You wrote that, "Without the financial support, the volunteer expertise and the rent-free space, there would be no station." There is also the Bandwidth occupied that WOOL may or may not pay for. I don't have knowledge of it either way, but that would also be a subsidy that I consider worthwhile.
The other parts (pt 1)ext_4074826April 1 2017, 16:10:52 UTC
It's likely that the camera thing won't happen at the station. It's been shot down by the board before on purely philosophical grounds - reasons that I happen to agree with in the largeness of things - with resistance led by people who aren't involved in the day-to-day keeping-on of the station's wheels. Trenches vs towers
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Re: The other parts (pt 2)ext_4074826April 1 2017, 16:12:02 UTC
Another wrinkle, and a really important one, is that we have volunteers concerned for their personal safety. Sometimes they're the only person in the building even during day hours when the building is supposed to be left open. I'm not going to discount that anxiety, and I won't put the onus back on them by saying it's their choice to be out in the world, that they don't need to have a radio show. The people with that concern were among the first to support the latest push for cameras, and good for them. I'm cursed with this opinion that the station is a collective of individuals who respect and are concerned for each other, and for our mutual investment of effort and time and care, despite so much evidence to the contrary
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We open our wallets, real and virtual, to pay for our own surveillance in the form of smartphones, tablets, navigation systems and the like.
Actually, add surveillance cameras to that list. One of the more popular camera systems is in the Nest line. It's cheap, about $15 for the basic model. It has, though, online storage, not offline hard drive storage. The "cloud" (how I detest that term) storage is cheap as well, but I can't help but wonder what kind of information the cloud provider is getting from these cameras.
(Full disclosure: I haven't shopped for them myself, and therefore do not know if a hard drive storage option is available. Given the Googly source, though, my suspicions remain.)
Surveillance in Generalext_4015793April 3 2017, 22:44:30 UTC
I have a friend who routinely FREAKS about government surveillance. But she lives in a rent-geared-to-income housing situation, and she became very, very afraid that the "super" was getting into her apartment when she wasn't there, and was doing something or other. She got kinda agitated about that, so I told her I'd get her a trail camera and hide it in her apartment so she'd have hard evidence if the guy was coming into her space. Before I could learn how to set the thing up for her, she got talking to the guy and decided that he was OK after all. The trail camera is now on my desk gathering dust and I probably will end up sending it off to a thrift store
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but that would also be a subsidy that I consider worthwhile.
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Actually, add surveillance cameras to that list. One of the more popular camera systems is in the Nest line. It's cheap, about $15 for the basic model. It has, though, online storage, not offline hard drive storage. The "cloud" (how I detest that term) storage is cheap as well, but I can't help but wonder what kind of information the cloud provider is getting from these cameras.
(Full disclosure: I haven't shopped for them myself, and therefore do not know if a hard drive storage option is available. Given the Googly source, though, my suspicions remain.)
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