06-05-2024 Membership Meeting

Officers present:

Yes

No

Beverly Murdock

Secretary

President

John Dubelko

Treasurer

Christa Stern

Bookkeeper

April 2024

Year to Date

Year to date Over/Under 

Revenue

Expenses

$12,259.50

$50,486.39

Net income/loss

$7,836.67

$23,663.29

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.

Finance

John Dubelko

• See above report

Information Technology

Scott Silvers

• 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 May & June. Please contact Jessee if you would like to work on projects that include woodworking, building and the cnc!
• Things are finally settling in the main room! The new BN2-20 showed up last week and is already producing amazing stickers, labels, decals and more! Check the #bn2-20 channel for more info.
• A new pegboard went up and is waiting for tools to be added, which brings up the last point
• We are having a work WEEKEND this weekend Saturday and Sunday starting at 9am. There is already a nice list filled with easy, moderate and challenging (in a good way) tasks! Check out the #leesburg channel for more info.

Marketing

Jason Gilligan

Membership

Mark Millsap

• See above for brief and attached for the full report.

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?

Scheduling

Jennifer Chu

Website

Maggie Toth

•  website is always looking for help! contact Maggie G. or Scott Silvers if you are interested.

Room/Machine

Steward(s)

Location(s)

Notes

Purcellville Facility

Dave Painter

Purcellville

• Next workday is Saturday, July 6th starting at 9am

Leesburg Facility 

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• Next workday/work weekend is Saturday, June 8th & Sunday June 9th 9am-2pm (or later!)

3D Printing

Scott Silvers

Leesburg & Purcellville

• We will be finishing up the new tables in the Leesburg 3D printing room and could use a lot of help moving things around. If you are interested in helping out with this, please contact Scott Silvers.

Arts & Crafts Area in Purcellville

Ken Fuentecilla & Dawn Martin

Purcellville Lower Building

• Both stewards have been working on cleaning setting up the new room, and it's looking fantastic!

Arts, Crafts & Sewing Area in Leesburg

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• Sewing classes taught by Amy Copley mid June should be showing up any day now on the calendar.
• Amy has started holding sewing socials in Purcellville on different Wednesdays! Check the calendar for more info. I've heard it's been a packed house.

Big Red CNC

Brass Hess & Jonathan White

Leesburg

• It's behaving!

Big Blue

Jonathan White

Purcellville

• Also behaving, and in Jim's words "all good!"

Blacksmithing

Adam "Squirrl" McClintock & Jim Waldron

Purcellville Lower Building

• The weather is getting slightly warmer, so keep an eye out for classes here and there. 
• one of the forge burners is not working correctly.

Blast/Paint/ Powder Coating

Evin Grano

Purcellville

• Evin will be teaching regularly scheduled classes this month and next! If you ever wanted to learn about Sandblasting, powder Coating and more, now is the time.
• Leesburg classes will be coming soon?

Ceramics

Bo Wernick

Purcellville Lower Building

Cosplay Area

Maggie & Jason Gilligan

Leesburg

• Have you seen the new room?? It's looking amazing! We will need help during the next workday hanging a tv and some grid walls.
• We are also in need of instructors for cosplay! Are you interested? It can be as simple as a mask class, or how to finish a 3D Print for cosplay.
• Cosplay Night is every Thursday in Leesburg 6:30-8:30pm

Electronics

Mark Millsap

Leesburg

•  Electronics has been meeting during Electronics night (every other Thursday, the next one is tomorrow night at 7pm) to plan out the new Electronics Room downstairs! Are you interested? Do you have ideas? If so, just show up and participate or join the #electronics channel

Gardening

Mary Waldron & Jennifer Chu

Leesburg & Purcellville

• Contact the stewards if you are interested in assisting at either site!
• The weeds in front of Leesburg need trimmed.

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! Thank you Dean!!

Laser Cutters

John Dubelko & Jessee Maloney & John Carter

Leesburg & Purcellville

• We said goodbye to the Universal Laser last Thursday! It was part of a trade for the new BN2-20. Still sad to see it go.
• John Carter installed a new controller on the Nova 51 in Leesburg, and it's working beautifully now!

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

•  what kind of snacks should we have?

Stained Glass Tools

Ken Fuentecilla

Purcellville

• Ken was approved as the steward of the Stained Glass Red Tools at May's BOD meeting.
• The ring saw and grinders are now Red Tools and you will be required to have a sign off to use them

Sublimation Printer

New Steward: Diane Bollinger

Leesburg

• Classes have been happening consistently and everyone is loving the new machine and its capabilities. Have you signed up yet?
• A new Hat Heat Press was purchased and can be used for sublimating, heat transfer vinyl and just attaching patches to hats! It's also great for anything curved. 

UV Printer

Jessee Maloney & John Carter

Leesburg

•  The UV printer was moved to it's new home on the back wall in Leesburg! Come take a look!
• It will be sharing a computer with the BN2-20, though it shouldn't impact it's use. One thing to keep in mind: make sure you send to the correct printer! The LEF200 is the top queue and the BN2-20 is the bottom.

Vacuum Formers

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• All good!

Vinyl Cutter & Cricuts

OPEN

Leesburg & Purcellville

• Needs a Steward! 

Welding

Jim Waldron & John Johnson

Purcellville

• "all good!"

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