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Community Models
Noisebridge
Organizing Principles - Excellence, Consensus, and Do-ocracy: If you want something done, do it, but remember to be excellent to each other when doing so.
Nuts & Bolts - 501(c)3 educational non-profit, funded through member dues (40$ 'starving hacker' / $80 regular) and donations. Members may block consensus votes.
Mission - "Noisebridge is a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. Noisebridge is also more than a physical space, it's a community with roots extending around the world.
For we're excellent to each other here
We rarely ever block
We value tools over pre-emptive rules
And spurn the key and the lock.
— Danny O'Brien, 2010-11-09 general meeting notes
We make stuff. So can you. "
Vision Statement via [Noisebridge wiki]: We provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring.
As a space for artistic collaboration and experimentation, we are open to all types of art - with a special emphasis on the crossover of art and technology. From hardware labs to electronics, cooking, photography, and sound labs, anything that's creative is welcome.
Many interesting things are happening at all times. Sharing is essential to making this work. We believe in starting from a point of respect and trust. We believe it builds a safe community and that this will foster innovation and creation. Our code of conduct is "Be excellent to each other".
Leadership is taken by individual members for specific projects. We call this "sudo leadership" after the *nix command sudo which allows a regular user to do one root-level, or superuser, task. In other words, if you want Noisebridge to do something, start doing it.
Here's some paraphrasing from our bylaws: Through talks, classes, workshops, collaborative projects, and other activities, we want to encourage research, knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring in a safe, clean space. We provide educational spaces for teaching practical skills and theory of technology, science, and art. We provide work space, storage, and other resources for projects related to art, science, and technology that will benefit the individual members' personal growth in their fields of interest, encouraging the individual members to share their projects and knowledge for the betterment of society through art, science and technology. We create, learn, and teach, individually and as a group, inviting members of the community in the San Francisco Bay area and the world. We develop, support the development of, and provide resources for the development of free and open source software and hardware for the benefit of society. We promote collaboration across disciplines for the benefit of cultural, charitable, and scientific causes.
The Holdout
Organizing Principles - A collective of collectives, one representative from each collective meets regularly for decision-making.
Nuts & Bolts -
Mission - "Our mission is to create a non-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian space where people from various communities can come together to organize, participate in mutual aid, and make personal connections for the purpose of creating social relations free of oppression."
Vision Statement via [[1]]: The Holdout is committed to fighting all forms of hierarchy and oppression including but not limited to the system of Capitalism, white supremacy, racism, ablism, sexism, heteronormativity, ageism, imperialism and authoritarianism. We believe in organizing in a non-hierarchical manner that promotes autonomy, solidarity, grassroots involvement, and the agency of those most affected by each decision. We oppose any state repression of dissent; including surveillance, infiltration, disruption and violence. We are working actively to build relationships and institutions that are based on equality, self-determination, affinity, solidarity, and sustainability.
Tax Structure
- B Corporation - Structure for corporations that do social good. For more info, see this site on Couchsurfing's decision to become a B Corp.
- Start a 501(c)3 Non-Profit