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<h2>Overview</h2>
Lockers are a limited 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 one of them without using it.


<p>An attempt is being made to re-organize the member shelves, hack shelves, and also possibly day-use shelves into an organized set of lockers.</p>
'''HOW TO LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE'''


<p>As the plan exists now:</p>
#Subscribe to [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/lockers lockers@lists.noisebridge.net]
<ul>
#Put a lock on an empty locker
<li>Member shelves and day-use shelves would be consolidated into a set of lockers with doors on them.</li>
#Put a note/tag/sticker/whatever on the locker
<li>Lockers could be closed, so nobody else can see your stuff (out of sight, out of mind).</li>
#Join and pay attention to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
<li>Lockers would be bring-your-own-lock, for added security.</li>
#Party. Hard.
<li>Lockers would also be numbered, for added anonymity because you don't need to write your name on it.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>


<h2>Our current shelves</h2>
'''HOW TO BE A GARBAGE COLLECTOR (THIS IS A LONG TERM COMMITMENT)'''
<p>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.</p>


<h2>Our best option for new shelves</h2>
#Put fresh "still in use verification" sheets on each locker. The sheets should have blank name/date fields and a deadline to sign and date it by.
<p>To be continued...</p>
#Announce the upcoming garbage collection pass to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
#Wait a reasonable period of time. For example, one month is pretty darn reasonable. Two weeks seems ok if you are extra careful to hunt people down on the mailing list and proxy sign their sheet. Some locker users might be out of town and need the extra time.
#Cut off the locks from all the lockers that have blank "still in use verification" sheets and have not been claimed in response to the announcement.
#Put the contents in an egg crate on the project shelves labeled with the Locker #
 
 
'''HOW TO NOT LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE'''
 
#Go on vacation and leave it full of food
#Cut a lock off a locker that isn’t yet stale
#Get mad when your lock is cut off if you aren't even on the mailing list

Revision as of 00:31, 9 July 2016

Lockers are a limited 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 one of them without using it.

HOW TO LOCKER AT NOISEBRIDGE

  1. Subscribe to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
  2. Put a lock on an empty locker
  3. Put a note/tag/sticker/whatever on the locker
  4. Join and pay attention to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
  5. Party. Hard.

HOW TO BE A GARBAGE COLLECTOR (THIS IS A LONG TERM COMMITMENT)

  1. Put fresh "still in use verification" sheets on each locker. The sheets should have blank name/date fields and a deadline to sign and date it by.
  2. Announce the upcoming garbage collection pass to lockers@lists.noisebridge.net
  3. Wait a reasonable period of time. For example, one month is pretty darn reasonable. Two weeks seems ok if you are extra careful to hunt people down on the mailing list and proxy sign their sheet. Some locker users might be out of town and need the extra time.
  4. Cut off the locks from all the lockers that have blank "still in use verification" sheets and have not been claimed in response to the announcement.
  5. Put the contents in an egg crate on the project shelves labeled with the Locker #


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 if you aren't even on the mailing list