Meeting Notes 2011 06 21
Agenda
The 166th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: Danny O'Brien
Moderator: Eric
Introduction and Names
Eric -- AV geek
Devon -- Architecture geek. New! Hi, Devon, hope I got your name right.
Espen -- Norwegian psychology teaching building geek
Cynthia -- Kitchen geek
Johann -- industrial design geek
Jenny -- visiting academicky geek
Danny -- meta geek
Aesthetix - pissing off people geek (not true!)
Kelly -- photography geek
Alexander -- just moved in, startuppy chaos music geek
Michael -- late-coming geek
Announcements
No announcements
Financial Report
Funds in bank: $16835, $3600 in rent going out shortly
We paid $755 in PG&E Electricity bill. It seemed high. Danny pledged to write an email to nb-discuss, and to hell with the consequences. We will see next month if it is still high.
(Note, the thread and analysis in nb-discuss uncovered that a) there are a lot of days in this particular month, b) we pay more in the Summer for our electricity, c) the power usage has gone up, nonetheless, d) maybe it is the increase in cooking, e) maybe it is the vending machine, f) we have a powermeter on the vending machine so we could go check. Etc.)
Jenny pointed to http://growingenergylabs.com/ a friendly startup looking at solar and stuff.
Membership Binder
Names were read off! New members are incoming!
What's Going On at Noisebridge
One short sentence about each of the following:
This is the active list of events from the main page:
events are haphazardly cross-posted on Meetup, the Discord, and Google Calender here
Some noisebridger's have also started hosting Events from a calendar at https://noisebridge.today/, and new (additional) associated gCal.
Key:
W: Weekly |
1st 2nd 3rd 4th: Certain weeks |
-2nd: Except certain weeks |
S: Streaming |
event: caution maybe dead |
event: management of space
Upcoming Events
- Friday, May 31 - SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS WORKSHOP Fundraiser for Noisebridge! Event: 7-9pm (set-up starting at 5:30pm)
Mondays
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W | 7:00pm | Meetups/Infra | Self-hosting, rough consensus, & running code. Find upcoming sessions on Meetup or in #meetup-infra on Discord. |
| W | 7:00pm | PyClass | A complete introductory Python course. Classes are held regularly. Find upcoming sessions on Meetup or in #python on Discord. (Returned! Mar '24) |
| W | you-o-clock | TRASH NIGHT | Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio. |
| W | 7:00pm | Circuit Hacking Monday | Learn electronics, Arduino, and/or how to solder! We have kits and Arduinos for donations, or bring your own project. Most Mondays at 7PM. More details on Meetup |
| W | 7:00pm | 3d Simulation Hack Night | Come work on your Unreal engine, 3d Unity projects, Houdini projects, 3d character design projects, or architecture projects! General meetup for working in simulation and 3d. Hosted by delta_ark |
Tuesdays!
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W S | 7:00pm | Noisebridge Weekly Meeting | (In person & online via Jitsi) - Introduce new people and events, joining, announcements, discussions, and consensus. Come express what you think about what's going on with your space! |
| W | 7:00pm | San Francisco Writers Workshop | Free drop-in writers workshop, get feedback and critique! Located on the first floor hackitorium. |
| W | 7:00pm | Neurotech Tuesdays | Do neuro. Do tech. sfg. Check #🧠│neurotech on discord |
| 2nd 4nd | 6:00pm | Numerati SF | Hacking the Stock Market with AI/ML. Every other Tuesday. Please RSVP on Meetup. |
Wednesdays
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Zinemakers meetup | Monthly gathering of zine and book and comic creators, to share ideas and work on projects. Newbies welcome! Confirm with Meetup |
| 1st | 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Conflict Resolution | We do our best to address pressing issues, mitigate conflicts, be excellent to each other. |
| 2nd 4nd | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Bike Psych! | Time and space to talk about transit related projects Confirm with Meetup |
| W S | 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Machine Learning AI and RL Meetup | Weekly gathering of AI enthusiasts discussing cool things happening in the field and ongoing projects / learning tracks |
| 1st | 8:00pm | Woodhacking Wednesday | "Have a woodworking project in mind but you don't know where to get started? This is a good time to come ask questions, get some help, and ideas from other woodworkers. Everyone is welcome..." Confirm dates with Meetup
|
Thursdays
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W S | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Gamebridge | game development mentoring & coworking meetup for gamedev beginners and indies alike. |
| W S | 6:00pm | NeurotechX SF hacknights | for mind-machine interfacing with EEGs. |
| 2nd 4th | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Advanced Geometry SF | An event for people who would like to study/teach advanced topics in geometry. |
| 3rd S | 8:00pm - 9:00pm | Five Minutes of Fame a.k.a. 5MoF | Ten 5min talks in an hour, on any topic |
| 4th S | 8:00pm - 10:30pm | Resident Electronic Music | An electronic music open mic! (note: Nov/Dec pushed to Dec 10th, 6pm setup) |
| 4th | 9:00pm | Queer Game Developers Meetup! | "Here you will find other queer game devs, game-making enthusiasts, and be a part of a community that welcomes everyone who is interested in creating games." Please register on Eventbrite. See Meetup for more info. |
| W | you-o-clock | TRASH NIGHT | Please take out all three large trash bins!! They are on the patio. |
Fridays
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W | 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Hack on Noisebridge! | a good open time for cleaning 'n re-organizing the physical space. See #totally-secret-cabal-of-space-organizers on the Discord |
| Brewery meetup - brewing & tasting days | Come learn to brew mead with Eliot and Andy! Check the Meetup for dates or check in #brewing on Discord. |
Saturdays
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W | 9:30am - 1:00am | Hack on Noisebridge! | cleaning, physical organizing and re-organizing, donuts. See #totally-secret-cabal-of-space-organizers! on discord |
| W | 2:00pm - 6:00pm | Free Code Camp | with |
| 3rd | 2:00pm - 6:00pm | Godot Meetup | Gamedev workshop & networking for users of the Godot game engine. We have two meetups this March around GDC: March 16th and March 23rd! |
| 4th | 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Building Guitar Pedals Workshop | Come build guitar pedals or other electronic music equipment! Look for the #pedal-building channel under #events in the discord. Check the Meetup for more info and confirmed dates. |
Sundays
| Tags | Time | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Laser Cutter training | Get certified to use the laser cutter |
| 2nd | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Fabrication 101 2nd Shop Sundays | class on safety and basic techniques |
| W | 6:00pm - 7:15pm | Noisebridge 15th Anniversary Planning Meeting | planning for Noisebridge 15, any/everyone is welcome to come and help with planning.. etc. |
| W | 7:30pm - 10:00pm | Self-Driving Flying Car Meetup training | class, discussion, and meetup on flying cars |
| 2nd S | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | BAHA: Bay Area Hackers' Association | Security Hacking Meeting 2nd Sundays at 272 and via Jitsi |
Other Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces Events
- Queerious Labs is open during limited times, check it's status
- SudoRoom: Women & Non-Binary Coding Mondays 7-9pm
- SudoRoom: Hardware Hacking Tuesdays 7-10pm
Non-weekly
- Second Saturdays are Noisebridge hackathon:
a casual monthly event dedicated to working on the space or relevant projects and building community. This is a great time to get feedback or help on any projects you have been considering that center around the space, culture, and infrastructure of Noisebridge. You can also help with existing projects and find out ways to get involved.
- Five Minutes of Fame
- Bay Area Hackers Association - (Second Sunday, 2PM)
Project Updates
Eric is doing a talk show on TV! It will be filmed live in a boat in the beach, and then backhauled to Sutro Tower then sent into space. It will return via the Galaxy 19 satellite, and he enquired as to whether it would be possible to set up a satellite receiver in the space to capture his living essence, liive.
It was mooted that we are not allowed onto the roof "except to put up antenna". There was some tentativeness about this opinion. Eric was encouraged to email https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/rack and ask about this.
Consensus items
No consensus items.
Discussion Items
Aestetix outlined a project that would encourage people to donate money to NB, and in return, a small posse of technical people would help them to set up Tor nodes. The various details of this had been bounced around for a while between people at NB, EFF, and Tor, but in the end the Treasurer suggested the following model, separate from Noisebridge and run by said posse:
- Set up a new paypal account that people can donate money to
- Every time a donation is made to that paypal account, someone (or a script) donates some of that money to Noisebridge/EFF, and uses the rest of the cash to launch a Tor node (however we decide to do it technically)
- Have NB Fearless Treasurer issue a donation receipt from Noisebridge to the original donor
The discussion is still ongoing -- those interested in helping should get in touch with Aestetix.
Everyone nodded enthusiastically, and dined on Cynthia's ginger and cinnamon sliced yams.
Due to an error in consensus comprehension, Eric called a motion for the meeting to be adjourned. Fortunately, the error threw an exception, so the meeting successfully quit anyway.
We went on to discuss the madness that doing a talk show in a boat entails, and it was revealed that Eric is a trained scuba diver, and so were other people, and so on and so forth.