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Woodbine Spokescouncil Explainer
What is a spokescouncil? A spokescouncil is an organizational structure resembling a spoked wheel. It’s designed to allow for connection and decision making to be distributed non-hierarchically across large groups of people. Each group is represented by a rot...
03/01/2025: How meetings are scheduled
How meeting dates are determined Person or group submitting Briar Proposal History Submission Date: 01/04/2025 First review: 2/6/25 - outcome was a withdrawal to refine proposal further Vote date: sometime in March Vote result: Pass via chat Friendly Ammendm...
02/26/2025: How to reach out to/invite Spokes to the 1st meeting
How to reach out to/invite Spokes to the 1st meeting Person or group submitting Frankie Proposal History Submission Date: 12/8/24 Vote date: 2/26/25 Vote result: Pass Friendly Ammendments: None Follow up Notes: Revised after January meeting. Motivation For a...
01/13/2024: Who is a Spoke?
A Spoke is a group of 5 or more people who self-identify as having a stake in Woodbine (the space) or Woodbine (the concept) and a common goal/reason to collaborate amongst themselves Person or group submitting Frankie Proposal History Drafted date: dec/...
01/13/2024: How to format a Proposal
Person or group submitting LP Proposal History Submission Date: 2024/12/13 Vote date: 2024/12/13 Vote result: Pass Motivation A template prompts the writer to answer some baseline questions. Proposal overview slightly less tiny summary here This template app...
02/06/2025: Communicating outside of meetings
How spokes communicate outside of meetings Person or group submitting Briar Proposal History Submission Date: 01/04/2025 Vote date: 2/6/25 Vote result: pass Friendly Ammendments: Worries expressed that discussion chat protocols need to be enforced Admins c...
02/06/2025: Style of Consensus
Post-Vote Overview Consensus - 2, with the exception of liability concerns, voluntasking individuals or groups, and telling groups how to perform their roles which have the power to block proposals Style of consensus Person or group submitting Briar Proposal H...
02/06/2025: How to post agenda items
Post-Vote Overview A wall of woodbine will be dedicated to posting proposals. Any member of woodbine may post a proposal following the proposal template. (Printers are available on site.) The proposal remains on the wall for up to three months, at which point ...
02/06/2025: How to prioritize submitted proposals
Post-Vote Overview Proposals are submitted by some deadline before a given Spokescouncil meeting. Between that deadline and the Spokescouncil meeting, Spokes review proposals and indicate which ones they think are the most important to discuss. How to Prior...
02/06/2025: Quorum
Person or group submitting Briar Proposal History Submission Date: 01/04/2025 Vote date: 2/6/25 Vote result: pass Friendly Ammendments Take attendance, Outreach if ppl aren’t showing up Explain difference b/w Tabling v blocking Possibility of bad faith acto...
02/06/2025: Deciding Meeting Roles
Post-Vote Overview At the beginning of the meeting, spokes representatives can volunteer to fill a meeting role. Any other spokes representative has the power to veto someone taking a role, though that can be overturned with consensus - 2. How meeting role...
02/06/2025: Meeting Length
How long are meetings Person or group submitting Briar Proposal History Submission Date: 01/04/2025 Vote date: 2/6/25 Vote result: pass Motivation To provide the spokes council with consistent and sustainable time constraints for their meeting Proposal overv...
2/6/2025: First Spokescouncil Agenda
Person or group submitting Frankie Proposal History Submission Date: 2/6/25 Vote date: 2/6/25 Vote result: pass Friendly ammendments: Needs reworking for cleaning project explanation of current cleaning situation Directorship intro included with ...
2025 04 10
Meeting '102' - April 10, 2025 Meeting in main room @ 7pm on thursday Agenda bookkeeping: quantify the regular financial contributions made by basement participants spring cleaning: plan to clear our junk that nobody wants. mark what we want to keep (deadline...
Consensus Model
Consensus model (WIP draft) This is a proposal for a Temporary consensus model. The idea would be to use it for the time being, and if passed, in 6 months review our experience with it and decide if we want to continue using it (from jonah: this is simply a ...
WB Asbestos History
Condensed Timeline Feb 2023 Concerns about asbestos in the basement first raised March 2023 a number of lab were contacted for quotes.Around that time Renewal with Grace, Inc visited the basement and said to leave it alone Feb 2nd 2025 concerns about asbe...
Progress
2022 09 19
2022-09-19 7:05pm agenda Checkin Jonathan, Will, Devin, Steffi she/they, Julien, Josh, Ioan, MyfRegrets Brandon Add whatever you want here goals jonathan - make home goods, get resin out of the bedroom myf - facilitate people to do cool things. personall...
Adopting Bookstack as our Wiki
Person or group submitting p Proposal History Submission Date: 2025 April 17 Vote date: Vote result: Motivation To reduce friction in the creation and retrieval of Basement documentation to the benefit of new and old members alike. Proposal ove...
2025 04 24
In attendance: daniel, omni, p, jimmy, micro Nobody took running notes but here is the outcome of the discussion. There is a lot of debate around how hazardous asbestos situation in the basement actually is, but regardless of the actual risk it poses, the situ...