<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:48 AM, David Potocnik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.potocnik@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.potocnik@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
To stay on topic, I'd suggest hackerspaces should remain without<br>
dossiers and tightly-knit (if this means less than X members then<br>
fine) with no paper trail, while a makerspace/fab lab/shared workshop<br>
might want something different.</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd want to have a good chance of maintaining large communities without having to resort to a corporate type of feel. Maybe I should have started a thread about that instead of considering the dossier pattern as a means to that end.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I like the missing stair analogy being used in the discussion matt pointed to, and I've thought about people that way before because I follow pervocracy's blog.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Anyway, with a larger community people will depend on 2nd and 3rd hand knowledge. There is going to be vague background radiation of who is a missing stair. When I took on a role in the board, I was unhappy having to rely on vagueness. Maybe I don't have the social skills for that.<br><br>From this year, I decided not to be a board member again. It's a combination of things, including being uncomfortable with judging people, the sense of unease, and also just myself. I got unhealthy from being too emotionally invested in wanting people to get along.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think other people will do a better job! I'm going to nominate some members to the board next year who helped by working on peace-making this year.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Off topic, I bet there are some big cultural differences in how we/I approach things where I live and with people in different regions. I like what you said here:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Without any sense of either grief or superiority towards any of the<br>
organisational forms - I thought (and probably share this with other<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Finally, I appreciate how everyone has been in this thread. I was thinking with the programmer part brain and wanted to find some simple technical type of approach to throw at a social thing versus getting at it another way. Thanks for the replies.<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a></div></div>
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