[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge-discuss Digest, Vol 44, Issue 11

Robert Chu robertayoungchu at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 21:07:58 UTC 2011 

" On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>
 wrote:

>
> Plus, the hackerspace movement continues to take off.  And Nosiebridge
> is now a travel destination for lots of people all over the world, as well
> as some percentage of the millions of people living in the Bay Area (and
> their friends).  It's looking like we'll all have plenty of opportunity for
> practice at introducing people to Noisebridge.
>
> Mitch. "
>

Well I've been practicing introducing people for the first two months that I
was introduced into the place. Since then I've been giving very in depth and
effective tours that highlight some of the following:

- Welcome to Noisebridge. Noisebridge is a 5013c, non-profit organization
dedicated to providing a work space for communal educational and creative
growth.

- Noisebridge is funded by two channels, donations and membership dues. The
cool thing about Noisebridge is that you do not have to be a member to
par-take in the activities  or hang out here, but there are perks to being a
member.

- Noisebridg is a do-ocracy, that enables anyone to do anything they wish as
long as it does not impend on the boundaries, or is a incontinent to others.
If you do feel that something you may do could potently be incontinent, then
you could present that item at our Tuesday Night Membership Meetings. One of
the perks of being a member is that you would be able to be a part of the
two week consensus process, for similar items. The member basic discuss for
two weeks to choose yes or no on what is presented to them.

- Then I give a tour and while giving a tour I do the following.
 > Walk toward the membership shelves, explain them as another benefit to
membership.
> Explain the donation area and how we often receive material donations from
individuals, different parties, and  companies).
> Explain the member shelves.
> Explain Spacebridge.
> Explain the sowing area and discuss SCOW.
> Explain the Electronics Lab and discuss Circuit Hacking Mondays.
> Explain the library, and complete wood shop
> Explain the Turing classroom on the left with Linux Discussion classes,
and the Dark room, for use for anything from photography, to silk screening,
to circuit board printing.
> Explain the kitchen and how people use it to cook, and go over
Tastebridge, cooking, and kombucha brewing. We also have a distilling class
once in a while, as well.
> Exlpain the (to be consistent) where the bathrooms are WOOT!!!!!
> Explain Church classroom, with Ruby and Python classes.
> Explain the laser lounge with while demoing the previous work done.


Then after that is all said and done, I walk with the person(s), to the
donations bin in the front, and give a small reminder that Noisebridge is
funded by donations, and offer them to take a couple of stickers so they can
reference NB later via the wiki. In addition we have shirts as well.

Then that usually gives them a full spectrum overview of NB.


Oh, I also do some cleaning from time to time.
--
Rayc


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>   1. Re: new people (meredith scheff)
>   2. Data Visualization Hackathon (Megan Williams)
>   3. Pants Interface! (Rachel Lyra Hospodar)
>   4. Re: picture of person 86'd for odd behavior       on 6-8-2011
>      (Patrick Lake)
>   5. Re: SVM workshop 6/22,    presentation solicitation! (Brian Morris)
>   6. Re: new people (Rameen)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>
> To: Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:59:50 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] new people
> I think we also have a *lot* of FreeSchool peeps that come over to hang out
> and make food.
> Meredith
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Plus, the hackerspace movement continues to take off.  And Nosiebridge
>> is now a travel destination for lots of people all over the world, as well
>> as some percentage of the millions of people living in the Bay Area (and
>> their friends).  It's looking like we'll all have plenty of opportunity for
>> practice at introducing people to Noisebridge.
>>
>> Mitch.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:54:41 -0700
>> From: everfalling at gmail.com
>> To: froggytoad at gmail.com
>> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] new people
>>
>>
>> maker faire + summer = new people i would think.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:52 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The amount of new people showing up at Noisebridge is staggering.
>>
>> 16 first timers in the last 2 hours I've been here.  I heard techshop
>> administration visited the space earlier today.  At this rate we probably
>> have 100 first visits this week (20/weekday), and I'm curious whether it's
>> going to be like this all summer.
>>
>> If anyone wants to help, invite visitors in this direction:
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Visitor_log
>>
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> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
> a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
> build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
> cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
> program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
> Specialization is for insects.
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> -Robert A. Heinlein
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Megan Williams <megan.williams at swissnexsanfrancisco.org>
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:49:26 -0700
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Data Visualization Hackathon
> swissnex San Francisco is co-organizing "*data in sight: making the
> transparent visual* <http://datainsightsf.com/>,"  a weekend hackathon all
> about data visualization. Registration is now open, but space is limited.
>
> Teams of coders, hackers, designers, illustrators, and data nerds are
> invited to compete June 24-26 at Adobe in SOMA. Co-organizers are Creative
> Commons and the Netherlands Office for Science and Technology. Other
> sponsors and partners include Hot Studio, Amazon Web Services, PeopleBrowsr,
> Factual, and more. Sign up now, it will fill up!
>
> Here's that url again: http://datainsightsf.com/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Megan Mansell Williams
> ___________________________________
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rachel Lyra Hospodar <rachel at mediumreality.com>
> To: noisebridge-discuss <Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:11:37 -0700
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Pants Interface!
>
> Hey Noisebridge!  I have been working on my Pants Interface project at
> Noisebridge for almost a year.  I am using Arduinos and wireless radios
> combined with conductive fabric, conductive thread, and other soft
> circuit materials to make wearable interface devices.  I have gotten a
> ton of help, support, advice, and information from all of the super
> helpful folks at Noisebridge, especially Circuit Hacking Monday people!
>  I wanted to let everyone know about a soft circuit kit I am trying to
> produce.  It's going to be a kit for a wireless 4-button device that can
> control MIDI devices or speak to a computer via USB, and I am super
> excited about it!  I want to make a whole computer keyboard that is worn
> on the pants, and am excited about this step in that direction.  Some
> links you might be interested in to find out more about the project:
>
> Our kickstarter fundraising drive - ends in 2 weeks!
> http://kck.st/iyusM4
>
> A four-minute video about the kickstarter project
> http://www.vimeo.com/24525501
>
> The project website, listing more info about the mouse touchpad, the
> project collaborators,
> http://mediumreality.com/pantsinterface.html
>
> Thanks!
> R.
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Patrick Lake <pat at patsanimation.com>
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:32:19 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] picture of person 86'd for odd behavior
> on 6-8-2011
> You know how places put up signs saying: "We aren't responsible for theft
> of your stuff in our place"?  That's why I brought up liability.
>  Hypothetically, if there's a computer theft and Noisebridge spends time
> talking internally without getting cops, someone could blame the place for
> blocking recovery, and sue for value of their computer plus any amount of
> damages for what's on it.
>
> Anyways thanks to jake for labeling the guy disabled.  Now I get it.  At
> this point I lost all anger and I just feel bad for him.
>
> The cops let me yell at him, but everything I tried to get across to him
> rationally was useless.  If he was rational, I wouldn't feel bad about
> fucking with his job by telling them the story, after he endangered my job.
>  Now I wish I didn't, but I did close with telling them I don't want to hurt
> his job if mental disability is the reason.  Like you said, bona-fide
> disability rights should help him.  He has no rap sheet and his name wasn't
> made googlable.
>
> I considered contacting his brother through facebook to settle worries he
> might have, but it's probably best to leave him alone, unless someone else
> thinks that's a good idea on behalf of the space.  This has been an
> interesting experience for working with a group.
>
> P
>
>
> *From: *Jake <jake at spaz.org>
> *Date: *June 9, 2011 5:44:07 PM PDT
> *To: *Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>
> *Cc: *NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> *Subject: **Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] picture of person 86'd for odd
> behavior on 6-8-2011*
>
>
> Actually, i totally failed at posting the picture to the wiki.  The example
> that's there refers to a file without a path, and I don't know how to upload
> my file to where that other file is.  I put a link to my image, but it just
> came up like this:
> [1]
>
> which is tiny and hard to click on, so i gave up and need help.
> (talking about putting it on https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/86 )
>
> Also, if you're still worried about his employer finding out, you may have
> missed this message, where a call to his employer resulted in an apology on
> behalf of the HR department:
>
> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-June/023452.html
>
> Presumably he is not always like this, and will "come back down" at some
> point (i have seen worse) and put the pieces back together - and straighten
> things out with his employer.  And his condition is a bona-fide disability
> and he has rights regarding his job, so hopefully he'll be ok.
>
> It might help him that more people know about his condition to prevent more
> misunderstandings from happening.  If his brother had been more successful
> in explaining things, we might have all saved some time.. although Patrick
> was really really mad...
>
> -jake
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>
> To: ml <ml at lists.noisebridge.net>,
> noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:00:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] SVM workshop 6/22, presentation
> solicitation!
> I have borrowed a copy of Tom Mitchell's (ML dept head, CMU) Machine
> Learning
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html
> and intensely reading for the next 5 weeks. If anyone wants to join me, we
> could meet and discuss.
> (lecture slides are on the web page but you would have to buy or borrow the
> book). I'm currently half way through Chapter 2.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey anyone, someone, everyone,
>>
>> I'm planning on giving a workshop on SVMs in R about
>> two weeks from now, Wednesday June 22nd, 7:30pm in
>> the Church classroom. You will learn what support vector
>> machines are, how they work, and how to use them to
>> classify data. Let me know if this is in conflict with anything!
>>
>> Also, I'll be not around for two weeks after that and won't
>> be back to ML until 7/13. I have no doubt in my mind that
>> throngs of people will clamour to fill the void and attain the
>> gloriousness that is to be had by organizing ML meetups
>> and giving presentations. I urge you all to stay calm and
>> please don't cause physical harm to eachother in the process.
>>
>> If you want to give an ML presentation/talk/pow-wow/box social,
>> edit the wiki page to add your idea:
>>
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Machine_Learning
>>
>> Then post to ml at lists.noisebridge.net and noisebridge-discuss
>> to alert people.
>>
>>  mike
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rameen <emprameen at gmail.com>
> To: meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:11:07 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] new people
> Maybe we should start a hacker kitchen
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:59 PM, meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think we also have a *lot* of FreeSchool peeps that come over to hang
>> out and make food.
>> Meredith
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Plus, the hackerspace movement continues to take off.  And Nosiebridge
>>> is now a travel destination for lots of people all over the world, as well
>>> as some percentage of the millions of people living in the Bay Area (and
>>> their friends).  It's looking like we'll all have plenty of opportunity for
>>> practice at introducing people to Noisebridge.
>>>
>>> Mitch.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:54:41 -0700
>>> From: everfalling at gmail.com
>>> To: froggytoad at gmail.com
>>> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] new people
>>>
>>>
>>> maker faire + summer = new people i would think.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:52 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The amount of new people showing up at Noisebridge is staggering.
>>>
>>> 16 first timers in the last 2 hours I've been here.  I heard techshop
>>> administration visited the space earlier today.  At this rate we probably
>>> have 100 first visits this week (20/weekday), and I'm curious whether it's
>>> going to be like this all summer.
>>>
>>> If anyone wants to help, invite visitors in this direction:
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Visitor_log
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
>>> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss
>>> mailing list Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
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>>
>>
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>>
>> Ladycartoonist.com
>>
>> ___________
>>
>> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
>> a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
>> build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
>> cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
>> program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
>> Specialization is for insects.
>>
>> -Robert A. Heinlein
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
>> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
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>>
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