[Noisebridge-discuss] /RTFM/

[Danny O'Brien]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Unfortunately, as I've found out, the hack shelves (even if clearly
> labeled) are not a safe place to store things anymore either... and
> certainly not if they are trivially consumable, easily fungible, or
> the least bit useful.
>
> I've tested the theory by leaving behind a small bottle of my flavored
> vodka every time I travel.  Invariably, they have been taken.   For
> years, I left things like servers, a game console, that kind of thing
> on the shelves.  Just after the hack shelf move, things changed.
>
> I don't bother trying to keep projects on the shelves anymore.  I just
> take anything even vaguely useful home now.
>
>
Yeah, I think that tradition has broken slightly in general (also we had
the wobbly moment a month or so ago, although that appears to be clearing
out now). And God, we need to clear out those shelves. I think it helps now
we've pretty much definitively settled who is and who isn't a member.

I talked to Maestro a bit today about this. We disagreed about the issue of
how best to protect things (I think there's a long-brewing disconnect
between the idea that you can keep stuff at NB and if it's labelled, it
will be mostly safe, and the "everything has to be hackable" idea -- it's
definitely being stressed at the moment due to a large-scale space
rearrangement). BUT we agreed about maybe trying to a) renew the protection
meme by having stuff red-taped, and b) the old solution of lockers. I
honestly don't think anyone is going to complain about on ideological
grounds anymore (nb-discuss is definitely the place to find out whether
that's true), but nobody has fundraised for it.

I think we could combine clearing out the shelves and getting lockers, we'd
have to do it carefully, and it would take a few weeks at the very least of
reaching out very widely to people who aren't members but who have stuff,
but it could be done. I'd like to do it.

d.



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