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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Care to nominate someone? <br><br>From: tdfischer@hackerbots.net<br>To: john.d.shutt@gmail.com; noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br>Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 09:24:24 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Board Elections 2016: Time To Nominate Some People<br><br><pre>Last year's Noisebridge board election resulted in an immediate<br>identity crisis when we realized that it was filled with men. Maybe we<br>try not doing that again this year with nominating a more diverse set<br>of candidates<br> <br>Its crucially important that the board is unimportant so it doesn't<br>actually matter except when it does and even then nobody will do<br>anything about it. [:<br> <br>On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 10:42 -0700, John Shutt wrote:<br>> Dear Noisebridge Community,<br>> <br>> Your anarchist hackerspace is overdue for its once-a-year taste of<br>> the arbitrary and capricious decision-making process called<br>> “democracy.”<br>> <br>> We can’t avoid it. It’s in our bylaws.<br>> <br>> This process lets us maintain our 501(c)3 nonprofit status, and lets<br>> you deduct your donations to the space from your taxes at the end of<br>> the year.<br>> <br>> (Speaking of which, when was the last time you donated? You should<br>> probably do it again <<a href='https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate' target='_blank'>https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Donate</a>>.)<br>> <br>> You will need to be a member of Noisebridge to vote, but you do not<br>> need to be a member to make a nomination to the board — or to be<br>> nominated! The current board <<a href='https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Board' target='_blank'>https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Board</a>><br>> consists of yours truly, Signal, J, Patrick, and Casey, and at least<br>> two of us (me and Signal) are planning to step down this election<br>> cycle.<br>> <br>> If you want to nominate someone to the board you can reply to this<br>> thread, send me a separate email, or send me the person’s nym in some<br>> other way. I will try to get in touch with everyone who is nominated<br>> to see if they are actually interested in serving on the board if<br>> elected. Nominating yourself is considered gauche.<br>> <br>> After two weeks, I’ll present a list of nominees to the community,<br>> and voting will begin. Two weeks after that, voting will end and we<br>> will have to update the wiki page.<br>> <br>> If you want to help with the election process in any way, let me know<br>> — I’m managing everything so far, since it’s not particularly<br>> interesting and I drew the short straw.<br>> <br>> Some things to keep in mind when nominating potential board members:<br>> <br>> 1. Do they understand the purpose and culture of Noisebridge?<br>> <br>> 2. Do they hack a thing (or many things)?<br>> <br>> 3. Are they trustworthy with stuff like managing taxes and bank<br>> accounts?<br>> <br>> 4. Do they have some kind of weird power agenda? (This is bad; they<br>> should not have this.)<br>> <br>> 5. Would they bring a fresh perspective to the board?<br>> <br>> Let’s try to have this thing in the can by the middle of June, yeah?<br>> Special notes for this year’s election:<br>> <br>> The party convention will be held at the Sycamore.<br>> Individual campaign donations are limited to $5,000,000.<br>> Satoshi Nakamoto is a superdelegate.<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> John<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br>> Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br>> <a href='https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss' target='_blank'>https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br></pre><br>_______________________________________________
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