<div dir="ltr"><div>I agree, and all of our hard work in rebuilding this past year is at stake.<br><br></div><div>Patrick says it best: we are in a very delicate time.<br><br></div><div>I haven't been around the past few weeks, and that's been OK because I have been able to trust in there being a critical mass of good folks keeping the space progressing in a positive way.<br><br></div><div>Now I am going away, returning in January -- just as many others are -- and I really want to come back to a Noisebridge that doesn't again require rebuilding due to sabotage and neglect.<br><br></div><div>There are good arguments, too, for keeping the space open IN ORDER to protect it, because a closed Noisebridge is not all that safe either.<br><br>And it's not about trust in anyone as an individual. It's about trust the
robustness of the community organism when it suddenly loses a large quantity
of blood.<br><br></div><div>Whatever we do -- keep it open or close it for a couple of weeks -- either way will be a leap of faith for all of us as a community.<br><br></div><div>With love,<br>Naomi<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Harry Moreno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morenoh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">morenoh149@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I'll be around. I can't go everyday but I'll try to be there more often. I just feel this is insufficient. A character like sid only needs a couple of hours late at night to do costly damage. </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2014 11:10 AM, "Naomi Most" <<a href="mailto:pnaomi@gmail.com" target="_blank">pnaomi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thumbs up.<br><br></div>Who else is going to be around?<br><br></div><div>Personally I would feel best knowing there are at least a dozen people "around" between Xmas and the first week of January.<br></div><div><br></div>--Naomi<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, David Halenda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dskiko@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dskiko@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><div dir="ltr">I'd like to offer myself, David Halenda, Mohammad, and Joe as three trustworthy folk who are into keeping NB open during the holidays and beyond. We've put a good amount of time helping to get the space ready for building inspection, and have been coming to NB for several ms/yrs now.</div><div dir="ltr">Though recent issues have put us all a bit on edge, my feeling is that its important to keep the doors open as long as feasibly possible, and as long as its a secure and safe place to be. This includes locking the space up, and making sure no one is left inside when we, or other trusted members of our community, are not around.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Though I'm not here all the time, I'm in regular contact with the others mentioned. My cell: <a href="tel:415.670.1881" value="+14156701881" target="_blank">415.670.1881</a><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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