Peterborough: January 6, 2014

Last meeting’s minutes for reference

NOTE: 7pm at the Spill - FB event

Agenda

From last meeting

• Introductions - Wes, Lindsay, Dave, Liam, Peter, Tami, Bill, Lenard, Mary, Mark, Kris
• Identify this week’s chair/note taker/wiki updater - Mark
• Review tasks to care for and feed IdeasPtbo - the wiki, the Facebook page, the twitter account
• Makerspace updates
  • 3 meeting this month - details on Makerspaceptbo Google Group
    • Jan 9 - Tool Library talk Market Hall * UPDATE: Meeting postponed!
    • Jan 16 - Makerspace Planning meeting at Hatch
    • Jan 23 - Toyhack - Makerspace kids - deconstructing toys with observer group
• News from EC Power Plant Microcontroller group
  • need definition / what is it - controllers / software and devices, shared learning, big age range
  • ‘nerdy’ / tech issues
  • Wednesdays at 7 at GreenUp - back door (NOTE: Date and time may change for 2014 after Jan 8th meeting)
  • parts drive
    • bring in used/broken/old stuff
    • harvest good stuff, properly recycle unusable
    • reusables exchange model, drop off model, pick up service
    • links to reclamation, link to artist community for repurposing
• Repair Cafe
  • event (monthly), create a culture of repair while getting things fixed, bringing people with repair skills and people with broken things together, sit down together and fix together - not a drop off service
  • shooting for February weekend afternoon - looking for fixers, locations, promotions
  • [mailto:lindsay.stroud@greenup.on.ca Lindsay Stroud]
  • computer services?
• Update on Kris’ location in the near future
  • bleeding edge tech startup in Vancouver with excellent offer - see ya!
  • Bitcoin exchange

New ideas (add yours!)

• Tami’s perspectives
  • Junior Achievement, Heads up for Inclusion, KawarthaFest (all at 250 Sherbrooke - non-profit hub)
  • <more notes about youth, programs, drugs to be added by Tami>
• List of Project with SuccessBar +1
  • monitoring progress of white papers
  • social grid - tracking initiative, eliminating duplication, tracking progress
• RELP
  • an idea that Mark has been carrying around for a while. originally came out of capturing history of what has happened at MHPAC over the many years, then grew to encompass other organizations/places that support positive happenings (artsy, generally rather than say hockey games), currently envisioned even more broadly as a repository of event/people/organizations/documents all tied to place.
• The problem of Non-Profits
  • Seeds For Change had a gathering of part of the sector
    • lots of overlap discovered
    • Laura Redman has moved on?
  • Are social enterprises an answer?
  • Making Non-Profits self sustaining - away from the grant model
  • Kris recommends: Steve Blank EP245 udacity course ‘How To Build A Startup’
• Out of Time - feel free to update
  • Streetcars in Ptbo
  • What’s up with TheMount - repurposing spaces
  • Group discussion based on Gadgets alone don’t make the future
  • Twitter bot
  • Starbucks Cup Crusher
  • Stolen Item Database
  • wifi phone / serval
  • qr code t-shirts
  • webcam covers
  • modern mason jar
• Champion departed before getting to these
  • food - local urban
  • water - so many groups
  • Hamilton - Pittsburg reinvention

Next Chair

• Liam

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