Meeting Notes 2023 01 10

Date: 2023_01_10

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Note-takers: Alison, Loren

Moderators: Loren

NOTE: Consider turning off fridge for the duration of the meeting. It is very loud and sometimes prevents people on video conference from hearing those in the space.

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

Meeting Summary

• Fundraising Update

some music events later

• Announcements:

Nuerotech Tuesdays, Saturday hackaton, better tools back together for future NB meetings 5mof next Thursday. Jan Events (2?)

• Finances:

Cash flow: 11.5k expenses, 6.5k revenue

• New members & New philanthropists:

   Alison Zhao! new philanthropist

• Consensus Items: -
• Discussion Items: -

Introductions

• Loren
• Max - SWE. at NB do stuff with hands. handcraft stuff. coming for a month~
• Alison - sewing! code! some woodshop! laser! don't yet know 3d printing, here to hang out and join other's projects
• Justin- work with software people, has many projects to join,
• Andrew - new, learning to do woodworking, goal: make chair, found on nb reddit,
• Chris - software, hardware, robotics, robotic arms, ham radio, backyard chemistry, lisencse
• Holland - insurance, laser cutter for drawer organizer, start project soon
• Anoah ("Ananah") - yellow on the outside, white on the inside
• Ahmad (Can't Stop Won't Stop) - like to hack on hw stuff, meet people

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

Clean up after yourself!

Dont hack something that shouldnt be hack Take care noisebridge

Bring your zines, so I can collect them. (Silver sprocket off Valencia.)

Short announcements and events

Nuerotech Tuesdays, Saturday hackaton, better tools back together for future NB meetings

Jan Events (2?) Alex415 Musicube

Circuit Hacking Mondays, John/rrmut and Dana

Neurotech.

5mof next Thursday.

Guitar pedal workshop - mabye once a month.

Guilds

Sewing, Laser are active Woodworking? - want of better organization. safety, stacking. Want to organize peope around this. Scraps - don't be afraid - talk to Arity on Discord, connect on organizing.

Anoah - connection to organizing group.

Financial Report

Treasurer's Finance update:

• we resolved the rent situation (december rent check got lost).
• we regained control of the PG&E account (yay!)
• great end of year donations! … we need this every month XD
• we’re looking for Julio, who is the owner of the meetup account, so event organizers can create tickets for their events. we instituted a minimum fee for sewing for instance, and this would help making sure a) folks show up and b) handling payments
• please everyone, look into whether you work for a company matching donations! And if so, pay your membership dues through this!
• we’re trying to set up paypal giving but i’ve had no luck getting hold of customer service
• really need to look into savings accounts - @dana had done the groundwork on this

Cash Flow 9500/month rent ~2000/month equipment 6200/month flowing

- Using savings from large donations

- Pay for classes, contribute to events and lead events - Wikipedia edit meetups

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Big C Consensus Items

Nobody likes 3 hour meetings, only explain if people ask. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Current_Consensus_Items

Consensus Items

Only for talking about Big C consensus items, small c consensus items should be discussed with people at the space at the time of the change/new item.

Discussion

Discussion Item 1

newcomers - what are you up to? hoping for tonight?

• meet people

• more responsibility

Discord Chrisby:

• defcon meetup?
• 5mof next week!

Do-ocratic Task Board

Participation also means doing stuff to contribute to the space. Propose new tasks or pick some tasks from Github, from what needs to be done around you, or whatever, and see if someone will sign up to work on that task. Anyone can sign up and it's a great way to show you are contributing!

End of Meeting

Note taker posts the notes

• Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
• Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
• Copy paste the notes to the next meeting page. (They will become Last meeting at midnight.)
• Email the meeting summary to Noisebridge Discuss and Noisebridge Announce lists.
• CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
• Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
• Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.