[Noisebridge-discuss] Block over email for noise pollution

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 04/09/2010 06:14 PM, Christie Dudley wrote:
> Oh, donations most especially can be earmarked!  There are many projects
> that have been completed as a result of earmarked funds.  Just think
> about it - you're working to, say, build a space program.  Would you
> want to have all your money have to be filtered through the Noisebridge
> general fund in order to get your helium and radios and balloons, then
> have to get a consensus on having the money you donated for all that
> spent?  That seems awfully silly and would probably kill just about
> every significant project we have going.
> 
> Another way to look at it is Noisebridge accepts donations of materials
> and items as well as cash for our general fund.  

In practice committing money to a particular purpose should be no
different than showing up with some iron drain pipe and fitting to solve
a problem under the sink... The latter doesn't go into some common pool
to be allocated by the politburo it's gets installed under the sink.


> Christie
> _______
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> scripts." -- Noisebridge meeting notes 2008-06-17
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> The outer bounds is only the beginning.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/genriel/sets/72157623376093724/
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> 
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:58 PM, dpc <weasel at meer.net
> <mailto:weasel at meer.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Ian Atha <thatha at thatha.org <mailto:thatha at thatha.org>> writes:
> 
>     > One point though, would you financially support a project in which you
>     > weren't personally interested in but you support in principle?
> 
>     assuming this is the 'generic, nb-discuss participant' 'you', yes i
>     would/have. i assume taht's what dues/donations/whatever are. my
>     understanding is that these things aren't/can't be ear-marked, but that
>     might just be what i get for reading discuss once a week.
> 
>     \p
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