On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Mari M. <strawberrypilabs(a)gmail.com> wrote: Also, I want to unpack this: "turn the Ballroom into a money-making venue to help better serve the community". Can you explain what you mean by this? Who would be better served and how? It's worth mentioning that the whole point of making money in the ballroom is to help the Omni Commons survive as a horizontal collective dedicated to the radical commoning of space and resources, fighting gentrification, and creating alternatives to capitalism. I hope we will always be mindful that we're doing it as a last resort, it will never be the core of our project, everything will always to be sliding scale down to zero, the community will still be able to block events which conflict with our values and delegates can override anything that a production collective does. And if someday we are able to own the building and lower our expenses enough, we will return to doing what we've wanted to do all along - offer everything for free to the people who need it most. This will bring changes if we are not careful. When people are making money, they have an incentive to manipulate our processes in order to keep making money, and new people are incentivized to join who care more about money than about the project's values. All of our processes are designed with the assumption of good faith, and vulnerable to rules-lawyering unless we have a healthy, vigilant culture.