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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:
- irateship our main list, for past and present members, and friends of the ship.
- pirateship-crew for the current active members: this list is for fees, logistics, and votes only.
- pirateship-announce for email blasts about public events. This is inactive.
- semi-affiliated synth list started by Rob Ochshorn: http://lists.rmozone.com/listinfo.cgi/synth-rmozone.com
###Members
New Members, List yourself here!
- Jeff Warren
- Lia Rudolph
- Seth Woodworth
- Alex Jarvis
- Al Carter
- Noah Vawter
###Guidelines
We are iterating on some guidelines (collected over the past few years of operating) 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, with periodic votes and email discussions on things.
- that means that if we do have a rent shortfall (which happens once in a while) we share the shortage (one membership short would be $200 split roughly 14 ways, or $13 extra each).
- Some things are very much left to chance, but after three years, we have managed to have stable internet, trash pickup and receiving mail (Unfortunately, recycling is still carry-in, carry-out). People have run small businesses and kickstarter campaign funds out of here. And as always, if you don't know, ask the list. 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
- We use a payment system (currently PayPal, prob. transitioning to Dwolla) to collect dues
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Members covering ship expenses like internet or Artisans membership can deduct that from their payment or get reimbursed if they request on the pirateship-crew list (for transparency) and this is also entered in the expenses section of the Schedule as well as in the Log.
- Dues collector may be reimbursed for transaction fees from the ship account.
- If rent is short, the deficit is divided amongst the members by share, due immediately.
Final step: [there was broad support] for increasing dues one month earlier -- i.e. if there is less than one month's rent plus expenses (currently approx $3400), dues increase to maintain that buffer. This has yet to be implemented.
###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
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.
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.
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.
The pirateship has a group Artisans membership. Guidelines for that will go here; Lia and Seth are point people for this.
Once you've read this, send out an email to pirateship-crew announcing that you've been through this.