[hackerspaces] In defense of Noisebridge (even if I was never there!)

[Torrie Fischer]

On Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:25:40 Naomi Most wrote:
> "I really would like to see Noisebridge succeed. It just isn’t clear
> to me how it gets out of the current hole without a big reset button,
> especially since a lot of the people that I did admire there have
> left."
> 
> Over the past week the space has been progressively emptied (on
> purpose, not by hostile liquidators this time).  "Reset" is exactly
> what is happening now, and a lot of the people you probably admired
> then are now back helping out.

<plug>

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/noisebridge-reboot-2014

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> 
> --Naomi
> 
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:
> > To be clear, since I’m an infamous “Noisebridge basher,” I think
> > Noisebridge is a great idealistic experiment. When it was founded, folks
> > had no way of knowing how it would develop or the issues it would run
> > into. My main issues are that I have a low personal tolerance for crazy
> > so I never wanted to hang out there after the initial stages and I felt
> > the community there should have gotten on top of things years ago. But
> > I’m not part of that community so, in that sense, it isn’t my business to
> > tell them what to do. I voted with my feet (because Noisebridge is an
> > hour or so away) and did something else.
> > 
> > I really would like to see Noisebridge succeed. It just isn’t clear to me
> > how it gets out of the current hole without a big reset button,
> > especially since a lot of the people that I did admire there have left.> 
> > On Jul 3, 2014, at 3:17 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw.cz> wrote:
> >>  I feel kind of sorry about all the Noisebridge bashing.  And that's
> >> 
> >> because I consider Noisebridge (at least in one of its past forms) to be
> >> a great model for a hackerspace.
> > 
> > Al Billings
> > albill at openbuddha.com
> > http://makehacklearn.org
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