[Noisebridge-discuss] the board election was crap and you know it.

Naomi Gmail pnaomi at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 02:08:06 UTC 2014


Sort of. 

Al and Ari resigned, and Tom is expected to stay away from NB until he can come to a Tuesday meeting. 

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> On Apr 10, 2014, at 11:39 AM, "Danny O'Brien" <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
> 
> Wait, just to clarify here: Al and Ari resigned from the board? And
> Tom is suspended?
> 
> d.
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ta da.
>> 
>> https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014_04_08
>> 
>> No pull requests required.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you think it was crap, follow the bylaws and do what they say.  I believe
>>> it is something along the lines of
>>> (c) the vote of the members or, if the corporation has fewer than 50
>>> members, the vote of a majority of all members, to remove the director(s);
>>> 
>>> I would suggest putting in a github pull request for a new election with a
>>> date and another that requires consensus as the same that the current board
>>> be dismissed when the elections are complete.  That should solve this.  That
>>> is what you have to do if you think it was crap.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, why bother doing what's Right or even following your own written
>>>> policies at all?  Al will just throw a temper-tantrum that you're
>>>> getting in the way.
>>>> 
>>>> --Naomi
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Why bother with a new election? If Naomi doesn't like the results,
>>>>> she'll
>>>>> just come up with some other reason to say that was a sham election
>>>>> also.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi. Do you like social justice?  Sure, we all do.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Some of you will remember that back in November, a consensus item
>>>>>> passed that dictated that:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> "If a
>>>>>>> member has not identified themself as such by adding the
>>>>>>> Category:Members
>>>>>>> to their wiki user page by $DATE, they shall no longer be a member of
>>>>>>> Noisebridge."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-November/040368.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I want to bring your attention to a problem.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> $DATE was never assigned a real value.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, when the board election happened, the list of members
>>>>>> eligible to vote was shortened to reflect the above edict as if it had
>>>>>> been implemented.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It hadn't.  It shouldn't have been.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The resultant disenfranchisement of true Members (any number of them)
>>>>>> due to a misapplied policy means that the board election was a sham,
>>>>>> and should be redone.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> OK?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Let me know if I've got anything wrong about this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Naomi, who was sham-elected to the sham board and wants things done
>>>>>> Right.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ps. despite passing a consensus item about 3 weeks ago that says the
>>>>>> list of members should be published in the github repo, I don't see it
>>>>>> in there.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/tree/master/people
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Naomi Theora Most
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>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> Ronald Cotoni
>>> Systems Engineer
>> 
>> 
>> 
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