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Meeting Notes 2019 09 17

2019-09-26T20:30:19Z

185.220.101.12: revert to https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Meeting_Notes_2019_09_17&oldid=70173 (it appears the following week got pasted over this one?)

These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge].

https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting

Date: 9/17/19 (2019-09-17)
Note-taker: Sage, Jaguar

Moderators: Ryan Sternlicht

== Meeting Summary ==

* Fundraising Update: no updates.

* Announcements:
* Friday through Sunday (Sep 20, 21, 22): 9th ave. global sound healing institute.
* Sept 23rd: Circuit Hacking Monday SURFACE MOUNTED TECH (SMT) with Nick P. $20 for components.
* OCTOBER 12th SATURDAY: NB fundraiser (!!) --- Comedy show, raffle (?), need volenteers.
* Dec 21st: planning a fundraiser (!!) --- panel about social justice and climate change.
* October 5th, 6th: Hacker Dojo 10th anniversery
* Legacy Film fest this weekend

* Finances: no updates.

* New members: none.

* New philanthropists: nope.

* Consensus Items:
* Current: (1) access to NB bank account
* Proposals: (1) Approve New Lease When it is given to us, (2) Purchace new Laser Tube (150W vs 100W).

* Discussion Items:
* Noisebridge Improvement Hackathon

= Introductions =

* Ryan Sternlicht: coming to nb for 5 years now. I like helping take care of nb, as well as
help out with VR setup in the back. Use he/him pronouns. ok. and... what direction should we go?
* Victor T: coming to nb for a year now. trying to put on a fundraiser soon.
* Jay: taking notes
* Drew N: he/him. new californian. involved in the makerspace community back home. here to see things
* Sage: she/her. currently planning a fundraiser here at nb. social justice and climate change.
* Noah: he/him. new to the area as of three weeks ago. prev: involved in other maker spaces. wood work, all the things.
* Marco: came here first time in summer 2016. comes a lot, every few months. software dev. likes to do stuff with led's & electronics. started getting more engaged teaching people coding. works on open source projects. HE/HIM.
* Ait: Syrian refugee, coding, animation, Them pronouns
* David: first time at noisebridge, into VR development for 30 years. make flight simulator systems that I'm delivering to NASA. Starving for bandwidth. HE/HIM.
* Christopher: unemployeed, tech shop refugee. new place to hangout. shopping for machine tools.
* Robert: half-ass participation. trying to get stuff done. #tech-shop-refugee. lost a job because of that shit. robotics, CHM instructor, IOT stuff. I'm a him/her.

= Short announcements and events =
'''60-second description per item in bulletpoint.'''

* David: 9th ave. global sound healing institute. Friday through Sunday. Reasearch on how sound impacts the body
* Victor: there is a NB fundraiser Oct 12th (Saturday). Comedy show. encourage people to demo any like, tech projects they have going on. Potentally a raffle. OCTOBER 12th SATURDAY. encourage tickets at the door. donations to iZAC? putting in lots of effort promoting it. Embedded deep in the comedy culture here. High level comedians booked for the show. NEED VOLUNTEERS for: chairs, sound, door. Anyone to make art / robotics for the show? potentailly help graphic design for the flyer? If we have a GD that wants to give up their time... On Slack, Discuss, it's already obeen posted on meetup.com...
* Sage: currently planning a fundraiser, Dec 21st. Intersection of coloniosium and climate change. It's a panel: Angerious, professior of ethnic studies. ???, Merideth ?? --- sociail inequality. Protecting (@TODO update this!!)
* Robert: Next monday, CHM, there is an advanced SMT class (Nick P is leading that). I'll be helping a bit. it's $20. come on in. It's on meetup. if you show up, then there may or may not be enough things. $20 for Surface Mounting tech. Comes with components. He is going to be doing all the SM on the big screen so everyone can see what's going on.... if you want to learn SMT come on by, it's pretty chill. that's it.
* Ryan: (1) hacker dojo is holding their 10th aniversery party and commeration on Oct 5th and 6th, from 11am to 6pm in Santa Clara. Theres going to be a number of talks, musical guests, as well as some demos and other certain things (???). They're also interested if any nbers want to present or give any talks. Probs going to bring a demo and give a talk myself. so. if you like supporting the bay arear hacker community I recomment going to this event. Hacker Dojo went through some issues, but starting to come around. A great time to support them. (2) this weekend is the legacy film fest on aging. it's a film fest I help out with every year. going to be at new peolpe cinima in japan town. film fest focused on, um, aging and death, and vereything related: scientific studies, how they're treated, how they live. it's a good film fest that discusses issues few peolpe talk about. You canno't escape it (death). (3) this isn't an announcement. I just want to know: is there going to be a 5 minute of fame this thursday? document curious from france that want to record a bit of it. they want to have NB in their travel documentary. << Marco: is there going to be a 5mof? >> *discussions of 5MoF*

= Excellence =
'''Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.'''

(What does that mean? How does the Anti-Harassment Policy fit into this? Are we SURE we know what being Excellent is? This is an important and fundamental conversation at Noisebridge, so let's give it like 120 seconds.)

Victor; once I heard a good descriptoin form a member. it's about being proactive in goodness. it's not just about being here and not upsetting anyone. the whole place relies on it. donations. excellence is going above and beyond. not just treating it like a space. something to be a part of and contribute to.

Ryan: I'll add a couple little things. You got to the point with our one rule: be excellent to each other.

Robert: not pooping in the woodshop

Ryan: pls don't mention that every week. that usually derails the conversation.

Victor: how many times has that happened?

Ryan: One? I'm not sure who.

Ryan: We want people to be excellent to each other. not harass each other. to be cursious to each other . clean up after yourself. if someone changes... change something in the space, and people are unhappy.... responsible to undo that change. you also. if people look like they're uncomfortable around someone... it's perfectly excellent to step in and break apart whatever the issue is. if you every feel uncomfortable with anything in the space / don't want to say anything. pls find a phil/member in the space that you know that you can have help you. um. their is um. uh. ok. um. yeah, so. just be nice to everyone. be. treat everyone like your family pretty much. everyone here is here to do something weather it's to relax, unwind, workd on a project. be curtious to each other.

Ryan: Ok, does someone want to explain what participation at nb is?

= Participation =
'''Everyone at Noisebridge is a participant at Noisebridge.'''

(What does that mean? How do you get a door key? Access to Slack, Discuss, etc?)

Marco: yeah, participation at noisebridge can be many ways. Both by opening the door to people, and giveng a tour. if not comfortable with that, ask if someone can help giving a tour. can be organicing an event, or workshop. could mean cleaning up. weekly trash night: don't ignore that it's weekly trash night. if you feel like you'd like to have specific equipment here, that it doesn't exist yet. bring it up at the meeting, or do something, or bring it up, as long as you're excellent and don't destroy something. e.g. the Music area got a lot bigger. yeah, it also means online participation, discussions, e.g. discuss.noisebridge.info or the slack channel. um, yeah,

Ryan: I have a couple things to add. nb runts through do-ocracy. do what you want when you want, as long as you are excellent to each other. participation is mostly a docracy. work on projects with others, or yourself. do what you want, make nb what you'd like it to be. everything works through doocracy and consensus. most things, if you're trying to help out the space, try to do things through small-C consensus (discuss with other people in the space) so that you know people are on board with that change or that modification. will dicuss Big-C in a bit.

= [[Philanthropist|Philanthropists]]=
'''A Philanthropist at Noisebridge has earned enough trust from the community to open and close the space.'''

Ryan: would someone like to explain what a philanthropist is?

Victor: from what I understand, it's someone that donates and takes care of the space. um. it's not quite a member. like a keeper of the space. um, yeah, it's all I understand.

Ryan: that's pretty accurate, but. it pretty much is. all of our "tiers" are pretty much trust based. being a philanthropist is the main tier of being trusted in the space. being a philanthropist means you have 24/7 access to the space. means you need to know how to open/close the space. willing to take care of the space, um, as well as know how to give tours, um. how to, um, guide people to certain things that they might be triing to find weather they. even if you don't know how to do that. if you can guide them to someone you know that probably knows how to... that's just as excellent. you are right that philanthropist's typically donate. regular donation: $80/mo, but we also hav ea variable scale, um, lower than that for if someone is having monetary issues. that all gets worked out with the treasurer. Would anyone like to add anything?

Ait: do you need a member to sponser you?

Ryan: need a member to sponser you. at a general meeting like this, your application will be brought up to the space, and, it's highly recommended. It's very. It's nice if both the sponsor and the philanthropist are there at the meeting so the rest of the community can confirm with them. as well as, um, yeah, I think that's it for that. I"ll go through and see any any of these people are here... KAZ GRANT... KEN ADDLER.... IRN JUSTICE.... DEAN..... ok, none of them are here. not going to get confirmed this week. um, ok, htat's it. going to membership. Would someone like to explain what a capital M member is?

Ryan: ok I'll explain it.

= [[ Membership Binder ]] =
'''Membership in Noisebridge entails community Trust in Consensus.'''

(What does that mean? What do we expect from Members? How do you become a Member? etc)

Ryan: Big M higher form of philanthrophy. a lot more responsiblity to the spaec. have to know how to take care of the space with a lot od detail. know how to contact certain people who take care of certain portions of the space. be available as possible to help wout with people in the space as well as um, becoming a member allows you to, um, block big-C consensus items from passing, so. becoming a Member is a larger deal than a philanthropist. takes two weeks of being brought up at a general meeting like this. on the second week, they will. you will leave the room, and um. they will discuss weather. the community will discuss weather you are fit to be a member. other members present will choose weather to block your membership application.

Ait: is that a members privilage to block?

Ryan: to block consensus items, which we will chat about in a bit.

Ryan: for two weeks after you become a member, you can be blocked. you can have your membership revoked for any reason for two weeks. after that you will become a member and then, um, currently membership, for the most part, is a continuious thing until you declare at a meeting that you dont' want to be a member anymore, or um, the community can discuss weather to revoke your membership. we do not have any member applications currently, um, yeah!

= Financial Report =
'''Anarchist societies under a capitalist state need money to survive and thrive, yo.'''

* Funds in bank: Around $173k
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials
* The latest financial reports from the treasurer are available at https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Finances

== Fundraising Update ==
'''How's it all going'''

Ryan: no fundraising update

= Consensus =
'''Consensus is how the Noisebridge Membership may change how Noisebridge works.'''

(How does Consensus work? What types of things are good for formal Consensus? What is small-c consensus? What is a "block"?)

Ryan: can a volunteer explain what conensus is? yeah, I need to copy the consensus items.

Marco: I can explain the basics from how I understand it. most things at nb are do-ocracy. some bigger decisions, like investing money in repairing the elevator, even things like where to move are brought up at the weekly meeting, um, if I"m correct. not exactly sure on what majority they need to be approved if someone else can explain this.

Ryan: big thigns like moving, investing money in the elevator, they're brought up at two meetings. the first meeting is when you propose the consensus item. discussed at that meeting. at the second weekd it's brought up again, discusses, at the end of that discussion it can be... (M)embers are allowed to choose weather they block the item from passing. it's unclear how many members need to be present, and um, if it does get blocked, that. Blocking a consensus item is a big deal. blocking means that Noisebridge will be dead to you if it passes. You do have to explain why you're blocking. Usually a block would. Some of the time a block will reset the whole item proposal so it would need to go through another two week. Another time a person might want a couple of things to change. Tabled to next week. Outside the meeting can be discussed what changes need to be made

*mutes mary*

== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
''(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
! Date First Discussed
! Proposed By
! Informal Title
! Summary
! Author of this Record
|-
|fill
|me
|in
|thank
|you
|-
|09/10/19
|Ryan Sternlicht
|Approve New Lease When it is given to us
|
* Noisebridge is currently negotiating a new lease, and it needs to be approved very soon,
*here is some info on the current discussion
*Tyler-One priority I have is removing the elevator clause from the lease. As it stands, NoiseBridge is responsible for 100% of the first $10,000 of repairs, and then 50% thereafter. There is no upper limit to the potential cost here. We are currently being billed $10,000 for the last elevator repair.
*Tyler-For the month of September, Brian has told us to continue to pay $6,500
*Tyler-My original request was a 5 year lease, same rate, without the elevator clause) but Brian was not interested.
*Tyler-His response was $7,250 to remove the elevator fee. I countered at $7.0k
*Tyler-He replied with $7,000 for a 2 year lease without the elevator cost.
*Tyler-I asked for more then 2 years. Brian responded with 3 years at $7,100 / month.
*Tyler-As it stands, I have countered with $7,000 for 2 years with a 2 year option at $7,250.

*Per Jarrod - it is really hard to justify large future costs (Zoning fee, sprinklers / second egress, etc.) if we are potentially limited by a short lease. I'd like to push for a longer term lease, but it would likely come with additional rent hikes.

*Looking for any and all opinions.

*
*I think we should decide whether to approve the board and treasurer to finalize and approve a new lease as soon as we get terms that are favorable to the general noisebridge community
*
*
|Ryan Sternlicht
|-
|09/10/19
|Ryan Sternlicht
|Purchace new Laser Tube
|
*Our laser cutter is broken, we need a new tube
*a new tube costs around 1400 dollars, should we spend noisebridge money to buy a new tube
*we use the machine a lot, and we should discuss if we want the 100 watt or 150 watt tube replacment
*I think we should decide and then approve the purchase of a new laser tube.
|Ryan Sternlicht
|}

Ryan: last week we have two consensues items. (1) approve new lease when it's given to us. Our lease ended Aug 31st. We did not get a new lease on this place because landlord lost his phone, and we lost communicatin with them for over a week. We really are working with the landlord currently to negotiate the current lease. very interested with us staying. we have a couple different proposals for our new lease, which, I"ll scroll up to. want to remove ELEVATOR CLAUSE. this has caused most of the issues in the past year. previously, before we had this, the elevator was in barely functional order, then, and, the landlord did not do a ton to make sure it was consistently working. we took over certain repairs of it. but then a number of things happened that caused the city to get angry with us, um, because there was miscommunications as to weather our elevator was up to code, and if we could use it or not. HAS BEEN REPAIRED, but need inspector to go over it. After, we would pay our portion of the clause from the lease. This is. probably going to be $10k. so for our next lease: WANT to get rid of this, but will have to have a higher rent. Most likely option: $7000 for a 2yr lease without the elevator clause. $7000/mo. We also really. Want a 2/yr option added on at...

Ryan: I'm currently the only member present in the space. do not want to bring this up for consensus. going to table this discussion to next week so more people can talk about it. going to be posting it to discuss. OK. and then our second. from last week, our second consensus item:

Ryan: Purchase a new laser tube. Current laser it down for the count due to it's laser tube beineg very low power at the moment. can barely burn through paper. it's as powerful as a 1w laser pointer, or, acutally no, not even 1watt. it's not working. we want to buy a new one where. we're estimating the cost of a 100w tube to be around. or. all of the tubes seems to be $800 -- $2000 based on quality of the tube. Discussion: do we want a 100w tube like we had before, or a 150W. since there are no other members here, I'm going to table this one to next week as well. I'm going to say: I'm in the camp that we spend the extra money to get a 150W tube so we can cut through slightly thicker materials. but before we get that tube installed, we should upgrade our venting system because that's part of othe reason, it seems, that the laser has been down recently. smoke, soot, dust, has been staying in the machine enough that it's damanged the mirrors and lenses and other critical things that keep the laser functional. improving the lasers venting system, I think, should happen at the same time. Any comments?

Marco: yeah, um, actually have a question. once or twice people were coming for the laser cutter. only heard that the laser cutter doesn't work anymore. What should we tell people that want to use the laser cutter? come to the meeting?

Ryan: probably both of those. If you need a lser of this style: Hacker Dojo has one. Human Made has one. Our laser is cheaper than every other laser by a massive margin. Might increase the laser cost to $10/hr. LAser costs, like, $8/hr. loosing donations to the laser cutter. because we were charging $5/hr, or, recommended charge. as well as bring your own materials, or, good luck with our weird material collection. we should definitely let people know it's down, and it's going to be a couple of weeks until it's fixed. estimate early October, um, yeah.

Ryan: OK, going to table that consensues item until next week.

== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''
- access to NB bank account (message from Ruth)...

Ryan: Is this current consensus item in the wiki yet? (NB bank account).

Ryan: I do agree that this is very critical to make sure that donations are properly being handled and being put into hte account on a regular basis. A lot of people have mentioned that we really should have a more regular deposit of cash donations as well as more people who can be, I can't remember the term.... emergency monetary issues, e.g. treasurer gets hurt, or, all of a sudden the financial market crashes, and we have to start trading, like, Mate.

*laughs*

Ryan: ok. so let's discuss this a little bit. so that it may be, could be brought up in more detail at the next meeting. do people think, currently... currently we have two maybe three people that can actually access our bank account. like, we have a large number of people that can access our financial records, like our finaial records, as well as our fundraising and monetary systems (i.e. stripe, paypal, bitcoin). very few have access to our bank account, which is used for reimbursement for people who donate stuff, and use our general fund for reimbursement, as well as when we have events and when we want to pay guests, or big purchases like a new laser tube, elevator stuff, or stuff like that. it's critical that people have access to this... trusted people... what do people think?

Marco: Read ruth's message on this?

Hi people at Noisebridge meeting,
I'm Ruth, you may have seen me in the sewing area with or without baby Lee. I'm also on the Noisebridge board and have coordinated lease stuff with the landlord in the past. Right now we're running low on people who regularly show up to Noisebridge and also are signors on the Wells Fargo bank account. I think it would be best if Tyler as treasurer were a signor (he only has read access right now), and also myself as backup. The recent events that have prompted this are that we haven't paid the August and September rent due to the auto pay turning off as our lease ends, and no one having either time or access to deal with it. Luckily John has time to go to the bank to pay the rent tomorrow in person (from a new York bank branch), so we'll be ok this time, but for the future it would be good for Tyler and I to be signors to make it easier. As part of the process for adding people to the bank account, we need to have a record of meeting notes saying that we should be added. (The remaining process is for John and Nicole to sign something as administrators, and we also need two signors to go to the bank with Tyler and I in person before we can be added.)Please discuss at the meeting whether or not you think it should be a good idea for Tyler and separately me to be added to the bank account, and record it in the meeting notes.Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting tonight.Ruth

Ryan: I'll read it out loud

* reads message above *

Ryan: I think that's a good idea. it's critical that we have this as people can see now. and also, for people who might not know ruthr or tyler, ruth has been coming to noisebridge for a long time. very instrumental in taking care of certain things. sewing area, laser cutter, runs numerious events. ran our social media for awhile. has been very helpful. on our board. um, and she is also a member, um, and then Tyler. Tyler is somewhat new to the space. only about a year, but his financial assistance with our historial financial records has been one of the key things that has allowed us to reinvigorate our moneypary system so it's all up to things that allows us to apply for grants that require a multi-year history of our background. Made treasurer two months ago. has been working extremely hard on keeping the noisebridge finances in order. um. so. having our treasurer not have access to our money is kind of bad

*laughter*

Victor: what do you mean?

Ryan: He can look at the money in the box, but can't spend it. Anyone else want to comment?

Ryan: I think that's good for this topic. So. That will. That's in the meeting notes. Next meeting we can consensus on that, hopefully, so that we can pay our rent and stuff like that. um. so, yeah. I"m pretty sure that's everything for the regular stuff.

= Discussion =

Ryan: anyone have discussion items other than the noisebridge reboot hackathon? need to change that name else people will freak out. any other topics of discussion?

Sage: For planning the fundraiser, you mentioned there is a slack like I need to get on? The treasurer mentioned something else?

Ryan: I'll help out after the meeting and hosting events at noisebridge...

== Discussion Item 1 ==
- Noisebridge Improvement Hackathon

Flyer at entrance: What is Noisebridge & events the next week/weeks

Flyer in the space: What is Noisebridge & Philantropy & membership explainer & how to use the machines (laser cutter, etc.)

Update meetup descriptions (for example: weekly meeting)

Add missing meetups on NB page

Let marry Poppins inform about upcoming events at Noisebridge (script)

Reorganize wiki

Go to events and promote noisebridge

repeat hackathon every quarter or every 6 months

fix Falschentaschen

new art

update website:

Remove not in use social networks & make existing ones more visible

Show upcoming events via meetup api in header

Show most recent photos from Flickr, twitter, etc.

Show (new) photos of the difference areas in the space

Meeting notes via landing page

Show projects

Show most recent discuss posts

Announcements (both related to Noisebridge and other spaces/events)

The one rule - “Be excellent to each other”, what it means:

No harassment,

if something makes people uncomfortable, undo it

If someone feels uncomfortable, say something

If someone makes you feel uncomfortable - talk with members

What means Do-ocracy?

How to access Noisebridge:

Just come by, as often as you like, its a public space for excellent people!

Consensus items - how to suggest one

Show number of new meeting notes ...

Ryan: noisebridge improvement hackathon. let's first have the person who brought it up explain what he things would be good.

marco: things that are a. not really working over the past few weeks. thinking about how to improve on this. e.g. building a better landing page with the upcoming events, e.g. meeting notes, how nb operates, do-ocracy. flyers at the entrance door explaining what nb is. explain upcoming events, so folks have understandings. e.g. tours, what to mention, what nb is. notice that some of the tours have been explaining that it's a coworking space vs. an anarchist hacker space. would be a good chance to come together to organize and discuss. this weekend? next weekend? posting it on meetup and the different channels that we have. yeah, probably this weekend on sunday if there is nothing on the schedule.

Ryan: have a couple quick things. I. after talking. talked with numerious people of the past year with issues, I, scrubbed through the wiki, the nb wiki. found that it's extremely disorgranized. have 1,300 pages that are literally redirect link pages, that literally can be deleted. we have multiple, pretty much, our wiki is not useful to the general community to let people know how to use our tools. every tool we have the space should have a wiki page, like. the manual, what quirks that machine has, uh, um, what what we need to do to replace parts. who takes care of it consistently. we have pages on how to participate at things like this. whe weeky is pretty much not something people use right now. dangerious when people might be using osme of our expensive, or high power tools, like our table saw: e.g. this is not a normal table saw! *explains Saw Stop*. Costs $120 every time it happens, has happened a few times. not because people are choppin' their fingers, but the materials they're using (metal and plastics). I've updated the wiki page after we got the saw a year later (was showing the old saw).... ok, that's enough about the wiki sorry. All the other things mentioned as well are critiacal as well...

Ryan: We are not a private business office. we are a community space that you can come and use, um, our social outreach is pretty dismal currently other than like, some people here mention nb at events, like, if you want we can make business cards for people. we have, um, a number of us present talks around the bar area. you guys can do that too. you are awesome people, um. you, you don't have to be a philanthropist or a member to say you are a member of the community here. You, yeah, tell your friends, invite people here, um, let people know about, like, projects you've done using our space. um. yeah. um, improving communication with the outside world with whatever method suits you...

Marco: yeah, um, was wondering if anyone has any additonal thoughts on this? how do people feel about us adding an event to our meetup event.

Victor: for like, the nb improvement hackathon?

Marco: yeah, revitalizing nb

Victor: put it off, it like. Make a huge impact with this first event. What I'm saying: don't schedule it for this weekend or whatever.

Marco: was thinking of a one time event, but a repeting event is interesting

Ryan: have mini reboots every two years, have cleaning days every 6 months. about cleaning the physical space. our digital and social space hasn't been cleaned in 5, or who knows how many years. it's probably something we should do twice a year. would be good. have most of the wiki reboot hackathon... it's not hard editing a wiki. Then there's things like improving our social media, we need a ton of new photos of the space. Literally everything has moved (other than the woodshop). we're better than sudo room ( *laughter* ) they have four photos online. took thousands that I need to send them. everything is in the wrong place vs. the internet photos.

Victor: how hard is it to restore flaschen's old format?

Ryan: We can literally remove that, and move the crates into the center.

*discussion of putting flaschen back*

Ryan: it used to be closed.

Ryan: that's small-c. the hard part is that it's custom....

Victor: next meeting?

Ryan: Any other ideas that we can do at a hackathon like this?

Ryan: Oh, I just remembered a couple of things. New art: T-shirts, finally make our guild badges. things like that.

Marco: yeah, also. talk to ?? about it. Made entrance sign.

Victor: maybe she would be interested in fundraiser?

Marco: yeah, uhh.

Ryan: if there are no other comments, or anything, then this meeting will end? Any more anythings?

Marco: Do-Ocracy makes things happen.

Ryan: would like to participate, but think we should wait another week or two so it can be sent out (gather interest). weekend makes the most sense. if we can have some sort of food (pizza) for people that would be good. I do not have time to make salsa, sorry.

Marco: plenty to do.

Ryan: OK...

= End of Meeting =

Ryan: MEETING adjourned

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Noisebridge Space Program

2018-01-22T20:48:24Z

185.220.101.12:

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'''Noisebridge will be moving in 2018. We'll need everybody's help to make it happen.'''

'''NEXT Noisebridge Space Program meeting: TBD'''

This is a set of pages meant to facilitate the discussion on moving Noisebridge to a new physical location. We should use this space to capture consensus as it occurs, and to draw all our planning tools together.
 

__TOC__

 
 

== Current Fundraising Progress ==

TBD - Progress bars?

== The story so far, and how you can help ==

TBD - pending discussion of fundraising letter drafts

== NEXT MEETING: TBD ==

'''Next meeting Agenda:'''

See https://pad.riseup.net/p/nb-new-space for notes and agenda

== New Space 2017 Meeting Notes ==
* '''when is the next meeting?'''
* [[New space meeting 2017 12 16]]
* [[New space meeting 2017 12 09]]
* [[New space meeting 2017 12 02]]
* [[New space meeting 2017 11 18]]
* [[New space meeting 2017 11 11]]

== Identity ==

If you would like to read the current version of the "Noisebridge Story" we have assembled for the Noisebridge Space Program please look at the locations below:

* Noisebridge story resources:
** tbd
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* Example fundraising letters and graphics
* Noisebridge Logos are located at [[Identity]]

== Fundraising ==

Here is a list of our current fundraising sub-projects. If you would like to participate in any of them please come to the Noisebridge Space Program meeting, or contact the leads for the specific sub-project.

*; Pineapple Fund
** Patrick, Darryl, Gavin
** A BTC fund worth $millions someone is giving away to non-profit groups

*; San Francisco Community Land Trust
** [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]]
** A non-profit that buys properties for SF coop housing and non-profit groups

*; San Francisco Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative
** Contact: none yet
** The Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative helps San Francisco’s nonprofits secure new, nonprofit-owned space and creates solutions for organizations seeking long-term leases. https://www.ncclf.org/sfsustainability/

*; Project Name
** Contact(s)
** Description of sub-project

== New Location ==

'''Location Requirements'''

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! style="text-align:left;"| Primary
! style="text-align:left;"| Bonus
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*Within San Francisco
*Walkable from BART
*safe enough for walking at all hours
*At least 5,500 sq. ft.
*Elevator access or ground floor
*Zoned to allow a Community Facility
*at least 100A power supply
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*Neighbors who are not concerned about noise
*Natural Light
*Good Ventilation
*Chill landlord, if leasing
*Not too nice, easily to modify the interior spaces.
|}

'''Potential Locations'''
We are keeping track of locations that have come up in our searching here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GNvhF__W23G3EbT5Hoif1p4okErR0yYVAH-M7iuvI3Y/edit#gid=0

Here is the summary of the notable locations we have visited, specific details are on the Potential Locations spreadsheet:
* '''20 Heron''' - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hR0h2Xta6cMwIWe0VeOyhFnHyzGiScMH/view

If you have a building/space you would like to donate or know of a location that you think would work for Noisebridge. Please list it below and/or notify noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net or come to a Noisebridge Space Program meeting.

== Current Location Status==

Our lease ends on August 31st, 2018 at 17:00. We are open to negotiating with the Landlord but the Landlord is not interested at the moment.

Noisebridge is currently approximately 5,550 sq. ft.

Our current rent is: $4,356/month ~ $0.79/sq. ft. /month

== Possible Partners ==

* The Lab
* former TechShop members

== Overall Project management ==

Important updates and information are being added to this wiki page. For a more active list of what is going on please see this trello board:

https://trello.com/b/abpzdDsq

== Frequently Asked Questions, not addressed above ==

== Consensus Proposal ==

&NBSP; Consensus Proposal

1. Noisebridge must survive not just as a nonprofit that exists only as a paper entity and bank account, or as a diffuse online community, but a physical location in the city that is accessible, near public transit, properly zoned for our use, and able to accommodate our growing size. (See Background Information, Items A and B, for context for the introduction of this proposal. Short version: Lease is ending, gotta move.)

2. It would be much better for us to purchase a building than to sign a lease, which would leave us vulnerable to future rent increases, and direct nearly all of our future revenue into our landlord’s pocket instead of investing it into real property we own outright.

3. The preferred option to finance a building purchase would be to borrow money from individuals through simple promissory notes secured against the building being purchased but without any liens. (See Background Information, Item C.)

4. Financing and purchasing a building is a large undertaking that will require us to make hundreds of decisions between now and the end of August regarding loans, grants, purchase agreements, inspections, and professional services. If we can not make these decisions efficiently, we will not be able to purchase a building (or sign a lease, for that matter), and Noisebridge will be displaced by fall of this year, maybe permanently.

5. Looking at our “API,” the most logical points of contact for cutting checks, entering loan agreements, and signing off on purchases are the board officers: the treasurer, president, and secretary. (See Background Information, Item D.) They have the clear legal authority to enter into agreements on behalf of Noisebridge, and their roles will be clearly understood by people outside of the Noisebridge community.

6. The current board officers must consider whether they have the bandwidth to do all of the work involved in acquiring a new building. If they simply don’t have the time, think someone else would be better suited for the task right now, or would rather spend their Noisebridge time on other important tasks like fundraising, press outreach, party organizing, safe space volunteering, teaching classes, or simply hacking on fun projects, they should pass their title to someone with lots of time and interest in doing paperwork.

7. The board officers of Noisebridge are empowered by consensus to enter into loan agreements and building purchase negotiations on behalf of Noisebridge in the interest of acquiring a suitable building to be our permanent home. Any final lease or purchase agreement will require additional full consensus.

8. Board officers must follow their best understanding of lower-case-c consensus when making decisions. They will be efficient, but not hasty. They will seek feedback on major decisions.

9. Major decisions must not be surprising or unwanted by the community. Board officers must keep everyone as up-to-date on their actions related to the hunt for a new space as possible, given time constraints and the fact that everyone is a volunteer with a day job. At the bare minimum, they will log all of their actions and write a report once a week that can be read at the Tuesday meeting.

10. As a practical matter, certain details about purchase negotiations may need to be kept off of the public Internet, to avoid being undercut by real estate speculators. For example, we may discover a property listing that has not been posted publicly, and do not want to alert competitors who may bid for the property. Or maybe the city hints that they may offer a city-owned property for sale at a discount, but negotiations are ongoing and it may not be the right time to reveal details to the press. The specific dollar amount of any bid we make when negotiating a building purchase is something else we will probably want to keep offline until the deal is closed.

11. For any details that are kept off of the public Internet, board officers must still flag that the private information exists. They must share that information privately with any member who is interested, with the proviso that it should be kept from the press and any possible competing bidders.

12. It is expected that a follow-on consensus proposal will outline a vision for what Noisebridge wants and needs in its new home, and that board officers will follow that vision in all of their work.

13. Nothing in this proposal implies that all or even most of the work in acquiring a new space will be done by board officers, or that their voices have more weight in making big-picture decisions. The sole purpose of this proposal is to empower them to make the hundreds of necessary executive decisions to pull this off, and to act as the points of contact for the outside world. The board officers do not make big-picture decisions themselves, but implement the consensus of the community in an efficient way.

14. This proposal does not expand the role of board members or board officers beyond what is necessary to acquire a permanent home for Noisebridge. For example, this consensus proposal empowers a board officer to acquire a $50,000 loan on Noisebridge’s behalf to purchase a new building, but would not empower them to acquire a $50,000 loan to purchase new fabrication equipment once that building is secured.

15. This consensus proposal will automatically expire after eight months or after we move into a new building, whichever comes sooner, and would need to be renewed by full consensus.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

A. Noisebridge’s lease will end in August of this year. It has been made clear to us that it will not be renewed under any circumstances.

B. For Noisebridge to survive, we will need to move. Our two options are to raise a lot of money to purchase a building that could serve as our permanent home, or raise a lot of money to sign a lease on a new location. Both options require much more money than we currently have and big new revenue streams.

C. The promissory note fundraising method was successfully pioneered by Alan Beatts, the owner of Borderlands Books, whose customers loaned him $1.3M to purchase a permanent location on Haight Street in amounts ranging from $250,000 to $10,000 per lender. The terms of the note are simple: Borrower pays 3% interest on the principal to the lender once per year, for nine years, with a balloon payment of the entire principal at the end of nine years. There is no penalty for pre-payment. Mr. Beatts has shared the promissory note he used, which we can modify for our own use. He has also offered to introduce us to his real estate broker, lawyer, and accountant, and provide any advice he can, provided we have clear points of contact and an efficient decision-making process.

D. The “administration” of Noisebridge, including our bylaws, nonprofit corporation, board of directors, and board officers, are basically our API for interacting with the outside world. Internally, we make decisions through do-ocracy and consensus. When we need to work with the outside world, we do so via that API. Brief description of the way payments work now: Most of our payments for critical expenses, like rent, utilities, and garbage collection, are automated. Most payments that can not be automated are made by board officers — the treasurer (John Shutt), president (Patrick O’Doherty), or secretary (Victoria Fierce) — either online or by check. In rare cases payments are made by co-founders of the space who have access to our bank account, Mitch Altman or Andy Isaacson. The current board officers are John Shutt (treasurer), Patrick O’Doherty (president), and Victoria Fierce (secretary). The board of directors can choose to retain these three as board officers or appoint different people. When doing so, they should follow the lower-case-c consensus of the community.

== 2009 Move page ==

* [[Moving2009]]

Noisebridge Space Program/FundraisingCall

2017-12-19T01:20:23Z

185.220.101.12:

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Dear friends and fans of Noisebridge:

We need your help.

Despite our best efforts to fly under The Storm, The Great San Francisco Reckoning has finally fallen upon us, and Noisebridge is staring displacement in the face in 2018.

Noisebridge's lease will not be renewed by our landlords. Come August 2018, we will almost certainly be out of our space at 2169 Mission St.

Noisebridge is committed to providing a home for hacking and making in San Francisco, but staying in SF doesn’t come cheap. The price of space per square foot has more than tripled over our current lease.

We don’t know where we’ll end up. Only one thing is clear: in order to survive, Noisebridge absolutely needs to raise money at a much higher level.

Right now, we’re asking for donations. A lot of donations. More donations than Noisebridge has ever gotten before.

The best way you can help us out -- right now -- is to become a monthly donor.

http://donate.noisebridge.net

Even if you can’t commit to a monthly donation, any amount you give will help us build a war-chest to get through our most difficult financial challenge yet.

http://donate.noisebridge.net

In addition, if you can provide resources, skills, and experience towards fundraising on the order of six figures or more, we’d really like to talk to you.

We believe that San Francisco needs a hackerspace that is open to as many people as possible as often as possible. We also strongly believe that the residents and guests of our town deserve a space to pursue their hopes, interests, and ambitions at their own pace in a safe space where lack of funds is no barrier to entry. This is what Noisebridge provides. With your help we are going to keep providing the best donation based space for everyone’s technical and creative projects.

This won't be the last message you receive about helping Noisebridge succeed in 2018 and beyond. And we entreat you to spread this message far and wide -- because it’s going to take a global village.

Thank you for all your support, and hack the planet,

The   (Noisebridge Space Program)

PS: Noisebridge is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with all the good things that entails. Tax deductions, employer matching, fuzzy feelings!