[Noisebridge-discuss] articles of incorporation submitted today

[Rachel McConnell]

I was really hoping we would be accepted today and I could back off on 
the whole key thing Now.  Since that hasn't happened, and this has to go 
on for some days longer, here's what I have to say.

1. As an individual and a lease signer, I'm personally responsible if 
(for example) anyone forgets to lock the place, a crackhead goes in to 
smoke crack, and burns the place down.  Should this happen after we're 
incorporated, Noisebridge is responsible.  As a Noisebridge board member 
I must put in sufficient effort to prevent such a thing, but I don't 
have personal liability for accidents.  There is the issue of the lease 
requireing updating, but I'm willing to bridge that gap and just say, as 
soon as we're a registered corporation, I'm OK with giving out keys 
according to the will of the membership.  This HAS to be my decision, 
not everyone's, because it's my responsibility, not everyone's.  As I 
said before, this is in NO WAY a board member decision, it's completely 
personal.

2. I fucked up on Tuesday.  I absolutely should have thought that all 
through then, and blocked the key consensus then.  I can only say as an 
excuse that I was just as excited about it all as everyone else there at 
the time, as well as tired from a very full day, like everyone else.

3. What I'm doing about it is this:
   * I put forth some ideas about how to prevent this kind of thing, by 
myself or anyone else, in future
   * I'm going to be at the space to let people in a LOT of the time 
until our incorporation goes through.  I've put this time up on the wiki 
at https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php/The_Space .
   * Assuming we put the safeguards in place that I've proposed (see 
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2008-October/001001.html), 
or others that are generally acceptable, I can absolutely promise not to 
go back on a consensus decision again.


I hope this is, or will become, acceptable to people.  I'd offer to 
shave my head in atonement but it's a little too late for that...

Rachel

Mitch Altman wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> The articles of incorporation for Noisebridge were submitted today.  The 
> secretary of state's office was too busy to grant them today, so we'll 
> be accepted sometime early next week.  Once they get back to us, the 
> board's first act is to sign the papers and grant Noisebridge permission 
> to do business as Noisebridge.  We'll also submit a form to the IRS to 
> get a Tax ID number, which gives us the right to have a bank account, 
> insurance, and a lease under Noisebridge's name.
>  
> Cheers,
> Mitch.
>  
> 
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