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Contents 1 Time & Place 2 Admin 2.1 Agenda 3 Projects 4 Minutes

Time & Place

• Title: Tangle ball Auckland Meeting
• When: Tuesday, 03 May, 19:00
• Where: 27 Edinburgh Street, Newton

The first part is an administrative meeting, until 19:30.

At 19:30, we talk about fun stuff like projects.

All are welcome to either.

Admin

Agenda

• The wiki is having problems - no captcha for adding external links.
  • should we do another web sprint one weekend?
• Next open day
  • More promotion needed
  • Did the scheduling of events from the recent open day work?
  • How do we get more different events or people speaking?
• Tessa from Auckland Zinefest would like to hold a 24 hour event on the weekend of 9th July.
• Any more news on keyless entry systems for Tangleball?
• Initial discussions about forming a Steampunk society, based at Tangleball.

Projects

• Augur has an idea for a Tangleball collaborative entry for a design competition, designing a radio for the 'sounds like us' campaign run by Radio NZ.
  • see Sounds Like Us Design Competition 2011 for more info.
• Tanglelaser
  • What is the progress?
• Keyless entry system for Tangleball

Minutes

• The wiki's captcha box for posting external links is not working. (Thomas was notified later.)
• Web sprint suggested. Cheng would like to wait for Jaco (who is currently out of the country).
• Open days:
  • Last one had declining attendance
    • Could be winter
    • Still more promotion needed
  • Ed suggested keeping a public todo list when preparing for events
  • Thanks to Tumeke, Tessa, John Graves and others who participated
  • Tumeke offered to help promote future open days together
  • The experiment of holding the open day on a Sunday was inconclusive at best
  • Having a schedule for the day was a good idea

• Keyless entry
  • Wayne is looking into it

• Steampunk society in Auckland is starting up.
  • Robert F sees opportunities for collaboration with Tangleball
    • Possibly holding meetings there, as well as fabricating things

• Zinefest upcoming
  • Tessa absent (arrived later)
  • Didi was there to interview Tessa about it (later interviewed some people from Tangleball too)

• Tumeke would like to make their Critical Mass post-event social gathering a regular monthly thing
  • No objections

• Tumeke is growing and may stay open on a weekday too

• Robert F suggested Tangleball enters "Sounds Like Us" Radio NZ campaign competition
  • Maybe design a steampunk radio representing NZ
  • Closes May 14
  • Prize is a display at Auckland Art Gallery, which would be good publicity

• Laser project
  • Wayne looked up some bits
  • Some parts are expensive, some are cheap