[sudo-discuss] Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Please Note: Bureaucracy Changes Reverted

[Matthew Senate]

FYI, looks like the Noisebridge decision-making changes have been reverted.

The reverting commit (now, consensus):
https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/commit/4bc2e6594d49fd2142971f014e627438dfd373cd

The previous commit (brief period of hierarchy):
https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/commit/ec75ebb81d7ed17689c9624808fb2724d06c13bb

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Madelynn Martiniere <mmartiniere at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Please Note: Bureaucracy Changes Reverted
To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Cc: Naomi Most <naomi at nthmost.com>


The board of directors has reverted the changes to /bureaucracy until
further discussion with the greater Noisebridge can be had. Policies to add
required discussion periods are also in motion within the board to make
sure that incidents like this do not occur again. Given the gravity of this
decision, this is a one-time exception, not a precedent.

I believe Naomi put it best in a previous post to the list:

"This "active board" thing is in its infancy.  We only just decided at the
ONE meeting we have had so far, what the rules of engagement and proper
process were.

Were we supposed to have gotten it right on the first try?  No.

Could I have imagined that the insanity that transpired this first week
would ever take place?  Hell no."

The decision to have the board take an active role I think is a pivotal one
in improving some the issues that Noisebridge has been facing increasingly
over the years. But neither I, nor the rest of the board, have any
intention of disempowering the membership, turning Noisebridge into a
dictatorship, or any of the language I have heard used over the last few
days. We want to be in service to the membership, not to rule over it.

My offer to have a productive dialogue with anyone who has feedback on this
process still stands.

Cheers,
Madelynn

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