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SacL5 Meeting 2/15/25

Meeting Details for each Months Meeting

 
Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space Society
Where: Virtual presence only, via Zoom
When: Second Saturday, each month beginning at 6pm PT
 
Pre-Zoom notes:
•These meetings are recorded.
•Folks will be asked to briefly share their video, and phone callers asked to identify themselves.
•We use the “waiting room” format. If I keep you waiting, call me and bawl me out! 916-429-6252
 
Join Zoom meeting:
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbdpRGEmNm
Meeting ID: 868 9868 4719
 
Joe Bland
President, SL5S
7482 Greenhaven Drive
Sacramento, CA 95831
916-429-6252
 

Meeting Notes

Home Page: SacramentoL5Society.org

SacL5 Officers: Joe Bland President, Jan Rosten VP, Ed Kulis Secretary/Website Admin (click name to email)

Mission – Why We Exist

  • Help enthusiasts find ways to contribute.
  • Provide sources of enabling training to facilitate engineering prototyping.
  • Establish a clearinghouse for the ongoing objective analysis of proposed space development technologies.

Minutes

  • Greetings – Attendees!
    • Joe Bland, Paul Turner, Ed Kulis, Jan Rosten, Michael Abramson, Gregory Lipscomb 

ELECTION RESULTS

  • President: Joe Bland
  • Vice President: Jan Rosten
  • Secretary: Ed Kulis

Meeting Business

  • President’s & Treasurer’s report. (Joe Bland)
    • New Continuing Meeting Time
      • Next meeting 6-7:30 pm PT 3/8/25 Second Saturday of the Month
        • Meetings will continue on 2nd Saturday’s at 6 pm PT
      • 2/15/25 Saturday Meeting was unusual as it took place on the third Saturday of the month.
    • Dues for membership in the SacL5 Society are $30 per year due in January.
    • Status of “frozen”checking account.
      • Account still frozen and unable to accept donations.
      • Funds are available for withdrawal and transfer to a new account 
    • Status of “new” checking account.
      • Joe following up on obtaining that paper work needed by the bank for establishment of a new account for a non-profile organization. Although multiple contacts NSS Officers have not yet responded.
  • Update on SacL5 website. (Ed Kulis)
  • NSS Chapters’ Assembly. Note: NSSCA is independent of NSS. (Jan Roston), 
    • Meeting NSSCA 8 February 2025, 7AM PT was informal as not many members were present.
    • Saturday meetings 7am were intended to allow attendance from outside the US but it may be reducing US attendance unintentionally.
  • NSSCA chapter resources subcommittee. (Ed Kulis)
    • No recent publication updates.
    • Ed will work with Perri on next newsletter.
  • NSS Chapter Committee (Joe Bland)
    • No updates.
  • Update on activity in XHS school contact and the SacL5 Minicube Build Grant Program (Ed Kulis)
    • No response from Xavier Hight School
    • Will work with them if they showed a committed interest 
    • “STEM Outreach” will replace this XHS Activity on the SacL5 Meeting Agenda in the future.
  • STEM Outreach
  • Update on activity in SES school contact and the “Sacramento L5 Society’s MiniCube Grant Program” (Paul Turner)
    • Paul will contact SES school regarding interest and activity

Projects in Progress

  • Balloon Device Project – See: Details
    • Project started for see details page created on website
  • Eric’s Steam Engine
    • Will run on compressed air. 
    • It’s a “Walking Beam” Design with fly-ball governors to stabilize speed with  offset cams to operate the steam valves.
  • White Paper on an Open Space Organization
    • Development of White Paper on an “Open Space Organization (OSO) (Michael Abramson)
    • Michael presented the current state of the proposed white paper.
    • We will look for other names since “Open Space Organization” has awkward connotations and  “Outer Space Organization” may be in use by other organizations.
    • Here are a few alternative suggested by Michael and Joe:
    • Open Outer Space Organization (OOSO)
      • United Outer Space Organization (UOSO)
      • Space Development Organization (SDO)
      • Space Developers Organization (SDO)
      • Outer Space Development Organization (OSDO)
      • Outer Space Developers Organization (OSDO)
      • United Space Development Organization (USDO)
      • United Space Developers Organization (USDO)
      • United Outer Space Development Organization (UOSDO)
      • United Outer Space Developers Organization (UOSDO
      • Organization of Outer Space Development  (OOSD)
      • Organization of Outer Space Developers  (OOSD)
  • Joe’s Projects and Patents
    • Joe’s patent applications on energy generation, storage, and distribution still in process
    • Patent office hasn’t rejected any patents and the process is moving forward.

Discussion on “Space News Items” (the attending members)

  • No discussion
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