[Noisebridge-discuss] Money @ NB

[Danny O'Brien]

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.
>

Hmmmm.... I don't see why a thing that would turn cash into bitcoins
with an optional tip to Noisebridge's bitcoin repository and a
commission to the maker wouldn't be fine. I think we would get into
mild legal trickiness if you were a board member or executive, but
really not very much.

It would be a very cool project, and I bet there'd be a bunch of
people who'd be interested in helping.

d.




> 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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