Meeting Notes 2019 10 29

These are the notes from The 5008300th Meeting of Noisebridge.

help take notes at - https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting

Date: 2019-10-29 Note-taker: Ryan,Marco,Fredi Moderators: Riley

Meeting Summary

FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING - One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary. What happened at the meeting:

• Announcements:
• Finances:
• New members:
• New philanthropists:
• Consensus Items:
• Discussion Items:

Introductions

PREFERRED PRONONON & NAME, 1-2 SENTENCES OF WHAT YOU DO/ARE INTERESTED IN

Riley- He him, Currently trying to make pine linux work on noisebrridge

Marco- he/him Learning websitte developer, helping build noisebridge a new website

Kevin- he/him - ML neuroscience, software, hw, 

Jade - she / her /they / them Gernally here wed and tue, go to neurohacking meetup

Ryan - he / him Coming to NB for ~5 yrs. Enjoys taking care of nb, in charge of VR system, always available to answer questions

Freddie he him, helps out wherever, helping work on our library, likes databases

Chris- Working on a DAO for Noisebridge, likes to donate

Ait- it/ them Syrian refugee, learning c++, blender, play guitar, documenting a code based on historcal leaders name, freedom4a.com

Robert he /him / cat / dog / pizza rat -cirtcuit hacking monday fellow, helping running it, coming at circuit hacking monday on mondays at 7pm.

Warf, son of Mogh,  - hack on peoples bodies, with consent

David - working on RFID locker, helping to apply for grants, will discuss more during disssion item.

Richard,he/him - first time at meeting since 3 years, lot of laser cutting, like to chat with people about problems they have (both technical & personal)

Brian, he/him - working in the woodshop

Short announcements and events

60-second description per item in bulletpoint. Freddy - we should change the time for the SQL classes (class is stopped at the moment) Ryan - on thursday is halloween🧛‍♂️, we have a party🍾. Please bring food, please volunteer before & after that. For volunteering: from 6PM on, event should start around

Robert - Cuircut hacking monday happening also on Friday November 8th between 11:30am and 12:30pm (private class), though Noisebridge will still be open to general public, but general public will not be able to partisipate.

Ryan - on Saturday, Nov 9 is Aaron Swartz hackathon day, join if you care about freedom of press, at the Internet Archive. Secure drop, improving open libraries, improving their translation system. https://www.aaronswartzday.org/

Chris - working on a dow for Noisebridge. A dow is a distributed atonomus organism, gives a smart contract, that allows people to see the cryto that gets donated, and allows people to propose a way to spend it. Will try to

Freddy - Back bathroom was partially fixed (please put bathroom lever back up after flushing, oherwise water will continue flushing)

Ryan - Lasercutter was improved, and cleaned fans added. After Nov 11 retraining is required.

Worf - So, me and david have been working on a proptype solution to address secutiry issue. Idea is a locker with access control login (rfid), anyone who has access can give others access. We're still tuning the workflows and stuff. Riley : does it have a blockchain system? Worf: No I want it to work. LOL

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

(What does that mean? How does the Anti-Harassment Policy fit into this? Are we SURE we know what being Excellent is? Also let's talk about Security in the space? This is an important and fundamental conversation at Noisebridge, so let's give it like 120 seconds.)

Riely- what does it Mean

Eccelence manifests in many ways

fixing a toilett, 
running a class, 
being available for others
respecting others
taking a class
reparing tools
please help with trash

Marco: being excellent also means being excellent to yourself. Make sure you dont burnout and develop and unhelathy relationship with nb

Ryan: We're not a safespace, we're a bravespace. There may be things that make you uncomfortable. If a person is making you specifically uncofmratble, that is unescellent and you should ask them to leave. If you're not configent talk to other people in the space and ask them to leave. Events like nude figure drawing calsses, some talks, some events may make ppl uncomfrotable, but please respect that they are utilizing the space differntly than you.

Worf: Sometimes you jsut need some moderation, doesnt always end up in asking someone to leave or being 86'd.

Excellence in the community - go out and help people in the community outside of NB and tell people about Noisebridge. Let people at NB know about events outside of NB.

Ryan - Anti harassment policy: harassment not tollerated. Examples: if you feel attacked by someone. It is not excellent to

Marco- if you notice someone else getting harrased, speak up about it.

Participation

Everyone at Noisebridge is a participant at Noisebridge.

(What does that mean? How do you get a door key? Access to Slack, Discuss, etc?)

- We are all volunteers here, we believe in do-ocrazy. Ryley - sounds like this topis is repeating

Ryan - you can participate in person or online (our Slack group or https://discuss.noisebridge.net Participation- can be fixing cleaning, learning, teaching

Philanthropists

A Philanthropist at Noisebridge has earned enough trust from the community to open and close the space.

(What does that mean? What do we expect from Philanthropists? How do you become one? etc)

Marco - being a philantropist means taht you have more accessibility to the space, but also more resposibiluity. You can get a 24h token, but it also means taht you have to understand how to open/close the space. Doors windows closed, major machines off. If you are a phil it also means that you donate (default is 80 dollars, starving hacker donation is 40). For any question on donating just ask our treassurer Tyler. Ryan - we have 2 members here tonight, yeah Ryan - don't feel comfortable at the moment with sponsoring even more Philanthropists (for tonight).

Membership Binder

Membership in Noisebridge entails community Trust in Consensus.

(What does that mean? What do we expect from Members? How do you become a Member? etc)

Membership is typically unnessary, it means that you have a vested intrest in the longevity, only thing it allows is you to block BIG C concensus items, everyone can participate, only members can block.  

Marco: members can give you 30 days access token Ryan: also Philantropist++ can do that Ryan: any philanthropist can renew a token

Financial Report

Anarchist societies under a capitalist state need money to survive and thrive, yo.

• Funds in bank: 186.000$ (new cash this week 550$, way above average - probably connected to movie screening recently)
• Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):

No one has any idea if Noisetor is still running. Anyone?

• Any other details by those participating in handling our financials
• The latest financial reports from the treasurer are available at https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Finances

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Consensus

Consensus is how the Noisebridge Membership may change how Noisebridge works.

(How does Consensus work? What types of things are good for formal Consensus? What is small-c consensus? What is a "block"?)

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.)

Proposals for next week

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