====== BOTLab Quarterly Members' meeting Q2 2025 ======
Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C general meeting

**Date/time:** 8th April 2025, 19:00.

**Location:** Bristol Hackspace, with online option.

===== Agenda =====

==== Trustees report ====

  * Finance update

==== Committee report ====

  * Finance update
  * Incidents and complaints review

==== Topics for discussion ====

=== Social media usage ===

There are two separate proposals here:
  * Should we stop using Meta services (Facebook and Instagram)
  * What alternatives should we use (if any). Examples include Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky etc.

=== Committee re-election ===
There are **2 seats** up for election this time with 3 titles available (due to one comittee member being flexible without a title):

  * Health and Safety. Keeping risk assessments up to date, responding to incidents and other H&S related tasks.
  * Social Media. Managing our online presence.
  * Community. Communicating internally with members, organising events, and other community oriented tasks.

We will also be requesting that new applicants write a short piece about themselves and what they can contribute so that members know who they are voting for at the meeting.

=== Upstairs move update ===

Update on what new areas have been created and what's to come.

=== Scrapstore update ===

Nick to give an update on the Scrapstore membership if possible.

=== Roller shutter parking ===

An issue has been raised about the number of vans occupying the space in front of the roller shutter for extended amounts of time doing conversions etc. This will be an open discussion about any potential solutions to help people better share this limited space.