[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Expanding Noisebridge

[Rachel McConnell]

Paul Böhm wrote:
> we should do it!11
> what's our best shot at raising the money?

More members.  A one-off won't do it, we will need double the income
consistently.  A larger membership is the only possible way we can
permanently increase our income to a useful degree.

OK I lied, if someone has an extra security deposit and year's worth of
$3k/month just lying around that they'd like to contribute, that would
work too.  At least, it would work for a year, during which time we'd
need to ... get more members.

We are growing, but at a rate of something like 1.5 new members a month.
  If that keeps up we'll be able to move sometime in 2012.  Suppose we
had a goal of, say, 10 new members a month.  That would easily let us
move by October, which month is conveniently located on our lease
termination date, allowing us the greatest number of options as to Where
to expand.

We won't be able to do this by Oh Wow, Yay, Let's!  It will take
concerted effort.  It will take (shudder) active proselytization.  Here
are some starter ideas:

* Everyone bring one person by to visit the space this month
* Have we notified all of our geeky mailing lists about Noisebridge?
* How about the IT or web department at work?
* Would flyers on telephone poles be useful (where)?

What else?  If we do some kind of Media Blitz we'd best coordinate our
efforts for maximum effect, so let's talk it over a bit and see what we
think.  I will put an agenda item up for Tuesday.

Rachel