Rules & Stuff Working Group

Rules & Stuff Working Group

We have two current active projects

• bylaws rewrite: Paul or Mara
• conduct committee thing: Daniel or Mara

For questions, ask in #rules-and-stuff in slack or contact the people in charge of the project

Code of Conduct Committee

Advocates don't work, trying something new

Current Status 2025-08-06

Have a first draft, seeking feedback from interested members in Rules and Stuff

Draft shared on 8/6

Bylaws

Rewrite the bylaws and standing rules for readability and correctness. The current rules are contradictory, less strict than Michigan law requires, hard to read, *and* not in line with how we actually operate.

Meets on first Wednesday of the month at 19:06 at https://www.i3detroit.org/hangout or maybe in person, ask on slack either way cause sometimes we don't meet and forget to mention it anywhere.

Current Status 2025-07-15

• Waiting on lawyer review

Changes from current

• It's readable
• All actual business must be on the agenda for any meeting 10 days in advance (legally)
• Requirements to be a member:
  • Email: This is how we currently do it, this just makes it clear

Future Changes

• Do we allow rapists/pedophiles/murders?
  • My two concerns are
    • People feeling safe
    • i3 not getting known as "that place that harbors pedophiles and rapists"

Open Items

Current Next Steps

• Rewrite draft from Lawyer to match what we want.
• Do not be a CIA plant: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf page 18(28 paper)

Documents to Add

• Non-discrimination policy
• Data privacy policy
• harassment policy needs updating
• code of conduct

Stuff to improve

• Discipline process flowcharts
  • Look at https://rules.nottinghack.org.uk/en/latest/complaints-policy.html#

Other

Make a neat matrix of how different spaces handle different things like zones Maybe useful maybe just interesting.

Draft Documents

• Bylaws Draft vII
• Bylaws Draft v1
• Standing Rules Draft v1

Rulesets for Reference

• PS:1
  • https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Bylaws Bylaws]
  • Official looking and structured very lawyer-y
  • They got a lawywer to go over them in 2019 I think
• Nottinghack
  • Standing Rules
  • Set up in Read the Docs
  • Really easy to read and understand
• HACDC
  • Bylaws
  • Why we are , Who we are, How we do what we do, Officers, and Board - Short and sweet
• Familab
  • https://familab.org/wiki/Lab_Policies
• Noisebridge
  • Bylaws
• Dallas Makerspace
  • https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Rules_and_Policies
  • https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Bylaws
• Hive13
  • https://wiki.hive13.org/view/Bylaws
• Asmbly
  • https://wiki.asmbly.org/index.php/How_to_Be_Excellent