Minutes for 11-07-2023

Meeting Location

Meeting was Called to Order At: 7:30P

https://i3detroit.org/hangout and at i3Detroit

Hybrid Meeting Etiquette

Be excellent.
Attendance and voting can be found in the #meetings slack channel.
Please show up early if you are concerned about your audio.
If there is no one waiting to speak feel free to do so at the next opportunity.
If there is someone waiting to speak, please say that you are raising your hand in the google call chat. (This will be demonstrated)
Please refrain from other side conversations, these can be distracting for the rest of the meeting and make it difficult for the chair to keep track of what's going on.
If you're in the space remember that having a single person speaking at a time is helpful for those attending online.

Introductions

Experienced Members

Members introduce themselves and speak about their passions and interests.

New Members & Guests

Members introduce themselves and speak about what they're interested in.

Show and Tell

AnnMarie - made an engagement ring
FrankA - led base with engraved laser acrylic on wolverine

Old Business

none

Outstanding Action Items

New Business

Upcoming Events

Volunteers to host upcoming Friday tours.
Up coming Events Calendar

A-Side HVAC Repair

HVAC system for A-side office: Repair Discussion (Hans)
Background: Currently, the HVAC system for A-side offices is not working. This means that there is no gas-powered heat (along with fresh air) for the elab, media zone, classroom, and craft room. As Winter's colder temperatures arrive, if our heating system is not repaired, this means expensive electric space heaters will likely be used as substitute. Some members have investigated and believe that just a wiring harness will need to be replaced. We should try to figure out how to plan for this to be fixed before colder temperatures arrive. Placing this as a meeting agenda topic for a brief discussion, 5 to 10-minute discussion, so that we can discuss coordinating repair and get volunteers to support as needed.

(Secretary's Note: This was fixed voluntarily by DaveS. Hans gifted him chocolates.)

Layout Proposal from Jewelry

[Images Unreceived]

Camera Review was done on 2023-10-27

DaveS: The requested time was 2023-10-26 6P - 7P. Safety review committee should be instantiated; also a camera tuning committee.

Zone updates

Automotive Zone

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Bicycle Shop

n/a

Ceramics Zone

none

Classroom

none

CNC Zone

none

Commons Area

none

Craft Room

none

Electronics Lab

none

Fab Lab

none

Glass Zone

none

Infrastructure

none

Injection Molding

none

Jewelry Zone

none

Kitchen Zone

n/a

Laser Zone

n/a

Leather Loft

n/a

Machine Shop

n/a

Media Lab

n/a

Sewing Zone

The plan is for Lew to attempt fixing the timing of the industrial Singer and show interested members how to fix it, paving the way for more people to become trainers and repair folk on the industrial machines.
Greg Good and Jen Nagle remain trainers on the embroidery machine, with possible others joining the team in the future.

We have some new additions to our pattern library. If you're going to use a pattern, please trace it off for yourself to make your adjustments etc, preserving the original for others. Also, pattern tissue can be ironed and folded and ironed, if you're having trouble with getting it back in the envelope.

Please ask for help if needed. Do not ball it up and leave it for others.

Buildout report is in the space projects section.

Tool Crib

none

Vinyl Zone

none

Welding Zone

none

Wiki

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Wood Shop

none

Space Project Updates

Expansion: sewing room - We had a solid crew on Sunday, the most at any time, so far. Thus we had several projects going on simultaneously and got quite a bit done: Installed conduit and boxes for network cables. Covered and insulated old window opening to paint shop. Added more drywall to west inside wall. Added more fire compartment to east wall. The next building day scheduled is Sunday November 12. I cancelled this Wednesday as several builders will be unavailable. Looking ahead, Sewing Room is waiting on a new breaker box, to do more wiring and finish the west drywall.

Expansion: lounge -- couches have shown up. In order to do something with them, should their placement be set in the space designated for the lounge? At any rate, it needs one or more volunteers to take the floor plan and translate it into yellow floor markings (seen in every other zone without walls) so there's a boundary of the lounge and what's in it. And what's in it should be marked as part of lounge. It might be silly to mark a couch with green tape.... until you realize the graveyard is next door. We have to guard lounge from becoming an extension of the graveyard. After the floor marks, anything in the area that is not lounge, needs a new spot.

So bottom line, lounge can probably exist, with the caveat that some of it may need to shift periodically as construction needs of craft room dictate.

Expansion: ELab -- do we have an update on the furnace relocation?
- There are plans.

SIGs

MotorSports

n/a

HAM

n/a

Letterpress

n/a

Robotics

n/a

Combat Robotics

n/a

Cosplay

n/a

i3TV

n/a

COWBELL

MattH rang the bell.

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Meeting Metrics

Time completed: 8:29P

Attendance

FrankA

TimC

NateB

AnnMarieM

NickM

DavidH

Steve

WillC

ScottB

FrankA

MattH

FlorianD