Meeting Notes 2025 01 21

These are the notes from the The 796th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2025 01 21
Note-takers	User:ElanHR
Moderators	User:ElanHR

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• One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.

Short meeting: Please welcome our new associate member Edward!

Meeting Summary

• Fundraising Update: Fundraising Meeting this
• Announcements:
• Finances:
• New members:
• New associates: Edward!
• Consensus Items: Guilds Right to Refuse Donations
• Discussion Items: (

Introductions

• Elan - likes space/politics/bureaucracy/graffiti art
• Cloud - runs 5MoF (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame)
• JD - dealing with bureaucracy on behalf of NB w/ the city,
• Asher - phoning in from Idaho, recently lived in the City, interested in tech/contributing
• Edward - software looking to expand in hardware, was involved over the summer and now looking get more involved
• Elle
• Loren

Short announcements and events

• Fundraising meeting on the 24th of Jan! Friday 7pm-8, on jitsi and in person. Agenda posted in fundraising channel tonight. This is a short planning meeting for this year's campaign.
• Updates on permitting: No new updates, reaching out to supervisor, waiting to finish wall once permitting is done, waiting to figure out which permits to file

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!

Elan: When you interact with the Noisebridge community leave it better (cleaner/more inclusive/more welcoming/etc) than you found it!

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!

• Kyle, Lisa, Chi and Nina for wonderful sewing organizing over a big long wonderful day. 2 years of dust cleaned away!

• Erikk for working on the computer donation to sewing! AGain! All of Spacebridge for being awesome!

• Rae and Tracy for coming to the Pie event and helping Elle to check out that offer!

• Avery for organizing and cleaning out the metal shop, OMG a miracle worker! i may actually go in there, now... And for agreeing to tech a jewelry class this summer

• Kudos to Julius/Nick/Ahn/Sameer for driving forward the Spacebridge launch this weekend! Also particular thank yous for everyone who came out and made it happen - Robin, Lauren, Andrew, Jeremy, and our friends in the local Meshtastic community!

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.

Edward (Associate Members Application)

Q(Elan): What projects are you working on?

   A: goes to UBC, part of rockchute team, works occasionally remotely, looking to get into fabrication

Q(Elle): What would you do if you were the first/or last person in the space and you find someone sleeping in the music room?

   A: I would wake them up and tell them they need to leave the space. 

Q(Elan): Are you comfortable reaching out to others or on the discord for backup when folks are not being excellent?

   A: Yes, I would either call someone I know or reach out on discord. 

Comment(JD): It's good practice to go around ~15m or so beforehand and give everyone a heads up that you're going to headout soon

Comment(Elle): I often found it helpful to recruit someone you trust (Member or otherwise) to help you do a final sweep when closing the space.

• • • Application Approved!***

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

Fundraising meeting on the 24th of Jan! Friday 7pm-8, on jitsi and in person. Agenda posted in fundraising channel tonight. This is a short planning meeting for this year's campaign.

This is where we brainstorm to bring in additional funds to NB!

• Classes
• Fundraising Events
• Grants
• etc.

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.

Guild Right to Refuse

"To make abundantly clear that the guild that organizes the use of an item is the primary responsible party for accepting that specific kind of donation - e.g. Sewing Guild approves accepting sewing machines, Electronics Guild approves accepting arduinos, and Gaming Guild approves accepting game related controllers.

Based on this, Guilds can: refuse, dispose of, or return to donor donations made to them. If the guild determines an item is not safe for Noisebridge, the guild's determination will be given greater weight than the donor or others who do not or are not trained in the use of the item donated."

Discussion Items

D1: Guild Right to Refuse

From/Raised by:Elle Seeking: decision/outcome/advice/[?] On topic: Guild Right to Refuse Consensus Item

Guild's right to refuse draft consensus (see this week's consensus items).

It doesn't make a change in current policy. It just reaffirms existing policy.

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

This was a quick meeting. Perhaps because relatively little disagreements (so many online? things were drafted ahead of time in the discord?) :happy_shrug:

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)