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

[Jake]

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/042456.html
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-October/039972.html

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