[Spacecadets] Spacecadets "mission"

[Christopher A W Zapotocky]

Sounds like the job of a president... "All the rest of the work that everyone has been ignoring: delegate or do." (I nominate Anders).

I do not think we should have a full member meeting on Sunday to address the space. In this case it is better to have a small group of people come up with a few viable proposals to present to the board and the community.

And for what it is worth...I don't think a group of members need a mandate from the board to discuss the space (or anything else)...either formally or informally. To my way of thinking the idea of the board establishing a task forces is to entice people to participate in a structured discussion on a topic. That is it is a tool for getting people to do things...not a tool for keeping them from doing things.

Christopher Zapotocky
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From: Spacecadets [spacecadets-bounces at quelab.net] on behalf of Adric [adricm at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 10:45 AM
To: John Benedetto
Cc: QueLab Hackerspace; SpaceCadets at quelab.net
Subject: Re: [Spacecadets] Spacecadets "mission"

Love the catch22 of it all,  the board is really not the managers of the space,   yes we take care of the financial aspects of the space, and any legal documents/entity activity. but we are not really here to say This goes here, that goes there....  that is really for the members and the officers to work out and if there is a problem the board is here to help mediate it.

So i don't personally think that its outside of the scope f the spacecadets, to figure out how to use this additional space they found and requested. at least to come up with a plan or two to present to the members.   Now if that plan requires funding(materials) or or legal paper signing or whatnot,  then it gets kicked back up to the board with some sort of estimate and a plan to accomplish it.

To do that I suspect the spacecadets are going to need to pick someone to Lead, Mediate, as they figure out how to best get the space setup and integrated with being part of the whole quelab ecosystem.  Or report back to the board/officers and ask around for a new group of people interested in doing it.


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:50 AM, John Benedetto <john.benedetto at gmail.com<mailto:john.benedetto at gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Adric <adricm at gmail.com<mailto:adricm at gmail.com>> wrote:
Well whom do you think should plan the layout,  figure out the materials, and or quotes for any rework?  and to get us to the point where it is a useful and valulable part of quelab? (instead of just a expensive storage unit)

Adric - I don't know who should plan the layout, etc., but the Board has strictly adhered to protocol in every case I have seen; it needs to follow that precedent in this case, too.  As Lissa said: "it makes sense that this committee do that sort of thing. If a directive is needed, that item would need to be placed on a board agenda and consensed on by the board members."

It *DOES* make sense for the SpaceCadets group to create the things all of you are suggesting they create, but - in this case - all that falls outside the purview of the stated reasons why the Board convened the group.

I am one of the members that volunteered to be part of SpaceCadets, so I share the blame as much as any of the people that volunteered.  As a group we've never met, we never declared a convener or head or whatever you want to call the main point-of-contact.  However, I DO think we have fulfilled the directive we were given: decide on renting the annex or not, versus other spaces in town.

Darrel has asked for a meeting of the SpaceCadets this Sunday night to discuss plans for Annex, so it will proceed & hopefully get some recommendations (As Lissa also said, "My guess is the committee will get to it anyway without a directive being needed.").

For the SpaceCadets reading along: do we want to publicize the Sunday meeting  to the Members' list, and welcome anyone to come to it?

JT