](https://wiki.rivercitylabs.space/operations/code-of-conduct) # Visitor / Guest Policy # Orientation ## All Members are required to take a one-time orientation for the space itself before getting space access. ## All Members are required to take one-time orientations on tools of the Yellow and Red color categories. We will help facilitate these orientations on a member-requested time. ## Ask a volunteer or officer about orientations!
# Volunteering List of volunteering needs We welcome you to join in the comradery with the future forge community by being an individual volunteer and/or joining us for work parties as we knock out large projects to improve the space's functional and energetic creativity. Working parties will be announced on Slack, you can add to the spaces good energy by becoming an individual volunteering any time. Please review the possible volunteer positions that we want community participation and help with. If you would like to volunteer, fill out the [**Future Forge Volunteer Application**](https://www.thefutureforge.org/join-us/volunteer) and **Submit** it, we'll be in contact. \ \ Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer at the future forge. **POSITION:** Front Desk\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Youth and Adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 5-6\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** weekly\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** friendly, social\ **DESCRIPTION:** Welcome new members, guests, and visitors that want to learn more about the Future Forge. Hand out pamphlets with Future Forge information to visitors. **POSITION:** Facility Cleaning Lead\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Youth and Adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** several\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less, depending on number of volunteers\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, cleaning skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** The facility cleaning volunteers are responsible for helping us put our best foot forward. Once a week, one of these volunteers will come to the makerspace, empty trash, sweep, wipe down common areas & doors, clean the bathroom, etc, so that our facility is ready for the youth and community that we support. **POSITION:** Art Garden Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a week or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** outdoor-oriented, gardening knowledge\ **DESCRIPTION:** The Art Garden team will work on the grove and land on the east side of the property. Assist with creating paths, watering, and cultivating the garden space as well as creating outside art installations areas. **POSITION:** 3D Printing Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, computer skills, 3D printing skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** The 3D Printing team members keep our technical equipment running like finely-oiled machines. They will maintain and test the 3D printers, recalibrating them as needed. **POSITION:** Computer Lab and Electronics Area Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, computer and/or electronic knowledge\ **DESCRIPTION:** The Computer/Electronics team members keep our technical equipment running like finely-oiled machines. They will maintain and organize the electronics area and insure equipment is functional as well as keep the computers functional and virus free. **POSITION:** Textile Arts Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, textile & sewing knowledge\ **DESCRIPTION:** The Textile Arts team will work in the textile area to ensure the area is kept in order and machines are working properly and can be operated safely. **POSITION:** Laser & Wazer Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, computer and mechanical skills, laser and wazer machine skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** The lazer and wazer team members keep our technical equipment running like finely-oiled machines. They will maintain and test the lazer and wazer, recalibrating them as needed. **POSITION:** Lapidary & Jewelry Area Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, mechanical skills, lapidary grinders, cutters, and general machine skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** The lapidary/jewelry area team members keep our mechanical lapidary equipment running like finely-oiled machines and hand tools in working order. They will maintain and test the lapidary equipment, insuring they are in safe and proper operating condition. **POSITION:** Metal Shop Area Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, mechanical skills and general machine skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** The metal shop area team members keep our metal shop equipment running like finely-oiled machines and hand tools in working order. They will maintain and test the metal working equipment, insuring they are in safe and proper operating condition. **POSITION:** Wood Shop Area Lead(s) & Assistant(s)\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month or less\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, computer, mechanical skills, and general machine skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** The wood shop area team members keep our wood shop and CNC equipment running like finely-oiled machines and hand tools in working order. They will maintain and test the wood working and cnc equipment, insuring they are in safe and proper operating condition. **POSITION:** Makerspace Organization Lead\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and Adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, organizational skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** A makerspace is an unruly beast always seeking to collapse into chaos. These volunteers are the heroes that fight that chaos by organizing. They find a place for everything, and help make things flow more smoothly in the space. This person will also help maintain inventory counts in the facility, ensuring we keep things that we use in stock. **POSITION:** Makerspace Donations Lead\ **YOUTH/ADULT OPPORTUNITY:** Older youth and Adult\ **# VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:** 1-2\ **HOW OFTEN NEEDED:** once or twice a month\ **SPECIFIC SKILLS:** detail-oriented, organizational skills\ **DESCRIPTION:** A makerspace may receive large and small donations of goods that need to be sorted and stored to keep the space as organized as possible. There will be an order that the donations will follow, e.g. estimated value, can the future forge use it, can a member use it, should it be part of a garage sale, should it go to the Re-Store, should it go to the dump, etc. This person will help organize the donation supply chain. # Maker Spaces # Front Desk and Library Visitor Check-in
Shop tools available to be used after members have been signed-on use.
**Stephen Lindsey, Gabe Farley, Nick Farley, Mary Stone, Wanda Stone** **Stephen calls the board to order at: 3:50pm**
**Major Key Points: Makers Market, Interns, Personal Schedules, Financial Reports**
**Makers Market**
* **Going to make a deposit soon, flyers were made! Full for Aug 22nd! Good to go!** **Interns** * **4 Interns! 3 from Aldo (Fridays) and 1 from Western (Wednesday Anna Gomez)** * **Come up with stuff for them to do! Move sewing station, cleaning checklist, and other big projects!** **Personal Schedules** * **Everyone does their best to get together their personal schedules to renegotiate FF sched.** * **New schedule up and written** **Nick left 4:10pm**
**Financial Reports** * **Hopefully pull some stuff together to present for next week** **We are in a very transitional period, schedules are changing, interns are coming in, we will reconvene next month to work further on business. A lot is going to happen soon so stay tuned!**
**Meeting Adjourned by Stephen 4:20pm**
# 7-7-2020 Board Meeting Minutes **July 7th 2020 Board Meeting Minutes** **Quorum Achieved**
**Stephen Lindsey, Gabe Farley, Nick Farley, Mary Stone, Wanda Stone, Dylan Miner** **Stephen calls the board to order at: 4:38pm**
**Major Key Points: Employee Duties (Hourly Cleaning), Makers Market Update (Committee), WOODSHOP!?,** * **Clean up after selves! You work here so clean like it! Also cleaning list! Station Organization! Maintain ALL stations, not just the main areas. Maybe it's time to have “directors” to help keep up with cleaning and station maintenance. Let keep a better eye on our problem areas. Problem: Cleaning and Organizing Stations and Snack Areas Solution: Personal post it board for just our board! This will be separate and PRIORITIZED with written names and dates on each note! Daily kind of basis not long term. Just to dos and notes, not ‘in progress’ or ‘done’.** * **Makers Market update, ads and logo is getting finished. After today, stuff is going out, so yay! Mary and Charmeine I guess are the leads. Nick and Wanda want to be on the committee. Contact Mary for info.** * **Policies and Norms - need to be DONE! Call them “Codes of Conduct”: Add to wiki. Incorporate with policies. Send Gabe any information pertaining to these. Also any wiki.** * **MERCHANDISE LET DO IT! EVERYONE GET SOME IDEAS TOGETHER** * **Join It Memberships 5% discount for 6 months and 10% for 1 year. Non renewing memberships should not exist. They will all be recurring and we brief our members to cancel their own memberships. THEY say when they would like to cancel membership.** * **Contact Patrick about his non voting membership** * **Orientation Binder is shared, Everyone have at! We should do a physical walk through** * **Volunteer Board! Tasks should be listed** * **Wood Working Room - Working with Stu on new Lease. Committee - Josh?s? Heading it up? Waiting on the lease and the people.** * **Stephen will take on classes (program planning) and Gabe will take on the wood shop committee. Nick or Wanda -volunteer master?** * **Hoping to get 3 interns from Aldo! Even other interns from the college? Less limited time** * **GET THE BIGGEST WAZER** **Meeting Adjourned by Stephen Lindsey 5:48pm**
# 6-2-2020 Board Meeting Minutes Board Meeting Minutes **Board Meeting Minutes - June 2nd 2020** **11:50am at Future Forge Makerspace** **Recorded by Mary Stone**
**Attendance Mary Stone, Gabe Farley, Stephen Lindsey, Nick Farley** **Guests: Wanda Stone, Tom Farley** **\*quorum achieved**
**Key Points: Non Voting Board Members, Reopening Info Emails, Public Tours, Makers Market, Orientation, Volunteering, Key Fob System**
* **Patrick - Non voting board member? Could we do that? We would have to update our bylaws to have an extra of 3 non voting board members (bringing the total up to 8) \*we need to fill the 5th Spot and that should maybe be someone outside of our circle so to speak, someone with some resources and “power” so to speak (Dave, Zach??, Patrick?). Non voting board members is a good idea but it means they will be a resource and will provide helpful input still leaving it to our vote though. We should be thorough with our application for board members.** * **I think Wanda should be recognized, she has functioned as a full board member** * **Adjust bylaws to add up to 3 non voting board members (must be or have been a member?) and must be voted in - Patrick seems to be our first nominee** * **That would mean we need Board Insurance, lets get on that.** * **Create a list for him to do while volunteering** * **Reopening to Members? How will we be weaning members back in? We need to be very specific about member and “employee” requirements. Mass mail chimp message and personal members messages about how we will be actively functioning for the time being and have the website reflect this new information. This info needs to include tour days for the public (since we are member only currently) Saturdays.** * **Do free Eventbrite tours so we can schedule tours and walk throughs for the public (we don't want to do it like this but we kinda have to…) 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5 or 6 people per tour.** * **Side note - Aysh update, hes still working on it and needing some help, lets remember that.** * **Makers Market!! Farmers market will not be utilizing that awesome space so OH WELL guess we're gonna take it over!! Would be an awesome event, Visitors Center and Main Street are excited. We would be hosting this market, put together a committee to run it, get permits and events lined up and begin! (Could advertise to Western and other places for volunteers). Would be essentially the same as the farmers market, they would pay for a booth and that would pay for advertisement. Semi-regular even weekly occurrences, maybe seasonal. Even potentially becoming more often as members can develop and become more established. BIG Committee BIG Deal!! Directly tied to our Makerspace (obviously) people will use our space, we will have our name out there, we will be tied more into the community. It is somewhat competitive, skill wise, throughout our community. LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!** * **Keep in mind a makers fair** * **Grants - Studio G? Country something? 30Something? Lots of summer grants are coming up! Get More. Use Freeport Money (spend it on classes)** * **Members with Key Fobs. they can stay before and after hours but need to go through a system or orientation, what would be the qualifiers for earning a fob (qualifiers to get a key fob= going through orientation binder, passing probationary period,?). 10-3 for classes and having the door unlocked (maybe Friday and Saturday 12-7).** * **Orientation - Create an orientation binder that will have every room and station's tool information. We need to ALL sit down and do it. Add a volunteering list of tasks to the orientation binder.** * **Volunteering Tasks for Orientation Binder? - Front desk, (does it go by room or by station, does it depend?)** * **Volunteering - Working front desk would mean that you get a free membership?** * **Gabe made a volunteering calendar, he needs us to put down in writing what times we will be available to work. Everyone's on Gabe’s google calendar and add your work availability.** **Stephen: Motion to add 3 non voting members and amend our bylaws PASSED**
**Learning to make a member a key fob.**
**End Notes** * **Patrick as new non voting board member** * **Board insurance** * **Email to Public and Members about reopening info and tours** * **Markers Market Committee!!** * **12-7 Fri. and Sat., 10-3 Tues.Wed.Thur.** * **Learn to do Key Fobs** * **Create Orientation Binder** * **Work Out Volunteering Orientation/Tasks** * **Add your available Hours to Google Calendar** * **Tues. Mary and Stephen 10-3** * **Wed. Stephen and Wanda 10-3** * **Thur. Gabe 10-3** * **Fri. Stephen and Nick 12-7** * **Sat. Mary and Stephen 12-7** **Stephen Lindsey Adjourned Meeting at 1:21pm**
# 3-10-2020 Board Meeting Minutes Board Meeting Minutes Quarum Achieved Stephen Lindsey, Gabe Farley, Nick Farley, Mary Stone, Wanda Stone Stephen calls the board to order at 5:45pm Major Key Points: Each of Our Roles, Financials, Classes, Sponsorships \*Classes Stephen: we need to uphold our roles as board members and really take them on. Gabe: We need to have more classes, 3D printing and laser cutting should be offered consistently Classes, are they too often or not often enough. Nick: Maybe doing 101, 102, then 103 and cycling through Stephen: \