-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One question: was this endorsement given freely, or was it coerced? ;)
Seriously though, your endorsement means a lot to me, and the fact that you endorse it makes me feel a lot better about it. I've been arguing against it on the mailing list for the past week, but honestly I think it's getting to the point where it's do-able. Ron On 2012-11-06 01:48, Mark Jenkins wrote: > Well folks, it's US election day and also an important meeting day once > again. > > Both of which mean it's endorsement time. > > So, first of all (off topic), JillStein.org for president and a green > new deal y'all! > > Second, I endorse the Justin plan. (Skullspace 2.0 / 374 Donald) > > Attached are my latest numbers. (source links at bottom) > > I have some conservative assumptions about our electricity consumption > and membership growth (no growth projected). There's also the optimistic > assumption that all of these voluntary commitments to pay more per month > than the mandatory dues ($40) will continue to hold in the coming years. > > As for student membership, I'm willing to assume if it passes that it's > revenue neutral, some of our current members will pay less, but we'll > also pick up students as well. > (If anyone thinks the student rate is going to reduce our net revenue > than speak out against it) > > Bottom line is, the listed assets, start-up costs and projected cash > flows with static assumptions are telling me we'll make it somewhere > into year 3 before running out of money. > > Generally I haven't been one to endorse proposals for negative cash flow > and zero discretionary budget. But, now that keeping our current space > is off the table, my attitude has changed. > > A lot of commitments have come forward that makes this work into year 3. > That money speaks to me, it tells me there's some real excitement about > this, an internal energy we'd be remiss to turn down. > > It's time to take a risk and see if we can leverage a big space like > this into much a bigger membership. We'll be back in the black with a > $400 a month discretionary budget if we can experience *net* growth of > 16 members ($640/month). > > I fully agree with "The Infrastructure Pattern" from the bible: > http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Infrastructure_Pattern > """What should come ???rst? Infrastructure or projects? > > Make everything infrastructure-driven. Rooms, power, servers, > connectivity, and other facilities come ???rst. Once you have that, people > will come up with the most amazing projects you didn???t think about in > the ???rst place. > """ > > The Justin plan will help us get the low level infrastructure (walls and > power) out of the way quickly so we can move on to hacker grade > infrastructure. > > Personally, I could tolerate any dumpy place if it had a few low tables, > electricity, internet, 24/7 access, shelter from the elements, and heat > in the winter. > > But I'd also rather not suffer through another conversion of wide open > storage space into a hackerspace only to have the joy of our rent jacked > up 3-5 years later once the landlord sees we've sort-of converted it > into office grade space. > (and we're not going to be able to negotiate reimbursement for leasehold > improvements upfront by a landlord on some dumpy storage grade space) > > Even along those line, I also don't see who's going to be our new Mike > with a hat in terms of enthusiastic leadership for wall, workbench, and > shelve building. > > What we did at 125 Adelaide was beyond what I ever imagined was possible > -- we used a large, crappy, cheap space to bootstrap a considerably > large membership. > > It's time to take a chance and deliver a great space to that membership > so we don't kill off that level of interest. It's time for the Justin plan. > > > Mark > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.xls > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.pdf > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.ods > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCZKqoACgkQ2t2zxlt4g/StTgCfYaFJLDkqHuCJOEJcbI/Vedsb IYwAoLZIscGbDedAA5EEV7SVRwUJOzqK =+yNR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
