ByLaws

Name

FAMiLab

Board of Directors

Mook

Officers

Membership Meetings Voting

Purpose

list of possible purposes

• Promote Open Source
• Open/Public Lab
• Public Service
• Education: Community, Technical College
• Speak of Hacker culture and ethics
• Makerplace
• Personal Development / Work (as opposed to work for corporate interest)
• Networking (social)
• "Character Strengths and Virtues"
• Promote sense of personal and social responsibility
• Deprivitization of Education
• Demistifying Technology
• Generation of personal intellectual property
• PR for citizen's rights
• Un-demonize the term "Hacker"
• Veloping and De-Veloping

Membership

List of Members

Full Members:

• Daniel
• Anthony
• Brian
• Eddie
• Mack
• Scott
• Indy
• Mike
• Josh
• Dan
• Sean

???:

• Jodie
• Richard
• Ibrahaam
• Nijal
• Rodney (next month)

Tiers

Full Members: $50 Starving Hacker: $30 Guests: $5?

Joining - Application Responsiblities Leaving - Form Voting out - Dignified Written petition Benefits

Member Responsibilities

• Serve the Purpose of the group
• Dues timely paid
• Disagree amicably - don't be an asshole - be awesome to eachother
• Clean the space & your work area when you leave
• Providing up-to-date: address, contract information, preferred method of contact
• Obey "Rules of Conduct"
• Respect our landlords and the property of our landlords
• Responsible for actions/trash of guests (expand)
  • Do not leave guests alone in the space.
• Respect the other members - persons and property
• Protect FAMiLab property
• Promote Hacker/Maker Ethics

Full Member

Rights

• 24/7 access to the lab
• restricted access to FAMiLab owned equipment
• Key (form of access)
• Bring in personal property
• To Free Your Mind (, Neo)
• Voting Rights

Benefits

• workshops
• labs
• facilites
• equipment
• a place to congregate
• community
• start new group projects
• drink in the space (if of age)
• voting rights

Joining

• visit the lab at least 2x
• nomination - petition
• pick the lock
• initiation:
  • lab coat
  • sash
  • throw them off the water tower
  • crickett bat
  • general hazing
  • gallon challenge?
• waiver
• sign by-laws
• key/method of access
• become member during meeting
• crack a windows password
• write the "Hello World" program in the programming language of your choice

Leaving

• give up key/method of access
• remove personal property
• file form 30 (or 15?) days prior (keep access for last month paid)
• How long should we keep records? Should we keep records?

Starving Hacker

• what defines this class of member, if it will exist at all?
• meet requirements: student
• meet requirements: <$20k income
• meet requirements: student & <$20k income
• have Full Member rights without voting rights
• meet set of requirements & no voting rights

Guests

Guest Responsibilities

stuff to put in waiver

• Don't steal things/walk out with things that are property of teh space
• Compensate for any consumeables
• Sign guestbook
• Waiver

Guest Rights

• Bring in personal stuff while here
• Enjoy the space

Voting

• Tuesday Meetings
• Quorum must be present (2/3 must vote)
• By proxy, email, phone call, etc.

Meetings

• Board Meetings
  • every 3rd Tuesday
  • 30 minutes
  • after member meeting
  • No members or guests
• Member Meetings
  • Every Tuesday
  • Dues collected on 3rd Tuesday of month
  • new member initiation
  • No longer than 2 hours
  • start at 8:00 sharp
• Take minutes of meeting