# March 2026 - 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