[Noisebridge-discuss] Fw: Re: Fundraiser is really moving along!

[Mitch Altman]

Thanks!  I moved it to the bottom of the main page, to encourage more people to sign up to help.

Mitch.

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> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:18:20 -0700 
> From: morganw8-nb at yahoo.com 
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net 
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fw: Re: Fundraiser is really moving along! 
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry, it is on the page: 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Talk:Art 
> 
> If there is a better place for this, please move it... 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 3/21/13, Morgan. <morganw8-nb at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser is really moving along! 
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net 
> Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 9:16 AM 
> 
> 
> I thought it might be useful to respond to James' call for volunteers 
> who can commit to 3pm or 10pm with a sign-up sheet on the wiki. 
> 
> So, using do-ocratic principles, I set one up on 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art 
> 
> I hope you find this useful. 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 3/19/13, James Sundquist <sundquistjames at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser is really moving along! 
> To: "Noisebridge Discuss" <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net> 
> Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 4:59 PM 
> 
> Current state of the March 30th Fundraiser now includes a tentative 
> events schedule that is pretty solid. 
> 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art 
> 
> What we still need: 
> 
> More tables of people demonstrating cool hacks, etc! Please simply 
> notify everyone of your table being added to the Hackitorium via 
> nb-discuss. 
> Volunteers who can pre-commit for helping with 3pm Setup and/or 10pm Teardown 
> People who want to give quick talks between performances on anything 
> Food Prep 
> - Perhaps someone can help get ahold of Vegan Hackers 
> Tell your friends using word of mouth advertising! 
> Find Mike Kahn 
> - We could use his sheets to cover the member shelves 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote: 
> So it looks like I'm not going to be able to get back from Toronto in 
> time for the meeting tonight, where we'll be consensing on the new 
> officers; I mentioned last week my Secret Agenda if I'm consensed for 
> treasurer: 
> 
> 1) Laziness -- I'm going to try and get as many people to help me work 
> on the accounts as possible. I don't think the treasury job is really 
> doable by one person, and so I'd like to commandeer help. I know we've 
> had at least three people offer to be treasurer and work on the 
> accounts, but for various reasons they've not felt confident or prepared 
> to do it on their own. I feel the same way, but I am confident that 
> together we can do it. 
> 
> 2) Impatience -- Kelly is an *awesome* treasurer, and has done a lot to 
> improve our accounts and our systems. But she's also in Boston, and 
> working hard on a Ph.D., and has to fit her treasurering between all 
> that. I think we need to start getting more pro-active about 
> understanding our finances (and being transparent and public about them) 
> very quickly, because we're currently burning through money faster* than 
> previously, and I think that means (again) more people working on the 
> problem. 
> 
> 
> 3) Hubris -- I got asked by a few people (including a journalist) about 
> the tweet from the last week's meeting that we Noisebridge would be bust 
> by August. This is technically true, because right now our average 
> income is about $2K more than our average outgoings. But I believe 
> that's not quite as horrifying as it sounds, because we traditionally 
> don't cover our costs by our regular predicted income, and instead we 
> top up our finances with the occasional high-value donation or 
> fundraising run. Again, more info is useful! 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the world isn't going to end, and that Noisebridge 
> is loved enough by the hundreds of people who use it every month that we 
> can not only get back to our $15K-$18K reserve (we're at $11K right 
> now), but actually stabilise things so we don't have to panic about 
> money every 18 months or so. We just need to be able to sort out the 
> easiest ways of having people pay, and more opportunities for people to 
> remember to donate. Kelly (and also Tom) have done an amazing job fixing 
> one of our perennial problems, which is reconnecting with current 
> members when they forget (or Paypal cancels) their donations. I just 
> think we have to give more chances for others to give us their beautiful 
> shiny dollars, pennies and shiny shiny bitcoins. 
> 
> Anyway, that's the theory. I think a lot of this can be done by me and 
> others even without being treasurer, but it'd be useful to have access 
> to all the stats. 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> 
> d. 
> 
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