[Noisebridge-discuss] process, banning, etc

[Lee Worden]

If I remember right someone mentioned a donated copy of "Come Hell or 
High Water: a handbook on collective process gone awry" at noisebridge.  
Don't know if anyone's gotten around to looking through it, but fyi it 
gives a lot of ink to what happens when groups face banning decisions, 
actions by small groups outside the formal process, etc.  To be clear 
though, it also focuses a lot on the threat of consolidation of power by 
self-appointed leaders, and I don't mean to suggest that that's what's 
happening at noisebridge.

For online reading see also the Common Wheel book: 
http://www.oocities.com/collectivebook/, which may or may not be a 
predecessor of the High Water book, I'm not sure but it seems to overlap.

TL;DR: the Hell or High Water book is relevant.  One part of their 
position is that even in a pure anarchist utopia, even someone who 
clearly did something horrible should have some kind of due process in 
which the charges are stated clearly and publicly and the accused is 
permitted to respond clearly and publicly.