Minutes:February 13, 2008

Minutes:February 13, 2008
Date	February 13, 2008
Attendees	Eric Skiff Bre Pettis George Shammas Zach Smith Nick Bilton Pat Gallagher Raphael Abrams Diana Eng
Location	NYCResistor
Summary	Organizational meeting
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• Insurance Report
  • Voted yes on $2250 insurance policy for 3-6 mil (no operators insurance, recommended by insurance agent)
• Key report. Everyone paid $20 for their keys
• Membership timeline
  • Next week, if core members have friends they want to invite, we go into private beta
  • Those people have to have some sort of kung fu (not necc tech/hardware), willing to share, can't be creepy to girls
  • Once those people are in, we chill out for 1-2 months or so, then open it up to letting them invite people in
  • At that point, core members slide back into being normal members
    • invite discussion going out via email
  • Have to live in NYC
  • Members in absentia
    • Jens is like this, he's really excited for us
    • If people want to support us and give advice, that's cool
    • Category for patron members?
      • Case by case basis
  • Bring friends you want to invite next week!
• Furniture move in report
  • Zack has a van full, moving in saturday at noon
  • Party after?
• Treasurer report
  • We have 2,300, more coming from clipmarks this month
• Wiki Report - The wiki is awesome. New form for meeting minutes is great, logo at top left
• Curtain report
  • Diana has bolts of fabric, but it has to get here, and she has to sneak it out
  • Need to think about the curtain track. Lets just start with the one curtain dividing the big space into 2 at the elbow.
  • Raphael is bringing a whiteboard
  • Eric brought some junky black fabric, helps with noise
• IRC report
  • quick demo. we're #NYCResistor on irc.freenode.net
• Jabber
  • you can get an account on chat.nycresistor.com
  • IM george to get set up
• Education
  • Raphael put up a big list of classes on the wiki
  • Raphael will organize classes to fill in gaps and work out redundancies, and scheduling, etc
  • Please don't edit Raphael's section or anyone else's section
    • Just write proposals like he did, in your own section
  • General behavior rules around classes
    • the other person that's allowed to interact with the class is the teacher, it can break flow, so PLEASE don't chime in
    • If you're the teacher, don't be late. Be there an hour ahead.
  • Price per class per student-hour set at $25
    • Split is 50/50 teacher space
    • Lab fee should be added on on top of that
    • Standard cut for a teacher is $20 an hour, our cut is GREAT compared to that!
• Space layout
  • Raphael showed his sketchup space layout, we all generally liked it, but had to rework the loft a bit, by lowering the righthand side to fit a human on the top.
• Internets
  • Bring in quotes, we'll vote. Do we need static IPs?
• Upstairs neighbors?
  • Possibly 9th floor neighbors! :) Fun!