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GETTHEMONEY.md

Howdy Hackers.

Lets have a heart-to-heart.

I love Noisebridge.

I really do love Noisebridge.

To say that my motivations for moving 3,000 miles from Akron, Ohio to put down roots on the west coast did not include Noisebridge would be a lie.

I really fuckin' love Noisebridge and I know you all do too. Thats why you're getting this mail, yeah?

Good. Lets begin.

NOISEBRIDGE REALLY DOES NEED A BUNCH OF MONEY!

"But wait, hold on. Didn't we just raise $27,277 in that Reboot IndieGoGo?"

Correct. And we spent it all, and a little bit beyond that. Here's a rough breakdown:

  • $1,347 in stickers for IndieGoGo and restocking
  • $4,800 for new t-shirts and hoodies
  • $23,000 in electrical work
  • $2,500 for paint, drywall, safety supplies, tools

Even including that, hundreds of others contributed countless hours, dollars, and energy to our big Reboot.

Though more impressively is what all we got done: (in no particular order)

  • Refinished every square inch of the floors, scrubbing on our knees! UPHILL BOTH WAYS WITH THE CURVED FLOOR!!!
  • Painted walls, added a bunch of amazing new artwork by local artists
  • Ran 2,000+ ft of CAT5 and... and we even terminated and tested it!
  • Downsized the kitchen, making it into a coffee-shop style space with neat Chromebox terminals for general use.
  • Beautified the shop. It's amazing. Really you should drop by and marvel in the glow of the Applejack colored walls.
  • Disposed of over 5 tons of eWaste
  • Kitted out every class space w/ AV setups with projectors with every video connection known to mankind and mounted speakers.
  • Fixed the 3D printer!!
  • We removed a ton of hidey-holes in the space. Coincidentally and totally unrelated to that we seem to have misplaced our resident "sleep hacking" population.
  • Had some good heart to hearts about the community and how important Noisebridge being a Safe Space is for us.

##FIXME

If you're not already a subscriber, you should totally go to PayPal and sign up for a monthly donation of $10 to treasurer@noisebridge.net. Paypal is awful but here's a super short link so you don't even need to type anything:

http://goo.gl/pKEdII

OH MY GOSH YES THE MONEY THAT KEEPS THIS PLACE ALIVE LET THE SPICE FLOW

Er, sorry, what? PayPal not your thing? Thats okay. Stick it to The Man, rah rah rah, etc. We've got a Dwolla account too:

https://www.dwolla.com/hub/noisebridge

YOU SHOULD TOTALLY HIT THAT LINK AND GIVE YOUR FAVORITE HACKERSPACE A LIFELINE

I know what you're thinking. I see that look in your eyes. "Dwolla, huh? Well, okay, but your kink isn't my kink." Thats alright. Noisebridge is a pretty accepting place. Here's Gratipay:

https://gratipay.com/noisebridge/

CHEAPER THAN A MUNI RIDE, JUST $2 A WEEK IS ALL WE WANT

Still here, hmm. Okay. By this point you're probably already giving money to Noisebridge. Unless of course, you're a cryptoanarchist such as myself. If thats the case, welcome to the flock. Here's Noisebridge's bitcoin address:

1KxVgNmPdTyePLw27iixbH9yrRhNH7UfdK

NO YOU CAN'T LEAVE YOUR BITCOIN MINER IN THE SERVER CLOSET WE TRIED THAT BEFORE

Still not convinced? Sure, fine. Okay.

With great regret and self loathing, I make the following commitment to Noisebridge: I will be alive and in corporeal form this Saturday at Noisebridge on 2169 Mission St in the city of San Francisco (blessed by the watchful eye of Emperor Joshua Norton himself), from 1pm until 3pm. There I will be equipped with a Square reader, e-mail client, IRC, and intimate (horrifying) knowledge of the world's financial transaction systems. These resources will be used to provide for you AT ABSOLUTELY NO COST the absolute easiest way to throw your valuable fiat into Noisebridge's spaciously empty bank account.

Seriously. We need the money. Lets get the money in. There is nothing at all anywhere else on this densely overpopulated planet that comes anywhere close to even approximating Noisebridge. The classes. The workshops. The tools. The space. The community. The bizarro e-mails on discuss. The steampunk vibrators. The time we sent someone to China for a day. The visits from the FBI who want to know about Noisetor. The people who show up on a Tuesday just to BLOW YOUR MIND with the DIY biohacking desktop gene splicer that infuses your corn with genetics to cause it to produce LSD.

Okay, sure, there never was a DIY biohacking desktop gene splicer at Noisebridge.

But unless Noisebridge starts seeing some more money come in, you never will. Nobody ever will. Noisebridge will shut down and stop being A Hacker Space. The most well-known space for hackers all around the planet will cease to be A Thing at A Real Place that you can Visit.

The thought of that makes for a Sad Torrie and nobody should want to see a Sad Torrie :(

Throwing money at Noisebridge makes for a happy Noisebridge. A happy Noisebridge is a happy Torrie.

(you should throw some money at us plz <3 <3 <3!)

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NB_REBOOT_UPDATE
"But wait, hold on. Didn't we just raise $27,277 in that Reboot IndieGoGo?"
Correct. And we spent it all, and a little bit beyond that. Here's a rough breakdown:
* $1,347 in stickers for IndieGoGo and restocking
* $4,800 for new t-shirts and hoodies
* $23,000 in electrical work
* $2,500 for paint, drywall, safety supplies, tools
Even including that, hundreds of others contributed countless hours, dollars, and energy to our big Reboot.
Though more impressively is what all we got done: (in no particular order)
* Refinished every square inch of the floors, scrubbing on our knees! UPHILL BOTH WAYS WITH THE CURVED FLOOR!!!
* Painted walls, added a bunch of amazing new artwork by local artists
* Ran 2,000+ ft of CAT5 and... and we even terminated and tested it!
* Downsized the kitchen, making it into a coffee-shop style space with neat Chromebox terminals for general use.
* Beautified the shop. It's amazing. Really you should drop by and marvel in the glow of the Applejack colored walls.
* Disposed of over **5 tons** of eWaste
* Kitted out every class space w/ AV setups with projectors with every video connection known to mankind and mounted speakers.
* Fixed the 3D printer!!
* We removed a ton of hidey-holes in the space. Coincidentally and *totally unrelated* to that we seem to have misplaced our resident "sleep hacking" population.
* Had some good heart to hearts about the community and how important Noisebridge being a Safe Space is for us.
The reboot was not just physical, it has sparked a fucking awesome wave of cultural growth. We’ve rethought our physical and cultural firewall rules, and the space is safe, wonderful place to be, filled with lots of amazing hackers of all sorts.
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