Hack Your Hackerspace meeting notes

[Jay McGavren]

We had a Hack Your Hackerspace!

Congratulations to our newest cardholder, James Kehoe!

Saturday,Jul 25, 2026

Members in attendance: 9

Card members present: 6

Board Members: 3

Quorum: 8

Cleaning

Bathroom - Jay 

Sweep - Andre

Kitchen - Landon

Mopping -  James

Trash - Luis

Windows - Shane

Tables - Robin

Lost and Found - Eric

Old Business 

• Printer upgrade being installed by Antonio

New Business

• #public-board channel started on Slack so anyone can talk to board (about things that don't need to be private). E.g. "Have the bylaws been updated for this passed proposal?"

  • We still have #operations 

• Keep eve...@heatsynclabs.org the same as it has been (for Google Calendar updates etc.)

• Play-with-servers workshop in the works

• Vote on card access for James Kehoe

  • Nominated by Landon

  • Vote

    • 6 in favor

    • 0 opposed

    • 0 abstain

Upcoming Events

• Eric O. running Design Day once a month on Sunday

• Training class for lathe this Sunday, mill next Sunday

  • 2 participants per class, there isn't a lot of physical space in the shop

Station Reports

• 3d Printers - Running good, new lighting being added, Ouch getting multi-filament upgrade. Proposal for filament restock passed but prices not great rn due to tariffs

• Display windows -  

• Wood shop -  It's getting good use. Please clean equipment when done!

• Laser - Reports of a transient error on LaserCut software but it's good now. Certification class was yesterday. Eric O planning design classes for laser cutting.

• Metal shop - Classes. New carbide tooling in place. Misplaced items back in place.

• Sewing - no champion present

• Vinyl - no champion present

• Electronics -  no champion present

• Microcontrollers - Austin K cleaned up table a lot!

• Welding - Landon says Austin K planning to take this over, may teach classes. Gas needs refilling.

• Jewelry - no champion present

• Art - no champion present