feedback?
- See [Kirjoitusalusta.fi: vaasahack-kurssit](http://kirjoitusalusta.fi/vaasahack-kurssit)

Community status

- Member count
- 39 (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](http://vaasa.hacklab.fi)
- printmotor (?)
- nobody took the responsibility yet. Volunteer is still missing.

Idea: Hacklab book swap box

- “Leave a book = take a book”
- Box next to door maybe

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?

Insurance needs for the Hacklab? In case of robbery, fire, vastuuvakuutus?

- Palo-, oikeusturva, varkaus?
- Ryhmätapaturma

Future plans

- Place for member tools, John’s workplace basement as a source of closet?

- Storage policy

- Bonk rotation already in active use.

- Blogpost 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](http://vaasanverstas.fi)?

- Info display (mikeful)

- [Kirjoitusalusta.fi: vaasahack-infodisplay](https://kirjoitusalusta.fi/vaasahack-infodisplay)

Membership management (Noobidoo)

- “Asylum”, coded mostly by Helsinki Hacklab
- Currently being tested
- Development/ideas at [GitHub - hacklab-fi/asylum: Membership management for hacklabs](https://github.com/hacklab-fi/asylum)

[vaasanverstas.fi](http://vaasanverstas.fi)

Status: Grant applications?  
Miika, Thomas, Sami, Anders

> [@Management: Avustusanomuksia?](https://discourse.hacklab.fi/t/management-avustusanomuksia/304):
>
> Tammikuu [http://www.obotnia.fi/kulttuuri/avustukset/](http://www.obotnia.fi/kulttuuri/avustukset/) (29.1.) [http://www.britamariarenlundsminne.fi/ansokningar/](http://www.britamariarenlundsminne.fi/ansokningar/) Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds Minne (31.1.) Ei sovellu [http://www.sjundemars.fi/suomi/ohjeet.html](http://www.sjundemars.fi/suomi/ohjeet.html) (31.1. kirjeitse) (ei tue tieteellistä, eli tukee meitä?) Ei sovellu Helmikuu Kulttuurirahaston maakuntarahastot [http://skr.fi/fi/haettavat-apurahat](http://skr.fi/fi/haettavat-apurahat) (10.2.) [http://oskaroflund.fi/](http://oskaroflund.fi/) (15.2.) [http://www.gustafsvanljung.fi/avustukset.php](http://www.gustafsvanljung.fi/avustukset.php) (29.2. kirjeitse) [http://www.puumies.fi/?doc…](http://www.puumies.fi/?docId=8100)

Monetary issues

- Holviin puuverstas/hacklab -erottelu, prosentti?
- a woodworking/storage fee of 10€/m2/month of larger or longer projects?

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