Meeting Notes 2025 11 18

These are the notes from the The 840th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2025 11 18
Note-takers	Robbie, Loren
Moderators	Elle, Loren

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Meeting Summary

• Announcements:
• Consensus Items:
• Discussion Items:

Introductions

To keep it short, Share your Name and what brought you to nb

Martin - heard about gamebridge, htough nb was cool!
Jane - looking for place to do small art projects and meet cool people :)
Robbie - came to work on stuff, stayed for neat people
Chris - came to meet like minded minds
Loren - runs treasury stuff and meetup on mondays, brought by the lore
Ben - needed something t ohelp retsore sanity
Alex - started gamebridge 15-16 years ago, received a key at defcon
Manny - tech specialist of public library system, wants to do more tech after work
Eric - music room and VR stuff brought (SimBridge)
Elle  - wanted to define a space where creative work could be done, away from chaos
Carl (G (also)) - sometimes helps run circuit hacking mondays, loves electronics room
Carl (The OG) - someone told me about it in 2010 when I lived in the mission
Elan - began coming in 2018, resumed around the time of vaccines, and stayed
Daniel (R)- recommended by Chris, here online
Daniel (solderFumes) - heard nb was best makerspace in all the west, likes working on ?
hd - heard about nb in a documentary, trying to get off internet and talk to real ppl about hacking
nat - began coming in 2018
Ken - Always late & always here ;), brought by destiny and covid, still looking for purpose
Mystery member - not prime-d to share more

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 class - hand-sewing, how to sew on a button, and more

friendsgiving pt 1 tomorrow( Nov. 19) at 7pm, cooking 2 turkeys and cornbread bring a dish! come hang out and have turkey

Thanksgiving part 2 is happening on the day of

Taxes - we filed them - thank you @Loren from @Elan

Mission Local newspaper - they may reach out to take photos and take a tour - they are aware of our financial situation

Can we Lend out our Book scanning machine?

16th anniversary party Noisebridge needs to be saved, and celebrated. Will be on the 12th, 13th or 14th, calling for all participants to share what they've done - workshops

 - 101 give a discussion or a set of slides
 - full workshop (like classathon but much smaller) teaser for a club. 1hr or whatever timeblock you can do during 

- to get involved, join nb16 noisebridge channel - show everyhting nb has to offer on friday, classes on Saturday, and demos on Sunday? - sign up @ noisebridge.net/...( I missed this) - basically a science fair + party

-> what if we could keep this going? (hackapalooza prospectively in January) shooting for 30 workshops in a week put it on nb16 page after January, let's discuss this idea more - 1on1 is a shotgun blast of all the cool stuff on Friday (easily repeating) - anyone can run the slides

- let's do a YouTube channel too!

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other. (Give a quick, 1-3 sentence summary.) What does that mean? Please see our page on excellence https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Excellence!

Excellence - treating other people with respect and dignity, according to the Golden rule - Going beyond the minimal requirements to make everyone happy that you were [part of their experience. To be excellent is the ultimate principle of nb. -

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.

- harassment is not tolerated at nb - if you are experiencing harassment, you can ask ANYONE to leave, quite literally. - if they don't leave, consider leaving yourself, and DEFINITELY tell someone

- If you look at the page, there is a step of "de-escalation" steps. The reason ATL is there is to give people an opportunity to cool off. It can be way safer to give people space. Step 1 is "ask to disengage". For any reason, you can say "I need to do something, can you disengage right now".. It's at the point of refusal that we define harassment, and an ATL is clearly justified. You can ALWAYS ask to disengage.

Brief Kudos

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

@DanielWebb for making the 3d printers amazing @Alex for sponsoring 4 members last week @Martin for fixing the clock @Manny, Chris for helping with A/V @Nat for great idea to get gofundme out, very successful

Why kudos?

@Derek for helping take out trash on Monday

Zoning & Permitting Standing Item

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

Woodshop - JD was here earlier - inspection is all good - woodshop is close to being approved - goal for opening woodshop will be after Thanksgiving - contact InnoKen on discord if you want to help

- We'll discuss city outreach later in the meeting (fundraising)

Big C Consensus Items

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

What is this? A decision that is large enough that it will change the organization materially,

None this week, expect one next week

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.

Membership - everyone here currenlty is a member - different levels of membership - someone who has been given a tour (be excellent) - associate / philanthropist membership (monthly donation, stewardship, closing & opening, get 24 hour access, ultimate place to zone in, just need a sponsor as a big M member) - Big M member (2 sponsors, one year waiting period, means you can sponsor other people, can block proposals in emergency situations "I can make sure nb never dies due to a dumb decisions") - should be redefined as an inkling to initiative - we are not a club

If you don't have a sponsor, send elle a note suggestion: let's just do the signature now - how do you identify big M members (you can ask at meetings) "philanthropist are responsible for the space, big M's are responsible for the community"

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: Eric Seeking help, volunteers interested in helping maintain, teach workshop in music room On topic: music room -- guild creation

Discussion Item 3

From/Raised by: Chris Seeking outcome ...? On topic: Fundraiser -- event proposal, Nov 29th,

doc shared on discord.... Kandi Corps Collective http://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnSu7Xwnk-CaSsUPyBMm39TQ3Kuva5TRT2Kh4LKQuls?edit?usp=drivesdk

respecting ask to leave, no alcohol, 29th appears to be free. Concessions at the writing event took lots of work, so we should have > 1 volunteers :)

Takeaways

• Ken will host *ken is tentative host
• Need to see insurance for event by Friday

tentative yes

will check in #weekly-meeting in Discord. Elle will y/n by 9pm Friday.

Discussion Item 4

From/Raised by: Alex Seeking announce & invite to join effort On topic: Gamejam to lead into fundraising

open to anyone. Tablebridge officially starts tomorrow, Wednesdays, 5-7pm, kickoff. starting a cosplay group to go with the sewing club. (batman of san jose, makes his batarangs) 7-phase jamcamp (exploration,..., prototyping, play test, progression,polish,prelaunch) invite any and all indie devs (e.g., bay area developers group) (spacebridge game?)

Discussion Item 2

From/Raised by: Elle Seeking [decision/outcome/advice/something else] On topic: Fundraising

we need to be careful about our messaging - e.g. "50k or else we close!" - $50k is a reasonable amount of what we're searching for

good news we got a $5k challenge grant! possibly got a large donation have a half a month, and are already at $27k

Note that this $50k covers accessibility, woodshop, and electrical improvments in the last year. We want to bring on more members. We're working on cultural transition, but we're doing a membership drive for people who can collaborate and do excellent things here.

is "growth gala" a better term than "membership drive"?

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)