Editing Darkroom/Meetings/20091020

=Darkroom Meeting October 20th, 2009=

*Moderator:
*Note taker:

== Agenda ==

===Making the darkroom dark===
*Review of the plan listed on the wiki, get folks to take ownership, order of when things to do, set hard dates.
*current plan is to use blackout curtains, and build in a fan which will vent out into greater 2169 for now, and then we hope someone can help us pipe it somewhere.

===Funds===
*Mitch and Jeffrey are willing to help with our money matters.

===Equipment acquisition and organization===
====Digital printer====
*there's been talk of this digital printer, which I suspect will be settled in the standard do-ocratic (or not-do-ocratic) manner, but which may merit some meatspace discussion.

====Film scanner====
*Several poorer photographers have been lusting after a film scanner.  We've found some options in the $400-600 range.  We'll also likely cast about for donations.  I think that a flatbed scanner in good shape that works with something other than Windows would be
useful.

====Color printing!====
*We have a color enlarger, but can't actually print color without print development equipment.  In theory we can do this is baths like BW printing, but I think it's pretty finicky.  I'll post this in a separate thread on the list.

====Darkroom items and floor plan====
*Table and filing cabinet dimensions should get documented somewhere.
*I would like to digitize the dorkroom floorplan and get that on the wiki, for posterity.

===Other projects?===
*there's been talk of Xrays and pinhole cameras and polaroids and making our own film.  Sometime soon I'd like to see some photography-themed workshops.  Incidentally, is there a name for our group?  I have been using Darkroom crew, Dorkroom crew, and Darkbridge interchangeably (in the latter case, "greater 2169" is referred to as "Noiseroom").
*Classes

===Next meeting?===
*When should we have our next meeting?

==Notes==