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BOTLab Interim Members' meeting Q1.5 2025
Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C interim members' meeting
Date/time: 20th Februrary 2025, 19:00.
Location: Bristol Hackspace, with online option.
Agenda
Topics for discussion
Proposal for Expanding into the Upstairs Rooms
The overall plan is to do the following rearrangement:
- Move the general desk area into the long room
- Create a workshop for electronics, 3D printing, PCB Mill, and clean disassembly/assembly in the “Squash Court 2” room (named because of its shape and size).
- Create a workshop for textiles work, plus a space for both our current and some new ‘craft’ activities in the “Squash Court 1” room
- Move the woodshop into the main room and hang a curtain to separate off a storage area where our current hack rack is.
- Expand the metal shop into the space of the old woodshop.
- Split the “everything” hack rack into more targeted hack racks for each area.
The above is a very brief summary of the proposal. See the full proposal on the forum for more details.
Counter-proposal for Expanding into the Upstairs Rooms
A counter proposal was submitted which plans to convert the long room into a bowling alley and keep the “Squash Court” rooms as actual squash courts. See the forum post for more details.
Proposal: New Project / Materials Storage System
This is a proposal to dismantle our current short term storage area and build a new storage unit which offers a range of differently sized and shaped compartments and cubbies, to suit different types and sizes of projects and materials. The membership/induction PC will allow you to see which of these spaces are currently available to use, to book an available space for your project, or to cancel your booking if you’re done with it.
The above is a very brief summary of the proposal. See the full proposal on the forum for more details.
Proposal: Project Box Size Vote
This is a proposal to change the size of our project boxes. The options are:
See the post on the forum for the motivation behind this.
Another option was proposed to buy a selection of smaller boxes to go in the extra space downstairs in order to minimise spend in case the boxes turn out to be too big or too small etc. More details can be found on the forum here.
Proposal: Reduce the project box renewal from 6 months down to 3
This is exactly as the title says. See the forum post for more information.