Meeting notes/Meeting Notes 2024 10 22

These are the notes from the The 784th Meeting of Noisebridge.

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Date	2024 10 22
Note-takers	Zach B
Moderators	Mark

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• Came to a soft-consensus on selling several unused sewing machines to free up space and generate money for Noisebridge
• Coordinated plans between Literature Guild meetup and Godot Meetup for Saturday the 26th. Mark, Ellen, Zach B and others will arrive at 10am on Saturday to scrub the space in preparation.

Meeting Summary

FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST/SLACK/DISCORD Include: TLDR what happened at the meeting:

• Fundraising Update:
• Announcements:
• Finances:
• New members:
• New associates:
• Consensus Items:
• Discussion Items:

Introductions

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

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)

Excellence

Our One Rule is to Be Excellent to Each Other. (On first Tuesdays, seek a few definitions. Other Tuesday, give a 1-3 sentence summary.)

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.) TWO MINUTES MAX 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.

Brief Kudos

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

Guilds

• What are guilds - briefly describe (much like the previous section on "Excellence")

New Members/Associate Members

What are they? Is anyone trying to become a Member or Associate Member? If not move on. No long discussions.

Financial Report (first Tuesday of month only)

Anarchist societies under a capitalist state need money to survive and thrive, yo.

• Monthly revenue, expenses. Big projects. Big fundraising events. Reserves in bank.
• Any other details by those participating in handling our financials
• The latest financial reports from the treasurer are available at https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Finances

Spending Needs

Gotta spend money on XYZ (i.e. Gate, wiring etc.). WHO CAN SIGN THE CHECK OR LEND THE CREDIT CARD!?!?! It doesn't matter if we agree to do something and it can’t be paid for.

Fundraising Update

How's it all going

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.

1. Make Space at Noisebridge with a Sewing Yard Sale

Proposal: Sewing arrange to sell through a public sale several of the excess machines. Items and, at the same time, replace some of the lesser quality domestic machines with new machines.

No blocks and moves to next week. Will broadcast to members on discord to give others a chance to discuss or block.

Discussion Items

Template... [num]: [topic-short]

From/Raised by: Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic:

(discussion item) 1: [topic]

From/Raised by: Josh Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] decision On topic: get Ken's beam off of his scaffold so he can move it.

(discussion item) 2: [topic]

From/Raised by: Zach B Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] advice On topic: coexistence of Literature Guild meetup and Godot Meetup on Saturday the 26th they should be able to coexist just fine. Literature Guild's meetup will be downstairs while Godot will be upstairs.

(discussion item) 3: [topic]

From/Raised by: Josh Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] advice On topic: Ken cut the blocking posts for the fire sprinklers in front of the building in order to keep his truck parked. Should Ken fix that? Should Ken move his truck? What if he continues to ignore requests to move his truck?

(discussion item) 4: [topic]

From/Raised by: Ellen, Zach B, Mark Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] decision On topic: let's meet Saturday morning 10am on the 26th to scrub the space before the two big meetings Saturday afternoon.

(discussion item) 5: [topic]

From/Raised by: Zach B Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] advice On topic: Are both the downstairs hackitorium and the upstairs hackitorium both called the hackitorium? Zach B was thinking of giving a cool new name to the upstairs hackitorium. Mark nodded in agreement. Ideas? The coworkitorium Talkitorium Show&Tell-itorium The Space-Space The Co-co-citorium The human being lab

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, and names of new members and philanthropists.
• 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)