2023-10-15 Meeting notes

2023-10-15 Meeting notes

 Date

Oct 15, 2023

 Participants

  • @Osornio, Cesar

  • @David Meisinger

  • @Vann Wellmon

  • @Miguel

  • @Garrett Hart

  • @Kaila James

  • @Timothy Ausec

  • G Halperin

 Goals

  • Talk about GMs and Active Membership

 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

5 min

Action Items from Last Meeting

Cesar

  • No rocket rack

5 min

General Updates

PMs

  • USLI

    • PDR Hell (Yipee!!!)

    • Grinding

    • Carbon Fiber Tube!!!!

  • RPL

    • Crankin'

    • Finalized design for second gen engine

  • Hobby

    • No launch

    • Ordered parts for more L1s

    • Ordered Motors

  • Smallsat

    • Payload is going well

    • Components and design going well

5 min

SEDS SpaceVision Purchases

Cesar

  • We should make purchases very soon

  • Totaling $5,000

  • Let cameron know we are using the otfr to buy stuff regular rocketry stuff - ask for permission

  • fronting the SEDS

30 min

Active Membership and GMs

Cesar

  • How can we restructure GMs to be more worth it?

  • What should Active Membership Entail?

  • Team Rosters

  • Why do people not like it?

    • another meeting

    • feels like a waste of time

    • Hour long slideshow

    • USLI could use the monday

  • Justification for general meetings and fulfilling active membership

  • Every subteam gets to define an active member to them

  • Hobby

    • Doing an L1 in a quarter, or traveling to a launch, or doing a hobby project

  • What can we provide people in a general meetings

    • Only do general meetings if there is something to talk about

    • Someone talking

    • Celebration

    • End of Quarter

    • Recruitment meetings

    • Meetings at beginning of quarters and or end of quarters

  • Decisions

    • Nix standing general meetings

    • Active membership, subteam based

    • Talka about general meetings for next quarter

5 min

Sponsorship Packet Update

All

< 5 min

bi-monthly newsletter

Garrett

5 min

Open Discussion

All

  • We should set up a meeting with Robotics just to knowledge share

  • Keep pushing the demographics form

  • We have more clear bins, more new power strips, extension cords, and Ethernet cables.

    • They need mounted on the benches in the coming weeks

  • BIC server is getting close! lots of work done in the past 2-3 weeks on it

  • Scout merit badge - I need counselors by Saturday

    • group training session

  • Partnership with makerlab

 Action items

Project Managers forward active membership decisions to team members
Push demographics form at general meetings
@Osornio, Cesar Set up meeting with robotics
@Osornio, Cesar message sam blake, we’re using the lasercutter and CNC machine

 Decisions

  1. Revisit quarterly general club meetings
  2. All projects should use a clear bin