Minutes of ERPS #280

Minutes of ERPS General Meeting #280
1 April 2004

The President called the meeting to order at 8:10 PM. Members present were 
Rick Eversole, Dave Masten, Pierce Nichols, Gerald Nordley, Julie Porter, 
and Chris Winter.

Reports and discussion on agenda items were as follows:

DOCUMENTATION
-------------
Chris Winter

	Chris reported the following progress:

	WEBSITE: Several pages are on-line for testing. The general design of 
these pages is complete, but fine-tuning is deferred to a later time. When 
viewed with a standards-compliant browser, the main menu stays in place as 
intended while content scrolls; however, IE6 still does not "get it". The 
site is usable with Lynx 2.8.2; the latest version of Lynx should do even 
better.

	CD-ROM: About 500 MB of data are on hand. Organization of these files has 
begun; the effort is still on track to be complete by the target date of 
April 15.

	Julie reported that she received yet another inquiry about her Gerber-file 
conversions. She proposed to put this on the Web site as a data file. The 
proposal passed on a voice vote.

INFOTECH
--------
Sean Lynch

	Nothing to report

LIAISONS
--------
Michael Wallis

	Sean reported that, at a Stratofox event near Buttonwillow, the team 
received 1 APRS packet from a rocket in flight.

	Gerry will take an electronic copy of our brochure to a science fiction 
convention he's invited to next weekend.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
--------------
Michael Wallis

	Nothing to report

TREASURER
---------
Rick Eversole

	We've disbursed money, but still have some left.

CHIEF SCIENTIST
---------------
Kevin Bollinger

	Nothing to report

FLIGHT CONTROLS
---------------
Dave Masten

	See the entry for Gizmocopter.

PROPELLANTS/SPARGER/FF
----------------------
Pierce Nichols

	A Saturday test of the new sparger assembly with plain water was 
successful. On Sunday, the Ranch water system was empty due to a leak. 
During the hunt for this leak, it announced itself in the form of a 10-foot 
geyser. It was soon fixed; further improvements are pending.

	Work on Freezewheel Mark 1 continues.

REGULATORY
AFFAIRS
-------
Dave Weinshenker

	Nothing to report

SAFETY
------
Dave Masten

	Safety is AOK.

TESTING
-------
Dave Masten

	Nothing to report

**** PROJECTS

Composites
----------
Kevin Bollinger

	Nothing to report

Gizmocopter
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Dave Masten

	Gizmocopter is close to flying. The pacing item is an IMU, which must be 
ordered. We still have a chance to get some video to show at Space Access 
'04.

KISS
----
Dan Solvin

	Nothing to report

POGO
----
Dave Masten

	Welding proceeds.

SMARTFLIGHT
-----------
Dave Weinshenker

	Nothing to report

Spike
-----
Sean Lynch

	Nothing to report



Meeting #280 adjourned at 9:00 PM. The next meeting will take place on 15 
April at the Denny's on Bowers Avenue in Santa Clara. Watch the list for 
full driving directions.


Respectfully submitted,

Chris Winter
Secretary, ERPS


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