Scheduling - Chair: Jennifer Chu

Our charter is to create policies and procedures for scheduling classes and events and advertising these to members and the general public. This would include determining the content information the classes and events must contain. The committee will consider the various platforms Makersmiths currently uses and will best determine how to uniformly populate required content information between the various platforms.

Committee members:

• Jennifer Chu (Chair)
• Diane Painter
• Dean Williamson
• Tim Cotter

Scheduling Committee meeting minutes are uploaded as file attachments on the right.

3/19/2025 Class Planning Subcommittee meeting notes - in person in Leesburg - Attendees: Amy Copley, Diane Bollinger, Kristina Rall, Jennifer Chu

Make & Takes

• Quarterly schedule for make & take classes - March/April/May, June/July/August
• Try to have classes for the different shops
• Develop a list of classes that we'd like to have and ask for volunteers to teach the classes
• Create a slack channel for stewards and instructors to discuss developing classes

New Skills-based and Project-based Classes

• Each person assumes responsibility for developing a class and getting an instructor to teach a class.
• Provide updates each month on the status/progress of the class.

Attendees: Amy Copley, Diane Bollinger, Dilip Patel, Jennifer Chu

Make & Takes

• Amy is planning for the next set of classes for June/July/August
• Still developing a list of classes that we'd like to have and ask for volunteers to teach the classes
• Slack channel created.  Need to invite stewards and instructors to the channel to discuss developing classes.

New Skills-based and Project-based classes

• Dilip has developed two "electronics"-minded workshops that he is ready to teach.
  • Meshtastic Workshop
    • Intro/discussion of open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network. 
    • Demo of how to build one with inexpensive materials sourced from local stores.
  • Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA) Workshop
    • Classroom session - discuss how to get started in EAA, types of objects observed, computers, software, and telescopes.
    • Outdoor observation session - observe galaxies, nebulas, and the moon.
• Jen and Diane B did not have any updates on the classes they were working on.

Next meeting

Our charter is to create policies and procedures for scheduling classes and events and advertising these to members and the general public. This would include determining the content information the classes and events must contain. The committee will consider the various platforms Makersmiths currently uses and will best determine how to uniformly populate required content information between the various platforms.

Our charter is to create policies and procedures for scheduling classes and events and advertising these to members and the general public. This would include determining the content information the classes and events must contain. The committee will consider the various platforms Makersmiths currently uses and will best determine how to uniformly populate required content information between the various platforms.