12 members and 2 guests attened the meeting.

Bayview Gallery Night

• Kevin will investigate if we are allowed to serve alchol at gallery night.
• We will have another cleanup session on Thursday night.
• We need more coolers for gallery night.

Machine Shop Safety Lists

• We need a form next to each machine in the shop stating who has been trained to operate it.
• Implementing an RFID lock out system is too cost prohibitave at this time.

Zazzle Account

• Shane is interested in getting some merchandise for the makerspace setup in Zazzle.
• Ron has created a zazzle account a while back.
• Shane/Ron will coordinate getting items ready for the Zazzle store.

Website Updates

• Royce demoed an alternate website theme.
• When you login to your website account you try out the new themes by clicking on “My account”.
• Royce has added user pages that allow members to create profile pages on the website.
• Royce has enabled addtional blog featues that allow organizing blogs by topic and user.
• Several alternatives to the current website were discussed(Word Press, Google Blogger).
• We reviewed Michael’s website layout. This looks like it is our best option.
• Matt, Jason, and Michael will meet next week to work on website stuff.

Poster

• Shane’s poster looks good.
• The posters are 27×40 inches.
• Tom is going to have 7 posters printed.

Access Control

• Royce has updated the access control system to accomodate our new limited membership options. Royce would like to develop a GUI front end for adding users before we start officially accepting members at the $40 per month rate.
• We would eventually like to have an automatic system for disabling people’s RFID cards if they are behind in their payments.
• Royce almost has our Square Up account setup(https://squareup.com).

Miscellaneous

• Jason has volunteered to give a demo of the Max audio/visual promgramming environment next week Thursday.

There were 12 member s and 3 guests at the meeting.

Business Cards

• We need new business cards.
• Royce will send Brant the information about the old business cards.
• We think brant was working on a new design for business cards. He was not at this meeting.

Clean Up Day TODO List

• Fix the white board.
• Tool organization for the lab. Need a strip of magnets in the shelf.
• Masonite to re-cover the tables in the lab.
• Mount the big TV on the wall.

Rental Spaces

• We are going to start renting out square in the hanger area.
• We will move the rental squares If the official rental space that MMS has needs to expand.
• Right now there is no concern that we will run out of space.
• Only members can rent spaces.
• There are a total of 44 squares that can be rented.

New Membership Level

• We added a $40 per month membership level.
• Students with a valid student ID qualify for the $40 per month membership.
• Weeknight’s only membership is also $40 per month. This type of member wil only have access to the space Monday through Thursday.
• Weekends only membership is also $40 per month. This type of member will only have access to the space Friday through Sunday.

Revenue/Promtion Ideas

• We need to have a demo every Thursday night to try and attract new people.
• We need to start offering classes. The makerspace could get $10 per student.
• Membership coupon. Limited time only half price membership or something similar.
• Need more regular events for non-members(clubs/classes).

Miscellaneous

• Jason will be making a large Jacks game using tire irons for the Greate Milwaukee Race(http://www.greatmilwaukeerace.com/).
• Where is the guest book from the grand opening? We could use the email addresses in the book to start an announcement only Google Group. 
• We have two new member Bret and Tim.

There were 15 members and 3 guest at the meeting.

• The landlord will have have pricing for rental squares in the next week or two.
• Tom will organize the painting of the squares in the hanger area.
• Brant will be doing some blog posts after the meeting.
• Richard joined as a member.

5 Guests and 10 Members

Intros

Bay View Gallery Night June 3rd.  Bay View Arts Guild members and interested Makers will display their art/wares from 6pm to 10pm at the Made In Milwaukee sponsored event.  The makerspace will contribute $100 toward food/beverages, and will charge no fees to the Artists.  BVAG will pay for a band to perform.  Artists will set up 2 hours prior to the opening, and tare down 2 hours after the opening, or between 10am and noon the following day.  

Tom visited the Quad Cities makerspace – they’re pretty hands on.

Discussed summer time plans of making a giant grill or fryer for a Turduckin.  Unsure what the vegan equivalent is.

Project updates:
Royce: Entry system.  Brent: cutting foam for fiberglass mold.  Adam: Finding a Ferric-Chloride replacement for circuit board etching.  Rich: Making a motor adapter.  Ron: Finishing a super-computer chair.  Tom: Battery charging, table saw slide plans, finishing the additional component bin shelving.

Discussed various vacuum former design possibilities.

Project updates are a big hit at the meeting – we should do this every week.

Sunday is the Milwaukee Electric Car Club meeting.