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| governance:meetings:2026:q2 [2026/03/26 21:02] – matt | governance:meetings:2026:q2 [2026/03/30 10:10] (current) – dave | ||
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| The next open day will be taking place on the 3rd of May, we’ll need some volunteers for the day! (Also feel free to reach out beforehand if you’d like more information). | The next open day will be taking place on the 3rd of May, we’ll need some volunteers for the day! (Also feel free to reach out beforehand if you’d like more information). | ||
| - | ===== 3d printing - Tiff ===== | + | ===== 3d printing |
| - | I would like to discuss filament storage in the 3d printing room and propose a Bambu Lab H2D with some accessories for members to print high temperature engineering materials with. | + | I would like to propose a Bambu Lab H2D with some accessories for members to print high temperature engineering materials with. |
| ===== 3d printing space - Tiff ===== | ===== 3d printing space - Tiff ===== | ||
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| ===== Doing Proposals Better - Matt ===== | ===== Doing Proposals Better - Matt ===== | ||
| - | Proposals | + | We will hopefully soon have budget to assign to buying new equipment again. At the moment there is now considerable pent up demand for new equipment, and relatively little surplus income by comparison. If we simply assign a modest quarterly budget to the old proposal system again, we risk a situation where our purchases for the foreseeable future will be dictated by whoever gets their proposals in first, rather where there is the most need for investment, or what equipment is in the greatest demand. |
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| + | This agenda item is a vote is to retire the current proposals system, at least for now while our budgets are tight, and instead introduce a new committee responsibility to facilitate an ongoing group discussion about how best to spend our new equipment budget each quarter, taking into consideration what is most popular, and what is most needed, then at each quarterly meeting put forward option(s) for purchace to vote on. | ||
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| + | ===== Metalshop move - Robert ===== | ||
| + | Discussion on the metalshop move. Several of us met up today and we discussed a few issues that might be of interest to others. I’m fine if it’s too late for voting on anything. | ||
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