[Noisebridge-discuss] Money @ NB

[tedward]

FWIW, I believe an anti-cash machine would be a highly excellent, amusing,
and potentially useful for the community, if it could be made reliable
enough.

It's not like Burning Man.  In the past, folks have made small profits
providing products or services to the noisebridge community without anyone
complaining.  Mitch selling his kits and Josh Myer teaching classes for a
fee come to mind.  Even if you did want to charge a reasonable exchange
fee, I don't expect anyone would complain.  Presumably your service would
incur costs with an upstream brokerage.

I say go ahead and build it.  If people think the fee is too high, or they
don't want to support your cool idea, they won't put any money into it.  Or
maybe if somebody REALLY don't like it they'll take it apart and steal the
cash.  There's only one way to find out!

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com> wrote:

> My question came out of a project idea I'd like to do (bills to bitcoins),
> which involves hacking a bill validator and receipt printer with an arduino
> to allow anyone to exchange small amounts of cash for bitcoins. This idea
> could be reused for a donations machine at NB, which would print receipts
> for tax accounting.
>
> Prior to mailing to the list, I decided it wouldn't be a great idea (one
> member profiting off other members). In other words, a bill to bitcoin
> machine* would not* be an "excellent" use of the space. Building one on
> the other hand? I'm pretty sure Abraham Lincoln deem it MOST EXCELLENT.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom Longson
> -----------------------
> Party on, dudes!
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> As others have suggested, it depends on what the commerce is.  Selling
>> extra-sensory purple and silver gazingus pins might be way wonderful if
>> people at Noisebridge find benefit from them.  If you have an idea, and
>> you're wondering how it will be received at Noisebridge, care to share it?
>>
>> Mitch.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> > From: tomlong at gmail.com
>> > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:45:50 -0700
>> > To: jwithers at reddagger.org
>> > CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> > Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Money @ NB
>> >
>> > My question is more about what the community finds acceptable re:
>> > commerce in the space that is not Noisebridge 501c3 related, but done
>> > by members / guests in the space.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Tom Longson
>> >
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > CUPCAKES!! http://www.cupsandcakesbakery.com/
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:12 AM, John Withers
>> > <jwithers at reddagger.org<mailto:jwithers at reddagger.org>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 00:34 -0700, Ever Falling wrote:
>> > > My answer was based off of this
>> > > page: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Vision which
>> states
>> > >
>> > > >Noisebridge is an educational non-profit corporation, 501(c)3 public
>> > > charity status.
>> > >
>> > > Is this not still relevant? Has it changed since last i checked and
>> > > the wiki hasn't been updated?
>> >
>> > While someone followed up to this going a different way, this still
>> > doesn't mean no commerce. We could sell things at NB. Like, well, we do,
>> > with tshirts and membership dues and such. If we wanted we could sell
>> > girl scout cookies, crack, whatever. 501c3 isn't about making money, it
>> > is about what you do with it when you do. Goodwill, Out of the Closet
>> > and Salvation Army run friggin stores.
>> >
>> > j
>> >
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