[Rfu-barnraising] ww have a local housing coordinator!

[Danielle Chynoweth]

YEA!  we have a local housing coordinator - faith swords is our woman.  
zoe, her sis is gonna help.  more soon ... danielle

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> hi there lynsee,
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> thanks for checking in.  after a lot of deliberation here at prometheus we decided that a housing board was way too
> much work to maintain.  we tried this out for the last barnraising, using software called spaceshare
> (http://www.spaceshare.com) and it was 2 times as much work to maintain this page as it would be for one staffer at
> prometheus and one volunteer at the host organization to have a spreadsheet they use to track housing.  i am happy to
> talk through the housing board problems with your housing volunteer.  
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> very briefly, having organized housing at 5 different barnraisings, i will tell you that it isn't that much work to
> organize housing locally, with full support from prometheus.  really it's just that a local person needs to help
> prometheus to connect with the homestay offer-ers, and to help to assure locals that these crazy people coming to
> town are okay, even if they are disorganized.
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> danielle is putting together a survey that people can fill out to identify their offerings, which is great.  locals
> can fill that out and i and WRFU people can check that out too.
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> as for crash space, i have some numbers from the lincoln hotel -- we could get 24-hour-a-day access to 3 connected
> medium-sized rooms with doors that shut.  here are the specs:
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> Unlimited access to both the Maria Theresa and the Bismark Rooms from Nov 10th at 6:00pm to Nov 14th at 10:00am.
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> Dimensions on Maria Theresa . 25.5 x 12.5 feet = 312 square feet
> Bismark . 23 x 14.5 = 333 square feet
> Common Lobby = 12 x 12 = 144 square feet
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> this building is next door to the post office so great for crash space if people are really on-the-down-low about it.
> the cost would be $600 for unlimited access and sleeping possibilities thursday night, friday night, saturday night,
> and sunday night.  sounds like a good deal to me, i'd say.  prometheus will make a decision on what we'd spend on
> this internally but i think it would solve many of our crash-space needs problems.  showers would be available in the
> hotel rooms of folks staying in the hotel proper.  we might consider asking crash-space users to donate $5-$10 each
> for the crash space usage, as it would defray our costs on the crash space.
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> i also have numbers for two somewhat-distant churches that we could potentially use as crash space.  i'll call them
> tomorrow.
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> let me know if you have any questions.
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> hannah s.
> prometheusradioproject
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> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:15:54AM -0700, Lynsee Melchi wrote:
> > So do we have a housing board or something yet? 
> >  
> > Lynsee
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> > <-----Original Message-----> 
> >  
> > From: Carl Barnwell 
> > Sent: 10/11/2005 2:20:45 PM 
> > To: lynsee at illinoisalumni.org 
> > Subject: WRFU Barnraising 
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> > Lynsee 
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> > I'm coming to your WRFU Barnraising November 11-13 from OK-AR and 
> > I'll need a place to stay. 
> > Is there a housing board webpage or list somewhere ? 
> > 
> > Carl 
> >