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These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]. Note-taker: [User:tdfischer]]; Moderator: [[User:Patrickod]]
DELETE EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE WHEN YOU POST THE MEETING MINUTES KTHX!!!


= Instructions =
* There's gonna be an awesome party on Saturday! Come and be punk
 
* REFRESH 2015 Reboot 2.0 let's get the space awesome again.
Congratulations and/or condolences! You're reading this because you're participating in a meeting of Noisebridge!
 
You should read this instructional section thoroughly, and treat them as a guideline for how to host a meeting of Noisebridge. There are three ingredients to an [[Excellent]] meeting: A number of note takers, some facilitators, and participants.
 
Meetings are just one of the tools used at Noisebridge to create net forward progress on whatever it is we're all trying to do. Meetings aren't the only way to make decisions or have discusions, and in fact its usually a much better idea to talk about things outside the meeting before dragging the entire community kicking and screaming into it.
 
== Note Takers ==
 
* Open a text editor to take notes on the major points of the meeting, using this page as the template.
* Project the meeting notes in real time throughout the meeting. Its super cool to use a collaborative editor such as pad.riseup.net or piratepad so that everyone is free to participate in the note taking.
* Edit the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
* Edit the [[Consensus_Items_History|Consensus Items History]] if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.
* Post the meeting notes to this page, and email the announcement and discussion list with a short summary.
* Tell treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members.
 
== Facilitators ==
 
There are generally two kinds of facilitator roles at a Noisebridge meeting:
 
* Stack taker - Useful when a lot of folks want to hop on the discussion stack. This gives everyone a turn to have their feelings heard. Usually only works when there is exactly one stack taker.
* Moderators - Keeps the meeting moving and prevents everyone from wasting too much time on one subject. Anyone is free to pick up moderation and move the meeting along.
 
In general, moderators should:
* Understand the structure of Noisebridge [[consensus|decision-making]]
* Make sure everyone gets a chance to speak.
* Speak only minimally yourself.
* Keep the meeting moving, and avoid getting bogged down.
* Identify discussion items, arrange times limits for talking about each item.
* Identify and summarize consensus, suggest things that need to be done.
* '''Get the [[membership binder]] and ensure that it is returned safely.'''
 
== Participants ==
 
Everyone at a Noisebridge meeting who has consented to participating in one is a participant!
 
* Say your name before you talk.
* Remain on-topic, and speak as concisely as possible.
* Assist the note-taker with any links or corrections that are needed.
* Remain respectful of other participants, their time, and the consensus and moderation process.
 
 
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These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]. Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
* '''One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.'''


= Introductions =
= Introductions =


* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]:
* Maria - Noisebridge is an anarchist space.
<blockquote>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'."</blockquote>
* Joyti - here for 2.5 weeks learning to program @ the space
* Introduce any experimental or unusual moderation techniques that may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
* Dan - Coming for almost 3 years! there was a time where I was here 7 days a week 25 hours a day!!!! it's tough. Salutes the hackers
* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
* Josh - Musician. Bartending the refresh party!
** What's your name
* Naomi - AKA nthmost, happy to be surrounded by excellent people
** What do you do
* Irwin - Software engineer, told about the noisebridge by a coworker. First time here!
** What do you maintain at Noisebridge?
* Paul - been here for one hour! here in SF for the week. interested in hackerspaces. Is from LHR secops.
** if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?
* Signal - I am Saturday! this saturday!
* Chris - Indie game dev. Coming for 6 months. Loves the space, and the awesome people
* Anna - Vsiting from singapore. Member of the signapore space. Would love to meet folks aft
* Nana 2nd - coming since *before* there was a space!!! came to check if the space is still standing? (spoiler: it is)
* Kai - Just moved here from Santa Cruz! Worked on a bunch of anarchist projects there
* Alex - Freshly neurohacked. Into agriculture, video games and going back to school for EE
* Torrie - Historical preenactor from another timeline
* Leah - 1st day here!!! Found out through the Google searching for "hacker seeks sewing machine"  
* Paul - runs the montreal hackerspace! here in SF for a few months.
* Gwen - from oakland
* Matt - here for 2 weeks
* Mark - here on tuesdays for the unity class. into game dev
* John - Web developer, who also does journalism. About to start a micro book store out of a bike.
* Louis - 4th time here. does game stuff.
* roy - developer from PA. here a couple of times to meet folks
* chris - full time human. here to explore SF. coming a few weeks
* Maria - student @ sfcc doing design.
* Mari - Easily excitable, likes to make all the things
* Patrick - Gets frustrated with computers, comes here to "hack" "things"


= Short announcements and events =
= Short announcements and events =
* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short! One or two sentences please!
* Signal talks about this Saturday's Punk Rock rewnewal party. We're now the only punk rock venue in the mission! Y'all should come!
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
* torrie - last week I went on a rant RE the refresh thing. first thing we did was we hacked a zine called ZiP (Zine in Progress) Come Sat to help out
* Don't hog everyone's time since we all just want to hack!
* Anna -  Early september there'll be a zine fest.  
* Torrie - Next Thursday there'll be 5mof. Come and be weird. Be weird on stage. You'll have 5 minutes to be weird on stage. Everyone has to listen.


= [[ Membership Binder ]] =
= [[ Membership Binder ]] =


* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[membership]], and the application process.
* John Shutt  'splains membership- You don't have to be a member to do cool things, or even get 24 hour access to the space. It's about saying "I've been here and I care about the space, and I want to take on the responsibility to keep the space running. You don't have to be a member to donate. You need 2 member sponsors to get membership. Your application is read out for 4 weeks, and after that you're eligible. You should already be known to people before you apply to be a member. If you're concerned that you'll not be accepted, chat to more people and talk to folks to make sure it's going to be a thing.
<blockquote>Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community and space better than it is today.</blockquote>
* Signal - Membership is about signing up to do chores, to help out in the running of the space. Not a whole lotta privilege, just responsibility.  
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Mark down a check or other indicator on every open application to keep track of how many weeks they've been read out.
* Torrie - Membership gives you warm fuzzies cos it means you love the space. If you contribute then you should be a member, get fuzzies; pay rent.
* Anyone eligible to join this week should
* No member applications tonite :(
** introduce themselves,
** answer any questions members may have for them, then
** leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
* The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
* Remember to applaud new members when they return.


= [[Philanthropists]]=
= [[Philanthropists]]=
* '''Invite a knowledgeable member to describe''' [[Philanthropist/Pledge|Philantropy]], and the application process.
* Torrie - Membership is a long process, and a big thing. There are folks who do excellent things, and who don't want to go through all the process, so then we have Philanthropists. It's ***not*** membership. You find a member who can sponsor you. They bring it to a Tuesday meeting, they vouch for you, they explain who you are and the like, and if nobody objects then you're designated as "cool" and you get a key. It helps people stay here, and it helps us pay rent.
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Any applicants must have their sponsor present to vouch for them.
 
* If there are no objections, they're a philanthropist! Their pledge should be handed over to the [[Secretary]] posthaste, after which their token will be updated to give them the 24/7 access they've earned(?)
* Mari is now a Philanthropist. Sponsored by Torrie.


= Financial Report =
= Financial Report =
* Funds in bank:
* Funds in bank: $33,527.28 - $11k (noisetor) = ~$22k.
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials


= Consensus and Discussion =
= Consensus and Discussion =
== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==


* '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on consensus process]]
* NONE THANK FUCK
* It is important that everyone in attendance understands at least:
** Blocking with verbalized principled objections.
** Why we use consensus over other approaches to decision making.
** How consensus isn't a legislative process
** Why consensus isn't applicable to some things like conflict resolution, resolution of time sinks, and the like.


== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
''(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''


== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
* AGAIN NO CONSENSUS ITEMS SWEET MERCIFUL JESUS
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''


== Discussion Items ==
== Discussion Items ==


If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.
* Saturday's parrrrr-tay - nthmost
** Naomi - We're going to have a party here in the whole space at once! there'll be a band, and 8 bit games. Mari is heading up the games. We need help with things like drinks, we need a green drink (we got red and blue down). Jarrod posted a list of cleanup things to do before the party. It'd be amazingly excellent to help us out checking things off the list. He'll be here @ 9pm Saturday to help out and get the ball rolling. Running events @ the space is fun, you get to meet people and make things happen. They're always great, always unexpected fun things. We like participatory things. There'll be a simulated version of Noisebridge in Turing! The headlining band is "1F", they're friendly people. The theme is "INSERT COIN TO CONTINUE"
** Mari - would it be neat to post things to the social media?
** Naomi - yep absolutely! We're also up for another (short) appearance if you know someone who's interested
** Signal - You can bring a thing. We're on the side of "do a thing and don't think you need to ask" Be punk as fuck! don't sit on laptops!
** Naomi - Would love your input! It's the discussion time.
** Alex - Is the minigolf still happening? Do you need decorations for it?
** Naomi - That'd be cool. Didn't seem like it was going to happen due to lack of humans. It's not a guarantee. If 4-5 people want to help out with creating a minigolf course that'd be awesome. Felt to cover the floor is required.  
** Maria - I can get the felt. Anyone have golf balls?
** torrie - bring it all and see what happens!
** Dan - Contributing on the meta level to the game thing. "Winning". Putting it in the mix.
** Signal - It's great to come and do anything!
** Naomi - We'll have to move a bunch of things around. If you can help with heavy lifting then it'd be great to show up at 5pm!
** Torrie - I have no skills and am doing nothing on Saturday. should I show up?
** Naomi - yes!
** Mark - Have you enough video games?
** Mari - never


= End of Meeting =


* Reprise of the [[Hackernationale]]. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
* Refresh hacking and work and stuff! - tdfischer
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now (if it doesn't happen '''before''' any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
** torrie - you may have heard a rant about broken things last week. afterwards I created a wiki page [[Refresh]]. It's going up on the front page with big bold letters to proclaim it is happening. Add your ideas on what needs done to the page. It's a wiki after all. I want to bring this out of the Tuesday meeting. Next Wednesday let's get together and actually discuss this. An example of things to do is to label our trashcans such that we don't just gather wandering recycling bins. What's broken and should be fixed?
* Return the [[membership binder]] to its rightful location.
** ??? there's no ventilation system in the shop. Want to build a vacuum system and get it up and running. Cut down on the sawdust.
* Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions, then save them to the wiki.
** Torrie - There used to be a thing at Noisebrige - the wall of excellence which is a bunch of headshots above the bike rack. Nobody here is on the wall. It'd be great to revive it.
* Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
** Alex - what's needed for more things like the information board on the wall?
* Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.
** Torrie - more projectors and mounts.
* Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
** Chris - a computer lab (more powerful computers). needs a healthy donation. we'd set it up in the classroom.
** Torrie - you should guesstimate how much it'd cost fro grants.
** Alex - Would like to improve the tour literature. To improve the Manual on the wiki and make everything clearer to people.  
** Mari - Want to help with creating alternate revenue streams. We should get grants. Maybe we can do hacker days / hacker nights where we drive a lot of folks to the bar, and we split the revenue.  
** patrick - lets wrap the columns in LEDs and light the space well at night. simple, just glue RGB LED strips on the walls.


[[Category:Meeting Notes]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Revision as of 16:07, 18 August 2015

These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: [User:tdfischer]]; Moderator: User:Patrickod

  • There's gonna be an awesome party on Saturday! Come and be punk
  • REFRESH 2015 Reboot 2.0 let's get the space awesome again.

Introductions

  • Maria - Noisebridge is an anarchist space.
  • Joyti - here for 2.5 weeks learning to program @ the space
  • Dan - Coming for almost 3 years! there was a time where I was here 7 days a week 25 hours a day!!!! it's tough. Salutes the hackers
  • Josh - Musician. Bartending the refresh party!
  • Naomi - AKA nthmost, happy to be surrounded by excellent people
  • Irwin - Software engineer, told about the noisebridge by a coworker. First time here!
  • Paul - been here for one hour! here in SF for the week. interested in hackerspaces. Is from LHR secops.
  • Signal - I am Saturday! this saturday!
  • Chris - Indie game dev. Coming for 6 months. Loves the space, and the awesome people
  • Anna - Vsiting from singapore. Member of the signapore space. Would love to meet folks aft
  • Nana 2nd - coming since *before* there was a space!!! came to check if the space is still standing? (spoiler: it is)
  • Kai - Just moved here from Santa Cruz! Worked on a bunch of anarchist projects there
  • Alex - Freshly neurohacked. Into agriculture, video games and going back to school for EE
  • Torrie - Historical preenactor from another timeline
  • Leah - 1st day here!!! Found out through the Google searching for "hacker seeks sewing machine"
  • Paul - runs the montreal hackerspace! here in SF for a few months.
  • Gwen - from oakland
  • Matt - here for 2 weeks
  • Mark - here on tuesdays for the unity class. into game dev
  • John - Web developer, who also does journalism. About to start a micro book store out of a bike.
  • Louis - 4th time here. does game stuff.
  • roy - developer from PA. here a couple of times to meet folks
  • chris - full time human. here to explore SF. coming a few weeks
  • Maria - student @ sfcc doing design.
  • Mari - Easily excitable, likes to make all the things
  • Patrick - Gets frustrated with computers, comes here to "hack" "things"

Short announcements and events

  • Signal talks about this Saturday's Punk Rock rewnewal party. We're now the only punk rock venue in the mission! Y'all should come!
  • torrie - last week I went on a rant RE the refresh thing. first thing we did was we hacked a zine called ZiP (Zine in Progress) Come Sat to help out
  • Anna - Early september there'll be a zine fest.
  • Torrie - Next Thursday there'll be 5mof. Come and be weird. Be weird on stage. You'll have 5 minutes to be weird on stage. Everyone has to listen.

Membership Binder

  • John Shutt 'splains membership- You don't have to be a member to do cool things, or even get 24 hour access to the space. It's about saying "I've been here and I care about the space, and I want to take on the responsibility to keep the space running. You don't have to be a member to donate. You need 2 member sponsors to get membership. Your application is read out for 4 weeks, and after that you're eligible. You should already be known to people before you apply to be a member. If you're concerned that you'll not be accepted, chat to more people and talk to folks to make sure it's going to be a thing.
  • Signal - Membership is about signing up to do chores, to help out in the running of the space. Not a whole lotta privilege, just responsibility.
  • Torrie - Membership gives you warm fuzzies cos it means you love the space. If you contribute then you should be a member, get fuzzies; pay rent.
  • No member applications tonite :(

Philanthropists

  • Torrie - Membership is a long process, and a big thing. There are folks who do excellent things, and who don't want to go through all the process, so then we have Philanthropists. It's ***not*** membership. You find a member who can sponsor you. They bring it to a Tuesday meeting, they vouch for you, they explain who you are and the like, and if nobody objects then you're designated as "cool" and you get a key. It helps people stay here, and it helps us pay rent.
  • Mari is now a Philanthropist. Sponsored by Torrie.

Financial Report

  • Funds in bank: $33,527.28 - $11k (noisetor) = ~$22k.
  • Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
  • Any other details by those participating in handling our financials

Consensus and Discussion

Proposals from last week

  • NONE THANK FUCK

Proposals for next week

  • AGAIN NO CONSENSUS ITEMS SWEET MERCIFUL JESUS

Discussion Items

  • Saturday's parrrrr-tay - nthmost
    • Naomi - We're going to have a party here in the whole space at once! there'll be a band, and 8 bit games. Mari is heading up the games. We need help with things like drinks, we need a green drink (we got red and blue down). Jarrod posted a list of cleanup things to do before the party. It'd be amazingly excellent to help us out checking things off the list. He'll be here @ 9pm Saturday to help out and get the ball rolling. Running events @ the space is fun, you get to meet people and make things happen. They're always great, always unexpected fun things. We like participatory things. There'll be a simulated version of Noisebridge in Turing! The headlining band is "1F", they're friendly people. The theme is "INSERT COIN TO CONTINUE"
    • Mari - would it be neat to post things to the social media?
    • Naomi - yep absolutely! We're also up for another (short) appearance if you know someone who's interested
    • Signal - You can bring a thing. We're on the side of "do a thing and don't think you need to ask" Be punk as fuck! don't sit on laptops!
    • Naomi - Would love your input! It's the discussion time.
    • Alex - Is the minigolf still happening? Do you need decorations for it?
    • Naomi - That'd be cool. Didn't seem like it was going to happen due to lack of humans. It's not a guarantee. If 4-5 people want to help out with creating a minigolf course that'd be awesome. Felt to cover the floor is required.
    • Maria - I can get the felt. Anyone have golf balls?
    • torrie - bring it all and see what happens!
    • Dan - Contributing on the meta level to the game thing. "Winning". Putting it in the mix.
    • Signal - It's great to come and do anything!
    • Naomi - We'll have to move a bunch of things around. If you can help with heavy lifting then it'd be great to show up at 5pm!
    • Torrie - I have no skills and am doing nothing on Saturday. should I show up?
    • Naomi - yes!
    • Mark - Have you enough video games?
    • Mari - never


  • Refresh hacking and work and stuff! - tdfischer
    • torrie - you may have heard a rant about broken things last week. afterwards I created a wiki page Refresh. It's going up on the front page with big bold letters to proclaim it is happening. Add your ideas on what needs done to the page. It's a wiki after all. I want to bring this out of the Tuesday meeting. Next Wednesday let's get together and actually discuss this. An example of things to do is to label our trashcans such that we don't just gather wandering recycling bins. What's broken and should be fixed?
    • ??? there's no ventilation system in the shop. Want to build a vacuum system and get it up and running. Cut down on the sawdust.
    • Torrie - There used to be a thing at Noisebrige - the wall of excellence which is a bunch of headshots above the bike rack. Nobody here is on the wall. It'd be great to revive it.
    • Alex - what's needed for more things like the information board on the wall?
    • Torrie - more projectors and mounts.
    • Chris - a computer lab (more powerful computers). needs a healthy donation. we'd set it up in the classroom.
    • Torrie - you should guesstimate how much it'd cost fro grants.
    • Alex - Would like to improve the tour literature. To improve the Manual on the wiki and make everything clearer to people.
    • Mari - Want to help with creating alternate revenue streams. We should get grants. Maybe we can do hacker days / hacker nights where we drive a lot of folks to the bar, and we split the revenue.
    • patrick - lets wrap the columns in LEDs and light the space well at night. simple, just glue RGB LED strips on the walls.
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