BOTLab Quarterly Members' meeting Q2 2026

Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C general meeting

Date/time: 9th April 19:00

Location: Bristol Hackspace, with online option.

• Directors report
• Committee report
• Incidents and complaints review
• Major project updates
• Open proposals

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).

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 also separately like to discuss some things I think would be good for the 3D printing space, mainly filament storage for members. I can’t make it a proposal because I don’t know most of the logistics of it and how much it would cost but I think it’s worth discussing.

H&S updates

Currently our expectations of members are scattered across lots of places: the 'rules' list, the wiki manual, various policies, the onboarding text, and just hearsay too. As are are now bringing in bigger batches of new members at a time via the new Open Day form, I think it's important that we make sure we are clearly communicating our expectations of member behaviour in one easy-to-read place, so these waves of new members start out on the right footing.

For this purpose we have drafted a new 'Membership Agreement', designed to supersede our current rules document. The document is designed to both be an easy-to-read introduction to behaviour at the hackspace for new members, and also a clearly enumerated list of expectations for use when handling complaints.

You can read the draft here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1igUGhlbSEcRab44al7GVAZBSKKUlQ5I6Aap71mAuh3s/edit?usp=sharing

The above link is broadly final draft, but please note we may still make minor tweaks before the meeting.

Proposals