March 2026 - Board Meeting

03/04/2026 - Area 515 Board Meeting

03/04/2026 - Area 515 Board Meeting

Review of Votes by Email in Past Month

• No votes by email

Vote to approve minutes for February

• Do not have notes yet

Financials Update

• Previous member reimbursement complete

• 150-200 bucks reimbursement OK for Matt to go through other emails that identify payments taken after cancellation email

• Shopify Bob Wiggins double paying, John reached out hasn't heard back

Membership Update

• Tom H – looking for new account

• 80, 22 full

Space Updates

• Thermostat / heating – Jake to bring thermostat

• Jeff working on sink in limbo, Dave following up

• First aid kit, eyewash

  • 2 eyewash bottles

  • First aid kit, bandaids and antiseptic

  • Jake to order

Jacob Community Home Lab

• Community Home Lab

• Access to servers, cloud stack instance, resource budget per user

• GPUs on demand, members can use as they want

• Host private services, have a VPN, their own messaging, website whatever

• GPU can do AI training, inference, run models – more of a cloud

• Challenges

  • Determine cost to run 240v to run circuit for max load, potentially 2 circuits

  • 120v 30amp circuit? Jake – maybe 2 15amp circuits

  • Electrician quote

  • Verify with Jerry OK to have the electrician do it

  • How to finance the cost of the install

• Questions

  • Is there a way to limit network bandwidth? Jacob: Should be small packets of text

  • If there was video streaming? Jacob: Could set limits to CPUs, time, ram, and network usage

  • Equipment? Has extra rack, 4 xenion 28 core, 8173 M, Rizen epic 7702 64 core – 1 is a blade server, the GPU own dedicated thing, GPUs 300W max = 300 x 8, around 3000W max

  • Device to track usage? KW type unit on the plug? Or a unit on the breaker box power monitoring device

  • How to measure success of project? Up to us, keep in mind loom wasn't used for years, no marketing budget

  • Steward responsible: not doing anything bad? Part of the code of conduct, Jacob: Ways to monitor, do what can w/ tools available – would be able to have monitoring to watch for that – no piracy, wouldn't allocate the storage

  • Make stuff available for us to see? Jacob: Admin access – admin account for access read-only user, one of the board members

  • Equipment bring in / on loan, how would you like to do it if you leave? Jacob: On loan – knows a guy that runs a nonprofit for enterprise servers, has a way to move data, would try to keep running then through that contact and a steward would step up

  • Dave has some servers, too big for current rack, maybe a rack exchange

  • Discord? We have slack

• Action ITEMS

  • Quote on power installation from electrician, 120v 2x 20amp circuit

    • John estimate: 3000W is 120-190 per month approx

    • If get an in for 10 for the install, maybe that's enough and also would be nice to just have the dedicated power

  • Approval from Jerry

  • How pay for it, once we get quote

    • Example, if cost $3,000 Jacob can just pay for it – he cannot he said he's a college student (: – or we can do an in for $10 people can donate to pitch in and raise money that way – if get to threshold then board maybe pitch in from general funds

• Discussion after Jacob left:

  • Bathroom exhaust fan

  • No crypto

  • No continual workload

  • Tool fee – setup when he joins

  • He would join and become a steward, and bring on someone to be an assistant steward