[sudo-discuss] pidgeon (human) trying to squat sudoroom / the omni

last night (sunday) as the last of us were getting ready to leave after a long day of BACH, i noticed that Pidgeon was sitting alone in CCL with headphones in and using a laptop. [pidgeon prefers the pronoun "they" but it is a single person] knowing that this person made trouble at noisebridge in the past, and assuming that they were trying to squat the omni, i went up and gave notice that "we are getting ready to leave and close up" and Pidgeon took the hint and started packing up their backpack... twenty minutes later pidgeon was still slowly gathering things together to get ready to leave.. it was annoyingly obvious that they were trying to delay leaving so that I would leave first and they could stay. tonight, Korl mentioned that Pidgeon was present but did not seem to be anyone's guest, and I agreed that they were here without anyone's sponsorship of any kind. A person with no member-sponsor present can be asked to leave for no reason, but before doing that I went to speak with others present about the situation. No one present claimed Pidgeon as their guest, or objected to asking them to leave. I mentioned this to marc and started posting the following to irc: https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2014-February/042… https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-October/0399… a minute later marc returned from a "sweep" of the building and found Pidgeon in a downstairs room with the door pulled shut, getting comfortable, lying on their belly listening to music. Marc asked if they were part of a collective, Pidgeon said they were not, and Marc said that we are not open to the public and asked them to leave. please be aware that people are already trying to squat the omni and it will only get more intense. I have no patience for this because I feel that the omni is more valuable to us as a community space, shared for all, rather than a big building to be turned into private quarters for the few who care little enough about their community to do something like that. Noisebridge regularly has problems with people sleeping on top of the elevator, above the loft areas, and in the basement of the building, and their building is not nearly as cavernous and expansive as ours. -jake