[Noisebridge-discuss] Pony & membership

Jeffrey Malone ieatlint at tehinterweb.com
Tue Sep 8 03:13:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Zach Hanna<chezbut at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a silent lurker on the list considering membership / contributions
> to the space,
> "Storage for personal projects / tools" would be my #1 requirement for
> joining a space.

This is a privilege that will be more or less guaranteed to members at
2169, as it was when we had more space at 83c.

> And as my projects are of the nature of servers / virtualization
> environments / keyboard / LCD monitor etc that need to be worked on
> for a while before going into a telco hotel (colocation) they might
> not do so well going in and out of buckets/lockers all the time.
> I have looked at different coworking spaces and it seems most of them
> do not offer this and I may have to rent private office space to the
> tune of $5-600/mo for 100sf, which isn't exactly in the community /
> sharing / hacking spirit and seems kind of wasteful for 1 person to
> suck up all those resources singlehandedly.
> If nb could offer that it would be pretty nearly seal the deal.

Noisebridge is explicitly not a coworking space.  Additionally, the
materials any member leaves at Noisebridge are not guaranteed to
remain intact or in any way secure and are explicitly NOT insured.
While we're happy to have anyone come by and hack on things, we cannot
dedicate anything beyond very small parts of the space to anyone's
personal belongings -- the reasons are lengthy, following both
practical and ideological grounds.

In the near future, there will be new proposals put forth on how to
handle personal belongings at Noisebridge, and hopefully to have an
official policy on it.
Until then, the existing policy (which may be based mostly on
precedent than anything else) is to the best of my knowledge as
follows:

Availability permitting, all members are eligible for space.
Certain non-members who have contributed to the community have been
given space, generally to aid their contributions (eg, extra space for
class materials for a class they're teaching).
People are generally restricted to one shelf, barring special arrangements.

It is generally not allowed for personal items to exist at the space
off your shelf unless you are present.  We have not addressed the
concepts of people storing things at the space (on their shelf or not)
that use other resources (eg, electricity, bandwidth), but it is
likely there may be strong objections to this by part of our member
base.


Also, every "policy" I stated above has been broken before -- most
repeatedly.  To a certain extent, the actual "rule" is what is
excellent to the rest of the members.

Jeffrey



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