<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://door.sudoroom.org/">door.sudoroom.org</a> looks great, but what's the password?<div><br></div><div>The answer certainly relates directly to the "who is a member?" question, as well as what special privileges membership entails.</div><div><br></div><div>I know I've not been a very active participant in these discussions, so forgive me if I am treading on a well-worn path, but it seems like we need some brainstorming on this issue, so here's my first knee-jerk concept.</div><div><br></div><div>First of all, coming from an access perspective let me just lay out:</div><div><br></div><div>Membership benefits (minimum):</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>1. The knowledge of the door code.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>2. A vote when revoking membership status.</div><div><br></div><div>The next obvious question is how membership is granted. I feel the current Articles of Association are slightly ambiguous here, because they do not specify whether BOTH criteria are required (paying dues and good standing), or EITHER:</div><div><a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_2.1_Qualifications_for_Membership">https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_2.1_Qualifications_for_Membership</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is a touchy subject, especially because there is a good deal of "what is money?" and "alternative currencies!" enthusiasm around the space, while we still pay our rent in USD. I will now lay out a doubtlessly controversial, half devil's-advocate, probably flawed, but I hope at least novel system for distributing membership beyond fiscal donation alone.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is "SudoCredit Proposal 0.0.1":</div><div><br></div><div>A system of Sudo-Room Credit. Sudo Credit is initially tied directly to dollars donated to Sudo Room, ie, a member who has paid $60 a month for 10 months has some factor of 600 sudo credits.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to buying sudo credits from sudo room, a person can earn sudo credits by hosting workshops, donating goods, basically anything that gets people with sudo credits to award some of their credits to that person.</div><div><br></div><div>People with large contributions to sudoroom (ie lots of sudo credit) would have the option of being deified with pictures proportional to their credit on a donors page of the sudo site, linking to their member page.</div><div><br></div><div>Since this leads to an inflationary economy, we may want some kind of sudo-credit re-uptake. Maybe pay credits to open the door, or something else.</div><div><br></div><div>I know we have some currency geeks in here, I'm curious what people would think of having an alternative currency to help distribute membership opportunity, while clarifying membership requirements.</div><div><br></div><div>Just some thoughts, since access & membership seem like muddy concepts that need clarification. I know there will be some resistance simply because it's so tightly tied to financial donation, but at the very least I hope those people will admit it's more egalitarian than a purely fiscally derived membership system.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dan</div></body></html>