<div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">As promised. I wrote "This compact in a nutshell" and posted it to the top of the compact at </span></font><a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/Compact#Compact_in_a_nutshell">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/Compact#Compact_in_a_nutshell</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>In the budget section there is still the text "(insert link here)" , somebody should probably insert that before we ratify.</div><div><br></div><div>Bellow is the compact in a nutshell:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Max</div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Purpose</span></div><blockquote style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">
"sudo room is an association of individuals (called "sudoers") established to collectively support a creative community and hacker spaceand with corresponding values" like opennes, safespace, and do-ocracy.</blockquote>
<ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Members-only</li></ul>
<p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">To be a member, you have to pay the monthly fee. Necessarily some members are more member than others, there can always be a vote for: the <i>facilitator</i>, the <i>scribe</i>, and the <i>exchequer</i>.</p>
<ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Friends-with-benefits</li>
</ul><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Anything that sudo room owns, you can use. Plus we buy things together.</p><ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">
<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Decisions, decisions</li></ul><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Quorum is 10 people. Financial decisions, and endorsements need consensus. Termination of a member is 2/3 vote, after a tribunal.</p>
<ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Budget a la mode</li>
</ul><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Sudo room tries to be a firm, possibly nonprofit, in California for tax purposes. Anyone can do the budget, which is open. The point of the budget is to, reduce monthly fees, and issue soft dividends; but also to keep 3 months of rainy-day money and no surplus.</p>
<ul style="line-height:19px;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Ch-ch-ch-changes</li>
</ul><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Changes to the compact require consensus.</p>