Meeting Notes 2024 08 20

These are the notes from the The 775th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2024 08 20
Note-takers	Mark
Moderators	Mark

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Meeting Summary

TLDR what happened at the meeting:

• Fundraising Update:

• Announcements:

 ** How to Banksy, tentatively Sept. 1st, hosted by Zack
 ** Applying to be part of SF Open Studios - artist/amker item showcase Sept 28th-29th! Talk to Zack (@OKZack) for deets!
 ** Makerfaire need volunteers/eager booth contributors! - see #makerfaire channel in discord
 ** noisebridge.threadless.com seems to be working now. Buy a cool NB t-shirt or something!
 ** NB sewing group/spacebridge will be setting up a test wind tunnel for a balloon sunday at 4:30 on the patio!

• Fundrasing:

 ** Check out revolving-auction thread in fundraising-wg discord channel!

• New members: None

• New associates: None

• Consensus Items: None

• Discussion Items:

  ** Lockpicking class, and Python with Pico W class both proposed and trying to coordinate day/time and space usage

Introductions

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

• Mark - meeting host
• Zack - make break build repeat
• J D - kind a the same TBH
• Cicada - hack on games and LISP
• Warren - from cleveland, do woodorking
• Hamilton - been working out of NB since like 2016 or so. I like ham radio and want to teach python Pico W to kids

Short announcements and events

• Zack - propose that we be part of San Francisco Open Studios. Deadline to apply August 25th. Have to commit to a day or two and certain hours. People would be doing studio crawl we'd be part of for this area. The event itself is later in the year, liek Oct or Nov. Minimum pay-in $100.

• Mark - reminder that tomorrow is Web3 Game Dev with Vara. Free pizza and drinks!

• How To Banksy tentatively Sept. 1st

• Maker Faire - lets find a time to meet to discuss what to put in our makerfaire booth!

• Threadless website (https://noisebridge.threadless.com/) - something was blocking people from actually checking out. Seems fixed now!

I ordered a pin - hope it arrives soon!

• Sewing group, this coming sunday at 4:30 PM will be setting up a wind tunnel out on the patio to stress test the spacebridge balloon! Any questions, ask Elle.

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.)

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.

Brief Kudos

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

Kudos to Chris P -for helping with Secretary stuff

kudos to Loren for dealing with the worse of trash duty >_< Icky

Guilds

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

New Members/Associate Members

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

Financial Report (first Tuesday of month only)

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

• Monthly revenue, expenses. Big projects. Big fundraising events. Reserves in bank.
• Any other details by those participating in handling our financials
• The latest financial reports from the treasurer are available at https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Finances

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.

San Francisco Open Studios - $100 for the application. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-open-studios-weekend-two-centralsouth-tickets-948362968167?aff=oddtdtcreator

Small C consensed

Make an event in discord and have Zack lead the effort

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.

Discussion Items

Discussion Item 0: money for lockpicks for a class

From/Raised by:jd Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?]all of the above On topic:

   Notion came about that we should have a lockpicking class. Beginning pickers destroy picks. I want some, bc i dont want to hand over all my good ones. Want to get a bunch of 5-10$ sets to be included with the cost of the class.
   

Looking for pre-approval to spend about 100$. Then I'll determine the size of the class and we'd go from there.

(discussion item) 1: Pico W Python

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

   I'd like to discuss hosting a Pico-W Python class for homeschool kids (and others who would like to attend) on Monday's at 3 PM in the upstairs working area near the windows if possible. 
   
   We did tis class last semester at Noisebridge downstairs. Taking Pico.W (its like a specific raspberry pi) and doing a set of pre-canned Python lessons with them. 1 Hour lesson. Then at 4 we'd go out and go to the Sycamore and play board games.

Would like to use the upstairs front area in the space for it for the fall semester.

Mark: Seems like there's no space conflict. Should be good to do it. Create the wiki page and put it on the calendar!