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

[jim]

    I think my description and suggestions address 
some real problems. If we all want better, then 
we have to make things better and then, the hard 
part, maintain keeping things better. There've 
been efforts in the past that were abandoned. 
    I still think keeping some tools in lockboxes 
is practical. 
    At this point I believe that thinking of 
Noisebridge as similar to a bus station is a 
practical suggestion: people who do so will be 
prudent about their behavior and belongings. 

    Consider the idea of mandatory maintenance 
roles for members, something like a few members 
have to take on some role for one month, roles 
such as janitor manager or security manager or 
whatever else is needed. Maybe four roles to be 
filled by member in good standing. Do your month 
and you're off the hook until all other members 
have rotated through their months, then you're 
on the hook again, for some other role. 
    Treasurer is an example of a role that's in 
place, albeit for a year. 





On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 22:30 -0800, Danny O'Brien wrote:
> 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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