Planning Meeting - January 18, 2010

From Workshop 88

1/18/2010 - Workshop 88 Meeting

Present:

Russ

Aly

Chris

Fredo

Jensen

Jayson

Chris

Bill

Hackathon

Get more kits for power supplies.

Projects for next Hackathon

Chris - Looking for someone with experience with the Arduino.

Get an informal tutorial on an Arduino

What people want to teach. Have a pool of people together who will be able to teach classes.

Fredo - Homebrewing class. Have two batches - one that's ready, and one that we can start working on

Membership

Russ - Location search. Look for 400-500 sq. ft to start w/ our current member numbers. Need another 8 members or so before we get space.

Aly - post on forum to start soliciting interest in gaining membership.

Cheat sheet on explaining who/what we are

Russ - Cheat sheet: how do we succinctly explain who we are

Fredo and Aly - this is something we can work on

--We're willing to get a smaller space and make some concessions just to get a space to start. (discussion on finding a space)

March is when we get a space.

Full member goal for March: 18

Workshop 88 Event for publicity

Third week in February, Thursday night (the 18th)

Hotshots or Avalanche 2 or Fry's in Downer's Grove, American Science and Surplus

Chris is going to talk to Fry's

Where can we get a place for the event

Have projects ready for it to show off

This will be a meet and greet

Hackathon II

February 6th

Chris - What kind of cool projects do we want to have for this. Have an agenda?

Discussion about weather balloon

Power Wheels Series?

Launch Party

March 11th or 25th

By the next meeting we will accomplish:

Fredo

Mission, logo, style sheet, flyer proposals, tshirts

Chris

Bar locations figured out, think of other projects for Hackathon

Russ

Also work on projects for Hackathon

Jay

Space balloon event set up