The following rules were agreed at the 25 July Matilda meeting and amended at the 8th August Matilda meeting:
No non-consensual violence
Events should be proposed to the email list / notice board and people should have the chance to veto via them
No harrassment including sexual and racial harrassment
No thieving from each other or the building
No disturbing or disruption of events taking place in the space
If the above rules are broken the following points were agreed at the 8th August Matilda meeting:
If groundrules broken:
Verbal warning first, from group present at the time
Warning fed into whole group at a meeting
Minimum initial 24 hour break from the space for the warned person
Default of ban for a week
If someone asks for one day ban extended, will be taken to next meeting
Depending on case, ban til next meeting
Make possibility of a total ban oper
Reparations for damage
Special role of the LTT, for now
Potential use of mediation / independent pool of willing mediators to call on, if thought appropriate
A third offence should be met with an automatic permanent ban
Existing bans are continued until the following Monday's meeting
Nothing to be set in stone!
Matilda Meeting rules
The following rules were agreed at the 25 July Matilda meeting:
Using hand signals was agreed
Don't speak over each other
No smoking except at outside meetings
No racist, sexist, homophobic language to be used
Meetings to start promptly
Only come to meetings if you are not so intoxicated (by owt) as to be able to contribute usefully
And in additon these rules were agree at the 22nd August Matilda meeting:
Desirable that any decision on excluding someone doesn't overly interfere with the Monday meeting
But Monday meeting to always be made aware if anything is happening
New groundrule: personal issues to be kept out of the Monday meeting
People who know the facts of an issue to come to the Monday meeting to explain what happened, and with a proposal for what to do about it
Five to ten minutes in the Monday meeting to talk about any groundrule breaking or banning, but if it goes over that because consensus can't be reached, the issue is to go to mediation or another appropriate forum