Per infoage management: the town has started to notice people sleeping over (not just us) and is clamping down on it since these buildings aren't zoned that way. We can no longer sleep in the museum. However, also starting now, we can stay in the part of the H-building that was professionally restored and re-zoned by the Hurricane Sandy relief teams. There are showers, a kitchen, bunk beds, and everything else -- much nicer than our concrete floor! Fred said IA decided to charge $25/person/night for this privilege. IA would also like a week or so of notice and an estimate on how many people will accept the offer each time we have overnight events. To cover ourselves, I told him it'll be about 10 people for next weekend. That is all the information I have now.
Sounds very reasonable. Does one need to provide their own sheets? -J On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Per infoage management: the town has started to notice people sleeping over (not just us) and is clamping down on it since these buildings aren't zoned that way. We can no longer sleep in the museum.
However, also starting now, we can stay in the part of the H-building that was professionally restored and re-zoned by the Hurricane Sandy relief teams. There are showers, a kitchen, bunk beds, and everything else -- much nicer than our concrete floor!
Fred said IA decided to charge $25/person/night for this privilege. IA would also like a week or so of notice and an estimate on how many people will accept the offer each time we have overnight events.
To cover ourselves, I told him it'll be about 10 people for next weekend.
That is all the information I have now.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Do you have any more information? Its a little late for one weeks notice. Do we need our own linens etc? Is the building locked? Do we have to be there before a certain time ? Is it close to the museum? Parking? Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic" <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: "Vcf-ma List" <Vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: "Evan Koblentz" <evan@snarc.net> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:20 PM Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Workshop -- sleeping change
Per infoage management: the town has started to notice people sleeping over (not just us) and is clamping down on it since these buildings aren't zoned that way. We can no longer sleep in the museum.
However, also starting now, we can stay in the part of the H-building that was professionally restored and re-zoned by the Hurricane Sandy relief teams. There are showers, a kitchen, bunk beds, and everything else -- much nicer than our concrete floor!
Fred said IA decided to charge $25/person/night for this privilege. IA would also like a week or so of notice and an estimate on how many people will accept the offer each time we have overnight events.
To cover ourselves, I told him it'll be about 10 people for next weekend.
That is all the information I have now.
I talked to the person in charge of that area just now. They supply beds, showers, HVAC, TV/wifi, and a kitchen. There's even a ping-pong table. We bring everything else. Sheets, pillows, blankets, or whatever you want. But no more need for air mattresses, cots, etc. :) I'm going to bring a sleeping bag, that way I don't need a separate sheet or blanket. The building locks. There is a lockbox on the door. They're going to give Jeff B. and I the combination. There is only one time restriction: we must be out and FULLY CLEANED UP by 3pm Sunday, because there's a group of 25 Sandy volunteers arriving soon after us. I gave them my word that we'll leave on-time and the room will be as clean or cleaner than we found it. You know how we drive through the main gate and turn left? It's in that building directly in front where we turn (but I'm not sure if we have to go outside to enter/exit or if we can walk down the hallway.) We park where we always do. Those who are NOT staying over will pay the usual $10. Those who ARE staying over will pay $25. It all goes to InfoAge, although the latter portion will first go through the Sandy group, due to accounting stuff. At some point I just nod rather than asking more questions. ;) They now have us on the calendar for this Saturday night and for Saturday December 3, re: Festivus. We are not yet discussing VCF East. They and InfoAge want to see how it goes before committing to have a large group stay there. We're the first non-Sandy people to stay there, so this is an experiment on InfoAge's part and ours too. One tiny caveat: they're requiring everyone to sign a liability / emergency contact form. Nobody can 'choose' to still stay in the museum or anyplace else on campus. It is strictly forbidden, as of now. The larger and more successful InfoAge becomes, the more everything has to be up to code, and the code doesn't include sleeping in places that aren't approved for it.
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