Plenum/Meeting minutes/2022-09-07

Do-something day (23. September)

Lukas is hosting the next Do Something Day an will focus on making the space presentable for the coming open days.

What about the toilets? Can we make them less... dirty?

Ideas for projects for a next DSD:

• Kitchen: Integrate Induction stove, make sure the new table is more stable
• Old cables: recycle and sell to recycler
• Make list of ideal positions for new hanging outlets
• Make lists of necessary lamps and worklights
  • Wood turning bench has bad lighting

Open Day (September 24th)

• The CoMakingSpace turns 5 in September!
• We will have an open day to celebrate this
  • planning/preparation checklist: do-something #271
• supervised activities for visitors - ideas & tutors welcome!
  • 3D printing Lmnl99
  • laser cutting/engraving (Sebastian)
    • Project:Laser Engraved Stamps?
    • personalized give-aways with logo/"offene Werkstatt in Heidelberg" + visitor's name? Could be pencils or clothespins
    • engraved portraits in wood? Requires much more preparation & machine time (cost!)
  • Upcycling of used beer/wine bottles (Lukas)
• further ideas
  • woodworking?
    • We've done simple scroll saw work in the past (Thomas Scholz)
  • electronics
    • We still have Project:Counter Board boards available
• lots of exhibition pieces wanted (show off your projects!)
  • Luca will be around
  • Heidleberg trashure will bring existing things
  • Martin will bring existing projects
  • Prepare slideshow of existing projects (Martin)
  • Prepare name tags for people who are known to be around (e.g. laser them on September 23rd)
  • Cut something on the CNC Router upfront (and create video to show create progress)
  • Keno: Write reminder to create new pages.
• We need some PR to advertise
  • Poster (Björn, Martin will show what´s avaible (e.g. the ideas from St3ffi)
    • Martin will provide Björn access to the Nextcloud
    • Posters need to be given to Stadt Heidelberg latest at September 9th
  • Invites to press Lukas
    • Rhein Neckar Zeitung
    • Heise (Make Magazin)
  • Instagram, Facebook, etc. Posts
  • Landing Page on Website
    • QR for the Poster should lead to the landing page
    • Martin to create the link
    • If push comes to shove: Lukas can create content
• Please keep poking people to participate in the event when you meet them personally at the space!
• What about the toilets? Can we make them less... dirty?
• We should send out targeted invitations to people of interest:
  • Press
  • Kulturfenster
  • Other non-profits in our domain

Maus Türöffnertag (October 3rd)

• https://coms-hd.slack.com/archives/C02DCMMCFBJ/p1659428530770209
• Sebastian plans to be available at that day --> Help execute existing concepts
• Todo: Enter in our calendar, so people know the space is blocked
• Activities are now registered:
  • 3D Printing (Lmnl99)
    • Keep printers running
    • Explain 3D Printing to the kids
    • Let kids design their own keychain (e.g. with their name)
    • Martin to check whether we can use the mouse logo
    • Topic relation: 3D Printers connect individual layers of plastics
  • Project:Laser Engraved Stamps
    • Topic relation: Connect analogue design / drawing with digital technology
  • Create a huge mouse and elephant from scrap that the kids can bring (and members donate upfront) Heidleberg trashure
    • Topic relation: connecting materials leftover at different homes to create something new
  • Electronics (Project:Counter Board) --> Patrick
    • Topic relation: soldering connects electronics and we are adding some "Spannung" to make it work
  • Open: Will we manage to get some woodworking project
• Lukas: I think we can rely on the official organisation taking care of PR and invest our time in other tasks, or have we made own posters for this in the past?
• What about the toilets? Can we make them less... dirty?

Repair Café (October 15th)

• second installment of our Repair Café cooperation with Ökostadt Rhein-Neckar (the first event went great!)
• we need helpers who know their way around the Space and like to welcome new visitors ("Orga") and/or are good at fixing things ("Reparatur")
  • signup list for these volunteers: see Slack channel "#topic-repair" or contact Lukas
    • Google Sheet for signup
• Please keep poking people to participate in the event when you meet them personally at the space!

CodeWeek (October 8th - October 23rd)

• Erik will have some Coding Events with kids
• Further volunteers?
• https://www.codeweek.de/

Art Corner

Irina is working on the Art-Corner and asking for assistance:

Ideas:

• Building set for mosaics
  • Please donate tiles, procelain, whole or broken
  • Does someone have ground, grout or tile glue?
  • need tools for working with tiles
• Get a plotter. Prices are relatively cheap (150-300€)
  • We have experience with silhouette devices
  • We can lend one for experimental purposes!
  • Plotters have a lot of synergy with general maker processes:
    • creating stencils for spraying
    • using pens/brushes in toolholders for "handwritten" signs
• Screen printing
  • Great synergy with the plotter
  • Screen printing equipment is relatively cheap / DIYable, and attracts a wide audience
• Pottery
  • Hannah Wagner can do that in the mid term (2023)
  • Needs some space
  • Firing can be done externally (Open space, "Kreativ" in Märzgasse, Kulturfenster)
    • Maybe look for options in collaboration?
  • Pottery is highly attractive for a wide audience!

Any help, also with new ideas, is appreciated!

Consideration:

• Mosaics will create abrasive dust. Maybe bad in common room or near machines?
• Theres a basically unused table to the left directly after entering the woodworkshop from the common room. We could use that one
  • Will need light
  • how about starting this area in the central area near the metal workshop? Next to the "Dremel table" and spraying table: these would certainly come in handy for the direction our art projects seem to be heading --Lukas (talk) 15:32, 19 September 2022 (CEST)
• We need someone who will create a nice working corner for the project:
  • Lights, some kind of separation from the space maybe

Hot Metal Corner

Can we get a list of todos and finish during a DSD?

• See issue: https://github.com/comakingspace/do-something/issues/199
• Sebastian is interested to help