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1) Is your foundation tied specifically to a space, or operating in support of one or more spaces in an area?<br><br></div><div>NYC Resistor started as the NYC Resistor : Microcontroller Study Group, and met in coffee shops and a space loaned to us by a Brooklyn based electronic instrument group. Later it got it's first venue. Today it has 3 technically, 2 of which are habitable. All are in Brooklyn.<br>
<br></div><div>There are enough NYC Resistor folks to start a space in SF to be honest. But the culture would undoubtedly be different, and therefore the organization would be different. But more importantly we would be unable to maintain our existing methodology for approving membership across a geographic expanse. So Resistor in it's current form cannot exist beyond a geographically isolated area.<br>
<br></div><div>We have been known to assist other groups in the area.<br></div><div><br></div>
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2) How are your Board members elected/selected?<br><br></div><div>There is no board. There are no leaders.<br></div><div><br></div>
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3) What are your thoughts on your connection to the Make community--
are you a representative body? Corporate-styled authority? Separate but
supporting?<br><br></div><div>NYC Resistor is tax structured as an LLC. But it is basically just a group of people agreeing to do stuff or not. So authority by consensus. We've been involved in the Make community heavily in the past, but when an involvement occurs outside resistor it occurs as the project of a member or subset of members who have decided to take that project on. Anything a resistor feels like putting under the auspices of Resistor is so. If they want to call it their own, or an external group thing. That's their right.<br>
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4) If you take a bottom-up, grassroots, community-first approach to
governance, have you found that to be a hindrance for sponsorships and
donations?
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<br></div><div>Sponsorship is more of a hinderance to community-first. But most sponsors don't want to just give us things no strings attached... and I do mean ZERO strings. That being said, occasionally people gift us stuff. Cases in point:<br>
<br></div><div>"Hey, so I am moving, uhm... I read about you guys on the internet... I got this robot arm I found in the trash, you guys want it?"<br><br></div><div>=P<br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Randall G. Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randall.arnold@texrat.net" target="_blank">randall.arnold@texrat.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sorry to be so active on the list today... but one of my recent questions about operating philosophies is still an issue and I'm looking for data.
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For those of you run as nonprofits, I'm hoping you can answer some questions for me:
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1) Is your foundation tied specifically to a space, or operating in support of one or more spaces in an area?
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2) How are your Board members elected/selected?
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3) What are your thoughts on your connection to the Make community-- are you a representative body? Corporate-styled authority? Separate but supporting?
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4) If you take a bottom-up, grassroots, community-first approach to governance, have you found that to be a hindrance for sponsorships and donations?
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Thanks to any and all respondents.
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Randy
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