[Noisebridge-discuss] Refrigerator donation door

[Martin Bogomolni]

Would you be so kind as to post a pic to the wiki?  I'd love to see it.

-Martin

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:25 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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