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Lockers are a shared resource at Noisebridge. In this post-scarcity economy, we’ve only got a finite number of ‘em. Please be excellent to your fellow hackers by making sure that you’re not holding an exclusive lock on any of these valuable resources!

HOW TO LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE

Subscribe to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net

Put a lock on a locker
Put a note/tag/sticker/whatever on the locker and keep it up to date with a last-modified date
Pay attention to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
Party. Hard.

The Garbage Collector periodically sweeps over the lockers to find any without external references. If no references are found, the contents will be free’d and returned to the heap, aka hack shelves.

HOW TO BE A GARBAGE COLLECTOR

Announce the upcoming garbage collection pass to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
Wait a reasonable period of time, some locker users might be out of town and need the extra time.
Cut off the locks from all the lockers that have last-modified dates older than one month and have not been claimed in response to the announcement.
Put the contents in the hack shelves/e-waste bins/biowaste area/whatever.

HOW TO NOT LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE

Go on vacation and leave it full of food
Cut a lock off a locker that isn’t yet stale
Get mad when your lock is cut off after a month of inactivity

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+Lockers are a shared resource at Noisebridge. In this post-scarcity economy, we’ve only got a finite number of ‘em. Please be excellent to your fellow hackers by making sure that you’re not holding an exclusive lock on any of these valuable resources!
-= Relevant Pages =
+'''HOW TO LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE'''
-Since we do not have a current Locker setup, please refer to
+Subscribe to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
+#Put a lock on a locker
+#Put a note/tag/sticker/whatever on the locker and keep it up to date with a last-modified date
+#Pay attention to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
+#Party. Hard.
-* [[Locker_FAQ]]
+The Garbage Collector periodically sweeps over the lockers to find any without external references. If no references are found, the contents will be free’d and returned to the heap, aka hack shelves.
-* [[Locker_Protocol]]
+'''HOW TO BE A GARBAGE COLLECTOR'''
-= Present =
+#Announce the upcoming garbage collection pass to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
+#Wait a reasonable period of time, some locker users might be out of town and need the extra time.
+#Cut off the locks from all the lockers that have last-modified dates older than one month and have not been claimed in response to the announcement.
+#Put the contents in the hack shelves/e-waste bins/biowaste area/whatever.
-We are starting up talk of Lockers again (December 2013). There was a past discussion but '''that was then and this is now'''
+'''HOW TO NOT LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE'''
+#Go on vacation and leave it full of food
-==Current shelves==
+#Cut a lock off a locker that isn’t yet stale
+#Get mad when your lock is cut off after a month of inactivity
-Our current shelves are 13" deep x 12" tall.  An entire shelf is 48" wide.  An entire set of shelves is about 7'2" tall.
-== Costs ==
-Costs can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. There is a lot of stuff on Craigslist that can be had for free
-__TOC__
-== Distant Past ==
-* '''Summary:'''  There was some kind of big discussion in 2011 about having lockers at Noisebridge. It appears that the group opinion went against having lockers. But that was then and this is now.
-[http://www.yelp.com/c/sf/selfstorage There are numerous secure self-storage facilities in the city of San Francisco]. Noisebridge is not one of them.
-In the distant past and again in February 2011, there was discussion of re-organizing the member shelves, hack shelves, and also possibly day-use shelves into an organized set of lockers. The result of these discussions has been that we do not have lockers.
-If you're interested in understanding the reasons why, you should read [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-February/thread.html#21036 these] [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-February/thread.html#21081 two] threads from February.
-The plan, as it was proposed in February 2011:
-* '''Both''' member shelves and day-use shelves would be consolidated with lockers.
-* Some '''(not all)''' shelves would be re-purposed for use as additional hack shelves or shelves for larger projects.
-* Lockers could '''optionally''' be closed, so nobody else can see your stuff (out of sight, out of mind).
-* Lockers would use '''optional''' bring-your-own-lock security.
-* Lockers would also be numbered, un-labeled, and anonymous.
-* Hack shelves would remain as separate shelves, publicly accessible to everybody.  Keeping hack shelves separate from the lockers will hopefully result in people feeling more confident in using stuff on the hack shelves.
-==Some People Don't Like The Idea Of Locking Things At Noisebridge==
-If you think a locker at Noisebridge would be useful, you are invited to attend a meeting of [[Locks!|the lockpicking group]]. They meet infrequently, usually on Sundays, but if you're interested someone would probably be glad to teach you about locks some other time too.
-A discussion  list member raised a worthwhile point.
-<blockquote>Seems like a fine experiment but I would treat it as an experiment
-rather than a solution.
-Lockers for people to store their stuff would be very valuable to many
-people in San Francisco, not necessarily for hacker/maker projects,
-but to keep their basic most important stuff in life from being stolen
-because they have nowhere secure to keep it. Do we want to be in that
-business?
-- liz
-</blockquote>
-(Hope I did the attribution for the idea correctly, please let me know / erase /if wrong.)

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