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=== Project Updates === * Board elections. Rachel says: we need to have them. 5 board members exist but 4 have expired terms and they must be replaced or re-elected. There is a page on the wiki about board elections. We believe we like to use a Condorcet method which is good for various reasons, as proposed by Andy. We expect to have nomination process, absentee voting procedure, and an election. We don't plan to try to prevent fraud. You have to be a member in good standing as of the nomination date in order to vote in the election. Q. Why is this voting method the best? A. Andy doesn't remember. We are proposing to use a thing implemented by Ping. Q. Why should we use this voting method if we don't know why it's the best? A. This was subject of research a while ago and we think Ping knew what he was doing. A. You can read the Wikipedia article on Voting methods for the details, including which particular Arrow's Theorem criteria each method fails. We will consense on the board election procedures next week. Please read Rachel's wiki page on the subject to see if you have any concerns with her description. ====2169 Mission==== * Electrical * Kitchen We bought an oven yesterday. It cost about $1,000. It should be installed and usable by Thanksgiving. * Library -- Johnm still plans to work on shelves, must fix radial arm saw first. * Network Webpass presentation. They provide 100 mbps to Jake's house for $40/month. A profitable, local San Francisco company that's existed for several years. Point-to-point microwave radios. 114 buildings, ca. 2,000 customers. Ethernet inside the building via the microwave link. Capacity up to 1 gbps symmetrical. Amazon and Wordpress are customers. So are some other non-profit organizations. You can choose the network speeds you need dynamically (changing every week or something). Four backhauls: L3, Time Warner, Cogent, IP Networks. Prices are the same for all customers buying equivalent products. Supportive of network neutrality without blocking. Price quote is $100/month per mbit/s. Setup fee is $2500. If you are a customer and you move, you won't have to pay again (if you move within the existing metropolitan service area). Cost per megabit drops with more megabits. Some members say this is pretty expensive compared to colo data service or other alternatives, including the existing data services that we're using. You can get BGP and use this as part of a multihoming setup. You can get a more symmetrical network that helps for providing services to the outside world. The treasurer says we simply can't afford the service. Someone might make an earmarked contribution for this so that it didn't come out of general Noisebridge funds. Q. How fast would we want this if we subscribed to it? A. It's dynamic. You can get a faster link just for one night... like for 5MOF. For example WordPress changes their speed for single events. Q. How fast is our existing upstream? A. It's pretty slow. There are some serious congestion and latency problems. We are going to postpone discussion of this, but the sales guy will leave contact information. * Shop Work-bench -- Johnm still working on it... * Hack shelf The less said about the hack shelf, the better! * Trip to China Mitch just came back from a trip to China with a bunch of other Noisebridge members. The nephew of the last emperor of China did calligraphy for pay for a Noisebridge member at the Forbidden City. The characters for "excellence" were written out calligraphically and have been donated to Noisebridge.
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