[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Access : What is our policy? What should it be?

[Danny O'Brien]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:15:50PM -0600, Martin Bogomolni wrote:
> This thread was "A test of Excellence", responses inline.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
> 
> >     I like that the space is open to everyone. I like
> > that the people are willing to accept anyone.
> >
> >     To some degree, theft can be addressed by not having
> > desirable and easily stealable equipment.
> 
> This _utterly_ defeats the purpose of Noisebridge as a hackerspace.
> 
> If we can't have good tools, equipment, computers, and things around..
> what's the point?
> 
> > Lean toward
> > hand tools rather than motor-driven hand tools.
> 
> Sure, lets go back to the stone age.  I'll go get some rocks, and tie
> them to some sticks.
> 
> Seriously, Jim, Noisebridge is a place where people use advanced
> tools, and things like mutimeters, digital signal generators, sewing
> machines, laptop computers, 3D printers.
> 
> >     Think of the space as a bus station.
> 
> Not just "no" ...  My response to this is "not while I breathe."
> 
> If we wanted to have NoiseBridge be like a bus station, we would have
> set it up in a park somewhere, or use places like community centers
> and have a 'virtual' hackerspace where we just bring our expertise to
> meetups
> 

Yeah, I'm not paying to have a bus station. I'm idealistic, but my
idealism is to make things *better* not to live with worse. 

I don't think we're going to solve this on the mailing list. We need a
small group of people to plot, and work on this. We've had a disctinct
lack of plotting and working on these problems recently (apart from
Jake). I don't think people actually realise that they're supposed to do
that. It's how Noisebridge exists, and continues to exist.

d.


> The thing is, we're not a bus station.  We're a workshop, a
> collaborative classroom space, and we want to have a safe, secure, and
> friendly environment where people can work on projects, hack on
> things, and learn.
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