Vancouver Hack Space

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!!!