[Noisebridge-discuss] Sleeping at NB

[Dr. Jesus]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil
<gian.pablo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we all agree on "no sleeping at Noisebridge", because we
> understand it to be the same as "no living at Noisebridge". Naps are
> OK, as is resting after a long night of hacking. What is not OK is
> sleeping at NB because you have nowhere else, and ONLY sleeping at NB
> and not doing anything else.
>
> The CCC design patterns for hackerspaces mentions no living at the
> hackerspace, not for lease or planning code issues, but for the
> reasons that Moxie so eloquently covered: a space where random people
> are living is not compatible with a space for hacking.
>
> Since we all agree on "no living at NB", the real question is how to
> deal with people who take advantage of our openness and start doing
> so. In principle I agree with Jake in the sense of humanely asking
> people why they are doing it, but in practice I have had several days
> taken up with dealing with people who were living in the space, and I
> would prefer not to.

I had the same experience.  Repeated polite requests are just being
ignored by a few people.