[Noisebridge-discuss] articles of incorporation submitted today

[grey]

Rachel, with all due respect, neither you nor Noah are the sole lease
signer or board members, yet you are the only two who have taken issue
with the consensus reached on Tuesday.

The positions you are currently will present you with responsibilities
which you are probably often not going to be completely comfortable
with, but I haven't heard dissent from any of the other three board
members or lease signers.  I would propose that instead of dragging
things down for everyone, if you're not comfortable with the position
you're in, recuse yourself from it.

We don't need head shaving symbolic gestures, we just need to move
forward and not deal with this kind dissent from the 'privileged'
again.  At work I already deal with bullshit hierarchy and stupid
decisions that ignore the workers, but at least I'm getting paid for
that to assuage my differences, as opposed to this project which I've
sunk time & money into.  I realize that the time and money go to more
than just me and will be used in ways that I probably never would or
never would want to, but that's the point!

-grey

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> 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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