Meeting Agenda Jan 2012
Calgary Protospace Ltd. Special Meeting of the Members
Meeting Agenda
January 14, 2012 2:00 pm
Be aware that each one of these points will also have a 5-20 minute discussion period after the member has presented their statement.
Sources of Funding - 5 min
Lead: Donna
- Grant application submitted in December;
- Community Relations funding opportunities from oil companies
Make Fashion - 10 min
Lead: Donna
- Update on the Make Fashion undertaking with Endeavor Arts/Shannon
- Potential other organizations involved
- Scope of Protospace’s involvement
Lost and Found - 5 min
Lead: Kirk
- Items in Bins and where they are/how it works
- Items in the final bin to be thrown away/donated
Mailing List Recap - 5 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed, Valerie Roney
- Getting members up to speed on the new lists
- discussion on list etiquette
- announcement list discussion
IT Infrastructure - 15 min
Lead: Weetabix, Benjamin Reed
* Inhouse IT vs outhouse IT
* Resources available to us
* Short term goals
* long term goals
* discussion with membership
* delegation of tasks
We will discuss efficient means to transfer
the rest of our infrastructure to third-party
services like wordpress and recouping our payment
for the VPS we do not need.
Maker Faire - 10 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Why Calgary needs a Maker Faire
- Members involved
- Progress thus far
- Call for volunteers
- scheduling of meetings
SAIT SECN - 5 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Reasons we need to sponsor more academic projects
- Progress thus far
- short term goals
- long term goals
Marketing Initiatives - 10 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Previous marketing initiatives
- effective vs ineffective strategies
- current ideas
- demographics, costs, projected dates, etc
- Delegation of tasks for academic marketing campaign
Aquaponics - 5 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Why we need to host an aquaponics project
- Progress thus far
- interested parties
- call for more members
Workshops - 10 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Why workshops are important
- recap on ideas
- discussion to determine efficient planning
- delegation of tasks
Open House - 5 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Discussion on when the open house should happen
- determination of work involved
- delegation of tasks
Organizational Evolution - 10 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Potential changes to our administrative model
- Definitives of a hackerspace & what is it we are.
- changes to member management - do-ocracy vs delegation
- philosophical discussion of what we want to become
Community Evolution - 10 min
Lead: Benjamin Reed
- Recent growth in Calgary
- Current opportunities with other organizations
- Long term opportunities with other organizations
- Vision for Protospace in Calgary 2012
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