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General Meeting Minutes


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

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.

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