OrganisersMeetingMinutes20120322

• Review of/actions from the last month
• Financials
• As usual owed some, expecting to get them paid.
• Hot Deskers bit lower than usual.
• Maker Days
• Went quite well
• No mini-makers, School in Kirkby maybe helping out. Next one April 14th
• GEC 2012
• Quiet on the Monday during the day - not sure if marketing problem or not enough people around
• Lean was busy. Quite a few new faces.
• OSE was good. AdrianMcEwen to circulate the video
• All week, some new people.
• Ignite went well.
• Volunteers for blog post needed - JohnMcKerrell to own finding someone
• Pledge drives
• action: HakimCassimally will add "intern" as pledge
• not done yet
• action: MartinPrice to contact Fran in Birkenhead to find out about her intern.
• not sure what's happening with that, we'll drop it off the actions list and if the info comes back then we can run with that.
• JohnMcKerrell to follow up on bike pump pledge with an email saying almost there (DoES possibly cover remainder?)
• AlexNolan tweeted that he's not going to make it along, but that microwave arrival is imminent
• Update on GSOC - JohnMcKerrell
• We're not eligible as we'd need an open source project to submit
• PaulKinlan suggested Google might offer local GSOC trainees his desk to use. Nothing for DoES to do, he's chasing that. Would be nice to get
• Update on membership scheme/general donations - HakimCasimmally
• No update
• Chase FrancisIrving/DavidJones to see if they're prepared to just start with a Standing Order
• Jelly April? OpenLabs Jelly not on, do we step in?
• Not sure it's worth us doing, given last time not being a huge turnout.
• Just do some advertising around the time to let people know we're available as an alternative
• Expanding? See ExpandIntoDinky
• Update on "AndyPowell to bounce round some ideas for breakout area or workshop area - develop proposal for next meeting"
• Not known of update
• General checking things with Gostins - deal should be available to us, putting a kitchen in should be okay.
• Probably can't quite afford it straight off - costs for existing space about £150 below our monthly income, and dinky would cost £300ish (plus elec)
• What do we gain? Should we move the smaller stuff into the meeting room
• Talk to potential workshop members to see who would be more likely to take workshop access if in a dedicated space
• Use it as a marketing campaign to drum up more users and get people like Francis and David to start regular "just helping out" contributions
• Work out costs
• Then work out a way to make it happen
• Confirm time and date of next meeting
• 26th April, evening for next one.
• AOB
• Liverpool DoES Startups
• FrancisFish to work out costings,
• FrancisFish to start running at it.
• FrancisFish to talk to the Barcamp organising committee initially and to then find the rest of the organising team.