Meeting Notes 2012 10 30

These are the notes of The 240th Meeting of Noisebridge.Note-taker: Tom ; Moderator: Snail .

• We decided not to buy the gorilla shelves out of Noisebridge funds.
• Note that there are two "Tom"s in this meeting.

Announcements & Events

• Daniella: is taking a month's break from french. She also needs a secretary/PR person for the french class.
• RYC: E-waste has been removed!
• Quinn: will be talking about Noisebridge in the context of do-ocracy
• Krutcher: wants to leveradge fast JS for meta-heuristics, and wants help to hack large distributed systems.
• John: the neuro cabal meets Mondays at 7. Be there or be neurotypical
• Andreas: wants to teach a business class to be announced soon; get in touch with him

Membership Binder

• Andrew Burns: Week 2
  • Sponsor: Danny O'Brien
  • Sponsor: John Withers

Financial Report

• Funds in bank: 17999.26
• Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):

Consensus items

Proposals from last week

• Proposal from Martin: Noisebridge should purchase Gorilla Racks replacing the current selection of member shelves of the same approximate dimensions. This is estimated at approximately $1200-$1800. http://www.globalindustrial.com/g/storage/shelving/boltless/Gorilla-Rack-Shelving
  • Some folks support these shelves, but many folks do not think that we should spend Noisebridge finds.
  • RAYC suggests that he may be able to cover this with a private collection
  • This measure is not the consensus of Noisebridge.

Proposals for next week

• Proposal from Tom : Noisebridge renews its lease on the 2169 Mission space, increasing our rent from $3600 to $3960.

Discussion Items

• Shelf organization: Tom proposes a shelf organization scheme with a database, filing, and paperwork. Tom volunteers one hour a week to maintian this. Others are skeptical; and suggest coordination with Jake, those who propose champion the gorilla shelves, and other stakeholders.

Attendance

The following people introduced themselves:

• John is our first victim
• Mike is not a quartermaster or a stock-clerk, or a bus-man
• Leif
• Tom is not a member; does a lot of costuming and working on a small business painting
• Sean has been hacking on an OLPC
• Tom is typing this sentence
• Krutcher likes systems
• Zephyr is here
• Ramone
• Daniella teaches french
• Aleecia loves pseudonyms and is not a member. Aleecia does privacy
• Quinn studies and hacks on do-ocratic social structures
• Snail probably couldn't moderate to save her life
• Christopher Altman is building a quantum network