[Noisebridge-discuss] existential threats to Noisebridge -- please read

[Noisebridge Truth]

It's amazing how many people have ignored this e-mail and yet have
responded to other threads discussing Adam Swartz, Coursera, the door to
gate telecom system, and tech mentoring--three of the four all relate to
"free things" too.

So Jake, Michael, Johny, Tony, Nicholas, James, and Garrett, have you
decided to put up more money to help keep this place afloat or are you
going to continue to willingly ignore this e-mail and let the space wither
and die? How about you "anonymous" reader who has yet to pipe up?

Poor Danny and Liz put his out there and only one person has yet to
respond--beyond pathetic.

Then again, it should be no surprise that this was ignored seeing that
people are willing to take away from the space before contribute back:
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-January/034191.html

When will Noisebridge no longer be the joke amongst other hackerspaces as
the place for arduinos and homeless people?

- Noisebridge Truth

On 23/01/2013 11:29 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:> TLDR: we need your money,
your vigilance, and your love
>
> In a meeting a few months ago, we Noisebridgians brainstormed a little
> on the risks we faced as a group. On one point we agreed: Noisebridge
> was engineered so that if it disappeared tomorrow for some reason, the
> documentation and the drive of its members would be sufficient to build
> something to replace it. But we also agreed that Noisebridge should die
> from something spectacular: the Bussard polywell fusion reactor we made
> of oyster mushrooms overloading, say, or the first stage retro boosters
> applied to the foundations failing from poorly 3D-printed O rings.
> Noisebridge should always go out with a (metaphorical) bang, not a real
> world whimper.
>
> Unfortunately we now have a few extremely boring threats to our
> existence. Whatever we think of drama or hacking or each other, I think
> we can safely say we are all opposed to boredom. If you care about
> Noisebridge, or you just enjoy having our dramatic ways in your inboxes,
> you can stop these threats and save Noisebridge.
>
> 1) Right now, we're short $3000 of our tradition three month breathing
> room of $15,000. As ever, this has a bunch of factors. Drive-by
> donations drop in the winter, because Noisebridge is coooold. Old hands
> have moved on, and new ones don't realise how much Noisebridge depends
> on their financial as well as practical support. Our rent went up in
> November, and we just paid our $2K annual insurance premium. The economy
> continues to suck.
>
> Whatver the reason, we're not taking in enough right now, and that
> cannot last for long. As it is, Noisebridge might not survive the
> summer, unless you give some tax-deductible money. In particular, if you
> use Noisebridge more than a few times a year, please set up a monthly
> subscription of $160, $80, $40 or even $10. If you already pay, please
> consider upping your donation (I just have). If you hate Paypal,
> consider a far cooler bitcoin donation, or a bank order, or cash -- we
> can give you the details. The more monthly donations we get, the less we
> have to worry about seasonal donation instability in the charitytron
> matrix.
>
> You can donate to Noisebridge here:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate_or_Pay_Dues
>
> We accept Bitcoin at: 1B5sJQ6Wu6AmK9xG5YTic4Nszw4PS7UMAM
>
> 2) We got contacted by our landlord early at the New Year. Because of
> our opening hours (which are infinite) and our open door policy (which
> is always, and the actual gate was broken over Christmas), homeless folk
> have been coming in and sleeping in the stairwell and possibly elsewhere
> in the building. Our landlord likes us, but he's worried about the
> safety and happiness of 2169's other tenants. We have to listen to our
> landlord. We're going to have to, all of us, start making sure people
> don't use Noisebridge as somewhere to sleep from the cold of San
> Francisco. We're not going to make giant moats or spiked fences (well,
> actually, we might, but that's a different project.) But we are all of
> us, going to make sure we know who is coming into Noisebridge with us,
> and be firm at asking those who are sleeping at Noisebridge to leave.
> Remember, you can *always* ask someone to leave and come back to
> Noisebridge's Tuesday meeting if you feel they are being unexcellent.
> You should always be responsible for those who you let into the space.
>
> 3) Finally, our biggest existential threat: the health of us all. As
> many of us know, a close friend of Noisebridge's community, Aaron
> Swartz, took his life two weeks ago. You're invited to a shared memorial
> between Noisebridge and many others who miss him Thursday night, at the
> Internet Archive.
>
> http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/15/memorial-for-aaron-swartz/
>
> We have had a moment's silence for Ilya Zhitomirskiy, who hacked on
> Diaspora at Noisebridge. Before that we had a memorial, too, for Len
> Sassaman, another brilliant companion.
>
> One of our community's values is honesty, brutal honesty. That's why I'm
> not telling you everything is fine. But sometimes what we think is a
> healthy honesty hides our real vulnerability, or it is misused to
> inspire vulnerability in others.
>
> Mitch was one of the first to use hackerspaces to set up meetings to
> talk about depression among hackers. Noisebridge isn't just about
> Arduinos and giant fricking lasers. We come here to support each other,
> especially in our darkest times, and we work to support the wider hacker
> community.
>
> Please take care of each other. If we die, it will not be by our own
> hands, nor by those who might misunderstand us, but by giant robot
> hands, hugging their fleshy creators just a biiit too hard for our puny
> human tolerances. And we'll build it together, not alone.
>
> There will be a hackathon to continue Aaron's goals at Noisebridge on
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon
>
> Be excellent to each other,
> d.
>
> p.p. Consenso
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