Thanks to everyone who came out today!

Meeting start: 1:05 p.m.; Meeting end: 1:57 p.m.

Emails to know

• ENTS Directors – directors@ents.ca
• Library Requests – michael.kulpa@ents.ca
• Software Projects – sprojects@ents.ca

Membership Dues

• Here is the link to the $50 recurring PayPal link:
  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=10643052

Membership Updates

• We’ve dropped the drop-in fee.
• You can pay yearly for $500 (saving $100)
• We can accommodate anyone of any financial means, please come talk to us if the monthly fee is too high for you.

Network Infrastructure

• Working on

Keycard Access

• The building has RFID access.
• We are exploring how we’ll do internal access. Please fire ideas our way.
• Members in good standing (you’ve paid your dues) will receive fobs/keys.

Library Updates

• We have a deal with O’Reilly publishing where members can order books for free as long as we agree to write a review. The books can be borrowed but ultimately live at ENTS.
• O’Reilley has many other partnerships so the availability is huge. Anything you can find on http://oreilly.com we can have.
• If you want to order a book find it on O’Reilly’s website and then talk to Michael Kulpa (michael.kulpa@ents.ca)
• If you have any old or awesome books you want to donate, please do.

Common Room

• We still need to provide power to the walls, however, network jacks all work.

The Presentation Centre

• The purpose of this room is to be USED! Any members who have a club, meeting, or group that needs a nice big room with a projector screen we want you to use it!
• If you’re meetup is free then you can use it for free!. We only charge for the room if you charge for the room.
• We need to still rewire the room so the lights work properly.
• We are also removing the old sink at the back that doesn’t work!

Web Update from SProjects

• Software Projects is the umbrella management group for any software projects at ENTS so we don’t duplicate things.
• If you have any ideas you want to start or you want to help with please talk to us at sprojects@ents.ca
• The website revamp project hasn’t moved much. We had a meeting two weeks ago and are working on redoing the entire implementation of the ENTS website.
  • If anyone is interested in learning, or has web dev/design experience, please contact us to help

The Dirty Room

• We’ve cleared out all the legacy equipment from the dirty room.
• We will need a lot of help moving the equipment into Rob’s truck to move to a museum, it is very heavy.
• Grinding stations should be set up today.
• Welding equipment and drill presses will be available in the near future so we will have a usable machine shop.
• If you have tools to donate please bring them in.
  • Please write your name on tools that you don’t want to lose! Any unmarked items that have been lent to us aren’t guaranteed.
• The dirty room will be dangerous and therefore we will have policies and restrictions to who has access to the room.

Class Scheduling

• Brad’s Class (Brad Hanes) – Waiting on equipment, times will be announced.
• Windows Azure (Devin Serink) – Times will be announced.
• Arduino Boards and General Purpose Micro Controllers (Mike Brown) – Waiting on equipment, times will be announced. See http://hackaday.com for cool examples of what you can do.
• Lightning Talks – Talk about anything interesting for 5 minutes. Discuss a cool tool, website, or experience. Check calendar for events.

ENTS Cat

• Some people want to have a cat to take care of the minor mouse problem (we’re an old building and it’s cold outside so mice like our kind of building).
• Cats are nice and a fun idea, however, we have to consider allergies, taking care of it, and keeping it safe.
• We voted to solve the mouse problem right away by buying some traps.

Sewing Machines

• We rescued some sewing machines from the old sewing machine factory that used to occupy our space.
• These are industrial sewing machines and very nice. Any sewers at ENTS are welcome to use them.

Photo Studio

• We are putting a semi-permanent photo studio in the back of the common room. It will be a white drop and usable by all members.
• We have some studio lights that are being donated.

Contact Preferences

• The ENTS Facebook Page will be deleted in favour of the ENTS Facebook Group.
• Future events will be duplicated on Facebook.