Hey NBers, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, Im asking again for options to be including in the community I miss. With the new omicon Covid strain being discovered this week (having more than double the mutations of Delta variant), myself and I believe other at-risk groups, would love more virtual attendance options right now. Really, this benefits everyone though, regardless of Cov...

Zach I’m so sorry we goofed on this. At the very least we could have set up jitsi. It looked to me like @lizzard also expressed interest in Hacksgiving - which could have been made accessible remotely. I’m sure you both have thoughts on ways to make the space more remotely accessible. Hacker Dojo had a neat tall camera & tablet (showing video stream of operator’s face, you know, like in real life...

Just realized Zach made a thread. Moving discussion there.

You’re absolutely right that we’re nearly able to provide remote options and that the barrier right now is people willing to set up access. Can we brainstorm some ideas, plan them out, and aim to have them built and functioning by New Years? Is that too ambitious? Hacker Dojo had a neat tall camera & tablet (showing video stream of operator’s face, you know, like in real life) on remotely steera...

Would Gamebridge be interested in building remote infrastructure? @lxpk @pyconaut @Mark

I don’t think there is any infrastructure needed to be built, we have a system, and getting it going takes less than 30 seconds, and the instructions are printed on the system… all we really need is someone to do it… Within recent memory, we have had issues with people remotely setting up webcams and recording/or accessing them remotely, so some of us (including me a bit) are a bit hyper sensitiv...

IMHO, this doesn’t seem like a consensus item… if you want this to happen, then just do it… find someone willing and tell everyone they are the person… If you can’t find anyone willing, then I sympathize, it has been really hard finding people to volunteer to do things, everyone is busy ☹

That was why the consensus didn’t pass: because it was supposed to be a small c consensus. @Zach ping me for any event you want to attend without remote options. As Woz said, we do have a downstairs AV setup for remote. We could use one upstairs, though, since the classes sometimes end up there. Unfortunately, remembering the remote option will need to be a practice we have to get in the habit of...

I’m thinking of buying a small setup for the upstairs (i.e. webcam, single omnidirectional microphone + small mixer/converter). We have enough pledge money for around $200 worth of material, which should cover it imo. Like a couple of these microphones and a camera could be under $100, and we have enough speakers imo.

Its entirely possible to use the two audio speakers that are mounted near the windows as our speakers up there. They could still be used for music and such as well, we could just move them where we wanted them.

Things to fry include: chicken doughnuts chicken-doughnuts potatoes various things in tempura the list goes on but i have run out of ideas i’m thinking this should get done on saturday which is one of the last days of hannukah. the only thing that i’d need to know is if there is propane for the burner or if i should obtain some. i’ll buy oil, veggies, and simple drop doughnut ingredients

There is proprane for A burner. We do not have A burner. There were talks about getting a burner for the brew setup, but that has not manifested yet. We do however have a pot that can be used, and like I said a half a tank of propane.

A burner is needed for brewing as well right? If that’s the case I can also obtain that. Maybe that’s better talked about as a fundraiser thing in the meeting on Tuesday, but if that doesn’t happen i’ll just get one. What size of burner would the propane can work with?

Hmm Kabocha is pretty good to fry. Shishito peppers too. Honestly Duc Loi grocery will have a lot that can be deep fried… Thinking corn oil? Canola? or other?

oh my those are all amazing ideas

Actually I wouldn’t mind trying a chow mein. But that would require more of a wok than a deep fryer… And not too much oil… Kind of interested in this whole idea. 😃