Current Consensus Items

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Date First Discussed XX Month, Year	Proposed By User	Informal Title	Summary	Author of this Record User
Date First Discussed	Proposed By	Informal Title	Summary	Author of this Record
May 23, 2023	Farley	Updating blocking requirement for big C consensus items from 1 to 2 people.	Currently in order to block a big C consensus Item, we need only 1 member to block. Would like to update this number to 2 members. Perhaps the 1 member to block made sense when the community was tiny. It doesn't make sense anymore in our much larger community. If you cant convince anyone else to block with you, then maybe you just have bad ideas. The community should not have to make changes only folks with bad ideas think are good. This change would be provisional for 3 months. Also would only apply for member proposed consensus items, non-member proposed consensus items would still be block able by a single member. Also only 1 member would be required to block new membership. Also if any one member would like to block, but cannot because they are alone, they can request a 1 week hold to defer decision for an additional 3rd week. Finally being able to articulate reasons for blocking is required. Good faith blocking is the only acceptable kind of blocking. If no 'legitimate' reasons for blocking can be supplied then they community can override the block. Obviously this is subjective. However blocking just 'because' is not considered viable reason to block and wont be honored.	Loren (to be updated by Farley, to reflect comments including JD's)
First Discussed: 02 May, 2023	JD Elan	UPDATING ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY and CODE OF CONDUCT	AHP Adopted by Consensus on 5/23/2023; CoC deemed not to require Consensus for modification Noisebridge currently still uses policies from 2013. A lot has happened in the past decade that has increased awareness about creating a safe environment for all. The alterations proposed are focused on reducing the generation of a hostile environment at Noisebridge that can negatively affect the user experience for a variety of members and visitors that are not part of the hegemonic social group. A Google Doc containing the old and proposed wording that is open for edits is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14BlMYh-i1CbzUGj_AaqaF-YI2sL4WNokhJxEbev0G-U/edit	JD