[Weekly meeting] 2025-10-07

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Oct 8, 2025, 12:21:00 AMOct 8
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Hello all,

Thank you for attending our weekly meeting.  As always, our meeting minutes are available through this link and the body of this email: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ap_8KcBdrz4zdzyiy9dLzQHJnOlIlhvtIqcCEp_D3r4 

2025-10-07 Meeting Minutes

Call to order: 20:35


Attendees

  • Ben

  • Kevin

  • Hong

  • Brandon

  • JJ

Past Events

  • Open Project Night (18:30, Fri 2025-10-04)

    • Played Board Games

      • +1 friend to the space showed up

      • Shadow hunter fun game

    • Richard was working on a project

  • Curator Hours

    • 2 members showed up regularly

    • JJ is on generation 7 of the cycloidal drive

  • Ontario Makercon (Sat, 2025-10-04 13:00 - 16:00)

    • What:

      • Generally the same things happened since last time

      • We could have more eye-candy 🍭👀

    • Who (is going):

      • Brandon (late)

      • Hong

      • Kevin

      • Ben

    • Lessons Learned:

      • Bug spray?

      • Apply for a grant using this as community engagement

        • Could make custom robots with the grant money

Upcoming Events

  • Quick Reminder to “seed” our meetup events: you will be there anway.

  • Open House Party (18:00, Sat 2025-10-11)

    • Brandon is hosting

    • Could be a board game night

  • Open Project Night & Board Game Night (18:30, Fri 2025-10-10)

    • Brandon is hosting

    • Could be a board game night

  • Maybe we can find another “touching grass” event in October

    • No haunted cemetery touching.

    • Could hike the trail next to Rose Hills

    • When?

      • A Sunday / 19th?

      • A poll to be sent

Section Lead Updates

  • Brandon L. (CTO)

    • CTO

      • PR’s already submitted

        • To test on local sandbox

      • Perry has access to PROD

    • 3d printing 

      • Printing SRT90 for Gabriel

      • (Kevin tba) Could be printing low-poly bulbasaurs the size of a persimmon

    • Google Accounts

      • Perry has access to social media email

      • Webdev email to be figured out… … … 

  • Perry (Social Media & Webmaster)

    • October 10 - 20, somebody else needs to post the social media

    • Meetup events to be hosted from our member accounts under the organization

    • Perry is formally declared the webmaster.

  • Hong (Treasurer)

    • Financial report soon

    • To brainstorm for grant

  • Ben (Vice President)

    • Board Game Night either Friday or Saturday

    • To post on insta during October 10 to 20th

Discussion Items

  • Discord

    • Do we want to enable “community” on discord?

      • Probably not.

      • Will be available through the public discord search engine

      • Need to do more work to set up the server

    • Who is everybody on discord?

      • To keep a spreadsheet on google drive

  • Shelf Clearing (for board games)

    • One shelf is dedicated to first-level purging for stuff on tables

    • We will be dedicating one shelf to board games

  • Marketing Kiosk

    • Marketing Shelf where corkboard is

    • “Takeable Item” for market (fidget toy, maglab logo with QR)

    • Tray of candy

    • Front Bay area on wall (the HAL wall)

    • Brochure, Flyers, Takeable Item, Donation Jar

    • BUSINESS CARDS!!!

    • Flyer

    • Pictures of past events, groups (lunar rover, repair cafe, etc), and projects

    • Toolbox style portable marketing kiosk

    • Tried to find one from offerup

    • Beginnings of a marketing kiosk

      • Maybe should be nicer than a cardboard box 

  • Print Queueing 

    • Could implement remote printer monitoring.

    • Kevin to implement camera for the XL.

  • Harvest leather from couches. Richard will do a leather workshop if there is supplies.

  • Formalize day use

    • Form for day use

    • Formalize <18

    • Signature form for <18

      • Need guardian signing on-site 

    • Requirements for day-use, day-use handoff policy

    • Responsibility in terms of space belong to the keyed member

  • You can still submit maglab b-roll.

  • Meeting thumbnail

    • Guy at desk should be using a tool too.

    • Brandon is still working on it

  • We can seek grants again

    • LA County Grant takes too long to fill out before the October 1 deadline

    • Walmart Spark Good Local Grant (October 15)

    • Some grants may fit within current projects

    • Line following robot for both class work and event use

    • Welding classes / welding supplies

    • Solar home workshop


Motion to end: Brandon, Ben

Meeting ended: 21:18


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