Meeting Notes 2014 09 02

These are the notes from the The 324th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: Jade; Moderator: Kevin.

Attendance

J.: Moved from LA five months ago, found Noisebridge a month later and has been participating since.

Jean Jaques: Has been participating at Noisebridge for 3 years - alternative energy solar panels, takes out trash and builds walls

Greg: from Maine, 1st time, part of PlayNexus, designer, looking for interesting things to get looped into

Scotty: been around for a couple years, more now - hacking on drywall, and greeter committee stuff

AndyMC aka signal: likes blinky things, Machine Learning

Henner: working on RFID - software by day, hardware by night

Dana: back in SF, beaglebone black hacking

Pavol: RFID with Henner

Nathan: tracel by gas, PlayNexus - free energy devices - Web software

Monad: thinker

Casey: Has been participating at Noisebridge since July 2010, working on the network, likes gpg

Mike: came with Monad, former member, works on problems with the junk at Noisebridge. Noisebridge faces failure attempting to make everyone happy all the time.

Dan: programmer and artist

Jade: Does python and NeuroHacking

RAYC: Hi, I'm RAYC.

Naomi: Has been participating at Noisebridge since 2009, shit disturber

Kevin: Does NeuroHacking - looking at inter-cranial data to predict seizures

Torrie: transient drifter who does C++ sometimes

Emerson: working on compsci degree at CCSF

Membership Binder

What is membership?

Naomi: Active member of the community, feel open and engaged to express your thoughts, people are encouraged to hang around for 6 months then apply - wait 4 weeks. Sole Privilege - participate in consensus, block by raising a principled objection.

Monad: Only members can be here 24 hours a day

Applicants

Daniel Lewis: 4th+ week, no sponsors

Tristan Mosley: 4th+ week, no sponsors

Financial Report

• Unknown

• The lights are on

• See last weeks report

Consensus items

What is consensus?

Mike: Consensus process is working out issues with each other until we reach a unified agreement

Kevin: must be discussed for 2 weeks

Proposals from last week

Date First Discussed	Proposed By	Informal Title	Summary and pull request.	Author of this Record
2014-08-05	Torrie	Reciprocal Bans With Sudo Room	If the Sudo Room hackerspace in Oakland bans a person from their space for reasons of safety, that person is not welcome at Noisebridge unless explicitly consensed upon by the community.	John Shutt

Monad: Does this include HayHackers?

null: This consensus item pertains to Sudo Room and Noisebridge.

AndyMC: Last week sentiment was that we need to define the default cases, do we default, or do we reach a consensus and they are banned, guilty unless proven innocent

Kevin: Shouldn’t go through consensus, why?

Dan: revise add: or other community working group community process

Naomi: *concern*

AndyMC: Gathering of the hackerspaces soon, hosted at Omni

Dan: unless “appropriate community review”

Torrie: explicitly "welcomed back" by the community

Henner: concern - too unofficial, besides consensus

Dan: it is our culture that there is some wiggle room and grey area, if no one enforces them make better rules

AndyMC: less about trying to be very strict about the rule, need to gain acceptance from the community, in some cases there’s redemption and sticking the rules can be a problem

Naomi: rules are easy, community is not - there’s opportunity for people to be sponsored in. Rules are not enforceable and become exploitable

Monad: RAYC was asked to abstain from being here, this hasn’t been enforced so RAYC comes

Kevin: we like the wording change If the Sudo Room hackerspace in Oakland bans a person from their space for reasons of safety, that person is not welcome at Noisebridge unless explicitly welcomed back by the community.

Events and Announcements

Torrie: The BACHs 2014.ba.chrp.org - register the event Sept. 11th and 12th - bay area consortium of hacker spaces

Kevin: hosting cinema hacking - citizen keynote - 3rd friday at Noisebridge. talk to Podavski if interested

Discussion Notes

Mike: what Noisebridge receives as donations, we should always accept money, but screen other things

Monad: Moving shop to church

RAYC: there’s work to be done at Noisebridge

Monad: shop is 24’ church is 27’ stairs make space unusable, projections will be clearer in the space of the shop

Henner: needs a wall

Torrie: stairwell, knock down banister and build floor

AndyMC: the floors in the dirty shop is nice and dirty and the floors in the church are nice and clear, might be ruined

RAYC: debris in shop should stay in the back. the noise will be better in contained in back

Dana: do we get noise complaints? would that effect our neighbors

RAYC: no

Jean Jaques: city inspection -major concern, electrical wiring. not in favor in moving it. Want more space for classes, not shop.

Monad: the wiring work needs to be done in both rooms, the shop needs ventilation and exhaust. Shop is not that much bigger.

Torrie: sanders - they redid floors knowing it will be ruined. it’s okay.

Monad: Jared’s plan was to have noise in back

Scotty: perspective - observed we’re running out of steam and need to drive towards completion, want to finish what they started before the shop swap

Monad: putting the projector up, walls don’t need to be put up before inspection

Torrie: likes the plan, but wants to get inspection done with first. wants to write down what needs to be done in the shop swap

RAYC: move everything now - less work for the future

Casey: the shop we have is better than the best shop in the world

Mike addresses junk

Mike: the main problem is the definition of Noisebridge itself. what is Noisebridge mostly used for. Most people use it for classes, not about fixing broken TVs. Not a used car lot.

Henner: agrees, Noisebridge has a broken window problem, collects more junk. Pre-screen stuff. Someone should be responsible for accepting things. take things apart and but it right bins. at that point things are more useful. Default reject. ’take apart wednesday’

Mike: everything should be accounted for, don’t want to deal with parts no-one uses.

Scotty: disagrees with Mike: came to circuit hacking monday - worked with junk. Likes it’s like a junk shop. hate to loose that atmosphere. agree’s we should be curating it. Wants Liberal acceptance policy and Radical getting rid of stuff

RAYC: Noisebridge isn’t predominantly classes. problem we’re having is infrastructure problem. need a way to process the donations and have a more organized parts storage. Create of flow chart to ensure timely removal and have a procurement area. London Hack space has a system, green, yellow, red. two weeks for each part. and we should have a reserve area

AndyMC: green tag yellow tag red tag system, parking ticket parking permit system. at Pumping Stations 1. tidy spaces

Torrie: tried a variant and was ridiculously successful.

Jean Jaques: should have a donations working group - screen donations. need to know out criteria (list or guideline system), what people want. and what to consider. and likes dating idea. Hacker Alley Librarian System

Monad: going to have it fine, but keep it under control. needs limits

Dana: agree with working group and dating system. Hacker alley is a great place. want to manage it

Naomi: new channel on slack

AndyMC: pitch for slack

Mike: should have a Free Table

RAYC: wants a photo-booth for incoming donations

RAYC: there’s work to be done. Noisebridge is in a good state - a better state than before still a lot of work to do. Concerned of influx of people coming in right now with electrician tools laying around. When will electricians be done. Busy work - sheet rocking, sanding, painting, and filtering through pile in space

Naomi: what’s here is what’s supposed to be here

Kevin: if we set up shop and hack-shelves, and library shelving and electronics bench - that will be a leap forward, and Noisebridge will be up and running.

AndyMC: asks for electric update

Jean Jaques: Electrician says everything is pretty much done, just need wiring by the elevator and front door. Everything is done. Putting off overhead lighting - turned out to be not UL approved, will make better lighting after inspection. Should finish pantry next couple days. Water heater is a can of worms - plumber will come in for advice - take out water heater, draining issues. get smaller one. Wiring is done besides minor areas

Scotty: Library area - finish mudding and painting it. bookcases - where are they?

Naomi: Q: listing of minor things?

Jean Jaques: not clear, ask Neil, the electrician. need exit light.

Naomi: plan to sort three major areas - nothings blocking us

Scotty: what about that wall?

Torrie: AV wall, will be fixed

RAYC: started Noisebridge spaceship design theme group. Library shelves are 2x4’s against this wall

Andy: *popped off stack*

Casey: where is the box of doorknobs!? needs a spare gate lock

Henner: has a spare

Fin.