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

[Hannah Sassaman]

thanks so much danielle -- really excited to get cracking on this.  off to band practice now, have a great meeting.
psyched to talk to you, faith, and zoe -- my name is hannah, and we at prometheus are so happy you can help us with
housing for this great event.

with thanks!
hannah s.
prometheusradioproject

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:53:28PM -0500, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> 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 
> > >