[MakeLV] Minutes (well, highlights) for the July 12, 2011 meeting

[Josiah Ritchie]

Thanks for keeping your intellect engaged. It'll certainly be appreciated.
btw, I finally made it to Davinci for the making things work exhibit. My
daughter and I had a good time. Thanks for your part in that.

JSR/

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:40 PM, David Smith <david at davincisciencecenter.org
> wrote:

> Seeing no rush to second my nomination, and given my abysmal knowledge of
> resistor color codes, I will hereby happily decline it.  I'm happy to
> support the nomination of Ellis as scribe.  I'll still be involved in
> helping to run things, even without benefit of portfolio.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at josiahritchie.com>wrote:
>
>> I don't suppose anyone took minutes at the last meeting so let me see
>> if I can sum up what's going on and hope others will jump in to fill
>> the gaps.
>>
>> Nominations naturally came first.
>> My nomination as seen on the mailing list remains the only for the
>> position
>> The nominations for treasurer included Jonas and Scott P. Jonas
>> declined the nomination leaving only Scott in the running.
>> Dave S. and Ellis were both nominated for the scribe (secretary) role.
>> Dave S. was not present but, a second to the email nomination was
>> provided by Matthew and Dave said he would accept in the event of a
>> 2nd. Ellis, being present, accepted. I don't recall who 2nd that
>> nomination.
>>
>> Elections will be held on Aug. 9th to finalize on stuff. We'll have a
>> hot dog eating contest followed by a resistor color test to determine
>> Dave and Ellis' qualifications (yes, that's a joke). You'll want to
>> come vote and be a part of an historical moment in MakeLV.
>>
>> Getting the grill on. Next meeting, we're organizing a grill thing,
>> starting a bit earlier for those who can make it. I believe Matthew
>> was going to work on a sign-up sheet for people to bring things. I
>> have some plasticware and napkins at least.
>>
>> The meeting ended with some discussion about fundraising. This has
>> been among the hotter topics on the list. I'm glad to see all the
>> ideas flying. Someone pointed out that we're actually talking about
>> two separate things. First, fundraising and the second
>> marketing/communications. We began to discuss a committee for these
>> purposes. Matthew suggested that AEDC would have a lot to add to the
>> communications committee. I agree.
>>
>> Anyway, we'll be talking more about that around the grill next meeting.
>>
>> I believe this month's 4th Thurs. (That is next week on the 28th) is
>> cancelled due to lack of someone with keys. Our next meeting is Aug.
>> 9th.
>>
>> JSR/
>>
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