[57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Meeting 2014-04-22

[Tom Jones]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:01:59PM +0100, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
 > In Iain's absence Carl provided pictures of some cats. One was
> > sleeping on a laptop.
> 
> Why were these vital pictures not linked in the minutes?

Cat pictures are important, but I feel a specialised site should be created to 
house them. This we can share with the internet community at large.

> > ## Being welcoming
> > 
> > We need to be more welcoming of other people to get more members.
> > There has been too much stuff on the mailing list where folks are
> > expecting too much technical ability or getting annoyed with people
> > because of overly specific expectations of what a hackspace member
> > should be. We need more members so everyone needs to try harder to be
> > friendly.
> > 
> 
> I do not expect people to have technical ability magically, but I expect
> them to want to acquire it, not just go "it's a hackerspace" as an excuse
> for shoddy work.

We should be nice to anyone no matter what. Though personally I have a very 
short fuze for people that don't want to learn. I hate having to learn when I 
want to do, so I can see where people are coming from. I lead a troubled life.

 
> > ## Decision making
> > 
> > There was some discussion about how we should be making decisions. 
> > 
> > There was no real consensus on how this should be happening for day to
> > day decisions. Some points that were hit:
> >
> 
> So no decision was made on how we should make decisions?
> 
> >  * Anything involving spending money should go to the directors
> >
> 
> It should probably go to everyone, as a discussion on the mailing list? Two
> directors need to sign off on it legally, but members should also be
> involved.

It should go to everyone, but that won't work. In the end all money related 
decisions go through me until we have a bank account. I will ask anyone that 
will listen because I **don'** want to be hated.

> >  * Directors need a majority of them to agree to have agreement
> 
> What? Please clarify.

I thought it was two(2).


> ## AGM

> According to our articles of association we were supposed to have an
> AGM in April so this will be an AGM (if the directors agree and we
> manage to get out an announcement on time...).

This is here 
https://github.com/hackerdeen/articles/commit/58dc945981e15cb751968b22290e9b7f6c4ad68c#diff-8f70be4e1e768e1b1d4787a2b3ea94d5R266

I remember when the proto(We weren't a company then) directors walked through 
the articles we said this would be set to our first aniversary. 

Can some others back this up, I don't think having the AGM in May makes any
sense at all.

-- 
Tom
@adventureloop
adventurist.me

The most secure code in the world is code which is never written; The
least secure code is code which is written in order to comply with a
requirement on page 70 of a 100-page standard, but never gets tested
because nobody enables that option.

- Colin Percival