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== HOWTO moderate a meeting ==
Anyone can moderate the meeting, though it helps a great deal if you have been to meetings before.
#'''Say "Five minutes to meeting!".''' This will give you time to read these instructions.
#Get someone to '''grab the membership binder'''. It is kept near the shrine, which is currently on the south wall, between the electronics and sewing areas.
#'''Get someone to take notes.''' Point the shocked and bemused note-taker to the sub-instructions below these instructions.
#(Optional) '''Get someone to put this wiki page up on the projector'''.
#Skim '''read through the Agenda''' below that to get a feel for what a meeting will looks like.
#People may have added '''Discussion Items''' to this page, or they may raise them during the meeting. If they emerge during the meeting, suggest that they be discussed _in_ the Discussion Item section, rather than derail other sections of the meeting. Discussion for these can be open-ended, but you should aim to wrap up the meeting within an hour. It can be handy to explicitly summarise what people intend to do as a result of the discussion. There is no requirement on you, Noisebridge the organization, or anyone else to do anything as a result of a discussion item.
#If there are '''Consensus Items''', ensure that they were raised in meeting last week (the membership needs a week's warning for consensus items). Your main job in consensus is to listen to what everyone is saying, make sure everyone gets a chance to say something, and then -- if the debate is beginning to go round in circles or settle -- propose a Position that everyone seems to agree on. If people disagree with the Position, they will wrangle some more, or someone else will propose a Position. If no-one disagrees with the Position, say "So do we consense on $POSITION?". If no one objects, ask the note-taker to record the Position. If things are getting nowhere and we're all getting bored and antsy, identify the people objecting, and ask them to discuss the problem with the proposers of Consensus Item outside the meeting, and return next week with a compromise solution.
#'''Shout "Meeting starts now!" now''', and start reading (out loud) through the Agenda!
#'''When you are done, consult with the note-taker,''' and make sure they know what they have to do to finish their job -- especially updating the wiki, and mailing nb-discuss, and the treasurer with new membership details.
#'''Put back the membership binder''' by the Shrine.
#'''Bathe in the glow''' of the respect of your fellow Noisebridgers.
=== HOWTO note-take a meeting ===
#Your moderator should give you five minutes to '''read these instructions'''. If they don't, say "Woah there cowboy, I need to know what I'm doing. Five minutes, por favor!". Use exactly those words.
#This page should have a URL like "https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2010_12_28", with today's year, month and date in it. If doesn't, copy [Meeting Notes Template] to a wiki page with that kind of URL. If you don't know how to copy wiki pages, say, "Can someone help me with the Noisebridge Wiki?", and get them to create a page with that kind of URL, and then show you how to copy this page to it and edit it.
#'''Edit this page.''' Add notes under each category -- you can delete any placeholder explanatory text as you go.
#'''Save the wiki page when you're done''' (no-one expects you to finish as the meeting is finished; it usually takes a half-hour or so after the meeting to get everything in order). Try to hyperlink stuff that should be linked. You can delete all this patronising instructional crap. Here's [Meeting_Notes_2010_12_28 an example] of a finally edited meeting.
#'''Create a page for next week's meeting''', by copying over [[Meeting Notes Template]] to an URL with next week's date in it (see step 1). If anybody proposed Consensus Items for next week, write them in here, and add them to the [[Current Consensus Items]].
#If there were any consensus items decided at your meeting, '''add them to [[Consensus Items History]], and take them out of the [[Current Consensus Items]]'''.
#Go to [https://www.noisebridge.net/&action=edit&section=3 the front page meetings notice] and edit the page that ''so that the Prev and Next meetings now point to this meeting notes, and the new meeting notes you just created respectively'''. (If that link is broken, it's a section half-way down the [[https://www.noisebridge.net/ front page]]
#'''Important!''' Send a final copy of the notes to '''noisebridge-discuss''', and '''email treasurer@noisebridge.net the details of any new members''' (you can get all the details from the membership binder, which may now be hidden over by the shrine.)
#Chill out, have a cocktail with a friendly robot, continue to rock the world.
== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==


[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]
[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 168th Meeting of Noisebridge]


Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE
Note-taker: [[User:Malaclyps|Danny]]


Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE
Moderator: [[User:maltman23|Mitch]]
   
   


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* Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
* Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
* [[Consensus Process|A brief primer on consensus process]]: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
* [[Consensus Process|A brief primer on consensus process]]: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
People at the meeting: Mitch, Al, Michael, Aesthetix, Cynthia, Stig, Shaun, Shannon, Will, Jesse,  Miloh, Mike, Francisco, Espin, Andy, Liz, Leif, Robert, Elia


=== Announcements ===
=== Announcements ===


=== Financial Report ===
=== Financial Report ===
Funds in bank:  
Funds in bank: $17, 058.43
 
This means that we are either three months ahead, as we should be, or not,
depending on whether you view the measurement to take place at the lowest point
in the cyclical monthly curve, or the highest point. It was decided that we
should view it as the lowest point, which means we are not in compliance.
Panic, etc.
 
The treasurer is talking to Hacker Dojo about user accounting software.


=== Membership Binder ===
=== Membership Binder ===
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month.
* Anyone up for join this week should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime) for the rest of the group. The rest of the meeting should consense on whether they may join.


=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===
Miloh re-iterated that TechShop offers half-price for Noisebridge members; and Sprint may give you a discount also as a 501(c)3 member.
''One '''short''' sentence about each of the following:''
 
Names were read.
 
Espen was consensed on as a member. Welcome Espen!
 
=== Project Updates ===
 
* [[User:Mid|mid]] and [[User:xek|xek]]'have been constructing awesome things on the roof to track local aircraft [[Mode-S_Receiver]]. Everyone agreed this was excellent. It


This is the active list of events from the main page:
was re-iterated that the roof is for people to put up antenna, *not* for people to go up there and hang out. We don't have permission for such things, just antennae and the like.
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===== Non-weekly =====
* Kitchen Maintenance
* [[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]]
[[User:lizzard|Liz]] explained the experimental signs in the kitchen, which are to see if we can't better define what needs to be done. She is taking advice on what should be improved, and when they are perfected, they will be laminated. [[User:miloh|Miloh]] and [[User:lizzard|Liz]] plotted to buy a laminator. [[User:AlSweigart|Al Sweigart]]'s toilet signs were commended as an indication of just how clean/dirty the toilets get.
* Bay Area Hackers Association - (Second Sunday, 2PM)


=== Project Updates ===
Robert said that he successfully got a large hoarde of people to sweep the
place very quickly, and if only we got extra mops -- perhaps an expense of $100 -- we could just get people in the space to do it.


* [[Mid]]/[[xek]]'s airplane watching thingummy
* kitchen maintenance update


=== Consensus items ===
=== Consensus items ===
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''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] page.)''
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] page.)''
The nearest quote we had was Claudia's old quote for $115 for mopping the floor
and clean the kitchen space. Rubin's previous $120 sandwich budget to get volunteers to clean was mentioned. It was raised that volunteer labor is better, and builds a better relationship, and that paid cleaning might diminish that.
Robert expanded on his plans -- 7 or eight mops! Make it quicker and more fun! Also signs, laser-cut!
It was noted that the laser-cutter's belt is currently broken, but being replaced.
Shannon noted that these dicussions regularly occur, we all agree to do it, and
then bitter disillusionment follows. We should follow our core competency,
which is apparently not cleaning.
Mitch felt that lots of people are coming through and that was increasing the amount of unnoticed mess.
Jason felt that even people who are traditionally against paying people should consense on it this one time, just to have a bit of competitive in the options.
Stig talked about Hacker Dojo's experience; he felt that Noisebridge was more social, so should be able to succeed with a communal solution.
Sebastian explained the CCC solution that each member did one hour of cleaning a quarter. Shannon asked how this was audited, and came up with some ingenious ways that he would exploit such a system.
The Timebank people suggested that maybe their [http://www.timebanks.org/] might be able to help manage such a communal system.
Mitch proposed two parallel system, one led by Robert, and one led through a funding.
Robert offered a compromise: more mops, and the month be optional.
Kelly said hey let's try the cleaner for a few months.
Miloh said the cleaner wants consistency.
Robert said okay, let's try it for a couple of months, and I'll do the alternative.
Everyone worried about Robert burning out, except Robert.
(Someone) said that maybe you could pay the volunteers in Timebank hours.
Robert said things were easier now things were cleared up a bit.
A donation was collected for Robert's cleaning materials, and obtained $72.
We discussed a potential massive amount, Aestetix suggested that the amount be proportional to Robert's collection.
We settled on $160.
Aestetix asked what the criteria would be for us being satisfied with the cleaning. It was felt that the required consensus to continue after three months would be a sufficient criteria.
Aestetix expressed his neutrality.
We consensed.


=== Discussion Items ===
=== Discussion Items ===


danny wants to meta-talk about tweaking this meeting structure
Al asked how many smoke detectors do we have. Shannon said we had a shitload that spray water when they detect smoke.
 
Al announced that the member shelf is overcrowded, and is going to contact
members and ex-members in the member shelves and ask if they really want to
continue keeping stuff or throwing the stuff out, in the hope of clearing out
some space for new members.
 
Miloh pointed out that some people had not paid him for the last shelf reorganization. Danny demanded to know the guilty parties. Miloh explained that it was Jenna and Danny. Danny looked guilty and gave Miloh some money.
 
Danny wanted to defer the meta-talk about meeting structure until next week. Everyone agreed that he could just edit the wikito re-program the meeting.
 
We discussed helping organize a memorial for Len Sassaman -- we will talk about
this after the meeting (the memorial is due to happen in late July at the DNA
lounge).
 
Al said the recycling bins disappeared, and he is getting a new one.
 
The "Noisebridge Vomitorium" proposal was believed to be humorous.
 
Andy explained [[Noisebridge Tor]] project -- the Tor project is a fellow
non-profit, for anonymous and anti-censorship communications, and Andy and Aestetix, Jan, and others would like to run some Tor nodes *as* Noisebridge (as opposed to *at* Noisebridge). Some of us help run nodes elsewhere, but we feel that people
would like to give money for this end, but are more comfortable giving an
established instition like Noisebridge over just random people to help do the
technical side of setting up nodes. EFF has alos been conducting a Tor
challenge. We have technical people to set up nodes, providers willing to offer
space, and donators,  but we need Noisebridge to give it as an official
consensus item, so we can set up a Wells Fargo account, a paypal account, and a
email address under its name, and start taking donations specifically to run
Tor nodes.
 
Danny said this had been discussed before, but previously it was framed as a separate organization, who would take money to set up Tor nodes and give part of its money as a donation to Noisebridge.
 
Andy agreed that this was different than this. The original idea for a separate
organization was to make the treasurer's life easier, and it was felt that
having separate accounts would be equally easy.
 
Kelly wondered if, even though it would be easy, whether it would be necessary?
 
Shannon said that part of the reason to do this so closely, it helps for it to
be a non-profit, and it helps for the paypal account etc to be officially
Noisebridge to flag that it was legitimate.
 
Rachel noted that this seemed very similar to her exploration of a model for
Noisebridge Fiscal Sponsorship projects.


memorial for Len Sassaman
Kelly said that she would like some open questions answered before consensus
next week, which are listed on the [[Noisebridge Tor]] page.


=== End of Meeting ===
=== End of Meeting ===
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now, check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
* Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
* Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
* Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
* Copy the [[Meeting Notes Template]] for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
* Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.


[[Category:Meeting Notes]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Latest revision as of 11:18, 9 July 2011

Agenda[edit]

The 168th Meeting of Noisebridge

Note-taker: Danny

Moderator: Mitch


Introduction and Names[edit]

  • What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
  • Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
  • A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.


People at the meeting: Mitch, Al, Michael, Aesthetix, Cynthia, Stig, Shaun, Shannon, Will, Jesse, Miloh, Mike, Francisco, Espin, Andy, Liz, Leif, Robert, Elia

Announcements[edit]

Financial Report[edit]

Funds in bank: $17, 058.43

This means that we are either three months ahead, as we should be, or not, depending on whether you view the measurement to take place at the lowest point in the cyclical monthly curve, or the highest point. It was decided that we should view it as the lowest point, which means we are not in compliance. Panic, etc.

The treasurer is talking to Hacker Dojo about user accounting software.

Membership Binder[edit]

Miloh re-iterated that TechShop offers half-price for Noisebridge members; and Sprint may give you a discount also as a 501(c)3 member.

Names were read.

Espen was consensed on as a member. Welcome Espen!

Project Updates[edit]

  • mid and xek'have been constructing awesome things on the roof to track local aircraft Mode-S_Receiver. Everyone agreed this was excellent. It

was re-iterated that the roof is for people to put up antenna, *not* for people to go up there and hang out. We don't have permission for such things, just antennae and the like.

  • Kitchen Maintenance

Liz explained the experimental signs in the kitchen, which are to see if we can't better define what needs to be done. She is taking advice on what should be improved, and when they are perfected, they will be laminated. Miloh and Liz plotted to buy a laminator. Al Sweigart's toilet signs were commended as an indication of just how clean/dirty the toilets get.

Robert said that he successfully got a large hoarde of people to sweep the place very quickly, and if only we got extra mops -- perhaps an expense of $100 -- we could just get people in the space to do it.


Consensus items[edit]

That Noisebridge pays money out of general funds for a cleaner for a trial period of three months, the price thereof to be determined at the consensus meeting.

(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)

The nearest quote we had was Claudia's old quote for $115 for mopping the floor and clean the kitchen space. Rubin's previous $120 sandwich budget to get volunteers to clean was mentioned. It was raised that volunteer labor is better, and builds a better relationship, and that paid cleaning might diminish that.

Robert expanded on his plans -- 7 or eight mops! Make it quicker and more fun! Also signs, laser-cut!

It was noted that the laser-cutter's belt is currently broken, but being replaced.

Shannon noted that these dicussions regularly occur, we all agree to do it, and then bitter disillusionment follows. We should follow our core competency, which is apparently not cleaning.

Mitch felt that lots of people are coming through and that was increasing the amount of unnoticed mess.

Jason felt that even people who are traditionally against paying people should consense on it this one time, just to have a bit of competitive in the options.

Stig talked about Hacker Dojo's experience; he felt that Noisebridge was more social, so should be able to succeed with a communal solution.

Sebastian explained the CCC solution that each member did one hour of cleaning a quarter. Shannon asked how this was audited, and came up with some ingenious ways that he would exploit such a system.

The Timebank people suggested that maybe their [1] might be able to help manage such a communal system.

Mitch proposed two parallel system, one led by Robert, and one led through a funding.

Robert offered a compromise: more mops, and the month be optional.

Kelly said hey let's try the cleaner for a few months.

Miloh said the cleaner wants consistency.

Robert said okay, let's try it for a couple of months, and I'll do the alternative.

Everyone worried about Robert burning out, except Robert.

(Someone) said that maybe you could pay the volunteers in Timebank hours.

Robert said things were easier now things were cleared up a bit.

A donation was collected for Robert's cleaning materials, and obtained $72.

We discussed a potential massive amount, Aestetix suggested that the amount be proportional to Robert's collection.

We settled on $160.

Aestetix asked what the criteria would be for us being satisfied with the cleaning. It was felt that the required consensus to continue after three months would be a sufficient criteria.

Aestetix expressed his neutrality.

We consensed.


Discussion Items[edit]

Al asked how many smoke detectors do we have. Shannon said we had a shitload that spray water when they detect smoke.

Al announced that the member shelf is overcrowded, and is going to contact members and ex-members in the member shelves and ask if they really want to continue keeping stuff or throwing the stuff out, in the hope of clearing out some space for new members.

Miloh pointed out that some people had not paid him for the last shelf reorganization. Danny demanded to know the guilty parties. Miloh explained that it was Jenna and Danny. Danny looked guilty and gave Miloh some money.

Danny wanted to defer the meta-talk about meeting structure until next week. Everyone agreed that he could just edit the wikito re-program the meeting.

We discussed helping organize a memorial for Len Sassaman -- we will talk about this after the meeting (the memorial is due to happen in late July at the DNA lounge).

Al said the recycling bins disappeared, and he is getting a new one.

The "Noisebridge Vomitorium" proposal was believed to be humorous.

Andy explained Noisebridge Tor project -- the Tor project is a fellow non-profit, for anonymous and anti-censorship communications, and Andy and Aestetix, Jan, and others would like to run some Tor nodes *as* Noisebridge (as opposed to *at* Noisebridge). Some of us help run nodes elsewhere, but we feel that people would like to give money for this end, but are more comfortable giving an established instition like Noisebridge over just random people to help do the technical side of setting up nodes. EFF has alos been conducting a Tor challenge. We have technical people to set up nodes, providers willing to offer space, and donators, but we need Noisebridge to give it as an official consensus item, so we can set up a Wells Fargo account, a paypal account, and a email address under its name, and start taking donations specifically to run Tor nodes.

Danny said this had been discussed before, but previously it was framed as a separate organization, who would take money to set up Tor nodes and give part of its money as a donation to Noisebridge.

Andy agreed that this was different than this. The original idea for a separate organization was to make the treasurer's life easier, and it was felt that having separate accounts would be equally easy.

Kelly wondered if, even though it would be easy, whether it would be necessary?

Shannon said that part of the reason to do this so closely, it helps for it to be a non-profit, and it helps for the paypal account etc to be officially Noisebridge to flag that it was legitimate.

Rachel noted that this seemed very similar to her exploration of a model for Noisebridge Fiscal Sponsorship projects.

Kelly said that she would like some open questions answered before consensus next week, which are listed on the Noisebridge Tor page.

End of Meeting[edit]