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= [[ Membership Binder ]] = John Shutt et al: you don't have to be a member to do cool stuff! Membership gives you two things: you pay dues, and you can fully participate in the Consensus process. We have a standardized process involving paperwork and a nonstandardized process that is cultural (general getting-to-know-you). * Signal (week 1) - 2 sponsors. * Steve Young (week 4) - 2 sponsors. * Sam Topper (week 3) - 2 sponsors. == Steve Young's Interrogation: == * Patrick: what made you become a Member? * Steve: i heard about NB around 2009 or 2010 b/c of Wikileaks. I started paying more attention to the computer underground during graduate school. I saw NB as a place representing hacktivist values, so when I came to SF I decided to come to NB. * Jarrod: please explain the NB Consensus process. * Steve: Lots of things... we're an anarchist space, so that means we eschew official leadership. Hard thing to do unless you have a tight-knit group of ppl who support each other. How we do this is by Consensus. Everyone should know and agree together on a piece of policy. The way Consensus works quantitatively is that, when there's an idea that we want to make official and act on, we announce it at a mtg and see if anybody objects. we only give certain people, Members, the power to object. This is an EXTREME amount of power, because any one person can keep Consensus from forming. So we are very careful about bringing people in as Members. If you disagree with a consensus item and think * John: what cool projects has NB helped you work on? How would you enable NB to help you in the future? * Steve: I've done one cool thing called V Forms, i gave a presentation on it 6 months ago. It's an app, like an augmented reality app on a tablet, allows you to write stuff in a screen and organize things in a node-like structure. Hopefully releasing a new version soon. I'm hoping that more artists and hackers will come back to Noisebridge, to help Noisebridge gain reputation as a place that makes cool shit. I don't know how I'd change the space in order to get more of those people, other than to encourage ppl on an individual basis to come in and be awesome here. * RAYC: we've done a lot to improve the community & protect against threats and perceived threats. Do you think Membership itself could be a threat to the community, with its members-only hours representing inequality and...? * Signal: I have a principled objection to this question. * RAYC: ''storms off.'' * Signal: the question is disrespectful to the prospective Member and to the group. * Steve: Well, I'll take the question. Yes, that is possible. RAYC has talked to me about this before. I actually don't side with his opinions on this. * Kevin: Why do you want to become a Member now and what do you see as your role when you are one? * Steve: I think being a Member will make me more inclined to protect the space. * RAYC: I think you're awesome and i think you should be a member. * Jarrod: What do you think are the responsibilities of a Member of Noisebridge? * Steve: Responsible for keeping the place from burning down, responsible for the people you bring in and sponsor. We don't have security guards. Ideally everybody should take responsibility for the space, but I think Members are more beholden to that. * Signal: can you describe some checks and balances baked into the Consensus process, and what they mean to you? * Steve: Can't think of anything off the top of my head... * Signal: why do we have Consensus? what does it do for us? * Steve: hmm... * Nthmost: may I offer -- ponder the relationship between Do-ocracy and Consensus. * Steve: ah. you shouldn't get bogged down in bureaucracy if you can just go do a thing. I feel like Consensus should be a very minimal process. Like if we were a very small tight-knit group, we wouldn't have to make formal decisions, we'd already agree. Consensus is a minimal decision-making structure for a larger group. * Patrick: Why consensus over traditional majority votes? * Steve: I can't answer that, i don't know a lot about what anarchist means yet. I've been learning about it. I don't know why Consensus over voting. I'll say this: we vote, majority wins, ok so 48% of the ppl are unhappy. So Consensus, we suppose that everyone is happy with a decision, but it's not really true all the time. Like if * Harry: I don't know what are the relevance of these questions. Seems like we are not quizzing him on how things are but debating opinions of how things might be. Why are we spending time like this? * Kevin: Because it's important to discuss these things, and we want to hear how Steve thinks our culture works. * Steve: If you guys don't "vote me in as a member" I won't be offended. In fact if you don't think I get things here, don't vote me in. * Torrie: That is extremely excellent. [lots of agreement] * Steve: [tells a funny personal story about living at a co-op] That was my first political fuck-up but not-fuck-up because I saved my co-op. * Marcel: Outside of NB, what is the thing you've done for the community that you're most proud of? * Steve: when i say in my blurb i have had experience in community living, i'm talking about holding various positions in grad school co-ops and also being a big band geek and leading my section in those groups. I tend to eschew "official" leadership, because i feel i accomplish more when i have less "official" responsibility and more degrees of freedom. * Marcel: Something in particular you feel proud of? * Steve: Yeah, I... in marching band, the Stanford Band, we organized a whole theme of "UC Mexico" for a Battle of the Bands, cooked a bunch of mexican food and wore costumes. Now it's carried on every year! I started a tradition of the UC band dressing up in a theme. I'm pretty proud of that. * Torrie: What makes you happy? * Steve: Working w/ really smart ppl on badass projects. That's my dream, upping the bad-ass-ness. * Torrie: What is one concrete example of Excellence you have seen at Noisebridge? * Steve: You (Torrie) and you (Naomi) stepped up to save the space. ''[Steve leaves. Discussion follows.]'' ''Conclusion: Steve Young is now a Member of Noisebridge.''
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