[hackerspaces] Billboards for promoting hacker culture!

[Lokkju Brennr]

you guys seen http://epicstep.com/?  kickstarter for billboard campaigns.

Loki // BrainSilo.org

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for update. Finances are tricky thing for spaces. It is good to hear
> how others manage.
>
> Aloha
> Jerry Isdale
>
> On Aug 3, 2011 12:28 PM, "Danny O&apos;Brien" <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> According to the wiki page, the one bill board normally costs $30k/mo
>>>  but
>>> with connections the owner only charged $7500 for three.
>>> Thats pretty good deal.
>>> It is also good to see that Noisebridge was able to contribute $1000+
>>> itself
>>> (according to wiki).
>>> They have obviously recovered from last fall's "We are going to have to
>>> shut
>>> down in February" money hemorrhaging...
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-announce/2010-December/000271.html
>>> What was the turn around?
>>> corporate/angel donations? getting people to pay their share? Cost
>>> control?
>>> d) all of the above?
>>
>> NB was never hemorrhaging money -- the space has a fairly flat set of
>> costs, and (usually) a fairly constant set of income from member
>> donations and casual donations. Like anywhere else though, it was
>> worrying when those two lines met at a point where time > the_present
>> :)
>>
>> As for what of fixed it, lots of small things: Paypal had been
>> spontaneously cancelling subscriptions without either the treasurer or
>> the donor asking for or realising it, so simply plowing through those
>> and catching up on backlogs brought in a fair bit, and corrected the
>> future projected income upwards. Some non-members chose to switch from
>> occasional donations to regular donations, and the fund-raising gave
>> us a short-term spike too.
>>
>> Here's a profit & loss from Jan-May: http://nburl.net/pl_janmay11
>>
>> The pattern for things like the billboard and other one-time purchases
>> are that Noisebridgers chip in for that separate from the main funds.
>> Given the small amounts collected from a large number of NB users
>> it's not that a problem it's run separately from NB and therefore not
>> tax-deductible.
>>
>> Both noisebridge's laser-cutter and this billboard were funded that
>> way, outside of our core financing.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Jerry Isdale
>>> http://MauiMakers.com
>>> http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/
>>> On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Mitch Altman wrote:
>>>
>>> Oops, forgot the link to the full story, and larger images:
>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard
>>>
>>> Mitch.
>>>
>>>
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