[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge: Death and Taxes

[Praveen Sinha]

So, I think we should have a "fix noisebridge funding hackathon" at NB.
I'll be in town for the holidays if anyone else wants to join in on this.
We really shouldn't be in this situation with the amount of people coming
through the space.  The way I see it, we have several issues we need to fix,
and it will take a team effort:

1) we need to get the NB funding situation in people's faces somehow.
NB-discuss is far too noisy and people don't go to the meetings
2) we need to call/email/spread the word with people personally right now
3) we need to get a push button system in place to harruange people via
email or txt or phone to pay up
4) we also need to have some sort of public real timeish display of our
funding levels and danger zones.
5) (maybe) we should streamline our membership model to be slightly more
accessible/less threatening to new people (don't quote me on this because I
want to stay on topic of raising funds)

Each of these things shouldn't take more than a couple of hours worth of
work....  I'd love to hear any other ideas...

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:44 PM, aditya bhargava
<bluemangroupie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Naive question: What will it take for us to be in the green again? I
> understand the $165 a day bit, but what can be done towards achieving that?
> And what caused the drop in cash flow?
>
> Adit
>
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> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, holy crap -- I think we should post something to noisebridge
>> announce, or even better actually send a non-list email to everyone that is
>> otherwise subscribed to noisebridge-discuss, since I'm sure at least half of
>> the people are too busy ignoring the list to be otherwise aware of this
>> situation...
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We have a problem.
>>>
>>> Actually, I think we have several problems, but we have one major
>>> manifestation of our problem:  We are broke.  We are not going to be able to
>>> pay February's rent at the current rate of input/output.  We're currently
>>> taking in about $2500/month in dues & donations, and we're spending about
>>> $5000 in rent and utilities and whatnot.  This is a dramatic drop-off from
>>> this summer, when we were doing a little better than breaking even.
>>>
>>> So, no joke, Noisebridge may close its doors in February, unless we can
>>> solve our problem.  This is way past the time for "let's have a party and
>>> charge money!" -- the thing we need is for people who don't want Noisebridge
>>> to close to reach into their wallets and shell out some cash.  Some of you
>>> will have noticed the new donation box with a sign that says "It costs $165
>>> per day to keep us open" -- this is true, $165 per day is our burn rate;
>>> this means we need roughly two full members, or four "starving hacker"
>>> members, to pay for every day we're open; this works out to 60 "full"
>>> members or 120 "starving hacker" members, or some combination thereof.
>>>
>>> Ways to donate are spelled out on the wiki here:
>>>
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate_or_Pay_Dues
>>>
>>> They come down to: we take cash, checks, paypal and straight up
>>> bank-transfer.
>>>
>>> If you are not sure about having a committed relationship with
>>> Noisebridge (I know, commitment is scary) consider sponsoring a day:
>>>
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/SponsorADay
>>>
>>> For those of you who are confused about the membership process -- being a
>>> member of Noisebridge costs $80 per month.  If you're a regular user of the
>>> space, you should become a member.  Membership can be either formal (in
>>> which case you have a voice in political processes) or informal (wherein you
>>> simply donate money to the space, but don't participate in decision making);
>>> if you are only interested in supporting the space, simply start donating
>>> $80 per month; if you want to be a formal member, ask a member for details,
>>> or attend a Tuesday meeting.
>>>
>>> Please support us or we will be gone, and soon.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>>
>>> --S
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shannon Lee
>>> (503) 539-3700
>>>
>>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
>>>
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