12/8/204: Who is a Spoke?

Who is a Spoke?, Frankie, created: 12/8/24

• A Spoke is:

  • a group of >5 people AND
  • the group has access to Woodbine’s physical space (i.e. can unlock the door) or Woodbine’s resources (e.g. website, Instagram, lease, funds)

• What if your group is <5 people?

  • Identify a larger working group that you can caucus with. Perhaps the group that grants you access to the Woodbine space/resources
  • Still come to the Spokescouncil meeting to observe and recruit members

• What if our group doesn’t have the door code or its own access to Woodbine resources?

  • Your spoke is the one that grants you access to the space.
    • For example, if Gym people unlock the space for you, you caucus with Gym

• The proposal contains no opinion on how Spokes decide on a Spokesperson

comments (format: commenter name: comment)

• Ash: I like this idea of caucusing if your group is <5 people. We can talk to co-workers about this and if they want, they could caucus with yoga or another analogous wg with similar needs.
• Ash: we may need to have some suggestions on how to consider which group you will be part of during a fishbowl spokescouncil. you may be a spoke of one and the observer of another group. can you be a spoke for multiple groups at one meeting? my gut is no. this could be a structure we offer and could be good to push and allow more ppl to be spokes.
• Briar: this seems like a really elegent solution. by having straight-forward criteria about “who is a spoke,” we don’t need to have a process for adding new spokes. something to consider, though: who decides who has the keycode? could that person or group of people exercise undue influence over the composition of the spokescouncil?