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

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

Is there a picture of this Pidgeon person somewhere? No idea who they is.

Patrik

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> 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
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