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<DIV>ours has been</DIV>
<DIV>turn up, you’re a non paying member</DIV>
<DIV>turn up and give us $40 ,you’re now a supporting/paying member</DIV>
<DIV>turn up for a couple of months and you’re liked and there is a free
keyholder slot, pay up.</DIV>
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<DIV>been two years, so far so good. no background or id checks.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ben@generik.ca
href="mailto:ben@generik.ca">Ben Brown</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 17, 2012 3:12 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [hackerspaces] New Member Vetting</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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class=moz-text-plain graphical-quote="true" wrap="true"><PRE wrap="">We've got an interesting topic going on our own discuss list about
strengthening membership vetting, spawning from a member's experience in
another organization that's now considering police checks for applicants.
Traditionally, we've had applicants show up to a few open nights before
the board votes on their application. Members who have qualms about that
applicant have 5 days to speak up before the application is considered.
So far we've only rejected a single person (because they didn't attend
enough open nights) but now thinking about it, most hackerspaces
(including ours) entrust a significant amount of equipment to people who
we've only had very limited contact. As we're quickly growing past our
founding members, I'm wondering how other hackerspaces have adapted?
A couple ideas being thrown around are police checks (which most members
are against), and having a member sponsor a new applicant (who risks
their own membership to support them).
What process does your space use and is it working/failing horribly?
Cheers,
Ben
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