Plenum

The Plenum is a regular meeting of all people involved with the space to talk about things and decide stuff. If you have any topics to add, go right ahead! Please sign your points with your name (by adding a "--~~~~" after your text).

After the Plenum, please follow the tasks outlined in Cycling the Plenum to archive the discussion.

Preamble

• The Plenum is an institution to decide what the space should look like, physically and in other ways, such as virtually.
• Things concerning the space should be discussed at a plenum.
• Everyone on-site can participate in that process, member or otherwise.
• Everyone can lead a plenum; no need for board members to do that.
• Topics should ideally be announced on the Plenum wiki page beforehand.
• The Plenum should be held in a language that everyone participating understands.
• Scheduling: Second Thursday of the month at 8 pm and the last Sunday after the cleanup (which starts at 11 am)
• Plenums should be no longer than 90 minutes.

Next Plenum: Thursday, August 8th at 8 pm

Topics for the Plenum

Projects & Groups update

This is a quick update from group meetings at our space or other long-term space projects (e.g., Lasercutter, CNC, etc.)

Say Thank you

• Ivan: For helping me fix the workshop door (Chris)

MiniJobs

If you want to be mentioned at the previous section as well, one of the easiest ways is to take one of our MiniJobs. This is a great way to participate in the Munich Maker Lab e.V. and contributing time helps keeping our space in a good shape. You can find all information about the scope of the available jobs on MiniJobs.

Stuff from the past

What was discussed at the last Plenum? What's the current status of those things? 20240711 Plenum

• Regarding building a new box, I really enjoyed the added room in the Electronics Corner. I don't know much about the boxes, but I am under the impression that there are quite a few free spaces in the existing boxes. Because of that I would prefer that we not build a new box again (at least for now) --Aaron (talk)

Anything you don't feel comfortable with within the space? What would you like to change or to be changed?

• The flood lights in the yard seem to be dying. Is there a way we or the landlord can get them fixed? --Tiefpunkt (talk) 00:35, 8 August 2024 (CEST)

Racist crap on Box 9 (q3k)

Is perpetuating the racist stereotype of polish car thieves at the space okay?

https://object.ceph-eu.hswaw.net/q3k-personal/f761cc455bea8810d0144c0cff82a81b95098dbfe88c350312907fac0cd3347a.jpg

10 year anniversary

The lab was founded in 2014, so this year we had our 10 year anniversary. Should we do a celebration of that, e.g. some time in the fall? --Tiefpunkt (talk) 00:35, 8 August 2024 (CEST)

Public IT infrastructure

We run two servers at Hetzner (Mars and Jupiter, or Web Infrastructure) to provide various services (wiki, website, mailinglists, pad, etc.).

• Their configuration is a bit confusing by now, I would like to clean that up a bit (e.g. move all web stuff into containers; atm its a mixture of containers and OS native stuff, spread across both hosts)
• We could really use some additional services, e.g. a NextCloud instance for calendar management (currently at Google with very limited access) and as a Trello alternative for organizing the newsletter.
• We may have to consolidate a few additional services that are now running externally back into our infrastructure.
• We should also address our mail infrastructure, but that's quite a big fish to fry.
• There's a bit of a documentation gap

For that, I would like to get 1-2 additional cloud servers at Hetzner to start that consolidation. The aim would be to stay at two machines for the long run, but not having to do this whole thing in-place would make it much safer.

Also, if anyone wants to help with this, please let me know.

--Tiefpunkt (talk) 09:18, 5 August 2024 (CEST)

Things for Newsletter, Social Media & Website News

Not really content, just some notes --Tiefpunkt (talk) 09:18, 5 August 2024 (CEST)

• We deactivated our X (formerly known as Twitter) account (set it to private).
• There seems to be a lot of stuff going on at the space, yet little makes it into the outside world via social media. Let's change that and show off some of the cool stuff we do.

Request for online participation

If necessary, you can request to participate remotely (via jitsi). Please briefly describe why you want to participate remotely and what topic you want to discuss. (additionally to adding the topic on top!)