[Noisebridge-discuss] Notes: The 130th Meeting of Noisebridge

[miloh]

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The ~130th Meeting of Noisebridge

== Crew ==
'''Get someone to grab the membership binder now. Get someone to take
notes.'''

* Moderator: Adi
* Note-Taker: Rma

== Agenda ==

=== Introduction and Names ===
* [[Noisebridge_Vision|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'."

The happening Noisebridge is a consensus run organziation -- members become
members by filling out a form in the membership binder, familiarize
themselves with the community and get their page signed off by current
members, and attend no less than 4 meetings before they are considered for
membership by consensus.

Discussion and light joshing during the first few minutes.

We reach consensus about important decisions that most likely will affect
the community.

* 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.


    Andy -- Moderating the meeting
    Rahul -- from the Oakland think tank
    Mike -- mailiny here to join in the linux discussion group and related
topics, perhaps more
    Salvador DalaiLama -- all he has to say
    John -- not an alcoholic, rather a computer programmer, a pilot, and a
brain wave measurer.
    Shannon -- involved with AMT and the Noisebridge
    TJ -- Sunday was the first time at a hckerspace and visiting from Alb.
    Simon -- moving here in a week
    Nick -- looking for a CS meetup for about 40 people..
    Rodrigo -- visiting from Brazil and perhaps mailed Nb-discuss earlier
about his visit
    Rachel -- working on a makerbot
    Micheal Blade -- Sci-Fiction blogger and author and writing about the
transhuman singularity
    R. Miloh -- I'm taking the notes
    Fabian -- first time here, interested in electronics and trying to build
giant LED light boards
    Cadence -- building a scehduling magic 8ball
    jonathan --  a sw guy and a hw hacker wannabe
    frantisek -- working on tastebridge and a hackerbus and hackerspace
seeding in Mexico
    Fred -- saboatoge TnAstebriage
    Jof -- likes telecom and working on Noisebridge/noisenet his week, 'the
next to walk through the door'
    Mike -- hardware floater
    Robert -- just want to say he thinks he found heaven bg in laptop repair
and comp repair and wants to start a webdev group at Nb
    DrJesus -- you can read about all hes doing on the Nb wiki, and please
visit Ace Monster Toys in the East bay. Acemonstertoys.org meeting monday at
7pm
    Doug -- does websites oragami and _____
    Adam -- relocated to the bay area, been here a few years and working on
software


=== Announcements ===

=== Financial Report ===
Funds in bank:
By SMS (the treasurer in Absentia, handled by moderater) our Bank balance is
currently $8156 which is sig. less than our desired bank balance of $15k.
This is not good and we should take whatever steps we can to improve our
funding situation.  We are spending money somewhat faster than we are
bringing it in.

We are supported by:

Donations from the Community
Membership dues ($40 t0 $80)
Note the employers in the area tend to match donations from folks

Mike -- suggests we conserve


=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===
''One '''short''' sentence about each of the following:''

===== Weekly =====
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and location.
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For locations at Noisebridge, see a map of the [[2169_map|2169]] location of
Noisebridge.

* [[Circuit_Hacking_Mondays|Circuit Hacking Mondays]] (Monday, 7PM,  E Lab)
Recently had a SMD workshop with great sucess!!
* Iphone Dev Meetup  -- (Monday, 6PM, A. Church)  Meets in the back still!
* [[Pyclass]] - Mondays (Monday, 7PM, A. Turing)  Building a PyEgg for
Noisebridge PyClass!  New Teacher!
* [[Cooking_Classes |Tastebridge cooking class]] - (Tuesday, ~5PM,
NoiseKitchen)  The food on the table at this meeting!
* [[Unityversity |GameDevelopment]] - (Wednesday, 7PM, E Lab/Main Hall]]
come on represent!
* [[Cultured_Drinks_Brewing_Program |Tastebridge culturing]] - (Wednesday,
~6PM, NoiseKitchen)  Noise culturing!
* [[SCoW]] craft group - (Wednesday, 7PM, SCoW area)  There are great
industrial machines to use!  Come on Wed and learn to use them properly!
* [[Machine_Learning]] - (Wednesday, 7:30PM, A. Church)  This group is very
active after a long silence!
* Linux System administration certification study group - (Wednesday, 6PM,
A. Turing)  General Dicussion about Linux on Wednesdays!
* [[Spacebridge]] - (Sundays, Main Hall)   Meeting and putting balloons into
space!
* Knots, [[Go]], and [[Locks!]] - (Sunday afternoon, Main Hall)  Yes there
are still locksporters, people tying knots and playing go on Sundays!

===== Non-weekly =====
* [[Five Minutes of Fame]]  Still happening on the third Thursday of every
month!  5 Minute Lightning talks!


=== Membership Binder ===

The process to become a member is reiterated -- See in the notes above for
an overview of the current consensed process --

* Names are read from the binder for the past month.
* Lots of new faces but no one in the membership binder to consent to

=== Project Updates ===

=== Consensus items ===

=== Discussion Items ===

*27c3 whatup   -miloh
The 27th Chaos Communications Congress put on the 27th 28th and 29th of
December in Berlin.  If there is any way you can swing it, go.
It costs $80 Euros and is PRESALE ONLY (because of OVERCROWDINg?).  There
are 2 group apartments worth of people from the NB community going.

*Miloh wants to go and fund it all on Sudo Pop.  Please come and buy bottles
and 6packs of SudoPop novelty liquid from him at Circuit Hacking Monday and
Tuesdays.
Use Airhitch and search for cheap airfare

*Hacker Mobile proposal -frantisek
"Hacker Mobile"
"I want to find out what other people think about creating a mobile hacker
space..."
Frantisek wants to get wheels and explore this idea with other interested
people, with the goal of starting a hackerspace in Mexico.  He wants to
share in transportation with like minded hackers and rebuild a vehicle in a
way that it can be used to tour other hackerspaces on a trip towards Mexico.

Tentative Itinerary:  a few weeks in January 2011 heading down to Mexico.
There is a discussion about the goal to spawn new hackerspaces on the trip
as well as visiting extant hackerspaces along the route.
"Hacker outward bound"  -- Shannon
Frantisek proposes to test the bus on a West Coast leg for a few weeks in
January, then head to Chiapas, Mexico to work on hackerspace culture for
about a month.
A discussion of possibilities ensues.

*User shelves -  request for more space -- if you can share your shelf
-miloh
AND label your shelf accordingly ---
Come and claim your shelf, take care of it well labelled and

*Drink run to Costco.   Need to raise $500 for thirsty noisebadger drinks,
or not.- miloh

*Tastebridge has Kombucha available!  You can bottle your own or get it from
the Drinks Fridge (we have 2 fridges, one  is for experiements)

*Fully functioning open source clothing exchange at Noisebridge  Located in
the Crafty area --
Feel free to exchange clothing and bring clothing in to alter and make your
own.

*DMCA takedown complaint from Monkeybrains -- The heresay is that
Monkeybrains called today (10/26) to inform us of a takedown complaint.
The internet service here is available in the form of unfiltered open wifi
AP's.
Please do not use the Noisebridge network download.  Ask administrators
about what you want to do with the Network to find the best use of our
limited bandwidth!

*Monkeybrains connection is a 802.11N wifi link.  It

*Dedicated access to more DSL circuits is possible, see DrJesus (email the
rack list) to hash out details for its use.

*Alternate service methods:
Mike Blade introduces the Mifi card he uses when the Noisebridge network is
down.  Bandwidth is greater than DSL in certain cases.  Its a monthly
subscription that would offer a better guarantee than the sometimes more
limited bandwidth available at Noisebridge.  Anyone interested in sharing
some mifi accounts for use at the space should discuss with Mike Blade or on
the Nb-Discuss.  Affinity groups may be interested.

*How To Fix the Network when it breaks:
If you want to help out when the network is down
Empower yourself by reading the Network Troubleshooting resources page
Get yourself familiarized with the Noisebridge Wiki

*Shit What Needs Done:
This is a new To-Do page for Noisebridge, Jof is working on the items on
this list. He's already added 'How To Help Out' buttons on the Touchpanels
that you can use to find out what needs to be done.  See the Noisebridge
wiki or the touch panels

*You can donate whatever you want as long as its not toxic waste or a CRT,
but if you donate a resource and do not guide its use, then it is possible
that it may get turned into a ROBOT.  Yes, a ROBOT:  a lifeless husk of wood
and plastic.  See the lifeless foosball table for an example. --Adi

*Nick organizes the bay area LISP and Scheme with the Bay area Closures
group, he came by to see if the space could support a 40-50 person meetup.
Preferred procedure is to find a member to sponsor the group's meeting.
The idea is to have a meeting for this group in the future, the date depends
on the availability of the presenters, look out for it in late November.

*Noisebridge is NOT for sleeping.  Do not sleep at Noisebridge.  A PSA from
Shannon.

*Rodrigo has delivery of a physical Packet from the Budapest hackerspace -
The packet is sent to the designated available open port, Leif R.
Thank you Budapest!

=== End of Meeting ===
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now, check the [[PGP|list]] to see
who wants in on the action.  NULL  (my kingdom for a pgp key!)
* Put back the membership binder by the Shrine at the northeast corner.
CHECK
* Save the meeting notes to the wiki. CHECK
* Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.  CHECK
* Copy the [[Meeting Notes Template]] for next week's agenda and update the
main wiki page's link to it.  CHECK
* Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.  KOMBUCHA ACQUIRED

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