Hackerspace Minutes 19/01/10, 8pm
Present: CJ, Tom, Bernard, Chris, Luther, Roland, Alvin
- Minutes of last meeting adopted.
- Next meetng 26 Jan, 8.30pm.
- Cash flow projections not available - pushed to next meeting
- AP: Luther to chase Neng Giin for projection
- Appointment of secretary
- Directors discussed and agreed to appointed Kelvin Quee
- Bernard asks if the Secretary needs to be a hackerspace member
- AP: Roland to check if Kelvin is qualified as company secretary
- Membership signups
- Ruiwen is in charge of memberships, currently 33 members signed up (paid).
- Events approval policy
- Agreed that we need to discuss this in detail, so Roland will put up proposal on the list and arrange for discussion.
- Entry fees for events
- Proposal for entrance fee, and first-drink - we don't have licence for this.
- Don't want events to be taking away revenue from drink donations
- Agreed that:
- Hackerspace revenue is solely from drink donations
- Events cannot run their own bar - bigger issues of not having F&B licences.
- Inviting member responsible for "reminding" revenue generating events that we are non-profit to encourage a suitable donation.
- suggestion of "suitable" donation be 20% of revenue
- Sponsoring member must be present and be responsible
- Cash handling - deferred
- Electricity supply
- Need to locate electrician and get a quote before bringing up discussions with landlord, Meng looking into this
- move master switch upstairs and put in ELCB/RCB
- - Internet
- Attempting to convince OpenNet to give us free 100Mbit fee
- Or else we'll just pay for $200/month for our current Singtel plan.
- Makerbot
- Agreed at last meeting that we can approve makerbot, Roland is looking at cost/logistics.
Meeting closed 8.30pm
Comments (2)
Roland Turner said
at 9:43 am on Jan 20, 2010
> Hackerspace revenue is solely from drink donations
My recollection is a comment that Hackerspace views the drinks-related donations as am important revenue stream, not the sole one.
> Or else we'll just pay for $200/month for our current Singtel plan.
Meng's current expectation is that we'll continue paying for this anyway (a) because involving senior Singtel staff over a $1200/year sponsorship is a bit of a waste of time and (b) we anticipate the possibility that the 100Mb/s connection will be prior to commercial availability and therefore on a no-SLA basis, so we should be retaining a commercially-provisioned backup anyway.
alvin said
at 7:14 pm on Jan 20, 2010
>> Hackerspace revenue is solely from drink donations
>My recollection is a comment that Hackerspace views the drinks-related donations as am important revenue stream, not the sole one.
Yes, you're right. Actually the discussion was that hackerspace event revenue solely was from drinks-related donations, not (specifically) from charging event fees nor selling refreshments, although we later discussed under "entry fees for events" that the sponsoring member should encourage a cash donation of around 20%.
No mention was made of alternative sources of overall hackerspace revenue (eg. membership fees) during the meeting.
Due to the progressive nature of the discussion (first drinks-only for events, then donation-encouraged for events) I'm not going to make any changes to the minutes above but if this needs further clarification beyond these comments I propose we correct the statement to read: "hackerspace event revenue is solely from drink donations" and let the minutes reflect the progression of the dialogue.
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