Meeting notes

February 8, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub

Agenda:

• Old Business
  • Review of outstanding action items
  • Finances update
• Upcoming dommunity events
• Upcoming skullspace events
• New Business
  • Branding
    • Logo
    • Schwag
    • Themes

February 1, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub

Members present: Andrew, Mike, Martin, Dan, Rob, David, Ryan, Russ, Glenn, Ron, Mak, Jay, Burke, Stef, Mark, Cheryl, Alex, Kyle

• Destination Winnipeg
  • Ed loves helping out with this type of project
  • Two suggestions:
    • 1) Destination Winnipeg - needs a defined business plan (Ed)
    • 2) STEM - community development initiatives (Dave)
    • ACTION ITEM: Ron to meet with Mike, Ed, and Dave to find out more

• Info about how other hackerspaces are run
  • ACTION ITEM: mark - find out how other hackerspaces deal with theft, vandalism, etc
  • ACTION ITEM: ron - talk to ultramegaman and see what they've done
  • Thought: a legal agreement with memberships might solve our problems
  • Other thought: separating out the expensive stuff into a more tightly controlled area ("prototyping lab")

• Members
  • ACTION ITEM - andrew to create a list of potential members
  • stef - keeping a list of founding members to encourage people to do it
  • others - that leads to a somewhat elitist attitude that we want to avoid
  • mike - suggested collecting money up front, but that's a chicken/egg problem that's come up before
  • somebody else - suggest prorating the fees paid up front against the actual membership fee

• Upcoming community events
  • Thursday, February 3, 19:00 @ LO Pub - iPhone developers meetup
  • Saturday, February 5, 10:00 - 13:00 @ Legislature - Freedom of Information Rally
  • Saturday, February 5, 21:00 @ LO Pub - Data Dance ($5)
  • ACTION ITEM: ron - create a list of future/past events

• Past events
  • Cupcake challenge
    • Videos are up on youtube.com/skullspacewpg
    • Winners haven't been announced yet, but after the mess we made on their floor we probably didn't win
  • Charlie Brown Christmas Challenge
    • We won first place!
  • Room Jam
    • At least 4 members participated
    • Check it out at http://www.somanyrooms.com
    • No plans to release source

• Logo
  • "Skullo" is a problem (due to the shape of the key
  • ACTION ITEM - somebody to create a page for logos
  • Everybody likes the "Cutesy" skull
  • Nobody likes the peso/doillar
  • The font needs work on Tish's
  • The key is awesome
  • "double colour" is good (I don't remember who said that or know what they meant)
  • the "redbull" font looks best

• Branding
  • "people love to look at things" --Dan
  • ACTION ITEM - ron to install countperday on wiki
  • ACTION ITEM - ron to fix wiki logo

• Winnipeg Code Camp
  • Happening February 26
  • Red River College on Princess
  • We have our own branded room!
  • We'll be doing free giveaways

• Bannatyne location
  • Mike was there, spoke on it...
  • Has to be rezoned, then occupency permit, then insurance - then good to go!
  • $600/month + insurance + utilities
  • There's another location on Gertie as a backup
    • Similar size, layout, etc
  • Waiting on governemnt
  • Prototype space
    • Area for more expensive material
    • Huge cash outlay
    • "decapitation clause" - ie, members take care of stuff
    • Access for small business
    • Community access
    • Reciprocal access for SkullSpace
    • ACTION ITEM - Ron to write this up for mailing list for comments (so we have it in writing)
• ACTION ITEM - Ron to look into mail list archival
• Ideas for member projects (requested by Mike)
  • Password cracking
    • ACTION ITEM - Ron to email Mike about legalities
  • arduino
  • indoor plant growing with arduino
  • talks/tutorials/workshops (arduino, lockpicking, ethical hacking, etc)
  • b-sides conference
  • nmap scripts
  • etc. (from wiki page projects)
  • EM stuff
  • Faraday cage
  • First aid
  • Suggestion: get bins for everybody
  • Suggestion: look at ways to encourage people to finish projects
• Meeting adjourned: 19:06

January 25th, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub

Members present: Corey, Russ, Ron, Jay, Clark, Mark, Andrew, Fernando, Tim

• Meeting called to order: 18:03
• Last week's actions items
  • ACTION ITEM - Ron to follow up with stef on his items
  • ACTION ITEM - Ron to follow up with logo designers (Hexbomber, Aaron, Tish, jon, Stef's girlfriend)
• Upcoming events
  • Wednesday, january 26 - .net user group
  • Thursday, January 27 - Ruby meetup
  • Thursday, January 27 - "tweet up"
  • Friday, January 28 - co-op event @ King's Head or Tavern United
  • Saturday, January 29 - Sunday, January 30 - Room Jam
• Articles of Incorporation
  • They've been approved, we'll have them back soon
  • ACTION ITEM: Andrew to look at opening the bank account/paypal donation/etc
• Possible grants
  • Mike is meeting w/ Ed from Destination Winnipeg tomorrow, will get us some information
    • ACTION ITEM: Ron to find out what the deal is and talk about it next meeting
  • Having a lower ratio of males would help with some grants that require equality
    • ACTION ITEM: Andrew (or Molly) to talk to female geeks to raise interest
• Discussion about power structure going forward
  • Proposal: People who *do* stuff (bank account, etc) don't get a say in what's done
  • ACTION ITEM: Mark will look at how other hackerspaces are run and get back to us
• Space
  • We may have access to enter next week (in a limited way, controlled by Mike)
  • We should be able to get the lease signed in 2-3 weeks, depending on the city/other factors we can't control
  • We'll have to work together to clean up and sort out a reasonable grand opening date
• Members
  • We need to get a list of people who will commit to paid memberships once we have a space
  • ACTION ITEM: (assign next week) to start talking to people and finding out who will pay)
• Meeting adjourned: 18:41

January 18th, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub

Members present: Andrew, Ron, Mak, Darcy, Fernando, Jay, Aaron, Molly, Paul, Mark, Martin, Russ, Stef, Burke

• Meeting called to order: 18:00
• Logo ideas
  • Current idea: "SKULL" on top of "SPACE", where the 'E' is the teeth of a key (sketch http://i.imgur.com/5dB4w.jpg)
  • Leanne (from Manitoban) will work on it
  • Tish is also working on it
  • Stef asked Jon to try something as well
• Financial status
  • Approximately $43 in the red
  • Main loss this week was from muffins
  • Main gain this week was donations from members
• Re-cap of the Cupcake Challenge hack-a-thon
  • Events: cupcake baking, coding, lockpick village, introductions, waffles
  • Mak needs to live closer
  • We need to find a space so we don't have to go to Mak's
  • A dozen cupcakes were mailed to Brighton and one (smushed) to Redmond
  • Pictures are posted to Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/skullspace)
  • ACTION ITEM: Andrew to write blog on the muffin challenge
  • Andrew posted a Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_2b1iUvpss)
• Bannatyne location
  • Initial review of the terms seems reasonable
  • May potentially lead to shared office space
  • We should have emergency contacts who live/work downtown (Stef)
  • Security of equipment - business insurance
  • Cleanliness will be *very* important
  • Eye wash station, etc will be needed
    • To be discussed when we actually have a space
• Meetings
  • We're moving to weekly meetings
  • Next meeting is Tuesday, January 25, 18:00 @ LO Pub
• Winnipeg Code Camp
  • Free conference at the end of February
  • 4 tracks, 20 sessions
  • Ron and Mak are speaking for sure, and likely Andrew
  • ACTION ITEM: Stef to submit a talk
  • ACTION ITEM: Ron to send abstract of his and Mak's talks
• Other events
  • Secret Handshake - Thursday, January 20, 2011
  • Ruby User Meetup - Thursday, January 27, 2011
  • Flash in the Peg - Wednesday, January 19, 2011
  • ACTION ITEM: Andrew (etc) to infiltrate all local groups
• Public Relations
  • Martin is taking over public relations
  • Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, flickr, etc
  • ACTION ITEM: Everybody to infiltrate Reddit Winnipeg
  • Suggestion for/from Martin: bi-weekly blog update with our current status
  • Idea from Martin: a small paper slip with a QR code
• Finances
  • If it comes to the point where we can no longer go on, any money (if any) in excess of expenses will not be used for personal profit
  • None of the founders, nor anybody else in the organization, will personally profit from SkullSpace's income
  • Re-embursement is not the same as being paid
• Events that we host
  • Free for members, small fee for non-members (ultimately to encourage them to become members)
  • Once/month, maybe more
• Startup funding
  • ACTION ITEM: Martin to look into startup funding
  • ACTION ITEM: Ron to find out about Destination Winnipeg (Ed Suzuki)
  • ACTION ITEM: Stef to find out about Yes Winnipeg
  • Note: Assiniboine Credit Union might be a potential source for B-sides Winnipeg
• Meeting adjourned: 19:04

January 4th, 2011 - 17:30 @ LO Pub

Members Present: Andrew, Dan, Dave, Mak, Ron, Russ

• Logo
  • no bones
  • minimal detail
  • ability to render as one colour
  • "SkullSpace" in the logo
  • not scary
  • cartoony/cute/anime
  • skull as one of the letters perhaps (the skull is not the focus of the logo)
  • one of the S's should have a white fedora on it
  • book
  • lock and key
  • ACTION ITEM: Andrew to get this info into logo designers' hands

• A-zone space
  • ACTION ITEM : Mak to ask Mark about the space and get response

• Cupcake challenge
  • January 15th, Saturday
  • Mak's place

• breachdb
  • Ron wants to make a statistics site about password breaches
  • searchable and whatnot
  • db schema was refined

• Stuff Wishlist
  • Projector
    • ACTION ITEM: Ron to be in charge of projector
  • Chairs
  • Networking equipment

• Finances
  • Still ~$200 in debt.

• Members
  • ACTION ITEM: Ron to make member benefits page
  • Dues
    • $40/month
    • $20/students or low income

December 21st, 2010 - 17:30 @ Lo Pub

Members present: Andrew, Mak, Ron, Russ

• Signed the articles of incorporation
• Discussion on Event ideas
• Discussion on next event
  • December 27th, Ron's place, ethicalhacker xmas challenge
• Discussion on first official event
  • March 1st, millennium library
  • One 30 minute talk on what SkullSpace is all about
  • Break with snacks
  • Another 30 minute talk on open source tools
• Discussion on Finances
• Discussion on maintaining a presence at other groups
  • asterisk user group
  • ruby meetup
  • MUUG
  • secrethandshake
  • .Net meetup
  • 2600 meetup
• Action Items:
  • Andrew
    • Talk to tish re: logo design
    • File articles of incorporation
  • Ron
    • Set up mailing list
    • Find out when next ruby meetup is
    • Reserve and book 40 person room at library for March 1st if possible
  • Mak
    • Get pricing on business cards
    • Create facebook account

December 7th, 2010 - 17:30 @ Lo Pub

Members present: Andrew, Mak, Stef, Ron, Russ

• Discussion on Physical space requirements
• Discussion on Event ideas
• Discussion on stuff Wishlist
• Discussion on Finances