Meeting Notes 2011 05 24

HOWTO moderate a meeting

Anyone can moderate the meeting, though it helps a great deal if you have been to meetings before.

1. Say "Five minutes to meeting!". This will give you time to read these instructions.
2. 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.
3. Get someone to take notes. Point the shocked and bemused note-taker to the sub-instructions below these instructions.
4. (Optional) Get someone to put this wiki page up on the projector.
5. Skim read through the Agenda below that to get a feel for what a meeting will looks like.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Shout "Meeting starts now!" now, and start reading (out loud) through the Agenda!
9. 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.
10. Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
11. Bathe in the glow of the respect of your fellow Noisebridgers.

HOWTO note-take a meeting

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Edit this page. Add notes under each category -- you can delete any placeholder explanatory text as you go.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Go to 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 [front page]
8. 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.)
9. Chill out, have a cocktail with a friendly robot, continue to rock the world.

Agenda

The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge

Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE

Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE

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: 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.
• A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.

Financial Report

Funds in bank:

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.

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:

A subscribable calendar of events can be found here.

Key: W: Weekly 1st 2nd 3rd 4th: Certain weeks -2nd: Except certain weeks S: Streaming

Upcoming Events

Five Minutes of Fame: 10 5 minute talks every third Thursday! Spread this poster around.

Introduce yourself and meet the community at meetings

	May 12	1:00pm - 5:00pm	From Layoff to Liftoff: Boost Your Career in Tech	Professional development/networking workshop.
	June 17	10:00am - 1:00pm	Queer social platform workshops	Co-design workshop exploring how the design of social platforms could be improved to better support queer young men. Conducted as part of a PhD research project.
	July 1	10:00am - 1:00pm	Queer social platform workshops	Co-design workshop exploring how the design of social platforms could be improved to better support queer young men. Conducted as part of a PhD research project.

Mondays

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W	7:00pm	Sewing Project Night	Sewing meetups with free starter fabrics where you can learn how to use our sewing station. Find details on Meetup
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	7:00pm	PyClass	Introductory Python course. Classes are held Mondays 7:00PM. Find upcoming sessions on Meetup or in #python on Discord.
W	you-o-clock	TRASH NIGHT	Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio.

Tuesdays!

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	Upstairs hack lounge (or downstairs in front if access needs require). Free drop-in writers workshop, get feedback and critique!
W	7:00pm	Neurotech Tuesdays	Do neuro. Do tech. sfg

Wednesdays

W S	3:30pm - 5:30pm	Zinemakers Zinemakers meetup	Weekly gathering of zine and book and comic creators, to share ideas and work on projects. Newbies welcome! meetup link
W S	8:00pm - 10:00pm	Machine Learning AI and RL Meetup	Weekly gathering of AI enthusiasts discussing cool things happening in the field and ongoing projects / learning tracks
W S	6:00pm - 8:00pm	Gamebridge	game development mentoring & coworking meetup for gamedev beginners and indies alike.

Thursdays

W	7:00pm - 9:00pm	Unreal Engine 5 Workshop	Lessons for the transformative game engine. Happens every Thursday except the third Thursday of the month.
W S	6:00pm	NeurotechX SF hacknights	for mind-machine interfacing with EEGs.
2nd 4th	6:00pm - 8:00pm	Advanced Geometry SF	An event for people who would like to study/teach advanced topics in geometry. 2nd and 4th Thursdays.
3rd S	8:00pm - 9:00pm	Five Minutes of Fame a.k.a. 5MoF	Ten 5min talks in an hour, on any topic on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
4th S	8:00pm - 10:30pm	Resident Electronic Music	Resident Electronic Music Monthly. An electronic music open mic on the 4th Thursday of the month..
W	you-o-clock	TRASH NIGHT	Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio.

Fridays

W	2:00pm - 5:00pm	Hack on Noisebridge!
W	5:00pm - 7:00pm	GPUs Meetup

Saturdays

W

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Hack on Noisebridge with the Totally Secret Cabal of Space Organizers!

Sundays

W	12:00pm - 6:00pm	Free Code Camp	with Farley as host
W	2:00pm - 4:00pm	Laser Cutter training	Get certified to use the laser cutter
2nd	2:00pm - 3:00pm	Fabrication 101 2nd Shop Sundays	class on safety and basic techniques
2nd S	2:00pm - 4:00pm	BAHA: Bay Area Hackers' Association	Security Hacking Meeting 2nd Sundays at 272 and via Jitsi

Other Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces Events

• Circuit Launch: 3rd Friday 5:30pm-8:30pm Robot Build Night & Fixit Clinic
• SudoRoom: Hardware Hacking Tuesdays 6:30pm

Non-weekly

• Second Saturdays are Noisebridge hackathon:

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.

• Five Minutes of Fame
• Bay Area Hackers Association - (Second Sunday, 2PM)

Project Updates

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

Consensus items

(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)

End of Meeting

• PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
• Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
• Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
• Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
• Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
• Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.