2014/05/03 Omni Hackathon/Values

=Existing list of core values on Wiki:=
 * http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Main_Page
 * http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Values

=The Omni Collective chooses to value:=
 * Community over seclusion
 * Consent over coercion
 * Communing over isolation
 * Consensus over factions
 * Do-ocracy over bureaucracy
 * Process over the tyranny of structurelessness
 * Cooperation over competition
 * Commons over private interest
 * Independence over centralization

The Omni Collective chooses to value: =Concerns with existing values=
 * Fostering radical discourse and education
 * Maintaining an active, publicly accessible commons
 * Providing a venue for innovative cultural production
 * Striving for social, economic & environmental justice
 * Standing in solidarity with all oppressed people
 * Cultures of consent, against rape, violence & exploitation
 * Safe spaces
 * The survival & thrival of our communities and neighborhoods
 * Create a community where we can be autonomous in a non-alienating environment
 * feels apolitical
 * casts equal shade on rape and paperwork
 * could be more explicit
 * what is the forum?
 * Seeming contradiction between 'consensus over factions' and 'independence over centralization'
 * Move away from the culture of head-nodding and consensus models where those who have the most privilege / comfort / loudest most persuasive voice in a group influence
 * What is the motivation / aim of communicating our values?

How do we develop our values?
=Moving Towards....Moving Away From=
 * What we want to achieve vs. What our process / philosophies / politics are
 * Framing things in terms of being for over being against
 * Broad more abstract values that include explicit examples
 * Public-facing vs internal functioning
 * Political vs process
 * Activity / Engagement....Passivity / Apathy / Hopelessness / Apolitical
 * Creativity....Productivity
 * Community....Alientation
 * Consent....Coercion
 * Dialectic / Rhizomatic....Programmatic
 * Need to adopt conflict resolution policy
 * Sudo Room's conflict resolution policy: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Resolution
 * Values are often latent, and inform all of the other aspects of our functioning together
 * Broad statements we can all get behind, but from there we need to define what these terms mean
 * Values there as these dyadems we point at each other from across the space, all holding this orb of vague
 * Maybe we should be actively articulating what we *don't* want in the space
 * Definition of safe space at the Omni:
 * How are we putting our collective resources behind anti-oppression?
 * Value of specificity, clearly stating we're antiracist, antihomophobic, etc
 * Plastic vs. non-negotiable values
 * Adopting practices models - a framework for how we deal with specific situations in non-oppressive manner
 * These values are ways for people to identify us when "shopping for community" - functioning in a manner similar to hashtags

Link to Safe Space / Dominant Culture notes: