[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

[Rubin Abdi]

John Magolske wrote, On 2009/09/18 12:07:
> Last night at 2169 -- the impromptu accordion/washboard musicians
> made cool music, but I did not care for the way they played
> demolition-derby with our roller-chairs, smashing them into each
> other and the floor...we don't need to add to our collection of broken
> chairs. I'm concerned that through bringing in wider cross-sections of
> drunken people to the space we'll see more of this sort of destructive
> behavior.

> I really do like the inclusive open-door nature of Noisebridge. My
> hope would be that this open door exist more for people who come with
> a willingness to contribute or learn in some constructive way, not
> just hang out, get drunk, and try to pick up a 'hacker' contact high.

Some of the group of kids who came in that were part of the whole 
squeezebox/wash board contingent had very peaked interest about the 
space and Noisebridge as a whole. My understanding was they were invited 
in by a friend of a presenter when they ran into each other in front of 
our building on the street.

A number of them spoke of returning to Noisebridge for some of our many 
classes after they viewed the list off of the wiki through my laptop 
setup on the bar. One gentlemen talked about possibly coming in during 
one of our Tuesday meetings to discuss us hosting a class of his (don't 
remember what the class was as I had this discussion with 4 other people 
I had just met who wanted to do the same).

Every single one of them were also happy to make a donation to the space 
when I pointed out the donation box at the bar and were generally well 
behaved when interacting with me, which is more then I could say about 
others utilizing our free open bar.

If you felt that actions others were were executing in the space were 
not excellent, as a member (and general human being) you have the 
ability to ask them to stop and take it somewhere else.

It would have been awesome if you had stayed later in the night, where 
some of Noisebridge's finest got into a piss fight about what movie we 
should see on the projector, a cock dance on who's laptop got to be 
used, such a major arguathon about who's fault it was that donated Apple 
VGA dongles got lost (with no apology or thank you when it was found), 
and general drunken tomfoolery with the rolly chairs. Such an 
unwelcoming and nerve racking vibe that I eventually packed up and left 
to work at home.

I think playing a washboard and banging on the floor for added 
percussion are beautiful hacks, no contact high needed.

-- 
Rubin Abdi
rubin at starset.net