<div dir="ltr">You are right, I misspoke and I am sorry for that. It was never formally blocked but I did heed your suggestion. A few of people were wondering why I had pulled it right before the 4th meeting. I pulled my membership so it would not get to blocking since I thought that wouldn't be good for a meeting and actually stopped participating in the space. I didn't tell anyone for a while what happened. I took over a year and thought about what I could do to actually help. The best thing I could think of was actually being in the space and promoting being excellent to each other. I want more people around promoting noisebridge's goals 24/7. <br>
<div><br></div><div><p>At the last few meetings I have been taking in what everyone has to say and I am working with people to come up with compromises. I am also not all willy nilly endorsing associate members. I met this guy Christian, the other day. He seemed cool but I told him I needed to know him better before going to his wiki page and putting MY name there with MY account. (Since I started drafting this email, he had come out and I did get to know him better and thus endorsed his associate membership.)</p>
<p>As a new Noisebridge member, I plan on going there often with the purpose of helping others with their projects and getting acclimated to the space. I didn't need to be a member to do that but I want to start participating in the consensus process and working on great solutions to the tough problems that the space has. I plan on spending every Tuesday there. I do not say much in the meeting but I am trying to listen to what people say and come up with compromises, instead of being on either side of a discussion. I am planning on spending a significant amount of time in the space and focusing on helping others with their projects and teaching whatever I can teach.</p>
<p>This took me some time to write since I don't want to be confrontational with anyone but that can't be the case now. Please also be aware, there were 4 weeks, all 4 of which I was at the meeting and in the meeting notes as far as I know. The last time before I pulled my membership request it was an hour before the 4th meeting. This time you are bringing it up a day after the meeting. Why could you have not brought this up again in the past 4 weeks? The last time you didn't bring anything up until an HOUR before the 4th meeting. This is why we have 4 weeks in the process, so we can hammer out any possible issues BEFORE the last meeting, before it becomes a long prolonged discussion item. </p>
</div><div>Kevin, to be completely honest, I forgot again to mention it. I had told a bunch of people in the past and really forgot who I told. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:03 PM, bfb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bfb@riseup.net" target="_blank">bfb@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Omitting this information from discussion is classical "not on good faith". Ron, did you forget that Leif had blocked your membership?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Kevin</div>
</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Al Sweigart <u></u> <br>Date:01/30/2014 09:47 (GMT-08:00) <br>To: Leif Ryge <u></u> <br>Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <u></u> <br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] History of my member page on the wiki <br>
<br><div dir="ltr">That was years ago, Leif. You're not exactly up on current events at Noisebridge. <a href="https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014_01_28" target="_blank">https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014_01_28</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Leif Ryge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leif@synthesize.us" target="_blank">leif@synthesize.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:53:01PM -0800, Ronald Cotoni wrote:<br>
> I have no idea who changed it but my membership was never blocked. [...]<br>
<br>
Huh? How can you say your membership was never blocked? We had a conversation<br>
about why I wasn't comfortable with you being a member, which resulted in you<br>
withdrawing your membership application. I'm quite certain that you interpreted<br>
this conversation (as I did) as me blocking your membership, because at least 3<br>
other people asked me later why I'd blocked your membership.<br>
<br>
My primary reason for blocking your membership, as you'll recall, was that I<br>
believe your participation in Noisebridge meetings and discussions is largely<br>
disingenuous and "for the lulz" (read: you're a troll). Your claim above that<br>
your membership was "never blocked" after you'd specifically complained to<br>
other people that it was is a good example of this assessment being correct.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
~leif<br>
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