<br>note: I have not read all the responses. <div><br></div><div>Im glad someone else brought this up. Lately, I've been noticing the trend of more and more couchsurfers, long term guests, etc. This has totally impacted my want to use noisebridge for, you know, hacking. I feel like these people more often than not are people who aren't using the space to make stuff or work, but just to have a place to crash. When I arrive on my day off, wanting a good day to work on my projects, I'm a little bit squeeked out to see 3 people in visually filthy attire sleeping on the couches with large travel backpacks nearby.</div>
<div>Noisebridge is really important to me, and to my personal business- I need to be able to work on my projects, and Noisebridge is my workshop. Habitual sleepers- and the attitude of Noisebridge being a couchsurf spot- is making the space unwelcoming to be in. </div>
<div>This is my personal but heartfelt opinion: This is a bad thing. It's a terrible trend that's getting worse due our lack of communication and want to confront people, and- I say this hesitantly- could be one of the nails on Noisebridge's coffin. This is coming from someone who comes here to WORK, to HACK, and to MAKE shit. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Meredith </div><div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Josh Myer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josh@joshisanerd.com">josh@joshisanerd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jason Dusek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.dusek@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.dusek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote<div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Not too long ago, one of our long-term guests put NB up on<br>
<a href="http://couchsurfing.org" target="_blank">couchsurfing.org</a> <br>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Wait, what? Really? Wow.</div></div>-- <br>Josh Myer 650.248.3796<br> <a href="mailto:josh@joshisanerd.com" target="_blank">josh@joshisanerd.com</a><br>
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