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These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 503rd Meeting of Noisebridge]. Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 503rd Meeting of Noisebridge]. Note-taker: [[ User:kalessin | louis ]]; Moderators:  
* '''One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.'''


= Introductions =
= Introductions =


* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]:
Attendees:
<blockquote>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'."</blockquote>
 
* Introduce any experimental or unusual moderation techniques that may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
* Patrick, swe in the city, like to tinker on physical thing and recently more security related thigns;
* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
* Tom, mathematician worked in HS in western Kenya second time here;
** What's your name
* Louis, note-taker;
** What do you do
* Andreas, 'Don' biotechnologist 15 years of experience, bio hackerspace from south am;
** What do you maintain at Noisebridge?
* Olivier, discovered the place 2months ago, data analyst, looking for jobs, 6months here in SF;
** if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?
* Greg, hackademy, like participating in learning and diy;
* Neil, 3rd time, SWE trying to turn into sensors/electrical engineering, wants to re-create fluorescent light the old way;
* Alias? High school student from SF;
* Jen neural hacking group;
* Dan programmer coming to NB for a couple years, working on the neural hacking things;
* Michel, web developer, first time here, making it easier for people to text each other;
* Matt, engineer as well, here because our friend is talking about react;
* Clement, from Paris, part of a group who created a bio hackerspace in the center of Paris, been worked in helping other places in France and Europe;
* Bill main interest in sociology
* Sharon, first time here, friend of Bill;
* Todd, artist, media activist, on tour in California, project called ''Citizen Kino'', "cinema hacking";
* Daniella, inventor, working on a polyglot keyboard:
* Hanner SWE at day time, working on electronics, did the access control system here at Noisebridge;
* Hillary, first time here, was hosting a conference in the city earlier, historian, archivist;
* Efny?, works with Hillary, based in Vancouver, community hacker;
* Jay is RAD and has a blinking Noisebridge t-shirt;
* Mitch, co-founder, teaches circuit hacking, how to solder;
* Logan, from Cambridge, hardware engineer, working on voice synthesis;
* ???: chemistry, poetry, software;
* John: SWE, first time here, came here thanks for a rails dev friend;
* John 2: run a web consultancy agency, scan books at an industrial scale, runs tor stuff;
* Mark: from the UK involved in hackerspaces there;
* Dave: web dev company in the city, react;
* David: SWE, web;
* Kevin: moderator;


= Short announcements and events =
= Short announcements and events =
* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short!
 
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
* Bill is looking for seeks for help to parse old data files and archive/digitize a library;
* Don't hog everyone's time since we all just want to hack!
* Todd is doing a show on April 16th at ACTA:
* Jay: every thursday, we are working on table for maker fair, let me know if you're interested in electronics and wood work;
* Mitch: this Sunday starting at 1pm, Mitch is leading Arduino for total newbies;
* Daniella: my new polyglot keyboard app for iOS8 has been approved the app store, launch party on April 9th at 540 Howard at 6pm to 8pm;
* Logan: stupid shit no-ones need Hackathon on May 23/24 starting noon on Saturday ending Sunday afternoon, we are looking for help on how to advertise the event and an AOL sponsorship, examples projects: VR googles that show the world behind you, device you put in your food so it tweets when you take a bite…
* Mitch: American Library Association, is organizing their yearly event in SF, a panel about hackerspace will be held and I'm one of the participants, we should show off our book scanner while they are here, or any thing really, June 26th;


= [[ Membership Binder ]] =
= [[ Membership Binder ]] =


* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[membership]], and the application process.
* Sam: this application has been stale for 12 weeks and is being discarded, please apply again;
<blockquote>Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community and space better than it is today.</blockquote>
* Hanner:
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Mark down a check or other indicator on every open application to keep track of how many weeks they've been read out.
** First time here in 2009, I was a hacker so I came here, but not very often, I got to know more people at camp 2 years ago;
* Anyone eligible to join this week should
** Got more involved during reboot and Noisebridge is now a nice place again;
** introduce themselves,
** Jay: what's your vision of the space in like 5 years? -> I wanna keep this space, even though it's getting harder, I wish we had a good, solid, more mature community so we can have a more accessible space, more interesting and bigger projects, we don't have that yet;
** answer any questions members may have for them, then
** Jen: what are the responsibilities of members? -> first and foremost, provide an environment where people are excellent to each other, making sure that the community feels welcome, help people to be excellent to each other and the space;
** leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
** Kevin: What is your approach to consensus? Most of this things that happens and are discussed in the space are usually good so consensus mostly is about not saying no. Get everyone on the same page, it has been abused before and I don't want this to happen again;
* The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
** Bill: How do you deal with abuse of consensus: abuse happened with proposals that refused to be discussed and that were getting blocked, it can happen, but it can't be systematic. Consensus is a very strong tool because you can veto things so it has to be used sparingly;
* Remember to applaud new members when they return.
** Daniella: What you think we can to improve the diversity of the space and bring-in more women? Women are discouraged to do anything technical in our society, how can we improve that? One is spread the word about the space, encourage everyone creative to come. Since the community is male dominated, sexism is latent, this is something that need to change, watch for and regulate;
** Jen: why do you wanna become a member? -> Because I like this space, it's kinda like getting married, you can live together without being married but it marks a commitment. I want to see the space thrive, I subscribe to what Noisebridge stands for, it's very important for the new generation to learn and ask silly question, learn they would have never seen otherwise and this important to me.
* Jay: participated in the reboot, love the people here and the vibe:
** Mitch: what is consensus? -> When the space is healthy, all these ideas are being discussed. When consensus is working, you know the space is healthy. Consensus being blocked is a sign that the space is not healthy;
** Kevin: why do you wanna become member? Membership seems to be the right way to do it, you show up for you a while, you work on projects, being a member feels like an acknowledgement from the community to be here; A member should be somebody that protects the vision of what the space wants to be.
** Kevin: what is your vision for the space? -> I fixed my console when I was 13 and I would have loved to have space like Noisebridge to do it, I want to make this space good and safe enough so that women and kids can come. The dreams I had when I was a kid, I want to make Noisebridge where those kind of dreams can happen;
** Efny: How do you think you could bring more people of color and/or from different kind of incomes? Show people around, show what the possibilities are and point them in the right direction, explain to people that the space can be used for meetings and so-on;
** Jen: what are the responsibilities of a member? Pay dues, you have a financial responsibility towards the space, the other one is about consensus. Protect the space, its vision and future.
* Daniella wk3: got along with people, Noisebridge has been part of my life since the inception of my keyboard project;
* Louis wk2: I have been writing meeting notes.
 
New members:


= Financial Report =
* Hanner!!
* Funds in bank:
* Jay!!
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials


= Consensus and Discussion =
= Consensus and Discussion =


* '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on consensus process]]
No consensus proposal.
* It is important that everyone in attendance understands at least:
** Blocking with verbalized principled objections.
** Why we use consensus over other approaches to decision making.
** How consensus isn't a legislative process
** Why consensus isn't applicable to some things like conflict resolution, resolution of time sinks, and the like.


== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
Daniella: I wanna paint the tables in Church in black.
''(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''
People: Just do it™.


== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
Efny (sorry this is probably not your name): I wanna take pictures of the space (while asking anyone that would be in the space);
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''
People: Just do it™.


== Discussion Items ==
== Discussion Items ==


If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.
If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.
= Financial Report =
Noisebridge just paid rent.
* Funds in bank: 19k checking, 3k in savings;
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): 9k from the 21k above;
* Matching donation fundraiser still going-on, please talk to Patrick about it, we wanna have it public in the next two weeks.
Keep in mind we are a 501c3 so you can deduct donations from your taxes.
If you also wanna use money for the space, please, contact Patrick, patrickod on IRC and Slack.


= End of Meeting =
= End of Meeting =
* Reprise of the [[Hackernationale]]. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now (if it doesn't happen '''before''' any given Meeting).  Ask others around the space or check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
* Return the [[membership binder]] to its rightful location.
* Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions, then save them to the wiki.
* Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
* Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.
* Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.


[[Category:Meeting Notes]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Revision as of 21:01, 24 March 2015

These are the notes from the The 503rd Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: louis ; Moderators:

Introductions

Attendees:

  • Patrick, swe in the city, like to tinker on physical thing and recently more security related thigns;
  • Tom, mathematician worked in HS in western Kenya second time here;
  • Louis, note-taker;
  • Andreas, 'Don' biotechnologist 15 years of experience, bio hackerspace from south am;
  • Olivier, discovered the place 2months ago, data analyst, looking for jobs, 6months here in SF;
  • Greg, hackademy, like participating in learning and diy;
  • Neil, 3rd time, SWE trying to turn into sensors/electrical engineering, wants to re-create fluorescent light the old way;
  • Alias? High school student from SF;
  • Jen neural hacking group;
  • Dan programmer coming to NB for a couple years, working on the neural hacking things;
  • Michel, web developer, first time here, making it easier for people to text each other;
  • Matt, engineer as well, here because our friend is talking about react;
  • Clement, from Paris, part of a group who created a bio hackerspace in the center of Paris, been worked in helping other places in France and Europe;
  • Bill main interest in sociology
  • Sharon, first time here, friend of Bill;
  • Todd, artist, media activist, on tour in California, project called Citizen Kino, "cinema hacking";
  • Daniella, inventor, working on a polyglot keyboard:
  • Hanner SWE at day time, working on electronics, did the access control system here at Noisebridge;
  • Hillary, first time here, was hosting a conference in the city earlier, historian, archivist;
  • Efny?, works with Hillary, based in Vancouver, community hacker;
  • Jay is RAD and has a blinking Noisebridge t-shirt;
  • Mitch, co-founder, teaches circuit hacking, how to solder;
  • Logan, from Cambridge, hardware engineer, working on voice synthesis;
  • ???: chemistry, poetry, software;
  • John: SWE, first time here, came here thanks for a rails dev friend;
  • John 2: run a web consultancy agency, scan books at an industrial scale, runs tor stuff;
  • Mark: from the UK involved in hackerspaces there;
  • Dave: web dev company in the city, react;
  • David: SWE, web;
  • Kevin: moderator;

Short announcements and events

  • Bill is looking for seeks for help to parse old data files and archive/digitize a library;
  • Todd is doing a show on April 16th at ACTA:
  • Jay: every thursday, we are working on table for maker fair, let me know if you're interested in electronics and wood work;
  • Mitch: this Sunday starting at 1pm, Mitch is leading Arduino for total newbies;
  • Daniella: my new polyglot keyboard app for iOS8 has been approved the app store, launch party on April 9th at 540 Howard at 6pm to 8pm;
  • Logan: stupid shit no-ones need Hackathon on May 23/24 starting noon on Saturday ending Sunday afternoon, we are looking for help on how to advertise the event and an AOL sponsorship, examples projects: VR googles that show the world behind you, device you put in your food so it tweets when you take a bite…
  • Mitch: American Library Association, is organizing their yearly event in SF, a panel about hackerspace will be held and I'm one of the participants, we should show off our book scanner while they are here, or any thing really, June 26th;

Membership Binder

  • Sam: this application has been stale for 12 weeks and is being discarded, please apply again;
  • Hanner:
    • First time here in 2009, I was a hacker so I came here, but not very often, I got to know more people at camp 2 years ago;
    • Got more involved during reboot and Noisebridge is now a nice place again;
    • Jay: what's your vision of the space in like 5 years? -> I wanna keep this space, even though it's getting harder, I wish we had a good, solid, more mature community so we can have a more accessible space, more interesting and bigger projects, we don't have that yet;
    • Jen: what are the responsibilities of members? -> first and foremost, provide an environment where people are excellent to each other, making sure that the community feels welcome, help people to be excellent to each other and the space;
    • Kevin: What is your approach to consensus? Most of this things that happens and are discussed in the space are usually good so consensus mostly is about not saying no. Get everyone on the same page, it has been abused before and I don't want this to happen again;
    • Bill: How do you deal with abuse of consensus: abuse happened with proposals that refused to be discussed and that were getting blocked, it can happen, but it can't be systematic. Consensus is a very strong tool because you can veto things so it has to be used sparingly;
    • Daniella: What you think we can to improve the diversity of the space and bring-in more women? Women are discouraged to do anything technical in our society, how can we improve that? One is spread the word about the space, encourage everyone creative to come. Since the community is male dominated, sexism is latent, this is something that need to change, watch for and regulate;
    • Jen: why do you wanna become a member? -> Because I like this space, it's kinda like getting married, you can live together without being married but it marks a commitment. I want to see the space thrive, I subscribe to what Noisebridge stands for, it's very important for the new generation to learn and ask silly question, learn they would have never seen otherwise and this important to me.
  • Jay: participated in the reboot, love the people here and the vibe:
    • Mitch: what is consensus? -> When the space is healthy, all these ideas are being discussed. When consensus is working, you know the space is healthy. Consensus being blocked is a sign that the space is not healthy;
    • Kevin: why do you wanna become member? Membership seems to be the right way to do it, you show up for you a while, you work on projects, being a member feels like an acknowledgement from the community to be here; A member should be somebody that protects the vision of what the space wants to be.
    • Kevin: what is your vision for the space? -> I fixed my console when I was 13 and I would have loved to have space like Noisebridge to do it, I want to make this space good and safe enough so that women and kids can come. The dreams I had when I was a kid, I want to make Noisebridge where those kind of dreams can happen;
    • Efny: How do you think you could bring more people of color and/or from different kind of incomes? Show people around, show what the possibilities are and point them in the right direction, explain to people that the space can be used for meetings and so-on;
    • Jen: what are the responsibilities of a member? Pay dues, you have a financial responsibility towards the space, the other one is about consensus. Protect the space, its vision and future.
  • Daniella wk3: got along with people, Noisebridge has been part of my life since the inception of my keyboard project;
  • Louis wk2: I have been writing meeting notes.

New members:

  • Hanner!!
  • Jay!!

Consensus and Discussion

No consensus proposal.

Daniella: I wanna paint the tables in Church in black. People: Just do it™.

Efny (sorry this is probably not your name): I wanna take pictures of the space (while asking anyone that would be in the space); People: Just do it™.

Discussion Items

If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.

Financial Report

Noisebridge just paid rent.

  • Funds in bank: 19k checking, 3k in savings;
  • Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): 9k from the 21k above;
  • Matching donation fundraiser still going-on, please talk to Patrick about it, we wanna have it public in the next two weeks.

Keep in mind we are a 501c3 so you can deduct donations from your taxes.

If you also wanna use money for the space, please, contact Patrick, patrickod on IRC and Slack.

End of Meeting

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