[Build] work exchange

[Rachel McConnell]

neil maclean wrote:
> I would like to trade my electrical work for membership fees.

Neil, with the greatest possible respect for both your abilities and
your ideas, I am against a membership/work trade.  We've already turned
one person down for a trade with cleaning for membership (Rubin emailed
about that I just saw).  And there is another consideration.

Setting this precedent would mean that we have to consider other
people's trade offers, which might be less clearly useful than yours.
Then we'd have to figure out how to value someone's work.  Suppose I
wanted to trade my programming skills for membership.  What programming
should I do?  How much membership would it get me?  What if someone else
is willing do the same work, but as a volunteer?  This is a really hard
discussion to resolve, especially when full consensus is required, as
with Noisebridge.  And this doesn't even get into the tax and legal
ramifications of paying "interested parties".

I'd also like to point out that the ONLY benefit of membership is the
ability to block consensus on a decision.  Non-members may still use all
of Noisebridge's resources.  Non-members can (and do) get involved in
all discussions, and often have a significant influence on the outcome.
 Non-members can have keys.  Non-members can attend workshops.
Non-members can run workshops.  Non-members can give us money :)

Relatedly, I do think that your culture-hacking, which you outlined in a
different email, is likely to fit well with Noisebridge.  I encourage
you to move forward with that.

Rachel