<div dir="ltr">You guys should run a kickstarter, or maybe an underwear race ;-)<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Noisebridge Truth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noisebridgetruth@gmail.com" target="_blank">noisebridgetruth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's amazing how many people have ignored this e-mail and yet have responded to other threads discussing Adam Swartz, Coursera, the door to gate telecom system, and tech mentoring--three of the four all relate to "free things" too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So Jake, Michael, Johny, Tony, Nicholas, James, and Garrett, have you decided to put up more money to help keep this place afloat or are you going to continue to willingly ignore this e-mail and let the space wither and die? How about you "anonymous" reader who has yet to pipe up?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Poor Danny and Liz put his out there and only one person has yet to respond--beyond pathetic.</div><div><br></div><div>Then again, it should be no surprise that this was ignored seeing that people are willing to take away from the space before contribute back:</div>
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<div>When will Noisebridge no longer be the joke amongst other hackerspaces as the place for arduinos and homeless people?</div><div><br></div><div>- Noisebridge Truth</div><div><br></div><div>On 23/01/2013 11:29 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:> TLDR: we need your money, your vigilance, and your love</div>
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<div>> </div><div>> In a meeting a few months ago, we Noisebridgians brainstormed a little</div><div>> on the risks we faced as a group. On one point we agreed: Noisebridge</div><div>> was engineered so that if it disappeared tomorrow for some reason, the</div>
<div>> documentation and the drive of its members would be sufficient to build</div><div>> something to replace it. But we also agreed that Noisebridge should die</div><div>> from something spectacular: the Bussard polywell fusion reactor we made</div>
<div>> of oyster mushrooms overloading, say, or the first stage retro boosters</div><div>> applied to the foundations failing from poorly 3D-printed O rings.</div><div>> Noisebridge should always go out with a (metaphorical) bang, not a real</div>
<div>> world whimper.</div><div>> </div><div>> Unfortunately we now have a few extremely boring threats to our</div><div>> existence. Whatever we think of drama or hacking or each other, I think</div><div>> we can safely say we are all opposed to boredom. If you care about</div>
<div>> Noisebridge, or you just enjoy having our dramatic ways in your inboxes,</div><div>> you can stop these threats and save Noisebridge.</div><div>> </div><div>> 1) Right now, we're short $3000 of our tradition three month breathing</div>
<div>> room of $15,000. As ever, this has a bunch of factors. Drive-by</div><div>> donations drop in the winter, because Noisebridge is coooold. Old hands</div><div>> have moved on, and new ones don't realise how much Noisebridge depends</div>
<div>> on their financial as well as practical support. Our rent went up in</div><div>> November, and we just paid our $2K annual insurance premium. The economy</div><div>> continues to suck.</div><div>> </div>
<div>> Whatver the reason, we're not taking in enough right now, and that</div><div>> cannot last for long. As it is, Noisebridge might not survive the</div><div>> summer, unless you give some tax-deductible money. In particular, if you</div>
<div>> use Noisebridge more than a few times a year, please set up a monthly</div><div>> subscription of $160, $80, $40 or even $10. If you already pay, please</div><div>> consider upping your donation (I just have). If you hate Paypal,</div>
<div>> consider a far cooler bitcoin donation, or a bank order, or cash -- we</div><div>> can give you the details. The more monthly donations we get, the less we</div><div>> have to worry about seasonal donation instability in the charitytron</div>
<div>> matrix.</div><div>> </div><div>> You can donate to Noisebridge here:</div><div>> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate_or_Pay_Dues" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate_or_Pay_Dues</a></div>
<div>> </div><div>> We accept Bitcoin at: 1B5sJQ6Wu6AmK9xG5YTic4Nszw4PS7UMAM</div><div>> </div><div>> 2) We got contacted by our landlord early at the New Year. Because of</div><div>> our opening hours (which are infinite) and our open door policy (which</div>
<div>> is always, and the actual gate was broken over Christmas), homeless folk</div><div>> have been coming in and sleeping in the stairwell and possibly elsewhere</div><div>> in the building. Our landlord likes us, but he's worried about the</div>
<div>> safety and happiness of 2169's other tenants. We have to listen to our</div><div>> landlord. We're going to have to, all of us, start making sure people</div><div>> don't use Noisebridge as somewhere to sleep from the cold of San</div>
<div>> Francisco. We're not going to make giant moats or spiked fences (well,</div><div>> actually, we might, but that's a different project.) But we are all of</div><div>> us, going to make sure we know who is coming into Noisebridge with us,</div>
<div>> and be firm at asking those who are sleeping at Noisebridge to leave.</div><div>> Remember, you can *always* ask someone to leave and come back to</div><div>> Noisebridge's Tuesday meeting if you feel they are being unexcellent. </div>
<div>> You should always be responsible for those who you let into the space.</div><div>> </div><div>> 3) Finally, our biggest existential threat: the health of us all. As</div><div>> many of us know, a close friend of Noisebridge's community, Aaron</div>
<div>> Swartz, took his life two weeks ago. You're invited to a shared memorial</div><div>> between Noisebridge and many others who miss him Thursday night, at the</div><div>> Internet Archive.</div><div>> </div>
<div>> <a href="http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/15/memorial-for-aaron-swartz/" target="_blank">http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/15/memorial-for-aaron-swartz/</a></div><div>> </div><div>> We have had a moment's silence for Ilya Zhitomirskiy, who hacked on</div>
<div>> Diaspora at Noisebridge. Before that we had a memorial, too, for Len</div><div>> Sassaman, another brilliant companion.</div><div>> </div><div>> One of our community's values is honesty, brutal honesty. That's why I'm</div>
<div>> not telling you everything is fine. But sometimes what we think is a</div><div>> healthy honesty hides our real vulnerability, or it is misused to</div><div>> inspire vulnerability in others. </div><div>> </div>
<div>> Mitch was one of the first to use hackerspaces to set up meetings to</div><div>> talk about depression among hackers. Noisebridge isn't just about</div><div>> Arduinos and giant fricking lasers. We come here to support each other,</div>
<div>> especially in our darkest times, and we work to support the wider hacker</div><div>> community.</div><div>> </div><div>> Please take care of each other. If we die, it will not be by our own</div><div>> hands, nor by those who might misunderstand us, but by giant robot</div>
<div>> hands, hugging their fleshy creators just a biiit too hard for our puny</div><div>> human tolerances. And we'll build it together, not alone.</div><div>> </div><div>> There will be a hackathon to continue Aaron's goals at Noisebridge on</div>
<div>> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon</a></div><div>> </div><div>> Be excellent to each other,</div>
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