Agenda

• What’s happening with the rent at Entrakt?
• Newline Ghent (3-5/09)
• Software Freedom Day (18/09)
• Tech with kids
  • Next up: kids with their projects
  • (19/09): working with greenscreen, digital puppeting, stop motion video. (up to 12 kids/participants + parents) - obviously the space is open for all.
• Working on the website
  • next week: adding content (basics)
  • interest for a hackathon on tweaking/improving the site?

Meeting notes

Extra rent - discount on rent

• A few months back, Entrakt issues a Corona discount to all members. Now Entrakt is claiming back the discount for those months.
• When lockdown ended, we started paying the full rent again (despite no mail terminating the discount was received)
• Entrakt is currently sending invoices to all tenants, reclaiming a part of the discounted rent.
• Wouter will contact Entrakt to listen on what and how.

Newline Ghent

https://hackerspace.gent/landing/newline.php

• When? 3-4-5 September

Who’s in?

• Jurgen (2 days)
• Fred & Anita
• Mowzes (5th) depending on quarantaine rules at that moment

Software Freedom Day

https://hsbxl.be/events/software-freedom-day/2021-09-18/

Prepearations are ongoing.

• OpenStreetmap Belgium announced to give a talk, but did not confirm their presence or talk yet.
• 2 Cool talks on FreeCAD (101 and Python scripting) by hackerspace member Kai and Yorik
• Wouter is going to record all talks, and recordings will be made available afterwards. Day ends with an OBS workshop by Wouter
• Workshop on using Inkscape to create a small design for the laser cutter
• Jonny will give a talk too, topic is not yet confirmed.

Jurgen will reach out to the FreeCAD, OBS and Inkscape community

Tech with kids

• Next up: kids with their projects (opening the space for kids to work on their own projects)

• (19/09): working with greenscreen, digital puppeting, stop motion video. (up to 12 kids/participants + parents) - obviously the space is open for all.

Working on the website

Extra moment: 18:00 - basic intro to GIT (version control, underlying system behind the website). Small introduction on how to add content to the website (Hugo) in 2 weeks (17/08). This way, everyone can add content.

Is there interest for a few sessions on tweaking/improving the site? We could learn the basics of Hugo and what an how to add/change features.

New location - status update

• Forest: there is very much work and no certainty there is a place for us. We don’t think we can commit to that.
• St Gillis: this location is reserved for artists. A requirement from the city is that there are no computers there.