If I am reading this conversation correctly, it appears that people don't
have an issue with a group or person monitoring or making recommendations
about building cleanups, but a significant number of people at SudoRoom DO
have an issue with giving a single person or group the power to levy
fines. This entire thread - having now moved in a more volatile direction
- has not moved the needle even a little bit on this question. If Sudo or
Omni wants to consider this proposal further, I recommend we do it off the
list and in an online or in-person meeting.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 2:26 PM Yardena Cohen via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
1) Billy's pronouns are they/them
2) the committee HAS begun organizing already, in a public channel on
omni's slack which anybody is welcome to join. ping me with your email
address for an invite to omni slack
3) what is so wrong with the term laissez faire?
4) This proposal is NOT an attempt to target you personally in any
way. It is an attempt to solve real problems related to ongoing work
by the dozens of people who use and maintain common spaces at omni.
It's really really really not about you. Please make better attempts
at resolving your personal problems out of band so they stop leaking
into omni business and wasting everybody else's time.
On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 4:40 PM Jake via sudo-discuss
<sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
Patrik, what you're missing about this proposal is that it was made by
someone
who has shown themselves to be too immature to
handle such power.
A while ago Billy got upset because some speakers got moved into the
ballroom
and he felt they were in the way. I responded to
his question about
how they
got moved there and he went on an embarrassing
rampage on the consensus
list,
ending with a threat to unilaterally "get
rid of" the speakers, and
describing
the discussion as a "pissing contest"
(another way to say "penis size
comparison") as seen in this thread (read the whole thing for context):
https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-August/003618.html
two weeks later, Billy proposed the "Cleanliness Accountability
Proposal" with
the ability to levy fines against people he
decides have been
irresponsible.
cleaned up on
any email lists (and i'm on a bunch of them)
has been Billy targeting me
personally, I don't think it makes sense to deputize him to be able to
levy
fines against people.
He also accused us of being "laissez faire" in the meeting since we were
hesitating to pass his proposal. Maybe you didn't notice that.
As for you being in favor of the proposal, the proposal has been passed
with
the sole exception of the ability to levy fines.
The fact that we're
spending
so much energy discussing this one point makes me
question why it's so
much
more important than any other aspect of the
proposal. There has been no
discussion of budget, or coordination of this new committee, since the
proposal
was passed, the only discussion has been
advocating for the ability to
levy
fines.
-jake
On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> I'm in favor of giving this proposal a chance. As Yar said, we can
always
> decide to revoke it again if it turns out
not to work the way we like.
>
> Patrik
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 3:27 PM Jake via sudo-discuss <
> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes this is the case, messes need to be addressed and accountability
>> assigned, but I don't think it makes sense to suddenly grant the
power to
>> issue "fines" to a newly
formed committee without having any context
for the
>> specific need for such a thing.
>>
>> So far i've heard a lot of yelling that this is needed, and an
accusation
>> that the Omni Commons is too
"laissez-faire" to function properly,
implying
>> that what we really need is a police
department with an iron fist.
I am not
>> convinced.
>>
>> Kent, as delegate I need to solicit peoples' positions on this
upcoming
>> proposal so please be clear about how
you want our position to be
>> represented.
>>
>> -jake
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Kent Leech via sudo-discuss wrote:
>>
>>> Why not just ask the messy groups to clean up first? Kindness and
diplomacy
>>> can go further. Give the messy group
some time to tidy up and move
on.
>>>
>>> If it's a real dysfunctional group that ignores multiple clean-up
requests,
>>> then some sort of action by Omni
could be taken.
>>>
>>> -Kent
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Kent Leech Illustration
>>>
http://www.kentleech.com
>>> kent(a)kentleech.com
>>> +1 (510) 504-0634
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Jake Watters via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>
>>> Reply-To: Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 2:35 AM
>>> To: <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>
>>> Subject: [sudo-discuss] [omni-consensus] Cleanliness Accountability
>>> Committee proposal
>>>
>>>> Hi Sudoroom,
>>>>
>>>> THIS IS IMPORTANT!
>>>>
>>>> The following proposal was brought to the delegate's meeting a
couple
>> of weeks
>>>> ago, and tonight in the meeting it was discussed.
>>>>
>>>> Since I had not been attending delegates meetings for some time, I
>> failed to
>>>> forward this proposal to this list so that sudoroom could discuss
our
>> position
>>>> on it.
>>>>
>>>> Since I am a Sudoroom member, I voiced my position through our
delegate
>> (which
>>>> is me) that I am against giving a committee the power to levy fines
>> against
>>>> omni collectives/tenants/people, especially since we have not
tried a
>> process
>>>> of simple communication between a cleaning collective and
>> representatives of
>>>> collectives.
>>>>
>>>> Ultimately the other Omni delegates felt strongly about passing the
>> proposal,
>>>> but they were willing to remove the provision giving the new
Committee
>> the
>>>> ability to "impose a monetary penalty" on groups or
individuals
they
>>>> determined
>>>> were guilty of being messy. The proposal was partially passed as
seen
>> here:
>>>>
>>>>
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2022/09/15_Delegates#cleanliness
>>>> yar: if we approve the proposal
but delay the fine enforcement
until
>> after our
>>>> october 6 meeting, and require another affirmative consensus
>> decision on
>>>> october 6 to give them that fine enforcement power?
>>>> jake: is ok with that
>>>> CONSENSUS: YES (CCL/Patrik ANV/Silver SUDOROOM/Jake FNB/Helen
CLP/Billy
>>>> MOP/Jacqi)
>>>> ABSTAIN: (SUDOMESH/Camber)
>>>> BLOCK: (none), PASSES!
>>>>
>>>> I personally think it's unreasonable to trust a newly formed
Committee
>> with
>>>> the power to, for example, determine that Sudoroom is too messy and
>> issue
>>>> "fines" of $50 per day until they feel that we have satisfied
their
>> standard,
>>>> and I'm glad that the other delegates were willing to remove this
>> provision
>>>> even though they were technically capable of overriding sudoroom's
>> objections.
>>>>
>>>> This provision is set to be reintroduced at the Delegate's meeting
on
>> OCTOBER
>>>> 6TH and Sudoroom needs to discuss our position, in order for our
>> delegate to
>>>> represent us at that meeting.
>>>>
>>>> Please see the link below for the proposed text of the new
Committee
>> (same
>>>> link
>>>> is in the meeting notes above) and discuss the provision that's
slated
>> for
>>>> October 6th Delegate's meeting.
>>>>
>>>> -jake
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 06:08:55 +0000
>>>> From: deskhandle <deskhandle(a)protonmail.com>
>>>> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
>>>> Subject: [omni-consensus] Cleanliness Accountability Committee
proposal
>>>>
>>>>
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/GcTDiTZqA3ao5+6hbaAuobdc/
>>>>
>>>> At the delegate's meeting tonight, we discussed a proposal
formulated
>> by the
>>>> Events team which is linked above. This is a draft proposal and
>> instructions
>>>> for how to suggest edits are on top of the doc. Please do not edit
the
>> content
>>>> directly.
>>>>
>>>> In short, it exists to create a new committee which will oversee
the
>>>> cleanliness of the space, design
and implement new systems to do
so,
>> including
>>>> a monetary penalty for any space left out of order for both shared
>> spaces and
>>>> tenant spaces. If you're able to be an active and dedicated
participant
>> in
>>>> that
>>>> committee, please join us on Slack.
>>>>
>>>> This committee would also be able to spend some amount of Omni
funds to
>> clean
>>>> the space regularly and keep it at a level of cleanliness that
must be
>>>> maintained for Omni to exist.
Please check this out and get back
with
>> any
>>>> thoughts, concerns, suggestions before it's voted on at the next
>> delegate's
>>>> meeting.
>>>>
>>>> Billy
>>>> Community Liberation Programs
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