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== December 19, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

*The official monthly meeting was rescheduled to tonight because holiday.

*Finances
**Stable slight increase due to lower costs (hydro bill)
**Having food drives food donations
**Membership numbers good at 57
*New website
**Set to go live Friday Dec 22 possible launch party.
**Any members that can provide content would be good ie) project.
**Does any member own the Skullspace Instagram... we should ask on announce/discuss
**Website can post blog posts to social media but we need credentials for Skullspaces social media accounts.

*The Gary effect will be hosting a gift give way for low income families. If interested visit garyeffect.ca

*Carl's enclosure nearly complete just wire routing and dust management left.

== November 28, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

* 13 members present (no recap of last meeting minutes)
* Lively discussion of how to generate revenue and events for Skullspace
** Liquor licensing in the space
*** Have to get space up to code and investigate what blockers there are (fire inspection)
*** There should be past emails to investigate what is exactly needed
** Running weekly/monthly events at a bar
** Promote Skullspace as a coworking space
** If we can separate the classroom from the rest of the space, we can make the classroom nicer and then potentially host events there (small scale dance parties?)
** Running classes for things that our members are good at
*** programming/3d printer/CNC Router/Soldering, video games, art, designing things
** colocation services and/or vm services
** Hackathons at the space
** Discussed having a paid position for volunteer/event coordinator to run things
* Discussed how to make the space nicer
** Purchase good furniture and replace crappy furniture
** 'Recycling run' is needed to get rid of unused junk (MAME machine, etc.)
** Justin wants to make curtains to separate the classroom from the rest of the space

== October 31, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==
* Projector kerfuffle w.r.t. pinball
* Financials
** Net worth a little lower, but we're still healthy.
** We had a large snacks/drinks expense, but we've paid nearly all of it off and we'll be seeing good returns next month.
** A. Michael made a pre-paying account for our summer insurance, so we'll never be hit by surprise by that.
** Our membership is paying our rent and a little extra; donations, snacks, events, and such pay for everything else.
* The 3D printer (which we bought in 2013!) is driving Edwin bonkers, and he'd like to buy a new printer. Is anyone willing to pitch in for a Prusa I3 Mk3?
* We will contact the landlord about putting up signs telling people not to park under the fire escape?
* Troy is taking pictures of the space for our website.

== September 26, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==
* 9 members present
* Recap of last meeting minutes
* Financials:
** A little lower this month than last, but still about a month in the bank
** Big insurance payments are now done
** Michael to add an account to average those insurance fees across a whole year for better budgeting / foresight
** Drinks tend to sell better than food
** Quite a bit more in membership dues compared to last year
* Unit upstairs (cheaper by $600/month) is becoming available soon - Michael to reach out to Bob Brown. Will look into it and report back.
* Anti-social: Michael won't be running it, but Wayne sounded like he might want to. Best not to rush it to ensure a better turnout. Michael will talk to Wayne to make plans.
** Michael wants to eventually plan a smaller, quieter, more geeky night targeted towards members of SkullSpace and their friends.
* Papers we love is at the space tomorrow. Some fancy text to speech stuff.
* Communications strikeforce has met. More coming soon.
* Meeting over 6:42pm

== August 29, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

*Intros
*8 members including Michael, Stefan, Thor, Edwin, Keith...
*financials
**we have 1 month rent as backup
**downward trend due to insurance will continue for another month.
**events made August somewhat profitable
*Lockpicking event happened - it went well
*Ingress event happened - it went well
*attendees at lockpicking event had trouble swiping in at front door, possibly due to to much use
*member reports getting lock in the space because motion sensor is flakey
**get a sign asap
**look into installing pushbar
*member suggests hold a "fixing the space" hackathon
*b-sides nov4-5, looking for speakers
*should get update photos for the computer for refugees soon
*member suggests creating strikeforce to update wiki, webpage, member intake process etc.
*motion to turn air cond. back on

== July 25, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

*Members: 8
*3D Printing Workshop over here. IEEE might be sponsoring refreshments? 5 or 6 talks. Reverse engineering Tiko. Retrofitting the motors, etc.
*Ai-Kon went good. We had a lot of interest and there were no hiccups. It was like a mini comic-con.
*Financial news:
**We're seeing a spike in members after all last month's memberships started coming through. We won't be relying quite as hard on event funds, but those will still be necessary for now.
**We're still in that four-month period every summer where we're paying for insurance. We're continuing a downward trent, but we shouldn't fall below where we were in February.
*Our air conditioner might have problems. It seems to be working now, but we'll keep an eye on it. Someone predicted a few years ago that it was on its last legs.

== June 27, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

* Intros
* 3D printing intro day - stay tuned for sometime this summer
* X-Carl is now operational once again (thanks Edwin!)
* Finances appear to be stabilizing
* New Keyfobs are in - rejoice!
* Mark Jenkins is presenting a talk at the space tomorrow - "Resisting the Surveillance State"
* SkullSpace fund2013 minutes are at [[Meeting_notes\2013]]

raising campaign is active - check out http://skull.space/summer - Donation matching!
* Michael K is still looking for volunteers for the AiKon table, hit him up if you are available!
* Temporary water service is now in effect @ 374 Donald
* Unix Epoch rollover to 1500000000 is happening on July 13 - stay tuned for an event announcement

== May 30, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

*Intros
*April minutes read
*72 Princess location for social- Chris made preliminary contact.
*Free credit pinball today
*Two pinball events still to come - contact Manitoba Pinball Asc. or just show in interested
*Edwin asked developer for discount on KISS slicer. Developer gave gave us a free licence
*Edwin and Thor experimenting with mater control for 3d printer
*X-Carl may have a damaged arduino and/or X-axis stepper driver
*Edwin ordered replacement and upgrade parts for Carl
*Edwin looking for Windows Vista licence for some bizarre reason
*1st pinball event happened, it was fun
*Papers we love happened it wen well, apparently it's on YouTube
*Student films screening event being planned
*cyber-defense challenge happened, it went well
*Front street being torn up from June 8 - July 27, good luck parking.
*sandbox table still incomplete and broken
*abridged financial report because scripts were configured for USD not CAD. Micheal may email complete report after meeting

== April 25, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

* Introductions
* We read the minutes from last week.
* Adrian had a suggestion for an Anti-Social space. 72 Princess, third floor, $450.
** Freight elevator if needed.
* Financial Report:
** We had made some money from events, so we're holding steady.
** We have a couple new members.
** The insurance payments in the summer are what usually do us in.
** Member dues essentially pay for rent. We rely on donations and event revenue to cover insurance and utilities.
* Plans for the floor? Getting ends of linoleum would be nice and cheap. We should be able to just roll it out without gluing.
* Chris's friend has some ideas on how to decorate the place.

== April 11, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald - Special Meeting ==

* Meeting held to vote on proposed amendments that were not voted on during 2017 AGM due to procedural error.
** Due to not meeting a quorum, the bylaw amendments were not voted on.

== March 28, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

* Meeting called
* Approved previous minutes
* Financial report: Looks okay. We had a good event with the synth meetup, so we probably aren't losing anything this month. Michael doesn't have the bank records at the moment.
* Why is the door always locked now?
** The architects lock it at 5:00?
* A lot of members had applied lately, and we're contacting them one by one.
* Hackaday is hiring contract writers! Writing about projects and such, so apply today.
** (P.S. we should document all the neat stuff we do here.)
* Was there money in our fund to purchase upholstery?
** So Chris had the idea to get furniture to make our space better.
** More flooring! Stuff like that.
** We need lockers, too. Costco has a sale.
*** We can probably get old ones from Habitat for Humanity, too.
** We took a vote. The people who didn't show up will never know.
* Flickr is full of pictures from other events, but never anything in our space. We should take more photos in the space.
* Edwin talked about pinball and such. Virtual pinball, etc.
* We've got an orange (the construction type) SkullSpace toque for sale.
* Marcel is looking for a video camera (camcorder?) for an upcoming trip. He was looking for something "a step up from an iPhone."
* Upcoming events:
** Ron's CTF event this Saturday
** Manitoba Comic Con this Saturday and Sunday. We have a table.

== February 28, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald - Annual General Meeting ==

* Introduction
* Announced bylaw meeting which will come up after the AGM.
** Give us suggestions if you missed them
** We will announce the meeting for voting three weeks in advance
* Financial update for the year
** This month's projection still shows downward slope, two months left
** We're losing ~$300 per month until the major expense of insurance kills us
** Balance seems high at $13,000 but liabilites are at ~$10,000
** Yearly figures show earnings of $30,000 and $24,000 expenses
** High donation amount, power's been a consistent expense
** Expenses were surprisingly even with earnings
* Year in review
** Members who have come and gone
** Events we ran this year
*** Months electronics workshops in the beginning
*** 3D Printing Events
*** Comic Con
*** Jimcon
*** Aikon's Winterfest
*** GIS Event
*** Weekly drone events
*** Computer Refurb
** Space change
*** Great purge of 2017
*** Adrian rekagiggered the server rack
*** Sean improved our Wifi
*** We no longer have VOI as a provider internet
*** Winnitron is now updated with new games
** Projects of the year
*** Pong game with Troy and Edwin
*** PDP-8 restoration by Adrian
*** Arcade Joystick
*** Bluetooth hacking with Troy and Edwin
*** Ben's ball-o-buttons
*** Synthesizer modules created by Jordan Justice
*** RAM dumping by programming
*** Netbright signs with Jay

== January 31, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald ==

* Meeting called 6:00pm
* FPV update
** FPV Wing build moved to Feb 23rd
** discontinuing the regular FPV extravaganza until further notice, lack of interest
* Members: Read the Bylaws and propose any changes
** announce proposed changes to bylaws on Feb 7th (still waiting for members to submit proposed changes)
* Synthesizer petting zoo is gaining momentum
* Bylaw amendment ideas
** requiring invitation to apply for membership seems outdated as per our recent practices
** one guest per member in the space rule
** need to update wiki as per meeting requirements
* Finances!!!! - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aYGwbmIYlze4-M6j6GtLXJzbj61HPsWAjZ5vzSV7qug/edit?usp=sharing see report here]
** forecast: early April is when we die should we not grow our membership
** next big upfront payment - july?? need to confirm
* Membership strategies: we need to throw more events to gain more members! Our efforts reflect membership growth, need to keep up the good work
** Government Grants - paying for events, supplies
** IEEE wpg section?
* Malware analysis was well attended
* Teddy Ruxpin > Furby
* POS terminals working - for snacks!?!?!?
* KeyFOBs should be hear by Feb 3rd
* Meeting adjourned @ 18:41

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AMichael at 19:54, 10 May 2020

AMichael: Created page with "== December 19, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald == *The official monthly meeting was rescheduled to tonight because holiday. *Finances **Stable slight increase due to lower c..."

AMichael: Created page with "== December 19, 2017 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald == The official monthly meeting was rescheduled to tonight because holiday. Finances **Stable slight increase due to lower c..."