Beautiful Danny! Let's send it out! :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Danny O'Brien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danny@spesh.com">danny@spesh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Okay, this is fun! I now have l33t haxx0r access to the membership spreadsheet!<br>
<br>
Channelling Julian A., I will now cut and paste their email addresses<br>
into this mailing list. THE WORLD MUST KNOW<br>
<br>
No, actually, what I deduce from this spreadsheet is that despite lots<br>
of scary potential horrors, our main problem seems to be largely that<br>
PayPal is flaky, subs didn't go in, and we didn't catch it. I may be<br>
wrong and we need to start staging coups or rounding up hippies or<br>
writing special software that makes us cleverer or something, but that<br>
seems to be the main problem. This is totally a big problem in<br>
non-profits btw, ORG in Britain, my second equal favourite non-profit<br>
has the same annoying problems. We've essentially fixed that<br>
organizational problem that led to this by noticing and FREAKING OUT<br>
JUST IN TIME.<br>
<br>
Oh I just read Andi's note and he said all of this stuff but better.<br>
DAMN YOU FOR YOUR TENACITY<br>
<br>
I'm sure there were other great suggestions at the meeting yesterday,<br>
but my main one would be to relax the rules for membership or suggest<br>
that one of the conditions for membership is to start paying the money<br>
FIRST, before the membership acceptance.<br>
<br>
Alright, let's get mailing!<br>
<br>
MY FIRST TEMPLATE LETTER, SENT TO TWO PEOPLE THAT I ALREADY KNOW AND<br>
ARE AWESOME:<br>
<br>
Hi, I'm Danny O'Brien, famous celebrity and Internet bon vivant. You<br>
may know me from my roles in the Internet's "It's For The Lulz III",<br>
and "HTTP: 503 Service Unavailable!"<br>
<br>
I'm writing to you personally,<br>
$FIRST_NAME, and $YOUR_SPOUSE_OTHER_FIRST_NAME because I know that you<br>
two both jumped through insane amounts of loops to become a<br>
NOISEBRIDGE member in the past, and that means you *care* about poor<br>
orphan hackers in the Mission district. Perhaps a little too much. But<br>
not in a creepy way.<br>
<br>
Wait, this isn't going so well. I'll start again.<br>
<br>
Turns out this Summer PayPal lovingly cancelled a bunch of recurring<br>
subscriptions to Noisebridge, and we got a bit flakey (who knew!)<br>
about chasing down regular subscribers*. As a consequence, the Bay<br>
Area's third equal bestest hackerspace is in financial trouble. If we<br>
don't catch up on the payments and refill our coffers to the tune of<br>
$5K or so in the next month, and $15K in the next few months,<br>
Noisebridge will be shut down, thrown out onto the streets, kaput, END<br>
OF LINE.<br>
<br>
This means that you will no longer have a steampunk<br>
gentleman/gentleladyhackers club, and San Francisco will be home to<br>
roaming packs of homeless, but self-replicating, fabrication devices<br>
with a grudge. I don't think I have to spell out the risks there, Mr<br>
Cyberpunk, do I?<br>
<br>
You can make this go away by either<br>
* GIVING US ALL YOUR MONEY, PLZ K THX<br>
* Paying up the dues that you may have accidentally not paid thanks to<br>
robot error,.<br>
* Making an awesome one off donation to help us out of this hole.<br>
* Starting up your $80 monthly donation again (Noisebridge may still vanish)<br>
* Or just tell me why you're not paying, so I can make up good excuses<br>
for my next mailing.<br>
<br>
We've been so scatty that you might even have been paying us and we<br>
didn't notice (though this only happens if you don't use PayPal). Mail<br>
me about this too, and I'll not send you more email/send you funnier<br>
jokes as you wish.<br>
<br>
Here's how to do pay us:<br>
<div class="im"><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate</a><br>
<br>
</div>Please pay. Apart from supporting an awesome hacking resource in San<br>
Francisco, you'll also ensure I have somewhere to sleep.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
The Internet's Danny O'Brien<br>
+1 [MY PHONE NUMBER] if you want to call and ask me about this, or for sexy<br>
talk (calls cost $5000 per minute)<br>
<br>
* (We may also have blown some of the petty cash on quaaludes and<br>
kombucha too, but that's water under the bridge, we did it by<br>
consensus, and no-one can prove nothing. NOTHING WE SAY)<br>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Andy Isaacson <<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org">adi@hexapodia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:25:20AM -0800, Danny O'Brien wrote:<br>
>> I'm still on for gently hassling members. Somebody point me at a<br>
>> spreadsheet or send me a list of emails or home addresses and set me<br>
>> at them. I can be very persuasive!<br>
><br>
> Done. (I didn't realize I could do that.)<br>
><br>
> -andy<br>
><br>
><br>
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