Meeting Notes 2024 08 27

These are the notes from the The 776th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2024 08 27
Note-takers	Alex
Moderators	J.D.

Previous Meeting

Next Meeting

• Woodshop wall update happening soon, we'll clear projects and may appreciate help
• Periodic maintenance, task board updates happening. Check whiteboard in the space and discord channel
• Concerns about excessive smoking and littering on the patio. Please don't smoke on the patio and speak up if and when it bothers you

Meeting Summary

• Announcements:

 * Weekend of Sept 28/29 Noisebridge will be an open studio
 * Work on wall separating woodshop from hackitorium to start shortly

• Consensus Items:
• Discussion Items:

Introductions

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

- J.D (he/him) - Here becasue it's a cool place with cool stuff going on
- Zack - Here for basically the same reason, also hooked on lazers now
- Alex (h
- Sohan (he/him) - recently moved from D.C. used to go to hacker spaces in DC
- Lauren - Mostly intersested in infosec stuff and needed to get out of the house
- Elly - Interested in learning about noisebridge membership, community, etc.  Programming since 6 and likes building things
- Loren - Loves the culture of this space and how anyone showing up can help make cool things happen.  runs a meetup talking about software infra on Mondays
- Cloud - Here for five mof 

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)
• Zack - Weekend of sept 2829 noisebridge will be an open studio. Artists that are not from here can apply to show their work also encourage people at Noisebridge to display their stuff. Won't necessarily shut down and clean up but will be doing Noisebridge and this (11am - 5pm) okzack on discord
• Sergio - Ken to announce that starting tomorrow to start the wall to separate out the woodshop and the hackitorium. May also want to discuss a lot of space in the woodshop being used for storage.
• Sergio - maybe we can share jobs to clean the patio or take items out. Was the last one here and took the bins out but may not have been here and able to take this. Maybe have volunteers for specific weeks so there is some responsiblity around taking it out. It's a good way to contribute back to the space. Can take Monday nights and Thursday nights.

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! - Zack - assume as a default the person intends well when you're in a situation. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Take a breadth and a sec before responding - Elly - Treat people the way you want to be treated

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.

- J.D. - One example, keeping people in a room by blocking a doorway - Zack - Keeping the yellow brick road clear

Brief Kudos

Recent examples of excellent behavior, say 3, unless the passion moves you. - Zack - Last week Loren took out the trash and the trash bins for everyone. - Loren - To Kevin and another person to help take out trash at the infra meetup on Mondays - Loren - Kudos to Zack for running the Saturday clean up. Good to get in the habit of once or twice a month to clean up space

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 or can be reserved for the discussion section of the meeting.

Discussion Items

It is recommended to post items for discussion ahead of time at https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting. (Check that the template for the meeting is in place already, and that last week's notes have been moved to the wiki, of course)

Item prompts should follow the format: From/Raised by: [your name here] Seeking [decision/outcome/advice/something else] On topic: [topic]

== Discussion Item 1 ==woodshop wall construction and preparation From/Raised by:loren Seeking : On topic:

   We agreed we want a parition wall to help with noise and dust between the woodshop area and the hackitorium.  We agreed to spend money on building the wall.  Ken has agreed to do that.  May be able to borrow scaffolding from a space near by and the foam panels as a part of the wall.  This is not a load bearing wall just a wall that will fill some space and will not be a fire hazard.  Also have adjusted sprinkler heads and added more in anticipation.  Will likely want help in cleaning stuff off.  Ken and others have expressed how much space John's items are taking in the wood shop area. There is also a large boat project as well.  
   JD - may be time to ask people to not bring big projects
   Loren - Spoke to them about not leaving it limbo for long period of time
   Zack - Maybe ask about intentions about long term storage and maybe work with them since it's so large
   JD - Are there events using the hackitorium?  Moving items into the space for wall construction could make issues for events
   Loren - We have had cleanouts that have moved more than this maybe we can do that on a weekend
   Zack - has a how to banksy event on Sunday and would like help moving items if there are items that are stored on the patio.  The space will have lots of spray painting going on.  (event is from 3-4pm)
   If anyone sees Ken please let him know that it'd be nice not to store items on the patio
   Loren - Can we put this on a discord thread?  Notes can also be shared
   Zack To start thread in Hacktorium discord channel for wall construction project
   Thread -> https://discord.com/channels/720514857094348840/1278182696945979484/1278182700217536512
    
   

== Discussion Item 2 ==periodic maintenance From/Raised by:Sergio Seeking On topic:

   Loren - few options on how to coordinate on this
     - Discord can have a discussion thread or possibly a channel 
     - Long term can then end up in the wiki
     - Something in person can be helpful to encourage people to interact with 
     - Any other items that could help?
   Sergio - Likes that
   JD - Need
     - List of tasks
       - Cleaning bathroom
       - taking out trash
       - etc.
     - Then people can sign up for tasks 
   Sergio - Good to do our part and take out the trash, clean things etc.  It would be good to see people engage with and take care of Noisebridge
   - Loren - Bounty Board could be a good place to go and add tasks
   From the reboot 
     - Closed the space down for a week to do some things to reboot the space
     - Bounty board was organizing what was going on
   - Elly - Other items like 3d printers
   - Loren - Usually let groups that manage them (guilds) to handle them
   - Loren - today on the home page there is a purple box on Noisebridge.net that has a link to the Discord
   - JD - What do peole think is a way to organize space maintence
     - We have the secret kabal space maintenance channel
     - Would be nice to have a matrix or such on site so people can volunteer for a space
   - Zack - Would be nice for newer people to see what they can do and volunteer
   - JD - Does anyone want to take this on?
   - Loren - We should get a large chart and then we can work on it iteratively 
   - JD - bounty board what is done?
   - JD - Some will stay after the meeting ot sign on and do specific tasks

== Discussion Item 3 == Smoking From/Raised by: Zack Seeking On topic:

   There are some volatile fluids out on the patio with a rag in the top.  Which is not great for fire safety. 
   Is it ok to ask people to not smoke on the patio.  Also a bit of a gauntlet because people have to walk through the smoke and experience issues with second hand effects of the smoke.  How can we discuss enforcing this?
   Asking to please leave in this scenario can be difficult.
   Are there alternatives like putting a large sign or smoke detector?  Are there ways to handle that?
   Sergio - have talk about this a few times.  We know who is doing this. Let's talk to them and ask them not to.  Had to eat the meal outside and had to talk to some members about this issue.  
   JD - can we banksy up a sign?
   Zack - yes we can.  Also there is additional littering from butts and joint ends, which is not nice
   Elly - We do have keep clean signs here in front of us in the hackitorium
   Loren - Could be nice to say in public why your doing things e.g. "I am leaving becasue people are smoking".  Helps other people understand that they're not alone in feeling the frustration.  May need some coalition building.
   JD - Recently changed the code on the front door because the code had gotten out and people were using the front porch as a smoking area.
   One of the things the safety committee is working on is a set of bullet points to say during the tour.  We should add no smoking to the tour.  Like we tell people note to cook food in the kitchen area.
   Zack - It'd be great to have those as bullet points to help with tours
   JD - Have had some documents that we've started using, like what we said at the opening to the meeting.  Want to eventually get these to the wiki space.

== Discussion Item 4 == How to sell art? From/Raised by: Zack Seeking On topic: - How do we want to do this? - JD - Elan can help since he set up the silent auction during the party.

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!

Completed Tasks

• Clean up Electronics Workbench and add small shelves
• Move "Console" game sto the front patio area
• Woodshop - Empty Scrap bin
• Games area replace fridge
• Tidy and dust board games
• Woodshop: Replace jointer power cable
• Games: Turn bar to frame the walk way
• Woodshopo: Switch for disk sander
• Limboland: Turn odl shop crap bin into limboland
• Limboland: New bin
• Purge Chairs! Store some to keep for events
• Flaschen Taschen revive!
• Hang white board in front stairs
• re org woodshop
• Paint ADA lanes on hackitorium floor
• Patio: No Smoking signs
• Patio: No e-waste donations sign
• Restack event chairs under the stairs
• Move bike rack outside
• Discord: organize and consolidate channels
• Discord: Move channels to guild category

End of Meeting

Note taker posts the notes

• Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
• Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, & discussion topics.
• Copy paste the notes to the next meeting page. (They will become Last meeting at midnight.) https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Last_meeting&redirect=no
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• CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
• Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
• Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

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)