Meeting Notes 2023 01 31

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These are the notes from the The 710th Meeting of Noisebridge.

• Live notes
  • https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting
• Virtual Meeting (jitsi mic/cam off by default)
  • https://jitsi.noisebridge.io/hackitorium#config.startWithAudioMuted=true&config.startWithVideoMuted=true&userInfo.displayName=%22n00b%22
  • Backup link: https://meet.jit.si/noisebridge

Date: 2023_01_31 as below

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Note-takers: Mark

Moderators: Jams

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

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TLDR what happened at the meeting:

Short announcements and events

Global Game Jam is concluding Sunday at 5pm! There will be a closing ceremony at that time where the teams show off their games!

show (un)anouncement (adriel/musicubes) feb 17th - fri - they canceled because someone said stuff about insurance. their updating the wiki. they want to do more shows in future if noisebridge insurance gets upgraded to support concerts. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Alex415_%26_Musicubes_@Noisebridge

Discussion

Space guardian stuff

- Bravespace issue 1
- started monday 
- (via mark) a member came to the space to do circuit hacking monday. tables were full of shit. also there was a car being worked on. this place isnt' excelent, i'm taking a break they said.
- the person working on the car, came around and said sorry, wanted to weld, went over time, seems like they reached an understanding
- that lead to a convo to having greater control over the rules of NB
- JD said it would be been chiller if it was during the morning
- someone "donated" stuff
- Mark is going to talk to actor 1 (lets circle back next meeting)

- Bravespace issue 2 - "unexcellent things"
- take away: if you see unexcellence take excellent action to make the space :100:
- Peter will talk to actor 2 (lets circle back next meeting)

- Bravespace issue 3 - alcohol machine / bar bot
- general donation money (120$) went to bar bot by actor 2
- we need concensous (small c) on this for money / and that it's in the space (regarding drinks/libaility)
- bring this discussion online - should we do it? who should manage it?
- some subset of community wants to use it for events (+)
- id scanner enhancement
- sept 1 2022 - law enstated for non-profits serving - rbs cert on site - 15$ and a 2 hour class online, and small fee to state
- whats our insurance about booze?
- circle back next week at the meeting and talk about it more on #general on slack only

fridge

- it's loud and sucks, unplugged it

noise tor project (mark)

- it's back!
- 20mb/sec as a tor bridge (not officially apart)
- donations still coming in for noisetor
- io cooperative - host for noise tor
- mark isn't an admin of the box
- super q (ben) has access, wanted joth to wipe it and reformat
- could be wifi controler - ubiquity
- it'll be in the rack upstairs
- spread the word - need more tor bridges***
- there's a guide about it
- call to action - need maintiner of this in general
- awesome that noisebridge kept it running
- it's planned to be decommisioned and turned into a Wifi controller for NB by Jof - see if someone wants to make it a bridge again instead?
- liz shoudl know most about $ stuff with noisetor
- years ago when this started we said might donate the hardware to EFF when it gets decomissioned. maybe we still want to do that also?
- monkeybrains in their colo for cheap - legally a tor bridge?
- unicorn has gone down - lets replace it with this?

We should review our insurance policy regarding all the topics discussed. We talked about this last meeting. (music, booze, etc...)