[sudo-discuss] Agenda Item for next week's meeting: ONL is not a member collective.

[yar]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Andrew Lowe <andrew at lostways.com> wrote:
> I did not attend this event, but I have attended ONL events before. ONL is a
> talk show, I'm not sure why not being political enough makes them
> "offensive". I mean I will let them speak for them selves, but they are an
> entertainment show, why would you expect a "debate" at a talk show?
>
> Also while it is true that ONL reduced their rent before singing the
> sublease option, there still has been no official policy that says that that
> action (which Backspace took as well, at the time) requires a
> re-application.
>
> It would be great if ONL paid more, but keep in mind that we haven't come up
> with a price for nightly rentals in the ballroom, when we do I think it
> would be fair to evaluate ONL's contribution based on that.
>
> Anyway, just standing up for this show even if it isn't really my cup of tea
> all the time, I think what ONL has been able to do with it is pretty
> amazing, and to force them out because their show isn't radical enough in
> the ways you want it to be would be a shame.

I don't think the event should be "forced out" but I do think ONL
should be restructured as just another group that rents the ballroom,
and not a core OOC collective with delegate status that they never
exercise anyway.