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We really need to make it clear that we would really like donations for the drinks. I think lots of people take drinks from the fridge, or the big pile of cans, and don't know that if they take them, then Noisebridge may lose money. I also think that if we tape friendly signs up everywhere there are drinks available, then we'd get a higher percentage of people giving us some money. I'm not a graphics artist, but I made up a bunch of signs (one of which is still on the drink fridge with the handle on the "wrong" side). I uploaded it to a wiki page for others to add better graphics for this purpose:<BR>
<A href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Drink_graphics">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Drink_graphics</A><BR>
This graphic doesn't include suggested donation prices. That would be good info to have on the posters.<BR>
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Mitch.<BR>
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<BR>------------------------<BR>> From: ieatlint@tehinterweb.com<BR>> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:42:45 -0800<BR>> To: adi@hexapodia.org<BR>> CC: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] It's Club Mate Time Again<BR>> <BR>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:<BR>> > (Regular soda nets us a bit over a dollar, pretty reliably.<BR>> <BR>> I'm actually not sure we do bring in that much.<BR>> <BR>> I last collected the money from the drink tin on Monday. Since the<BR>> last costco run, $156 had been collected.<BR>> The costco run itself cost about $260, and I was told about half the<BR>> items are gone. So we're looking at a small return, but no loss.<BR>> We seem to have gotten progressively worse at this. I remember last<BR>> October and early November, we would routinely bring in $1+ per soda.<BR>> But from then on, we've wound up just $40-50 over the cost pretty<BR>> routinely. I think it's clear this isn't a realistic funding source<BR>> for Noisebridge... but it buys us toilet paper, so it's still good :)<BR>> <BR>> Jeffrey<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR>> Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss<BR> </body>
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