[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Expanding Noisebridge

[Christie Dudley]

A lot of this stuff is something I expect to be able to do on my own:
F'rex, if there is a bag sitting on a seat and I want to sit there, I will
move it.  I also want to have the stuff on my shelf stay for potentially
months.  I mean to get to that, I swear!

I think it's absolutely necessary to periodically clean out the junk that
gets brought in off the street, rotating group projects out periodically.  I
know Rachel did a great job of clearing off "unused" shelves that had been
accumulating junk so that new members could have some.  Eventually, however,
we will run out of shelf space for members.

Great call on the Maker's Faire stuff!  Anyone up for organizing that?

Christie

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Marnia Johnston <marnia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm kinda new so if this reiterates existing rules let me know.
> Perhaps the space could be better organized until NB could be moved to a
> larger (cheaper?) location. Perhaps if you have a project that's been
> sitting on a shelf for a few months gathering dust, you could find another
> home for it. Some of that space could be used for members' bags that sit on
> the couch. With the couch free, more people can join in the conversation.
> How can we better utilize the space in the shop when it isn't in use? In
> essence, how can we better utilize the space period? We might want to look
> space usage every six months or so and clean out stuff that is just sitting
> around or re-organize existing usage to economize space.
>
> I also feel that the scheduling conflicts are not that conflicting. I've
> been in small meetings up stairs while a presentation is discussed down
> stairs and have had no problems. Is there more of a problem between project
> space and meeting space?
>
> If NB is looking for more members (and more publicity) I recommend having a
> demo booth at Maker's Faire. I organized the SWARM (http://orbswarm.com/)
> booth last year and we got lots of publicity (the NY Times!), got to meet
> people who are interested in the project and educated the public in
> interactive robotics.  There is no fee but the deadline is Friday.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Mikael Vejdemo Johansson <mik at stanford.edu
> > wrote:
>
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>> On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:26 PM, William Heath wrote:
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>>> Mitch,
>>>
>>> I urge you to use freeware to track expenses.  The following choices in
>>> order of preference that I have are:
>>>
>>> 1.  Adempiere
>>> 2.  gnucash
>>> 3.  sql ledger
>>>
>>> Let me know if you need assistance :>
>>>
>>>
>> If Mitch
>> 1) already has and uses Quicken
>> 2) is more comfortable using Quicken,
>>
>> then is there a non-religious reason to urge him to change? I agree in
>> principle that there are kickass freeware/opensourced software for this - I
>> love GNUCash (and hate it's lack of MacOSX workability) - but people, Mitch
>> is doing important work for Noisebridge, and putting in a lot of his own
>> time and energy. Let's please not use him to push through agendas.
>>
>> Also, please note that I see a difference between 'pushing agendas' and
>> 'suggesting technology'. The latter is done with a certain amount of
>> humility, and probably directly to Mitch, instead of in a public discussion
>> space.
>>
>> Mikael Vejdemo Johansson, Dr.rer.nat
>> Postdoctoral researcher
>> mik at math.stanford.edu
>>
>>
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