[Build] work exchange

[neil maclean]

I would like to trade my electrical work for membership fees. I expect 
it will require about 40 hours of work to build out the electrical. 
(other helpers may reduce this, additional work such as lighting, could 
extend it.)
Roughly, I'm thinking of one hour of actual work equaling one month, 
roughly.

Justification
I am coming to Noisebridge just in the last two weeks, mainly on the 
hope that you will agree that the media hacking I have been doing "fits" 
and that we share goals for having a presentation space with rich media 
and file server support (could I dream about on-site workstations?) for 
video and audio editing. I am also hoping you will agree to use the 
space for media producer seminars and background briefings challenging 
cultural/political doctrine.

I am looking for space to carry on the programs that I had built at New 
College including a broadcast theater, editing suite and classes about 
propaganda and breaking denial with media. I recognize that much of this 
"content" will be useful to and offered by communities not currently 
central to Noisebridge, though I expect you all to have strong opinions 
and to engage them. What I hope to inspire with existing Noisebridge 
members includes interest in technical opportunities to create and learn 
about convergence media spaces and cloud based broadcasting. (I will 
share more about these possibilities in Thursday's 5MoF.) Many of the 
brightest radio programmers and audio engineers at community stations I 
know around the country would really enjoy a space where their technical 
challenges could get the interest and support of Noisebridge hacks.

The upshot, as regards this build list post is that I am volunteering a 
lot of time on the unsubstantiated hope that I can bend the hacking 
metaphor to include culture hacking. Personally, I think its perfect, 
but your millage may differ. I think this can work and I am willing to 
risk my time investment by thinking that I will be able to reach 
agreement with the collective on these goals and uses of the common 
resources.
 

Neil


-- 
They further concluded that at least 8 detainees in US custody were 
tortured to death. Steven Miles, reporting in this journal, put the 
number of deaths due to torture at 17, with 11 cases occurring in Iraq 
and 6 occurring in Afghanistan.[8] 
<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1868355#R8> 
Many of these deaths involved torture or abuse related to harsh 
interrogations of the detainees by US personnel.

from: Public Medical Records Central: a free library of Life Science 
Journals
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1868355

-- 
"The crimes of the US throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them"
Harold Pinter, who died on Dec. 25th, 2008