PS:1 Wiki Dev - User contributions [en]

Discourse

2017-05-04T21:19:52Z

Justin:

Link: https://discourse.pumpingstationone.org

Discourse was turned off on 2017-05-04. The backup of the data/messages in the forum is being held by the CTO.

== Technical Stuff ==

How to stand up things to use the member site credentials for logging in to discourse

How to allow people to create categories

How to make hats

I can't remember what else.

Hypertherm Powermax 45 Plasma Cutter

2017-04-12T22:17:09Z

Justin: /* List of Currently Certified Users */

{{Template:EquipmentPage|owner=Bart
|model=Hypertherm Powermax 45
|serial=N/A
|arrived=Yes
|doesitwork= yes
|contact=Bart
|where=Hot Metals
|certification=yes
|hackable=no
|value=$2000
|image =
|hostarea=Hot Metals}}

Manual: [[File:Hyperthem-45.pdf]]

== List of Currently Certified Users ==

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
! Qualified Member
! Trained By
|-
|Tom Judge
|Area Host
|-
|Bart Dring
|Owner
|-
|Everett Wilson
|Bart
|-
|Simon Cygielski
|Tom
|-
|Ryan Pierce
|Jabu Dawdu
|-
|Allen Zalsman
|Simon Cygielski
|-
|Scott Anamizu
|Simon Cygielski
|-
|[[user:kuroishi | Doorman Dave]]
|Jabu Dawdu
|-
|Ron Olson
|Tom Judge
|-
|[[user:rdoeksen | Ray Doeksen]]
|Ron Olson
|-
|[[user:jbloydpeshkin | Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin]]
|Bart
|-
|David Srebro
|Ron Olson
|-
|Michael Skilton
|Ron Olson
|-
|Tom Forajter
|Simon Cygielski
|-
|Raj Perera
|Ron Olson
|-
|Lauren Svedman
|Ron Olson
|-
|Andrew Camardella
|Tom Judge
|-
|Keon Turner
|Ron Olson
|-
|Justin Conroy
|Ron Olson
|}

[[Category: Hot Metals]]

Talk:Meeting Notes 2017-03-07

2017-03-09T16:28:42Z

Justin: /* Votes */ new section

== Votes ==

I do believe some votes happened at this meeting. Can we please have the results added to the notes? [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 10:28, 9 March 2017 (CST)

Talk:Board Meeting Notes 2017-03-08

2017-03-09T16:24:40Z

Justin: /* Space Ops Area Host */ new section

== Space Ops Area Host ==

What are the responsibilities of the Space Ops Area Host? [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 10:24, 9 March 2017 (CST)

Board Meeting Notes 2017-02-21

2017-02-21T17:29:45Z

Justin:

{{Board Meeting Notes
| Previous YYYY-MM-DD= 2017-02-01
| Next YYYY-MM-DD= 2017-03-07
| YYYY=2017
}}

Meeting Start:

== Attendance ==
* Board Members
**

* Other Members
**

== Agenda ==

* Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
* Consent Agenda
* Committee Reports
* Read mail
* Financial/membership report
* Review the PayPal and banking transactions
* Member leaving reason reports
* Check RT queue
* New business
** CNC Area Host Applications
** Movie night issues, licensing etc
* Old business

== Minutes ==

=== Discussion on previous minutes ===

=== Consent Agenda ===

=== Committee Reports ===

Reports from [[Committees]]

=== Mail ===

=== Financial Report ===
* '''Chase Checking:'''
* '''Chase Savings:'''
* '''PEX:'''
* '''PayPal:'''

=== Membership Report ===
* '''Starving Hackers:'''
* '''Full Members:'''
* '''Total Members:'''
* '''Quorum:'''

=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===

=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===

=== RT ===

=== New Business ===

=== Old Business ===

== Votes ==

Board Meeting Notes 2017-01-31

2017-02-21T17:29:32Z

Justin:

{{Board Meeting Notes
| Previous YYYY-MM-DD=2017-01-17
| Next YYYY-MM-DD=2017-02-01
| YYYY=2017
}}

Meeting Start:

== Attendance ==
* Board Members
** Andrew
** Ed
** Ray
** Carl
** Jonathan
** Simon
** Brian

* Other Members
** Matt
** Adriana
** Justin

== Agenda ==

* Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
* Consent Agenda
* Committee Reports
* Read mail
* Financial/membership report
* Review the PayPal and banking transactions
* Member leaving reason reports
* Check RT queue
* New business
** Transition check-in, goals
** Party Planner Position
** Cold Metal Authorizer
** CNC Area Host
** Scheduling future meetings
** Member issues
** Dispute Resolution Committee
* Old business
** Followup on printer - board statement
** Insurance update

== Minutes ==

=== Discussion on previous minutes ===

=== Consent Agenda ===
* Previous meeting minutes are approved

=== Committee Reports ===
Reports from [[Committees]]
* Bylaws Committee Report
** Waiting to hear from lawyers
** Ed will ping lawyers
** MWE is the law firm that is working for us Pro Bono to revise the bylaws and help us with 501(c)3 status and revising the bylaws
** We may want to pay for a lawyer to speed things up. Jared also offered to help out.

=== Mail ===
* Chase tax documents, given to Brian

=== Financial Report ===
* '''Chase Checking:''' $99.292.10
* '''Chase Savings:''' $35,671.54
* '''PEX:''' $11,221.62
* '''PayPal:''' $8,688.66

=== Membership Report ===
* '''Starving Hackers:''' 302
* '''Full Members:''' 136
* '''Total Members:''' 438
* '''Quorum:''' 46

=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
* $13 check - was for the annual report

=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===

=== RT ===
* [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5825 5825]
** Need to document receipts
* [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6056 6056] Skilton requesting 5 member points
** Passes unanimously. Jonathan to grant the points.
* [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5508 5508] Jason requesting two points
** Passes unanimously. Jonathan to grant the points.
* [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6028 6028] Farkas requesting point for orientation
** Passes unanimously. Jonathan to grant the points.

=== New Business ===
* Dispute Resolution Committee
** Adriana is interested in being part of the DRC
** Come to the bylaws committee if you're interested
* Party Planning Position
** Proposal is to have it be a volunteer position with a full membership
** Board votes to create a position of PS:One Party Planner with PEX card privileges and delegated authority to spend the party budget.
** To discuss for next meeting: what will the the compensation be? (i.e. starving hacker, full membership, something else?)
* CNC Area Host
** Deferred to next meeting
* Board will meet in additional meeting tomorrow

=== Old Business ===

== Votes ==

Board Meeting Notes 2017-02-21

2017-02-21T16:31:36Z

Justin: /* Agenda */

{{Board Meeting Notes
| Previous YYYY-MM-DD= 2017-02-07
| Next YYYY-MM-DD= 2017-03-07
| YYYY=2017
}}

Meeting Start:

== Attendance ==
* Board Members
**

* Other Members
**

== Agenda ==

* Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
* Consent Agenda
* Committee Reports
* Read mail
* Financial/membership report
* Review the PayPal and banking transactions
* Member leaving reason reports
* Check RT queue
* New business
** CNC Area Host Applications
** Movie night issues, licensing etc
* Old business

== Minutes ==

=== Discussion on previous minutes ===

=== Consent Agenda ===

=== Committee Reports ===

Reports from [[Committees]]

=== Mail ===

=== Financial Report ===
* '''Chase Checking:'''
* '''Chase Savings:'''
* '''PEX:'''
* '''PayPal:'''

=== Membership Report ===
* '''Starving Hackers:'''
* '''Full Members:'''
* '''Total Members:'''
* '''Quorum:'''

=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===

=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===

=== RT ===

=== New Business ===

=== Old Business ===

== Votes ==

300 Seconds of fame

2017-02-10T17:44:19Z

Justin: /* December 2016 */

2nd Tuesdays of each month at PS:One, you! yes YOU! get to hear your fellow members, geeks, and other associated community-minded people present to whoever wants to show up, but only for 300 seconds apiece.

You've got five minutes. Use it wisely.

== What is it? ==

300 Seconds of Fame (300SoF) is a combination/alteration of PS:One's separate [http://pumpingstationone.org/2009/11/lightning-talks-at-pumping-station-one/ lightning talks] and [http://pumpingstationone.org/2009/11/pechakucha-night-at-psone/ Pecha Kucha night], taking in elements from [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame Noisebridge's Five Minutes of Fame], which in turn is an adaptation of CCC's Lightning Talks. The idea is that we hold about an hour's worth of 5 minute open mic slots. You can run shorter, but not longer, than five minutes.

Within those parameters, what is it? Glad you asked.

It can be a presentation, a musical number, a demonstration, a debate, a run-through of a proof of concept, performance art, live circuit bending, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Will it fit into five minutes, be feasible for the space, and be appreciated by an audience? Go for it.

== When and Where does it happen? ==

Second Tuesday of every month after the 8pm meeting at PS:One.

== Why are we doing this? ==

* Easy way to find out what's going on at PS:One -- no need to sit through long lectures.
* Some people are working on projects that are not ready for a full 30 minute or hour long talk, but they want to get their ideas out. Maybe they need help; maybe they want to propose an idea to the PS:One community.
* Some people are shy about public speaking and want to practice without giving an "official" conference talk, which can be daunting. This is a great way to try it out in a community of peers.
* These days, many of us are becoming entrepreneurs to one extent or another. If you're trying to sell your idea to someone, you need to be able to explain it in five minutes or less.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Law_of_Fives "The Law of Fives"]

== How can I participate? ==

Easy - sign up to give a talk! Contact Justin (`justin on irc OR justin (at) conroy dot in) or add your talk to the "Next" section below.

Include your name (or handle) and talk title, as well as whether or not you'll need projector access.

== How can I attend? ==

Just show up!

== Next 300SoF ==

==== February 2017 ====
To be held on February 14, 2017.

# '''YOU!'''

== Past 300SoF ==

=== 2017 ===
==== January 2017 ====
'''Special Election Edition'''. Held on January 17, 2017. See [[2017 Board Elections]] if you're curious about the results.

# Ed Bennet - Director at Large
# Will McShane - Director at Large
# Erik Funkhouser - Director at Large
# Carl Karsten - Director at Large
# Deanna Williams - Director of Public Relations
# Ray Doeksen - Director of Public Relations
# Patrick Callahan - Director of Public Relations
# Jonathan Bisson - Chief Technical Officer
# Brian Chojnowski - Treasurer
# Simon Pyle - Secretary
# Jennie Plasterer - Vice President
# Andrew Camardella - President
# Adriana Garcia - President

=== 2016 ===
====December 2016====
Held on December 13, 2016.

# Roy - Programmable LED displays are awwwwesome (and easy to make!)
# Lyn - Hacking cold weather
# Simon and/or other machine knitters - machine knitting scarves
# Jeremiah - Asking for ideas
# Dubi - My trip to Columbia

====November 2016====
Held on November 8, 2016.

#Sai - How I See Things
#Dubi - Yankee Doodle
#Lyn - Pain
#Johnny Panic - Smithing
#Mari - Carlton
#Aaron - Small PC Water Cooling
#Will - Ice Cream and How To Make It

==== October 2016 ====
# Shelly - Poop
# John - Insane Quality Functional Deployment

==== September 2016 ====
Held on September 13, 2016.
# Shelly - How to Get Hired from the Internet Without Hardly Trying *projector
# Lyn - button pressing
# Katherine - people hacking
# Jennie - squirrels
# Tyler - Drone add-on project *projector
# Joe - River City Labs
# Andy - Hot Melt Injection Molding

==== August 2016 ====
Held on August 9, 2016.
# Cam (from Minneapolis) - LED skirt a la Adafruit
# Lyn - Frugal food buying and preparing
# Cam - Pi Zero
# Jennie - Palm Pilot

==== July 2016 ====
Held on July 12, 2016 at approximately 20:30
# Lyn - T-shirt Hacking
# Jeremy - How to do normal things in terrible places, pt. 1
# Justin - Why do my projects cost so much?

==== June 2016 ====
Held on June 14, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
# Ron - "So let's say you ate a banana..." or "#2 Revisited" - a talk about where it all goes (with pictures!)
# An - "Pumping Station: One, Month One!"
# Justin - State of the Hackerspace
# Lyn - Jazz and my history with Jazz.
# Jay - The power of caring for strangers
# Dubi - Do birds have a favorite font?

==== May 2016 ====
Held on May 10, 2016 at approximately 20:30.

# Patrick "Pallethands" Callahan - Bureaucracy
# Peter - Ramblings of a nervous person, Pt. 3
# Spencer - Watchmaking Things
# Aaron - Help me decide
# Eric - 300 seconds of erasing the whiteboard and Condorcet Voting Methods

==== April 2016 ====
# Justin - The State of the Hackerspace (http://youtu.be/hxI4inw0uEc)
# Lyn - Demonstration of Loom Bands and Crochet (http://youtu.be/jGimttMwc44)
# Andrew - Basics of 3D Scanning (http://youtu.be/hO2JjDV5_Y0)
# Shelly Loke - I Want To Melt Glass (http://youtu.be/j8Bq1wEXrq8)
# Ron - Banana and Get Me Off Your Banana List (http://youtu.be/eC9rmsI7dnw)
# Justin - Videos I Found On Everett's Computer (http://youtu.be/wkJc59bA388)
# Peter - Ramblings of a Nervous Person (http://youtu.be/jDM4cAN5DPw)

==== March 2016 ====
Held on March 8, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]]- Exploring the world Pt 6 -International Treasures
# Nathan - Game Pencil Engine

==== February 2016 ====
Held on February 9, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - Loom bands revisited with a crochet hook.
# Ryan - Star Trek Replicator
# Dubi - Selective Breeding

==== January 2016 ====
Held on January 19, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
* [[2016 Board Elections|Election Edition]]

=== 2015 ===
==== December 2015 ====
Held on December 8, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Eviljoel - PGP in 300 seconds
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]]- Exploring the world Pt 5

==== November 2015 ====
Held on November 10, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Drew Fustini ''(pdp7)'': Secure Your Website with '''free''' SSL cert from [http://letsencrypt.org/ Let's Encrypt!] ''(slides: [[File:Letsencrypt.pdf]])''
# Dan Locks: 300 Seconds of Teasing us Into Thinking He'll Juggle Something
# Doorman Dave: Teaching Some Random Schmuck How To Juggle in 300 Seconds or Less
# Eric Stein: How to submit things to Running a Hackerspace and why you should
# Lyn: Tap Dancers for the sole
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Why I studied architecture and construction and why its related to Hackerspace.
# Ron: A presentation inspired by Bry
# ILab: visiting from France

==== October 2015 ====
Held on October 13, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Visiting Artist David Kadish - [http://davidkadish.com/portfolio/inorganisms/ Inorganisms]
# Drew Fustini ''(pdp7)'': Linux Kernel fun with the Eudyptula Challenge ''(slides: [[File:Open-mic-fustini-v2.pdf]])''
# Sheila Miguez ''(skay)'': [https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] has [https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-10-01-free-ssl-certificates.html free automated ssl certs] for self hosted instances, and I used it for pyoo. please see also, [http://mediagoblin.org/news/userops.html userops]
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Exploring the world pt 4
# Lyn - Flower pot space heater experiment

==== September 2015 ====
Held on September 8, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Ron: XYZ Zero plate for the Shopbot
# Shellie: Japanese Bento
# Bruce: Fire and Ice
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Exploring the world pt.3
# Lyn: Hearing aids
# Drew Fustini ''(pdp7)'': Open Source Hardware ([http://files.meetup.com/15581722/ps1-300sof-fustini-oshw.pdf slides])

==== August 2015 ====
Held on August 11th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# [[User:Skm|Sheila]] - Doom doom doom [https://discourse.pumpingstationone.org/t/300-seconds-of-doom/65]
# [[User:anthony|Anthony]] - Light is Dumb
# [[User:jenx|Geneviève]] - Special Remote Edition: @rad1obadge and #CCCamp15
# [[User:Dubi|Dubi]] - Stop Light Version
# [[User:sl01|Sloan]] - Kiasma; A Steven Holl Building
# [[User:Lyn|Lyn]] - views of Chicago from a helicopter
# [[User:bry|Bry]] - All the cat gifs that didn't fit in Doorman Dave/Hef's presentation
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Exploring the world pt.2
# [[User:sylphiae|Jenny]] - What I Learned in Detroit
# [[User:kuroishi|Doorman Dave]]/[[User:hef|Hef]] - Introducing Discourse

==== July 2015 ====
Held on July 14th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Arturo Duarte - Exploring the world pt.1
# Lyn - hot glue sewing
# Bioguy - I Need Help!!!111
# Dubi Kaufmann - How to run Google Deep Dream for people who can not set up python very well.

==== June 2015 ====
Held on June 9th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - T-shirt hacking take two
# Doorman Dave - Physical ATM Security for fun (not profit.)
# Jesse - Wearable show and tell

==== May 2015 ====
Held on May 12th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Hef - Systems update
# Eric & Dave - Grumpermon Talks To His Therapist
# Arturo - Why maps fascinate me

==== April 2015 ====
Held on April 7th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - Fast and easy costumes for cheap, really fast and really easy
# Bioguy - Identity Theft, a victim's perspective and some lessons learned
# Hef - April 2015 Tech Update
# Arturo - What's going on guys?
# Eric - Tubular Bells

==== March 2015 ====
Held on March 10th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# <strike>Doorman Dave - Either "Provisioning a bare metal CoreOS env for Docker(bot) in <300s." or "Uncommonly used and little known features of OpenSSH"</strike>
#* Doorman Dave was too busy being awesome.
# Lyn - Mixmeister, why older is better, sometimes. Subheading ~ music editing from the past.
# Matt - From code to coffee table: a CNC adventure
# Glenn - HP Universal Counter, Rubidium Standard: What they are, why you should care
# Dubi - What Color Is It?
# Noony - How to do an online book tour
# Carl - Google summer of code

==== February 2015 ====
Held on February 10, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - Furby Friend & App
# Bjonnh - Pbbt!
# Rei - Werewolves and Vampires
# Daniel - Microcontrollers Controlling the Lights on Skyscrapers!
# Geneviève - Passports

==== January 2015 ====
January's 300 seconds of fame, as is usual, was reserved for candidates to the board of directors to state their platforms. It was held on January 20, 2015. Specific details about who did the speaking can be found on the [[2015 Elections]] page.

=== 2014 ===
==== December 2014 ====
Held on December 9, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Derek - How I nailed a tiny computer to a door, or, our in-development RFID entry system
# Sevin - Non-CNC grinding of camshafts (and other awesome things Sevin's company does.)
# Eric - Message Queues, [[Things Bus]] & Distributed Stuff
# Dubi - Remixing music on the beat in reverse order

==== November 2014 ====
Held on November 11th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Jenny - Pretty Random Space Pictures
# Hef - On Writing Votes
# Carl - Conky
# Mike Warot - A process for doing synthetic focus photography

==== October 2014 ====
Held on October 14th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Hef - tech update
# Jonathan - the benefits of using emacs
# Derek - Hazers and foggers - entertainment atmospheres

==== September 2014 ====
Held on September 9, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Justin - Derailling the Conversation
# Ryan - 3 phase power basis: Wye use high leg delta?
# Drew - Take the EFF's Tor Challenge! (How to setup a Tor non-exit relay in 5 minutes for $5/mo)
# Will - A Wolf Among Us
# Bry - Head in a Jar (How to poorly put together a costume in a week)
# Eric - Doing What Tac Won't

==== August 2014 ====
Held on August 12th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Lyn - Electronic BONANZAAAAAAAA‽
# Bioguy - Hack Your Coffee!
# Arturo - Salvador Dali Cookbook [I've got it!]
# Genevieve - [http://x.hope.net/schedule.html#northkorea 300 Seconds of KP] - aka NEEDSMOARX (The perfect chaser to the Dali cookbook. Dash of projector, sprig of audio, shake until fluffy.) [http://youtu.be/ERLaZ488I6k Link to video showed]

==== July 2014 ====
Held at July 8th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.

# Luciano Ramalho (visiting from [http://garoa.net.br/ Garoa Hacker Clube]) -- [http://www.pingo.io/docs/ Pingo]: the "universal" GPIO API
# Carl - Vagrant!
# Ray - USA-OK Chair
# Jenny - Science - Why?

==== June 2014 ====
# Jenny - Causes of the Holocaust
# Arturo Duarte - People that inspire me????
# [[User:justin|Justin T. Conroy]] - Show me the Money!
# [[User:Acatherinenoon|A. Catherine Noon]] - Agent or Non-Agented Submissions for Books - Is It Needed?
# Toba - Stand There and Yap

* Short intermission, and then PowerPoint Karaoke!

# Jonathan
# Ivan
# Jenny
# Justin
# Joseph
# Ella
# Lyn
# GenX
# Toba
# Carl/Sara
[[File:Ps1-karaokepowerpoint.jpg|400px]]

==== May 2014 ====

# Dee Newcum — [http://bit.ly/termdetect bit.ly/termdetect], a GPL project
# Jason - Music visualization
# Jesse - Knitting Circuit Boards
# Jenny - Why is the area of a circle pi*r^2?
# Arturo Duarte - Stuff and more stuff!
# Greg - Robots!

==== April 2014 ====
# Ste - HD Retrovision
# Bjonnh - Reverse engineering in academia
# Mike - How GPS Works
# Dan - First Robotics Competition

==== March 2014 ====
# Eric Stein - What Beer Church Does
# Ryan Pierce - How to make lots of noise and ozone: Tesla coils!
# A. Catherine Noon - What's in a publishing contract? One author's experience.
# Hef - Howto Wiki (projector)
# Nick - Thoughts on Surveillance
# Pete N. - Zymurgy at PS:1 and Random Renaissance Moment

==== February 2014 ====
# Lyn - Creative looms for rubberband items
# Mike - Snaaaake, it's a snaaaake.
# Bry - Lazor Air Ballons
# Justin - 300 Seconds Worth of Servo Stuff
# Hef - Tech Updates - Blog edition. (projector)
# A. Catherine Noon - Getting paid to write books - or, Stories That Make You Late For Work.
# Sacha - I made a tweeting, motion sensing hammer in 72 hours. It changed how I do all my projects

==== January 2014 ====
# Director at Large nominee - Ed Bennett
# Director at Large nominee - Jay Hopkins
# Director at Large nominee - A. Catherine Noon
# CTO nominee - Hef
# Treasurer nominee - Steve Farkas
# Secretary nominee - Rhys Rhaven
# Secretary nominee - Derek Bever
# Vice President nominee - Everett Wilson
# President nominee - Bryanna Denney

=== 2013 ===

==== December 2013 ====
# Mike - The Projective Plane
# Hef - Tech Updates (Including Root For All)
# loans - Modern intelligent lighting
# Ste - Composite Video Encoding/Decoding
# Jerry - Adding Cosinusoidal Functions the Relatively Easy Way, or Phasors
# Kevin - Alexander G. Bell - Electromagnetic noise reduction

==== November 2013 ====
# Andrey Belomutskiy - rusEfi - DIY electronic fuel injection [projector]
# Frank Duncon - Frank talks about netlogo [projector]
# Tac - sqrt(2)
# Hef - State of the technologies

==== October 2013 ====
# Bry - Look at this cake I made (interactive) [projector]
# Joe Walnes - Idea to Kickstarter in 90 days. Sort of.
# Ste Kulov - Digital Logic
# Jerry - 300 More Seconds of Lasers (or: Deblackboxifying the laser cutter a bit)
# eviljoel - Calling your legislature.
# Sacha - Why the lasercutter _really_ doesn't burn through the earth.

==== September 2013 ====
# Kevin - Did A.G.Bell steal the telephone? (Needs Projector)
# Hef - PS1 Technology Update. (Needs Projector)
# Anthony - Searches for Supersymmetry
# Ryan - Stuff I'm working on

==== August 2013 ====

# Hef - [https://members.pumpingstationone.org PS1 Member Site ] - Needs Projector
# Ste - Easy Op-Amps
# Jerry - Lasers: a 300 second primer
# Ryan Pierce - The Polygraph

==== July 2013 ====

# Dash - How to text message from your dreams [projector]
# Ste - Digital-to-Analog Conversion Circuit
# Jamie Becka - Chicago Time Exchange

==== June 2013 ====

# James Longfield - How not to be a dick in the shop
# Jodie Arañas - FIGMENT Chicago [Projector Access]
# Mike Maloney - Groups
# A. Catherine Noon - Finding water
# Jenny Tong - Consciousness and P-Zombies

==== May 2013 ====

# Tim - How to not kill each other with voting
# ste - Thevenin's Theorem
# Patrick O'hara - Dvorak keyboards
# Jesse Seay - Clam Shell Case Pressure Sensor

==== April 2013 ====

# Dee - Important uses of rope           [projector needed]
# Ste - Digital Signal processing
# Mike - Double Negatives

==== March 2013 ====

# - Jenny - Voting Rights Act of 1965
# - Steve - Beer Church - What to do with the mash?
# - Shellie - Amazing world of mail art
# - Mike - DAGS
# - Ste - Linear Interpolation

==== January 2013 ====
Election edition!

# Director at Large nominee - Jesse Seay
# Director at Large nominee - Ed Bennett
# Director at Large nominee - Shawn Blaszak
# Director at Large nominee - Steve Finkleman
# CTO nominee - Josh Krueger
# Treasurer nominee - Steve Farkas
# Secretary nominee - Haley Willis
# Vice President nominee - Bryanna Denney
# President nominee - Eric Stein

=== 2012 ===

==== December 2012 ====

==== November 2012 ====
# - Will McShane - Vinyl advertising as craft material
# - Mike Warot - Hacking a digital caliper

==== October 2012 ====
# - Rhys Raven - Two fine encryption tools
# - Ryan Brandys - Stuff Ryan is doing
# - Patrick Callahan - Power Racing Highlights

==== September 2012 ====
# - Benjamin Sugar - Apps for activists
# - Will McShane - Laser Scrimshaw
# - Brian Chojnowski - Antikythera
# - Donald Jacobson - Fun with 3d printing
# - Dan Locks - Find me a new job

==== August 2012 ====

# Sacha - Inkscape as Engineering Tool
# Aeva - TV hacking
# Will - 30 second chocolate cake
# Todd - Chicago wifi project
# Corinna - Radiohead bear suit
# Anthony - We Found the Higgs

==== July 2012 ====

# Sacha - From 2D to 3D: five techniques for designing objects for laser cutting
# Elory - The Big Draw Chicago
# Trevor - on behalf of the vinyl cutter
# Will - 1956 Erector set

==== June 2012 ====

# Ed - Electronic Cactus

==== May 2012 ====

# Jesse - introduction to me and my work
# Adam - Apollo 13
# Steve - Doors
# Todd - wifi project
# Sacha - Relative Risk and You
# Brian - Antikythera

==== April 2012 ====

# Rhys - Bitcoin
# Dwayne Johnson - Washcloth Robot
# Sacha De'Angeli - Photoduino Booth
# Avner - Mozilla Open Badges and Hackerspaces

==== March 2012 ====

# Eric Stein - Actual TARDIS
# Jimmy Trevor - Wanderer's Poetry
# Andrew Valkanas - Hacker, hack thy self
# Avner - Kombucha: What the #$*& is that, and can I have some?
# Adam - Artificial pancreas
# Jay - Economics and the technological singularity

==== February 2012 ====
Date change: February 7!

# Eric Stein - mkpuzzle
# Steve - Eagle to Finished Circuit Board in Two Hours
# Jenny Tong - Hacking People
# Brian Kung - Hacking Movement
# Kathy - Sea Chanties
# Ben Smith - Infolens Storage
# Sacha - Intro to Do-ocracies and Bicycle Shedding
# Colin - Stuff I Do
# Pocket Factory - Clap Rap
# Anthony - Hack the Universe
# Chris - dropping some rhymes
# Mike Warot - Computer Security Can Be Fixed

==== January 2012 ====
Election edition!

# Director at Large nominee - Eric
# Director at Large nominee - Dan Meyer
# Director at Large nominee - Steve
# CTO nominee - Eric
# Treasurer nominee - Ish
# BREAK! Cell Stretcher: an Open Science Project - Gerry
# Secretary nominee - Shawn
# Secretary nominee - Patrick
# Vice President nominee - Shawn
# Vice President nominee - Patrick
# President nominee - Tim
# BREAK! Thanks for all you've made in the past year - Anne
# Vice President nominee - Jim

=== 2011 ===

==== December 2011 ====
# Tricopter - Dan
# Osloom's linear actuator - Ed
# Making things for fun and profit - Tim
# NaNoWriYe - Laurie
# Open Science - Ben

==== November 2011 ====
# Awesome Award (and photos) - Chris and Sacha
# The Awesome Foundation - Chris
# Making a Daft Punk Helmet, and Why You Shouldn't - Nick
# telling us about how rad glassblowing is - Daniel from Hotglass Chicago
# journal reading - Beth
# The Saga of Juan - Jim
# Open Science: What it is and why it's cool - Sacha
# Chatlight: Embodying the Internet - Eric
# virtual focus - mike
# digeridoo performance - geoffrey

==== October 2011 ====
# Dan Meyer: Fab Lab Circuit Bending Workshop Video
# Ashley from i3 - Engineering Education: We're Doing it Wrong
# Tim - Businesses as Projects

==== September 2011 ====
# Jim - More Stories from the Balloon Factory
# Lindsay -Ghetto prom 2011

==== August 2011 ====
# Chromium and you - Sacha
# Textile changes - Avner and Lindsay and Tim
# Image processing for cool results - Eric Stein
# One damn beautiful hackerspace - Tim
# Dabble - Anne
# Defcon - Dan

==== June 2011 ====
# Will - Fresh Paint
# John - Electronics for Popups
# Jess - World Naked Bike Ride
# Ish - Apps that break the game
# Tomer - Sarah Palin in a box on acid, or ecstasy
# Adrianna - Song for Pluto

==== May 2011 ====

# Nick - HAL740: An Introduction to DIY Home Automation
# Rhys - Pirates, Hackers, and ADC
# Shawn Blaszak presents the fantastical tangled tale of how I earned my semi-ersatz Erdos number and my surprisingly believable Bacon number
# Jordan - Cricut hacks
# Jim - More Stories from the Balloon Factory
# Matt/digipengi - Protect Your Shit
# Avner - GGHC

==== April 2011 ====

# Kyle - Passive Agressive: Interpreting and Reinterpreting Passive Digital Media
# Dustin - Firefox 4 and Mozilla
# Jim - My Bike and a special announcement
# Sacha - How Open Source Saved My Company
# Eric - How to Wiki

==== March 2011 ====

# Joe - Waking up a la Flava Flav
# Jonathan - Extracting Coffee
# Jim - Hipster Nascar and the Balloon Factory
# Eric - Freegeek
# Rhys - Wireless Chording Keyboard on Thingiverse

==== February 2011 ====

# Avner - Vertical garden
# Joe - Where's Waldo?
# Dan - Small CNC
# Patrick - Things I'm doing
# Jim - Stories from the balloon factory
# David - Time-lapse CHDK photography
# Ben - Macaroni and cheese

==== January 2011 ====
Election edition!

# Jordan Bunker (At Large)
# Jim Burke (At Large)
# Shawn Blasak (At Large)
# Asher - hacking the five minute play
# Rhys (CTO)
# Tim "How to hand-cut a mortise and tenon (badly)"
# Ishmael Rufus (Treasurer)
# Patrick (Secretary)
# Idan - Skiboard
# Nathan Witt (Vice President)
# Anne Petersen (President)
# Sacha De'Angeli (Nothing)

=== 2010 ===

==== December 2010 ====

# Sarah - Member survey
# Jordan, Ish, Rhys, Nathan, Tim - Open Door Hackathon
# Dan - CNC PhlatPrinter
# Tim - Top reasons why you can't juggle
# Joshua Rothhaas - Tinkering School comes to Chicago
# Jay - PCs Uncased
# Sacha - ChiHack
# Patrick - XMas64 Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
# Nathan - Pledge drive
# Jaku and John - RFID jacket
# Tomer

==== November 2010 ====

# Patrick - XMass64 v0.1
# Dustin - Hacking Elections
# Tim - Laser Cutters and you
# Tim and Jordan - Hackerspace valuation, a proposal

==== October 2010 ====

# Bill Mania - Team Frednet and the Google Lunar X Prize
# Joe - Joe's Fantastic Voyage
# dustin - buildbot
# arthur - xray scattering
# Vimby - The world premier of Scion's Take on the Machine, Pumping Station: One

==== September 2010 ====
# Patrick - Patrick
# Sacha - Chemical burns and electric shocks: making atomically sharp needles for fun and profit.
# Sacha - Fish or eat sushi: dumping unprofitable projects for fun and profit.
# Dan - Knots? That's Awesome

==== August 2010 ====
# How to Fail at Physics by Sacha
# Clear Hotspot by Matt
# Mister Rogers on Ecstasy in a Box by Tomer
# Open Up by Willow

==== July 13, 2010 ====

# How to Identify Someone Who Practises Hacking by Tim
# PRS by Jim
# Rival Spaces by Steve
# Optimizing PS:One by Anne

==== June 8, 2010 ====

# Stuff I keep in my pockets by Patrick
# Shadelab by Alex Gilliam
# More tales from the balloon factory by Jim
# MakerBot by Patrick
# Breakfast Cleanup Club results by Anne
# chain maille by Jakub
# Geek Pranks by Patrick
# NeighborCon by Travis

==== May 11, 2010 ====

# Firespinning by Sc00bz
# Taking inventory of PS1's stuff and how you can help by Tim
# The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End by Jeff
# MakerBot by Patrick
# Audio Arduino by Joe Fallon

==== April 13, 2010 ====

# tobtu.com by Sc00bz
# Welcome Tomerica by Tomer
# Tech Workers of the World Unite! by Steve Goodpaster
# Chip Decapping by Travis Goodspeed
# Creative Re-Use by Carl Boyd
# The Jew's Harp by Jimmy P. Rogers
# Malicious GPU Kernel by Travis Goodspeed

==== March 9, 2010 ====

# First Robotics by Ryan Lanham
# A Hackerspace's Guide to... oh, you stopped reading, didn't you by Sacha De'Angeli
# 10 Awesome Things You Probably Didn't Know About Neuroanatomy by Frag
# Digeridoo by Geoffrey
# Arduino Radio by Joseph Fallon
# Please Pirate by Pete
# Fiddling Around by Sarah S.
# Things That Happen to Me at the Balloon Factory by Jim
# Democratizing Video Surveillance by Ella
# Fun Raising by Eric Hanley

==== February 9, 2010 ====

# Peoplehacking II: A Numerically and Biologically Intensive Solution to Losing Weight or: The Engineers' Guide to Weight Loss or: Four Formulae For The Reduction Of Operational Mass by Sacha De'Angeli
# Maker Fair: Get Excited! by Ryan Lanham
# Photography Rights: an educational rant on where it's legal to take pictures by Anne Petersen
# RepRap report: progress! by camo
# Brawndo: The Messy Hackerspace MUTILATOR by Tim Saylor

== Creative Commons licensing and attribution ==
Content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported], cribbed generously from the wiki about [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame/ Noisebridge's similar event].

300 Seconds of fame

2017-02-10T17:43:53Z

Justin: /* 2016 */

2nd Tuesdays of each month at PS:One, you! yes YOU! get to hear your fellow members, geeks, and other associated community-minded people present to whoever wants to show up, but only for 300 seconds apiece.

You've got five minutes. Use it wisely.

== What is it? ==

300 Seconds of Fame (300SoF) is a combination/alteration of PS:One's separate [http://pumpingstationone.org/2009/11/lightning-talks-at-pumping-station-one/ lightning talks] and [http://pumpingstationone.org/2009/11/pechakucha-night-at-psone/ Pecha Kucha night], taking in elements from [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame Noisebridge's Five Minutes of Fame], which in turn is an adaptation of CCC's Lightning Talks. The idea is that we hold about an hour's worth of 5 minute open mic slots. You can run shorter, but not longer, than five minutes.

Within those parameters, what is it? Glad you asked.

It can be a presentation, a musical number, a demonstration, a debate, a run-through of a proof of concept, performance art, live circuit bending, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Will it fit into five minutes, be feasible for the space, and be appreciated by an audience? Go for it.

== When and Where does it happen? ==

Second Tuesday of every month after the 8pm meeting at PS:One.

== Why are we doing this? ==

* Easy way to find out what's going on at PS:One -- no need to sit through long lectures.
* Some people are working on projects that are not ready for a full 30 minute or hour long talk, but they want to get their ideas out. Maybe they need help; maybe they want to propose an idea to the PS:One community.
* Some people are shy about public speaking and want to practice without giving an "official" conference talk, which can be daunting. This is a great way to try it out in a community of peers.
* These days, many of us are becoming entrepreneurs to one extent or another. If you're trying to sell your idea to someone, you need to be able to explain it in five minutes or less.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Law_of_Fives "The Law of Fives"]

== How can I participate? ==

Easy - sign up to give a talk! Contact Justin (`justin on irc OR justin (at) conroy dot in) or add your talk to the "Next" section below.

Include your name (or handle) and talk title, as well as whether or not you'll need projector access.

== How can I attend? ==

Just show up!

== Next 300SoF ==

====December 2016====
To be held on December 13, 2016.

# Roy - Programmable LED displays are awwwwesome (and easy to make!)
# Lyn - Hacking cold weather
# Simon and/or other machine knitters - machine knitting scarves
# Jeremiah - Asking for ideas
# Dubi - My trip to Columbia
# '''YOU!'''

== Past 300SoF ==

=== 2017 ===
==== January 2017 ====
'''Special Election Edition'''. Held on January 17, 2017. See [[2017 Board Elections]] if you're curious about the results.

# Ed Bennet - Director at Large
# Will McShane - Director at Large
# Erik Funkhouser - Director at Large
# Carl Karsten - Director at Large
# Deanna Williams - Director of Public Relations
# Ray Doeksen - Director of Public Relations
# Patrick Callahan - Director of Public Relations
# Jonathan Bisson - Chief Technical Officer
# Brian Chojnowski - Treasurer
# Simon Pyle - Secretary
# Jennie Plasterer - Vice President
# Andrew Camardella - President
# Adriana Garcia - President

=== 2016 ===
====December 2016====
Held on December 13, 2016.

# Roy - Programmable LED displays are awwwwesome (and easy to make!)
# Lyn - Hacking cold weather
# Simon and/or other machine knitters - machine knitting scarves
# Jeremiah - Asking for ideas
# Dubi - My trip to Columbia

====November 2016====
Held on November 8, 2016.

#Sai - How I See Things
#Dubi - Yankee Doodle
#Lyn - Pain
#Johnny Panic - Smithing
#Mari - Carlton
#Aaron - Small PC Water Cooling
#Will - Ice Cream and How To Make It

==== October 2016 ====
# Shelly - Poop
# John - Insane Quality Functional Deployment

==== September 2016 ====
Held on September 13, 2016.
# Shelly - How to Get Hired from the Internet Without Hardly Trying *projector
# Lyn - button pressing
# Katherine - people hacking
# Jennie - squirrels
# Tyler - Drone add-on project *projector
# Joe - River City Labs
# Andy - Hot Melt Injection Molding

==== August 2016 ====
Held on August 9, 2016.
# Cam (from Minneapolis) - LED skirt a la Adafruit
# Lyn - Frugal food buying and preparing
# Cam - Pi Zero
# Jennie - Palm Pilot

==== July 2016 ====
Held on July 12, 2016 at approximately 20:30
# Lyn - T-shirt Hacking
# Jeremy - How to do normal things in terrible places, pt. 1
# Justin - Why do my projects cost so much?

==== June 2016 ====
Held on June 14, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
# Ron - "So let's say you ate a banana..." or "#2 Revisited" - a talk about where it all goes (with pictures!)
# An - "Pumping Station: One, Month One!"
# Justin - State of the Hackerspace
# Lyn - Jazz and my history with Jazz.
# Jay - The power of caring for strangers
# Dubi - Do birds have a favorite font?

==== May 2016 ====
Held on May 10, 2016 at approximately 20:30.

# Patrick "Pallethands" Callahan - Bureaucracy
# Peter - Ramblings of a nervous person, Pt. 3
# Spencer - Watchmaking Things
# Aaron - Help me decide
# Eric - 300 seconds of erasing the whiteboard and Condorcet Voting Methods

==== April 2016 ====
# Justin - The State of the Hackerspace (http://youtu.be/hxI4inw0uEc)
# Lyn - Demonstration of Loom Bands and Crochet (http://youtu.be/jGimttMwc44)
# Andrew - Basics of 3D Scanning (http://youtu.be/hO2JjDV5_Y0)
# Shelly Loke - I Want To Melt Glass (http://youtu.be/j8Bq1wEXrq8)
# Ron - Banana and Get Me Off Your Banana List (http://youtu.be/eC9rmsI7dnw)
# Justin - Videos I Found On Everett's Computer (http://youtu.be/wkJc59bA388)
# Peter - Ramblings of a Nervous Person (http://youtu.be/jDM4cAN5DPw)

==== March 2016 ====
Held on March 8, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]]- Exploring the world Pt 6 -International Treasures
# Nathan - Game Pencil Engine

==== February 2016 ====
Held on February 9, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - Loom bands revisited with a crochet hook.
# Ryan - Star Trek Replicator
# Dubi - Selective Breeding

==== January 2016 ====
Held on January 19, 2016 at approximately 20:30.
* [[2016 Board Elections|Election Edition]]

=== 2015 ===
==== December 2015 ====
Held on December 8, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Eviljoel - PGP in 300 seconds
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]]- Exploring the world Pt 5

==== November 2015 ====
Held on November 10, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Drew Fustini ''(pdp7)'': Secure Your Website with '''free''' SSL cert from [http://letsencrypt.org/ Let's Encrypt!] ''(slides: [[File:Letsencrypt.pdf]])''
# Dan Locks: 300 Seconds of Teasing us Into Thinking He'll Juggle Something
# Doorman Dave: Teaching Some Random Schmuck How To Juggle in 300 Seconds or Less
# Eric Stein: How to submit things to Running a Hackerspace and why you should
# Lyn: Tap Dancers for the sole
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Why I studied architecture and construction and why its related to Hackerspace.
# Ron: A presentation inspired by Bry
# ILab: visiting from France

==== October 2015 ====
Held on October 13, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Visiting Artist David Kadish - [http://davidkadish.com/portfolio/inorganisms/ Inorganisms]
# Drew Fustini ''(pdp7)'': Linux Kernel fun with the Eudyptula Challenge ''(slides: [[File:Open-mic-fustini-v2.pdf]])''
# Sheila Miguez ''(skay)'': [https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] has [https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-10-01-free-ssl-certificates.html free automated ssl certs] for self hosted instances, and I used it for pyoo. please see also, [http://mediagoblin.org/news/userops.html userops]
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Exploring the world pt 4
# Lyn - Flower pot space heater experiment

==== September 2015 ====
Held on September 8, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Ron: XYZ Zero plate for the Shopbot
# Shellie: Japanese Bento
# Bruce: Fire and Ice
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Exploring the world pt.3
# Lyn: Hearing aids
# Drew Fustini ''(pdp7)'': Open Source Hardware ([http://files.meetup.com/15581722/ps1-300sof-fustini-oshw.pdf slides])

==== August 2015 ====
Held on August 11th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# [[User:Skm|Sheila]] - Doom doom doom [https://discourse.pumpingstationone.org/t/300-seconds-of-doom/65]
# [[User:anthony|Anthony]] - Light is Dumb
# [[User:jenx|Geneviève]] - Special Remote Edition: @rad1obadge and #CCCamp15
# [[User:Dubi|Dubi]] - Stop Light Version
# [[User:sl01|Sloan]] - Kiasma; A Steven Holl Building
# [[User:Lyn|Lyn]] - views of Chicago from a helicopter
# [[User:bry|Bry]] - All the cat gifs that didn't fit in Doorman Dave/Hef's presentation
# [[User:ad9581|Arturo Duarte]] - Exploring the world pt.2
# [[User:sylphiae|Jenny]] - What I Learned in Detroit
# [[User:kuroishi|Doorman Dave]]/[[User:hef|Hef]] - Introducing Discourse

==== July 2015 ====
Held on July 14th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Arturo Duarte - Exploring the world pt.1
# Lyn - hot glue sewing
# Bioguy - I Need Help!!!111
# Dubi Kaufmann - How to run Google Deep Dream for people who can not set up python very well.

==== June 2015 ====
Held on June 9th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - T-shirt hacking take two
# Doorman Dave - Physical ATM Security for fun (not profit.)
# Jesse - Wearable show and tell

==== May 2015 ====
Held on May 12th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Hef - Systems update
# Eric & Dave - Grumpermon Talks To His Therapist
# Arturo - Why maps fascinate me

==== April 2015 ====
Held on April 7th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - Fast and easy costumes for cheap, really fast and really easy
# Bioguy - Identity Theft, a victim's perspective and some lessons learned
# Hef - April 2015 Tech Update
# Arturo - What's going on guys?
# Eric - Tubular Bells

==== March 2015 ====
Held on March 10th, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# <strike>Doorman Dave - Either "Provisioning a bare metal CoreOS env for Docker(bot) in <300s." or "Uncommonly used and little known features of OpenSSH"</strike>
#* Doorman Dave was too busy being awesome.
# Lyn - Mixmeister, why older is better, sometimes. Subheading ~ music editing from the past.
# Matt - From code to coffee table: a CNC adventure
# Glenn - HP Universal Counter, Rubidium Standard: What they are, why you should care
# Dubi - What Color Is It?
# Noony - How to do an online book tour
# Carl - Google summer of code

==== February 2015 ====
Held on February 10, 2015 at approximately 20:30.
# Lyn - Furby Friend & App
# Bjonnh - Pbbt!
# Rei - Werewolves and Vampires
# Daniel - Microcontrollers Controlling the Lights on Skyscrapers!
# Geneviève - Passports

==== January 2015 ====
January's 300 seconds of fame, as is usual, was reserved for candidates to the board of directors to state their platforms. It was held on January 20, 2015. Specific details about who did the speaking can be found on the [[2015 Elections]] page.

=== 2014 ===
==== December 2014 ====
Held on December 9, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Derek - How I nailed a tiny computer to a door, or, our in-development RFID entry system
# Sevin - Non-CNC grinding of camshafts (and other awesome things Sevin's company does.)
# Eric - Message Queues, [[Things Bus]] & Distributed Stuff
# Dubi - Remixing music on the beat in reverse order

==== November 2014 ====
Held on November 11th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Jenny - Pretty Random Space Pictures
# Hef - On Writing Votes
# Carl - Conky
# Mike Warot - A process for doing synthetic focus photography

==== October 2014 ====
Held on October 14th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Hef - tech update
# Jonathan - the benefits of using emacs
# Derek - Hazers and foggers - entertainment atmospheres

==== September 2014 ====
Held on September 9, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Justin - Derailling the Conversation
# Ryan - 3 phase power basis: Wye use high leg delta?
# Drew - Take the EFF's Tor Challenge! (How to setup a Tor non-exit relay in 5 minutes for $5/mo)
# Will - A Wolf Among Us
# Bry - Head in a Jar (How to poorly put together a costume in a week)
# Eric - Doing What Tac Won't

==== August 2014 ====
Held on August 12th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.
# Lyn - Electronic BONANZAAAAAAAA‽
# Bioguy - Hack Your Coffee!
# Arturo - Salvador Dali Cookbook [I've got it!]
# Genevieve - [http://x.hope.net/schedule.html#northkorea 300 Seconds of KP] - aka NEEDSMOARX (The perfect chaser to the Dali cookbook. Dash of projector, sprig of audio, shake until fluffy.) [http://youtu.be/ERLaZ488I6k Link to video showed]

==== July 2014 ====
Held at July 8th, 2014 at approximately 8:30pm.

# Luciano Ramalho (visiting from [http://garoa.net.br/ Garoa Hacker Clube]) -- [http://www.pingo.io/docs/ Pingo]: the "universal" GPIO API
# Carl - Vagrant!
# Ray - USA-OK Chair
# Jenny - Science - Why?

==== June 2014 ====
# Jenny - Causes of the Holocaust
# Arturo Duarte - People that inspire me????
# [[User:justin|Justin T. Conroy]] - Show me the Money!
# [[User:Acatherinenoon|A. Catherine Noon]] - Agent or Non-Agented Submissions for Books - Is It Needed?
# Toba - Stand There and Yap

* Short intermission, and then PowerPoint Karaoke!

# Jonathan
# Ivan
# Jenny
# Justin
# Joseph
# Ella
# Lyn
# GenX
# Toba
# Carl/Sara
[[File:Ps1-karaokepowerpoint.jpg|400px]]

==== May 2014 ====

# Dee Newcum — [http://bit.ly/termdetect bit.ly/termdetect], a GPL project
# Jason - Music visualization
# Jesse - Knitting Circuit Boards
# Jenny - Why is the area of a circle pi*r^2?
# Arturo Duarte - Stuff and more stuff!
# Greg - Robots!

==== April 2014 ====
# Ste - HD Retrovision
# Bjonnh - Reverse engineering in academia
# Mike - How GPS Works
# Dan - First Robotics Competition

==== March 2014 ====
# Eric Stein - What Beer Church Does
# Ryan Pierce - How to make lots of noise and ozone: Tesla coils!
# A. Catherine Noon - What's in a publishing contract? One author's experience.
# Hef - Howto Wiki (projector)
# Nick - Thoughts on Surveillance
# Pete N. - Zymurgy at PS:1 and Random Renaissance Moment

==== February 2014 ====
# Lyn - Creative looms for rubberband items
# Mike - Snaaaake, it's a snaaaake.
# Bry - Lazor Air Ballons
# Justin - 300 Seconds Worth of Servo Stuff
# Hef - Tech Updates - Blog edition. (projector)
# A. Catherine Noon - Getting paid to write books - or, Stories That Make You Late For Work.
# Sacha - I made a tweeting, motion sensing hammer in 72 hours. It changed how I do all my projects

==== January 2014 ====
# Director at Large nominee - Ed Bennett
# Director at Large nominee - Jay Hopkins
# Director at Large nominee - A. Catherine Noon
# CTO nominee - Hef
# Treasurer nominee - Steve Farkas
# Secretary nominee - Rhys Rhaven
# Secretary nominee - Derek Bever
# Vice President nominee - Everett Wilson
# President nominee - Bryanna Denney

=== 2013 ===

==== December 2013 ====
# Mike - The Projective Plane
# Hef - Tech Updates (Including Root For All)
# loans - Modern intelligent lighting
# Ste - Composite Video Encoding/Decoding
# Jerry - Adding Cosinusoidal Functions the Relatively Easy Way, or Phasors
# Kevin - Alexander G. Bell - Electromagnetic noise reduction

==== November 2013 ====
# Andrey Belomutskiy - rusEfi - DIY electronic fuel injection [projector]
# Frank Duncon - Frank talks about netlogo [projector]
# Tac - sqrt(2)
# Hef - State of the technologies

==== October 2013 ====
# Bry - Look at this cake I made (interactive) [projector]
# Joe Walnes - Idea to Kickstarter in 90 days. Sort of.
# Ste Kulov - Digital Logic
# Jerry - 300 More Seconds of Lasers (or: Deblackboxifying the laser cutter a bit)
# eviljoel - Calling your legislature.
# Sacha - Why the lasercutter _really_ doesn't burn through the earth.

==== September 2013 ====
# Kevin - Did A.G.Bell steal the telephone? (Needs Projector)
# Hef - PS1 Technology Update. (Needs Projector)
# Anthony - Searches for Supersymmetry
# Ryan - Stuff I'm working on

==== August 2013 ====

# Hef - [https://members.pumpingstationone.org PS1 Member Site ] - Needs Projector
# Ste - Easy Op-Amps
# Jerry - Lasers: a 300 second primer
# Ryan Pierce - The Polygraph

==== July 2013 ====

# Dash - How to text message from your dreams [projector]
# Ste - Digital-to-Analog Conversion Circuit
# Jamie Becka - Chicago Time Exchange

==== June 2013 ====

# James Longfield - How not to be a dick in the shop
# Jodie Arañas - FIGMENT Chicago [Projector Access]
# Mike Maloney - Groups
# A. Catherine Noon - Finding water
# Jenny Tong - Consciousness and P-Zombies

==== May 2013 ====

# Tim - How to not kill each other with voting
# ste - Thevenin's Theorem
# Patrick O'hara - Dvorak keyboards
# Jesse Seay - Clam Shell Case Pressure Sensor

==== April 2013 ====

# Dee - Important uses of rope           [projector needed]
# Ste - Digital Signal processing
# Mike - Double Negatives

==== March 2013 ====

# - Jenny - Voting Rights Act of 1965
# - Steve - Beer Church - What to do with the mash?
# - Shellie - Amazing world of mail art
# - Mike - DAGS
# - Ste - Linear Interpolation

==== January 2013 ====
Election edition!

# Director at Large nominee - Jesse Seay
# Director at Large nominee - Ed Bennett
# Director at Large nominee - Shawn Blaszak
# Director at Large nominee - Steve Finkleman
# CTO nominee - Josh Krueger
# Treasurer nominee - Steve Farkas
# Secretary nominee - Haley Willis
# Vice President nominee - Bryanna Denney
# President nominee - Eric Stein

=== 2012 ===

==== December 2012 ====

==== November 2012 ====
# - Will McShane - Vinyl advertising as craft material
# - Mike Warot - Hacking a digital caliper

==== October 2012 ====
# - Rhys Raven - Two fine encryption tools
# - Ryan Brandys - Stuff Ryan is doing
# - Patrick Callahan - Power Racing Highlights

==== September 2012 ====
# - Benjamin Sugar - Apps for activists
# - Will McShane - Laser Scrimshaw
# - Brian Chojnowski - Antikythera
# - Donald Jacobson - Fun with 3d printing
# - Dan Locks - Find me a new job

==== August 2012 ====

# Sacha - Inkscape as Engineering Tool
# Aeva - TV hacking
# Will - 30 second chocolate cake
# Todd - Chicago wifi project
# Corinna - Radiohead bear suit
# Anthony - We Found the Higgs

==== July 2012 ====

# Sacha - From 2D to 3D: five techniques for designing objects for laser cutting
# Elory - The Big Draw Chicago
# Trevor - on behalf of the vinyl cutter
# Will - 1956 Erector set

==== June 2012 ====

# Ed - Electronic Cactus

==== May 2012 ====

# Jesse - introduction to me and my work
# Adam - Apollo 13
# Steve - Doors
# Todd - wifi project
# Sacha - Relative Risk and You
# Brian - Antikythera

==== April 2012 ====

# Rhys - Bitcoin
# Dwayne Johnson - Washcloth Robot
# Sacha De'Angeli - Photoduino Booth
# Avner - Mozilla Open Badges and Hackerspaces

==== March 2012 ====

# Eric Stein - Actual TARDIS
# Jimmy Trevor - Wanderer's Poetry
# Andrew Valkanas - Hacker, hack thy self
# Avner - Kombucha: What the #$*& is that, and can I have some?
# Adam - Artificial pancreas
# Jay - Economics and the technological singularity

==== February 2012 ====
Date change: February 7!

# Eric Stein - mkpuzzle
# Steve - Eagle to Finished Circuit Board in Two Hours
# Jenny Tong - Hacking People
# Brian Kung - Hacking Movement
# Kathy - Sea Chanties
# Ben Smith - Infolens Storage
# Sacha - Intro to Do-ocracies and Bicycle Shedding
# Colin - Stuff I Do
# Pocket Factory - Clap Rap
# Anthony - Hack the Universe
# Chris - dropping some rhymes
# Mike Warot - Computer Security Can Be Fixed

==== January 2012 ====
Election edition!

# Director at Large nominee - Eric
# Director at Large nominee - Dan Meyer
# Director at Large nominee - Steve
# CTO nominee - Eric
# Treasurer nominee - Ish
# BREAK! Cell Stretcher: an Open Science Project - Gerry
# Secretary nominee - Shawn
# Secretary nominee - Patrick
# Vice President nominee - Shawn
# Vice President nominee - Patrick
# President nominee - Tim
# BREAK! Thanks for all you've made in the past year - Anne
# Vice President nominee - Jim

=== 2011 ===

==== December 2011 ====
# Tricopter - Dan
# Osloom's linear actuator - Ed
# Making things for fun and profit - Tim
# NaNoWriYe - Laurie
# Open Science - Ben

==== November 2011 ====
# Awesome Award (and photos) - Chris and Sacha
# The Awesome Foundation - Chris
# Making a Daft Punk Helmet, and Why You Shouldn't - Nick
# telling us about how rad glassblowing is - Daniel from Hotglass Chicago
# journal reading - Beth
# The Saga of Juan - Jim
# Open Science: What it is and why it's cool - Sacha
# Chatlight: Embodying the Internet - Eric
# virtual focus - mike
# digeridoo performance - geoffrey

==== October 2011 ====
# Dan Meyer: Fab Lab Circuit Bending Workshop Video
# Ashley from i3 - Engineering Education: We're Doing it Wrong
# Tim - Businesses as Projects

==== September 2011 ====
# Jim - More Stories from the Balloon Factory
# Lindsay -Ghetto prom 2011

==== August 2011 ====
# Chromium and you - Sacha
# Textile changes - Avner and Lindsay and Tim
# Image processing for cool results - Eric Stein
# One damn beautiful hackerspace - Tim
# Dabble - Anne
# Defcon - Dan

==== June 2011 ====
# Will - Fresh Paint
# John - Electronics for Popups
# Jess - World Naked Bike Ride
# Ish - Apps that break the game
# Tomer - Sarah Palin in a box on acid, or ecstasy
# Adrianna - Song for Pluto

==== May 2011 ====

# Nick - HAL740: An Introduction to DIY Home Automation
# Rhys - Pirates, Hackers, and ADC
# Shawn Blaszak presents the fantastical tangled tale of how I earned my semi-ersatz Erdos number and my surprisingly believable Bacon number
# Jordan - Cricut hacks
# Jim - More Stories from the Balloon Factory
# Matt/digipengi - Protect Your Shit
# Avner - GGHC

==== April 2011 ====

# Kyle - Passive Agressive: Interpreting and Reinterpreting Passive Digital Media
# Dustin - Firefox 4 and Mozilla
# Jim - My Bike and a special announcement
# Sacha - How Open Source Saved My Company
# Eric - How to Wiki

==== March 2011 ====

# Joe - Waking up a la Flava Flav
# Jonathan - Extracting Coffee
# Jim - Hipster Nascar and the Balloon Factory
# Eric - Freegeek
# Rhys - Wireless Chording Keyboard on Thingiverse

==== February 2011 ====

# Avner - Vertical garden
# Joe - Where's Waldo?
# Dan - Small CNC
# Patrick - Things I'm doing
# Jim - Stories from the balloon factory
# David - Time-lapse CHDK photography
# Ben - Macaroni and cheese

==== January 2011 ====
Election edition!

# Jordan Bunker (At Large)
# Jim Burke (At Large)
# Shawn Blasak (At Large)
# Asher - hacking the five minute play
# Rhys (CTO)
# Tim "How to hand-cut a mortise and tenon (badly)"
# Ishmael Rufus (Treasurer)
# Patrick (Secretary)
# Idan - Skiboard
# Nathan Witt (Vice President)
# Anne Petersen (President)
# Sacha De'Angeli (Nothing)

=== 2010 ===

==== December 2010 ====

# Sarah - Member survey
# Jordan, Ish, Rhys, Nathan, Tim - Open Door Hackathon
# Dan - CNC PhlatPrinter
# Tim - Top reasons why you can't juggle
# Joshua Rothhaas - Tinkering School comes to Chicago
# Jay - PCs Uncased
# Sacha - ChiHack
# Patrick - XMas64 Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
# Nathan - Pledge drive
# Jaku and John - RFID jacket
# Tomer

==== November 2010 ====

# Patrick - XMass64 v0.1
# Dustin - Hacking Elections
# Tim - Laser Cutters and you
# Tim and Jordan - Hackerspace valuation, a proposal

==== October 2010 ====

# Bill Mania - Team Frednet and the Google Lunar X Prize
# Joe - Joe's Fantastic Voyage
# dustin - buildbot
# arthur - xray scattering
# Vimby - The world premier of Scion's Take on the Machine, Pumping Station: One

==== September 2010 ====
# Patrick - Patrick
# Sacha - Chemical burns and electric shocks: making atomically sharp needles for fun and profit.
# Sacha - Fish or eat sushi: dumping unprofitable projects for fun and profit.
# Dan - Knots? That's Awesome

==== August 2010 ====
# How to Fail at Physics by Sacha
# Clear Hotspot by Matt
# Mister Rogers on Ecstasy in a Box by Tomer
# Open Up by Willow

==== July 13, 2010 ====

# How to Identify Someone Who Practises Hacking by Tim
# PRS by Jim
# Rival Spaces by Steve
# Optimizing PS:One by Anne

==== June 8, 2010 ====

# Stuff I keep in my pockets by Patrick
# Shadelab by Alex Gilliam
# More tales from the balloon factory by Jim
# MakerBot by Patrick
# Breakfast Cleanup Club results by Anne
# chain maille by Jakub
# Geek Pranks by Patrick
# NeighborCon by Travis

==== May 11, 2010 ====

# Firespinning by Sc00bz
# Taking inventory of PS1's stuff and how you can help by Tim
# The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End by Jeff
# MakerBot by Patrick
# Audio Arduino by Joe Fallon

==== April 13, 2010 ====

# tobtu.com by Sc00bz
# Welcome Tomerica by Tomer
# Tech Workers of the World Unite! by Steve Goodpaster
# Chip Decapping by Travis Goodspeed
# Creative Re-Use by Carl Boyd
# The Jew's Harp by Jimmy P. Rogers
# Malicious GPU Kernel by Travis Goodspeed

==== March 9, 2010 ====

# First Robotics by Ryan Lanham
# A Hackerspace's Guide to... oh, you stopped reading, didn't you by Sacha De'Angeli
# 10 Awesome Things You Probably Didn't Know About Neuroanatomy by Frag
# Digeridoo by Geoffrey
# Arduino Radio by Joseph Fallon
# Please Pirate by Pete
# Fiddling Around by Sarah S.
# Things That Happen to Me at the Balloon Factory by Jim
# Democratizing Video Surveillance by Ella
# Fun Raising by Eric Hanley

==== February 9, 2010 ====

# Peoplehacking II: A Numerically and Biologically Intensive Solution to Losing Weight or: The Engineers' Guide to Weight Loss or: Four Formulae For The Reduction Of Operational Mass by Sacha De'Angeli
# Maker Fair: Get Excited! by Ryan Lanham
# Photography Rights: an educational rant on where it's legal to take pictures by Anne Petersen
# RepRap report: progress! by camo
# Brawndo: The Messy Hackerspace MUTILATOR by Tim Saylor

== Creative Commons licensing and attribution ==
Content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported], cribbed generously from the wiki about [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame/ Noisebridge's similar event].

Talk:Board Meeting Notes 2017-02-01

2017-02-07T22:44:45Z

Justin:

== Missing from Minutes? ==
I heard through the grapevine a couple of things that were decided on that don't seem to have ended up in the notes. I wasn't present at this meeting, so I can't comment on what was actually said, but I'll just list out the things I heard about:

* Lyn was named as our party planning/social event planning volunteer and granted a full membership in exchange.
* Matt Keith was named as interim CNC Area Host until such time that more applications can be gathered.
* Did anything happen regarding Cold Metals Volunteer Authorizers?

Can this information please be added to the notes? Thanks. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 16:44, 7 February 2017 (CST)

Talk:Board Meeting Notes 2017-02-01

2017-02-02T19:10:37Z

Justin: Created page with "Are there going to be updated notes from Wednesday's meeting posted here? ~~~~"

Are there going to be updated notes from Wednesday's meeting posted here? [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 13:10, 2 February 2017 (CST)

Board Orientation

2017-01-25T17:35:34Z

Justin: /* Member Points */

{{outdated}}

Fold in information from this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RB93_jgWFYBgU0DciqbfFnXY4hnfzHo02OD_2ViPHnM/edit#heading=h.dclvyvx7bf71

== Email ==
=== Email Addresses ===
Each board member has their own email address. It is usually boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org. The previous board member should hand over the account to the new board member. When a board member takes over the email address, the board member should review all of the settings for forwarding to update where emails are forwarded.

Starting in 2014 and continuing through 2017, we have been giving the directors at large an official ps1 email address using their name/pseudonym. ex-directors may retain this email address; we are allowed 100 with our domain and have only used approx. 60

When you get your account, update the settings so that mail appears to come from you and not your predecessor.
When you're logged in, click down the gear-shaped icon/pulldown in the upper right corner and select "Settings."
To change the picture associated with the account ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/WB3PuKmWAwAJ original link]):
There are 5 different places where Gmail could be referencing for your profile picture:
* In Gmail's Settings - Gmail>>Settings>>"My Picture"
* In your Google+ profile - Google+>>View your Profile
* Via your contacts - Search for yourself by email address and see what photo appears.
* If you have a "Send as" address that is treated as an alias, Gmail would reference the profile photo used for that Google account.
* Via another app or mail program, like Apple mail or Outlook.
If you have your profile photo attached to your own contact in one of those program's address books, be sure to change it. If you go through each one of these and you still can't find the photo, try waiting 24 hours for the changes to take effect.

If your name is appearing incorrectly, here are some things to check ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/B6vCobGWAwAJ original link]):
*Under Accounts, you can edit "Send mail as:"
*Your Google+ account page - Google+>Profile>Click on your name and change it> Save changes
*You should also search for yourself in your contacts, to ensure that your name is correct and not misspelled.
*Contacts manager> Search for your own email address> Make sure your name is associated with the correct address.
*Check the spelling of your name in your back-up account.
*If you have a recovery email, Gmail sometimes looks at the name in that account. Make sure it's spelled correctly there too.
*Check your name in any Apps or programs.
*If you're sending from an app or program, the name associated with that program will be the name that is listed in your account.
*Lastly, if you are using a Google apps account, you may need to check with your administrator to see if the problem is on their end.

You should also update the Google Plus account settings for your boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org address, some of those settings (alternate email, profile photo, name) may also refer to a previous position holder.

=== Director only list ===
The directors-only@ list is the main way that the board communicates over email. It is managed through the G-Suite account at admin.google.com. Update the users when board members change.

== Phone ==
We have a google voice phone number that we usually use on most official documents. It generally forwards calls to the president. Other board members can be added as well if needed. In order to update the call forwarding, you'll need to login to https://voice.google.com using the info@pumpingstatioone.org account. The password for this should be in the shared LastPass.

The phone number is (516) Nine Hundred-3519

=== Google Voice Users ===
If you want to have the space phone number forward to your phone, but you already use Google Voice for your normal phone number, things get a bit more complicated. If you have your forwarding phone setup as a "Mobile" phone in the settings, Google won't allow you to have another number forward to it. I guess this has to do with SMS stuff being complicated. I'm not really sure. You can still forward two numbers to one phone, you just have to set the phone type to "Home" or "Work" for every number you're forwarding. If there are any phones forwarding to you with the "Mobile" type, everything will break. This might mean that SMS and voicemail will break for you on your normal phone number. I think if you were already using the Google Voice app or the Hangouts app for those on your phone though it shouldn't really change anything. In case none of that makes sense, see [[https://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-multiple-Google-Voice-numbers-to-one-phone here]] for some more info.

== Google Groups/Mailing Lists ==
We have two main mailing lists that our members use to interact with each other online. The [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one-public public list]] and the [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one private list]]. All board members should at least get the '''Manager''' role to be able to do moderation and to approve join requests and such. During orientation, new board members will need to be shown the interface for managing membership of these lists and how to approve posts to the public list. They should also be given some rough guidelines on what to approve or not approve on the public list. Generally anyone can post to it (member or not) and we'll only block them from posting if their message is obvious spam.

* Moderating a member: Occasionally there is a need to require moderation for a member for some period of time and follows this process:
** 3 Board Members form a moderation group
** Moderated posts are emailed to the members of the moderation group and optionally, to the rest of the board
** Any moderators can approve a post, without consulting other moderators, if the content of the post is respectful
** For all other posts, if 2 moderators agree to ban the post, then that post is discarded and Google Groups sends an email to the member indicating a rejected post
** Members under moderation can make reasonable requests to the board (email to directors-only -at- pumpingstationone -dot- org) to understand why a post was rejected
** The service level agreement on response time for making a moderation decision on pending posts is 95% in 48 hours, however the moderators will strive to keep the timeframe below 24 hours to help maintain the flow of discussion
** The moderation group may, by unanimous agreement, initiate a change in member moderation status by setting a board agenda item to reevaluate the member for a change in moderation status of the member

== Bank account ==

* Electricity Payments - Tony Stuff

=== Things to update payments for ===

* Quickbooks
* ComEd - ACH payment
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* People's Gas
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* Rent ACH---- Next time we do a board transition, make sure to cancel all ACH payments before any Chase accounts are deactivated/deleted.
* Internet
* Pagely
** This is currently connected to the president's debit card. Login to the pagely website (https://pagely.com). The credentials are in the shared LastPass folder.
* Creative Cloud
** This is tied to the secretary@ email address

== Online accounts ==

=== Credentials ===
We are storing credentials in a corporate LastPass account - check with CTO for details. We pay per-user.

Change passwords and sub-accounts. Give sub-accounts at discretion. For example, we've given PayPal sub-accounts to a subset of board members so that reimbursements and member point management can be done by more than just one person.

* PayPal
* Quickbooks
* Online banking
* PEX Cards
* ???

== Annual Report ==
As of 2015/05: According to the Illinois Secretary of State's office, amending the annual report is unnecessary since our registered agent or address has not changed. A new annual report must be filed at the end of the year, which will list the soon-to-be-outgoing Board.

== Business Cards ==
The PR director has newish templates for business cards. Might as well get 500 if you get any. They will be stored on our Google Drive.

There is a supply of generic PS1 cards available stored with our office supplies (currently in the safe) if you don't want to get any personalized cards, or for you to use until your personalized cards arrive.

== Member Payments ==
=== Accepted ===
We technically accept PayPal, cash, and check. Anything other than PayPal has significant overhead -- both for the person trying to find someone to give the money to and for the board for tracking payments.

=== Handling Cash Payments ===
All cash payments are to be deposited in the dropbox in the safe; it's currently mounted on the wall. On the envelope should be their name and the date of the deposit.

'''Members should be informed that cash payments can take a while to be processed and that they really should pay with paypal if possible'''

==== Processing the Payments ====

'''This is sort of outdated. The board has been working on a better process for this involving RT. Please update this page once you have it worked out.'''

For each cash payment, update the member's record in not zoho.

* Set their membership level to their payment amount (if applicable.)
* Set the "End Date" to be one month after the payment.
* Add a note to their file, indicating when the payment was dated and how much it was for.
* Make sure their payment type is set to "cash".
* Set the "Last Payment Date" to the payment received date.
* Immediately deposit the payment (after signing the checks.) '''DO NOT''' allow payments to accumulate. Anything over two weeks is unacceptable.
* Take a photo of the receipt and send the image to info@, with a breakdown of the deposit.

=== Member Points ===
Members can receive $30 off via [[Member Rewards]].

Procedure as of 8/2016 can be found here [[Redeeming Member Points]]

Current procedure for giving them the $30 off:
# Check [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet] to see how many points have been used this pay cycle. Check the current month and the previous month.
# In PayPal, find their most recent payment.
# Via the refund button, give them $30 per member point used -- up to how much they paid that month.
# Deduct the points from their total in Zoho.
# Track the expenditure in [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet].

Members can't refund more than the cost of their membership, and we don't track fractional member points.

'''To add''': how to handle members who spend member points on a temporary upgrade instead of a refund

=== Running Votes ===

Most of the business conducted by PS:1 is decided by member votes. The burden of most of the record keeping is on the secretary.

The process I've been using this year seems to work for the most part, it is detailed below. --[[User:Dbever|Dbever]] ([[User talk:Dbever|talk]]) 21:03, 11 November 2014 (CST)

* A new vote should go here: [[2014 Votes]] (or the equivalent page for the current year)
* When a vote is officially proposed (usually at a member meeting, though mailing list works as well) - that is, the vote date is announced and there will be no further changes to the language - an email informing the membership of the vote (and soliciting electronic votes) goes out.
* This email needs to be sent at least 5 days before the vote - so the Thursday before a Tuesday vote.
* To send the vote notification email, select "Mass Mail" from the dropdown menu when logged in to the members.pumpingstationone.org. Edit an existing vote email changing the dates (they're in bold), save, and send to full members.
* Make a note of the quorum on the day that you send out the proxy statement.
* I keep a tally of votes in a google spreadsheet - tracking votes in person, electronic and proxy (A list of proxied votes is maintained in another spreadsheet. This should be checked periodically to make sure the names on it belong to current members).
** 2015 update: I have started storing the results, including the proxy vs. in person breakdown, in the member minutes.
** Proxies should be emailed directly to the secretary@ email account.
** 2015 update: proxies seem to be emailed to the votes@ account.
* Once the voting is done, update [[2016 Votes]] as well as the votes page. I also generally note whether a vote passed in the minutes and on the vote page. Mailing list announcement also isn't a bad idea.

=== Checks ===
Need to pass along the blank checks.

== Task Management ==

We use [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/ RT] for tracking tasks. Emails from info, money, ...? get forwarded to RT and placed in to RT categories such as Member Payments, Treasury, General, etc. During board meetings, part of the meeting is dedicated to RT triage to adjudicate and assign tasks.

RTs can have attachments, comments, email replies, and statue changes. It is good to record status updates in tickets so that there is no bottleneck in case someone else needs to pick up the ticket, or has a question.

== Meetings ==

Board meeting schedules can be determined by the board, but the board needs to meet at least once a year. Currently, Board meetings are the first and third Tuesdays of the month, before the member meeting. Board meetings notes are recorded on wiki pages by the Secretary or other Board member and organized in the category page for board meetings [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Category:Board_Meetings].

== Volunteers ==

The board is responsible for selecting area hosts and volunteer authorizers. 2015's board started experimenting with sending a monthly checkup to volunteers to see how they are doing.
[[Category:Board Procedures]]

Board Orientation

2017-01-25T17:35:09Z

Justin: /* Processing the Payments */

{{outdated}}

Fold in information from this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RB93_jgWFYBgU0DciqbfFnXY4hnfzHo02OD_2ViPHnM/edit#heading=h.dclvyvx7bf71

== Email ==
=== Email Addresses ===
Each board member has their own email address. It is usually boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org. The previous board member should hand over the account to the new board member. When a board member takes over the email address, the board member should review all of the settings for forwarding to update where emails are forwarded.

Starting in 2014 and continuing through 2017, we have been giving the directors at large an official ps1 email address using their name/pseudonym. ex-directors may retain this email address; we are allowed 100 with our domain and have only used approx. 60

When you get your account, update the settings so that mail appears to come from you and not your predecessor.
When you're logged in, click down the gear-shaped icon/pulldown in the upper right corner and select "Settings."
To change the picture associated with the account ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/WB3PuKmWAwAJ original link]):
There are 5 different places where Gmail could be referencing for your profile picture:
* In Gmail's Settings - Gmail>>Settings>>"My Picture"
* In your Google+ profile - Google+>>View your Profile
* Via your contacts - Search for yourself by email address and see what photo appears.
* If you have a "Send as" address that is treated as an alias, Gmail would reference the profile photo used for that Google account.
* Via another app or mail program, like Apple mail or Outlook.
If you have your profile photo attached to your own contact in one of those program's address books, be sure to change it. If you go through each one of these and you still can't find the photo, try waiting 24 hours for the changes to take effect.

If your name is appearing incorrectly, here are some things to check ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/B6vCobGWAwAJ original link]):
*Under Accounts, you can edit "Send mail as:"
*Your Google+ account page - Google+>Profile>Click on your name and change it> Save changes
*You should also search for yourself in your contacts, to ensure that your name is correct and not misspelled.
*Contacts manager> Search for your own email address> Make sure your name is associated with the correct address.
*Check the spelling of your name in your back-up account.
*If you have a recovery email, Gmail sometimes looks at the name in that account. Make sure it's spelled correctly there too.
*Check your name in any Apps or programs.
*If you're sending from an app or program, the name associated with that program will be the name that is listed in your account.
*Lastly, if you are using a Google apps account, you may need to check with your administrator to see if the problem is on their end.

You should also update the Google Plus account settings for your boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org address, some of those settings (alternate email, profile photo, name) may also refer to a previous position holder.

=== Director only list ===
The directors-only@ list is the main way that the board communicates over email. It is managed through the G-Suite account at admin.google.com. Update the users when board members change.

== Phone ==
We have a google voice phone number that we usually use on most official documents. It generally forwards calls to the president. Other board members can be added as well if needed. In order to update the call forwarding, you'll need to login to https://voice.google.com using the info@pumpingstatioone.org account. The password for this should be in the shared LastPass.

The phone number is (516) Nine Hundred-3519

=== Google Voice Users ===
If you want to have the space phone number forward to your phone, but you already use Google Voice for your normal phone number, things get a bit more complicated. If you have your forwarding phone setup as a "Mobile" phone in the settings, Google won't allow you to have another number forward to it. I guess this has to do with SMS stuff being complicated. I'm not really sure. You can still forward two numbers to one phone, you just have to set the phone type to "Home" or "Work" for every number you're forwarding. If there are any phones forwarding to you with the "Mobile" type, everything will break. This might mean that SMS and voicemail will break for you on your normal phone number. I think if you were already using the Google Voice app or the Hangouts app for those on your phone though it shouldn't really change anything. In case none of that makes sense, see [[https://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-multiple-Google-Voice-numbers-to-one-phone here]] for some more info.

== Google Groups/Mailing Lists ==
We have two main mailing lists that our members use to interact with each other online. The [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one-public public list]] and the [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one private list]]. All board members should at least get the '''Manager''' role to be able to do moderation and to approve join requests and such. During orientation, new board members will need to be shown the interface for managing membership of these lists and how to approve posts to the public list. They should also be given some rough guidelines on what to approve or not approve on the public list. Generally anyone can post to it (member or not) and we'll only block them from posting if their message is obvious spam.

* Moderating a member: Occasionally there is a need to require moderation for a member for some period of time and follows this process:
** 3 Board Members form a moderation group
** Moderated posts are emailed to the members of the moderation group and optionally, to the rest of the board
** Any moderators can approve a post, without consulting other moderators, if the content of the post is respectful
** For all other posts, if 2 moderators agree to ban the post, then that post is discarded and Google Groups sends an email to the member indicating a rejected post
** Members under moderation can make reasonable requests to the board (email to directors-only -at- pumpingstationone -dot- org) to understand why a post was rejected
** The service level agreement on response time for making a moderation decision on pending posts is 95% in 48 hours, however the moderators will strive to keep the timeframe below 24 hours to help maintain the flow of discussion
** The moderation group may, by unanimous agreement, initiate a change in member moderation status by setting a board agenda item to reevaluate the member for a change in moderation status of the member

== Bank account ==

* Electricity Payments - Tony Stuff

=== Things to update payments for ===

* Quickbooks
* ComEd - ACH payment
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* People's Gas
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* Rent ACH---- Next time we do a board transition, make sure to cancel all ACH payments before any Chase accounts are deactivated/deleted.
* Internet
* Pagely
** This is currently connected to the president's debit card. Login to the pagely website (https://pagely.com). The credentials are in the shared LastPass folder.
* Creative Cloud
** This is tied to the secretary@ email address

== Online accounts ==

=== Credentials ===
We are storing credentials in a corporate LastPass account - check with CTO for details. We pay per-user.

Change passwords and sub-accounts. Give sub-accounts at discretion. For example, we've given PayPal sub-accounts to a subset of board members so that reimbursements and member point management can be done by more than just one person.

* PayPal
* Quickbooks
* Online banking
* PEX Cards
* ???

== Annual Report ==
As of 2015/05: According to the Illinois Secretary of State's office, amending the annual report is unnecessary since our registered agent or address has not changed. A new annual report must be filed at the end of the year, which will list the soon-to-be-outgoing Board.

== Business Cards ==
The PR director has newish templates for business cards. Might as well get 500 if you get any. They will be stored on our Google Drive.

There is a supply of generic PS1 cards available stored with our office supplies (currently in the safe) if you don't want to get any personalized cards, or for you to use until your personalized cards arrive.

== Member Payments ==
=== Accepted ===
We technically accept PayPal, cash, and check. Anything other than PayPal has significant overhead -- both for the person trying to find someone to give the money to and for the board for tracking payments.

=== Handling Cash Payments ===
All cash payments are to be deposited in the dropbox in the safe; it's currently mounted on the wall. On the envelope should be their name and the date of the deposit.

'''Members should be informed that cash payments can take a while to be processed and that they really should pay with paypal if possible'''

==== Processing the Payments ====

'''This is sort of outdated. The board has been working on a better process for this involving RT. Please update this page once you have it worked out.'''

For each cash payment, update the member's record in not zoho.

* Set their membership level to their payment amount (if applicable.)
* Set the "End Date" to be one month after the payment.
* Add a note to their file, indicating when the payment was dated and how much it was for.
* Make sure their payment type is set to "cash".
* Set the "Last Payment Date" to the payment received date.
* Immediately deposit the payment (after signing the checks.) '''DO NOT''' allow payments to accumulate. Anything over two weeks is unacceptable.
* Take a photo of the receipt and send the image to info@, with a breakdown of the deposit.

=== Member Points ===
Members can receive $30 off via [[Member Rewards]].

Procedure as of 8/2016 can be found here [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Redeeming_Member_Points Redeeming Member Points]

Current procedure for giving them the $30 off:
# Check [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet] to see how many points have been used this pay cycle. Check the current month and the previous month.
# In PayPal, find their most recent payment.
# Via the refund button, give them $30 per member point used -- up to how much they paid that month.
# Deduct the points from their total in Zoho.
# Track the expenditure in [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet].

Members can't refund more than the cost of their membership, and we don't track fractional member points.

'''To add''': how to handle members who spend member points on a temporary upgrade instead of a refund

=== Running Votes ===

Most of the business conducted by PS:1 is decided by member votes. The burden of most of the record keeping is on the secretary.

The process I've been using this year seems to work for the most part, it is detailed below. --[[User:Dbever|Dbever]] ([[User talk:Dbever|talk]]) 21:03, 11 November 2014 (CST)

* A new vote should go here: [[2014 Votes]] (or the equivalent page for the current year)
* When a vote is officially proposed (usually at a member meeting, though mailing list works as well) - that is, the vote date is announced and there will be no further changes to the language - an email informing the membership of the vote (and soliciting electronic votes) goes out.
* This email needs to be sent at least 5 days before the vote - so the Thursday before a Tuesday vote.
* To send the vote notification email, select "Mass Mail" from the dropdown menu when logged in to the members.pumpingstationone.org. Edit an existing vote email changing the dates (they're in bold), save, and send to full members.
* Make a note of the quorum on the day that you send out the proxy statement.
* I keep a tally of votes in a google spreadsheet - tracking votes in person, electronic and proxy (A list of proxied votes is maintained in another spreadsheet. This should be checked periodically to make sure the names on it belong to current members).
** 2015 update: I have started storing the results, including the proxy vs. in person breakdown, in the member minutes.
** Proxies should be emailed directly to the secretary@ email account.
** 2015 update: proxies seem to be emailed to the votes@ account.
* Once the voting is done, update [[2016 Votes]] as well as the votes page. I also generally note whether a vote passed in the minutes and on the vote page. Mailing list announcement also isn't a bad idea.

=== Checks ===
Need to pass along the blank checks.

== Task Management ==

We use [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/ RT] for tracking tasks. Emails from info, money, ...? get forwarded to RT and placed in to RT categories such as Member Payments, Treasury, General, etc. During board meetings, part of the meeting is dedicated to RT triage to adjudicate and assign tasks.

RTs can have attachments, comments, email replies, and statue changes. It is good to record status updates in tickets so that there is no bottleneck in case someone else needs to pick up the ticket, or has a question.

== Meetings ==

Board meeting schedules can be determined by the board, but the board needs to meet at least once a year. Currently, Board meetings are the first and third Tuesdays of the month, before the member meeting. Board meetings notes are recorded on wiki pages by the Secretary or other Board member and organized in the category page for board meetings [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Category:Board_Meetings].

== Volunteers ==

The board is responsible for selecting area hosts and volunteer authorizers. 2015's board started experimenting with sending a monthly checkup to volunteers to see how they are doing.
[[Category:Board Procedures]]

Board Orientation

2017-01-25T17:34:58Z

Justin: /* Processing the Payments */

{{outdated}}

Fold in information from this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RB93_jgWFYBgU0DciqbfFnXY4hnfzHo02OD_2ViPHnM/edit#heading=h.dclvyvx7bf71

== Email ==
=== Email Addresses ===
Each board member has their own email address. It is usually boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org. The previous board member should hand over the account to the new board member. When a board member takes over the email address, the board member should review all of the settings for forwarding to update where emails are forwarded.

Starting in 2014 and continuing through 2017, we have been giving the directors at large an official ps1 email address using their name/pseudonym. ex-directors may retain this email address; we are allowed 100 with our domain and have only used approx. 60

When you get your account, update the settings so that mail appears to come from you and not your predecessor.
When you're logged in, click down the gear-shaped icon/pulldown in the upper right corner and select "Settings."
To change the picture associated with the account ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/WB3PuKmWAwAJ original link]):
There are 5 different places where Gmail could be referencing for your profile picture:
* In Gmail's Settings - Gmail>>Settings>>"My Picture"
* In your Google+ profile - Google+>>View your Profile
* Via your contacts - Search for yourself by email address and see what photo appears.
* If you have a "Send as" address that is treated as an alias, Gmail would reference the profile photo used for that Google account.
* Via another app or mail program, like Apple mail or Outlook.
If you have your profile photo attached to your own contact in one of those program's address books, be sure to change it. If you go through each one of these and you still can't find the photo, try waiting 24 hours for the changes to take effect.

If your name is appearing incorrectly, here are some things to check ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/B6vCobGWAwAJ original link]):
*Under Accounts, you can edit "Send mail as:"
*Your Google+ account page - Google+>Profile>Click on your name and change it> Save changes
*You should also search for yourself in your contacts, to ensure that your name is correct and not misspelled.
*Contacts manager> Search for your own email address> Make sure your name is associated with the correct address.
*Check the spelling of your name in your back-up account.
*If you have a recovery email, Gmail sometimes looks at the name in that account. Make sure it's spelled correctly there too.
*Check your name in any Apps or programs.
*If you're sending from an app or program, the name associated with that program will be the name that is listed in your account.
*Lastly, if you are using a Google apps account, you may need to check with your administrator to see if the problem is on their end.

You should also update the Google Plus account settings for your boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org address, some of those settings (alternate email, profile photo, name) may also refer to a previous position holder.

=== Director only list ===
The directors-only@ list is the main way that the board communicates over email. It is managed through the G-Suite account at admin.google.com. Update the users when board members change.

== Phone ==
We have a google voice phone number that we usually use on most official documents. It generally forwards calls to the president. Other board members can be added as well if needed. In order to update the call forwarding, you'll need to login to https://voice.google.com using the info@pumpingstatioone.org account. The password for this should be in the shared LastPass.

The phone number is (516) Nine Hundred-3519

=== Google Voice Users ===
If you want to have the space phone number forward to your phone, but you already use Google Voice for your normal phone number, things get a bit more complicated. If you have your forwarding phone setup as a "Mobile" phone in the settings, Google won't allow you to have another number forward to it. I guess this has to do with SMS stuff being complicated. I'm not really sure. You can still forward two numbers to one phone, you just have to set the phone type to "Home" or "Work" for every number you're forwarding. If there are any phones forwarding to you with the "Mobile" type, everything will break. This might mean that SMS and voicemail will break for you on your normal phone number. I think if you were already using the Google Voice app or the Hangouts app for those on your phone though it shouldn't really change anything. In case none of that makes sense, see [[https://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-multiple-Google-Voice-numbers-to-one-phone here]] for some more info.

== Google Groups/Mailing Lists ==
We have two main mailing lists that our members use to interact with each other online. The [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one-public public list]] and the [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one private list]]. All board members should at least get the '''Manager''' role to be able to do moderation and to approve join requests and such. During orientation, new board members will need to be shown the interface for managing membership of these lists and how to approve posts to the public list. They should also be given some rough guidelines on what to approve or not approve on the public list. Generally anyone can post to it (member or not) and we'll only block them from posting if their message is obvious spam.

* Moderating a member: Occasionally there is a need to require moderation for a member for some period of time and follows this process:
** 3 Board Members form a moderation group
** Moderated posts are emailed to the members of the moderation group and optionally, to the rest of the board
** Any moderators can approve a post, without consulting other moderators, if the content of the post is respectful
** For all other posts, if 2 moderators agree to ban the post, then that post is discarded and Google Groups sends an email to the member indicating a rejected post
** Members under moderation can make reasonable requests to the board (email to directors-only -at- pumpingstationone -dot- org) to understand why a post was rejected
** The service level agreement on response time for making a moderation decision on pending posts is 95% in 48 hours, however the moderators will strive to keep the timeframe below 24 hours to help maintain the flow of discussion
** The moderation group may, by unanimous agreement, initiate a change in member moderation status by setting a board agenda item to reevaluate the member for a change in moderation status of the member

== Bank account ==

* Electricity Payments - Tony Stuff

=== Things to update payments for ===

* Quickbooks
* ComEd - ACH payment
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* People's Gas
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* Rent ACH---- Next time we do a board transition, make sure to cancel all ACH payments before any Chase accounts are deactivated/deleted.
* Internet
* Pagely
** This is currently connected to the president's debit card. Login to the pagely website (https://pagely.com). The credentials are in the shared LastPass folder.
* Creative Cloud
** This is tied to the secretary@ email address

== Online accounts ==

=== Credentials ===
We are storing credentials in a corporate LastPass account - check with CTO for details. We pay per-user.

Change passwords and sub-accounts. Give sub-accounts at discretion. For example, we've given PayPal sub-accounts to a subset of board members so that reimbursements and member point management can be done by more than just one person.

* PayPal
* Quickbooks
* Online banking
* PEX Cards
* ???

== Annual Report ==
As of 2015/05: According to the Illinois Secretary of State's office, amending the annual report is unnecessary since our registered agent or address has not changed. A new annual report must be filed at the end of the year, which will list the soon-to-be-outgoing Board.

== Business Cards ==
The PR director has newish templates for business cards. Might as well get 500 if you get any. They will be stored on our Google Drive.

There is a supply of generic PS1 cards available stored with our office supplies (currently in the safe) if you don't want to get any personalized cards, or for you to use until your personalized cards arrive.

== Member Payments ==
=== Accepted ===
We technically accept PayPal, cash, and check. Anything other than PayPal has significant overhead -- both for the person trying to find someone to give the money to and for the board for tracking payments.

=== Handling Cash Payments ===
All cash payments are to be deposited in the dropbox in the safe; it's currently mounted on the wall. On the envelope should be their name and the date of the deposit.

'''Members should be informed that cash payments can take a while to be processed and that they really should pay with paypal if possible'''

==== Processing the Payments ====

**This is sort of outdated. The board has been working on a better process for this involving RT. Please update this page once you have it worked out.**

For each cash payment, update the member's record in not zoho.

* Set their membership level to their payment amount (if applicable.)
* Set the "End Date" to be one month after the payment.
* Add a note to their file, indicating when the payment was dated and how much it was for.
* Make sure their payment type is set to "cash".
* Set the "Last Payment Date" to the payment received date.
* Immediately deposit the payment (after signing the checks.) '''DO NOT''' allow payments to accumulate. Anything over two weeks is unacceptable.
* Take a photo of the receipt and send the image to info@, with a breakdown of the deposit.

=== Member Points ===
Members can receive $30 off via [[Member Rewards]].

Procedure as of 8/2016 can be found here [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Redeeming_Member_Points Redeeming Member Points]

Current procedure for giving them the $30 off:
# Check [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet] to see how many points have been used this pay cycle. Check the current month and the previous month.
# In PayPal, find their most recent payment.
# Via the refund button, give them $30 per member point used -- up to how much they paid that month.
# Deduct the points from their total in Zoho.
# Track the expenditure in [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet].

Members can't refund more than the cost of their membership, and we don't track fractional member points.

'''To add''': how to handle members who spend member points on a temporary upgrade instead of a refund

=== Running Votes ===

Most of the business conducted by PS:1 is decided by member votes. The burden of most of the record keeping is on the secretary.

The process I've been using this year seems to work for the most part, it is detailed below. --[[User:Dbever|Dbever]] ([[User talk:Dbever|talk]]) 21:03, 11 November 2014 (CST)

* A new vote should go here: [[2014 Votes]] (or the equivalent page for the current year)
* When a vote is officially proposed (usually at a member meeting, though mailing list works as well) - that is, the vote date is announced and there will be no further changes to the language - an email informing the membership of the vote (and soliciting electronic votes) goes out.
* This email needs to be sent at least 5 days before the vote - so the Thursday before a Tuesday vote.
* To send the vote notification email, select "Mass Mail" from the dropdown menu when logged in to the members.pumpingstationone.org. Edit an existing vote email changing the dates (they're in bold), save, and send to full members.
* Make a note of the quorum on the day that you send out the proxy statement.
* I keep a tally of votes in a google spreadsheet - tracking votes in person, electronic and proxy (A list of proxied votes is maintained in another spreadsheet. This should be checked periodically to make sure the names on it belong to current members).
** 2015 update: I have started storing the results, including the proxy vs. in person breakdown, in the member minutes.
** Proxies should be emailed directly to the secretary@ email account.
** 2015 update: proxies seem to be emailed to the votes@ account.
* Once the voting is done, update [[2016 Votes]] as well as the votes page. I also generally note whether a vote passed in the minutes and on the vote page. Mailing list announcement also isn't a bad idea.

=== Checks ===
Need to pass along the blank checks.

== Task Management ==

We use [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/ RT] for tracking tasks. Emails from info, money, ...? get forwarded to RT and placed in to RT categories such as Member Payments, Treasury, General, etc. During board meetings, part of the meeting is dedicated to RT triage to adjudicate and assign tasks.

RTs can have attachments, comments, email replies, and statue changes. It is good to record status updates in tickets so that there is no bottleneck in case someone else needs to pick up the ticket, or has a question.

== Meetings ==

Board meeting schedules can be determined by the board, but the board needs to meet at least once a year. Currently, Board meetings are the first and third Tuesdays of the month, before the member meeting. Board meetings notes are recorded on wiki pages by the Secretary or other Board member and organized in the category page for board meetings [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Category:Board_Meetings].

== Volunteers ==

The board is responsible for selecting area hosts and volunteer authorizers. 2015's board started experimenting with sending a monthly checkup to volunteers to see how they are doing.
[[Category:Board Procedures]]

Board Orientation

2017-01-25T17:33:25Z

Justin: /* Business Cards */

{{outdated}}

Fold in information from this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RB93_jgWFYBgU0DciqbfFnXY4hnfzHo02OD_2ViPHnM/edit#heading=h.dclvyvx7bf71

== Email ==
=== Email Addresses ===
Each board member has their own email address. It is usually boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org. The previous board member should hand over the account to the new board member. When a board member takes over the email address, the board member should review all of the settings for forwarding to update where emails are forwarded.

Starting in 2014 and continuing through 2017, we have been giving the directors at large an official ps1 email address using their name/pseudonym. ex-directors may retain this email address; we are allowed 100 with our domain and have only used approx. 60

When you get your account, update the settings so that mail appears to come from you and not your predecessor.
When you're logged in, click down the gear-shaped icon/pulldown in the upper right corner and select "Settings."
To change the picture associated with the account ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/WB3PuKmWAwAJ original link]):
There are 5 different places where Gmail could be referencing for your profile picture:
* In Gmail's Settings - Gmail>>Settings>>"My Picture"
* In your Google+ profile - Google+>>View your Profile
* Via your contacts - Search for yourself by email address and see what photo appears.
* If you have a "Send as" address that is treated as an alias, Gmail would reference the profile photo used for that Google account.
* Via another app or mail program, like Apple mail or Outlook.
If you have your profile photo attached to your own contact in one of those program's address books, be sure to change it. If you go through each one of these and you still can't find the photo, try waiting 24 hours for the changes to take effect.

If your name is appearing incorrectly, here are some things to check ([https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/F1h3VTjLOmU/B6vCobGWAwAJ original link]):
*Under Accounts, you can edit "Send mail as:"
*Your Google+ account page - Google+>Profile>Click on your name and change it> Save changes
*You should also search for yourself in your contacts, to ensure that your name is correct and not misspelled.
*Contacts manager> Search for your own email address> Make sure your name is associated with the correct address.
*Check the spelling of your name in your back-up account.
*If you have a recovery email, Gmail sometimes looks at the name in that account. Make sure it's spelled correctly there too.
*Check your name in any Apps or programs.
*If you're sending from an app or program, the name associated with that program will be the name that is listed in your account.
*Lastly, if you are using a Google apps account, you may need to check with your administrator to see if the problem is on their end.

You should also update the Google Plus account settings for your boardPosition@pumpingstationone.org address, some of those settings (alternate email, profile photo, name) may also refer to a previous position holder.

=== Director only list ===
The directors-only@ list is the main way that the board communicates over email. It is managed through the G-Suite account at admin.google.com. Update the users when board members change.

== Phone ==
We have a google voice phone number that we usually use on most official documents. It generally forwards calls to the president. Other board members can be added as well if needed. In order to update the call forwarding, you'll need to login to https://voice.google.com using the info@pumpingstatioone.org account. The password for this should be in the shared LastPass.

The phone number is (516) Nine Hundred-3519

=== Google Voice Users ===
If you want to have the space phone number forward to your phone, but you already use Google Voice for your normal phone number, things get a bit more complicated. If you have your forwarding phone setup as a "Mobile" phone in the settings, Google won't allow you to have another number forward to it. I guess this has to do with SMS stuff being complicated. I'm not really sure. You can still forward two numbers to one phone, you just have to set the phone type to "Home" or "Work" for every number you're forwarding. If there are any phones forwarding to you with the "Mobile" type, everything will break. This might mean that SMS and voicemail will break for you on your normal phone number. I think if you were already using the Google Voice app or the Hangouts app for those on your phone though it shouldn't really change anything. In case none of that makes sense, see [[https://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-multiple-Google-Voice-numbers-to-one-phone here]] for some more info.

== Google Groups/Mailing Lists ==
We have two main mailing lists that our members use to interact with each other online. The [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one-public public list]] and the [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pumping-station-one private list]]. All board members should at least get the '''Manager''' role to be able to do moderation and to approve join requests and such. During orientation, new board members will need to be shown the interface for managing membership of these lists and how to approve posts to the public list. They should also be given some rough guidelines on what to approve or not approve on the public list. Generally anyone can post to it (member or not) and we'll only block them from posting if their message is obvious spam.

* Moderating a member: Occasionally there is a need to require moderation for a member for some period of time and follows this process:
** 3 Board Members form a moderation group
** Moderated posts are emailed to the members of the moderation group and optionally, to the rest of the board
** Any moderators can approve a post, without consulting other moderators, if the content of the post is respectful
** For all other posts, if 2 moderators agree to ban the post, then that post is discarded and Google Groups sends an email to the member indicating a rejected post
** Members under moderation can make reasonable requests to the board (email to directors-only -at- pumpingstationone -dot- org) to understand why a post was rejected
** The service level agreement on response time for making a moderation decision on pending posts is 95% in 48 hours, however the moderators will strive to keep the timeframe below 24 hours to help maintain the flow of discussion
** The moderation group may, by unanimous agreement, initiate a change in member moderation status by setting a board agenda item to reevaluate the member for a change in moderation status of the member

== Bank account ==

* Electricity Payments - Tony Stuff

=== Things to update payments for ===

* Quickbooks
* ComEd - ACH payment
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* People's Gas
** This is done as an external AcH transfer, meaning there's nothing to change on the Chase side.
* Rent ACH---- Next time we do a board transition, make sure to cancel all ACH payments before any Chase accounts are deactivated/deleted.
* Internet
* Pagely
** This is currently connected to the president's debit card. Login to the pagely website (https://pagely.com). The credentials are in the shared LastPass folder.
* Creative Cloud
** This is tied to the secretary@ email address

== Online accounts ==

=== Credentials ===
We are storing credentials in a corporate LastPass account - check with CTO for details. We pay per-user.

Change passwords and sub-accounts. Give sub-accounts at discretion. For example, we've given PayPal sub-accounts to a subset of board members so that reimbursements and member point management can be done by more than just one person.

* PayPal
* Quickbooks
* Online banking
* PEX Cards
* ???

== Annual Report ==
As of 2015/05: According to the Illinois Secretary of State's office, amending the annual report is unnecessary since our registered agent or address has not changed. A new annual report must be filed at the end of the year, which will list the soon-to-be-outgoing Board.

== Business Cards ==
The PR director has newish templates for business cards. Might as well get 500 if you get any. They will be stored on our Google Drive.

There is a supply of generic PS1 cards available stored with our office supplies (currently in the safe) if you don't want to get any personalized cards, or for you to use until your personalized cards arrive.

== Member Payments ==
=== Accepted ===
We technically accept PayPal, cash, and check. Anything other than PayPal has significant overhead -- both for the person trying to find someone to give the money to and for the board for tracking payments.

=== Handling Cash Payments ===
All cash payments are to be deposited in the dropbox in the safe; it's currently mounted on the wall. On the envelope should be their name and the date of the deposit.

'''Members should be informed that cash payments can take a while to be processed and that they really should pay with paypal if possible'''

==== Processing the Payments ====
For each cash payment, update the member's record in not zoho.

* Set their membership level to their payment amount (if applicable.)
* Set the "End Date" to be one month after the payment.
* Add a note to their file, indicating when the payment was dated and how much it was for.
* Make sure their payment type is set to "cash".
* Set the "Last Payment Date" to the payment received date.
* Immediately deposit the payment (after signing the checks.) '''DO NOT''' allow payments to accumulate. Anything over two weeks is unacceptable.
* Take a photo of the receipt and send the image to info@, with a breakdown of the deposit.

=== Member Points ===
Members can receive $30 off via [[Member Rewards]].

Procedure as of 8/2016 can be found here [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Redeeming_Member_Points Redeeming Member Points]

Current procedure for giving them the $30 off:
# Check [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet] to see how many points have been used this pay cycle. Check the current month and the previous month.
# In PayPal, find their most recent payment.
# Via the refund button, give them $30 per member point used -- up to how much they paid that month.
# Deduct the points from their total in Zoho.
# Track the expenditure in [https://docs.google.com/a/pumpingstationone.org/spreadsheets/d/1h7zVarCieYiUqxk4fwU3G_OyoF6DsZPcNQih645YzNY/edit#gid=0 a spreadsheet].

Members can't refund more than the cost of their membership, and we don't track fractional member points.

'''To add''': how to handle members who spend member points on a temporary upgrade instead of a refund

=== Running Votes ===

Most of the business conducted by PS:1 is decided by member votes. The burden of most of the record keeping is on the secretary.

The process I've been using this year seems to work for the most part, it is detailed below. --[[User:Dbever|Dbever]] ([[User talk:Dbever|talk]]) 21:03, 11 November 2014 (CST)

* A new vote should go here: [[2014 Votes]] (or the equivalent page for the current year)
* When a vote is officially proposed (usually at a member meeting, though mailing list works as well) - that is, the vote date is announced and there will be no further changes to the language - an email informing the membership of the vote (and soliciting electronic votes) goes out.
* This email needs to be sent at least 5 days before the vote - so the Thursday before a Tuesday vote.
* To send the vote notification email, select "Mass Mail" from the dropdown menu when logged in to the members.pumpingstationone.org. Edit an existing vote email changing the dates (they're in bold), save, and send to full members.
* Make a note of the quorum on the day that you send out the proxy statement.
* I keep a tally of votes in a google spreadsheet - tracking votes in person, electronic and proxy (A list of proxied votes is maintained in another spreadsheet. This should be checked periodically to make sure the names on it belong to current members).
** 2015 update: I have started storing the results, including the proxy vs. in person breakdown, in the member minutes.
** Proxies should be emailed directly to the secretary@ email account.
** 2015 update: proxies seem to be emailed to the votes@ account.
* Once the voting is done, update [[2016 Votes]] as well as the votes page. I also generally note whether a vote passed in the minutes and on the vote page. Mailing list announcement also isn't a bad idea.

=== Checks ===
Need to pass along the blank checks.

== Task Management ==

We use [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/ RT] for tracking tasks. Emails from info, money, ...? get forwarded to RT and placed in to RT categories such as Member Payments, Treasury, General, etc. During board meetings, part of the meeting is dedicated to RT triage to adjudicate and assign tasks.

RTs can have attachments, comments, email replies, and statue changes. It is good to record status updates in tickets so that there is no bottleneck in case someone else needs to pick up the ticket, or has a question.

== Meetings ==

Board meeting schedules can be determined by the board, but the board needs to meet at least once a year. Currently, Board meetings are the first and third Tuesdays of the month, before the member meeting. Board meetings notes are recorded on wiki pages by the Secretary or other Board member and organized in the category page for board meetings [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Category:Board_Meetings].

== Volunteers ==

The board is responsible for selecting area hosts and volunteer authorizers. 2015's board started experimenting with sending a monthly checkup to volunteers to see how they are doing.
[[Category:Board Procedures]]

2017 Administrative Budget Vote

2017-01-18T21:43:05Z

Justin: /* History */

Back to [[2017 Budget]].

== Sponsors ==
* [[User:justin|Justin T. Conroy]]
* Michael Skilton

== History ==
* Mailing List Announcement: 2016-12-05
* Officially Proposed: 2016-12-13
* Vote to be held on: 2016-12-20

== Background ==
The purpose of this vote is

# to authorize the Board to spend money on normal administrative expenses not already authorized by the bylaws, and
# to ensure there is an emergency fund set aside for extenuating circumstances.

Expenditures such as rent and utilities (and a few other things) are already approved by the bylaws for the board to spend, so this vote does not cover those. They are included in the background information to inform the amounts we are actually voting on.

=== Big Picture ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Amount
|-
| Current Bank Balances (as of 2016-12-06)
| $158,884
|-
| Projected Income for 2017
| $244,320
|-
| Administrative, Per Bylaws
| -$158,858
|-
| Administrative Expenses, Member Approved
| -$15,000
|-
| Member Points
| -$6,500
|-
| Total Votes from 2016
| -$8,244
|-
| Savings Set Aside
| -$75,000
|-
| Available for other votes/area budgets
| $139,602
|-
|}

=== Administrative Expenses ===
This is a breakdown of the predicted administrative expenses that are already allowed by the bylaws and won’t be voted on in this vote. It is placed here for illustrative purposes only. The other section, titled Unapproved Administrative Expenses, is for things that are not already discussed in the bylaws and will be part of this vote language.

{| class="wikitable"
! Expense Name
! Amount
|-
| Bank Charges
| $900
|-
| Insurance
| $4575
|-
| PayPal Fees
| $7500
|-
| Professional Services
| $7000
|-
| Rent
| $89,133
|-
| Utilities
| $24,750
|-
|City/Legal Compliance
| $25,000
|-

|}

== Language ==
Authorize the board to spend up to $96,500 to cover administrative and emergency expenditures for the fiscal year of 2017. This spending authorization goes into effect 2017-01-01 and expires 2017-12-31.

The following expenditures and allocations are approved by this budget for the year of 2017:

{| class="wikitable"
! Category
! Amount
|-
| CTO/Systems Maintenance
| $2,500
|-
| PR/Advertising
| $500
|-
| Meals & Entertainment (Parties)
| $1,400
|-
| Office Expenses
| $100
|-
| Cleaning/Janitorial
| $10,500
|-
| Member Points (currently outstanding and future awards)
| $6,500
|-
| Emergency Fund Savings
| $75,000
|-
|}

=== Previous Spending Authorization Expiration ===
All previous spending authorizations are expired as of midnight 12/31/2016 except for the following votes:

{| class="wikitable"
! Vote Name
! Amount Remaining
|-
|[[Large Laser Cutter Vote R2]] Expires 2/2/17
| $2,240
|-
| [[Vote to Renovate the Kitchen]] Expires 4/18/17
| $4,200
|-
| [[CNC Plasma Cutter Vote V2]] Expires 1/5/17
| $1,804
|-
|}

=== Other Requirements ===
* The board of directors must set aside $25,000 for potential costs associated with city occupancy and business licensing and building code requirements.
* The emergency fund savings ($75,000) are to be set aside in case of emergency. This vote leaves the determination of an emergency to the discretion of the board of directors and provides no guidelines for such determination.

== Vote ==
* Quorum:
* Yay:
* Nay:
* Abstain:

[[Category:Votes]]
[[Category:2016 Votes]]

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-16T18:32:07Z

Justin: /* Will McShane */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
==== Patrick Callahan ====
I have been a member since 2010. I have served previously as secretary and vice president. I tour the country as an advocate and spokesperson for hackerspaces with the Power Racing Series showcasing the potential of groups like ours. I am also a charter member of the Nation of Makers, which is an independent, non-profit group that promotes the growth and diversity of the maker community. I am uniquely positioned to represent our organization not just here in Chicago but nationally through my current involvements.

The vast majority of new members find us online and I have a few ideas to promote us there such as video via youtube, and facebook live. I would like to take 360 degree photos as each of our areas are complete and have them posted on google maps. The small advertising budget we have I would like to spend on the few items that have been our most popular, stickers and T-Shirts. Everytime I wear mine, people always ask where did I get it and how they can get one too. They are always disappointed when I tell them they are 5 years too late.

I believe public relations are important to point inwards as well. I would also like to publicly acknowledge and thank our area hosts for their hard work. I know they can often times feel like their work can be isolating and sometimes boring. We can feature them online on our website or social media to show are appreciation outside these meetings. Small gestures like pizza, doughnuts, or awards go a long way and are a nice celebration for the completion of their area when build out is done. I also want to survey our members to gauge how we operate, what needs improving, and what they would like to do at the space.

==== Ray Doeksen ====

==== Deanna Williams ====

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
==== Erik Funkhouser ====

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
* Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
* Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly
* I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
** Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
** Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

==== Ed Bennet ====

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

==== Carl Karsten ====

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

==== Will McShane ====
I would like to officially accept my nomination for director at large here. I've been a member of the community here at Pumping Station: One since 2011, and have loved every minute of it.
Along with Ed, Deanna, Jonathan, James, and Andrew, I have been working on the bylaws overhaul and Dispute Resolution Committee proposal over the past year as head of the committee. In the coming year, I plan on continuing this work and seeing it to completion, as well as reviewing and updating the Member's Agreement to reflect any changes in the bylaws, and make sure they are fairly and ethically applied to the board and membership.
I'm also very excited over the upcoming Chicago Maker Faire, and plan on helping the PR director represent Pumping Station: One at the event. Finally, the city that was built for a maker fair gets its own!
Thank you, again, for the nomination, and I hope to earn your votes!

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:43:42Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
==== Patrick Callahan ====

==== Ray Doeksen ====

==== Deanna Williams ====

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
==== Erik Funkhouser ====

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
* Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
* Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly
* I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
** Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
** Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

==== Ed Bennet ====

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

==== Carl Karsten ====

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

==== Will McShane ====

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:43:07Z

Justin: /* Discussion from candidates */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
==== Patrick Callahan ====

==== Ray Doeksen ====

==== Deanna Williams ====

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
==== Erik Funkhouser ====

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
* Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
* Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly
* I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
** Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
** Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

==== Ed Bennet ====

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

==== Carl Karsten ====

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:26:03Z

Justin: /* Director of Public Relations */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
==== Patrick Callahan ====

==== Ray Doeksen ====

==== Deanna Williams ====

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:25:21Z

Justin: /* Director of Public Relations */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
==== Deanna Williams ====

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:25:11Z

Justin: /* Jonathan Bisson */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:24:58Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
==== Jonathan Bisson ====

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:24:31Z

Justin: /* Treasurer */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
==== Brian Chojnowski ====

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

What are your specific goals for the role?

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:24:19Z

Justin: /* Nominations */

== Discussion from candidates ==
What follows is a record of statements made by each candidate, either by email or via other mediums, and then copied here.

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

What are your specific goals for the role?

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:23:18Z

Justin: /* Vice President */

== Nominations ==

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
==== Jennie Plasterer ====

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

What are your specific goals for the role?

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:23:02Z

Justin: /* Nominations */

== Nominations ==

=== President ===
==== Adriana Garcia ====

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

==== Andrew Camardella ====

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

* Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress
* Increase member engagement and outreach
* Improve new member onboarding and orientation
* Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

What are your specific goals for the role?

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-13T20:21:48Z

Justin:

== Nominations ==

=== President ===
Adriana Garcia - Accepted

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

=== President ===
Andrew Camardella - Accepted

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

•Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress

•Increase member engagement and outreach

•Improve new member onboarding and orientation

•Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

What are your specific goals for the role?

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Director of Public Relations ===
Deanna Williams

Thank you for the nomination for PR. I have spent the last 10 months working with the Bylaws committee. We have learned a lot about how the organization works and the needs of the organization. One issue that we have addressed in great detail is the need for a DRC(Dispute Resolution Committee). More information to come.
With the time spent with the other great individuals that volunteered: Ed, Andrew, James, Jonathon, and Will, I love the way we work together to make the organization a better place for not only us but future members and am very interested in becoming a more involved member of the organization.
My plan if elected for the PR position would be to get us more publicity. Go figure. While our membership is strong at 435 members I would like to see more participation. We need to utilize social media in a more effective manor. We need our members to want to come join in activities and utilize the space. I would also like to get some outside organizations to give us some free advertising.
I am aware that Justin has endorsed Eric for his choice in this position. While I do not agree with his reasoning he is the president so he has that right. I would like to see what we can do with some fresh leadership.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

=== Directors-at-Large ===

Carl Karsten

Note, Carl is in Hobart, Tasmania at the moment working on a sprint and a conference. We are off by 12 hours. I (sheila) asked him to talk a bit about a DaL position. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

''Why does this role exist for ps1?''

<blockquote>
DAL is here to help out the Ds that have specific duties. The board is a thankless job, and it can be depressing to think you are going at it alone. You can't expect the other Ds to cover you, they have their own responsibilities.
</blockquote>

''What types of things do you think people should do in this role?''

<blockquote>
Show up,

Care about PS1 and help keep it moving in a good direction.
</blockquote>

''What are your specific goals for the role?''

<blockquote>
Do my part to keep PS1 open for another year.
</blockquote>

I (sheila) can try asking more questions, but the timezone difference and the conference he's working at might keep him from replying a bit. You can also ask questions. I can forward them or you can talk to him on irc (CarlFK in #pumpingstationone) or email. [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 11:07, 12 January 2017 (CST)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-12T03:30:19Z

Justin: /* Nominations */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the candidates for each position. The vote the 2017 board of directors will happen on January 17, 2017. To read statements made by each candidate about why they are running and what they will do in their respective positions, please visit the [[Talk:2017 Board Elections|discussion page]].

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella - Accepted

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Will McShane - Accepted
* Ed Bennet - Accepted

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-12T03:26:56Z

Justin: /* Nominations */ Moving declined nominations to the discussion page.

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella - Accepted

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Will McShane - Accepted
* Ed Bennet - Accepted

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

Talk:2017 Board Elections

2017-01-12T03:26:19Z

Justin: Moving declined nominations to the discussion page.

== Nominations ==

=== President ===
Adriana Garcia - Accepted

If I were President, aside from leading the weekly member meetings (Justin's shoes will be difficult to fill), I look forward to learning about conflict resolution. I'd hope to help nurture an open and inclusive environment, where the softest voice has an equal opportunity to be heard. Since we are completely volunteer driven, I also hope to work on distributing the technical and emotional labor of a growing membership. I feel they are both equally important to the continued success of PS1. I would like for us to continue to make cool stuff, teach each other to make cool stuff, get more cool stuff to make even more cool stuff. These are things I am interested in happening as a member, regardless if I am on the board. Honestly, I wasn't seeking to be on the board, but with the current state of our country, it's time to put my money where my mouth is and get involved at the local level. I'd be more than happy to bow out if anyone else wants to take a stab at it. In the end, I'm here for the community.

=== President ===
Andrew Camardella - Accepted

I would like to accept the nomination for President and would like to thank you for the vote of confidence. I greatly enjoy and appreciate being the CNC area host and getting to participate in all the changes and challenges that have been going on in the last year around the space. I believe I can bring that same enthusiasm and drive to the role of President. I’m also very pleased with the precedent the last board has set as well as what all the other nominees have said of their own roles. I look forward to achieving those goals and working alongside them.

There are a few things that I would like to work towards if I am elected as president (and would further encourage discussion and action on the following topics regardless of my role within the organization). For the most part, these topics have all are being discussed in other threads on the google group, so I won’t go into too much detail but to say that they are on my agenda:

•Continue the bylaws, DRC, and membership agreement work in progress

•Increase member engagement and outreach

•Improve new member onboarding and orientation

•Improve internal and external organizational communication

As for the state of the CNC area: It has come a long way in the last few months, getting better equipment and infrastructure, and I think that the new dedicated space will greatly improve the overall experience. There is still much that needs to be done and I would still like to play a part in working on the area alongside a new CNC area host, also distributing relevant information/knowledge and maintenance tasks.

PS1 is an amazing and unique place, and has made great strides in the last year towards accommodating more people and enabling more exciting and interesting projects to take place. I'm excited help grow our community in a healthy and productive way, regardless of my position this year.

=== Vice President ===
Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

The role of vice president is in many ways a support role and the details of this are uniquely cued to the dynamic of each president and VP. A lot of the responsibilities of a VP are shared with the president, designed to ease the pressure and preserve the sanity (and the ability to have a life outside of PS:1) of the president. But I think one of the lovely things about the Board of Directors as a whole is the element of fluidity; past the bare-bone outline of the bylaws, you come to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and preferences of fellow board members so I think there is an element of nuance that changes with each new board, ideally, as you communicate with each other to make sure everything is getting done.

This year, I would like to put a lot of thought into doing PS:1 scholarships in a way that benefits both PS:1 and the greater Chicago community. I have talked a little about this with Lauren, who works for JARC, an organization which provides skills training for low-income and unemployed workers. In that same vein, there are a lot of great communities of artists, engineers, craftspeople, interesting humanoids, etc. around the Chicago area and I would like to work on collaboration and cross-advertising, hopefully inciting some exciting new events and attendees.

I learned a ton last year, and if elected, I feel very excited about the prospect of coming into this year comfortable in my role and ready to finish a lot of projects from last year, seeing through the completion of the build out, the new bylaws, and a slew of new thoughts on member on-boarding and integration.

=== Treasurer ===
Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

I hope to fulfill the Treasurer role not only by performing the regulatory required Treasurer duties, but also by trying to lay more groundwork to insure that PS1 will continue to provide our particular sort of service to our our local community, well into the future.

My long-term goal is to find a way for PS1 to own it's own space, or some solution like that. This comes with downsides of course, but the major perk gained by achieving this goal would be enjoying a sort of immunity to the fluctuations in the lease market. We enjoy a favorable relationship with our landlord today, not only because we are dutiful tenants, but also perhaps more critically, because we let to a landlord who believes in our mission. I feel that we could easily find life very challenging should ownership change. As we share some similarities manufacturing, I feel it would be a real challenge for PS1 to respond well to whatever market conditions prevail when our lease is up, as willingness and ability to relocate is a major part of a tenant's bargaining ability.

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
Jonathan Bisson - Accepted

What are your specific goals for the role?

Just to make a quick plan of what I would do as a CTO:

DISCLAIMER: I signed the http://neveragain.tech/ pledge. And my position
is more extreme than that. I'll refuse to participate in any way on
making a database or trying to use the actual data (including internet
usage) of our members to profile, police/watch/survey, stalk,
discriminate, sell/give to any other profit or non-profit organization
any of our members or their usage of tools and resources at the space.
That obviously doesn't cover infrastructure monitoring anonymous data
requirements, but that will eventually imply working on what and how it
is logged by our systems.

Now that it is said:

I want to pursue what Daniel started, making a clean plan (mapping what
is used, where and why) and update the infrastructure (security,
backups…). Then I would work on each different part individually to try
to simplify and automate deployment (with systems like Ansible) so we
can restore our systems in a working conditions easily even if someone
drops thermite on the server rack and we have to buy new ones. I would
also like to make a server monitoring system that would allow members to
know what is working or not (even when space net is out, or almost out,
there are solutions for that based on free/really cheap GSM systems that
can send status when something gets bad), and have procedures in place
so they know what they can do and how to do it. That would avoid some of
the problems we had in the past. One thing that I would also like to see
done is a clean up and eventually reduction of power usage from our
systems, I noticed that our server rack runs really hot, and if we can
find ways to reduce our power consumption and associated cost, that
would be great. But I have no idea yet if this is something achievable
or not, so that will require some digging first.

Obviously, that's not something that I can do alone, and would be happy
to have Daniel transfer me his knowledge of the systems and even better
work with me from time to time, Hef to help me with the historical
aspect of the systems and anyone that would be interested in
participating. The plan is not to do system administration courses in
the first place, but once our infrastructure is cleaned and running,
that could actually be the occasion to revive Hef's systems office hour.

Also, if you have anything you would like to know my position about,
feel free to ask (in private to avoid messing with that thread:
bjonnh...@bjonnh.net). I'll try to publish my answers on a wiki page
for future reference.

Well again that's all campaign promises, trust me if you can ;) I'm not
promising that I'll do all of that, but that I will try my best to do
it.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Erik Funkhouser - Accepted

For 2017 I'm going to start having a bit more availability of time to contribute to the space beyond my projects. Ultimately I'd like to help in the following areas:
•Help in supporting responsible management and collaboration within the space.
•Administrative tasks that help in continuing to run everything smoothly

•I'm personally interested in spending my time looking into how we can (or do currently) benefit from potential grants or non-profit support systems that exist.
◦Any opportunities here would be to help fund initiatives presented by members.
◦Often times grants might require 'new' developments or programs to be created in response to funding. If there were opportunities I'd enjoy working with the board and other members to discuss what these could be.

I am a project manager by trade, and this position does allow for a lot of growth personally as well that I am looking forward to.

=== Directors-at-Large ===
Ed Bennet - Accepted - Accepted

I accept the nomination for Director at Large. My platform is to help
update PS1's bylaws and associated structural documents.

In February Lyn Cole, Director at Large, Director at Purple and Wild
Events 2016 formed the PS1 Bylaws Committee. Since March, six volunteers
have donated approximately 300 person-hours to the cause. We used
archived but unimplemented documents and formal legal advice together
with an understanding of how PS1 really operates to craft a better
description of how we get stuff done.

PS1's bylaws are defined in a document that lays out the administrative
structure and basic rules of operating the organization. The bylaws are
our "Constitution" and are basically unchanged since PS1 was an
organization of 50 or so friends. (Our proposed new bylaws document is
17 pages.)

For instance. A common frustration is the bylaws' silence on the Board's
role in discipline and conflict resolution. To address this we added a
requirement that the BoD form a Dispute Resolution Committee that acts
separately from the BoD as a whole. The internal processes and
procedures of the DRC are outside the scope of the bylaws, so we wrote
that as a normal policy to be enacted by a member vote.

The bylaws committee is still in effect. The committee's revision of the
bylaws is currently with the lawyer for review. If there are changes
that need to be made, we'll make the changes and if necessary have the
changes checked. After that, we'll put the new bylaws document up for
member review and vote.

The DRC is a normal BoD committee and can be formed without the new
bylaws being in place. The bylaws committee would like for the DRC
policy vote to happen asap.

The current BoD has not been directly involved in crafting the new
bylaws, but having a BoD member as sponsor is a necessity. Lyn is not
running for the BoD in 2017. I would like to join the BoD to serve as
sponsor and facilitator to move the new bylaws and the DRC policy to a
member vote.

The members of the bylaws committee are

Will McShane, chair
Deanna Williams
Jim Baker
Jonathan BISSON
Andrew Camardella
Ed Bennett (me)

== Declined Nominations ==
The following people were nominated, but declined to run. I'm moving them from the main page for clarity, but keeping them here for historical reference or whatever. [[User:Justin|Justin]] ([[User talk:Justin|talk]]) 21:26, 11 January 2017 (CST)

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Eric Stein - Declined

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Aushra Abouzeid - Declined
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-10T01:07:58Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Will McShane - Accepted
* Ed Bennet - Accepted
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-09T19:02:46Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */ I emailed him and he said he would accept in reply.

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Will McShane - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-09T19:02:08Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel - Declined
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Will McShane -
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-09T15:55:03Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Will McShane -
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-09T15:54:36Z

Justin: /* Director of Public Relations */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen - Accepted
* Deanna Williams - Accepted
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Born - Declined
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined
* Will McShane -

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-07T20:15:42Z

Justin: /* Director of Public Relations */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Patrick Callahan - Accepted
* Ray Doeksen -
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Born -
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-06T17:26:02Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene - Declined
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Born -
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-05T06:11:04Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Born -
* Aushra Abouzeid -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-05T06:10:18Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Born -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T23:58:50Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan - Declined

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:33:25Z

Justin: /* Director of Public Relations */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Eric Stein -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:33:05Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser - Accepted
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:32:54Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* Jonathan Bisson - Accepted
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:07:54Z

Justin: /* President */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -
* Justin Conroy - Declined

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Jonathan Bisson -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:07:14Z

Justin: /* Director of Public Relations */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Jonathan Bisson -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:06:58Z

Justin: /* Directors-at-Large */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Jonathan Bisson -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Carl Karsten - Accepted
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Ed Bennet -
* Kathryn Borne -
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T17:05:54Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted
* Andrew Camardella -

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer - Accepted

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -
* Jonathan Bisson -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Carl Karsten - Accepted

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T03:24:37Z

Justin: /* Secretary */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer -

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle - Accepted

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Carl Karsten -

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

[[Category:Elections]]

2017 Board Elections

2017-01-04T03:21:10Z

Justin: /* Chief Technical Officer */

This page is to document the upcoming elections for the 2017 Pumping Station: One Board of Directors. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on January 17, 2017. All nominations for board positions are due one week before the annual meeting on January 10, 2017. Please read [[Bylaws#Officers|the bylaws]] for further information about each position and how the election will work.

== Nominations ==
The following lists the positions which will be voted on and the members who have been nominated thus far. The members who have accepted their nominations have '''Accepted!''' written next to their names. All others have yet to officially accept their nominations.

=== President ===
* Justin Conroy - Declined
* Adriana Garcia - Accepted

=== Vice President ===
* Jennie Plasterer -

=== Secretary ===
* Simon Pyle -

=== Treasurer ===
* Brian Chojnowski - Accepted

=== Chief Technical Officer ===
* David Koppel -
* Daniel Tornabene -
* Patrick Callahan -

=== Director of Public Relations ===
* Ray Doeksen -

=== Directors-at-Large ===
* Lyn Cole - Declined
* Michael Skilton - Declined
* Erik Funkhouser -
* Carl Karsten -

== Results ==

=== President ===

=== Vice President ===

=== Secretary ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== CTO ===

=== PR Director ===

=== Directors at Large ===

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