Yes, we probably should start thinking about some of these things. I'm CC'ing sudo as well, since they may be able to help out with some of the technological solutions. A couple ideas I've mulled over in the past: - Tags for equipment that shouldn't leave the building, a scanner at the door that can detect them when they do, and a camera to record who's taking it through the door. Could be combined with Marc's inventory system, of course. (And could also be used to check out tools legitimately...) - Motion or IR controlled lights to discourage stowaways (would need to be sufficiently hard to disable). Plus maybe an overview panel (physical or online) showing where and when movement was last detected in the building, to assist people in closing up for the night. - Lights illuminating the new bike parking when it gets installed - Indoor bike parking with some form of access control (swipe card?) - Equip outside doors with an alarm that starts beeping when the door stays propped open for more than x minutes. - How much video surveillance are we as a community willing to tolerate? Is there an acceptable tradeoff between enhancing personal and property safety, and respecting privacy? A static and well-advertized camera trained at a piece of valuable infrastructure may be OK. A building-wide surveillance system that can track people from room to room with facial recognition presumably isn't OK. Can we agree on where that boundary lies? - Put up signs to remind people that they are being video taped from the apartment building across the intersection. That's a useful PSA for our own community anyway. Patrik On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Stan Osborne <stan(a)ana.com> wrote: