[hackerspaces] New Member Vetting

[Al Jigong Billings]

Ace Monster Toys allows people to begin paying dues and get full access (including an RFID fob for the door) as provisional members. At our quarterly membership meetings, we have a closed door vote about the provisional member and decide whether to offer them full membership or not. Normally, they need to have been a member for a month or two (I forget the time) before they are allowed to be voted on so they cannot have simply joined a week before the meeting. Non-members can be in the space anytime a member is there and for any listed events though. We don't close events to the public. 

Al 

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On Monday, September 17, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:

> Nycresistor went with a pre proposal of a member followed by a vote.  A single dissenting vote would be enough to disallow membership.
> On Sep 17, 2012 3:13 PM, "Ben Brown" <ben at generik.ca (mailto:ben at generik.ca)> wrote:
> > We've got an interesting topic going on our own discuss list about strengthening membership vetting, spawning from a member's experience in another organization that's now considering police checks for applicants. Traditionally, we've had applicants show up to a few open nights before the board votes on their application. Members who have qualms about that applicant have 5 days to speak up before the application is considered. So far we've only rejected a single person (because they didn't attend enough open nights) but now thinking about it, most hackerspaces (including ours) entrust a significant amount of equipment to people who we've only had very limited contact. As we're quickly growing past our founding members, I'm wondering how other hackerspaces have adapted? A couple ideas being thrown around are police checks (which most members are against), and having a member sponsor a new applicant (who risks their own membership to support them). What process does your space use 
and is it working/failing horribly? Cheers, Ben 
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