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Plenum 20100406

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(See Plenum)

 

Agenda

 

8:30PM Open Meeting

  • Adopt previous minutes 
  • Schedule next meeting (likely 4-May)
  • Financial report
  • Cleanliness: Can we improve on the current situation?
  • Projects updates
  • General update on any interesting projects/happenings/ideas in HSG.

9:30PM Close Meeting

 

Minutes

 

Meeting opened: 8:38

 

Present: Roland, Tamas, John Young, Stephan, Chris

 

  • Previous minutes adopted (John Young abstained)
  • Next meeting: 4-May-2010 8:30PM. Agenda to include a current financial report.
  • No financial report was available at the meeting. Discussion deferred. It may make sense to schedule a meeting before 4-May when/of a report is available.
  • Stephan raised a concern about the camera equipped robot making him uncomfortable. He indicated that he simply wanted it to be a matter of record and was willing to drop it if no-one else was concerned. The conversation covered several angles, some highlights:
    • An expectation of privacy anywhere in the space or of a silent environment in the main  room is probably unreasonable. HackerspaceSG is not a serviced office.
    • There are at least two different issues: the camera and the 
  • March 2010: spent ~$4500 (all recurring), collected ~$4000 in subscriptions (budgeted $1700 more!), ~$1000 in donations
  • Roland to pursue Justin and Ruiwen on membership status (who's not renewing, what can we do about it, etc.)
  • Survey membership: how to improve benefits or what's good about being part of HSG (Bernard) what are the key features that would attract payment of 64/128 membership ask hangers-on who aren't currently joining (what would it take)
  • On "the phone incident": the phones have both been returned, arrangements to purchase new magnetic balls and be reimbursed have been agreed and are in progress.
  • Things to try to improve HSG:
    • regular member-only classes (in lab or library)
    • hackfests (paid), competitions, etc. (devise run events of this type) "monsoon of code"

Meeting closed:  10:04PM

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