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These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 849th Meeting of Noisebridge].


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== Meeting Summary ==
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* Announcements:
    * 849th meeting
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= Introductions =
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* '''Wheezy:''' technical by day, creative by night
* '''Null:''' Musician
* '''Zachie:''' compiler and GUILE scheme (not at the same time)
* '''Ken:''' no computer
* '''Elan:''' Hacks on Wiki projects
* '''Dereck:'''  Programmer
* '''Chris:''' Furniture builder
* '''Jason:''' First Tuesday General "software"
* '''Nico:''' recovering mathemetician hardware and electronics (Goal: Become associate member)
* '''Zack:''' one of 3 laser instructors, add value where i can, a facilitator, sail and raise butterflies in my free time.
* '''Dean:''' newish checkout NB
* '''JD:''' "hi"
* '''Leslie:''' First general meeting, sometimes builder


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* Decentralized Web Meetup this Saturday! 
  * Zachie has meetup this Saturday Social / live hacking session to get a matrix server up and running
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikipedia_25th_Birthday_Bay_Area Wikipedia's 25th birthday]] at SF Public Library this Saturday (10:30am-4:30pm)!!!  
* '''Welding Teaching Group @ NB''' from march 4th through 8th, further details TBA.
* '''New Espresso machine''' has been installed and secured to the building (Thank you MongoDB!)
* '''Global Game Jam (1/26 - 2/1)''' - talk to LX, we need volunteers!

= Excellence =
'''Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.''' 
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Jason: treat others the way they would like to be treated.
Nico: Act like Keanu Reeves 
Wheezy: kindness, empathy, emotional intelligence.
null: the ability to slow down and ask questions.

What does that mean? Please see our page on excellence https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Excellence! 

== Anti-Harassment Policy & Community Standards of Excellence ==
Noisebridge has an [[Anti-Harassment Policy]]!

Everyone is expected to follow the Anti-Harassment Policy, please familiarize yourself with it.) 

For approachable & specific guidelines see: [[Community Standards]]

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Please note: '''https://safespace.noisebridge.net/ is one way to quickly raise issues which will be seen by people in Discord.'''

== Brief Kudos ==
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* Zack - 

    * Nominated Elan for driving NB'er to Aisha's place to acquire bike donation goods, clean up the house,

    * ?"Blue" filtered out the good and non good items and will find a long term home for the items

Derrick - Kevin did an excellent job at facilitating the Infra Meeting


= Zoning & Permitting Standing Item =
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* Update: JD: Matt has said the inspectors have signed off "on us", but there is a 2023 change of use permit that is unresolved, a letter has been sent to a city government official, have not
Rick is electrical contractor has yet to invoice 
**JD requests do not risk any changes that will risk the build departments certificatation of the building**

= Big C Consensus Items =
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== [[ Consensus Items ]] ==
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= Discussion Items =

== 1: Welding School Classes, and needed prep of space. ==
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 | topic = Welding School Classes, and needed prep of space.
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A welding school has contact with NB and there is a request to use the space for
March 4th - 8th, A "short-term rental lease agreement" proffered with a written document, also available on discord in the channel "Great first floor heist".
Offered a 4k donation to Noisebridge.

'''Requires noisebridge manual labor to clear the downstairs space to clear space for space'''

'''Wheezy:''' I am willing to participating
1200 sq Ft of space has been quoted 35' x 35'

Jack: A quarum of participants should be around

Question: How was the contract written?
A member (nthmost) wrote the contract, and used the contractor's rave organizers
Does the flosh and tosh need to be move (absolutely yes)
TODOs

    Update lease agreement with edits

    Create Welding Working group as a organizational point of contact

    Make discord channel to handle working group

    Fire


Hey (nthmost here) I am happy to bottom-line this work -- i bottom-lined the 2020 move to Capp and the first Reboot as well.  convo has been done in other places (see discord).  no expectations NB will jump on this, just prepared the runway.
sorry can't be there


== 2: Large LED art donation/loan ==
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 | topic = Large LED art donation/loan
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LED Dragon donation from East Bay makerspace and Burning Man camp
 
*  [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1140095686327685150/1462922166470181096/Screenshot_20260119-132929.png?ex=69714570&is=696ff3f0&hm=6309e118a6e3aa4a6eca0004958fe2222ef0a7e8e485ebb3b160fca1efb5b12e Pic]] 
* [[https://discord.com/channels/720514857094348840/1462922166784884927/1462922455663509692 DiscordThread]] 

* ~ General vibe of approval ~
* '''Elan:'''I will let them know and update folks about logistics stuff.


== 3: A friend is taking a break ==
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 | topic = A friend is taking a break
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 | seeking = informing
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https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Restorative_Communication





= Do-ocratic Task Board =
Participation also means doing stuff to contribute to the space. Propose new tasks or pick some tasks from [https://github.com/noisebridge/buildout-capp Github], from what needs to be done around you, or whatever, and see if someone will sign up to work on that task. Anyone can sign up and it's a great way to show you are contributing! 

* What wiki pages need updating? What new wiki pages do we need? Discovered from the meeting.

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