[Noisebridge-discuss] smoking at noisebridge (was Re: Be Excellent to one another)

Chris Murphy chrisnoisebridge at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 23:00:35 UTC 2009


Does the SF smoking ban apply to Noisebridge? Is a 501c3 considered a  
workplace?

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On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:33, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:52:30AM -0700, erik swedberg wrote:
>> i wasn't at the meeting.
>>
>> was it a consensus that there is a moratorium on smoking tobacco on
>> the fire escape?
>
> We didn't have "Consensus" in the official sense of our process --  
> that
> requires a week of discussion time first, which we didn't have on this
> issue.
>
> The general feeling I got from the discussion was that smoking on the
> fire escape poses challenges and everyone present was happy to say "no
> smoking on the fire escape".
>
> I think that kinda sucks, because I'm addicted to caffeine and have  
> some
> idea how bad nicotine addiction must be when un-sated.  (Personally I
> can't fathom the idea of intentionally inhaling oxidized particulate
> matter, but to each his own [substance and matter of ingestion].)
>
> There weren't any smokers at the meeting willing to stand up to the
> crowd and say "dudes, you're harshing my high".  I wouldn't have had  
> the
> courage if I were in that position; the mob sentiment was running  
> pretty
> high.  (And there may not have been any smokers present at all, the
> meeting was sparsely attended.)
>
> I think we should try to find a reasonable resolution to the matter.
> It's a shame we don't have a eastern balcony; it would be less visible
> from the street and the prevailing breeze would pull smoke away from
> rather than into Noisebridge.  As it stands, the only idea I can offer
> smokers is to go down to the sidewalk, which is hardly my idea of a  
> good
> time.
>
> Personally I would have no problem designating the "DJ booth" as the
> smoker's ghetto, once stairs are installed (omglulz), the electronics
> are removed, some sort of ventilation is installed, and any complaints
> about smoke leaking out are addressed.  If smokers want to step up and
> do that, I'll help... but I'm not going to lead.
>
> -andy
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