Members Meeting Minutes
Date: 01 February 2019, 19:30
Location: Hackspace Manchester, Wellington House
Chair: Greg
Minutes: Cone
Approval of previous minutes
Approved. No voting twice.
Team updates
Board
Filed annual accounts, on christmas day as “we didn’t have anything better to do”
Discussion on how people do christmas including opening presents.
Last year there was £24,839 turnover, copies are available both from board and on Companies House.
Board meeting on Tuesday
Procurement
Rossy has refilled snackspace.
Gloves stocked up on.
Sharpies bought.
Infrastructure
Still working. Need to look at inner door lock now new units are installed.
Looking at replacing wiki, so that there is no wiki at all and thus and no arguments about the wiki.
Membership
There has been a board review of CoC and how to get people to buy into space.
At the moment people probably don’t read CoC, and it’s not suitable for space in few ways, board is discussing it.
Now it’s a Citizen Hacman commitment. You are not just a member, the space is a community and everyone is a citizen and as such must play a part.
We want to attract people who care.
- Rule 0 - still applies.
- Rule 1 - be excellent and follow citizen agreement.
- Rule 2 - tidy up.
- Rule 3 - appreciate the space (housekeeping, ensuring you follow access control protocols, not leaving doors open etc.)
- Rule 4 - no obligation, on you to be a member and stay forever, or on space to provide equipment or fix, or train.
The CoC is there to help the board and to point people to, whereas this new commitment is helping everyone understand the community rules.
Note: all members must claim their box via member system.
Discussion on what can be stored.
Shelves 23/24 are for big material sheets.
Plastic drainpipes in metalworking for bar metal.
If your box is missing, it’ll be outside in the corridor. Put it back and claim in member system.
Outreach
Makefest MCR 24/25 May, come take part. Fill in the doodle! (https://doodle.com/poll/axnpygga9n65te8e )
Idea is creating a laser engraver and let people design a design which gets engraved on a small acrylic shape. Decoration allowed.
Not looking to do Stoke makefest, on a Wednesday daytime right after Manchester makefest.
Attracting people through Facebook and meetup.
Suggestion of having a sheet by the door where people can mark where they found the space from. Discussion on implementations, including the wonderfully ridiculous.
H&S
Equipment inductions: we have a Moodle installed! It’s a training platform, or VLE (shortly followed by a wretching noise)
Training materials go on Moodle allowing the training can be streamlined. Some inductions can be done totally online, others in parts.
Vote to call Moodle “open greg”. Greg vetoed the vote. In all seriousness, no.
In Moodle there can be tests to make sure people have read instructions, and outputs a Pass / Fail.
Can learn online and ask for someone to just check you’re doing it right.
Moodle is going to be used for general hacman inductions, and will require completion before their fob will work. How to guides can be on there.
20.12 Adjourned for food
20.49 resumes
Laser team
Pew pew. It’s alive.
3D print
Working except bed needs releveling. Below one still being worked on
Wood team
no report
Metal
Lathe has been inoperative for some time. Greg is currently implementing new access control system for it.
Emails starting to go out for lathe training, people trained on the old system need to re-apply, will retain access for 12 months to re-arrange training and assessment.
Training in three parts: first part is a talk (do not google degloving injury etc, there’s a lot more to learn than a short amount of training), then gain experience, or have experience from outside sources, then formally assessed. People can then use it.
Electronics
Ben got new wire, Mark is formally thanked for hacking the wire rack.
Craft team
no report
Agenda items
New space!
Rossy displays images of viewed place today. Lease expires in April, not many available options.
New space is 10 mins from new islington tram stop, 10 mins from city centre, in Ancoats opposite beehive mill coworking space. 2700 sqft, instead of 1500 sqft.
Bigger space for money, 5 year minimum lease, ground floor with loading bay, accessible, gas heating available, sealed concrete epoxy floor - less dust.
General positive mood about the new space. Discussion on how we could use it. Discussion on using extra space for a classroom which could be rented out. Available from April.
Board meeting on Tuesday to discuss.
Vote for investigating further: Unanimous. Rossy jumps.
AOB
21.18! Where’s my cake?
Meeting Ends.