Meeting Notes 2024 04 02

These are the notes from the The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date: 2024_04_02

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Note-takers: Aaron

Moderators: Loren

Attendees

• Aaron
• Cloud (remote and suffering from fomo)
• Elan
• Loren
• Mark
• Paulo
• JD
• We-Z

Consensus item: buy more trash service?

Paulo proposes a second 64 L, for a total of 128 L

Cost: - An extra $200/month baseline - 25% discount possible depending on how much we divert from landfill - Current cost is ~$350/month

graphics? - for trash

recology has some online. Recology SF: sorting guides signage

-Safety Marking up laser with good signs -Do not mess with computer -emeline has given up on the project sorry loren -Trash thing

Announcement: Loren is sharing a link to a poll

Please vote! Shared in Discord#reboot24! https://pol.is/5kyeuhjeui

Collecting: - values - intentions for what we want the space to be like - helpful to have people put out statements what is important to do - mandate of active value to the space up online - so peopel could see them - people can vote / propose projects -less pressure to propose

Format - Poll statements - vote on agree or disagree - moderated (because it’s a troll vector)

Ongoing - check it once a month or once a quarter - go over it at meetings - JD: good for policy vibe checks

Question: Increase engagement - feedback - should something be different - reboot for now - encourage them to.

Spacebridge: had poll, decided time to meet

Spacebridge meetup

Sunday, late afternoon evenings

Discussion: new comms channels

Discord

• movement-and-dance
• whole-foods
• useless-topics (Cloud)
• about-discord (Loren)
• concern: proliferation of channels
• Elan (proposal): forum-style channels
  • have Threads - projects consolidate it - channel topics
  • Cloud: threads have the problem that hey only stick around for three days
  • Forums don’t expire like threads do?

Mark: - a catch-all community / culture thing kind of makes sense - do things like art / politics / writing get their own forums? - we should have a server feedback & requests channel

• Loren: Commit to channel creation / demotion party once a quarter?
• Cloud: move less-used channel down
• Mark: what’s it like to join the Discord server for the first time?
  • Elle: overwhelming
  • Mark: there’s supposed to be a join-guilds prompt?
  • Elle, JD: seeing all the conversations going on is important
  • Cloud: the channels that require a ton of verification are the ones that want to do mroe filtering of who’s joining
  • Mark: when people join, give them as little as possible while making it as easy as possible for them to find new things
  • Elle: when people join, make them as overwhelmed as possible, and make it as easy as possible to siphon off what you want
  • Cloud: we’re still in product testing mode. if we don’t like something, we can always undo it. not the end of the world if we get it wrong the first time
• Mark: remind me to create a shell account

Current Discord officers include, Admins Mark, Loren, JD, Elan, and (a dozen others)

New Channels!

#announcements: general announcements - i.e. meeting notes, classes, meetups, etc. #community-and-culture: Catch all for general discussion topics.

Health in community space

Elle: - we have ongoing health initiatives. that’s why we have oranges and grapefruit; initiatives to encourage ourselves to walk more

Slack

Some updates done: - discussion channel: #general -> #general-meeting

JD: Posters

• topics to hit when you’re doing a tour
• printed-out wiki pages
• Mark: print out manual and hang it by the door
  • at-a-glance access
  • target audience: people who don’t know yet that they should be online (different fro the manual link poster)
• St. Igdocious (sp?)

Paulo: Ceramics

Stuff collecting dust: - Kiln (with furniture) - Wheel

Set it up in the game area, where there’s a 240 V outlet? - Point: if we want people to use it, lower the activation energy - Counterpoint (Loren): the kiln offgasses even worse stuff than the laser cutter. it’s appropriate for there to be significant activation energy for firing it up

Elle & Mark: we applied for “Vacant to Vibrant”!

15-minute phone interview, 11am Wednesday, April 3

• Pop-up space
• Tourist destination based on the amazing tourist destination that is Noisebridge
• People can:
  • see what NB is like
  • see what we make here
  • buy t-shirts
  • get membership info
• if we do it as a display space, we can just leave it open
• if we do it as a store, we can have someone crew it (and maybe even make enough money to get compensated for that)
• Paulo: opportunity to home the things that never had one here
• JD: “Noisebrige annex”
• meeting / class space