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==Membership and Finance==
==Membership and Finance==
Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes
Hacklab Belgrade sidesteps the membership question with a simple decree: ''No membership.'' You turn up during the times that the calendar purports classes are to be or don't. In fact after the 3rd weekly meeting in which the schedule was determined Hacklab Belgrade stopped meeting weekly since there was no further need in their eyes. Monthly meetings are still held, and Arandjel (mentioned above) advocated for, and succeeded in adopting the Noisebridge consensus model for meetings. Vlad cheered their bent towards do-ocracy "those who ''do'' have the ''advantage''" he summarized.
schedule but no meetings and noisebridge conensus.
As such the status quo rolls along sustainably at Hacklab. The most recent moment of crisis was winter where heating pushed their monthly budget from approximately $350 to $500. A call to the more flush members to kick in $26 instead of $13 will float them this year. However Milosh confided in me that if they had to pay the $250 in rent that is currently largessed by the hackerspace mother, Hacklab Belgrade wouldn't be able to exist.
 
Payment, money.