BOTLab Quarterly Members' meeting Q3 2025

Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C general meeting

Date/time: 8th July 2025, 19:00.

Location: Bristol Hackspace, with online option.

• Finance update

• Finance update
• Incidents and complaints review

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.

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.

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

Update on the Scrapstore membership. We now have a digital card on the Wiki.

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.

With increasing membership there is a question about whether we would benefit from a reservation system. This will be a discussion about whether such a system would be a good idea, and if so how it would function. There may be some overlap between this and the roller shutter parking discussion.

There is a proposal on the forum to replace some of our 3D printers with Core Ones due to reliability issues. As well as the initial proposal, there will be an option to replace just a single printer (or none at all) if that's what people prefer.