Community Meeting 20200917

Meeting due to take place at 7pm on Thursday 17 September 2020

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

Setting up a servers for the Optimism setup

Chris would like us to get something set up for installing the docker setup for Optimism. Some discussion of using that vs. Google Cloud or something else.

[ACTION] We've already got Digital Ocean set up, so Adrian will add Chris to the DoES Digital Ocean team

How is everyone?

Everyone is still COVID-free (as far as we know)

Sean is a nominee for a Institute of Chemical Engineers award! Yay!

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 - 5 months)

• 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 - 2 month)

  • JP to put up a sign warning people we'll get rid of the clutter in the laser-room at the end of Oct (or a month's notice) and post to the Google Group

• 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 2 months)

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

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

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

• --(MG to raise an issue about (using French cleats for) some storage options for the recess with the vinyl cutters)--. Done

• MG to propose something to construct for sheet storage. Some discussion today during the meeting, and MG will update the issue already covering it

Recent Events

• Mike held a socially-distanced synth meetup, and it was well-received.

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
• Some Liverpool attendees of the national Build Back Better hackathon are gathering to work on it here

Finances

• https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/wiki/Financials202008

Continue to do ok, the report shows a profit but we managed to almost exactly break even if you take out the business rates. Small rise in overall assets (although they continue to be quite high).

• We've ordered all the parts for Tony (new name for Monty), so they should be arriving shortly

Promotion

• Nothing to report this month.

A shopping list of "Things we need in order to make things"

• Proposed by Matt on the Google Group
• He'd like us to chip in with suggestions of what to get - put them in https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/issues/1496 and also https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/somebody-should/issues/557

AOB

Confirm time & date of next meeting

• 15th October. 7pm.