[Noisebridge-discuss] It's Club Mate Time Again

[Kelly]

I agree that suggested donation prices would be helpful.  I didn't
actually realize that we were asking $2 per can.  That seems pretty
steep to me actually, so while I totally support it as a fundraising
price, I would personally feel ripped off paying that.

That said, I don't actually pay per drink for the sodas I drink at NB
anyway.  I generally just put in $10 every couple weeks, or maybe
monthly when I'm around less.  I drink <2 sodas a week, so while I
realize that I'm probably ultimately paying more than $2 per drink, I
feel that it's worth it to not have to bother with having cash on me
all the time.

I guess that I would prefer not having any enforcement methods
implemented, because I genuinely do trust the good faith of our
members.  It's really more a matter of informing people who don't know
the drill.

-Kelly

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:07, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> We really need to make it clear that we would really like donations for the
> drinks.  I think lots of people take drinks from the fridge, or the big pile
> of cans, and don't know that if they take them, then Noisebridge may lose
> money.  I also think that if we tape friendly signs up everywhere there are
> drinks available, then we'd get a higher percentage of people giving us some
> money.  I'm not a graphics artist, but I made up a bunch of signs (one of
> which is still on the drink fridge with the handle on the "wrong" side).  I
> uploaded it to a wiki page for others to add better graphics for this
> purpose:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Drink_graphics
> This graphic doesn't include suggested donation prices.  That would be good
> info to have on the posters.
>
> Mitch.
>
>
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>> From: ieatlint at tehinterweb.com
>> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:42:45 -0800
>> To: adi at hexapodia.org
>> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] It's Club Mate Time Again
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
>> > (Regular soda nets us a bit over a dollar, pretty reliably.
>>
>> I'm actually not sure we do bring in that much.
>>
>> I last collected the money from the drink tin on Monday. Since the
>> last costco run, $156 had been collected.
>> The costco run itself cost about $260, and I was told about half the
>> items are gone. So we're looking at a small return, but no loss.
>> We seem to have gotten progressively worse at this. I remember last
>> October and early November, we would routinely bring in $1+ per soda.
>> But from then on, we've wound up just $40-50 over the cost pretty
>> routinely. I think it's clear this isn't a realistic funding source
>> for Noisebridge... but it buys us toilet paper, so it's still good :)
>>
>> Jeffrey
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