Meeting Notes 2017 01 31
These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge. Date: 2017-01-31 Note-taker: Drew Moderators: Nathan A.
Meeting Summary[edit | edit source]
TLDR what happened at the meeting:
- Mini-Reboot is February 18th-19th!
- Noisebridge has a lot of money, but it's not really a lot!
- Lizzie wants to become a member!
- There are no consensus items!
Introductions[edit | edit source]
lol whoops i (Drew) missed a bunch of introductions.
- Mo - first time visitor
- Peter - visiting from Belfast
- ?
- Marc - visiting from Belfast
- ?
- John - treasurer stuff
- Mitch - cofounder of Noisebridge
- Marco - online advisor to help beginner learn programming (and in the future: everything) - InLe
- Trent - helping with Sparkleforge
- Darryl - Does robots and teaches laser cutter.
- Henner - Makes programs
- Jeremy - Does software, runs 5MOF
- Dee - Teaching himself C for complexity studies, interested in social activism.
- Miloh - haven't been to a meeting in about a year -- attending hw hacking at sudoroom on tuesdays instead
- Alexander, not Alex - Loves making stuff, wants to bring his inventors.
- Lizzie - Thinks about security and the future.
- Victoria Fierce - A literal house
- Sam - Does lights and music.
- Hannah - Laser cutters and CNC machines and also programs no.
- Drew - Works in Distributed systems and cares about leftism
- Jeff - Interested in Security AND Lights & Music
- Jarrod - Makes furniture.
- J - Teaches Circuit Hacking Mondays
- Blake - crypto and labor
- Lee - Jet-lagged. Working on distributed systems at noisebridge as
- Amanda - with a company called acidvr.com looking to host a workshop in live DIY Virtual Reality Music.
- James
- Jarvis - Does android stuff, is working on a game.
- Jonas - builds things with electronics, specifically on ESP Wifi devices
- Johan - builds software.
Short announcements and events[edit | edit source]
Lizzie is hosting the next 5MOF. 5MOF is weekly but also monthly. 5MOF monthly meetings are the 3rd Thursday. This week, you can go to the website 5mof.com
- 5mof.com!
- Feb 16 - Five Minutes of Fame, no dudes!
Alexander - Runs a meetup group called Modern Inventors. Once every 2 weeks to talk about inventions. Used to meet at Muddy's (?) but they want to meet here. They want to have the meeting in 2 weeks on Monday at 6:30.
- Mondays are busy
- Church was something on Mondays and now it's Python class.
- Maybe Turing is free?
- Check the meetup page, which is a good
moderninventors.club
J - in a couple of weeks, it's REBOOT TIME
- MINIREBOOT MINIREBOOT (poster attached)
- February 18th and 19th
- Show up to help!
- During the reboot, hacking is allowed on the space itself only
Makerfare!
- May 19th-21st
- Probably not gonna be a big noisebridge project, but contact hicksu@gmail.com if you want to show off your stuff
- #fabrication on slack could coordinate a big project
Mitch
- Wants to do an Arduino for Total Newbies Workshop at the end of February
- Mitch can teach 50 people and this will FILL UP the space, probably on a weekend
- 3.5 hours of soldering and arduino fun
Trent
- Next monday at 7 in church
- Noisebridge Python on websockets in flask
- Gareth will be talking
NO MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS OR EVENTS
Safe Space[edit | edit source]
Some specific points you might prompt the group to touch on, if it doesn't happen naturally:
- What to do if you feel uncomfortable.
- Noisebridge strives to be radically inclusive. What does that mean?
- Noisebridge has an antiharassment policy. What does that mean?
Victoria talks about safe space:
- The last 11 days have been really super anxious and stressful for a lot of people.
- Noisebridge tries to be a safe space, both physical and psychological:
- Physical as in use PPE, be safe, and add the 3 laws of robotics to your creations.
- Psychological as in everyone should feel empowered to hack on what they want to hack.
- Try not to bother people in thier work.
- Try to let people prepare themselves before you bring up sensitive topics like violence and abuse.
- If you feel like Noisebridge is being unsafe:
- In slack, go into #space-guardians and ask for help, and people will help
- A trusted Noisebridger may also help
- If you doubt yourself, someone can double-check your gut feeling (your gut is probably right).
Blake:
- One of the big modes of alienation of women here is when well-intentioned guys are over-helpful and way too friendly.
- Tone it down and don't pay loads of attention to a girl.
Mitch: the Code of Conduct is posted on the wall to remind people of our standards.
Participation[edit | edit source]
J:
- The bottom line is anybody, ANYBODY, can come into Noisebridge to hack and teach and work. The only rule is to be excellent to each other.
- If you want access to the space, know people and be involved. If people notice your positive presence, you may be offered access.
- J likes to give access to people who are really involved in CHM.
- If you want 24/7 access, you might become a philanthorpist (sp?)
- If you REALLY want to participate, you can become a member!
Philanthropists[edit | edit source]
Sam:
- Being a philanthropist is a lot like being a normal member of the community except in return for a bit of a bigger participant, you get 24 hour access.
- Recommend donation $80/mo, $40/mo starving hacker.
- Philanothropists can come and go as they please and can close up the space past 10.
Victoria:
- To become a philanthropist:
- Fill out a form in the binder, and it'll be read out at a Tuesday meeting if you're sponsored.
- If anybody dissents to you being a philanthropist, they can block it.
- If you're un-excellent, your philanthropy can be REVOKED.
NO NEW PHILANTHROPISTS THIS WEEK.
Membership Binder [edit | edit source]
Lizzie:
- An indicator of increased commitment and responsibilty.
- As part of this commitment, you have more of an obligation to Noisebridge.
- You're also part of Consensus:
- If things might be wrong in the space, you can change things but you should talk to people before you impact the space.
- If you want to do a big thing, you can go through big-C Consensus, which is a Process for if things might impact Noisebridge forever.
- If you disagree with some Consensus Proposal, you can Block it, which means it won't happen.
Lizzie has an application in to be a member!
Lizzie says:
- Wants to be a member b/c they feel more commitment and responsibility to the space.
- If something bad would have happened, they would have just left, but now stick around and fix it, which is a change.
Milo:
- Was a member, but it lapsed because they didn't "hiatus".
- Has been a philanthropist for a year
Financial Report[edit | edit source]
- Funds in bank: $83,972.01
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
- Any other details by those participating in handling our financials
Join us in #finance-wg in Slack around $5,000 per month operating expenses We cashed out $19,417.14 in Noisetor Bitcoins recently, and got at least one $500 check for Noisetor. Lots of online donations also tagged with Noisetor. I plan to doöcratically transfer a lot of our cash reserves into a higher yield savings account that’s FDIC insured. We can get at least 1% annual return. With our current bank total that’s a bunch of money. We have $8,643.25 left in the equipment fund. Help us spend this money! If you raise half the money for a piece of equipment, the equipment fund can match you for the other half. Treasurer goals: We want to buy the building. But how? We dunno. Talks are ongoing. I think we have < $200 in laser maintenance Discussion of buying the building was supposed to be at 7 but now it's some other time.
Consensus[edit | edit source]
Victoria:
- Lizzie's description was good.
- NB has 2 forms of consensus, both decision making processes
- Big-C Consensus is the more procedural one. We talk about your thing and talk about it and talk about it and if nobody dissents it Becomes So
- Little-c consensus is more day-to-day. For example, if you want to paint a wall, you ask around. Talk to people and figure out the best process
- Ties in with doocracy. If you want to do a thing, do it.
- Little-c items are un-doable.
- You might not even realize your part of consensus, but you are.
Mitch:
- You can do anything at noisebridge, member or not. Membership only brings you 2 things: 24 access and BLOCKING
- During Big-C the item is discussed greatly and then
- BLOCKING in Big-C means if things get out of control (which should not happen!) then someone (a member in good standing!) can BLOCK a proposal.
- "As a member of Noisebridge, I can't in good conscious allow this proposal to proceed"
- If people might be dissenting, talk it out.
John:
- A good example of consensus proposal was the recent Fiscal Sponsorship, which was withdrawn because it wasn't time yet, but now there's more discussion about it!
Mitch: An exception to the blocking thing:
- If someone is up to be a member of noisebridge, and any Member in Good Standing objects, the protomember is NOT a member, with NO GOOD REASON needed, because being a Member gives a bunch of rights under California Nonprofit Law
Proposals from last week [edit | edit source]
None!
Proposals for next week [edit | edit source]
None!
Discussion[edit | edit source]
J - Noisebridge MINI-REBOOT as above!
- Prep work on 17th
- We can spill into Monday if we want!
- The main thing to talk about is if you want to participate, go onto the website and click on the MINI-REBOOT link.
- There is a list of items that need fixing.
- If you want to participate but don't want to participate, you can bring food and drinks.
- tman66@gmail.com or j on slack or @circuithackingj on twitter.
- Things for discussion require cash:
- Curtains - Kyle has offered to find nice curtains:
- donate.noisebridge.net/projects/curtains - we need 119 dollars
- Curtains - Kyle has offered to find nice curtains:
- UPS Support for Earl (Access Control) is needed
- Sparkleforge needs a door-casing (sp?)
- 220v Outlet
- Roof leaks
- Install CO sensors (Mitch: which arrived today!)
- Fix the Noisebridge table.
- #mini-reboot on slack
- Victoria - is the TODOocracy still happening on Thursdays? Victoria can't run it anymore:
- Who knows what TODOocracy? Nobody!
- Noisebridge used to have a SCRUM every week to fix up the space!
- Milo wants to see it happen again!
- There's a link on the wiki.
- Very Very Important to get rid of junk. If you have a TRUCK-SHAPED OBJECT or access to a TRUCK-SHAPED OBJECT, we REALLY need one.
- Mitch wants to give context:
- Minireboot is annual since the REBOOT, which was not MINI
- 4 years ago Noisebridge was spiraling downword for a number of reasons
- Lots of people who didn't belong started showing up and Noisebridge ended up a flop-house.
- People who DID belong here had to deal with shit, sometimes literally.
- There are interesting stories on the 86 page.
- NB nearly disappeared because bad people gonna bad.
- As a last ditch before everyone just threw in the towel, the place was shut down and rebuilt, and it fixed things.
- Having a mini-reboot every year is to keep things together and help keep Noisebridge healthy.
- Implicitly, we've been talking about the "cultural immune system". New people to the space get a tour, for example, to learn what the space is about.
- Noisebridge culture is passed on this way, and mini-reboot is an annual celebration of that.
O Happy Day has figured out how to use Postmates and NB is getting misdeliveries, which for some reason we are not immediately eating. Maybe make them a sign/logo/thing?
Next Thursday on Feb 9 7pm TODOocracy
- to-do-ocracy on slack?
Victoria:
- If the wiki went away forever, how would you feel?
- Negatively, says the room.
Property Planning Map:
- http://propertymap.sfplanning.org/
- You can look up 2169 Mission Street