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

[jim]

    i have a problem that our lease disallows sleeping 
there. i also have a problem that people might develop 
an expectation that they can sleep there. sleeping 
people have an inhibiting affect on hackers. 



On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 16:21 -0700, Liz Henry wrote:
> On 10/11/11 3:32 PM, Al Sweigart wrote:
> > Are people okay with people sleeping at the Noisebridge space? Who has
> > a problem with it? Who doesn't have a problem with it?
> >
> 
> #OccupyNoisebridge!
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> Just kidding. I wake people up and ask them not to sleep at the space.
> 
> I would support a hacker hostel project in a different space, though. 
> Since a fair amount of people coming to Noisebridge need infrastructure 
> for living, they might be able to band together to set up a cheap and 
> sustainable hacker hostel situation. I guess some problems with that 
> might be:
> 
> - finding a landlord and neighbors who don't mind/notice 10 people 
> living out of two rooms
> 
> - getting enough capital together to pay deposit/first month/last month rent
> 
> - having the wherewithal to pass a credit check or whatever other 
> paperwork or background hurdles there might be
> 
> - developing the social trust among hacker hostel potential members to 
> want to live with them (or tolerate living with them) in close quarters. 
> (Along with whoever they bring home with them.)
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> - liz
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