Meeting Notes 2015 08 25

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Participants

  • Dan
  • Moby
  • Markus
  • Jon - does coding things
  • Jade
  • Joti
  • Leandra
  • Bill
  • Trent
  • Mark
  • Nick


These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: Hassan; Moderators: Kevin.

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


Short announcements and events

  • Want to organize all of the books that we have. Looking at different organizational ideas.
  • Digital Archivists meet some wednesdays.

Membership Binder

  • Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe membership, and the application process.

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.

  • 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.
  • Anyone eligible to join this week should
    • 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

  • Invite a knowledgeable member to describe Philantropy, and the application process.
  • 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(?)

Financial Report

  • Noisetor has a little over 10K
  • Noisebridge is N/A

Consensus and Discussion

  • invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give a brief primer on consensus process
  • 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.

Proposals from last week

(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the Consensus Items History page.)

  • No current consensus items

Proposals for next week

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

Discussion Items

If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.

  • Slack for everybody ( here )
  • Camp in Germany with amazing internet. People could have tents and plug in. Open source cellphone network.
  • Leveling up the RFID tag and potentially adding anonymity would be importnat. Some people care about anonymity, and this doesn't offer that. Also the RFID is hackable, somebody can listen in.
  • Tor camp in June 2016 is in Washington State and very accessible to all
  • Software Designed Radio - Gotta think about what we can do.
  • Hotpants
  • Hacker Internationale, never gonna give you up or let you down <3


End of Meeting

  • Reprise of the Hackernationale. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
  • PGP Key Signing could happen now (if it doesn't happen before any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the list to see who wants in on the action.
  • Return the membership binder to its rightful location.
  • Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions, then save them to the wiki.
  • Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
  • Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.
  • Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
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