Manual

Herein lies the Noisebridge Manual. It is an ever-changing tome that strives to answer an unanswerable question: How the heck does Noisebridge really work?

This is not general advice for fixing things. If something at Noisebridge isn't working and it needs fixing, then check out Help.

The Prologue

Are you new to Noisebridge? Have you been coming here for years?

Either way, you should really read up on what we're all about. Lots of this stuff is the basis for what we do.

• Noisebridge Vision - What's it all about?
• About - An incredibly broad description of some of our more grandiose mechanisms
• Testimonials - In your own words, what is Noisebridge?
• Oral histories about Noisebridge

Visitors and Guests

• Getting Here - How to actually find the space...
• Getting In - And what to do when you arrive
• Visitor advice - Some advice on what you're getting into
• Community Standards - What we expect from each other
• The Neighborhood - What's in the neighborhood around 2169 Mission
• Docents - What it means to greet a newbie at the space

Getting along

• Do-ocracy - One of our guiding principles
• Consensus Process - How decisions are made within the community
• Membership - How membership works at Noisebridge
• Philanthropist - Become a 24 hour access Noisebridger by donating and helping out
  • How to join Noisebridge - Another view on how membership works
• FractalWorkingGroup - Our pattern for getting things done without dragging it to the Tuesday Meeting
• Community Standards - How to not fuck up at Noisebridge
  • Conflict Resolution - What to do if you fuck up at Noisebridge
  • AskedToLeave - People who have fucked up and have been asked to leave for a while
  • 86 - People who have fucked up and are not welcome at Noisebridge at all
  • FERT - Harassers, predators, and the like who everyone should keep an eye out for
• CommunityWorkingGroup - Bringing the Noisebridge community together to create a better space for all.
• Conflict Resolution - What to do when we don't get along.
  • Mediation - People within the community who have offered their time, tears, and sweat to keep us all together.

Staying in touch

• IRC - Its full of bad jokes and robots that go quack
  • Noisebot - Quack
  • Quotes - "Quack"
• Slack - IRC on steroids. Invite only.
• Mailing list - A lot of e-mails and stuff. They've got a trove of historical archives!
  • Noisebridge-discuss-faq - How to not fuck up on noisebridge-discuss
  • Mailinglist/Announce_guidelines - How to send an announcement mail
• Guestbook - Just like a B&B guestbook, leave a note after your visit

Day to Day Operations

• Secretariat - The really important things that keep us legal
• Safety - Preventing those old school hardhat accidents.
• House keeping - Weekly chores and other vitals
• Access Control - Discussion about how physical access is handled
  • SecWG - Security Working Group
  • AccessControlModeling - Draft discussion about access control
• Meetings - Noisebridge meets every Tuesday evening
  • Meeting instructions - How to run a Noisebridge meeting
  • The Meeting Notes Template
• Hosting an Event
  • List of events and classes
  • ProceduralEventChecklist - How to run a big event
• Stickers - The ubiquitous stickers and how to restock our supply
• Opening and closing the space
• Finances - The one social construct we're still party to

Infrastructure

• Resources - An overview of the resources, equipment and projects in the space
• Shims and Hacks - A list of problems around the space and how they were solved with a clever reminder or choice.
• Network - Our IP transmission infrastructure (Internet Protocol here of course; not Intellectual Property!)
  • Network Troubleshooting - How to approach the problem if it does seem to be broken
    • See also: Help
  • New Network - Draft discussion about building the next iteration of the Noisebridge networking
  • Pony
  • Stallion2
  • Quagga
  • Ratchet
  • Pegasus
• Infrastructure To Do List

Inner Mechanizations

• Secretaribot - Used to do some secretary things for us but then died
  • User:Phong - Just as useless

Things we do

• Reboot - The current reboot process of Noisebridge
• PGP

Lore

• 83c - Noisebridge's first location
• Category:History of Noisebridge
• Noisebridge Experiments

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