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."