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<DIV>On 1/5/2014 8:07:24 PM, "Praveen Sinha" <<A href="mailto:dmhomee@gmail.com">dmhomee@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><I>nb is unique and awesome, we should try other things besides voting, we should be doing community surveys </I></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV> i like all that. </DIV>
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<DIV>it's flawed, but not a bad idea. I don't believe it's a total sham by nature -- it's become a sham in the US gov by economics and corruption. </DIV>
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<DIV>Majority rule is tyranny over the one by the many. </DIV>
<DIV>Consensus is tyranny over the many by the one. </DIV>
<DIV>Both are less than optimal. </DIV>
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<DIV>Wrong. Legally, we are. </DIV>
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<DIV>we don't have to turn a profit, </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>absolutely true! </DIV>
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<DIV>we don't have to be particularly efficient about any decision. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Why Not? Your position presumes that Noisebridge has no particular goal in life. So it doesn't really matter what we do, where we go, how we get there, or how long it takes us to get there.</DIV>
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<DIV>But, we have a Mission Statement. Is our Mission Statement bullshit? If it's not bullshit, then where we go, and how long it takes us to get there, DOES matter. We ought to be particularly efficient at fulfilling our Mission. Eg, a system to ensure we have enough working wire-strippers. </DIV>
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<DIV>Participation in a political process is always dominated by trolls </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>I tell them that noisebridge welcomes everyone -- regardless of their income or their education level or whether they have a house. I tell them that people living on the street and people who have been in solitary confinement come here </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Ocassionally, one or two of them hack. That's not ok. </DIV>
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<DIV>and work side by side with executives from tech startups to work on projects and solder. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Usually, executives don't do soldering. You are dreaming. Charming fantasy, tho'. </DIV>
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<DIV>I tell them that we have an open space which is truly community driven without government or corporate sponsors. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Community driven-into-the-ground, you mean. </DIV>
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<DIV>I wasted hours yesterday trying to get something accomplished in electronics. Most of the multimeters are dead. When i requested $10/month Noisebridge Fund to buy electronics components for nb, it was shot down in consensus. Ten. Bucks. A month. </DIV>
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<DIV>I tell them that at Noisebridge I've seen the future being made right in front of my eyes </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Holy shit, if Noisebridge is "the future", we are all fucking doomed. </DIV>
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<DIV>I've even seen a fist fight almost break out at consensus, but it's because we are doing things that matter </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Right, it's because we care so deeply! Not because our open-door invites in immature, violence-prone jerks. </DIV>
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<DIV>I've been around the world to other hackerspaces. Some of them I couldn't even get into because I came at the wrong time. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Now your talking!</DIV>
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<DIV>But largely, what I've seen is that a lot of spaces working off more closed models are glorified garage shops.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>And therefor, a demolished, disorganized, and dysfunctional "Hackerspace" is our only alternative. Really?</DIV>
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<DIV>No other space has to deal with the problems noisebridge has. No other space has people living in the walls </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Um, yeah. Exactly. That's evidence of the dysfunction, not evidence of how great we are. Also evidence of handing out keys to non-hackers. </DIV>
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<DIV>They make fun of us because we <I>live</I> the idea of fail fast. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Fail Fast means, keep trying different models, different algorythms, different designs, until you find the winner. </DIV>
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<DIV>Clinging to a static, unchanging model of decision-making is not failing fast, it's just failing once, and then refusing to change forever. </DIV>
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<DIV>Where do people go from around the world when they want to see a quintessential, glorious, chaotic, hip hackerspace? Noisebridge. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>That's true! We ARE all of those things. </DIV>
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<DIV>"Effective" however is one thing we are not. </DIV>
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<DIV>Circuit Hacking Monday IS effective and fantastic, and NOT representative of Noisebridge. It's an exception. </DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, if you mean, people who leave the sink full of dirty dishes (while folks like you insist that expecting folks to clean up after themselves is fascist).</DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, if you mean people who leave a disaster in the component shelves (because folks like you think holding people accountable for how they treat the commons is fascist). </DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, if you mean people who <SPAN id=985be5a5e25c46c68b53748c35abe4ac>break the circular saw because they don't know what they're doing (</SPAN>while folks like you say requiring them to learn first is fascist). </DIV>
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<DIV>Agreed, if you mean CHANGE. </DIV>
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<DIV>If you mean require more people to get a block, I think that would be an improvement.</DIV>
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<DIV>How about working groups with autonomy + report-backs. </DIV>
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<DIV>Your misconception is that "rules = fascism". If everyone agrees on rules through a fair and transparent process, then those are community-rules, not fascism. </DIV>
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<DIV>I'm still handing out keys to people. I don't need to sleep at noisebridge, but I don't care if other people do.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Since you don't care if people sleep at Noisebridge, and since you imagine that street people actually hack at Noisebridge, that may say a lot about who you're giving keys to, and why. </DIV>
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<DIV>If you're giving keys to non-hackers, whether or not they sleep at Noisebridge, I think that should be a cause for concern. </DIV>
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<DIV>If you support Noisebridge's Mission Statement, then you cannot support giving keys to non-hackers. And if you do NOT support nb's Mission Statement, then why are you here?</DIV>
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<DIV>Street people who actually hack are the exception. I believe you're wrong, Praveen. </DIV>
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<DIV>(Activity in the space MAY be changing as Associate Membership has taken effect, but too soon to tell.)</DIV>
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<DIV><B>5) We really should be data driven about this whole thing</B></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Absolutely! Applause. </DIV>
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<DIV>Which means, determine how to MEASURE the degree to which we are fulfilling the Mission Statement. </DIV>
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<DIV>And then quantify it. Like, Theft Statistics. Broken Equipment stats. New Member stats. Drama stats. </DIV>
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<DIV>And then adjust to compensate. A feedback system. An adaptive organization. My vision is a permanently adaptive, ever self-redefining structure. NOT lack of structure, which is what we have now. </DIV>
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<DIV>I think we need to be collecting in-depth community surveys and interviews to really get a deep feel for what we need. This issue is only going to get more urgent as our lease comes up and we as a community stare down the barrel of being gentrified out of the mission later in the year....</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>+1! Great statement. </DIV>
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<DIV>being asked whether I belong somewhere is one of my biggest peeves, as I've had to deal with it in many forms my entire life. In so far as hackerspaces, I was turned away in berlin and new york, it's really shitty.</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>If somebody's not a hacker, they don't belong in a hackerspace. Under "hacking" i include "making, teaching making, and learning making". </DIV>
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<DIV><I>unfairly treating people who don't look like cookie cutter hackers</I></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Baloney. There is currently NO filtering that brings in hackers to nb, cookie cutter or otherwise. Becoming a member is a popularity contest-- it's NOT based on your hacking activities, NOT based on what you've done to help the space. </DIV>
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<DIV>We SHOULD filter for hackers. But not cookie cutter hackers (tho' i have no idea what "cookie cutter hacker" even means). </DIV>
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<DIV>A kitchenless person coming into nb to make spagetti might be something nb chooses to support out of a sense of social goodness. But please do not pretend that's "hacking". </DIV>
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<DIV>when someone looks like an institutional white male hacker, they can get away with a lot of harassment with impunity. I had to mediate in nb drama against one particular hacker who was trying to do away with houseless people at nb. </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>If you think asking non-hackers to leave a hackerspace is "harassment", Praveen, then you and i have a different definition of "harassment" and "hackerspace". </DIV>
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<DIV>You mean he really <SPAN id=8814605f7edd48ad9489c1685d0c075f>WASN'T </SPAN>a hacker? Or the people he was kicking out really WERE hackers?</DIV>
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<DIV>Such as? Please, mention one or two <SPAN id=bf65fa694b6c49f98898797c8220797a>kludges</SPAN>, specifically. </DIV>
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<DIV><I><B><U>Our fundamental problem is not that we need to exclude, but we that we need to re-engage</U></B></I>: </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>i quite agree. <SPAN id=f2966b647e9241ea9045797d431464a6>Noisebridge should re-engage houseless people THROUGH HACKING. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>That's why i applied for an Awesome Grant to conduct a Homeless Hack-- a series of hacking workshops designed to address the special needs of homeless folks. Sadly, i did not get the grant. </DIV>
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<DIV>we need to have a minimum number of hours that any existing member of noisebridge do in order to be civicly active and maintain nb presence. This could come in the form of participation of mediation, docent duty, consensus, mailing list... *Something*. </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Yes, i strongly agree! Add cleaning the bathroom, sorting capactors, processing ewaste, taking out the trash. </DIV>
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<DIV>Except not "consensus". Whatever our decision-making process, it's something everyone should be participating in. Participating in the core process does not count as "extra-credit". That's separate from giving your time to help the space. If we count going to meetings as "helping the space", then you're proposing exactly what we already have, Praveen. Loud-mouthed non-hackers dominating meetings. </DIV>
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<DIV>we need to *really* branch out and connect with all the people who have long since left nb-discuss or long since left nb itself. </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Yes, but also realize that the demographics of SF and the hood are changing. Some things that made sense for nb 5 years ago may no longer apply. </DIV>
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<DIV>No non-hackers LIVING at nb. </DIV>
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<DIV>(We should not pretend a "live-in" superintendent helps "people"-- that would only benefit ONE houseless person). </DIV>
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<DIV>Hackers napping is ok. </DIV>
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<DIV>you can't downplay the issues of alienating people. </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Which people? If they are non-hackers, why not alienate them? It's a "hackerspace", not a shelter. </DIV>
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<DIV>then forget about the "data" you mentioned. <SPAN id=3fa1769cbe3d488bbdad4f5aab26118f>You could *include* open-ended or mixed-media answers, but </SPAN>for stats, you need closed-ended multiple-choice questions. </DIV>
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