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== Glorified Starbucks ==
== Glorified Starbucks ==
January 17, 2014
Actual Starbucks.  The gate was locked, and keycode did not work. 


January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014

Revision as of 07:44, 17 January 2014

The fort has failed or is it creating fort 2.0 =

Joseph is now wearing the hard hat cap like J.C. and is creating his fort at the windows at the back of the space.

was at NB for some of NYE. The official meeting was very short. The IRC link was tried, and it seemed to work better than I'd have thought, showing it is good to keep an open mind and try things out.

Im not feeling good with the "Fort" that J.C. is building at the front of the NB. Several reasons, but I could "keep an open mind" for a week. I didn't like that

  • he didn't talk to people ahead of time,
  • he used a legitimate reason for a temp changes, "chaos 30c3" and then slid in behind it a perm.
  • that if a reason for his project exists, I don't understand any reason why it has to be in "primo" real estate
  • It looks exclusionary, and as if privatizing space.
  • The philosophy sounds elitist, " we are the elite, I'm captain kirk on the bridge of the enterprise.
  • I use the space in the morning, and when there are too much sleeper, and night time people who leave there stuff out, NB becomes uninviting in the am

Community Food =

I made a big Turkey, and brought carnitas and tacos, celenatro and onion and during the opening of 303C did a big community food event. Made written invitations, and asked the people to eat from the Library back. I got a big help from Karrim. He added potatoes and a vegetarian option. The vege option was more necessary than I'd have predicted.

The picture on the wiki of the invitation to Turkey meal I cooked does not endorse the privatization of community resources.

After becoming a member.

December 18 At the space little before 7 am. At least two people sleeping here. Lots of dirty dishes, one group of dishes appear to be left by XXX and friends. The space is not inviting this morning. May go to a traditional coffee.

December 16 I briefly stopped in the space, with the intention of seeing the possibility of a food hacking session, e.g. make community through food, and holiday cheer, and seeing what was happening in the new "help desk" hour. Had problems with the kitchen area. I could not get either of the stoves to turn on, and I did not understand the process of an induction stovetop. The stovetop does seem to be working, but I couldn't get the oven to. - I wanted to use the Tuesday meeting as a platform to announce and recruit. Worried that a "window of opportunity may pass."

December 15

There are too many mice in the space. Something should be done, but I wonder if the solutions are "do-arcracy" or are more the type of things that should have a buy-in from the community, and thus be addressed with consensus.



December 9

Yes. Got my code to open the door. Thank you. I feel more like a "member."


I should keep notes.

So on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 I tried to get someone to help or tell me how to get an access code, now that I am for sure a member.

To groups and to individuals, I asked about 10 people. The was a general professions of: don't know how, we are too busy. write a note to the discussion list.

Sleeper Thoughts

January 15, 2014

Arrived early. Three people openly sleeping: two on the coaches at the entrance, one in the library. All recognizable as members or regulars. UPDATE - a second consensus member sleeping here. so that makes 4


I'm making my coffee, and looking at System Administration Class, examples.


December 28, 2013

Couple weeks of summarized observations. I've come in early to the space about 4 times and I've seen some more people sleeping here. I haven't woken any of them up. I'm not comfortable with dealing with the expected confrontation, especially when I believe the person is sleeping off a drug or alcohol binge and rather won't listen.

I don't want to get judgmental, and I'm also thinking that sometimes a ban is too harsh for the event. More like, if someone has slept there, they shouldn't be in the overnight hours for about 3 months.

Also, dealing with this at Tuesday meetings takes too long. For two recent sleepers 40 minutes one week 20 minutes another => 1 hour times ~ 20 people at the meeting =. 20 person hour * some value.

December 13, 2013 Was at NB at about 8:20. Don't think there were any sleepers.

December 12, 2013 Was at NB early, "7:30 am" partly with intention to take inventory if there were sleepers. I did not see any. And was surprised in a good way how much "good activity" was happening early in the morning. Also, normal, around the water cooler talk among strong players.

Some rather random notes:

Saturday, I was in the space early, well 11:00 am on a Saturday, for the cleanup event.

At the time, there were two people asleep in the Church Classroom, One guy who probably had just wokenup.

My thoughts are still evolving about what is the best way to deal with people using Noisebridge as a shelter.

It does have a cost for inconveniencing other people using the space

Observe first. I want to get my ideas together, before doing something the "wrong" way

Disinclined to call this a police emergency. Its been happening a long time, so it is not an "emergency" And people sleeping is not an "emergency" but maybe it is a non-emergency police matter. Or maybe not even. .... And should be dealt with by access controls and Tuesday meetings. Ponder, ponder, talk about this.

I didn't want to be the one to confront the sleepers.

Glorified Starbucks

January 17, 2014 Actual Starbucks. The gate was locked, and keycode did not work.

January 16, 2014 Nice. Very nice. In by 6. am One very polite guy using multimeters and soldering. All the dishes have been done. No one is openly sleeping here. Very nice. I think the same coffee taste better than normal.

January 14, 2014 I was in the space before 6 am this morning. I made a smaller pot of coffee, and ended up drinking it myself. Today, I liked it the noisebridge space at the early hour. I put on some Mozart, softly. I worked on a course that I'm looking at with the beginning of a new semester at CCSF. - enuf on that for now.

Again the Kitchen is a mess, with the sink filled with plates, cutting boards with messes on them. General disorder.


January 13, 2014 Late for Coding Class Starbucks. Got here about 8:10 am. But the environment is not work friendly. The music is wrong, with wrong words, and it more feels like its driven by someone up all night, than music for people waking up. Also the Coffee maker area is a mess, and the kitchen is a mess. I made a pot of coffee and offered some. I didn't cleanup the other people's mess.

I'm studying by video watching CS50. the Harvard extension programming class. But. as is for I would not attach my name to hosting a morning study meetup at noisebridge, even that there are 15 people looking for a meetup space on meetup.com


January 11, 2014 I came in about 7:45 on Saturday with the plan to make a pot of coffee. But disappointed. Yesterday there were like +10 coffee filters left. Today there were zero. What happened? I like to start my morning with coffee.




January 10, 2014 I'm feeling the space would be better if there was more activity in the morning. I've been making a pot of coffee, well twice now. I was thinking about doing some morning cousera coding glorified coffee starbucks haha. What it would be is making a pot(s) of coffee between say 7:15 and 8:45, and putting coursera coding classes on a the collaborationstation in Turing, and a clean table between the kitchen and Turing. One room with a scheduled video coding classes, and an outside area for either small group, or just coding. What do you think? Would you go? Would you cooperate, and take the lead role on certain days? I'm just thinking, but not committed yet."

Gate Buzzer not working this morning.

This morning the gate buzzer was not working, and I couldn't get into the space.

After entering my key code the blue light came on, but the mechanism to unlock the gate did not happen,.

I could not get in.