New space meeting 2018 04 03

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https://pad.riseup.net/p/noisebridge-space-program https://pad.riseup.net/p/nb-new-space

Meeting agenda for 2018-04-03

Meeting #11

Attendance

• Ryan
• Ruth
• James
• Keivn
• Lisa
• Andrian
• Pavel
• Alex
• Chris
• Natalie
• Mark
• Carl
• Nichole
• Tiffancy
• Bernice
• Kevin
• Mark

Working group updates

Spacewalkers

Compiling spreadsheet of spaces: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JtjEvI6LkT0ZI19SI5S3mWnn4aZ4JBEgkjyzzF5YI4o/edit#gid=0

• Size, cost, viewed status, lease term, zoning, contact information, accessability
• Properties to highlight
  • 351 9th Street Suite 102 - 5000sqft opens onto the street, technically retail, broker thinks we'll fit, $20/sqft/yr
    • Will visit space tomorrow, find out about other vacancies there
  • 1144 Howard Street, 9000sqft, $20/sqft/yr, needs cotenant, 5yr lease, elevator, rollup door
  • 650 Mississippi, far from BART, affordable
• Very few affordable properties on the market. majority of our target spaces cost $30-50/sqft/yr

mister_name has another spreadsheet that has more information and a plot of distance from BART and price per month

Very Large Money Bag

• Compiling list of supporters, good progress, very encouraging

Make it Raining

• Up to $1,000+ monthy recurring donations on Patreaon
• Nice header photo on Patreon
• Does this include donate.noisebridge.net?
  • Yes, that's okay
• Move donate dot to Patreon?
  • That's a different question
• PayPal drops recurring donations randomly
• New recurring donations through Patreon are good. Make the number go up and drive yet more donations.
• Downside to Patreon is higher processing fee (5% on Patreon vs 1.5-2% on donate.noisebridge.net)
• Will be scheduling workshops/classes to bring new folks up to speed on Make it Raining efforts
• Will be a vending machine in SimBridge that *could* accept real money - could put virtual goods in the virtual vending machine that accepts virtual currency for NB

Media

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Photos_of_the_Space

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Fundraising_Copy

• Post picutres of classes on wiki too
• Also lots of pictures searchable by Google Images
• Many new photos of NGALAC on the way
• Get in touch with Ruth on Slack to contribute new photos

SimBridge

• Getting close
• Demo first prototype of active interactive soldering class on Saturday at party
• Post on Patreon about this?
  • Yes, once we have something to show on Patreon
• Social media message on #MAPP for getting people to come out

S|K Engagement

• Contact Lady Red
• Up for consensus tonight - $4k spend for discovery

Partnership Updates

• Might possibly soon get material asset donations
• Meeting w/ SFMADE - offering 20m realestate counceling session, free, hoping for leads on space

Grants

• Alex to get in touch with Augur on grant writer extrodinaire

Co-Tenant Updates

• Mark in contact w/ Refereum - potentially interested
• Natalie works w/ Kids Camp, going to have multiple, very intersted in sub-leasing for summers, could extend into the school year
  • What kind of camp? STEM, kits, science, hacking, spy things for kids
  • Interested in season co-tenants? Ideally full-time, but nothing set in stone.
• Ruth in touch with StarFish, might be looking for a space in the Summer, company that does crypto stuff

Twitch

• Mark met a guy from Twitch, will work together to promote NB Twitch stream

2169 Update

• Trent, Patrick and John chatted with Bryan today
• Bryan spoke w/ parents and may renew the lease for the right price
• 1yr w/ LL option to renew
• NB takes on costs for elevator repair, spend $30k last year for elevator repair
  • What about 2nd floor tenants? They use the elevator too.
• Aware that NB is driving traffic to the space and confident that we've resolved issues with the city
• See value in having a high-profile tenant, willing to lean into the process with us
• On us to come back with an offer
• Aware that we're willing to do repairs and labor around the space at a below market rate, could be some exchange of labor for rent
• Not too warm, not too cold
• NB needs to come back with a fair number
• What can we afford? They're asking around $8,000 per month
• Bryan to send elevator expense history
• Offers and negotiations are non-binding sans consensus from NB point of view
• Need help running numbers
• ~65%ish confidence level that we may be able to stay for the next year.