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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.