[Noisebridge-discuss] Access control and the DJ booth

[Quinn Norton]

On Sep 30, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:

> Den 30.09.2009 kl. 12:39 skrev Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com>:
>> The attitude that everything that's in the space and not under
>> someone's immediate personal control is necessarily a donation seems
>> to me to be both hostile and illegal.
>
>   +1


I've never seen that happen in an practical way at NB. God knows if  
there were an Olympic event that was forgetting my shit at Noisebridge  
and coming back later to bring it home, I would have a the frickin'  
gold medal. But they're not donations, they're things I brought in to  
do one task. OTOH, if someone burned down my waffle iron I'd pout, but  
the world wouldn't end.

I have stuff I'd love to lend to NB, and I don't, because that idea  
doesn't exist. And that works.

But we could totally change that if we really wanted to. I mean if  
someone said "hows about I loan Noisebridge a laser cutter for one  
year" we might have a gurgling, salivating meeting where we all  
decided that could be a special exception. We might decide we don't  
care enough and turn it down. Not having  rules leaves us pretty  
flexible about how we do these things.

Noisebridge doesn't have an attitude about anything- the people do.  
That I've never seen anyone have the attitude stated above doesn't  
mean it's never happened, but it seems like it would be rare amongst  
grownups. I think if someone snatched my waffle iron away and declared  
"but you donated it when you left! ha ha ha!" Everyone would just look  
at them until they gave it back.