Meeting Notes 2022 10 18

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These are the notes from the The 696th Meeting of Noisebridge.

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Date: 2022_10_18

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Note-takers: Moof/Elan

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Meeting Summary

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TLDR what happened at the meeting:

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

Introductions

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• Elan - AI/Wiki
• Alina - Sewing, been
• Moof (they/them) - Music stuff, Sunday Streets,
• Matt - Robotics hardware/software
• Miles - MechE
• Jordaine - Explore Hardware
• Adam - 3D Printing, flight simiuluation gauges
• LX - Gamebridge, with mark, wiki and event support, sinage, sunday streets etc...
• Shubum - create web apps, hosting a hackathon at noisebridge,
• Alex - hosting a workshop, security research, cybersecurity content creator, hardware creator, wifi hacking, SigInt
• TJ - AI Meetup, is eating dinner (yoghurt + frozen fruit)
• HB - Longtime member, server infra, VPS+Tor+IRC, hardware
• Cloud - previous coffee supplier, Sunday Streets
• Dana - Circuit Hacking Monday, space improvements, internet of doorbell
• JD - teachs laser class sundays and shop safety training
• Loren - helping treasury. Server things. Noisecurtain.

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 "excellence is treating noisebridge not just as a tool, or resource, but as a community. Thus, it is ensuring that the people who come to noisebridge can continue to come to noisebridge"

Short announcements and events

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• Wiki Meetup is happening this weekend! Saturday

https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/289068663/

• PanGalacticBG hosting a musical fundraiser 7pmn this Sat evening!

• Halloween Hack Night next monday 24th - 7pm / Hackitorium. We need Noisebridgers to work on things and offer support! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Hacking_Halloween

• 5MoF - technically this thursday

https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/ghkdzsydcnbbc/

• CodeDay Nov 19th Saturday

• Oldbridge - Old Noisebridgers come to the space on Friday, Oct 21

Guilds

• What are guilds - briefly describe (much like the previous section on "Excellence")

Guilds are groups of people, maintaining maintainers.

CNC guild (new)

JD - has a couple cohorts to establish a CNC guild to document the tools available to Noisebridge. Have a couple of new pieces of equipment coming in. - Ryan - Momo/Mohamed Modeled off of sewing guild - will either be wens or thurs nights. Need to put this up on main page.

Unreal Engigne Guild (new)

Subset of gaming guild - have a high quality instructor (NullPtrSf) interested in teaching unreal engine. Probably will be Monday nights.

Equipment for Unreal class? Options: VR cart machine, another machine is near front door. #games LX and JellyDonut should sync up.

AI guild

Have weekly wednesday meetups. Working on setting up GPU server.

New Members/Associate Members

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

Moof is applying for full Membership (elan).

Financial Report

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

• Funds in bank: Checking 133013 Saving 140352 Coinbase ---- Cashflow: -$5k/month
• 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

Donations: ~$6k / month AI(): Need to increase # of donations, esp emphasising this during classes

Spending Needs

Gotta spend money on XYZ (i.e. Gate, wiring etc.). WHO CAN SIGN THE CHECK OR LEND THE CREDIT CARD!?!?! It doesn't matter if we agree to do something and it can’t be paid for.

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Charity show - sat 22nd 7pm

Big C Consensus Items

Nobody likes 3 hour meetings, only explain if people ask. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Current_Consensus_Items

Consensus Items

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Discussion

CodeDay

Hackathon to introduce students to coding who wouldn't be exposed to it otherwise. Try to present it in a fun way ()

Concerns:

   Number of people ~40. 

   A no-turn away policy due to lack of funds. 

   Waivers: would need to be by parents. Typically only sought after life insurance. 

Adam: How many instructors?

   At least 1 chaperone, 2 members (Arity + Chris) 

   https://www.codeday.org/volunteer 

TJ: We should lock down current volunteers.

Schrub: Will setup a slack channel to discuss liability +

JD: Should put up posters/fliers a week before to let people know.

Making gaming lounge playable

Needs volunteers to cleanup.

Social Media

   What platforms does Noisebridge have a presence on?

   Who has access? 

   Who should have access? 

   What sort of things should Noisebridge be sharing to social media? Class/event announcements? Wisdom of the crowd? Odes to hacker culture? Note: as a nonprofit there are some topics that can get NB into legal issues (e.g. advocating for your favorite non-fascist candidate).

existing spaces https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/SocialMediaWG https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Social_Media_Excellence

Separate social media breakout discussion group: https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbsocial Discussions items:

   - Who would be willing to do what
   - Mastodon, Twitter?
   - What is the goal 

   - Getting attention

        - Fundraising

Noisecurtain

Loren: want to have offline discussion LX: We should build a wall. Multilayer

Home assistant

This is something Noisebridge is on the internet-of-thing.

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!

Cleanup of game space. Need a LCD TV for non-CRT games

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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)