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Amateur Radio

2021-04-27T23:33:31Z

Guan: /* Articles of Association */

== Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club ==

'''Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club K2HMH''' is a club and club station affiliated with Hack Manhattan.

== Licensing ==

* [[Amateur Radio Licensing Study Group]]
* [[Technician Exam Turbo Class]]

'''Technician''' is the current entry-level amateur radio license. Study guides:

* [http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ KB6NU No-Nonsense Study Guides]
* [http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Get%20Licensed/HRLM%202nd/QPOOL-study%20guide-2nd-ed.pdf ARRL guide]
* [http://hamexam.org Practice exams and flash cards]
* [http://www.eham.net/exams/ Practice Exams]
* [http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=349 Full Question Pool]
* [http://aa9pw.com/radio/ Another practice exam site]
* [https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/study.jsp HamTestOnline] - a great tool -- explains to you the concepts then immediately tests you. Costs money but worth it: '''Technician: $24.95; General: $29.95 and Extra: $34.95''' There is a free trial for each of the three tests -- so you can try before you buy but you should support them...it's a great resource!

== Reading ==

* [http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/SSB_Frequencies.htm Understanding Frequency Relationships on HF/SSB APRS]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Basics_06_Mod.html AM, SSB, and FM]
* [http://www.dx-code.org/ the DX code - useful etiquette on the air]

== Projects ==

* [[APRS]]

== Radio Programming ==

* NYC Repeaters

[http://www.qsl.net/kc2rc/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_NYC_Repeaters.html NYC Repeaters]

* Radio Programming Software

[http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]

= Minutes =

== Minutes of organization meeting ==

Minutes of organizational meeting

The meeting started at the premises of Hack Manhattan on Thursday, November 8th, 2012, at 7pm.

The articles of association and bylaws were unanimously adopted.

David Reeves was elected as President. Guan Yang K6UAN was designated station trustee.

Subscribers to the Articles of Association and initial members:

* Guan Yang K6UAN
* Robert Mark Diamond KG6PIA
* Justin Levinson
* David Reeves

== Meeting of January 20, 2021 ==

Guan Yang K6UAN, as station trustee, opened the meeting, which had been called for noon, at 12:10, in the absence of a President.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN.

The meeting determined that the members of the Club are Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Justin Levinson KD2DCO, based on the Club's minutes and the membership roster on the Hack Manhattan Wiki, excluding members who are no longer members of Hack Manhattan. Since 3 of the 5 members were present, a majority being required for a quorum, the meeting was deemed quorate.

Guan Yang K6UAN noted that the Club no longer had a president, as David Reeves K2DCR was no longer a member of Hack Manhattan and therefore no longer a member of the Club, and the meeting proceeded to election of a president.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO was elected President of Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club by acclamation.

There being no other questions to consider, the meeting ended at 12:20.

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN, Station Trustee of K2HMH.

== Meeting of April 27, 2021 ==

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN

The meeting was called to order by Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, president, at 7:12pm.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, Chaz Antonelli KA2POE, E. Lee, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Guan Yang K6UAN. The chair deemed the meeting quorate because 5 of the 6 members were present.

Guan Yang K6UAN reported that we were unable to make Chaz station trustee because a minimum license level of Technician is required. He proposed finding a way to make Stephen Lynch KD2DCO trustee instead. That would require someone else being the officer who appoints him. The meeting discussed this situation.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO resigned his position as officer of the Club but continued to preside over the meeting.

E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN moved that the meeting elect Chaz Antonelli KA2POE as president by acclamation, which was unanimously adopted, and that Stephen Lynch KD2DCO be appointed station trustee, which was also unanimously adopted.

On the motion of Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, the meeting unanimously adopted this amendment to the Articles of Association: At the end of Article 2, add: "Provided, that the president may decide that a member who ceases to be a member of Hack Manhattan, or is no longer a member of Hack Manhattan, shall continue to be a member of the club."

There being no further business before the meeting, the meeting adjourned on the motion of E. Lee.

= Documents =

== Articles of Association ==

Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club Articles of Association

Preamble

The undersigned constitute ourselves the Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club and adopt these Articles of Association.

Article 1: Purpose

The purpose of the club is to advance the radio art, to promote interest in amateur radio, and to operate a club station in the amateur radio service in accordance with FCC rules.

Article 2: Membership

Membership in the club is open to members of Hack Manhattan, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation (“Hack Manhattan”) formed on October 27, 2011, who are interested in the amateur radio service. Members who cease to be
members of Hack Manhattan shall automatically cease to be members of the club.
Provided, that the president may decide that a member who ceases to be a member of Hack Manhattan, or is no longer a member of Hack Manhattan, shall continue to be a member of the club.

Article 3: Not for Profit

The club is a not-for-profit organization. No profit or gain shall inure to any individual.

Article 4: Organization

The club shall be governed by bylaws adopted by the members. The club shall not adopt membership dues or change its membership criteria without the permission of Hack Manhattan.

Article 5: Dissolution

In the event of the dissolution of the club, the assets of the club shall become assets of Hack Manhattan, or if Hack Manhattan shall have ceased to exist, another not-for-profit organization chosen by the members.

Article 6: Officers

The only officer of the club shall be the president. The president shall designate a station trustee.

Bylaws

Bylaws adopted at the organizational meeting:

1. There shall be no membership dues.

2. The club’s address is c/o Hack Manhattan, 137 W 14th St Suite 201, New York, NY 10011.

3. All decisions of the members shall be taken at members meetings by a majority of votes cast, or by unanimous consent. The quorum for a members meeting shall be a majority of members.

Amateur Radio

2021-04-27T23:33:19Z

Guan: /* Articles of Association */

Amateur Radio

2021-04-27T23:23:55Z

Guan:

== Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club ==

'''Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club K2HMH''' is a club and club station affiliated with Hack Manhattan.

== Licensing ==

* [[Amateur Radio Licensing Study Group]]
* [[Technician Exam Turbo Class]]

'''Technician''' is the current entry-level amateur radio license. Study guides:

* [http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ KB6NU No-Nonsense Study Guides]
* [http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Get%20Licensed/HRLM%202nd/QPOOL-study%20guide-2nd-ed.pdf ARRL guide]
* [http://hamexam.org Practice exams and flash cards]
* [http://www.eham.net/exams/ Practice Exams]
* [http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=349 Full Question Pool]
* [http://aa9pw.com/radio/ Another practice exam site]
* [https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/study.jsp HamTestOnline] - a great tool -- explains to you the concepts then immediately tests you. Costs money but worth it: '''Technician: $24.95; General: $29.95 and Extra: $34.95''' There is a free trial for each of the three tests -- so you can try before you buy but you should support them...it's a great resource!

== Reading ==

* [http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/SSB_Frequencies.htm Understanding Frequency Relationships on HF/SSB APRS]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Basics_06_Mod.html AM, SSB, and FM]
* [http://www.dx-code.org/ the DX code - useful etiquette on the air]

== Projects ==

* [[APRS]]

== Radio Programming ==

* NYC Repeaters

[http://www.qsl.net/kc2rc/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_NYC_Repeaters.html NYC Repeaters]

* Radio Programming Software

[http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]

= Minutes =

== Minutes of organization meeting ==

Minutes of organizational meeting

The meeting started at the premises of Hack Manhattan on Thursday, November 8th, 2012, at 7pm.

The articles of association and bylaws were unanimously adopted.

David Reeves was elected as President. Guan Yang K6UAN was designated station trustee.

Subscribers to the Articles of Association and initial members:

* Guan Yang K6UAN
* Robert Mark Diamond KG6PIA
* Justin Levinson
* David Reeves

== Meeting of January 20, 2021 ==

Guan Yang K6UAN, as station trustee, opened the meeting, which had been called for noon, at 12:10, in the absence of a President.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN.

The meeting determined that the members of the Club are Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Justin Levinson KD2DCO, based on the Club's minutes and the membership roster on the Hack Manhattan Wiki, excluding members who are no longer members of Hack Manhattan. Since 3 of the 5 members were present, a majority being required for a quorum, the meeting was deemed quorate.

Guan Yang K6UAN noted that the Club no longer had a president, as David Reeves K2DCR was no longer a member of Hack Manhattan and therefore no longer a member of the Club, and the meeting proceeded to election of a president.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO was elected President of Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club by acclamation.

There being no other questions to consider, the meeting ended at 12:20.

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN, Station Trustee of K2HMH.

== Meeting of April 27, 2021 ==

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN

The meeting was called to order by Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, president, at 7:12pm.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, Chaz Antonelli KA2POE, E. Lee, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Guan Yang K6UAN. The chair deemed the meeting quorate because 5 of the 6 members were present.

Guan Yang K6UAN reported that we were unable to make Chaz station trustee because a minimum license level of Technician is required. He proposed finding a way to make Stephen Lynch KD2DCO trustee instead. That would require someone else being the officer who appoints him. The meeting discussed this situation.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO resigned his position as officer of the Club but continued to preside over the meeting.

E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN moved that the meeting elect Chaz Antonelli KA2POE as president by acclamation, which was unanimously adopted, and that Stephen Lynch KD2DCO be appointed station trustee, which was also unanimously adopted.

On the motion of Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, the meeting unanimously adopted this amendment to the Articles of Association: At the end of Article 2, add: "Provided, that the president may decide that a member who ceases to be a member of Hack Manhattan, or is no longer a member of Hack Manhattan, shall continue to be a member of the club."

There being no further business before the meeting, the meeting adjourned on the motion of E. Lee.

= Documents =

== Articles of Association ==

Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club Articles of Association

Preamble

The undersigned constitute ourselves the Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club and adopt these Articles of Association.

Article 1: Purpose

The purpose of the club is to advance the radio art, to promote interest in amateur radio, and to operate a club station in the amateur radio service in accordance with FCC rules.

Article 2: Membership

Membership in the club is open to members of Hack Manhattan, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation (“Hack Manhattan”) formed on October 27, 2011, who are interested in the amateur radio service. Members who cease to be
members of Hack Manhattan shall automatically cease to be members of the club.

Article 3: Not for Profit

The club is a not-for-profit organization. No profit or gain shall inure to any individual.

Article 4: Organization

The club shall be governed by bylaws adopted by the members. The club shall not adopt membership dues or change its membership criteria without the permission of Hack Manhattan.

Article 5: Dissolution

In the event of the dissolution of the club, the assets of the club shall become assets of Hack Manhattan, or if Hack Manhattan shall have ceased to exist, another not-for-profit organization chosen by the members.

Article 6: Officers

The only officer of the club shall be the president. The president shall designate a station trustee.

Bylaws

Bylaws adopted at the organizational meeting:

1. There shall be no membership dues.

2. The club’s address is c/o Hack Manhattan, 137 W 14th St Suite 201, New York, NY 10011.

3. All decisions of the members shall be taken at members meetings by a majority of votes cast, or by unanimous consent. The quorum for a members meeting shall be a majority of members.

Amateur Radio

2021-04-15T23:33:07Z

Guan: /* Minutes */

== Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club ==

'''Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club K2HMH''' is a club and club station affiliated with Hack Manhattan.

== Licensing ==

* [[Amateur Radio Licensing Study Group]]
* [[Technician Exam Turbo Class]]

'''Technician''' is the current entry-level amateur radio license. Study guides:

* [http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ KB6NU No-Nonsense Study Guides]
* [http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Get%20Licensed/HRLM%202nd/QPOOL-study%20guide-2nd-ed.pdf ARRL guide]
* [http://hamexam.org Practice exams and flash cards]
* [http://www.eham.net/exams/ Practice Exams]
* [http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=349 Full Question Pool]
* [http://aa9pw.com/radio/ Another practice exam site]
* [https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/study.jsp HamTestOnline] - a great tool -- explains to you the concepts then immediately tests you. Costs money but worth it: '''Technician: $24.95; General: $29.95 and Extra: $34.95''' There is a free trial for each of the three tests -- so you can try before you buy but you should support them...it's a great resource!

== Reading ==

* [http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/SSB_Frequencies.htm Understanding Frequency Relationships on HF/SSB APRS]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Basics_06_Mod.html AM, SSB, and FM]
* [http://www.dx-code.org/ the DX code - useful etiquette on the air]

== Projects ==

* [[APRS]]

== Radio Programming ==

* NYC Repeaters

[http://www.qsl.net/kc2rc/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_NYC_Repeaters.html NYC Repeaters]

* Radio Programming Software

[http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]

= Minutes =

== Minutes of organization meeting ==

Minutes of organizational meeting

The meeting started at the premises of Hack Manhattan on Thursday, November 8th, 2012, at 7pm.

The articles of association and bylaws were unanimously adopted.

David Reeves was elected as President. Guan Yang K6UAN was designated station trustee.

Subscribers to the Articles of Association and initial members:

* Guan Yang K6UAN
* Robert Mark Diamond KG6PIA
* Justin Levinson
* David Reeves

== Meeting of January 20, 2021 ==

Guan Yang K6UAN, as station trustee, opened the meeting, which had been called for noon, at 12:10, in the absence of a President.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN.

The meeting determined that the members of the Club are Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Justin Levinson KD2DCO, based on the Club's minutes and the membership roster on the Hack Manhattan Wiki, excluding members who are no longer members of Hack Manhattan. Since 3 of the 5 members were present, a majority being required for a quorum, the meeting was deemed quorate.

Guan Yang K6UAN noted that the Club no longer had a president, as David Reeves K2DCR was no longer a member of Hack Manhattan and therefore no longer a member of the Club, and the meeting proceeded to election of a president.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO was elected President of Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club by acclamation.

There being no other questions to consider, the meeting ended at 12:20.

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN, Station Trustee of K2HMH.

= Documents =

== Articles of Association ==

Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club Articles of Association

Preamble

The undersigned constitute ourselves the Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club and adopt these Articles of Association.

Article 1: Purpose

The purpose of the club is to advance the radio art, to promote interest in amateur radio, and to operate a club station in the amateur radio service in accordance with FCC rules.

Article 2: Membership

Membership in the club is open to members of Hack Manhattan, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation (“Hack Manhattan”) formed on October 27, 2011, who are interested in the amateur radio service. Members who cease to be
members of Hack Manhattan shall automatically cease to be members of the club.

Article 3: Not for Profit

The club is a not-for-profit organization. No profit or gain shall inure to any individual.

Article 4: Organization

The club shall be governed by bylaws adopted by the members. The club shall not adopt membership dues or change its membership criteria without the permission of Hack Manhattan.

Article 5: Dissolution

In the event of the dissolution of the club, the assets of the club shall become assets of Hack Manhattan, or if Hack Manhattan shall have ceased to exist, another not-for-profit organization chosen by the members.

Article 6: Officers

The only officer of the club shall be the president. The president shall designate a station trustee.

Bylaws

Bylaws adopted at the organizational meeting:

1. There shall be no membership dues.

2. The club’s address is c/o Hack Manhattan, 137 W 14th St Suite 201, New York, NY 10011.

3. All decisions of the members shall be taken at members meetings by a majority of votes cast, or by unanimous consent. The quorum for a members meeting shall be a majority of members.

Amateur Radio

2021-04-15T23:32:13Z

Guan: HMARC bylaws

Rules

2021-03-31T15:46:07Z

Guan: Rule changes from meeting on March 30, 2021

Please also see these other relevant documents: [[Bylaws]]

== Rules ==

=== Rule 1 ===

(a) The fact that no formal rule has been adopted for a type of behavior does not mean that it is tolerated at Hack Manhattan.

(b) It is a violation of this rule to behave in a manner which a reasonable person would find unacceptable at a typical hackerspace or similar unstaffed, shared space.

(c) Unacceptable behavior includes, but is not limited to, acts that

<blockquote>

(i) are illegal,

(ii) threaten the health and safety of humans,

(iii) unreasonably disrupt the ability of other members and visitors to use the facilities and equipment,

(iv) unreasonably expose the corporation to material risks to its activities, purposes, finances, reputation, viability or existence, or

(v) intentionally damage or are likely to damage the property of the corporation or others.

</blockquote>

===Rule 2===

The corporation’s rules apply

<blockquote>

(i) in the space,

(ii) in indoor and outdoor common areas in the building,

(iii) in online spaces including mailing lists and wiki,

(iv) at events outside the space hosted by Hack Manhattan, and

(v) at events outside the space at which Hack Manhattan participates in an organized way.

</blockquote>

=== Rule 3 ===

Smoking is prohibited.

=== Rule 4 ===

The [[Code of Conduct]] applies.

''This rule was adopted on March 30, 2021, with this provision: The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a business meeting, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

=== Rule 5 ===

(a) The board may exclude anyone who violates the corporation’s rules from any or all Hack Manhattan activities, under such conditions and limitations as the board may prescribe.

(b) An exclusion under this rule is effective until the next regular business meeting, at which the members may decide on permanent exclusion, in the case of an excluded non-member, or termination of membership, in the case of an excluded member.

(c) A member may be excluded under this rule only if

<blockquote>

(i) the violation is serious and poses a grave or imminent threat to the corporation or to its members or visitors, and

(ii) the board is satisfied that there are no alternative means to protect the corporation or its members or visitors that the corporation can reasonably implement.

</blockquote>

(d) A member who is excluded under this rule is entitled to a pro rata refund of dues paid for the period of the exclusion.

(e) A member whose exclusion under this rule extends to business meetings is entitled to reasonable accommodations to participate in deliberations of the meeting remotely and to cast votes.

(f) An exclusion may also be decided by the Code of Conduct Committee as a consequence under the Code of Conduct.

=== Rule 6 ===

(a) "Donations" of objects that inhabit corporeal form are prohibited.

(b) This rule does not apply to transfers to one specific member who has agreed in advance to retrieve the items within 24 hours or items that are placed directly in member storage by mutual agreement with a member.

(c) The board may approve exceptions to this rule, under prescribed conditions, by a two-thirds majority decision with a recorded vote and a quorum consisting of a majority of the board. Applications must be accompanied by a complete inventory of the items proposed to be donated. The board shall observe the corporation's policy that donations of a large number of assorted items are to be avoided.

=== Rule 7 ===

A member who ceases to pay dues, with the intention of terminating membership in Hack Manhattan, without informing the Treasurer or the Board by email or in writing, is liable to pay dues until the effective termination date, as well as an assessment of one month of dues. The effective termination date is the date on which the earlier of the following occurs:

(i) the member gives notice of termination,

(ii) the board effects a decision terminating membership, or

(iii) the member returns their keys, retrieves their effects, and otherwise resolves all practical aspects of their membership.

=== Rule 8 ===

A former member may be readmitted without a decision of the members if, in the board's judgment, the former member is suitable for membership and does not intend to leave and rejoin on a recurring basis.

=== Rule 9 ===

(a) Members in good standing are afforded access to the space in order to fulfill their responsibilities, at any time and subject to these rules and other applicable decisions.

(b) Persons other than members in good standing may use the space and facilities whenever a member in good standing is present and hosting, subject to these rules, other applicable decisions, and the supervision of the hosting member in good standing.

(c) The board may authorize other persons, including employees and contractors of the corporation, to access the space, under prescribed conditions, to the extent necessary for those persons to perform their duties.

(d) All entry into, presence in and use of the space, other than as provided for in this rule, is unauthorized.

=== Rule 10 ===

The loaning or transferring of keys, or other codes or tokens used for access control, whether original or copies, to the space to non-members is specifically prohibited. A violation is grounds for expulsion.

=== Rule 11 ===

''Approved February 2018.''

New members may be admitted by the board (or by a membership committee) outside a business meeting if:

(i) They have visited three regular open night events;

(ii) They have received the prescribed new member orientation briefing;

(iii) The application has been submitted by the briefer to the members, and the members have had at least one week to consider the application;

(iv) The application is accompanied by a short biography and a photograph of the applicant (unless the board or the membership committee allows an exception); and

(v) The application has received at least two affirmative votes and no negative votes by members, communicated on the members mailing list.

The members may appoint a membership committee which may also make the final admission decision under this rule.

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-03-30T15:12:47Z

Guan: /* Meeting Meta */

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

<blockquote>The [[Code of Conduct]] applies.</blockquote>

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a business meeting, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.

Rule 5 of the Rules is amended by adding at the end:

<blockquote>(f) An exclusion may also be decided by the Code of Conduct Committee as a consequence under the Code of Conduct.</blockquote>

=== Vote on Jay's Coins & Fundraising Efforts ===

A vote on whether Jay should continue the making, promoting, and distribution of NYCMakesPPE / Hack Manhattan challenge coins will be held by the membership.

=== Application for a COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan ===

Hack Manhattan could apply for a loan from anywhere between $10K-$25K with the federal government's Small Business Association, specifically the EIDL program or the Focused EIDL advance if we quality. As a non-profit, the interest will likely be 2.75% resulting in a monthly payment of anywhere between $40.82 to $102.06 monthly for a period of 3 years. Applying for this loan would not involve actually accepting the loan and the repayment plan, but it would provide a source of additional funds that could be invested in the reboot effort, including but not limited to securing a new lease. Additional information regarding the loan can be found in the link below.

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/covid-19-economic-injury-disaster-loan#section-header-8

This is a time sensitive matter as applications are processed on a first come, first served basis. Opinions welcome.

== New Business ==

=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)
==== mz ====
* Admission of mz as a member, see message to members list

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* Report on bylaws changes in light of code of conduct changes.

====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.
* Proxies
** Rob Diamond to Guan
** Gadi to Jay
** Ron Koder to Guan

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-03-29T17:29:36Z

Guan: /* Meeting Meta */

Bylaws

2021-03-21T21:08:39Z

Guan: /* Section 1: Board of Directors */

Please also see these other relevant documents: [[Rules]]

== Article 1: Purpose ==

=== Section 1: General Purposes ===

The purpose of this corporation is to promote and encourage technical, scientific, and artistic skills through individual projects, social collaboration, and education.

=== Section 2: Specific Purposes ===

Subject to and within the limits of Section 1, and the provisions of the corporation's [[Certificate of Incorporation]], we will advance our purposes through the following activities:

# Through talks, classes, workshops, collaborative projects, and other activities, to encourage research, knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring in a safe, clean space.
# Provide educational spaces for teaching practical skills and theory of technology, science, and art.
# Provide work space, storage, and other resources for projects related to art, science, and technology that will benefit the individual members' personal growth in their fields of interest, encouraging the individual members to share their projects and knowledge for the betterment of society through art, science and technology.
# To create, learn, and teach, individually and as a group, inviting members of the community in the New York City area and the world.
# To develop, support the development of, and provide resources for the development of free and open source software and hardware for the benefit of society.
# Collaboration across disciplines for the benefit of cultural, charitable, and scientific causes.
# To foster, by all legal means, the common purposes of its participants.

== Article 2: Membership ==

=== Section 1: Definition of Membership ===

While anyone associated with the group maybe considered a "community member", the word "member" as used in these by-laws refers to official members of the organization within the meaning of [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC601$$@TXNPC0601+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 601] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, who was an incorporator or who has been admitted under these by-laws.

=== Section 2: Classes of Membership ===

There is only one class of membership. All members in good standing have the same rights and responsibilities by virtue of their membership.

=== Section 3: Qualifications for Membership ===

Any natural person who supports the purposes of the corporation as laid out in the certificate of incorporation and these by-laws is qualified to become a member. A membership application must be moved by two members in good standing and may be approved by a vote of the members.

=== Section 4: Dues and Fees ===

Each member must pay, within the time and on the conditions set by the board, the dues, fees, and assessments in amounts to be fixed from time to time by the members.

A member may apply for and the board may agree to a different individual payment schedule.

Reduced dues may be set for members who are students, unemployed, or underemployed, or similarly situated. The criteria for reduced dues are set by a decision of the members. The board decides whether a member is eligible for reduced dues. The board's decision may be overruled by a decision of the members.

The members may decide to levy fees and assessments in connection with the use of the corporation's facilities, equipment or services, to set reduced rates for certain groups, and to specify terms of payment and use, or to authorize the board to do so within guidelines adopted by the members.

=== Section 5: Rights and Responsibilities ===

Members in good standing have an equal right to attend and vote at meetings, run in corporate elections, and to use the corporation's facilities and equipment, subject to reasonable rules and limits adopted by the members or the board. Members must pay dues, observe the corporation's by-laws and rules, take good care of facilities and equipment and participate in the activities and affairs of the corporation.

Anyone who uses potentially dangerous facilities or equipment owned or provided by the corporation or located in the corporation's premises shall sign a waiver of liability drafted by the board.

The members may continue to make rules for limiting the access of individual members to use the corporation's facilities and equipment under urgent or extraordinary circumstances, pending a decision on termination of membership.

=== Section 6: Members in Good Standing ===

Members who have paid the required dues, fees, and assessments in accordance with these by-laws and who are not suspended shall be members in good standing, and entitled to vote.

Members who are more than 10 days late on payment of dues, fees or assessments are automatically suspended and may not vote. The outcome and effect of votes shall not be questioned based on the vote of a member who was suspended, but whose membership was not terminated.

=== Section 7: Termination of Membership ===

Membership shall terminate on occurrence of any of the following events:

# Resignation of the member;
# The member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments within 30 days after they are due;
# Any event that renders the member ineligible for membership, or failure to satisfy membership qualifications; or
# Termination of membership on the good faith determination by the board or the members, or a committee or person authorized by the board or the members to make such a determination, that the member has failed in a material and serious degree to observe the rules of conduct of the corporation, or has engaged in conduct materially and seriously prejudicial to the corporation's purposes and interests, or for serious safety violations.

These include:

* Failure to wear required safety equipment (e.g. safety glasses, welding mask, gloves) while operating tools or machinery
* Failure to properly turn off power tools or other machinery when done using it and/or leaving the space
* Failure shut down tools when finished
* Misuse of tools or equipment whether through intent or lack of proper knowledge, that could lead to a significant safety risk for the user or others, or potentially damage equipment or the space.
* Any other behaviors which could lead to a significant safety risk for the user or others, or potentially damage equipment or the space.

Termination of membership by resignation is effective when the period covered by dues already paid expires. A member may also resign with immediate effect, but is not entitled to a refund of dues already paid.

Termination of membership due to failure to pay dues, fees or assessments is self-executing and automatically effective

(i) 60 days after the period for which dues have been paid has lapsed, for failure to pay dues or

(ii) 30 days after fees or assessments are due, for failure to pay fees or assessments,

or when otherwise effected by the board or a decision of the members.

A former member must make immediate arrangements to resolve the practical implications of termination, according to procedures adopted by the members or the board. No act, omission or failure by the corporation may prejudice the requirement of former members to fulfill their obligations under the corporation's Bylaws or rules.

Termination for any other reason is effected by a decision of the members following a determination and recommendation by the board or the members, or a committee or person authorized by the board or the members to consider the matter.

The termination of the membership of a member who is an officer or director of the corporation shall simultaneously result in the removal of that member from the offices and/or directorship he or she holds, and the board shall take care that an election is held for the vacant office or directorship.

Each member is solely responsible for maintaining his or her membership in good standing, including observing these by-laws and the rules of the corporation and the payment of dues, fees, or assessments. No act, omission or failure by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership because of a member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments. No act, omission or failure by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership for any other reason, except by a decision of the members.

The members may adopt abbreviated procedures for the admission of former members whose membership was terminated by resignation or for failure to pay dues, fees or assessments.

== Article 3: Meetings ==

=== Section 1: Annual Meeting ===

Meetings of members must be held in New York County, no more than one kilometer from the corporation's premises, not on a major public holiday as recognized by New York City, and between 6pm and midnight on weekdays or 10am and 10pm on weekends. The board must call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Section 603 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law to be held in January or February.

=== Section 2: Regular Meeting ===

Regular meetings shall be held monthly at a time and place designated by the board. Business requiring a vote shall be voted upon upon as specified in these by-laws. Meetings must be announced on the corporation's mailing list, website and other customary means of communication.

A meeting must have been called with sufficient notice under [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC605$$@TXNPC0605+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 605] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law if it is to take any action required to be taken by vote of the members under any provision of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. This provision does not apply to actions not expressly required by law to be taken by vote of the members.

=== Section 3: Conduct of Meetings ===

Meetings shall be coordinated and managed in accordance with Schedule 1 of these by-laws.

=== Section 4: Voting at Meetings ===

When a quorum is present, all issues, except when otherwise specified in these by-laws, the certificate of incorporation or the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, shall be decided by affirmative vote of majority of members who are entitled to vote, are present at the meeting, and cast a valid vote.

Except for the secret ballot in elections, votes shall be public. A vote shall be recorded if a motion therefor is made and seconded, or on the motion of the chair.

Except for elections, a member may vote on behalf of at most two other members, or one-tenth of the members entitled to vote at the meeting, whichever is higher. A proxy is valid only for a specific meeting or meetings designated in the proxy.

=== Section 5: Eligibility to Vote ===

All members in good standing on the meeting date as determined by these by-laws shall be entitled to vote at any meeting of members.

=== Section 6: Quorum and Online Votes ===

A quorum for regularly scheduled monthly members meetings is zero members.

A quorum for meetings of members as provided in Article 6 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, including annual meetings, is the lesser of one hundred members or one-tenth of the members entitled to vote at the beginning of the meeting.

Members represented by a proxy continue to count as present for the purpose of determining whether a meeting is quorate.

A meeting that fails to obtain a quorum may still debate questions on the agenda.

The board may decide to submit a question to an online vote by the members, but the vote must be open for at least 48 hours and at least 72 hours must elapse from the notice of the vote to the end of voting. Questions submitted by the board are adopted with the affirmative vote of a majority of all members entitled to vote, or, if the vote was open for at least 4 days and at least 7 days elapsed from the notice of the vote to the end of voting, by a majority of votes cast.

Online votes may be used to reconsider decisions already made at a meeting of members unless the decision was adopted by a majority of all members entitled to vote. In such cases notice shall be given no later than 3 days after the end of the meeting and voting shall conclude no later than 8 days after the end of the meeting.

The procedure for online votes continues to apply only to matters which are not required to be decided by a vote at a meeting of members by the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

=== Section 7: Notice of Meetings ===

It is the policy of the corporation that an email sent to the corporation's member email list as well as a member's personal email address, if one is on file with the corporation, shall constitute personal notice of meetings to that member within the meaning of Section 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and that personal notice is the only means of notice that is ordinarily employed.

A member may opt out of personal notice and instead receive notice of meetings by first or second class mail. A member who wishes to opt out shall notify the corporation of the member's mailing address and any change of address. The opt out shall be effective for meetings held 20 days or later after the corporation has received the member's notice.

== Article 4: Officers and Directors ==

=== Section 1: Board of Directors ===

The board of directors consists of at least three and at most five directors. The board shall set its own rules of procedure, but decisions must be made by a majority of directors present. The existence of vacancies (meaning there are fewer than the maximum allowed number of directors) shall not affect the procedures or powers of the board.

The board is responsible for the day-to-day management of the corporation, subject to guidelines and rules set by the Certificate of Incorporation, these by-laws and decisions of the members.

The board is responsible for holding elections at a regular meeting no later than 60 days after a vacancy occurs on the board.

Except for elections, amendments, and other rights of the members as established in the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, provisions in these by-laws for decisions made by the members shall not prejudice the board's rights and responsibilities under law, but officers and directors shall agree on election that it is the policy of the corporation that major decisions shall be made by vote of the members and that the board must respect those decisions and must, barring unusual and exceptional circumstances, take care that they are carried out.

=== Section 2: Officers ===

The corporation shall have a president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall be the officers of the corporation.

The president chairs the board of directors, coordinates the activities of the board and the corporation, serves as a first point of contact for prospective and current members, communicates with members, represents the corporation externally, and serves other duties as a president as required by law or custom.

The president chairs meetings of the members or designates another member to do so.

The treasurer has general responsibility for the corporation's finances and accounts, and serves other duties as a treasurer as required by law or custom.

The secretary has general responsibility for the corporation's administrative matters, keeps the corporation's records, and serves other duties as a secretary as required by law or custom.

No individual may hold more than one office of the corporation, and no officer may also be an at-large director.

The board shall, within the limits set by these by-laws and by law and custom, establish the duties of the officers and directors.

=== Section 3: Elections of Directors ===

Elections of the board are held once a year at the annual meeting, or at a regular meeting to fill vacancies. Elections are held by secret ballot.

The board may set a deadline for declaring candidacy of not more than 7 days before the meeting, but if no such deadline has been set, candidacy for any office or directorship must be declared before the first election at a meeting.

Directors are elected according to the vote counting procedure set forth in The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (Scottish Statutory Instruments 2007 No. 42), to be known as "Scottish STV". Absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the output of the OpenSTV software in Scottish STV mode shall be considered the result of the election, provided that any candidate may demand re-entry of election ballots into the software immediately after the results are announced, or a hand recount immediately after the results from re-entered ballots are announced.

Ballots shall be cast and counted as if electing as many directors as there are vacancies. If there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, then every candidate receiving at least two votes (in any preference order) is elected. Provided, that if there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, the members may decide to elected all the candidates by acclamation.

Ballots that include a vote for a candidate who is withdrawn because he or she was previously elected at the same meeting for another office or directorship, or that indicate more than the allowed number of choices, or do not specify any choices, or do not rank choices, or that have markings indicating the identity of the elector, are invalid and not counted.

If the number of directors resulting from an election is smaller than the minimum, the board shall hold another election for all the vacancies at one of the two following monthly meetings. If the resulting number of directors is at least the minimum, but smaller than the maximum, the board or the members may decide to hold an election at any monthly meeting.

The term of an elected officer or director ends upon the next election for that office or directorship at a meeting of members, or on resignation. An officer or director may resign with immediate effect, or effective on a specified date, or on the election of a successor. If an election at a meeting of members is not held due to the lack of a quorum, the board must call a new meeting as soon as practical.

=== Section 4: Elections of Officers ===

The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board at its organizing meeting after an election, and whenever a vacancy occurs, using the following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV":

Elections are held in the following order: president, treasurer, secretary. A candidate who wins an election is withdrawn from subsequent elections for other offices.

Electors shall indicate their first and second choices on their ballot. Ballots are counted in two rounds. In the first round, only first choices are counted. A candidate who wins a majority of first-choice votes wins. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the two candidates with the highest number of first-choice votes proceed to the secound round, and other candidates are eliminated. If two or more candidates are tied with the highest first-choice votes, those candidates proceed to the second round, and all other candidates are eliminated. If two or more candidates are tied in second place, only one second-place candidate chosen by lot proceeds to the second round, and other candidates are eliminated.

In the second round, the votes of ballots that indicated an eliminated candidate as first choice are redistributed to the second choice candidate indicated on the ballot. Ballots where the second choice vote is for a candidate who has been eliminated, and ballots that do not indicate a second choice, are discarded. The candidate who now has the highest number of votes wins the election. If more than one candidate has the highest number of votes in the second round, the election is decided by lot among those candidates.

Ballots that include a vote for a candidate who is withdrawn because he or she was previously elected at the same meeting for another office or directorship, or that indicate more than the allowed number of choices, or do not specify any choices, or do not rank choices, or that have markings indicating the identity of the elector, are invalid and not counted.

=== Section 5: Compensation and Indemnification ===

No officer or director shall receive compensation from the corporation, but may be reimbursed for expenses authorized by and incurred on behalf of the corporation according to the same rules and practices that apply to reimbursement to any other member, and the corporation may provide liability insurance for officers and directors.

To the extent permitted by law, the corporation indemnifies any officer, director or former officer or director made, or threatened to be
made, a party to an action or proceeding other than one by or in the
right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor, whether
civil or criminal, including an action by or in the right of any other
corporation of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any
partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other
enterprise, which any director or officer of the corporation served in
any capacity at the request of the corporation, by reason of the fact
that he, his testator or intestate, was a director or officer of the
corporation, or served such other corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any
capacity, against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and
reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees actually and necessarily
incurred as a result of such action or proceeding, or any appeal
therein, if such director or officer acted, in good faith, for a purpose
which he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for
any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of
the corporation and, in criminal actions or proceedings, in addition,
had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

== Article 5: Miscellaneous provisions ==

=== Section 1: Amendments ===

The certificate of incorporation may be amended according to the provisions of Sections [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC801$$@TXNPC0801+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW 801] and [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC802$$@TXNPC0802+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW 802] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and these by-laws may be amended using the same procedures. In accordance with [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC615$$@TXNPC0615+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 615] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, amendments to the certificate of incorporation and by-laws shall require a two-thirds vote.

Amendments to the certificate of incorporation or by-laws may only be adopted at a meeting if the meeting was called with sufficient notice under [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC605$$@TXNPC0605+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 605] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and if the notice included a specific proposal for amending the certificate of incorporation or by-laws. Such a proposal may, however, be amended at the meeting.

These by-laws have one schedule containing the rules of order for meetings. The schedule containing the rules of order may be amended by a regular vote of the members, but any non-procedural provision shall be invalid.

= Schedules =

* [[MIBS Rules]]

= Revision History =

== November 27, 2012 ==

The following is inserted after the first sentence in Section 6 of Article 3 of the Bylaws ("Quorum and Online Votes"):
<blockquote>Notwithstanding the previous provision, the quorum at regularly scheduled monthly meetings and at annual meetings held at the corporation's premises shall be one-third of the members entitled to vote on the day of the meeting.</blockquote>

== December 3, 2013 ==

The following was struck from Article 3, Section 1:
<blockquote>
An annual meeting shall be held in accordance with [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC603$$@TXNPC0603+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 603] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
</blockquote>
And replaced with:
<blockquote>
The board shall call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Sections 603 and 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The meeting shall be held in November or December.
</blockquote>

Article 3, Section 7 was added: <blockquote><p>It is the policy of the corporation that an email sent to the corporation's member email list as well as a member's personal email address, if one is on file with the corporation, shall constitute personal notice of meetings to that member within the meaning of Section 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and that personal notice is the only means of notice that is ordinarily employed.</p><p>A member may opt out of personal notice and instead receive notice of meetings by first or second class mail. A member who wishes to opt out shall notify the corporation of the member's mailing address and any change of address. The opt out shall be effective for meetings held 20 days or later after the corporation has received the member's notice.</p></blockquote>

The following was added after the first paragraph in Article 3, Section 6: <blockquote>For the purposes only of unanimous decisions on matters that were announced with sufficient notice in the call to the meeting, including decisions made with no opposing votes, regular meetings held at the corporation's premises shall be considered quorate notwithstanding the number of members present.</blockquote>

The following was added to Article 2, Section 7: <blockquote>Each member is solely responsible for maintaining his or her membership in good standing, including observing these by-laws and the rules of the corporation and the payment of dues, fees, or assessments. No act or omission by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership because of a member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments. No act or omission by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership for any other reason, except by a decision of the members.</blockquote>

Article 4, Section 1, was amended by changing the first instance of "one additional at-large director" to "two additional at-large directors". Article 4, Section 3 is amended by changing "at-large director" in the third paragraph to "at-large directors", and appending after the third paragraph: <blockquote><p>At-large directors are elected according to the vote counting procedure set forth in The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (Scottish Statutory Instruments 2007 No. 42), to be known as "Scottish STV". Absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the output of the OpenSTV software in Scottish STV mode shall be considered the result of the election, provided that any candidate may demand re-entry of election ballots into the software immediately after the results are announced, or a hand recount immediately after the results from re-entered ballots are announced.</p><p>The following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV", is used for electing the officers of the corporation:</p></blockquote>

== June 30, 2015 ==

[[Meeting 2015-06-30|Seven changes were made]].

== February 25, 2020 ==

A. Reorganize:

1. §1, 1st ¶: Replace first sentence, as follows: "The board of directors consists of at least three and at most five directors." Append to the end of this paragraph: "The existence of vacancies (meaning there are fewer than the maximum allowed number of directors) shall not affect the procedures or powers of the board."

2. Renumber former "Section 4" to "Section 5", and former "Section 3" to "Section 4". Rename new "Section 4" to "Elections of Officers. Insert a new "Section 3", named "Election of Directors".

3. Move the 1st, 2nd and 4th ¶s from new §4 to new §3. Delete 5th ¶ from new §4.

B. New "Section 3: Elections of Directors"

1. New §3, 1st ¶: Insert "of the board" after first word "Elections", in first sentence.

2. New §3, 2nd ¶: Delete last sentence.

3. New §3, 3rd ¶: Replace first words "At-large directors", of first sentence, with "Directors".

4. New §3, 4th ¶: Add as follows:

Ballots shall be cast and counted as if electing as many directors as there are vacancies. If there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, then every candidate receiving at least two votes (in any preference order) is elected. Provided, that if there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, the members may decide to elected all the candidates by acclamation.

5. New §3, 5th ¶: Copy verbatim 2nd from last ¶ of new §4.

6. New §3, 6th ¶: Add as follows:

If the number of directors resulting from an election is smaller than the minimum, the board shall hold another election for all the vacancies at one of the two following monthly meetings. If the resulting number of directors is at least the minimum, but smaller than the maximum, the board or the members may decide to hold an election at any monthly meeting.

7. Move final ¶ of new §4 to end of new §3.

C. New "Section 4: Elections of Officers"

1. New §4: Insert as first ¶:

The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board at its organizing meeting after an election, and whenever a vacancy occurs, using the following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV":

2. New §4, 2nd ¶: From the first sentence, delete the trailing item ", at-large directors". From the second sentence, delete the trailing "or directorship".

Code of Conduct

2021-03-17T15:23:38Z

Guan: /* Reporting */

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

''The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a business meeting, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time. Appointments and removals may also be made on an ''ad hoc'' basis for the consideration of a particular incident or set of incidents only. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly business meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also contact an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not contact private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Code of Conduct

2021-03-17T15:22:50Z

Guan:

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

''The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a business meeting, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time. Appointments and removals may also be made on an ''ad hoc'' basis for the consideration of a particular incident or set of incidents only. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly business meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also reach out to an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not reach out to private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Code of Conduct

2021-03-17T15:21:13Z

Guan:

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

''The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a business meeting, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time. Such appointments and removals may also be made on an ''ad hoc'' basis for the consideration of a particular incident or set of incidents only. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly business meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also reach out to an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not reach out to private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Code of Conduct

2021-03-17T02:09:38Z

Guan:

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

''The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a business meeting, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time; such appointments and removals may also be made on an ''ad hoc'' basis for the consideration of a particular incident or set of incidents only. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly members meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also reach out to an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not reach out to private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-03-17T01:54:19Z

Guan: /* Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) */

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-03-12T16:21:12Z

Guan: /* Consensus Agenda */ Bylaws change is a report, not a proposal at this time

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-03-12T16:19:05Z

Guan: /* Status update on rent for coming months */

Main Page

2021-03-03T23:47:56Z

Guan: /* Monthly Business Meetings */

[[File:HMpano2.jpg|800px]]

= Hack Manhattan! =

Hack Manhattan is a nonprofit cooperative space in Manhattan dedicated to technology, science, and the arts. We're the only public hackerspace in Manhattan. Get involved. Bring your curiosity, intellect, and imagination. Visit [http://hackmanhattan.com our website].

'''NOTE: ''' This wiki is public, but only approved users may edit. All Hack Manhattan members should have an account. Non-members -- to contribute, please sign up for an account and we'll respond ASAP.

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== Location ==

We're centrally located near the L/F/M/1/2/3/A/C/E/PATH trains and 2.5 blocks west of Union Sq (4/5/6/N/Q/R trains).

[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=137+West+14th+st+ny+ny 137 W 14th Street, Studio 201, New York, NY 10011-7308]

== [[MembershipInfo|Membership]] ==

Hack Manhattan is accepting new members. See [[MembershipInfo]] for more details.

== Meetings & Events ==

=== [[Calendars|Events]] ===

* [http://hackmanhattan.com/calendar/ Calendar]
* [http://www.meetup.com/hackmanhattan/ Meetup]

=== Monthly Business [[Meetings]] ===
Monthly meetings are held at 7:30PM on the last Tuesday of each month and are conducted in accordance with [[MIBS Rules]]. You can read the [[Meetings|minutes of previous meetings]] or the next one:

* [[Meeting 2021-03-29]]

== About the space and building==

* [[Rat Park]] (the building)
* [[Facilities]]
* [[Wish_List | Gear wishlist]]

* [[Tools and Equipment]]


== Resources ==
* [[Administration]]
* [[Building]]
* [[Bylaws | HackManhattan! By-laws]] and [[MIBS Rules | Meeting Procedure (SRC3)]]
* [http://list.hackmanhattan.com/mailman/listinfo/blabber Mailing list] ([http://www.mail-archive.com/blabber@list.hackmanhattan.com/ archives])
* IRC: #hackmanhattan @ irc.freenode.net [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hackmanhattan Web Chat]]
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/hackmanhattan/ /r/hackmanhattan]
* [[Suppliers | Suppliers, Vendors, Sources of stuff!]]
* [[FundRaising | Fund-raising ideas, links, projects]]
* [[Meeting_2013-03-26#Space_use_policy|Space Use Policy]]
* [[Cool Links | Cool Links to Hackerspaces, Blogs, Etc.]]
* [[Local Resources]] Places of interest close to HackManhattan!
* [[Bad Jokes Related to Hacking]] Like the name says it....
* [[Logos and Files]]
* [[3D Printing Resources]]
* [[Welding Resources]]
* [[Affiliate]]
* [[Operations]]
* [[Electronics]]
* [[Hackerspaces]]
* [[Gigs]]
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== [[Projects|Projects / Interest Groups]] ==

{{:Projects}}

== [[Individual Pages]] ==

{{:Individual Pages}}

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__NOTOC__

Code of Conduct

2021-02-27T03:14:37Z

Guan: /* Reporting */

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

''The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a meeting of the members, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time; such appointments and removals may also be made on an ''ad hoc'' basis for the consideration of a particular incident or set of incidents only. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly members meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also reach out to an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not reach out to private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Code of Conduct

2021-02-27T03:12:24Z

Guan:

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

''The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a meeting of the members, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.''

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly members meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also reach out to an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not reach out to private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T03:00:35Z

Guan: /* Status update on rent for coming months */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

''Please insert a decision to be made here, or move this item to a report.''

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

''Please insert a decision to be made here, or move this item to a report.''

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

<blockquote>The [[Code of Conduct]] applies.</blockquote>

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a meeting of the members, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.

Rule 5 of the Rules is amended by adding at the end:

<blockquote>(f) An exclusion may also be decided by the Code of Conduct Committee as a consequence under the Code of Conduct.</blockquote>

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T03:00:22Z

Guan: /* Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

''Please insert a decision to be made here, or move this item to a report.''

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

<blockquote>The [[Code of Conduct]] applies.</blockquote>

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a meeting of the members, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.

Rule 5 of the Rules is amended by adding at the end:

<blockquote>(f) An exclusion may also be decided by the Code of Conduct Committee as a consequence under the Code of Conduct.</blockquote>

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T03:00:05Z

Guan: /* Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

'''
Please insert a decision to be made here, or move this item to a report.
'''

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

<blockquote>The [[Code of Conduct]] applies.</blockquote>

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a meeting of the members, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.

Rule 5 of the Rules is amended by adding at the end:

<blockquote>(f) An exclusion may also be decided by the Code of Conduct Committee as a consequence under the Code of Conduct.</blockquote>

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T02:58:42Z

Guan: /* Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

<blockquote>The [[Code of Conduct]] applies.</blockquote>

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws. As a temporary measure until the Bylaws can be amended, if the Code of Conduct Committee adopts a consequence that can only be implemented as a decision of the members, the Committee may recommend that consequence in a report at a meeting of the members, at which it must either pass on the Consensus Agenda, if there are no objections, or be voted upon without debate.

Rule 5 of the Rules is amended by adding at the end:

<blockquote>(f) An exclusion may also be decided by the Code of Conduct Committee as a consequence under the Code of Conduct.</blockquote>

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T02:53:36Z

Guan: /* Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

"The [[Code of Conduct]] applies."

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would have to be drafted and adopted at a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws.

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Code of Conduct

2021-02-27T02:52:58Z

Guan: /* Reporting */

''Note: This is in draft form and has not been adopted yet.''

This is currently on the Agenda for the [[Meeting_2021-03-29#Implement_and_adopt_a_CoC_.28Code_of_Conduct.29|March Business Meeting]].

== Code of Conduct ==

The Hack Manhattan (HM) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, including our mailing lists, chat (e.g. our Slack), as well as any other spaces that Hack Manhattan hosts, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee (CoC Committee).

Some Hack Manhattan-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

=== Definitions ===

Harassment includes:

* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not appropriate
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person’s identity or history of trauma without their consent, except as necessary to protect other members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (for example, textual descriptions like ''"hug"'' or ''"backrub"'') without consent or after a request to stop
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Stalking or following

The Hack Manhattan community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee will not act on complaints regarding:

* "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" (because these things don't exist)
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
* Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
* Communicating in a "tone" you don’t find positive enough
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

=== Reporting ===

If you are being harassed by a member of the Hack Manhattan community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please submit a report or concern by emailing the Code of Conduct Committee. You may report harassment anonymously, or you can choose to include your contact information if you would like the Code of Conduct Committee to follow up with you for further investigation or to communicate actions that have been taken.

Reports will be handled by the Hack Manhattan Code of Conduct Committee. For the time being, the Code of Conduct Committee is identical to the Board of Directors, and can be contacted at:

Email: board@hackmanhattan.com

The members may appoint a permanent Code of Conduct Committee in due course, and may appoint new members to and remove members from the CoC Committee from time to time. Decisions relating to the CoC Committee may be taken at a monthly members meeting as a decision of the members.

If the person who is harassing you is on the CoC Committee, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. In this situation, you may also reach out to an individual CoC Committee member instead of submitting a report on the form, or have a friend submit your report. Otherwise, please do not reach out to private email addresses or social media accounts for reporting harassment.

If you contact the committee with a concern or report, we collectively commit to acknowledging your report within 24 hours. If you contact an individual member of the committee, we cannot commit that specific individual to a specific response time, but they will make their best effort to respond as quickly as possible. By default, we commit to making a decision about your report within 10 business days. Depending on the situation, we may commit (clearly) to a different timeline for a decision. We reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith.

=== Scope ===

This code of conduct applies to Hack Manhattan sponsored spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of the HM community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Hack Manhattan community members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The Code of Conduct Committee reserves the right to exclude people from the HM community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside HM spaces and behavior towards people who are not in the HM community.

=== Goals ===

The primary goal of Hack Manhattan’s Code of Conduct enforcement is to protect Hack Manhattan (and its members and other participants) from harm.

There is other work that we do to support our primary goal—for example, showing folks what acceptable behavior looks like, educating individuals as to why their conduct was harmful, and serving as an instantiation of our feminist values—but our first priority is to protect our community, especially members who have been the target of a Code of Conduct violation.

This model means that there are some things the Code of Conduct Committee doesn’t do. We do not facilitate apologies, provide mediation of disputes, coach harassers on how to be better, or pass messages between harassers and targets. We may choose an action that is not exactly the target’s desired response, based on our scope, goal of protecting the community, and understanding of the situation.

=== Confidentiality ===

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting targets of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or warn the members only, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of HM members or the general public. We will not name harassment targets without their affirmative consent.

=== Consequences ===

If a participant engages in harassing behavior or other behavior that violates the Code of Conduct, the CoC Committee may take any action we deem appropriate given the seriousness of the violation and other factors we find relevant. Enforcement of the Code of Conduct does not by itself constitute violation of the Code of Conduct.

Example actions and consequences may include:

* A verbal warning or email warning to a person that their behavior was unacceptable
* A notice to the members mailing list
* A temporary or permanent ban from the space and/or online platforms such as Slack and the email lists.
* Temporary or permanent removal of membership
* Involving the HM Board if there is a legal risk to HM or legal action necessary
* Identification of a participant as a harasser to other HM members or the general public

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

=== Credit ===

This Code of Conduct is mostly a copy of the Double Union Code of Conduct. Thank you. https://doubleunion.org/policies/

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T02:51:31Z

Guan: /* Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

"The [[Code of Conduct]] applies."

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would require this to be a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws.

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-03-30

2021-02-27T02:51:22Z

Guan: /* Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) */

==Consensus Agenda==
=== Status update on rent for coming months ===

=== Fundraising processes made by newly formed Fundraising Committee ===

=== Implement and adopt a CoC (Code of Conduct) ===

Rule 4 of the [[Rules]] is amended by striking the existing text and inserting:

"The [[Code_of_Conduct]] applies."

The suspension and expulsion sanctions may require Bylaws changes which would require this to be a formal meeting of members with 10 days’ notice. Giving that notice would require a board decision. The Code of Conduct will apply to the extent permitted by the Bylaws.

=== Terminating membership of and banning Charlie from the space ===

NB: This is merely a holdover from last year.

Charlie has been problematic since he joined the space. There was an attempt to terminate his membership and it failed prior. This time, we want to illustrate that there was a pattern of and unwillingness to change his behavior. In one very recent incident, he used a racial epithet recently in a conversation. Couple this with the complaints from the prior attempt, it establishes a pattern of behavior. His past behavior is included when considering this proposal. His behavior is antithetical to the community we wish to foster and have thus far been unable to reign his behavior in.

Additionally, On Saturday, March 7, I came into the space in the afternoon and looked outside on our porch and saw one of the foam insulation pieces laying on the ground on our porch outside the window and immediately was wondering how it got there. Later examination showed that it had a break, and that break was caused by a strong gust of wind that caused the form to sway in the wind, eventually snapping and falling forward. The foam insulation stack was secured only at the bottom with a piece of wood propped up against an AC unit which we do not own, putting stress on the metal but the top portion was not secured in any way. This is very unsafe. At that point, I and another member of the space brought them back into the space and I stowed them in the garbage closet in the hallway since it was the only place to put them that was not a lot of effort. He has yet to apologize for this and instead acted as if he was being harassed, which is his MO when it comes to this.

Charlie has shown that he does not respect the space, its members, and will continue to be a danger to the very existence of Hack Manhattan in its current form. Given the most recent incident of him storing his project in an unsafe manner, this ban will be permanent. The board does not believe that Charlie can change at this point. Trying to claim he's being harassed when somebody is angry at him for threatening the very existence of the space is a behavior we cannot tolerate.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-02-23

2021-02-16T17:26:07Z

Guan: /* New Business */

==Consensus Agenda==

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

==New Business==

Listed here in order of announcement. Names will be in random order on the ballot.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Election Candidates
|-
! Candidates !! Nominated By !! Accepted !! Notes
|-
| Peter Shenkin || Peter Shenkin, Jay, Leee || Yes || Peter Shenkin 10:00 Hi, I hereby declare my candidacy for the Board.
|-
| Jay || Leee || Yes || jay 13:10 I appreciate the nomination and accept.
|-
| Shway|| Leee, Eliza || Yes ||
|-
| Br || Leee || Yes || br 12:15 Accepted now :+1:
|-
| Clyde || Leee || Yes || clyde s.:partyparrot: 17:04 @leee I appreciate and accept the nomination as well.
|-
| Robby || Leee || Yes || robbyoconnor:boy: 14:46 why not
|-
| Michael Semko || || ||
|-
| Kario || || ||
|}

===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order __:__ at by
* The meeting was adjourned at __:__ by.
* Minutes taken and submitted by

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-02-23

2021-02-16T12:39:52Z

Guan: /* New Business */

==Consensus Agenda==

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

==New Business==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Election Candidates
|-
! Candidates !! Nominated By !! Accepted !! Notes
|-
| Peter Shenkin || Peter Shenkin, Jay, Leee || Yes || Peter Shenkin 10:00 Hi, I hereby declare my candidacy for the Board.
|-
| Jay || Leee || Yes || jay 13:10 I appreciate the nomination and accept.
|-
| Shway|| Leee, Eliza || Yes ||
|-
| Br || Leee || Yes || br 12:15 Accepted now :+1:
|-
| Clyde || Leee || Yes || clyde s.:partyparrot: 17:04 @leee I appreciate and accept the nomination as well.
|-
| Robby || Leee || Yes || robbyoconnor:boy: 14:46 why not
|-
| Michael Semko || || ||
|-
| Kario || || ||
|}

===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order __:__ at by
* The meeting was adjourned at __:__ by.
* Minutes taken and submitted by

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-02-23

2021-02-16T12:39:30Z

Guan: /* New Business */

==Consensus Agenda==

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

==New Business==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Election Candidates
|-
! Candidates !! Nominated By !! Accepted !! Notes
|-
| Peter Shenkin || Peter Shenkin, Jay, Leee || Yes || Peter Shenkin 10:00 Hi, I hereby declare my candidacy for the Board.
|-
| Jay || Leee || Yes || jay 13:10 I appreciate the nomination and accept.
|-
| Shway|| Leee, Eliza || Yes ||
|-
| Br || Leee || Yes || br 12:15 Accepted now :+1:
|-
| Clyde || Leee || Yes || clyde s.:partyparrot: 17:04 @leee I appreciate and accept the nomination as well.
|-
| Robby || Leee || Yes || robbyoconnor:boy: 14:46 why not
|-
| Michael Semko || || ||
|-
| Kario |
|}

===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order __:__ at by
* The meeting was adjourned at __:__ by.
* Minutes taken and submitted by

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-02-23

2021-01-29T20:29:52Z

Guan: /* New Business */

==Consensus Agenda==

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

==New Business==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Election Candidates
|-
! Candidates !! Nominated By !! Accepted
|-
| Peter Shenkin || Peter Shenkin, Jay, Leee || Yes
|-
| Jay || Leee || Yes
|-
| Shway|| Leee, Eliza || Yes
|-
| Br || Leee || Yes
|-
| Clyde || Leee || Yes
|-
| Robby
|}

===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order __:__ at by
* The meeting was adjourned at __:__ by.
* Minutes taken and submitted by

[[Category:Meetings]]

Amateur Radio

2021-01-27T00:32:49Z

Guan: /* "Active" Members */

== Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club ==




<table border=2>
<tr><td cellpadding=5>The radio station is:</td>


<td cellpadding=5 bgcolor=#ff0066><center>NOT OPERATIONAL</center></td></tr>
<tr><td cellpadding=5>Comments:</td><td cellpadding=5></td></tr>
</table>

'''Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club K2HMH''' is a club and club station affiliated with Hack Manhattan.

We have [http://list.hackmanhattan.com/mailman/listinfo/radio our own mailing list].

== Licensing ==

* [[Amateur Radio Licensing Study Group]]
* [[Technician Exam Turbo Class]]

'''Technician''' is the current entry-level amateur radio license. Study guides:

* [http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ KB6NU No-Nonsense Study Guides]
* [http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Get%20Licensed/HRLM%202nd/QPOOL-study%20guide-2nd-ed.pdf ARRL guide]
* [http://hamexam.org Practice exams and flash cards]
* [http://www.eham.net/exams/ Practice Exams]
* [http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=349 Full Question Pool]
* [http://aa9pw.com/radio/ Another practice exam site]
* [https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/study.jsp HamTestOnline] - a great tool -- explains to you the concepts then immediately tests you. Costs money but worth it: '''Technician: $24.95; General: $29.95 and Extra: $34.95''' There is a free trial for each of the three tests -- so you can try before you buy but you should support them...it's a great resource!

== Equipment ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Equipment !! Owner/Contact !! Comments
|-
|Icom IC-7100 Transceiver || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|MFJ 100W Tuner || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|32A Switching Power Supply || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|Wouxun VHF/UHF HT || ??? || It's falling apart.
|-
|Icom IC-707 HF Transceiver || [[User:Guan]] || Placed into storage as backup.
|-
|MFJ-904H LC Tuner || [[User:Guan]] || Placed into storage as backup.
|}

== Members ==
=== "Active" Members ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Member !! Callsign !! Comments
|-
|E. Lee || KD2FJB || "Where's my RF grease?"
|-
|Robby O'Connor || KD2GJQ || "TURN UP YOUR MIC GAIN!"
|-
|Justin Levinson || KD2GJP || Fearless Leader
|-
|[[User:citybadger|Stephen Lynch]] || KD2DCO || "Why not?"
|-
|Max Nager || W2MAX || "Jäger's IN THE SHACK!"
|-
|Rob Lower || KD2IXZ || "Wait, Sam Seaborn is a Ham?"
|-
|Nick Farr || N0FAR || "Nick! Run!" "How farr!?"
|-
|Annie H. || KD2JCH || "Meow."
|-
|Chaz || KA2POE || "Meow."
|}

=== Alumnus ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Member !! Callsign !! Comments
|-

== Reading ==

* [http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/SSB_Frequencies.htm Understanding Frequency Relationships on HF/SSB APRS]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Basics_06_Mod.html AM, SSB, and FM]
* [http://www.dx-code.org/ the DX code - useful etiquette on the air]

== Projects ==

* [[APRS]]

== Radio Programming ==

* NYC Repeaters

[http://www.qsl.net/kc2rc/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_NYC_Repeaters.html NYC Repeaters]

* Radio Programming Software

[http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]

= Minutes =

== Meeting of January 20, 2021 ==

Guan Yang K6UAN, as station trustee, opened the meeting, which had been called for noon, at 12:10, in the absence of a President.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN.

The meeting determined that the members of the Club are Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Justin Levinson KD2DCO, based on the Club's minutes and the membership roster on the Hack Manhattan Wiki, excluding members who are no longer members of Hack Manhattan. Since 3 of the 5 members were present, a majority being required for a quorum, the meeting was deemed quorate.

Guan Yang K6UAN noted that the Club no longer had a president, as David Reeves K2DCR was no longer a member of Hack Manhattan and therefore no longer a member of the Club, and the meeting proceeded to election of a president.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO was elected President of Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club by acclamation.

There being no other questions to consider, the meeting ended at 12:20.

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN, Station Trustee of K2HMH.

Amateur Radio

2021-01-20T17:34:37Z

Guan: /* Meeting of January 20, 2021 */

== Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club ==




<table border=2>
<tr><td cellpadding=5>The radio station is:</td>


<td cellpadding=5 bgcolor=#ff0066><center>NOT OPERATIONAL</center></td></tr>
<tr><td cellpadding=5>Comments:</td><td cellpadding=5></td></tr>
</table>

'''Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club K2HMH''' is a club and club station affiliated with Hack Manhattan.

We have [http://list.hackmanhattan.com/mailman/listinfo/radio our own mailing list].

== Licensing ==

* [[Amateur Radio Licensing Study Group]]
* [[Technician Exam Turbo Class]]

'''Technician''' is the current entry-level amateur radio license. Study guides:

* [http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ KB6NU No-Nonsense Study Guides]
* [http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Get%20Licensed/HRLM%202nd/QPOOL-study%20guide-2nd-ed.pdf ARRL guide]
* [http://hamexam.org Practice exams and flash cards]
* [http://www.eham.net/exams/ Practice Exams]
* [http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=349 Full Question Pool]
* [http://aa9pw.com/radio/ Another practice exam site]
* [https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/study.jsp HamTestOnline] - a great tool -- explains to you the concepts then immediately tests you. Costs money but worth it: '''Technician: $24.95; General: $29.95 and Extra: $34.95''' There is a free trial for each of the three tests -- so you can try before you buy but you should support them...it's a great resource!

== Equipment ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Equipment !! Owner/Contact !! Comments
|-
|Icom IC-7100 Transceiver || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|MFJ 100W Tuner || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|32A Switching Power Supply || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|Wouxun VHF/UHF HT || ??? || It's falling apart.
|-
|Icom IC-707 HF Transceiver || [[User:Guan]] || Placed into storage as backup.
|-
|MFJ-904H LC Tuner || [[User:Guan]] || Placed into storage as backup.
|}

== Members ==
=== "Active" Members ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Member !! Callsign !! Comments
|-
|E. Lee || KD2FJB || "Where's my RF grease?"
|-
|Robby O'Connor || KD2GJQ || "TURN UP YOUR MIC GAIN!"
|-
|Justin Levinson || KD2GJP || Fearless Leader
|-
|[[User:citybadger|Stephen Lynch]] || KD2DCO || "Why not?"
|-
|Max Nager || W2MAX || "Jäger's IN THE SHACK!"
|-
|Rob Lower || KD2IXZ || "Wait, Sam Seaborn is a Ham?"
|-
|Nick Farr || N0FAR || "Nick! Run!" "How farr!?"
|-
|Annie H. || KD2JCH || "Meow."
|}

=== Alumnus ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Member !! Callsign !! Comments
|-

== Reading ==

* [http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/SSB_Frequencies.htm Understanding Frequency Relationships on HF/SSB APRS]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Basics_06_Mod.html AM, SSB, and FM]
* [http://www.dx-code.org/ the DX code - useful etiquette on the air]

== Projects ==

* [[APRS]]

== Radio Programming ==

* NYC Repeaters

[http://www.qsl.net/kc2rc/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_NYC_Repeaters.html NYC Repeaters]

* Radio Programming Software

[http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]

= Minutes =

== Meeting of January 20, 2021 ==

Guan Yang K6UAN, as station trustee, opened the meeting, which had been called for noon, at 12:10, in the absence of a President.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN.

The meeting determined that the members of the Club are Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Justin Levinson KD2DCO, based on the Club's minutes and the membership roster on the Hack Manhattan Wiki, excluding members who are no longer members of Hack Manhattan. Since 3 of the 5 members were present, a majority being required for a quorum, the meeting was deemed quorate.

Guan Yang K6UAN noted that the Club no longer had a president, as David Reeves K2DCR was no longer a member of Hack Manhattan and therefore no longer a member of the Club, and the meeting proceeded to election of a president.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO was elected President of Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club by acclamation.

There being no other questions to consider, the meeting ended at 12:20.

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN, Station Trustee of K2HMH.

Amateur Radio

2021-01-20T17:24:14Z

Guan:

== Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club ==




<table border=2>
<tr><td cellpadding=5>The radio station is:</td>


<td cellpadding=5 bgcolor=#ff0066><center>NOT OPERATIONAL</center></td></tr>
<tr><td cellpadding=5>Comments:</td><td cellpadding=5></td></tr>
</table>

'''Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club K2HMH''' is a club and club station affiliated with Hack Manhattan.

We have [http://list.hackmanhattan.com/mailman/listinfo/radio our own mailing list].

== Licensing ==

* [[Amateur Radio Licensing Study Group]]
* [[Technician Exam Turbo Class]]

'''Technician''' is the current entry-level amateur radio license. Study guides:

* [http://www.kb6nu.com/tech-manual/ KB6NU No-Nonsense Study Guides]
* [http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Get%20Licensed/HRLM%202nd/QPOOL-study%20guide-2nd-ed.pdf ARRL guide]
* [http://hamexam.org Practice exams and flash cards]
* [http://www.eham.net/exams/ Practice Exams]
* [http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=349 Full Question Pool]
* [http://aa9pw.com/radio/ Another practice exam site]
* [https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/study.jsp HamTestOnline] - a great tool -- explains to you the concepts then immediately tests you. Costs money but worth it: '''Technician: $24.95; General: $29.95 and Extra: $34.95''' There is a free trial for each of the three tests -- so you can try before you buy but you should support them...it's a great resource!

== Equipment ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Equipment !! Owner/Contact !! Comments
|-
|Icom IC-7100 Transceiver || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|MFJ 100W Tuner || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|32A Switching Power Supply || [[User:Leee]] ||
|-
|Wouxun VHF/UHF HT || ??? || It's falling apart.
|-
|Icom IC-707 HF Transceiver || [[User:Guan]] || Placed into storage as backup.
|-
|MFJ-904H LC Tuner || [[User:Guan]] || Placed into storage as backup.
|}

== Members ==
=== "Active" Members ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Member !! Callsign !! Comments
|-
|E. Lee || KD2FJB || "Where's my RF grease?"
|-
|Robby O'Connor || KD2GJQ || "TURN UP YOUR MIC GAIN!"
|-
|Justin Levinson || KD2GJP || Fearless Leader
|-
|[[User:citybadger|Stephen Lynch]] || KD2DCO || "Why not?"
|-
|Max Nager || W2MAX || "Jäger's IN THE SHACK!"
|-
|Rob Lower || KD2IXZ || "Wait, Sam Seaborn is a Ham?"
|-
|Nick Farr || N0FAR || "Nick! Run!" "How farr!?"
|-
|Annie H. || KD2JCH || "Meow."
|}

=== Alumnus ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Member !! Callsign !! Comments
|-

== Reading ==

* [http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/SSB_Frequencies.htm Understanding Frequency Relationships on HF/SSB APRS]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Basics_06_Mod.html AM, SSB, and FM]
* [http://www.dx-code.org/ the DX code - useful etiquette on the air]

== Projects ==

* [[APRS]]

== Radio Programming ==

* NYC Repeaters

[http://www.qsl.net/kc2rc/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_To_NYC_Repeaters.html NYC Repeaters]

* Radio Programming Software

[http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home CHIRP]

= Minutes =

== Meeting of January 20, 2021 ==

Guan Yang K6UAN, as station trustee opened the meeting, which had been called for noon, at 12:10, in the absence of a President.

Present at the meeting were Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN.

The meeting determined that the members of the Club are Stephen Lynch KD2DCO, E. Lee and Guan Yang K6UAN, Robby O'Connor KD2GJQ and Justin Levinson KD2DCO, based on the Club's minutes and the membership roster on the Hack Manhattan Wiki, excluding members who are no longer members of Hack Manhattan. Since 3 of the 5 members were present, a majority being required for a quorum, the meeting was deemed quorate.

Guan Yang K6UAN noted that the Club no longer had a president, as David Reeves K2DCR was no longer a member of Hack Manhattan and therefore no longer a member of the Club, and the meeting proceeded to election of a president.

Stephen Lynch KD2DCO was elected President of Hack Manhattan Amateur Radio Club by acclamation.

There being no other questions to consider, the meeting ended at 12:20.

Minutes by: Guan Yang K6UAN, Station Trustee of K2HMH.

Meeting 2021-01-26

2021-01-19T17:13:22Z

Guan: /* Decision */

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Expense ===

Approval for initial $400 for containers and storage supplies for [[Operation_Nascent_Hikkoshi|Opearation Nascent Hikkoshi]]

=== Elections in 2021 ===

The pandemic means that we will need to have the 2021 annual meeting on Zoom. Normal votes (with or without proxies) can be handled on Zoom, because attendance at meetings is not huge, but elections are by secret ballot, which is more difficult to handle.

Our elections are by the Scottish Single Transferable Vote system, and have historically been counted using the OpaVote (formerly OpenSTV) software, rather than by hand. OpaVote supports online elections, so I am proposing that we use OpaVote for elections.

Historically, the deadline for announcing candidacy was immediately before the election itself. While not completely impossible, allowing candidacy to be announced during the meeting immediately before the election is impractical with online elections. The Bylaws do allow the board to set a deadline that's up to 1 week before the election. This option should be used to make the election easier to run.

So far, no other votes are planned. In principle it’s possible to do any vote (secret or not) online, but for votes other than elections, such as Bylaws changes, that is less practical because proposals may be amended. So it’s hard to cast all votes in advance; either the rules would have to reject the possibility of amending proposals, or votes would be contingent on there being no amendments adopted.

==== Decision ====

The decision to be made is:

1. The board must take care that the elections that are part of the February 2021 annual meeting of members are held online, open for a period of at least 48 hours ending during the live proceedings of the meeting (so that those participating in the live proceedings would have an opportunity to vote), using OpaVote or a similar trustworthy service, and that the live proceedings of the meeting are held by videoconference.

2. The board must set a deadline of up to 1 week before the live proceedings of the meeting to announce candidacy for elections.

3. It is the sense of the members that:

(i) A 3-day deadline is sufficient, but that a “soft” deadline of 5 to 7 days may be set, so that candidates are encouraged to announce by the soft deadline, leaving some time to recruit additional candidates before the hard deadline if not enough candidacies have been announced by the soft deadline.

(ii) The online election would form a part of the annual meeting, and so all members in good standing are allowed to vote in the online election, even if they do not attend the videoconference portion of the meeting. However, any votes other than in elections (if any should arise) are done as part of the live videoconference proceedings; casting such votes would require participation in the videoconference or giving a proxy to someone who participates, subject to the limit on number of proxies each member can vote.

(iii) Conducting an online election using OpaVote or a similar service, as part of an annual meeting whose live proceedings are by videoconference, satisfies the requirements of New York law and our Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws, in light of the emergency orders made by the Governor on corporate meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====
* Not present

====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.

===Member and Project Reports===

==== Building Possibilities ====

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order at by
* The meeting was adjourned at by .
* Minutes taken and submitted by J

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-01-26

2021-01-19T17:12:32Z

Guan: /* Decision */

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Expense ===

Approval for initial $400 for containers and storage supplies for [[Operation_Nascent_Hikkoshi|Opearation Nascent Hikkoshi]]

=== Elections in 2021 ===

The pandemic means that we will need to have the 2021 annual meeting on Zoom. Normal votes (with or without proxies) can be handled on Zoom, because attendance at meetings is not huge, but elections are by secret ballot, which is more difficult to handle.

Our elections are by the Scottish Single Transferable Vote system, and have historically been counted using the OpaVote (formerly OpenSTV) software, rather than by hand. OpaVote supports online elections, so I am proposing that we use OpaVote for elections.

Historically, the deadline for announcing candidacy was immediately before the election itself. While not completely impossible, allowing candidacy to be announced during the meeting immediately before the election is impractical with online elections. The Bylaws do allow the board to set a deadline that's up to 1 week before the election. This option should be used to make the election easier to run.

So far, no other votes are planned. In principle it’s possible to do any vote (secret or not) online, but for votes other than elections, such as Bylaws changes, that is less practical because proposals may be amended. So it’s hard to cast all votes in advance; either the rules would have to reject the possibility of amending proposals, or votes would be contingent on there being no amendments adopted.

==== Decision ====

The decision to be made is:

1. The board must take care that the elections that are part of the February 2021 annual meeting of members are held online, open for a period of at least 48 hours ending during the live proceedings of the meeting (so that those participating in the live proceedings would have an opportunity to vote), using OpaVote or a similar trustworthy service, and that the live proceedings of the meeting are held by videoconference.

2. The board must set a deadline of up to 1 week before the live proceedings of the meeting to announce candidacy for elections.

3. It is the sense of the members that:

(i) A 3-day deadline is sufficient, but that a “soft” deadline of 5 to 7 days may be set, so that candidates are encouraged to announce by the soft deadline, leaving some time to recruit additional candidates before the hard deadline if not enough candidacies have been announced by the soft deadline.

(ii) The online election would form a part of the annual meeting, and so all members in good standing are allowed to vote in the online election, even if they do not attend the videoconference portion of the meeting. However, any votes other than in elections (if any should arise) are done as part of the live videoconference proceedings; casting such votes would require participation in the videoconference or giving a proxy to someone who participates, subject to the limit on number of proxies each member can vote.

(iii) Conducting an online election using OpaVote or a similar service, as part of an annual meeting whose live proceedings are by videoconference, satisfies the requirements of New York law and our Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws, in light of the emergency orders made by the Governor in corporate meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====
* Not present

====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.

===Member and Project Reports===

==== Building Possibilities ====

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order at by
* The meeting was adjourned at by .
* Minutes taken and submitted by J

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2021-01-26

2021-01-19T17:10:01Z

Guan: Format for elections in 2021

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Expense ===

Approval for initial $400 for containers and storage supplies for [[Operation_Nascent_Hikkoshi|Opearation Nascent Hikkoshi]]

=== Elections in 2021 ===

The pandemic means that we will need to have the 2021 annual meeting on Zoom. Normal votes (with or without proxies) can be handled on Zoom, because attendance at meetings is not huge, but elections are by secret ballot, which is more difficult to handle.

Our elections are by the Scottish Single Transferable Vote system, and have historically been counted using the OpaVote (formerly OpenSTV) software, rather than by hand. OpaVote supports online elections, so I am proposing that we use OpaVote for elections.

Historically, the deadline for announcing candidacy was immediately before the election itself. While not completely impossible, allowing candidacy to be announced during the meeting immediately before the election is impractical with online elections. The Bylaws do allow the board to set a deadline that's up to 1 week before the election. This option should be used to make the election easier to run.

So far, no other votes are planned. In principle it’s possible to do any vote (secret or not) online, but for votes other than elections, such as Bylaws changes, that is less practical because proposals may be amended. So it’s hard to cast all votes in advance; either the rules would have to reject the possibility of amending proposals, or votes would be contingent on there being no amendments adopted.

==== Decision ====

The decision to be made is:

1. The board must take care that the elections that are part of the February 2021 annual meeting of members are held online, open for a period of at least 48 hours ending during the live proceedings of the meeting (so that those participating in the live proceedings would in have an opportunity to vote), using OpaVote or a similar trustworthy service, and that the live proceedings of the meeting are held by videoconference.

2. The board must set a deadline of up to 1 week before the live proceedings of the meeting to announce candidacy for elections.

3. It is the sense of the members that:

(i) A 3-day deadline is sufficient, but that a “soft” deadline of 5 to 7 days may be set, so that candidates are encouraged to announce by the soft deadline, leaving some time to recruit additional candidates before the hard deadline if not enough candidacies have been announced by the soft deadline.

(ii) The online election would form a part of the annual meeting, and so all members in good standing are allowed to vote in the online election, even if they do not attend the videoconference portion of the meeting. However, any votes other than in elections (if any should arise) are done as part of the live videoconference proceedings; casting such votes would require participation in the videoconference or giving a proxy to someone who participates, subject to the limit on number of proxies each member can vote.

(iii) Conducting an online election using OpaVote or a similar service, as part of an annual meeting whose live proceedings are by videoconference, satisfies the requirements of New York law and our Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws, in light of the emergency orders made by the Governor in corporate meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====
* Not present

====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.

===Member and Project Reports===

==== Building Possibilities ====

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance:
* Visitors:
* Called to order at by
* The meeting was adjourned at by .
* Minutes taken and submitted by J

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2020-12-29

2020-12-30T00:30:43Z

Guan: /* Consensus Agenda */

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Peter ===
HANDOVER OF HM TREASURER ROLE (See discussion on the HM Slack #members channel.)

''For a decision by the members:''

Peter S. Shenkin is hereby given permission to access information from any of Hack Manhattan's financial records, effective immediately, until this permission is revoked by the board (anticipated to be when a new treasurer is elected and has been trained, in Spring 2021). Peter does not have permission under this resolution to make any financial transactions.

== New Business ==

=== Jay ===
In an effort to plan for a move from the current physical venue: [[Operation_Nascent_Hikkoshi|Opearation Nascent Hikkoshi]]
This is a pre-requisite for HM to either move to a new physical venue or be moved into storage. As things start ramping up next month with the end of the holidays, I'd like to budget an initial $400 for storage supplies.

As of this moment, the possibilities for HM can be broken down into 4 options:
* Move to a new location
* Place property in storage and make further decisions later.
* Dissolve HackManhattan (This will require a surprisingly amount of work to properly close a non-profit including but not limited to inventory disposal, account closures, and deciding where the remaining budget goes)
* stay where we are for now and decide later

=== Formerly on Consensus Agenda ===

=== Consensus Agenda ===
=== Sponsored Members Induction ===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

Robby: No report.

===Member and Project Reports===

=== Results ===

==Meeting Meta==
* Called to order at
* The meeting was adjourned at
* Minutes taken and submitted by
* Proxies:
[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2020-12-29

2020-12-30T00:27:15Z

Guan: /* Peter */

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Peter ===
HANDOVER OF HM TREASURER ROLE (See discussion on the HM Slack #members channel.)

''For a decision by the members:''

Peter S. Shenkin is hereby given permission to access information from any of Hack Manhattan'ss financial records, effective immediately, until a new Treasurer is elected and has been trained (anticipated February, 2021). Peter does not have permission under this resolution to make any financial transactions.

== New Business ==

=== Jay ===
In an effort to plan for a move from the current physical venue: [[Operation_Nascent_Hikkoshi|Opearation Nascent Hikkoshi]]
This is a pre-requisite for HM to either move to a new physical venue or be moved into storage. As things start ramping up next month with the end of the holidays, I'd like to budget an initial $400 for storage supplies.

As of this moment, the possibilities for HM can be broken down into 4 options:
* Move to a new location
* Place property in storage and make further decisions later.
* Dissolve HackManhattan (This will require a surprisingly amount of work to properly close a non-profit including but not limited to inventory disposal, account closures, and deciding where the remaining budget goes)
* stay where we are for now and decide later

=== Formerly on Consensus Agenda ===

=== Consensus Agenda ===
=== Sponsored Members Induction ===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

Robby: No report.

===Member and Project Reports===

=== Results ===

==Meeting Meta==
* Called to order at
* The meeting was adjourned at
* Minutes taken and submitted by
* Proxies:
[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2020-12-29

2020-12-19T00:09:28Z

Guan:

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Peter ===
HANDOVER OF HM TREASURER ROLE (See discussion on the HM Slack #members channel.):

Peter S. Shenkin is hereby given permission to access information from any of Hack Manhattan'ss financial records, effective immediately, until a new Treasurer is elected and has been trained (anticipated February, 2021). Peter does not have permission under this resolution to spend Hack Manhattan funds.

=== Jay ===
In an effort to plan for a move from the current physical venue: [[Operation_Nascent_Hikkoshi|Opearation Nascent Hikkoshi]]

== New Business ==

=== Formerly on Consensus Agenda ===

=== Consensus Agenda ===
=== Sponsored Members Induction ===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

Robby: No report.

===Member and Project Reports===

=== Results ===

==Meeting Meta==
* Called to order at
* The meeting was adjourned at
* Minutes taken and submitted by
* Proxies:
[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2020-11-24

2020-11-12T19:49:41Z

Guan: /* New Business */ removing the bylaws proposal

Meeting 2020-11-24

2020-10-26T23:01:07Z

Guan:

==Consensus Agenda==
* Consensus Item 1
* Consensus Item 2

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

===Bylaws change===

''This is a proposal for a change to the bylaws. To be adopted at this meeting, the members would need proper notice of the meeting, so please confirm that this happened.''

In Article 3, Section 1, the last sentence is replaced with:

"The board must call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Section 603 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law to be held by March 31."

At the end of Article 3, Section 8 is added:

"All meetings may continue be held virtually, and votes cast electronically, using procedures adopted by the board or by the members."

In Article 4, Section 1, the first sentence of the first paragraph is replaced with:

"The board of directors consists of at least three and at most eight directors."

In Article 4, Section 1, this paragraph is added:

"Notwithstanding the first paragraph of this section, the board of directors consists of at least three and at most ten directors, through the annual meeting to be held in 2022. Provided, that after the annual meeting to be held in 2021 (at which up to ten directors may be elected), vacancies may only be filled to the extent necessary to bring the number of directors up to eight, and may not be filled if there are at least eight directors."

In Article 4, Section 2, these two paragraphs are added:

"Officers may continue be removed by the board with or without cause.

"The board may appoint members as officers (including additional secretaries and treasurers), for a term ending at the next annual meeting, and may decide their duties and powers. Officers appointed under this paragraph shall be non-voting participants in board proceedings, if not already elected to the board."

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

[[Category:Meetings]]

Meeting 2020-10-27

2020-10-26T22:58:35Z

Guan:

Main Page

2020-10-12T20:52:35Z

Guan: /* Monthly Business Meetings */

[[File:HMpano2.jpg|800px]]

= Hack Manhattan! =

Hack Manhattan is a nonprofit cooperative space in Manhattan dedicated to technology, science, and the arts. We're the only public hackerspace in Manhattan. Get involved. Bring your curiosity, intellect, and imagination. Visit [http://hackmanhattan.com our website].

'''NOTE: ''' This wiki is public, but only approved users may edit. All Hack Manhattan members should have an account. Non-members -- to contribute, please sign up for an account and we'll respond ASAP.

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== Location ==

We're centrally located near the L/F/M/1/2/3/A/C/E/PATH trains and 2.5 blocks west of Union Sq (4/5/6/N/Q/R trains).

[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=137+West+14th+st+ny+ny 137 W 14th Street, Studio 201, New York, NY 10011-7308]

== [[MembershipInfo|Membership]] ==

Hack Manhattan is accepting new members. See [[MembershipInfo]] for more details.

== Meetings & Events ==

=== [[Calendars|Events]] ===

* [http://hackmanhattan.com/calendar/ Calendar]
* [http://www.meetup.com/hackmanhattan/ Meetup]

=== Monthly Business [[Meetings]] ===
Monthly meetings are held at 7:30PM on the last Tuesday of each month and are conducted in accordance with [[MIBS Rules]]. You can read the [[Meetings|minutes of previous meetings]] or the next one:

* [[Meeting 2020-10-27]]

== About the space and building==

* [[Rat Park]] (the building)
* [[Facilities]]
* [[Wish_List | Gear wishlist]]

* [[Tools and Equipment]]


== Resources ==
* [[Administration]]
* [[Building]]
* [[Bylaws | HackManhattan! By-laws]] and [[MIBS Rules | Meeting Procedure (SRC3)]]
* [http://list.hackmanhattan.com/mailman/listinfo/blabber Mailing list] ([http://www.mail-archive.com/blabber@list.hackmanhattan.com/ archives])
* IRC: #hackmanhattan @ irc.freenode.net [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hackmanhattan Web Chat]]
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/hackmanhattan/ /r/hackmanhattan]
* [[Suppliers | Suppliers, Vendors, Sources of stuff!]]
* [[FundRaising | Fund-raising ideas, links, projects]]
* [[Meeting_2013-03-26#Space_use_policy|Space Use Policy]]
* [[Cool Links | Cool Links to Hackerspaces, Blogs, Etc.]]
* [[Local Resources]] Places of interest close to HackManhattan!
* [[Bad Jokes Related to Hacking]] Like the name says it....
* [[Logos and Files]]
* [[3D Printing Resources]]
* [[Welding Resources]]
* [[Affiliate]]
* [[Operations]]
* [[Electronics]]
* [[Hackerspaces]]
* [[Gigs]]
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== [[Projects|Projects / Interest Groups]] ==

{{:Projects}}

== [[Individual Pages]] ==

{{:Individual Pages}}

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__NOTOC__

Meeting 2020-10-27

2020-10-12T20:46:00Z

Guan: /* New Business */

==Consensus Agenda==
===Proposal: COVID-19 TESTING PROTOCOL & RESOURCES===
Members and other visitors must have a negative SARS-CoV-2 test result no more than 2 weeks old. The board may approve exceptions in case of extenuating circumstances, for example difficulty getting a test or results from a test, very limited contact with potential exposure, a history of COVID-19 or positive IgG test combined with evidence of recovery.
Board should discuss creating a list of free testing centers based on member demographic & consult with NYCPPE as needed going forward.

== New Business ==

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

===Bylaws change===

''This is a proposal for a change to the bylaws. To be adopted at this meeting, the members would need proper notice of the meeting, so please confirm that this happened.''

In Article 3, Section 1, the last sentence is replaced with:

"The board must call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Section 603 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law to be held by March 31."

At the end of Article 3, Section 8 is added:

"All meetings may continue be held virtually, and votes cast electronically, using procedures adopted by the board or by the members."

In Article 4, Section 1, the first sentence of the first paragraph is replaced with:

"The board of directors consists of at least three and at most eight directors."

In Article 4, Section 1, this paragraph is added:

"Notwithstanding the first paragraph of this section, the board of directors consists of at least three and at most ten directors, through the annual meeting to be held in 2022. Provided, that after the annual meeting to be held in 2021 (at which up to ten directors may be elected), vacancies may only be filled to the extent necessary to bring the number of directors up to eight, and may not be filled if there are at least eight directors."

In Article 4, Section 2, these two paragraphs are added:

"Officers may continue be removed by the board with or without cause.

"The board may appoint members as officers (including additional secretaries and treasurers), for a term ending at the next annual meeting, and may decide their duties and powers. Officers appointed under this paragraph shall be non-voting participants in board proceedings, if not already elected to the board."

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====
* No report.
====Treasurer's Report====
* No report.
====Secretary's Report====
* No report.
====Directors-at-Large's Report====
* No report.
===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* The meeting was adjourned at 23:59 by MEMBER.
* Minutes taken and submitted by MEMBER.

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Meeting 2020-10-27

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= Hack Manhattan! =

Hack Manhattan is a nonprofit cooperative space in Manhattan dedicated to technology, science, and the arts. We're the only public hackerspace in Manhattan. Get involved. Bring your curiosity, intellect, and imagination. Visit [http://hackmanhattan.com our website].

'''NOTE: ''' This wiki is public, but only approved users may edit. All Hack Manhattan members should have an account. Non-members -- to contribute, please sign up for an account and we'll respond ASAP.

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== Location ==

We're centrally located near the L/F/M/1/2/3/A/C/E/PATH trains and 2.5 blocks west of Union Sq (4/5/6/N/Q/R trains).

[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=137+West+14th+st+ny+ny 137 W 14th Street, Studio 201, New York, NY 10011-7308]

== [[MembershipInfo|Membership]] ==

Hack Manhattan is accepting new members. See [[MembershipInfo]] for more details.

== Meetings & Events ==

=== [[Calendars|Events]] ===

* [http://hackmanhattan.com/calendar/ Calendar]
* [http://www.meetup.com/hackmanhattan/ Meetup]

=== Monthly Business [[Meetings]] ===
Monthly meetings are held at 7:30PM on the last Tuesday of each month and are conducted in accordance with [[MIBS Rules]]. You can read the [[Meetings|minutes of previous meetings]] or the next one:

* [[Meeting_2020-10-27]]

== About the space and building==

* [[Rat Park]] (the building)
* [[Facilities]]
* [[Wish_List | Gear wishlist]]

* [[Tools and Equipment]]


== Resources ==
* [[Administration]]
* [[Building]]
* [[Bylaws | HackManhattan! By-laws]] and [[MIBS Rules | Meeting Procedure (SRC3)]]
* [http://list.hackmanhattan.com/mailman/listinfo/blabber Mailing list] ([http://www.mail-archive.com/blabber@list.hackmanhattan.com/ archives])
* IRC: #hackmanhattan @ irc.freenode.net [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hackmanhattan Web Chat]]
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/hackmanhattan/ /r/hackmanhattan]
* [[Suppliers | Suppliers, Vendors, Sources of stuff!]]
* [[FundRaising | Fund-raising ideas, links, projects]]
* [[Meeting_2013-03-26#Space_use_policy|Space Use Policy]]
* [[Cool Links | Cool Links to Hackerspaces, Blogs, Etc.]]
* [[Local Resources]] Places of interest close to HackManhattan!
* [[Bad Jokes Related to Hacking]] Like the name says it....
* [[Logos and Files]]
* [[3D Printing Resources]]
* [[Welding Resources]]
* [[Affiliate]]
* [[Operations]]
* [[Electronics]]
* [[Hackerspaces]]
* [[Gigs]]
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== [[Projects|Projects / Interest Groups]] ==

{{:Projects}}

== [[Individual Pages]] ==

{{:Individual Pages}}

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__NOTOC__

Bylaws

2020-09-30T23:56:30Z

Guan: Bylaws changes from December 2015

Please also see these other relevant documents: [[Rules]]

== Article 1: Purpose ==

=== Section 1: General Purposes ===

The purpose of this corporation is to promote and encourage technical, scientific, and artistic skills through individual projects, social collaboration, and education.

=== Section 2: Specific Purposes ===

Subject to and within the limits of Section 1, and the provisions of the corporation's [[Certificate of Incorporation]], we will advance our purposes through the following activities:

# Through talks, classes, workshops, collaborative projects, and other activities, to encourage research, knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring in a safe, clean space.
# Provide educational spaces for teaching practical skills and theory of technology, science, and art.
# Provide work space, storage, and other resources for projects related to art, science, and technology that will benefit the individual members' personal growth in their fields of interest, encouraging the individual members to share their projects and knowledge for the betterment of society through art, science and technology.
# To create, learn, and teach, individually and as a group, inviting members of the community in the New York City area and the world.
# To develop, support the development of, and provide resources for the development of free and open source software and hardware for the benefit of society.
# Collaboration across disciplines for the benefit of cultural, charitable, and scientific causes.
# To foster, by all legal means, the common purposes of its participants.

== Article 2: Membership ==

=== Section 1: Definition of Membership ===

While anyone associated with the group maybe considered a "community member", the word "member" as used in these by-laws refers to official members of the organization within the meaning of [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC601$$@TXNPC0601+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 601] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, who was an incorporator or who has been admitted under these by-laws.

=== Section 2: Classes of Membership ===

There is only one class of membership. All members in good standing have the same rights and responsibilities by virtue of their membership.

=== Section 3: Qualifications for Membership ===

Any natural person who supports the purposes of the corporation as laid out in the certificate of incorporation and these by-laws is qualified to become a member. A membership application must be moved by two members in good standing and may be approved by a vote of the members.

=== Section 4: Dues and Fees ===

Each member must pay, within the time and on the conditions set by the board, the dues, fees, and assessments in amounts to be fixed from time to time by the members.

A member may apply for and the board may agree to a different individual payment schedule.

Reduced dues may be set for members who are students, unemployed, or underemployed, or similarly situated. The criteria for reduced dues are set by a decision of the members. The board decides whether a member is eligible for reduced dues. The board's decision may be overruled by a decision of the members.

The members may decide to levy fees and assessments in connection with the use of the corporation's facilities, equipment or services, to set reduced rates for certain groups, and to specify terms of payment and use, or to authorize the board to do so within guidelines adopted by the members.

=== Section 5: Rights and Responsibilities ===

Members in good standing have an equal right to attend and vote at meetings, run in corporate elections, and to use the corporation's facilities and equipment, subject to reasonable rules and limits adopted by the members or the board. Members must pay dues, observe the corporation's by-laws and rules, take good care of facilities and equipment and participate in the activities and affairs of the corporation.

Anyone who uses potentially dangerous facilities or equipment owned or provided by the corporation or located in the corporation's premises shall sign a waiver of liability drafted by the board.

The members may continue to make rules for limiting the access of individual members to use the corporation's facilities and equipment under urgent or extraordinary circumstances, pending a decision on termination of membership.

=== Section 6: Members in Good Standing ===

Members who have paid the required dues, fees, and assessments in accordance with these by-laws and who are not suspended shall be members in good standing, and entitled to vote.

Members who are more than 10 days late on payment of dues, fees or assessments are automatically suspended and may not vote. The outcome and effect of votes shall not be questioned based on the vote of a member who was suspended, but whose membership was not terminated.

=== Section 7: Termination of Membership ===

Membership shall terminate on occurrence of any of the following events:

# Resignation of the member;
# The member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments within 30 days after they are due;
# Any event that renders the member ineligible for membership, or failure to satisfy membership qualifications; or
# Termination of membership on the good faith determination by the board or the members, or a committee or person authorized by the board or the members to make such a determination, that the member has failed in a material and serious degree to observe the rules of conduct of the corporation, or has engaged in conduct materially and seriously prejudicial to the corporation's purposes and interests, or for serious safety violations.

These include:

* Failure to wear required safety equipment (e.g. safety glasses, welding mask, gloves) while operating tools or machinery
* Failure to properly turn off power tools or other machinery when done using it and/or leaving the space
* Failure shut down tools when finished
* Misuse of tools or equipment whether through intent or lack of proper knowledge, that could lead to a significant safety risk for the user or others, or potentially damage equipment or the space.
* Any other behaviors which could lead to a significant safety risk for the user or others, or potentially damage equipment or the space.

Termination of membership by resignation is effective when the period covered by dues already paid expires. A member may also resign with immediate effect, but is not entitled to a refund of dues already paid.

Termination of membership due to failure to pay dues, fees or assessments is self-executing and automatically effective

(i) 60 days after the period for which dues have been paid has lapsed, for failure to pay dues or

(ii) 30 days after fees or assessments are due, for failure to pay fees or assessments,

or when otherwise effected by the board or a decision of the members.

A former member must make immediate arrangements to resolve the practical implications of termination, according to procedures adopted by the members or the board. No act, omission or failure by the corporation may prejudice the requirement of former members to fulfill their obligations under the corporation's Bylaws or rules.

Termination for any other reason is effected by a decision of the members following a determination and recommendation by the board or the members, or a committee or person authorized by the board or the members to consider the matter.

The termination of the membership of a member who is an officer or director of the corporation shall simultaneously result in the removal of that member from the offices and/or directorship he or she holds, and the board shall take care that an election is held for the vacant office or directorship.

Each member is solely responsible for maintaining his or her membership in good standing, including observing these by-laws and the rules of the corporation and the payment of dues, fees, or assessments. No act, omission or failure by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership because of a member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments. No act, omission or failure by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership for any other reason, except by a decision of the members.

The members may adopt abbreviated procedures for the admission of former members whose membership was terminated by resignation or for failure to pay dues, fees or assessments.

== Article 3: Meetings ==

=== Section 1: Annual Meeting ===

Meetings of members must be held in New York County, no more than one kilometer from the corporation's premises, not on a major public holiday as recognized by New York City, and between 6pm and midnight on weekdays or 10am and 10pm on weekends. The board must call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Section 603 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law to be held in January or February.

=== Section 2: Regular Meeting ===

Regular meetings shall be held monthly at a time and place designated by the board. Business requiring a vote shall be voted upon upon as specified in these by-laws. Meetings must be announced on the corporation's mailing list, website and other customary means of communication.

A meeting must have been called with sufficient notice under [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC605$$@TXNPC0605+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 605] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law if it is to take any action required to be taken by vote of the members under any provision of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. This provision does not apply to actions not expressly required by law to be taken by vote of the members.

=== Section 3: Conduct of Meetings ===

Meetings shall be coordinated and managed in accordance with Schedule 1 of these by-laws.

=== Section 4: Voting at Meetings ===

When a quorum is present, all issues, except when otherwise specified in these by-laws, the certificate of incorporation or the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, shall be decided by affirmative vote of majority of members who are entitled to vote, are present at the meeting, and cast a valid vote.

Except for the secret ballot in elections, votes shall be public. A vote shall be recorded if a motion therefor is made and seconded, or on the motion of the chair.

Except for elections, a member may vote on behalf of at most two other members, or one-tenth of the members entitled to vote at the meeting, whichever is higher. A proxy is valid only for a specific meeting or meetings designated in the proxy.

=== Section 5: Eligibility to Vote ===

All members in good standing on the meeting date as determined by these by-laws shall be entitled to vote at any meeting of members.

=== Section 6: Quorum and Online Votes ===

A quorum for regularly scheduled monthly members meetings is zero members.

A quorum for meetings of members as provided in Article 6 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, including annual meetings, is the lesser of one hundred members or one-tenth of the members entitled to vote at the beginning of the meeting.

Members represented by a proxy continue to count as present for the purpose of determining whether a meeting is quorate.

A meeting that fails to obtain a quorum may still debate questions on the agenda.

The board may decide to submit a question to an online vote by the members, but the vote must be open for at least 48 hours and at least 72 hours must elapse from the notice of the vote to the end of voting. Questions submitted by the board are adopted with the affirmative vote of a majority of all members entitled to vote, or, if the vote was open for at least 4 days and at least 7 days elapsed from the notice of the vote to the end of voting, by a majority of votes cast.

Online votes may be used to reconsider decisions already made at a meeting of members unless the decision was adopted by a majority of all members entitled to vote. In such cases notice shall be given no later than 3 days after the end of the meeting and voting shall conclude no later than 8 days after the end of the meeting.

The procedure for online votes continues to apply only to matters which are not required to be decided by a vote at a meeting of members by the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

=== Section 7: Notice of Meetings ===

It is the policy of the corporation that an email sent to the corporation's member email list as well as a member's personal email address, if one is on file with the corporation, shall constitute personal notice of meetings to that member within the meaning of Section 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and that personal notice is the only means of notice that is ordinarily employed.

A member may opt out of personal notice and instead receive notice of meetings by first or second class mail. A member who wishes to opt out shall notify the corporation of the member's mailing address and any change of address. The opt out shall be effective for meetings held 20 days or later after the corporation has received the member's notice.

== Article 4: Officers and Directors ==

=== Section 1: Board of Directors ===

"The board of directors consists of at least three and at most five directors. The board shall set its own rules of procedure, but decisions must be made by a majority of directors present. The existence of vacancies (meaning there are fewer than the maximum allowed number of directors) shall not affect the procedures or powers of the board.

The board is responsible for the day-to-day management of the corporation, subject to guidelines and rules set by the Certificate of Incorporation, these by-laws and decisions of the members.

The board is responsible for holding elections at a regular meeting no later than 60 days after a vacancy occurs on the board.

Except for elections, amendments, and other rights of the members as established in the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, provisions in these by-laws for decisions made by the members shall not prejudice the board's rights and responsibilities under law, but officers and directors shall agree on election that it is the policy of the corporation that major decisions shall be made by vote of the members and that the board must respect those decisions and must, barring unusual and exceptional circumstances, take care that they are carried out.

=== Section 2: Officers ===

The corporation shall have a president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall be the officers of the corporation.

The president chairs the board of directors, coordinates the activities of the board and the corporation, serves as a first point of contact for prospective and current members, communicates with members, represents the corporation externally, and serves other duties as a president as required by law or custom.

The president chairs meetings of the members or designates another member to do so.

The treasurer has general responsibility for the corporation's finances and accounts, and serves other duties as a treasurer as required by law or custom.

The secretary has general responsibility for the corporation's administrative matters, keeps the corporation's records, and serves other duties as a secretary as required by law or custom.

No individual may hold more than one office of the corporation, and no officer may also be an at-large director.

The board shall, within the limits set by these by-laws and by law and custom, establish the duties of the officers and directors.

=== Section 3: Elections of Directors ===

Elections of the board are held once a year at the annual meeting, or at a regular meeting to fill vacancies. Elections are held by secret ballot.

The board may set a deadline for declaring candidacy of not more than 7 days before the meeting, but if no such deadline has been set, candidacy for any office or directorship must be declared before the first election at a meeting.

Directors are elected according to the vote counting procedure set forth in The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (Scottish Statutory Instruments 2007 No. 42), to be known as "Scottish STV". Absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the output of the OpenSTV software in Scottish STV mode shall be considered the result of the election, provided that any candidate may demand re-entry of election ballots into the software immediately after the results are announced, or a hand recount immediately after the results from re-entered ballots are announced.

Ballots shall be cast and counted as if electing as many directors as there are vacancies. If there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, then every candidate receiving at least two votes (in any preference order) is elected. Provided, that if there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, the members may decide to elected all the candidates by acclamation.

Ballots that include a vote for a candidate who is withdrawn because he or she was previously elected at the same meeting for another office or directorship, or that indicate more than the allowed number of choices, or do not specify any choices, or do not rank choices, or that have markings indicating the identity of the elector, are invalid and not counted.

If the number of directors resulting from an election is smaller than the minimum, the board shall hold another election for all the vacancies at one of the two following monthly meetings. If the resulting number of directors is at least the minimum, but smaller than the maximum, the board or the members may decide to hold an election at any monthly meeting.

The term of an elected officer or director ends upon the next election for that office or directorship at a meeting of members, or on resignation. An officer or director may resign with immediate effect, or effective on a specified date, or on the election of a successor. If an election at a meeting of members is not held due to the lack of a quorum, the board must call a new meeting as soon as practical.

=== Section 4: Elections of Officers ===

The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board at its organizing meeting after an election, and whenever a vacancy occurs, using the following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV":

Elections are held in the following order: president, treasurer, secretary. A candidate who wins an election is withdrawn from subsequent elections for other offices.

Electors shall indicate their first and second choices on their ballot. Ballots are counted in two rounds. In the first round, only first choices are counted. A candidate who wins a majority of first-choice votes wins. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the two candidates with the highest number of first-choice votes proceed to the secound round, and other candidates are eliminated. If two or more candidates are tied with the highest first-choice votes, those candidates proceed to the second round, and all other candidates are eliminated. If two or more candidates are tied in second place, only one second-place candidate chosen by lot proceeds to the second round, and other candidates are eliminated.

In the second round, the votes of ballots that indicated an eliminated candidate as first choice are redistributed to the second choice candidate indicated on the ballot. Ballots where the second choice vote is for a candidate who has been eliminated, and ballots that do not indicate a second choice, are discarded. The candidate who now has the highest number of votes wins the election. If more than one candidate has the highest number of votes in the second round, the election is decided by lot among those candidates.

Ballots that include a vote for a candidate who is withdrawn because he or she was previously elected at the same meeting for another office or directorship, or that indicate more than the allowed number of choices, or do not specify any choices, or do not rank choices, or that have markings indicating the identity of the elector, are invalid and not counted.

=== Section 5: Compensation and Indemnification ===

No officer or director shall receive compensation from the corporation, but may be reimbursed for expenses authorized by and incurred on behalf of the corporation according to the same rules and practices that apply to reimbursement to any other member, and the corporation may provide liability insurance for officers and directors.

To the extent permitted by law, the corporation indemnifies any officer, director or former officer or director made, or threatened to be
made, a party to an action or proceeding other than one by or in the
right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor, whether
civil or criminal, including an action by or in the right of any other
corporation of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any
partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other
enterprise, which any director or officer of the corporation served in
any capacity at the request of the corporation, by reason of the fact
that he, his testator or intestate, was a director or officer of the
corporation, or served such other corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any
capacity, against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and
reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees actually and necessarily
incurred as a result of such action or proceeding, or any appeal
therein, if such director or officer acted, in good faith, for a purpose
which he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for
any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of
the corporation and, in criminal actions or proceedings, in addition,
had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

== Article 5: Miscellaneous provisions ==

=== Section 1: Amendments ===

The certificate of incorporation may be amended according to the provisions of Sections [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC801$$@TXNPC0801+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW 801] and [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC802$$@TXNPC0802+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW 802] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and these by-laws may be amended using the same procedures. In accordance with [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC615$$@TXNPC0615+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 615] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, amendments to the certificate of incorporation and by-laws shall require a two-thirds vote.

Amendments to the certificate of incorporation or by-laws may only be adopted at a meeting if the meeting was called with sufficient notice under [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC605$$@TXNPC0605+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 605] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and if the notice included a specific proposal for amending the certificate of incorporation or by-laws. Such a proposal may, however, be amended at the meeting.

These by-laws have one schedule containing the rules of order for meetings. The schedule containing the rules of order may be amended by a regular vote of the members, but any non-procedural provision shall be invalid.

= Schedules =

* [[MIBS Rules]]

= Revision History =

== November 27, 2012 ==

The following is inserted after the first sentence in Section 6 of Article 3 of the Bylaws ("Quorum and Online Votes"):
<blockquote>Notwithstanding the previous provision, the quorum at regularly scheduled monthly meetings and at annual meetings held at the corporation's premises shall be one-third of the members entitled to vote on the day of the meeting.</blockquote>

== December 3, 2013 ==

The following was struck from Article 3, Section 1:
<blockquote>
An annual meeting shall be held in accordance with [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC603$$@TXNPC0603+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 603] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
</blockquote>
And replaced with:
<blockquote>
The board shall call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Sections 603 and 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The meeting shall be held in November or December.
</blockquote>

Article 3, Section 7 was added: <blockquote><p>It is the policy of the corporation that an email sent to the corporation's member email list as well as a member's personal email address, if one is on file with the corporation, shall constitute personal notice of meetings to that member within the meaning of Section 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and that personal notice is the only means of notice that is ordinarily employed.</p><p>A member may opt out of personal notice and instead receive notice of meetings by first or second class mail. A member who wishes to opt out shall notify the corporation of the member's mailing address and any change of address. The opt out shall be effective for meetings held 20 days or later after the corporation has received the member's notice.</p></blockquote>

The following was added after the first paragraph in Article 3, Section 6: <blockquote>For the purposes only of unanimous decisions on matters that were announced with sufficient notice in the call to the meeting, including decisions made with no opposing votes, regular meetings held at the corporation's premises shall be considered quorate notwithstanding the number of members present.</blockquote>

The following was added to Article 2, Section 7: <blockquote>Each member is solely responsible for maintaining his or her membership in good standing, including observing these by-laws and the rules of the corporation and the payment of dues, fees, or assessments. No act or omission by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership because of a member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments. No act or omission by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership for any other reason, except by a decision of the members.</blockquote>

Article 4, Section 1, was amended by changing the first instance of "one additional at-large director" to "two additional at-large directors". Article 4, Section 3 is amended by changing "at-large director" in the third paragraph to "at-large directors", and appending after the third paragraph: <blockquote><p>At-large directors are elected according to the vote counting procedure set forth in The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (Scottish Statutory Instruments 2007 No. 42), to be known as "Scottish STV". Absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the output of the OpenSTV software in Scottish STV mode shall be considered the result of the election, provided that any candidate may demand re-entry of election ballots into the software immediately after the results are announced, or a hand recount immediately after the results from re-entered ballots are announced.</p><p>The following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV", is used for electing the officers of the corporation:</p></blockquote>

== June 30, 2015 ==

[[Meeting 2015-06-30|Seven changes were made]].

== February 25, 2020 ==

A. Reorganize:

1. §1, 1st ¶: Replace first sentence, as follows: "The board of directors consists of at least three and at most five directors." Append to the end of this paragraph: "The existence of vacancies (meaning there are fewer than the maximum allowed number of directors) shall not affect the procedures or powers of the board."

2. Renumber former "Section 4" to "Section 5", and former "Section 3" to "Section 4". Rename new "Section 4" to "Elections of Officers. Insert a new "Section 3", named "Election of Directors".

3. Move the 1st, 2nd and 4th ¶s from new §4 to new §3. Delete 5th ¶ from new §4.

B. New "Section 3: Elections of Directors"

1. New §3, 1st ¶: Insert "of the board" after first word "Elections", in first sentence.

2. New §3, 2nd ¶: Delete last sentence.

3. New §3, 3rd ¶: Replace first words "At-large directors", of first sentence, with "Directors".

4. New §3, 4th ¶: Add as follows:

Ballots shall be cast and counted as if electing as many directors as there are vacancies. If there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, then every candidate receiving at least two votes (in any preference order) is elected. Provided, that if there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, the members may decide to elected all the candidates by acclamation.

5. New §3, 5th ¶: Copy verbatim 2nd from last ¶ of new §4.

6. New §3, 6th ¶: Add as follows:

If the number of directors resulting from an election is smaller than the minimum, the board shall hold another election for all the vacancies at one of the two following monthly meetings. If the resulting number of directors is at least the minimum, but smaller than the maximum, the board or the members may decide to hold an election at any monthly meeting.

7. Move final ¶ of new §4 to end of new §3.

C. New "Section 4: Elections of Officers"

1. New §4: Insert as first ¶:

The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board at its organizing meeting after an election, and whenever a vacancy occurs, using the following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV":

2. New §4, 2nd ¶: From the first sentence, delete the trailing item ", at-large directors". From the second sentence, delete the trailing "or directorship".

Bylaws

2020-09-30T23:50:10Z

Guan: Bylaws changes from the February 2020 meeting

Please also see these other relevant documents: [[Rules]]

== Article 1: Purpose ==

=== Section 1: General Purposes ===

The purpose of this corporation is to promote and encourage technical, scientific, and artistic skills through individual projects, social collaboration, and education.

=== Section 2: Specific Purposes ===

Subject to and within the limits of Section 1, and the provisions of the corporation's [[Certificate of Incorporation]], we will advance our purposes through the following activities:

# Through talks, classes, workshops, collaborative projects, and other activities, to encourage research, knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring in a safe, clean space.
# Provide educational spaces for teaching practical skills and theory of technology, science, and art.
# Provide work space, storage, and other resources for projects related to art, science, and technology that will benefit the individual members' personal growth in their fields of interest, encouraging the individual members to share their projects and knowledge for the betterment of society through art, science and technology.
# To create, learn, and teach, individually and as a group, inviting members of the community in the New York City area and the world.
# To develop, support the development of, and provide resources for the development of free and open source software and hardware for the benefit of society.
# Collaboration across disciplines for the benefit of cultural, charitable, and scientific causes.
# To foster, by all legal means, the common purposes of its participants.

== Article 2: Membership ==

=== Section 1: Definition of Membership ===

While anyone associated with the group maybe considered a "community member", the word "member" as used in these by-laws refers to official members of the organization within the meaning of [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC601$$@TXNPC0601+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 601] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, who was an incorporator or who has been admitted under these by-laws.

=== Section 2: Classes of Membership ===

There is only one class of membership. All members in good standing have the same rights and responsibilities by virtue of their membership.

=== Section 3: Qualifications for Membership ===

Any natural person who supports the purposes of the corporation as laid out in the certificate of incorporation and these by-laws is qualified to become a member. A membership application must be moved by two members in good standing and may be approved by a vote of the members.

=== Section 4: Dues and Fees ===

Each member must pay, within the time and on the conditions set by the board, the dues, fees, and assessments in amounts to be fixed from time to time by the members.

A member may apply for and the board may agree to a different individual payment schedule.

Reduced dues may be set for members who are students, unemployed, or underemployed, or similarly situated. The criteria for reduced dues are set by a decision of the members. The board decides whether a member is eligible for reduced dues. The board's decision may be overruled by a decision of the members.

The members may decide to levy fees and assessments in connection with the use of the corporation's facilities, equipment or services, to set reduced rates for certain groups, and to specify terms of payment and use, or to authorize the board to do so within guidelines adopted by the members.

=== Section 5: Rights and Responsibilities ===

Members in good standing have an equal right to attend and vote at meetings, run in corporate elections, and to use the corporation's facilities and equipment, subject to reasonable rules and limits adopted by the members or the board. Members must pay dues, observe the corporation's by-laws and rules, take good care of facilities and equipment and participate in the activities and affairs of the corporation.

Anyone who uses potentially dangerous facilities or equipment owned or provided by the corporation or located in the corporation's premises shall sign a waiver of liability drafted by the board.

The members may continue to make rules for limiting the access of individual members to use the corporation's facilities and equipment under urgent or extraordinary circumstances, pending a decision on termination of membership.

=== Section 6: Members in Good Standing ===

Members who have paid the required dues, fees, and assessments in accordance with these by-laws and who are not suspended shall be members in good standing, and entitled to vote.

Members who are more than 10 days late on payment of dues, fees or assessments are automatically suspended and may not vote. The outcome and effect of votes shall not be questioned based on the vote of a member who was suspended, but whose membership was not terminated.

=== Section 7: Termination of Membership ===

Membership shall terminate on occurrence of any of the following events:

# Resignation of the member;
# The member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments within 30 days after they are due;
# Any event that renders the member ineligible for membership, or failure to satisfy membership qualifications; or
# Termination of membership on the good faith determination by the board or the members, or a committee or person authorized by the board or the members to make such a determination, that the member has failed in a material and serious degree to observe the rules of conduct of the corporation, or has engaged in conduct materially and seriously prejudicial to the corporation's purposes and interests.

Termination of membership by resignation is effective when the period covered by dues already paid expires. A member may also resign with immediate effect, but is not entitled to a refund of dues already paid.

Termination of membership due to failure to pay dues, fees or assessments is self-executing and automatically effective

(i) 60 days after the period for which dues have been paid has lapsed, for failure to pay dues or

(ii) 30 days after fees or assessments are due, for failure to pay fees or assessments,

or when otherwise effected by the board or a decision of the members.

A former member must make immediate arrangements to resolve the practical implications of termination, according to procedures adopted by the members or the board. No act, omission or failure by the corporation may prejudice the requirement of former members to fulfill their obligations under the corporation's Bylaws or rules.

Termination for any other reason is effected by a decision of the members following a determination and recommendation by the board or the members, or a committee or person authorized by the board or the members to consider the matter.

The termination of the membership of a member who is an officer or director of the corporation shall simultaneously result in the removal of that member from the offices and/or directorship he or she holds, and the board shall take care that an election is held for the vacant office or directorship.

Each member is solely responsible for maintaining his or her membership in good standing, including observing these by-laws and the rules of the corporation and the payment of dues, fees, or assessments. No act, omission or failure by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership because of a member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments. No act, omission or failure by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership for any other reason, except by a decision of the members.

The members may adopt abbreviated procedures for the admission of former members whose membership was terminated by resignation or for failure to pay dues, fees or assessments.

== Article 3: Meetings ==

=== Section 1: Annual Meeting ===

The board shall call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Sections 603 and 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The meeting shall be held in November or December.

=== Section 2: Regular Meeting ===

Regular meetings shall be held monthly at a time and place designated by the board. Business requiring a vote shall be voted upon upon as specified in these by-laws. Meetings must be announced on the corporation's mailing list, website and other customary means of communication.

A meeting must have been called with sufficient notice under [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC605$$@TXNPC0605+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 605] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law if it is to take any action required to be taken by vote of the members under any provision of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. This provision does not apply to actions not expressly required by law to be taken by vote of the members.

=== Section 3: Conduct of Meetings ===

Meetings shall be coordinated and managed in accordance with Schedule 1 of these by-laws.

=== Section 4: Voting at Meetings ===

When a quorum is present, all issues, except when otherwise specified in these by-laws, the certificate of incorporation or the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, shall be decided by affirmative vote of majority of members who are entitled to vote, are present at the meeting, and cast a valid vote.

Except for the secret ballot in elections, votes shall be public. A vote shall be recorded if a motion therefor is made and seconded, or on the motion of the chair.

Except for elections, a member may vote on behalf of at most two other members, or one-tenth of the members entitled to vote at the meeting, whichever is higher. A proxy is valid only for a specific meeting or meetings designated in the proxy.

=== Section 5: Eligibility to Vote ===

All members in good standing on the meeting date as determined by these by-laws shall be entitled to vote at any meeting of members.

=== Section 6: Quorum and Online Votes ===

A quorum for regularly scheduled monthly members meetings is zero members.

A quorum for meetings of members as provided in Article 6 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, including annual meetings, is the lesser of one hundred members or one-tenth of the members entitled to vote at the beginning of the meeting.

Members represented by a proxy continue to count as present for the purpose of determining whether a meeting is quorate.

A meeting that fails to obtain a quorum may still debate questions on the agenda.

The board may decide to submit a question to an online vote by the members, but the vote must be open for at least 48 hours and at least 72 hours must elapse from the notice of the vote to the end of voting. Questions submitted by the board are adopted with the affirmative vote of a majority of all members entitled to vote, or, if the vote was open for at least 4 days and at least 7 days elapsed from the notice of the vote to the end of voting, by a majority of votes cast.

Online votes may be used to reconsider decisions already made at a meeting of members unless the decision was adopted by a majority of all members entitled to vote. In such cases notice shall be given no later than 3 days after the end of the meeting and voting shall conclude no later than 8 days after the end of the meeting.

The procedure for online votes continues to apply only to matters which are not required to be decided by a vote at a meeting of members by the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

=== Section 7: Notice of Meetings ===

It is the policy of the corporation that an email sent to the corporation's member email list as well as a member's personal email address, if one is on file with the corporation, shall constitute personal notice of meetings to that member within the meaning of Section 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and that personal notice is the only means of notice that is ordinarily employed.

A member may opt out of personal notice and instead receive notice of meetings by first or second class mail. A member who wishes to opt out shall notify the corporation of the member's mailing address and any change of address. The opt out shall be effective for meetings held 20 days or later after the corporation has received the member's notice.

== Article 4: Officers and Directors ==

=== Section 1: Board of Directors ===

"The board of directors consists of at least three and at most five directors. The board shall set its own rules of procedure, but decisions must be made by a majority of directors present. The existence of vacancies (meaning there are fewer than the maximum allowed number of directors) shall not affect the procedures or powers of the board.

The board is responsible for the day-to-day management of the corporation, subject to guidelines and rules set by the Certificate of Incorporation, these by-laws and decisions of the members.

The board is responsible for holding elections at a regular meeting no later than 60 days after a vacancy occurs on the board.

Except for elections, amendments, and other rights of the members as established in the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, provisions in these by-laws for decisions made by the members shall not prejudice the board's rights and responsibilities under law, but officers and directors shall agree on election that it is the policy of the corporation that major decisions shall be made by vote of the members and that the board must respect those decisions and must, barring unusual and exceptional circumstances, take care that they are carried out.

=== Section 2: Officers ===

The corporation shall have a president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall be the officers of the corporation.

The president chairs the board of directors, coordinates the activities of the board and the corporation, serves as a first point of contact for prospective and current members, communicates with members, represents the corporation externally, and serves other duties as a president as required by law or custom.

The president chairs meetings of the members or designates another member to do so.

The treasurer has general responsibility for the corporation's finances and accounts, and serves other duties as a treasurer as required by law or custom.

The secretary has general responsibility for the corporation's administrative matters, keeps the corporation's records, and serves other duties as a secretary as required by law or custom.

No individual may hold more than one office of the corporation, and no officer may also be an at-large director.

The board shall, within the limits set by these by-laws and by law and custom, establish the duties of the officers and directors.

=== Section 3: Elections of Directors ===

Elections of the board are held once a year at the annual meeting, or at a regular meeting to fill vacancies. Elections are held by secret ballot.

The board may set a deadline for declaring candidacy of not more than 7 days before the meeting, but if no such deadline has been set, candidacy for any office or directorship must be declared before the first election at a meeting.

Directors are elected according to the vote counting procedure set forth in The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (Scottish Statutory Instruments 2007 No. 42), to be known as "Scottish STV". Absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the output of the OpenSTV software in Scottish STV mode shall be considered the result of the election, provided that any candidate may demand re-entry of election ballots into the software immediately after the results are announced, or a hand recount immediately after the results from re-entered ballots are announced.

Ballots shall be cast and counted as if electing as many directors as there are vacancies. If there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, then every candidate receiving at least two votes (in any preference order) is elected. Provided, that if there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, the members may decide to elected all the candidates by acclamation.

Ballots that include a vote for a candidate who is withdrawn because he or she was previously elected at the same meeting for another office or directorship, or that indicate more than the allowed number of choices, or do not specify any choices, or do not rank choices, or that have markings indicating the identity of the elector, are invalid and not counted.

If the number of directors resulting from an election is smaller than the minimum, the board shall hold another election for all the vacancies at one of the two following monthly meetings. If the resulting number of directors is at least the minimum, but smaller than the maximum, the board or the members may decide to hold an election at any monthly meeting.

The term of an elected officer or director ends upon the next election for that office or directorship at a meeting of members, or on resignation. An officer or director may resign with immediate effect, or effective on a specified date, or on the election of a successor. If an election at a meeting of members is not held due to the lack of a quorum, the board must call a new meeting as soon as practical.

=== Section 4: Elections of Officers ===

The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board at its organizing meeting after an election, and whenever a vacancy occurs, using the following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV":

Elections are held in the following order: president, treasurer, secretary. A candidate who wins an election is withdrawn from subsequent elections for other offices.

Electors shall indicate their first and second choices on their ballot. Ballots are counted in two rounds. In the first round, only first choices are counted. A candidate who wins a majority of first-choice votes wins. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the two candidates with the highest number of first-choice votes proceed to the secound round, and other candidates are eliminated. If two or more candidates are tied with the highest first-choice votes, those candidates proceed to the second round, and all other candidates are eliminated. If two or more candidates are tied in second place, only one second-place candidate chosen by lot proceeds to the second round, and other candidates are eliminated.

In the second round, the votes of ballots that indicated an eliminated candidate as first choice are redistributed to the second choice candidate indicated on the ballot. Ballots where the second choice vote is for a candidate who has been eliminated, and ballots that do not indicate a second choice, are discarded. The candidate who now has the highest number of votes wins the election. If more than one candidate has the highest number of votes in the second round, the election is decided by lot among those candidates.

Ballots that include a vote for a candidate who is withdrawn because he or she was previously elected at the same meeting for another office or directorship, or that indicate more than the allowed number of choices, or do not specify any choices, or do not rank choices, or that have markings indicating the identity of the elector, are invalid and not counted.

=== Section 5: Compensation and Indemnification ===

No officer or director shall receive compensation from the corporation, but may be reimbursed for expenses authorized by and incurred on behalf of the corporation according to the same rules and practices that apply to reimbursement to any other member, and the corporation may provide liability insurance for officers and directors.

To the extent permitted by law, the corporation indemnifies any officer, director or former officer or director made, or threatened to be
made, a party to an action or proceeding other than one by or in the
right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor, whether
civil or criminal, including an action by or in the right of any other
corporation of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any
partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other
enterprise, which any director or officer of the corporation served in
any capacity at the request of the corporation, by reason of the fact
that he, his testator or intestate, was a director or officer of the
corporation, or served such other corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any
capacity, against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and
reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees actually and necessarily
incurred as a result of such action or proceeding, or any appeal
therein, if such director or officer acted, in good faith, for a purpose
which he reasonably believed to be in, or, in the case of service for
any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
benefit plan or other enterprise, not opposed to, the best interests of
the corporation and, in criminal actions or proceedings, in addition,
had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

== Article 5: Miscellaneous provisions ==

=== Section 1: Amendments ===

The certificate of incorporation may be amended according to the provisions of Sections [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC801$$@TXNPC0801+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW 801] and [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC802$$@TXNPC0802+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW 802] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and these by-laws may be amended using the same procedures. In accordance with [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC615$$@TXNPC0615+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 615] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, amendments to the certificate of incorporation and by-laws shall require a two-thirds vote.

Amendments to the certificate of incorporation or by-laws may only be adopted at a meeting if the meeting was called with sufficient notice under [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC605$$@TXNPC0605+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 605] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and if the notice included a specific proposal for amending the certificate of incorporation or by-laws. Such a proposal may, however, be amended at the meeting.

These by-laws have one schedule containing the rules of order for meetings. The schedule containing the rules of order may be amended by a regular vote of the members, but any non-procedural provision shall be invalid.

= Schedules =

* [[MIBS Rules]]

= Revision History =

== November 27, 2012 ==

The following is inserted after the first sentence in Section 6 of Article 3 of the Bylaws ("Quorum and Online Votes"):
<blockquote>Notwithstanding the previous provision, the quorum at regularly scheduled monthly meetings and at annual meetings held at the corporation's premises shall be one-third of the members entitled to vote on the day of the meeting.</blockquote>

== December 3, 2013 ==

The following was struck from Article 3, Section 1:
<blockquote>
An annual meeting shall be held in accordance with [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$NPC603$$@TXNPC0603+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=12585841+&TARGET=VIEW Section 603] of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
</blockquote>
And replaced with:
<blockquote>
The board shall call the annual meeting of members in accordance with Sections 603 and 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The meeting shall be held in November or December.
</blockquote>

Article 3, Section 7 was added: <blockquote><p>It is the policy of the corporation that an email sent to the corporation's member email list as well as a member's personal email address, if one is on file with the corporation, shall constitute personal notice of meetings to that member within the meaning of Section 605 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, and that personal notice is the only means of notice that is ordinarily employed.</p><p>A member may opt out of personal notice and instead receive notice of meetings by first or second class mail. A member who wishes to opt out shall notify the corporation of the member's mailing address and any change of address. The opt out shall be effective for meetings held 20 days or later after the corporation has received the member's notice.</p></blockquote>

The following was added after the first paragraph in Article 3, Section 6: <blockquote>For the purposes only of unanimous decisions on matters that were announced with sufficient notice in the call to the meeting, including decisions made with no opposing votes, regular meetings held at the corporation's premises shall be considered quorate notwithstanding the number of members present.</blockquote>

The following was added to Article 2, Section 7: <blockquote>Each member is solely responsible for maintaining his or her membership in good standing, including observing these by-laws and the rules of the corporation and the payment of dues, fees, or assessments. No act or omission by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership because of a member's failure to pay dues, fees, or assessments. No act or omission by the corporation shall prejudice the power of the corporation to terminate membership for any other reason, except by a decision of the members.</blockquote>

Article 4, Section 1, was amended by changing the first instance of "one additional at-large director" to "two additional at-large directors". Article 4, Section 3 is amended by changing "at-large director" in the third paragraph to "at-large directors", and appending after the third paragraph: <blockquote><p>At-large directors are elected according to the vote counting procedure set forth in The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (Scottish Statutory Instruments 2007 No. 42), to be known as "Scottish STV". Absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the output of the OpenSTV software in Scottish STV mode shall be considered the result of the election, provided that any candidate may demand re-entry of election ballots into the software immediately after the results are announced, or a hand recount immediately after the results from re-entered ballots are announced.</p><p>The following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV", is used for electing the officers of the corporation:</p></blockquote>

== June 30, 2015 ==

[[Meeting 2015-06-30|Seven changes were made]].

== February 25, 2020 ==

A. Reorganize:

1. §1, 1st ¶: Replace first sentence, as follows: "The board of directors consists of at least three and at most five directors." Append to the end of this paragraph: "The existence of vacancies (meaning there are fewer than the maximum allowed number of directors) shall not affect the procedures or powers of the board."

2. Renumber former "Section 4" to "Section 5", and former "Section 3" to "Section 4". Rename new "Section 4" to "Elections of Officers. Insert a new "Section 3", named "Election of Directors".

3. Move the 1st, 2nd and 4th ¶s from new §4 to new §3. Delete 5th ¶ from new §4.

B. New "Section 3: Elections of Directors"

1. New §3, 1st ¶: Insert "of the board" after first word "Elections", in first sentence.

2. New §3, 2nd ¶: Delete last sentence.

3. New §3, 3rd ¶: Replace first words "At-large directors", of first sentence, with "Directors".

4. New §3, 4th ¶: Add as follows:

Ballots shall be cast and counted as if electing as many directors as there are vacancies. If there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, then every candidate receiving at least two votes (in any preference order) is elected. Provided, that if there are no more candidates than there are vacancies, the members may decide to elected all the candidates by acclamation.

5. New §3, 5th ¶: Copy verbatim 2nd from last ¶ of new §4.

6. New §3, 6th ¶: Add as follows:

If the number of directors resulting from an election is smaller than the minimum, the board shall hold another election for all the vacancies at one of the two following monthly meetings. If the resulting number of directors is at least the minimum, but smaller than the maximum, the board or the members may decide to hold an election at any monthly meeting.

7. Move final ¶ of new §4 to end of new §3.

C. New "Section 4: Elections of Officers"

1. New §4: Insert as first ¶:

The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board at its organizing meeting after an election, and whenever a vacancy occurs, using the following procedure, to be known as "London mayoral STV":

2. New §4, 2nd ¶: From the first sentence, delete the trailing item ", at-large directors". From the second sentence, delete the trailing "or directorship".

Meeting 2020-09-29

2020-09-26T16:47:02Z

Guan: Move space access proposal up to consensus agenda

==Consensus Agenda==

=== Adjustment to physical space access ===
* Adjustment to current physical space protocol to allow 3 members to be present at physical space simultaneously.
* Space is still limited to use specific to efforts that require tools/equipment only available at Hack Manhattan, including but not limited to cleaning, soldering, metal shop use.
* Usage period per member should be limited to 4 hours max.

== New Business ==

=== Patron Membership ===
* This is for a visitor whose shown that they have been a positive presence at the space for at least 6 contiguous months.
* A sponsored members' monthly dues will be covered by the HM budget.
* Prospective visitor must to be voted on by 10 aye votes without objections.
* Patron membership is valid for 6 months following a passing vote.

===Sponsored Members Induction===
For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

* Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
* Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
* Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just blabber)

==Member Reports==
=== Board Reports===
====President's Report====

====Treasurer's Report====

====Secretary's Report====

====Directors-at-Large's Report====

===Member and Project Reports===

==Meeting Meta==
* Members in Attendance: member1, member2 | latemember1
* Visitors: visitor1, visitor2
* Called to order at XX:XX by ___.
* The meeting was adjourned at XX:XX by ___.
* Minutes taken and submitted by ___.

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