[Noisebridge-discuss] Bylaws!

[Paul Böhm]

Hrm,

I'd strongly suggest a more conventional approach to members.

If you don't have members things can quickly turn autocratic, and i've
actually, not just theoretically, seen exactly that kill prior
attempts to start labs in Vienna.

OTOH We (at metalab) haven't experienced any problems whatsoever with
having legal members with voting rights and power over the board.

You should still give the final say in all issues to the board, but
you should make it really easy to kick the board too. That way people
get power not through titles, but through respect. The easier to get
rid of the board, the more powerful good leaders become through trust
and respect.

Thus I wouldn't strip the board of their right to make decisions
either. They're there for just that - as a sanity check. If you don't
like their policies you can ask for a mistrust vote (requiring just
10% of the members to ask for the vote, and 50.1% to approve it), and
elect new leaders. It's not theirs to make the decisions, but if they
are meant to be moderating the process they need to have decision
making powers for the day to day business, at least until someone
feels they're abusing that position (not moderating but pushing their
own policies) and someone else should continue.

paul

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> Argh, proofread three times and then after sending I find the Big
>  Unclear thing.
>
>
>  Rachel McConnell wrote:
>  > I don't know how we'd officialize it.  We did discuss the idea that the
>  > board would always have to approve any proposal by a member (again:
>
>  What I meant here is that anything a member proposed to the board would
>  be required by our bylaws to get approved (if it wasn't illegal,
>  impossible, etc), NOT that any proposal would have to be sent through
>  the board for approval.  Restriction on the board, not the members.
>
>
>
>  R
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