[Noisebridge-discuss] How can I help with the move?

[jim]

   hey! i wanna be on one or more of the teams, but 
evenings are difficult for me. i liked the last build 
team meeting i was at, which was in the afternoon on a 
weekday. i've got a lot of available time during 
weekdays. 
   seems to me attendance at meetings is not supposed 
to be requisite for participation, just as reading the 
mailing list or using irc or the wiki are not requisite--
i.e. you're welcome to participate as you can and prefer. 

   my suggested task list items: 
1. general demo and cleaning: uproot the barrier walls 
(store them in pieces along an edge of the room), at 
least sweep and vacuum the ceiling, walls, and light 
fixtures, get things as cleared out as possible. i'm 
willing to help with this.
2. sand and seal the floors (three or four people are 
optimum, two five-hour shifts per day, probably five or 
six days). i'm willing to help with this. 
3. understand new bath and shower plans and ensure that 
appropriate electricity is available in the area where 
the (new) water heater will be installed. (it strikes 
me as good for us collectively, including landlord's as 
well as our interests, to take care of this problem 
ourselves before the bathroom/shower work begins.) 
i'm willing to help with this. 

   also, consider turning on electrical service for the 
front room (third floor electrical has two separate 
systems: the rear is live, sub-panel by the stairwell, 
shutoff is in the basement, marked, a two-pole 100 Amp 
shutoff toward the front of all the electrical stuff; 
the front is shut off, sub-panel on the north wall in 
the front room, shutoff is in the basement, marked, 
a three-pole (three-phase) 150 Amp fused main switch 
toward the rear of all the electrical stuff). turning 
on the front room power is probably a matter of assuming 
a separate billing or negotiating that the two metered 
shutoffs in the basement will be combined on a single 
bill. issues are mainly administrative: do we want to 
wrangle the billing stuff, do we want three-phase 
available, do we want the available extra power..., no 
screwdrivers required, just thinking and phone-calling. 
a decision against means tying the front room's pipes 
to the rear sub-panel, a bad idea, i vote for turning 
on the front room's electricity. i'm willing to help 
with this.

4. there are a number of nuisance electrical tasks such 
as replacing receptacles, removing flex, removing and 
replacing circuit breakers, probably moving light 
fixtures.... these can be done nickle-and-dime style 
over time. i'm willing to help with this. 
5. reuse barrier walls, move them from the edges of the 
room to new places that define our need for separation 
of spaces ("party" and kitchen, machine and other 
physical work, classes and huddles and discussion, this 
per s. lee's presentation last month. i'm willing to 
help with this.



On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 07:11 -0700, Shannon Lee wrote:
> Indeed, tomorrow at 8:00 is the first of what I expect to be (at
> least) weekly build team meetings; I hope this week to get a tentative
> list of tasks sorted out, hopefully in major groups that can be taken
> on by discrete teams.
> 
>  If you want to be on one of the teams, show up!
> 
> --S
> 
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>
> wrote:
>         On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:42:40AM -0700, deleted wrote:
>         > Hey, Andy.
>         >
>         > Is there a schedule yet for planning meetings?
>         
>         
>         The first build team meeting is on Friday; if you're
>         interested in
>         helping with the build team, contact Shannon (turkshead) on
>         IRC or at
>         <shannon at scatter.com>.
>         
>         Again I'll step on my soapbox and this isn't aimed at you,
>         deleted --
>         
>         Note that planning meetings are for people who are going to do
>         the
>         things, to figure out amongst themselves what they're going to
>         do.
>         
>         If you show up at a meeting of N people, you're signing up to
>         do 1/N of
>         the work that is scoped by that meeting.  If you can't sign up
>         for that
>         work, don't expect that other members will do what you tell
>         them to just
>         because you were at a meeting or edited a wiki page or sent an
>         email.
>         Even if it contains a beautiful DXF of your design.  (All of
>         these
>         coordination activities are awesome of course!  But
>         coordination
>         presages action, not talk.)
>         
>         
>         -andy
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