[Noisebridge-discuss] desktop computer at welcome desk location

[Liz Henry]

Perhaps at the meeting tonight we could all take a few minutes to 
exchange phone numbers with some other people at Noisebridge.

That way, if a person does need to leave the space in an uncomfortable 
situation (and might not want to talk with the police) they still have a 
clear way to let other people know there's a problem.




- Liz




On 9/6/11 3:53 PM, Jake wrote:
> I thought of anothr option, if people hadn't blocked allowing the police
> in, they could have been told "we have assembled a quorum upstairs and
> consensed to allow you inside, in accordance with the bylaws of our
> organization" which would certainly convince them to do their job.
>
> If a person didn't want to deal with the police, and that same person
> didn't want to deal with the problematic person, they should have left
> the space and allowed other people to do what needed to be done.
>
> -jake
>
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Danny O'Brien wrote:
>
>> I think having a "core" is a really bad idea, and am far more
>> sympathetic to Jake's idea of encouraging people to take action
>> themselves. Much as I'm enjoying hacking on the 311 solution,
>> something about it seemed not quite right, and I think Jake's email
>> puts its finger on what it is.
>>
>> I honestly would like to know more about why people didn't eject Jay
>> from the space. I must admit that it was scary the first time I felt I
>> had to do it, and afterwards I was a bit more scared by how easy it
>> turned out to be, and how much I wanted to START THROWING EVERYBODY
>> OUT.
>>
>> Anyway, meeting is tonight at 8PM, so we can talk about this endlessly!
>>
>> And just to remind everyone, before meeting, at 7pm, we have the
>> social engineering group, whose brief is to come up with technical
>> solutions to social problems. I'm sure we'll be talking about this a
>> little then.
>>
>> d.
>>
>> (Oh, and for everybody reading this who is assuming it's like the
>> Terrordome at NB, right now, it really isn't.)
>>
>> d.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>    this brings to my mind the idea of a "core", a group
>>> of people who recognize in themselves and in each other
>>> a commitment to noisebridge and a willingness to do work
>>> to help noisebridge survive for its mission (hacking,
>>> promoting hacking, cross-fertilization of ideas among
>>> various arts and disciplines).
>>>    danny is working on a 311 call system that seems to
>>> want a set of core people who'll volunteer to respond.
>>>    the recent episode(s) with drunks suggests the need
>>> for a set of core people who can quickly act with
>>> confidence to respond to egregiously unexcellent behavior.
>>>
>>>    seems to me useful to promote the idea of a core group
>>> as an informal social structure with, of course, no formal
>>> powers and no particular mandate other than to try to help
>>> noisebridge generally (after all, it seems obnoxious to
>>> set up some kind of excellence police group, and there are
>>> other runaway possibilities such a group might spin out on).
>>>    essentially a core group, in my mind, is simply aware
>>> of their common interests and can identify each other as
>>> similarly aware and willing to act together to help out.
>>>
>>>    i hope some members and non-members will consider this
>>> suggestion, which i offer in a doocratic and non-consensus-
>>> requiring spirit.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 00:39 -0700, Jake wrote:
>>>> does anyone know who set up the desktop computer at the registration
>>>> desk
>>>> location, right when you walk into noisebridge?  The computer is locked
>>>> with a password so you can only log in as a guest.
>>>>
>>>> This means one can't even plug in a FTDI serial cable.
>>>>
>>>> The password hint is "di" but all the obvious guesses were tried.
>>>> If i had my password wiper CD i would use it but I don't.
>>>>
>>>> Also, the computer had a problem where it would short out its power
>>>> supply
>>>> when you breathed, and it seems to be fixed now... so, password?
>>>>
>>>> -jake
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