[Noisebridge-discuss] NB Weekly Meeting Minutes, Sept 8, 2009

[Naomi Most]

NOTES for this week's meeting which took place Sept 8, 2009, at 2169 Mission
St.

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2009_09_08

The most important thing to notice is the need for BUILD HELP at 2169 (even
10-15 spare minutes in your day) because we are really behind schedule.

AND

Some serious electrical help is needed at 2169. To help, just show up this
morning (Wednesday) and save them from what was called "certain doom" in
tonight's meeting.

Full Minutes below.   --Naomi



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Noisebridge Meeting Sept 8, 2009 (09/08/2009)
moderator: Miloh
notetaker: Naomi

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2009_09_08

MEETING BEGUN 22:15 PDT

INTRODUCTIONS:

* lots of people make snarky comments.
* there are a few new people who are informed about what Noisebridge is all
about.
* Bilal from Michigan is in town until Saturday - he's making a documentary
about hackspaces and beginning his filming with NoiseBridge - see
post-minutes below.

TREASURER'S REPORT (Mitch):

* $26,000 in the bank
* $9000 approved for build-out
* will be $16,000 after that's done...
* we're just shy of 3 months operating expenses - about $15,000
* we're short a LOT of dues (only 50 ppl out of 82 have paid)
* Mitch re-iterates what commitment to membership is all about (i.e. the
Benjamins)
* Josh M. plugs the automatic recurring payment system.
* there is question as to whether Mitch wants to remain Treasurer much
longer

CLASSES

* Py-class is kaput under Jason D., but Dan S. is back in town and taking it
(back) over soon.
* Rachel reminds there are mailing lists for each of these activities.

CRAZY SCIENCE UN-CONFERENCE NEXT MONTH

* Naomi brings the Let's Have an Awesome Time Doing Science un-conference to
NB attention.
* check out the "Foo Camp" model of conference participation, e.g. Science
Foo Camp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Foo_Camp]
* this is a good opportunity for hacker types to interface with researchers
and theoretical types
* also a good opportunity for Noisebridge outreach?
* October 8-10th && FREE

2169 BUILDOUT PROJECT

--> WE ARE BEHIND SCHEDULE (Sept 11th move date is off)

* electrical reports "certain doom" happening - help is needed - SHOW UP AT
THE SPACE in the morning (Wednesday)
* fill, sand, fix cracks in exterior walls - tonight/tomorrow would be GREAT
* start moving everything possible off this floor so we can paint and spray
* help w/ sanding all over everywhere
* electrical can helping in parallel but before painting
* where's the paint?
* we need PAINT!  Rachel will look for eggshell or semi-gloss paint --
concern about cheap paint -> walls dirty faster
* only $1500 has been apportioned for building expenses thus far!
*...have you bought stuff for buildout? send receipts to Mitch! (treasurer
at noisebridge.net)

Scott & copper issue:
* floor piping will cost more... have to use copper or cast-iron ($45/piece)
b/c PVC won't fly w/ SF code.
* the landlord gave us $6000 for bathroom/kitchen renovation but stuff's
gonna cost a bit more.
* we need help! even 15 to 20 minutes while you're around.
* how do we keep track of these little projects: there's a whiteboard with
tasks to accomplish.

The take-home message: many more man-minutes are needed on mudding, sanding,
floor-covering before painting can happen.

The budget's already been approved for the paint.  So let's buy some
paint...

MOVING:

* Rubin says only 2 people have volunteered time and vehicles to move stuff.
* about 5 more people stood up to volunteer
* Rubin will coordinate volunteers.  Sept 11th move will not happen due to
buildout stall.

DR JESUS & HIS 2 SYSTEMS W/ MANY SUBSYSTEMS

* front door of 2169: 125kHz cards will be used for authentication.
* maglocks for the glass door prevent people getting in after 5pm or before
8am on weekdays.
* the point of the system is to obviate the need for keys.
* system must provide total anonymity (lest there be blocking by some NB
members)
* NEED: programmer who can do "protocol stuff" on the touch panels - email
Dr Jesus

DONATING

* Mitch: if you donate equipment, make sure you declare it on your taxes and
make the value as high as possible... a maximally beneficial arrangement for
you and for NB.

CONSENSUS ITEMS...

SWAG:

* Rubin opens the discussion by volunteering to get smacked for blocking
t-shirts and stickers if they are re-ordered in black and red, respectively.
* WE NEED T-SHIRTS and STICKERS - missed opportunities at various
conferences (says Mitch)
* $500 for t-shirts (50 t-shirts at $9/piece)
* $250 for 1000 stickers
* It seems we can make 30% profit on swag in a month
* John (new guy) will look into whether he still owns a screen printer that
hasn't been destroyed by "crackhead former roommates". Noisebridge having
ability to print own shirts would be nifty.
* Does MITCH have consensus to getting appropriate am't of money to get
t-shirts and stickers? YES. consensed. done.

$12.99 LEAD TEST KIT:

* "our money would be better spent not licking the walls"
* is the old paint a concern? apparently: NO.  (NEXT!!!)

GET WELL SOON BLINKENLIGHTS FOR RACHEL:

* Rachel is here (w/ visible arm injury from car crash) and is getting
well... discussion fizzles but with warm fuzzies...

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:

* Rubin notes that the person who put most of these items up on the wiki
isn't here at the meeting.
* Miloh: "When you're writing on the wiki, write things that make sense."
 (re: "awesome stuff" = WTF ?)
* We guess that this stuff is about: "How should membership benefits be
distributed?"
* What do members actually get? "They get to block consensus and they get to
pay dues...and sponsor new members during the membership process" --Mitch
* Arbitrary dictatorship of services is fully within Noisebridge operational
parameters. (e.g. admin Rubin denying root access to Pony to potential
admin.)
* Miloh: Non-members have had shelf space and account access on servers just
because of resource donation and whatnot.
* and... Some members don't have shelf space.
* Who is the membership team?
** Rachel and "some other people"... who figured out what the membership
process should be, but nothing along the lines of what it "means" to be a
member.
** Perhaps this is cause for wiki attention.

* Josh: let's have a wiki editing party! with beer! Joachim, Andy, Rubin,
and others would be down for that.
** replace 83c w/ 2169
** WIKI JAM 2009 !!!
** Rubin volunteers to bring the peanut butter.

PATCHES

* Noisebridge should have them!  many nods and grunts of agreement.
* Rubin says: $1.50/piece... you can get a whole bunch of different kinds
(velcro, iron-on, etc)
* funding for patches (a form of swag) for fundraising parties would be
good, says several people.

MEMBERSHIP BINDER

* let's clean up the stale entries at some point, shall we?

MEETING CONCLUDED at 21:15 PDT


PostScript:

Bilal, who's working on starting a hackspace in Michigan, is making a
documentary about hackerspaces which begins with Noisebridge - he'll want to
do interviews and hang out and get a sense of what it's like around here.
He's going to talk to Josh M. about putting it under Creative Commons
licensing and possibly acquiring a nice server to host it for co-editing and
distribution purposes.
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