02-07-2024 Membership Meeting

Officers present:

Yes

No

Beverly Murdock

Secretary

x

Squirrl

President

x

John Dubelko

Treasurer

x

Christa Stern

Bookkeeper

x

Dec 2023

Year to Date

Year to date Over/Under 

Revenue

$25,851.62

$214,125.99

-$-22,115.01

Expenses

        -$12,457.56

-$153,525.80

      -$5,730.66

Net income/loss

          $13,394.06

          $60,600.19

      -$16,384.15

Bylaws and Standing Rules

Jonathan White

• There’s a channel #rules-and-bylaws-review where people are welcome to contribute. They’ll need a Makersmiths email to access the documents and they can be setup with one pretty quickly. Just join the channel and let Jonathan White know. It won’t be an immediate response though. Figuring out how best to have a committee review that’s manageable and balanced with getting input from the members.

Finance

John Dubelko

• See above report

Information Technology

Scott Silvers

• None

Leesburg Facility 

Jessee Maloney

• Meeting was held on Jan 9th. Report of the meeting available on the wiki under Leesburg

Marketing

Jason Gilligan

• Meetings will be on a more normal cadence starting this month. We will be meeting once a month at 7pm on the Monday before Board Agenda Items are due (ie, 9 days before the board meeting). This means our next meeting will be February 19th at 7pm, a google meet link will be posted in slack which will be used for the meeting. We have a number of items on the agenda, including those suggested to us by Scott, Mark, and Diane regarding donations to PTAs, the Town of Purcellville's Art Exhibition, and the Leesburg Business Awards.
• We are currently looking for event runners for two events: the first is Leesburg Flower and Garden, which is April 20th and 21st. The second is Loudoun Pride, which is June 2nd. If you're interested in running either event, please let Jason Gilligan know.

Membership

Mark Millsap

• See above for brief and attached for the full report.

Newsletter

Melissa Kowalski

• Melissa is ALWAYS looking for stories and photos for the newsletter! It doesn't have to be perfect, she is totally fine editing it all to make it fit.

Purcellville Facility

Dave Painter

Scheduling

Jennifer Chu

• There is a new Google form that we are using to compile and track class requests.  It will be pinned to the #class_planning_and_requests and it is also on the Events & Classes page on the website.

Website

Maggie Toth

Room/Machine

Steward(s)

Location(s)

Notes

Purcellville Facility

Dave Painter

Purcellville

• Monthly workday got lots done
• Installing minisplit in Ceramics 

Leesburg Facility 

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• Big moves in MSL with lots of things switching places.
• #leesburg-room-switch-a-roo channel has all of the details of the moves
• MSL workday on Saturday Feb. 10th from 9 AM until 2 PM, need lots of hands
• There is a list on the Wiki under Leesburg for full details of workday needs.

3D Printing

Scott Silvers

Leesburg & Purcellville

• The move to the new room will be finishing this coming Leesburg Workday.

Arts, Crafts & Stained Class Area in Purcellville

Ken Fuentecilla & Dawn Martin

Purcellville Lower Building

• The glass cutter is working well. 
• Logan mat cutter is set up and it does your basic cuts very well. 
• Working on putting together some training for a basic framing class using the woodshop in MSP and also using the tools we have in the multipurpose room.  If anyone is interested please DM Dawn Martin
• All the grinders and equipment is now available at the studio.
• Red tools classes for the grinders, Taurus coming soon
• Plans to create reminder signs and check lists for all of the equipment

Arts, Crafts & Sewing Area in Leesburg

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

• Sewing classes taught by Amy Copley coming soon

Big Red CNC

Brass Hess & Jonathan White

Leesburg

• In working order. Please ensure your endmills are sharp. We had an issue recently where a dull bit got very hot, created some embers that then got into the dust collector bags and burned them up in Purcellville

Big Blue

Jonathan White

Purcellville

• In working order. Please ensure your endmills are sharp. We had an issue recently where a dull bit got very hot, created some embers that then got into the dust collector bags and burned them up in Purcellville

Blacksmithing

Adam "Squirrl" McClintock & Jim Waldron

Purcellville Lower Building

• Looking for instructors for project classes
• Gauging interest in BS Red Tools class

Blast/Paint/ Powder Coating

Evin Grano

Purcellville

• The fan is out of the booth and the booth is now ready for use.
• Red Tools classes coming soon! 

Ceramics

Bo Wernick

Purcellville Lower Building

• HVAC coming soon!

Cosplay Area

Maggie & Jason Gilligan

Leesburg

• There are still a small number of unclaimed items we posted to slack. If they belong to you, you have until Saturday night to claim them. Anything not claimed by Sunday will be put up for grabs on a first-come-first-serve basis.
• If you are interested in helping the Cosplay room specifically with the move, we have a sign up sheet for volunteers. Please reach out to Jason Gilligan if interested in signing up--again, for helping with the Cosplay room specifically.

Electronics

Mark Millsap

Leesburg

Gardening

Mary Waldron & Jennifer Chu

Leesburg & Purcellville

• Contact the stewards if you are interested in assisting at either site!

HP Plotter

Randy Holland (pending board approval) 

Purcellville

• Needs a Steward!
• Randy Holland has offered to steward this device.  

HVAC Filters

Dean Williamson

Leesburg

• Dean is always on top of this!

Laser Cutters

John Dubelko & Jessee Maloney & John Carter

Leesburg & Purcellville

• John Carter is now officially a Laser Steward
• The ULS (old) laser is for sale.  See John Dubelko for details.

Metal Shop in Leesburg & Tormach

Brad Hess

Leesburg

Metal Shop in Purcellville

Dave Painter &

Purcellville

• In the midst of rebuilding the bridgeport about 50% done
• Rearranged to make ingress/egress easier

Plasma Cutter

Jim Waldron

Purcellville

Printmaking

John Carter

Leesburg

• Printmaking classes to commence in March at MSL
• New Makersmiths Printmaking Studio to start being built out once the rest of the rooms have successfully switcheroo'd.

Purcellville Green Room

OPEN

Purcellville

• Needs a Steward!

Purcellville Woodshop

Dave Painter

Purcellville

• New router table coming sometime this week
• Donated by a new member!

Snack Area

J Wang

Leesburg

Sublimation Printer

Jessee Maloney & TBA

Leesburg

• Software has been fixed
• 2 instructors located, classes coming soon

UV Printer

Jessee Maloney & John Carter

Leesburg

Vacuum Formers

Jessee Maloney

Leesburg

Vinyl Cutter & Cricuts

OPEN

Leesburg & Purcellville

• Needs a Steward!

Welding

Jim Waldron & John Johnson

Purcellville

Woodshop in Leesburg

Mike Dewan

Leesburg

• I am still looking for the 1/2" router table collet. I will order a replacement if it does not appear soon. 
• There are a few router bits that have been damaged. Please treat these with care so we don't have to replace them.  
• The sander is experiencing problems and I am trying to correct them but have had difficulty with the repairs being lasting. 
• I would like to remind you that if you have not had a router table checkout you are not free to use the table until you have been signed off. See me if you need sign off. 
• Use of the saw stop is limited to  general routine cutting with the blade guard in place. If you want to remove the blade guard or change blades or other non-standard uses then you need to complete the advanced table saw techniques class.
• As always, please please clean up after yourself!

Woodturning`

Ken Fuentecilla & Bryan Boston

Leesburg