Wednesday 20090415

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

Wednesday 20090408

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!!!

Meeting of the Board 2009030

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.