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== HOWTO moderate a meeting ==
Anyone can moderate the meeting, though it helps a great deal if you have been to meetings before.
#'''Say "Five minutes to meeting!".''' This will give you time to read these instructions.
#Get someone to '''grab the membership binder'''. It is kept near the shrine, which is currently on the south wall, between the electronics and sewing areas.
#'''Get someone to take notes.''' Point the shocked and bemused note-taker to the sub-instructions below these instructions.
#(Optional) '''Get someone to put this wiki page up on the projector'''.
#Skim '''read through the Agenda''' below that to get a feel for what a meeting will looks like.
#People may have added '''Discussion Items''' to this page, or they may raise them during the meeting. If they emerge during the meeting, suggest that they be discussed _in_ the Discussion Item section, rather than derail other sections of the meeting. Discussion for these can be open-ended, but you should aim to wrap up the meeting within an hour. It can be handy to explicitly summarise what people intend to do as a result of the discussion. There is no requirement on you, Noisebridge the organization, or anyone else to do anything as a result of a discussion item.
#If there are '''Consensus Items''', ensure that they were raised in meeting last week (the membership needs a week's warning for consensus items). Your main job in consensus is to listen to what everyone is saying, make sure everyone gets a chance to say something, and then -- if the debate is beginning to go round in circles or settle -- propose a Position that everyone seems to agree on. If people disagree with the Position, they will wrangle some more, or someone else will propose a Position. If no-one disagrees with the Position, say "So do we consense on $POSITION?". If no one objects, ask the note-taker to record the Position. If things are getting nowhere and we're all getting bored and antsy, identify the people objecting, and ask them to discuss the problem with the proposers of Consensus Item outside the meeting, and return next week with a compromise solution.
#'''Shout "Meeting starts now!" now''', and start reading (out loud) through the Agenda!
#'''When you are done, consult with the note-taker,''' and make sure they know what they have to do to finish their job -- especially updating the wiki, and mailing nb-discuss, and the treasurer with new membership details.
#'''Put back the membership binder''' by the Shrine.
#'''Bathe in the glow''' of the respect of your fellow Noisebridgers.
=== HOWTO note-take a meeting ===
#Your moderator should give you five minutes to '''read these instructions'''. If they don't, say "Woah there cowboy, I need to know what I'm doing. Five minutes, por favor!". Use exactly those words.
#This page should have a URL like "https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2010_12_28", with today's year, month and date in it. If doesn't, copy [Meeting Notes Template] to a wiki page with that kind of URL. If you don't know how to copy wiki pages, say, "Can someone help me with the Noisebridge Wiki?", and get them to create a page with that kind of URL, and then show you how to copy this page to it and edit it.
#'''Edit this page.''' Add notes under each category -- you can delete any placeholder explanatory text as you go.
#'''Save the wiki page when you're done''' (no-one expects you to finish as the meeting is finished; it usually takes a half-hour or so after the meeting to get everything in order). Try to hyperlink stuff that should be linked. You can delete all this patronising instructional crap. Here's [Meeting_Notes_2010_12_28 an example] of a finally edited meeting.
#'''Create a page for next week's meeting''', by copying over [[Meeting Notes Template]] to an URL with next week's date in it (see step 1). If anybody proposed Consensus Items for next week, write them in here, and add them to the [[Current Consensus Items]].
#If there were any consensus items decided at your meeting, '''add them to [[Consensus Items History]], and take them out of the [[Current Consensus Items]]'''.
#Go to [https://www.noisebridge.net/&action=edit&section=3 the front page meetings notice] and edit the page that ''so that the Prev and Next meetings now point to this meeting notes, and the new meeting notes you just created respectively'''. (If that link is broken, it's a section half-way down the [[https://www.noisebridge.net/ front page]]
#'''Important!''' Send a final copy of the notes to '''noisebridge-discuss''', and '''email treasurer@noisebridge.net the details of any new members''' (you can get all the details from the membership binder, which may now be hidden over by the shrine.)
#Chill out, have a cocktail with a friendly robot, continue to rock the world.
== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==


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


Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE
Note-taker: Will / [[wsargent]]


Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE
Moderator: Kelly / [[hurtstotouchfire]]


=== Introduction and Names ===
=== 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'."
* [[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.
* Round of introductions:  
** Eric - Linux Hacker / Engineer
** Brian
** Rubin
** Mitch
** Rayce - entrepeneur
** Ben - registered vegan
** John - likes alcohol and coke
** Mike - tinkerer and techno... techno... launderer?
** Mikolai - gene hacker - NY
** Walka(?) - likes kiteboard(?)
** Will - Notetaker
** Owen - Creative
** Zessina - Psychology
** Evan - style and programming
** Allan - Serial Killer and Mycologist
** Lee - Video Game Designer
** Kelly - treasurer and neuroscience winnah
 
* [[Consensus Process|A brief primer on consensus process]]: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
* [[Consensus Process|A brief primer on consensus process]]: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.


=== Announcements ===
=== Announcements ===
* Maker Faire!
** 2000 Stickers handed out
** Many more people coming to space
** 3100 (yes, three thousand one hundred) people trained how to solder
* Noisebridge In Depth This Thursday (6/2/2011)!
** Topic is "Strange signals that our bodies give out" and is very interesting
** Zedd is moving and needs more publicity.


=== Financial Report ===
=== Financial Report ===
Funds in bank:  
 
* Finances
** $15131.18 total balance
** Paid rent for June
** Maker Fair Money has come in
** Two months operating expenses on hand, we ideally want three
** Meredith had TV company in and they made a donation?  Unconfirmed.
** Q: Is Noisebridge trademarked?  A: It's not a registered trademark, but trademark law automatically gives legal ownership.


=== Membership Binder ===
=== Membership Binder ===
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month.
 
* Anyone up for join this week 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.
* Membership
** Eric Steinburg - has two signatures, John + [Illegible] but is legit and up for membership (due:  1 Jun)
*** Believes in beer, but is anti-lime in beer.
*** Eric is an engineer and artist, does all the AV work for SF City Hall
*** He is also producing a TV show [ break for Amanda providing bread pudding ]
*** Q: How do you feel about consensus?  A: I see it every day at work -- politics is a process of consensus.
*** Q: How do you feel about blocking? A: Blocking is necessary some times.
*** Eric goes outside for discussion
*** Has donated chemicals to Noisebridge, been seen around the space, multiple contacts
*** Consensus reached: Eric is now a member of Noisebridge.


=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===
=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===
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=== Consensus items ===
=== Consensus items ===


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


=== Discussion Items ===
=== Discussion Items ===
* Lockers for NoiseBridge - things going missing? - John E


=== End of Meeting ===
* Lockers
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now, check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
** Small things have gone missing - laptop charger, phone, a laptop off member shelves
* Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
** What are thoughts on providing noisebridge lockers on member shelves?
* Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
** Mitch: stuff probably disappears at Noisebridge through chaos rather than malice
* Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
** Lots of people know how to pick locks at Noisebridge
* Copy the [[Meeting Notes Template]] for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
** Mike: better labelling for member shelves?  Still doesn't solve stuff "moving" such as Mike's expensive footstool
* Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.
** Kelly + Will: is that if you have stuff you don't want to go missing, it's fine to buy a container and take measures to secure it.  Just know that some people might take that as a challenge.
** No consensus reached, best handled do-ocratically.
** Some discussion on better labelling for member shelves, possibly adding a curtain.
* Laser Cutting Workshop!
** Teaching people how to laser cut!  (did not get details of who / when / where)
* Z-Brush Sculpting Class!
** Lee: Interested, wants to see who else wants it
* Android "Thing"
** Course?  Happening?  Would like to happen?  Unclear.
* BASE people haven't been seen for a while, need to send someone to meeting
 
=== MEETING CONCLUDED. ===


[[Category:Meeting Notes]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Revision as of 18:07, 1 June 2011

Agenda

The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge

Note-taker: Will / wsargent

Moderator: Kelly / hurtstotouchfire

Introduction and Names

  • 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:
    • Eric - Linux Hacker / Engineer
    • Brian
    • Rubin
    • Mitch
    • Rayce - entrepeneur
    • Ben - registered vegan
    • John - likes alcohol and coke
    • Mike - tinkerer and techno... techno... launderer?
    • Mikolai - gene hacker - NY
    • Walka(?) - likes kiteboard(?)
    • Will - Notetaker
    • Owen - Creative
    • Zessina - Psychology
    • Evan - style and programming
    • Allan - Serial Killer and Mycologist
    • Lee - Video Game Designer
    • Kelly - treasurer and neuroscience winnah

Announcements

  • Maker Faire!
    • 2000 Stickers handed out
    • Many more people coming to space
    • 3100 (yes, three thousand one hundred) people trained how to solder
  • Noisebridge In Depth This Thursday (6/2/2011)!
    • Topic is "Strange signals that our bodies give out" and is very interesting
    • Zedd is moving and needs more publicity.

Financial Report

  • Finances
    • $15131.18 total balance
    • Paid rent for June
    • Maker Fair Money has come in
    • Two months operating expenses on hand, we ideally want three
    • Meredith had TV company in and they made a donation? Unconfirmed.
    • Q: Is Noisebridge trademarked? A: It's not a registered trademark, but trademark law automatically gives legal ownership.

Membership Binder

  • Membership
    • Eric Steinburg - has two signatures, John + [Illegible] but is legit and up for membership (due: 1 Jun)
      • Believes in beer, but is anti-lime in beer.
      • Eric is an engineer and artist, does all the AV work for SF City Hall
      • He is also producing a TV show [ break for Amanda providing bread pudding ]
      • Q: How do you feel about consensus? A: I see it every day at work -- politics is a process of consensus.
      • Q: How do you feel about blocking? A: Blocking is necessary some times.
      • Eric goes outside for discussion
      • Has donated chemicals to Noisebridge, been seen around the space, multiple contacts
      • Consensus reached: Eric is now a member of Noisebridge.

What's Going On at Noisebridge

One short sentence about each of the following:

This is the active list of events from the main page:


Event Calendar

events are haphazardly cross-posted on Meetup, the Discord, and Google Calender here

Some noisebridger's have also started hosting Events from a calendar at https://noisebridge.today/, and new (additional) associated gCal.


Key: W: Weekly | 1st 2nd 3rd 4th: Certain weeks | -2nd: Except certain weeks | S: Streaming | event: caution maybe dead | event: management of space


Upcoming Events

Mondays

Circuit_Hacking_Monday: Happy hardware hackers at Circuit Hacking Monday
Tags Time Title Description
W 7:00pm Meetups/Infra Self-hosting, rough consensus, & running code. Find upcoming sessions on Meetup or in #meetup-infra on Discord.
W 7:00pm Circuit Hacking Monday Learn electronics, Arduino, and/or how to solder! We have kits and Arduinos for donations, or bring your own project. Most Mondays at 7PM. More details on Meetup
W you-o-clock TRASH NIGHT Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio.

Tuesdays

Meetings: Introduce yourself and meet the community at meetings
Tags Time Title Description
W S 5:00pm Premeeting Social Story Time Noisebridge's excellence, do-ocracy, and consensus are inspired by anarchism and a rich lore of lessons learned. Meet members, learn about membership, share ideas, ask anything and question everything!
W S 7:00pm Noisebridge Weekly Meeting (In person & online via Jitsi) - Introduce new people and events, joining, announcements, discussions, and consensus. Come express what you think about what's going on with your space!
W 7:00pm San Francisco Writers Workshop Free drop-in writers workshop, get feedback and critique! Located on the first floor hackitorium.

Wednesdays

Gamebridge: Learn, mentor and cowork game development on Wednesdays
Tags Time Title Description
W S 5:00pm - 7:00pm Tablebridge tabletop gaming & hobbying for playing and designing boardgames, RPGs, wargames and mini painting hobbying.
W 6:00pm - 9:00pm Woodhacking Wednesday "Have a woodworking project in mind but you don't know where to get started? This is a good time to come ask questions, get some help, and ideas from other woodworkers. Everyone is welcome..." Confirm dates with Meetup
W S 7:00pm - 9:00pm Gamebridge game development mentoring & coworking meetup for gamedev beginners and indies alike.


Thursdays

Five Minutes of Fame: 10 5 min talks every third Thursday!
Tags Time Title Description
1st 7:00pm - 10:00pm Indiebridge Showcase Throwdown Thursdays Indie Game Showcases & Game Tournaments for casual-friendly competition in console & PC games like Smash Brothers, Halo, Quake, Marathon, etc.
2nd 6:00pm-8:00pm Tablebridge Tablebridge tabletop gaming & design (board/card/miniature/rpg/party/ARG/etc).
2nd 8:00pm - 9:30pm DC415 Defcon 415 Security on 2nd Thursdays: Informal meetup group about all things security related.
3rd S 6:00pm-8:00pm Ten Minutes of Game a.k.a. 10MoG Five 10min talks in an hour and discussions on any gaming/gamedev topic
3rd S 8:00pm - 9:00pm Five Minutes of Fame a.k.a. 5MoF Ten 5min talks in an hour, on any topic
4th S 6:00pm-8:00pm Songbridge Music making meetup & mentoring for electronic and experimental music, soundtracks, VJing, music videos
Mar 26 8:30pm - 11:30pm School of Melee Workshop Tournament Super Smash Melee Self Improvement Workshop & Tournament: Learn to master Super Smash Melee with expert mentors LanTurN & Megaman and test what you've learned in a tournament!
4th S 8:00pm - 10:30pm Resident Electronic Music An electronic music open mic!
W you-o-clock TRASH NIGHT Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio.

Fridays

Swift language mentoring & co-working meetup All experience levels welcome!
Tags Time Title Description
W 9:00am - 5:00pm Hack on Noisebridge! a good open time for cleaning 'n re-organizing the physical space. Coffee and Donuts on a first-come first-served basis! See #facilities-aka... channel on the Discord

Saturdays

Godot Meetup Gamedev workshop & networking for users of the Godot game engine. Ask the organizers for one of these stickers!
Tags Time Title Description
1st 2:00pm - 5:00pm Unitybridge Unity Meetup Learn Unity and cowork with fellow indies using it
2nd 2:00pm - 5:00pm Unrealbridge Unreal Meetup Learn Unreal and cowork with fellow indies using it
W 12pm-2pm Robotics Meetup Co-hack on robotics with us. Work on our group projects, or bring your own. No robotics experience required.
3rd 2:00pm - 6:00pm Godot Meetup Gamedev workshop & networking for users of the Godot game engine.
4th 2:00pm - 5:00pm Graphicsbridge graphics & engine coding meetup Custom graphics & engine development meetup & mentoring
4th 1:00pm - 3:00pm Building Guitar Pedals Workshop Come build guitar pedals or other electronic music equipment! Look for the #pedal-building channel under #events in the discord. Check the Meetup for more info and confirmed dates.
4th 4:00pm - 7:00pm Decentralized Web Presentations and networking for those interested in weaving a decentralized web.
W 8pm Noisebridge Cinema!

Sundays

Laser: Get trained to use the mighty Kaitan laser cutter on Sundays
Tags Time Title Description
W 12:00pm - 1:30pm 3D Printing Class Learn how to use a 3D printer
W 2:00pm - 4:00pm Laser Cutter safety training Get certified to use the laser cutter (limited availability)
2nd 2:00pm - 3:00pm Fabrication 101 2nd Wood Shop Sundays class on safety and basic techniques
W 4:00pm - 8:00pm Spacebridge Weekly Meeting Noisebridge's resident space program. Meetup page. (Sometimes we watch a politically-related movie around 7:30)

Other Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces Events



Non-weekly

a casual monthly event dedicated to working on the space or relevant projects and building community. This is a great time to get feedback or help on any projects you have been considering that center around the space, culture, and infrastructure of Noisebridge. You can also help with existing projects and find out ways to get involved.

Project Updates

(Anyone doing interesting projects is welcome to chip in here.)

Consensus items

  • Eric added as new member.

Discussion Items

  • Lockers
    • Small things have gone missing - laptop charger, phone, a laptop off member shelves
    • What are thoughts on providing noisebridge lockers on member shelves?
    • Mitch: stuff probably disappears at Noisebridge through chaos rather than malice
    • Lots of people know how to pick locks at Noisebridge
    • Mike: better labelling for member shelves? Still doesn't solve stuff "moving" such as Mike's expensive footstool
    • Kelly + Will: is that if you have stuff you don't want to go missing, it's fine to buy a container and take measures to secure it. Just know that some people might take that as a challenge.
    • No consensus reached, best handled do-ocratically.
    • Some discussion on better labelling for member shelves, possibly adding a curtain.
  • Laser Cutting Workshop!
    • Teaching people how to laser cut! (did not get details of who / when / where)
  • Z-Brush Sculpting Class!
    • Lee: Interested, wants to see who else wants it
  • Android "Thing"
    • Course? Happening? Would like to happen? Unclear.
  • BASE people haven't been seen for a while, need to send someone to meeting

MEETING CONCLUDED.

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