<div dir="ltr">Possibly. That's always been hypothetical since we've never tried having the board actively creating and enforcing policy. "Tyranny of the majority" has been Noisebridge's boogeyman for a long time.<div>
<br></div><div>One thing's for sure though: do-oacracy and no rules DEFINITELY leads to bad times and verbose mailing list threads.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Torrie Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdfischer@hackerbots.net" target="_blank">tdfischer@hackerbots.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:02:26 Al Sweigart wrote:<br>
> :) Sudoroom can poach all they want.<br>
><br>
> But I will say this: people like to talk about this "golden age" of "how<br>
> Noisebridge used to be" in the same ways that people fawn over Ronald<br>
> Reagan. I've been a member of Noisebridge for five years and can say this:<br>
> it's easy for any organization to function when it's just twenty or thirty<br>
> people. And from the mailing list, I see that Sudoroom is having a few of<br>
> the same problems that Noisebridge had when it started getting larger. So<br>
> don't toot your Moog quite yet.<br>
><br>
> I think it's obvious that five years of "just be excellent" hasn't worked<br>
> out, and that active management by both the board and the members is needed.<br>
<br>
</div>I think it is important to note that in the context of a hackerspace, there is<br>
a difference between managing the infrastructure and managing the people who<br>
hack on the infrastructure.<br>
<br>
>From experience, just saying "active management" easily leads to bad times<br>
and, uh, rather verbose mailing list threads.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
><br>
> -Al<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM, The Batkid <<a href="mailto:batkid@gmx.com">batkid@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > �It makes me both sad and angry that noisebridge has become a place<br>
> ><br>
> > where hackers don't feel welcome.<br>
> ><br>
> > If anyone wants to help build a hackerspace similar to what<br>
> > noisebridge used to be, I invite you all too come join sudo room in<br>
> > oakland as we prepare to move to a much bigger space (a space very<br>
> > similar to noisebridge's current space!). We have open meetings every<br>
> > Wednesday at 7 pm at 22nd and Broadway, located just two blocks from<br>
> > 19th street BART.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > You make me sad.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > No poaching!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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