[sudoroom] SudoRoom Access, Balancing Act

[Aaronco Thirtysix]

Just to address what some of the hackers are/were discussing around
3:15pm at the Hackerspace.
Including Matt S and the Guy Faulkes-appearing dude with the hat.
Indirect reference to the typical Positive-Negative grid referenced in [1].

IMHO, I think EVERYONE here would agree that as far as physical access
to the space, you WANT to attract  Qualified/Productive/$upportive
people to visit and get involved with Sudo Room. At the same time,
everyone probably wants to keep out the clear undesirables,
e.g.,UNinvited visitors to the space who steal valuables, harass/abuse
others, vandalize the space or others' property there, and/or those
who essentially squat at the space (homeless?)
These two actions and categories of visitors are the respective True
Positives and True Negatives that, again, everyone probably agrees
upon.

Where people are most liable to disagree as far as access to the space
are the False Positives and False Negatives here.

One the one hand are those who will (admirably I think) enhance
SudoRoom's openly-accommodating access as described at the Wiki's
Welcome page [2]. The potential benefits here are that this attracts
not only those Qualified/Productive/$upportive people to visit and get
involved with Sudo Room, but also will probably attract people who
COULD [eventually] GET Qualified/Productive/$upportive. The potential
drawbacks here are that this inclusiveness may, in fact, also bring
along a few of the False Positive types; namely, those undesirables
mentioned above.

OTOH, there are probably some of those who will (less-admirably I
think) seek to restrict SudoRoom's openly-accommodating access in
order to discourage as many clearly-undesirable visitors as possible.
The potential benefits here are that this would definitely make the
SudoRoom a much safer place; not only for visitors and members
themselves, but also for their own private as well as collective
POSSESSIONS. The potential drawbacks here are that these restrictions
may, in fact, also lead to many fewer False Negative types; namely,
those desirable visitors mentioned just above who COULD [eventually]
GET Qualified/Productive/$upportive!

In this balancing act, I, for one, am clearly on the side of those who
would rather ENHANCE open access to the SudoRoom.
So here is to making it as easy as possible to physically and safely
access the space!

-Aaronco

[1] http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/probability-false-negatives-positives.html
[2] http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Welcome