[Noisebridge-discuss] Money @ NB

[Susan Werner]

There are hella Wincor-Nixdorf ATM parts in boxes -- if you manage to find 
parts you can use for cash validation, that'd be interesting!

-- 
Su``ATMs, they're basically printers (without the printing part) connected to
a financial network''san

On Oct 03 16:14, D J Capelis wrote:
> 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
> >>> >