XinCheJian bylaws

Mission

新车间 [Xinchejian] is a shared community where you can:

  • Hack, explore and learn new skills.
  • Work on your own and group projects.
  • Learn from and teach others. Share what you know.

We provide:

  • Shared spaces for people to work on their projects.
  • A place for you to leave your stuff when you're not working on it.
  • Shared equipment and resources and a place for you to share with others.
  • A safe and welcoming community of which you can be a part.

Type of members

  • member: person who've paid their dues (currently 100RMB/month)
  • active member: member who are present at the space regularly
  • staff member: a member who is actively involved and join staff meeting regularly
  • stakeholder: lifetime member who've put up 12K RMB in 2013 with a right of veto on critical decisions
  • alumni: past staff members

Staff Meetings

  • Once a week, on Tuesday at 8pm at the space
  • Quorum is four active staff members
  • Proposals: proposed -> discussed -> voted (optional if consensus) -> 1 week waiting period -> adopted
  • Major proposals are also sent to stakeholders

Space

Workshops

XinCheJian brand

Staff member

http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Weekly_Staff_Meetings/2013-11-12

Accept:

  • Need recommendation by one senior staff (>1 yr experience).
  • If no opposition, starts by next week.
  • For 6 mths, on "probation/experience". Then after 1 yr gets to be senior.

Stay on:

  • Need to complete two tasks per month.
  • People can make their own assignments; encouraged to make their own assignments.

Conditions for kick-off:

  • being an a-hole, disrespectful behaviour or not completing 2 tasks per month will be kick off automatically

How to kick-off

  • Any senior staff can kick out "probation" staff but needs reason and can be challenged.
  • Task requirement rule doesn't apply during vacation
  • allow a one month grace period for automatic kick-off to go into effect.
  • need simple majority vote during staff meeting.

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