[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Expanding Noisebridge

Kelly hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 09:56:54 UTC 2009


I would tend to think that expanding membership that seriously with the
current amount of space would require increased space-allocation scheduling
and organization.  New people, or people already peripherally involved (like
myself) are more likely to officially join if they're invested in some
"official" way.  I would tend to think that comes from two primary options:
1) a personal project that requires physical use of noisebridge's tools or
2) regular involvement in one or more of the groups/events that meet
regularly at 83c.  I tend to figure that we should work on making both of
those more appealing, but clearly the strategy is different for each
option.  I'm less of an option 1 person, and don't have a ton to say about
it, but I'm definitely interested in seeing a wider variety of events.  That
seems like it will quickly require a more advanced scheduling strategy than
the catch-as-catch-can approach people seem to often take here. (although
the google calendar pleases the hell out of me)

I wish I could make the membership meetings.  I could be the non-programmer
voice vying for other sorts of events at noisebridge.  I'm currently
indisposed on Tuesday nights, but that will change eventually.

-Kelly

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> 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
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