Meeting Notes 2026 07 28

These are the notes from the The 874th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2026-07-28
Note-taker[s]	NEWMAN
Moderator[s]	Jet

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Meeting Summary

Meeting covered introductions, announcements, and discussions on trash service, music room security, and grant application standards.

• Announcements: Makerfaire project submissions due July 31; Thursday sewing room class at 12pm; 3D printing guild meeting July 31; Edinburgh Noisebridge sends RFID code via Discord
• Fundraising Update: None
• Finances: Current trash service approximately $240/month; dumpster option costs $100 more monthly
• New members: None
• New associates: None
• Consensus Items: None
• Discussion Items:
  1. Compostable cups for parties: Derek will source cups and contact Loren with vendor information.
  2. Trash service: Newman and Julius will research dumpster options and pricing.
  3. Awning condition: Frame rusting/rotting; repair requires day+ of work.
  4. Art supplies: No decision reached; type and scope undefined.
  5. Music room renovation and etiquette: Flooring, drum kit, soundproofing, shelving planned; locking door and storage proposed to prevent theft and misuse.
  6. Grant applications: Discussion on formalizing grant application process; no formal changes proposed.

Introductions

• Favorite fiction work
• - Cynthia - A medical whodunit
• - Johnathan - A tie between Ringworld and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
• - Chris (Blitzkrieg) - Dark Tower series
• - Julius - Ive been thinking, Ghost in the shell
• - Nixxy - United States Bill of Rights
• - Lucifer - The Hobbiy
• - W/Z Wheezy - The Wall (the movie that accompanied the album by Pink Floyd)
• - NEWMAN - East of Edan
• - Chris (Other) - Faehrensheqihw :) 451
• - Jim - Brave new World
•  - Heather - Final Fantasy 14
• - Derek - Planiverse
•  - Ben - Dune
•  - Carl - finite Jest & Lotr
• - John - Inscryption
•  - Jordan - The Search for Wondla
• - Jet - Project Hail Mary

Announcements

• - Makerfaire - submit your projects, submission deadline, July 31
• - Thursday : sewing room class 12pm
• - 3D printing guild meeting 2026-07-316
•  - Naomi - Edinburgh sends its love and its RFID code (see git link on Discord)

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other.

- the art of leaving people alone - being kind, being respectful

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!

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

We/z: Derek for the music room

Heather: New daniel & Michael Wilson for cleaning

Julius: Heather for handling a tense situation with grace

Kudos to Derek for cleaning up the electronics room and the podcast project Kudos to New Daniel and Michael Wilson for general cleaning in the sewing room and moving chairs

Consensus Items

NONE

Discussion Items

3: Compostable Cups for parties

On topic	Compostable Cups for parties
From/Raised by	Derek
Seeking	outcome

DEREK: Get the compostable cups. How do we iform the community

We/z: Right here and now

Jet: As someone who hosts parties here, I will keep it in mind.

Derek: will find out where to get the cups and let Loren Know where to get em

1: More or Better Trash Service

On topic	More or Better Trash Service
From/Raised by	Chris
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Chris: Theres alot of trash here. Wood shop generates alot of stuff, A dumpster is ideal but . A lot of construction materials cannot be composted (2x4s, etc).

John: Is this stuff that could go in a standard container if it was bigger?

Chris: Yes for the stuff that I am referencing directly.

John: If we're talking old paint, it will be taken by the dump.

Carl: Do you know if wood can go in the recycling?

Chris: No.

Derek: Plywood is landfill.

We/z: dumpster would be good

Heather: seconding that

Chris: im not familier with recology, but various companys will have the cubic footage of the dumpster.....if you start with a small bin and start outgrowing it ,,,, or have them staggered

https://www.recology.com/recology-american-canyon/commercial-and-multifamily-rates/ Based on recology website , our current plan is about $240 per month , A dumpster would be $100 more

Newman & julius will find

2: Update on the State of the Awning

On topic	Update on the State of the Awning
From/Raised by	Newman
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Newman: The frame is rusting/rotting. It would be a day+ of work to get it back up. It needs to be gotten back in shape

4: Get Art Supplies

On topic	Get Art Supplies
From/Raised by	Heather
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

This comes up semi-regularly during tours.

Q: what kind of supplies? Acrylic? Oil?

5: Music Room renovation & etiquette

On topic	Music Room renovation & etiquette
From/Raised by	Lucifer
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Flooring, Drum Kit, sound proofing, shelving for the room. if floor is done later, timing, for considering weather. Shelving

has the music room already decided these things yes Do you need anything that you dont have? no Do you need help to do it? not yet, ill know more when i have the materials cost

Music room etiquette - put things back. - be sensitive to people's needs. - Respect the space - specific shelving for each instrument - use the space for music.

Whats going wrong right now?

Specifically, im gonna a put sign up, id like to put a lock on the door, because people steal things from the music room all the time.

WHeezy: thank you for taking initiative. It sucks to see the music room as the least excellent part of the space because it gets squated by people who *don't* want to us the space for music. We need to take initiative when we see someone in there not using the room for music purposes, that we check in on them.

Heather: equipment damage, one of the violins, theyre currently stacked, uh, I saw someone put their bag and jacket ontop of the strings, this morning the bridge was snapped.

Nixxy: In the wood shop we have a locked cabinet, could do the same for expensive instruments.

Julius: We should exercise caution when locking things down in the space, it will limit people from being creative. There was a push to make the computers used for just what theyre intended for, it needs more attention,

The problem of entropy endemic to nb, some percentage of people will clean up; it's frustrating, but part of membership in a leaderless cult. Protect the violins by hanging them on the wall, they'll be out of the way.

There is Equipment has been leaking into the hall.

Locked storage? Everyone gets a locked storage.

The problem is misusing the room, be nice to it.

Some people use the room as a private office.

Zacchaeus: The music room does seem to be hit by this, I feel weird perscribing what people should do in each room. But the music room has been problemmatic enough to where maybe we should do something about that... A lot of people dont want to play music in a room when others are doing nothing to do with music in the room. This has been a problem since I've come to NB, they coccoon up there and make other people want to make music less.

Jet: Talk more about this and shape the culture

6: Common Standards about Grant applications

On topic	Common Standards about Grant applications
From/Raised by	Julius
Seeking	decision/outcome/advice/[?]

Julius: We arent making any changes here but I want to talk about people applying for grants (Under the name of NB). We should not end up in a situation where we dont know who applied for a grant.

Grants is a complicated area of business; there have been attempts at working groups. There are formal aspects to grant applications. Granters will not just sign over a blank checks.

(derek: What are the current state of grants?)

If there is fraud involved, communicate with authorities sooner than later.

The 501c3 status can be jeopardized by grant obligations.

more formally and publically apply to grants.

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!