12/8/204: Who is a Spoke?

Who is a Spoke?, Frankie, created: 12/8/24
A Spoke is:
a group of >5 people AND
the group has access to Woodbine’s physical space (i.e. can unlock the door) or Woodbine’s resources (e.g. website, Instagram, lease, funds)
What if your group is <5 people?
Identify a larger working group that you can caucus with. Perhaps the group that grants you access to the Woodbine space/resources
Still come to the Spokescouncil meeting to observe and recruit members
What if our group doesn’t have the door code or its own access to Woodbine resources?
Your spoke is the one that grants you access to the space.
For example, if Gym people unlock the space for you, you caucus with Gym
The proposal contains no opinion on how Spokes decide on a Spokesperson
comments (format: commenter name: comment)
Ash: I like this idea of caucusing if your group is <5 people. We can talk to co-workers about this and if they want, they could caucus with yoga or another analogous wg with similar needs.
Ash: we may need to have some suggestions on how to consider which group you will be part of during a fishbowl spokescouncil. you may be a spoke of one and the observer of another group. can you be a spoke for multiple groups at one meeting? my gut is no. this could be a structure we offer and could be good to push and allow more ppl to be spokes.
Briar: this seems like a really elegent solution. by having straight-forward criteria about “who is a spoke,” we don’t need to have a process for adding new spokes. something to consider, though: who decides who has the keycode? could that person or group of people exercise undue influence over the composition of the spokescouncil?