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Bylaws and Standing Rules

Jonathan White

• There’s a channel #rules-and-bylaws-review where people are welcome to contribute. They’ll need a Makersmiths email to access the documents and they can be setup with one pretty quickly. Just join the channel and let Jonathan White know. It won’t be an immediate response though. Figuring out how best to have a committee review that’s manageable and balanced with getting input from the members.  (Same as last month)
• Board considering naming Officers from Board Members change to Bylaws
• Looking for someone else to take on Bylaws and Standing Rules Committee Chair.

Finance

John Dubelko

Information Technology

Scott Silvers

• $3,581 spent on new computers (see 3/27 Board meeting notes)
• Last IT Committee Meeting was July of 2023 . . .None

Leesburg Facility 

Jessee Maloney

• The Room Switch-A-Roo is still happening and in full swing! We need as many hands on deck during odd times throughout April & May. Please contact Jessee if you would like to work on projects that include woodworking, building and the cnc! 
• Jessee appreciates Things are finally settling in the main room! Electrician installed all the new necessary plugs and all the equipment is finally in its new home in the room. We appreciate your patience during this time.

Purcellville Facility

Dave Painter

• Dave Painter will be unavailable for classes or helping with projects for a while.
• Work Day scheduled for this Saturday, May 4th (Star Wars Day!   -    May the 4th be with you!)

Marketing

Jason Gilligan

• Marketing is looking for help running the Leesburg Flower and Garden festival coming up soon! 
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• They are always looking for more committee members as well.
• The Town of Purcellville would like to hear from Makersmiths about setting up a booth at the Purcellville Music and Arts Festival. The deadline for application is 4/8. The Festival is 4/27, noon to 7 pm.  Sally Soles has the contact information.

Membership

Mark Millsap

Membership

Mark Millsap

Newsletter

Melissa Kowalski

• Melissa is ALWAYS looking for stories and photos for the newsletter! It doesn't have to be perfect, she is totally fine editing it all to make it fit. 
• She is also looking for volunteers to help hunt down stories and photos! More hands equals less work all around.

Purcellville Facility

Dave Painter

• The Bridgeport that was moved from Leesburg to Purcellville is almost ready for use! Have you seen photos of it on SLACK?Dave Painter will be unavailable for classes or helping with projects for a while. Ian Schue will host the work day at MSP on Saturday. 

Scheduling

Jennifer Chu

Website

Maggie Toth

•  website is always looking for help! contact Maggie if you are interested. 

Room/Machine

Steward(s)

Location(s)

Notes

Purcellville Facility

Dave Painter

Purcellville

• Next workday is Saturday, April 6th May 4th starting at 9am

Leesburg Facility 

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• Next workday is Saturday, April 13th 9am-2pm (or later!), May 11th, starting at 9am

3D Printing

Scott Silvers

Leesburg & Purcellville

• We will be building new tables in the Leesburg 3D printing room during the next workday and could use a lot of help moving things around and cutting things on the CNC. If you are interested in helping out with this, please contact Jessee! Scott is out for recovery from surgery until the end of the monthScott still out on leave due to surgery to shoulder?

Arts, Crafts & Stained Class Area in Purcellville

Ken Fuentecilla & Dawn Martin

Purcellville Lower Building

• Pilot Stained Glass Sun Catcher class this past Sunday.  

Arts, Crafts & Sewing Area in Leesburg

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• The Leesburg Arts, Craft & Sewing area is looking for a co-steward or main steward

• Sewing classes taught by Amy Copley coming super soon! 
• Amy has started holding sewing socials in Purcellville on different Wednesdays! Check the calendar for more info.

Big Red CNC

Brass Hess & Jonathan White

Leesburg

• It's behaving!

Big Blue

Jonathan White

Purcellville

Blacksmithing

Adam "Squirrl" McClintock & Jim Waldron

Purcellville Lower Building

Blast/Paint/ Powder Coating

Evin Grano

Purcellville

Ceramics

Bo Wernick

Purcellville Lower Building

• The kiln has run 3 times in March so all pots that were in the que are ready for pickup or glaze
• We have an extruder that works great. Feel free to give it a go next time you're in, but be advised its a lot of cleanup.
• I am planning a beginner wheel class and a balloon/coil pot class for late April. I would like a list of interested people. Please contact scheduling if interested!
• @Kate Amstutz has offered to teach an intermediate/advanced wheel class. Bo would like a list of interested people for that as wellTwo Ceramics classes offered in May.  As of today both classes are filled.

Cosplay Area

Maggie & Jason Gilligan

Leesburg

Leesburg

Electronics

Mark Millsap

Leesburg

•  Electronics Electronics has been meeting during Electronics night nights (every other Thursday, the next one is tomorrow night at 7pm) to work on plan out the new for Electronics Room downstairs! Are you interested? Do you have ideas? If so, just show up and participatedownstairs.  Have Space Program ready for review and working on Space Plans.
• Michael Ruzinsky has ideas for dealing with some of the surplus.

Gardening

Mary Waldron & Jennifer Chu

Leesburg & Purcellville

• Planting soon at Ida Lee   (See #gardening channel and/or Skip Smith if interested)
• Contact the stewards if you are interested in assisting at either site!MS-L or MS-P

HP Plotter

Randy Holland (pending board approval) 

Purcellville

• Randy Holland was appointed as Steward at the Feb. board meeting
  

HVAC Filters

Dean Williamson

Leesburg

• Dean is always on top of this!

Holland 

Purcellville

Laser Cutters

John Dubelko & Jessee Maloney & John Carter

Leesburg & Purcellville

• We are in talks with a buyer for the Universal Laser cutter and it's going well, so if you haven't been trained on the Nova lasers, please do so soon!being traded for a new UV Printer.
• Stewards working on "Connecting to controller . . ." error on NOVA-51.  No results as of yet other than 'turn it off and back on.  May have to do that several times'.

Metal Shop in Leesburg & Tormach

Brad Hess

Leesburg

• Do you know how to make jewelry? Do you like to do stamped jewelry? Would you like to teach?? If so, please let scheduling know!

Metal Shop in Purcellville

Dave Painter &

Purcellville

Plasma Cutter

Jim Waldron

Purcellville

Printmaking

John Carter

Leesburg

Purcellville Green Room

OPEN

Purcellville

• Needs a Steward!

Purcellville Woodshop

Dave Painter

Purcellville

Snack Area

J Wang

Leesburg

Sublimation Printer

New Steward: Diane BollingerLeesburg

Leesburg

UV Printer

Jessee Maloney & John CarterLeesburg

Leesburg

Vacuum Formers

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

Vinyl Cutter & Cricuts

OPEN

Leesburg & Purcellville

• Needs a Steward! ASAP!

Welding

Jim Waldron & John Johnson

Purcellville

Woodshop in Leesburg

Mike Dewan

Leesburg

• Message from Mike Dewan: Please clean up the woodshop when you finish!!! Recent members have left with dust, wood chips, and tools over all surfaces. If the trash can is 2/3 or more full please empty it and place a new trash bag in the can. The woodshop steward does not have cleaning up after you as one of his responsibilities.

Woodturning`

Ken Fuentecilla & Bryan Boston

Leesburg

•  Woodturning's proposal for the board was approved at the last meeting! You can see it at http://wiki.makersmiths.org/display/MAK/2024-03-27+Meeting+of+the+Board+of+Directors and below:

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