I would tend to think that expanding membership that seriously with the current amount of space would require increased space-allocation scheduling and organization. New people, or people already peripherally involved (like myself) are more likely to officially join if they're invested in some "official" way. I would tend to think that comes from two primary options: 1) a personal project that requires physical use of noisebridge's tools or 2) regular involvement in one or more of the groups/events that meet regularly at 83c. I tend to figure that we should work on making both of those more appealing, but clearly the strategy is different for each option. I'm less of an option 1 person, and don't have a ton to say about it, but I'm definitely interested in seeing a wider variety of events. That seems like it will quickly require a more advanced scheduling strategy than the catch-as-catch-can approach people seem to often take here. (although the google calendar pleases the hell out of me)<br>
<br>I wish I could make the membership meetings. I could be the non-programmer voice vying for other sorts of events at noisebridge. I'm currently indisposed on Tuesday nights, but that will change eventually.<br><br>
-Kelly<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Paul Böhm wrote:<br>
> we should do it!11<br>
> what's our best shot at raising the money?<br>
<br>
</div>More members. A one-off won't do it, we will need double the income<br>
consistently. A larger membership is the only possible way we can<br>
permanently increase our income to a useful degree.<br>
<br>
OK I lied, if someone has an extra security deposit and year's worth of<br>
$3k/month just lying around that they'd like to contribute, that would<br>
work too. At least, it would work for a year, during which time we'd<br>
need to ... get more members.<br>
<br>
We are growing, but at a rate of something like 1.5 new members a month.<br>
If that keeps up we'll be able to move sometime in 2012. Suppose we<br>
had a goal of, say, 10 new members a month. That would easily let us<br>
move by October, which month is conveniently located on our lease<br>
termination date, allowing us the greatest number of options as to Where<br>
to expand.<br>
<br>
We won't be able to do this by Oh Wow, Yay, Let's! It will take<br>
concerted effort. It will take (shudder) active proselytization. Here<br>
are some starter ideas:<br>
<br>
* Everyone bring one person by to visit the space this month<br>
* Have we notified all of our geeky mailing lists about Noisebridge?<br>
* How about the IT or web department at work?<br>
* Would flyers on telephone poles be useful (where)?<br>
<br>
What else? If we do some kind of Media Blitz we'd best coordinate our<br>
efforts for maximum effect, so let's talk it over a bit and see what we<br>
think. I will put an agenda item up for Tuesday.<br>
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Rachel<br>
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