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** Physical location
 
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*** Update on the [[Bannatyne Location]]
 
*** Update on the [[Bannatyne Location]]
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** Mailing list archive
  
 
== January 25th, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub ==
 
== January 25th, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub ==

Revision as of 14:26, 31 January 2011

February 1, 2011 - 18:00 @ LO Pub

Agenda:

  • Old Business
  • Events happening this week
  • New Business
    • Follow up on old events
      • Cupcake challenge
      • Charlie Brown Xmas Challenge
      • Room jam
    • Discussion on social networking/advertising (Martin)
      • Logo
      • Theme for blog/wiki
    • Physical location
    • Mailing list archive

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
  • 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

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