Editing Meeting Notes 2012 10 16


= Agenda =

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 238th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: [[User:Malaclyps]]

Moderator: [[User:Leif]]
 
== Introduction and Names ==

* Monad says "We're a radically inclusive tinkerspace"

* Gnusosa says "We're not a democracy or a dictatorship!"

* Introduce any new or unusual moderation techniques that you may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.

* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):

** Carlos has an upward 180 degree rotated noisebridge wiki with Comic Sans.

** John does fab stuff! Bio stuff! Electronics stuff!

** Tom is well on his way to seizing absolute power.

** Alex is from Germany, he is working on "From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg"

** Monad and I'm a tinkerer.

** Danni coming for about three months. Right now, learning about cryptography, and prime number generation.

** Kim -- third day here, interesting in circuit-bending.

** Jason -- researcher been looking at maker culture.

** Danny -- I've just finished a summit on online press freedom and phil zimmermann crashed it and it was awesome.

** Hao -- builds robots. 

== Short Announcements ==

** Jason says the Brightworks folks are organizing a mini-maker faire. Also looking for possible sites. Thinking of it as a distributed nodes.

** Hackmeet this Saturday! It's an unconference disrupting the disruptors. It's about activists and hackers talking about stuff.

** Noisebridge is mentioned in two thesis this term: one from a sociologist in Mexico, and another one is from Brazil.

** Another cryptoparty! This one will probably be in the Mozilla offices.  Go to [[https://cryptopartysf.org]]

== [[Membership Binder]] ==

No new members.

== Financial Report ==
* Funds in bank: $20669.52

* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): tiny bit of money.

== Consensus items ==

You may wish to '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to repeat '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on the consensus process]].

It was agreed that three consensus items from last week be dropped, given that there is no consensus whatsoever.

=== Proposals from last week ===

''(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''

=== Proposals for next week ===

Danny resigns being secretary contingent on a new secretary. He also proposes that Tom be a new secretary.

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

== Discussion Items ==

* Windows on the classrooms

Brought in windows, want to put it into the classroom. Will have a whip rand.

* Workstation space where Zebra was is going to be upgraded.

* Vending machine? Should we lose it?

We talked about Kim and Brandon and stuff.

We talked a bit about Danny not being secretary, and what being a secretary involves.

We talked about Anthony. Anthony is generally perceived as a
Sketchy person, has had his access number revoked. He's 24
years old, 5'2", in a grey and black hoodie, has short fade headcut, has headphones and doesn't talk to anyone much. If you see him, please ask him to come to the meeting.


== End of Meeting ==
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now, check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.
* Return the [[membership binder]] to it's rightful location.
* Clean and tidy the meeting notes, then save them to the wiki.
* Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
* Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker or robot.
* Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]