<div dir="ltr">What are some ways to keep the doors wide open like they do/did while preventing that from happening?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:50 PM, matt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" target="_blank">matt@nycresistor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>well their hackerspace is in a high heroin use neighborhood... then there was occupy aka homeless people pretending to have an agenda so they could sleep somewhere warm. the result was most of the cities homeless figuring out that noisebridge was a warm place to sleep... and had a kitchen... and plenty of stuff to steal to sell for more heroin.<br>
<br></div>you might say... they became a heroinspace.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Crawford Comeaux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crawford.comeaux@gmail.com" target="_blank">crawford.comeaux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What led to that being the case?</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Colin Keigher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:general@keyboardcowboy.ca" target="_blank">general@keyboardcowboy.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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It has become a homeless shelter with arduinos so to speak.<div><div><br>
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<div dir="ltr">What's the issue with Noisebridge? What's
fundamentally different about it now than from what it used to
be?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Rubin
Abdi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In my
humble opinion, a failed hackerspace is one that hasn't been
able<br>
to provide a space or community to share knowledge between
people (or<br>
for people to simply learn new things). If a physical space
lasted for a<br>
week but 1 person was able to learn something new and
interesting out of<br>
it, that space would be considered a success in my eyes.<br>
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There is no rule that says a space must continue to always
exist.<br>
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However there is the notion of personal failure in putting
time and<br>
energy into creating a space, only to see it burn to the
ground shortly<br>
there after.<br>
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I would not consider Noisebridge a failure. It had some
golden years<br>
doing what many of us saw was act like a very robust an
anarchistic<br>
hacker space. It's however evolved and changed, is something
else now.<br>
Some would say it's not a hacker space, other say it is. The
one thing<br>
we can all agree on however is that people still use the
space for<br>
knowledge share and learning.<br>
<br>
The majority of founding members since have moved on or
away.<br>
Noisebridge now is a self-sustaining hacker space organism,
a very<br>
complicated one, particularly the sort that has predictable
cycles if<br>
you know what to look for.<br>
<br>
Noisebridge is not an outlier or an exception to any rules,
it simply<br>
happened to be the one where a bunch of loud internet people
gravitated<br>
towards.<br>
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Rubin<br>
<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a><br>
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