Meeting Notes 2022 06 21

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These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge.

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• Virtual Meeting (jitsi mic/cam off by default)
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Date: 2022-06-21

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Note-takers: Les

Moderators: Loren

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

Introductions

• Ask people to share their name, access needs, and preferred gender pronouns during their intro, i.e.:
• Loren - no access needs he/him Wednesday ML meetups
• Mark - video game things. Gamebridge on Wednesdays
• P or Mu they/them - music stuff and wood stuff
• June she/her - Windmill project, trying to get display screen in hackitorium
• Katy - new person, enjoys being at space
• Jason - he/him - organizes maker/artist meetup at noisebridge, wants to hold more
• Les - ML group on Wednesdays
• Cloud - yet to find niche
• Frank - music, co-organizes Resident electronic music event
• Shashun - organizing hackathon, looking at noisebridge for potential place to host
• John - has been coming around for a month, art, wood
• Kim - making quick announcement - free server rack available
• Farley - arrived after introductions

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

(What does that mean? Everyone is expected to follow the Anti-Harassment Policy, please familiarize yourself with it.) TWO MINUTES MAX

Short announcements and events

• P/Mu: asks Frank about synthesizer - synthesizer has appeared, don't know who owner is
• Frank: Resident electronic music night, 4th Thursdays. Next 6/28
• Mark: Gamebridge is trying to guage interest for jam camp with company named lessons (sp?) - on Discord pinned messages in games channel. If you're interested please fill out form by June 29th.
• Loren: Fridays board game night starting around ~6ish PM

New members/philanthropists

What are they? Is anyone trying to become a philanthropist or Member? If not move on. No long discussions.

Members: Associate Members:

• June - work on help making noisebridge less energy dependent, improve event handling and information handling. Working with Alex to get TV hooked up to display events
• Jason - @jasonify - helps host meetup for makers and artists on Saturday. Does jam session where they make art together. A lot of artists show up
• Katy - also invoved with the artist / maker event along with Jason. Likes atmosphere of space. Feels like space is the right setting to get the creative juices flowing.

Financial Report

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

• Funds in bank:

   *Emmeline: approx 60k in cryptocurrency. Unsure of what it would be now. 200 in donations in cash boxes

• Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
• 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

Spending Needs

Mark: buy stuff for the gate, more bars, hinges, etc. Will come back with exact report next week as to what he's going to get and what it's going to cost. June: possible power components

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Big C Consensus Items

Nobody likes 3 hour meetings, only explain if people ask

Consensus Items

Only for talking about Big C consensus items, small c consensus items should be discussed with people at the space at the time of the change/new item.

Discussion

Discussion Item 1

Shubham - hackathon hosting proposal.

Code Day - organizing bay area event. The purpose is to get high school / college students involved in coding. 25 year age cap. No cash prizes. Older mentors welcome. The projects are based on how hard you pushed yourself to learn. Goal is allowing beginners to break into tech. Is on November 20th. He's made a wiki page: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/CodeDay_BA

Discussion Item 2

Mark: Donations. Perhaps we should make it more explicit that we are NOT accepting donations, we have a lot of junk around the space, but maybe there are some things we want that we should more clearly define. P/Mu: We should get hardware fasteners, etc. things that we already need and have places to store. Also depends on area/space - too much in the music room. Mark: Thought experiment: say you're just hanging out here, and someone comes with a bunch of music shit, and wants to donate to you and what do you do. Leon: could have a discord channel where people post potential donations so that we can decide ahead of time Mark: My thought is that there might be a situation where a lot of people bring in stuff who don't get involved online. Many people won't have the foreknowledge to check online etc. Maybe we should have signs around that say that we don't accept donations, or have a specific list of what we'd accept. P/Mu: rule that no donations in person, only slack/discord. Les: Could have inner slack/discord with evolving list of things we actually want, update printouts to say "No donations except.." Leon: Could have it up on doocratic task board. Loren: What do you want to come from this discussion items? A sign up? Mark: We need to consense on a system for filtering donations. We need to get on the same page as a community Les: person who wants things can print out new sign with updated list? June: what about a whiteboard? Mark: first document would be wiki page?

Do-ocratic taskboard

Loren: noise cancelling wall? Mark: Work party happening Thursday night

Do-ocratic Task Board

Participation also means doing stuff to contribute to the space. Propose new tasks or pick some tasks from Github, from what needs to be done around you, or whatever, and see if someone will sign up to work on that task. Anyone can sign up and it's a great way to show you are contributing!

End of Meeting

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• Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
• Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

Fun things to do after

• Do a 10 minute cleanup, bring dishes up stairs and wash them, clean the bathroom
• Have some beers on the patio
• Prepare the next weeks' meeting notes
• Lick the walls. Or just draw on them
• sing the Hackernationale (this almost never happens)