[Noisebridge-discuss] Board Member Platforms

[jim]

   andy's got it right. shannon said being a director 
is being a fall guy if noisebridge gets sued or has 
trouble with the IRS or some such. the 501(c)3 status 
requires there be a board of directors (and, i believe 
that they meet once or twice each year and keep 
minutes). 

   i have two interests: 
* it's typical for groups to develop rules over time. 
this is a bad thing, in the main, and should be 
discouraged. to borrow a phrase from programmers' lore, 
"resist the urge to codify." our lone policy to be 
excellent to each other is pretty good and maybe 
sufficient. 
* i hope we take care of our infrastructure, including 
tools and resources and some basic cleanliness. we'll 
do pretty well with this if morale is okay; if things 
start going to hell, probably we should buckle up and 
get happy together. 

   other than that, my interests in noisebridge have to 
do with learning stuff and getting around to doing some 
things. 

   there's at best a dubious correlation between 
popularity and competence. i looked at the list of 
personages and think any of them will be fine. i think 
it'd be good if we just selected one new director every 
couple of months at random. 

jim 


On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 17:13 -0800, Kelly wrote:
> Let the campaigning begin!
> 
> I am more or less familiar with all of the nominees, but I feel like
> if I'm going to be voting, I'd like to be informed.  I've made pages
> on the wiki for each nominee's platform and linked them on the
> discussion page of the nominee list.
> 
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Talk:2009_Board_Nominees
> 
> I've only added 2 questions as a template, and I've cc-ed all the
> nominees in the hopes that they'll answer at least those two.
> 
> And if people take this as an opportunity to further badger them about
> their deeply held beliefs, then it's pretty much what they deserve for
> being suckered into accepting those nominations... Enjoy the
> democracy, kids!
> 
> -Kelly
> 
> PS. I made an attempt to look up John Waters's email address but
> couldn't find it, so somebody cc him.
>