Manual

Herein lies the Noisebridge Manual. It is an ever-changing tome that strives to answer an unanswerable question: How the heck does Noisebridge really work?

This is not general advice for fixing things. If something at Noisebridge isn't working and it needs fixing, then check out Help.

The Prologue

• Noisebridge Vision - What's it all about?
• About - An incredibly broad description of some of our more grandiose mechanisms
• Testimonials - In your own words, what is Noisebridge?
• Oral histories about Noisebridge

Visitors and Guests

• Getting Here - How to actually find the space...
• Getting In - And what to do when you arrive
• Visitor advice - Some advice on what you're getting into
• Community Standards - What we expect from each other

Getting along

• Do-ocracy - One of our guiding principles
• Consensus Process - How decisions are made within the community
• Meeting - Noisebridge meets every Tuesday evening
  • Meeting instructions - How to run a Noisebridge meeting
  • The Meeting Notes Template
• Hosting an Event
  • List of events and classes
• Safety - Preventing those old school hardhat accidents.
• Membership - How membership works at Noisebridge
  • How to join Noisebridge - Another view on how membership works
• FloorFinishing - How our floor was finished in 2009
• Stickers - The ubiquitous stickers and how to get more
• Resources - An overview of the resources, equipment and projects in the space

Infrastructure

• Access Control - Discussion about how physical access is handled
• Network - Our IP transmission infrastructure (Internet Protocol here of course; not Intellectual Property!)
  • Network Troubleshooting - How to approach the problem if it does seem to be broken
  • New Network - Draft discussion about building the next iteration of the Noisebridge networking
  • Pony
  • Stallion2
  • Quagga

Things we do

• Events and Classes
• PGP