Community Meeting 20200820

Meeting due to take place at 7pm on Thursday 20 August 2020

Present: Jackie, Mike, Nuclear Sean, Chris T, Adrian

How is everyone?

• How has lockdown been for you? Been up to anything interesting?
  • None of have (knowingly) had COVID-19, thankfully.
  • We're still supplying some visors, but mostly to churches, mosques, local businesses. The NHS seem okay now, which is good.
  • Chris has been doing some work on the DoES Liverpool organisation software
  • Sean has been upgrading his 3D printer, sticking a Raspberry Pi on it and getting it working well.
  • Jackie has been printing braille on the resin printer
  • Mike has bought himself a resin 3D printer

Review of/actions from last meeting

• MG and SG to go through boxes on the storage shelves to get rid of any old ones and make sure everyone who has a membership has a box (Carried over - 4 months)

  • SG did some work on that, still needs finishing off

• SG to work with laser team to collate ideas for laser room tidiness and small scale maintenance after a couple of weeks, then create the poster - not enough feedback yet, SG to create something and hope people are offended enough by how bad it is to fix it (Carried over - 1 month)

• Adrian to update our mailing list of councillors and the like - SG to attempt to sit down with Adrian to go through the list. (carried forward 1 month)

• SG to "come up with options" re: adding copy to the mugs to say what we do - (Github Issue Carried Forward - 1 month)

  • Adrian suggested just adding "Coworking and Makerspace" and the URL. There was some general discussion about words to use. Or a jigsaw of pieces. All to provide ideas, Sean to run a twitter poll.

• SG to find out who would be interested in running basic skills classes, and in what - Email sent, so will carry over.

  • Struggling to find people to run things. Would be good to find a couple of simple ones, and then run one a month.

• SG to discuss best community meeting days/times with the daytime crowd.

  • SG has been on furlough and

• MG to propose some storage options for the recess with the vinyl cutters

  • Has been some discussion about using French cleats. MG will raise an issue.

• MG to propose something to construct for sheet storage. (Carried over 1 month)

Recent Events

• Rubber Stamp Making Course - 29th Feb and 7th March.
  • Went really well! Would probably run more specific ones in future.
  • Darren is also interested in running a course on metal etching
• Fabric District Festival 11 - 13 June Somebody Should issue 1387. Check out the issue and get involved. Mary and Jason are looking for collaborators for something in it.
  • Cancelled due to COVID-19
• Liverpool Makefest 27 June Somebody Should issue 1386. Offers of things to show off, help with running the stall, cars for transporting things there and back, etc. wanted (add details on the github issue)
  • Cancelled due to COVID-19
• Open Week at Daresbury Laboratory 29 June - 4th July. Pete Lomas got in touch to tell us about it, we're waiting to hear more about it.
  • Cancelled due to COVID-19
• EMF Camp 23 -27 July. Get tickets if you want to go - Martin might be able to help with that too.
  • Cancelled due to COVID-19
• Festival of Maintenance (19 September - with additional DoES Liverpool community events?) Might be in Oct - date not completely fixed yet. Pretty likely that it'll be in Liverpool, so if anyone wants to help
  • Waiting to see what happens w.r.t. lockdown.
• Gausfest is coming up - will be in Nottingham or Cambridge. Nuclear Sean recommends it.
  • Cancelled due to COVID-19
• Repair Cafes will be regularly on the 3rd Sunday of the month.
  • Cancelled due to COVID-19
• Cathy to run Industrial Sewing Machine induction at 9:30 next maker day (14th March)
  • This was really popular. Lots of good contacts also made between the attendees too. Jackie took some video on the day, so might be able to put that somewhere.

Upcoming Events

• Very early days, but there might be a pop-up outdoors Repair Cafe as part of Transition Town Liverpool's sPark It project

Finances

• https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/wiki/Financials202007
• To be completed once John has run the figures.
• Looking okay at the moment.
• We're starting to pay off the rates.
• We got a £2500 grant from the Council as part of the COVID-19 response
• Lost a couple of people with desks as a result of the pandemic, but most members of the community have continued paying for their desks, etc., which is much appreciated.

Promotion

• Not really done any of late, for obvious reasons. Although we did get a fair bit of press during the visor project though.
• Should we film some short videos of the various pieces of equipment, to show people what the things are and what's available. Chris T will raise an issue to move it forwards.

AOB

• When might we start Maker Nights again?
  • Maybe it could be ticketed to restrict numbers?
  • How many should we allow?
• Getting Monty running
  • Mike is contributing a chunk of the cost in memory of his dad, so we should rename it Tony
  • Mike will pull together a shopping list for SG to order next week
  • Mike and Nuclear Sean are moving it forward
• Mike is moving the lockable mailing system forwards. The meeting then drifted into long discussions on the requirements, features, etc.

Confirm time & date of next meeting

• 17th September. Time to be confirmed.