<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Way to be welcoming to the n00b, asshole. <div><br></div><div>Danny, try emailing the discuss list here: https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss You may get in touch with someone who actually wants to help out with your project instead of telling you the wrong way to go about it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Ani</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Friday, March 16, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Well, the first thing to do is email a list that people actually read --</div><div>the board list is just for administrivia. At Noisebridge the board is a</div><div>bunch of powerless figureheads who do nothing; all powr belongs to the</div><div>members.</div><div><br></div><div>Post to noisebridge-discuss instead.</div><div><br></div><div>-andy</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:51:34PM -0400, <a href="mailto:newmy51@gmail.com">newmy51@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hello Noisebridge,</div><div><br></div><div>I write you from Bolivia, doing super cool mushroom studies. Just before I</div><div>left, I attended a meeting where (at the very end when barely anyone was</div><div>listening) I brought up my desire to build a book scanner at the space.</div><div> I've since noticed that the folks over at <a href="http://diybookscanner.org">diybookscanner.org</a> have pledged</div><div>to "put a book scanner in every hacker space." Whether that means they</div><div>intend to help in any way/facilitate the process or it's just a rhetorical</div><div>platitude, I'm not sure, but suffice it to say, Noisebridge is a hacker</div><div>space, and book scanners are wonderful no matter where they live.</div><div><br></div><div>Being only a mere visitor to Noisebridge -- first only during trips to SFO,</div><div>now more frequently as a SFO resident -- I'm very unfamiliar with the</div><div>protocol for proposing and beginning a project of these proportions. Is</div><div>there a submission/approval process, or do I just up and make the thing</div><div>with whoever's into the idea? Has someone already hopped on this book</div><div>scanning bandwagon? Has diybookscanner already contacted some Noisebridge</div><div>people?</div><div><br></div><div>I get back on April 17th. I'd like to get started as soon as possible, as</div><div>a large part of the drive to build a book scanner is to beef up the</div><div>Mycological Society of San Francisco library with a digital mirror of its</div><div>printed holdings (they also want a bunch of old</div><div>newsletters/flyers/correspondence digitized). Negotiations with Internet</div><div>Archive have been strained and paperwork heavy, problems which could quite</div><div>handily be solved by having a public access scanner running open source</div><div>image handling and OCR software. I should mention I'm vying for the</div><div>position of society librarian (in addition to aspirations for creating a</div><div>much larger digital mycological library).</div><div><br></div><div>However a scheme like this ought to proceed, I will certainly need plenty</div><div>of help, at both the hardware and software level, so feel free to forward</div><div>this on to anyone you think might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best from Bolivia. Hope to hear back soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Excellently Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>-Danny Newman</div><div>cell: 5056709090 (can't receive calls until April 17th).</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Board mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Board@lists.noisebridge.net">Board@lists.noisebridge.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/board">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/board</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Board mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Board@lists.noisebridge.net">Board@lists.noisebridge.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/board">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/board</a></div></div></div></span>
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