[Noisebridge-discuss] Money @ NB

[D J Capelis]

I admit I'm super curious to see what types of things I could get the
machine to think are bills.


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM, tedward <arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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