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Hackspace Foundation Meeting

Tuesday 5th July 2022 - 19:00-20:30

Agenda

  1. Welcome and recap on previous meeting at EMF Camp.
  2. Talk about the HSF and a brief conversation about where we were/are. 3. Talk about setting a terms of reference.
  3. Mapping out the topics and priorities of peoples interests.
  4. Set the next meeting.

Previous meeting

  • Very friendly atmosphere attended by many hackspaces from around the UK and the world.
  • Lots of conversation, but this meeting will be more managed to stay on topic.
  • Note that there was a round up of topics that people wanted to talk about:
    • Membership pricing and offering
    • Improving diversity
    • Health and safety / safety culture
    • Management structures
    • Insurance
    • Directors' mental health
    • Property
    • Funding

State of HSF

  • HSF has been relatively inactive since the pandemic
  • Concerns flagged that the group is inactive because it's unclear how to make decisions without active directors
  • Counter argument that HSF lacks leadership, the directors are just managing the group and have stated they're open to ideas.
  • Suggestion that HSF members ought to talk about where we're stuck.
  • One member said that the group had proposed a paid membership scheme for spaces to create a board that could then appoint new directors, but this got stuck with one of the directors.
  • Observations about lack of volunteers on the HSF website development to be able to finish this.
  • Various members asked why we needed to have spaces paying for this when the space has a large surplus of cash.
  • There was various conversations about how to spend money with ideas including/focusing on:
    • Staff to help get things going, admin, managing volunteers and leadership.
    • Finding new sources of funding.
      • Investing in purchasing assets like property that could be leased/rented back to a space to make income
      • Insurance service
    • Paid legal advice and templates.
    • Paying for training such as institute of directors.

Mapping out topics and priorities

We used a Google Jamboard to map out the existing (yellow) and new areas of interest (blue).

Next meeting

Ian has agreed to chair the next meeting, to be announced ideally between 1-7th August 2022 on Zoom with a focus/theme of the HOM

AOB

Tom agreed to reach out to the HSF directors about having a formal business meeting about unpicking the way forward to getting spaces to become members as it might be unlikely the current directors would want to hire staff and manage them.