Financial Report February 2010
February 21, 2010 by klks · Leave a Comment
Hackerspace KL’s current financial state – Feb 2010
Greetings and salutations. Hackerspace KL’s Treasurer, Azrin, here reporting on Hackerspace KL’s current financial state. Oh by the way, Gongxi facai xin nian kuai le.
Currently we have a total of 21 paying members. Out of this number, 3 members are students, while 18 are non-students. Total cash flow in is RM 5950, majority of which is from the membership fees. Total cash flow out is RM 9108.15. So our current closing balance is RM (-3158.15). Please refer to the cash flow statement here -> Cash Flow Statement – 20 Feb 2010.
Next membership fee due date is on 6 May 2010. Hopefully everybody can pay on time, preferrably earlier so we can budget for some good stuff for the space (^_^)
And for those that have not collected their receipts from me, do come by during any of the scheduled events to collect your receipts.
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Meeting Minutes #1
February 12, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Meeting Minutes
Date: 9th January 2010
Meeting starts: 3:15 pm
Meeting ends: 4:35 pm
Location: HackerspaceKL
Minutes by: mel
Attendees
- Tinker Leong
- Jordan Lou
- Earl Marcus Tan
- Justin Ng
- Goh Choon Ming
- Niresh Singh
- Azrin Madin
- Meling Mudin
- Ahmad Zulkarnain
- Jayaseelan
- Amin Hamid
- Arzumy MD
- Brian Ritchie
- Yee Wan
Minutes
- Suresh, together with Arzumy will prepare documentation for registration of hskl as a society. Target date to complete: 22nd January 2010
- An informal meeting minutes during last meeting (GotongRoyong) will be used as first minutes, today’s meeting minutes will be used as second meeting minutes to be submitted
- Committee has been chosen. They are as follows:
- President – Meling Mudin
- Vice President – Earl Marcus Tan
- Secretary – Arzumy MD
- Treasurer – Azrin
- Committee Members:
- Niresh Singh
- Amin Hamid
- Jordan Lou
- Tinker Leong
- Suresh Ramasamy
- Refer to the Constitution for the society by-laws
- The name is already in the Constitution
2. See section 1(b) above
3. Membership fee. Everyone has agreed that students pay RM50/month, non-students RM100/month. The membership will be reviewed on a yearly basis.
1. For the month of February, March and April, payment will be via cash or bank transfer. Azrin will collect membership fees, and receipts will be given.
2. Every paying members can now become committee members, regarding of the pledge duration
3. Cut-off date for membership fee will be on the 8th February
4. Every member is to pay 3 months in advance
4. An announcement will be made for hackerspace LogoCompetition. Winner will have bragging rights.
5. Furnitures
1. One big conference table will be collected from the unit downstairs
2. Arzumy to confirm by the end of this month whether we can get 5 tables and 3 sofas (for FREE!)
3. All members will bring/donate their own chair to hskl – we will not be buying chairs
4. Jayaseelan will check the prices for white boards
5. Amin will design, and get quotations for materials for DIY shelves
6. We will get additional sofas and chairs in March (donated by takizo)
6. Arzumy to confirm if we’re getting secondhand air-conditioners (5 units, but we need at least one) by end of the month
7. Mel and Marcus will go to Jalan Pasar to buy electronic equipments (WishList)
8. Activities
1. Each workshop/etc will have an organizer. We are going to follow HSBX style: http://hackerspace.be/Roundtable_Workshop_Format
2. Amin to organize wood-hacking 101
3. Wiki to dump workshop/presentation (EventSuggestions), we can start in February
4. There will be themed daily activities:
Monday – anything
Tuesday – HackingTuesday – anything computer/network/etc as long as security related
Wednesday – anything
Thursday – CodingThursday – anything related to software, Open Source, programming, etc etc
Friday - Electronics and Hardware Hacking
Saturday – anything
Sunday – anything
9. Official OperatingHours will be from 10am (or earlier depending on who opens the space) till 10pm
1. Arzumy will create a Google form/calendar for KeyHandling roster
2. Mel and Marcus will look at the prices for security camera
10. Other matters
1. Sniffit and Kagesenshi to continue working on hackerspace-os. Currently the ‘unknown’ function is the payment tab
2. Current wiki/Google calendar will still be used, no rush to change to Plone
3. Google Calendar will be used for scheduling of [wiki:Events]
4. Azrin Madin will find Open Source software for accounting (web-based). Arzumy will help in this regard.
5. One of the storeroom will be rented to HITB for RM400/month
11. Next schedule will be announced
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The State of the Space, So Far
February 12, 2010 by spoonfork · Leave a Comment
HackerspaceKL is barely two months old, but we’ve been quite active for the past 1 and 1/2 months. The month of December 2010 saw us finally securing a location in Damansara Uptown, and on January 1st 2010, we officially have the space. January has been spent on a few activities:
- We held an open day on 9th January 2010 for people to donate stuff. We also cleaned up the space. Photos: HackerspaceKL Preview, Dump Your Stash and Gotong Royong Day
- We bought tools for the space: HackerspaceKL Goodies
- We had our first meeting on the 17th January 2010: Meeting Minutes #1
- Our second meeting was held on the 30th of January 2010
In February, the space is officially open.
- We built 8 DIY tables, and 1 shelf on the 2nd Meeting
- We had our electronic workshops: Electronic Fridays : Basic Electronics
- We had a second electronic workshop! Electronic Friday #2 – The one where we built a Joule Thief
- We migrated the previous website which runs on Trac to Plone: HackerspaceKL’s Wiki Migrated to Plone
Our membership has been steadily growing as well. So far we have exactly 21 paying members (which includes 3 students). Out of 32 pledges (HackerspaceKL Pledge Page), 18 became official members. With the current number of paying members, we have enough to pay for rental and utilities, plus some money leftover to buy more tools for the space. However, we cannot afford to get air conditioners – this will happen in 6 months time after we are able to save more money, or someone donates, or we hit the original target of 30 members. We will be publishing our financial statements before Chinese New Year.
So what’s next in store? We will be continuing our workshops, that is for sure. We will also buy more tools, and start working on projects. The general feeling that I get is that all of the members (at the one that shows up) are eager to learn, share, teach and build projects. And this is a Good Thing(TM).
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HackerspaceKL’s Wiki Migrated to Plone
February 10, 2010 by spoonfork · Leave a Comment
First and foremost mad props to KageSenshi and sniffit for getting Plone up and running. The main HackerspaceKL website will be http://www.hackerspace.my, while https://wiki.hackerspace.my will be gradually decommissioned. The blog (https://blog.hackerspace.my) will also be decommissioned. Instead, blog posts, news and updates will be made available News section of this site.
If you’ve previously registered at the old wiki site, your login credentials have been migrated as well, provided that you’ve entered your email in the old wiki site. So, if you’ve registered with the previous site, but did not enter your email, you need to register again at http://www.hackerspace.my/createMember.
If you are an official paying member of HackerspaceKL, logging in into Plone will allow you to add Events. Once you’ve added your event, it will be posted pending review. Pre-scheduled events however, cannot be amended except by users that have manager role. This includes Hacking Tuesdays, Coding Thursdays and Electronics Fridays.
The new website will also be used to manage membership and track membership fees. There are still a few works that need to be done – you’ll be updated from time to time. If you have any suggestion on how to improve the site, come to any of our event, preferably Hacking Tuesday, and we’ll figure out how to make Plone work for us.
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HackerspaceKL 1st Community Meeting
February 9, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Agenda
- Formation of HackerspaceKL as a society
- http://www.ros.gov.my/content.php?ida=BOR-20080310170647
- Needed for the registrar, among others:
- Two meeting minutes
- List of at least 7 committee members
- Society by-laws
- Name of organization, in English (and Malay for the registration)
- Election of office bearers
- What are the position? President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Committee Members
- Students are non-eligible to hold posts as office bearers (President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary)
- Membership fees
- How much to charge now that we have 30 pledges
- Payment options
- Membership privileges
- HackerspaceKL logo design
- Where/how to get furnitures
- Where/how to get airconditioning
- where/how to get our wishlist
- Scheduling and planning of activities. We need to at least plan for the next 3 months.
- Workshops
- Tutorials
- Presentations
- Projects
- Others?
- Operating Hours and Key Handling
- Others
- App to manage membership ( hackerspace-os)
- Calendering app to be embedded to Wiki
- Date for next meeting
- How regular will the council meeting be?
- What time is best?