Committee meeting for Perth Artifactory 15 June 2013
- Location: Perth Artifactory
- Meeting Opened: 13.25
- Next Meeting: Saturday 2013-07-20-1300
Members present
- Present: Nick, Skot, Daniel, Brett, Jenna, Brendan
- Apologies: Anton, Peter
Previous minutes
- Jenna moves to accept, Daniel seconds, accepted.
AGENDA
- Correspondence
- Reports
- Events
- Lease
- Lotterywest
- City of Stirling
- General
Correspondence
- Current rent/Tenant Tax invoice sent&dated 20130612
Rent $2603.33 + Outgoings $575 + Mgt fee $156.20 + GST = $3667.98 For the period 20130701-20130731 , due 20130701 Plus 2012-13 variable outgoings shortfall $131.90, due now
- Rent was $2603 excluding GST (=$2863 inc.), going up 80 up to: total $3698 per month including GST. Treasury believes that this can be handled without issue.
- Skot proposes agendum for later: lease renewal.
- Skot has heard from Geoff Wyber and Anthony at Lotterywest - both forwarded to committee, both useless. So much for the fast-tracking.
- Lotterywest has gone through to the next stage.
Treasurer Report
- Current Bank Account Balance: $ 2144.86
- June rent paid
- Synergy bill paid
- $113.30 for the last skip bill
- invoices went out today.
- no anticipated problems with next month's rent.
Infrastructure Subcommittee
Membership
- Flattened membership form. Announcement sent to list. Kicks in 1/7/2013
- if there's anyone we need to chase for past bills, we need to reconcile that as we change the rates.
- we would lose a little bit from people dropping to day rates. Should we go forward?
- it makes sense and would encourage more activity..
- security issue: grace period/sponsorship, tags on equipment.
- requires notice in writing so that new members understand.
- missing membership report
- Meg Travers new member, now has Daniel's old key fob.
- Brett raises idea for nominal fee for non-member friend-of-artifactory class… $100 social event membership..
- can discuss that at AGM with as many members as possible.
- We should do a financial report at the end of this month. If the membership officers peter/ daniel/skot need help, just ask? *ACTION.
Events
- NM & Industrial Night
- gaming programming thing was great. They can do that whenever because we got snacks.
- we've been approached to host the poetry festival again. Was well-recieved.
- Artifactory has inherited 7 bins.. also cartons. Next noise maschin will have very little outgoings.
- geek haven postponed for one week.
Lease
- skot moves to accept the new lease conditions, Don walks in. All accept.
Lotterywest
- we've been put up and recommended, now begins the slow process of being ticked off by the Premier.
City of Stirling
- Planning Approval Application Lodged 2nd May 2013. Stirling City now processing, Have had comms with Geoff Wyber who is leaving CoS.
Revitalising CNC machines
- mills - we have a dead Mill, and an inoperative CNC Mill.
- need to work out what bits we need. Cnc one needs mechanical bits, The regular mill needs a new driver, which Greg(reprap) has taken on.
Ongoing 3D printer issues
- Lint-free cloth was not replaced when filament was changed, led to instant clogging.
- heater block died. Brendan will get onto that after meeting. Get two. ACTION
- Apparently the stepper motor has issues. The motor will fail after 45minutes.
- email the guy we bought it from and ask for recommendations.
GENERAL
- Do we have a certificate of incorporation? Yes. (Probably with SKoT, not Daniel) ACTION SKoT, scan it
- Has anyone seen the QR code asset stickers? No?
- get special DVI adapter for Anton's projector. ACTION BRENDAN
- brendan suggests btsync as alternative to sparkleshare that keeps everything on the computers and distributes it rather than storing on the cloud. Let's check it out.
PREVIOUS ACTION ITEMS
- ACTION: Brendan: Start a Management Software System wiki page
- not yet. Will make wiki after meeting
- ACTION 70/40 flattened membership form. Nick sending announcement to list. Kicks in 1/7/2013
- done.
ACTION SUMMARY
- Nick: get webinabox credentials from trent, also welcome back trent to artifactory membership
- SKoT: Scan Certificate of Incorporation
- Brendan: recover twitter account saying that our email has been hacked. So secure.
- Brendan: Start a Management Software System wiki page.
- Brendan: order parts for 3D printer, special DVI adapter for Anton's projector.
- Daniel/Peter: Membership/financial report at the end of the month.
- Agenda item for later: lease renewal.
- check out BTsync as sparkleshare alternative.
Meeting Closed
2pm