Eugene Maker Space Board of Directors meeting October 8th, 2020

Note: These minutes have not been approved by the BoD yet, this is a draft

Call to order

6:20 PM Attending: Ben, Karen, Beata, Piotr Also present:

Approve this agenda

Motion: Ben moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the agenda as amended.

The motion was seconded by Karen.

Motion passes, the vote was Unanimous.

Approve previous minutes

Motion: Karen moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the minutes from the September BoD meeting as amended.

The motion was seconded by Beata.

Motion passes, the vote was unanimous.

Reports

President's report

Nothing to report.

Secretary's report

Nothing to report.

Treasurer's report

All payments due for October 1st 2020 are payed. In our accounts we have the following amounts of money:

Bank: 1500.63
PayPal: 241.50
Patreon: 166.92

This results in a sum of: 1909.05, which is an increase of 371.41 from last month. Thank you Karen for depositing the money and checks.

Shop status

Still there!

Old Business/Action Item Review

Ben will find out what's up with the donations

We received checks for $130 and $200 and they were deposited

COVID-19 status review - Open Hack closure status

No new guidance from the Governor, steady state. We are low on masks, Ben will get some more.

ACTION: Ben will order more masks. ACTION: Karen will remove next two months of Friday meets on meetup.

Ben and Facebook Calendar

Recurring. In progress.

Karen will schedule bank trip with Piotr, Ben, and Beata

Unable to continue at this time due to COVID-19.

Ben will follow up with Lightburn re: non-profit license for second laser

On-going.

Ben will reach out to the membership to let them know about the laser and to coordinate to give some lessons

On-going.

Ben will write a message to the membership requesting that they do a better job cleaning up

Ben forgot. He will get on this immediately.

Metal shaper transaction followup

Met with Jeffrey's person at the shop, they signed up as a member and connected via Patreon.

New Business

Responding to messages

Karen wanted to double check to make sure nobody else hadn't responded to our webforms. She will reach out to some of the folks.

ACTION: Karen will respond to some of our recent webform contacts from outsiders.

Orion Rostock V2 delta 3D Printer

What's it need to bring to life? Beata has secured what's needed for it and will be working on it. Once it's up, he will get it tuned and working with one of the desktops and we will pursue possibly getting Octoprint installed (either on Pi hardware or one of the desktops).

ACTION: Ben will will drop off some 1.75 filament. ACTION: Karen will install a new hard drive in the 3d Printer workstation.

Patreon webhook

Ben briefed the crew about the webhook timeout situation. Possibly speed of light related, the SSL sessions are timing out.

Shark

Beata looked into the laser and the laser looked back. It has plumbing for water cooling but is not connected. Beata is talking with Laser Tom about possible experiments in introducing cooling.

Adjournment

Motion: Ben moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors adjourn.