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Meeting Notes 2014 01 21

2014-01-23T21:46:51Z

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These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]. Note-taker: JARROD; Moderator: KEVIN.
* '''Ari Lacenski is now a member of Noisebridge'''
* '''Noisebridge is going to pay for the purchase, and maintenance, of fire safety equipment'''
* '''The Anti-Harassment Policy has been made permanent'''

= Short announcements and events =
* Sidewalk Graffiti is dealt with - Ronald
* Mondays at 1900 have new people come to a meet and greet and show and tell. -Al
* Monthly cleaning day this Saturday. Starting at noon. Taking on bigger projects - Madelynn
* Board Elections, see email for details. March 4th at 1900. Elections start on Feb 4th end on March 4th. Nominations on wiki. Also, if you are interested in becoming an officer, please contact the current officer - Tom

= [[ Membership Binder ]] =
* Hephaestus wk1
* Ronald wk3
* Ari Wk4!!
* Kate wk3
* Douglas wk4+

'''Membership of Ari Lacenski - Consensed!'''

= Financial Report =
* We haven't suddenly veered in a bad way.

= Consensus items =

== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
'''Pay to recharge fire extinguishers. - Consensed'''

Pay to recharge fire extinguishers.

AL: 1 in 4 change of having working fire extinguishers in an emergency.

Tom: are we in violation?

Robin: what will it cost?

Q: how have the current fire extinguishers?

AL: Trash can.

ARI: what are your findings?

Ron: How often do they need to be recharged? We should keep them up to date.

Kevin: Al is chairing the safety committee at NB.

J.C. I propose an amendment that we include 200 per year for fire safety maintenance, as a base line. Al agrees with amendment.

Tom: not to exceed x number of dollars and after having a collection.

AL: I would prefer having the treasurer write the check.

"Noisebridge will pay a service to recharge all the fire extinguishers in the space and/or purchase new fire extinguishers, and buy smoke/CO detectors for the space. We will need about a dozen working fire extinguishers for the space. NB will also allocate $200.00 per year, with an initial cost not to exceed $300.00 initial cost."

'''Adopt the draft anti-harassment policy in its current form in the git repo. - Consensed'''

J.C. should we include steps to handle harassment?

Tom: There are directions elsewhere on the wiki; it may not need to be articulated in the policy. I would prefer not to have that conversation derail the adoption of the policy that has been generally agreed on at this point.

J.C. should we outline a reporting system.

Hanna: I think that having an explicit reporting system may create further hardships or a hard time if they do not follow the procedure correctly to report being harassed.

Ari: it would create additional hardship for the victims of harassment.

J.C. and anyone can ask anyone to leave.

Tom: it creates an indisputable no grey area situation where a member/AM can ask someone to leave.

V: are the harassed obligated to report

TOM/Madelynn: No, but they are encouraged.

'''Ban Dante for vandalism in the bathroom. - Language adjusted and Consensed.'''

AL: Dante used a sharpie to write on the bathroom walls. People asked him to leave and he was cussing people out. Eventually he left when the police were going to be called

J.C. Has there been mediation?

Madelynn: Dante has made it clear that he is not interested in mediation.

David: It isn't fair to ban him without his presence.

Madelynn: we have made it clear that we would be speaking about him. He has chosen not to attend.

Q: Do we know that is was him for certain: A few respond yes.

Howard: He became very aggressive when confronted with it.

J.C.: I don't think that writing on the walls is grounds for life time ban.

Ari: my knowledge of this person is in connection with his vandalism. What does he do in the space?

Al: we can use the generic language. He wrote over artwork in the bathroom that was in progress and with offensive language.

V: What was the obscenity?

Ronald: I can show you.

J.C.

Tom: I agree that writing on the wall is not always vandalism but in this case it is of the vandalism variety. Writing over a piece of artwork that someone is working on is the behavior of a jerk.

Q: He isn't adding to the space.

Tom: he has not made an attempt to communicate with us or attend the meetings. My perception is that he doesn't want to be here.

Robin: Dante isn't even a member; he is using this space for eating his burgers. There isn't much of a reason for us to bend over backward to keep him in the space.

J.C. I think he does care about the community and needs a chance.

Madelynn: I am okay with the change of wording. I am okay with the wait. We have people who are vouching for him. He is not welcome except at the meetings until this time. So if after 4 weeks this passes, this is fine.

Ron: When did you get this information that Dante was not available?

J.C. (Explains)

Robin: Dante said that it was okay for the restroom to look like a public restroom.

David: I think there is enough evidence for a temporary ban.

Monad: His behavior was offensive. That alone should be reason to carry this through.

Hanna: I think the way he responded when asked to leave was unacceptable. We are banning him because he is a jerk and changing the text is minor.

AL: I don't feel strongly about the language, but the 2 week consensus process is how we do this.

Kevin: are there any strong reservations.

J.C. We should reach out to this person. We don't have to just have a process of someone messes up then two weeks they are gone. We can give this a week. There is a proposal to not allow proposals with wording changes and we should apply this spirit to this process:

Robin: He verbally abused people, refused to leave,

Ari: I propose an exception, you are banned, but you have a friend who will sponsor you to come to a meeting and get you un banned.

Hanna: if the issue is procedural then why don't we go with the current language since the vandalism is what led to his bad behavior.

David: I don't think that people should be excluded in absentia. I will contact the guy and work to give him an opportunity to come back.

Madelynn: I want to work with J.C. here. I don't see a problem with waiting a week. He cannot be in the space until next Tuesday. We have someone willing to find him.

J.C. Shall we just move away from the vandalism. Change the wording to the standard working, give a week to contact him and come here, he cannot come until next Tuesday, and then we have the consensus on banning him. If

Hanna: Can we have language that if he does not show up next Tuesday, then he is automatically banned and we do not discuss it further.

AL: (Explains what he wrote)

"Dante is unwelcome at Noisebridge. He is prohibited from entering the space or participating in the community. He has the option during the meeting on 2014-01-28 to attend and object to this ban, if he does not appear this ban will become permanent with no further discussion required. If Dante attends, then this item must be discussed, and consensus shall be required to ban him."

AL: Is anyone blocking my existing language?

J.C. I will, if force to.

Hanna: Are you okay with my proposal?

J.C. it is pushing too far into the future. We could just go through the standard process. Let's just have the discussion next week.

Tom: The modification that is most respectful of the people who will have the next discussion. It reduces the discussion for next meeting. I think he should be banned until next week and then indefinite unless he shows.

J.C. Why not use the typical language; it is essentially the same thing.

Hanna: I am offering a friendly amendment so that we can end this discussion now.

Kevin: I believe that the theoretical underpinning of J.C.'s concern is that there is a

J.C.: explains that he is not able to make decisions at the moment.

Tom: Let's take a break. J.C. (Stands aside.)

Consensed Language:

"Dante is unwelcome at Noisebridge. He is prohibited from entering the space or participating in the community. He has the option during the meeting on 2014-01-28 to attend and object to this ban, if he does not appear this ban will become permanent with no further discussion required. If Dante attends, then this item must be discussed, and consensus shall be required to ban him."

'''Ban Dan from the space for a pattern of verbal abuse against Al. - Suspended'''

Dan and Al have agreed to enter into mediation. Mediators are Praveen, Madelynn, and Norman. This item is suspended to allow for mediation.

== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
'''Proposals shall only be eligible to reach consensus in a weekly meeting in the exact form that they were agreed at a previous weekly meeting. - Discussed'''
Tom: Passing the strict 2 week language proposal should be briefly discussed to meet its own requirements and discussion should be tabled for now. Hanna: I think we should table this. (brief discussion ensues) TOM: This is a new next for Al's language that was previously proposed. This item is being discussed this week instead of it being condensed on. Discussion of this item is tabled for next week for consensus.

"Proposals shall only be eligible to reach consensus in a weekly meeting in the exact form that they were agreed at a previous weekly meeting. Items shall not be eligible for consensus unless they were recorded on the Current Consensus Items page on the Noisebridge wiki before 24 hours have passed after the end of the weekly meeting in which they were proposed. If a proposal is modified at a weekly meeting, it shall not be eligible for consensus at that meeting."

'''The canonical location for Noisebridge policies and processes shall be a git repository. - Discussed'''

"The canonical location for Noisebridge policies and processes shall be a git repository. The canonical process to modify these policies and processes shall be the merging of a proposed changed version. The decision to merge a patch shall be made by Noisebridge's consensus process. The most recent version of all such policies and procedures shall also be posted at an appropriate page on the Noisebridge wiki. It shall be the responsibility of the Secretary to operate and maintain this system."

Monad: So you are making the secretary's job this repo and future secretaries would need to do this. Tom: Not really, there is a support team that assists the secretary and takes on tasks like this. A future secretary would be able to find volunteers with the skills to maintain it even if they personally could not. Madelynn: How do I participate if I do not know git, github etc. Tom: I would use github. Showing people how to us github is easy, and is easy to use. There are many members of the NB community that have these skills and could help amend language for you. (Ex. The anti-harassment policy.) Hanna: I learned how to use github when working on the anti-harassment policy and found it no more difficult than using the wiki Robin: what is git? Tom: a distributed version control that makes comparisons between changes very easy to compare. It is easy for a single person to make mistakes incorporating all the language of changes regarding our space. This would help negate those changes.

= Discussion Notes =
Meeting ended before open discussion.

= Attendance =
Tom - Shadowy Cabal

Madelynn - programming and led, collaborative communities

Al - programming for kids

Jeff - physicist

Hanna - Science Teacher.

Snail -

J.C. - Takes shit apart

Howard - clothing and CHM

Robin - merging fashion and technology

Monad - installs windows

Praveen - Mach Learning bio hacking

Ronald - Computer stuff and projects

Kevin - Moderator, biohacking eeg neurohacker group.

Jarrod - Notetaker

Ari - LED panels via android

Donald - Net Art web dev

Shirley - Math Professor

Mikos - Physicist, Jack of all trades

Tina - Biologist, Working on a project

Vee

David

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Meeting Notes 2012 01 24

2014-01-22T05:41:23Z

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== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 201st Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: [[User:Malaclyps]]

Moderator: [[User:SuperQ]]

=== Introduction and Names ===

* [[Noisebridge_Vision|What Noisebridge is about]]: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
* Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
** Matt! He does permaculture!
** Jake! He does websites, and webservices. Also interested in hacking hardware. Wants to be adopted by hardware hackers.
** Martin! Wants to have a meeting in the space!
** Sole -- adapting videogame software to do animations!
** Cally -- fixing the sewing machines!
** D0n -- interested in newer versions of Windows and making it run cleaner and tighter
** Andre -- from Ukraine, opening a hackerspace there. Working on distributed currency projects
** Caitlin -- game designer, virtual worlds, love stuff here!
** Robert -- working on a clean box a miniature clean room to repair hard drives
** Della -- run a creativityspace in North Beach, want to bring stuff like this conjunct it with nature, art
** Leif -- I'm interested in deprecating hierarchical file systems
** Aspen -- go by Oliver now. I'm Anonymous.
** Alex -- second time here. Hi! Philosopher, but my Mac is seven years old. I want to be an empowered denizen of the future! I am SPURNING the idolatories of the individual in preference to systems
** Lako -- into crypto, math, free class is starting, and looking to do a study class
* [[Consensus Process|A brief primer on consensus process]]: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.

=== Short Announcements ===

Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short!

Cally says that we fixed the knitting machine. If people want to knit things, they just need know how to set it up. There will soon be a book explaining such things.

Robert is tackling hacker alley! Help him!

=== New or Stale Events ===

Tastebridge is going to be making hummus from scratch next
Monday! Come along and bring hummus ingredients.

Spacebridge has moved to Tuesdays!

=== Membership Binder ===

* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.

* Anyone up for joining this week (ie have four checks by their name + have two sponsors) should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime) for the rest of the group. The rest of the meeting should consense on whether they may join.

Caitlyn is a member!!!

Snail is a member!!!!!

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $17479.98

Noisetor (http://noisetor.net/finances/): $3880.74

=== Consensus items ===

''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] page.)''

*Noisebridge should use the approval voting process for Board elections. CONSENSED
*In the case of a tie between Noisebridge board candidates, we have a lottery among the tied persons. CONSENSED
* Adopting the [[Policy Wonks]]' [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Talk:Membership#Leaving_Noisebridge suggestion for membership expiry] CONSENSED
* Adopting the [[Policy Wonks]]' [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Talk:Membership#Becoming_a_Member_of_Noisebridge suggested clarification of the membership application process] CONSENSED
* Adopting the [[Policy Wonks]]' [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Talk:Membership#Being_a_Member_of_Noisebridge suggestions for how to be a Noisebridge member] CONSENSED

=== Discussion Items ===

* His name is Martin. A group of people are reading David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years. He wrote Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Sunday 4.30-7.30pm to meet to discuss them. Danny will sponsor the shit out of this meeting.

* Alan are creating a puzzle hunt game, and we'd like some help from NB. We'd like to use this as a clue pickup site. We're running it on March 24, March 31st. Ten teams, who will drop in between noon and two. SuperQ sponsors the shit out of this item.

* Discuss adopting the [[Policy Wonks]]' [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Talk:Membership&oldid=22673#Hiatus suggestion for members going on hiatus], for consensus next week.

Rayc would like to apologise for his behaviour last week, and not turning their backs on me when I turned my backs on them.

Jake feels that the hacks space things are destroyed. We have a long way to go before we reach the productivity level before we started this move. It's going to take a while to get back to that point. The thing that could disrupt that is that if stuff gets moved again. The process of moving things around is disruptive, and we need to come to some sort of agreement that we're not going to move things around without compensating the hit that we take. If you move the test equipment, but now it's disorganized instead of organized.

Snail thinks in the future moving requires labelling.

Jake gives the example the hack area and the instrumentation area. each person who comes through the hackspace gets to
know where they are, and if everything gets moved around,
that gets destroyed. People who move stuff needs to understand something is destroyed.

Danny said some stuff about notifying things.

Leif says that notifying people in advance is less important for some types of changes than others, but the case of moving fragile
personal possessions is when it seems most important. I knew it wasn't guaranteed to be a safe
place to leave things, but I didn't expect stuff to get
broken. Moving people's personal stuff without notifying
them was not cool at all.

Kelly says that moving things physically in the space has
been a consistent source of drama. As you have know learned,
this is a great way to make drama. Given that reverting was
not possible, it was important to notify people. The reason
why we have a one week delay is because it takes time to
propagate. So you need to give that time to propagate unrevertable items.

Rayc is empathetic to the cost of moving. If there's
anything I can do to deal with misplaced items. Only one or
two people couldn't find their stuff.

SuperQ says there's drama, but there's nothing wrong with
what you did. Don't do it again! Do it again!

Someone whines from the corner of the membershelves.

* Laser Lounge ceiling leaks.

Oh shit it is raining in San Francisco! It is raining inside the laser lounge.

Andy will call the landlord. Somebody email noisebridge-discuss.

Danny reminds people not to use paper towels in the toilets or ever.

Rayc is going to take a photo of everything EVER and post it.

=== End of Meeting ===

* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now, check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
* Put back the membership binder in the black desk.
* Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
* Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
* Copy the [[Meeting Notes Template]] for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
* Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.

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2014-01-15T19:33:12Z

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