Community meeting for those who have volunteered to help make decisions in the Hackerspace.

Volunteers (so far)

Attendees

• Jeffrey
• Jason
• Alexandra
• Roland
• Neng Giin
• Carl
• Stephan
• Bernard

• Meng
• Luther
• Ruiwen

Agenda

• assemble ikea table
• State of the Lah.
  • Where are we, what have we done, where are we going?
  • insurance status (PAID)
    • $258.75 / year - Great Eastern
  • electricity status
  • internet connectivity status
    • singtel broadband
    • what to do about the new laptop
    • open mesh coverage at area restaurants, etc
  • budget review
    • opex review
    • capex review: dishwasher, fridge; new, larger, fridge?
    • more furniture for the library - a sofa or two?
  • housekeeping review
    • weekly cleaner?  toilet cleaning?  shower usability?  water heater?
      • Ruiwen to ask for prices
  • membership pledge conversion review
  • presentation infrastructure
    • Blinds for screen. Mounting projector
  • door access
• Door access - Roland , Justin , Luther to collect quotes
  • Get 3 quotes and pick
  • PIN access system first
    • More systems can be tacked on later
  • Specs
    • PIN access
    • Unique per user PIN
    • At least 6 digit PINs
    • Logging
    • Hackability
      • Add / remove users
      • Connectability to a computer
    • Attached to UPS
• Events - Justin
  • Approval / Rejection Policy
  • private events - ida roundtable; how to manage privacy?
    • Book events ahead of time, same one week notice period
    • Private events are chargeable $100/hr
    • Other members are excluded from venue for period of private event
    • Community user group meetups are NOT private events
  • rental fee (see above)
  • charging for drinks
    • See the donation glass
  • meng is fretful about ice
• Cash - Neng Giin
  • Buy a cash box for donations
  • Keep a specified amount handy as petty cash - 
  • Treasurer to be in charge of the cash
• Members
  • Space allocation
    • We rely on members' honour to keep to their membership privilege tier
  • "Corporate" members
    • People join as individuals, not as part of companies, and are hence subjected to the same community policy as everyone else.
  • Fees
    • Trial members only get one trial
      • They are unable to subscribe to a trial membership again once they stop their existing trial membership. e.g. trial, stop, trial.
    • Paypal will charge a fee either way if you pay via credit card
      • Make it clear on the wiki
    • Otherwise, let's use bank transfer as the most convenient way forward
      • Individual banks might charge exchange/transactional fee. Members to verify this on their own.
  • Approval / Rejection Policy
    • How do we deal with undesirables?
      • Committee will discuss and invite him in for a quiet chat
    • Approval / Joining
      • Can someone join if he doesn't know an existing paid member?
      • We shouldn't exclude too early in the game.
      • New members will need 2 existing member sponsors to join
      • Sponsors reserve the right to retract their sponsorship
        • New fields for sponsors on the membership forms
      • Probationary period of one month
  • special memberships
    • yanyun animation in the lab - Youth rate
    • IV four desks (see above on "Corporate members")
    • corporate members (see above on "Corporate members")
  • Membership effective date 
• Possibilities
  • Tourist tours of HackerspaceSG to up utilisation during the day
  • Fund raisers
    • Selling tickets for movie nights, etc.
    • Christmas party? - Carl
• Who does what?
• future events
  • christmas party