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23 February 2010 Business Meeting Minutes

Location: The Generator, 107 N. 6th Street, Garland, TX, 75040

The following DPRG officers were in attendance:

• Ed Paradis, President
• Paul Bouchier, Vice President
• Doug Emmes, Treasurer
• Eric Chaney, Secretary
• Glenn Pipe, Librarian
• Steve Rainwater, Webmaster, grant committee

Upcoming Events

National robotics week is April 10th – 18th

• There is currently a house bill to make this an annual event.
• Plan a day to hold a tech fest for the event.
• Hold Training classes on robotics. Such as the Arduino and Boe Bot.
• We will need to plan out a schedule and get a location for the event. Possibly at the Museum of science and Nature.
• Invite other groups to participate.
• Doug Emmes will look into getting a space for the event.
• Presentation ideas, Ron’s Key FOB Robot, Glenn’s R2D2 controller, Paul Robot Controller.

All-Con March 13th - 15th: all-con.org at Crown Plaza Hotel

• At this time we did not receive confirmation on the number of tickets
• No word about support from Vex
• Paul Bouchier will organize the event.

Previous Events

Tech Fest: February 21-23: http://www.natureandscience.org

• The event was well staffed and we received a positive reaction from the people we talked to.
• DPRG received press coverage from the event.
• It was felt that the DPRG did not get much by going to Tech Fest.
• Our table was in the Nature Building and received a low amount of traffic.
• Next year, if we attend, our table should be in the Science Building with the rest of the related exhibits.

Projects

Dallas Makerspace

• The name has been changed from HackerSpace to MakerSpace to avoid bad public perception of the word "hacker".
• There will be a machine shop as well as computer lab.
• Fundraiser is ongoing.
• http://www.dallasmakerspace.com is running.

Eric Chaney
DPRG Secretary