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
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
| 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.