2025-02-20 Member Meeting

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Leader in chief: R3lex
Present: lots of nurds! \o/

Financial status

Summary of last year was sent to mailinglist on 11-01-2025
14 members started paying more than the regular €25, yay!
Some members are behind on their payments (17 months, 5 months and 2 months)
Our finances are quite healthy, but our reserves have dropped a bit to help pay for the improvements to the building. This seems like a valid use for the reserves. (€ 1724,25 asbestos removal last year, € 895,25 cablegutter materials this january)
The rise in monthly contributions, growth in membercount and our lovely donors results in a positive monthly result, so if we keep this up we can recover from these last big expenses and/or keep improving the building.

Reducing our inventory, clutter and general mess

Room 1 needs to be emptier so we can place stuff there while renovating the hall etc.
Lasercutter: sell it for any decent bid? Maybe try different channels? Tweakers? HSNL? Set deadline for getting rid of it? 3 months? (Folkert?)
Bunch of switches have been sent to Ukraine, and were appreciated. In the next shipment they would appreciate tools. We could collect some spare tools and send them that way. Tag your own tools if you want to make 100% sure they don't go anywhere.
Snijplotter needs new rubbers, but where to put it? Room 2. Or get rid of it? Or put a QR-code on it linking to the wiki page.

Cleaning

Seems to depend on a few active people
Beer cans get sticky and gross. Do not put them on the ground. Beer drinkers should take responsibility.
Vacuum cleaner is mediocre. Hard to empty without getting dust everywhere. Turns out it should have bags in it. Buy bags (or use existing ones). -> add to Chores page on wiki ([Chores])
Leak-proof bags/crates?
Kitchen gets piled full of dishes. Put your shit in the dishwasher.
Dish towels are thrown in basket but what happens then? Take it to laundromat and declare costs, or wash at home. -> add to Chores page on wiki ([Chores])
Kitchen lay-out is not conductive to cleaning. Dishes and cutlery don't stack well. Maybe get rid of stuff we never use (except the sacred bowl that has meaning)? Or change the whole kitchen? -> later
Airfryer is a mess. And broken. Needs some love.
Stop burning popcorn in the microwave.
If everybody cleans their own stuff and a little bit extra it'd probably improve a lot.
Set date once a month (first tuesday?) for some cleaning? Maybe add some activity to Improvement Fridays?
Spacemouse is gone (or frozen). (no proof)
Corvée?

Renovations, insulation, power circuitry etc

Vibe of Improvement Fridays is really cool! And very productive!
How can non-part-timers tag along? Hard to get it going on other days on your own. VerbeterVrijZaZo? App groups on Signal/Telegram can be used to get this going(selforganize) on other days.
Maybe look into partitioning room 2. (Room 2b?)
Ventilation for some stuff? Quite tricky (plumbing, motor, filters) or very basic (cheap afzuigkap or mechanical ventilation box on the roof).

Power and gas usage

Recent usage stats sent to mailinglist (jan 2025 was 180eu electricity, 290eu gas)
Should improve with new ceiling and insulation.
Keep thermostat as low as comfortably acceptable.

Action list from last meeting

  • List the laser cutter on a marketplace and sell it (action for r3boot/Sanne)
    • In progress, Folkert, see above.
  • Set up shelving in Room 3 (nzo)
    • Done!
  • Review items throughout the space and place discardable items in the I/O shelf.
    • We're losing stuff, but not fast enough. Stuff on the I/O shelf is mostly rubbish. eWaste goes in the basement. See wiki for instructions.
  • Send trash alerts to the Signal group and Telegram (Melan)
    • Done on Telegram (aargh!) Signal still todo.
  • Print and post a trash schedule (is on the Chores wikipage)
    • Done (updated the wiki)
  • Purchase a heating panel or another solution for individual heating (instead of heating the whole room) (dreamer placed a space heater somewhere; locate it)
    • Done (power-fohn + small radiator)
  • Buy smart thermostat knobs
    • Long-term.
  • Move the thermostat to Room 1, and only heat Room 1 (Septillion)
    • Done.
  • Proposal for an energy-efficient dishwasher (boopatroopa)
    • Not gonna happen via boopatroopa. Also not really needed, dishwashers haven't improved much.
  • Calculate energy-saving potential of identified power consumers (Septillion)
    • Works well!
  • Look for an energy-saving switch
    • Done, but still room for more (kitchen)
  • Send an email about voluntarily increasing the monthly contribution (FwD)
    • Done, succesfully!
  • Evaluate the impact of voluntary contributions at the next member meeting (board)
    • Done, worked really well.
  • Look for more donors?
    • More is more!
    • Set up a camera with auto-post function in the space (aetios)
    • Has been looked into. Wifi SD-cards are not the way to go.
    • Project idea: create a dock for the space-camera
  • Create a communications plan/strategy with events and other communications on the wiki (aetios, nzo, board)
    • Nothing happened so far. Still a good idea.
  • Create promotional materials: text, pictures, etc. (nzo, in consultation with the Chief of Propaganda)
    • nzo made some designs, buZz will help put them on spreadshirt.
    • r3boot -> check for premium print services
    • Maghiel might have canvasprinter at work now, nzo will check
  • Provide an overview of the renovation (vriendschapsfee)
    • Incorporated in verbetervrijdag-pagina's en progress updates op mailing list.
  • Experiment with a Matrix server and Soju (surrounder, kintsugi, r3boot)
    • Not yet.

WFTTC (What Further To Table Comes)

  • Tuesday Anime Guild is a great example of a succesful initiative! Much like VerbeterVrijdag.
  • Reminder: we need money, so please up your monthly contribution if you can.
  • Aetios is looking for more people to post on our Mastodon account. Share your content! Account details at aetios.
  • Current airfryer is dead. Can we get a new one? danieltoo is offering one.
  • Cups assortment standardizing: aetios and sven
  • New Hackers on Tour is coming! Info to follow.

Next meeting: it will appear to you.

New actionlist

  • Update Chores page with vacuum and towelinformation. - buZz
  • Fix the wiki because something is stuck updating (locked) - ?
  • Fix the theme on the wiki - it breaks lots of content. - ?
  • What about the VPS we still have at BIT, but doesn't seem to run anything useful anymore? - r3boot will figure it out

URLs

Previous meeting: https://nurdspace.nl/2024-10-31_Member_Meeting