<div dir="ltr">I think your overlooking a number of things, first of least you are talking about noisebridge, and a couple of other random "private" places. Noisebridge operates on a different philosophy imho that it in particular it is a public place, so I suggest you try your study by leaving such items on various sidewalks, or lobbys and see what the result is.<div>
<br></div><div>Yes nb is in the middle of the mission, some of it also consider it home. Yes a lot of shit gets stolen in the mission, correction nearly everything in mission gets stolen, sometimes it's cell phones, sometimes it's million dollar homes stolen by massive bullshit financial crashes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ok, end of rant, if you think leaving something unattended in a public place, with just contact info on it, means you'll ever see it again, well good luck with that.</div><div><br></div><div>If you think that's something that should be part of an excellent public hackerspace such at noisebridge, I'd love to see you help make it so.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>P.S. Public/Group storage spaces.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>;+)<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Martin Bogomolni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martinbogo@gmail.com" target="_blank">martinbogo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The Excellence Study is now over. Here are the results:<br>
<br>
>From October to January, five items were left in three spaces (<br>
Noisebridge, Dallas Makerspace, UCSC ). The items were:<br>
<br>
*) A Casascius BitCoin, seal intact, in a small transparent envelope<br>
labeled with a name, contact info, Do Not Hack<br>
*) A 9.6V power screwdriver, with philips and slot-head bits, in a<br>
case clearly labeled with a name and contact #<br>
*) A box of assorted IC chips and parts from Make: "Electronics<br>
Components Pack #2", in a case, clearly labeled with a name and<br>
contact #<br>
*) An Android phone, Samsung Galaxy S, loaded with CyanogenMod, with a<br>
laser-etched name and contact on the back<br>
*) A "DefCon 19" jacket, with a contact name inside the jacket in sharpie<br>
<br>
Dallas Makerspace)<br>
<br>
*) BitCoin - contact # notified, returned 11/1<br>
*) Screwdriver was boxed, placed on "lost and found" area 10/20,<br>
contact # called 10/24, returned 11/1<br>
*) Make Components pack was placed on "lost and found" area 10/20,<br>
contact # called 10/24, returned 11/1<br>
*) Android phone was stolen 10/28, recovered after contact on 11/5 by<br>
Dallas area pawn shop.<br>
*) DefCon Jacket was placed in "lost and found" 11/15, contact email<br>
used 11/22, returned 12/21<br>
<br>
UC Santa Cruz)<br>
<br>
*) BitCoin went missing 11/9, re-appeared 12/8, placed in lost and found box<br>
*) Screwdriver, Make Component Pack, were placed in a box labeled with<br>
the name on the case, and retrieved 1/14/2013<br>
*) Android Phone, Jacket were placed in a box labeled with the name in<br>
the jacket, and retrieved 1/14/2013<br>
<br>
NoiseBridge )<br>
<br>
*) BitCoin was stolen on 10/14, BTC transferred on 10/15<br>
*) Screwdriver and case was stolen on 10/18<br>
*) Make Component Pack was opened on 10/24, some components scattered<br>
into the electronics area and moved to member shelf area, mostly empty<br>
case went missing from member shelf area 11/3<br>
*) Android phone was stolen 10/15, pre-paid SIM was used all over the<br>
bay area (mostly Berkeley) until 11/9, phone recovered from BART<br>
police on 1/8 smashed/damaged<br>
*) DefCon Jacket was stolen 10/18<br>
<br>
Draw your own conclusions. The experiment was interesting, but it<br>
definitely points to some culture issues.<br>
<br>
-M<br>
<br>
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Martin Bogomolni <<a href="mailto:martinbogo@gmail.com" target="_blank">martinbogo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Any good experiment needs a hypothesis, and a way of testing that<br>
> hypothesis with an experiment and a control.<br>
><br>
> My hypothesis is that the operating principles of Noisebridge are not<br>
> serving to increase, but rather to decrease, the average level of<br>
> honesty and 'Excellence' in the space. Specifically the current way<br>
> things are set up socially inside of Noisebridge, with insufficient<br>
> negative feedback/pressure on people to reinforce the social values<br>
> that promote that kind of honest behavior.<br>
><br>
> I have had two people leave five valuable things in Noisebridge.<br>
> These things are useful to different people for different reasons.<br>
><br>
> Five identical items have been left at the Dallas Makerspace, as a<br>
> second social group with different rules. Also at UC Santa Cruz'<br>
> workshop as a control, as they have a strongly reinforced discipline<br>
> of object ownership and storage.<br>
><br>
> All are items a Hacker/Maker would have.<br>
><br>
> One of them contains something intrinsically valuable if disassembled.<br>
> It will cease to work if that happens.<br>
><br>
> All are clearly labeled as 'do not hack', with a name and identifying<br>
> label for which member shelf they should be on.<br>
><br>
> All have been placed in logical places, but not on a material or<br>
> 'hack' shelf. None are in their 'correct' location.<br>
><br>
> None are worth less than $50.<br>
><br>
> None of those labels has my name on it.<br>
><br>
> The location of the items will be checked after a day, a week, two<br>
> weeks, a month, and two months.<br>
><br>
> I will publish the results after three months.<br>
><br>
> -M<br>
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