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Hello. Welcome to Noisebridge.

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This is a hackerspace in San Francisco,

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and I'm going to give you the tour that I give to everyone who's new here.

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So, first off, the physical tour. There's bike racks here.

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You can hang your bikes, and have a safe space to put them.

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We have a bunch of tables here where you can hang out and compute.

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The desks are reasonably wide. There's plenty of electrical sockets.

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Right here are a couple pads to nap on. They're not meant for sleeping.

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Sleeping is not allowed at Noisebridge.

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But sometimes you do need to take a nap.

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This is actually a very recent addition.

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We have a bunch of things where you can make stuff out of plastic, so,

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this, for instance, is a large-platform-style machine.

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It's all made out of PVC and other kinds of plastic.

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Here you see several other machines.

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Here, for instance, is a laser cutter.

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So here's a laser cutter.

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You can do things like simple signs.

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And you can also do more complex stuff.

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So, for instance, this engraving of this wood.

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That's all stuff you can easily do on the laser cutter.

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And if you want to learn how to do that,

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just come here and someone will teach you.

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Over here we have sewing equipment.

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So we have everything from sewing machines, to a serger, to more sewing machines,

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to random scrap cloth, and you're welcome to use all of it.

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This actually used to be a sewing manufacturing plant,

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until we took it over and repaved the whole place.

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These are member shelves.

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So, generally speaking, everyone is welcome to use and hack and

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reuse everything that's in Noisebridge, whether or not they're a member.

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There are a couple exceptions. One of them is maker shelves.

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They are not yours. They do belong to someone.

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Don't touch, please.

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Ditto for everything that you find on the tables.

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Those all generally belong to someone specific.

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Like it's someone's laptop, or someone's project that they're working on.

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Please don't mess with it without asking.

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However, there is stuff you can mess with without asking.

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So, over here, we have the hacker's alley,

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which is essentially a whole bunch of electronics.

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People donate all sorts of electronics to us,

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and you are welcome to take them apart, break them, remake them,

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turn them into a robot, do anything creative you like with any of this stuff.

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And in order to do that, we actually have quite a lot of tools.

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So here, for example, we have a pretty fully equipped toolbox

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that's got, more or less, everything you could want to do electrical engineering.

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There is soldering equipment down here,

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there is more stuff that you can hack on right here,

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there's third hands to make it easier to solder,

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there's literally a whole ton of soldering irons

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which you can burn in.

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We have oscilloscopes,

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including fancy electronic oscilloscopes over here,

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we have all sorts of tiny electrical supplies

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that are relatively well labeled.

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What else?

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We have a pretty good library of all sorts of stuff.

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Everything from hardcore computer science,

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to stuff about hacking,

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to stuff about politics, et cetera.

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You're welcome to come and read any of it. If you have contributions, please bring it by.

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Please categorize them and help stack them.

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Yeah, so, free for use, but not for the taking necessarily.

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T-shirts. You're welcome to just take a t-shirt.

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We do ask that you donate at least $15 to compensate for the cost.

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Noisebridge operates entirely on donations and on trust.

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There's no lock. You can just take the shirt, donate your money.

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It's a trust-based system.

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So, over here we have the machine shop.

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It's mostly a wood shop.

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We have here safety equipment,

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we have saws, pliers, vices, hacksaws, handsaws, bandsaws,

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random really large machinery. I don't even know what that is.

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It's a metal mill.

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A metal mill. Okay.

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So we're not that well equipped for metal.

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Some places are, like TechShop, but we're really well equipped for wood,

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and you can get a decent amount done with metal here as well.

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A simple rule is please clean up after yourself, please be safe,

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and close the door when you're working so that the noise and the dust doesn't go out into the general area.

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So, next, we have a couple classrooms.

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One of them is the Turing classroom, where is here.

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It's used for some classes,

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and also, if you want a quieter work environment, you can sit there.

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It has a little bit of noise isolation.

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Here's a green screen. It folds out.

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If you want to make green screen videos, you can just fold it out,

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stand there, shoot the video. Very useful.

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Speaking of video, we also have a fully equipped darkroom and optics lab.

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So it has everything you might expect.

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Enlargers, chemicals, everything.

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If you see that red light on,

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please don't go in. Or knock really hard before entering.

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But, yeah, you're welcome to use it.

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What else? We have first aid equipment in case anybody gets hurt.

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That doesn't happen very often, but it's there just in case.

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Behind this door is a supplies closet.

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It's got things like toilet paper and extra medicine and whatnot.

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We have a fully equipped kitchen,

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including industrial dish washers and stuff like that.

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Working ovens, et cetera.

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The way Noisebridge works for food is generally people just bring food by,

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bring ingredients by.

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Like here for example, we have some carrots, some apples,

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I don't even know what else we have around here. Some limes.

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And people volunteer to make food for others.

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If you see food on this counter that's prepared,

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generally that means it's free to eat.

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You're welcome to enjoy.

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We do ask for donations, but donations are not required.

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That applies to everything, and I'll get to that in a sec.

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Back here we have some more supplies, mostly for art-making.

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And, by the way, over by the sewing supplies, we also have screenprinting equipment.

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We have two bathrooms, one of them is ADA-accessible, the other one is not.

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We of course have recycling, and compost, and garbage, please sort accordingly.

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Here is one of the other classrooms.

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This is the larger classroom. It has a projector.

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As you can see, there is a class going on right now.

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We're not going to disturb them too much,

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but if you want to run a class,

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just post on the mailing list, post on the wiki.

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People show up, and you get to run a class. That's really pretty simple.

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Up there, we have some microscopes,

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including a functional scanning electron microscope.

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If you want to learn how to use that,

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just ask on the discussion list and someone will teach you.

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So yeah, that's the tour of the space.

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The way that Noisebridge operates is pretty much on a "trust, but verify" system.

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We operate entirely on donations.

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If you want to donate, there is a box at the front where you can donate money.

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You don't have to be a member to use any of the space.

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Membership is a process that takes about a month to do.

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You fill out a membership application,

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then that's read in meetings once a week for four weeks.

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After four weeks, and after you've gotten two members to sign off on you

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saying they know who you are, they know you've done cool stuff,

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and they think you're a fit for the community, you get to become a member.

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Oh, here is an EEG machine, by the way.

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Yes, it works, more or less. There is a whole list for that.

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Here's some cubbies, where you can store stuff temporarily while you're here.

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There's also games like Go and so forth.

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If you want to donate, there's a box right here.

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Put your money in the box.

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Put your money in here, please.

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You can also PayPal us, you can also send us money via Bitcoin.

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The links are all on the website.

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If you want to become a member, that requires a consensus process.

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Noisebridge works on two somewhat competing processes of how we do things.

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The formal process is called consensus,

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which means that members get to meet every Tuesday.

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Non-members can participate too.

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But they all get to talk; they don't get a block.

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And if we need to make a formal decision on behalf of Noisebridge,

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things like adding a new member, using official Noisebridge funds, stuff like that,

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that requires consensus.

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Anyone who is a member can block consensus.

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And that's pretty much how it goes.

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However, the vast majority of what happens at Noisebridge operates on "do-ocracy",

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which is pretty simple.

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If you want to do it, please do it.

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Please do something awesome.

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You are welcome to use all of our tools, you don't have to be a member.

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You're welcome to use pretty much everything here

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except something that belongs to some individual,

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in that case you really should please ask.

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And if you don't like what someone else has done, you can undo it.

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But please follow just one rule.

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If someone has undone something that you did, don't do it again. Bring it up for consensus.

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'Cause that's an indication that there's some disagreement,

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and that's something that we need to decide upon as a group.

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Otherwise, welcome to Noisebridge.

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You're encouraged to use the space however you like.

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The one rule here is "be excellent to each other".

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And, yep! Welcome. See you later.

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So, there is one other rule.

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Which is, people here are pretty protective of their privacy,

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so if you're going to take pictures, video, or anything like this,

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like the video I'm taking here,

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please make sure that you first ask everybody who is going to be in the frame

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whether or not they're okay with being in the frame.

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If they're not okay, you are not allowed to take pictures of them at Noisebridge.

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Just make sure you clear it with everyone.

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It's not that hard, I did it with everyone here.

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There were about four people who preferred not to be in the frame, and we avoided having them.

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So, yeah, be cool.