Meeting Notes 2026 04 07

These are the notes from the The 859th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2026-04-07
Note-taker[s]	Michael, Nthmost
Moderator[s]	Jet

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Meeting Summary

Board elections are now live. Core Members should visit the space to get a voting token from Elan. Noisebridge's finances are stable with March income of $16,349; Benevity donation matching was highlighted as the best way to support the space.

• Fundraising Update: Judy (Writers Workshop) proposed collaborating on a June 12-13 fundraiser called "Literary Devices" where writers share stories and Noisebridge hackers create devices inspired by those stories, with a reward for the best device; past similar events have raised $500–$1,000.

• Announcements: Joseph announced a fashion show based on Senegalese design on Saturday, April 11th at 7:30pm at the African American Arts and Culture Complex (entrance fee amount unknown); Heather reported the upstairs toilet flush/refill mechanism is flaky and continuously refilling; Jane announced "Afterlight Echo" event on May 9th, 9:30pm–2:30am, featuring DJ sets, visuals on screens, and showcasing graphic identities (approximately 49 attendees expected); Julius announced dragon art installations and Limbolandia eviction happening Saturday with volunteer help needed; Alex proposed setting up a new VJ booth and created Discord project boards for the Afterlight Echo visuals, audio, and setup; LX (Alex) is building a tracking app to help with checkout/checkin of shared items like the drumset, and proposed daily karaoke in the music room; Rubber Ducky Guild reported a duck trapped on top of the Flaschen-Taschen requiring rescue; Laser Instruction Guild is seeking a new instructor.

• Finances: March income was $16,349 with outgoing expenses of $13,833 plus unspecified additional amounts; Wells Fargo checking account balance is $19,044.89; savings account balance is $48,709.47; direct donation, accessibility, and stock account balance is $4,309.50; rent increases 3% in April annually; donation matching via Benevity is noted as the best way to receive donations; donate.noisebridge.net uses Stripe with PayPal having slightly lower fees; a $100 plumber call is approved for the toilet repair.

• New core members: None.

• New access members: Heather (Access); Joseph (Access).

• Consensus Items: 1. Proposed: bylaws amendment (Article 2) to update the principal office address to 272 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (current since 2020), remove the former 83 C Weise Street address, and add mailing address 2261 Market Street #235-A, San Francisco, CA 94114 (source: https://github.com/mcint/nb-bylaws/pull/1/changes). 2. Proposed: bylaws amendment (Articles 6 and 7) to modernize notice provisions by replacing first-class mail, registered mail, and facsimile requirements with notice by email (to members' addresses on file), physical posting at a standard notice-board location in the space, and posting in standard communication chat channels in widest use, while renaming "Affidavit of Mailing Notice" to "Affidavit of Giving Notice" with all existing timing requirements remaining unchanged (source: https://github.com/mcint/nb-bylaws/pull/2/changes).

• Discussion Items: 1. Board Elections: Core Member voting is now live with physical tokens available at the space; anonymous voting spreadsheet/app is complicated but allows full anonymity; proxy blocking by non-Core Members is possible. 2. Chairs. 3. Afterlight Echo 4. Dragon Art

Introductions

• Jet - Got a new job!
• Ahn - Working on her taxes!
• Michael - Working on the CRT wall!
• Naomi - Also working on the CRT wall with Michael!
• Joseph - Upcoming fashion show on April 11th
• Dennis - On his 5th iteration of a resume database
• Zacchaeus - Chronically "same-old same-old"
• Heather - Skirt repair. Been ripped for a year finally repairing!
• MJ - Not working on anything new
• We-Z - Working on open source countributions to Verilator. Favorite drink is that aloe vera stuff.
• Elan - He/they. Likes water. Working on a launch next weekend.
• Hari? - Working on CAD projects trying to 3D print. Coconut water.
• Daniel - not anything new this very second. Notes. Probably donation infra stuff.
• Jane - She/her. I love this drink called Inca Cola. Tastes like bubble gum :O Working on visual stuff. Posters. Social media promo stuff. Being very very working on a bunch of things. It's just yeah.
• Judy - Just got back from Vancouver island. Always working on writing (will say so even when procrastinating!).
• Loren - *ghosting us*
• Alex- game dev and is finally using obsidian
• JD: drinks favorite 12 year single aged malt scotch

Short announcements and events

• Heather: Brief PSA. The toilet upstairs, the flush/refill thing is flaky. So it is continually refilling might need to fiddle with it.

• Judy: Every year the writer's workshop has done a fundraiser for Noiserbdige. We do it because it's fun and we like to do it. We tend to rais $500-$1,000 in a night. This year I propose we collaborate with hackers here. This year the event is called literary devices. We have 5 writers share a story, poem, non-fiction narrative. We had those stories to our neighborhood hackers to create some device even tangentially related to that story. A reward is available to the hacker that makes the best device. Weekend of Jun 12th (Fri) or 13th (Sat). Don't see anything on those dates yet. What do you think about collaborating? Naomi: I love it. Judy: I was inspired by the stupid hackathon.

• Joseph: This Saturday we have a fashion show. It's based on Senegalese design. Come through and support. We have a lot more coming after this. This is not held at Noisebridge. This is held at the African American Arts and Culture Complext. 7:30pm. There is an enterence fee of... unknown amount.

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

What does that mean? Please see our page on Excellence

Party on.

Anti-Harassment Policy & Community Standards of Excellence

Noisebridge has an Anti-Harassment Policy!

Everyone is expected to follow the Anti-Harassment Policy, please familiarize yourself with it.)

For approachable & specific guidelines see: Community Standards

Please note: https://safespace.noisebridge.net/ is one way to quickly raise issues which will be seen by people in Discord.

Brief Kudos

Kudos to Karl and Zoe for guitar repair

Weezy: Michael Newman for cleanliness and higeine and building synthasizer from scratch

• Chris in the wood shop for showing how to machine

Jet: Weezy Elon Daniel Chris and Loren for career advice. And Naomi for life advice.

Alex (LX): Kudos to bogart for cool noisebridge shirt [reminds us that Noisebridge has a BBS and we should think about exposing it / routing to it from other things more]

Guilds & WGs

Rubber Ducky Guild: We have a duck trapped on top of the Flaschen-Taschen, needs a rescue, other ducks are very concerned

Laser Instruction Guild: Looking for a new instructor

New Core Members/Access Members

Heather: Access sponsored by Elan

Joseph: Access sponsored by Naomi

Financial Report (first Tuesday of month only)

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

Loren are you there? Its me noisebridge.

Elan: we might need a plumber -- that toilet upstairs

Loren: $100 to fix the toilet, yes, just do it.

Daniel: We can always use more donations *rubs hands together*

in 3 to 7 minutes there will be the financial report

[Loren makes strained faces at his laptop as 10 minutes tick by. Jet improvises new discussion topics. it kinda works.]

Loren:

March income: $16349

March outgoing: 13833 + ???

Donation matching (e.g. Benevity) is the best way for us to get donations

donate.noisebridge.net -> Stripe

we pay a little less fee w/ PayPal

our rent goes up 3% in April every year.

Cur balances in wells fargo cash accounts:

checking: $19,044.89

savings: $48,709.47

direct donation, accessibility, stock account 4,309.50

• 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

Consensus Items

Loren:

1. update the principle address to 272 Capp St in the bylaws

Resolved, that the bylaws of Noisebridge be amended to update Article 2 to reflect the current principal office address of 272 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (since 2020), removing the former 83 C Weise Street address and blank placeholder lines, and adding the mailing address of 2261 Market Street #235-A, San Francisco, CA 94114. https://github.com/mcint/nb-bylaws/pull/1/changes

The "source of truth" has to be bylaws, not the wiki, for legal purposes.

2. replace mail with email, physical posting, and chat channels

Resolved, that the bylaws of Noisebridge be amended to modernize notice provisions in Articles 6 and 7, replacing requirements for first-class mail, registered mail, and facsimile with notice by (1) email to members at their address on file, (2) physical posting in the space at a standard notice-board location, and (3) posting in the corporation's standard communication chat channels in widest use; and further that "Affidavit of Mailing Notice" be renamed to "Affidavit of Giving Notice" to reflect these updated methods; all existing timing requirements to remain unchanged. https://github.com/mcint/nb-bylaws/pull/2/changes

Elan: have we ever collected addresses from members?

Naomi: that has NEVER been a thing we've ever really done.

Elan: like maybe... at the very earliest times?

Naomi: [shakes head with 17 years of membership, leaving room for idea that maybe 2007-8 was different, but...]

Elan: ok so this was probably boilerplate copied from something else

Naomi: very likely yes.

Discussion Items

• Chairs
• Elections
• Jane Event

1: Board Elections

On topic	Board Elections
From/Raised by	Elan
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Elan: Voting is now live. To vote it was mentioned that ppl come to the space and get a token. I have those tokens. This has been described by ppl as "overly complicated" but not by anyone voting. [uhhh -naomi] I have this whole app or spreadsheet thing (showing it). allows total anonymity, it's complicated. If you're a Core Member you should come get a token.

Jet: You can only vote if you're a Core Member. but you could proxy block on someone's suggestion!

Elan: it's considered excellent to consider your community when putting in your ballot.

2: Chairs!!!!111one

On topic	Chairs!!!!111one
From/Raised by	Alex, Naomi
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

LX: We used to have a bunch of pretty good or various condition chairs. then chairpocalypse happened and now they are gone. upstairs migration of chairs but the heat is coming. downstairs needs comfortable chairs too. problematic for people with accessibility issues. non-rolling chairs is an obstacle if you are disabled. understand theres a storage problem with rolling chairs but it is solveable.

Lighter stacking chairs idea proposed. Heavy chairs are not accessible for many people.

Elon: other storage spaces available. could put castors on chairs.

julius: there are actually more chairs in the *dark corner* but no one can get in there.

LX: chairs should probably stay out... but should have a mix of both kinds of chairs...

whole bunch of chairs on craigslist and i have a van.... if anyone needs a tall chair theres one in the drafting area... will start contributing to chairs.

Should we get rid of some of the chairs we have?

Jet: could we just buy a bunch of plastic chairs...

LX: we could replace all the chairs with rolling stackable chairs for like $500.

Seems that there might be rolling chairs upstairs and there is agreement we should move some back down. Chair hunt proposed.

LX: there were garbage cans in front of the gate door posing another accessiblity obstacle

sounds like its the neighbors doing.

gate would have to be completely rebuilt to be up to code

3: Afterlight Echo

On topic	Afterlight Echo
From/Raised by	Jane
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Jane: May 9th. Ghettotranny is Marcelline.

Jane: I'm having play out, DJ sets, visuals on the screens, showcasing folks' graphic identities.

Alex: YESSS VISUALS!

Jane: that's the whole thing, showcasing cool stuff + ppl playing + dancing.

Jane: 930pm to 230am. 49 people or so we think

Jet: final notes?

Jane: showcasing! fun! that's it!

Alex: why i got excited was Jane's party needs NB to be cool and we want to make the downstairs cool. so our visuals, audio, set up a new VJ booth. i started project boards on Discord for this. Please jump in!

4: Dragon Art

On topic	Dragon Art
From/Raised by	Elan
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Dragons!!!!

They're pretty, they're bright, they're neon.

These are giant burning man installation art that we are going to get.

Julius: Saturday we're going to install these things. We're also going to evict all the stuff in Limbolandia then. So come help.

Jet: where is the drumset? we need to be on the look out (bolo) for a drumset.

LX: Do we have a way to keep list of bolo items? ["Be on the lookout"]

Naomi: Not really. This comes up. Would be nice if there was a checkin checkout thing.

LX: *holds up phone and shows app that helps with tracking things*

Loren: it would be helpful to have some kind log of... something to do with the drums [michael is trying but conversation is swift and unmoderated at this pt]

Naomi: yeah Music Guild has been talking about that for the past few months, at least just getting some sort of sign-out mechanism in place to help with the "wtf happened to the drums again" problem. not the first time.

LX: so yeah we can potentially use the thing i'm building to help with that.

Naomi: Karaoke bridge!! We wanna do it again!

Jet: Naomi is a great singer. [awww stop <3 --nthmost]

LX: Karaoke in the music room everyday? Plan to make this happen.

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!

Meeting Notes Template -- membership types need updating for 2026.