<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Holy Shit, I fucking *love* CUPCAKES!!! <div><br></div><div>Can we get cupcakes in a vending machine too?!<br><div><br></div><div>- Brink</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Unlock a New Hobby with College of Lockpicking!</div><div>@lockpickcollege • <a href="http://collegeoflockpicking.com">collegeoflockpicking.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Tom Longson (nym) wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">"Be Excellent" is a great way to look at it. I fully support Mitch's kits, but that's probably because he's not making money hand over fist, and providing a very cool class as well. The following are a few examples that may have already come up in some way or another:<div>
<br></div><div>* Buying kits from Mitch</div><div>* Hosting a paid event at NB</div><div>* Selling food (think hot dog stand)</div><div>* Selling DVDs</div><div>* Selling digital goods at NB (think amazon gift cards)</div>
<div><div><div><div>* Selling Muni Cards </div><div>* Steve mann's pay to sit chair</div><div>* Product donations as a form of marketing (think Red Bull)</div><div><br></div><div>Ultimately, I think that it is not excellent to use the noisebridge space to the detriment of others- a hot dog stand might keep people happily fed, but it uses real estate, and not everyone might want a guy hanging out hawking dogs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>OTOH, I would fully support a vending machine that sells Mitch's kits, and other hacked items. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Tom Longson<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:39 PM, John Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwithers@reddagger.org" target="_blank">jwithers@reddagger.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Burning man (up until now, maybe depending on if the handover to their<br>
nifty new non-profit entity really works out) isn't a non-profit. They<br>
just don't let anyone but burning man exchange money at the event.<br>
<br>
And being a non-profit doesn't mean you can't have commerce happen. It<br>
just means you are a non-profit. The nb community might be choosing to<br>
make it a commerce free environment, I dunno. But in my limited<br>
experience if they have done that it isn't all that strictly enforced,<br>
since I and others have openly bought and sold various hackish goods on<br>
small scales in there, group orders on things like entropy generating<br>
sticks come to mind.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
j<br>
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On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 11:25 -0700, Mark Ellis wrote:<br>
> Yes Noisebridge is a non-profit organization.<br>
><br>
> Sent from SPACE!<br>
><br>
> On Oct 2, 2012, at 11:21 AM, "Tom Longson (nym)" <<a href="mailto:tomlong@gmail.com">tomlong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Is Noisebridge a "non-commercial" zone like burning man?<br>
> ><br>
> > Curious,<br>
> > nym<br>
> > _<br>
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