[Redshirts] Fwd: Noisebridge Redshirt Shift Report #1 - Thursday, 6/20/2013 20:00 - 24:00

[Shannon Lee]

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From: Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:34 AM
Subject: Noisebridge Redshirt Shift Report #1 - Thursday, 6/20/2013 20:00 -
24:00
To: Ryan Rawson <ryanobjc at gmail.com>, dara v <daravinne at gmail.com>,
alex at primerlabs.com, "J.C. Cooper" <r33lmm at gmail.com>, Andrew Byrne <
andrew at pachakutech.com>


Gosh, that subject line has a lot of Official in it.

Tonight I took my red T-Shirt to Noisebridge, and at 8pm I put it on; it
was 5 minutes of fame night (well done, by the way, JC!), and there was a
brief segment on the Noisebridge Rebase, so I gave a quick rundown of the
idea of Redshirts.

Leif had previously asked me to come up with a better way of describing the
Redshirt position than "Person In Charge," as he was uncomfortable with
that verbiage, although he liked the idea as I described it; so I described
the position as a sort of Noisebridge Docent, someone responsible for
telling you where the bathrooms are and not to touch the priceless works of
art...

Anyway, after 5mof ended I announced a tour, and walked a dude around,
showing off Noisebridge.  After that, I mostly hung out up near the door,
talking to people about the Redshirt idea (some of you are now on the
list!).  I made a point of being the one who buzzed people up, and met
people in the stairwell, smiled big, shook their hands and welcomed them to
Noisebridge.

Nobody showed up who obviously needed to be barred entry.  I think that, in
order to be denied entry to Noisebridge, you should have to have been
previously asked to leave and not allowed back, or be a member of law
enforcement (we should make a routine practice of denying entry to law
enforcement who do not have a warrant and who are not first-responders
responding to an emergency inside).

No problems arose inside which required mediation.

The Hacker to Hobo ratio seemed pretty high; the one dude whom I'd pegged
as a definite hobo was over bending circuits and making fucked up
electronic music a few minutes later, so maybe I'm not a good judge of
these things.

Remonstrated briefly with Johnny Radio about his buzzing people into the
space and not greeting them; this led to a lengthy but engaging discussion
of the nature of authority.

Midnight came, I took off my shirt and accepted a slug of Bulleit from JC,
and home I went.

--S

-- 
Shannon Lee
(503) 539-3700

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."



-- 
Shannon Lee
(503) 539-3700

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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