Meeting Notes 2012 03 20
Agenda[edit]
The 196th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: Brian
Moderator: Tom
Introduction and Names[edit]
- Jordan - new here
- Super Q - hates us all
- Oliver - checking us out
- Nick - his first meeting, likes freebsd
- Carl - perl hacker
- Casey - he hates spam
- Christopher - leads spacebridge
- Rayc - creating business
- Mike - techno wanderer
- Gavin - talk about the Zine
- Brian - likes hacking on android
- Tati
- Ron - trying to be a member, fights spam
- Yohab (sp?) - wants people to play jeopardy from home (looking for people with IR experience)
- Scotty - his first meeting, collects data on apps and the app store
- Weev - criminal
- Justin
- Synvan (sp?) - clothes hacker
- Snail - is a snail
- Miloh - is miloh, maybe
- Kelly - neuroscience
- Florian - visiting from Germany, here til thursday
Short Announcements[edit]
- We are planing for Makers Faire, May 19-20. If you would like to help out with the booth or show any of your projects, please visit the Maker_Faire_2012 wiki page. - Christopher
- The kitchen was turned on! This is cool.
New or Stale Events[edit]
Thinking of starting weekly meeting with Zephyr, assembly demos
Membership Binder[edit]
Ronald Catani - three sponsors! has two checks
Carlos - sponsors sponsors sponsors! might be a sleeper troll (he does enjoy perl after all) has three checks
Casey "suck it rms" C - four checks!
Harold - noshow Daniel - noshow Cowlicks (???) - noshow Blake Griffith - noshow - nosponsors
Casey "suck it rms" C is up for consensus!
Consensed that Casey is a member!
Financial Report[edit]
- Funds in bank: $19,233.04
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
- There are $2778.45 earmarked NoiseTor funds
- Colo service has been paid through Apr 7, 2012
- There are enough funds to pay for an additional 3 months of colo
- This information was updated at Tue Mar 20 14:30:03 2012
- Treasurer Would like volunteers to help add more payment options than paypal.
- Would like to spend money on authorize.net, will edit this page after meeting
Consensus items[edit]
Considering fiscal sponsorship of Zine. - would allow donations to Zine to be tax-deductible - kelly, would block if they want thier own account, otherwise likes idea. - gavin, would only rarely need to access account anyway, so shouldn't be big burden upon kelly - kelly, wants Zine to make detailed proposal outlining what fiscal responsibility means. Suggests they make separate landing page which donations can go to, and consense at a meeting when they want to spend money - RESOLUTION: gavin, miloh, and kelly will discuss and have a more concrete proposal next week.
Wants $300 to improve electronics area. - passes! Miloh will be given the money
Proposals from last week[edit]
(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)
Proposals for next week[edit]
Kelly (our treasuror) - wants to migrate to using invoice tracking. This way we can tell who is paid up. Freshbooks. "spend the money required to accept payments with authorize.net, not to exceed $400 followed by $80/mo" kelly will gather more details and present a more detailed proposal next week.
proposes to take sewing machines to apparel city, buy spare parts, and fix/repair them all. estimates the cost of missing parts will not exceed $60 , cost of fixing timings on two machines with broken machines is $70 each. (less than $250) - should mail sewing list and see if anybody could help fix / start a collection (traditionally NB doesn't spend money to fix things) - RESOLUTION: will go to mailing list, will not consense next week.
Discussion Items[edit]
Nothing was discussed.