Sept 2, 2008
Vancouver Hackerspace Meeting Agenda \ Minutes
  * Open First Beer
    * This went over well.
  * Introduction
  * Show and Tell - Arduino with Joe
    * Joe introduced the group to the Arduino hardware and some of the available expansion shields.
    * Ryan showed some circuit bent toys.
    * Luke brought a couple of XO laptops in and talked about some projects he was working on with them.
  * [[Access]] to Emma's Hackery (VHS members)
    * Many options were discussed for controlling access to the space. See ongoing discussion about [[Access]]
      * Rene and Shane agreed to try to source a Magnetic Strip lock. 
      * Dave (landlord) said that he would cover the cost of the lock as long as the price was reasonable.
    * Current keyholders will be Shane, Joe and Jeff.
    * Group settled tentatively to implement lock on September 20th or 21st.
    * Further discussion decided for next meeting September 9th.
  * Emma's Hackery & VHS [[Principles]] of Unity?
    * This topic was discussed at some length.
    * Shane drafted principles since the last meeting. Some additions were made.
    * This will be an evolving topic.
  * Media Policy
    * We decided that we would be open to the media in the future.
    * Currently we don't really have anything to tell them.
  * Openness
    * This generated a lot of discussion.
    * As a basic summary, 
      * Projects will be considered public unless explicitly private.
      * All business related to personal members, financial issues and non-project related discussions are considered private unless explicitly public.
  * Website/Domain (hackerspace.ca/hackspace.ca)
  * Lockers
    * Joe will look into finding lockers for the space.
    * Rene said that he could take care of getting the lockers to the space.
  * Accessibility/Sliding Scale
    * Tentatively it was decided to build our core members and infrastructure first. We will discuss the sliding scale at a future meeting.
  * Event Planning for September
    * FU Night - Maybe next month once we have some projects and some infrastructure.
    * Microcontroller Study Group - First session September 9th.
    * [[Movie Night]]
    * Beer Drinking Night
    * RepRap Party Night
  * PARTAY!!!