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The Fifth Estate v. WikiLeaks: Unraveling Fact from Fiction in Hollywood's Dramatization of the WikiLeaks Story

2013-10-08T01:23:22Z

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==The Fifth Estate v. WikiLeaks==
===Friday, November 8, 12.00 noon===

From the halls of Washington to the streets of Tunis, the names Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have proven not only impossible to ignore, but cataclysmic in both the worlds of politics and journalism. Now the first major Hollywood film adaptation is about to be released, but how accurately does it reflect reality?

Electronic Frontier Foundation legal Director Cindy Cohn, Wired Senior Reporter Kim Zetter, Forbes senior online editor Kashmir Hill, and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder Rainey Reitman will discuss what the film gets right and wrong during a lunchtime panel discussion. Each have followed WikiLeaks closely for many years and, in fact, both EFF and Zetter are name-checked in the film.

The panel discussion will begin at noon, so take a long lunch on Friday and join us. (We unfortunately can't bring in lunch, but you are welcome to bring you own.) The discussion also will be filmed and posted to the Freedom of the Press Foundation website.

Category:Events

2012-11-13T00:03:37Z

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

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


*'''November 15th, Thursday - [[5moF|5 Minutes of Fame]]''' returns to Noisebridge with an all-star fame-a-ganza featuring great speakers (details forthcoming), exuberant attendees & the release of '''[[zine|ZiP]]''' chapter 3 + nifty merch, swag & lit on hand. $5 to 10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of fundage. [[File:5MoF_flyer_15Nov2012.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|5MoF returns to the Bridge following a 6-month hiatus on Nov. 15th, 2012]]
* '''November 16th, Friday, 7:00 p.m. - [[Coding Freedom|Book release event]]''' for Gabriella Coleman's book ''Coding Freedom''
* '''December 8, Saturday, 12:00 - 18:00 - [[ElecrticImpHackathon|Elecrtic Imp Hackathon]]''' - The Imp is an arm microcontroller that uses WiFi and a cloud service to connect to the internet.

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




* '''Monday'''
** '''14:30 - 17:00''' Circuit Hacking Mondays - Early version. If you can't stay up late, stay out on a school night, or if you have particular [[accessibility]] needs, Liz can help you learn to solder, tinker with things, and work on kits. Have dinner and come back for the evening CHM!
** '''19:00 - 23:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! [[User:maltman23|Mitch]], Rolf, [[User:Miloh|Miloh]], and others will bring kits to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All welcome!
** '''19:00 - 22:00 [[Gamebridge|Gamebridge Unityversity]]''' Unity3D Game Development mentoring group is back now that [[Code Hero]] is in alpha.
** 19:00 [[Cook-in class]] Bring your ideas/food/appetite and try your hand at cooking.
** '''20:00-22:00 [[Frontend Web Development]]''' - Learn HTML/CSS/JS. We'll cover the basics (starting at '''19:30''') and then go in-depth on different topics every week.
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night]]

* '''Tuesday'''
** 15:00 - 16:30 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] meets in the Turing classroom. Help us develop a [[Linux|Linux section]] for the wiki. We're working with Git as of May 2012.
** 16:30 [[Intro to SQL Databases]] Database programming and design using MySQL. Every Tuesday in Turing classroom.
** 17:30 [[C and assembler on Linux]] This is a class working at a beginner's level with gcc and nash in Church.
** 19:00-21:00 [[Backend web dev in Ruby on Rails]]
** 19:00 [[Tastebridge]] / [[Vegan Hacker]] Monthly Food Hacking, last Tuesday of every month, 7pm. http://www.veganhackersf.com
** 19:30 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program
** '''20:00 [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.

* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[Anarchafeminist Hackerhive]] The Hivemoot continues.
** 18:00 [[Replicator Wednesday|Replicator Wednesday]]! This event is on hiatus from Noisebridge until further notice.
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Linux meetup in the Turing classroom.
** 19:00 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language. New "series" starts December 5th!
** 19:00 [[SCoW]] - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 20:00 [[BACE Timebank]] (2nd Wednesdays in the Library) - Help organize community mutual aid by trading in equal time credits. To find out more and join go to [http://sfbace.org sfbace.org].
* '''Thursday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning!
** 19:00 [https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki Tahoe LAUGHS] Help build freedom.

** 19:30 [[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] come in and learn about statistical learning techniques.

** 19:00 [[german_corner|German Corner]] Learn and practice speaking German.
** 19:00 [[wearable fashion techies]] first meeting Nov 1st
** 20:00 [[Frontend_Web_Development#Lab|Frontend Web Development Lab]] - Understand by doing! A recap of Monday's lecture in workshop form - and a good time for one-on-one help with the material.
** 20:00 [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/zine ZinesFromOuterSpace] - A weekly meetup for zinesters / printing hackers / DIY publishers, and brainstorming session for the next chapter of [[zine | ZiP]].
* '''Friday'''
** 18:30-20:30 Beginner [[French]] - Learn basic grammar and sentence structure. Classes meet in the Turing room.
* '''Sunday'''
** 13:00 [[Songbridge]]: Learn how to make and record music with a computer. We cover midi and vst as well as multi-track recording. Bring you laptop.
** 14:00 [http://baha.bitrot.info/ Bay Area Hacker's Association - security meeting] (2nd Sundays)
** 15:00 [[Go]] - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 18:00 Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks with others.
** [https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Elements_of_Image_Making Elements of Image Making] UPCOMING: Sunday November 4th 16:00. Monthly DIY film-making meetings for analogue tinkerers.

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

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===
:"'(TBD)"': [[Sound Science]] A potential monthly lecture/demonstration series on the little known science behind sound reproduction. Topics 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 HUGE. Each session to include hands on projects like making speakers from stuff lying around, Non-Newtonian bass monsters, and ez speaker mods for anyone. If interested contact the new guy-> MattLong8 at gmail dot com, 805 four five three - six zero nine seven
:"'(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 yeast. This will be recurring if enough interest or need is present. Associated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Fie: Failure is Eminent]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a System Recovery class that will meet either bi-monthly or weekly for a couple hours to try various backup and recovery methods on drives and data.
:'''(TBD)''': [[101 Introduction to Linux]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a 101 Introduction to Linux class where people can ask whatever questions they want and get them answered in 60 to 90 minutes. Church would be the optimal location. Looking for teachers.
:'''(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.
:'''(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)''': [[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 tech. Has 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)

= Past Events =
===2012===
*'''Tuesday Feb. 14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafe. For more info follow [[zine | this]] link.

===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 TheMADE. He 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 table. This month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE Party. Come and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conference. There will be beer.
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoins. Then 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 evaluation. Please bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluate. Bring 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 required. We 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 experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009. Currently on Thursdays at 8. Get 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 photographer. Weekly 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 on. Making 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 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David 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 maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic 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 gala. Post 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 mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This 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]]

Coding Freedom

2012-11-13T00:03:18Z

Schoen:

==Coding Freedom book release event (Friday, November 16, 7:00 p.m.)==

Hacker culture scholar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Coleman Gabriella Coleman] writes:

:I will be in San Francisco for the American Anthropological Association meetings two weeks after the publication of my first book on the politics of free software: ''Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking'' (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9883.html). It will be released with a CC license.
:I did a chunk of my fieldwork in San Francisco between 2001-2003 and thought it would be quite fitting to hold a book event while visiting the foggy city and Noisebridge came up as a possible venue.
:It would be amazing to hold an event in the Mission, at a hacker space, after the culmination of such a LONG project where I can also thank those, like Seth Schoen, who is not only featured in the book but also was a great friend during my time there (and still is, just now remotely).
:I am thinking of holding the event on Friday November 16. I can provide snacks and drinks and can assure you that if held, it would only attract modest numbers; I imagine a handful of Anthropologists, folks from the EFF, some local open source developers, and perhaps a few interested stragglers might show up.

[[Category:Events]]

Category:Events

2012-09-06T01:39:25Z

Schoen: /* Recurring Events edit */ - redo seemingly legitimate month edit

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

=Event Calendar=
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements [[Mailinglist | mailing lists]], [[IRC]] or in person at [[:Category:Meeting_Notes | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

If you'd like to host an event yourself, we have advice on [[Hosting_an_Event|hosting an event]] at Noisebridge.

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar], view the [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Google Calendar in XML], or the [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Google Calendar in ical] format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, ask on the noisebridge-discuss mailing list.

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



* '''September 16th, Sunday, 13:00 - 17:00 - TOOOL SF Meeting''' Intro to Lock Picking and More
* '''September 16th, Sunday, 17:00 - 20:00 - [[Empowered Nutrition Fall Cooking Class Series: Hispanic Cooking]]''' Learn to cook, then enjoy dinner and hanging out after, please rsvp ahead of time if possible
* '''September 29th, Saturday, 11:00 - 17:00 - [[RaspberryPiEvent|Raspberry Workshop / Tech Demos, Talk, Show & Tell / Prizes]]'''
* '''September 30th, Sunday, 11:00 - 20:00 - Arse Elektronika (sex tech workshops)'''
* '''October 19th, 20th, and 21st - [[Hackmeet|Hackmeet 3.0]]'''
* '''November 16th, Friday - [[Coding Freedom|Book release event]]''' for Gabriella Coleman's book ''Coding Freedom''

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




* '''Monday'''
** [[Gamebridge| 18:00 Unityversity Unity3D Game Development user group and beginner mentoring. ]]
** '''14:30 - 17:00''' Circuit Hacking Mondays - Early version. If you can't stay up late, stay out on a school night, or if you have particular [[accessibility]] needs, Liz can help you learn to solder, tinker with things, and work on kits. Have dinner and come back for the evening CHM!
** '''19:30 - 22:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! Rolf, Miloh, and others will bring kits to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All welcome!
** 19:00 [[Cook-in class]] Bring your ideas/food/appetite and try your hand at cooking.
** '''20:00-22:00 [[Frontend Web Development]]''' - '''No class on September 3.''' Learn HTML/CSS/JS. We'll cover the basics (starting at 19:30) and then go in-depth on different topics every week.
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night]]

* '''Tuesday'''
** 15:00 - 16:30 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] meets in the Turing classroom. Help us develop a [[Linux|Linux section]] for the wiki. We're working with Git as of May 2012.
** 16:30 [[Intro to SQL Databases]] Database programming and design using MySQL. Every Tuesday in Turing classroom.
** 17:30 [[C and assembler on Linux]] This is a class working at a beginner's level with gcc and nash in Church.
**  18:30 - 20:00 [[Linux101|Linux 101 Intro Class]]: Learn how easy Open Source can be and how to migrate all of your daily tasks. The class will be presented in 3 parts. Includes OS installation, software use and elementary terminal commands. Feel free to come early if you might need extra assistance. No experience necessary or expected.
** 19:00-21:00 [[Backend web dev in Ruby on Rails]]
** 19:00 [[Tastebridge]] / [[Vegan Hacker]] Monthly Food Hacking, last Tuesday of every month, 7pm. '''**Cancelled for August**''' http://www.veganhackersf.com
** 19:30 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program
** '''20:00 [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.

* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[Anarchafeminist Hackerhive]] The Hivemoot continues.
** 18:00 [[Replicator Wednesday|Replicator Wednesday]]! Learn about 3D printing and its implications.
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Linux meetup in the Turing classroom.
** 19:00 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language. New "series" starts December 5th!
** 19:00 [[SCoW]] - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 20:00 [[BACE Timebank]] (2nd Wednesdays) - Help organize community mutual aid by trading in equal time credits. To join go to [http://bace.org bace.org].
* '''Thursday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning!

** 19:30 [[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] come in and learn about statistical learning techniques.

** 19:00 [[german_corner|German Corner]] Learn and practice speaking German.
** 20:00 [[Frontend_Web_Development#Lab|Frontend Web Development Lab]] - '''No class on September 6.''' Understand by doing! A recap of Monday's lecture in workshop form - and a good time for one-on-one help with the material.
** 20:00 [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/zine ZinesFromOuterSpace] - A weekly meetup for zinesters / printing hackers / DIY publishers, and brainstorming session for the next chapter of [[zine | ZiP]].
* '''Friday'''
** 18:30-20:30 Beginner [[French]] - Learn basic grammar and sentence structure. Classes meet in the Turing room.
* '''Saturday'''
** 1 to 4 PM, Unix ciertification in the Church classroom: Unix security topics (syslogd, encryption...), Glen Jarvis honchos.
* '''Sunday'''
**14:00-18:00(ish) [[Elements of Image Making]]- Begins 8/26! Tactile, Chemical and Optical Manipulations for Time Based Media. DIY 16mm movie making. 2nd and 4th Sundays
** 14:00 [http://baha.bitrot.info/ Bay Area Hacker's Association - security meeting] (2nd Sundays)
** 15:00 [[Go]] - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 18:00 Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks with others.
** 19:00 [[Hack Politics]] -- 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Hack the political systems. (Next meeting will be July 1, 2012).
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=== Orphaned Events ===
These events appear to be dormant or extinct.

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===
:"'(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 yeast. This will be recurring if enough interest or need is present. Associated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Fie: Failure is Eminent]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a System Recovery class that will meet either bi-monthly or weekly for a couple hours to try various backup and recovery methods on drives and data.
:'''(TBD)''': [[101 Introduction to Linux]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a 101 Introduction to Linux class where people can ask whatever questions they want and get them answered in 60 to 90 minutes. Church would be the optimal location. Looking for teachers.
:'''(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.
:'''(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)''': [[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 tech. Has 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

= Past Events =
===2012===
*'''Tuesday Feb. 14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafe. For more info follow [[zine | this]] link.

===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 TheMADE. He 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 table. This month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE Party. Come and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conference. There will be beer.
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoins. Then 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 evaluation. Please bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluate. Bring 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 required. We 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 experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009. Currently on Thursdays at 8. Get 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 photographer. Weekly 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 on. Making 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 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David 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 maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic 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 gala. Post 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 mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This 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!

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

=Event Calendar=
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements [[Mailinglist | mailing lists]], [[IRC]] or in person at [[:Category:Meeting_Notes | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

If you'd like to host an event yourself, we have advice on [[Hosting_an_Event|hosting an event]] at Noisebridge.

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar], view the [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Google Calendar in XML], or the [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Google Calendar in ical] format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, ask on the noisebridge-discuss mailing list.

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



* '''September 16th, Sunday, 13:00 - 17:00 - TOOOL SF Meeting''' Intro to Lock Picking and More
* '''September 16th, Sunday, 17:00 - 20:00 - [[Empowered Nutrition Fall Cooking Class Series: Hispanic Cooking]]''' Learn to cook, then enjoy dinner and hanging out after, please rsvp ahead of time if possible
* '''September 29th, Saturday, 11:00 - 17:00 - [[RaspberryPiEvent|Raspberry Workshop / Tech Demos, Talk, Show & Tell / Prizes]]'''
* '''September 30th, Sunday, 11:00 - 20:00 - Arse Elektronika (sex tech workshops)'''
* '''October 19th, 20th, and 21st - [[Hackmeet|Hackmeet 3.0]]'''
* '''November 16th, Friday - [[Coding Freedom|Book release event]]''' for Gabriella Coleman's book ''Coding Freedom''

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




* '''Monday'''
** [[Gamebridge| 18:00 Unityversity Unity3D Game Development user group and beginner mentoring. ]]
** '''14:30 - 17:00''' Circuit Hacking Mondays - Early version. If you can't stay up late, stay out on a school night, or if you have particular [[accessibility]] needs, Liz can help you learn to solder, tinker with things, and work on kits. Have dinner and come back for the evening CHM!
** '''19:30 - 22:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! Rolf, Miloh, and others will bring kits to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All welcome!
** 19:00 [[Cook-in class]] Bring your ideas/food/appetite and try your hand at cooking.
** '''20:00-22:00 [[Frontend Web Development]]''' - '''No class on September 3.''' Learn HTML/CSS/JS. We'll cover the basics (starting at 19:30) and then go in-depth on different topics every week.
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night]]

* '''Tuesday'''
** 15:00 - 16:30 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] meets in the Turing classroom. Help us develop a [[Linux|Linux section]] for the wiki. We're working with Git as of May 2012.
** 16:30 [[Intro to SQL Databases]] Database programming and design using MySQL. Every Tuesday in Turing classroom.
** 17:30 [[C and assembler on Linux]] This is a class working at a beginner's level with gcc and nash in Church.
**  18:30 - 20:00 [[Linux101|Linux 101 Intro Class]]: Learn how easy Open Source can be and how to migrate all of your daily tasks. The class will be presented in 3 parts. Includes OS installation, software use and elementary terminal commands. Feel free to come early if you might need extra assistance. No experience necessary or expected.
** 19:00-21:00 [[Backend web dev in Ruby on Rails]]
** 19:00 [[Tastebridge]] / [[Vegan Hacker]] Monthly Food Hacking, last Tuesday of every month, 7pm. '''**Cancelled for August**''' http://www.veganhackersf.com
** 19:30 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program
** '''20:00 [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.

* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[Anarchafeminist Hackerhive]] The Hivemoot continues.
** 18:00 [[Replicator Wednesday|Replicator Wednesday]]! Learn about 3D printing and its implications.
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Linux meetup in the Turing classroom.
** 19:00 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language. New "series" starts September 5th!
** 19:00 [[SCoW]] - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 20:00 [[BACE Timebank]] (2nd Wednesdays) - Help organize community mutual aid by trading in equal time credits. To join go to [http://bace.org bace.org].
* '''Thursday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning!

** 19:30 [[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] come in and learn about statistical learning techniques.

** 19:00 [[german_corner|German Corner]] Learn and practice speaking German.
** 20:00 [[Frontend_Web_Development#Lab|Frontend Web Development Lab]] - '''No class on September 6.''' Understand by doing! A recap of Monday's lecture in workshop form - and a good time for one-on-one help with the material.
** 20:00 [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/zine ZinesFromOuterSpace] - A weekly meetup for zinesters / printing hackers / DIY publishers, and brainstorming session for the next chapter of [[zine | ZiP]].
* '''Friday'''
** 18:30-20:30 Beginner [[French]] - Learn basic grammar and sentence structure. Classes meet in the Turing room.
* '''Saturday'''
** 1 to 4 PM, Unix ciertification in the Church classroom: Unix security topics (syslogd, encryption...), Glen Jarvis honchos.
* '''Sunday'''
**14:00-18:00(ish) [[Elements of Image Making]]- Begins 8/26! Tactile, Chemical and Optical Manipulations for Time Based Media. DIY 16mm movie making. 2nd and 4th Sundays
** 14:00 [http://baha.bitrot.info/ Bay Area Hacker's Association - security meeting] (2nd Sundays)
** 15:00 [[Go]] - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 18:00 Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks with others.
** 19:00 [[Hack Politics]] -- 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Hack the political systems. (Next meeting will be July 1, 2012).
</onlyinclude>

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

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===
:"'(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 yeast. This will be recurring if enough interest or need is present. Associated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Fie: Failure is Eminent]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a System Recovery class that will meet either bi-monthly or weekly for a couple hours to try various backup and recovery methods on drives and data.
:'''(TBD)''': [[101 Introduction to Linux]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a 101 Introduction to Linux class where people can ask whatever questions they want and get them answered in 60 to 90 minutes. Church would be the optimal location. Looking for teachers.
:'''(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.
:'''(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)''': [[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 tech. Has 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

= Past Events =
===2012===
*'''Tuesday Feb. 14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafe. For more info follow [[zine | this]] link.

===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 TheMADE. He 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 table. This month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE Party. Come and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conference. There will be beer.
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoins. Then 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 evaluation. Please bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluate. Bring 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 required. We 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 experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009. Currently on Thursdays at 8. Get 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 photographer. Weekly 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 on. Making 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 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David 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 maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic 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 gala. Post 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 mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This 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!

Coding Freedom

2012-08-11T03:51:21Z

Schoen:

==Coding Freedom book release event (Friday, November 16)==

Hacker culture scholar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Coleman Gabriella Coleman] writes:

:I will be in San Francisco for the American Anthropological Association meetings two weeks after the publication of my first book on the politics of free software: ''Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking'' (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9883.html). It will be released with a CC license.
:I did a chunk of my fieldwork in San Francisco between 2001-2003 and thought it would be quite fitting to hold a book event while visiting the foggy city and Noisebridge came up as a possible venue.
:It would be amazing to hold an event in the Mission, at a hacker space, after the culmination of such a LONG project where I can also thank those, like Seth Schoen, who is not only featured in the book but also was a great friend during my time there (and still is, just now remotely).
:I am thinking of holding the event on Friday November 16. I can provide snacks and drinks and can assure you that if held, it would only attract modest numbers; I imagine a handful of Anthropologists, folks from the EFF, some local open source developers, and perhaps a few interested stragglers might show up.

[[Category:Events]]

Coding Freedom

2012-08-11T03:51:00Z

Schoen:

Coding Freedom

2012-08-11T03:50:23Z

Schoen: Created page with "==Coding Freedom book release event (Friday, November 16)== Hacker culture scholar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Coleman Gabriella Coleman] writes: :I will be in ..."

Category:Events

2012-08-11T03:45:00Z

Schoen: /* Upcoming Events edit */

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

=Event Calendar=
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements [[Mailinglist | mailing lists]], [[IRC]] or in person at [[:Category:Meeting_Notes | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

If you'd like to host an event yourself, we have advice on [[Hosting_an_Event|hosting an event]] at Noisebridge.

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar], view the [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Google Calendar in XML], or the [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Google Calendar in ical] format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, ask on the noisebridge-discuss mailing list.

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



* ''' Monday July 30, 6pm''' - [[Anarchafeminist Hackerhive]] meetup
*'''Saturday, August 18''' - Release date for the third installment of the Noisebridge-inspired Zine in Progress, [[zine|ZiP]]. (No, really!) In the meantime visit the newly revamped website http://zine.noisebridge.net & stay tuned for updates & preview pages from the forthcoming mega-zine!
* '''October 19th, 20th, and 21st, 2012 - [[Hackmeet|Hackmeet 3.0]]'''
* '''Friday, November 16''' - [[Coding Freedom|Book release event]] for Gabriella Coleman's book ''Coding Freedom''

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




* '''Monday'''
** [[Gamebridge| 18:00 Unityversity Unity3D Game Development user group and beginner mentoring. ]]
** '''19:30 - 22:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! Rolf, Miloh, and others will bring kits to make cool, hackable things for all skill levels that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack! Bring things to fix! All welcome!
** 19:00 [[Cook-in class]] Bring your ideas/food/appetite and try your hand at cooking.
** '''20:00-22:00 [[Frontend Web Development]]''' - Learn HTML/CSS/JS. We'll cover the basics (starting at 19:30) and then go in-depth on different topics every week.
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Take Out the Trash Night]]

* '''Tuesday'''
** 15:00 - 16:30 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] meets in the Turing classroom. Help us develop a [[Linux|Linux section]] for the wiki. We're working with Git as of May 2012.
** 16:30 [[Intro to SQL Databases]] Database programming and design using MySQL. Every Tuesday in Turing classroom.
** 17:30 [[C and assembler on Linux]] This is a class working at a beginner's level with gcc and nash in Church.
**  18:30 - 20:00 [[Linux101|Linux 101 Intro Class]]: Learn how easy Open Source can be and how to migrate all of your daily tasks. The class will be presented in 3 parts. Includes OS installation, software use and elementary terminal commands. Feel free to come early if you might need extra assistance. No experience necessary or expected.
** 19:00-21:00 [[Backend web dev in Ruby on Rails]]
** 19:00 [[Tastebridge]] / [[Vegan Hacker]] Monthly Food Hacking, last Tuesday of every month, 7pm. http://www.veganhackersf.com
** 19:30 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program
** '''20:00 [[Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.

* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[Replicator Wednesday|Replicator Wednesday]]! Learn about 3D printing and its implications.
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Linux meetup in the Turing classroom.
** 19:00 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language. New "series" starts December 5th!
** 19:00 [[SCoW]] - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 20:00 [[BACE Timebank]] (2nd Wednesdays) - Help organize community mutual aid by trading in equal time credits. To join go to [http://bace.org bace.org].
* '''Thursday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning!

** 19:00 [[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] 7:00pm, come in and learn about statistical learning techniques.

** 19:00 [[german_corner|German Corner]] Learn and practice speaking German.
** 20:00 [[Frontend_Web_Development#Lab|Frontend Web Development Lab]] - Understand by doing! A recap of Monday's lecture in workshop form - and a good time for one-on-one help with the material.
** 20:00 [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/zine ZinesFromOuterSpace] - A weekly meetup for zinesters / printing hackers / DIY publishers, and brainstorming session for the next chapter of [[zine | ZiP]].
* '''Friday'''
** 18:30-20:30 Beginner [[French]] - Learn basic grammar and sentence structure. Classes meet in the Turing room.
* '''Saturday'''
* '''Sunday'''
**14:00 [[Elements of Image Making]]- Begins 8/26! Tactile, Chemical and Optical Manipulations for Motion Picture Film. DIY 16mm movie making. 2nd and 4th Sundays
** 14:00 [http://baha.bitrot.info/ Bay Area Hacker's Association - security meeting] (2nd Sundays)
** 15:00 [[Go]] - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 18:00 Lock Sport Collaboration: Come learn how to pick locks with others.
** 19:00 [[Hack Politics]] -- 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Hack the political systems. (Next meeting will be July 1, 2012).
</onlyinclude>

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

=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===
:"'(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 yeast. This will be recurring if enough interest or need is present. Associated items - what to do with brewing leftovers, and brewers sample hour, etc.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Fie: Failure is Eminent]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a System Recovery class that will meet either bi-monthly or weekly for a couple hours to try various backup and recovery methods on drives and data.
:'''(TBD)''': [[101 Introduction to Linux]] - [[User:MedianMajik|James]] wants to start a 101 Introduction to Linux class where people can ask whatever questions they want and get them answered in 60 to 90 minutes. Church would be the optimal location. Looking for teachers.
:'''(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.
:'''(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)''': [[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 tech. Has 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

= Past Events =
===2012===
*'''Tuesday Feb. 14th, 18:00 to 20:00''' ZiP MegaZine releases its inaugural issue with '''My Noisy Valentine''' Zine Release Microparty in the Noisebridge cafe. For more info follow [[zine | this]] link.

===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 TheMADE. He 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 table. This month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE Party. Come and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conference. There will be beer.
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoins. Then 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 evaluation. Please bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluate. Bring 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 required. We 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 experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''Monday''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009. Currently on Thursdays at 8. Get 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 photographer. Weekly 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 on. Making 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 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David 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 maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic 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 gala. Post 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 mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This 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!

A key

2012-02-06T22:49:14Z

Schoen: Undo revision 23168 by 66.236.51.34 (Talk) - awesome, edit war!

The Noisebridge version A key is a 5 tumbler Schlage warded key. The pin code is not given directly here as a deterrent. The pin code is (from tip to shoulder):

The five digit integer corresponding to the definite integral of the square function from 0 to 50.23148.

This key was used at 83c Wiese and is currently used at 2169 Mission.

A key

2012-02-06T06:07:04Z

Schoen: "not given directly here as a deterrent"

Getting Here (2169)

2011-10-22T02:43:00Z

Schoen: /* Getting Here by BART */

[[File:Noisebridge location map-20091130-125922.png|thumb|right|2169 Mission Street]]
[[File:Noisebridge front entrance.png|thumb|400px|Ring the bell at the end of the arrow -- the one labeled "Noisebrige" =)]]

Noisebridge is located on the 3rd floor of '''[http://maps.google.com/?q=2169+Mission+Street,+94110 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1219]''', ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=37.762352&mlon=-122.419372&zoom=16 37.76717 N, 122.418423 W]) between 17th and 18th street, 1.5 blocks blocks south of [http://www.bart.gov/stations/16th/index.aspx 16th Street Mission BART station]. Use the intercom to ask to be buzzed into the space. An [[elevator]] with manually-operated doors is available, and here is some basic [[accessibility]] information.

If this is your first time here, please review our [[visitor advice]].

We have more information here on [[Getting_In | getting in]] using really space-age or really old-fashioned ways of opening doors.

You can also find [[Getting Here (83c) | directions to our old space]].

==Public transit==

[http://511.org/ 511.org] is great to help plan your Bay Area travel.

[http://www.flysfo.com/ San Francisco International Airport (SFO)] is about 30 minutes away. [http://www.oaklandairport.com/ Oakland International Airport (OAK)] is about 50 minutes away.

[http://www.caltrain.com/ Caltrain], [http://www.amtrakcapitols.com/ Capitol Corridor] [http://www.sfmta.com Muni] and [http://www.bart.gov BART] transit systems can help get you around the Bay area on public transit.

===Getting Here by BART===
[http://www.bart.gov BART] (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train service runs 4:30am-midnight weekdays, less on weekends. The train schedules are generally accurate to within about 3 minutes.
*Take BART to 16th Street Mission Station
*Get to street level via either exit
*Walk 1.5 blocks south on Mission Street
*Noisebridge is on the left, 2169 Mission, just before Mi Ranchito produce market

===Getting Here by Muni===
San Francisco is served by the [http://www.sfmta.com Muni] bus and light rail network. Only some lines run from 1am-5am, so called "Owl" service. Bus schedules are generally accurate to within 15 minutes. [http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/stopSelector.jsp?a=sf-muni Nextbus] has real-time bus arrival information. Muni lines that pass particularly close to Noisebridge are:
:[http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.php?rted=14 14 Mission] '''(stops in front of Noisebridge)''' (24 hour service)
:[http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.php?rted=33 33 Stanyan] '''(stops in front of Noisebridge)'''
:[http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.php?rted=49 49 Van Ness-Mission] '''(stops in front of Noisebridge)'''
:[http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.php?rted=22 22 Fillmore] (24 hour service; closest stop 16th and Mission)
:[http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.php?rted=12 12 Folsom] (closest stop 18th and Folsom)

Noisebridge is about a 15 minute walk from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_Station_(San_Francisco) Church St Light Rail Muni Station], served by the Muni light rail K, L, M, and T lines underground, and the J, N and F aboveground. (When riding the J Church line, it is closer to exit at the bottom of Dolores Park at 18th and Church rather than at Church and Market. The other Muni light rail lines also connect with BART at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_Center_Station_(San_Francisco) Civic Center Station]; transferring to BART there may be faster than walking from Church Street.)

==Cycling==
See the [http://www.sfbike.org/download/map.pdf San Francisco Bike Coalition bike map] for bike directions to Noisebridge. Noisebridge can be found in the center-right portion of this map.

Valencia Street, 1 block west of Mission, is an official route of the San Francisco Bicycle Network, with roomy bike lanes in both directions and calm traffic. For security you should bring your bike upstairs either via the stairs or elevator. Our bike rack has room for at least 14 bikes :-)

==Driving==

Find us on [http://maps.google.com/?q=2169+Mission+Street,+94110 Google Maps] or [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=37.762352&mlon=-122.419372&zoom=16 OpenStreetMap].

Evening street parking in the area is difficult since the 16th and Valencia area is a popular entertainment district. Most street parking in the area is metered 9am-6pm.

There is a commercial parking garage at [http://j.mp/9IMNpT 42 Hoff Street], about two blocks from Noisebridge. Several [http://www.bart.gov/guide/parking/index.aspx BART stations outside of San Francisco] city limits also have parking available. San Francisco is famous for car break-ins; you should place ''all'' your valuables in the trunk of your car.

=== From the East Bay ===

# From the East Bay, take I-80W (across the Bay Bridge)
# 1.5 miles after the Bay Bridge, exit right at "Golden Gate Bridge | North 101 | Exit 1B"
# in 0.5 miles exit right at a double sign that reads "Duboce Ave | Exit 434A" and "101 North | G G Br | Mission St"
# Bear left near the bottom of the exit
# At the bottom of the exit, turn left on Mission
# Continue south on Mission Street about 4 blocks to 2169 Mission

=== From the South Bay ===

# From the South Bay, take US-101N
# Exit at Vermont St and immediately turn left on Vermont
# Go 2 blocks and turn left on 16th
# Go 1.1 miles (approx 12 blocks) and turn left on Mission Street
# Continue south on Mission Street 1.5 blocks to 2169 Mission

Alternatively
# Take I-280N
# Exit at San Jose Avenue
# Go 1.1 miles, turn right onto Randall and make an immediate left onto Mission Street
# Go 1.6 miles (approx 16 blocks) and find yourself in front of Noisebridge!

=== From the North Bay ===

From the North Bay, take US-101S (across the Golden Gate Bridge). Continue on US-101S within San Francisco (local San Francisco streets signed as US-101S are Lombard Street and then Van Ness Avenue) until it crosses Market Street and becomes South Van Ness Avenue, then follow South Van Ness, then right on 18th, right on Mission.

===[http://j.mp/9En9Jg To Garage at 42 Hoff]===
# Starting at Noisebridge, go 1/2 block north to 17th St.
# Turn left on 17th
# Take your first right onto Hoff St.
# The garage is 1/2 block ahead on the left

[[Category:InTheSpace]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:25:35Z

Schoen: /* Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a [http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-T839HABTMB Sidekick 4G running Android] with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

=== Membership Binder ===

There are no new members this week.

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon#Clients mpd clients] for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

At the beginning of Noisebridge, we talked about the idea of having a hacker in residence program, where we would designate someone as Noisebridge hacker in residence for a period of time and give them some kind of support and recognition.

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

There is a project to create some additional member shelves. It's being funded by individual donations and not an appropriation of Noisebridge money. We have $220 and we need $280 to complete this project. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be [[Mediation|on a wiki page]]. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:24:45Z

Schoen: /* Shelves */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a [http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-T839HABTMB Sidekick 4G running Android] with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

=== Membership Binder ===

There are no new members this week.

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

At the beginning of Noisebridge, we talked about the idea of having a hacker in residence program, where we would designate someone as Noisebridge hacker in residence for a period of time and give them some kind of support and recognition.

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

There is a project to create some additional member shelves. It's being funded by individual donations and not an appropriation of Noisebridge money. We have $220 and we need $280 to complete this project. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be [[Mediation|on a wiki page]]. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:24:09Z

Schoen: /* Hacker in residence */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a [http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-T839HABTMB Sidekick 4G running Android] with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

=== Membership Binder ===

There are no new members this week.

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

At the beginning of Noisebridge, we talked about the idea of having a hacker in residence program, where we would designate someone as Noisebridge hacker in residence for a period of time and give them some kind of support and recognition.

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be [[Mediation|on a wiki page]]. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:20:59Z

Schoen: /* Membership Binder */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a [http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-T839HABTMB Sidekick 4G running Android] with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

=== Membership Binder ===

There are no new members this week.

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be [[Mediation|on a wiki page]]. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:20:30Z

Schoen: /* Financial Report */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a [http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-T839HABTMB Sidekick 4G running Android] with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

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

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be [[Mediation|on a wiki page]]. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:19:22Z

Schoen: /* Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a Sidekick 4G running Android with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

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

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be [[Mediation|on a wiki page]]. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:18:07Z

Schoen: /* Fixed TV */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a Sidekick 4G running Android with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

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

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack (?) fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be on a wiki page. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:17:52Z

Schoen: /* Announcements */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have new t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take ''all'' of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a Sidekick 4G running Android with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

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

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be on a wiki page. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Meeting Notes 2011 05 03

2011-05-08T00:17:24Z

Schoen: /* End of Meeting */

== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take all of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a Sidekick 4G running Android with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

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

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be on a wiki page. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

=== End of Meeting ===

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== Agenda ==

[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Meeting_Notes The 159th Meeting of Noisebridge]

Note-taker: Seth

Moderator: Rachel M

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

=== Announcements ===

We have t-shirts and stickers! (Lots of them!)

Q. What are we going to do with them at Maker Faire?

A. Let's take all of them to the Faire and see if we can get rid of all of them there! The world of geekdom will descend upon Maker Faire before, during, and after the Faire.

=== Financial Report ===

Funds in bank: $13,871.86. This is a little bit low but it's the beginning of the month and we just paid rent, so it's not too bad.

Generally we now have $10,000 in the savings account and use about $5,000 as operating expenses, but we had to dip into the savings account to deal with the purchases of t-shirts and stickers. But we were able to restore that quickly.

Q. Can we invest money in a CD?

A. Actually, the t-shirts and stickers are a much better investment for Noisebridge right now. Interest rates are low but we get good returns in practice from shirts and stickers. We have made $1.10 in interest on our savings account.

Jared deposited $236 from the vending machine. Thanks!

Samsung is now manufacturing a Sidekick 4G running Android with a super great keyboard. Noisebridge isn't going to get one but the treasurer likes them a '''whole lot'''.

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

=== What's Going On at Noisebridge ===

(Skipped.)

=== Project Updates ===

====Controlling music playback in the space from your smartphone or other computer====
It's now very easy using any smartphone, by downloading any mpd client, to control the two music receivers that we have here and to control the music playback from your phone. You can also get mpd clients for your computer and control the music when you are in the space!

====Fixed TV====

Zack fixed the 42-inch TV and it could be placed onto a table with wheels and display various things and kinds of information while people are doing projects. It can take two simultaneous inputs in split-screen mode. Ideally there will be a computer attached to it and maybe a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Q. What inputs?

A. DVI up to 720p and 1080a. Two component, two composite inputs, S-video.

Q. Make a wiki page and an nburl for the wiki page and put a label on it.

A. Sure, please help me do this!

Q. What is the brand?

A. Gateway.

Q. What will the TV be called?

A. Per the treasurer, NBTV!

The TV is now called "NBTV". See [http://nburl.net/NBTV]

It will perhaps have two computers to control the two computer inputs.

====Hacker in residence====

Mitch has been talking with Paul about having a hacker in residence. He is a grantwriter. He is proposing to write a grant proposal to have a hacker in residence.

Someone will sign this grant proposal and then it will be an actual proposal on behalf of Noisebridge.

=== Consensus items ===

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

=== Discussion Items ===

====Noisebridge administering grants====

Open source research under Noisebridge's ægis.

Can Noisebridge administer grants to let individuals get funding to work on open source projects? E.g., Jason, who has a specific open source project that he wants to get a grant to work on, to be administered by Noisebridge.

The money would presumably get paid to Noisebridge and it would be earmarked for paying a particular person to work on a particular thing in the name of Noisebridge. Publications about this would be done with a Noisebridge affiliation.

This does create responsibility for Noisebridge and reputational risk. Our bylaws permit this but we have never done it before.

In this case Jason would promise to make his work open source.

It's not clear who would do what and whether consensus is required.

Q. What is the procedure for the treasurer to be given earmarked funds, such as a grant for a specific purpose?

A. Send the treasurer an e-mail describing the nature, date, and amount of the transaction.

Q. But what will Noisebridge do in order to fulfill its obligations to administer the grant properly, to ensure that we comply with our obligations under the grant and as a non-profit organization? We need to keep track of this for tax reasons, among other things.

A. The treasurer will track the amount and purpose of the money allocated and expended for these purposes.

Q. Doesn't Noisebridge get some obligation to monitor what Jason does and that the purpose of the grant is fulfilled? What kind of oversight will Noisebridge exercise?

A. Yes. We could have a consensus item that says that we'll go forward with this and that one of our officers has volunteered to be the contact person and to perform the oversight, including an obligation for Jason to report on his progress.

We think that the consensus item would be to administer the grant.

Q. Does this need consensus?

A. Not sure, but we will proceed as a consensus item for now. We will also ask Paul for advice.

There is some general discussion about our uncertainty about whether this requires consensus and how Noisebridge ought to be handling decisions about grants.

====Shelves====

New member shelves. We have $220 and we need $280. See [[Talk:Shelves]].

====Guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior====

Last week, we proposed to talk about guidelines for responding to unexcellent behavior, for possible future consensus.

Q. What should the guidelines be?

A. We don't know!

One idea: In order to eject someone from Noisebridge, we have to do it by consensus and also everyone has to sing "Kumbaya".

We can also just discuss it without a formal consensus on guidelines.

Having something written down could make people who feel that they're having problems feel that they have tools to deal with the problems.

There is some opposition to making something that seems like a rule. We once had a procedure for kicking people out at the old space, but we never actually consensed on it.

- As discussed last week, there was a concern with how we dealt with our banning incident. We still agree with the consensus but some members continue to be troubled by the process and atmosphere that were used in the course that took us there.

- There are potentially other ways that could work to deal with problems.

- We didn't get a chance to try some of the other ways last time.

Q. How can we deal with de-escalating a situation without ignoring people's safety concerns?

- There is a progression of things that people can try in order to deal with people they're having problems with. After trying these, what are people supposed to do when they're at the point of bringing their concerns to a meeting or to the larger community?

- We may have gotten a mob phenomenon partly because we let things go on too long before acting.

- There were people who had already said that they would enforce a ban before the consensus process. At that point it is very hard to de-escalate the situation and pursue more moderate ways to address the issue because we feel that we have to decide whether that's OK and whether we condone this action. At that point there was probably no longer an opportunity to use other means.

- We did let things go on too long, but the system was designed to be slow.

- A group was also trying to get together a formal intervention and conditions. They had been deliberating but then they found out that there was another group preparing more drastic action. The group that was working on the intervention -- the more moderate course -- got a negative message from the group that was using the more direct tactics.

- There were two different groups working in parallel to try to deal with the situation using different tactics at the same time. This arises partly from the difficulty in identifying who can or should act as Noisebridge itself.

- And Noisebridge itself can't act officially in a very rapid way, because of the constraints of our consensus process.

- The eventual consensus was actually a bit of a surprise to people because there was so much skepticism that the process could work and could reach a consensus. In reality, Noisebridge did come to a reasonably quick and solid consensus once the consensus process was invoked. That it hadn't been tried sooner was something that led to the problems.

- But how bad doesn't someone's behavior need to be before it gets brought up in a meeting?

- It seems that our process is talking to someone, then bringing it to a group / intervention, followed by an attempt at formal banning. Those are definite actions that can be taken but that didn't get taken very quickly because people didn't know who should do what when.

- Parts of this happened very fast once it started, by Noisebridge standards.

- Did the person who got banned actually get any opportunity to defend himself?

- Yes, at least with individuals who raised concerns.

- There was a "slow burn" which lasted for three months or more and then a very sudden "explosion". The "explosion" lasted about five days. The explosion phase involved two different groups working on different responses, at least.

- When people are talking about safety, you have to be concerned about the credibility of both sides.

- This has happened three times before this and has escalated in the same way with concerns about sexual issues which are the issues that have resonance here and so those are the concerns that people raise that get traction.

- The slow part this time took a long time to reach a critical mass and before that people did not feel a particular urgency to take action because it was not clear whether it was a personal issue that properly needed to be taken to the whole group or not.

- We don't have a clear grievance process. In the past people whose behavior was criticized or objected to had advocates, but not this time.

- This was actually going to happen this time in the intervention process.

- But someone who was aware of these concerns during the slow phrase didn't act when they could have.

- Because it wasn't clear to them whether it was a probably that needed to be dealt with by the whole community.

- These kinds of concerns about people are the standard issues that were raised against people in prior incidents when other people had a problem with them.

- Our process seems to work OK in non-extreme cases but we don't have a process that works in a non-escalated, rational, deliberative way in extreme cases.

- It would be nice if there were a way to deal with such situations in a way that's faster and less ugly. Does it have to get ugly?

- How do you open it up to the group earlier without making it public and invoking privacy concerns and escalating too much?

- We should have guidelines that create a predictable way to make progress on issues about people's behavior without necessarily getting ugly.

- Menacing dog issue? Some people said they felt threatened by the dog.

- People disagree about whether that dog was menacing.

- This exemplifies that it's difficult to figure out at what point to bring things to the group!

- What is the point of transition for something from a private issue to a public issue?

- Suggested guideline: Everyone needs to have an advocate.

- And a way to represent themselves.

- It's not cool to move forward without someone having an advocate.

Q. What if they can't get an advocate?

A. We think they get an advocate. We think everyone would be able to get an advocate if we have an articulated belief that everyone should have an advocate.

- There has been a leadership vacuum at Noisebridge.

- That's on purpose.

- No, we have a lack of formal leadership but we often have very active informal leadership. This problem was a symptom of the leadership vacuum.

- Proposed process: Talk to someone directly. Then get a mediator. Then the mediator can ask whether the issue should be brought to the group.

- But we don't necessarily know when an issue is ripe to be brought to the meeting.

- We need an informal panel of people who are willing to talk to people when people are having problems with them.

- The board of directors.

- But the board is supposed to not do anything!

- Some responsible person, then.

- Then it can go to a meeting and once it goes to a meeting, the person whose behavior is complained of should have an advocate there.

- Step 1 (dealing with someone) is optional if people are afraid to. Step 2 is not. Getting a proxy to talk to them.

- Step 3 is getting a responsible party to talk to them. If that doesn't work, that party should bring it up in the meeting.

- What about structured mediation?

- What about the problem of detecting a pattern vs. an interpersonal problem that is not a group problem? How can the mediator decide this?

- It's their responsibility to make a judgment.

- We should have a norm in favor of bringing things to the meeting.

- But this will cause lots of dirty laundry to get brought to the meeting all the time.

- There is a meaningful task in making a distinction between personal conflicts and problems that need the group's attention. But in some cases, because of privacy concerns, people may have problems or bad experiences that they are reluctant to bring to the group's attention ... and there is a level of mistrust in the community.
So sometimes the community ought to act to kick someone out, but there may not be trust in the community's willingness or ability to do so, so something might not get brought to the group when it ought to be. And mistrust in the community's ability to deal with things tends to empower vigilantism.

- We can name steps that happen before a lynch mob. Having named steps would be a real thing to point to that would be meaningful.

- There are some notes on possible guidelines that will be put on the wiki.

- A lynch mob is a natural outcome in the absence of visible steps and progress from the community. We would like to guide the flow of events to try to prevent it from resulting in a lynch mob.

- Is this something for the board or something for anyone in the community generally? We don't like giving the board special powers.

- We have a set of actual named and numbered steps and we think these can help. They will be on a wiki page. It includes a list of people who volunteer to be mediators/responsible parties.

- A big goal is to try to defuse lynch mobs and witch hunts, in part by having a meaningful and visible alternative to them that can work.

- What about the problem of people perceiving an imminent, urgent threat?

- You can call the police and the police can remove someone.

- It would be good if doocratic removal of people didn't involve the word "ban". As we said last week, /kick not /ban.

- It could also be good if people could be temporarily suspended or asked to stay away in order to deal with people's urgent concerns.

- But this actually happened and didn't work.

- It doesn't always work but it can work. Everyone can /kick people.

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

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

=Event Calendar=
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements [[Mailinglist | mailing lists]], [[IRC]] or in person at [[:Category:Meeting_Notes | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

If you'd like to host an event yourself, we have advice on [[Hosting_an_Event | hosting an event]] at Noisebridge.

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar], view the [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Google Calendar in XML], or the [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Google Calendar in ical] format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, contact a Noisebridge member for access.

(Wouldn't it be great if there were a gCal mediawiki plugin so crossposting wasn't needed? Do you know of a good one? Help us!) <- working on this, need to upgrade Mediawiki in order to use some plugins.
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=== Upcoming Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=2 edit] ===
*'''April 26th, 19:00''' - [http://www.veganhackersf.com Vegan Hacker SF]: April Workshop. Our monthly vegan hacking workshop, every last Tuesday. This month's hack will be pierogi. Come watch/bake/eat! Follow us on twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/veganhackersf veganhackersf]

*'''April 28th, 18:30''' - [[Max/MSP intro class]]: get started with Max and build your own realtime software or hack existing ones.

*'''May 7th, 10:00am - 8:00pm''' - Grand opening http://aplaceforsustainableliving.org/content/launching-may-7th-2011 Join this fun, family friendly event. We are hosting a renaming contest. http://aplaceforsustainableliving.org/name-contest-win-prizes/.

*'''May 13th, 19:00''' - Build a Contact Mic with Hackerspace Rock Band CMKT 4. All the way from Chicago, the band is eager to teach you the art of contact microphone building. Here is our standard class description:
**At our workshops, everyone who buys a kit ($15 per workshop attendee, includes a kit; $10 apiece for additional kits) will learn to solder. They will also work with hot glue, zip ties, shielded cable, a piezo electric disc and recycled bottle-caps to make a fully functioning Bottle-Cap Contact Microphone. These microphones pick up physical vibrations and transduce the vibrations into an electrical audio signal. Students are encouraged to bring instruments and found objects to listen to through the microphones.
**There is a dry-time involved in the materials we use, however, during that time, we will put on a brief performance for the attendees. For the performance, we will require the use of a PA.
**You can hear more about us at http://www.facebook.com/cmkt4 http://www.myspace.com/cmkt4 and http://cmkt4.bandcamp.com/, we have performance videos at http://www.vimeo.com/channels/cremedementia. Follow us on twitter @cmkt4.

*'''May 15th, 2:00pm - 5:00pm''' - The San Francisco Chapter of [http://toool.us The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers] invite you to join us to learn about the history, styles, features, and techniques for using Bogota wave rakes. This meeting focuses on the unique characteristics and effectiveness of Bogota tools. Christina Palmer will demonstrate both picking and how to make your own set of Bogota rakes from stainless steel windshield wiper blade inserts. Afterward, she'll entertain Bogota-related Q&A and, for those new to lockpicking, questions about basic tools and techniques.

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

* '''Monday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash and compost for Tuesday morning!
** 18:00 [[iPhone OS developer weekly meetup]] - We make teh applukashuns, joyn us 2 make dem 2! [http://meetup.com/iphonedevsf meetup page]
** 18:30 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language.
** '''19:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! Mitch will bring kits to make cool, hackable things that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack! There's now an Audio Hacking Adjunct group that meets along with the Circuit Hackers.
* '''Tuesday'''
** 12:30 [[Django Study Group]] - install and use the Django Python-based web framework, Turing classroom
** 15:00 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] wiki page - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
** 18:00 [[Tastebridge]] Last Tuesday of every month: Vegan Cooking Class. Looking for people to host additional, regular classes.
** 19:00 [[ruby_class|Ruby Class]] 7pm-9pm



** '''20:00 [[#Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.
* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Play with Linux in the Turing classroom.

** 18:00 [[BioBridge]] Practical microbiology - we culture microbes for baking, brewing, fermentation and other yummy purposes. Come play and learn!
** 19:00 [[SCoW]] - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 19:30 [[Machine Learning]] - Teach computers to learn stuff using artificial intelligence and other techniques.
** 20:00 [[BACE Timebank]] (1st Wednesdays) - Help organize community mutual aid by trading in equal time credits. For more info email mira (at) sfbace.org or to join go to [http://timebank.sfbace.org timebank.sfbace.org].
* '''Thursday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning!
** 19:00 [[Noisedroid/Nights]] - An Android-Themed Co-working Night.
** '''20:00 [[Five_Minutes_of_Fame | Five Minutes of Fame]]''' (3rd Thursdays)
** '''20:00 [[In-Depth]]''' (1st Thursdays)
* '''Friday'''
** 12:30 [[Django Study Group]] - install and use the Django Python-based web framework, Turing classroom
** 15:00 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] wiki page - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
** 18:00 [[Game Night]] - Come take a breather and chill out at our weekly board game meetup :]
* '''Saturday'''

** 14:00 [[Schematics]] - A general programming class focusing on collaborative group projects utilizing scheme.
** 12:00-18:00 - Noisebridge Hackathon! Second Saturday Hackathon is a casual monthly event dedicated to building community and working on the space or relevant projects. 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. (2nd Saturday)
* '''Sunday'''
** 14:00 [[Schemers]] - Explore the scheme programming language & fundamental CS concepts using the classic [http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ SICP].
** 14:00 [http://baha.bitrot.info/ Bay Area Hacker's Association - security meeting] (2nd Sundays)
** 15:00 [[Go]] - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 15:00 [[Locks!]] - Lock sport, sundays when there is demand. ( See [[locks!]] for more information. )

** 18:00 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program
** 19:00 [[Hack Politics]] -- 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Hack the political systems.
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=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===

:'''(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)''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009 on Mondays. Currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.
:'''(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++)
:'''(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.
:'''(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)''': [[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 tech. Has historically met on Sundays, at the behest of interested parties.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Programming_for_Poets | Programming for Poets]] - Gentle intro to programming using Processing

= Past Events =
===2011===
* '''April 13th, 19:00''' - Kombucha fermentation class with [[BioBridge]]
*'''April 7th, 20:00''' - [[In-Depth|Noisebridge: In-Depth]] Our monthly lecture and round table. This month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE Party. Come and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conference. There will be beer.
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoins. Then 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 evaluation. Please bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluate. Bring 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 required. We 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 experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''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 photographer. Weekly 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 on. Making 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 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David 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 maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic 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 gala. Post 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 mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This 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:Events

2011-05-04T04:24:21Z

Schoen: /* Upcoming Events edit */

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

=Event Calendar=
Not all events make it onto this calendar. Many events only make it to the Discussion or Announcements [[Mailinglist | mailing lists]], [[IRC]] or in person at [[:Category:Meeting_Notes | Tuesday meetings]]. Best of all, Noisebridge is about people getting together at the space in San Francisco to do stuff... like in person. Some events just happen. Pay attention!

If you'd like to host an event yourself, we have advice on [[Hosting_an_Event | hosting an event]] at Noisebridge.

Event posters are encouraged to crosspost to the Google Calendar. View the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar], view the [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic Google Calendar in XML], or the [http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/vo3i3c0qtjnkjr2ojasd0ftt8s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics Google Calendar in ical] format.

To post Google Calendar entries for your event, contact a Noisebridge member for access.

(Wouldn't it be great if there were a gCal mediawiki plugin so crossposting wasn't needed? Do you know of a good one? Help us!) <- working on this, need to upgrade Mediawiki in order to use some plugins.
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=== Upcoming Events [https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Category:Events&action=edit&section=2 edit] ===

Skipped!

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

* '''Monday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash and compost for Tuesday morning!
** 18:00 [[iPhone OS developer weekly meetup]] - We make teh applukashuns, joyn us 2 make dem 2! [http://meetup.com/iphonedevsf meetup page]
** 18:30 [[PyClass]] - Learn how to program using the Python programming language.
** '''19:00 [[Circuit Hacking Mondays]]''' - Learn to solder! Mitch will bring kits to make cool, hackable things that you can bring home after you make them. Bring your own projects to hack! There's now an Audio Hacking Adjunct group that meets along with the Circuit Hackers.
* '''Tuesday'''
** 12:30 [[Django Study Group]] - install and use the Django Python-based web framework, Turing classroom
** 15:00 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] wiki page - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
** 18:00 [[Tastebridge]] Last Tuesday of every month: Vegan Cooking Class. Looking for people to host additional, regular classes.
** 19:00 [[ruby_class|Ruby Class]] 7pm-9pm



** '''20:00 [[#Meetings|Noisebridge Weekly Meeting]]''' - Introducing new people and events to the space, general discussion, and decision making.
* '''Wednesday'''
** 18:00 [[LinuxDiscussion|Linux Discussion]] - Play with Linux in the Turing classroom.

** 18:00 [[BioBridge]] Practical microbiology - we culture microbes for baking, brewing, fermentation and other yummy purposes. Come play and learn!
** 19:00 [[SCoW]] - Sewing, Crafting, Or Whatever! Come make cool stuff with geeks.
** 19:30 [[Machine Learning]] - Teach computers to learn stuff using artificial intelligence and other techniques.
** 20:00 [[BACE Timebank]] (1st Wednesdays) - Help organize community mutual aid by trading in equal time credits. For more info email mira (at) sfbace.org or to join go to [http://timebank.sfbace.org timebank.sfbace.org].
* '''Thursday'''
** [[House_Keeping#Trash_and_Recycling|Trash Night]] - Take out the trash for Friday morning!
** 19:00 [[Noisedroid/Nights]] - An Android-Themed Co-working Night.
** '''20:00 [[Five_Minutes_of_Fame | Five Minutes of Fame]]''' (3rd Thursdays)
** '''20:00 [[In-Depth]]''' (1st Thursdays)
* '''Friday'''
** 12:30 [[Django Study Group]] - install and use the Django Python-based web framework, Turing classroom
** 15:00 [[Linux System Administration Study Group]] wiki page - Study Linux admining in the Turing classroom.
** 18:00 [[Game Night]] - Come take a breather and chill out at our weekly board game meetup :]
* '''Saturday'''

** 14:00 [[Schematics]] - A general programming class focusing on collaborative group projects utilizing scheme.
** 12:00-18:00 - Noisebridge Hackathon! Second Saturday Hackathon is a casual monthly event dedicated to building community and working on the space or relevant projects. 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. (2nd Saturday)
* '''Sunday'''
** 14:00 [[Schemers]] - Explore the scheme programming language & fundamental CS concepts using the classic [http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ SICP].
** 14:00 [http://baha.bitrot.info/ Bay Area Hacker's Association - security meeting] (2nd Sundays)
** 15:00 [[Go]] - Playing of the Go boardgame. On nice days we often take the boards to Dolores Park and play there.
** 15:00 [[Locks!]] - Lock sport, sundays when there is demand. ( See [[locks!]] for more information. )

** 18:00 [[Spacebridge]] - Noisebridge's space program
** 19:00 [[Hack Politics]] -- 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. Hack the political systems.
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=== Proposed Future Events and Classes ===

:'''(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)''': [[German]] - Learn German, all levels. 7pm beginners, 8pm advanced. RSVP 24 hours in advance for the benefit of the instructor. Events ran May-November 2009 on Mondays. Currently on hiatus. Get on the mailing list.
:'''(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++)
:'''(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.
:'''(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)''': [[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 tech. Has historically met on Sundays, at the behest of interested parties.
:'''(TBD)''': [[Programming_for_Poets | Programming for Poets]] - Gentle intro to programming using Processing

= Past Events =
===2011===
* '''April 13th, 19:00''' - Kombucha fermentation class with [[BioBridge]]
*'''April 7th, 20:00''' - [[In-Depth|Noisebridge: In-Depth]] Our monthly lecture and round table. This month's speaker will be Aragorn! his lecture will be "Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
*'''April 4th, 20:00''' - Camp KDE Party. Come and meet part of the KDE North America community and get a quick overview of this year's [http://camp.kde.org/ Camp KDE] conference. There will be beer.
*'''April 3rd, 16:00''' - NoiseCaching: Meet-up to build some geocaches, and talk about making geocoins. Then 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 evaluation. Please bring your web/social or technical writing for us to evaluate. Bring 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 required. We 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 experts. 6-???
:'''Sunday''' : [[OpenEEG | OpenEEG Hacking]] Sundays, at 3-5pm.
:'''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 photographer. Weekly 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 on. Making 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 83C. Bring a short 5-7minute thing to read to others. Bring a potluck cookie/snack/drink if you like. David 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 maintained. Screechy chains and clacking derailleur can go to hell. Basic 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 gala. Post 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 mount. Additionally, carve your halloween pumpkins and enjoy some experimental pumpkin pie and/or soup.
:'''2008-10-07''': (tuesday before meeting) - Etch a circuit board. I'll be trying a photo resist etching and a basic printed mask etching. This 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!

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