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== Meeting on 2011-07-26 ==
== Meeting on 2011-07-26 ==


Agenda:
Scribbled notes at [[Social Engineers/2011-07-26]]
 
Heya all, we're going to have another Social Engineers meeting on Tuesday. I got the sense a bit that doing it for a whole hour tires everyone out for the meeting after it, so I'm going to keep it down to 30 minutes if I can.
 
Remember the one rule for Social Engineers: every problem raised has to have a proposed solution, and every solution has to have a technical element to it (no matter how silly).
 
1. Going through last week's brainstorm ideas, and see where we are.
* the kitchen seems to be doing really well, but I may be wrong
* the arduino for beginners was excellent and crowded
* i really enjoyed the singapore visit!
* wikispam is fixed yay
 
* is sleeping still a problem?
* fire exits
* NB meeting was kinda dysfunctional last week, but lots of people have (maybe conflicting) ideas of how to make it
 
3. What could we manage in the next week and the next month.
 
4. AOB
  * could we do an actual 15 minute standard induction for new visitors?
  -- history + culture of noisebridge (i enjoyed the 10 minute History of Hacking talk I gave)
  -- business card with people to call, guidelines to follow
  -- create their account on the Wiki
  -- no status or permissions or anything, but officially makes you a $SOMETHING of noisebridge
 


== Meeting on 2011-07-19 ==
== Meeting on 2011-07-19 ==

Revision as of 01:00, 27 July 2011

Technical Solutions to Social Problems

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"You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem." - Edwards' Law


"Every time I hear Edwards' Law, I reach for my gun" - the Noisebridge Secretaribot

There are lots of fascinating challenges to running a hackerspace using the purest anarchist collective principles, many of which we appear (from the outside) to talk about endlessly. Some of them are actually *about* the need to talk endlessly.

Noisebridge's Social Engineering group's motto is "A little less talk, a lot more evidence-based semi-autonomous behaviouralist actions."

We brainstorm and implement new software, hardware, and architecture that can support Noisebridge's unique social contract in the same way that almost all of the rest of our culture works to support _its_ definition of normality.

You can meet with us on Tuesdays from 7pm-8pm before the official Meeting in Turing, or join the socialengineering mailing list

Current facilitator for the Social Engineers is Danny.

Meeting on 2011-07-26

Scribbled notes at Social Engineers/2011-07-26

Meeting on 2011-07-19

Deeper (incomprehensible) notes here: Social_Engineers/2011-07-19

TODO Next week

  • put shannon on the mailing list -- danny ✓
  • get google docs sent to the list -- signage -- liz
  • work out twitter -- miloh and danny ✓
  • phone tree -- number you can call -- continue on socialengineering list
  • noiseatnight -- mailing list Mitch + Robert -- danny will talk to mitch ✓, ping rack ✓ (will ping again)
  • fix wiki spam - danny ✓

TODO in next month

  • superclean kitchen photo -- liz and will (who is organizing cleaning)
  • yes/no strips down the stairway -- mct and danny
  • tools for searching wiki/mailing list