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###Welcome to the pirateship wiki!

If you're a new member, please check out the guidelines below, and be sure you're on the mailing lists. Feel free to add any other useful info here.

###Mailing lists

There are three mailing lists:

###Members

New Members, List yourself here!

  • Jeff Warren
  • Lia Rudolph
  • Seth Woodworth
  • Alex Jarvis
  • Al Carter

###Real-time feedback

There are at least two channels on the old IRC bandwidths, which are still sometimes occasionally heard on AM bands repeating mysterious numbers even today.

  • #p.irateship on OFTC

###Guidelines

We are iterating on some guidelines (mostly collected over the past few years of operating, but never really written down until now) which we hope will a) help the ship run smoothly and b) help prospective members decide if this a totally sweet place or a terrible reign of hardasses:

  • we have a sweet anti-harassment policy, based on one from the Ada Initiative. view it here: http://pirateship.github.com/anti-harassment.html
  • membership fees are due on the 23rd of each month, for the following month -- this leaves time for all checks to clear, etc.
  • we are a co-op, although we rarely vote on things and are pretty low-key. But you do have a say in decision making if you choose to voice it.
  • that means that if we do have a rent shortfall (hasn't happened for many months) we share the shortage (one membership short would be $200 split roughly 14 ways, or $13 each)
  • we are pretty disorganized about things, but usually if you don't know, just ask the list. for example, we've been in the space almost 3 years and are just recently figuring out if we can get mail picked up there, not to mention trash (thanks to various people voluntarily tackling these issues)
  • we prefer that people make a commitment to 6 months, and give 30 days notice before leaving; when you do leave, * we ask that you help get the word out to find a replacement for your spot
  • if you have a half-membership with someone, one of you must be the "lead" member and be responsible for the full share being paid. If one of you leaves, the other agrees to take over the full $200 share

Some space-use-related and common-property guidelines:

  • The Workbench by the front door is for common use, as are the materials and tools on the shelves next to it.
  • There is a projector screen over the soldering table. There is a projector you can use somewhere.

###Map

Please keep yourself updated on this map so we know whose space is whose:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VFayMmUcpGjA1QlgA8iBCAUMnz8W3b4xu6-AvprXrPM/edit#slide=id.p

###Payment process

  1. We use a payment system (currently PayPal, prob. transitioning to Dwolla) to collect dues
  2. To track dues and assets, we use this Google Spreadsheet, which the dues collector (currently Jarvis, formerly Jeff W) maintains. This should be readable by all current members.
  3. To avoid a situation where the dues collector bears huge expenses on behalf of the group, they are allowed to keep funds in their account (until we get a group account) as long as it's carefully and transparently tracked.
  4. When payments come in, they're preferably fwded/shared with the "captains" list (a legacy name not implying authority) for transparency, and then entered in the log, on p2 of the sheet.
  5. Payments are also entered in the schedule, which shows who is late, and should show current collected dues for this month, how many members/shares there are, total assets, and what our total dues for the month are.
  6. On the 23rd of the month, each member should pay (ideally with recurring billing) their shares for the coming month's expenses. This allows for enough time to clear the money from (paypal etc) and get sent in a check by the start of the month.

Food Guidelines

Flies

Flies love the pirateship. Certain trash, like the waste from microwavable meals, gives the flies places to have orgies all up in the pirateship. Fly orgies should not be tolerated! If waste has foodstuff still on it or in it, especially of the liquid kind, please dispose of it outside of the pirateship. There are a number of trash containers in the Market Basket parking lot, there is a public garbage receptacle at the corner of the Market Basket and the cemetery at the bus stop, and there might be disposal options in the auto alley.

Even the closed garbage lid of the curbside garbage bucket might not be enough to keep the flies from having their sex parties all up in our ship. That experiment is in progress.

Communal

Generally speaking, if food or drink are left out in the open, even on one's desk, the assumption is that it is open game for all to consume (especially when the owner is out).

If food or drink are not for share, label the food/drink with something like "Plague Inside, Do Not Throw Away". This will be an indication of non-community consumables.

Help yourself to food left out as such, but be respectful of trash. If you eat the last of something, dispose of the container. There's nothing worse than being amazed that a bag of candy survived the weekend only to find out the bag did survive... with nothing left in it. In other words, the kindness of sharing food should not be met with the kindness of another leaving trash in its place.

Lost and Found

Items left out progress from public spaces to lost-and-found to reuse.

Items left in public spaces go into a lost and found shelf in the hallway. When that shelf gets full, a ship member sends out a warning to the list, and about a week later, things go into reuse. Anything in reuse is yours to take/sell/dryhump/whatever.

Artisans

The pirateship has a group Artisans membership. Guidelines for that will go here; Lia and Seth are point people for this.

New Members

Once you've read this, send out an email to pirateship-crew announcing that you've been through this.

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