(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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