Meeting Notes 2013 07 23
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These are the notes from the The 275th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: Kevin; Moderator: Jarrod.
TLDR[edit | edit source]
- Hacker Fellowships
- Ban Brandon consensus proposal - Brandon present and agrees to refain from being at Noisebridge until the coming Tuesday meeting
- Mark O'Neil appeals his ban
- Skyler not to return til the coming Tuesday meeting
- God Waffel Noise Pancakes coming to Noisebridge Sunday, September 22nd
Short announcements and events[edit | edit source]
- Cynthia announces the non-unanimous decision to tear out the centeral island Thursday morning AKA phase I
- Dan announces a friend form the Community Arts Program has a life-size robot made of clay. 1009 Market Street (Market and 6th).
- Douglas would like to have God Waffel Noise Pancakes show here Sunday afternoon.DnD conflict? Will be discussed later.
- Dana announces a woman lost her As cap. Sentimental value. Her email is on the Discuss list.*
- James annoucnes August 10, 4PM to late. Fundraiser party at noisebridge. Food and fun for all. Everyone is welcome. noisebridge.net/party Noisejam will be proforming, Carolyn will teach fencing... and much more! Would be cool to contact Food not Bombs (bring food, offer advice, join in). Also help with set-up and tear-down of event. Orchestra would like to collaborate with LED team. Tabling okay and encouraged. Help to publicise.
- James announces hacker fellowship proposal.
- Cynthia announces that Diatomacious earth was not delivered. Door bell was disabled and Fedex delivery was not recieved.
Membership Binder [edit | edit source]
- No one present to membership
Financial Report[edit | edit source]
- No one present to present report
- Funds in bank: $37,611.44
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): $16556.03
Consensus items[edit | edit source]
Proposals from last week [edit | edit source]
(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)
Proposals for next week [edit | edit source]
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Proposal to ban Brandon from the space [typical language]
- Brandon who had been using/sleeping/living in the DJ Booth with frequency lately, was asked to leave this morning
- Grivences include grossly inappropriate use of the space and offensive communication
- Brandon arrives and speaks on greatly respecting the space, feeling disrespected by others,
- Brandon has agreed not to come back til coming Tuesday meeting
Proposal to providing funding for hacker fellowships brought by James
- If Noisebridge has 3 months worth of rent (all expenses), then the fellowship will continue.
- Specific amount of money for this fund, $2k allocated to the fellowship every month for instance
- If fellows are underbudget the money rolls over month-to-month
- Disbursement of funds? Maybe consensed on at weekly Noisebridge meeting
- Do not think disbursement needs consensus
- Details need to be fool-proofed
- Suggestion to put out Request for Proposal (RFP)
- No rush
- Not be consensed on next week specifically to stirr discussion and get more details
Mark O'Neil returns to appeal his ban
- Mark discribes what happend, in detail, believing it to have been a prank
- Mark acknowldges that the cheesecake incident was inappropriate
- Mark had not become aware that he was banned until a fews days back
- The seriousness of Mark's actions are articulated and have been noted by the banning
- Cynthia suggests that Mark be unbanned so long as he is always sober at Noisebridge
- Mark will wait a couple of months before coming back to appeal the ban
Discussion Notes[edit | edit source]
God Waffel Noise Pancakes
- Noisebridge host event on September 22nd
- Douglas volunteers to bottomline the event
- One enthusiastic response from the list
- Will it interfere with anything else? DnD? Lock picking?
- Donations would be split with Noisebridge
- There will be vegan pancakes
- Music will be made with homemade and off-the-self insturment
Skyler
- Asked to leave and not come back with Brandon this morning
- He was respectful, and left
- Skyler should not return to Noisebridge until the coming Tuesday meeting
Attendance[edit | edit source]
- Mark - work with some friends
- Adam - like to build things
- Dana - working on LED stuff
- Monad - I tinker around
- Cynthia - Supports keeping internet accessible
- Douglas - audio
- Tyler - Databases
- Kevin - Brains and sleep
- Dan - Programmer with brain/mind interestes
- Jade - Python and Neurohacking group participation
- Matthew - see friends
- Marten - Art, music and electronics
- Pan - Pantrimtab, continuation of the human race here by accident
- Mojotu - electronics looking for tips modding an 80s drum machine
- Craig - learn more about programming, computers
- crw - from bound together
- Jarrod - maker and junior architect
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