Meeting Notes 2024 11 19

These are the notes from the The 787th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2024 11 19
Note-takers	Blue, Loren
Moderators	Loren

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• 3 first-time attendees
• Thanksgiving plans -- see Discord/#events-forum/##~ thanksgiving. gSheet Potluck & RSVP
• Plans for fundraising -- end of year email -- NB hackathon, e-card projects

Meeting Summary

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

• Announcements:
  • NaNoWriMo -- had 3rd meeting. Was sparsely attended. (so far, total 8 new people to NB attended)
    • sunday, next meeting
    • saturday -- 6 hour
  • Health @ NB (discussion item)
  • Stupid hack -- happened, was good. We should do more of those.
    • Let's do one next month. NB Make Xmas cards (electronic) happen.

• Consensus Items: -
• Discussion Items:
  • Thanksgiving plans -- see
  • Fundraiser email* for end of year + project / membership. Fundraiser/art-saleable & new+old member events.
  • electronics web index
  • woodshop wall update
• Ask to leave -- seeking mediator (for communication -- reachable by phone? -- & for hosted access to space)

Introductions

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

• Loren - host an infra meetup on Mondays, talk to me about hosting parties, especially (but not only) cleaning parties
• Asia - new-ish to the space, interested in getting move involved

• Blue - talk to me about leather/laser work and the woodshop overhaul
• Daniel - messing around with discrete transistors and basic ICs. (Loren: check out circuit hacking monday)
• Prateek - software enginereing (backend) some robotics work, interested in new robotics endevours
• Elle - host sewing, and spacebridge, esp man Talk about fundraising. Talk of health, proposal for thanksgiving.

• Mark - like to do games stuff, and helping out noisebridge
• Joshua (it's prime so I am here)
• Mayowa - new-ish to NB, some help from NB with the makerfair exhibits, NB fan
  • Exhibit, brought for Maker Faire, could display here. "its an AI assistant with a physical face and voice, can be configured to have access to specific information, e.g. info about the space, where things are, who people are"

• Cloud --
• Ron -- working on getting the CNC to move, sum's up with the spindle

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)

• NaNoWriMo -- had 3rd meeting. Was sparsely attended. (so far, total 8 new people to NB attended)
  • sunday, next meeting
  • saturday -- 6 hour

• Health @ NB (discussion item)
• Stupid hack -- happened, was good. We should do more of those.
  • Let's do one next month. NB Make Xmas cards (electronic) happen.

Excellence

Brief Kudos

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

• Kudos to: the whole electric room cleanup crew. Brian! Mark, Josh. and the music room squad.
• Kudos to John for a great first tour of the space for Asia
• Kudos to Ethan for hosting a hackathon here. And Moof, helping to host a hackathon, all day on Sunday.

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

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.) 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.

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]

1: Thanksgiving

From/Raised by: Elle Seeking outcome, plan: potluck on the day of thanksgiving, spreadsheet for who is bringing what type of item

Google Sheet -- for Discord -- #event-forum -- ##thanksgiving plan (posting in Lu.ma & Meetup --

• On* Thanksgiving. To support community. Those apart from family, and

Part of effort on Health @ Noisebridge, started by Elle & Nasrami (sp?)

• More coordination on Discord
• Post events on luma and meetup
• Link to gSheet for plans
• Also plan volunteers to help with clean up.

2: Fundraiser email* for end of year

From/Raised by: Elle Seeking early plans -- timing is close (start of plans?)

Posted today. Committed Loren & Mark.

Talked about, quick brainstorming at last Tuesday's meeting. Ideas. End of year fundraising. 501(c)(3)

We want help to keep our doors open for people out into the future. remind those who might donate that we have provided a valued space for hackers in the mission, how our space helps bring multiple disciplines together to create presteige projects. Fundraiser concept: we work together to make a batch of works that is discrete enough (not one big thing) that could be sold to people in the community

• Prestige projects, like FT or NoiseTable.
• Could lesser prestige projects.

globakl fundraiser email in December, proposal to focus more on guilds than membership

• New member happy hour --

announcing the membership concept at the new and old member happy hour (?) ideally aiming for having one in December - plan: lets get the new people who are here to work on planning a December new member happy hour:

• • • link to the group thread here:__________________

3: electronics web index -- update/maintenance/reskin

From/Raised by: Daniel Seeking [decision/outcome/advice/something else]

Electronics room catalog improvement. gh:noisebridge/infrastruture site software is deployed from the github, database is there, prob has the right parts even if the locations have changed. Loren proposes that the wiki needs additional resources, login server (brony?), Daniel proposes cloning the database, doing his mods, and redeploying vcd (thank goodness they are writing this in their own words)

4: woodshop wall update

From/Raised by: Blue Seeking assistance with loading and unloading Saturday morning 11/23

The good news is: - we're closer to building it than ever before Bad news: - we need to exchange (return, buy) other lengths of wood. We bought 12-ft boards, We have 13-ft ceilings. (J has 50 -- 2x4s -- uh, or not).

• Scaffolding is available for borrowing.
• Laser range finder(s) available --

Have drywall. (We can't put it up until inspections)

Habitat for Humanity reuse center -- accepts all sorts of things. We can donate spare, if we can't return. We could ask them for materials as well.

14-ft'ers are niche, wouldn't count on them lying around.

(Yard open 7:30 - noon. Help Saturday morning, e.g. 9am, help unloading truck. Have to move 60 2x4s 60 ft ea.)

VERDICT: PLEASE HELP US OUT WITH LOADING THE WOOD ON TO KEN'S TRUCK FOR EXCHANGE ON FRIDAY EVENING! BE A FRIEND AND JOIN THE CAUSE TY <3

I don't want people to act annoyed when I tell them I'm building a wall in there. (BLUE/KEN) would ask that people not to use the table saw, router, or mitre saw for the sake of us not doing any major projects while we are building the wall.

On Saturday, everything that's behind the FT needs to find a home (not in woodshop).

Issue of use of power tools, in woodshop

Long-standing concerns.

• Need to replace tools
• Conflict with each new person, who asked him to use tools more safely.
• Asked to not use power tools, and to not use woodshop until we could resolve more.
  • Due to safety of others, passing by or using the woodshop
  • Has continued to use power tools, in the woodshop

• Seeking a mediator, primarily for communication.
• Only visit the space when planned in advance with the mediator. With the mediator present. (We can't reach him via Discord, we can't reach him via email. He can sometiems reach others with his phone).

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!

(What do you hope to do for noisebridge, in the next day? or week?)

• Loren: help someone get the elec. parts storage happening
• Mark: hosting GAMES programming & board games meetup.
• Ron: working on getting CNC to move. Get the woodshop wall top-plate up (only thing we need the scaffolding for)
• Asia: get a tour! maybe help on Friday with wood loading
• Blue: Build the wall!! Recursing -- clarifying tools, passably ok.
• Prateek:

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
• Email the meeting summary to Noisebridge Discuss and Noisebridge Announce lists.
• 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)