Meeting Notes 2025 10 07

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Only after finishing notes, writing summary, uploading summary to discord/email. REMOVE ME (and above).

These are the notes from the The 834th Meeting of Noisebridge.

Date	2025 10 07
Note-takers	Daniel Angell
Moderators	Elan (Lané)

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

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

• IrishMASMS - recently posted a greeting
• Nick - 2 years at Noisebridge. Likes video game development. Getting involved with grant writing
• Daniel - 3d printer stuff, laser cutter, computer code stuff
• Wheezy - syncing Monero blockchain
• Elan - moderating
• Robbie - listening in, likes math ( :D )

Short announcements and events

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• (See https://www.noisebridge.net/ and https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events for events, and welcoming people)
• October 11th - big protest for Palestine. Starts at Twin Peaks, ends at Dolores
• October 11-12th PacificCon in San Ramon: Swap meet on Sunday :D (registration is closed? gg)
• October 18th - Electric unicycle racing in Sonoma (w/ Wheezy)
• October 18th - No Kings protest
• October 23rd - Science Foundation discussion https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02931-x
• New Doorbell - give feedback in the #access-control

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.)

• Cleanup after your self aaaaaaand others!

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.

• Zoda for purging the electronics room
• Whomever cleaned up the downstairs electronics area :D
• Erik for mostly fixing the Qidi MAX-2
• Wheezy gives kudos to everyone for being awesome!

Zoning, Permitting, & Improvements -- Standing Item

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

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.

• Daniel is on week 2 of 4 for charging his big-M membership

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

• Not this week

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.

ATL/Break for long time member

From/Raised by: Daniel Seeking: decision/outcome/advice - yes. all of the above On topic: A long time member has been accumulating interpersonal issues as well as breaking rules.

• Strong suspicion of sleeping in the space
• Suspected deadbolting door
• May have a key - might need to refresh lock access
• Taking photos without consent - becoming defiant when confronted
• Not respecting do-not-engage on a weekly basis

Loss summary of discussion: a few folks have had had one-sided conflicts with M.

• issue with Ken
• <previous mentioned issues>
• Muhammad and Josh will talk offline and has agreed to take a break.

Nick: Would like to see some acknowledgement of other's issues

M: Not happy with how this was brought up. Is okay with everyone. ... (volunteered a 1-2 year break?)

Jess: It does seem like this conversation has been a denial of other people's conflicts. Is not impressed by the response to these concerns.

Wheezy: M's response is "i've known people here for years". I give you kudods for respecting an ATD over the last year

M:

J:

Coffee and Draw Meetup

From/Raised by: David Seeking: outcome (approving a meetup) On topic:

Elan: When/where/who?

David: Mon/Tues/Wens. 9am-3pm. Will supply coffee

Zoda: We recently setup NoiseCafe

Elan: How do you want this advertise this?

David: I know we have a Meetup.com

Elan: Someone here will get you set up with meetup.com

Z: do you have access?

D: no

Z: not often do we have people here at 7/8/9am we should get you rfid or

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

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• 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)