2014 02 24 - nortonimperiallabs/nortonimperiallabs GitHub Wiki

####### Meeting notes, NIL 24 Feb 2014 ####### Previous meeting summary

LLC status

  • WIP
  • Submitted, waiting for response

Real estate

  • Kalin has ideas
  • Basically waiting on us

Branding

  • Need tagline
  • Need to expound on mission statement
  • Need font
  • Need colors

Crowdfunding

  • Looking for help for video, robbiet480's friend Scott may be available but out-of-country March 1-30
  • Need action plan with line items
  • Ongoing crowdhoster question pending logistics determination

Organization

  • We need to consolidate things and get a central launch point (nortonimperiallabs.org would make sense)
  • Various automated bots could be very useful (pirate pad to git or wiki, etc)
  • Consistent meeting time and location

Fast business

  • LLC status
  • Update from Tom?
  • Real estate
  • People power
  • Whereis Maxwell?

Medium business

  • Bylaws structure
  • Organization updates and discussion
  • Wiki git repository user/project.wiki.git, add as remote to website to autodeplay
  • Turns out the website is already a repo
  • Crowdfunding action items generation
  • Legally
  • LLC status
  • EIN
  • Bank account
  • Crowdtilt linking
  • Campaign wise
  • Establish a funding target
  • Real estate estimate first
  • Prelim budget
  • Rewards
  • What are they
  • Membership as a reward
  • Need to define members, aka need bylaws
  • Swag
  • Space to write your own thing on the wall
  • Various tiers
  • How much they will cost funders
  • When will they be delivered
  • How much will they cost
  • Define membership (very high priority)

Long business

  • Branding
    • Tagline
      • Create a thread, deadline for submissions
      • Create, collaborate, commiserate
    • Vision statement
      • Norton Imperial Labs exists to provide a space where interesting people collaborate to write on the world in the ink of their imagination.
    • Mission statement Norton Imperial Laboratories strives to inspire collaboration, creativity, involvement, and passion in the San Francisco community through:
      • Fostering community
      • Open project space, "third" space
      • Safe and clean work environment
      • Teaching and learning a community-oriented project that is not quite techshop, not quite maker space. ? "Disassemble my Thinkpad not on my kitchen table to where someone's just been sleeping." "Don't need to rummage for 20 minutes to find a component." "A place to make things." "…to spend time with interesting people." "Where I can run workshops." "Place to work on my own projects." "The third place, a community." "Hackerspaces are the printing press of the 21st century." "A safe place to work on a hardware projects." "Run by the community." "Personal projects, mostly in the woodshop." "Learning to code more better."
    • Font
    • Colors
    • Logo sourcing
    • Realistic timeline goals

Recap and reassess

  • Goals for next week
  • Task review
  • Task assignment
  • Beer and dinner
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