There was only 1 or at most 2 regulars out of the 8 or so people in the party. I have no idea who was blasting the techno, didn't even hear it my self, but I did hear the music the party was playing. They were indeed roughhousing around, guess you didn't notice it, but they slammed into the wall by the classrooms a couple of times. They also left mexican food wrappers and stuff all over the classroom.<br>
<br>If all the people were doing was talking and listening to music with some drinking I wouldn't give much of a shit, but that's not the way things went down. I was working in the room right next to them. From my perspective these people were using noisebridge as a party spot, and not using it in any 'community' oriented parting way. I was working in the room right next to them, so that's where I'm coming from. I remember asking Zach if he had any knowledge of who was partying and he said no. The point is they pissed me off and I guess I won't be shy about expressing it to people in the future. Not that I want to be some kinda of tyrant.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Zach . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:organic_unity@yahoo.com">organic_unity@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">I was there that night, partly working on my sound system and I
definitely didn't feel like this was partying.� There were some
regulars to the space and all people that had been there before and
they were drinking some beer and listening to music at a reasonable
volume (on the two small white speakers).� There was someone blasting
techno when I came in actually (on the giant speakers by the sowing
area) which continued on all morning.� <br><br>There definitely wasn't any
dancing going on and other than being late at night, nothing too
different from regular NB activity.� Nothing was damaged and if
something was knocked over I'm sure it was an accident and promptly
picked up.� Andy's suggestions make a lot of sense.� If people are
being a bother I would attempt to introduce myself and interact on a
friendly basis and ask the volume to be turned down or whatever else is
an issue.<br><br>Zach<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/22/11, Andy Isaacson <i><<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org" target="_blank">adi@hexapodia.org</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Andy Isaacson <<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org" target="_blank">adi@hexapodia.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] game night<br>To: "Evan Bangham" <<a href="mailto:ebangham@gmail.com" target="_blank">ebangham@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>Date: Friday, April 22, 2011, 10:45 PM<br><br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 03:30:17AM -0700, Evan Bangham wrote:<br>
> There was some youths, drinking beers and partying at the space on Friday<br>> April 22 from 1:30am to 3:00am. Its my understanding that noisebridge<br>> shouldn't be used as a damn night club,<br><br>Definitely, I think we're all in agreement on that.<br>
<br>> and that bringing a bunch of people<br>> who are unknown to noisebridge into the space just to drink beers, wrestle<br>> with each other and
be generally obnoxious is not excellent.<br>> <br>> These guys were stumbling around, knocking shit over, perusing all the<br>> electronics and doing who knows fucking what. Seriously, fuck that shit.<br><br>Agreed, that sucks.� When I see behavior like that, I like to introduce<br>
myself to the offenders and try to get their read on the situation.<br>Good questions for example are --<br><br>"Hi, I'm Andy!� I don't think we've met?"<br><br>"Is this your first time at Noisebridge?� It is?� Cool, can I show you<br>
around?"<br><br>"How'd you hear about Noisebridge?� We're always on the lookout for new<br>members who want to work on interesting problems, so I like to keep<br>track of where people hear about us!"<br>
<br>"Hey guys, please don't hang out on the fire escape, because the cops<br>like to make a ruckus if they see people hanging out there."<br><br>Simply interacting with people on a one-to-one basis can often
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