Editing Meeting Notes 2022 07 26 (section)

= Discussion =

== 3D Printer equipment spending ==

Guy - setup for all the printers is not very accurate - a better arrangement is direct drive, we could also upgrade the motherboard and pari it with a rapsberry pi for super speed. I got some pi 400s on someones recommendation. 

how many printers do you want to do this to?

Gonna do one tonight to get up and running and demonstrate.

can you do a writeup for how much it would cost?

I would do the mother boards in all of them, but not necessarily direct drive in all of them, direct drive is good for exotic materials like abs, polycarbinate, carbon infused, flexibles.

mark- maybe we should wait for a writeup, and then we could talk about it

guy- the motherboards are abt 40, the direct drive is about 40-80, raspberry pis are crazy expensive at the moment

mark- so we are looking about 100-150 per printer

guy- I would say at least 2 printers

loren- do we have a guild managing this?

mark- we have a 3d printer channel in the discord/slack, i'll be a sort of conversation middle


== Donation of equipment in lieu of membership dues ==

Loren - just let trearurer and donater make agreements, dont involve everyone in it

Moof - maybe go to a guilds meeting every thursday where the treasurer would ideally be present, I just think generally guilds should

Elan - i could imagine it would be bad if noisebridge became some sort of ad-hoc "fence". I don't think that's likely, but just something to think about

Moof - from the way i see it, that why i'd wants guilds involved. It would be a way for people to spend money on the space without going to a tuesday meeting. 

Guy - yeah my intention is just for paying for upgrades to already existing space resources.

Moof - this discussion item might be better suited to the idea of "guild funds" as a concept

Loren - just curious how Guy is talking to ppl.

Guy - my preference would be slack, but I am on discord as well

Chris - seems great we are convergingn on the idea of it being between the treasurer and individual. One thing about membership dues is it is a long term, re-ocurring expense. I could imagine donating stuff and its just not consistent and recurrent in a useful way?

Moof - do we need to reach a conclusion on this tonight? Seems like we need more infrastucture established r.e. finance guild/treasurer

Mark -yea that seems like a bottleneck