Difference between revisions of "Membership policy"

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Non-members have 24 hours of free use of the space (per lifetime) without being vouched for. This is not automatically enforced, and will not often need to be enforced, but if a non-member has been in the space for more than 24 hours then any member can ask if any of the members currently in the space will vouch for the non-member as their guest. If no-one chooses to vouch for the non-member, then the non-member must leave until they become a member or find someone to vouch for them. This may seem like an odd policy, but if you think about it, it will be enforced under the following conditions:
Non-members have 24 hours of free use of the space (per lifetime) without being vouched for. This is not automatically enforced, and will not often need to be enforced, but if a non-member has been in the space for more than 24 hours then any member can ask if any of the members currently in the space will vouch for the non-member as their guest. If no-one chooses to vouch for the non-member, then the non-member must leave until they become a member or find someone to vouch for them. This may seem like an odd policy, but if you think about it, it will be enforced under the following conditions:


1. A member has a problem with a non-member being in the space.
# A member has a problem with a non-member being in the space.
2. The non-member has been there for more than 24 hours.
# The non-member has been there for more than 24 hours.
3. No one in the space feels willing to speak up to let the non-member stay.
# No one in the space feels willing to speak up to let the non-member stay.


This policy will prevent what has happened at Noisebridge, but is very unlikely to otherwise affect how sudo room has been running.
This policy will prevent what has happened at Noisebridge, but is very unlikely to otherwise affect how sudo room has been running.