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


* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[membership]], and the application process.
none, membership explanation skipped for time
<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>
* 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.
 


= Financial Report =
= Financial Report =

Revision as of 00:49, 25 June 2017

These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge. Date: FIXME THE DATE HERE Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.

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

Meeting Summary

Announcements:

  • Jeremy: Nicole and I are organising an event on 10th July in advance of Net Neutrality day. The goal is to help people understand why Net Neutrality is important. If anyone has any suggestions for speakers or would like to speak you can contact me on slack @rollinson, Nicole is @gaardn.
  • Jarrod: On september 9th/10th we are organising an event to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Noisebridge. We're asking people to bring in projects to exhibit that they have built here at NB or at other hackerspaces. There will also be talks, lessons, labs, everything that happens at NB but condensed in to a 2 day event (Hackstravaganza? JR). There is a page about the event on the Wiki, you can also contact me on hicksu@gmail.com.

Finances: To be updated post meeting

New members: NA

New philanthropists: Jeremy Rollinson

Consensus Items: None

Discussion Items:

  • Alden: Wanted to understand the process for match funding for purchase of new equipment for the space. Jarrod explained that this is all managed by John Shutt and the next step is to contact him directly.
  • Karl: Wanted to understand the process for donating items for use in the space. Jarrod explained that the correct process is to start a discussion either on slack or via the email list, detailing what items are proposed for donation. Ideally, somebody will take responsibility for accepting the items and using them or ensuring they are used appropriately rather than them becoming mis-used or ending up as trash.

Introductions

Jarrod: I mainly work on projects in the woodshop.

Jeremy: I'm Jeremy, @rollinson on slack, I come to noisebridge for FreeCodeCamp and general making, I love building things. My dayjob is as a WiFi engineer.

Naomi: I'm Naomi, I've been a member at nb since 2009, I mainly work on art projects.

Sasha: I'm Sasha, I'm working on an open source RGB LED controller.

Karl: I'm karl AKA Alchemist, I'm a coder running a startup, came to SF a few years ago, been coding hard and in the last few weeks have the time to explore more of SF and found out about Noisebridge.

Alden: I'm Alden, an electronics engineer. I came here to day to work on my electronic business card. Here to hack!

Cole: I'm Cole, also working on LED controllers

Moses: (I didn't catch his intro)

Elise: Visiting town (all I could hear)

Asia: I'm Asia, I'd like to work on my cheap LED shoes and make them way less janky.

Arthur: I'm Arthur, a network security engineer, first time at a meeting. I'm working on building a soft VPN (couldn't hear the rest).

Announcements

Jeremy: Nicole and I are organising an event on 10th July in advance of Net Neutrality day. The goal is to help people understand why Net Neutrality is important. If anyone has any suggestions for speakers or would like to speak you can contact me on slack @rollinson, Nicole is @gaardn.

Jarrod: On september 9th/10th we are organising an event to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Noisebridge. We're asking people to bring in projects to exhibit that they have built here at NB or at other hackerspaces. There will also be talks, lessons, labs, everything that happens at NB but condensed in to a 2 day event (Hackstravaganza? JR). There is a page about the event on the Wiki, you can also contact me on hicksu@gmail.com.

Safe Space

Participation

Philanthropists

  • Invite a knowledgeable volunteer 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(?)

Membership Binder

none, membership explanation skipped for time

Financial Report

We have $83,988.52 in the bank. ~$30,000 for Noisetor, $7,318.89 in the equipment fund, $783.29 in the laser maintenance fund, $1,095 in Thomas’ memorial fund, the rest in the general fund.

Consensus

Arthur: Consensus is how a group of people make a decision to do something.

Karl: Consensus is a based around being excellent to each other. if you have a project you want to pursue you evaluate whether it will follow the "be excellent to others" mantra and if you are not sure seek consensus with the group.

Naomi: That's more of the doocracy. Consensus is used for any major decisions that will affect the space [gave example of couch positioning]. Consensus can be used in the event of a doocracy breakdown. Consesus is the process whereby everyone in the community discusses a decision over a period of a more than one meeting with the goal of everyone being happy with the consensus decision.

Proposals from last week

none

Proposals for next week

none

Discussion

Longer discussion items belong here. This is the last part of the meeting so that people can break off and continue their discussion afterwards.


Discussion Items

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

End of Meeting

  1. Return the membership binder to its rightful location.
  2. Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
  3. Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.

Note taker posts the notes

  1. Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
  2. Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
  3. Copy paste the notes to the next meeting page. (They will become Last meeting at midnight.)
  4. Email the meeting summary to Noisebridge Discuss and Noisebridge Announce lists.
  5. CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
  6. Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
  7. Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

Fun things to do after

  • 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.