<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Not trying to answer for Johny, but five years ago shows the calendar was walking up to the inauguration of President elect Barack Obama and the winds carried the messages of change and hope. The country was also facing a near spiral into a depression. Jobs were being lost.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Today, five years later, things associated with coding and technology are hot in San Francisco. Tech, which is related to the core of Noisebridge, is being blamed for the "gentrification" of the Mission District: and this presents different opportunities for Noisebridge, and perhaps responsibilities, than the environment of five years ago.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Putting aside the blame game, there are a lot of good people in technology who very open and wanting to sharing their skills. The Noisebridge infrastructure is a natural place for that to happen. People learning server, coding and other technology skills in a low cost way at Noisebridge may be a function that is is fitting today, in a way that didn't fit the time of five years ago. </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Also,there are possibilities for Noisebridge to be an agent to smooth out some of the abrupt dislocation pains of "gentrification" Noisebridge without become an NGO providing shelter beds. It could solicit hosting code hackathons for creating tools that today's developers are doing great things with - opening up data for examination in way that a could not be done before, and - connecting needs with resources with ways that didn't happen previously.</font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Johny Radio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnyradio@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnyradio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Please re-read my statement. I said "may". </div><div class="im">
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<div>On 1/6/2014 3:31:42 PM, "James Sundquist" <<a href="mailto:sundquistjames@gmail.com" target="_blank">sundquistjames@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p>>we need to *really* branch out and connect with all the people who have >long since left nb-discuss or long since left nb itself. Yes, but also realize that the demographics of SF and the hood are changing. Some things that made sense for nb 5 years ago may no longer apply.</p>
<p>Johnny, what things no longer apply after 5 years?</p></blockquote></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Let's stay in touch. Greg
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