[Noisebridge-discuss] Another DIYbio thread!

[William Heath]

Look how powerful the technology is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZ3DD_tV9k&feature=related

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>wrote:

> William Heath writes:
>
> > We have followed the proper protocols to collaborate and are being
> excellent
> > to you all.  We had approval from the safety committee etc...
>
> I think we may have had a misunderstanding about this, because although
> the safety committee did discuss your activities at our recent meeting,
> our conclusion was that we would like to know more about your plans and
> try to get someone uninvolved to have a look at them, rather than that
> we had seen your plans and that we were happy with them.
>
> However, a possibly more important point from the safety meeting, which
> I mentioned at last week's general meeting, was that we didn't know
> whether there was a consensus from the general meeting about whether the
> safety committee -- or anybody else -- could or should review or approve
> projects when they appeared to involve unusually dangerous materials or
> activities.  The safety committee is comfortable with doing
> uncontroversial things that make the space safer in general (like
> installing fire extinguishers and first aid kits), but we don't know
> what Noisebridge's consensus will be on how to handle project-based
> safety issues, which may involve substantive disagreements among members
> about how to evaluate and mitigate risks.
>
> It seems like we have already run into an example of this issue, so I
> hope that people will be willing on Tuesday to try to approach a
> consensus about the "how to handle project-oriented safety concerns in
> general" problem, not just about DIYBio.
>
> --
> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Wol dir, werlt, daz du bist
>     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | also freudenriche!
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>
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