[Noisebridge-discuss] Charging for classes at Noisebridge

Martin Bogomolni martinbogo at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 16:54:44 UTC 2010


Rubin, the expletive wasn't necessary... 

What about classes that have an expensive material component?  Like ABS for the makerbot, or aluminum stock for the CNC?

Dues don't cover that kind of thing.





On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> I have not read any other replies to this thread, fuck you.
> 
> Part of the reason I pay dues is to support free classes (with the
> exception of asking for money to cover class materials, etc). I think
> that the fact that we have classes for free has brought in more members
> into the space then any other effort put together by our community. In
> my humble opinion charging for classes will be more of a negative impact
> financially in the long run.
> 
> To both of those point, if classes held at Noisebridge were to start
> charging in general, then I would discontinue paying my dues.
> 
> Additionally considering that the only two "closed off" spaces on our
> floor is the bathroom and darkroom, I find the notion of charging to be
> within ear-shot of spewing knowledge entertaining. So either way, I win.
> 
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