Meeting notes/Meeting Notes 2025 08 19

These are the notes from the The 827th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2025 08 19
Note-takers	Mo
Moderators	Zach

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• Light meeting, with some important project updates & plans in the month to come

Meeting Summary

Include: TLDR what happened at the meeting:

• Announcements:
  • Sewing Equipment Yard Sale is saturday - if you want to sell sewing-related items and donate 10% of the proceeds to Noisebridge contact
  • Silent auction
    • Sunday after sell meeting
  • Fundraising Meeting sunday
• Consensus Items: -
• Discussion Items:
  • plan for silent auction at NB16 (or fundraising, or yard sale)
  • Fundraising WG -- (humanmade got CA grant $500k, why can't we :D)

Introductions

• Ask people to share their name, access needs, and preferred gender pronouns what they do at noisebridge

• Zach B -- around for a while, host Godot game building meetup
• Mo (mohammed) -- around for a while
• Mario (sp?) -- new here, ?
• Elle -- around a bit less than 2 years, do sewing
• JD -- around for a little bit, getting us through city permits (and other bs)
• Loren -- around since pandemic,
• Daniel -- work on the door
• Corey -- was here to ask about mediation,

Short announcements and events

• 60-second description per item in bulletpoint.
• Copy-paste any pre-announcements for the upcoming meeting from Announcements.
• After announcements, copy them to the past Announcements list. Retire any from the Next Meeting list that aren't marked ONGOING.
• (See https://www.noisebridge.net/ and https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events for events, and welcoming people)

• Sewing Equipment Yard Sale is saturday - if you want to sell sewing-related items and donate 10% of the proceeds to Noisebridge contact
• Silent auction
  • Sunday after sell meeting
• Fundraising Meeting sunday

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other. (Give a quick, 1-3 sentence summary.)

Excellence means to be excellent to each other, it means to be excellent to the space and others, not sleeping here.

We have a wiki page on excellence

What does that mean? Please see our page on excellence https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Excellence!

Anti-Harassment Policy & Community Standards of Excellence

Noisebridge has an Anti-Harassment Policy https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Policy Everyone is expected to follow the Anti-Harassment Policy, please familiarize yourself with it.) More approachable & specific guidelines, https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Community_Standards https://safespace.noisebridge.net/ is one way to quickly raise issues which will be seen by people in Slack.

We don't like to speed time *during the meeting* mediating these conflicts, just to ensure we find a volunteer mediator to

Brief Kudos

Recent exampdles of excellent participation, say 3, unless the passion moves you.n

• Kudos to Matty for being excellent at the space
• Kudos to Brian & whoever else has been taking out trash on Monday nights. For their ongoing care and stewardship for the space they've adopted

• to Josh -- for helping spacebridge go even longer on Sunday
• To JD for handeling getting the permits and dealing with bureaucracy of the city.
• To Elan for helping host the infra meetup, on Monday, since Loren was sick
• Someone excellently getting someone ving unexcellently to leave, recently, kudos.

Zoning & Permitting Standing Item

Status this week? Helpful broad asks to the community? NB city bureaucracy WG -- JD & Alice, among others.

Overdue city zoning & permitting changes & fixes. Due 2 days ago (we've gotten a 30 day extension. We have until 3rd week of September to wrap everything up.

They havent prouve the permit but it was filed

• Put the ventillation fans

• Mud and tape drywall up
• Run electricity to walls in woodshop & to ventillation fans

That will close our mechanical & electrical permits -- need to complete for closing building permit. That will also need a fire permit inspection first, a real serious inspection, we need to again put the space in good order.

Inspected with contractor Matt today.

Matt suggested to have the ventillation go up through the music room to the roof.

(recording as discussion item, it's ok(

Big C Consensus Items

Nobody likes 3 hour meetings, only explain if new people are present. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Current_Consensus_Items

Consensus Items

Only for talking about Big C consensus items, small c consensus items should be discussed with people at the space at the time of the change/new item or can be reserved for the discussion section of the meeting.

Nothing is written in the coinsensus item list Move on.

Discussion Items

It is recommended to post items for discussion ahead of time at https://pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting. (Check that the template for the meeting is in place already, and that last week's notes have been moved to the wiki, of course)

Item prompts should follow the format: From/Raised by: [your name here] Seeking [decision/outcome/advice/something else] On topic: [topic]

Discussion Item 1

From/Raised by: Elle to JD Seeking advice, help -- pass along a request On topic: ...silent auction & landlord.

Can/would the landlord pass along offer to auction items.

Discussion Item 2

From/Raised by:  ? Elle Seeking plan On topic: plan for silent auction at NB16 (or fundraising, or yard sale)

• Looking for donations from local businesses nearby -- e.g. discount, something that supports them and supports us.

• Ask at meetups & meetings -- if people can/want to donate

- suggestion includes tech related, art, handmade stuff, anything nostalgic.

Discussion Item 3

From/Raised by: Zak Seeking help, outcome On topic: membership

Zack: Associatte membership appliacation, Loren: We are happy to have you as a memeber. We'll work on it.

Fundraising WG

CA grant for humanmade -- $500,000. For jobs & education. We could get these too!

elle -- pass through grant requests.

elle -- have done re-granting through 501c3 associated with HOA organization.

JD: if we are taking on we need professional help

SF -- free lawyer, from SF Bar Association

Jet -- donor rep, has agreed

Zack: we are endding the meeting. Thank you for coming Loren: Thank you for moderating the meeting

Do-ocratic Task Board

Participation also means doing stuff to contribute to the space. Propose new tasks or pick some tasks from Github, from what needs to be done around you, or whatever, and see if someone will sign up to work on that task. Anyone can sign up and it's a great way to show you are contributing!

End of Meeting

Note taker posts the notes

• Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
• Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, & discussion topics.
• Copy paste the notes to the next meeting page. (They will become Last meeting at midnight.) https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Last_meeting&redirect=no
• Email the meeting summary to Noisebridge Discuss and Noisebridge Announce lists.
• CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
• Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
• Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

Fun things to do after

• Do a 10 minute cleanup, bring dishes up stairs and wash them, clean the bathroom
• Have some beers on the patio
• Prepare the next weeks' meeting notes
• Lick the walls. Or just draw on them
• sing the Hackernationale (this almost never happens)