[Noisebridge-discuss] what if we changed consensus a bit

Howard Tsu howard.tsu at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 19:42:53 UTC 2014


Oh God yes, costume revival class of 2014!


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>wrote:

> I would come once a month at least if we did it like this.  And I'd bring
> costumes.
>
> Rachel1.0
>
>
> On 2/26/14 2:03 AM, Praveen Sinha wrote:
>
>> I just got back from my second consensus night this month.  I go
>> intermittently since the near start of the physical space, and these
>> last few times have been really challenging.  People are at odds with
>> each other in whole new and unique and diverse ways.  With that, I've
>> been thinking of some new practices we could incorporate:
>>
>> 1) *We actually need to make it even more theatrical.*  I suggest that
>>
>> we have beginning and intermediate and end interludes where everyone
>> just becomes comically theatrical.  People can act out as Viking
>> warlords and take out their frustrations on each other.  People can
>> recite/sing/ a mini opera.  We can have a Lady Ada drag queen and a
>> Richard Stallman drag king.  Who the hell knows.  Let's blow some of our
>> budget on ouchy the clown [1]  or one of the other dozen clown dom
>> moderators living in this city if they haven't been gentrified out
>> already.
>> *I know this sounds completely insane.  But hear me out*, there's logic
>>
>> behind it.  a) it will be fun in a completely insane way which will b)
>> make people a little bit more in a good mood and take things a little
>> less seriously  and c) MOST importantly!  Such injections of random
>> noise will make people more playful and thus more creative and think out
>> of the box more!  There's even a name for it, it's called jittering, and
>> it's used often in machine learning and the source of the name of
>> noisebridge [2].  Wouldn't that be AWESOME [3] to have at consensus
>> meeting?
>> 2) Listen.  One of our primary goals as a culture in a space should be
>> to increase people's engagement.  One source of both disengagement and
>> drama is BURNOUT.  Studies have shown that burnout is caused by LACK OF
>> RECOGNITION/GRATITUDE.  In fact, frequent recognition, especially that
>> which is reward and not outcome based [4].  To address this,*I suggest
>>
>> that we start a culture of recognition by having a modification of the
>> hippie/buddhist/therapist "tunnel of love"*.  In this, we go around all
>>
>> giving each other what we are thankful for in each other -- and if you
>> don't know the person, you can give a compliment.  Over time, such a
>> thing would reduce burnout in core members.  We can start with building
>> it into the weekly introductions.
>>
>> Yes, I know that other spaces will make fun of noisebridge.  Well, to
>> that I say, fuck 'em if they can't take a joke [5]!  No but seriously.
>>   No other space out there would be capable of this.
>>
>> I appreciate any feedback and look forward to refining our stake in
>> better futures.
>>
>> With love and hugs,
>> praveen
>>
>> [1] http://www.ouchytheclown.com/meet.shtml
>> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter  I bet a lot of you don't really
>> know what a Noisebridge IS even though you come here all the time!  A
>> noisebridge and it's applications is truly fascinating:  the idea is
>> using randomess as a diagnostic/repair tools and it works in circuits,
>> machine learning, and physical neural brains like yours!  Ask around if
>> you want to get a better understanding!
>> [3] I can't say "awesome" without a plug for the awesome foundation
>> http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/sf
>> [4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23055916
>> [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
>>
>>
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