Meeting Notes 2015 06 09

Meeting notes for the 361st meeting of Noisebridge

Moderator: Torrie

Note Taker: J

Participants

• dor - Visitor from TAMI(Tel Aviv makers)wants to introduce Rhizi - A resource mapping tool.(http://rhizi.tami.org.il/rz/Noisebridge%20demo)

Please contact me if interested: dor.garbash@gmail.com

• Naomi- nthmost working mostly on academic library stuff
• General Populous - Doesn't want your revolution if I can't dance
• Ben- Been here many times
• Ron - Been here many times
• Bill - Various Projects that always get help with
• Henry -New took e class from Mitch on Soldering
• April - Usually in sudo room. Doing an unconference on privacy, surveillance, the future of ebooks and such with some badass librarians. Hundred or so of 'em.
• J- Been coming for a while like to mess around with stuff
• Dan - have been coming for a while
• Jade - Fixed my ipad today, and goes to Neurohacking on Wednesdays.
• Mohammed - Been coming for ~2 years, takes classes, engineer
• Rubin is here to talk about our lord and saviors JC (not the hacker)
• Kevin been reading Paradise Lost.. Jesus just entered the scene
• Mitch One of the co-founders of the space. Home for 6 weeks. Somehow the city messed up and he's on jury duty. I fixed my laptop here 2 weeks ago.
• Patrick - Engineer in "the city". Hacks on noisebridge infrastructure, mostly the book catalogue
• Miles from Brazil. Working on aplatform for security. Like the space and buid a LED nametag.

Short announcements and events

• July month of fund raising
• April sez: Digital Rights in Libraries unconference;

June 29-30 @Noisebridge. Event starts at 1pm both days! Librarians from SFPL, OPL, and a bunch of rad groups coming https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-rights-in-libraries-schedule/

• Mithch Friday the 26th teaching on Arduino.
• Bill Hill speaks on LGAR 40th anniversary coming up

Sat 27th 4 events at 4:00pm

• Meeting on finances last Sunday and we are having a Fund Raiser events starting Next Month
• Patrick - Unconference event 24th Of Oct. Early stages. Get involved
• Mitch - 100 NB patches (fought Dragon for the patches). Lost
• J Social Event 3rd Fri of the month
• Torrie June 18th 5MOF tdfischer@hackerbots.net. This month's 5mof theme is "Oops"

Membership Binder

• Mitch explained membership
• Signal: You don't need to be a member to sink money into noisebridge. You can do that.... donate.noisebridge.net we always need money!

Current applications

• Meredith Baker' Sponsors Alex (no dues)
• Trent Robins ' week 2. Sponsors Torrie and Patrick

Financial Report

• Funds in bank: $28,257.52

$19,000 after paying bills for this month. Please talk to Patrick or Torrie if you have anyone that has any ideas for raising money.

First offer from the landlord RE lease is an immediate 10% increase with a 2 year term, followed again by a 10% increase for another 2 year term, and the same 10% increase for 6 year full term with all options executed.

Andy, Patrick, Rubin working with the Landlord on the Lease

Consensus and Discussion

• Patrick explained concensus and do-ocracy. Concensus is the opposite of majority rules.
• Mitch add: if you bring something up that you know people will object to before talking about it 1st with the parties.

It's most excellent if you discuss items before the meeting.

Proposals from last week

None

Proposals for next week

Philanthropist/Consensus_Item That Noisebridge create a new "Philanthropist" role offering 24/7 access accompanied by a monthly donation requirement

Discussion Items

If any important discussion happens, it should be happening after forward progress is made during consensus.

Digital Rights In Libraries Unconference event June 29th / 30th. Ask April

• April: Use of the space. Would like to use a lot of it from 1-6 the 29th and 30th the main area and the back. Tech track for librarians. Would like to know if it's OK to use the space for so long and have a librarian take over the space. All of NB will be used to accomodate this event. It will be put on this event.

https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-rights-in-libraries-schedule/

Answered basic questions about scheduling and safety of the space. Not just NB but other hacker spaces should be made aware of this event hackerspaces.org THANK YOU ALL <3 april

July fundraising

• Noisebridge is BROKE, yo.
• A few months ago, patrick and rubin talked with mala about some ideas. We're going to do them in the month of july.
• Start as soon as possible that noisebridge is having a pile of events
• Dorkbot
• 5mof
• Mala has offered to go and get Merlin Mann and maybe Corey Doctorow
• They'll bring people in to NB!
• Barkers at the door to fleece visitors!
• We've secured $10k in matching donations from "High" "Profile" "People"
• We want to have $10k from "the" "public"
• Looking for peopple to help and events to throw
• Social media blitz
• This ties in well with the ALA event, which could be a soft kickoff event
• @ioerror might do a video interview here. live. at noisebridge. on a screen.
• Last event is a 24 hour telethon.

Noisebridge Philanthropists

• We want more recurring donations.
• We want to make people happy.
• There's a bunch of other stones to kill with birds or whatever the table-turning phrase is.
• We've got a keycard system that works great.
• A lot of folks want to use it outside of the regular "open hours"
• Membership works, but its problematic. Takes a while for people to go through the process, especially if they just want 24/7 access
• 24/7 access isn't really well defined
• The proposal: Philanthropists
• We have a status for someone who isn't a member, but has been recognized as Excellent and should be given 24/7 access
• They or their proxy comes to the meeting. A member sponsors them. They are then asked to give a recurring donation (same rate as member dues), sign a pledge about what it means to have 24/7 access, what it means to close up, how they can get access revoked, etc. Turned into the secretary
• Revocation: A member brings it up saying "I think they've been unexcellent", and it is immediately revoked. If mediation succeeds, they have access reinstated. Otherwise it remains revoked.
• This formalizes what it means to have 24/7 access: the responsibilities, how to get it, a clear path, etc
• Noisebridge gets someone who would be happy to give a recurring donation and someone to help keep the space open while still protecting Membership.
• It's on the wiki: Philanthropist and Philanthropist/Pledge

Comments

• Information on people that have grandfathered 24/7 access.
• If someone already has 24 hrs access. Why does only one member gets to revoke the access?
• Poop exmample...
• Anyone, including our members still abide by our code of conduct regardless of status. Mediation is called for. Any situation should be mediated and a resolution should be worked on

• It is unexcellent for any member to just say I don't like this person and remove access for no reason
• This system is looking to define clearly who gets 24 hour access.
• Difference between Philanthropist and "Associate member"
• Members have distint definition given by the State of CA and for various reasons it is extremely difficult to remove someone from membership. For this reason we want to make it difficult to become members because we want to make sure we have the have excellent people join the space.
• Philanthropist are not members, they are people that continue to contribute donations to the space and with an sponsorship by a member they can gain 24/7 access without having to apply for membership
• Is this going to have any conflict with our current 11am-11pm status. Answer: No nothing changes
• Talked about control for after hours access and working on a hotline to resolve difficult situations in the middle of the night.

End of Meeting

• Reprise of the Hackernationale. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
• PGP Key Signing could happen now (if it doesn't happen before any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the list to see who wants in on the action.
• Return the membership binder to its rightful location.
• Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions, then save them to the wiki.
• Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
• Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.
• Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
• Vomitorium