[Weekly Meeting] 2025-07-22

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Hello all,

Thank you for attending our weekly meeting.


2025-07-22 Meeting Minutes

Call to order: 21:00 by Kevin (Sam)


Attendees

  • Brandon L

  • Kevin “Sam” Ya.

  • Richard L

Past Events

  • Open Project Night (18:30, Fri 2025-07-18)

    • Repair Cafe, no repairs???

    • Quiet

  • July Event: A water event would make sense this summer (2025-07-19, 18:00)

    • Facebook has events that are discoverable

    • Meetup did not yield any visitors

    • Strengths:

      • Worked well under pressure

      • Implicit Task Delegation

    • Weaknesses:

      • Could be more prepared to actually have the event

      • 100 balloons did not provide a lot of throwing pleasure

      • Food Coloring not opaque enough

      • Advertisement

    • Would we do it again?  Maybe, leave it in the library.

      • Can implement additional water balloon technologies

      • Cannon

 

Upcoming Events


  • Open Project Night (temporarily called Repair Cafe. Monthly event) (18:30, Fri 2025-07-15)

    • Brandon is hosting

      • Prep the AV cart and projector

  • OC Maker Faire 2025 (09/13 - 09/14)

    • We are registered

    • Logistics

      • 10 x 10 booth

      • Tables. 

      • https://dl.makerfaireoc.com/infodeck.pdf

      • Prusa XL

      • Banner (used banner is a little worn)

      • Business card, flyers, marketing materials, etc

      • Portable Power

      • Cables (USB-C, Power)

      • Demo Projects

      • Chairs

  • Annual meeting (later half of September)

    • Need at least 30 days of notice (bylaws 6.5)

      • (later half of August)

      • Poll scheduling to be sent out

    • Notice from G. Calendar + Discord + E-mail 

  • August Event (tentative 8/16 @ 5pm)

    • Remote controlled excavators

    • Car Maintenance Hangout / Meetup 

      • Oil Change Class

      • Change a tire

  • Regular Actual Social Hangouts (like a Movie Night)

    • Play Monopoly

    • Eat a salad

    • Play Twister

    • Play a movie

    • Play a TV series (Battlestar Galactica)

    • Board Game Night

Section Lead Updates

  • Brandon L. (CTO)

    • Sterlite Drawer Replacement

      • Still sanding and beating the RAST


  • QR Codes Created / in Drive

  • CR-10 S having heat creep issues

  • The shop motion sensor is confirmed to hallucinate.


  • Hong (Treasurer)

    • Insurance agreement came in

    • Pilot light extinguished

Discussion Items

  • Marketing Kiosk

    • Kiosk in kitchen - by corkboard

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

    • Tray of candy

    • Front Bay area on wall (the HAL wall)

    • Donation QR Code, Brochure, Flyers, Takeable Item, Donation Jar

    • Discord & Social Media Links

    • 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

  • 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.


  • Solar Roof Panels 

    • Bend conduit

    • Move panels to roof

  • May want to make board game nights official on Fridays

    • Perry to message through insta

  • Formalize day use

    • Form for day use

    • Formalize <18

    • Signature form for <18 

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




Motion to end: Richard, Brandon

Meeting ended: 21:43  by Kevin Ya. (Sam)


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