<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>So if I understand correctly you (member) do not have to create or sign for some wiki page if you are on hiatus - before there was proposal that if you do not do this new step before some "certain" deadline you will loose your membership. I just want to clarify this, no need to do anything special at the moment or in the future (based on recent development), correct?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Sincerely,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>FAA</span></div><div> </div><div>Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck</div><div><br><br></div><div>biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker</div><br><div><br></div><div>http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org</div><div><br><br></div><div>"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi<br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, November 22, 2013 2:27 AM, Tom Lowenthal <me@tomlowenthal.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On 18 November 2013 13:23, Paul Monad <<a ymailto="mailto:immonad@yahoo.com" href="mailto:immonad@yahoo.com">immonad@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> How about former members?<br><br>Hiatus has not changed much. It's still there for folks who will be<br>taking some time away from Noisebridge, traveling, or so on, and it's<br>still up to a particular member to decide whether they wish to go on<br>hiatus.<br><br>Two weeks ago, we agreed a slight change to the way you go on and come<br>off hiatus. Previously, you had to contact the treasurer and<br>secretary. Now, instead of doing that, you should add or remove the<br>Hiatus category on your wiki user page. This is very similar to
how<br>members are expected to identify themselves in general.<br><br>I don't see any reason why members should be taken off hiatus without<br>their request and participation. Hiatus has a semantic meaning, and I<br>think we should generally respect members' right to decide whether<br>that applies to them. I also don't see why this change would make<br>people who are not members into members. There's no change to the set<br>of people who are members, we're just changing the way that we're<br>asking them for things going forward.<br><br>Folks have no *obligation* to pay dues *as a condition of membership*,<br>but that doesn't mean that folks shouldn't continue to support<br>Noisebridge. I hope that members who are here regularly continue to<br>donate regularly, but I'm not going to be checking up on who does. I<br>think it's reasonable that people on hiatus should feel less of an<br>ethical obligation to make regular donations. After all: they
aren't<br>using the space.<br><br>-Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>