[sudo-discuss] should we hire someone to clean up after events?

[Romy Ilano]

It would be interesting if the organizers of events could find a cooperative way to make cleaning fun for each individual guest... Make a game of "who'll pick up beer bottles?"

Re: janitors 
My uncle recently retired as a janitor at a Florida school. He was debt free and able to return to his home country with a great pension. He bought and paid for a house car and saved despite coming from a crime ridden poor third world country 
 Lets hear it for janitors they do great work 

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Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy at snowyla.com

On May 5, 2013, at 10:08, "mattsenate at gmail.com" <mattsenate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cleaning is life. But even if each of us tried our best to clean up after ourselves, there will be aggregated filth, incrementally built, plus the cost of natural shuffling, displacement--such is the burden of use and optimization! I think we should:
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> Communicate more clearly the necessary standards for common space.
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> Provide all event holders with a checklist for set up and break down
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> Clean up after ourselves and each other collaboratively
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> Recognize that some additional amount of cleaning is required and therefore create good systems for cleaning natural, aggregate mess.*
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> * my personal politics hope we can do this specific type of work without direct financial incentive.
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> // Matt
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Gregg Horton" <greggahorton at gmail.com>
> To: "Romy Ilano" <romy at snowyla.com>
> Cc: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org>
> Subject: [sudo-discuss] should we hire someone to clean up after events?
> Date: Sun, May 5, 2013 9:48 AM
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> 
> I think we should hire a fellow sudoer and use the cash as incentive. Whoever wishes to do it that month can. 
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> Or people can learn how to pick up after themselves. 
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> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>> SudoRoom is a hackerspace. Our skillset is not cleaning, especially cleaning the big main room.
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>> - Should we put aside $30-60 every time a group holds an event in our space so that we can pay someone to clean up the common room?
>> - Should we pay someone $30-60 once  month to clean the common room for us?
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>> I brought this up because we are realistically not going to get a lot of members to clean the space. we are hackers. it is not our skillset. There is not going to be a magical day when a hackerspace finds that all of its members find cleaning to be a pleasurable act.
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>> We are good at starting projects, drinking beer, looking for new spaces, but we are definitely not great at cleaning.
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>> Our landlord G is also receptive to the idea of us hiring someone to clean up the common room after big events. 
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>> I personally suck at cleaning, I'm into doing it, but I would rather spend my time hacking and working on projects. I spent a bit of time cleaning up the space Saturday morning, wiping down the tables int he main room and vacuuming to prepare the space for the today I learned.
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