[Noisebridge-discuss] Are people okay with people sleeping at the Noisebridge space?

[Al Sweigart]

I very much want everyone to understand that this is a sincere question.

I ask it exactly because I haven't been at the space recently and I
didn't know if the answer was the same as before. Maybe something's
changed. And if it hasn't, then we should openly talk about this and
resolve it. I don't want to make assumptions about how other people
feel.

Right now there's disagreement. That doesn't make it drama. Right now
there are people who sleep at the space (which upsets some people) and
people talking about waking them up and asking them to leave (which
upsets the sleeping people). If we ignore this issue it'll be a
constant conflict, and that will definitely escalate drama.

We should talk about this, and we should encourage people to talk
about it. Maybe there is a halfway compromise that most people can be
mostly okay with. Then we'd be done with this issue. I'm willing to
risk looking like someone whose intent is to stir up drama (though
that is very much not my intent) if it means we can solve problems.

-Al

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Michael C. Toren <mct at toren.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 04:47:00PM -0700, Al Sweigart wrote:
>> I figured that pretty much everyone was against sleeping overnight at
>> Noisebridge and many people were against napping at Noisebridge. I've
>> been busy and haven't been around Noisebridge for the last couple of
>> months, but I check in on the mailing list every now and then.
>
> I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but if you haven't been
> spending time in the space recently and already knew the answer to your
> question, it's very hard for me to read your query as anything other than
> just "stirring the drama".
>
> -mct
>