It's nice to know that SudoRoom (www.sudoroom.org) in Oakland, our sister hackerspace, has instituted lockers. we could ask them for any learnings, fails, etc.

Hey SudoRoom -

how have your lockers been going? Anything that works or doesn't work for you?


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Romy Ilano <romy@snowyla.com> wrote:
Cool I've added Locker Protocol and Locker FAQ to the Locker page

https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Lockers#Relevant_Pages

Just want to get everything in one place


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart@gmail.com> wrote:
I've filled out a Locker FAQ to address some questions that were brought up about them last night. https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Locker_FAQ


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Al Sweigart <asweigart@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm going to put forward a proposal for Noisebridge to spend up to a $1000 to buy metal lockers for the space.

NB's budget should be carefully tended, but that's why I think we should make this purchase: This is something that will generate revenue for Noisebridge.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Romy Ilano <romy@snowyla.com> wrote:
There's a wiki for this by the way, if anyone interested in lockers is interested in adding. 

https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Lockers

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From: Romy Snowyla <romy@snowyla.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:56 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Charging for Lockers
To: Romy Ilano <romy@snowyla.com>




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From: Al Sweigart <asweigart@gmail.com>
Date: December 1, 2013 at 1:32:29 PM PST
To: noisebridge-discuss <noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net>
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Charging for Lockers

I'll bring this up at the next meeting. I propose Noisebridge uses its funds to buy lockers for members to store their projects and valuables in.

Theft and things being moved around and lost has been a large problem at Noisebridge for years. It would be nice if members had a place to store their belongings in a secure manner at the space, and this would encourage people to work on long-term projects instead of having to constantly haul them from home to the space to avoid getting them stolen.

I've been looking on Craigslist. I've seen one ad (and this is about the general price) that had a bank of 3x2 school-sized lockers for $250 each. If we charge $15 a month for locker storage, we can recoup the cost for Noisebridge within six months, and at that point the lockers start MAKING money for Noisebridge.

They are also sized so that two or more people could share them if they want to split the costs and trust each other.

I can come up with more protocols for the lockers (process if people don't pay, who gets priority for lockers, where to put them, what can and can't be stored in lockers (such as food/smelly stuff), etc.)

I'd propose that Noisebridge spend up to a thousand dollars for new lockers. We have the funds now, so we are in a much better position to make an expenditure like this.

-Al


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