Meeting Notes 2022 04 05

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These are the notes from the The 672nd Meeting of Noisebridge.

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• Virtual Meeting (jitsi mic/cam off by default)
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Date: 2022_04_05 as below

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Note-takers: Claus

Moderators: Loren

• One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.

Meeting Summary

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TLDR what happened at the meeting:

• Fundraising Update
• Announcements:
• Finances:
• New members:
• New philanthropists:
• Consensus Items:
• Discussion Items:

Introductions

• Ask people to consider saying their preferred gender pronouns during their intro, i.e.:

• TJ - he/they - finishing up a chat bot, then back to robots
• Dave - he/him/ Woz - SHED
• Loren - was here all weekend for NB14
• Mark - Does stuff with vidya games
• Claus - Hacks the space.
• Dane - he/him/they - grading papers/kicking ass
• Alex = does gamebridge, and event support mostly, and wiki. NB14 was great, and I'm greatful.
• Zach - Been coming since 2010. Electrical engineer hacker diy. Learning 3d printing, and looking to learn 3d modeling. Like blender or solidworks or free cad.
• Chris - I live in the neighborhood, do lots of 3d printing. Hasn't been to many meetings, the weekend was fun.
• Jefferey here to check out what NB is these days
• Conrad web dev intersteed in block chain/vr/ar games app mobile, here over the weekend. Just moved here. Happy to join into things.

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

Loren: It's excellent to make use of the space, excellent to raise money to support the space. We made great use of the space, invited in the community, many communities this weekend. And hopefully raised some money, help the space build its excellence.

We strive to figure out how we can be excellent, and we focus on do-ocracy, but we cosult with each. other. At the highest level its implemented in concensus. Unexcellence happens, we are all human. We have tools to restore excellence, www.noisebridge.net/wiki/excellence

(anti harassment policy)

Zac - Speaking of excellence, at the last meeting we had small C concensus to do with the intros your preffered gender pronoun, and if you have any access needs. its in the new meeting template

[unknown speaker]: i deleted / updated that template since i didn't know what you meant

Zac - if deleting / updating a wiki or item another member worked on, it's good to chat with them first please.

[unknown speaker]: i just thought that was for accessibility guild stuff

Zac - it's for both.

Mark - when was the gender pronouns thing added? I have a question but Ill ask later

Short announcements and events

Zac - it's too hard to hear anyone. I offer to donate $ for a conference mic. I cant hear anything and access is too challenging here, so i have to go. you can reach me on NB discuss.

• Accessibility guild is meeting Thursdays during To-do-ocracy to plan space improvements and plan the Elevator installation and fundraising.
• BOARD ELECTIONS are coming up! The elections will be Jan 22. In order to nominate someone (including yourself) for the 2022 Board of Noisebridge, sign up to run for the board! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/2022_board_election
• 3D Printing needs maintainers and event organizers!
• Noisebrew has begun brewing Komnbucha and is ready to start brewing beer!
• Fundraising did NB14 and we raised hundreds of dollars!
• Classes
  • Circuit Hacking - Monday - starting from tues
  • Wed Gamebridge & AI meetup 8PM in Discord,"Church Classroom" Channel
  • Thurs - Book Club (BYOBook) by Farley, 7pm, NeurotechX @ 6pm
  • Friday - usual hangout. Board games. & Sewing meetup. Free Code Camp. Interview Workshop @ 4pm.
  • Sunday - afternoon woodshop training. night biology & health science reading group.

New members/philanthropists

What are they? Is anyone trying to become a philanthropist or Member? If not move on. No long discussions.

• Philanthropist - support the space.
• Member -

• Loren wk 3/4 of membership
• Les - temporarily away, recovering
• Dave (Woz) - beginning membership process
• Chris - philanthropy, applying
• (Elan - philanthropy & membership, no rush ) TJ, LX sponsor

Financial Report

Anarchist societies under a capitalist state need money to survive and thrive, yo.

• nb14
  • guesstimate $500
  • earnings
    • $180, bar, Dave's portion of 1 night
    • Liz, $50 ,$128

• • expenses

• 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

Accessibility

• Ask if anyone has accessibility needs to attend the meeting / space [or very brief accessibility guild update]
  • Lots of nb14 set up was done by two people in wheelchairs
  • We streamed live all of the event, some AV issues.
    • Remote speakers
  • https://discuss.noisebridge.info/t/ada-disability-access-wiki-updates/2894

• other access projects or needs?
  • (automated door opener) - Dave poured a full week into it. Would open it halfway, not cl

Spending Needs

Gotta spend money on XYZ (i.e. Gate, wiring etc.). WHO CAN SIGN THE CHECK OR LEND THE CREDIT CARD!?!?! It doesn't matter if we agree to do something and it can’t be paid for.

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Big C Consensus Items

Nobody likes 3 hour meetings, only explain if people ask

Consensus Items

Only for talking about Big C consensus items, small c consensus items should be discussed with people at the space at the time of the change/new item.

Discussion

Discussion Item 1

NB14 POSTMORTEM, debrief

Discussion Item 2

• BOARD ELECTIONS are coming up! The elections will be Jan 22. (LOL) In order to nominate someone (including yourself) for the 2022 Board of Noisebridge, sign up to run for the board!

Discussion Item 3

woz - Meeting efficiency

Do-ocratic Task Board

Participation also means doing stuff to contribute to the space. Propose new tasks or pick some tasks from 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!

End of Meeting

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Fun things to do after

• Do a 10 minute cleanup, bring dishes up stairs and wash them, clean the bathroom
• Have some beers on the patio
• Prepare the next weeks' meeting notes
• Lick the walls. Or just draw on them
• sing the Hackernationale (this almost never happens)