<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Garrett Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>> We usually announce on Twitter that we’ll be available at the venue and<br>
> typically expect about 10 to 12 people to drop in on average. Anyone with<br>
> questions about MongoDB are welcome. I’d like to start the first "office<br>
> hours” Thursday the 23rd, from 4-6 PM. Do you feel that Noisebridge is an<br>
> appropriate please to host these small meetups?<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>I think that it's doocratic in the spirit of Noisebridge. You'll need<br>
to chec the schedule for room availability of Turing or Church before<br>
booking your room by editing the wiki.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I vehemently disagree -- MongoDB is a for profit company that would otherwise pay top dollar to have real estate to run where it can get mindshare for other engineers. While I support noisebridge to support our own community members to launch their for profit projects (for example, mitch altman pitching his electronics), it's frankly because of companies like MongoDB getting a free ride from the city that not only is Noisebridge's rent going up, but everyone in the neighborhood getting kicked out as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Noisebridge it /community/ space - so I really have ask, what concrete value does MongoDB add to this community? Why not give Microsoft or Apple free space to develop mindshare in our community? </div><div><br></div><div>We may need cash, and once again our non-profit status does not allow us to have in-kind donations. But, if you really want to play ball with these companies, we better make our benefit very tangible and make it <b>a lot</b>. MongoDB would otherwise pay thousands if not tens of thousands to have a deal somewhere else in the city. We are a premium spot for it, and we should make it such that even the poorest and most unconnected of us are able to benefit from it.</div></div></div></div>