Meeting Notes 2014 04 01
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These are the notes from the The 307th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: Kevin; Moderator: Daravinne.
- One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.
Short announcements and events
- 5mof 3rd Thursday - 5 minute lightening talks, we take submissions. http://5mof.net
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 https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/issues/19]
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 https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/pull/26]
--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.
We will continue this discussion when Tom is able to be present at a meeting.
Revert banning of N0_Hat
[Pull Request https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/pull/26]
Consensus
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 https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/pull/22] 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
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