<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hey everyone,<br></div>here at the electrolab (Paris, France), we have a quite simple (but limited) process:<br></div>- anyone can visit the space each tuesday<br></div>
- anyone can signup for a membership ; memberships are cheap, but they only allow you to visit/use the lab when it's open<br></div>- only board members (11 elected people) do have the keys of the space for now. They/We manage openings with our internal mailing list... and also basically are here all the time :)<br>
</div>- members must have some sort of habilitation for specific equipment, which are RFID equiped for powering up/access (eg milling machine, lathe, pcb/chemistry room, ...)<br><br></div>We also have a guide on our wiki (two version: a short "getting started" that can be printed and thus also serves as a flyer, and a longer version that is wiki only but has more information), that we adapted from the one put in place by the London hackerspace.<br>
<br></div><div>For board members, we do have a precise checklist for opening and closing the space (check that this and that equipment are turned off, etc)<br><br></div>We will probably implement another scheme to widen the number of keyholders, but that's still something we are thinking about. We were thinking about pretty much the same scheme:<br>
</div><div>- grace period<br></div><div>- pledge/review from the board, or rather: applications not really welcome, rather suggestions from the board to chosen, trusted members<br></div><div>- training for the standard procedures<br>
- tutoring (eg have one keyholder is your referent) + test period of x weeks/months<br></div><div><br></div><div>The main question is "how do you refuse keys to members without being insulted", followed by "under which circumstances and how do you take keys back".<br>
</div>C. (member of the Electrolab board)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Georges <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gunstick@syn2cat.lu" target="_blank">gunstick@syn2cat.lu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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how do fellow spaces handle new members?<br>
Has everyone the same rights from the start, like full access to the<br>
rooms, voting rights in meetings etc...<br>
Or do you have a grace period serving as introduction?<br>
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Gunstick<br>
<a href="http://syn2cat.lu" target="_blank">http://syn2cat.lu</a><br>
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