On Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:31:45 Philip P. Patnode wrote: > Torrie is doing what she needs to do in the face of the continuing > bickering, deal making, personal agendas, ego-driven land grabs, and the > subtle obstructionism shown by some members over the floorplan. > > In the face of complete chaos and a looming deadline, form a committee. > > Yes, I am serious. > > Following the philosophy of action as a "do'ocracy", some motivated members > should assemble to discuss the floorplan and make a final decision. > > Five people, with sharp pencils and blank paper, can sketch out a > compromise floorplan in under an hour. Add another half hour for coffee > and revisions.
This is an excellent idea. I think this could also be a wonderful experiment in an improved governance process for the space. Consensus is starting to fall apart. There was recently a large thread on noisebridge-discuss along the very same lines. I will look at their discussion and see what happened. I'm wholly in favor of such a committee producing a floorplan with this limited set of rules: * The floorplan is binding on The Community until March 2nd at 00:00 * No significant modifications may be done to the floorplan after the floorplan is approved without majority approval from the committee members * Any committee member may declare a modification to be significant such that it is required to be approved by the committee * The floorplan shall not include anything that cannot be uninstalled, moved, disassembled, or otherwise modified over a two day weekend after March 3rd without unaminous approval from the committee members * The committee is dissolved on March 2nd at 00:00 * Additions to the committee shall not change without majority approval from the committee members or a Membership proposal * Committee discussion and voting is held on the build@ list * The SYNHAK Secretary is responsible for maintaining the committee membership roster * The roster and any other commitee records are made public to The Membership * Only Active Members in Good Standing are permitted to be a committee member * Committee members may resign at any time, only in writing to the committee > > After a decision has been made, print out a few copies to work from and > start moving stuff into the designated areas. > > The members will take it from there, knowing that a final floorplan exists. > > If this doesn't sound like a workable solution, then just keep on bickering > and squabbling about where to put things or who gets his way about this or > that. > > Of course, the opening day celebration might have to be moved to August 1st > if you keep up the noise level and refuse to cooperate with each other. > > Reminds me of 4th grade recess out on the parking lot... > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Torrie Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thursday, February 06, 2014 01:41:59 Craig Bergdorf wrote: > > > What if the EE lab and general meeting area were connected again in an > > > L? Having the meeting area being the entire width we could fit the 21 > > > people we had at this weeks meeting. Also with a shrunken machine shop > > > from the first post to the floor drain, a clear shot to load/unload from > > > the garage door including the basement & 4x8 sheets to the machine room. > > > The right side of the back 40 is left out, a good classroom and > > > something > > > else could spaciously fit in there. I'm just trying to get 21 unpacked. > > > > 2 > > > > > weeks, 2 days till the soft launch. > > > > > > http://calculais.com/syn/2/5.1.pdf > > > > Replying to indicate that I have given up on caring about floorplans since > > any > > such discussion inevitably ends up pissing me off when I get told how > > wrong my > > ideas are without any real logical argument. > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
