Noisebridge relocating

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/culture/article/After-11-years-on-Mission-Street-hackerspace-15108115.php

This is why we work so hard to stay on the good side of our city inspectors and our landlord.

Their issue was with code compliance and the cost of upgrades. We faced similar issues with our expansion, but we have been planning for it since we first chose to move to monetary lane, and we included it in the scope for the expansion team.

They have been dealing with the issue since 2017, so hopefully they have already got a location scoped.

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Yikes! [Noisebridge] space needs to suspend the use of any tools that wouldn’t be permitted inside a residence". Scary.

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Can’t see the story for the paywall, but a little searching brought me to this page…
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Space_Program

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Well then, clearly they have been preparing. Let’s hope for the sake of the hacker community in general that they survive the move.

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They have an interesting definition of ‘standard residence’, plenty of people have wood shops, laser cutters, soldering irons, and machine shops at home.

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Not in urban San Fran they don’t.

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Apparently so. Surprising to me, that’s all.

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It’s a function of exorbitant real-estate prices, especially in the city itself. No one can afford space for anything larger than a soldering iron.

And most people I know who have wood shops, etc. “at” home don’t have them actually inside of the part of their home where they reside.

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My “formal dining room”:

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14320×2432 3.12 MB
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34320×2432 3.08 MB

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So what does the informal one look like

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I’d suspect if I had a formal dining room, it might look like that or worse.

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Hmmmm…thinking Fred’s WoW. :astonished:

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If only could I do that to ours currently it houses a table and chairs that have been used twice in fourteen years.

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A lot like the table in front of my TV. :–)

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How much y’all wanna bet this is the SF city council bullying them out so a developer can make more money?

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Hackerman:

*no paywall

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Having actually been to Noisebridge, not a chance.

That place is a fire marshal’s nightmare. I’m shocked they’ve gotten away with as much as they have. They make us look like TI or Intel from a code compliance perspective.

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Seems like that’s a perpetual issue hackerspaces have, fire safety compliance.