Meeting Notes 2011 04 26

Agenda

The 158th Meeting of Noisebridge

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Danny

Introduction and Names

• What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
• Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
• A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.

Announcements

• BAHA - will be hosting Dan Kaminsky for a talk about something or other. Stay tuned for your opportunity to hear this talk.
• BayCon - Noisebridge is the official charity beneficiary for BayCon, a 2000-attendee science fiction convention that happens in Santa Clara every year. We need some things to donate for the charity auction and could use at least one volunteer and maybe two to help us staff our Noisebridge booth there. We have less space at BayCon than we do at our Maker Faire booth. Dr. Jesus is coordinating our participation in BayCon, so please talk to him.

Q. What items should we donate for the charity auction? A. Hilarious and/or shiny ones. Q. Like items on the hack shelf? A. More hilarious and shiny than those, if possible. Q. When? A. May 27-30. Q. Maybe Dan Kaminsky could donate something? Like a signed item? A. People at BayCon may not know who Dan Kaminsky is. A. Or they might!

OpenAMD is doing RFID tracking of attendees at CCC. Talk to aestetix or visit openamd.org.

Financial Report

Funds in bank: $1,000 in corporate donations have come in recently! They will get deposited. We don't have a treasurer's report on our specific bank balance. We might have somewhere over $13,000 or more after paying rent. Pay your dues.

If possible, set up a regular recurring donation.

Q. Can we donate Bitcoins to Noisebridge? A. ????

Membership Binder

• Read off any names from the binder for the past month.
• Anyone up for join this week should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime) for the rest of the group. The rest of the meeting should consense on whether they may join.

What's Going On at Noisebridge

One short sentence about each of the following:

This is the active list of events from the main page:

Event Calendar

events are haphazardly cross-posted on Meetup, the Discord, and Google Calender here

Some noisebridger's have also started hosting Events from a calendar at https://noisebridge.today/, and new (additional) associated gCal.

Key: W: Weekly | 1st 2nd 3rd 4th: Certain weeks | -2nd: Except certain weeks | S: Streaming | event: caution maybe dead | event: management of space

Mondays

Circuit_Hacking_Monday: Happy hardware hackers at Circuit Hacking Monday

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W	7:00pm	Meetups/Infra	Self-hosting, rough consensus, & running code. Find upcoming sessions on Meetup or in #meetup-infra on Discord.
W	7:00pm	Circuit Hacking Monday	Learn electronics, Arduino, and/or how to solder! We have kits and Arduinos for donations, or bring your own project. Most Mondays at 7PM. More details on Meetup
W	you-o-clock	TRASH NIGHT	Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio.

Tuesdays

Meetings: Introduce yourself and meet the community at meetings

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W S	5:00pm	Premeeting Social Story Time	Noisebridge's excellence, do-ocracy, and consensus are inspired by anarchism and a rich lore of lessons learned. Meet members, learn about membership, share ideas, ask anything and question everything!
W S	7:00pm	Noisebridge Weekly Meeting	(In person & online via Jitsi) - Introduce new people and events, joining, announcements, discussions, and consensus. Come express what you think about what's going on with your space!
W	7:00pm	San Francisco Writers Workshop	Free drop-in writers workshop, get feedback and critique! Located on the first floor hackitorium.

Wednesdays

Gamebridge: Learn, mentor and cowork game development on Wednesdays

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W S	5:00pm - 7:00pm	Tablebridge	tabletop gaming & hobbying for playing and designing boardgames, RPGs, wargames and mini painting hobbying.
W	6:00pm - 9:00pm	Woodhacking Wednesday	"Have a woodworking project in mind but you don't know where to get started? This is a good time to come ask questions, get some help, and ideas from other woodworkers. Everyone is welcome..." Confirm dates with Meetup
W S	7:00pm - 9:00pm	Gamebridge	game development mentoring & coworking meetup for gamedev beginners and indies alike.

Thursdays

Five Minutes of Fame: 10 5 min talks every third Thursday!

Tags	Time	Title	Description
1st	7:00pm - 10:00pm	Indiebridge Showcase Throwdown Thursdays	Indie Game Showcases & Game Tournaments for casual-friendly competition in console & PC games like Smash Brothers, Halo, Quake, Marathon, etc.
2nd	6:00pm-8:00pm	Tablebridge	Tablebridge tabletop gaming & design (board/card/miniature/rpg/party/ARG/etc).
2nd	8:00pm - 9:30pm	DC415	Defcon 415 Security on 2nd Thursdays: Informal meetup group about all things security related.
3rd S	6:00pm-8:00pm	Ten Minutes of Game a.k.a. 10MoG	Five 10min talks in an hour and discussions on any gaming/gamedev topic
3rd S	8:00pm - 9:00pm	Five Minutes of Fame a.k.a. 5MoF	Ten 5min talks in an hour, on any topic
4th S	6:00pm-8:00pm	Songbridge	Music making meetup & mentoring for electronic and experimental music, soundtracks, VJing, music videos
	Mar 26 8:30pm - 11:30pm	School of Melee Workshop Tournament	Super Smash Melee Self Improvement Workshop & Tournament: Learn to master Super Smash Melee with expert mentors LanTurN & Megaman and test what you've learned in a tournament!
4th S	8:00pm - 10:30pm	Resident Electronic Music	An electronic music open mic!
W	you-o-clock	TRASH NIGHT	Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio.

Fridays

Swift language mentoring & co-working meetup All experience levels welcome!

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W	9:00am - 5:00pm	Hack on Noisebridge!	a good open time for cleaning 'n re-organizing the physical space. Coffee and Donuts on a first-come first-served basis! See #facilities-aka... channel on the Discord

Saturdays

Godot Meetup Gamedev workshop & networking for users of the Godot game engine. Ask the organizers for one of these stickers!

Tags	Time	Title	Description
1st	2:00pm - 5:00pm	Unitybridge Unity Meetup	Learn Unity and cowork with fellow indies using it
2nd	2:00pm - 5:00pm	Unrealbridge Unreal Meetup	Learn Unreal and cowork with fellow indies using it
W	12pm-2pm	Robotics Meetup	Co-hack on robotics with us. Work on our group projects, or bring your own. No robotics experience required.
3rd	2:00pm - 6:00pm	Godot Meetup	Gamedev workshop & networking for users of the Godot game engine.
4th	2:00pm - 5:00pm	Graphicsbridge graphics & engine coding meetup	Custom graphics & engine development meetup & mentoring
4th	1:00pm - 3:00pm	Building Guitar Pedals Workshop	Come build guitar pedals or other electronic music equipment! Look for the #pedal-building channel under #events in the discord. Check the Meetup for more info and confirmed dates.
4th	4:00pm - 7:00pm	Decentralized Web	Presentations and networking for those interested in weaving a decentralized web.
W	8pm	Noisebridge Cinema!

Sundays

Laser: Get trained to use the mighty Kaitan laser cutter on Sundays

Tags	Time	Title	Description
W	12:00pm - 1:30pm	3D Printing Class	Learn how to use a 3D printer
W	2:00pm - 4:00pm	Laser Cutter safety training	Get certified to use the laser cutter (limited availability)
2nd	2:00pm - 3:00pm	Fabrication 101 2nd Wood Shop Sundays	class on safety and basic techniques
W	4:00pm - 8:00pm	Spacebridge Weekly Meeting	Noisebridge's resident space program. Meetup page. (Sometimes we watch a politically-related movie around 7:30)

Other Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces Events

• Queerious Labs is open during limited times, check it's status
• SudoRoom: Women & Non-Binary Coding Mondays 7-9pm
• SudoRoom: Hardware Hacking Tuesdays 7-10pm

Non-weekly

• Second Saturdays are Noisebridge hackathon:

a casual monthly event dedicated to working on the space or relevant projects and building community. This is a great time to get feedback or help on any projects you have been considering that center around the space, culture, and infrastructure of Noisebridge. You can also help with existing projects and find out ways to get involved.

• Five Minutes of Fame
• Bay Area Hackers Association - (Second Sunday, 2PM)

Project Updates

(Anyone doing interesting projects is welcome to chip in here.)

Consensus items

(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)

End of Meeting

• PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
• Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
• Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
• Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
• Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
• Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.