[Noisebridge-discuss] thefts at noisebridge / access policy

[Rachel McConnell]

I don't remember that policy Ben. As far as I recall, nb has always let in anyone, according to the judgment of the letter-inner. Mitch was handing out keys to 83c to awesome ppl he met on his travels from the beginning. There was the one week where Noah & I were freaking out about being on the lease before the incorporation was final, but after that it was always anyone who knew about it could come. I think... am I remembering wrong? The must-be-a-member-present thing is Ace Monster Toys... 

-Rachel

On Oct 20, 2012, at 8:22, Ben Kochie <superq at gmail.com> wrote:

> The culture changed drastically a long time ago.  We used to have a policy of having non-members leave when nobody was  around.
> 
> I'm sorry to say it, but noisebridge was created for the membership, not for random out of town people.
> 
> I do not want the policy to be "we can't have nice things" and I'm thinking it's time we as members simply close the door and reset the policy back to the original configuration of being closed to non-members outside of event hours.
> 
> On Oct 18, 2012 11:13 PM, "Corey McGuire" <coreyfro at coreyfro.com> wrote:
>> I'd hate to say it, but I have just adopted a, "This is why we can't have nice things, and I am OK with that" Policy at noisebridge.
>> 
>> There is just nothing that can be done at Noisebridge that will change this that will not drastically change the culture.
>> 
>> So, what I recommend is, guard your stuff, take it home, and don't bring quality items to leave at noisebridge.
>> 
>> If we just have crap tools at noisebridge...not broken, but cheap, there will be less theft and it won't be so hard to recover after something goes missing.
>> 
>> One serious note, yeah, we have a lock picking class, and people often use this to discourage locking anything...but maybe it's time to start locking things.  I don't care how hard it is...or how trivial it is...to unlock something, but at least it removes, with out a doubt, that something is not meant to be share.  Lockers at noisebridge wouldn't be such a bad idea.
>> 
>> Also, lets revisit the tote idea instead of shelf idea.  I think that would be a better barrier to theft and mess/disorganization and make the "member shelves" more useful for more people.
>> 
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