Meeting Notes 2024 06 04
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These are the notes from the The 764th Meeting of Noisebridge.
- Live notes
- Virtual Meeting (jitsi mic/cam off by default)
- https://meet.jit.si/noisebridge — NOTE: Someone must log in with Google/Facebook/GitHub
Date: 2024_06_04
Note-takers: Mark
Moderators: Brandon
- One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.
Meeting Summary
FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST/SLACK/DISCORD Include: TLDR what happened at the meeting:
- Fundraising Update:
- Announcements:
- Finances:
- New members:
- New associates:
- Consensus Items:
- Discussion Items:
Introductions
- Ask people to share their name, access needs, and preferred gender pronouns what they do at noisebridge
Brandon - I enjoy hardware, and software programming Ken - likes to use all of the space Blue - she/her, just dropping by! Making a model house Corey - I make makerspaces! Helping prep NGALAC for open sauce! Gwen - been building ADU cottages Douglas - reintroducing myself, used to be a regular back in the day, post occupy. I like the intersection of techology and music Edward - second time here, orig from Vancouver, BC. software engineer. interested in cybersecurity Loren - tresurer, infrastructure (software) meetup mondays Julius - spacebridge, improving manufacturing chops, data science Cloud - 5mof talks host Elan - host spacebridge and other cool hacks Jade - interested in Anarchist for-profit orgs. Working on a crazy cat toy
Short announcements and events
- 60-second description per item in bulletpoint.
- Copy-paste any pre-announcements for the upcoming meeting from Announcements.
- After announcements, copy them to the past Announcements list. Retire any from the Next Meeting list that aren't marked ONGOING.
- (See https://www.noisebridge.net/ and https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events for events, and welcoming people)
- Ken - gonna run woodworking class on wednesdays
- Elan - Spacebridge scheduled to launch on Sunday! Carpooling over to the eastbay
- Mark - take part in discussion in #secretary-forum in Discord (https://discord.com/channels/720514857094348840/1245227905588658228)
Excellence
Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other. (On first Tuesdays, seek a few definitions. Other Tuesday, give a 1-3 sentence summary.)
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 https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Policy Everyone is expected to follow the Anti-Harassment Policy, please familiarize yourself with it.) TWO MINUTES MAX More approachable & specific guidelines, https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Community_Standards https://safespace.noisebridge.net/ is one way to quickly raise issues which will be seen by people in Slack.
Brief Kudos
Recent examples of excellent behavior, say 3, unless the passion moves you.
Kudos to people coming to help prepare for open sauce!
Kudos to wyatt for cleaning up the front
Kudos to whoever put the trash can in the hallway next to the electronics room
Guilds
- What are guilds - briefly describe (much like the previous section on "Excellence")
New Members/Associate Members
What are they? Is anyone trying to become a Member or Associate Member? If not move on. No long discussions.
No new applicants today.
Financial Report (first Tuesday of month only)
Anarchist societies under a capitalist state need money to survive and thrive, yo.
- Monthly revenue, expenses. Big projects. Big fundraising events. Reserves in bank.
- 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
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 new people are present. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Current_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 Items
Discussion Item 1
From/Raised by: ken / ellen Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: finance
Ken - narratives for finance? (Workshop after meeting)
(discussion item) 1: [topic]
From/Raised by: Ellen Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: What is the best way to bring in new donations?
Bring in lots of new members? Hold more classes? Reach out to old members?
Julius: +1 for classes
(discussion item) 2: [topic]
From/Raised by: Elle Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: Build in Real Life "Build IRL"
Build in Real Life is an organization made up of community organizers. Myself and Daniel are participating. One person from BiRL will be attending our safety meeting tomorrow. they want to have an event here the 22nd of June. Wondering if we should ask the to pay a little money for it? It will take up one of the rooms for the whole day.
Are we interested?
Julius: Whole group of them would show up that day and are just... looking for stuff to do in the space?
Elle: Yeah, pretty much.
JD: Side Note - for tomorrow's safety meeting, please discuss signage around the space for me, since I wont be able to attend!
Some questions about how to propose the meetup on the 22nd. What areas of the space to use? How to ask them for donations/money for using the space? etc
Bit of a debate on that. Going to ask a rep of theirs to come to next week's meeting to ask them questions and get consensus before formally posting the event.
(discussion item) 3: [topic]
From/Raised by: Jade Seeking: decision (?) On topic: Wondering if NB is interested in any shares of the worker's group doing the cat town project?
Let's start a forum post in the finance forum?
(discussion item) 3: [topic]
From/Raised by: elle Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: restroom - wanting professionsal cleaning
(discussion item) 4: [topic]
From/Raised by: Ken Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: Woodshop Workshop
At first ws thinking of a "bring your own project", but i think ppl want more guidance, so thinking of trial running some classes with some guided projects - picture frames, tables, etc...
Will need materials for that. Likely to have a requested donation associated with that.
Julius: would you want those materials/fundas allocated ahead of time?
Ken: Just kinda wanted to put the plans out there.
(discussion item) 5: [topic]
From/Raised by: ?? Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: Cleaning/ Bathrooms
We gotta clean those bathrooms!
Hire someone to come in 2x a week? Get a group of dedicated NBers to volunteer?
Let's chat in the #totally-secret-cabal-of-space-maintainers channel!