Meeting Notes 2014 04 01

Membership Binder

• Hephestus
• Kate K
• Qbit

Financial Report

• Funds in bank: $29,281
• Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):

Consensus items

Proposals from last week

(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)

House Rules/Community Agreements/Fair Use

Needs greater summary

Semi-publish Member List

Sent back for rewording for clarity
--Language regarding identity
--What information will be shared?
Pull Request

Revoke Tom's Council Member Privilages

--Pattern of abuse of the consensus process
--Blocking Link's consensus proposal to revoke Tom's Mailmain privs/ban Tom
--Rewriting consensus history: N0_Hat
--Deleting Wiki endorsements and not responding to the disenfranchised members concern regarding their deleted endorsement
--James blocked publishing the member list via email to Tom. James could not publish to discuss (it was under moderation) and James emailed Tom to block publishing the member list before the meeting. Consensus was reached at the meeting, absent Jame's participation.

Consensus was blocked in favor of continuing this discussion when Tom is able to be present.

Revert banning of N0_Hat

Pull Request

Proposals for next week

(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)

Discussion Notes

Brainstorming on improved forums for discussion

       Like to have specific thread for specific proposals
       Riseup Collective and group in New Zeland have software to facilitate decision making
       We can write our own software too
       Tech that does things in the way that we're accustomed to doing them already
       Splitting mailing lists does not imporve signal-to-noise
       Improve quality of Noisebridge-Discuss
       Remove certain bad actors occassionally
       New contributors are moderated
       Consumers of messages can filter - we have the tools - mls baysian spam filter
       Could have moderated and unmoderated list

What's up with the community working group?

       In it's idea format Pull request
       Let's just do it too.
       Adhoc discussions happing in the meat space
       AI for online dispute resolution environment
       Mining mailing list for 'ask to leave heuristic'

Systemic problem with disenfranchisement

       The way we do things needs to change
       More time, more advantage
       Find a solution where everyone can participate

Process hack-a-thon

Rainbow Grocery offers professional mediation training for non-profits

Attendance

• Ron
• Gregg
• JC
• Kevin
• Jon
• Dale
• Brandon
• Christopher
• Steve
• Jarod
• Dana
• Norman
• Xaviar
• Monad
• Bill
• Carlos
• Casey
• Daravinne
• Nthmost

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