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= Present =
Lockers are a shared resource at Noisebridge. In this post-scarcity economy, we’ve only got a finite number of ‘em. Please be excellent to your fellow hackers by making sure that you’re not holding an exclusive lock on any of these valuable resources!


We are starting up talk of Lockers again (December 2013)
'''HOW TO LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE'''


''Theft and things being moved around and lost has been a large problem at Noisebridge for years. It would be nice if members had a place to store their belongings in a secure manner at the space, and this would encourage people to work on long-term projects instead of having to constantly haul them from home to the space to avoid getting them stolen.''
Subscribe to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
#Put a lock on a locker
#Put a note/tag/sticker/whatever on the locker and keep it up to date with a last-modified date
#Pay attention to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
#Party. Hard.


The Garbage Collector periodically sweeps over the lockers to find any without external references. If no references are found, the contents will be free’d and returned to the heap, aka hack shelves.


==Current shelves==
'''HOW TO BE A GARBAGE COLLECTOR'''


Our current shelves are 13" deep x 12" tall. An entire shelf is 48" wide. An entire set of shelves is about 7'2" tall.
#Announce the upcoming garbage collection pass to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
#Wait a reasonable period of time, some locker users might be out of town and need the extra time.
#Cut off the locks from all the lockers that have last-modified dates older than one month and have not been claimed in response to the announcement.
#Put the contents in the hack shelves/e-waste bins/biowaste area/whatever.


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'''HOW TO NOT LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE'''


== Distant Past ==
#Go on vacation and leave it full of food
 
#Cut a lock off a locker that isn’t yet stale
[http://www.yelp.com/c/sf/selfstorage There are numerous secure self-storage facilities in the city of San Francisco]. Noisebridge is not one of them.
#Get mad when your lock is cut off after a month of inactivity
 
In the distant past and again in February 2011, there was discussion of re-organizing the member shelves, hack shelves, and also possibly day-use shelves into an organized set of lockers. The result of these discussions has been that we do not have lockers.
 
If you're interested in understanding the reasons why, you should read [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-February/thread.html#21036 these] [https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2011-February/thread.html#21081 two] threads from February.
 
The plan, as it was proposed in February 2011:
* '''Both''' member shelves and day-use shelves would be consolidated with lockers.
* Some '''(not all)''' shelves would be re-purposed for use as additional hack shelves or shelves for larger projects.
* Lockers could '''optionally''' be closed, so nobody else can see your stuff (out of sight, out of mind).
* Lockers would use '''optional''' bring-your-own-lock security.
* Lockers would also be numbered, un-labeled, and anonymous.
* Hack shelves would remain as separate shelves, publicly accessible to everybody.  Keeping hack shelves separate from the lockers will hopefully result in people feeling more confident in using stuff on the hack shelves.
 
==Some People Don't Like The Idea Of Locking Things At Noisebridge==
 
If you think a locker at Noisebridge would be useful, you are invited to attend a meeting of [[Locks!|the lockpicking group]]. They meet infrequently, usually on Sundays, but if you're interested someone would probably be glad to teach you about locks some other time too.

Revision as of 22:29, 25 January 2016

Lockers are a shared resource at Noisebridge. In this post-scarcity economy, we’ve only got a finite number of ‘em. Please be excellent to your fellow hackers by making sure that you’re not holding an exclusive lock on any of these valuable resources!

HOW TO LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE

Subscribe to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net

  1. Put a lock on a locker
  2. Put a note/tag/sticker/whatever on the locker and keep it up to date with a last-modified date
  3. Pay attention to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
  4. Party. Hard.

The Garbage Collector periodically sweeps over the lockers to find any without external references. If no references are found, the contents will be free’d and returned to the heap, aka hack shelves.

HOW TO BE A GARBAGE COLLECTOR

  1. Announce the upcoming garbage collection pass to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
  2. Wait a reasonable period of time, some locker users might be out of town and need the extra time.
  3. Cut off the locks from all the lockers that have last-modified dates older than one month and have not been claimed in response to the announcement.
  4. Put the contents in the hack shelves/e-waste bins/biowaste area/whatever.

HOW TO NOT LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE

  1. Go on vacation and leave it full of food
  2. Cut a lock off a locker that isn’t yet stale
  3. Get mad when your lock is cut off after a month of inactivity