We could be more proactive. �Are you really�telling�me we could not have done a significantly better job at preventing this? �I think we can and should come up with a set of guidelines for events like hack meets using the space. �Good thing I am not a member and I have no say in the way the space runs. �<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Liz Henry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liz@bookmaniac.org" target="_blank">liz@bookmaniac.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Ronald, I would argue that the fact that Noisebridge deals with its<br>
problems by airing them out in a transparent way, discussing the issues<br>
and responding to things in a non-centralized way, is exactly why we are<br>
a good and functional community. �Undesirable things happen everywhere,<br>
but they are often hushed up or covered up and nothing is done about the<br>
underlying problems.<br>
<br>
For example, kickbanning Patrick within 1 day of his harassing behavior<br>
was pretty amazing. �It was not fun, and the community was damaged by<br>
it, but the fact that someone behave badly wasn't something determined<br>
by our structure and wasn't really controllable. It is how we dealt with<br>
the problem that matters. Not everything about the process was great,<br>
but we were figuring out what to do was we went, in response to how<br>
events unfolded and how information spread throughout our community. I<br>
thought that it was, on the whole, a good response.<br>
<br>
If we as an organization never, ever called anyone out or held them<br>
responsible for crossing some sort of behavior line, then I would worry<br>
a lot more.<br>
<br>
So, Ronald, here I think you are conflating *having to deal with<br>
problems*, which every community has, with *how we respond to those<br>
problems*. �Can you really think of an organization which doesn't have<br>
conflict? We do a good portion of it in public. � While this makes some<br>
people label us as the drama-y hackerspace, actually, I bet the others<br>
have (and I KNOW some of them have) personal and political conflict that<br>
is kept more private. �That is not necessarily an unalloyed good.<br>
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- Liz<br>
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On 10/21/12 8:12 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:<br>
> To be honest, this incident and others that have happened in the past (the<br>
> patrick keys stuff, rob 2.0, theft of the donation box recently), it seems<br>
> that noisebridge needs a wake up call to the real world. �We have all these<br>
> things that happen that could have been avoided in hindsight. � I think<br>
> Noisebridge and it's members (I would be a member but I was blocked 1 hour<br>
> before the 4th meeting), need to do something before Noisebridge is at risk<br>
> from some stupidity that happens in the space.<br>
><br>
> At this point I hope someone does something that will close the space so we<br>
> can pull our collective heads out of our collective asses and make<br>
> Noisebridge the "excellent" space it needs to be. � This is the worst thing<br>
> I have ever said about noisebridge. � I feel really horrible but I would<br>
> feel worse if I told a friend to go there and something unexcelent happened<br>
> to them. � Fix yourself (sooner than later please).<br>
><br>
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------------------------<br>
Liz Henry<br>
<a href="mailto:liz@bookmaniac.org">liz@bookmaniac.org</a><br>
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"Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to<br>
evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ<br>
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