<div dir="ltr"><div>The social good in a hackerspace can only occur when the community behind that hackerspace is healthy. In any disaster situation taking care of your own health is first and foremost before rendering aid. The same is true of organizations. If an organization is not backed by a healthy community they are liable to do more harm than good.<br><br></div><div>-matt<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Sparr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparr0@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparr0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:46 PM, John Craver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcraver@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jcraver@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The board of your space should be looking out for the interests of your organization first and foremost.</blockquote></div><br></span>This sentiment makes me sad. I am always delighted to see organization/corporation founding documents that place things like social good above the interests of the organization itself.</div></div>
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