[Noisebridge-discuss] why would hackers come to noisebridge?

[Al Sweigart]

Possibly. That's always been hypothetical since we've never tried having
the board actively creating and enforcing policy. "Tyranny of the majority"
has been Noisebridge's boogeyman for a long time.

One thing's for sure though: do-oacracy and no rules DEFINITELY leads to
bad times and verbose mailing list threads.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Torrie Fischer
<tdfischer at hackerbots.net>wrote:

> On Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:02:26 Al Sweigart wrote:
> > :) Sudoroom can poach all they want.
> >
> > But I will say this: people like to talk about this "golden age" of "how
> > Noisebridge used to be" in the same ways that people fawn over Ronald
> > Reagan. I've been a member of Noisebridge for five years and can say
> this:
> > it's easy for any organization to function when it's just twenty or
> thirty
> > people. And from the mailing list, I see that Sudoroom is having a few of
> > the same problems that Noisebridge had when it started getting larger. So
> > don't toot your Moog quite yet.
> >
> > I think it's obvious that five years of "just be excellent" hasn't worked
> > out, and that active management by both the board and the members is
> needed.
>
> I think it is important to note that in the context of a hackerspace,
> there is
> a difference between managing the infrastructure and managing the people
> who
> hack on the infrastructure.
>
> From experience, just saying "active management" easily leads to bad times
> and, uh, rather verbose mailing list threads.
>
> >
> > -Al
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM, The Batkid <batkid at gmx.com> wrote:
> > >  It makes me both sad and angry that noisebridge has become a place
> > >
> > > where hackers don't feel welcome.
> > >
> > > If anyone wants to help build a hackerspace similar to what
> > > noisebridge used to be, I invite you all too come join sudo room in
> > > oakland as we prepare to move to a much bigger space (a space very
> > > similar to noisebridge's current space!). We have open meetings every
> > > Wednesday at 7 pm at 22nd and Broadway, located just two blocks from
> > > 19th street BART.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You make me sad.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > No poaching!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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