Meeting Notes 2011 06 07

Agenda

The 164th Meeting of Noisebridge

Note-taker: User:Hurtstotouchfire

Moderator: Miloh

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: $16,031.17 Members paying starving dues: 21 Members paying normal dues: 34

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

Mondays

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W	7:00pm	3d Simulation Hack Night	Come work on your Unreal engine, 3d Unity projects, Houdini projects, 3d character design projects, or architecture projects! General meetup for working in simulation and 3d. Hosted by delta_ark
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	7:00pm	Meetups/Infra	Self-hosting, rough consensus, & running code. 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
W	6:00pm	Numerati SF	Hacking the Stock Market with AI/ML. Please RSVP on Meetup.

Wednesdays

W	3:30pm - 5:30pm	Third Wednesday of the month. Zinemakers Zinemakers meetup	Monthly gathering of zine and book and comic creators, to share ideas and work on projects. Newbies welcome! meetup link
W S	7:00pm - 9:00pm	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.
2nd 4nd	6:00pm - 7:00pm	Bike Psych!	Time and space to talk about transit related projects! Meetup link!
1st	6:00pm - 8:00pm	Woodhacking Wednesday	Woodshop open house for all experience levels. Opportunity to talk to other woodworkers about projects and ideas.
2nd	6:00pm - 7:30pm	Woodshop Safety Basics	Basic safety class for some shop tools. Please check Meetup to sign up.

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

6:00pm-8pm friday the 11th only	Come learn to brew mead with Eliot and Andy! Friday the 11th only. Possibly to proceed later on a monthly basis MeetupLink or in #brewing on Discord.
W	2:00pm - 5:00pm	Hack on Noisebridge!

Saturdays

W	2:00pm - 6:00pm	Free Code Camp	with Farley as host
W	2:00pm - 5:00pm	Hack on Noisebridge with the Totally Secret Cabal of Space Organizers!
3rd	2:00pm - 6:00pm	Godot Meetup	Gamedev workshop & networking for users of the Godot game engine Sept. 16th CANCELLED due to Covid, Oct. 21st is next meetup

Sundays

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

none

Discussion Items

• Marc talked about a small milling machine (MTM A-Z) he saw at MIT Medialab's FabLab. It's a machine that you build yourself like a makerbot, and the materials cost about 500.
• Can we update the blog easier? I'd like to be able to easily blog things for Noisebridge, but I don't have my own wordpress blog and I'm not interested in having one for any reason other than NB. --Hurtstotouchfire 03:43, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
• Mike is reiterating his concern that we need a backlit sign to remind people to take out the garbage.

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.