[Noisebridge-discuss] personal computers at Noisebridge (was Re: Missing Green Bike /w Red Grips.)

[rachel lyra hospodar]

FWIW I was trained as a 'conflict mediator' ages and ages ago, and I would
be happy to sit down with dissenting parties to work on problem-solving.

I am not interested in discussing how noisebridgey isky is or if he's
excellent enough. I don't presume to judge his relative worth. I also am not
going to demand that a student surrender ownership of a machine he already
shares to a community of people who already have access to it.

There are so many computers laying around at NB it boggles my mind that one
more could be considered over the line. It would be cool if the monitor and
keyboard were commonly usable; I would totally plug my netbook into them
every once in a while. Maybe there's a better place to keep the whole setup
than in the classroom?  There is a game computer on the west wall, maybe
this could be turned into a general station and then when isky or someone
wants to use his machine they can fire it up. This would free up that
classroom for the crowds of students clamoring for separated learning space,
and give us a way to lovingly throw spitballs at isky when he plays video
games instead of hacking the planet.

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On Feb 2, 2011 6:30 PM, "Andy Isaacson" <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:44:44PM -0800, Rachel McConnell wrote:
>> If you have a problem with someone's behavior, talk to them.
>
> I have tried to talk to Isky about this issue. He's been unwilling to
> communicate about it. I have heard from at least two other community
> members who've also tried to discuss it with him and gotten blown off.
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone who has a good rapport with Isky could help
> mediate better communication. Rachel or Rachel?
>
> My position is, I don't think that there should be personal desktop
> systems set up long-term at noisebridge. It causes a bunch of problems:
>
> 1. it doesn't scale. We don't have room for everyone's systems.
> 2. it encourages the "owners" of the systems to assert property rights
> to specific areas of the space.
> 3. it's wasteful of power. ($7-$40 a month per PC, if I math right.)
> 4. it encourages the "owners" to overuse the Noisebridge space,
> sometimes to the exclusion of other community members.
> 5. the "owner" is likely to feel personally affronted if their system is
> used to construct a giant robot.
>
> I have no problem with temporary (8 hours, 48 hours) use of the space in
> just about any innovative way -- hackathons, installfests, robot
> construction that temporarily takes over the entire front room -- but
> that's not what is happening here. As far as I know, there's been an
> "Isky's computer" in one of the classrooms continuously, for the last
> several months.
>
> -andy
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