<div dir="ltr">Wow Liz, that project is really beautiful! �Thank you!<div><br><div><br></div><div>I've seen people working on a repair ticketing system for Noisebridge. Maybe we can use this to enable members to help clean the space and get things done.�</div>
<div><br></div><div>The optimism in those photos reminds me of the first year optimism people share at SudoRoom.�</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Liz Henry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lizhenry@gmail.com" target="_blank">lizhenry@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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Romy,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
I did the photo project hoping it would help people recognize each other and help Noisebridge be a friendlier community. It was fun. Not everyone wanted their photos taken; I asked permission.� Most of the photos are here,<br>
<br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/sets/72157627742989023/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/sets/72157627742989023/</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
If you like, you could attempt to revive the project!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
>From my perspective the space was not sterile-feeling a year or two ago, but there was maybe more struggle to keep it clean and keep the floors clear. Increased foot traffic from people coming in and out has, I think, made that harder to maintain, though having more people is a good problem to have. The space needs to be swept and mopped every day, at least an hour's job for two people.� People used to do regular loads of laundry to wash the dishtowels and rags for cleanup.� Accepting lots of donations without picking through them first means we have quite a lot of trash and e-waste and giant pieces of wood and so on to haul away.� <br>
<br>There is just plain a lot of labor to do.� I don't have the physical stamina to mop any more or scrub things.� <br><br>Some of this basic work to maintain the space needs money: to buy cleaning supplies, do loads of laundry, rent trucks and pay fees to the dump.�� We may have people willing to clean but who don't have the resources.� Or, people may not actually know how to mop a floor. That seems possible. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- lizzard<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Romy Snowyla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:romy@snowyla.com" target="_blank">romy@snowyla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Sometimes I sit at the front entrance by all the photographs of members and big photos of the space when people first moved in .<br>
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The space looked sterile but also much cleaner !!! And there was such beautiful optimism in everyone's faces<br>
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I like to sit there. At the time noisebridge was founded I was drawing a lot of comics with people<br>
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I saw the table was created by comic book artists I drew with a few years ago ... It was nice serendipity<br>
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It's sort of like seeing people when they first fall in love , before the house is torched and the kids wreck the family car<br>
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