<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It's been proven to work and it's called a super in most apartment buildings. </div><div><br></div><div>Nice idea ! </div><div><br></div><div>Following Oren's suggestions would this person have to be fairly handy? They'd also have to be properly trained in security. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 1, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Oren Beck <<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ok- I've a history lesson to share as food for thought: <br><br></div>My childhood in Chicago had many GOOD experiences with building Caretakers that were paid-in-part by having a room or more.<br>
<br></div><div>I lived/worked in places that had historically used the arrangement. Many religious/fraternal buildings also have had live- in care persons. Folks- the sleeping issue as Kryptonite and Shibboleth goes away "for defined persons" If they are De Facto In AGENCY of some relevant sort!<br>
<br></div><div>The people who took these roles often were -or not lodge members/church/temple etc members or just a trustworthy sometimes even bonded person. The balance of trades included them having a space to live for so long as all parties agreed with a clause of immediate vacate for the building's protection. DO note that I cannot recall a single case of these people ever breaking faith:> <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>They were essentially the agency of the building ownership, deputized to do well defined functional acts including calling police etc. The Caretaker and their FAMILIES- also either did or delegated tasks of light operational needs collectively called Janitor/Custodian etc. </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Oren Beck<br><br>816.632.3695</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Simon C. Ion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ion.simon.c@gmail.com" target="_blank">ion.simon.c@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 class="im">On 01/01/2014 06:53 PM, Gregory Dillon wrote:<br>
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> Asking for trouble.<br>
> Too many people are going to be sleeping at Noisebridge claiming that<br>
> they are the resident fixer and onsite 311.<br>
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</div>The issue of identity seems easy to fix. Give the resident fixer a badge<br>
and maintain a signed softcopy of the same (a key exists that would<br>
serve as a Noisebridge document signing key, yes?). The notion of onsite<br>
sleeping sounds a little crazy.<br>
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