Meeting Notes 2015 10 06

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These are the notes from the The 380th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.

• One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.

Introductions

• Dan - known on #noisebridge as donkeyhotei. used to be here but then a lot less. hoping to find help replacing a phone screen.
• Fernando - heard about Noisebridge through a scavenger hunt 5 years ago. wants to check it out more ! :)
• Nils - found noisebridge through Wired magazine. Lives in SEA but here visiting
• Chris - no idea where they heard about Noisebridge. Looking to hack on woodworking, painting, electronics and videography with folks. want something documented? talk to me !
• Glen - heard about noisebridge looking for a cheaper techshop, and found noisebridge. background in architecture, wants to learn more about robotics and electronircs
• Ben - hi
• Danukeru - builds binaries and in-memory binary patches
• Mel - industrial engineer working with coffee. likes making machines, electronics, plumbing, hvac. All the coffee things.
• Victor - found it two years ago. moved nearby recently, so here more often. does Software Engineering, web apps and other things. security for fun
• henner - writes software, makes hardware. working on organising the electronics parts
• ?? - visiting to come to the meeting
• robin - heard about us through a book on maker culture. likes hacking on growing food and handy items for the nomadic culture
• dan - coming here for a few yeras. usually here on wednesdays to discuss neuroscience, neural network programming, EEG. 8pm on wednesdays. tomorrow is distributed processing night.
• joyti - lawyer teaching herself to code. here all the time
• daniel - first time here! heard about it through noisetor and the tor project. works in infosec and crypto.
• ?? - excited about the yubikey
• andrew - plays with data, visualizes and analyses.
• jake - found out about NB on Friday. here ever since. wants to do more circuits
• tim - found out about NB on sunday. writing JS for a year, learning as much as possible about software engineering.
• patrick -

Short announcements and events

• ?? - scheduled to have a VAX 8920 delivered to the space. what's up with that?
• henner - organising the electronics components! there's other folks helping too. if you want to help out that'd be amazing. we have roughly ~1700 drawers with stuff inside, entirely unsorted. 300-500 sorted and cataloged.
• - multitool for drawing. hoping to make it a project w/ injection molds. looking for collaboration.
• Danukeru - coreboot development. looking for lenovos in the T and X series which you'd be happy to have opened and flash dumped that'd be neat!
• dan - elevator gate is bent on the ground floor. watch out!

Membership Binder

• henner explains membership.

Financial Report

• 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

Consensus and Discussion

• consensus by henner!

Proposals from last week

None

Proposals for next week

None

Discussion Items

fixing the laser cutter

• henner - we have a tube, but apparently the controller board is missing. (sid?). have a laser cutter at home which runs some weird indecipherable software, so maybe I could donate the board from that to noisebridge.
• danukeru - can donate a beaglebone black.

mini reboot

• it's happening. give patrick your email and he'll tell you about it

downstairs renting

• patrick - should we do it? it'd be nice to have ~double the space
• dan - maybe incubator? maybe studio space? ~$400
• donkeyhotei - maybe get solar panels for roof to cut costs

End of Meeting

• Reprise of the Hackernationale. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
• PGP Key Signing could happen now (if it doesn't happen before any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the list to see who wants in on the action.
• Return the membership binder to its rightful location.
• Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions, then save them to the wiki.
• Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
• Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.
• Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.