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Meeting Notes 2019 03 12

2019-03-13T04:19:44Z

Josephsf: Added notes.

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These are the notes from the March 12th, 2019 General Meeting Note-taker: joe, and ???
Moderators: Matthew McKenna (mpmckenna8 on slack and lots of other internet things).
* '''One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.'''
* Join the ISO standards committees
* Running a deficit, need more donations
* We are a Bravespace, it is unexcellent to start drama about other peoples' conversations

== Meeting Summary ==
FIXME FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST
TLDR what happened at the meeting:
* Fundraising Update: We -think- 180k in the bank and a slight deficit, Fundraising Committee please loop us in
* Announcements: VR talks at Noisebridge and streaming all day on Sunday
* Finances: See above.
* New members: None
* New philanthropists: None, but can someone in the Rack Guild activate Jehan's 24/7 access, since he's been a Philanthropist for 10 months now
* Consensus Items: None. (Instructional comedy excluded.)
* Discussion Items: Fundraising, ISO standards, and getting Mary Poppins to sing the Hackernationale.

I love noisebridge

= Fundraising Update =
Fundraising team gives update on fundraising

- Skipped until after intros

= Introductions =

Matthew: he/him, javascript, opensource geography, flashentashen gifs

J: masculine pronouns and blockchain

Charlie: he/him, learning coding, sowing

Ryan: he/him, coming for many years, helping out with projects, VR cart, has bread

Jehan: he/him, coming for many years infrequently, usually does stuff with the tools

Robert: he/him, not late for breakfast, coming for many years, 3d printing python

Izzy: Coming since a bit before start of 2019, c++ python, eldrich dark secrets

C sharp community event is over in the back

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]:
<blockquote>Noisebridge is a 501(c)3 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'."</blockquote>

Show up, make things happen, Doacracy - things happen when you choose to do them (including taking out garbage and cleaning bathroom)

Arts and technology collective but also a hackerspace and music

= Short announcements and events =
* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short! One or two sentences please!
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
* Don't hog everyone's time since we all just want to hack!
* Check [[Newsbridge|Newsbridge]] for weekly updates on cool things at Noisebridge, possibly not announced at the meeting.

Ryan: This Sunday giving an epic VR and immersive technoloigy talk at noisebridge: 10am to 8pm, hardware, software, communities, everything about VR, will be livestreamed on Noisebridge's Twitch at:
Can RSVP on MeetUp, but RSVP is not needed.
https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/259110997/

= Safe Space =

'''Note:''' This section is experimental. We discussed it at [[Meeting_Notes_2016_06_28]]. We're going to try it for the next meeting, and see how it goes, and then discuss in the discussion section how it went, and how we'd like to tweak it.

Noisebridge is a safe space. '''Invite a volunteer to describe''' what that means.

Ryan: This section is kind of unique right now. We are often considered a bravespace. We cannot say that conflicts will not happen here. people are allowed to say their opinions but someone might ask you to leave. Speak up about things you see or hear. Be aware of language but make sure you have the full context. Don't meddle in other peoples conversations. Don't meddle with people.

Matt: You should try to take the full context of things into account. It is hard, but while no one is the master of noisebridge, we need to balance a lot with our radical inclusivity culture. Judge people as Excellent until they prove they are unexcellent. You may need to take action to make the space better. No one is in charge. Anyone can ask anyone to leave, and that should generally be respected. Noisebridge is not really a Safe Space, but we strive to follow some safe space policies, see the posted signs. If there is an issue we will try to find a moderator to help resolve the situation.

Robert: As a doocracy it is up to you to help make it a safe space. If you don't feel safe, you should do something to make it safer by contacting the mailing list.

Ryan: Do not email the mailing list. On the slack there is a bravespace page.

Robert: Do we have anything posted on the front door about Safe Space options?

Ryan: Some info is posted on the refrigerator.

Matt: check links like one above the door work still later.

Some specific points you might prompt the group to touch on, if it doesn't happen naturally:
* What to do if you feel uncomfortable.
* Noisebridge strives to be radically inclusive. What does that mean?
* Noisebridge has an antiharassment policy. What does that mean?

dont harass people, let them hack

= Participation =

Invite a knowledgable volunteer to describe who can participate at Noisebridge, including:
* Describe how to get an rfid key for the door system
* Describe how to get access to slack

Anyone is able to participate in the community, unless they are on the banned list. No one is going to ban you because you accidentally let in someone on the banned list, just use common sense. People who behave unexcellently are not welcome.

You can get on Slack if you are active here. If you want to get on Slack, ask now.

Ryan: We are not really asking people to go on Slack anymore, we are encouraging a move from Slack to Discuss--Discuss is a much more open system, checks and balances that make it more public. Makes people more careful about their wordings. Kind of because it is a forum.

Putting all of your stuff on Discuss is Excellent, because it is more open to the public than Slack is.

discuss link: https://discuss.noisebridge.info/

RFID keys - A person with a card with an RFID tag can let themself in without ringing the bell.

Ryan: Member is a very specific term at noisebridge. Philanthropy and membership is different.

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe'''

jehan: Philanthropists donate to the space every month. there is a recommended amount. their RFID cards do not expire, and its 24/7 access. same abilities as a Member, except no Blocking. Application process is less arduous.

No Philanthropist applications tonight.

Can anyone here activate jehan's RFID access as he has been a philanthropist since May of last year.

In general if you are coming a bunch, you can ask for daytime access which any philanthropist can grant you. It lasts for a month, then you need to have it reupped.

If you are interested in becoming a Philanthropist, get to know people in the community.

= [[ Membership Binder ]] =

Ryan: Everyone who walks in the door is a member of the community. Membership status is the immune system of NB. It keeps NB from not functioning. Or misfunctioning. Being a member is you probably want people to assume you are a member. And a couple people might ask you to be a member. All it entails is you have more responsibilties because you can block consensus proposals. And you are treated as somebody who knows a good amoutn about NB. The membership process you apply for it and over 4 weeks it gets mentioned at each meeting and on the 4th week it goes to a membership consensus process. On the f4th week the person leaves the room and everyone decides if they can be a member. There needs to be a qurom present.

Does membership have the same financial responsibilities? Yes. $80 is recommended, $40 is starving hacker rate, other rates can be arranged.

Matthew will leave noisebridge if they don't let people be a member because of the money. It's more about what you are contributing culturally.

Robert: NB should sponsor an SF airport hackerspace.

= Financial Report =
* Funds in bank:
* 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

Fix the noistor link

ryan: fundraising guild handles most financial things.

We have approximately 180k, and are almost breaking even in donations each month. IE we are running a deficit.

Noisebridge is fundraising for a new home. It would be ideal if we could buy a space. The fundraising group has been looking at spaces.

We are having a GALA for fundraising in a few weeks: the date is:

The link to the Noisebridge GALA, which you should all go to is at:

Bring your rich friends to the GALA.
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Gala

https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/258504896/

= Consensus =

Robert does not know about the consensus process

Ryan: Other than for membership applications, we use doocracy and small c consensus. IF you want to change something that fundamentally changes noisbridge, like spending 30k. But you can put up and remove walls if you want without big C Consensus. Most walls here were built (or torn down) without Big C Consensus. Big C consensus for plumbing changes or extremely dangerous stuff.

Anyone can bring a consensus proposal. Bring it up at a meeting, propose it, discuss it, then next week the members present can choose whether or not to block the proposal. Blocking has a heavy weight. It pretty much means noisbridge is dead to me if this thing happens. It is the opposite of voting. Only one Block (by a Member) is needed to stop a proposal.

Is a consensus proposal passed if it is not blocked? Yes. Even if you are not a Member, you can ask a Member to block for you, and if you have a good reason they may heed your request.

Blocks rarely happen because we do not have many consensus items.

Does anyone propose Consensus Items?

Proposed Member Lounge on the roof--Blocked, we are not allowed on the roof.

Proposal to burn down noisebridge--Blocked.

= Discussion =

Ryan: Every Tuesday around the afternoon there is a call with Krebs up in Seattle, the firm that helps us with Fundraising. Our current work is with mainly getting grants, which is pretty difficult. We are currently waiting on a couple of financial activity reports relating to our past that are currently being worked on. Once it is complete we will be able to apply to most grants. We are currently applying to SF and California govs. SF for $200k, CA for $1 Million. Theoreitically. Could easily be less. But these open up the door to other grants. Wherever we move, if we can in a declaration say the building will be LEED Certified, we can get more fundraising money, and be placed on building council recommendation lists as a Green Non-Profit.

There is also a group of fundraisers who are looking around for buildings we can buy. SF ironically has some almost cheap business locations. (Current market demand is mainly for residential rather than commercial land which works to our advantage.) Lot of old warehouses. Lot of old businesses have been priced out of operating in SF, but we're a non-profit. We are looking for a short term rental location, can be smaller than our current 5,200 sq ft location, because will be temporary. Our goal is a 4,000 sq foot place with a dollar per sqft rent. Once there we can focus on fundraising the $4 Million to buy a place.

Are we looking at manufacturing things we could sell? If you have ideas along those lines, you can do them here, even without Fundraising committee involvement.

The GALA will be our first big intentional fundraiser ever. (Our past parties accepted money, but this time its a big concerted attempt that puts raising a lot of funds first.)

Ryan is working on applying for drink donations.

If you know any rich people, or have a boss, bring your boss to noisebridge day is going to happen.

Tell your friends/family, repost our social media, we have an active twitter and a twitch stream every Friday.

Play videogames while streaming, ask the viewers to donate.

We do not need large physical item donations, see eg the large printer with no ink that takes up a ton of space.

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Info on the C Standards Committee: Under ISO, close to losing consensus, would fall under another committee. Modules will be in C++20, contracts, C++20 will be the new C++11, modules will be a shitshow, modules will not work the way you think they will. It is super cheap to join the standards committee. $2,200 per year if you're a big company. If small company or non-profit they waive the fee entirely after the first year. Turn in papework Dec 31, pay dues prorated, then get them waived next year. And once you've joined one committee you can join the C Standards Committee as well.

If you ever want to go on a binge as fun as wikipedia binging, try checking out a food standards binge (ie standards on making tea or pizza). A new cup for olive oil is being ratified soon.

The way ISO works is that if you show up, you are DEEMED to be an expert.

== Discussion Items ==

If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.

= End of Meeting =

# Return the [[membership binder]] to its rightful location.
# Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
# Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.

== Note taker posts the notes ==
# Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
# Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
# Copy paste the notes to the [http://www.noisebridge.net//Next_meeting next meeting] page. (They will become [[Last meeting]] at midnight.)
# Email the meeting summary to [mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Discuss] and [mailto:noisebridge-announce@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Announce] lists.
# CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
# Edit the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
# Edit the [[Consensus_Items_History|Consensus Items History]] if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

== Fun things to do after ==
* Reprise of the [[Hackernationale]]. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]

- Discussion as to how the theme from Hackers is our new song.

How can Mary Poppins sing the Hackernationale.

The Clean Up Song is our Song. Everybody Clean Up.

* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now (if it doesn't happen '''before''' any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2019 03 05

2019-03-12T06:26:10Z

Josephsf: Formatting

These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge. Date: March 5th, 2019 Note-taker: 1. Joseph 2. ??? 3. ????; Moderators: Ryan.

One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.
* People need to clean more after using equipment
* People would love to hear a Financial Report next week

= Introductions =

Dongs
Ryan: Coming for 5 years, VR, helping around space, Fundraising!

Amhad(?): 3d printing

Jack: Just Jack

r - they/them - wifi positioning

murphey - - looking to potentially get involved

joseph - - blockchain, Raspberry Pi

Steve - he/him - physicist, developer

Anthony: Working on an App, trying to figure out what to use to write the app

Micheife

SuperQ - SuperQ - SuperQ

My name is No aka Death Avacaco - Squirrel - I play tuxcart

Francis - he/him - electronic art

nthmost Mother of Chaos - likes using laser cutter to make art

Mattttttttttttttttt

Rico: 8th time, fabrication

= Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain what Noisebridge is about: =

Noisebridge is a 501(c)3 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'."

Steve - Noisebridge = community hacker space, can work on many things including hacking on the space. One rule: Be excellent to each other.

= Short announcements and events =

nthmost: Noisebridge domain names have been transferred to me personally. This is a big deal! Wants to transfer them to the Ghandi account. "I require a ritual of transference." Want to have an event with smoke and lasers and a ritual transfer of the domain names.

Ryan: 1. This weekend is the Stupid Shit No-one Needs and terriable ideas Hackathon. Sat and Sun. Come learn how to do stupid hackathon stuff, do a project there. I will not be able to make it. Giving my project to anyone who wants it. Pickaxe that mines bitcoin when you swing it. Miners could make an extra two hundreth of a cent per day. Will leave a pickaxe here, or just a pick. You need arduino, or raspberry pi. Less optimal than actually mining for real gold.
https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/258638768/

Ryan - 2. I signed us up for maker faire but haven't heard back about booth stuff. Some project ideas. We will be asking for a number of volunteers. I'm planning on bringing down pretty much every maker faire project we've made before so we need a lot of help.

Ryan - 3. March 17th, day before GDC starts in SF, will be hosting a talk at Noisebridge. 8 hours on VR AR immersive tech, 10am to , details on our meetup page. 17 attendees since event was posted earlier this morning.
https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/259110997/

Matt - Noisebridge is looking for spaces, our lease is probably up in August. We looked at 1049 market yesterday. It is a 10,000 sqft basement filled with stuff; 79 cents per sqft; $7,900 / month with 3-4 months free due to stuff in the basement. Currently a big empty room; pictures are on discuss (https://discuss.noisebridge.info/t/1049-market/306/11). Elevator wasn't working, no double doors, bathrooms on first floor (not basement) but are ADA accessible. Tiny amount of natural light, good power. Near 6th and Market, on Market Street. Some view area as sketchy. Effectively no windows

Anthony: Feels like the neighborhood is really safe (unless you turn onto 6th street).

: Right next to - interesting temporary space.

Ryan: Our current space uses largely artifical light at night anyway.

Matt: 1077 Howard is another option. Currently Scoot uses it as its scooter repository. Downside is that we would need to rent out portions of the space in order to afford it, so Noisebridge would need to become a landlord. No pics are allowed to be taken in it.

Ryan: Big garage doors.

Matt: $20 grand per month, need to consider the financial aspects of it. We currently can't keep toilet paper in stock. Probably someone who feels positive about this option should speak on it. Preference is to focus on buying a space rather than becoming a landlord.

Zack: Over at Starfish Mission, working on a crowd funding application. You specify the amount you need to raise and the number of min pledgers, no one pays until enough people have donated enough, and the more people who donate the less everyone pays. Starfish has the blockchain developers working on it, but ---They need a front end developer for the UI---. How many hours will be needed to make it? They do not know, since it is new.

= Safe Space =

Ryan: Noisebridge cares about the comfort and safety of the people in the space. Being Excellent To Each Other is a necessity in the space. Harassment of any kind is not tolerated. If you are not going to say something nice to someone, don't say it. Please read the signs posted around the space if you want a better understanding. Understand that people here identify as theirselves and they have the right to do that, do not be mean or you will be asked to leave, perhaps perminantly.

r: Sometimes it is necessary to say things that aren't nice. There is a difference between saying things that aren't nice, vs harassment.

Anthony: But try to say things as nice as possible

r: yes

= Participation =

Ryan: When you walk in the door -you are a member of the NB community-. Uphold the rules here, and you can participate here. We do not limit people, we seek to ensure that people can use the tools and facilities. If you need help, ASK FOR HELP, asking for help is being AWESOME. To get inside, you press the button downstairs (and wait to be buzzed in). And once you get to know people you can get a 30 day access token, so you can get in without needing to press the button. You can ask for Slack access after youve been here a couple of times, but we are trying to move over to Discuss.

= Philanthropists =

- 3 tiers of membership 1. Just coming around 2. Philanthopist. 3 Member.

Philanthropist = you want to partake in 24hr potential of NB. Need to be able to let people in, shut down the space at night, have been coming around for a few months, people should kinda know you. You need a Member to sponsor you, and you get proposed as a Philanthropist at a meeting. Std amount $80/month, $40 starving hacker rate, but price is negotiable. Philanthropist is pretty much like being a Member.

No one is up for Philanthropy this week.

= Membership Binder =

Ryan: Membership is our Oversight Group. People who consistently try to improve NB, generally are available to take care of NB. You are the Immune System that keeps NB running. This is a Responsibility, you get no perks. Do not strive for this. People who NB thinks would benefit the space in a role overseeing complexity. Members generally do not do much in the space in terms of Member items. Member items = Consensus proposals. Otherwise you are just like a Philanthropist, or a regular person.

r: Usually, another Member or Members will approch someone who they think would be a good future Member. Although wiki says you can start app with no sponsers, usually you start with sponsors. You need 2 Member sponsors, app in binder, name read out for 4 weeks at meetings, membership can be revoked in the 2 weeks afterwards. Members are the only ones who can Block Consensus items. [Big M] Members are harder to get rid of than Philanthropists or regular members of the community.

No Membership applications this week.

= Financial Report =

Do we have someone here with our current financial report?

(Seems like no.)

ryan - Fundraising Group is working hard to syncronise fundraising system. Things may be going on with our NoiseTor servers. (All but one have been shut down. The one that is not shut down is serving traffic, but website is down.)

ryan - We have enough money to survive here for a while, but our lease is ending in August. We need to raise a LOT of money for fundraising.

Question is raised about how Philanthropy differs from Membership in terms of fundraising. Generally they pay same amount. BUT anyone even non official philanthropists can donate online. Also there are donation boxes around the space.

= Consensus =

ryan - Consensus is how we decide things that will fundamentally change what it means to be NB. Slow process typically. Anyone can give input into it. Needs a lot of research and discussion -prior- to the proposal being brought up at a meeting. Depending on feedback, might be denied at first meeting, but usually it is moved forward to week 2, at which point it can go up for actual Consensus, where so long as a quorem of Members participate, they can Consense the item unless a Member chooses to Block the item. Consensus is the opposite of voting. Everyone agrees. A block means that the blocker effectively thinks that if it passes they would leave NB and never come back. This is for things like spending $30k, or buying a new building. Does not happen very often. Anyone can bring up a Consensus Proposal. Non Members can ask Members to Block though.

r: Anyone can make Consensus Item, and you can withdraw it if you made it, even if you are not a Member.

there are no Consensus Items for this week.

= Discussion =

Ryan: 1 short one.

ryan: Making sure people are following -small c- consensus, and taking care of the space. People have not been cleaning up as much as they should. Some people keep doing things with VR setup without asking enough people whether their change would be Excellent.

r: Similarly, equipment that it easy to turn on should be unplugged when you are done with it. For example the saw, which has just two switches to turn on. Unplug when not in use.

Ryan: Similarly, people who use the saw have not been cleaning it out. It is a belt drive saw that needs delicate calibration. It should never get filled up with dust. The chamber should never fill up with more than an inch of sawdust. It has been filled up a lot recently. That is not excellent. RE the VR, people have not been putting the cord back up when done with it. It doesn't have enough tension to be used as a tether, but still needs to be put back up when done so it does not get broken. It is a $50 cord, not a regular power cord. Also noticed (in the Hackatorium) a lot of gunk on the table, and lot of debris on LED table. Donations in a pile without being sorted. If you take out stuff for a project, put it away when done.

Ryan: If the Mate is running low in the fridge, please refill it. Ryan has refilled it at least 10 times in the past two weeks.

Ryan: The guy who swept the floor a couple of days ago (Johnny the drummer?) that was Awesome! (Applause for the sweeper.)

Take care of the space so it runs better for everyone including yourself. (IE so you do not have to spend an hour fixing a tool before using it.)

? : When is the NOISEBRIDGE GALA -- Music? Band? https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/259286951/

?: It will be 27th of April. JP Krause (dude with the cool feather earings, plays base) is handling it. It has info at Discuss.noisebridge.info

The Gala is a big party, people showing up, showing their projects, perfoming music including DJ sets, art auction. (Please come, and donate to Noisebridge!) Still looking for performers. Want to fill three hours with music. Timeslots are available.

= Meeting ends. =

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Meeting Notes 2019 03 05

2019-03-12T06:00:53Z

Josephsf:

These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge. Date: March 5th, 2019 Note-taker: 1. Joseph 2. ??? 3. ????; Moderators: Ryan.
One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.
Meeting Summary[edit]
FIXME FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST TLDR what happened at the meeting:
Fundraising Update
Announcements:
Finances:
New members:
New philanthropists:
Consensus Items:
Discussion Items:
Fundraising Update[edit]
Fundraising team gives update on fundraising
Introductions[edit]
Dongs
Ryan: Coming for 5 years, VR, helping around space, Fundraising!
Amhad(?): 3d printing
Jack: Just Jack
r - they/them - wifi positioning
murphey - - looking to potentially get involved
joseph - - blockchain, Raspberry Pi
Steve - he/him - physicist, developer
Anthony: Working on an App, trying to figure out what to use to write the app
Micheife
SuperQ - SuperQ - SuperQ
My name is No aka Death Avacaco - Squirrel - I play tuxcart
Francis - he/him - electronic art
nthmost Mother of Chaos - likes using laser cutter to make art
Mattttttttttttttttt
Rico: 8th time, fabrication

Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain what Noisebridge is about:
Noisebridge is a 501(c)3 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'."

Steve - Noisebridge = community hacker space, can work on many things including hacking on the space. One rule: Be excellent to each other.

Short announcements and events

nthmost: Noisebridge domain names have been transferred to me personally. Big deal! Wants to transfer them to the Ghandi account. "I require a ritual of transference." Want to have an event with smoke and lasers and a ritual transfer of the domain names.
Ryan: 1. This weekend is the Stupid Shit No-one Needs and terriable ideas Hackathon. Sat and Sun. Come learn how to do stupid hackathon stuff, do a project there. I will not be able to make it. Giving my project to anyone who wants it. Pickaxe that mines bitcoin when you swing it. Miners could make an extra two hundreth of a cent per day. Will leave a pickaxe here, or just a pick. You need arduino, or raspberry pi. Less optimal than actually mining for real gold.
https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/258638768/
Ryan - 2. I signed us up for maker faire but haven't heard back about booth stuff. Some project ideas. We will be asking for a number of volunteers. I'm planning on bringing down pretty much every maker faire project we've made before so we need a lot of help.
Ryan - 3. March 17th, day before GDC starts in SF, will be hosting a talk at Noisebridge. 8 hours on VR AR immersive tech, 10am to , details on our meetup page. 17 attendees since event was posted earlier this morning.
https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/259110997/
Matt - Noisebridge is looking for spaces, our lease is probably up in August. We looked at 1049 market yesterday. It is a 10,000 sqft basement filled with stuff; 79 cents per sqft; $7,900 / month with 3-4 months free due to stuff in the basement. Currently a big empty room; pictures are on discuss (https://discuss.noisebridge.info/t/1049-market/306/11). Elevator wasn't working, no double doors, bathrooms on first floor (not basement) but are ADA accessible. Tiny amount of natural light, good power. Near 6th and Market, on Market Street. Some view area as sketchy. Effectively no windows
Anthony: Feels like the neighborhood is really safe (unless you turn onto 6th street).
: Right next to - interesting temporary space.
Ryan: Our current space uses largely artifical light at night anyway.
Matt: 1077 Howard is another option. Currently Scoot uses it as its scooter repository. Downside is that we would need to rent out portions of the space in order to afford it, so Noisebridge would need to become a landlord. No pics are allowed to be taken in it.
Ryan: Big garage doors.
Matt: $20 grand per month, need to consider the financial aspects of it. We currently can't keep toilet paper in stock. Probably someone who feels positive about this option should speak on it. Preference is to focus on buying a space rather than becoming a landlord.

Zack: Over at Starfish Mission, working on a crowd funding application. You specify the amount you need to raise and the number of min pledgers, no one pays until enough people have donated enough, and the more people who donate the less everyone pays. Starfish has the blockchain developers working on it, but ---They need a front end developer for the UI---. How many hours will be needed to make it? They do not know, since it is new.

Safe Space
Note: This section is experimental. We discussed it at Meeting_Notes_2016_06_28. We're going to try it for the next meeting, and see how it goes, and then discuss in the discussion section how it went, and how we'd like to tweak it.
Noisebridge is a safe space. Invite a volunteer to describe what that means.
Some specific points you might prompt the group to touch on, if it doesn't happen naturally:
What to do if you feel uncomfortable.
Noisebridge strives to be radically inclusive. What does that mean?
Noisebridge has an antiharassment policy. What does that mean?

Ryan: Noisebridge cares about the comfort and safety of the people in the space. Being Excellent To Each Other is a necessity in the space. Harassment of any kind is not tolerated. If you are not going to say something nice to someone, don't say it. Please read the signs posted around the space if you want a better understanding. Understand that people here identify as theirselves and they have the right to do that, do not be mean or you will be asked to leave, perhaps perminantly.

r: Sometimes it is necessary to say things that aren't nice. There is a difference between saying things that aren't nice, vs harassment.
Anthony: But try to say things as nice as possible
r: yes

Participation[edit]
Invite a knowledgable volunteer to describe who can participate at Noisebridge, including:
Describe how to get an rfid key for the door system
Describe how to get access to slack

Ryan: When you walk in the door -you are a member of the NB community-. Uphold the rules here, and you can participate here. We do not limit people, we seek to ensure that people can use the tools and facilities. If you need help, ASK FOR HELP, asking for help is being AWESOME. To get inside, you press the button downstairs (and wait to be buzzed in). And once you get to know people you can get a 30 day access token, so you can get in without needing to press the button. You can ask for Slack access after youve been here a couple of times, but we are trying to move over to Discuss.

Philanthropists[edit]
Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe Philantropy, and the application process.
Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Any applicants must have their sponsor present to vouch for them.
If there are no objections, they're a philanthropist! Their pledge should be handed over to the Secretary posthaste, after which their token will be updated to give them the 24/7 access they've earned(?)

- 3 tiers of membership 1. Just coming around 2. Philanthopist. 3 Member.
Philanthropist = you want to partake in 24hr potential of NB. Need to be able to let people in, shut down the space at night, have been coming around for a few months, people should kinda know you. You need a Member to sponsor you, and you get proposed as a Philanthropist at a meeting. Std amount $80/month, $40 starving hacker rate, but price is negotiable. Philanthropist is pretty much like being a Member.

No one is up for Philanthropy this week.

Membership Binder [edit]
Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe membership, and the application process.
Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community and space better than it is today.
Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Mark down a check or other indicator on every open application to keep track of how many weeks they've been read out.
Anyone eligible to join this week should
introduce themselves,
answer any questions members may have for them, then
leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
Remember to applaud new members when they return.

Ryan: Membership is our Oversight Group. People who consistently try to improve NB, generally are available to take care of NB. You are the Immune System that keeps NB running. This is a Responsibility, you get no perks. Do not strive for this. People who NB thinks would benefit the space in a role overseeing complexity. Members generally do not do much in the space in terms of Member items. Member items = Consensus proposals. Otherwise you are just like a Philanthropist, or a regular person.

r: Usually, another Member or Members will approch someone who they think would be a good future Member. Although wiki says you can start app with no sponsers, usually you start with sponsors. You need 2 Member sponsors, app in binder, name read out for 4 weeks at meetings, membership can be revoked in the 2 weeks afterwards. Members are the only ones who can Block Consensus items. [Big M] Members are harder to get rid of than Philanthropists or regular members of the community.

No Membership applications this week.

Financial Report[edit]
Funds in bank:
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

Do we have someone here with our current financial report?

(Seems like no.)

ryan - Fundraising Group is working hard to syncronise fundraising system. Things may be going on with our NoiseTor servers. (All but one have been shut down. The one that is not shut down is serving traffic, but website is down.)

ryan - We have enough money to survive here for a while, but our lease is ending in August. We need to raise a LOT of money for fundraising.

Question is raised about how Philanthropy differs from Membership in terms of fundraising. Generally they pay same amount. BUT anyone even non official philanthropists can donate online. Also there are donation boxes around the space.

Consensus[edit]
Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give a brief primer on consensus process
It is important that everyone in attendance understands at least:
blocking with verbalized principled objections.
why we use consensus over other approaches to decision making.
how consensus isn't a legislative process
why consensus isn't applicable to some things like conflict resolution, resolution of time sinks, and the like.

ryan - Consensus is how we decide things that will fundamentally change what it means to be NB. Slow process typically. Anyone can give input into it. Needs a lot of research and discussion -prior- to the proposal being brought up at a meeting. Depending on feedback, might be denied at first meeting, but usually it is moved forward to week 2, at which point it can go up for actual Consensus, where so long as a quorem of Members participate, they can Consense the item unless a Member chooses to Block the item. Consensus is the opposite of voting. Everyone agrees. A block means that the blocker effectively thinks that if it passes they would leave NB and never come back. This is for things like spending $30k, or buying a new building. Does not happen very often. Anyone can bring up a Consensus Proposal. Non Members can ask Members to Block though.

r: Anyone can make Consensus Item, and you can withdraw it if you made it, even if you are not a Member.

there are no Consensus Items for this week.

Discussion Items[edit]
If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.
End of Meeting[edit]

Ryan: 1 short one.

ryan: Making sure people are following -small c- consensus, and taking care of the space. People have not been cleaning up as much as they should. Some people keep doing things with VR setup without asking enough people whether their change would be Excellent.

r: Similarly, equipment that it easy to turn on should be unplugged when you are done with it. For example the saw, which has just two switches to turn on. Unplug when not in use.

Ryan: Similarly, people who use the saw have not been cleaning it out. It is a belt drive saw that needs delicate calibration. It should never get filled up with dust. The chamber should never fill up with more than an inch of sawdust. It has been filled up a lot recently. That is not excellent. RE the VR, people have not been putting the cord back up when done with it. It doesn't have enough tension to be used as a tether, but still needs to be put back up when done so it does not get broken. It is a $50 cord, not a regular power cord. Also noticed (in the Hackatorium) a lot of gunk on the table, and lot of debris on LED table. Donations in a pile without being sorted. If you take out stuff for a project, put it away when done.

Ryan: If the Mate is running low in the fridge, please refill it. Ryan has refilled it at least 10 times in the past two weeks.

Ryan: The guy who swept the floor a couple of days ago (Johnny the drummer?) that was Awesome! (Applause for the sweeper.)

Take care of the space so it runs better for everyone including yourself. (IE so you do not have to spend an hour fixing a tool before using it.)

? : When is the NOISEBRIDGE GALA -- Music? Band? https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/259286951/

?: It will be 27th of April. JP Krause (dude with the cool feather earings, plays base) is handling it. It has info at Discuss.noisebridge.info

The Gala is a big party, people showing up, showing their projects, perfoming music including DJ sets, art auction. (Please come, and donate to Noisebridge!) Still looking for performers. Want to fill three hours with music. Timeslots are available.

Meeting ends.

Return the membership binder to its rightful location.
Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.
Note taker posts the notes[edit]
Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
Copy paste the notes to the next meeting page. (They will become Last meeting at midnight.)
Email the meeting summary to Noisebridge Discuss and Noisebridge Announce lists.
CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.
Fun things to do after[edit]
Reprise of the Hackernationale. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
PGP Key Signing could happen now (if it doesn't happen before any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the list to see who wants in on the action.

Corporate Philanthropists

2019-02-06T05:31:23Z

Josephsf: /* General Tech Companies */

This page lists potential corporate philanthropists for Noisebridge for our fundraising campaigns.

== General Tech Companies ==

*Amazon
*Comcast
*Mozilla
*Pinterest
*Salesforce
*Square
*Google
*Lyft
*Microsoft
*Netflix
*Reddit
*Twitter
*Apple
*YouTube
*Alphabet
*Baidu
*MSR
*IBM
*Dropbox
*Box
*PayPal
*Venmo
*AirBNB
*SpaceX
*Tesla
*LinkedIn
*Atlassian
*Digital Ocean
*Github
*Docker
*SAP

== Blockchain Companies ==

*IOHK
*Quantstamp
*Coinbase

== Robotics/AI ==

*Modbot
*OpenAI
*Boston Dynamics
*Kuka
*Fanuc
*IRobot
*Rethink Robotics
*Bosch
*Dobot
*Deepmind

== Videogames ==

*PlayStation
*Nintendo
*Sega
*Valve
*Ubisoft
*Eidos
*HTC
*EA
*Activision-Blizzard
*Bioware
*Bethesda
*Bungie
*Crytek
*Unity
*UnrealEngine

== Hacker-y Companies ==

*Adafruit
*Make
*TechShop / TheShop.Build
*Makerbot
*Hackaday
*Pololu
*Mouser
*Digikey
*Supplyframe
*Seeedstudio
*Raspberry Pi Foundation
*Arduino Foundation
*Graybar
*Sparkfun
*Newark
*AliExpress
*Jameco
*Monoprice
*Inventables
*Shapeways
*Stratasys
*Roland
*Bantam Tools
*FlashForge
*GlowForge
*Formlabs
*Datron
*Tormach
*Teenage Engineering
* Lulzbot
* Matter Hackers
* Omax Waterjet
* Ultimaker

== Chip/Hardware Co's ==

*AMD
*Intel
*ATI
*Arm
*Broadcom
*Invidia
*Qualcomm
*MIPS
*TI
*Samsung
*Toshiba

== Design Software Co's ==

*Autodesk
*Adobe
*Maxon (C4D)
*AutoDesSys (Form-Z)
*NewTek, Inc. (Lightwave)
*The Foundry Visionmongers (Modo)
*Onshape
*Trimble, Inc (Sketchup)
*Dassault Systèmes (SolidWorks)
*Pixologic (ZBrush)
*Wolfram Research
*Smith Micro Software (Poser)

== Music Co's ==

*Guitar Center
*Ableton
*Steinberg
*Sony Music
*Roland Music
*KORG
*Spectrasonics
*Sugarbytes
*Native Instruments
*M Audio
*Moog
*Monome
*Alesis
*Neve
*U-HE
*ImageLine
*XFER Records
*REFX
*G-Force
*FXPANSION
*Arturia
*IK Multimedia
*Novation
*Rob Papen
*Applied Acoustics Systems
*Tune Track Music
*Avid Technology
*Waldorf
*FabFilter
*Propellerhead Software
*Sonic Charge

== Energy Drink Co's ==

*Club Mate
*Bawls
*Red Bull
*Guru

== HESITATIONS ==

These are companies that people have expressed hesitation about. Why??

*Chevron
*Cigarette companies
*Delloite
*Donald Trump
*Drug companies
*Halliburton
*Handgun companies Lennar
*Military
*Military contractors
*NRA
*Oil companies
*Palantir
*Peter Thiel
*Ron Conway
*TertraTech
*Venture Capitalists
*Zenefits

[[Category:Fundraising]]

Guilds

2019-02-02T05:02:56Z

Josephsf: Sewing Guild

Guilds are a proposed way to organize groups within Noisebridge with multiple maintainers collaborating to improve the group's resources.

== Protoguilds ==
Protoype guilds to experiment with how guilds could work.

*[[games|Games Guild]]
**[[Gamebridge|Gamebridge Tuesdays]]
**[[vr|VRBridge]]
**[[nga|Noisebridge Gaming Archivists]]

*[https://discuss.noisebridge.info/t/sewing-guild/171 Sewing Guild]
**[[Sewing]]

[https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?search=guilds&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go Guild-related pages]

{{ManualPage}}

Last meeting

2018-12-12T03:46:21Z

Josephsf: Last week's meeting page is up

#REDIRECT [[Meeting_Notes_2018_12_04]]

MONERO MEETUP

2018-11-17T06:15:20Z

Josephsf: Added link to the Bitcoin page.

This meetup will be about Monero, which is a decentralized cryptocurrency (in some ways similar to [[Bitcoin]])
developed as an open-source project by a community of volunteers.

Anyone interested in the technical, economic and political aspects of Monero and financial freedom and privacy are invited to
attend. 

The goal is to share knowledge, present projects, discuss the broad implications of the technology and to meet others from the online
community in a face-to-face setting. 

More information about Monero can be found on the website: https://getmonero.org/home 
Github for Monero: https://github.com/monero-project/monero 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/