Meeting Notes 2013 08 13

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These are the notes from the The 278th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.

• One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.

Short announcements and events

• Dru will be coming back to Noisebridge and attending weekly meetings
• Funds raised at 8/10 party to be given to treasurer by James (verified by LinkReincarnate)
• Rob hacked mood lighting into the hack-a-tor-i-um

Membership Binder

• No One

Financial Report

• Funds in bank: $23,789.07
• Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): $12,000.00

Consensus items

Proposals from last week

(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)
Reimburse Monad ($63) for dump-run, and reimburse James ($81) for kitchen supplies from Discount Builders.

Is there quorum? 4 members.
This has been discussed for 2 weeks prior
James will bring the receipts
There's precedent for reimbursing purchases (t-shirts)
James spent $$ on drip rack, Monad on trash run
$81 is a lot to spend on a drip rack, were there attempts to do this w/o spending money
James, we did this through the rebase meeting, this is the solution we came to'

Consense'd that Monad and James will be reimbursed

Proposals for next week

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

• Johny Radio proposes: To change to meeting discussion process by giving the current speaker opportunity to make direct response to direct responses directed at themself at the discretion of the moderator by way of an agreed upon signal

Within the current discretion of the moderator
Should not have to be a consensus decision
Direct responses have empirically failed due to lack of understanding of direct response
Could use moderator training
Will be okay if only the speaker and not the whole room is directly responding
Other groups use hand signal (pointy fingers) to signify 'want to give direct response'
Could update the wiki with meaning of direct response
Direct response option ought to belong to the person on the stack

• Monad proposes: The cost of dump runs be automatically payed. A minimum of 2 members must approve and a total of 4 or more people must be involved.

Including runs to the dumps
Friendly amendment: Dump runs with more than 2 people involved with the cleanup, to protect against abuse
Receipt must be provided

Attendance

• Jason Wiliams - wants to learn about radios build short wave radio
• Magenta Awara(sp?) - Anon
• Cynthia - help communication
• Norman - Stage manager and computer programmer
• James - User of Noisebridge
• Kevin - Brain monitoring devices
• Robin - Building big, beautiful, blinky-light structure to bring to burning man
• Max - campmate
• Tati - making dress
• Dru - making app for peacecorps in Tanzania
• Nick - wants to get telephone working
• Monad - Tinkers
• Kevin - Networking (cables and such)
• Raul - Coming back to computer world, inspired
• Alchemy - energy work at Shasta 'frequency is the timeline of synchronicity'
• Jay - researching, karaoke, pos apps
• Dan - programmer
• Damon
• Douglas
• Johny Radio - hacking
• Chris - restarting computer
• Chris - hacking
• Russ - Programmer; C, C++
• Kris - community
• Dana - LED Workshop coordinator, repairing vintage **** maker
• Laura - LEDs
• Charles - lights?
• Ricardo - computational biology
• Nick - programming, electronics, astrophysics, hacking on a rumba

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