<div dir="ltr">I'd like to learn about treasuring, and I am good with web-scraping and API wrangling.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Danny O'Brien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danny@spesh.com" target="_blank">danny@spesh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Okay, I'm going try to pull together some less handwavy stats for<br>
tomorrow's meeting, but I thought I'd check in with everyone on<br>
nb-discuss and give some rough estimates before that.<br>
<br>
In summary, I can now say we're not going away in July or at least not<br>
due to poverty. I'm almost certain we're will soon be income positive<br>
(ie thanks to the boost of our saviour subscriptions + pledges, we now<br>
bring in more than we spend in an average month), and I'm beginning to<br>
see the possibility of us slowly clawing back to the point where we will<br>
get back to our safety reserve of three months expenses.<br>
<br>
The fundraiser was AMAZING. James Sundquist pulled together an amazing<br>
day. Your noisebridging gang-of-treasurers plus friends ran the<br>
donations stall at the front door, with MC Hawking as enforcer from<br>
12PM-11PM. That plus the raffle, T-shirt sales, donation bins<br>
everywhere, and a million conversations with saviours dropping into see<br>
how things were going, meant that we (ballpark estimate) pulled in:<br>
(drumroll)<br>
<br>
$5238!!!one!<br>
<br>
That's a pretty big deal because apart from being more money than I've<br>
ever seen in my life, it's also money that we can use to up our account<br>
from where we could easily be wiped out by a random event, to the $18K<br>
safety reserve we should be at. Right now we're at about $14595 in the<br>
bank, which is a much more comfortable place to be than we were just a<br>
week ago.<br>
<br>
We also now have $2070 of new Paypal subscriptions from 158 people, and<br>
$1409 of pledged regular donations from 99 people, and around $1300 of<br>
pledged one-off payments from 20 or so people. So it's looking good.<br>
<br>
I'm not going to really start breathing until I've converted the $1409<br>
pledges into real money, though. Also when all of these rough numbers<br>
actually add up together. Also, I need to send thankyous to all our new<br>
subscribers and donors, and shower them with love.<br>
<br>
For these bureacratic and emotional tasks, I'm going to call upon the<br>
new Gang of Treasurers, which now include me, Liz Henry, Ken Haggerty,<br>
Tom and possibly you, if you'd like to offer to help. Possibly offer<br>
*again*, because I have not remembered all of the many offers of help.<br>
Send offer again!<br>
<br>
I'd particularly like to ask for folks who are good webscrapers, so we<br>
can at least automate some of the reporting requirements, and download<br>
our accounts on a regular basis for reconciliation.<br>
<br>
Yes, I know, I'm all take take take. But you guys are so give give give!<br>
I do believe Noisebridge is now in a co-dependent relationship with the<br>
most of the hacking universe.<br>
<br>
d.<br>
PS<br>
I also know I said I'd have a surprise after the weekend, and would like to<br>
point out that it's technically still after the weekend, so the surprise<br>
is that I'll tell you later.<br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Naomi Theora Most<br><a href="mailto:naomi@nthmost.com">naomi@nthmost.com</a><br>+1-415-728-7490<br><br>skype: nthmost<br><br><a href="http://twitter.com/nthmost">http://twitter.com/nthmost</a>
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