[nb-soc] last week's todos, this week's meeting

[Danny O'Brien]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:13 AM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
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>> Heya all, we're going to have another Social Engineers meeting on
>> Tuesday, 7pm. I got the sense a bit that doing it for a whole hour
>> tires everyone out for the meeting after it, so I'm going to keep it
>> down to 30 minutes if I can.
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>> Remember the one rule for Social Engineers: every problem raised has
>> to have a proposed solution, and every solution has to have a
>> technical element to it (no matter how silly).
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>> Strawman agenda:
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>> 1. Going through last week's brainstorm ideas, and see where we are.
>> (Pretty well on the weekly stuff, see below):
>> ideas for stuff to talk about: kitchen, singapore visit, arduino for
>> beginners, sleeping, fire exits, NB meeting last week
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>> 3. What could we manage in the next week and the next month.
>> 4. AOB
>>  -- could we do an actual 15 minute standard induction for new visitors?
>>  -- history + culture of noisebridge (i enjoyed the 10 minute History
>> of Hacking talk I gave)
>>  -- business card with people to call, guidelines to follow
>>  -- create their account on the Wiki
>>  -- no status or permissions or anything, but officially makes you a
>> $SOMETHING of noisebridge
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>>
>>   put shannon on the mailing list -- danny ✓
>>    get google docs sent to the list -- signage -- liz (just doing it)
>>    work out twitter -- miloh and danny ✓ -- we're now doing more
>> officially twitter announcements
>>    phone tree -- number you can call -- continue on socialengineering
>> list -- haven't worked out a solution for this yet, need to talk to
>> drjesus or someone about asterisk
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>>    noiseatnight -- mailing list Mitch + Robert -- danny will talk to
>> mitch ✓, ping rack ✓ (will ping again)
>>    fix wiki spam - danny ✓ (simple captcha on user creation seems to
>> have worked)
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>> Monthly:
>>    superclean kitchen photo -- liz and will (who is organizing cleaning)
>>    yes/no strips down the stairway -- mct and danny
>>    tools for searching wiki/mailing list
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> Agenda item to add:
> Mike Kahn and I fixed up the WYSE box/Door opener to trigger a parallel
> input when someone presses the buzzer downstairs.  Right now,
> /usr/local/bin/open-door just opens the door by running a high voltage on
> parallel port pin 6.  Now I need someone to help me get parallel port 13 to
> read every 10 seconds for a low (normally high) and get the data to a count
> logger, noisedoor, and irc.


oh that is awesome!

and that reminds me, I've been fooling around a little to see if I can
get a small cam to record what's on our "now showing" whiteboard and
put it online. The stand juts far enough forward that you can attach a
cam at the foot of the sign that can see (distorted) the whole of the
sign.

http://i.imgur.com/BI1op.png

I figure with some brightly colored tape on the edges, we could spot
the shape of the signpost and correct for the distortion.

i have an old G1 around *somewhere* that might work for this

d.


> The idea behind this is: take this quantitative 'busy door' data (mondays,
> tuesdays, and wednesdays) and plug it into our grant funding and grantmaking
> apparatchki...
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> Also:
> Lets cycle meeting days to suprise folks that think the only noisebridge
> procedurals are on Tuesday (and to allow for attendance from those who cant
> make it on Tuesdays).
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> -rma
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