2 Oct
2022
2 Oct
'22
5:22 p.m.
I've been coming to Sudoroom since 2017 but my involvement has been more intensive
over the past few years. Honestly, cleaning and organizing our space has been really
rewarding for me. I feel like the effort I put into making the space better directly
correlates with more people showing up each week and becoming Sudoroom members!
So far, I've linked up with two other Sudoroom members and we've agreed to meet up
weekly to work on the space. Other Omni members have noticed the improvements and
approached me about joining in on weekly maintenance parties. These experiences give me
conviction that cooperative action, communication, and peer support are the way to improve
both Sudoroom and the Omni itself.
There is obviously still much more work to do, but we've improved so much already! The
needed work of cleaning and organizing is not hard per se but it is work that is best
shared. I am hopeful that the CAC will ultimately do the sort of community building work
that I am doing. I'm working to make Sudoroom the best, most functional, and most
welcoming hackerspace it can be! I do this not because I'm being coerced or threatened
with fines by some would-be cleanliness enforcer but because I believe in the space, the
people, and the mission.
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------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 at 4:01 PM, Jake via sudo-discuss
<sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
I want to point out that this shy person who wrote
this is a sudoroom member
who has been putting TONS of work into cleaning and organizing sudoroom over
the past year, including helping me clean up a really nasty rat corner.
-jake
On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, SudoVanta--- via sudo-discuss wrote:
The proposal of fine-levying powers for the newly
formed Cleanliness Accountability Committee is ill-conceived. Levying, or threatening to
levy (symbolic and unenforceable), cash fines against individuals and collectives at the
Omni will not bring about cleaner spaces, greater engagement or an atmosphere of
collective support among our membership.
I am completely in favor of organized cooperative efforts to improve conditions at the
Omni. However, the way to accomplish this is through purposeful restorative organization
and mutual support, not through the establishment of a penal body charged with surveilling
and making judgments against our collectives and their membership.
Why not first empower this newly formed group to earnestly apply only nonviolent methods
to realize their excellent purpose? Rashly burdening the Cleanliness Accountability
Committee with power over others will be effective only in fostering an environment of
score-keeping, conflict, and disharmony among the people of the Omni.
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