Meeting Notes 2022 12 13

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These are the notes from the The 703th Meeting of Noisebridge.

• Live notes
  • https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting
• Virtual Meeting (jitsi mic/cam off by default)
  • https://jitsi.noisebridge.io/hackitorium#config.startWithAudioMuted=true&config.startWithVideoMuted=true&userInfo.displayName=%22n00b%22
  • Backup link: https://meet.jit.si/noisebridge

Date: 2022_12_13

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Note-takers: Mark

Moderators: Mark

Meeting Summary

TLDR what happened at the meeting:

• Fundraising Update: not much to say rn
• Announcements: Stocking making Friday, Synth meetup Saturday, cool stickers are coming in the mail!
• Finances: same as usual
• New members: nope
• New philanthropists: nope
• Consensus Items: none
• Discussion Items: Christmas party plans. What kinds of events/fundraising stuff to do.

Introductions

Mark - been here few years, doing videogame and secretarial stuff Claire - moving to SF soon, wanted to check out NB do 3d printing Rajah - programming, various activities and projects, interested in AI lately Vince - former physics prof. now software engineer Ari - now software engineer as well, looking for work and wtinkering with various projects Les - software, AI, machine learning, reading about chat GPT algorithm Jams - he/him, interested in everything, mainly software Dana - helps out with CHM, brought new Flashen Taschen yule log display Mitchell - new to NB, into electronics stuff, want to do a class on building guitar pedals

Excellence

Les - Be better than you were yesterday. Vince - Make good faith attempts to be your best and take accountability when you fall short. Mark - Specifically as pertains to NB means to utilize the space in a cohesive way with your neighbors Jams - chat GPT - some actually good words probably pulled from the website

Short announcements and events

Mitchell - Next saturday (17th) is a Synth enthusiast meetup! around 1 pm. https://meetu.ps/e/LHmgN/4fpDF/i

Mark - Also saturday afternoons the "totally secret cabal or noisebridge space organizers" is meeting to do various cleanup and organization activities.

We have a 3d printer that went missing. And maybe a guitar amp. Stuff disappears but not usually larger equipment.

Dana - We have some epic NB vinyl stickers coming in the mail here soon!

Guilds

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

Guilds are basically interest groups/subcommunities.

New Members/Associate Members

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

Financial Report

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

• Funds in bank:
• 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

Post your needs on #finance-wg

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Our donate page needs some love, there are some issues need fixed: https://github.com/noisebridge/python-nb-donate

Big C Consensus Items

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

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 - Holiday party?

Jams - timeline proposed?

Mark - idk

Christmas eve/day is a Saturday/Sunday this year.

TJ - I'm not gonna be around that week, but if there's any time to do it outside of that , before or after, I might be down

Mark - Let me stress that organizing this may not need to be super difficult. I'll ping the discord, we can do some kind of poll to see what ppl's plans are.

Discussion Item 2 - Events

Dana - CCC Congress is not happening this year but some kind of distributed thing is happening in the days after Christmas. We'll look into it.

Mark - We should look into hosting a Mini Makerfaire of some sort. Need to reach out to Make.

Emeline and sewing crew teamed up with CHM ppl to do Christmas hacks yesterday.

Friday sewing crew is doing Christmas stockings! https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/290030579/

Stupid Shit that Nobody Needs Hackathon Game Jam Various random small workshops

List your events on Meetup and the wiki! (And also on the Noisebridge website)

We haved revived the noisebridge-announce mailing list! - Noisebridge-announce@lists.noisebridge.net

https://lists.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-announce/

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

Note taker posts the notes

• Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
• Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
• Copy paste the notes to the next meeting page. (They will become Last meeting at midnight.)
• Email the meeting summary to Noisebridge Discuss and Noisebridge Announce lists.
• CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
• 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)