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== Shawn Landden ==
== Shawn Landden ==
We had an extensive discussion of Shawn Landden's violent and unacceptable behavior. A written deposition was submitted, compiling a compendium of witness and survivor statements. Several at the meeting attested to this same violent and unacceptable behavior. We have initiated the consensus process to ban him.
We had an extensive discussion of Shawn Landden's unacceptable behavior. A written deposition was submitted, compiling a compendium of witness statements. Several at the meeting attested to this same behavior. We have initiated the consensus process to ban him.


= Attendance =
= Attendance =

Revision as of 20:34, 28 March 2013

These are the notes from the The 257th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: Tom; Moderator: Danny.

Short announcements and events

  • The green screen room is ready: right outside Turing; collapsible for your convenience.
  • Our new vinyl cutter is in! See Casey to learn how to use it.
  • Amber is bringing school-kids here April 2nd & 3rd. Reply to her discuss posting or sign up to help out!
  • Ryan is making a self-powered camera to stream footage off-site for an undisclosed (shadowy) sponsor. Contact him to help.
  • Technoactivism Third Mondays -- run by Yan -- next Monday, featuring Trevor Timm and Parker Higgins, the people behind @drones.
  • Five Minutes of Fame returns next Thursday at 8pm, featuring Lee Felsenstein.
  • There are people setting up a fundraiser for Noisebridge on March 30th. They need help setting up for, planning, and running the event; please get in touch.
  • Hack the Gallery in Berkeley is transitioning to a hackerspace and community meetup space. Join us for a re-opening party on March 22 from 6-9 pm.
  • There will be a Makermart popup at the end of April in downtown SF. Talk to Miloh
  • RepRap Wednesday is coming back to Noisebridge! -- see the Fab mailling list to find out more.
  • Cryptoparty II: Enciphered Boogaloo is happening on March 23 at Langton Labs. Do you know someone who needs to learn these skills? Have them sign up! Have skills to share? There's a form for that too!
  • Leif is setting up some Hacker Stackers Napping Pods in the North-West corner. Get in touch to help out!
  • Alex Peake, teaching kids programming tomorrow. Get in touch to help him out!

Membership Binder

  • James "JC" Cooper. Week 4+. Sponsors: Danny; Justin "Linkreincarnate" Hubberd.
  • Nick "heatxsink" Granado. Week 4. Sponsor: Miloh.
  • Joseph C Jackson. Week 3. No sponsors.
  • Abram Clark. Week 2. Sponsors: Mek, Miloh.
  • It is our consensus that Kevin Schisser is a member. His sponsors include: Monad, Snail.

Financial Report

Funds in bank: $11,859.68

Noisebridge Profit Loss Feb2013.png

Over the past year, our monthly income has been averaged $4,600, while our monthly expenses are estimated to be $6,550 going forward. Unless something changes soon, we will be bankrupt in August. The following is an approximate breakdown of our monthly expenses:

Typical amount Expense category Notes
$3,960.00 Rent Up from $3600 last year
$789.08 Tor Project Self-supporting but income is counted in our totals
$526.18 Utilities Will add more info.
$235.35 Accounting Mostly CPA fees for dealing with the state
$192.33 Garbage & Recycling Twice weekly pickup is more expensive
$189.29 Printing T-shirts and stickers
$183.48 Insurance An annual expense
$180.38 Internet Monkeybrains and Sonic
$161.40 Water SFPUC
$104.74 Bank Fees Mostly paypal
$25.33 Misc PO box, misc 2169 repair supplies

Consensus items

We have the following proposals for next week:

  • Tom proposes that we recommend to the board that they select Danny to be Treasurer, Tom to be Secretary, and Snail to be President for 2013.
  • It is proposed that Shawn Landden (photo) is barred from Noisebridge. He is prohibited from entering the space or participating in the community. (Here is some context.)
  • Tom proposes that we reimburse Mitch up to $1000 to replenish our t-shirt supply.

We are currently out, except for a handful of women's sizes. It would be great to have a bunch before the fund-raiser party on the 30th. I (Mitch) am happy to front the money if there are no objections -- to be paid back to me upon consensus (to ensure that we can have the T-shirts before the fund-raiser). All of our T-shirts have previously been printed locally at East Bay Screenprint. The last time we got T-shirts, we got 200 of them at $7.41 each (including shipping) -- total = $1,481.63. If we buy 50 T-shirts, the cost is $8.74 each (indluding shipping) -- total = $437.00. (I've never bought 100 before, but the price will be somewhere in between.) -- Mitch.

Discussion Notes

Shawn Landden

We had an extensive discussion of Shawn Landden's unacceptable behavior. A written deposition was submitted, compiling a compendium of witness statements. Several at the meeting attested to this same behavior. We have initiated the consensus process to ban him.

Attendance

  • SuperQ is the moderator.
  • Snail is unofficial.
  • Tom is taking notes.
  • David is here!
  • Garret is a junior architect
  • Ursula hacks language! <speaks German>
  • Amber is a physics teacher. She's new here.
  • Miloh is pleased to meet you!
  • Philippe
  • Rob
  • Dan
  • Casey is calibrating or fancy new vinyl cutter!
  • Alex teaches game development on Mondays.
  • Kevin is part of the post waste nexus (also Mondays).
  • Andrew created Satan: the front-end is in Java, the back-end in JS.
  • Johan has 7 regular expressions, and -- now -- 14 problems.
  • Carlos -- gnusosa -- trolls on #noisebridge.
  • Dan has addressable LEDs.
  • Deobek is here for the first time.
  • Will is new, came for 3d printing, and has pie for us (early for pi day).
  • Liz is our self-appointed anarchist librarian, part of the feminist hacker hive, and the Mozilla bugmaster (yes, the Mozilla bugmaster).
  • Ian is an introducer, and is planning a fundraiser.
  • Kyle is an audio engineer, an activist, and a space transformer.
  • Ryan is here to plan the fundraiser and is applying for membership.
  • Joe has applied for membership.
  • Danny is eating the popcorn, and hacks internationally.