[Noisebridge-discuss] [Drama] Fwd: [Noisebridge-announce] Important Noisebridge Procedural Changes

[Naomi Most]

I wasn't being sarcastic.  I was hoping for a public discussion.

Membership:  please discuss the idea that board "agreements" can
happen without all of the board having time to read, comment on, and
raise concerns (if any) about what's been proposed.

Actually, I don't think "agreement" should ever happen outside of
board meetings.  It's not like we're not meeting enough.  Twice a
month, actually.

--Naomi


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why did you reply to this thread if you didn't want to talk about this
> publicly? You can't just say "Disregard" and expect that no one else will
> comment on this commandment.
>
> I told Tom that I agreed with the proposal, so it's 4 out of 5.
>
> Your humble opinion aside, decisions do not require a unanimous vote of the
> board. The bylaws of Noisebridge don't say it does and have never said that.
> "Naomi does not agree" is not "the board does not agree".
>
> -Al
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oh goody, let's make this public.
>>
>> Al, the issues in question were proposed 7 hours ago, during which
>> time I was at work. Then I went to yoga.  Then I found when I decided
>> to check my email that about 10 different issues were all lumped
>> together in a single "proposal" and that 2 people had voted "+1" on
>> it.
>>
>> 2 + the person who proposed the changes = 3.  3 out of 5 is a positive
>> vote.
>>
>> These changes were then implemented *immediately*.
>>
>> IMHO, the board did not "agree", because "agreement" cannot occur in a
>> situation where discussion did not take place.
>>
>> I have already put in a proposal within the board that proposals can't
>> be voted upon and carried out until one full week has passed.  I can't
>> believe I had to do that, but apparently some people think that
>> "agreement" can be reached without discussion.
>>
>> Membership: discuss.
>>
>> --Naomi
>
>



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