<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I thought it might be useful to respond to James' call for volunteers who can commit to 3pm or 10pm with a sign-up sheet on the wiki. <br><br>So, using do-ocratic principles, I set one up on <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art</a><br><br>I hope you find this useful. <br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/19/13, James Sundquist <i><sundquistjames@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser is really moving along!<br>To: "Noisebridge Discuss" <noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net><br>Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 4:59 PM<br><br><div id="yiv36303394"><div>Current state of the March 30th Fundraiser now includes a tentative events schedule that is pretty
solid.</div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>What we still need:</div><div><br></div><div>More tables of people demonstrating cool hacks, etc! Please simply notify everyone of your table being added to the Hackitorium via nb-discuss.</div><div>
Volunteers who can pre-commit for helping with 3pm Setup and/or 10pm Teardown</div>
<div>People who want to give quick talks between performances on anything</div><div>Food Prep</div><div>- Perhaps someone can help get ahold of Vegan Hackers</div><div>Tell your friends using word of mouth advertising!</div>
<div>Find Mike Kahn</div><div>- We could use his sheets to cover the member shelves</div><div><br></div><div><div class="yiv36303394gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Danny O'Brien <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:danny@spesh.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=danny@spesh.com">danny@spesh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv36303394gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">So it looks like I'm not going to be able to get back from Toronto in<br>
time for the meeting tonight, where we'll be consensing on the new<br>
officers; I mentioned last week my Secret Agenda if I'm consensed for<br>
treasurer:<br>
<br>
1) Laziness -- I'm going to try and get as many people to help me work<br>
on the accounts as possible. I don't think the treasury job is really<br>
doable by one person, and so I'd like to commandeer help. I know we've<br>
had at least three people offer to be treasurer and work on the<br>
accounts, but for various reasons they've not felt confident or prepared<br>
to do it on their own. I feel the same way, but I am confident that<br>
together we can do it.<br>
<br>
2) Impatience -- Kelly is an *awesome* treasurer, and has done a lot to<br>
improve our accounts and our systems. But she's also in Boston, and<br>
working hard on a Ph.D., and has to fit her treasurering between all<br>
that. I think we need to start getting more pro-active about<br>
understanding our finances (and being transparent and public about them)<br>
very quickly, because we're currently burning through money faster* than<br>
previously, and I think that means (again) more people working on the<br>
problem.<br>
<br>
<br>
3) Hubris -- I got asked by a few people (including a journalist) about<br>
the tweet from the last week's meeting that we Noisebridge would be bust<br>
by August. This is technically true, because right now our average<br>
income is about $2K more than our average outgoings. But I believe<br>
that's not quite as horrifying as it sounds, because we traditionally<br>
don't cover our costs by our regular predicted income, and instead we<br>
top up our finances with the occasional high-value donation or<br>
fundraising run. Again, more info is useful!<br>
<br>
I'm pretty sure that the world isn't going to end, and that Noisebridge<br>
is loved enough by the hundreds of people who use it every month that we<br>
can not only get back to our $15K-$18K reserve (we're at $11K right<br>
now), but actually stabilise things so we don't have to panic about<br>
money every 18 months or so. We just need to be able to sort out the<br>
easiest ways of having people pay, and more opportunities for people to<br>
remember to donate. Kelly (and also Tom) have done an amazing job fixing<br>
one of our perennial problems, which is reconnecting with current<br>
members when they forget (or Paypal cancels) their donations. I just<br>
think we have to give more chances for others to give us their beautiful<br>
shiny dollars, pennies and shiny shiny bitcoins.<br>
<br>
Anyway, that's the theory. I think a lot of this can be done by me and<br>
others even without being treasurer, but it'd be useful to have access<br>
to all the stats.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
<br>
d.<br>
<br>
<br>
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