Board Present

Name

Position

Present

Doug Emes

President

Yes

Hannah Garbacz

Vice President

Yes

Olivia Snyder

Secretary

Yes

Paul Ingendorf

Floating Board

Yes

Michael Chow

Floating Board

No

Officers Present

Yes (

Name

Position

Present

Paul Ingendorf

CTO

Yes

Tim Givens

Facilities Coordinator

Yes (remote)

Theo Foster

CLO

No


Leadership Attending

3/7


Minutes

Time

Item

Description

8:01PMeeting StartDoug makes a terrible Cinco de Mayo pun.
8:02PHealth and SafetyMeh we're fine. Stay TF out if you sick.
8:02PFinancialsWE NEED A TREASURER. RN we have $26, 142.15 in the bank. :|
8:04PWe have events.Tuesdays are Fiber Nights! Fridays are Game Nights! Start your own event! Contact the Education Coordinator.
8:05PEPICS UpdateNext Thursday is live presentation. Please see Doug's slide for links and info.
8:06PLeadership SpotlightFiber Area Host spotlight! Check out her nifty stuff on Doug's slide. She is very talented~
8:07PLindsayDiscussion of her archery skills, she has a fiber arts degree from UNT. She teachers private archery lessons in addition to showing up for Fiber Nights here at TheLab!
8:10PELECTIONSAre you a member in good standing for 3 concecutive months? YOU COULD RUN! We need volunteer Leadership!
8:13PCameron

EPICS update - A calendar exists! The system will not be production-ready by the end of the semester, but a lot of the architecture is in-place. A create-an-event page is working, a JSON API is up, and an RSS feed is being developed. More "pretty" stuff will be available in the future.

Many of the students are freshmen at UTD, so they are progressing well.

8:16PDougEPICS - Makerspace in a Box project is an ongoing partnership with UTD, the end-goal is to make it available to other makerspaces for free.
8:19POliviaNotes that the Rockwall Makerspace was VERYinterested in the possibility of this system.
8:20PElectionsMUST needs Board Members.
8:23PDougDoug opines about what Leadership does.
8:26PDougDoug waxes annoyed regarding WHMCS.
8:27PRichardson 150thRichardson is celebrating is 150th year as a city! We would like TheLab to be involved somehow. Does Membership have any ideas of how to be involved? We would like ideas!
8:30PHannah

1 - She is not re-running for VP, she would love to in the future when personal matters aren't tugging. She is happy to answer questions about being VP.

2 - Rockwall Makerspace visited us! They are interested in reciprocal membership possibilities.


DougDoug notes that some items we cannot use some equipment recieved from Dallas Makerspace. The possibility of a trade of equipment was proposed with Rockwall Makerspace.
8:40PGeneral Discussion

Olivia - keeping track of reciprocal stuff would be a PITA

Mic - Nothing to add.

8:46PMeeting Close

Election reminder, we need officers~


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