[Noisebridge-discuss] Refrigerator donation door

Zedd Epstein zedd.00 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 09:31:46 UTC 2010


That is awesome!!! Thanks for doing!

Zedd

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:

> At the risk of getting stuff done rather than talking about it, you
> might notice that Ray has built and installed a terrifically splendid
> donation door inside the fridge.
>
> Donations go in the slot on the left. You can make change for yourself
> from inside the donation box, it's not locked.
>
> Anyone artistically inclined is welcome to update Mitch's poster.
> (Donations now go "in the slot, sweetheart" and we should emphasize
> that they are contributions to the space not just gouging.)
>
> Be a peach and not a leech.
>
> And do check out the door: it's a pretty amazing work of repurposed
> circuit boards.
>
> THANKS RAY FOR AN AWESOME JOB!
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:
> > I've engaged Ray to help build an inner reminder door for the drinks
> > fridge. It will cover the top two shelves.
> >
> > Note that there is no latch so it does not infringe on anyone's
> > freedom to leech.
> > All it does is remind drinkers that donations are requested, with an
> > immediate place to put them.
> >
> > I'm confident this will enhance donations with a minimum of
> > inconvenience.If anyone has issues, let's discuss.
> >
> > Want to help or throw in a few bones to cover materials? Ping me off
> > list. And we could use a poster update with prices as per Mitch's
> > suggestion.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org>
> wrote:
> >> At the shop I occasionally work out of (boxshopsf.org) the
> >> donation-drinks fridge has a compliance-enhancing inner door  with a
> >> money slot in it. You physically can't get a drink without opening the
> >> inner door, which is a nice reminder that you need to put some
> >> baksheesh in the slot.  It only occludes one shelf, leaving space for
> >> other things, and seems to work pretty well.
> >>
> >> Pretty simple mechanism: it's perforated aluminum (so you can see the
> >> shelf contents) spraypainted red, with a piano hinge pop-riveted to
> >> the inside of the fridge.
> >>
> >> I will ping Ray who made it for the shop and see if something can be
> cooked up.
> >> No doubt there will be those who would like to add a
> >> solenoid-controlled latch for their RFID implants.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:07 AM, 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------
> >>>> 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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