[Noisebridge-discuss] Access control and the DJ booth

[Rachel McConnell]

Well put, Andy.  I second this.

Rachel

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> Dr J,
> 
> I think that gating off a portion of our space for the proprietary use
> of a few individuals would run counter to the ethos and function of
> Noisebridge.  We've had incredible success with our current model:
> 
> 1. Noisebridge is not about individual control.  The entire space is
> available to any member who can make productive use of it, and
> members have a moral obligation to make Noisebridge better through their
> actions.
> 
> 2. Noisebridge does not accept "loans" of equipment.  If gear is donated
> to the space it is available for the considerate use of any member.  (If
> gear is being put to productive use then don't be an ass and don't fuck
> it up, but if it's sitting idle and you have a project that can use it,
> then you don't have to ask for anyone's permission to use it.)  This
> means that
> 
>     ONCE DONATED, DONATIONS ARE NO LONGER THE PROPERTY OF THEIR DONOR
> 
> If an individual is unwilling to give materiel to Noisebridge free and
> clear, then that individual should not leave the gear at Noisebridge.
> Donations are No Strings Attached.
> 
> 3. Noisebridge does not implement security by monitoring and
> controlling.  We've created a space where all members know that there's
> shit that can get fucked up if drunks go at it, and members routinely
> step up to avert those kinds of failure modes.  We don't log net
> traffic, we don't have cameras, we don't have individualized key-cards
> with access logs.  We do have a membership of individuals who take
> responsibility for their actions and help other members avoid failure
> modes.  We even have anonymous members who are trusted members of our
> community (and pay their membership dues) without incident.
> 
> 
> I've personally donated several thousand dollars of fairly delicate
> equipment to Noisebridge, and I would be very sad if it were broken.  I
> fully expected that now, a year in, at least one of my delicate
> donations would have died... but that turns out not to have happened.
> 
> 
> I've personally re-configured our Internet routing architecture twice,
> left it in a working state, and had other individuals re-architect it to
> make it ten times as awesome without needing permission from me.  This
> wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't left the router passwords in an
> envelope labelled "Passwords" on the router.
> 
> 
> You've been doing a bunch of incredibly good work over the last few
> months, and I really appreciate both the work product and the effort it
> represents.  But I'm worried at some of the ideas you've been suggesting
> and some of the values you've been espousing that run counter to how I
> (and, I think, the community in general) want to see Noisebridge
> operate.
> 
> Please try not to treat the Noisebridge space as personal property.
> Please do not try to exclude members from areas of the space.
> Please label areas and objects that may benefit from special handling,
> to enable members to avoid damaging them, as an alternative to excluding
> members from areas of the space.
> Please favor systems that do not facilitate logging and monitoring over
> systems that favor logging and monitoring.
> Please don't act proprietarian towards materiel donated to Noisebridge;
> if there is material at Noisebridge that you're not comfortable having
> donated, then please remove it.
> Please be excellent to everyone, but most especially to every member.
> 
> And finally, if you observe someone being non-excellent, please call
> them on it -- gently, and with the assumption that they act out of
> lack of information rather than malice, but firmly.
> 
> Thanks,
> -andy
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