Meeting Notes 2024 02 20

These are the notes from the The 757th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date: 2024_02_20

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Note-takers: Loren, Brandon - keeping queue

Moderators: Mark

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

Meeting Summary

FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST/SLACK/DISCORD Include: TLDR what happened at the meeting:

• Fundraising Update:
• Announcements:
• Finances:
• New members:
• New associates:
• Consensus Items:
• Discussion Items:

Introductions

• Ask people to share their name, access needs, and preferred gender pronouns what they do at noisebridge

• Mark - Hack on Noisebridge, Hack on videogames
• Brandon - philanthropist. Dabble in software stuff
• Javier (online astuku (sp) with a k) -finished one episode of a documentary about the natives of Chile
• Mike - multimedia artist, software development. hacking the transportation system is my hobby
• Zoda - software engineer
• Brad - from SLC makerspace - drones
• Gwenn - project manager
• Jathin - engineer, battlebots, , working on a hyper-spectral camera
• Amelie - new, came with Judah to make cool stuff
• XXhe (pronounces "zhay") - ICE compose, performance artist, event composer, and
• Stone - inventer in a few areas, esp now fashion technology. Come talk to me about anything
• Judah - second time here, interested in programming and making stuff in general
• Quantum Effect - I'm observing and learning. Drove 1200 miles over past 5 days to come see San Francisco
• Charlene - like to 3d print and fashion model and create new friendships! Hack the stock market!
• Blake - machining, wood stuff, electromechanical
• Loren - infrastructure meetup, make code useful for people!
• John - cohost robotics meetup wednesdays at 7
• Fromsa - having a fashion show here
• Ellen - spend time in sewing area, I also write and am wanting to do more stuff in woodworking!
• Arif - mechanical and electrical engineering stuff with art, first meeting
• Cloud - I work on 5 minutes of fame - a talk series about stuff people work on!

Short announcements and events

• 60-second description per item in bulletpoint.
• Copy-paste any pre-announcements for the upcoming meeting from Announcements.
• After announcements, copy them to the past Announcements list. Retire any from the Next Meeting list that aren't marked ONGOING.
• (See https://www.noisebridge.net/ and https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events for events, and welcoming people)

• February 29th @ 7pm - Leap Year Party. Javier will be premiering his documentary, a 40 minute episode about the Mapuche tribe in Chile.

• Fashion show - Hosted by Fromsa. March 9th, Saturday!
  • (inside noisebridge - max occupancy 49)
  • For guests to donate, yes, use QR links, or https://donate.noisebridge.net/

• Two classes coming up in sewing.

1) Sharpening tools. Knives, gardening tools, scissors, etc etc. Feb 24th, 2-3:30 pm 2) March 2, Saturday, 2-4pm, Sewing 101: Fiber and Fabrics. A deep but quick survey of the fibers used to make fabrics and the properties of those fabrics.

• Wednesdays, Robotics meetup, regular. John & Charlene?

• xxhe - two events

 1) proposing a weekly sound meditation/dance meditation event - collab between a lot of my artist friends from around the bay area. I also perform. Wanted to propose Thursdays around 6pm weekly.
 2) also do an event called "catacombs". based around creating a space for artists who have something really different to share. we had an "ice opera" recently for example. Its like a party and a display of a very unique piece of art. Usually we do it once every 2 months. Typically happens on a saturday. We'll get more details as we get closer.

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other. (On first Tuesdays, seek a few definitions. Other Tuesday, give a 1-3 sentence summary.)

Our one rule is to be excellent to each other. We've evolved a sent of rules that we agree on.

Help create the space that you would like other noisebridgers to use.

See the wiki page

One of the rules, is to not use the space as your home, not sleep in it, not take exclusionary command of individual parts of the space

What does that mean? Please see our page on excellence https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Excellence!

Anti-Harassment Policy & Community Standards of Excellence

Noisebridge has an Anti-Harassment Policy https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Policy Everyone is expected to follow the Anti-Harassment Policy, please familiarize yourself with it.) TWO MINUTES MAX More approachable & specific guidelines, https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Community_Standards https://safespace.noisebridge.net/ is one way to quickly raise issues which will be seen by people in Slack.

It starts with de-escelation.

Helpful guidelines on the wiki.

Brief Kudos

Recent examples of excellent behavior, say 3, unless the passion moves you.

• Kudos to Elle and Mark, for all the grant work they've been doing, late into the night, right up to deadlines. And to zoda for the support
• (Judah) Kudos to everyone who was here before the meeting started. Everyone was so helpful in getting me set up to do what I wanted to do.
• To Stone & Brandon, who continued or re-ignited the woodshop wall discussion, and to JD & Ken who are working on it.
• To Ken, for fixing the plumbing in the bathroom, the sink.
• Elle - to everyone on Friday who contributed to the grant application - Stone, Mark, John, & others

Guilds

• What are guilds - briefly describe (much like the previous section on "Excellence")

Active examples

• Laser
• CNC
• woodshop
• Sewing
• Totally secret cabal of space maintainers (not secret, it is exclusive)

New Members/Associate Members

What are they? Is anyone trying to become a Member or Associate Member? If not move on. No long discussions.

See

• Associate members - Jathin
• Members - Ken

• • Ken was blocked for 8-12 months
  • Loren, I appreciate Ken's moderating influence on night time culture.
  • Ken (4th week, of 4 for final assocaite to membership)
  • JD blocked initially because Ken applied for membership immediately.

• • Ken, has invested in a wholistic way. Taking out the trash, but even more, organizing other people in the space.

Financial Report (first Tuesday of month only)

Anarchist societies under a capitalist state need money to survive and thrive, yo.

https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Finances

we have about 40 something k in the savings account and a CD of about 140k or so. Will be locked until July, Coinbase - we have ? bitcoin

We invest (e.g. into CD=Certificate of Deposit) funds we don't forecast to need, in the coming 3 months (financial quarter), ignoring expected donations. So we have plenty of liquid funds. Don't worry about it too often.

Spending Needs

Gotta spend money on XYZ (i.e. Gate, wiring etc.). WHO CAN SIGN THE CHECK OR LEND THE CREDIT CARD!?!?! It doesn't matter if we agree to do something and it can’t be paid for.

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

Big C Consensus Items

Nobody likes 3 hour meetings, only explain if new people are present. 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.

Consensus Item #1

Week 1 of 2.

$1600 consensus for fire sprinklers.

Consensus Item #2

Membership

• Big M Member sponsor, for a Membership applicant or Associate Membership applicant, needs to be present at the meeting, online or in-person, to attest to their sign off live during the meeting, and speak to applicant's excellence.

(discussion item) 0: fundraising / grants

From/Raised by: Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic:

Filled out a small business grant app for $50k, will hear results in april

Filling out more applications - we need pictures of cool things people have been making at NB!

Stone - do you need a photographer? I have a nice camera

Mark - look in the #look-what-i-made channel in discord, get ppl's consent and source some pics from there!

Still waiting to hear on Security Grant

Grants - in #sewing channel, #fundraising. in Discord. Org in sf that specializes in foundations.

Discussion Items

(discussion item) 1:

From/Raised by: jd Seeking: funding necessary? Amount? On topic: wood shop partition/door improvements

• • Plumbing for new sprinklers - for partitioned hallway. $1600 consensus
  • Partition walls ~ hallway.
  • ventilation. - out back (the
• door improvements - $14k, too tight

Ken talked to a plumber, got price of $1600 for 2 additional sprinkler heads. said he'd match any better price.

JD: Why 2 heads?

He said for that hallway we'll need 2.

I trust my architect, but whatever. It's cheap.

Before the meeting, Stone, Mark, and Brandon talked about designing the wall itself.

It's a partition, not a wall. We are not running electrical *in* the wall. There may be other safe, code-compatible ways to provide some electrical in the new sections.

Stone says a rough estimate might be 2k or so for the first partition wall.

When the plumbing inspector comes to sign off on the sprinkler heads, itd be great if we weren't right in the middle of construction.

Plumber says within a week after estimate is agreed to , he can do it.

New sprinklers -> two walls -> ventilation

Outside will is covered in asbestos tile. Ventilation is going to be a challenge.

(discussion item) 2:

From/Raised by: Mark Seeking: opinions/ small c consensus On topic: Membership process

- All-hours access, versus member. Separation.

(discussion item) 3:

From/Raised by: Jonathan Seeking: advice On topic: jewelry-making. Action items: create a discord channel

   guage interest, build a coalition.

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!