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Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T15:30:16Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Travel from Airport */

This is a small, but growing Hong Kong Guide by Jonas S Karlsson [[BuddhaHacker]], for the purpose of [[NoisebridgeChinaTrip7]]. Please feel free to add.

== Overview ==

Hong Kong may be consider to be on Chinese Land, but it does not have any of the restrictions of China as it is it's own territory. The principle is "One country - two systems", in practice it's probably "1 Country 7 systems". For all practical purposes Hong Kong is "like a country", it's actually the territory in the world which is the most like a country, but isn't. There is even a Hong Kong passport.

== Arrival ==

Most will arrive to Hong Kong at the airport. After immigration, where you fill out a note, you'll get a slip with a date, you need to keep this in the passport at all times, also you need to keep the passport on your person at all times when outside. It'll show how long you can stay in Hong Kong.

== Octopus card ==

Yes, get one! It's available at the airport after the arrivals. It cost $150HKD, $50 is deposit, and you'll get $100 credit. Getting this card is NOT optional. If you take bus, you need exact change, or just give more money than the actual cost and loose your change. Also, you'll be staying in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui), where there are many tourist and buying tickets is a nuisance.

The octopus card makes for speedy transport, and is accepted on MTR (subway), busses, boats, minibusses. You also pay in 7-11, minimarts, MacDonalds (all 24h) and sometimes even for beer!

Top-up easily at 7-11.

== Travel from Airport ==
Type in your hotel in google maps and [[https://www.google.com.hk/maps/dir/Airport+Passenger+Terminal+1,+Chek+Lap+Kok/Tsim+Sha+Tsui+Station,+Tsim+Sha+Tsui/@22.28109,113.9207718,11z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x3403e2db776c18df:0xf6d79e0664794b1!2m2!1d113.936484!2d22.3145244!1m5!1m1!1s0x340400edf4d4d36b:0x35c1ce833432319d!2m2!1d114.172175!2d22.297604!3e3?hl=en get directions from Hong Kong international airport]]. You need octopus card as per above!

For most hotels you're in TST so A22 or E23 bus its about ~25HKD! It takes about 1-1.5hour.

Much faster: MTR Aiport Express, go to Kowloon station: 100HKD, take taxi to hotel in TST: ~24HKD.

Alt 2, avoid taxi: Go to last MTR Aiport Express Station, Central, then change to MTR to go from Central to TST. There is a bit of walk to get between these lines, but you'll arrive near the hotels.

== Mobile Phone Card ==

You'll need internet in Hong Kong to get around (google maps), as well as keep in touch with the group and last minute changes on WeChat. See [[HTTC_Internet_Tips]] for info about cards to get.

Particular, a Hong Kong ONLY card with 5 days unlimited 4G data will cost about ~75HKD.

For China cards: No card should cost more than $150HKD and should give you at least 1GB and 30days, and be rechargeable through internet (~100HKD/1GB add).

=== Extract (China cards) ===
Q. What are the SIM cards that you recommend specifically? How much do they cost?
If your phone supports TDD-LTE, China Mobile “CMHK 4G/3G Individual traveller Prepaid SIM Card" It costs $68HKD($8.69 US) for the SIM, and $168 HKD ($21.48 USD) for each 2GB data pack. Make sure it matches the picture below: it is likely that the cashier will get confused and try to sell you a HK-only local sim instead!

[http://www.hk.chinamobile.com/en/corporate_information/Prepaid_SIM/inbound_tourists/4G3Gprepaid-services-individual.html see this card]

[[https://noisebridge.net/images/thumb/0/07/HK_SIM.jpg/400px-HK_SIM.jpg image]]

Before you leave HK and enter China, recharge it online using this website: https://1cm.hk.chinamobile.com/bill/prepaid-refill.html?lang=en and activate a 2GB China & Hong Kong Data Package for $168 HKD.

If your phone doesn’t support TDD-LTE, or you’re just not sure, you can get the China Unicom Cross Border King https://www.cuniq.com/hk_en/data-card/great-china/cross-border-king-hkno.html Sim Costs $138 HKD ($17.64 USD) Data packages are $118 HKD ($15.09 USD) / 1 GB.

Q. Where to look for these two cards?
7/11, Circle K 👌 and market stalls selling SIM cards. Make sure the photo matches and you are not being given a HK-only-SIM!

=== Mobiles ===
Phones
* American may not work
* European will typically work with unicom
* iPhones will generally work (especially with China Mobile in China)
* buy cheap phone in HK: Xiaomi hongmi note 4x 3GB/32GB - 1099HKD, HK phones should have all Google stuff working...
* buy phone in China: Google Play apps will NOT work, contacts not sync, often cannot install maps correctly etc, only if you know it can be flashed before-hand
* don't buy iPhone on streets, they may be stolen, or you'll be part of switch-scam and get a non-phone, it happened once in shanghai, ask us about it...

Buy Simcard in China
* not convenient unless stay long time or go often
* need passport, they'll take picture
* go to unicom store: 56RMB/1 month 500MB, overage 60RMB/GB. Suggest pay 100RMB.

== Internet ==

Works fine. See [[HTTC Internet Tips]]

== Sightseeing ==

Various guides you can find on internet.

Big ones:
* The Peak
* Giant Buddha (near airport)
* Garden of Stars (Bruce Lee statue)
* TST Ferry to Central/Wan Chai
* Beaches (Sai Kung minibus from Dundas)
* Science Museum

See more from [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/highlight-attractions/top-10/index.jsp official site].

Here are the local fun ones:
* Tin Hau Temple & Street night market (MTR: Yau Ma Tei)
* Women Clothes market (MTR: Mong Kok, Prince Edwards)
* Chung King Mansion (TST)

MTR Prince Edwards:
* Women Clothes market
* Gold fish market
* Flower market
* Bird Garden/market
* Dim Sum: Tim Ho Wan (walk from PE, in Sham Shui Po)

== Electronics ==

MTR: Sham Shui Po
* Golden Computer Center - everything new
* Apliu Street electronics market, spy cams, second hand mobile phones
* Capital Building, Un Chau Street - second hand computers/laptops (cheap Thinkpads)

Other areas
* Computer Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - new computers, mobiles, parallel import
* Sin Tat Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - games, second hand iPhones, iPads
* Wan Chai Computer Center (MTR: Wan Chai)

== Nightlife ==
Hong Kong cluster bars at certain streets in certain neighbourhoods, here are the main ones:

* LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, MTR: Central) - western style bars/clubs - a must go once for Fri/Sat
* Wan Chai (MTR: Wan Chai) - "legendary for its exotic night life" (bar district/hostess bars)
* Mong Kong - cafes/late night eating/some local brewery bars
* TST - two bar districts (Hart Street, Ashley Road)
* Sheung Wan (MTR) - 3 gay bars, near DimSumLabs, ask locals
* Tung Choi street, behind Mong Kok Police station (MTR: Prince Edwards)

Bars, Taprooms, Microbreweries
* Tap Room (TST, ashley road)
* The Ale Project: Kowloon Tap room (MTR: Mong Kok)

== Foods ==
Hong Kong is known for various foods, I like to go low-end. Service is fast and expedient, when the waitress arrive they'll expect you to order immediately. After 2 seconds if you're not yet ordering, they'll say "I'll come back later", and they will. Unless it's English food with foreign waitresses don't expect them to speak English.

I use the android APP: Hanping Chinese (free) + [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro&hl=en Hanping Chinese Camera (9 USD)] Well worth the price as it scans text live and looks up characters

* Cha Chaan Teng (茶餐廳) - local Chinese <s>/west food cooked with western ingredients</s> diner
* Lai Cha (奶茶) - Hong Kong super strong milk tea! MUST TRY!
* Yuanyang (鴛鴦) - Lai Cha mixed with coffee!
* Dim Sum (點心) - "Chinese tapas", but traditionally for breakfast/lunch
* Vegetarian, in Hong Kong the specialty is fake meat!
* Snake soup (蛇羹) (MTR: Sham Shui Po or Central)

== Internet ==

=== List of apps to install BEFORE china ===

* WeChat: the WhatsApp + blog + Twitter + everything we'll use it all the time
* ofo: bicycle share, 199CNY deposit
* shadowsocks: bypass VPN limitations
* Didi: Uber of China
* hanping: free Chinese dictionary
* hanping OCR: live scan ocr 2USD?
* Google translate: download Chinese before go
* alternative maps app: "MAPS.ME" have good data some businesses
* ctrip: buy flight + train tickets + hotel, often have cheapest deal to China, and essential in China
* baidu maps: all Chinese but it works...

=== Websites ===
- ditu.google.cn : unblocked Google maps in the browser!

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T15:22:49Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Extract */

This is a small, but growing Hong Kong Guide by Jonas S Karlsson [[BuddhaHacker]], for the purpose of [[NoisebridgeChinaTrip7]]. Please feel free to add.

== Overview ==

Hong Kong may be consider to be on Chinese Land, but it does not have any of the restrictions of China as it is it's own territory. The principle is "One country - two systems", in practice it's probably "1 Country 7 systems". For all practical purposes Hong Kong is "like a country", it's actually the territory in the world which is the most like a country, but isn't. There is even a Hong Kong passport.

== Arrival ==

Most will arrive to Hong Kong at the airport. After immigration, where you fill out a note, you'll get a slip with a date, you need to keep this in the passport at all times, also you need to keep the passport on your person at all times when outside. It'll show how long you can stay in Hong Kong.

== Octopus card ==

Yes, get one! It's available at the airport after the arrivals. It cost $150HKD, $50 is deposit, and you'll get $100 credit. Getting this card is NOT optional. If you take bus, you need exact change, or just give more money than the actual cost and loose your change. Also, you'll be staying in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui), where there are many tourist and buying tickets is a nuisance.

The octopus card makes for speedy transport, and is accepted on MTR (subway), busses, boats, minibusses. You also pay in 7-11, minimarts, MacDonalds (all 24h) and sometimes even for beer!

Top-up easily at 7-11.

== Travel from Airport ==
Type in your hotel in google maps and get directions from Hong Kong international airport. You need octopus card as per above!

For most hotels you're in TST so A22 or E23 bus its about ~25HKD! It takes about 1-1.5hour.

Much faster: MTR Aiport Express, go to Kowloon station: 100HKD, take taxi to hotel in TST: ~24HKD.

Alt 2, avoid taxi: Go to last MTR Aiport Express Station, Central, then change to MTR to go from Central to TST. There is a bit of walk to get between these lines, but you'll arrive near the hotels.

== Mobile Phone Card ==

You'll need internet in Hong Kong to get around (google maps), as well as keep in touch with the group and last minute changes on WeChat. See [[HTTC_Internet_Tips]] for info about cards to get.

Particular, a Hong Kong ONLY card with 5 days unlimited 4G data will cost about ~75HKD.

For China cards: No card should cost more than $150HKD and should give you at least 1GB and 30days, and be rechargeable through internet (~100HKD/1GB add).

=== Extract (China cards) ===
Q. What are the SIM cards that you recommend specifically? How much do they cost?
If your phone supports TDD-LTE, China Mobile “CMHK 4G/3G Individual traveller Prepaid SIM Card" It costs $68HKD($8.69 US) for the SIM, and $168 HKD ($21.48 USD) for each 2GB data pack. Make sure it matches the picture below: it is likely that the cashier will get confused and try to sell you a HK-only local sim instead!

[http://www.hk.chinamobile.com/en/corporate_information/Prepaid_SIM/inbound_tourists/4G3Gprepaid-services-individual.html see this card]

[[https://noisebridge.net/images/thumb/0/07/HK_SIM.jpg/400px-HK_SIM.jpg image]]

Before you leave HK and enter China, recharge it online using this website: https://1cm.hk.chinamobile.com/bill/prepaid-refill.html?lang=en and activate a 2GB China & Hong Kong Data Package for $168 HKD.

If your phone doesn’t support TDD-LTE, or you’re just not sure, you can get the China Unicom Cross Border King https://www.cuniq.com/hk_en/data-card/great-china/cross-border-king-hkno.html Sim Costs $138 HKD ($17.64 USD) Data packages are $118 HKD ($15.09 USD) / 1 GB.

Q. Where to look for these two cards?
7/11, Circle K 👌 and market stalls selling SIM cards. Make sure the photo matches and you are not being given a HK-only-SIM!

=== Mobiles ===
Phones
* American may not work
* European will typically work with unicom
* iPhones will generally work (especially with China Mobile in China)
* buy cheap phone in HK: Xiaomi hongmi note 4x 3GB/32GB - 1099HKD, HK phones should have all Google stuff working...
* buy phone in China: Google Play apps will NOT work, contacts not sync, often cannot install maps correctly etc, only if you know it can be flashed before-hand
* don't buy iPhone on streets, they may be stolen, or you'll be part of switch-scam and get a non-phone, it happened once in shanghai, ask us about it...

Buy Simcard in China
* not convenient unless stay long time or go often
* need passport, they'll take picture
* go to unicom store: 56RMB/1 month 500MB, overage 60RMB/GB. Suggest pay 100RMB.

== Internet ==

Works fine. See [[HTTC Internet Tips]]

== Sightseeing ==

Various guides you can find on internet.

Big ones:
* The Peak
* Giant Buddha (near airport)
* Garden of Stars (Bruce Lee statue)
* TST Ferry to Central/Wan Chai
* Beaches (Sai Kung minibus from Dundas)
* Science Museum

See more from [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/highlight-attractions/top-10/index.jsp official site].

Here are the local fun ones:
* Tin Hau Temple & Street night market (MTR: Yau Ma Tei)
* Women Clothes market (MTR: Mong Kok, Prince Edwards)
* Chung King Mansion (TST)

MTR Prince Edwards:
* Women Clothes market
* Gold fish market
* Flower market
* Bird Garden/market
* Dim Sum: Tim Ho Wan (walk from PE, in Sham Shui Po)

== Electronics ==

MTR: Sham Shui Po
* Golden Computer Center - everything new
* Apliu Street electronics market, spy cams, second hand mobile phones
* Capital Building, Un Chau Street - second hand computers/laptops (cheap Thinkpads)

Other areas
* Computer Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - new computers, mobiles, parallel import
* Sin Tat Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - games, second hand iPhones, iPads
* Wan Chai Computer Center (MTR: Wan Chai)

== Nightlife ==
Hong Kong cluster bars at certain streets in certain neighbourhoods, here are the main ones:

* LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, MTR: Central) - western style bars/clubs - a must go once for Fri/Sat
* Wan Chai (MTR: Wan Chai) - "legendary for its exotic night life" (bar district/hostess bars)
* Mong Kong - cafes/late night eating/some local brewery bars
* TST - two bar districts (Hart Street, Ashley Road)
* Sheung Wan (MTR) - 3 gay bars, near DimSumLabs, ask locals
* Tung Choi street, behind Mong Kok Police station (MTR: Prince Edwards)

Bars, Taprooms, Microbreweries
* Tap Room (TST, ashley road)
* The Ale Project: Kowloon Tap room (MTR: Mong Kok)

== Foods ==
Hong Kong is known for various foods, I like to go low-end. Service is fast and expedient, when the waitress arrive they'll expect you to order immediately. After 2 seconds if you're not yet ordering, they'll say "I'll come back later", and they will. Unless it's English food with foreign waitresses don't expect them to speak English.

I use the android APP: Hanping Chinese (free) + [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro&hl=en Hanping Chinese Camera (9 USD)] Well worth the price as it scans text live and looks up characters

* Cha Chaan Teng (茶餐廳) - local Chinese <s>/west food cooked with western ingredients</s> diner
* Lai Cha (奶茶) - Hong Kong super strong milk tea! MUST TRY!
* Yuanyang (鴛鴦) - Lai Cha mixed with coffee!
* Dim Sum (點心) - "Chinese tapas", but traditionally for breakfast/lunch
* Vegetarian, in Hong Kong the specialty is fake meat!
* Snake soup (蛇羹) (MTR: Sham Shui Po or Central)

== Internet ==

=== List of apps to install BEFORE china ===

* WeChat: the WhatsApp + blog + Twitter + everything we'll use it all the time
* ofo: bicycle share, 199CNY deposit
* shadowsocks: bypass VPN limitations
* Didi: Uber of China
* hanping: free Chinese dictionary
* hanping OCR: live scan ocr 2USD?
* Google translate: download Chinese before go
* alternative maps app: "MAPS.ME" have good data some businesses
* ctrip: buy flight + train tickets + hotel, often have cheapest deal to China, and essential in China
* baidu maps: all Chinese but it works...

=== Websites ===
- ditu.google.cn : unblocked Google maps in the browser!

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T15:20:03Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Extract */

This is a small, but growing Hong Kong Guide by Jonas S Karlsson [[BuddhaHacker]], for the purpose of [[NoisebridgeChinaTrip7]]. Please feel free to add.

== Overview ==

Hong Kong may be consider to be on Chinese Land, but it does not have any of the restrictions of China as it is it's own territory. The principle is "One country - two systems", in practice it's probably "1 Country 7 systems". For all practical purposes Hong Kong is "like a country", it's actually the territory in the world which is the most like a country, but isn't. There is even a Hong Kong passport.

== Arrival ==

Most will arrive to Hong Kong at the airport. After immigration, where you fill out a note, you'll get a slip with a date, you need to keep this in the passport at all times, also you need to keep the passport on your person at all times when outside. It'll show how long you can stay in Hong Kong.

== Octopus card ==

Yes, get one! It's available at the airport after the arrivals. It cost $150HKD, $50 is deposit, and you'll get $100 credit. Getting this card is NOT optional. If you take bus, you need exact change, or just give more money than the actual cost and loose your change. Also, you'll be staying in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui), where there are many tourist and buying tickets is a nuisance.

The octopus card makes for speedy transport, and is accepted on MTR (subway), busses, boats, minibusses. You also pay in 7-11, minimarts, MacDonalds (all 24h) and sometimes even for beer!

Top-up easily at 7-11.

== Travel from Airport ==
Type in your hotel in google maps and get directions from Hong Kong international airport. You need octopus card as per above!

For most hotels you're in TST so A22 or E23 bus its about ~25HKD! It takes about 1-1.5hour.

Much faster: MTR Aiport Express, go to Kowloon station: 100HKD, take taxi to hotel in TST: ~24HKD.

Alt 2, avoid taxi: Go to last MTR Aiport Express Station, Central, then change to MTR to go from Central to TST. There is a bit of walk to get between these lines, but you'll arrive near the hotels.

== Mobile Phone Card ==

You'll need internet in Hong Kong to get around (google maps), as well as keep in touch with the group and last minute changes on WeChat. See [[HTTC_Internet_Tips]] for info about cards to get.

Particular, a Hong Kong ONLY card with 5 days unlimited 4G data will cost about ~75HKD.

For China cards: No card should cost more than $150HKD and should give you at least 1GB and 30days, and be rechargeable through internet (~100HKD/1GB add).

=== Extract ===
Q. What are the SIM cards that you recommend specifically? How much do they cost?
If your phone supports TDD-LTE, China Mobile “CMHK 4G/3G Individual traveller Prepaid SIM Card" It costs $68HKD($8.69 US) for the SIM, and $168 HKD ($21.48 USD) for each 2GB data pack. Make sure it matches the picture below: it is likely that the cashier will get confused and try to sell you a HK-only local sim instead!

[http://www.hk.chinamobile.com/en/corporate_information/Prepaid_SIM/inbound_tourists/4G3Gprepaid-services-individual.html see this card]

[[https://noisebridge.net/images/thumb/0/07/HK_SIM.jpg/400px-HK_SIM.jpg image]]

Before you leave HK and enter China, recharge it online using this website: https://1cm.hk.chinamobile.com/bill/prepaid-refill.html?lang=en and activate a 2GB China & Hong Kong Data Package for $168 HKD.

If your phone doesn’t support TDD-LTE, or you’re just not sure, you can get the China Unicom Cross Border King https://www.cuniq.com/hk_en/data-card/great-china/cross-border-king-hkno.html Sim Costs $138 HKD ($17.64 USD) Data packages are $118 HKD ($15.09 USD) / 1 GB.

Q. Where to look for these two cards?
7/11, Circle K 👌 and market stalls selling SIM cards. Make sure the photo matches and you are not being given a HK-only-SIM!

== Internet ==

Works fine. See [[HTTC Internet Tips]]

== Sightseeing ==

Various guides you can find on internet.

Big ones:
* The Peak
* Giant Buddha (near airport)
* Garden of Stars (Bruce Lee statue)
* TST Ferry to Central/Wan Chai
* Beaches (Sai Kung minibus from Dundas)
* Science Museum

See more from [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/highlight-attractions/top-10/index.jsp official site].

Here are the local fun ones:
* Tin Hau Temple & Street night market (MTR: Yau Ma Tei)
* Women Clothes market (MTR: Mong Kok, Prince Edwards)
* Chung King Mansion (TST)

MTR Prince Edwards:
* Women Clothes market
* Gold fish market
* Flower market
* Bird Garden/market
* Dim Sum: Tim Ho Wan (walk from PE, in Sham Shui Po)

== Electronics ==

MTR: Sham Shui Po
* Golden Computer Center - everything new
* Apliu Street electronics market, spy cams, second hand mobile phones
* Capital Building, Un Chau Street - second hand computers/laptops (cheap Thinkpads)

Other areas
* Computer Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - new computers, mobiles, parallel import
* Sin Tat Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - games, second hand iPhones, iPads
* Wan Chai Computer Center (MTR: Wan Chai)

== Nightlife ==
Hong Kong cluster bars at certain streets in certain neighbourhoods, here are the main ones:

* LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, MTR: Central) - western style bars/clubs - a must go once for Fri/Sat
* Wan Chai (MTR: Wan Chai) - "legendary for its exotic night life" (bar district/hostess bars)
* Mong Kong - cafes/late night eating/some local brewery bars
* TST - two bar districts (Hart Street, Ashley Road)
* Sheung Wan (MTR) - 3 gay bars, near DimSumLabs, ask locals
* Tung Choi street, behind Mong Kok Police station (MTR: Prince Edwards)

Bars, Taprooms, Microbreweries
* Tap Room (TST, ashley road)
* The Ale Project: Kowloon Tap room (MTR: Mong Kok)

== Foods ==
Hong Kong is known for various foods, I like to go low-end. Service is fast and expedient, when the waitress arrive they'll expect you to order immediately. After 2 seconds if you're not yet ordering, they'll say "I'll come back later", and they will. Unless it's English food with foreign waitresses don't expect them to speak English.

I use the android APP: Hanping Chinese (free) + [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro&hl=en Hanping Chinese Camera (9 USD)] Well worth the price as it scans text live and looks up characters

* Cha Chaan Teng (茶餐廳) - local Chinese <s>/west food cooked with western ingredients</s> diner
* Lai Cha (奶茶) - Hong Kong super strong milk tea! MUST TRY!
* Yuanyang (鴛鴦) - Lai Cha mixed with coffee!
* Dim Sum (點心) - "Chinese tapas", but traditionally for breakfast/lunch
* Vegetarian, in Hong Kong the specialty is fake meat!
* Snake soup (蛇羹) (MTR: Sham Shui Po or Central)

== Internet ==

=== List of apps to install BEFORE china ===

* WeChat: the WhatsApp + blog + Twitter + everything we'll use it all the time
* ofo: bicycle share, 199CNY deposit
* shadowsocks: bypass VPN limitations
* Didi: Uber of China
* hanping: free Chinese dictionary
* hanping OCR: live scan ocr 2USD?
* Google translate: download Chinese before go
* alternative maps app: "MAPS.ME" have good data some businesses
* ctrip: buy flight + train tickets + hotel, often have cheapest deal to China, and essential in China
* baidu maps: all Chinese but it works...

=== Websites ===
- ditu.google.cn : unblocked Google maps in the browser!

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T15:15:09Z

BuddhaHacker: /* List of apps to install BEFORE china */

This is a small, but growing Hong Kong Guide by Jonas S Karlsson [[BuddhaHacker]], for the purpose of [[NoisebridgeChinaTrip7]]. Please feel free to add.

== Overview ==

Hong Kong may be consider to be on Chinese Land, but it does not have any of the restrictions of China as it is it's own territory. The principle is "One country - two systems", in practice it's probably "1 Country 7 systems". For all practical purposes Hong Kong is "like a country", it's actually the territory in the world which is the most like a country, but isn't. There is even a Hong Kong passport.

== Arrival ==

Most will arrive to Hong Kong at the airport. After immigration, where you fill out a note, you'll get a slip with a date, you need to keep this in the passport at all times, also you need to keep the passport on your person at all times when outside. It'll show how long you can stay in Hong Kong.

== Octopus card ==

Yes, get one! It's available at the airport after the arrivals. It cost $150HKD, $50 is deposit, and you'll get $100 credit. Getting this card is NOT optional. If you take bus, you need exact change, or just give more money than the actual cost and loose your change. Also, you'll be staying in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui), where there are many tourist and buying tickets is a nuisance.

The octopus card makes for speedy transport, and is accepted on MTR (subway), busses, boats, minibusses. You also pay in 7-11, minimarts, MacDonalds (all 24h) and sometimes even for beer!

Top-up easily at 7-11.

== Travel from Airport ==
Type in your hotel in google maps and get directions from Hong Kong international airport. You need octopus card as per above!

For most hotels you're in TST so A22 or E23 bus its about ~25HKD! It takes about 1-1.5hour.

Much faster: MTR Aiport Express, go to Kowloon station: 100HKD, take taxi to hotel in TST: ~24HKD.

Alt 2, avoid taxi: Go to last MTR Aiport Express Station, Central, then change to MTR to go from Central to TST. There is a bit of walk to get between these lines, but you'll arrive near the hotels.

== Mobile Phone Card ==

You'll need internet in Hong Kong to get around (google maps), as well as keep in touch with the group and last minute changes on WeChat. See [[HTTC_Internet_Tips]] for info about cards to get.

Particular, a Hong Kong ONLY card with 5 days unlimited 4G data will cost about ~75HKD.

For China cards: No card should cost more than $150HKD and should give you at least 1GB and 30days, and be rechargeable through internet (~100HKD/1GB add).

=== Extract ===
Q. What are the SIM cards that you recommend specifically? How much do they cost?
If your phone supports TDD-LTE, China Mobile “CMHK 4G/3G Individual traveller Prepaid SIM Card" It costs $68HKD($8.69 US) for the SIM, and $168 HKD ($21.48 USD) for each 2GB data pack. Make sure it matches the picture below: it is likely that the cashier will get confused and try to sell you a HK-only local sim instead!
http://www.hk.chinamobile.com/en/corporate_information/Prepaid_SIM/inbound_tourists/4G3Gprepaid-services-individual.html
Before you leave HK and enter China, recharge it online using this website: https://1cm.hk.chinamobile.com/bill/prepaid-refill.html?lang=en and activate a 2GB China & Hong Kong Data Package for $168 HKD.
If your phone doesn’t support TDD-LTE, or you’re just not sure, you can get the China Unicom Cross Border King https://www.cuniq.com/hk_en/data-card/great-china/cross-border-king-hkno.html Sim Costs $138 HKD ($17.64 USD) Data packages are $118 HKD ($15.09 USD) / 1 GB.

== Internet ==

Works fine. See [[HTTC Internet Tips]]

== Sightseeing ==

Various guides you can find on internet.

Big ones:
* The Peak
* Giant Buddha (near airport)
* Garden of Stars (Bruce Lee statue)
* TST Ferry to Central/Wan Chai
* Beaches (Sai Kung minibus from Dundas)
* Science Museum

See more from [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/highlight-attractions/top-10/index.jsp official site].

Here are the local fun ones:
* Tin Hau Temple & Street night market (MTR: Yau Ma Tei)
* Women Clothes market (MTR: Mong Kok, Prince Edwards)
* Chung King Mansion (TST)

MTR Prince Edwards:
* Women Clothes market
* Gold fish market
* Flower market
* Bird Garden/market
* Dim Sum: Tim Ho Wan (walk from PE, in Sham Shui Po)

== Electronics ==

MTR: Sham Shui Po
* Golden Computer Center - everything new
* Apliu Street electronics market, spy cams, second hand mobile phones
* Capital Building, Un Chau Street - second hand computers/laptops (cheap Thinkpads)

Other areas
* Computer Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - new computers, mobiles, parallel import
* Sin Tat Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - games, second hand iPhones, iPads
* Wan Chai Computer Center (MTR: Wan Chai)

== Nightlife ==
Hong Kong cluster bars at certain streets in certain neighbourhoods, here are the main ones:

* LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, MTR: Central) - western style bars/clubs - a must go once for Fri/Sat
* Wan Chai (MTR: Wan Chai) - "legendary for its exotic night life" (bar district/hostess bars)
* Mong Kong - cafes/late night eating/some local brewery bars
* TST - two bar districts (Hart Street, Ashley Road)
* Sheung Wan (MTR) - 3 gay bars, near DimSumLabs, ask locals
* Tung Choi street, behind Mong Kok Police station (MTR: Prince Edwards)

Bars, Taprooms, Microbreweries
* Tap Room (TST, ashley road)
* The Ale Project: Kowloon Tap room (MTR: Mong Kok)

== Foods ==
Hong Kong is known for various foods, I like to go low-end. Service is fast and expedient, when the waitress arrive they'll expect you to order immediately. After 2 seconds if you're not yet ordering, they'll say "I'll come back later", and they will. Unless it's English food with foreign waitresses don't expect them to speak English.

I use the android APP: Hanping Chinese (free) + [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro&hl=en Hanping Chinese Camera (9 USD)] Well worth the price as it scans text live and looks up characters

* Cha Chaan Teng (茶餐廳) - local Chinese <s>/west food cooked with western ingredients</s> diner
* Lai Cha (奶茶) - Hong Kong super strong milk tea! MUST TRY!
* Yuanyang (鴛鴦) - Lai Cha mixed with coffee!
* Dim Sum (點心) - "Chinese tapas", but traditionally for breakfast/lunch
* Vegetarian, in Hong Kong the specialty is fake meat!
* Snake soup (蛇羹) (MTR: Sham Shui Po or Central)

== Internet ==

=== List of apps to install BEFORE china ===

* WeChat: the WhatsApp + blog + Twitter + everything we'll use it all the time
* ofo: bicycle share, 199CNY deposit
* shadowsocks: bypass VPN limitations
* Didi: Uber of China
* hanping: free Chinese dictionary
* hanping OCR: live scan ocr 2USD?
* Google translate: download Chinese before go
* alternative maps app: "MAPS.ME" have good data some businesses
* ctrip: buy flight + train tickets + hotel, often have cheapest deal to China, and essential in China
* baidu maps: all Chinese but it works...

=== Websites ===
- ditu.google.cn : unblocked Google maps in the browser!

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T15:14:40Z

BuddhaHacker: apps to install

This is a small, but growing Hong Kong Guide by Jonas S Karlsson [[BuddhaHacker]], for the purpose of [[NoisebridgeChinaTrip7]]. Please feel free to add.

== Overview ==

Hong Kong may be consider to be on Chinese Land, but it does not have any of the restrictions of China as it is it's own territory. The principle is "One country - two systems", in practice it's probably "1 Country 7 systems". For all practical purposes Hong Kong is "like a country", it's actually the territory in the world which is the most like a country, but isn't. There is even a Hong Kong passport.

== Arrival ==

Most will arrive to Hong Kong at the airport. After immigration, where you fill out a note, you'll get a slip with a date, you need to keep this in the passport at all times, also you need to keep the passport on your person at all times when outside. It'll show how long you can stay in Hong Kong.

== Octopus card ==

Yes, get one! It's available at the airport after the arrivals. It cost $150HKD, $50 is deposit, and you'll get $100 credit. Getting this card is NOT optional. If you take bus, you need exact change, or just give more money than the actual cost and loose your change. Also, you'll be staying in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui), where there are many tourist and buying tickets is a nuisance.

The octopus card makes for speedy transport, and is accepted on MTR (subway), busses, boats, minibusses. You also pay in 7-11, minimarts, MacDonalds (all 24h) and sometimes even for beer!

Top-up easily at 7-11.

== Travel from Airport ==
Type in your hotel in google maps and get directions from Hong Kong international airport. You need octopus card as per above!

For most hotels you're in TST so A22 or E23 bus its about ~25HKD! It takes about 1-1.5hour.

Much faster: MTR Aiport Express, go to Kowloon station: 100HKD, take taxi to hotel in TST: ~24HKD.

Alt 2, avoid taxi: Go to last MTR Aiport Express Station, Central, then change to MTR to go from Central to TST. There is a bit of walk to get between these lines, but you'll arrive near the hotels.

== Mobile Phone Card ==

You'll need internet in Hong Kong to get around (google maps), as well as keep in touch with the group and last minute changes on WeChat. See [[HTTC_Internet_Tips]] for info about cards to get.

Particular, a Hong Kong ONLY card with 5 days unlimited 4G data will cost about ~75HKD.

For China cards: No card should cost more than $150HKD and should give you at least 1GB and 30days, and be rechargeable through internet (~100HKD/1GB add).

=== Extract ===
Q. What are the SIM cards that you recommend specifically? How much do they cost?
If your phone supports TDD-LTE, China Mobile “CMHK 4G/3G Individual traveller Prepaid SIM Card" It costs $68HKD($8.69 US) for the SIM, and $168 HKD ($21.48 USD) for each 2GB data pack. Make sure it matches the picture below: it is likely that the cashier will get confused and try to sell you a HK-only local sim instead!
http://www.hk.chinamobile.com/en/corporate_information/Prepaid_SIM/inbound_tourists/4G3Gprepaid-services-individual.html
Before you leave HK and enter China, recharge it online using this website: https://1cm.hk.chinamobile.com/bill/prepaid-refill.html?lang=en and activate a 2GB China & Hong Kong Data Package for $168 HKD.
If your phone doesn’t support TDD-LTE, or you’re just not sure, you can get the China Unicom Cross Border King https://www.cuniq.com/hk_en/data-card/great-china/cross-border-king-hkno.html Sim Costs $138 HKD ($17.64 USD) Data packages are $118 HKD ($15.09 USD) / 1 GB.

== Internet ==

Works fine. See [[HTTC Internet Tips]]

== Sightseeing ==

Various guides you can find on internet.

Big ones:
* The Peak
* Giant Buddha (near airport)
* Garden of Stars (Bruce Lee statue)
* TST Ferry to Central/Wan Chai
* Beaches (Sai Kung minibus from Dundas)
* Science Museum

See more from [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/highlight-attractions/top-10/index.jsp official site].

Here are the local fun ones:
* Tin Hau Temple & Street night market (MTR: Yau Ma Tei)
* Women Clothes market (MTR: Mong Kok, Prince Edwards)
* Chung King Mansion (TST)

MTR Prince Edwards:
* Women Clothes market
* Gold fish market
* Flower market
* Bird Garden/market
* Dim Sum: Tim Ho Wan (walk from PE, in Sham Shui Po)

== Electronics ==

MTR: Sham Shui Po
* Golden Computer Center - everything new
* Apliu Street electronics market, spy cams, second hand mobile phones
* Capital Building, Un Chau Street - second hand computers/laptops (cheap Thinkpads)

Other areas
* Computer Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - new computers, mobiles, parallel import
* Sin Tat Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - games, second hand iPhones, iPads
* Wan Chai Computer Center (MTR: Wan Chai)

== Nightlife ==
Hong Kong cluster bars at certain streets in certain neighbourhoods, here are the main ones:

* LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, MTR: Central) - western style bars/clubs - a must go once for Fri/Sat
* Wan Chai (MTR: Wan Chai) - "legendary for its exotic night life" (bar district/hostess bars)
* Mong Kong - cafes/late night eating/some local brewery bars
* TST - two bar districts (Hart Street, Ashley Road)
* Sheung Wan (MTR) - 3 gay bars, near DimSumLabs, ask locals
* Tung Choi street, behind Mong Kok Police station (MTR: Prince Edwards)

Bars, Taprooms, Microbreweries
* Tap Room (TST, ashley road)
* The Ale Project: Kowloon Tap room (MTR: Mong Kok)

== Foods ==
Hong Kong is known for various foods, I like to go low-end. Service is fast and expedient, when the waitress arrive they'll expect you to order immediately. After 2 seconds if you're not yet ordering, they'll say "I'll come back later", and they will. Unless it's English food with foreign waitresses don't expect them to speak English.

I use the android APP: Hanping Chinese (free) + [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro&hl=en Hanping Chinese Camera (9 USD)] Well worth the price as it scans text live and looks up characters

* Cha Chaan Teng (茶餐廳) - local Chinese <s>/west food cooked with western ingredients</s> diner
* Lai Cha (奶茶) - Hong Kong super strong milk tea! MUST TRY!
* Yuanyang (鴛鴦) - Lai Cha mixed with coffee!
* Dim Sum (點心) - "Chinese tapas", but traditionally for breakfast/lunch
* Vegetarian, in Hong Kong the specialty is fake meat!
* Snake soup (蛇羹) (MTR: Sham Shui Po or Central)

== Internet ==

=== List of apps to install BEFORE china ===

- WeChat: the WhatsApp + blog + Twitter + everything we'll use it all the time
- ofo: bicycle share, 199CNY deposit
- shadowsocks: bypass VPN limitations
- Didi: Uber of China
- hanping: free Chinese dictionary
- hanping OCR: live scan ocr 2USD?
- Google translate: download Chinese before go
- alternative maps app: "MAPS.ME" have good data some businesses
- ctrip: buy flight + train tickets + hotel, often have cheapest deal to China, and essential in China
- baidu maps: all Chinese but it works...

=== Websites ===
- ditu.google.cn : unblocked Google maps in the browser!

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T15:11:31Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Mobile Phone Card */

This is a small, but growing Hong Kong Guide by Jonas S Karlsson [[BuddhaHacker]], for the purpose of [[NoisebridgeChinaTrip7]]. Please feel free to add.

== Overview ==

Hong Kong may be consider to be on Chinese Land, but it does not have any of the restrictions of China as it is it's own territory. The principle is "One country - two systems", in practice it's probably "1 Country 7 systems". For all practical purposes Hong Kong is "like a country", it's actually the territory in the world which is the most like a country, but isn't. There is even a Hong Kong passport.

== Arrival ==

Most will arrive to Hong Kong at the airport. After immigration, where you fill out a note, you'll get a slip with a date, you need to keep this in the passport at all times, also you need to keep the passport on your person at all times when outside. It'll show how long you can stay in Hong Kong.

== Octopus card ==

Yes, get one! It's available at the airport after the arrivals. It cost $150HKD, $50 is deposit, and you'll get $100 credit. Getting this card is NOT optional. If you take bus, you need exact change, or just give more money than the actual cost and loose your change. Also, you'll be staying in TST (Tsim Sha Tsui), where there are many tourist and buying tickets is a nuisance.

The octopus card makes for speedy transport, and is accepted on MTR (subway), busses, boats, minibusses. You also pay in 7-11, minimarts, MacDonalds (all 24h) and sometimes even for beer!

Top-up easily at 7-11.

== Travel from Airport ==
Type in your hotel in google maps and get directions from Hong Kong international airport. You need octopus card as per above!

For most hotels you're in TST so A22 or E23 bus its about ~25HKD! It takes about 1-1.5hour.

Much faster: MTR Aiport Express, go to Kowloon station: 100HKD, take taxi to hotel in TST: ~24HKD.

Alt 2, avoid taxi: Go to last MTR Aiport Express Station, Central, then change to MTR to go from Central to TST. There is a bit of walk to get between these lines, but you'll arrive near the hotels.

== Mobile Phone Card ==

You'll need internet in Hong Kong to get around (google maps), as well as keep in touch with the group and last minute changes on WeChat. See [[HTTC_Internet_Tips]] for info about cards to get.

Particular, a Hong Kong ONLY card with 5 days unlimited 4G data will cost about ~75HKD.

For China cards: No card should cost more than $150HKD and should give you at least 1GB and 30days, and be rechargeable through internet (~100HKD/1GB add).

=== Extract ===
Q. What are the SIM cards that you recommend specifically? How much do they cost?
If your phone supports TDD-LTE, China Mobile “CMHK 4G/3G Individual traveller Prepaid SIM Card" It costs $68HKD($8.69 US) for the SIM, and $168 HKD ($21.48 USD) for each 2GB data pack. Make sure it matches the picture below: it is likely that the cashier will get confused and try to sell you a HK-only local sim instead!
http://www.hk.chinamobile.com/en/corporate_information/Prepaid_SIM/inbound_tourists/4G3Gprepaid-services-individual.html
Before you leave HK and enter China, recharge it online using this website: https://1cm.hk.chinamobile.com/bill/prepaid-refill.html?lang=en and activate a 2GB China & Hong Kong Data Package for $168 HKD.
If your phone doesn’t support TDD-LTE, or you’re just not sure, you can get the China Unicom Cross Border King https://www.cuniq.com/hk_en/data-card/great-china/cross-border-king-hkno.html Sim Costs $138 HKD ($17.64 USD) Data packages are $118 HKD ($15.09 USD) / 1 GB.

== Internet ==

Works fine. See [[HTTC Internet Tips]]

== Sightseeing ==

Various guides you can find on internet.

Big ones:
* The Peak
* Giant Buddha (near airport)
* Garden of Stars (Bruce Lee statue)
* TST Ferry to Central/Wan Chai
* Beaches (Sai Kung minibus from Dundas)
* Science Museum

See more from [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/highlight-attractions/top-10/index.jsp official site].

Here are the local fun ones:
* Tin Hau Temple & Street night market (MTR: Yau Ma Tei)
* Women Clothes market (MTR: Mong Kok, Prince Edwards)
* Chung King Mansion (TST)

MTR Prince Edwards:
* Women Clothes market
* Gold fish market
* Flower market
* Bird Garden/market
* Dim Sum: Tim Ho Wan (walk from PE, in Sham Shui Po)

== Electronics ==

MTR: Sham Shui Po
* Golden Computer Center - everything new
* Apliu Street electronics market, spy cams, second hand mobile phones
* Capital Building, Un Chau Street - second hand computers/laptops (cheap Thinkpads)

Other areas
* Computer Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - new computers, mobiles, parallel import
* Sin Tat Center (MTR: Mong Kok) - games, second hand iPhones, iPads
* Wan Chai Computer Center (MTR: Wan Chai)

== Nightlife ==
Hong Kong cluster bars at certain streets in certain neighbourhoods, here are the main ones:

* LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, MTR: Central) - western style bars/clubs - a must go once for Fri/Sat
* Wan Chai (MTR: Wan Chai) - "legendary for its exotic night life" (bar district/hostess bars)
* Mong Kong - cafes/late night eating/some local brewery bars
* TST - two bar districts (Hart Street, Ashley Road)
* Sheung Wan (MTR) - 3 gay bars, near DimSumLabs, ask locals
* Tung Choi street, behind Mong Kok Police station (MTR: Prince Edwards)

Bars, Taprooms, Microbreweries
* Tap Room (TST, ashley road)
* The Ale Project: Kowloon Tap room (MTR: Mong Kok)

== Foods ==
Hong Kong is known for various foods, I like to go low-end. Service is fast and expedient, when the waitress arrive they'll expect you to order immediately. After 2 seconds if you're not yet ordering, they'll say "I'll come back later", and they will. Unless it's English food with foreign waitresses don't expect them to speak English.

I use the android APP: Hanping Chinese (free) + [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro&hl=en Hanping Chinese Camera (9 USD)] Well worth the price as it scans text live and looks up characters

* Cha Chaan Teng (茶餐廳) - local Chinese <s>/west food cooked with western ingredients</s> diner
* Lai Cha (奶茶) - Hong Kong super strong milk tea! MUST TRY!
* Yuanyang (鴛鴦) - Lai Cha mixed with coffee!
* Dim Sum (點心) - "Chinese tapas", but traditionally for breakfast/lunch
* Vegetarian, in Hong Kong the specialty is fake meat!
* Snake soup (蛇羹) (MTR: Sham Shui Po or Central)

NoisebridgeChinaTrip7

2017-10-03T15:04:28Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Very Useful Guide about Internet, Phones, Translation, and Navigation */

= NOISEBRIDGE HACKER TRIP TO CHINA #7 -- Start Date: 8-October-2017, in Hong Kong -- End Date: 28-October-2017, in Shanghai=

[[File:HTTC2014WelcomeHackers.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #4 Welcome to China!, Beijing]]

[[File:KungFuHacking_Nov_2013.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #3 Kung Fu Hacking: Hackers In Residence Kickoff event at Tsinghua University, Beijing]]

[[File:petrochemical_university.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #2 Visit to Petrochemical Univeristy, Beijing]]

[[File:Beijing_Oct_2009.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #1 Jingshan Park, Beijing]]

[[File:Shenzhen_Oct_2016.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #5 Visit to Seeed Studio's factory, Shenzhen]]

[[File:Zhenzhou_Oct_2016.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #5 Presentations at Zhengzhou High School #2, Zhengzhou]]

== Previous Hacker Trips To China ==
::''This will be the 7th Noisebridge Hacker Trip To China.'' 
::'''''(The dates are set, the start and end cities are set, but the itinerary is an outline and open to change.)'''''
::''In previous years' Hacker Trip To China, we've visited cities that currently have a hackerspace, visited my manufacturer, Seeed Studio, and other manufacturers. We also visited Tsinghua University, considered the most prestigious university in China, and other schools -- all of which have now starting hackerspaces. China continues to explode with hackerspaces! We also went to the International Exhibition of Inventions Kunshan (IEIK 2014), near Shanghai. And everywhere we went, we were shown around by local geeks, to see what they thought was interesting where they live. Also, wherever we went, those of us interested gave talks, presentations, workshops, and demos. In 2016 we gave presentations at NY University - Shanghai, DFRobot (an open hardware company in Shanghai), Shanghai Maker Carnival, Zhengzhou High School Number 2, "Second Generation and Start-ups" conference in Hangzhou.'' 

::''You can see info on the [[ChinaTrip|Hacker Trip To China 2009]],'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip2|Hacker Trip To China 2011]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip3|Hacker Trip To China 2013]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip4|Hacker Trip To China 2014]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip5|Hacker Trip To China 2015]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip6|Hacker Trip To China 2016]],'' 

::-- [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]].

== This year's Hacker Trip To China ==
'''When:''' 8-October-2017 in Hong Kong through 28-October-2017 in Shanghai.

'''Flight, transportation, and hotel Info''': We were each be on our own to book our own air fare to meet in our starting city, Hong Kong, on 8-October, and fly home from out ending city, Shanghai, on 28-October. Of course, you can decide to come and go as you please. 

I'll organized the itinerary and the hotels and other transport. I'll pay in advance for some of this, and you can pay me back when we're in China. 

'''Where:''' In each of the cities we will go to, we'll visit some of their local hackerspace(s), and will be shown around by local geeks to see what interested them where they live. We'll also have plenty of time to do "normal" (and spectacular) tourist things too! 

'''Here's some possible places we might visit, leaving plenty of room for the serendipity that makes our Hacker Trip To China truly unique and memorable:''' 
* We will start our trip by meeting in '''Hong Kong''' and visit [http://www.dimsumlabs.com/ Dim Sum Labs] hackerspace. Hong Kong is a fantastic city, so, we'll also see lots of other cool stuff in Hong Kong. [[Hong Kong Guide]] 
* Then we'll go across the border to mainland China again, to '''Shenzhen''' to visit [http://www.chaihuo.org/ Chaihuo Makerspace], [http://www.szdiy.org/ SZDIY] hackerspace, [http://litchee.cn/en/ Litchee Lab], and a few other hackerspaces, some of which are real, and hundreds of which are brand new (this year) over-the-top bizarre government-started places where they want to create "the next Apple" (we won't visit them all!). We'll visit [http://www.chaihuo.org/xfactory/ x.factory] while we are in town, an interesting mix of hackerspace and incubator, where we will be welcomed for a Bring-A-Hack event, where anyone of us (for those who want to), along with the general public, can show off their projects. We will also visit [http://www.seeedstudio.com Seeed Studio] - the open source hardware company - to meet the cool folks there and to see their manufacturing facilities. We may meet with the founders of [http://dangerousprototypes.com/ Dangerous Prototypes] - another open source hardware company. We'll also visit other manufacturers, to see where all the things we use in our daily lives come from (such as springs, cables, PCBs, packaging, etc., etc.). We can also visit Dorabot, a Chinese robotics company comprised of people in the Shenzhen hackerspace scene. Of course, we'll also visit the famous (and totally awesome!) [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen/print Huaqiangbei electronics market] in Shenzhen (where, we may again be shown around by a professional buyer from Deal Extreme (dx.com). And if uhgall@gmail.com happens to be in town, we might visit [http://www.constellation.ws/ Constellation] or even stay in their factory dorm. 
* We will then make our way to '''Beijing''' where we may visit [http://www.bjmakerspace.com/ Beijing Makerspace], and other hackerspaces. We'll also visit Tsinghua University, where they built the world's largest hackerspace last year (called the "iCenter"), and where I've been hacker in residence. Beijing has lots and lots of way amazing stuff to visit and be a part of!
* Our last city will be '''Shanghai'''. In Shanghai we will visit [http://www.etonnet.com/ my manufacturer (Etonnet)] that I have used for [http://www.tvbgone.com TV-B-Gone] remote controls and [http://www.neurodreamer.com NeuroDreamer] sleep masks, where we will all get to see how products are made, from start to finish, learning how manufacturing works. We will also visit [http://xinchejian.com/ XinCheJian] hackerspace in Shanghai. We can also visit companies started by hardware hacker geeks, such as [http://www.dfrobot.com/ DFRobot]. We can visit Phicomm, a medium-sized OEM manufacturer. We can also visit the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/4064240200/in/set-72157622640069902/ Shanghai electronics mall] (a smaller version of the famous electronics mall we will later visit in Shenzhen).

For most of us, our trip will end at the end of three weeks, as many people on our trip will fly home from our last city, Shanghai, on 28-October-2017.

''Of course, everyone is free to arrive and leave whenever you like for the Hacker Trip To China. 
I will tentatively be flying home from Shanghai 28-October. ''

'''Cost:''' For the Hacker Trip To China 2016, I paid $1,997 total (for 4 weeks), including air fare from SF, food, lodging, transportation, and everything -- including some electronics stuff and some clothing that I bought. 
''As in past years, part of this year's trip may be paid for by Tsinghua University and other places that invite us to give presentations.''

'''#hashtag:''' [https://twitter.com/hashtag/httc2017 #httc2017]      (Hacker Trip To China 2017)

 
 

== Possible itinerary outline for Hacker Trip to China 7 ==

'''The start and end dates are set, the start and end cities are set, but the rest of the itinerary is open to serendipity:'''
''7-October-2017 -- '''Leave home''' for '''Hong Kong''' (arrive in Hong Kong on 8-October)''
''8-October-2017 -- We all meet in '''Hong Kong''' -- hotel: various in Tsim Sha Tsui
'''8-October to 11-October -- Hong Kong'''
8-October, 8pm: Group dinner
9-October, 6pm-8:30pm: visit [http://www.makerbay.org Maker Bay, Yau Tong], with presentations
10-October, 8pm-10pm: visit [http://www.dimsumlabs.com/ Dim Sum Labs], soldering workshop by Mitch, HackJam on rooftop
''11-October, afternoon -- ferry or subway to Shenzhen''
'''11-October to 16-October -- Shenzhen'''
''11-October -- hotel: Jinjiang Inn''
12-October, 10am-12pm: Product Life Cycle class at NOA Labs
12-October, 1pm-5pm: tour of Huaqiangbei (electronics markets) w/ Scotty of Strange Parts
12-October, afternoon: visit Troublemaker hackerspaces in Huaqianbei
12-October, evening: meetup at HAX
13-October, morning: visit Seeed Studio
13-October: tour of factories (two separate groups)
14-October, 6pm-8pm: visit Lab 0x0
15-October, 4pm-6pm: Chaihuo x.factory Bring-A-Hack
''16-October, 10:00am -- train G822 to Xi'an''
'''16-October to 19-October -- Xi'an'''
''16-October -- hotel: Vienna Hotel''
17-October, 9am-5pm: ShaanXi Makerspace tour and presentations
17-October, 5pm-8pm: special dinner
18-October, 8:30am-10am: Xi'an Innovation and Design Center Maker's Symposium
18-October, 10am-8pm: Xi'an traditional maker and culture hands-on tour
''19-October, 12:42pm -- train G658 to Beijing''
'''19-October to 24-October -- Beijing'''
''19-October -- hotel: various: in hutongs NE of Jinshan Park''
''24-October, 2:00pm -- train G3 to Shanghai''
'''24-October to 28-October -- Shanghai''' ''
''24-October -- hotel: Le Tour Traveler's Rest International Youth Hostel''
25-October, afternoon & evening: visit and presentations at Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai
26-October, morning: visit Yagr/Etonnet (Mitch's manufacturer)
26-October, evening: DFRobot/Mushroom Cloud visit and presentations
27-October, 7pm-9pm: XinCheJian Forum
''28-October-2017 -- '''fly home''' (arrive NA or EU on same day)''

== Very Useful Guide about Internet, Phones, Translation, and Navigation ==
One of the two Noah's who are on the HTTC2017 wrote [[Noahs_Guide|this very useful guide]]!

== Hong Kong Guide ==
[[Hong Kong Guide]]

 
 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip To China 2016==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2016Shanghai.jpg
File:HTTC2016Zhenzhou.jpg
File:HTTC2016Shenzhen.jpg
File:HTTC2016Beijing.jpg
File:HTTC2016Hangzhou.jpg
File:HTTC2016Beijing2.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157672475058474/ Shanghai, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157674645655612/ Zhengzhou, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676024748146/ Shenzhen, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676142107066/ Beijing, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676144570756/ Hangzhou, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157672603805234/ Beijing Set 2, Oct-2016] 

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/collections/72157674928976010/ Mitch's photos all in one place]

 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip to China 2015==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2015HongKongNeon.jpg
File:HTTC2015ShenzhenFactory.jpg
File:HTTC2015ShanghaiTempleMall.jpg
File:HTTC2015BeijingDoor.jpg
File:HTTC2015HangzhouTemple.jpg
File:HTTC2015BeijingShop.jpg
File:HTTC2015SuzhouUmbrellas.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157659076735178 Hong Kong, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157660026965949 Shenzhen, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157660038275888 Shanghai, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157658114137264 Beijing, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157660424228042 YiWu & Hangzhou, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157660650175925 Beijing Set 2, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157658310336814 Shanghai & Suzhou, Oct-2015] 

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/collections/72157660374807166/ Mitch's photos all in one place]

 
[https://picasaweb.google.com/dtharn/ChinaInOctober2015?feat=directlink Dave's photos]

 
Blake's photos:
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/sets/72157662429341996 Hong Kong!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157660150285384 Shenzen!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157661790873029 Shanghai!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157660153522904 Beijing!]
 

Torrey's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/gp/torrey/Q840rT Hong Kong] 
Torrey's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/gp/torrey/yLo903 Shenzhen] 
Torrey's photos from [https://flic.kr/s/aHskqNiQeX Beijing] 
Torrey's photos from [https://flic.kr/s/aHskrE55NX Shanghai] 

 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip to China 2014==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2014WelcomeHackers.jpg
File:HTTC20143Nod_b.jpg
File:HTTC2014AiWeiWei.jpg
File:HTTC2014BeijingLGBTcentre.jpg
File:HTTC2014Brooms.jpg
File:HTTC2014CableFactory.jpg
File:HTTC2014ChaiHuo.jpg
File:HTTC2014GiantSewing.jpg
File:HTTC2014Huaqianbei.jpg
File:HTTC2014IEIK2014.jpg
File:HTTC2014SeeedStudio.jpg
File:HTTC2014Shanghai.jpg
File:HTTC2014Tianjin.jpg
File:HTTC2014Tienanmen.jpg
File:HTTC2014TrainConvenienceStore.jpg
File:HTTC2014TsinghuaMakersDay.jpg
File:HTTC20143Nod.jpg
File:HTTC2014XinCheJian.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157646894397704/ Beijing, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157648975298719/ Shanghai, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157648981933060/ Shenzhen, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649396351315/ Kunshan, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649148594118/ Shanghai (2), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649146775640/ Beijing (2), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649146987360/ Tianjin, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157647372474753/ Beijing (3), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649287546450/ Singapore, Dec-2014] 

== You will Need a Chinese Visa!! ==
To go to China, you needed to get a visa!

Everyone should get a multiple-entry Tourist L visa (if you only get a single-entry visa, you'll be fine, but you won't have as many options, such as going in and out of Shenzhen to Hong Kong).

* And to get a visa, you need to have a passport that is valid ''at least'' 12 months after you planned to fly away from China (so, e.g., if you are leaving China on 28-October-2017, then your passport needs to be valid through 27-October-2017). Your passport must also have at least ''one entirely blank page''.

* You also need:
** a printout of a filled-out [http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/visas/fd/W020130830801798289342.pdf Visa Application Form V. 2013 of the People's Republic of China] (after we have everything we need I'll email you my filled out form as an example to follow).
** a copy of the information pages of your passport.
** a copy of your most Chinese visa (if you have been to China before).
** one 2"x2" recent color photo (not a printout).
** a screenshot or printout of hotel reservation confirmation (I'll email this to you when I have this).
** a copy of your airline tickets (both to and from China).

* For US citizens, the visa cost $140 (much cheaper for other nationalities). Starting this year, US citizens can get a multiple-entry visa, good for 10 years. We should all apply for a Tourist L visa.

You can pay the fee by Visa, MasterCard, Money Order, Cashier's Check or Company Check. ''Cash or Personal checks are not acceptable.''

To get a visa, you can go to your local Chinese consulate. No appointment is required. You go in one day, and it will be ready for pick up 4 business days later. My experience is that it takes about an hour the first day, and takes only a few minutes to pick up the visa a few days later. (2 to 3 business-day and 1 business day/same-day express service is available for $20 or $30.) 
''NOTE: The Chinese consulates are all closed for holidays on: 27-30 January, 29-30 May, 30-May, 9-June, 4-July, 4-September, 2-October, 9-October and other dates: 
[http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/lszj/t1424287.htm 2017 Chinese Consulate Holiday Schedule]''
 
(Citizens of US and Europe ''do not'' need a separate visa for Hong Kong.)
 

= Previous Noisebridge China Trips =
''If you're curious about the previous Noisebridge China Trips, they have their own wiki pages:'' 
[[ChinaTrip|Hacker Trip To China 2009]] 
          That first Noisebridge China Trip was inspired by Bunny Huang's [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen/print "geek tour"].
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip2|Hacker Trip To China 2011]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip3|Hacker Trip to China 2013]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip4|Hacker Trip to China 2014]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip5|Hacker Trip to China 2015]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip6|Hacker Trip to China 2016]]

--[[user: maltman23 | Mitch]].

= People interested in going on the Hacker Trip to China #7, 2017: =


'''Below is a list of people interested in going on this year's Hacker Trip To China.'''
 


'''You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip!'''
 

'''Please email me if you have any questions, or if you would like to meet up with us on the trip:''' 
''mitch *AT* CornfieldElectronics *DOT* com''

The trip is limited to 20 people total (including Mitch) 
-- the first 19 people (after Mitch) who are either there already, or who bought tickets to meet in our Trip's starting city (Hong Kong) on or before 8-October-2017 are the people who are in this Trip        (which probably means flying away from home on or before 7-October) 


Note: Many people have gotten good deals on their plane fares (including me) with the help of my friend Vlad at:        [http://www.flystein.com/ Flystein] Feel free to email me, and I'll send your email to Vlad, who will be happy to help you with your flights.
 

{| style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
!
! Name
! Purchased flight?
! Flight info
|-
|1
|[[user: maltman23 | Mitch Altman]] (Noisebridge, San Francisco, USA)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 6-Oct at 17:10 -- flight CX254 (from LHR)
|-
|2
|Robert Fitzsimons (TOG, Ireland)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8-Oct at 15:25 -- flight EK382 (from DXB) Depart: Shanghai at 00:05 on Oct 29th (EK8303)
|-
|3
|Noah O'Donoghue
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8-Oct
|-
|4
|[[user: elleobot | Elle]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: I'm arriving on the 6th and have my own AirBNB until the 8th in Sheung Wan. I'll meet you all on the 8th. :)
|-
|5
|Jonas S Karlsson
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: (live in HK)
|-
|6
|Jan Marloth (fablab munich, Germany)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8-Oct at 7:20am -- flight SK963 (from ARN) Depart: Beijing at 14:50 on Oct 24th (SK996)
|-
|7
|Sasja (hackerspace.gent)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong 8-Oct at 8:55am, Depart: 28-Oct from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport at 20:55
|-
|8
|Ed Buckley
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong 6-Oct at 1:45pm -- flight NH809 (from NRT)
|-
|9
|Rafael Câmera Santos (Fazedores.com, Brazil)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong 8-Oct at 18:10 -- Flight UA 895 -- Leaving on 9-Nov from Hong Kong
|-
|10
|[[user: feklee | Felix E. Klee]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 4-Oct at 09:45 -- flight SU0212 (from SVO)
|-
|11
|Svein Berge
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: UO 1647 from Tokyo, scheduled arrival Oct 8, 23:00.
|-
|12
|Krzysztof Stasiak
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: HK 6th Oct - flight AK138 from Kuala Lumpur
|-
|13
|Mark Hellar
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive:Hong Kong HKG 6:45 PM October 8th
|-
|14
|[[user: mrericboyd | Eric Boyd]] ([http://hacklab.to Hacklab.TO], Toronto)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong, Oct 8th 2:25pm EVA Airways BR869. Leave: Shanghai, Oct 28th 1:10pm Eva Airways, BR711
|-
|15
|[[user: Ruthgrace | Ruth Grace Wong]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: October 9, Hong Kong, Leave: October 28, Shanghai
|-
|16
|Hari C M (HasGeek, Bangalore, India)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: 'Hong Kong on 7-Oct at 06:50 -- flight AI-314 (from DEL) Depart: Shanghai at 22:00 on Oct 29th (AI-349)
|-
|17
|freeman murray
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Oct 7, Hong Kong American airlines 193.
|-
|18
|[[user: sumukh | Sumukh Shetty]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: 6th October HK, join for the entire trip
|-
|19
|Gary Hatfield
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong Oct. 5
|-
|20
|Michał Gajda
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Flight to HK on Oct 3rd
|-
|21
|Noah Swartz
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: 11:45 on Oct 9 on HK Express UO 1845
|-
|22
|Gene Brock
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Thai AirAsia FD508 from Don Mueang Int'l Airport (Bangkok) to HKG Sep 30th 6:30am arriving 10:30 am in HKG.
|-
|23
|Kaushik Reddy
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8 Oct Depart: Hong Kong on 15 Oct '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|24
|Jeroen Van Beirendonck (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 7th Oct Depart: Hong Kong on 15 Oct '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|25
|[[user: Cedric | Cedric Honnet]] ([http://wiki.datapaulette.org Datapaulette hackerspace] - Paris, Fr.)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 6 Oct Depart: Hong Kong on 21 Oct '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|26
|Mayank M.
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Arriving in Hong Kong on 10/7. Flying out of Hong Kong on 10/17 '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|27
|Olivier de Saint-Hubert
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: ??? '''SZ only'''
|-
|28
|Anthony Liekens (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: KL 4013 to arrive in Shenzhen on Oct 11, 18:00 Depart: From Shenzhen on Oct 18, 10:00 '''SZ only'''
|-
|29
|Daan Gerits (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: KL 4013 to arrive in Shenzhen on Oct 11, 18:00 '''SZ only'''
|-
|30
|Tim Lathouwers
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: arrive in Shenzhen on Oct 11 '''SZ only'''
|-
|31
|Kate Hartman
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: I will be working in Shanghai the week of October 9th. Would love to join you in Shenzhen Oct 14/15/16 '''SZ only'''
|-
|32
|[[user: scotty | Scotty Allen]]
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Oct 11, Shenzhen -- will arrange own housing '''SZ only'''
|-
|33
|''[[user: keymistress | Gloria Chiang]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|34
|''[[user:juul|Marc Juul]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|35
|''Quijano Flores -- '''PLEASE EMAIL ME'''''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Oct 8, Hong Kong
|-
|36
|''[[user: scitechindian | SYED JUNAID AHMED]] (Makers Hive, AndhraPradesh, INDIA)''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD
|-
|37
|''[[user: Rahulrajan| Rahul S Rajan]] (Kerala Startup Mission, India)''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD
|-
|38
|''Sasha Iatsenia''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD
|-
|39
|''[[user: robbintt | Trent]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|40
|''Arseniy Klempner''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Oct 8, Hong Kong
|-
|41
|''Thomas Disley''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: shenzhen & shanghai, arrival TBD
|-
|42
|''Adam Munich - SF_Noisebridge, Oakland_Sudoroom [http://adammunich.com]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: To be determined
|-
|43
|''[[user: sreejith| Sreejith Mohanan]] -- '''PLEASE EMAIL ME'''''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''TBD''
|-
|44
|''Colin Willson -- '''PLEASE EMAIL ME'''''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''TBD''
|-
|45
|''Bas -- 4two (A7) posteo [d0 t) net'''PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK'''''
|align="center"|Yes
|Arrive: Oct 6, Hong Kong
|-
|46
|''[[user: stefek99| Michal Stefanow]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD OUCH - I guess I'm too late - JOMO - joy of missing out - it means more quality time working on https://astralship.org coworking coliving chapel in Wales, come and visit us sometimes. I might be able to visit HK and SZ and get a new laptop with larger storage, Ethereum blockchain size is not manageable on my current machine. Much love, ping me anytime: email@genesis.re
|}

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[[Category:Projects]]

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T14:59:08Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Internet */

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T14:55:36Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Foods */

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T14:31:42Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Foods */

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T14:08:09Z

BuddhaHacker:

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T14:00:31Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Sightseeing */

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T12:42:28Z

BuddhaHacker: electronics markets

Hong Kong Guide

2017-10-03T10:44:15Z

BuddhaHacker: start of hong kong guide

NoisebridgeChinaTrip7

2017-10-03T10:14:59Z

BuddhaHacker: /* This year's Hacker Trip To China */

= NOISEBRIDGE HACKER TRIP TO CHINA #7 -- Start Date: 8-October-2017, in Hong Kong -- End Date: 28-October-2017, in Shanghai=

[[File:HTTC2014WelcomeHackers.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #4 Welcome to China!, Beijing]]

[[File:KungFuHacking_Nov_2013.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #3 Kung Fu Hacking: Hackers In Residence Kickoff event at Tsinghua University, Beijing]]

[[File:petrochemical_university.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #2 Visit to Petrochemical Univeristy, Beijing]]

[[File:Beijing_Oct_2009.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #1 Jingshan Park, Beijing]]

[[File:Shenzhen_Oct_2016.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #5 Visit to Seeed Studio's factory, Shenzhen]]

[[File:Zhenzhou_Oct_2016.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #5 Presentations at Zhengzhou High School #2, Zhengzhou]]

== Previous Hacker Trips To China ==
::''This will be the 7th Noisebridge Hacker Trip To China.'' 
::'''''(The dates are set, the start and end cities are set, but the itinerary is an outline and open to change.)'''''
::''In previous years' Hacker Trip To China, we've visited cities that currently have a hackerspace, visited my manufacturer, Seeed Studio, and other manufacturers. We also visited Tsinghua University, considered the most prestigious university in China, and other schools -- all of which have now starting hackerspaces. China continues to explode with hackerspaces! We also went to the International Exhibition of Inventions Kunshan (IEIK 2014), near Shanghai. And everywhere we went, we were shown around by local geeks, to see what they thought was interesting where they live. Also, wherever we went, those of us interested gave talks, presentations, workshops, and demos. In 2016 we gave presentations at NY University - Shanghai, DFRobot (an open hardware company in Shanghai), Shanghai Maker Carnival, Zhengzhou High School Number 2, "Second Generation and Start-ups" conference in Hangzhou.'' 

::''You can see info on the [[ChinaTrip|Hacker Trip To China 2009]],'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip2|Hacker Trip To China 2011]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip3|Hacker Trip To China 2013]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip4|Hacker Trip To China 2014]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip5|Hacker Trip To China 2015]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip6|Hacker Trip To China 2016]],'' 

::-- [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]].

== This year's Hacker Trip To China ==
'''When:''' 8-October-2017 in Hong Kong through 28-October-2017 in Shanghai.

'''Flight, transportation, and hotel Info''': We were each be on our own to book our own air fare to meet in our starting city, Hong Kong, on 8-October, and fly home from out ending city, Shanghai, on 28-October. Of course, you can decide to come and go as you please. 

I'll organized the itinerary and the hotels and other transport. I'll pay in advance for some of this, and you can pay me back when we're in China. 

'''Where:''' In each of the cities we will go to, we'll visit some of their local hackerspace(s), and will be shown around by local geeks to see what interested them where they live. We'll also have plenty of time to do "normal" (and spectacular) tourist things too! 

'''Here's some possible places we might visit, leaving plenty of room for the serendipity that makes our Hacker Trip To China truly unique and memorable:''' 
* We will start our trip by meeting in '''Hong Kong''' and visit [http://www.dimsumlabs.com/ Dim Sum Labs] hackerspace. Hong Kong is a fantastic city, so, we'll also see lots of other cool stuff in Hong Kong. [[Hong Kong Guide]] 
* Then we'll go across the border to mainland China again, to '''Shenzhen''' to visit [http://www.chaihuo.org/ Chaihuo Makerspace], [http://www.szdiy.org/ SZDIY] hackerspace, [http://litchee.cn/en/ Litchee Lab], and a few other hackerspaces, some of which are real, and hundreds of which are brand new (this year) over-the-top bizarre government-started places where they want to create "the next Apple" (we won't visit them all!). We'll visit [http://www.chaihuo.org/xfactory/ x.factory] while we are in town, an interesting mix of hackerspace and incubator, where we will be welcomed for a Bring-A-Hack event, where anyone of us (for those who want to), along with the general public, can show off their projects. We will also visit [http://www.seeedstudio.com Seeed Studio] - the open source hardware company - to meet the cool folks there and to see their manufacturing facilities. We may meet with the founders of [http://dangerousprototypes.com/ Dangerous Prototypes] - another open source hardware company. We'll also visit other manufacturers, to see where all the things we use in our daily lives come from (such as springs, cables, PCBs, packaging, etc., etc.). We can also visit Dorabot, a Chinese robotics company comprised of people in the Shenzhen hackerspace scene. Of course, we'll also visit the famous (and totally awesome!) [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen/print Huaqiangbei electronics market] in Shenzhen (where, we may again be shown around by a professional buyer from Deal Extreme (dx.com). And if uhgall@gmail.com happens to be in town, we might visit [http://www.constellation.ws/ Constellation] or even stay in their factory dorm. 
* We will then make our way to '''Beijing''' where we may visit [http://www.bjmakerspace.com/ Beijing Makerspace], and other hackerspaces. We'll also visit Tsinghua University, where they built the world's largest hackerspace last year (called the "iCenter"), and where I've been hacker in residence. Beijing has lots and lots of way amazing stuff to visit and be a part of!
* Our last city will be '''Shanghai'''. In Shanghai we will visit [http://www.etonnet.com/ my manufacturer (Etonnet)] that I have used for [http://www.tvbgone.com TV-B-Gone] remote controls and [http://www.neurodreamer.com NeuroDreamer] sleep masks, where we will all get to see how products are made, from start to finish, learning how manufacturing works. We will also visit [http://xinchejian.com/ XinCheJian] hackerspace in Shanghai. We can also visit companies started by hardware hacker geeks, such as [http://www.dfrobot.com/ DFRobot]. We can visit Phicomm, a medium-sized OEM manufacturer. We can also visit the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/4064240200/in/set-72157622640069902/ Shanghai electronics mall] (a smaller version of the famous electronics mall we will later visit in Shenzhen).

For most of us, our trip will end at the end of three weeks, as many people on our trip will fly home from our last city, Shanghai, on 28-October-2017.

''Of course, everyone is free to arrive and leave whenever you like for the Hacker Trip To China. 
I will tentatively be flying home from Shanghai 28-October. ''

'''Cost:''' For the Hacker Trip To China 2016, I paid $1,997 total (for 4 weeks), including air fare from SF, food, lodging, transportation, and everything -- including some electronics stuff and some clothing that I bought. 
''As in past years, part of this year's trip may be paid for by Tsinghua University and other places that invite us to give presentations.''

'''#hashtag:''' [https://twitter.com/hashtag/httc2017 #httc2017]      (Hacker Trip To China 2017)

 
 

== Possible itinerary outline for Hacker Trip to China 7 ==

'''The start and end dates are set, the start and end cities are set, but the rest of the itinerary is open to serendipity:'''
''7-October-2017 -- '''Leave home''' for '''Hong Kong''' (arrive in Hong Kong on 8-October)''
''8-October-2017 -- We all meet in '''Hong Kong''' -- hotel: various in Tsim Sha Tsui
'''8-October to 11-October -- Hong Kong'''
8-October, 8pm: Group dinner
9-October, 6pm-8:30pm: visit [http://www.makerbay.org Maker Bay, Yau Tong], with presentations
10-October, 8pm-10pm: visit [http://www.dimsumlabs.com/ Dim Sum Labs], soldering workshop by Mitch, HackJam on rooftop
''11-October, afternoon -- ferry or subway to Shenzhen''
'''11-October to 16-October -- Shenzhen'''
''11-October -- hotel: Jinjiang Inn''
12-October, 10am-12pm: Product Life Cycle class at NOA Labs
12-October, 1pm-5pm: tour of Huaqiangbei (electronics markets) w/ Scotty of Strange Parts
12-October, afternoon: visit Troublemaker hackerspaces in Huaqianbei
12-October, evening: meetup at HAX
13-October, morning: visit Seeed Studio
13-October: tour of factories (two separate groups)
14-October, 6pm-8pm: visit Lab 0x0
15-October, 4pm-6pm: Chaihuo x.factory Bring-A-Hack
''16-October, 10:00am -- train G822 to Xi'an''
'''16-October to 19-October -- Xi'an'''
''16-October -- hotel: Vienna Hotel''
17-October, 9am-5pm: ShaanXi Makerspace tour and presentations
17-October, 5pm-8pm: special dinner
18-October, 8:30am-10am: Xi'an Innovation and Design Center Maker's Symposium
18-October, 10am-8pm: Xi'an traditional maker and culture hands-on tour
''19-October, 12:42pm -- train G658 to Beijing''
'''19-October to 24-October -- Beijing'''
''19-October -- hotel: various: in hutongs NE of Jinshan Park''
''24-October, 2:00pm -- train G3 to Shanghai''
'''24-October to 28-October -- Shanghai''' ''
''24-October -- hotel: Le Tour Traveler's Rest International Youth Hostel''
25-October, afternoon & evening: visit and presentations at Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai
26-October, morning: visit Yagr/Etonnet (Mitch's manufacturer)
26-October, evening: DFRobot/Mushroom Cloud visit and presentations
27-October, 7pm-9pm: XinCheJian Forum
''28-October-2017 -- '''fly home''' (arrive NA or EU on same day)''

== Very Useful Guide about Internet, Phones, Translation, and Navigation ==
One of the two Noah's who are on the HTTC2017 wrote [[Noahs_Guide|this very useful guide]]!

 
 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip To China 2016==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2016Shanghai.jpg
File:HTTC2016Zhenzhou.jpg
File:HTTC2016Shenzhen.jpg
File:HTTC2016Beijing.jpg
File:HTTC2016Hangzhou.jpg
File:HTTC2016Beijing2.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157672475058474/ Shanghai, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157674645655612/ Zhengzhou, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676024748146/ Shenzhen, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676142107066/ Beijing, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676144570756/ Hangzhou, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157672603805234/ Beijing Set 2, Oct-2016] 

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/collections/72157674928976010/ Mitch's photos all in one place]

 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip to China 2015==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2015HongKongNeon.jpg
File:HTTC2015ShenzhenFactory.jpg
File:HTTC2015ShanghaiTempleMall.jpg
File:HTTC2015BeijingDoor.jpg
File:HTTC2015HangzhouTemple.jpg
File:HTTC2015BeijingShop.jpg
File:HTTC2015SuzhouUmbrellas.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157659076735178 Hong Kong, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157660026965949 Shenzhen, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157660038275888 Shanghai, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157658114137264 Beijing, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157660424228042 YiWu & Hangzhou, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157660650175925 Beijing Set 2, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157658310336814 Shanghai & Suzhou, Oct-2015] 

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/collections/72157660374807166/ Mitch's photos all in one place]

 
[https://picasaweb.google.com/dtharn/ChinaInOctober2015?feat=directlink Dave's photos]

 
Blake's photos:
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/sets/72157662429341996 Hong Kong!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157660150285384 Shenzen!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157661790873029 Shanghai!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157660153522904 Beijing!]
 

Torrey's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/gp/torrey/Q840rT Hong Kong] 
Torrey's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/gp/torrey/yLo903 Shenzhen] 
Torrey's photos from [https://flic.kr/s/aHskqNiQeX Beijing] 
Torrey's photos from [https://flic.kr/s/aHskrE55NX Shanghai] 

 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip to China 2014==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2014WelcomeHackers.jpg
File:HTTC20143Nod_b.jpg
File:HTTC2014AiWeiWei.jpg
File:HTTC2014BeijingLGBTcentre.jpg
File:HTTC2014Brooms.jpg
File:HTTC2014CableFactory.jpg
File:HTTC2014ChaiHuo.jpg
File:HTTC2014GiantSewing.jpg
File:HTTC2014Huaqianbei.jpg
File:HTTC2014IEIK2014.jpg
File:HTTC2014SeeedStudio.jpg
File:HTTC2014Shanghai.jpg
File:HTTC2014Tianjin.jpg
File:HTTC2014Tienanmen.jpg
File:HTTC2014TrainConvenienceStore.jpg
File:HTTC2014TsinghuaMakersDay.jpg
File:HTTC20143Nod.jpg
File:HTTC2014XinCheJian.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157646894397704/ Beijing, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157648975298719/ Shanghai, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157648981933060/ Shenzhen, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649396351315/ Kunshan, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649148594118/ Shanghai (2), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649146775640/ Beijing (2), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649146987360/ Tianjin, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157647372474753/ Beijing (3), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649287546450/ Singapore, Dec-2014] 

== You will Need a Chinese Visa!! ==
To go to China, you needed to get a visa!

Everyone should get a multiple-entry Tourist L visa (if you only get a single-entry visa, you'll be fine, but you won't have as many options, such as going in and out of Shenzhen to Hong Kong).

* And to get a visa, you need to have a passport that is valid ''at least'' 12 months after you planned to fly away from China (so, e.g., if you are leaving China on 28-October-2017, then your passport needs to be valid through 27-October-2017). Your passport must also have at least ''one entirely blank page''.

* You also need:
** a printout of a filled-out [http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/visas/fd/W020130830801798289342.pdf Visa Application Form V. 2013 of the People's Republic of China] (after we have everything we need I'll email you my filled out form as an example to follow).
** a copy of the information pages of your passport.
** a copy of your most Chinese visa (if you have been to China before).
** one 2"x2" recent color photo (not a printout).
** a screenshot or printout of hotel reservation confirmation (I'll email this to you when I have this).
** a copy of your airline tickets (both to and from China).

* For US citizens, the visa cost $140 (much cheaper for other nationalities). Starting this year, US citizens can get a multiple-entry visa, good for 10 years. We should all apply for a Tourist L visa.

You can pay the fee by Visa, MasterCard, Money Order, Cashier's Check or Company Check. ''Cash or Personal checks are not acceptable.''

To get a visa, you can go to your local Chinese consulate. No appointment is required. You go in one day, and it will be ready for pick up 4 business days later. My experience is that it takes about an hour the first day, and takes only a few minutes to pick up the visa a few days later. (2 to 3 business-day and 1 business day/same-day express service is available for $20 or $30.) 
''NOTE: The Chinese consulates are all closed for holidays on: 27-30 January, 29-30 May, 30-May, 9-June, 4-July, 4-September, 2-October, 9-October and other dates: 
[http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/lszj/t1424287.htm 2017 Chinese Consulate Holiday Schedule]''
 
(Citizens of US and Europe ''do not'' need a separate visa for Hong Kong.)
 

= Previous Noisebridge China Trips =
''If you're curious about the previous Noisebridge China Trips, they have their own wiki pages:'' 
[[ChinaTrip|Hacker Trip To China 2009]] 
          That first Noisebridge China Trip was inspired by Bunny Huang's [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen/print "geek tour"].
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip2|Hacker Trip To China 2011]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip3|Hacker Trip to China 2013]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip4|Hacker Trip to China 2014]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip5|Hacker Trip to China 2015]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip6|Hacker Trip to China 2016]]

--[[user: maltman23 | Mitch]].

= People interested in going on the Hacker Trip to China #7, 2017: =


'''Below is a list of people interested in going on this year's Hacker Trip To China.'''
 


'''You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip!'''
 

'''Please email me if you have any questions, or if you would like to meet up with us on the trip:''' 
''mitch *AT* CornfieldElectronics *DOT* com''

The trip is limited to 20 people total (including Mitch) 
-- the first 19 people (after Mitch) who are either there already, or who bought tickets to meet in our Trip's starting city (Hong Kong) on or before 8-October-2017 are the people who are in this Trip        (which probably means flying away from home on or before 7-October) 


Note: Many people have gotten good deals on their plane fares (including me) with the help of my friend Vlad at:        [http://www.flystein.com/ Flystein] Feel free to email me, and I'll send your email to Vlad, who will be happy to help you with your flights.
 

{| style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
!
! Name
! Purchased flight?
! Flight info
|-
|1
|[[user: maltman23 | Mitch Altman]] (Noisebridge, San Francisco, USA)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 6-Oct at 17:10 -- flight CX254 (from LHR)
|-
|2
|Robert Fitzsimons (TOG, Ireland)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8-Oct at 15:25 -- flight EK382 (from DXB) Depart: Shanghai at 00:05 on Oct 29th (EK8303)
|-
|3
|Noah O'Donoghue
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8-Oct
|-
|4
|[[user: elleobot | Elle]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: I'm arriving on the 6th and have my own AirBNB until the 8th in Sheung Wan. I'll meet you all on the 8th. :)
|-
|5
|Jonas S Karlsson
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: (live in HK)
|-
|6
|Jan Marloth (fablab munich, Germany)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8-Oct at 7:20am -- flight SK963 (from ARN) Depart: Beijing at 14:50 on Oct 24th (SK996)
|-
|7
|Sasja (hackerspace.gent)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong 8-Oct at 8:55am, Depart: 28-Oct from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport at 20:55
|-
|8
|Ed Buckley
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong 6-Oct at 1:45pm -- flight NH809 (from NRT)
|-
|9
|Rafael Câmera Santos (Fazedores.com, Brazil)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong 8-Oct at 18:10 -- Flight UA 895 -- Leaving on 9-Nov from Hong Kong
|-
|10
|[[user: feklee | Felix E. Klee]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 4-Oct at 09:45 -- flight SU0212 (from SVO)
|-
|11
|Svein Berge
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: UO 1647 from Tokyo, scheduled arrival Oct 8, 23:00.
|-
|12
|Krzysztof Stasiak
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: HK 6th Oct - flight AK138 from Kuala Lumpur
|-
|13
|Mark Hellar
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive:Hong Kong HKG 6:45 PM October 8th
|-
|14
|[[user: mrericboyd | Eric Boyd]] ([http://hacklab.to Hacklab.TO], Toronto)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong, Oct 8th 2:25pm EVA Airways BR869. Leave: Shanghai, Oct 28th 1:10pm Eva Airways, BR711
|-
|15
|[[user: Ruthgrace | Ruth Grace Wong]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: October 9, Hong Kong, Leave: October 28, Shanghai
|-
|16
|Hari C M (HasGeek, Bangalore, India)
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: 'Hong Kong on 7-Oct at 06:50 -- flight AI-314 (from DEL) Depart: Shanghai at 22:00 on Oct 29th (AI-349)
|-
|17
|freeman murray
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Oct 7, Hong Kong American airlines 193.
|-
|18
|[[user: sumukh | Sumukh Shetty]]
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: 6th October HK, join for the entire trip
|-
|19
|Gary Hatfield
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Hong Kong Oct. 5
|-
|20
|Michał Gajda
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Flight to HK on Oct 3rd
|-
|21
|Noah Swartz
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: 11:45 on Oct 9 on HK Express UO 1845
|-
|22
|Gene Brock
|align="center"|YES
|Arrive: Thai AirAsia FD508 from Don Mueang Int'l Airport (Bangkok) to HKG Sep 30th 6:30am arriving 10:30 am in HKG.
|-
|23
|Kaushik Reddy
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 8 Oct Depart: Hong Kong on 15 Oct '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|24
|Jeroen Van Beirendonck (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 7th Oct Depart: Hong Kong on 15 Oct '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|25
|[[user: Cedric | Cedric Honnet]] ([http://wiki.datapaulette.org Datapaulette hackerspace] - Paris, Fr.)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Hong Kong on 6 Oct Depart: Hong Kong on 21 Oct '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|26
|Mayank M.
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Arriving in Hong Kong on 10/7. Flying out of Hong Kong on 10/17 '''HK & SZ only'''
|-
|27
|Olivier de Saint-Hubert
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: ??? '''SZ only'''
|-
|28
|Anthony Liekens (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: KL 4013 to arrive in Shenzhen on Oct 11, 18:00 Depart: From Shenzhen on Oct 18, 10:00 '''SZ only'''
|-
|29
|Daan Gerits (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: KL 4013 to arrive in Shenzhen on Oct 11, 18:00 '''SZ only'''
|-
|30
|Tim Lathouwers
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: arrive in Shenzhen on Oct 11 '''SZ only'''
|-
|31
|Kate Hartman
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: I will be working in Shanghai the week of October 9th. Would love to join you in Shenzhen Oct 14/15/16 '''SZ only'''
|-
|32
|[[user: scotty | Scotty Allen]]
|align="center"|yes
|Arrive: Oct 11, Shenzhen -- will arrange own housing '''SZ only'''
|-
|33
|''[[user: keymistress | Gloria Chiang]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|34
|''[[user:juul|Marc Juul]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|35
|''Quijano Flores -- '''PLEASE EMAIL ME'''''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Oct 8, Hong Kong
|-
|36
|''[[user: scitechindian | SYED JUNAID AHMED]] (Makers Hive, AndhraPradesh, INDIA)''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD
|-
|37
|''[[user: Rahulrajan| Rahul S Rajan]] (Kerala Startup Mission, India)''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD
|-
|38
|''Sasha Iatsenia''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD
|-
|39
|''[[user: robbintt | Trent]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|40
|''Arseniy Klempner''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Oct 8, Hong Kong
|-
|41
|''Thomas Disley''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: shenzhen & shanghai, arrival TBD
|-
|42
|''Adam Munich - SF_Noisebridge, Oakland_Sudoroom [http://adammunich.com]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: To be determined
|-
|43
|''[[user: sreejith| Sreejith Mohanan]] -- '''PLEASE EMAIL ME'''''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''TBD''
|-
|44
|''Colin Willson -- '''PLEASE EMAIL ME'''''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''TBD''
|-
|45
|''Bas -- 4two (A7) posteo [d0 t) net'''PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK'''''
|align="center"|Yes
|Arrive: Oct 6, Hong Kong
|-
|46
|''[[user: stefek99| Michal Stefanow]]''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: TBD OUCH - I guess I'm too late - JOMO - joy of missing out - it means more quality time working on https://astralship.org coworking coliving chapel in Wales, come and visit us sometimes. I might be able to visit HK and SZ and get a new laptop with larger storage, Ethereum blockchain size is not manageable on my current machine. Much love, ping me anytime: email@genesis.re
|}

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[[Category:Projects]]

NoisebridgeChinaTrip7

2017-06-01T19:19:25Z

BuddhaHacker: /* People interested in going on the Hacker Trip to China #7, 2017: */

= NOISEBRIDGE HACKER TRIP TO CHINA #7 -- Start Date: 8-October-2017, in Hong Kong -- End Date: 28-October-2017, in Shanghai=

[[File:HTTC2014WelcomeHackers.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #4 Welcome to China!, Beijing]]

[[File:KungFuHacking_Nov_2013.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #3 Kung Fu Hacking: Hackers In Residence Kickoff event at Tsinghua University, Beijing]]

[[File:petrochemical_university.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #2 Visit to Petrochemical Univeristy, Beijing]]

[[File:Beijing_Oct_2009.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #1 Jingshan Park, Beijing]]

[[File:Shenzhen_Oct_2016.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #5 Visit to Seeed Studio's factory, Shenzhen]]

[[File:Zhenzhou_Oct_2016.jpg|thumb|right|Trip #5 Presentations at Zhengzhou High School #2, Zhengzhou]]

== Previous Hacker Trips To China ==
::''This will be the 7th Noisebridge Hacker Trip To China.'' 
::'''''(The dates are set, the start and end cities are set, but the itinerary is an outline and open to change.)'''''
::''In previous years' Hacker Trip To China, we've visited cities that currently have a hackerspace, visited my manufacturer, Seeed Studio, and other manufacturers. We also visited Tsinghua University, considered the most prestigious university in China, and other schools -- all of which have now starting hackerspaces. China continues to explode with hackerspaces! We also went to the International Exhibition of Inventions Kunshan (IEIK 2014), near Shanghai. And everywhere we went, we were shown around by local geeks, to see what they thought was interesting where they live. Also, wherever we went, those of us interested gave talks, presentations, workshops, and demos. In 2016 we gave presentations at NY University - Shanghai, DFRobot (an open hardware company in Shanghai), Shanghai Maker Carnival, Zhengzhou High School Number 2, "Second Generation and Start-ups" conference in Hangzhou.'' 

::''You can see info on the [[ChinaTrip|Hacker Trip To China 2009]],'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip2|Hacker Trip To China 2011]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip3|Hacker Trip To China 2013]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip4|Hacker Trip To China 2014]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip5|Hacker Trip To China 2015]]'' 
::''[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip6|Hacker Trip To China 2016]],'' 

::-- [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]].

== This year's Hacker Trip To China ==
'''When:''' 8-October-2017 in Hong Kong through 28-October-2017 in Shanghai.

'''Flight, transportation, and hotel Info''': We were each be on our own to book our own air fare to meet in our starting city, Hong Kong, on 8-October, and fly home from out ending city, Shanghai, on 28-October. Of course, you can decide to come and go as you please. 

I'll organized the itinerary and the hotels and other transport. I'll pay in advance for some of this, and you can pay me back when we're in China. 

'''Where:''' In each of the cities we will go to, we'll visit some of their local hackerspace(s), and will be shown around by local geeks to see what interested them where they live. We'll also have plenty of time to do "normal" (and spectacular) tourist things too! 

'''Here's some possible places we might visit, leaving plenty of room for the serendipity that makes our Hacker Trip To China truly unique and memorable:''' 
* We will start our trip by meeting in '''Hong Kong''' and visit [http://www.dimsumlabs.com/ Dim Sum Labs] hackerspace. Hong Kong is a fantastic city, so, we'll also see lots of other cool stuff in Hong Kong. 
* Then we'll go across the border to mainland China again, to '''Shenzhen''' to visit [http://www.chaihuo.org/ Chaihuo Makerspace], [http://www.szdiy.org/ SZDIY] hackerspace, [http://litchee.cn/en/ Litchee Lab], and a few other hackerspaces, some of which are real, and hundreds of which are brand new (this year) over-the-top bizarre government-started places where they want to create "the next Apple" (we won't visit them all!). We'll visit this year's [http://www.makerfaireshenzhen.com/english Maker Faire Shenzhen] while we are in town (13-15 October), where we will be way welcomed, and we'll be given a booth where we can all show off our projects and give workshops (if you like). We will also visit [http://www.seeedstudio.com Seeed Studio] - the open source hardware company - to meet the cool folks there and to see their manufacturing facilities. We may meet with the founders of [http://dangerousprototypes.com/ Dangerous Prototypes] - another open source hardware company. We'll also visit other manufacturers, to see where all the things we use in our daily lives come from (such as springs, cables, PCBs, packaging, etc., etc.). Of course, we'll also visit the famous (and totally awesome!) [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen/print Huaqiangbei electronics market] in Shenzhen (where, we may again be shown around by a professional buyer from Deal Extreme (dx.com). 
* We will then make our way to '''Beijing''' where we may visit [http://www.bjmakerspace.com/ Beijing Makerspace], and other hackerspaces. We'll also visit Tsinghua University, where they built the world's largest hackerspace last year (called the "iCenter"), and where I've been hacker in residence. Beijing has lots and lots of way amazing stuff to visit and be a part of!
* Our last city will be '''Shanghai'''. In Shanghai we will visit [http://www.etonnet.com/ my manufacturer (Etonnet)] that I have used for [http://www.tvbgone.com TV-B-Gone] remote controls and [http://www.neurodreamer.com NeuroDreamer] sleep masks, where we will all get to see how products are made, from start to finish, learning how manufacturing works. We will also visit [http://xinchejian.com/ XinCheJian] hackerspace in Shanghai. We can also visit companies started by hardware hacker geeks, such as [http://www.dfrobot.com/ DFRobot]. We can also visit the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/4064240200/in/set-72157622640069902/ Shanghai electronics mall] (a smaller version of the famous electronics mall we will later visit in Shenzhen).

For most of us, our trip will end at the end of three weeks, as many people on our trip will fly home from our last city, Shanghai, on 28-October-2017.

''Of course, everyone is free to arrive and leave whenever you like for the Hacker Trip To China. 
I will tentatively be flying home from Shanghai 28-October. ''

'''Cost:''' For the Hacker Trip To China 2016, I paid $1,997 total (for 4 weeks), including air fare from SF, food, lodging, transportation, and everything -- including some electronics stuff and some clothing that I bought. 
''As in past years, part of this year's trip may be paid for by Tsinghua University and other places that invite us to give presentations.''

'''#hashtag:''' [https://twitter.com/hashtag/httc2017 #httc2017]      (Hacker Trip To China 2017)

 
 

== Possible itinerary outline for Hacker Trip to China 7 ==

'''The start and end dates are set, the start and end cities are set, but the rest of the itinerary is open to serendipity:'''
''7-October-2017 -- '''Leave home''' for '''Hong Kong''' (arrive in Hong Kong on 8-October)''
''8-October-2017 -- We all meet in '''Hong Kong''' -- hotel: to be determined
'''8-October to 12-October -- Hong Kong'''
'''12-October to 18-October -- Shenzhen'''
13-15 October: Shenzhen Maker Faire
16-October: Chaihuo Bring-A-Hack
'''18-October to 23-October -- Beijing'''
'''23-October to 28-October -- Shanghai''' ''
''28-November-2017 -- '''fly home''' (arrive NA or EU on same day)''

 
 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip To China 2016==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2016Shanghai.jpg
File:HTTC2016Zhenzhou.jpg
File:HTTC2016Shenzhen.jpg
File:HTTC2016Beijing.jpg
File:HTTC2016Hangzhou.jpg
File:HTTC2016Beijing2.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157672475058474/ Shanghai, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157674645655612/ Zhengzhou, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676024748146/ Shenzhen, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676142107066/ Beijing, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157676144570756/ Hangzhou, Oct-2016] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157672603805234/ Beijing Set 2, Oct-2016] 

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/collections/72157674928976010/ Mitch's photos all in one place]

 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip to China 2015==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2015HongKongNeon.jpg
File:HTTC2015ShenzhenFactory.jpg
File:HTTC2015ShanghaiTempleMall.jpg
File:HTTC2015BeijingDoor.jpg
File:HTTC2015HangzhouTemple.jpg
File:HTTC2015BeijingShop.jpg
File:HTTC2015SuzhouUmbrellas.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157659076735178 Hong Kong, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157660026965949 Shenzhen, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157660038275888 Shanghai, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157658114137264 Beijing, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157660424228042 YiWu & Hangzhou, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157660650175925 Beijing Set 2, Oct-2015] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/albums/72157658310336814 Shanghai & Suzhou, Oct-2015] 

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/collections/72157660374807166/ Mitch's photos all in one place]

 
[https://picasaweb.google.com/dtharn/ChinaInOctober2015?feat=directlink Dave's photos]

 
Blake's photos:
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/sets/72157662429341996 Hong Kong!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157660150285384 Shenzen!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157661790873029 Shanghai!]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwlcks/albums/72157660153522904 Beijing!]
 

Torrey's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/gp/torrey/Q840rT Hong Kong] 
Torrey's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/gp/torrey/yLo903 Shenzhen] 
Torrey's photos from [https://flic.kr/s/aHskqNiQeX Beijing] 
Torrey's photos from [https://flic.kr/s/aHskrE55NX Shanghai] 

 
 
 
 

== Photos from Hacker Trip to China 2014==
<gallery>
File:HTTC2014WelcomeHackers.jpg
File:HTTC20143Nod_b.jpg
File:HTTC2014AiWeiWei.jpg
File:HTTC2014BeijingLGBTcentre.jpg
File:HTTC2014Brooms.jpg
File:HTTC2014CableFactory.jpg
File:HTTC2014ChaiHuo.jpg
File:HTTC2014GiantSewing.jpg
File:HTTC2014Huaqianbei.jpg
File:HTTC2014IEIK2014.jpg
File:HTTC2014SeeedStudio.jpg
File:HTTC2014Shanghai.jpg
File:HTTC2014Tianjin.jpg
File:HTTC2014Tienanmen.jpg
File:HTTC2014TrainConvenienceStore.jpg
File:HTTC2014TsinghuaMakersDay.jpg
File:HTTC20143Nod.jpg
File:HTTC2014XinCheJian.jpg
</gallery>

Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157646894397704/ Beijing, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157648975298719/ Shanghai, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157648981933060/ Shenzhen, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649396351315/ Kunshan, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649148594118/ Shanghai (2), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649146775640/ Beijing (2), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649146987360/ Tianjin, Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157647372474753/ Beijing (3), Nov-2014] 
Mitch's photos from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157649287546450/ Singapore, Dec-2014] 

== You will Need a Chinese Visa!! ==
To go to China, you needed to get a visa!

Everyone should get a multiple-entry Tourist L visa (if you only get a single-entry visa, you'll be fine, but you won't have as many options, such as going in and out of Shenzhen to Hong Kong).

* And to get a visa, you need to have a passport that is valid ''at least'' 12 months after you planned to fly away from China (so, e.g., if you are leaving China on 28-October-2017, then your passport needs to be valid through 27-October-2017). Your passport must also have at least ''one entirely blank page''.

* You also need:
** a printout of a filled-out [http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/visas/fd/W020130830801798289342.pdf Visa Application Form V. 2013 of the People's Republic of China] (after we have everything we need I'll email you my filled out form as an example to follow).
** a copy of the information pages of your passport.
** a copy of your most Chinese visa (if you have been to China before).
** one 2"x2" recent color photo (not a printout).
** a screenshot or printout of hotel reservation confirmation (I'll email this to you when I have this).
** a copy of your airline tickets (both to and from China).

* For US citizens, the visa cost $140 (much cheaper for other nationalities). Starting this year, US citizens can get a multiple-entry visa, good for 10 years. We should all apply for a Tourist L visa.

You can pay the fee by Visa, MasterCard, Money Order, Cashier's Check or Company Check. ''Cash or Personal checks are not acceptable.''

To get a visa, you can go to your local Chinese consulate. No appointment is required. You go in one day, and it will be ready for pick up 4 business days later. My experience is that it takes about an hour the first day, and takes only a few minutes to pick up the visa a few days later. (2 to 3 business-day and 1 business day/same-day express service is available for $20 or $30.) 
''NOTE: The Chinese consulates are all closed for holidays on: 27-30 January, 29-30 May, 30-May, 9-June, 4-July, 4-September, 2-October, 9-October and other dates: 
[http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/lszj/t1424287.htm 2017 Chinese Consulate Holiday Schedule]''
 
(Citizens of US and Europe ''do not'' need a separate visa for Hong Kong.)
 

= Previous Noisebridge China Trips =
''If you're curious about the previous Noisebridge China Trips, they have their own wiki pages:'' 
[[ChinaTrip|Hacker Trip To China 2009]] 
          That first Noisebridge China Trip was inspired by Bunny Huang's [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/shenzhen/print "geek tour"].
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip2|Hacker Trip To China 2011]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip3|Hacker Trip to China 2013]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip4|Hacker Trip to China 2014]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip5|Hacker Trip to China 2015]]
 
[[NoisebridgeChinaTrip6|Hacker Trip to China 2016]]

--[[user: maltman23 | Mitch]].

= People interested in going on the Hacker Trip to China #7, 2017: =


'''Below is a list of people interested in going on this year's Hacker Trip To China.'''
 


'''You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip!'''
 

'''Please email me if you have any questions, or if you would like to meet up with us on the trip:''' 
''mitch *AT* CornfieldElectronics *DOT* com''

The trip is limited to 20 people total (including Mitch) 
-- the first 19 people (after Mitch) who are either there already, or who bought tickets to meet in our Trip's starting city (tentatively Shanghai) on or before 11-October-2017 are the people who are in this Trip        (which probably means flying away from home on or before 10-October) 


Note: Many people have gotten good deals on their plane fares (including me) with the help of my friend Vlad at:        [http://www.flystein.com/ Flystein] Feel free to email me, and I'll send your email to Vlad, who will be happy to help you with your flights.
 

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!
! Name
! Purchased flight?
! Flight info
|-
|1
|[[user: maltman23 | Mitch Altman]]
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|2
|[[user: keymistress | Gloria Chiang]]
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: 'Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|3
|[[user:juul|Marc Juul]]
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Beijing on (date TBD)
|-
|4
|Anthony Liekens (Open Garage, Belgium)
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''Wants to tag along in Shenzhen''
|-
|5
|Rafael Câmera Santos (Fazedores.com, Brazil)
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Shenzhen or Hong Kong on (date TBD)
|-
|6
|Jan Marloth (fablab munich, Germany)
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Shanghai? on (date TBD)
|-
|7
|[[user: feklee | Felix E. Klee]]
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Consider traveling by ground from Berlin
|-
|8
|Robert Fitzsimons (TOG, Ireland)
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: Hong Kong on (date TBD)
|-
|9
|[[user: mrericboyd | Eric Boyd]]
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: will arrive in Hong Kong and join for entire trip
|-
|10
|''freeman murray''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''oct 8, Hong Kong''
|-
|11
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|12
|''Jonas S Karlsson''
|align="center"|will be in hk
|Arrive: ''hk''
|-
|13
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|14
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|15
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|16
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|17
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|18
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|19
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|20
|''your name here''
|align="center"|no
|Arrive: ''your arrival date and city here''
|-
|}

[[Category:Travel]]
[[Category:Projects]]

Meeting Notes 2017 04 04

2017-04-05T05:02:35Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Discussion */

These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]. Date: FIXME THE DATE HERE Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
* '''One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.'''

== Meeting Summary ==
FIXME FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST
TLDR what happened at the meeting:
* Announcements:
* Finances:
* New members:
* New philanthropists:
* Consensus Items:
* Discussion Items:

= Introductions =

Notetaker: John
Facilitator: Trent

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]:
<blockquote>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'."</blockquote>
* Introduce any experimental or unusual moderation techniques that may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
** What's your name
** What do you do
** What do you maintain at Noisebridge?
** if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?

Trent: Work as a Python consultant and web developer, so you can hire me! Work on the Python class at Noisebridge and the hot area which is for melting and pouring metal.

Chris: Do 3D printing and science stuff.

Cory: I build robots and teach people how to build robots and today I'm going to be talking about the robotics meeting htat we had on Sunday and specifically about a project I've been involved in for a while.

John: Do journalism and taking notes.

Shingo: From Tokyo, and visiting after a conference in Chile. Biohacker and sometimes works on aircraft and other things.

Nicole: I've been doing laser things and host a programming meetup here.

Jonas: Trying to build a physical keyboard from scratch for fun with ASCII output for the moment.

Osman (?): Working on creative coding, 3D images.

Rafael: Electrical engineer and currently messing with SolidWorks.

Jason: Like playing with laser cutters and things and trains neural networks as a dayjob.

Roseanne: First time here and dragged here by Jason. Engineer and does programs, builds math models and virtual things.

Aaron: Software engineer and might be teaching the algorithm course on Thursday sometimes.

= Short announcements and events =
* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short! One or two sentences please!
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
* Don't hog everyone's time since we all just want to hack!

Nicole: J has been working on a STEAM program for Noisebridge and wants to get schools and libraries involved in having makerspaces and hackerspaces in the curriculum. Going to have a meeting Thursday at 7 to talk about how we can contribute.

Jonas: Another meeting at 6:30, for people who want to think about doing programming in the future.

Shingo: Donating conductive ink tattoos to the space.

Trent: Python class is every Monday, 7:00pm to 8:30pm. It's an intermediate class, if you know a little bit. If you don't know a little bit, I won't stop you. If you want to come next Monday we'll talk about how functions work.

Cory: Sundays meeting to talk about robots. We talk about mechanical design, robotics, and software, because it's a big discipline.

Trent: The kiln is up and running and you can use it for your stuff. Please help build safety documentation, procedures for using the kiln, and improving the wiki page and signage so people don't hurt themselves.

= Safe Space =

'''Note:''' This section is experimental. We discussed it at [[Meeting_Notes_2016_06_28]]. We're going to try it for the next meeting, and see how it goes, and then discuss in the discussion section how it went, and how we'd like to tweak it.

Noisebridge is a safe space. '''Invite a volunteer to describe''' what that means.

Some specific points you might prompt the group to touch on, if it doesn't happen naturally:
* What to do if you feel uncomfortable.
* Noisebridge strives to be radically inclusive. What does that mean?
* Noisebridge has an antiharassment policy. What does that mean?

Trent: Safe space at Noisebridge means just like where we practice safety in the shop and remind people to put on ear protection if you have a loud tool working, if you're going to talk about a topic that might be sensitive to people, you should definitely warn everyone within earshot so that people know if that's something that's going to bother them they can avoid that. That's part of what it means. We also have an anti-harassment policy that covers harassment of all different kinds.

Nicole: If you feel like you are not safe you can speak up and people will come help you.

Trent: You can ask somebody to leave Noisebridge if you feel uncomfortable with them in the space, and you don't have to give any explanation why though you probably will end up talking about it.

= Participation =

Invite a knowledgable volunteer to describe who can participate at Noisebridge, including:
* Describe how to get an rfid key for the door system
* Describe how to get access to slack

Nicole: If you can demostrate that you are excellent and treat other people and the space with excellence you can get daytime access to the space with an RFID card and also the same works with Slack. If you want to get on the Slack channel, ask someone in the space.

Trent: Just ask around. Eventually someone who knows will be able to help you.

Nicole: Definitely communicate!

Trent: Anyone can come participate at Noisebridge. You don't have to be a member or a philanthropist. All you have to do is ring the bell and someone will let you in, and you can use tools, read books, use the space, as long as you follow our one rule: be excellent to each other.

= [[Philanthropist|Philanthropists]]=
* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[Philanthropist/Pledge|Philantropy]], and the application process.
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Any applicants must have their sponsor present to vouch for them.
* If there are no objections, they're a philanthropist! Their pledge should be handed over to the [[Secretary]] posthaste, after which their token will be updated to give them the 24/7 access they've earned(?)

John:

Trent: We have one person, Patrick Mineault. Mitch signed his form but nobody here knows him.

= [[ Membership Binder ]] =

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[membership]], and the application process.
<blockquote>Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community and space better than it is today.</blockquote>
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Mark down a check or other indicator on every open application to keep track of how many weeks they've been read out.
* Anyone eligible to join this week should
** introduce themselves,
** answer any questions members may have for them, then
** leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
* The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
* Remember to applaud new members when they return.

John:

Trent: There are around 30-40 members of the space and it is very mysterious.

= Financial Report =
* Funds in bank:
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials

Around $83,000 in the bank. Around $30,000 for Noisetor and around $7,500 for the equipment fund.

Trent: There was discussion about possibly buying the building or moving to around 16th & Capp, to the Redstone Building, which has a large amount of space and a collaborative set-up to potentially buy the building, similar to Omni Commons.

= Consensus =

* '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on consensus process]]
* It is important that everyone in attendance understands at least:
** Blocking with verbalized principled objections.
** Why we use consensus over other approaches to decision making.
** How consensus isn't a legislative process
** Why consensus isn't applicable to some things like conflict resolution, resolution of time sinks, and the like.

== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
''(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''

== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''

= Discussion =

Longer discussion items belong here. This is the last part of the meeting so that people can break off and continue their discussion afterwards.

Trent: We don't want to go over an hour. We have about 33 minutes but hopefully we won't need this amount of time. If anybody has discussion items let us know.

Chris: I have one about the big chunk of science equipment donated and the potential for a bioworkspace.

Cory: Talking about an open source project the robotics group might contribute to.

Chris: We got a big chunk of lab equipment and we're getting more soon. I'm excited about this because biochem is my trade so this is the sort of thing I do all the time. I would like to see the space be used for some sort of bioresearch thing like Biocurious or Counter-Culture Labs. However I also recognize I'm pretty heavily biased, so I don't want to set aside or take over that much space if I'm the only one who's going to be using it. Also putting in the caveat that having some sort of biological workspace in here isn't that trivial because there's potentially hazardous waste disposal and things like that that have to be considered. The questions are: One, does anyone really object to having a space like that here, or alternatively see any potential benefits to setting that up?

Cory: How long have you been coming to Noisebridge?

Chris: Since November.

Cory: There was a culture lab, mushrooms were grown. Kombucha was brewed. Francisco made the most delicious banana vinegar substance I've ever had. It has been done before, but I don't know who you would talk to.

John: Hazardous waste protocols?

Chris: The definition of hazardous waste can be anything that isn't immmediately edible. It's basically stuff that shouldn't be stuffed down the drain. It goes in a bottle and goes to some waste company that takes that stuff out. I'm not talking about actually dangerous stuff in here.

Jonas: What are some typical chemicals involved that you can't flush down the toilet?

Chris: Some of the stuff we already have here...

Trent: Strong acids, some salts used to generate standardizing solutions which aren't good for you but aren't going to explode...

Chris: Acetone, copper stuff for working on circuit boards.

Trent: Methanol, isoproponol...

Chris: E. coli cultures. There's an established rating system for what is allowed in any biological workspace, and I can't imagine us trying to do anything that would go beyond the first one, which would basically involve messing with bacteria and making pretty pictures with it.

Chris: We would need one, maybe two tables in the back. I'm used to working in a pretty compact space.

Trent: Do you need safety cabinets or ventilation?

Chris: We probably need small cubic foot safety cabinets. Windows in the back would be plenty of ventilation. I think we should improve the ventilation in here anyway but that's a totally different topic.

Trent: We have all the fabrication tools we need for ventilation hoods.

Cory: My friend is big into Biocurious and deals with kilns and hoods. An old Victorian house that is also one of SF's largest clay studios. Maybe I will fight to get her down here on Tuesday next week to talk about a biolab because she'd love to talk about that and ceramics and kilns and hoods for both and all.

Chris: I like Biocurious and Counter-Culture but they're too far away and I'm lazy.

Cory: (Has small fuzzy robot) There are a lot of people at the robotics group who are very interested in learning how to build stuff and Noisebridge doesn't necessarily have a kit to offer. So this is a Ro-Mee-Bo (?). I've recently joined this group. This is a robot designed to be a therapeutic social robot for autistic children who are overwhelmed with stimulation. This little guy allows a therapist or instructor using a limited vocabulary to drive and interact and actually engage the student who has the speech pathology. It's a really important tool. There are about 100 of these out in the wild and their price point is $700. I joined the project to bring the price point down to $150. One of the reasons it's so expensive is because it requires an iPod Touch in the back, which is $350. They don't want to sell them, they don't want to make products, they want to open source it. I'm developing an open source software stack for robotics. For me most robots are just a pair of wheels, a battery, a brain, and a bunch of other stuff we play with all the time. The idea is to make a kit of parts -- one can be purchased, and we have manufacturers who are interested in manufacturing things. And this stuff can be manufactured in a makerspace. Last little spiel: We have a bunch of people who are interested in the robotics group. How can we go about making a package that can be sold at Noisebridge, manufactured here, and all the money goes to Noisebridge for parts and materials? We're trying to give the robotics group something to start playing with and iterating on.

Trent: I've seen people in the past hold workshops and pay for the kit and work with someone knowledgeable to build it. A workshop might be one route. You can put things in there to sell and have the proceeds donated to Noisebridge. It would just be a matter of whether or not the people who need these would benefit from having them over there. How can people get involved?

Cory: We meet every Sunday at 1pm to talk about robots at the slightest opportunity! The stack I'm working on is node.js with a Blockly component.

== Discussion Items ==

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

= End of Meeting =

# Return the [[membership binder]] to its rightful location.
# Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
# Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.

== Note taker posts the notes ==
# Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
# Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
# Copy paste the notes to the [http://www.noisebridge.net//Next_meeting next meeting] page. (They will become [[Last meeting]] at midnight.)
# Email the meeting summary to [mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Discuss] and [mailto:noisebridge-announce@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Announce] lists.
# CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
# Edit the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
# Edit the [[Consensus_Items_History|Consensus Items History]] if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

== Fun things to do after ==
* Reprise of the [[Hackernationale]]. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now (if it doesn't happen '''before''' any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2017 04 04

2017-04-05T05:01:39Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Short announcements and events */

These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]. Date: FIXME THE DATE HERE Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
* '''One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.'''

== Meeting Summary ==
FIXME FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST
TLDR what happened at the meeting:
* Announcements:
* Finances:
* New members:
* New philanthropists:
* Consensus Items:
* Discussion Items:

= Introductions =

Notetaker: John
Facilitator: Trent

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]:
<blockquote>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'."</blockquote>
* Introduce any experimental or unusual moderation techniques that may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
** What's your name
** What do you do
** What do you maintain at Noisebridge?
** if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?

Trent: Work as a Python consultant and web developer, so you can hire me! Work on the Python class at Noisebridge and the hot area which is for melting and pouring metal.

Chris: Do 3D printing and science stuff.

Cory: I build robots and teach people how to build robots and today I'm going to be talking about the robotics meeting htat we had on Sunday and specifically about a project I've been involved in for a while.

John: Do journalism and taking notes.

Shingo: From Tokyo, and visiting after a conference in Chile. Biohacker and sometimes works on aircraft and other things.

Nicole: I've been doing laser things and host a programming meetup here.

Jonas: Trying to build a physical keyboard from scratch for fun with ASCII output for the moment.

Osman (?): Working on creative coding, 3D images.

Rafael: Electrical engineer and currently messing with SolidWorks.

Jason: Like playing with laser cutters and things and trains neural networks as a dayjob.

Roseanne: First time here and dragged here by Jason. Engineer and does programs, builds math models and virtual things.

Aaron: Software engineer and might be teaching the algorithm course on Thursday sometimes.

= Short announcements and events =
* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short! One or two sentences please!
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
* Don't hog everyone's time since we all just want to hack!

Nicole: J has been working on a STEAM program for Noisebridge and wants to get schools and libraries involved in having makerspaces and hackerspaces in the curriculum. Going to have a meeting Thursday at 7 to talk about how we can contribute.

Jonas: Another meeting at 6:30, for people who want to think about doing programming in the future.

Shingo: Donating conductive ink tattoos to the space.

Trent: Python class is every Monday, 7:00pm to 8:30pm. It's an intermediate class, if you know a little bit. If you don't know a little bit, I won't stop you. If you want to come next Monday we'll talk about how functions work.

Cory: Sundays meeting to talk about robots. We talk about mechanical design, robotics, and software, because it's a big discipline.

Trent: The kiln is up and running and you can use it for your stuff. Please help build safety documentation, procedures for using the kiln, and improving the wiki page and signage so people don't hurt themselves.

= Safe Space =

'''Note:''' This section is experimental. We discussed it at [[Meeting_Notes_2016_06_28]]. We're going to try it for the next meeting, and see how it goes, and then discuss in the discussion section how it went, and how we'd like to tweak it.

Noisebridge is a safe space. '''Invite a volunteer to describe''' what that means.

Some specific points you might prompt the group to touch on, if it doesn't happen naturally:
* What to do if you feel uncomfortable.
* Noisebridge strives to be radically inclusive. What does that mean?
* Noisebridge has an antiharassment policy. What does that mean?

Trent: Safe space at Noisebridge means just like where we practice safety in the shop and remind people to put on ear protection if you have a loud tool working, if you're going to talk about a topic that might be sensitive to people, you should definitely warn everyone within earshot so that people know if that's something that's going to bother them they can avoid that. That's part of what it means. We also have an anti-harassment policy that covers harassment of all different kinds.

Nicole: If you feel like you are not safe you can speak up and people will come help you.

Trent: You can ask somebody to leave Noisebridge if you feel uncomfortable with them in the space, and you don't have to give any explanation why though you probably will end up talking about it.

= Participation =

Invite a knowledgable volunteer to describe who can participate at Noisebridge, including:
* Describe how to get an rfid key for the door system
* Describe how to get access to slack

Nicole: If you can demostrate that you are excellent and treat other people and the space with excellence you can get daytime access to the space with an RFID card and also the same works with Slack. If you want to get on the Slack channel, ask someone in the space.

Trent: Just ask around. Eventually someone who knows will be able to help you.

Nicole: Definitely communicate!

Trent: Anyone can come participate at Noisebridge. You don't have to be a member or a philanthropist. All you have to do is ring the bell and someone will let you in, and you can use tools, read books, use the space, as long as you follow our one rule: be excellent to each other.

= [[Philanthropist|Philanthropists]]=
* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[Philanthropist/Pledge|Philantropy]], and the application process.
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Any applicants must have their sponsor present to vouch for them.
* If there are no objections, they're a philanthropist! Their pledge should be handed over to the [[Secretary]] posthaste, after which their token will be updated to give them the 24/7 access they've earned(?)

John:

Trent: We have one person, Patrick Mineault. Mitch signed his form but nobody here knows him.

= [[ Membership Binder ]] =

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[membership]], and the application process.
<blockquote>Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community and space better than it is today.</blockquote>
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Mark down a check or other indicator on every open application to keep track of how many weeks they've been read out.
* Anyone eligible to join this week should
** introduce themselves,
** answer any questions members may have for them, then
** leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
* The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
* Remember to applaud new members when they return.

John:

Trent: There are around 30-40 members of the space and it is very mysterious.

= Financial Report =
* Funds in bank:
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials

Around $83,000 in the bank. Around $30,000 for Noisetor and around $7,500 for the equipment fund.

Trent: There was discussion about possibly buying the building or moving to around 16th & Capp, to the Redstone Building, which has a large amount of space and a collaborative set-up to potentially buy the building, similar to Omni Commons.

= Consensus =

* '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on consensus process]]
* It is important that everyone in attendance understands at least:
** Blocking with verbalized principled objections.
** Why we use consensus over other approaches to decision making.
** How consensus isn't a legislative process
** Why consensus isn't applicable to some things like conflict resolution, resolution of time sinks, and the like.

== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
''(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''

== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''

= Discussion =

Longer discussion items belong here. This is the last part of the meeting so that people can break off and continue their discussion afterwards.

Trent: We don't want to go over an hour. We have about 33 minutes but hopefully we won't need this amount of time. If anybody has discussion items let us know.

Chris: I have one about the big chunk of science equipment donated and the potential for a bioworkspace.

Cory: Talking about an open source project the robotics group might contribute to.

Chris: We got a big chunk of lab equipment and we're getting more soon. I'm excited about this because biochem is my trade so this is the sort of thing I do all the time. I would like to see the space be used for some sort of bioresearch thing like Biocurious or Counter-Culture Labs. However I also recognize I'm pretty heavily biased, so I don't want to set aside or take over that much space if I'm the only one who's going to be using it. Also putting in the caveat that having some sort of biological workspace in here isn't that trivial because there's potentially hazardous waste disposal and things like that that have to be considered. The questions are: One, does anyone really object to having a space like that here, or alternatively see any potential benefits to setting that up?

Cory: How long have you been coming to Noisebridge?

Chris: Since November.

Cory: There was a culture lab, mushrooms were grown. Kombucha was brewed. Francisco made the most delicious banana vinegar substance I've ever had. It has been done before, but I don't know who you would talk to.

John: Hazardous waste protocols?

Chris: The definition of hazardous waste can be anything that isn't immmediately edible. It's basically stuff that shouldn't be stuffed down the drain. It goes in a bottle and goes to some waste company that takes that stuff out. I'm not talking about actually dangerous stuff in here.

Yulas: What are some typical chemicals involved that you can't flush down the toilet?

Chris: Some of the stuff we already have here...

Trent: Strong acids, some salts used to generate standardizing solutions which aren't good for you but aren't going to explode...

Chris: Acetone, copper stuff for working on circuit boards.

Trent: Methanol, isoproponol...

Chris: E. coli cultures. There's an established rating system for what is allowed in any biological workspace, and I can't imagine us trying to do anything that would go beyond the first one, which would basically involve messing with bacteria and making pretty pictures with it.

Chris: We would need one, maybe two tables in the back. I'm used to working in a pretty compact space.

Trent: Do you need safety cabinets or ventilation?

Chris: We probably need small cubic foot safety cabinets. Windows in the back would be plenty of ventilation. I think we should improve the ventilation in here anyway but that's a totally different topic.

Trent: We have all the fabrication tools we need for ventilation hoods.

Cory: My friend is big into Biocurious and deals with kilns and hoods. An old Victorian house that is also one of SF's largest clay studios. Maybe I will fight to get her down here on Tuesday next week to talk about a biolab because she'd love to talk about that and ceramics and kilns and hoods for both and all.

Chris: I like Biocurious and Counter-Culture but they're too far away and I'm lazy.

Cory: (Has small fuzzy robot) There are a lot of people at the robotics group who are very interested in learning how to build stuff and Noisebridge doesn't necessarily have a kit to offer. So this is a Ro-Mee-Bo (?). I've recently joined this group. This is a robot designed to be a therapeutic social robot for autistic children who are overwhelmed with stimulation. This little guy allows a therapist or instructor using a limited vocabulary to drive and interact and actually engage the student who has the speech pathology. It's a really important tool. There are about 100 of these out in the wild and their price point is $700. I joined the project to bring the price point down to $150. One of the reasons it's so expensive is because it requires an iPod Touch in the back, which is $350. They don't want to sell them, they don't want to make products, they want to open source it. I'm developing an open source software stack for robotics. For me most robots are just a pair of wheels, a battery, a brain, and a bunch of other stuff we play with all the time. The idea is to make a kit of parts -- one can be purchased, and we have manufacturers who are interested in manufacturing things. And this stuff can be manufactured in a makerspace. Last little spiel: We have a bunch of people who are interested in the robotics group. How can we go about making a package that can be sold at Noisebridge, manufactured here, and all the money goes to Noisebridge for parts and materials? We're trying to give the robotics group something to start playing with and iterating on.

Trent: I've seen people in the past hold workshops and pay for the kit and work with someone knowledgeable to build it. A workshop might be one route. You can put things in there to sell and have the proceeds donated to Noisebridge. It would just be a matter of whether or not the people who need these would benefit from having them over there. How can people get involved?

Cory: We meet every Sunday at 1pm to talk about robots at the slightest opportunity! The stack I'm working on is node.js with a Blockly component.

== Discussion Items ==

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

= End of Meeting =

# Return the [[membership binder]] to its rightful location.
# Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
# Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.

== Note taker posts the notes ==
# Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
# Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
# Copy paste the notes to the [http://www.noisebridge.net//Next_meeting next meeting] page. (They will become [[Last meeting]] at midnight.)
# Email the meeting summary to [mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Discuss] and [mailto:noisebridge-announce@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Announce] lists.
# CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
# Edit the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
# Edit the [[Consensus_Items_History|Consensus Items History]] if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

== Fun things to do after ==
* Reprise of the [[Hackernationale]]. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now (if it doesn't happen '''before''' any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2017 04 04

2017-04-05T05:01:02Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Introductions */

These are the notes from the [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The XXXth Meeting of Noisebridge]. Date: FIXME THE DATE HERE Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderators: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
* '''One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.'''

== Meeting Summary ==
FIXME FILL OUT AT END OF MEETING AND SEND TO MAILING LIST
TLDR what happened at the meeting:
* Announcements:
* Finances:
* New members:
* New philanthropists:
* Consensus Items:
* Discussion Items:

= Introductions =

Notetaker: John
Facilitator: Trent

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain''' [[Noisebridge_Vision|what Noisebridge is about]]:
<blockquote>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'."</blockquote>
* Introduce any experimental or unusual moderation techniques that may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
* Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
** What's your name
** What do you do
** What do you maintain at Noisebridge?
** if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?

Trent: Work as a Python consultant and web developer, so you can hire me! Work on the Python class at Noisebridge and the hot area which is for melting and pouring metal.

Chris: Do 3D printing and science stuff.

Cory: I build robots and teach people how to build robots and today I'm going to be talking about the robotics meeting htat we had on Sunday and specifically about a project I've been involved in for a while.

John: Do journalism and taking notes.

Shingo: From Tokyo, and visiting after a conference in Chile. Biohacker and sometimes works on aircraft and other things.

Nicole: I've been doing laser things and host a programming meetup here.

Jonas: Trying to build a physical keyboard from scratch for fun with ASCII output for the moment.

Osman (?): Working on creative coding, 3D images.

Rafael: Electrical engineer and currently messing with SolidWorks.

Jason: Like playing with laser cutters and things and trains neural networks as a dayjob.

Roseanne: First time here and dragged here by Jason. Engineer and does programs, builds math models and virtual things.

Aaron: Software engineer and might be teaching the algorithm course on Thursday sometimes.

= Short announcements and events =
* Cool new projects? Something you'd like people to know? Say now, but keep it short! One or two sentences please!
* Any happenings at the space of which members should be made aware.
* Don't hog everyone's time since we all just want to hack!

Nicole: J has been working on a STEAM program for Noisebridge and wants to get schools and libraries involved in having makerspaces and hackerspaces in the curriculum. Going to have a meeting Thursday at 7 to talk about how we can contribute.

Yulas: Another meeting at 6:30, for people who want to think about doing programming in the future.

Shingo: Donating conductive ink tattoos to the space.

Trent: Python class is every Monday, 7:00pm to 8:30pm. It's an intermediate class, if you know a little bit. If you don't know a little bit, I won't stop you. If you want to come next Monday we'll talk about how functions work.

Cory: Sundays meeting to talk about robots. We talk about mechanical design, robotics, and software, because it's a big discipline.

Trent: The kiln is up and running and you can use it for your stuff. Please help build safety documentation, procedures for using the kiln, and improving the wiki page and signage so people don't hurt themselves.

= Safe Space =

'''Note:''' This section is experimental. We discussed it at [[Meeting_Notes_2016_06_28]]. We're going to try it for the next meeting, and see how it goes, and then discuss in the discussion section how it went, and how we'd like to tweak it.

Noisebridge is a safe space. '''Invite a volunteer to describe''' what that means.

Some specific points you might prompt the group to touch on, if it doesn't happen naturally:
* What to do if you feel uncomfortable.
* Noisebridge strives to be radically inclusive. What does that mean?
* Noisebridge has an antiharassment policy. What does that mean?

Trent: Safe space at Noisebridge means just like where we practice safety in the shop and remind people to put on ear protection if you have a loud tool working, if you're going to talk about a topic that might be sensitive to people, you should definitely warn everyone within earshot so that people know if that's something that's going to bother them they can avoid that. That's part of what it means. We also have an anti-harassment policy that covers harassment of all different kinds.

Nicole: If you feel like you are not safe you can speak up and people will come help you.

Trent: You can ask somebody to leave Noisebridge if you feel uncomfortable with them in the space, and you don't have to give any explanation why though you probably will end up talking about it.

= Participation =

Invite a knowledgable volunteer to describe who can participate at Noisebridge, including:
* Describe how to get an rfid key for the door system
* Describe how to get access to slack

Nicole: If you can demostrate that you are excellent and treat other people and the space with excellence you can get daytime access to the space with an RFID card and also the same works with Slack. If you want to get on the Slack channel, ask someone in the space.

Trent: Just ask around. Eventually someone who knows will be able to help you.

Nicole: Definitely communicate!

Trent: Anyone can come participate at Noisebridge. You don't have to be a member or a philanthropist. All you have to do is ring the bell and someone will let you in, and you can use tools, read books, use the space, as long as you follow our one rule: be excellent to each other.

= [[Philanthropist|Philanthropists]]=
* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[Philanthropist/Pledge|Philantropy]], and the application process.
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Any applicants must have their sponsor present to vouch for them.
* If there are no objections, they're a philanthropist! Their pledge should be handed over to the [[Secretary]] posthaste, after which their token will be updated to give them the 24/7 access they've earned(?)

John:

Trent: We have one person, Patrick Mineault. Mitch signed his form but nobody here knows him.

= [[ Membership Binder ]] =

* '''Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe''' [[membership]], and the application process.
<blockquote>Being a member of Noisebridge is not like being a member of a gym or your local chess club. Anyone can come to Noisebridge to hack and learn: you don't need to be a member for that. At Noisebridge, membership is something different: it means taking responsibility and committing to help to maintain, improve, and govern Noisebridge. As a member of Noisebridge, you don't just come here to hack and learn, you actively work to improve what you see around you, help to deal with problems, and make this community and space better than it is today.</blockquote>
* Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Mark down a check or other indicator on every open application to keep track of how many weeks they've been read out.
* Anyone eligible to join this week should
** introduce themselves,
** answer any questions members may have for them, then
** leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
* The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
* Remember to applaud new members when they return.

John:

Trent: There are around 30-40 members of the space and it is very mysterious.

= Financial Report =
* Funds in bank:
* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
* Any other details by those participating in handling our financials

Around $83,000 in the bank. Around $30,000 for Noisetor and around $7,500 for the equipment fund.

Trent: There was discussion about possibly buying the building or moving to around 16th & Capp, to the Redstone Building, which has a large amount of space and a collaborative set-up to potentially buy the building, similar to Omni Commons.

= Consensus =

* '''invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give '''[[Consensus Process|a brief primer on consensus process]]
* It is important that everyone in attendance understands at least:
** Blocking with verbalized principled objections.
** Why we use consensus over other approaches to decision making.
** How consensus isn't a legislative process
** Why consensus isn't applicable to some things like conflict resolution, resolution of time sinks, and the like.

== [[ Consensus Items History | Proposals from last week ]] ==
''(Add any items which are consensed upon or someone has raised a principle objection for to the [[Consensus Items History]] page.)''

== [[ Current Consensus Items | Proposals for next week ]] ==
''(Add any new items for consensus to the [[Current Consensus Items]] page.)''

= Discussion =

Longer discussion items belong here. This is the last part of the meeting so that people can break off and continue their discussion afterwards.

Trent: We don't want to go over an hour. We have about 33 minutes but hopefully we won't need this amount of time. If anybody has discussion items let us know.

Chris: I have one about the big chunk of science equipment donated and the potential for a bioworkspace.

Cory: Talking about an open source project the robotics group might contribute to.

Chris: We got a big chunk of lab equipment and we're getting more soon. I'm excited about this because biochem is my trade so this is the sort of thing I do all the time. I would like to see the space be used for some sort of bioresearch thing like Biocurious or Counter-Culture Labs. However I also recognize I'm pretty heavily biased, so I don't want to set aside or take over that much space if I'm the only one who's going to be using it. Also putting in the caveat that having some sort of biological workspace in here isn't that trivial because there's potentially hazardous waste disposal and things like that that have to be considered. The questions are: One, does anyone really object to having a space like that here, or alternatively see any potential benefits to setting that up?

Cory: How long have you been coming to Noisebridge?

Chris: Since November.

Cory: There was a culture lab, mushrooms were grown. Kombucha was brewed. Francisco made the most delicious banana vinegar substance I've ever had. It has been done before, but I don't know who you would talk to.

John: Hazardous waste protocols?

Chris: The definition of hazardous waste can be anything that isn't immmediately edible. It's basically stuff that shouldn't be stuffed down the drain. It goes in a bottle and goes to some waste company that takes that stuff out. I'm not talking about actually dangerous stuff in here.

Yulas: What are some typical chemicals involved that you can't flush down the toilet?

Chris: Some of the stuff we already have here...

Trent: Strong acids, some salts used to generate standardizing solutions which aren't good for you but aren't going to explode...

Chris: Acetone, copper stuff for working on circuit boards.

Trent: Methanol, isoproponol...

Chris: E. coli cultures. There's an established rating system for what is allowed in any biological workspace, and I can't imagine us trying to do anything that would go beyond the first one, which would basically involve messing with bacteria and making pretty pictures with it.

Chris: We would need one, maybe two tables in the back. I'm used to working in a pretty compact space.

Trent: Do you need safety cabinets or ventilation?

Chris: We probably need small cubic foot safety cabinets. Windows in the back would be plenty of ventilation. I think we should improve the ventilation in here anyway but that's a totally different topic.

Trent: We have all the fabrication tools we need for ventilation hoods.

Cory: My friend is big into Biocurious and deals with kilns and hoods. An old Victorian house that is also one of SF's largest clay studios. Maybe I will fight to get her down here on Tuesday next week to talk about a biolab because she'd love to talk about that and ceramics and kilns and hoods for both and all.

Chris: I like Biocurious and Counter-Culture but they're too far away and I'm lazy.

Cory: (Has small fuzzy robot) There are a lot of people at the robotics group who are very interested in learning how to build stuff and Noisebridge doesn't necessarily have a kit to offer. So this is a Ro-Mee-Bo (?). I've recently joined this group. This is a robot designed to be a therapeutic social robot for autistic children who are overwhelmed with stimulation. This little guy allows a therapist or instructor using a limited vocabulary to drive and interact and actually engage the student who has the speech pathology. It's a really important tool. There are about 100 of these out in the wild and their price point is $700. I joined the project to bring the price point down to $150. One of the reasons it's so expensive is because it requires an iPod Touch in the back, which is $350. They don't want to sell them, they don't want to make products, they want to open source it. I'm developing an open source software stack for robotics. For me most robots are just a pair of wheels, a battery, a brain, and a bunch of other stuff we play with all the time. The idea is to make a kit of parts -- one can be purchased, and we have manufacturers who are interested in manufacturing things. And this stuff can be manufactured in a makerspace. Last little spiel: We have a bunch of people who are interested in the robotics group. How can we go about making a package that can be sold at Noisebridge, manufactured here, and all the money goes to Noisebridge for parts and materials? We're trying to give the robotics group something to start playing with and iterating on.

Trent: I've seen people in the past hold workshops and pay for the kit and work with someone knowledgeable to build it. A workshop might be one route. You can put things in there to sell and have the proceeds donated to Noisebridge. It would just be a matter of whether or not the people who need these would benefit from having them over there. How can people get involved?

Cory: We meet every Sunday at 1pm to talk about robots at the slightest opportunity! The stack I'm working on is node.js with a Blockly component.

== Discussion Items ==

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

= End of Meeting =

# Return the [[membership binder]] to its rightful location.
# Discuss any items for which there was not time during the meeting.
# Enjoy the company of your fellow hacker, robot, or robothacker.

== Note taker posts the notes ==
# Clean and tidy the meeting notes including removing all these really verbose instructions.
# Fill out the short summary at the top listing just announcements, consensus items, discussion topics, and names of new members and philanthropists.
# Copy paste the notes to the [http://www.noisebridge.net//Next_meeting next meeting] page. (They will become [[Last meeting]] at midnight.)
# Email the meeting summary to [mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Discuss] and [mailto:noisebridge-announce@lists.noisebridge.net?subject=MeetingNotes Noisebridge Announce] lists.
# CC on the email treasurer@noisebridge.net and secretary@noisebridge.net if there are new members and philanthropists.
# Edit the [[Current_Consensus_Items|Current Consensus Items]] if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
# Edit the [[Consensus_Items_History|Consensus Items History]] if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.

== Fun things to do after ==
* Reprise of the [[Hackernationale]]. [This is anarchy - we do what the wiki says!]
* [[PGP|PGP Key Signing]] could happen now (if it doesn't happen '''before''' any given Meeting). Ask others around the space or check the [[PGP|list]] to see who wants in on the action.

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Category:Events

2017-04-05T03:29:50Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Upcoming Events edit */

Official, Semi-Official, one-off and other events at the Noisebridge space.

=Event Calendar=
<onlyinclude>
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/ Discussion] or [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-announce/ Announcements] mailing lists, [[IRC]] or in person at [[Meetings | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff. DO pay attention, as some events just arise organically from the bottom up!

'''Want to host your event at Noisebridge?''' We like seeing classes and talks on interesting things pertaining to various subjects of hacking. Most of all, we like seeing familiar faces. Please participate in the space and our [[Meetings|weekly Tuesday meetings]] to see if we're the right audience for what you want to share before announcing a new event. Additionally, please see our [[Hosting an Event|events hosting page]] for suggestions on how to use Noisebridge for your event/class/workshop.

 
=== Upcoming Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=2 edit] ===







{{event
|time = Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, 6:30pm
|title = Let's talk about inventions!
|description = Bring an invention, idea, or problem to discuss with the group.
 
Please show up on time so you do not miss introductions!
}}
 

{{event
|time = Thursday, April 6th, 2017, 6:30pm
|title = Future of Programming/Visual Programming
|description = For people who want to invent the future!
 
We meet in the back in Church room area.
https://www.meetup.com/Future-of-Programming-Visual-Interactive-Programming/events/238893173/
}}
 

{{event
|time = Saturday, April 8th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_08_Apr_2017|The 08-Apr-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: Dinosaurs With Horns (LAFMS), Mochipet, Tom Djill, Bloody Snowman, Mas Coad''
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, May 13th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_13_May_2017|The 13-May-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: Microwave Windows, Syrnx, Fistortion, Nurse Betty, Series Premiere''
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, May 13th, 2017, 2pm
|title = Stupid Shit That No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon
|description = Come make stupid shit that no one needs! This will be the same format as the last two years! No technical experience necessary 
}}
 
{{event
|time = Sunday, May 14th, 2017, 8:00
|title = Stupid Shit That No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon
|description = Come make stupid shit that no one needs! This will be the same format as the last two years! No technical experience necessary 
}}
 
{{event
|time = Thursday, May 18th, 2017, 08:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - setup day]] Thursday morning we'll meet to load a truck with our Maker Faire stuff and take it down to San Mateo for setup.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Friday, May 19th, 2017, 09:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - setup and show day]] We'll be fixing anything we broke during setup, or forgot to bring. Then telling people about Noisebridge and showing off what we've made here in the space. (Time to be corrected as details arrive.)
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, May 20th, 2017, 09:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - show day]] Well be telling people about Noisebridge and showing off what we've made here in the space. Hackers are ok. (Time to be corrected as details arrive.)
}}
 
{{event
|time = Sunday, May 21st, 2017, 09:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - show day and tear down]] We'll be telling people about Noisebridge and showing off what we've made here in the space. At the end of the show, we'll take it all back home to Noisebridge. (Time to be corrected as details arrive.)
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, June 10th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_10_Jun_2017|The 10-Jun-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: Filthmilk, The Fathers, Danishta Rivero & Matt Chandler, The American Family Unit, Lime Eyelid''
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, July 8th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_08_Jul_2017|The 8-Jul-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: TBD''
}}
<div class="recurring-events">

=== Recurring Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=3 edit] ===

{{Template:Recurring}} - Every week. 
{{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} - Certain weeks, e.g. 1st week only. 
{{Template:RecurringException|-2nd}} - Except certain weeks, or other schedule exceptions.


==== Mondays ====
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''7:00 pm to 9:00 pm [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' Learn to solder! And make cool things with electronics. [[User:maltman23|Mitch]], [[User:Tman66|J]], Rolf, [[User:Miloh|Miloh]], [[User:Cedric|Cedric]], Cheng, Greg, and/or a host of others will bring kits-for-purchase to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them! Many designed for '''absolute beginners'''! Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All ages. All are welcome! See the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss Discuss list] and the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-announce Announce list] for weekly updates.
* {{Template:Recurring}} [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night -- Round One]] Be sure to put bins out by midnight as the trash truck comes between 1:30 to 2:30am.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm '''[[PyClass|Intermediate Python with PyClass]]''' - Crash course in the Python standard library. Monday session is held in Church Classroom.

==== ''Super'' Tuesdays! ====
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''5:00 pm to 7:30 pm [[Songbridge|Songbridge Music Making Tuesdays]]''' - Beginner-friendly music making and mentoring meetup with Ableton/GarageBand/Logic tutorials for beginners and peer collabs. ([[Noise Square Table]]).
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} '''6:30 pm to 8:30 pm [[SCoT|Sewing and Crafting]]''' - Come learn how to use the sewing machines or just work on a craft (e.g. knitting, crocheting, felt working, embroidery, leatherworking, beading, etc.). All skill levels are welcome.
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:30 pm to 11:30 pm [[Gamebridge|Gamebridge Unityversity Game Dev Tuesdays]]''' - Beginner-friendly game development class and meetup, learn and share C# Unity coding, 2D/3D art, design, writing and audio. Learn how to mentor and help teach game dev. ([[Noise Square Table]]).
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:00 pm [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision-making on key issues. '''This is your space, folks. Come on out here in person to express what you think about what's going on with it!'''
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''11am to 6pm [[freeCodeCamp|freeCodeCamp Workshop]]''' - Come code with us! Learn full stack web development with JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Everyone is welcome!

==== Wednesdays ====
* {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm - '''[[Cyberspectrum|Cyberspectrum: Software Defined Radio Meetup]]''' in the Hackatorium(''new''): A place to learn and exchange ideas about SDR. Presentations on concepts, mystery signals, hardware/software and cool applications. Event alternates monthly between SF and the South Bay.
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9. '''[[with Software; Art()]]''' Present your personal and expressive art made with software/hardware of your own making and get feedback and critical dialogue from fellow artist/technologists. [Last updated Feb 1, 2017].
* {{Template:Recurring}} 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[DreamTeam| Dream Team Neuro Hackery]] - EEG research & development project with general interest in sleep, dreaming, creative intelligence, and many loosely related topics such as: neurophysiology, signal processing, cognitive neuroscience, and (especially) hacking code and devices for data acquisition and analysis. Join us at the [[CollaborationStation]] (near the Hackatorium). Expect general discussion around 8 PM - usually moving along by 9 PM to focus on more technical aspects of current project.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm - Career Change: How to kickstart your new career in web development

==== Thursdays ====
* {{Template:Recurring}} [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night -- Round Two]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning! Do it by midnight as truck comes ~1:30am to 2:30am.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm The [[Go]] group meets up on Wednesdays and Thursdays to play.
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:00 pm to 9:00pm [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' a.k.a. 5MoF - Ten 5min talks in an hour, on any topic! Small 5MoFs every Thursday-ish, bigger ones on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|biweekly}} 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Laser Safety Training every other Thursday evening. [http://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/ RSVP on meetup.com]
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} 7 pm [[STEAM Education]] meeting on developing a program to integrate hacker/makerspaces in both schools and libraries.

==== Fridays ====
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|5th}} 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm [[Computerology]] in Turing or [[CollaborationStation]], understanding and using computers
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|5th}} 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[FUN Tutoring]] @ [[CollaborationStation]]
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} [[Noisebridge Gaming Archivists]] Meetup 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm -- Come play, fix, mod retro consoles. Create and play is our motto! If you like video games, this is the place for you.

==== Saturdays ====
nothing!

==== Sundays ====
* {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 1:00 pm Monthly Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks and learn more about them with the [http://www.tooolsf.org/ SF Bay Area chapter] of [http://toool.us/ TOOOL]. The group meets on alternating months at Noisebridge and in San Jose. Check the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tooolsf TOOOL SF announcement list] for details.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 3:00 pm [[Go]] - Playing of the Go board game. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm .impact Workathons in Turing classrom. Work on projects that will help humanity & beyond.
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</onlyinclude>

If you'd like to contact somebody at Noisebridge regarding these Events or even the Noisebridge Wiki itself, then please send an email message to one of the Board members listed in the [[Contacts]] list, e.g., <secretary@noisebridge.net> or <treasurer@noisebridge.net>

=== Orphaned Events ===
These events appear to be dormant or extinct.

* SAT 10:15 - 12:10 [[Juggling with Judy!]] Note: next class is scheduled for Saturday June 29th. Attention juggling fans! Judy will be at the 2013 World Juggling Day celebration Saturday June 15th at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium in San Francisco Fisherman's Warf - free event begins at 1. Come check it out!
* THU 18:00 - 21:00 '''[[Privacy Bay]]''' - A monthly meetup for Bay Area folks interested in privacy. Meets in Church on the last Thursday of the month.
* FRI 19:00 - 21:00 [[Anarchy_101|Anarchy 101]] - a class/seminar on what anarchy is and is not, and how it impacts us as individuals and as discrete groups.
* 20:00 - 22:00 [[Noise~_Wednesday | Noise~ Wed]] - Graphical media programming with Max/MSP/Jitter
* 19:00 [[Tahoe-LAFS]] - Occasional meetup of users and/or developers of the Least Authority File System.
* 14:00 - 16:00 Android Developer Support Group - Meet up with other app developers in the library for a lightly structured knowledge-share.

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===
:'''(TBD)''': [[Sound Science]] A potential monthly lecture/demonstration series on the little known science behind sound reproductionTopics to include: Transducer Physics(speakers and mics), Room Acoustics, Signal Path and Cabling,Loudspeaker design 101, Music Production Tips for Big Sound, and How to make a small system sound HUGEEach session to include hands on projects like making speakers from stuff lying around, Non-Newtonian bass monsters, and ez speaker mods for anyoneIf interested contact the new guy-> MattLong8 at gmail dot com, 805 four five three - six zero nine seven
:'''(TBD)''': [[Modular Synthesis]] a bi-weekly (or monthly) group devoted to modular synthesizers> workshop will include modular sound synthesis styles and techniques, a study of different modules and their functions, ie voltage controlled oscillator, voltage controlled filter, low frequency oscillator, envelope generator ect and how these modules interact with each other, what control voltage and triggers are..... as well as one on one time for each student with the modular, which is a 60 space large format Moog style modular synthesizer with big knobs and 1/4 jacks including performance and other awesomeness by Douglas. contact Douglas at greenshoos at gmail dotcom
:'''(TBD)''': [[VideoHacking]] a weekly video/video art devoted hacker group, including experiments in the 3D vr realm...if interested contact julialc4@gmail.com
:Wednesdays at 21:00 [[Brewing Bridge]] - Malakkar Proposal: Learn how to make your drinks fun AND antibacterial, using yeastThis will be recurring if enough interest or need is presentAssociated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Probability]] - Weekly probability study group based on [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-041-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-spring-2006/related-resources/ Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory] by Al Drake
:'''(TBD)''': [[Mandarin Corner|Mandarin]] - Learn or practice Mandarin, all levels. Also currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Movie Night!]] - [[User:ThOMG|Thom]] wants to build community through nerdy sci-fi! (+Bill+Ted+Excellence++) (how about a Friday hacker movie night? -[[User:Carl|Carl]])
:'''(TBD)''': [[Introduction to the AVR Microcontroller]] - [[User:Mightyohm|Jeff]] and [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]] are planning an introductory class for people wanting to make cool projects with AVRs.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Basic Chemistry Lab Techniques]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Cuddle Puddle for the Economy]] - Stress-hacking with informal massage exchange.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Milk and Cookies]] - Come read your favorite selections out loud With Milk and Cookies (and yeah, probably beer too).
:'''(TBD)''': [[Processing Workshop 2]] - [[User:Scmurray|Scott]] is interested in teaching this, and is busy thinking about what, where, when, why, and how.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Hack your Hardware]] -- We call BS on "no user-serviceable parts inside"
:'''(TBD)''': [[Homebrew Instruction Class]] - The Wort (pt 1/3)
:'''(TBD)''': [[Trip to Shooting Range]] - Field trip to a shooting range, to shoot guns Express interest at [[Trip to Shooting Range]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Surface Mount Soldering Workshop]] - Learn how to solder cicuits with small surface mount parts [[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]] and Martin Bogomolni and others will show their tricks [[User:maltman23|Mitch]] will bring hackable kits that uses surface mounts for you to solder<-YES! (mattlong8 at gmail dot com)
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Version control tutorial]]
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Foreign language learning for rocket scientists]] - I'm near-native (fool people when I try) in (French and) Japanese, and a pro trans/terpreter and will share my shortcuts (skill-order, vocab, speed/articulation, translation≅grammar) No expertise on tonal languages yet..so if you know how to remember tones or how tone-sandhi interacts with speed and/or how nuances of speaker attitude are expressed in them (what we do with rythm/inflection/sentence-intonation and stress in Eng., and with particles and ??? in e.g. Cantonese) please chime in or call me (415-608-0564) so I can convey your wisdom [also looking for a from-scratch Arabic partner]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Getting started with Arduino]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Distributed Databases]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Node.js Beginners Session]] - Interested in learning about Node.js? I amMaybe these guys want to teach it: http://www.meetup.com/Joyent-Cloud-User-Group/events/81311542/

:'''(TBD)''': [[Scrum Club]] - I though I'd test the waters and see if anyone was interested in a noisebridge scrum club details are here http://scrumclub.org/scrum-clubs/ if inturested hit me up twitter: @theabcasian, facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theabcasian
:'''(TBD)''': [[CNC Mill Workshop]] - Who wants to make stuff on the [[MaxNCMill]]?
:'''(TBD)''': [[Math & Science Help]] - If you would like some math, science or engineering help, I'm down to lend a hand.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Cyborg Group|Cyborg Group / Sensebridge]] - Work on projects like artificial senses Someone needs to lead this!
:'''(TBD)''': [[OpenEEG]] - Brain techHas historically met on Sundays, at the behest of interested parties.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Programming_for_Poets | Programming for Poets]] - Gentle intro to programming using Processing
:'''(TBD)''': [[World Builders & Simgineers]] - Work together to create a beautiful & open virtual world & platform.
:'''(TBD)''': [[PlunderBridge]] - Metal detecting, detector technology & treasure hunting expeditions.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Ruby Mining]] - Ruby on Rails basics, interactive working group
:'''(TBD)''': [[MoinMoin Wiki]] - MoinMoin Wiki (details see there)
:'''(TBD)''': [[Noisebridge Fundraiser 2013]]

= Past Events =

===2016===
{{event
|time = Thursday, February 25th, 2016, 7pm
|title = SF Amateur Mathematicians
|description = Differential Geometry and Wide-Angle Photography with Chad Fong. In Church Room. See [http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/events/228761849/ Meetup page]. SF Amateur Mathematicians is a math club open to everyone interested in learning more about math. Topics and talks generally assume some collegiate mathematical background.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Sunday, February 7th, 2016, 11:00am
|title = HackTheLeft
|description = [[HackTheLeft|Hack the Left]] is an ''anticapitalist'' hackathon, going on for the entire long weekend of February 5th-7th at Noisebridge. This is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of leftists in a room for a weekend with the intention to advance liberatory and ''anticapitalist'' projects using technology. This includes software projects like Tor and Signal, art projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Men in Grey, hardware projects like mesh networks and signal jammers, and tools for rad organizations like Anti Police-Crimethink Project and Food Not Bombs. It's clear that there's a huge amount of opportunity for liberatory technology. It's up to us to build it. 

*Hackathon participants should be able to get into Noisebridge by [[Hours | its 11:00 AM opening hour]], if not earlier, for both weekend days.
}}

===2014===
*{{event
|time = Sunday, September 23, 5:00pm
|title = How to Start a Startup MOOC Lecture Viewings
|description = We would get together to watch the lectures together and conduct discussion and networking afterwards. http://startupclass.samaltman.com/
|}}

===2013===
*{{event
|time = Friday, August 9, 5:00pm
|title = Noisebridge Party Setup
|description = Volunteers will be preparing the space for Saturday's show. There are no scheduled conflicts; you might be asked to move multiple times by someone pushing a broom and assembling a raised stage simultaneously.
|}}

*{{event
|time = Saturday, August 10, 4:00pm
|title = Noisebridge "______ the Bridge" Party
|description = a summer fundraising party for Noisebridge, which YOU are invited to!
|suggested donation = $10, but no one turned away for lack of funds
|}}

*{{event
|time = Sunday, August 11, 2:00pm
|title = Bay Area Hackers' Association Meeting
|description = Jon Callas presenting on [[BAHA/2013-08-11|Secure Communications, Privacy, Counter-Surveillance]].
|}}

* '''Wednesday, May 22, 7.00 pm: Instructables Build Night''' - Bare Conductive, Instructables will supply Bare Conductive paint pens and pizza. Come experiment with the paint and post some Instructables. This is a FREE event.

===2012===
* '''December 20, Thursday, 20:00 - 22:00 - [[5MoF|5 Minutes of Fame]]''' - Following up on its triumphant return in November, 5MoF is back with another showcase of lightning talks & other good stuff, with your host Sir Danny O'Brien! Details TBA
*'''Tuesday Feb14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafeFor more info follow [[zine | this]] link.
* '''Wednesday, Jan30, 20:00-22:00''' [[zine|ZiP]] meeting for zine-makers & others with an interest in printing & self-publishingThe meeting 1/30/13 is our first since mid-2012We plan to hold them regularly from now on at this time (Wednesday 8pm)This meeting will be informal & will probably take place in the printing/lasercutter area of the hackerspace.

===2011===

* '''September 11th 14:00 to 17:00''' - The San Francisco Chapter of the Open Organisation Of Lockpickers and Bay Area Hacker's Association present a joint meeting on [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Locksport locksport]
*'''August 4, 7PM, Thursday''' - [http://zeidman.net Bob Zeidman] will be giving a talk on video games and intellectual property, hosted by TheMADEHe will also speak about IP infringement cases.
*'''August 9, 6:30PM, Tuesday''' - [http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/26413241/ Make:SF] - Chris Jefferies will speak about the wireless sensor kit he is developing and we are bringing back our all star soldering kits.

* '''April 13th, 19:00''' - Kombucha fermentation class with [[BioBridge]]
*'''April 7th, 20:00''' - [[In-Depth|Noisebridge: In-Depth]] Our monthly lecture and round tableThis month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE PartyCome and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conferenceThere will be beer
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoinsThen we'll head out to find some local caches and place caches we made[http://www.geocaching.com More info about Geocaching here]
* '''March 20th, 19:00''' [[Hack Politics]] meetup -- the first meetup to figure out how we in the hacker community can effectively mobilize and create meaningful change in these interesting times
* '''March 12th, 12:00-18:00 - Noisebridge Hackathon!''' Second Saturday Hackathon is 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.
* '''March 10, Thursday, 19:00 - Group Grammar Clinic''' - Church Classroom - Donations gladly accepted - A clinic for grammar and writing evaluationPlease bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluateBring your laptop as well Collaboration groupware possibly provided(Please suggest groupware software to use if you wish)Constructive feedback from other group members is encouraged so that this clinic is a group process- Facilitator: [[User:Owen|Owen]] (opietro@yahoo.com)
* '''March 9th, 20:00''' - Ferment and filter a mash! [[fermentation logs]]

===2010===
* '''Sunday, August 22, 19:00 CLUB-MATE DROPOFF AND TASTING PARTY''' Nick Farr will be in town to drop off Club-Mate ordered by San Franciscans!
* '''June 5th, 12:00-19:00 - [[NoiseBridgeRehab]]''' - Help make the space more usable and accessible! Noisebridge needs your help!
* '''June 5th, 16:00-20:00 - [[Science For Juggalos]]''' - Science Fair in front of the Warfield Theater teaching magnetism to Juggalos
* '''June 6th, 15:00 - [[AVC Meetup]]''' - Entrepreneurial bonding & matchmaking
* '''June 9th, 21:00 - Your liver supports Noisebridge''' - Come to Elixir @ 16th & Guerrero anytime after 21:00 and drink, drink, drink! 50% of tips go to Noisebridge
* '''February 27th, 20:00 - [[Hacker EPROM]]''' - Noisebridge's first prom! Nice tie and a (robot) date requiredWe will have a DJ and punch.
* '''February 24th, 19:00, Wednesday - Joris Peels, of [http://www.shapeways.com Shapeways]''', and expert on 3D printing, will give a [[ShaperwaysPresentation | talk and demonstration]] at Noisebridge!.
* '''February 23rd, 18:00 - Cleaning day''' - Come and help clean Noisebridge, because everyone loves a clean hack space.
* '''February 12th, 21:00 - visit from Steve Jackson'''Game designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_%28US_game_designer%29 Steve Jackson], founder of Steve Jackson Games, will visit Noisebridge.
* '''January 27th, 18:00-20:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Workshop]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] (contact [[User:Gpvillamil|Gian Pablo]] for more info)
* '''January 27th, 20:00-22:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Performance]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] - "Celebrate a night of new sound that will change your idea of music forever!"
* '''January 25th, 19:30 - [[Bag Porn]]''' - What's in your bag?
* '''January 20th, 19:00-21:00 - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat/about Bay Categories & Types]''' - Categories, monoids, monads, functors and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom.
* '''January 20th, 19:00 - [[User Experience Book Club SF]]''' - Our book this month is "A Theory of Fun for Game Design" by Raph Koster - http://is.gd/6sEqw (meets in Turing)
* '''January 21st, 20:00 - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' - Monthly set of lightning talks on diverse topics
* '''January 22nd, 17:00 - [[CleaningParty| Cleaning Party]]''' - Come help clean up Noisebridge! Awsum fun!
* ...January 14th,16th, and 17th 1:00- ??? Build Out day for kitchen/bathroom/laundry bring yourself and a good attitude, learn a few things as well
* '''January 15th, 18:00 - [[CNC_Mill_Workshop]]''' - Learn to use the CNC mill for 2D engraving and circuit board routing
* Thursdays 17:00 [[ASL Group|American Sign Language]] - Learn how to talk without using your voice (or just come chat in ASL)[http://whenisgood.net/noisebridge/asl/generic click to reschedule]

===2009===
* '''November 18th, 19:30''' - [[Dorkbot_2009_11_18|Dorkbot]]
* '''November 19th, 18:00''' - [[Mesh meetup]]
* '''November 19th, 20:00''' - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
* '''November 20th, 18:00''' - Loud Objects [http://www.flickr.com/photos/createdigitalmedia/3428249036/ Noise Toy workshop].
* '''November 20th, 20:00''' - Performance by [http://www.loudobjects.com/ Loud Objects], (featuring Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan) and [http://www.myspace.com/jibkidder Jib Kidder].
:'''2009-11-05''' - [http://www.server-sky.com/ Server Sky presentation: Internet and Computation in Orbit] by Keith Lofstrom
:'''2009-11-05''' - [[Mesh meetup]]
:'''2009-11-02''' - [[French]] book club meeting to discuss [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2842612892/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance Une Si Longue Lettre]
: ''' October 1st, 18:00''' - [[Wireless_Mesh_Network_Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]
: ''' October 1st, 19:00''' - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat Bay Area Categories and Types]
: '''2009-10-03''' [[Year 1 Open Hacker House]]
:'''Friday''': [[CrazyCryptoNight]] - Discussion of cryptography for beginners through experts6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels7pm beginners, 8pm advancedRSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructorEvents ran May-November 2009Currently on Thursdays at 8Get on the mailing list.
:'''Tuesday''': [[Haskell/Haschool]] - Learn Haskell with Jason Dusek 6PM - 7:30PM, from May until we're all experts.
:'''Wednesday''': [[Adobe_Lightroom|Adobe Lightroom]] - Become a more organized photographerWeekly class (mostly held off site).
:'''Thursday''': [[Professional VFX Compositing With Adobe After Effects]] - Taught by [[User:SFSlim|Aaron Muszalski]]7:30PM - 10PM, most Thursdays in May & June & ? (click through dammit)
:'''2009-09-17''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] 3D Edition
:'''2009-09-17''': [[Wireless Mesh Network Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]
:'''2009-08-20''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] One Dee Edition
:'''2009-07-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] Zero Dee
:'''2009-07-02 - 2009-07-05''': [http://toorcamp.org Toorcamp]
:'''2009-07-01''': Noisedroid meeting to discuss location logging on Android platform (and other stuff too, I'm sure)
:'''2009-06-30''': [[Powerbocking Class|Powerbocking class]]
:'''2009-06-30''': "Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Profit" (Toorcamp talk preview)
:'''2009-06-28''': "Meditation for Hackers" (Toorcamp workshop preview)
:'''2009-06-18''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-06-15''': [[Eagle Workshop]] Session two of the Eagle CAD workshop.
:'''2009-06-13''': [[RoboGames 2009]] Noisebridge had a booth staffed by vounteers, great fun!
:'''2009-05-21''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-04-27''': [[EagleCAD workshop]] -- learn to use this CAD tool for printed circuit board design
:'''2009-04-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] April showers & flowers edition
:'''2009-04-11''': [[RFID Hacking]] weekend workshop (this event moved from the original March date)
:'''2009-04-05''': [[First aid and CPR class]] Learning how to not only not die, but also reduce scarring!
:'''2009-04-03''': [[Sudo pop]] 2PM and onMaking the first batch of a Noisebridge label yerba mate-niated rootbrew, gratis and DIY
:'''2009-03-26''': [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] first meet up for this new group: 8 pm
:'''2009-03-19''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-03-12''': [[OpenBTS and GSM]] talk by David Burgess
:'''2009-02-14''': [[Open Heart Workshop]] Valentine's Day blinkyheart soldering party!
:'''2009-02-13''': [[Time-t_Party|<tt>time_t</tt> Party]] to celebrate 1,234,567,890 since the Unix epoch.
:'''2009-02-09''': [[Spanish learning at 8:30]]
:'''2009-02-05''': [[PGP Key Workshop]]
:'''2009-01-31''': [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]

===2008===
:'''2008-12-27''': [[25C3]] Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin
:'''2008-12-20 & 21''': [[Creme Brulee]] Workshop on creating a french dessert, with bonus propane torch.
:'''2008-12-17 20:00''': [[Machine Learning]] Birds-of-a-feather
:'''2008-11-24''': [[Circuit Hacking Monday]] circuit design workshop
:'''2008-11-21, 7pm''':[[Milk and Cookies]] -- [[User:Dmolnar|David Molnar]] hosts Milk and Cookies at 83CBring a short 5-7minute thing to read to othersBring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you likeDavid will bring milk and cookies.
:'''2008-11-17, 7:30pm''': [[Basic Bicycle Maintain]] - [[User:rubin110|Rubin]] and [[User:rigel|rigel]] hate it when we see a bike that isn't maintainedScreechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hellBasic bike tune up, sharing the smarts on simple things you can do at home to make your ride suck a whole lot less.
:'''2008-11-16, 5:00pm''': [[RepRap Soldering Party]] - help assemble RepRap! RSVPs required on wiki! [[User:Adi|adi]]
:'''2008-11-16, 3:00pm''': [[Oscilloscopes]] - Learn how to use this versatile tool to test electronic circuits Maximum 6 slots, please sign up ahead of time! [[User:dstaff|dstaff]]
:'''2008-10-31''': [[Halloween Open House]] - NoiseBridge's own [[PPPC]] threw an awesome open house/halloween galaPost pictures if you got 'em!
:'''2008-10-25''': [[Soldering Workshop]] and Pumpkin Hackin' - Learn to solder for total newbies (or learn to solder better!), including surface mountAdditionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit boardI'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etchingThis is step 1/3 for a project called "annoying USB thingie" which will execute pre-defined keystrokes by sneaking a tiny USB dongle onto a victim^h^h^h^h^h buddy's computer.
:'''2008-09-13''': [[Processing Workshop]] — Learn this very easy-to-use programming language! - [[Processing Workshop Report]]
:'''2008-02-16''': [[Brain Machine Workshop|Brain Machine Making Workshop]]: Our first hardware sprint!

[[Category:Top level]]

Category:Events

2017-02-27T00:51:21Z

BuddhaHacker: added the "Future of Programming" meetup.

Official, Semi-Official, one-off and other events at the Noisebridge space.

=Event Calendar=
<onlyinclude>
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/ Discussion] or [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-announce/ Announcements] mailing lists, [[IRC]] or in person at [[Meetings | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff. DO pay attention, as some events just arise organically from the bottom up!

'''Want to host your event at Noisebridge?''' We like seeing classes and talks on interesting things pertaining to various subjects of hacking. Most of all, we like seeing familiar faces. Please participate in the space and our [[Meetings|weekly Tuesday meetings]] to see if we're the right audience for what you want to share before announcing a new event. Additionally, please see our [[Hosting an Event|events hosting page]] for suggestions on how to use Noisebridge for your event/class/workshop.

 
=== Upcoming Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=2 edit] ===







 
{{event
|time = Wednesday, March 1st, 2017, 7pm
|title = Dorkbot
|description = [http://dorkbotsf.org/ Dorkbot] is a social gathering of dorks, nerds, and geeks including 3 presentations that somehow explore intersections of art & tech. Presentations for this Dorkbot inlclude: Kal Spelitich & Mitch Altman "Harvesting Brain DATA for Robotic Mayhem and Enlightenment", Terbo Ted on his new sci fi novel about a journalist falling in love love with an AI, and Mark Meadows on the pluses and minuses of bots.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Thursday, March 2nd, 2017, 8.01pm
|title = Future of Programming/Visual Interactive Programming
|description = See the following link for more info [https://www.meetup.com/Future-of-Programming-Visual-Interactive-Programming/ meetup:Future-of-Programming] A meetup happening at Noisebridge, contact jsk@yesco.org for any.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Tuesday, March 7th, 2017, 7pm
|title = SF Awesome Foundation meeting
|description = The [http://www.awesomefoundation.org/ Awesome Foundation] has chapters all over the world. Each chapter gives a monthly grant of $1k to an awesome project -- no strings attached. If you have a project you feel is awesome, please submit it! The San Francisco chapter will have its March meeting in the Turing classroom. 
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, March 11th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_11_Mar_2017|The 11-Mar-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: I Should Have Cut The Eyes Different (Branpos/Ingalls/Grusel), Turjurikkuja, Jen Belleville & Kevin Cocoran, Coconut, Clarke Robinson''
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, March 18th, 2017, 1pm
|title = Arduino For Total Newbies workshop
|description = This '''[[Arduino For Total Newbies]]''' workshop is a fun, easy way to learn all you need to play with Arduino and make your own projects. Arduino is a powerful way to make things blink, move, and make noise! Anyone can learn. All are welcome! 1:00pm - 4:30pm Cost: $35 for materials.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Sunday, March 26th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GSM Anomaly Detection Workshop (Hackatorium)
|description = We will assemble inexpensive (~$150-$170 each, BYO parts) sensors and configure the service for aggregating GSM network information! The whole system (aggregation service plus sensors) is open-source, and the parts are easy to obtain via online maker-oriented vendors. Bring the parts and an AWS/Digital Ocean/${FAVORITE_IAAS_PROVIDER} login, because you'll need somewhere to send the information to, and we'll all leave with our very own cellular anomaly detection systems! Parts list on this page: [http://sitch.io/sensor.html Sensor] and [http://a.co/4rOTjyF here's a list of the components on Amazon]
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, April 8th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_08_Apr_2017|The 08-Apr-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: Dinosaurs With Horns (LAFMS), Mochipet, Tom Djill, Bloody Snowman, Mas Coad''
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, May 13th, 2017, 12pm
|title = GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES
|description = [[Godwaffle_13_May_2017|The 13-May-2017 GODWAFFLE NOISE PANCAKES]] has experimental acts, electronic sounds, & noise, with gourmet vegan pancakes! 
''Bands: Microwave Windows, Syrnx, Fistortion, Nurse Betty, Series Premiere''
}}
 
{{event
|time = Thursday, May 18th, 2017, 08:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - setup day]] Thursday morning we'll meet to load a truck with our Maker Faire stuff and take it down to San Mateo for setup.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Friday, May 19th, 2017, 09:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - setup and show day]] We'll be fixing anything we broke during setup, or forgot to bring. Then telling people about Noisebridge and showing off what we've made here in the space. (Time to be corrected as details arrive.)
}}
 
{{event
|time = Saturday, May 20th, 2017, 09:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - show day]] Well be telling people about Noisebridge and showing off what we've made here in the space. Hackers are ok. (Time to be corrected as details arrive.)
}}
 
{{event
|time = Sunday, May 21st, 2017, 09:00
|title = Maker Faire 2017
|description = [[Maker|Maker Faire 2017 - show day and tear down]] We'll be telling people about Noisebridge and showing off what we've made here in the space. At the end of the show, we'll take it all back home to Noisebridge. (Time to be corrected as details arrive.)
}}
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=== Recurring Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=3 edit] ===

{{Template:Recurring}} - Every week. 
{{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} - Certain weeks, e.g. 1st week only. 
{{Template:RecurringException|-2nd}} - Except certain weeks, or other schedule exceptions.


==== Mondays ====
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''7:00 pm to 9:00 pm [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' Learn to solder! And make cool things with electronics. [[User:maltman23|Mitch]], [[User:Tman66|J]], Rolf, [[User:Miloh|Miloh]], [[User:Cedric|Cedric]], Cheng, Greg, and/or a host of others will bring kits-for-purchase to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them! Many designed for '''absolute beginners'''! Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All ages. All are welcome! See the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss Discuss list] and the [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-announce Announce list] for weekly updates.
* {{Template:Recurring}} [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night -- Round One]] Be sure to put bins out by midnight as the trash truck comes between 1:30 to 2:30am.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm '''[[PyClass|Intermediate Python with PyClass]]''' - Crash course in the Python standard library. Monday session is held in Church Classroom.

==== ''Super'' Tuesdays! ====
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''5:00 pm to 7:30 pm [[Songbridge|Songbridge Music Making Tuesdays]]''' - Beginner-friendly music making and mentoring meetup with Ableton/GarageBand/Logic tutorials for beginners and peer collabs. ([[Noise Square Table]]).
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} '''6:30 pm to 8:30 pm [[SCoT|Sewing and Crafting]]''' - Come learn how to use the sewing machines or just work on a craft (e.g. knitting, crocheting, felt working, embroidery, leatherworking, beading, etc.). All skill levels are welcome.
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:30 pm to 11:30 pm [[Gamebridge|Gamebridge Unityversity Game Dev Tuesdays]]''' - Beginner-friendly game development class and meetup, learn and share C# Unity coding, 2D/3D art, design, writing and audio. Learn how to mentor and help teach game dev. ([[Noise Square Table]]).
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:00 pm [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision-making on key issues. '''This is your space, folks. Come on out here in person to express what you think about what's going on with it!'''

==== Wednesdays ====
* {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm - '''[[Cyberspectrum|Cyberspectrum: Software Defined Radio Meetup]]''' in the Hackatorium(''new''): A place to learn and exchange ideas about SDR. Presentations on concepts, mystery signals, hardware/software and cool applications. Event alternates monthly between SF and the South Bay.
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9. '''[[with Software; Art()]]''' Present your personal and expressive art made with software/hardware of your own making and get feedback and critical dialogue from fellow artist/technologists. [Last updated Feb 1, 2017].
* {{Template:Recurring}} 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[DreamTeam| Dream Team Neuro Hackery]] - EEG research & development project with general interest in sleep, dreaming, creative intelligence, and many loosely related topics such as: neurophysiology, signal processing, cognitive neuroscience, and (especially) hacking code and devices for data acquisition and analysis. Join us at the [[CollaborationStation]] (near the Hackatorium). Expect general discussion around 8 PM - usually moving along by 9 PM to focus on more technical aspects of current project.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm - Career Change: How to kickstart your new career in web development

==== Thursdays ====
* {{Template:Recurring}} [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night -- Round Two]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning! Do it by midnight as truck comes ~1:30am to 2:30am.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm The [[Go]] group meets up on Wednesdays and Thursdays to play.
* {{Template:Recurring}} '''8:00 pm to 9:00pm [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' a.k.a. 5MoF - Ten 5min talks in an hour, on any topic! Small 5MoFs every Thursday-ish, bigger ones on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|biweekly}} 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Programming for Interviews every other Thursday evening. [http://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/ RSVP on meetup.com]
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|biweekly}} 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Laser Safety Training every other Thursday evening. [http://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/ RSVP on meetup.com]

==== Fridays ====
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|5th}} 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm [[Computerology]] in Turing or [[CollaborationStation]], understanding and using computers
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|1st}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} {{Template:RecurringNumbered|5th}} 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm [[FUN Tutoring]] @ [[CollaborationStation]]
* {{Template:RecurringNumbered|3rd}} [[Noisebridge Gaming Archivists]] Meetup 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm -- Come play, fix, mod retro consoles. Create and play is our motto! If you like video games, this is the place for you.

==== Saturdays ====
nothing!

==== Sundays ====
* {{Template:RecurringException|alternating monthly}} 1:00 pm Monthly Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks and learn more about them with the [http://www.tooolsf.org/ SF Bay Area chapter] of [http://toool.us/ TOOOL]. The group meets on alternating months at Noisebridge and in San Jose. Check the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tooolsf TOOOL SF announcement list] for details.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 3:00 pm [[Go]] - Playing of the Go board game. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
* {{Template:Recurring}} 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm .impact Workathons in Turing classrom. Work on projects that will help humanity & beyond.
</div>
</onlyinclude>

If you'd like to contact somebody at Noisebridge regarding these Events or even the Noisebridge Wiki itself, then please send an email message to one of the Board members listed in the [[Contacts]] list, e.g., <secretary@noisebridge.net> or <treasurer@noisebridge.net>

=== Orphaned Events ===
These events appear to be dormant or extinct.

* SAT 10:15 - 12:10 [[Juggling with Judy!]] Note: next class is scheduled for Saturday June 29th. Attention juggling fans! Judy will be at the 2013 World Juggling Day celebration Saturday June 15th at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium in San Francisco Fisherman's Warf - free event begins at 1. Come check it out!
* THU 18:00 - 21:00 '''[[Privacy Bay]]''' - A monthly meetup for Bay Area folks interested in privacy. Meets in Church on the last Thursday of the month.
* FRI 19:00 - 21:00 [[Anarchy_101|Anarchy 101]] - a class/seminar on what anarchy is and is not, and how it impacts us as individuals and as discrete groups.
* 20:00 - 22:00 [[Noise~_Wednesday | Noise~ Wed]] - Graphical media programming with Max/MSP/Jitter
* 19:00 [[Tahoe-LAFS]] - Occasional meetup of users and/or developers of the Least Authority File System.
* 14:00 - 16:00 Android Developer Support Group - Meet up with other app developers in the library for a lightly structured knowledge-share.

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===
:'''(TBD)''': [[Sound Science]] A potential monthly lecture/demonstration series on the little known science behind sound reproductionTopics to include: Transducer Physics(speakers and mics), Room Acoustics, Signal Path and Cabling,Loudspeaker design 101, Music Production Tips for Big Sound, and How to make a small system sound HUGEEach session to include hands on projects like making speakers from stuff lying around, Non-Newtonian bass monsters, and ez speaker mods for anyoneIf interested contact the new guy-> MattLong8 at gmail dot com, 805 four five three - six zero nine seven
:'''(TBD)''': [[Modular Synthesis]] a bi-weekly (or monthly) group devoted to modular synthesizers> workshop will include modular sound synthesis styles and techniques, a study of different modules and their functions, ie voltage controlled oscillator, voltage controlled filter, low frequency oscillator, envelope generator ect and how these modules interact with each other, what control voltage and triggers are..... as well as one on one time for each student with the modular, which is a 60 space large format Moog style modular synthesizer with big knobs and 1/4 jacks including performance and other awesomeness by Douglas. contact Douglas at greenshoos at gmail dotcom
:'''(TBD)''': [[VideoHacking]] a weekly video/video art devoted hacker group, including experiments in the 3D vr realm...if interested contact julialc4@gmail.com
:Wednesdays at 21:00 [[Brewing Bridge]] - Malakkar Proposal: Learn how to make your drinks fun AND antibacterial, using yeastThis will be recurring if enough interest or need is presentAssociated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Probability]] - Weekly probability study group based on [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-041-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-spring-2006/related-resources/ Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory] by Al Drake
:'''(TBD)''': [[Mandarin Corner|Mandarin]] - Learn or practice Mandarin, all levels. Also currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Movie Night!]] - [[User:ThOMG|Thom]] wants to build community through nerdy sci-fi! (+Bill+Ted+Excellence++) (how about a Friday hacker movie night? -[[User:Carl|Carl]])
:'''(TBD)''': [[Introduction to the AVR Microcontroller]] - [[User:Mightyohm|Jeff]] and [[User:Maltman23|Mitch]] are planning an introductory class for people wanting to make cool projects with AVRs.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Basic Chemistry Lab Techniques]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Cuddle Puddle for the Economy]] - Stress-hacking with informal massage exchange.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Milk and Cookies]] - Come read your favorite selections out loud With Milk and Cookies (and yeah, probably beer too).
:'''(TBD)''': [[Processing Workshop 2]] - [[User:Scmurray|Scott]] is interested in teaching this, and is busy thinking about what, where, when, why, and how.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Hack your Hardware]] -- We call BS on "no user-serviceable parts inside"
:'''(TBD)''': [[Homebrew Instruction Class]] - The Wort (pt 1/3)
:'''(TBD)''': [[Trip to Shooting Range]] - Field trip to a shooting range, to shoot guns Express interest at [[Trip to Shooting Range]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Surface Mount Soldering Workshop]] - Learn how to solder cicuits with small surface mount parts [[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]] and Martin Bogomolni and others will show their tricks [[User:maltman23|Mitch]] will bring hackable kits that uses surface mounts for you to solder<-YES! (mattlong8 at gmail dot com)
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Version control tutorial]]
:'''(TBD)''' - [[Foreign language learning for rocket scientists]] - I'm near-native (fool people when I try) in (French and) Japanese, and a pro trans/terpreter and will share my shortcuts (skill-order, vocab, speed/articulation, translation≅grammar) No expertise on tonal languages yet..so if you know how to remember tones or how tone-sandhi interacts with speed and/or how nuances of speaker attitude are expressed in them (what we do with rythm/inflection/sentence-intonation and stress in Eng., and with particles and ??? in e.g. Cantonese) please chime in or call me (415-608-0564) so I can convey your wisdom [also looking for a from-scratch Arabic partner]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Getting started with Arduino]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Distributed Databases]]
:'''(TBD)''': [[Node.js Beginners Session]] - Interested in learning about Node.js? I amMaybe these guys want to teach it: http://www.meetup.com/Joyent-Cloud-User-Group/events/81311542/

:'''(TBD)''': [[Scrum Club]] - I though I'd test the waters and see if anyone was interested in a noisebridge scrum club details are here http://scrumclub.org/scrum-clubs/ if inturested hit me up twitter: @theabcasian, facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theabcasian
:'''(TBD)''': [[CNC Mill Workshop]] - Who wants to make stuff on the [[MaxNCMill]]?
:'''(TBD)''': [[Math & Science Help]] - If you would like some math, science or engineering help, I'm down to lend a hand.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Cyborg Group|Cyborg Group / Sensebridge]] - Work on projects like artificial senses Someone needs to lead this!
:'''(TBD)''': [[OpenEEG]] - Brain techHas historically met on Sundays, at the behest of interested parties.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Programming_for_Poets | Programming for Poets]] - Gentle intro to programming using Processing
:'''(TBD)''': [[World Builders & Simgineers]] - Work together to create a beautiful & open virtual world & platform.
:'''(TBD)''': [[PlunderBridge]] - Metal detecting, detector technology & treasure hunting expeditions.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Ruby Mining]] - Ruby on Rails basics, interactive working group
:'''(TBD)''': [[MoinMoin Wiki]] - MoinMoin Wiki (details see there)
:'''(TBD)''': [[Noisebridge Fundraiser 2013]]

= Past Events =

===2016===
{{event
|time = Thursday, February 25th, 2016, 7pm
|title = SF Amateur Mathematicians
|description = Differential Geometry and Wide-Angle Photography with Chad Fong. In Church Room. See [http://www.meetup.com/SF-Amateur-Mathematicians/events/228761849/ Meetup page]. SF Amateur Mathematicians is a math club open to everyone interested in learning more about math. Topics and talks generally assume some collegiate mathematical background.
}}
 
{{event
|time = Sunday, February 7th, 2016, 11:00am
|title = HackTheLeft
|description = [[HackTheLeft|Hack the Left]] is an ''anticapitalist'' hackathon, going on for the entire long weekend of February 5th-7th at Noisebridge. This is an experiment to see what happens when you get a bunch of leftists in a room for a weekend with the intention to advance liberatory and ''anticapitalist'' projects using technology. This includes software projects like Tor and Signal, art projects like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Men in Grey, hardware projects like mesh networks and signal jammers, and tools for rad organizations like Anti Police-Crimethink Project and Food Not Bombs. It's clear that there's a huge amount of opportunity for liberatory technology. It's up to us to build it. 

*Hackathon participants should be able to get into Noisebridge by [[Hours | its 11:00 AM opening hour]], if not earlier, for both weekend days.
}}

===2014===
*{{event
|time = Sunday, September 23, 5:00pm
|title = How to Start a Startup MOOC Lecture Viewings
|description = We would get together to watch the lectures together and conduct discussion and networking afterwards. http://startupclass.samaltman.com/
|}}

===2013===
*{{event
|time = Friday, August 9, 5:00pm
|title = Noisebridge Party Setup
|description = Volunteers will be preparing the space for Saturday's show. There are no scheduled conflicts; you might be asked to move multiple times by someone pushing a broom and assembling a raised stage simultaneously.
|}}

*{{event
|time = Saturday, August 10, 4:00pm
|title = Noisebridge "______ the Bridge" Party
|description = a summer fundraising party for Noisebridge, which YOU are invited to!
|suggested donation = $10, but no one turned away for lack of funds
|}}

*{{event
|time = Sunday, August 11, 2:00pm
|title = Bay Area Hackers' Association Meeting
|description = Jon Callas presenting on [[BAHA/2013-08-11|Secure Communications, Privacy, Counter-Surveillance]].
|}}

* '''Wednesday, May 22, 7.00 pm: Instructables Build Night''' - Bare Conductive, Instructables will supply Bare Conductive paint pens and pizza. Come experiment with the paint and post some Instructables. This is a FREE event.

===2012===
* '''December 20, Thursday, 20:00 - 22:00 - [[5MoF|5 Minutes of Fame]]''' - Following up on its triumphant return in November, 5MoF is back with another showcase of lightning talks & other good stuff, with your host Sir Danny O'Brien! Details TBA
*'''Tuesday Feb14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafeFor more info follow [[zine | this]] link.
* '''Wednesday, Jan30, 20:00-22:00''' [[zine|ZiP]] meeting for zine-makers & others with an interest in printing & self-publishingThe meeting 1/30/13 is our first since mid-2012We plan to hold them regularly from now on at this time (Wednesday 8pm)This meeting will be informal & will probably take place in the printing/lasercutter area of the hackerspace.

===2011===

* '''September 11th 14:00 to 17:00''' - The San Francisco Chapter of the Open Organisation Of Lockpickers and Bay Area Hacker's Association present a joint meeting on [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Locksport locksport]
*'''August 4, 7PM, Thursday''' - [http://zeidman.net Bob Zeidman] will be giving a talk on video games and intellectual property, hosted by TheMADEHe will also speak about IP infringement cases.
*'''August 9, 6:30PM, Tuesday''' - [http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/26413241/ Make:SF] - Chris Jefferies will speak about the wireless sensor kit he is developing and we are bringing back our all star soldering kits.

* '''April 13th, 19:00''' - Kombucha fermentation class with [[BioBridge]]
*'''April 7th, 20:00''' - [[In-Depth|Noisebridge: In-Depth]] Our monthly lecture and round tableThis month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE PartyCome and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conferenceThere will be beer
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoinsThen we'll head out to find some local caches and place caches we made[http://www.geocaching.com More info about Geocaching here]
* '''March 20th, 19:00''' [[Hack Politics]] meetup -- the first meetup to figure out how we in the hacker community can effectively mobilize and create meaningful change in these interesting times
* '''March 12th, 12:00-18:00 - Noisebridge Hackathon!''' Second Saturday Hackathon is 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.
* '''March 10, Thursday, 19:00 - Group Grammar Clinic''' - Church Classroom - Donations gladly accepted - A clinic for grammar and writing evaluationPlease bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluateBring your laptop as well Collaboration groupware possibly provided(Please suggest groupware software to use if you wish)Constructive feedback from other group members is encouraged so that this clinic is a group process- Facilitator: [[User:Owen|Owen]] (opietro@yahoo.com)
* '''March 9th, 20:00''' - Ferment and filter a mash! [[fermentation logs]]

===2010===
* '''Sunday, August 22, 19:00 CLUB-MATE DROPOFF AND TASTING PARTY''' Nick Farr will be in town to drop off Club-Mate ordered by San Franciscans!
* '''June 5th, 12:00-19:00 - [[NoiseBridgeRehab]]''' - Help make the space more usable and accessible! Noisebridge needs your help!
* '''June 5th, 16:00-20:00 - [[Science For Juggalos]]''' - Science Fair in front of the Warfield Theater teaching magnetism to Juggalos
* '''June 6th, 15:00 - [[AVC Meetup]]''' - Entrepreneurial bonding & matchmaking
* '''June 9th, 21:00 - Your liver supports Noisebridge''' - Come to Elixir @ 16th & Guerrero anytime after 21:00 and drink, drink, drink! 50% of tips go to Noisebridge
* '''February 27th, 20:00 - [[Hacker EPROM]]''' - Noisebridge's first prom! Nice tie and a (robot) date requiredWe will have a DJ and punch.
* '''February 24th, 19:00, Wednesday - Joris Peels, of [http://www.shapeways.com Shapeways]''', and expert on 3D printing, will give a [[ShaperwaysPresentation | talk and demonstration]] at Noisebridge!.
* '''February 23rd, 18:00 - Cleaning day''' - Come and help clean Noisebridge, because everyone loves a clean hack space.
* '''February 12th, 21:00 - visit from Steve Jackson'''Game designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_%28US_game_designer%29 Steve Jackson], founder of Steve Jackson Games, will visit Noisebridge.
* '''January 27th, 18:00-20:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Workshop]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] (contact [[User:Gpvillamil|Gian Pablo]] for more info)
* '''January 27th, 20:00-22:00 - [[beatrixjar event|Circuit Bending Performance]]''' - [http://www.beatrixjar.com/ Beatrix*JAR] - "Celebrate a night of new sound that will change your idea of music forever!"
* '''January 25th, 19:30 - [[Bag Porn]]''' - What's in your bag?
* '''January 20th, 19:00-21:00 - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat/about Bay Categories & Types]''' - Categories, monoids, monads, functors and more! Held in the Alonzo Church classroom.
* '''January 20th, 19:00 - [[User Experience Book Club SF]]''' - Our book this month is "A Theory of Fun for Game Design" by Raph Koster - http://is.gd/6sEqw (meets in Turing)
* '''January 21st, 20:00 - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]''' - Monthly set of lightning talks on diverse topics
* '''January 22nd, 17:00 - [[CleaningParty| Cleaning Party]]''' - Come help clean up Noisebridge! Awsum fun!
* ...January 14th,16th, and 17th 1:00- ??? Build Out day for kitchen/bathroom/laundry bring yourself and a good attitude, learn a few things as well
* '''January 15th, 18:00 - [[CNC_Mill_Workshop]]''' - Learn to use the CNC mill for 2D engraving and circuit board routing
* Thursdays 17:00 [[ASL Group|American Sign Language]] - Learn how to talk without using your voice (or just come chat in ASL)[http://whenisgood.net/noisebridge/asl/generic click to reschedule]

===2009===
* '''November 18th, 19:30''' - [[Dorkbot_2009_11_18|Dorkbot]]
* '''November 19th, 18:00''' - [[Mesh meetup]]
* '''November 19th, 20:00''' - [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
* '''November 20th, 18:00''' - Loud Objects [http://www.flickr.com/photos/createdigitalmedia/3428249036/ Noise Toy workshop].
* '''November 20th, 20:00''' - Performance by [http://www.loudobjects.com/ Loud Objects], (featuring Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan) and [http://www.myspace.com/jibkidder Jib Kidder].
:'''2009-11-05''' - [http://www.server-sky.com/ Server Sky presentation: Internet and Computation in Orbit] by Keith Lofstrom
:'''2009-11-05''' - [[Mesh meetup]]
:'''2009-11-02''' - [[French]] book club meeting to discuss [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2842612892/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance Une Si Longue Lettre]
: ''' October 1st, 18:00''' - [[Wireless_Mesh_Network_Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]
: ''' October 1st, 19:00''' - [http://groups.google.com/group/bacat Bay Area Categories and Types]
: '''2009-10-03''' [[Year 1 Open Hacker House]]
:'''Friday''': [[CrazyCryptoNight]] - Discussion of cryptography for beginners through experts6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels7pm beginners, 8pm advancedRSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructorEvents ran May-November 2009Currently on Thursdays at 8Get on the mailing list.
:'''Tuesday''': [[Haskell/Haschool]] - Learn Haskell with Jason Dusek 6PM - 7:30PM, from May until we're all experts.
:'''Wednesday''': [[Adobe_Lightroom|Adobe Lightroom]] - Become a more organized photographerWeekly class (mostly held off site).
:'''Thursday''': [[Professional VFX Compositing With Adobe After Effects]] - Taught by [[User:SFSlim|Aaron Muszalski]]7:30PM - 10PM, most Thursdays in May & June & ? (click through dammit)
:'''2009-09-17''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] 3D Edition
:'''2009-09-17''': [[Wireless Mesh Network Meetup | Mesh wireless meetup]]
:'''2009-08-20''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] One Dee Edition
:'''2009-07-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] Zero Dee
:'''2009-07-02 - 2009-07-05''': [http://toorcamp.org Toorcamp]
:'''2009-07-01''': Noisedroid meeting to discuss location logging on Android platform (and other stuff too, I'm sure)
:'''2009-06-30''': [[Powerbocking Class|Powerbocking class]]
:'''2009-06-30''': "Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Profit" (Toorcamp talk preview)
:'''2009-06-28''': "Meditation for Hackers" (Toorcamp workshop preview)
:'''2009-06-18''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-06-15''': [[Eagle Workshop]] Session two of the Eagle CAD workshop.
:'''2009-06-13''': [[RoboGames 2009]] Noisebridge had a booth staffed by vounteers, great fun!
:'''2009-05-21''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-04-27''': [[EagleCAD workshop]] -- learn to use this CAD tool for printed circuit board design
:'''2009-04-16''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]] April showers & flowers edition
:'''2009-04-11''': [[RFID Hacking]] weekend workshop (this event moved from the original March date)
:'''2009-04-05''': [[First aid and CPR class]] Learning how to not only not die, but also reduce scarring!
:'''2009-04-03''': [[Sudo pop]] 2PM and onMaking the first batch of a Noisebridge label yerba mate-niated rootbrew, gratis and DIY
:'''2009-03-26''': [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] first meet up for this new group: 8 pm
:'''2009-03-19''': [[Five Minutes of Fame]]
:'''2009-03-12''': [[OpenBTS and GSM]] talk by David Burgess
:'''2009-02-14''': [[Open Heart Workshop]] Valentine's Day blinkyheart soldering party!
:'''2009-02-13''': [[Time-t_Party|<tt>time_t</tt> Party]] to celebrate 1,234,567,890 since the Unix epoch.
:'''2009-02-09''': [[Spanish learning at 8:30]]
:'''2009-02-05''': [[PGP Key Workshop]]
:'''2009-01-31''': [[Locksport and Lockpicking]]

===2008===
:'''2008-12-27''': [[25C3]] Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin
:'''2008-12-20 & 21''': [[Creme Brulee]] Workshop on creating a french dessert, with bonus propane torch.
:'''2008-12-17 20:00''': [[Machine Learning]] Birds-of-a-feather
:'''2008-11-24''': [[Circuit Hacking Monday]] circuit design workshop
:'''2008-11-21, 7pm''':[[Milk and Cookies]] -- [[User:Dmolnar|David Molnar]] hosts Milk and Cookies at 83CBring a short 5-7minute thing to read to othersBring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you likeDavid will bring milk and cookies.
:'''2008-11-17, 7:30pm''': [[Basic Bicycle Maintain]] - [[User:rubin110|Rubin]] and [[User:rigel|rigel]] hate it when we see a bike that isn't maintainedScreechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hellBasic bike tune up, sharing the smarts on simple things you can do at home to make your ride suck a whole lot less.
:'''2008-11-16, 5:00pm''': [[RepRap Soldering Party]] - help assemble RepRap! RSVPs required on wiki! [[User:Adi|adi]]
:'''2008-11-16, 3:00pm''': [[Oscilloscopes]] - Learn how to use this versatile tool to test electronic circuits Maximum 6 slots, please sign up ahead of time! [[User:dstaff|dstaff]]
:'''2008-10-31''': [[Halloween Open House]] - NoiseBridge's own [[PPPC]] threw an awesome open house/halloween galaPost pictures if you got 'em!
:'''2008-10-25''': [[Soldering Workshop]] and Pumpkin Hackin' - Learn to solder for total newbies (or learn to solder better!), including surface mountAdditionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit boardI'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etchingThis is step 1/3 for a project called "annoying USB thingie" which will execute pre-defined keystrokes by sneaking a tiny USB dongle onto a victim^h^h^h^h^h buddy's computer.
:'''2008-09-13''': [[Processing Workshop]] — Learn this very easy-to-use programming language! - [[Processing Workshop Report]]
:'''2008-02-16''': [[Brain Machine Workshop|Brain Machine Making Workshop]]: Our first hardware sprint!

[[Category:Top level]]

Noisebridge Mini-Reboot 2017

2017-02-11T23:45:06Z

BuddhaHacker: elevator bell

[[File:Mini-Reboot-2017-Poster-for-print-Large.jpg|480px|thumb|right]]

Noisebridge Mini-Reboot will be 2017-02-18 to 19. The space will be closed on these days except for work related to cleaning, repairs, and upgrades to the space. All are welcome to come help improve the space; please do. If you cannot make it to the space, we'll also need coordinated donations of food; lunch and dinner for the people working in the space.

This is the To-Do-List for Mini-Reboot 2017, please add too it if you find something that you think could be done during the weekend.

===Preparation===

* Purchase
** '''cleaning supplies'''
*** Contractor (rip stop) garbage bags, microfiber clothes, paper towels, glass cleaner, "green" all purpos cleaner, new mop head for mop, "goof off"
*** check shop vac filters, purchase new ones if needed
** wall mount mop and broom hangers
** Electrical supplies
*** 220V outlet, faceplate, and box
*** Conduit
*** #6 red and black THHN wire, if we don't have enough left over.
** drywall supplies
*** drywall sanding screens
*** 90 minute setting time drywall compound
** Painting
*** 5 gallons of good primer is always useful
* Other Prep
** check current inventory of electrical fittings
** check for drywall compound (90 minute compound if possible)
** locate drywall vacuum sanding attachment

===Mini-Reboot Projects===

* Cyber Infrastructure
** NB Wiki Front Page/Calendar (lizzie)
** Add basic UPS support for Earl (Henner)
** New wiring for front door camera (Charlie)
** Conduit to door system ([[user:Jarrod|Jarrod]])
** Create Main Projects Page - A Place where you can find all the projects we have at Noisebridge.

* General
** '''pick up trash from tables, shelves, and floor'''
** '''Sweep all areas'''
** Identify location of dump staging area
** Install CO sensors, one for each closed room: trashroom/elevator, turing, woodshop, sparkleforge, digital archivists, 2x bathrooms, hackatorium, and one in the back
** get dolly wheels repaired and re-inflated
*** this could possibly be done at a nearby tire shop. calling some around NB would be a good start
** '''collect, reclaim, purge abandoned projects'''
*** Determine what is useful to keep for the space
*** Place reclaimed materials in appropriate areas
*** Move rest to dump pile
** clean windows (best effort, some cant be reasonably reached)
** take down expired signage

* Entry
** Pick up trash
** '''sort donations pile'''
*** move unwanted stuff to dump pile or a "free" box on the sidewalk
** Sweep and the entry stairway
** Dust off conduit along stairway and paint it a fun color
** two picture frames are missing glass, it would be nice to replace the glass
** '''Display case'''
*** remove old notes/cards/signs and remove trash and unneeded items
*** sort and organize Noisebridge merch

* Elevator Lobby
** Vacuum elevator rails
** Create sign instructing people to close the elevator door.
** Gate buzzer & bell not working.
** finish walls since door install
*** sand down current drywall mud coat
*** apply second coat of drywall mud
*** apply third coat if needed
*** primer and paint walls on both sides
*** paint wooden door panel on both sides, remember to mask and be careful around door system.
** Break down steel angle scraps
*** Use angle grinder to cut down into metal scrap for sparkle forge
*** put remainder in dump pile
** '''Ewaste removal'''
*** some of this could go to ewaste SF at 16th and Capp, the rest can go to the ewaste pile at the dump

* Library
** Library (Trent)
** '''sort donated books'''
** collect books from space and re-shelve loose books
** scan books into collection
** sort collection
** remove / donate books not needed in the Noisebridge collection

* Hackitorium
** Hackatorium curtains (kyle)
** '''purge project shelves'''
** '''wipe down tables''' and dust off chairs
** clean refrigerator interior
*** purge
*** wipe down interior
*** Any projects not tagged, or tagged older than two months can be reclaimed for the space
*** The rest of the materials can go in the Ewaste or dump pile.
** Fix NoiseSquare (possibly done on 2017-02-03)
** Look at the HDMI cable in the Hackatorium
** Replace the plug that is missing its ground pin on one of the Hackatorium tables
** There may be some FlaschenTaschen maintenance
*** what to do with the Klein FlashenTaschen?

* Fabrication Area
** purge and organize
*** tables
*** sweep off and wipe down tables
*** shelves, go though bins and boxes
*** move items to hackshelves or Ewaste as needed
** verify operation of tools, note any future repairs required.
*** printers
*** vinyl cutter

* Electronics Area
** Electronics Area (Nemesis/J)
** clear out piles under electronics work benches
** brush off work benches and wipe down
** collect and sort tools
** sort / organized tool bins
** verify operation of electronics tools and note what is broken and anything that needs repairs in the future

* Sewing Area
** purge scrap bins
*** sort tools
*** '''Clean table and sewing table surfaces'''
** '''remove masking from floor'''

* Hallway / Hack Shelves
** purge less useful items
** Organize Hacker Shelves
** '''clear off wheeled table outside Sparkle Forge'''
** organize carts, ladders, and hand trucks

* Sparkle Forge
** '''purge materials and scrap'''
** Sparkle Forge door casing. Needs to be purchased, painted, and nailed in place.
** organized and purge PPE
** sweep
** '''Organize and Transfer Metal shop and dirty shop tools.''' Some tools should be in the metal shop and others in the dirty shop
*** These should be moved to bins in their respective shops and labeled. ([[user:Jarrod|Jarrod]])
** Install some metal shelves over the welding area. ([[user:Jarrod|Jarrod]])
*** create a place for the welding stuff and clamps
** Install additional 220V outlet for welder near column at west side of welding area ([[user:Jarrod|Jarrod]])
*** unless this is done before
** '''Laser cutter maintenance, if any'''

* Bathrooms (Chris Venter)
** '''scrub fixtures, wipe down walls, brush and scrub toilets, sweep floors, mop floors'''
** replace / refill soap containers
** Setup recurring toiletries purchase with treasurers help, (propose products and frequency)
** create a place for toiletries overflow storage
** improve door system to bathroom 2.0.
*** What is preventing the door from closing easily?
*** can the doorknob be fixed to hold the door shut again?

* Sink Area
** Purge, clean, and organize steel table
** remove unneeded / broken dishes and appliances
** '''install a means to hang mops and brooms near the sink'''
** '''reinstall in-line water heater'''
*** need to run electrical for it
** '''sort and store excess plumbing stuff'''
** move paint and painting supplies to dirty shop
** sort and purge pile of electronics stuff outside bathroom 1.0

* Church / Turing
** '''wipe down tables and chairs'''
** sweep
** clean turning window
** check all functions of A/V systems
** determine what to do with excess furniture in rear of church
** put unneeded kiln on craigslist? (Check with Trent - Please give proceeds money to Trent as reimbursement, it should sell for > $360)
** '''store potter's wheel in a better location''' (perhaps top of project shelves)

* Dirty Shop
** Dirty Shop (Nicholas Hohman/Blake)
** '''Purge abandoned project materials'''
*** anything with a note without a date or a date older that one month should be reclaimed for the space or purged
** '''Purge scrap bins'''
*** empty bins entirely and only put back the most useful scrap until bins are about half full
*** bag the rest and put it in the dump staging area
*** cut down large scrap that is being dumped if needed
** purge chemicals and paint
*** Reduce stock of paint, keep better paints and remove others
*** "Last's Paint" downstairs accepts old unused paint
** Organize Tools
*** look around the rest of the space and collect shop tools
*** move metal tools to Sparkle Forge
*** label / re label bins as needed
*** East wall and peg boards currently have no clear organization
** purge hardware and fasteners
*** keep only stuff that is very useful
** organize things under old mill table
*** sort painting supplies and purge broken or highly redundant items.
*** drywall stuff, old buckets, plumbing stuff etc.
** '''dismantle old mill table'''
*** use some care to recover materials to rebuild it, in the future, as a table for the router and other benchtop tools
** purge unsafe personal protective equipment
** purge sand paper bin
** clean space under metal shelves, in case tools have fallen back there
** clean under work benches
** replace sandpaper on bench top disk sander
** improve clamp storage

===People volunteering to help with delivering and/or donating funds for food?===

I can bring you some yummy homecooked ethnic food (probably vegetarian). I take the bus so I can only bring 10 or so large servings at a time.
If this sounds good tell me what timeframe is best. elleobot@gmail.com

5MoF/2017/01 26

2017-01-27T04:00:31Z

BuddhaHacker:

<div style="margin:auto;text-align: center;border: 6px solid #00b;background-color:#fff;color:#000;">
<big>Note: This is the replacement event for the [[Five_Minutes_of_Fame_2017_01_19|postponed 5moF on Jan 19th]]</big>
</div>

Put your name and title of your presentation - additionally a link if anyone wants to learn more.

'''Please also include contact details so that organisers can notify you in case the event needs to be canceled or postponed. A user page with details suffices.'''

1. [[User:Samlanning|Sam Lanning]] - Music & Lights ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EZSBGL5NQxutHo3xrUv5xaJrOnYX7GzKH8LzPk6YaKI/edit?usp=sharing Slides] TODO: make public again)

2. [[User:Lxpk|Alex Peake]] - Gamebridge Unityversity and Hackerspaces VR

3. [[User:Patrickod|Patrick O'Doherty]] - Coreboot and you

4. lizzie - manpages?

5. Owen Campbell-Moore - Secretbook: Hiding messages in images on Facebook ([https://www.wired.com/2013/04/secretbook/ Wired Article], [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2307497/Secretbook-lets-users-hide-ANY-message-Facebook-picture.html Hilariously Bad Article])

6. [[User:Restre|Nemil Dalal]] - Showing Selective Media Coverage Using Data ([https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-and-the-o/ The Space Shuttle Challenger and the O Ring], [https://priceonomics.com/our-fixation-on-terrorism/ How Media Fuels Our Fear of Terrorism])

7. Bob Hermes - Teaching San Francisco Ravens to open locked boxes ([https://lockpickextreme.com/ LockpickExtreme])

8. [[User:Tman66|J]] - Noisebridge Field Trips: Another cool way to get to know Noisebridgers

9. Jonas - Magnios - a cloud unikernel operating system virtual computer

10.

Slack

2016-11-30T05:15:41Z

BuddhaHacker: Added formatting and section about replacements and requirements

''Disambiguation of '''this''' Slack from the [http://slackware.com/ Slackware Linux distribution's] "Slack".''

== Slack for discussions/chat ==
Noisebridge has a [https://noisebridge.slack.com/ team] on [https://slack.com/ Slack]. We use Slack as a glorified IRC, with multiple rooms to discuss different topics, often separated by working group, such as [[SecWG]] or [[CommunityWorkingGroup]].

Slack is accessible on the web, as well as via IRC or XMPP clients.

=== How to get on ===
Unlike Noisebridge's [[IRC]] channel, Slack requires an invitation to join. It's recommended that you meet up with someone knowledgeable in the space and talk to them about Slack, or if all else fails, request an invitation on [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss Noisebridge-discuss].

=== Why slack? - replacement? ===
Some are not comfortable with slack as it is (add!):
* corporate entity
* not free

==== Requirements ====
* free open software
* stored messages
* encrypted
* realtime chat
* api/extensible

==== Alternatives ====
* rocket
* irc (not used, missing archive feature)

Group Buy

2016-11-30T05:05:35Z

BuddhaHacker: add name who wants and price and detail...

Add your name after the item to indicate you want to buy it...

* raspberry pi
** rpi zero - $5: jsk

* usb data-able cables:

5MoF/2016/12 01

2016-11-27T00:59:48Z

BuddhaHacker: made 10 slots, numbered them and made it ordered.

Put your name and title of your presentation - additionally a link if anyone wants to learn more.

(we have 10 slots only!)

1. I made a bootleg R O L E X watch face for a Samsung Gear S2. Things I did. Installed Certificates. Made an account on Samsung app store. Turned off CPU VT for the emulator. Reboot the hardware watch after each deploy --[[User:SteeleNivenson|SteeleNivenson]] ([[User talk:SteeleNivenson|talk]])

2. Luke Iseman, "DIY shipping container homes." [http://www.boxouse.com boxouse]

3. Lizzie "something about security probably"

4. ESP-LISP - an interactive lisp on 2USD esp8266 ("arduino++") wifi-computer, jsk - https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp

5. ---

6. ---

7. ---

8. ---

9. ---

10. ---

FULL, try next week!

Things Mary Says

2016-11-07T04:11:16Z

BuddhaHacker:

When the noise in the bridge spot; Donate like it's hot. Donate like it's hot. Donate like it's hot.

As we go on, we remember, all the times we've, hacked together.

Teach me how to donate. Teach me, Teach me how to donate.

Donate now, so I can say, Noisebridge properly.

Netflix and chill, more like donate and chill.

To the left, to the left. All of your money in the donate box to the left.

Please only defecate within the designated areas. This message brought to you by hackers against improper colon evacuation.

Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you donate to Noisebridge.

Don't just sit there and wait for the robot apocalypse; accelerate it! Donate now!

Computing. Computing. Computing.

Mary had a little lamb, his fur was white as snow, yeah give it to Noisebridge.

3D Printing

2016-10-01T01:53:24Z

BuddhaHacker: note regarding F:

<div style="font-size:24px;">Noisebridge's 3D printing station is one of our Fabrication [[Resources]].</div>

[[File:3DPrinters100dpi.fw.png|300px|right]]

= PRINTERS WE HAVE =

== Monoprice Miniprinters ==

[[File:Unnamed.jpg|400px]]

To print your file on the Monoprice Miniprinters, you can do it one of two ways. [http://downloads.monoprice.com/files/manuals/15365_Manual_160415.pdf Full instruction manual is available].

# Use the THREED 3D Printer Terminal.
# Install the Slic3r software on your own computer.

If you are new to 3D printing, you can start by printing our Noisebridge symbol fridge magnet which you can [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8751 download from Thingiverse].

[[File:Noisebridge_logo.jpg]]

=== Printing on your own computer ===
* Install [http://slic3r.org/ Slicer].
* Download the [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByPjSf143rlyNXRLeTFMbWR2NHM/view Monoprice printer configuration file].
* Open Slicer and click File Menu --> Load Config Bundle..
* Select the previously downloaded config file.
* Turn your STL file into a GCODE file with the MONOPRICE settings before putting the GCODE onto an SD card and putting it into the monoprice printer.

=== Printing on the Threed ===

1. Open the Slicer app

[[File:00_slicer.PNG]]

2. In the slicer window, click Add...

[[File:01_slicer_window.PNG]]

3. Choose the file you want to print (there is a test file in /Documents/Slic3r/noisebridgelogo2.stl which you can [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8751 download from Thingiverse])

[[File:03_slicer_add_documents_slicer.PNG]]

4. Select the noisebridge logo file or your own.

[[File:04_noisebridge_logo_file.PNG]]

5. The file shows up in the preview window.

[[File:04_slicer_imported.PNG]]

6. Click "Export G-code" to export the g-code file to the SD card (inserted in the computer).

Note: Don't use the path as shown on screen, pick the "F:" drive. Sometimes, the SD-card isn't recognized unless you take out the adapter, insert the SD-card into that and put the whole module in!

[[File:05_export_gcode.PNG]]

7. Remove the SD card from the micro SD card adapter in the Threed computer.

8. Insert SD card gently into a slot on the right side of the 3D printer.

9. Move the knob till it points at Print and push it like a button.

9. Turn the knob to Choose the file you want to print and push it like a button.

10. Push the button to print.

11. Watch the progress screen till the temperatures heat up the extruder and platform to the target temperatures (this will take a while so be patient).

12. The printer will start printing.

13. Wait for it to finish and enjoy your finished item by scraping it off the build platform with a thin piece of metal.

14. If the blue masking tape is damaged in the process, remove it and apply some fresh masking tape to the printer surface.

=== FLASHFORGE CREATOR DUAL EXTRUDER PRINTER ===

[[File:FlashForgeCreatorr.jpg|300px]]

bool '''currentlyOperational''' = true;

string '''cloneOf''' = "a MakerBot Replicator Dual Extruder";

==== Flashforge Docs ====
* [http://www.flashforge-usa.com/shop/3d-printers/creator-dual-extruder.html this is the wood frame product], similar to the Creator Pro model made of plastic.
* [http://www.flashforge-usa.com/assets/manual/flashforge_creator_pro_user_guide_v01.20.2015.3.0.pdf?cd6e8a Flashforge Creator Pro manual]
* [http://goo.gl/3mwCkk Getting the Flashforge Creator printing]

=== Printing from your own laptop ===
# Software Installation
## Download and install [http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm FTDI Drivers].
## Download and install [http://replicat.org/download ReplicatorG].
# Software Configuration
## Open ReplicatorG.
## Choose the menu '''File > Open...''' and select the STL file you want to print (It will probably be in your downloads folder if you got it from a web site like Thingiverse.).
## Choose the menu '''Machine > Machine Type > The Replicator Dual'''.
## Choose the menu '''Machine > Connection (Serial port) > /dev/tty.usbmodem1411'''.
##
# Generate GCode from your STL file.
# Click Connect to device. (If you have trouble, see Connection Troubleshooting below.)

* Connection Troubleshooting
** Connection error: The serial port named '/dev/tty.usbmodem1411' could not be found.
*** It may not be turned on and plugged in.
* Printing Troubleshooting
** It stops printing midway through.
*** Are you browsing the Internet memes with Replicator in the background? It can't print very far in the background. Alt-tab/command-tab to bring ReplicatorG to foreground every time it stops and it will resume. This is one of the main reasons to start using the SD card to print: You can use your computer for other things without slowing down or stopping prints.

=== Printing from an SD card ===
# Put files ending in .gcode on an SD card
# Insert SD card into the side-facing slot on the front right side of the case.
# Press DOWN ARROW till you reach Print from SD card
# Press CENTER SELECT

=== Printing from the [[Threed]] printstation PC ===
A [[Threed]] printer computer station is connected to the printer.

=== Filaments ===
There are many colors of filament spools to use for printing projects. Take note of which plastic type your filament is and choose settings appropriately. The wrong plastic can damage the printer and make your prints look look like drek.

* Note: Replicator defaults are feedrate 40 and 220 degrees C. Setting them to feedrate 80 brings up an accelerated settings warning. The printer is ready to handle 80.

==== ABS Plastic ====
* Feedrate: 80
* Travel feedrate: 80
* Temperature: 230 degrees C
* Print on yellow kapton tape
* Smells like cancer

==== PLA Plastic ====
* Feedrate: 80
* Travel feedrate: 100
* Temperature: 180 degrees C
* Print on blue painter's tape
* Smells like Canadian maple syrup

=== REPRAP PRUSA PRINTER ===

See: [[RepRap]]

== PRINTING GUIDELINES ==

* Do not leave 3D printer jobs unattended. Leaving print job will result in project being tossed.

== 3D PRINTING HACKSTATION DESIGN ==
The 3D printing printing hackstation is a kiosk with the following items necessary for 3D printing:
* 3D printer
* Pegboard
** Blue masking tape to coat the build platform.
** Wedge to scrape builds off of the tape.
*** Autobody chisel works best.
** Ruler
** Duster spray can to clean out parts
** Files to file down parts
** Scraps box for recycling of wasted parts.
** Showcase box for showing cool things to inspire people with.
** Cleaning Reminder Sign: (Please help keep NOISEBRIDGE tidy by keeping this area clean.)
* Overhead Shelf
** Filament spools rack

== PROJECT IDEAS ==

* Design a 3D printing merit badge (3D printed in a merit badge shape with velcro attached to the back).

== Would you like to help organize a new weekly 3D printing workshop? ==
If you are interested in organizing a new regular 3D printing meetup or reviving Replicator Wednesdays, do it!
* Let [[User:Lxpk]] know and he will assist with updating the wiki and organizing your event or project.

== Past 3D Printing Things ==

*We used to have [[Makerbot]] printers.
*We used to have [[Replicator Wednesdays]]. Want to restart it?
* There is an outdated [[3DPrintBeginners]] guide page that could be a source of good material for this updated new page.

Firstshirts

2009-01-13T06:13:26Z

BuddhaHacker:

Noisebridge is going to have some shirts made. It will probably feature the same logo as the most recent sticker. If you'd like to have a shirt, please add your name to the size you'd like (linked to your wiki page). The first run of shirts will no doubt be black and simple. If you'd like non-black shirts, please note this with a a solid alternative preference stated. If you're sure you wouldn't wear black and you're certain that you don't know what color you'd like, please also state that.

* XXL
[[User:martinbogo|Martin B.]]
[[User:BuddhaHacker]] - want black
* Extra Large
[[User:Michiexile|Michiexile]]
[[User:Schoen|Schoen]] (two shirts)
* Large
[[User:jlapenna|jlapenna]]
* Medium
[[User:Ioerror|ioerror]]
[[User:jbm|Josh]]
[[User:maltman23|Mitch]]
* Small

Processing Workshop

2008-08-06T18:51:16Z

BuddhaHacker: /* Expressions of Interest */

Scott wants to teach a workshop on [http://processing.org Processing], a free, open-source programming environment for artists, designers, and anyone interested in getting the computer to do work for you. Right now, he's gauging the level of interest in such a workshop, and working out how to structure it. If this sounds interesting to you, please add your name to the [[#Expressions of Interest]] section, or [[Special:Emailuser/scmurray|contact Scott directly]].

== Overview ==

Do you remember the triangular "turtle" from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29 Logo]? "Pen down, move forward, turn right..." It was an early, easy way to tell a computer how to draw something on the screen. Processing is just like a modern, really buff version of that turtle. Think of it as being like Flash, only less flashy. If you've ever had a vision of something you wish you could make on a computer screen, you can probably make it in Processing. Well, maybe. This workshop will get you started, anyway, even if you've never typed a line of programming code in your life.

This workshop is intended as an introduction for complete beginners. No programming is experience necessary, although you should be generally familiar with how to use your computer, download files, install programs, and so on. Computers will not be provided, so you should probably bring your own laptop to work on, or you could share with someone else. A wireless card isn't necessary, but may help. (Processing works on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, so any kind of computer should work fine.)

Also, while the emphasis of this workshop will be on ''visual'' expressions of code, the concepts learned here can be extended to get Processing to generate audio, talk to microcontrollers (e.g. Arduino boards, MAKE boards, OSC devices), and generally interface with all kinds of other neat stuff.

== Resources ==

'''General Resources'''

* [http://processing.org Processing.org]
* [http://processing.org/learning/ Processing.org Learning Resources]

'''Neat Stuff People Are Doing With Processing'''

* [http://www.processingblogs.org Processing Blogs]
* [http://www.vimeo.com/tag:processing Videos on Vimeo]
* [http://www.flight404.com/blog/ Flight 404]

'''Courses and Workshops'''

* [http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/workshop/ Processing Workshop] — taught by Dan Shiffman
* [http://people.csail.mit.edu/bmcutler/gaudi/assignment1.html Programming in Processing] — class assignment
* [http://labs.noisepages.com/2008/04/06/massaging-media-processing-workshop/ Code Examples] — by Peter Kirn
* [http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/a2z/ Programming from A to Z] — more advanced programming beyond Processing

== Open Items ==

Some things we're still thinking about -- all still TBD.

== Curriculum ==

'''Introduction to Processing'''
* What is Processing?
* What can you do with it?
* Examples/demos

'''Basics'''
* Opening the application
* Counting pixels (the coordinates system)
* Basic syntax (how to talk to Processing)
* Drawing a line
* Drawing a box
* Making it bigger
* Changing the color
* Variables

'''Motion'''
* setup() and draw()
* Mouse input
* Translation
* Rotation
* ...more...

'''Open Workshop'''
* Less-structured time for you to pursue your own vision, with help from others as-needed

== Materials ==

* Example code to get you started (provided in class)
* Recommended books:
** ''[http://processing.org/learning/books/ Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists]''
** ''[http://www.learningprocessing.com/ Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction]''

== Practical Matters ==

'''Schedule'''
* One day-long session, possibly on a Saturday
* Two day-long sessions, possibly on two consecutive Saturdays
* Several 3-hour sessions, once a week, on weeknight evenings or Saturday afternoons

'''Participants'''
* How many are interested?
* How many can/should we accommodate?
* Maybe cap participation at 10-20 people max, at least for initial offering?
* Will be expected to bring their own computers to work on

'''Space Needs'''
* Space large enough for 10-20 people, plus projector set up
* Chairs and table space for 10-20 people

'''Technology Needs'''
* AC power, with lots of power strips for participants to plug into
* Projector and screen (or flat, white wall)
* Wireless Internet access

== Expressions of Interest ==

Add your name to the list here if you'd be interested in participating! Don't worry — we won't hold you to it.

* [[User:Scmurray|Scott Murray]] (instructor)
* Mitch Altman (though I'll be out of town all August)
* [[User:Endenizen|Brian Ferrell]] (I'll bring a webcam to demonstrate video input)
* [[User:Adi|Andy]] (I'll bring a 720p projector)
* [[User:BuddhaHacker]] (Jonas) (not sure where I am)

BylawsOfLysator

2008-06-04T00:47:35Z

BuddhaHacker:

These are the bylaws of Lysator Academic Computer Society.

Not sure if it is going to be helpful or not, but these have evolved over 35 years!
It was formally constituted 23 March, 1973, in order to be able to receive a SAAB built computer:

http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/datasaab/om-eng.html
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Datasaab.htm, here is some music performed by the saab computer:
http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/datasaab/musik-eng.html recorded in 1967, Singel record released 1978.

In 1975 Lysator designed LYS-16: a 16-bit computer using the IMP-16 CPU using
the 4-bitslice processor, 4KB RAM, tv as monitor, tape recorder for storage.

They'd sent a snail mail to some guy named Wozniak, which they'd heard did
something interesting, but it turned out that he was using some silly 8 bit chip,
so they didn't bother speaking to him again.

/Jonas

(this is "freely" translated from http://www.lysator.liu.se/protokoll/mm_20060503.html by jsk@yesco.org, jsk@lysator.liu.se)
<verbatim>
1. LYSATOR

1. Computer society LYSATOR at Linköpings Technical University
is a student association independent of the University's
official organization and other connected parties.

2. LYSATOR has the purpose of bringing it's members
to its goal of deepening their knowledge in computer
technology and science and spread knowledge about
modern computer technology.

2. MEMBERS

1. Membership in LYSATOR is open to every student and
employed at Linköping University. Membership can also be
given to others after a decision by the board of
directors. Membership can also be held by a person who's
previously been a member during their studies.

2. Ordinary members pay membership dues as decided by the
yearly meeting.

3. A person can be designated as an Honorable Member
who has been particularly serviceable for the society's
purpose and development. An ordinary member can no become
a Honorable Member.

4. If a member harms the societies purpose or public image
can be barred by the board. The member who is "threatened"
to be barred must be allowed to defend himself in front of
the board before the decision is taken. The barring must
be discussed at then next society meeting. The barring
can then be dissolved or lead to removal of the member.
The member in question have right to speak and right to
vote at the meeting. A barred member may not have a position
of responsibility in the society.

3. ORGANIZATION

1. LYSATORs happenings is exercised by:
1. Society meeting.
2. The board.
3. Delegated responsibility group.
4. Project groups.
5. Other activity as decided by the society meeting.

2. The accounting/legal year is defined as first of August till last of July.

4. SOCIETY MEETING

1. The society meeting is the highest/ultimate authority,
in which all members have the right to attend.

2. Each member has one vote. Voting by proxy must be done in
writing by the proxy to the meeting secretary. Each person
can only be proxy for at most one other member.

3. The society meeting shall, during the accounting year hold at least
two members meeting, one in the autumn in September or October
and one yearly meeting in April or May. The society meeting
meets on being called by the board. The right to announce
a society meeting is held by:
1. Inspector.
2. Board member.
3. Accountant inspector.
4. Ten (10) members.

4. The board's president or other board member calls the society meeting.
The meeting must be held within 3 weeks after it has come to knowledge
of the president. The society meeting shall be announced 2 weeks
in advance, with time and location given. The call for meeting
shall be made in writing to the members.

5. The agenda, the propositions and motions and to the autumn meeting;
story of happenings, economical story, and inspected revisioned
board documents. The revision story shall be made public within
five days before the start of the meeting. A motion to the meeting
shall be at the disposal of the board at least seven days before
the start of the meeting.

6. The society meeting is authorized if half or ten (whatever is the least)
of the members are present.

7. It is the responsibility of the autumn meeting to:
1. Treat the revision story, ok the revision story
and economical story, decide the question regarding
responsibility freedom for the departing board.
2. Assign responsibility and project groups.

8. It is the responsibility of the yearly meeting to:
1. Elect the board, revision inspectors, board nominators and inspector.
2. Decide budget and membership dues.

5. THE BOARD

1. The board consist of:
1. President.
2. Secretary.
3. Accountant/Treasurer.
4. At least two misc board members.

2. The board is elected by the society meeting.

3. The board is authorized when at least half of the board is present.

4. The board is responsible for the society meeting for
LYSATORs running and economy.

5. The boards decision shall be protocolled and archived.
LYSATORs members have the right on request to access
the board of directors' protocols. The board has the right
to refuse a members access to the last board of directors
period.

6. The board is instated at the activity year's start.

6. RESPONSIBILITY GROUP

1. For each computer equipment and for other equipment owned by LYSATOR
or for continuous running activities required, shall have
a responsibility group be assigned.

2. Each responsibility group shall have a single ultimately
responsible leader who reports to the board and the society
meeting. In others, the responsibility group may be organized
as deemed needed.

7. PROJECT GROUP

1. For each project in LYSATORs control there shall be a
project group assigned.

2. Each project group shall have a project leader.
In others, the project group may be organized
as deemed needed.

8. INSPECTOR

1. The society meeting shall assign inspector, who shall see
too that LYSATORs activity is happening as per all parters,
in an honorable and stimulating way.

2. The inspector owns the right to announce board meeting and
attend with voting right.

9. SIGNING AS FIRM

1. LYSATORs firm is signed by the accountant and the president
independently.

10. INSPECTION

1. For revsion at the yearly meeting there will be two revisionist
elected, who must be, 18 years old (self legal responsible).
These members may not have any "position" in the society
(i.e. may not be on the board).

2. All involved economic action gets inspected at a responsible's
functionaries departure, projects acquittal or dismantlement
or at a each change of action with economical impact.

3. Revisionaries has the right to access all protocols of the board
and other documents.

4. The revisionaries have the right to attend all meetings
within LYSATOR.

5. The revisionaries shall after performed inspection
overwhich they draft a story in which they recommend
on weather responsibility freedom is recommended.
The revision story should, before it is presented
at the autumn meeting, have been accessible to
the members at least for five (5) days.

11. INTERPRETATION OF BYLAWS

1. Regarding the interpretation of the bylaws, the board's opionon
holds until a society meeting had decided.

12. CHANGES OF BYLAWS

1. Decision of changes of these bylaws shall take place at two
on each other following society meetings with 2/3 majority.
Between these meetings there shall be at least a time window
of 4 weeks. At least one of the meetings must be held during
the semester of the Technical University.

13. DISSOLVING THE SOCIETY

1. The dissolving of the society takes place in accordance with the rules
of changes of bylaws. Such a decision shall have instructions
on how the assets should be disponed.

2. The society can not be dissolved if at least ten (10) members
wants it to continue to live.

</verbatim>

BylawsOfLysator

2008-06-04T00:08:15Z

BuddhaHacker: Rough translation of the bylaws of Lysator

(this is "freely" translated from http://www.lysator.liu.se/protokoll/mm_20060503.html by jsk@yesco.org, jsk@lysator.liu.se)
<verbatim>
1. LYSATOR

1. Computer society LYSATOR at Linköpings Technical University
is a student association independent of the University's
official organization and other connected parties.

2. LYSATOR has the purpose of bringing it's members
to its goal of deepening their knowledge in computer
technology and science and spread knowledge about
modern computer technology.

2. MEMBERS

1. Membership in LYSATOR is open to every student and
employed at Linköping University. Membership can also be
given to others after a decision by the board of
directors. Membership can also be held by a person who's
previously been a member during their studies.

2. Ordinary members pay membership dues as decided by the
yearly meeting.

3. A person can be designated as an Honorable Member
who has been particularly serviceable for the society's
purpose and development. An ordinary member can no become
a Honorable Member.

4. If a member harms the societies purpose or public image
can be barred by the board. The member who is "threatened"
to be barred must be allowed to defend himself in front of
the board before the decision is taken. The barring must
be discussed at then next society meeting. The barring
can then be dissolved or lead to removal of the member.
The member in question have right to speak and right to
vote at the meeting. A barred member may not have a position
of responsibility in the society.

3. ORGANIZATION

1. LYSATORs happenings is exercised by:
1. Society meeting.
2. The board.
3. Delegated responsibility group.
4. Project groups.
5. Other activity as decided by the society meeting.

2. The accounting/legal year is defined as first of August till last of July.

4. SOCIETY MEETING

1. The society meeting is the highest/ultimate authority,
in which all members have the right to attend.

2. Each member has one vote. Voting by proxy must be done in
writing by the proxy to the meeting secretary. Each person
can only be proxy for at most one other member.

3. The society meeting shall, during the accounting year hold at least
two members meeting, one in the autumn in September or October
and one yearly meeting in April or May. The society meeting
meets on being called by the board. The right to announce
a society meeting is held by:
1. Inspector.
2. Board member.
3. Accountant inspector.
4. Ten (10) members.

4. The board's president or other board member calls the society meeting.
The meeting must be held within 3 weeks after it has come to knowledge
of the president. The society meeting shall be announced 2 weeks
in advance, with time and location given. The call for meeting
shall be made in writing to the members.

5. The agenda, the propositions and motions and to the autumn meeting;
story of happenings, economical story, and inspected revisioned
board documents. The revision story shall be made public within
five days before the start of the meeting. A motion to the meeting
shall be at the disposal of the board at least seven days before
the start of the meeting.

6. The society meeting is authorized if half or ten (whatever is the least)
of the members are present.

7. It is the responsibility of the autumn meeting to:
1. Treat the revision story, ok the revision story
and economical story, decide the question regarding
responsibility freedom for the departing board.
2. Assign responsibility and project groups.

8. It is the responsibility of the yearly meeting to:
1. Elect the board, revision inspectors, board nominators and inspector.
2. Decide budget and membership dues.

5. THE BOARD

1. The board consist of:
1. President.
2. Secretary.
3. Accountant/Treasurer.
4. At least two misc board members.

2. The board is elected by the society meeting.

3. The board is authorized when at least half of the board is present.

4. The board is responsible for the society meeting for
LYSATORs running and economy.

5. The boards decision shall be protocolled and archived.
LYSATORs members have the right on request to access
the board of directors' protocols. The board has the right
to refuse a members access to the last board of directors
period.

6. The board is instated at the activity year's start.

6. RESPONSIBILITY GROUP

1. For each computer equipment and for other equipment owned by LYSATOR
or for continuous running activities required, shall have
a responsibility group be assigned.

2. Each responsibility group shall have a single ultimately
responsible leader who reports to the board and the society
meeting. In others, the responsibility group may be organized
as deemed needed.

7. PROJECT GROUP

1. For each project in LYSATORs control there shall be a
project group assigned.

2. Each project group shall have a project leader.
In others, the project group may be organized
as deemed needed.

8. INSPECTOR

1. The society meeting shall assign inspector, who shall see
too that LYSATORs activity is happening as per all parters,
in an honorable and stimulating way.

2. The inspector owns the right to announce board meeting and
attend with voting right.

9. SIGNING AS FIRM

1. LYSATORs firm is signed by the accountant and the president
independently.

10. INSPECTION

1. For revsion at the yearly meeting there will be two revisionist
elected, who must be, 18 years old (self legal responsible).
These members may not have any "position" in the society
(i.e. may not be on the board).

2. All involved economic action gets inspected at a responsible's
functionaries departure, projects acquittal or dismantlement
or at a each change of action with economical impact.

3. Revisionaries has the right to access all protocols of the board
and other documents.

4. The revisionaries have the right to attend all meetings
within LYSATOR.

5. The revisionaries shall after performed inspection
overwhich they draft a story in which they recommend
on weather responsibility freedom is recommended.
The revision story should, before it is presented
at the autumn meeting, have been accessible to
the members at least for five (5) days.

11. INTERPRETATION OF BYLAWS

1. Regarding the interpretation of the bylaws, the board's opionon
holds until a society meeting had decided.

12. CHANGES OF BYLAWS

1. Decision of changes of these bylaws shall take place at two
on each other following society meetings with 2/3 majority.
Between these meetings there shall be at least a time window
of 4 weeks. At least one of the meetings must be held during
the semester of the Technical University.

13. DISSOLVING THE SOCIETY

1. The dissolving of the society takes place in accordance with the rules
of changes of bylaws. Such a decision shall have instructions
on how the assets should be disponed.

2. The society can not be dissolved if at least ten (10) members
wants it to continue to live.

</verbatim>

Noisebridge

2007-11-25T02:45:21Z

BuddhaHacker:

<big>'''NoiseBridge main'''</big>

[[StatementOfPurpose| Statement of Purpose]], [[GroundRules|Ground Rules]]

== projects ==

Stuff we're doing:

* [[Logo|Noise Bridge logo]]

* [[MovingIn]]

* [[DoorKeys]]

* [[ElectronicsLab|Our Electronics Lab]]

* [[Darkroom]]

* [[Library|Our Library]]

== comms and computer services ==

* [[IRC|Our IRC channel]]

* [[Mailinglist|Our email list server]]

* [[Main_Page|Our wiki]] - this page

* [[Mixmaster|Our Mixmaster server]]

* [[Tor|Our Tor server]]

== peeps ==

The marshmallowy good enjoyables associated with noisebridge.net:

(add yourself)

[[AdamJODonnell|Adam J. O'Donnell]]

[[User:netsniper|Kristian Erik Hermansen]]

[[JakeAppelbaum]]

[[DavidMolnar]]

[[User:Yerdua|AudreyPenven]]

[[User:Adi|Andy Isaacson]]

[[User:Kragen|Kragen Javier Sitaker]]

[[User:Erinn|Erinn Clark]]

[[User:Mlp|Mlp]]

[[User:BuddhaHacker|Jonas S Karlsson]]

[[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]]

[[User:Bill|Bill Paul]]

[[User:rachel|Rachel McConnell]]

[[User:Kripto|Mark Cohen]]

[[User:Avidd|Davidfine]]

[[Tracy Jacobs]]

[[User:matt|Matt Peterson]]

== MediaWiki Notes ==

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]

Help:Editing

2007-11-24T12:13:01Z

BuddhaHacker: This page was empty, pointing to relevant external page

See [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples Mediawiki Help page].

IRC

2007-11-24T12:08:44Z

BuddhaHacker: formatting/reorg

We use an IRC channel that's on [http://freenode.net/ freenode]. It's temporary and quite useful. Feel free to join. The needed information is as follows:

irc://chat.freenode.net
#noisebridge

We have a helpful bot in the channel by the name of ''martha'' run by [[Adi|Andy Isaacson]]

----

For those who are not familiar with getting on IRC, here's what Mitch did:

* For Windows: Download and install [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin] (free IM chat software for Windows -- there's plenty of other free software to choose from for Windows and other OSs).
* For Macs - a reasonable client is Snak, http://www.snak.com/. It's $29 shareware with a 30 day free evaluation. A better IRC client for Mac OS X (that also supports SILC) and is Free Software is [http://colloquy.info/ Colloquy].
* For those who run Ubuntu and are not familiar with IRC (unlikely?):
$ sudo aptitude install xchat

Then:

# create an IRC account and connect to irc.freenode.net (there's good documentation on how to do this on http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml freenode]. You can also register your nickname at freenode.
# join channel: #noisebridge

----

Noisebridge

2007-11-24T11:47:15Z

BuddhaHacker: /* projects */

<big>'''NoiseBridge main'''</big>

[[StatementOfPurpose| Statement of Purpose]]

== projects ==

Stuff we're doing:

* [[Logo|Noise Bridge logo]]

* [[MovingIn]]

* [[DoorKeys]]

* [[ElectronicsLab|Our Electronics Lab]]

* [[Darkroom]]

* [[Library|Our Library]]

== comms and computer services ==

* [[IRC|Our IRC channel]]

* [[Mailinglist|Our email list server]]

* [[Main_Page|Our wiki]] - this page

* [[Mixmaster|Our Mixmaster server]]

* [[Tor|Our Tor server]]

== peeps ==

The marshmallowy good enjoyables associated with noisebridge.net:

(add yourself)

[[AdamJODonnell|Adam J. O'Donnell]]

[[User:netsniper|Kristian Erik Hermansen]]

[[JakeAppelbaum]]

[[DavidMolnar]]

[[User:Yerdua|AudreyPenven]]

[[User:Adi|Andy Isaacson]]

[[User:Kragen|Kragen Javier Sitaker]]

[[User:Erinn|Erinn Clark]]

[[User:Mlp|Mlp]]

[[User:BuddhaHacker|Jonas S Karlsson]]

[[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]]

[[User:Bill|Bill Paul]]

[[User:rachel|Rachel McConnell]]

[[User:Kripto|Mark Cohen]]

[[User:Avidd|Davidfine]]

[[Tracy Jacobs]]

[[User:matt|Matt Peterson]]

== MediaWiki Notes ==

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
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Noisebridge

2007-11-24T11:46:37Z

BuddhaHacker: moved projects up on page, there is going to be a lot of people!

<big>'''NoiseBridge main'''</big>

[[StatementOfPurpose| Statement of Purpose]]

== projects ==

Stuff we're doing:

* [[Logo|Noise Bridge logo]]

* [[MovingIn]]

* [[DoorKeys]]

* [[ElectronicsLab|Our Electronics Lab]]

* [[Darkroom]]

* [[Library|Our Library]]

== comms and computer services

* [[IRC|Our IRC channel]]

* [[Mailinglist|Our email list server]]

* [[Main_Page|Our wiki]] - this page

* [[Mixmaster|Our Mixmaster server]]

* [[Tor|Our Tor server]]

== peeps ==

The marshmallowy good enjoyables associated with noisebridge.net:

(add yourself)

[[AdamJODonnell|Adam J. O'Donnell]]

[[User:netsniper|Kristian Erik Hermansen]]

[[JakeAppelbaum]]

[[DavidMolnar]]

[[User:Yerdua|AudreyPenven]]

[[User:Adi|Andy Isaacson]]

[[User:Kragen|Kragen Javier Sitaker]]

[[User:Erinn|Erinn Clark]]

[[User:Mlp|Mlp]]

[[User:BuddhaHacker|Jonas S Karlsson]]

[[User:maltman23|Mitch Altman]]

[[User:Bill|Bill Paul]]

[[User:rachel|Rachel McConnell]]

[[User:Kripto|Mark Cohen]]

[[User:Avidd|Davidfine]]

[[Tracy Jacobs]]

[[User:matt|Matt Peterson]]

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User:BuddhaHacker

2007-11-19T08:34:44Z

BuddhaHacker: New page: Alas jsk [yesco] Jonas S Karlsson see yesco.org

Alas jsk [yesco] Jonas S Karlsson see yesco.org