20:00 Talk by Bello Benischauer. Invited by Matthias.

Admin

Request for funding of a UPS / USV. Euros 220 from e-tec.at.

Present: Tania, Dreamer, Foo, Doris, SunTzu

Art Stuff

Tania + simon sent a great email to the great great world. The great email was seen. Announcing three things:

• Doris panel on art critters.
• 30th may G7 CC
• Some art thing.

BYI organisation thing 30th May

• at G7 30th May
• Tania + Foo doing the bar, 2 euros per drink
• for organisers and musicians, 3 free drinks.
• call Pablo for filming. … setup for sound.
• we need the microphones, 2 batteries
• doris: check cables, buy batteries
• Tania has a microphone stand at her house. has to get to G7.
• beamer flipchart chairs
• upstairs … room cleaned … beamer chairs out
• Matthias + Tannnyay will be here 18:00 to prepare, others welcome to help
• we are between 20:00 and 21:00 for BYI
• after us is party
• Does Tanyia be moderator: not comfortable with topic of BYI …
• Does iang want to do it???
• Simon is organising artists?!?
• part of CC / g7’s listening event … mumosomeone
• future of BYI, perhaps in talk about in June, after presentation of bellobenishower

Depot

• documentation, do we want it, do we ask Pablo
• Yes, ask Pablo
• it would be come a BYI clip?
• panel discussion
• how many minutes? unknown …
• no help needed
• we turning up. tuesday 26th May 19:00.
• email sent out … to other lists?

tech stuff

Zentrix

• defining a workflow for migration …
• write a mail about shutdown of Zentrix
• shutdown zentrix as fast as possible…
• how to handle the email service
• we shut down the vhosts
• do we shutdown the email of these persons who are using the services for free.
• do we do any email for free?
• anything that is over-quota can be shut down
• around 500 accounts
• sonance.net should really be for involved people, have paid up, have an organisational function, or work for their accounts, etc.
• we have to send a mail out…
• not clear … can a member give away 100s of accounts…
• other possibility is that people cannot give away email accounts until the interface is sorted out.
• paid up members can have their email addresses and other services.
• anyone else who is not paid up and has nothing to do with the system … should be deleted.
• sympa is running on zentrix still. there are mailing lists for other people who are not paid up …
• we have to clear out the old accounts.
• must be on contact with the people … coz the passwords will have to be changed
• no phone support available … need to send the email out
• eg, africa list
• blogs: same thing.
• an account with sonance.net is a full service account
• mailing lists: if no owner, and not a member, should be shutdown.
• can the public archives be preserved for research? yes
• blogs: not depending on zentrix
• the point is to clean up LDAP … so everything which is gone will help a lot.
• leave the blogs. not a free service … but at some stage we will get around to cleaning them up.
• mySQL … data has been moved for lists, etc
• postgresql was used for sympa and webmail, not used any more
• archive. the vhost archive.
• many pages concerning the sonance history not transferred as yet
• enter.sonance is transferred, typo3, etc is transferred
• simon + matthias will make a list of activesonance sites to move …
• then one archive categoy called sonance history with static sites …
• another archive with vhosts of users …
• that have agreed to go to the sonance archive.
• give the user an opt-out option, rather than ask them and wait
• oli + simon + matthias will sit together and make this together
• when do we write the email?

additional

• how is the phone call / support going to be handled
• no resources available to handle the phone. not at this moment handle the phones.
• get a phone … for mailbox only
• find a pre-paid phone, and use it as a mailbox only… Matthias can sort it out.

• is now up and going
• all membership issues should go through here

Misc

• Funkfeuer — delivered another bill!

redesign of the Sonance image

• change of name?

Present: Doris, nuss, dreamer, oli, foo, Matthias, Tanya, JVK, Suntzu, Binsh, simon, Tariq…

The Art

…

NetzNetz

• NetzNetz proposal due Sunday 26th,  in only 11 days
  • We just need to get the proposal in.
  • “Please Validate me” emails are sent on the days before Sunday 26th Midnight
  • 2 weeks then for MA7 to reject any proposals
  • Sunday 10th May is Voting
• Validation up until 26th April as well
  • we are all validated
  • should we be chasing people
  • geoff wirth, …
  • doris will chase the names and get us all to do that!
• what project we should submit.
  • Plan A: BYI phase 2 + resonance + book
  • Plan B: go to HAR2009
    • sound-visual body out of the computers at the HAR2009
    • big installation performance
    • Supercollidor, connects over the net
    • different to what 4shrooms does
  • null project??? go for Microinfrastructure?
  • Plan C: Bulgaria / Sofia video installation

Open discussion:

• stefan:  Plan A is logical consequence, it has not unfolded as a sustainable impact as yet
• oli: better to do many smaller events, smaller brochures than one big event, one big book
• we have to produce the content… what kind of content can be produced?
• tanya: a think every few months is never closed, we need for that a main topic
• oli: our main topic is BYI
• the template design for both is needed, and that is the most expensive part
• simon: we could maybe do a cooperation with an existing magazine, maybe even sell the content
• (which won’t help for NetzNetz, but maybe think about it later)
• call the HAR plan the Resonance plan, we can call it whatever you like …
• living resonance, presenting a,b,c… a rhizomatic installation
• metalab are planning 60-80 people, flights, trucks, tents, etc.
• netznetz vote splitting is obligatory … have to give at least 20 points to someone else
• minimum is 4000 for netznetz is to be expected
• Simon: Plan C, cooperate with BIMA guys, empty water tower, beamers from the video/sound/light group.
• Sofia event is in June, no exact date, planned 3 days
• highly similar to Plan B, distance, transport, ideas…
• who is going to write it?  Tanya won’t be able to come to NL
• old water tower, do things inside, outside, independent, empty space.  Call for video installations.
• Nia has been doing this for 3 years already.
• Tanya’s friends / fathers
• Tanya would only be able to come for the weekend … is in Sofia for June weekend only
• Tanya will help write the proposal!
• do video and installation of BYI there …
• Bulgaria is short term, very quick;  which might be good, we just do it.  Deadline beginning of May to submit to Sophia.

Back to planning:

• Available for Sofia/June:  Oliver, Stefan, Matthias, Simon (likely), JVK (likely).  Maybe not, Tanya, Doris.
• Available for NL/August:  Oliver, Matthias, JVK, Doris.  Not:  Nuss, Binsh, Tanya.
• Flights, etc can be covered by other proposals/sources.
• 20th, Monday, 17:00:  Tanya + Simon + Matthias + Oliver meeting

Actual BYIs

• BYI progress …
• Doris has a little list
• Doris has her password and login.
• Can the login button be put on the front page? Complicated? yes, could be complicated … talked to Oliver. Yes, could be done. Stefan is busy…..
• Is there anyone interested in doing Interviews / Camera / Video
• This weekend … Atelier-crawl around 2nd district … nobody available …
• 18th, Saturday: the SoliEcon audio Doris + Matthias + Oliver, Oliver/Matthias’s pad.
• Doris to bring file on external hard drive.
• Doris:  are you going to write your contributions soon:  OLIVER AND MATTHIAS AND TANYA AND DORIS
• Doris is using the password recovery / reset / procedure
• Is it the recovery procedure or the reset procedure?
• Doris has her first Mexican … transcribed …. to be sent to her and uploaded
• A new BYI just came in…
• Interview Subik at Linuxwochen for his BYI.
• The Sonance microphone is at Tanya’s place.

Tech stuff

• Nia’s website is … run by Sonance / gernot hofer / is typo3
• typo3 cannot connect to database
• Matthias will write to him
• stefan needs a new database as well
• Null-Acht-Noine. 083 … has malware warnings … the code is (*#$&@*&#$^&#^@
• it has to be turned off until it is fixed.
• Matthias to write to him
• Depot. ported … but could not reach host … coz there was a typo, now fixed.
• Art-in-process, people coming in June? Is it ok?
• The info flow is not good, we have to wait?
• the is not working, needs to be fixed. Matthias will fix that.
• People will write to and this will be forwarded to …
• people are writing different responses to these emails …
• Matthias will pick up the support phone and take on the Membership issues
• Luc Goss has the phone. Will bring it. Is in CH.
• someone wants first aid …. no, it is not to be set up again.  Now on evolve.
• Can sonance put out Rechnung for its contributions / memberships.
• We can do so, make a “Kassebuch”
• Print it out and show Matthias on the weekend.
• email… set up Doris’s Thunderbird.  iang to do it.
• Doris to chase the videos, put it on hard drive, will give Pablo the hard drive.
• Tanya .. get equipment to Doris.
• Doris: work load on support is TOO HIGH.

Administration Side

• CAcert Assurances: Matthias on Doris and iang.
• SunTzu is fighting other fires for next 3-4 weeks.

MEETING CLOSED: 22:19

Present: Dreamer, foo, nuss, doris, Vincent van Drassow, jan von Krieg!

Meeting Opened: 20:00

Tech

• turning off SSH password access
  • For all machines
  • Send the users an email
  • Password access is not as secure because there are common attacks to collect passwords
  • Keys cannot be MITM’d
• The second hard drive
  • Pablo has suggested it be used for editing
  • Agreed.
• Where to put the videos for BYI?
  • Stream or darwin or …
  • Plugin …
  • have to figure it out … make instructions on the Burn site
• FTP server…
• Report to CAcert on Disk-Bash, also photos?

Admin

• iang not around for periods in next month:  22 april, 29 apr, 06 may. Will be in Innsbruck. Prague, Budapest, London, Netherlands, Munich doing audit over CAcert assurance.
• The board votes NO, cannot go…
• Tanya starts full time job 4th May
• The famous VEREIN form has been sent

BYI

• Doris wants to come to NOW.
• The famous report to MA7 is presented.
  • President Foo:  Thank you for all of your work and energy and input into the project.
  • We will see what the feed back is!
  • Doris: saw 200 or so covering 4 square meters… do not expect an answer for 3 weeks or so.
  • We should have called SF-V to tell her that the objective of the project has changed slightly.
  • Publication of report: would not publish the report until it is approved by City.
• Publication!?!?
  • Official reports only should be published. As soon as approved.
  • What about the numbers? Some of the numbers are still not sure…
  • We should publish, the project is still ongoing.
  • Foo: I see no problem because this is the work we have done, and this was the money.
  • Is it plausible if someone is getting too much money?
  • As a PDF. We should give credits of the people who worked on the project.
  • Members only should see the numbers.
  • Some numbers are scanned for by the xxxx and this could cause problems …
  • Foo: fine with leaving the names out…
  • Stefan: leave all the numbers out…
  • Dreamer: we have to make it available to members…
  • Tanya: leave the names out… spreadsheet too.
  • Doris: prefer to publish the spreadsheet
  • Decided: publish without the names, with the spreadsheet
• Video clips
  • Pablo showed the first one
  • Some changes suggested by Doris
  • Meeting tomorrow for another task
  • Keen for another so Doris has started on a clip with Pablo….
  • In the park with a puppet theatre.
  • 150 euros per clip
  • 2 hours per clip
  • each clip 2 – 3 minutes
  • Wants to invent images for the clips, not just talking heads. Needs moods.
  • “We are so poor he wants to pay us for the privilege….”
• New Dates
  • G7, Akadamie
  • Need to talk to philipp … for the Akadamie
  • Tanya, to do moderation, but wants to know what the framework is … especially considering… oh ok we won’t write that.
  • Tanya and Philipp need to talk… Seriously!!!
  • Simon Kogler: wants to burn an idea … but it has to be clarified.
  • Tanya, I want to burn an idea!!!
  • Semper Depot… Simon wants to write in a woman… extorted by the show… So Doris agreed to do it
  • But we have to sit in the audience.
  • We hate too-emancipated feminist bitches.
  • Why? just out of protest….
  • we will need to practice … Simon suggested he would be helpful
  • you can burn anything at Semper Depot but must not smoke any cigarettes….
  • Garnisongasse 7 30th May
  • we have to find artists. Tanya? Delfin?
  • good to do G7 in Die Eenglisch because we have international audience.
  • Iang could be moderator if invited. Begging would help.
• BLOG:
  • Two contributions being finished, one from far away, and one from Doris.
  • Spanish contribution coming. So this will get it to DREI IDIOMAS.
  • Tanya has to work on hers…
  • Matthias has an idea….
• The PRESENT IS CLOSED!
• Now the FUTURE….
• Photo session
  • … dark writing …
  • 4shrooms … burning
• Interviews…
  • Interviews with anyone… on burning ideas … also with ourselves
  • Go hunting for ideas on the street. Hey we could put it onto the BYI site first…
• Player … play list something … video cuts …
• The Pablo Report
  • What to do with Solidarisch Economische video / images
  • We have 3 minutes from Bernadette, and that’s it.
  • Do something else with the rest of the material?
  • He does not like the images… too boring … not bad technically, just flat and uninteresting.
  • These are the only images that we have up to now.
  • Doris wanted to make at least one video clip … not drop it completely.
  • Foo: need to see the video to decide.
  • Pablo: just make it an audio.
  • Pablo: how much time to spend, you want to invest in this?
  • Basically we trust the judgement here …
  • Who of us would do the audio / listening / cutting ….
  • Is this paid? Is this?
  • Foo: we should play it and watch it.
  • Who is interested: Foo, Doris, let’s agree on an afternoon …
  • Last week of April… 18th or 25th.

NetzNetz

• NetzNetz
• Deadline to apply is Sunday 26th April …
• Before that we need to know: MICRO GRANTS versus COMMUNITY VOTING
• Meeting SF-V
• Stefan will call
• What is the topic of the funding / project?
• perhaps delay this topic…

MEETING CLOSED!!!! 21:37 TRAE MI LOS COPAS!!!

Board Meeting 20090330

Present: Doris, foo, dreamer, suntzu, yellow
Guest: Anne.
Not present: Latino Pi.
Meeting opened: 19:00 on time, in place.
Refreshments served: Fruit Juice, Coffee.

Agenda

• Sign the form. SIGNED
• MA7
• Famous Transition Process

Famous Transition Process

FTP was previously read by all present except yellow, who read it on the spot. Much discussion.

Unanimous conclusion: REJECT the entire proposal in detail and in total. Non-negotiable.

Action: President Foo to advise Famous Author. Meet up on Monday to discuss the details, if desired. All noted in agendas.  Dondrino 20:00 20090406.

MA7 BYI REPORT

• This part assisted by suitably-aged juice of the vine.
• pablo
  • original estimate was too expensive, get more clips for same money
  • 2 hours recording per clip
  • have a say in what the recording, he needs the moods of the participants, not just talking heads
  • no good to have just a person to talk
  • let’s have this discussion on a wednesday
• nuss sent a text for the report
  • accepted, is good
• spreadsheet presented by Doris
  • jvk honorarnote 300 still missing
  • other honorarnotes still need dates
  • missing the Funkfeuer bill
  • total amount is 8 euros over amount of funding (good)
• Text and graphics put together in fast graphic layout by Dreamer.
• Report is APPROVED for delivery to MA7 the next day.

Meeting closed 2330.

tech stuff

• FTP issues
  • send a mail out that the people need to now log into their actual domain nams instead of ftp.sonance.net.
  • there is another problem where the modes of file were set that prevented the editing
  • which flag is it? sticky bit in the group permissions has to be turned on the directory
• getting into trying out a new maillist server
  • datamail, to replace sympa
  • normal features …
  • direct SMPT support built in so doesn’t pipe the mails to sendmail
  • foo + dreamer
  • complete free one is kind of limited, only 5 lists
  • licensed list version is $50
  • Sympa does not support direct SMTP (slow, unstable, slow),
• another main sever for webmail access to
  • a groupware tool
  • AJAX… PHP…
  • it has everything …
  • do either support client-cert login?
  • play around and let us know when the bribe is ready
• DNS
  • bullshit data in the zone files
  • changed, fixed, works
  • resellers can … do this???
  • do either support client-cert login?
  • play around and let us know when the bribe is ready
• no problems with LDAP ….
• Members
  • one member moved
  • two more to move run.sonance.net
• blog report from Senior Nusster
  • need to do a forward
  • do a move in DNS … OLI WILL DO IT!

Art

• Bello (Member)
  • 6th June
  • Sonance invites a member presentation wants to make a presentation here in G7
  • wants a beamer and speakers
  • artinprocess.com
  • they are in Sydney / Au.
  • if in contact … ask them … to run a BYI in Sydney
  • invite them to also do a BYI, start communication
  • (need to remember to get a membership)
  • Matthias is pursuing them

Art Funding agenda (continued from last week)

• CC contribution page
  • sent in .. and approved
  • is it possible to get a screenshot
• Rhizome
  • not a close match
  • so we should not burn the resources on this one
• announcement of BYI
  • send it to various places
  • lists of lists …
  • need a date for CC ..
  • Vienna AllStars Session .. Garnison7 .. 29th May
  • When philipp gets back, we need to confirm.
  • Nuss to write the announcement.
  • Akadamie class … Simon Kogler …
• BM:UKK
  • write now
  • due end of april
  • ask for support?
  • and then not work any more until my doctorate is finished in next 2 years.
  • less and less
  • will take the entire month!!!
• MA7
  • Matthias + Stefan has to go to SFV to talk about small grants
  • doris comes late to meeting 22:00
  • sends MA7 report (draft) with iang
  • everybody is invited to come to saturday 19:00-23:00 party @ hollergasse

Finance

• Luc does the membership love thing
• bike fund has been paid
• Sonance.net domain
  • nic.at costs 36 euros a year…
  • move it to joker
  • is … webmaster + support
  • ask berniq for the password / or get a reset.
• sonance stickers – gfx
  • unremovable stickers — for device stuff, like security seal
  • 15 euros …
  • picture? write SONANCE
  • sparklers photo
  • nuss volunteers!
  • needs exact formats
  • can do this as a PDF for others to download as well
  • can do buttons, someone has a button machine
• Simon K
  • went through the transactions
  • Simon K was paid last year 9th September 2008
  • he has now been paid twice
  • not a member…
  • we should find him some work to do?
  • no, not happy
  • Doris to send an email, friendly
  • we should ask for the money back
• MA7 finance
  • 3 sections
  • all filled in with bills correlated to the sections
  • need to find the last 320 euros of bills
  • suggestions
  • not paid out as yet: pablo, FF, IG-Kultur, iang
  • money in account is XXXXX
• text
  • draft of report to MA7 is circulated
  • Nuss to volunteer some text
• purchases
  • microphone, 2 cables, 2 microphone stands, == 262
  • 4shrooms something same bill (40 euros)
  • miniDV tapes 100 x 164 euros
  • tomorrow: 2nd hard drive, 2 x Firewire 400 cables, 1.5m.
  • phone bills, etc
  • Microphones. Doris has a 2nd microphone. Doris has Zoom. So that makes two.
  • so do a rental agreement for 20 events, microphone + zoom. 138.
  • Charge a deposit for all loans. In writing.
  • it’s not cool to have two classes of members
  • only renting microphones … is quite senseless … lots do it .. if we are going to do it, then we we have to rent the whole setup .. but that is doris’s.
  • we should not get into renting business.
  • then the stuff should be shared?
  • this microphone is not so expensive… so good to talk about it
  • every place that has equipment to lend has to repair stuff…
  • we don’t have the infrastructure to handle repairs …
  • so we shouldn’t lend it out …
  • sonance should not go into buying the equipment?
  • even if we buy it, it should have a manager who is responsible for it
  • e.g., the harddisks
  • Doris is the responsible person; Sonance owns the microphone
  • No loans arrangment, if there is need, come talk to the group

Any Other Business

• Board meeting called for Monday 19:00 HollerG
  • approve the funding report
  • sign the change of directors
  • Added: Discuss the Famous Transition Process
• FTP
• iang submits permission for vacation next wednesday
• Famous Transition Process — to board meeting

Agenda

Not really followed because there was no net.

Present: foo, jvk, tanya, dreamer, doris, binsh.
Apologies: nuss.
Agenda not followed because no net available to check it….

Treasury

• MA7 expenses BYI
  • got honorarnotens from: simon, tanya, oliver
  • pablo says OK
    • for 1500 euros,
    • 200-250 per clip,
    • past clip is 2 clips X 100 each,
    • can give honorarnote 1500 now in march
    • Doris has to pick up honorarnote
  • Doris + Oli to go to Klangfarbe 14:00 Saturday 21st
• MA7 report text
  • Doris will try to write a draft for next wednesday
  • Tanya can spare 2 hours to do this, but wants to do the report only and do it somewhere else
  • Doris + Oli to go to Tanya’s place after Klangfarbe 16:00 Saturday 21st
• Treasurer: Membership contributions have now been found and allocated
  • first into the minutes (yay)
  • then into my (doris) spreadsheet
  • then to Oli
  • All matched by email, not by account as yet.

Tech

BYI

• BYI press / CC
  • the famous photograph
  • text 1: use sonance text of last week as per board approval
  • text 2: use the kogler edits on garnison7
• Photo session carried out in the studio with sparklers and led lights.
• BasisWien
  • invited to participate in panel discussion
  • 26th May 19:00
  • important Austrian media institution that mediates the database
  • talk in the scope of the Austrian Art Critics Award
  • all the b%^*#y f%^*#@g Art Critics of Austria will be there
  • this could be a big event
  • Johannes G, Alexander N, Alion Rebel ???, Franz from Contaxt net /standard.at
  • Topic is: (writing about) Art in the virtual space:
    When looking for art critics in the virtual space one quickly finds some art – network projects and initiatives … that use that virtual space for representation as well as more or less subversive networking … the boundaries between social and art intervention staging and net art disappear … using art, it is about art, but conventional art critics won’t actually be found, . we present networks and initiatives whose discourse could be seen as art critique as well as art.
  • we agree to the invitation !!! Agreed
  • they would like to have a female speaker but they are going to get a DELETED and nothing else, as we do not agree to DELETED narcisisstic typical DELETED feminine DELETED. So say the chicks, as duly recorded by their faithful and obedient male slaves.
  • Decide next week who. Simon, no. …

Funding

NETZNETZ

• Doris, Stefan was at NetzNetz meeting
  • 10th May is date (guaranteed)
  • amount is not guaranteed, 80k requested, needs confirmation
  • new 80k miniinfrastructure budget …
  • can sonance apply for this or not?
  • word is that SF-V allocates it directly ?
  • details are unpublished / unclear / no deadline ?
  • Matthias + Doris to go visit her, ask Stefan
• what are we going to apply for?
  • resonance ? BYI ?
  • so defer any discussion of that until some meeting
  • is Resonance == BYI or ?
  • to some extent this is a pragmatic / marketing decision
  • resonance is every 2 years
  • resonance 09 is BYI ….
  • Oli: we need more projects
  • definately resonance is latter half
  • funding is for resonance as BYI / book
• evaluation of NetzNetz
  • does sonance take a position?
  • Does Simon take a position? Yes.
  • FAS — interview .
  • or position paper
  • FAS will ask for an online interview of everyone
  • 6 interviews
  • in principle, Simon gets our interview slot

Potentials

• bm:ukk
  • award for interdisciplinary art project 30th April
  • media art project 31st March (this is where simon has applied in the past, as he is trained as a media artist)
  • it is about an award for an already done project
  • so this would be re.sonance.007.
  • the clue: you have to put the right viewpoints on it
  • is it a lot of work????
  • 4 versions (catalogues) and 2 pages of text
  • fitz nix done shotz nix ????
• Rhizome
  • the new museum of New York is putting out a call for commissioned art works
  • fits perfectly with BYI
  • or is it? Oli: looking for actual projects…
  • BYI *is* a project, …
  • not a lot of work … text is already ready …
  • we would at least get on the website of rhizome
  • we are all google sluts now
  • there is a jury award and a public voting award
  • artists in vienna have a lot of experience in manipulating voting systems
• EU mobility of Artists
  • need 3 partners (institutions) from 2 different member states to apply, at least, no upper limit on the numbers.
  • it is applicable to us
  • could be from 50,000 to 200,000; they cover 70% of total costs, the rest is to be found from additional funding.
  • 15th May deadline
  • usually BM:ukk and MA7 will likely join.
  • to search for the partner institutions, look at Universities
  • its a pilot project; not so many applying
  • once we have the sheet from the EU, can get bank or xxx financing
  • Cultural Contact Point Austria will help us / etc
  • the mobility of artists means what?
  • bringing institutes together to feel like Europeans
  • you need business plans … exact definitions …
  • universities like this idea
  • partners don’t want to work …. they just want their name and the money!
  • need a basic schema to divide the WORK and money between the three partners
  • real preference for projects that are NOT IN THE CENTER
  • 2010 cultural capital Tallin.

Misc / Board

• “Transition Process”
  • transition process — mentioned only
  • remarks to the board
  • founded the company sitz …
  • invested about 60k into Sonance
  • the topic is about how
  • Defer this to next week, briefing paper has been distributed.
• Question about whether board approves of the text for submissions:
  • SunTzu: not for art projects.
  • Dreamer: Yes, it is the public face.
  • Yes for funding.
  • OK, so discussion … let’s defer this until next time. Think about it.

Agenda

Not followed because of lack of net.

• Simon: participation with Julia.
• Photo session
  • with sparklers / Leds / laser pens …
  • Long Exposures
  • bring cameras, tripods
• Blogs / progress UP UP AND AWAY
• The Great Transfer / progress
• we should apply with the re.sonance.007 materials http://igkultur.at/igkultur/foerderturm/1236863589

• Burn Your Ideas
  • As our current project is explicitly webbased, we need to get the website working properly. The current theme does not work on WPMU as planned – it does on my local WP-single instance. As I do not have access to to ftp, I cannot (and do not want to) fix this within our installed WPMU. I’ve already discussed this with Matthias G. last week. http://burn.blogs.sonance.net should get transferred to http://burn.sonance.net into a WP-single blog.
    This is ultimately urgent!
    It makes no sense putting content on this website. It is no use inviting people to put new contributions on the website.
    The problem needs to be solved – immediatly.

  - Stefan

• Report to CAcert on the disk destruction / Assurance party
  • the arbitration covers the disk destruction, no need to say much there
  • only need to cover the assurance process
  • oli is standing in / proxy for matthias tonight, will look at text later
• membership bills
  • two bills prepared, being formal invoices
  • what is the text on there?
  • someone has asked for an invoice for “hosting” not membership
  • however sonance is not promoting the idea of hosting, and this is not a good idea
  • membership is a voluntary contribution, it isn’t a payment for hosting
  • the object of the bill/rechnung is the important thing… tax deductibility
• CC text — DONE — mailed to stuff
• garnison7 text translated to english
• finish the funding for BYI
  • We need to collect the remaining invoices for 3000 euros
  • also need more content but that is not the issue right now
  • primary problem is to chase these people for the remaining bills
  • Pablo 1500. Agreed
  • Tanya 200, Oli 200, Doris, 350, etc
  • Microphone C1000 x 1 + cables. 138+10 (windshield) agreed.
  • microphone stands. 50×2 agreed.
  • binsh: artist research, representation/PR, presentation. 250. Agreed.
  • cables XLR, 10m x 2 = 40 x 2 = 80.
  • clip mike: 50
  • stickers for sonance for gear
• if there is money left:
  • radiotransceiver for clipmikes. maybe, good idea, if there is money left.
  • extra drive needed for machine.
• must collect these invoices by next wednesday!!!!
• Done. Meeting closed 22:38.

meeting opened at 20:48
present: simon, matthias, doris, stefan, oli,  tanya petkova

1. we need an explanation how to get in the blog, in order to write minutes (sorry iang, i tryed my best)
2. concerning latest stefan email:
   burn website is ready, but doesn’t work with multy user wordpress
   So is has been transfered to single user wordpress installation.
   burn.sonance.net is the new and only working addresse. Still not online. Coming latest Saturday (says Matthias)!
3. Oliver’s script for the domain in the new system are done and run. Moving in progress. notice mail to clients will be sent when the definitive url is available/reachable online (36 hours).
4. Oliver gets payed 500,- for programming a script transfer for domains to/in/over vHosts.
5. general question: Doris to techies => sonance blog services. She wants a plug in so blogs could be sent per email.
   Stefan suggests she should for this herself. But he doesn’t recommend it. Cause it’s not formatted then. After extended discussion, it is a work in progress.
   Techies say generally not a bad idea to be able to offer this a service to sonance blog and list users.
6. sonance is getting a boy and a space to put things, downstairs at garnisongasse.
   Our mail gets there. Mail box key is also there. It’s labeled.
   Catalogues should be downstairs by the boy by april latest.
   Decision: everyone who goes to the bathroom snaps a catalogue.
7. press issue for coded cultures (simon brings the topic)
   • as in the mail: we have a shared space with garnisongasse. 1000 characters for both. 500 per unit.
   • Must be ready till march 15. In English.
   • How do we wanna present ourselves?
   • Simon is voluntary to write the text in german. Tanya will translate it.
   • Contents: what photo?
   • Suggestion simon:
   • Short general explanation of garnison 7
   • Mention the groups active.
   • Among them sonance with BYI
   • About BYI: eather invitation to participate or just an explanation.
   • Stefan: collaborative aspect of sonance being reflectedt in BYI
   • Text is definitely in catalog.
   • Foto: which? Room garnisong?, us?
   • Abstract foto like eop? Erdbeeren? Fotshooting? Wer fotografiert? Simon volunteers.
   • Zip_it open source
8. Jeder denkt darüber nach… next Wednesday suggestions , or “BRING YOUR IDEAS” for fotos eg: paper burning, computer burning, (terpentine over Harddisk) kaminfeuer, or:  tv with image of fire, or: tania will ask friends in basel (fastnacht burning, haywind…untranslatable)
9. Juan Pablo video discussion postponed

Meeting closed 21:53

Tech

Assurance / Destroy Disks Event Saturday

• Matthias Subik cannot be there
  • need to get the drives from him.
  • can be done thursday or fridy (up to 17:00).
  • He needs to get the vault opened, should be by thursday.
  • need to have someone ride shotgun for handover.
  • we need to store them safely, 2 persons.
  • how about meet at OKTO 17:30 for handover.
  • need to confirm foo + dreamer.
• Need to plan on being able to zero the drives
  • 3 drives at least.
  • need computer.
  • need enough time.
  • meet earlier to start that?
  • see the drives then decide
• Food, etc
  • 1 slab beer, 2-3 wines, tappas.
  • 2-3 wine.
• Letting people know
  • let quintessenz people know on friday
  • let metalab people know
  • Bring your identity documents
  • clash with meeting 18:00 -> 22:00 some event discussion
  • (March event will organise the room being emptied.)
  • need banner to point downstairs
• How to destroy them
  • we have an angle grinder in the workroom
  • need to look at screws on drives to find screw drivers
  • destroy chips with a sledge hammer
  • foo to bring the camera gear

Miscellaneous

• Scripts – Dreamer update
  • almost done
  • lacks chown and ordering, then we can try
  • test run it this evening
  • a bit later … now ready!
• Test1 Machine was down (cacert)
  • email from Teus
  • needed to be restarted, there was a lack of recognition of the startup
  • once restarted, now available
  • talk to Philipp G on weekend.
• Backup drive
  • (last week) board voted to buy a USB backup drive ….
  • 100 to 150 euros
  • Firewire 400
  • buy at e-tec which is just down the road from the treasury department.
  • we do not trust the RAID for our backups ?!?!??!!
• Password recovery Hacking session
  • Last week sonance techies hacked on until wee hours
  • The passwords were recovered. See the blog.
• Support emails
  • Support emails are not being monitored
  • Once the people are not being given any attention on the support emails, they then email Simon.
  • We need the membership email address.
  • We have No-One managing the support email address.
  • There is nothing they can do anyway because the administration systems don’t work.
  • manage.s.n was down last day or so, now up apparently.
  • Dagmar Streicher, Mario Zink, have had their data extracted from the database.

BYI

• Philipp
  • (preparation workshop) Coded Cultures, students of Akademy — 28th April, if it is happening it is this date.
  • Festival Coded Cultures Akadamie May date: not known about yet.
  • 3 perspectives: coded cultures; classes in post-conceptional art practices; public view which will be students of academy, picture …
  • FOSS aspect is theoretical background of series
  • Pi is trying to establish himself in his new class?
  • We have to stick with our programme, ourself, …..
  • Simon: to answer Doris’s question: Pi tries to set up this Free Software … thing to present in his class … organising a series of presentations … needs to fill it with content … talking with his prof to get money / budget …
  • we are invited by Pi as student at University … wider sense is that this is a “performance class” … same as the Montevideo class.
  • also offered as part of coded cultures
  • do we need artists? Yes, but later, it is Post-MA7
• Last Saturday
  • need the collection of emails.
  • a few people left URLs.
  • a few students of Bernadette were present and want to be included. Also Ministry/Bulgaria/… (tanya has email).
• Lists
  • need to send an email to the people.
  • Simon had one contact -> Stefan.
  • start a mailing list?
  • events / push list? just a notifications list.
  • it was not announced through the Sonance news list, nor the Members list, nor the homeage of the evolve site.
  • who is going to do the maintenance of the announcements, where, etc?
  • Stefan may be willing to do this, but didn’t have time.
  • where should it be announced?
  • it should be everywhere? Members, News (press people are reading this), Burn blog, evolve?
  • News has a problem: press people are reading this, and have complained about bad announcements ….
  • Start a separate list for only press purposes.
  • But!!!! Simon, Tanya are not receiving the mails…. Send ping to Subik.
  • …
• Documentation
  • “This was the event” email.
  • We have some photos, which are the good ones?
  • Juan-Pablo is around, do we have to tell him to go ahead ?
  • We should have a documentation ….
  • should we decide what we want — sit and listen / look at the tape
  • or let him decide … “let the pros decide” says Mr Oliver “pro” Maklott
  • definately nice to have a small video … we should listen to the tape
  • Doris has started listening to it.
  • Tanya wants to listen to it too. Simon as well, maybe.
  • 3-5 hours needed … Do it saturday .. 16:00. Tanya’s place.
  • original discussion was like 100 euros per artist, 3 mins
  • Now, it could be one for Bernadette
  • And another for the questions ….
  • some questions were not answered …
  • we should not do a cut for every artist, …. so why should we do Bernadette?
  • we don’t have so many artists on film/etc so we need an example
  • Bernadette only spoke on idea for 3 minutes.
  • many different views … 1 or 2 clips ?
  • other people also wanted to talk
  • (stefan) much more interesting to see how the idea sparked the discussion
  • tanya + stefan … to decide, also figure out how much money
• Contributions
• we have people
• we need the CALL
• for which we need the WEBSITE
• Stefan introduces the website…
• Designed so it presents 3 by random at top.
• Has tags, Events,
• our contributions Jan von Krieg is doing ok, Doris too … Binsh?????????
• ideas that are picked up go into AFTERBURN
• Need to tap the people: yellow, coryllus, martin, meran, dominic
• Meran festival we should go and do it…
• Setup
  • the presentation should have been set up classically
  • Artist, camera, microphone up front
  • concentrate on the one artist.
  • we need someone who is leading the discussion …
  • (well, we did have an MC …) so more experience is needed
  • we all need more answers
  • but other ideas need other ways and means
  • the stage should be close to the audience
  • setup helped a lot to get audience involved
  • but the audience could not be controllled … that’s workshop!
  • some people said they wanted to burn their ideas, some people asked where these persons

Admin

• Paperwork
  • Matthias meeting with Simon for paperwork handover.
  • Simon has a letter to send to the prospective members.
  • needs to be proofread and translated.
• Admin Garni’s Son & gasse.
  • Philipp L away until 7th April.
  • Keys: Christian, Wellcafe, also special place. FF card at special place.
  • lock is broken, from use, wear and tear
  • RFIDs coming for keys.
  • writing funding apps.

Treasurer

• treasurer says: we need
  • funkfeuer year-long bill
  • oliver maklott honorarn
  • simon k. bankdetails
  • compose letter to members whose money transfer never showed up — doris needs help to write this letter. Simon is going to help.
  • THEN, go with simon (the zeichnungsberechtigter = person authorised to sign) to bank and investigate there in person, or get “telefonbanking” authorised. That again can also only be done by the zeichnungsberechtigtem
  • change telephone billing, initiate cancellation
  • deciding whether oliver cash membership goes into bank account or cash tin: DORIS to put it in BANK ACCOUNT
  • how much money do we pay for editing / BYI / juan pablo
  • People who paid: do they get a bill/invoice or do they get a membership card?
  • Some people pay when they receive an invoice: prepare and send an email/invoice — DORIS
  • no membership cards for next.
  • Simon is unhappy with his payments …BYI ?
  • we have to discuss payments …. in MARCH
• Memberships:
  • bernies question (more members) — there was a mail on the TECH list
  • subik membership
  • communication with members from tech side. who tells them bad/good/any news
  • one payment from israel is too expensive to transfer. perhaps free? how to deal with this for everyone??? Talk to the president.
  • check out Western Union Tanya to report now and later
  • Free people must donate a BYI! or become an ambassador …
  • …
  • We are never going to use PayPal.
  • Doris proposes that Antony get a free Membership in return for donating his BYI design money back to Sonance. Antony gets a membership …. Voted AYE
  • Simon wrote a membership letter ….
  • “Simon has resigned from the board, Matthias is new board president, here is the story about BYI and membership, also the blah blah of providers being changed, and we are thankful, and good luck. People who are donating should send the mail to doris/membership if they want a catalogue.”

Meeting CLOSED 23:30.