Agenda for 08-07-2018

Chair: Vivian

Introductions

Experienced Members

Matt H is a board member, member for bloody well forever. has his hands in a lot of things, laser cutting, laser training, 3d printing, electronics, live streaming working on projects on Twitch
Mel is the Treasurer
Jody teaches welding classes and knows about the glass kiln. He does classes by request
Andrew (Lego) is the Fab Lab coordinator and is finally at a meeting

New Members & Guests

Dave is becoming a member today
Sam is also joining today and looking to get certified in the jewelry zone and on the CNC
(Sorry I missed your name -sec) is in phase two and is looking forward to becoming a member

Show and Tell

Leather Lew is making dog collars today. For dogs, and others.
Mel, Jody, Mark, others cleaned and reorganized all the storage on the mezzanine with more shelves. Yay

Old Business

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New Business

Royal Oak Film Festival Partnership

Luke Castle, Founder of Royal Starr Film Festival, held in October
He runs the film festival as part of his nonprofit Royal Starr Film Institute, and he's interested in partnership with i3Detroit
There are film maker mixers at Royal Oak Imagine Theatre, Second Tuesdays

Paul: What kinds of films? Short films? Local?
Like: Everything. Try to accept 'good' stuff. Shorts, full length films, full length animation, some local productions, and it's not just the Film Festival
Nate: What kind of partnership with i3 do you envision?
Luke: Having a makerspace behind him gives some 'maker cred', and i3 would help with the interactive component.
Kevin: As part of this you asked for donated memberships, right?
Luke: Yes. Wants to highlight and combine creativity, whether its science and technology or pretty colors.
Nate: What do you mean interactive?
Luke: Like members showing off their projects.
Kevin: There's a whole culture to the space, where you go through onboarding and learn the space, and this would sidestep all that?
Nate: In the past when we've given away memberships, it hasn't been here's a key, go nuts. It's been you coming to the space as a guest for a couple months, getting to know the space and contributing and then eventually become a paying member, and you aren't charged for the time you were here as a guest. We avoid handing out memberships.
Kevin: Thinks just handing out memberships is harmful to our community.
Luke: Two of the four are already people that have been involved in the space.
Lew: Are these four going to become an active part of the community?
Luke: In the past I have been involved, was frequently at the space most days during the day until I left for the Phillipines
Roger: So what do you want to get out of this?
Luke: I wnat to partner with you guys. And my board doesn't allow us to make partnerships without a quid pro quo
Jody: So for $2400 of dues a year, what do we get?
Luke: I want to help introduce i3's community to the larger film making community.
Sam: How many film festivals like this have you run so far?
Luke: Three, and this isn't just a film festival, there are mixers and parties and then the big film festival in October. He wants to encourage networking between makers and filmmakers at mixers because film makers need a lot of things made.
Tony: So, what do we get out of this?
Luke: I'm a marketing machine. Working on deals with other groups and trying to help them all network. I've made a lot of connections and got a lot of experience with this over the past few years, and want to bring that back here.
Nate: I've been trying to figure out what's not covered by our existing processes with getting these four people in here. In the past four years we've massively reworked and improved our scholarship process and I feel like that covers most of what's being asked for, and when it comes to the side of telling people about the space and bringing new people in as guests, we all already do that.
Luke: I want to build this festival around i3, which gets a lof of exposure.
Nate: I encourage you to apply for the scholarship.
Luke: But I'm not just looking for a scholarship, I'm looking for this to be a partnership.
Kevin: Thinks there are some problems with this, but it does align somewhat with our core mission.
Thomas: We're a community and a family and you're treating this as a business, which we aren't, which is causing some teeth gnashing. My parents did marketing, I get it, but you should embrace our community and apply for a scholarship.
Luke: I'm trying to build a festival, and trying to expand, and want to expose i3 to a larger community, and want to make i3 the core of the interactive part of the festival. i3 aligns with my values more than other groups like Tech Shop that I might approach for this.
Sam: Are you requesting the memberships for the duration of your project?
Luke: Yes, and willing to revisit it after the scholarship term ends.
Paul: How does this compare with how we partner with Maker Faire? Do we pay them a fee to show up?
Roger: We bring projects and stuff there, fill the tent, they give us free admission. We don't pay them anything.
Nate: Still don't understand how this falls outside our current scholarship process.
Luke: Our organization's bylaws requires all relationships like this be a partnership that's a quid pro quo.
Luke: We work with other organizations and we pass down benefits to them throughout the partnership. We could flush out the media lab, which I started, I have a large community of film makers.
Nate: Move to table
Tabled.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, August 9: 7:30-9:30PM: Laser Training with Matt; Sign up on Eventbrite.com (link in calendar entry)
Friday, August 10: (time TBD): Fire Marshal visit
Saturday, August 11: 1-4PM: Detroit Autonomous Vehicle Meetup; 2-3PM: Laser Maintenance Training; 4-6PM: Stitch 'N' B!t¢ħ
Sunday, August 12: 2-3PM: Sewing Table Training; 3-8PM: Sunday Sew It All
Monday, August 13: 7-9PM: Fusion 360 for Laser Cutting class; Sign up on Eventbright (URL in calendar entry)
Tuesday, August 14: 7:30-?: Board Meeting
Wednesday, August 15: 7-9PM: (Semi-)Monthly Sew Up
Thursday, August 16: 7-?PM: Game Night
Saturday, August 18: 1-4PM: Eastern Michigan Python Users Group Meetup
Tuesday, August 21: Next Member Meeting
Now - August 22: Nominations for board elections are now open. The election will be at the first member meeting of September.

Zone updates

Craft Room

Sewing

A better iron that is used in professional sewing shops can be had for $105. Check the sewing channel in slack for specifics about it. As craft room does not have budget for the purchase, we are seeking member support and will ask the board if the remainder could be covered. Donations to the cause have started to come in.

Electronics Lab

Thanks to everyone who's been using the lab and keeping it clean.

Jewelry Zone

Jewelry zone is starting up some classes in September

Laser Zone

Upcoming laser maintenance training:
- Saturday 8/11 @ 2pm
- Thursday 8/16 @ 7pm
I've had a lot of positive feedback from people using Bumblebee, but also heard about a couple smaller bugs still happening. So I'd still avoid running jobs you can't afford to screw up.

Leather Loft

Leather zone is starting up some classes in September.

Welding Zone

Thanks to everyone who's been cleaning up. And if you're interested in a class, let Jody know.

SIGs

i3Detroit/UofM

Vivian has started a special interest group, and apologizes if everyone wasn't aware of it or doesn't know what it's about.
Working with the University of Michigan School of Social Work
There's info about in the SIG section of the wiki here: U of M SSW Project. It's not complete but it should still give a lot of information.

COWBELL

Broom Party

Meeting Metrics

Time completed: 8:18
Attendees: 35

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Attendance

David H
Martin P
Steve B
Mirna A
Ken G
Aundy L
Matt C
Samantha B
David M
Roger S
Gary M
Paul A
Mike F
Steve N
Martee H
Paul L
Lewis D
Sam L
Andrew M
Nate B
Sean W
Emily A
Jafet P
Ruth Ann S
Ross S
Dave S
Kristin Z
Matt W
Jody R
Tony S
Matt H
Thomas T
Mel G
Vivian S
Jan H

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