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

[Jake]

slightly tall, thin, male-bodied person with long wavy black hair all on 
one side of the head.  no facial hair.

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:

> 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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