Weekly meeting for all interested in hacking!

Agenda:
Hack-a-long on Weds
Geiger counter class on the 8th

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Notes
Garret is next weeks leader

Self intros:
Chris, John, akiba, lauren, MRE, kalin, taylan, lionel, richard, bruce
Watanabe san - Johns student, physics, third grade, keiyo uni
Ashley - software engineer, hardware designer
Moricio - takes things apart
spike (Hidataka Fukushima) - music, startup, stompboxes
Kaylie - visiting.. JET in Osaka
Ken - came several times before

updates/recaps:
Overnight - watched lots of movies, drank beer.

Coordinator: Kalin
Agenda: http://quake.tokyohackerspace.org/index.php/TMP:meetings:2011-07-26

Minutes:

2011-07-26

Minutes Scribe: Richard

Intro (Kalin)

Visitors today

Tohru Nanri, Sugi Nagao(financial), Hidetaka Fukushima (THS founder, stompboxes), Garrett (brewing), Simon (Keio prof, Congo project)

Updates from past week

• Gomi Update (MRE and Lauren)
• THS stickers have arrived
• supplies request update
• 2011-07-24 Brief Recap admin - need to do classes!

Upcoming Events

emcee: Taylan
agenda:
- Meeting start
- Introductions (If there are newcomers)
- Results of past events (Eagle CAD, Greenhackers)
- Upcoming events
- Greenhackers update (5 minutes or less)
- Safecast update (5 minutes or less)
- Other specialty group updates (Arcade and such ?) (5 minutes or less)
- Cleanup update
- Show & tell

minutes:

Coordinator: Richard
agenda:

7:30 meeting start
7:32 introductions
7:42 welcome to newcomers
7:45 results of admin meeting on Sunday
7:50 upcoming events
8:00 Safecast update (3 minutes)
8:03 cleanup overview (3 minutes)
8:06 cleanup brainstorming (10 minutes) What do we want THS to look like?
8:15 show & tell
8:30 volunteers for next coordinators

new people
Luca
Alice
Bruce

introductions
Admin meeting of officers summary
confirmed officers
finances dues paypal
keys
membership levels? level of activity

upcoming events:
EagleCAD
GreenHackers
Sleepover 30th

Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe, will be the special guest at the THS weekly meeting on 7/5 (rescheduled from 3/15 when it was delayed because of the earthquake).

In July he will be visiting Japan to talk about the new PC/Mac Application(beta)and skins for Nozbe.

Please remember that non-members are always invited to weekly meetings. There will be no charge for the THS weekly meeting.

Michael should arrive between 7 and 7:30. Michael's presentation will start sometime around 8pm.

Allison's talk on tech fashion - 30-45 minutes should happen after?
come early?

Agenda
• Another look at THS membership cards
• Events form - please start using it
• setting up a network drive and doing all record keeping and admin files (member dues, basic finances) on it # members boxes(?) # setting up a monthly schedule of recurring events
• Arduino night
• Arcade group
• Game board night (I think this is a great chance to promo as a casual English salon event?)
• GreenHackers
• others?

Tokyo Hacker Space weekly meeting

Everyone is welcome at our weekly meeting. Please come to learn about Tokyo Hackerspace.

Agenda can be found on the wiki at [[]]

Notes:

* Reports:

• Cleaning day:
  - "Thanks guys!"
  - Workstations done
  - 2 options: Cleaning on Tuesdays (1-2 items), pick someone to be in charge of cleaning (aka. maid service)
• Bacon recap:
  - Attendance : 7
  - Results: "Delicious to very delicious"
  - New one: Probably end of July, probably with much bigger pieces
• Event schedule:
  

Hi Im Steve. It’s been two weeks since my last HackerSpace meeting.

Meeting approach notes: short vs long?
Short meeting short meeting short meeting!
One admin meetting per month (first Tuesday each month), then short agendas the rest of the month.
Make project days.

Guest speekers:
Every other month?

Classes
Be more consistent in advertising. Use the newsletters for creating mailing lists.
Requests
Linux admin, Linux from scratch, CLI, making live CDs, etc

Safecast update:
Akiba has a cold.

Tokyo Hacker Space weekly meeting

Everyone is welcome at our weekly meeting. Please come to learn about Tokyo Hackerspace.

Agenda
* Introduction of our visitor from NYC
* PR for Wednesday's Arduino class
* Tohoku Updates
* solar mats
* Kimono lanterns
* NetRAD / Safecast
* Summer projects / events
* Upcoming events
* THS clean and reorganization up day
* GreenHackers?
* consider forming interest groups/teams a la SafeCast/MJConcert?
* Web shop call to arms
* KidsTech call to arms
* Electronic Lock call to arms
* Financial updates?

Tokyo Hacker Space weekly meeting

Everyone is welcome at our weekly meeting. Please come to learn about Tokyo Hackerspace.