Meeting Notes 2024 07 09

These are the notes from the The 769th (nice) Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2024 07 09
Note-takers	Julius Elan
Moderators	Loren

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Introductions

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• Loren
• Julius - talk to me about balloons! or Julia -- starting a group soon
• Caleb - art projects, spacebridge
• Elan - talk to me about radios or balloons
• Alex - new, first time here, interested in 3d printing/ sewing
• Richard - also new game design / softwre
• JD - laser instructor, can help out will all the tools
• Gerald - into game dev / gamebridge
• Aaron - programming / can ask to help with laser cutting
• Jay Carpenter - from Phoenix, involved in DWeb community, run Arizona DWeb community node. RPis. Passion is universal state.
• Mark - into games as well, talk to me about organizing the space
• Elle - into balloons, into spacebridge, into sewing, into community, social events
• Cloud - into putting on 5MoF, it's next Thursday!
• Zack - make a lot of stuff, joined spacebridge as well

Short announcements and events

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• (See https://www.noisebridge.net/ and https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events for events, and welcoming people)

• DWeb camp -- Aug 7 - 11. DWebCamp.org
• DWeb pre-event -- at Internet Arcive, tomorrow. Can signup on eventbrite. Presentations, dinner.
• 5mof - coming up in, 5mof.net, come, help host, talk to Cloud. Third thursdays, 7/18 this month.
• Bayblade tournament - tentatively on the 19th. Waiting to see what progress they make on the enclosure and other preparations.
• Sewing starting to host classes. ($4k allocated to sewing, will be spend this month, aiming to get $1k in funds raised via sewing this month.
  • Looking for people interested in attending, teaching, etc
  • Sewing machine, with the help of Ken's truck, will be bringing a sewing machine from Hayward to NB/SF this Sunday, 7/14.

• Reminder about Door Open/Closing Switch - If you are willing to welcome the public (taking responsibility for new folks) please hit the switch to the UP position. This will update the status/send a message to #door on discord
  • Let's make visible lights in person.

• Mark - if anyone in this group is interested in the idea of Universal Basic Income, please chat with me!

• Loren - Finance stuff, check out the finance WG, things are happening, would love to loop new people into the process

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other. (Give a quick, 1-3 sentence summary.)

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

Julius - Excellence means being a positive enabling factor in the space.

It is excellent to leave when asked, waiting for cool down in order to amicably resolve conflict.

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.) 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.

Brief Kudos

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

• JD - Fineline just buying a @#$%- tone of TP, because we needed it (+Loren for getting other supplies -Mark)
• Elan - TY whoever cleaned back floor (Julius mopped!)
• Jay Jay - feels very welcomed
• JD - Excellent idea someone had to give out tokens. -- maybe redeemable for a drink at the sycamore
• John (? on discord) - brought 20 people to the space on Sunday, bunch of pleasant sewing ppl

Aaron - it is excellent to keep

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

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Big C - how rules/policy get made

Small C - local agreement

Discussion Items

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Discussion Item : Improving signage around space

From/Raised by: JD Seeking: On topic: Improving signage around space

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1GdvsalQwBS9Sh8pb7RFVViMncozKfutbsoc7PuXsx8E/mobilebasic We’re settling on posting at least the resources sign in the bathrooms and the event faqs signage tonight, right?

Discussion Item 1: Increasing laser training cost

From/Raised by: Wyatt Seeking: On topic: Increasing laser training cost

Talk about increasing meetup donation on laser class from $5 to suggested $20 total donation when you attend the class. $20 is very affordable for this type of class and it is generally a draw of new people to noisebridge. Currently we recommend people donate an additional $15 to the $5 meetup charge when they actually show up to the class. I'm not very convinced people donate this additional amount and I don't think it would turn people away to require the full $20 donation up front. The class is consistently filled/overfilled with extra people generally showing up. Due to how long the class takes to verify each student can use the laser(generally takes 2.5-3hrs right now) it's hard to justify accommodating more than 4 people to increase the donation income without compensating the members who are teaching the class. Hence, I think we should require the full donation so at minimum this class generates $320 monthly for noisebridge. That is still a drop in the bucket compared to the 12hrs or so of volunteer time the teachers of this class put in. I would also not be opposed to increasing the cost of the training class in general up to something like $40-50 and compensating the instructors for their time with somewhere between 30-40% of that amount. This could have benefits like allowing us to take on more students as instructors could potentially commit to a longer class period. It would also start to address our budget deficiet that hasnt gotten any better since last fall. However I recognize this is a separate item to discuss and I think updating the meetup cost to the already full suggested donation is a good first step. Additionally, we would still continue to accommodate members or nonmembers who financially cannot afford these classes. I never would want to turn people away who really want to learn, but I think most people would be willing and capable to support noisebridge with these slightly larger class donations.

JD - I am fine with raising cost however I am not for trainer compensation. It's not why I do it and I feel Paolo would feel similarly.

Loren - made a NB Luma account (for event RSVPs)

Mark - Is there a donation box at the laser?

Q: Followup. Where is the QR code? A: on the laser hood

Mark: We need to know if ppl are donating for their laser time.

Elle: Ace makerspace has a card reader require payment prior.

It is difficult for event hosts to figure out who has paid.

We've talked about the idea of event monitors, assisting the event hosts with bookkeeping/ppl management

Q(JD): How often do ppl show up 15m late or later to events? A: All the time - even up to an hour late. I can usually catch people up but I'd imagine this is different for laser.

JD: I often have to stall because people are consistently 15m late. Elle: With a class monitor they could focus on catching people up.

Elle: If we paid people it would be so much easier to get teacher.

• Loren: We can hopefully delegate this to guilds and see what works.

Elle: Even if it's just taxi fare it could help incentivice.

• $20 up from $5 for laser class. Yes ok.
• Paying instructors -- tricky, expensive, not absolute agreement for, lots of caveats among members. Willingness to acknowledge instructors more in this way.
• delegate some finance handling to guilds -- with reporting
• kilowatt --
  • scrolling led sign

Discord thread for continued discussion: https://discord.com/channels/720514857094348840/1260435898818887720

Discussion Item 2: Party Flyer

From/Raised by: Seeking Approval on wording On topic: agenda item for today's meeting: i'd like to seek feedback on and approval of a rough draft of the party flyer! i'll also propose printing plans and costs, and open a discussion about what words should go on the flyers

Hoping to get flier approved today to finish tomorrow.

Cost estimate for 100x copies for flier is $30

(meeting attendees discuss flyer and party plans)

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!

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Fun things to do after

• Do a 10 minute cleanup, bring dishes up stairs and wash them, clean the bathroom
• Have some beers on the patio
• Prepare the next weeks' meeting notes
• Lick the walls. Or just draw on them
• sing the Hackernationale (this almost never happens)