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, July 10th at 8 PM

Topics for the Plenum

Cleanup and project day improvements

Keep Food budget for cleanup?

At the last cleanup we had a experimental food budget to say thank you to the helping hands and have a nice event day. In my opinion it was really great and we should keep a permanent budget.

Collecting todo points upfront:

I think the cleanup gets really a booster, if someone take the lead for the day and collect upfront some points and distribute the tasks. Maybe we should check for a volunteer for every cleanup and project day.

I can also highly encourage, that we extend the usage of our project collection to collect topics that make sense to tackle: Lab Projects

-- Milian

Projects & Groups update

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

• IT: Network controller died recently. Had some issues with the network afterwards. Since it got anyway a bit complicated unifi controlller and network was reinstalled by Adrian and Chris
• Events: Corso Leopold would be on 13./14.09: https://corso-leopold.de/cl/mitmachen/ Anyone motivated to present the Maker Lab and do the organization? The offical registration is already closed, but seems like it's still possible to join, if spots are left.
• SocialMedia: If someone is interested in supporting to fill our social media channel: please join #socialmedia
• Workshop: If someone is interested in supporting to have a look on our stocks and want to help refilling stuff, please ping me (Milian)

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? 20250629 Plenum

Garden overhaul & Torii Gate cost review

The following costs were approved

• 200€ for emergency planter repair in the 2025-04-27 Plenum
  • this was not actually needed and hence not used
• 100€ to pay for the second-hand planters and torii gate in the 2025-05-25 Plenum
  • this was payed out
• 66€ for soil and stones and paint also in the 2025-05-25 Plenum
  • this was purchased
• 200€ for further materials to build a new planter and properly paint the gate also in the 2025-05-25 Plenum
  • Cost comparison
    • Kunstoffpalette 20->35€
    • 4 Palettenrahmen 80->80€ (we got a slightly shitty one extra though)
    • Erde 40->65€
    • Holz 40->10€
    • Bändchengewebe 20->30€
    • Total preplanned: 200->220€
  • Further costs:
    • 80€ for more paint and utensils to prime and actually properly paint the gate
    • 20€ for ant poison
  • Total cost overrun: 120€

I didn't get a receipt from the Schrotthändler and planned to donate some of the cost overrun anyway. So I would be happy to donate/ignore those 55€ from that cost overrun, and expense the remaining 65€ with the Plenums' approval. --Aaron Also, I'd like to give a special thanks to Bernhard and Tina who provided some very nice used Paletten and Palettenrahmen to do further work on our planters in the future. This is the main reason we did not need to use the planter replacement emergency funds.

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• Screw sets have been bought and are available in the electronics lab and in the workshop
• Tape for colorcoding has been bought and first tools are color coded. More to come at the next cleanup and project day
• Fairy light for the Maker Lab yard has been bought and will be installed soon with a first temporary power connection. The final power outlets at the wall will follow a bit later.
• Emergency key safe has been ordered and is already installed outside the lab. --- Milian
• Lab project list is quite up to date at the moment. Check it out, if you want to see what is happening at the moment or if you want to contribute: Lab Projects -- Milian

Things to Buy

• 86€ for 6 Euroboxes with lids to be sold to members for storage in the pit. This comes down to 14,31€ per piece, and they will be sold for 15€ per piece. --Aaron

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!)