<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Shannon Lee</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shannon@scatter.com">shannon@scatter.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:34 AM<br>Subject: Noisebridge Redshirt Shift Report #1 - Thursday, 6/20/2013 20:00 - 24:00<br>To: Ryan Rawson <<a href="mailto:ryanobjc@gmail.com">ryanobjc@gmail.com</a>>, dara v <<a href="mailto:daravinne@gmail.com">daravinne@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:alex@primerlabs.com">alex@primerlabs.com</a>, "J.C. Cooper" <<a href="mailto:r33lmm@gmail.com">r33lmm@gmail.com</a>>, Andrew Byrne <<a href="mailto:andrew@pachakutech.com">andrew@pachakutech.com</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr">Gosh, that subject line has a lot of Official in it.<div><br></div><div>Tonight I took my red T-Shirt to Noisebridge, and at 8pm I put it on; it was 5 minutes of fame night (well done, by the way, JC!), and there was a brief segment on the Noisebridge Rebase, so I gave a quick rundown of the idea of Redshirts.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Leif had previously asked me to come up with a better way of describing the Redshirt position than "Person In Charge," as he was uncomfortable with that verbiage, although he liked the idea as I described it; so I described the position as a sort of Noisebridge Docent, someone responsible for telling you where the bathrooms are and not to touch the priceless works of art...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, after 5mof ended I announced a tour, and walked a dude around, showing off Noisebridge. After that, I mostly hung out up near the door, talking to people about the Redshirt idea (some of you are now on the list!). I made a point of being the one who buzzed people up, and met people in the stairwell, smiled big, shook their hands and welcomed them to Noisebridge.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nobody showed up who obviously needed to be barred entry. I think that, in order to be denied entry to Noisebridge, you should have to have been previously asked to leave and not allowed back, or be a member of law enforcement (we should make a routine practice of denying entry to law enforcement who do not have a warrant and who are not first-responders responding to an emergency inside).</div>
<div><br></div><div>No problems arose inside which required mediation.</div><div><br></div><div>The Hacker to Hobo ratio seemed pretty high; the one dude whom I'd pegged as a definite hobo was over bending circuits and making fucked up electronic music a few minutes later, so maybe I'm not a good judge of these things.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Remonstrated briefly with Johnny Radio about his buzzing people into the space and not greeting them; this led to a lengthy but engaging discussion of the nature of authority.</div><div><br></div><div>
Midnight came, I took off my shirt and accepted a slug of Bulleit from JC, and home I went.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>--S<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Shannon Lee<br><a href="tel:%28503%29%20539-3700" value="+15035393700" target="_blank">(503) 539-3700</a><br>
<br>"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Shannon Lee<br>(503) 539-3700<br><br>"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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