Our Structure
Anyone who spends time building community, art, or mutual aid projects at the Makerfarm is a Makerfarmer.
Committees are the standing organizational bodies where process matters as much as outcomes.
Committee decisions are made on the consent principle. Membership is defined, and quorum is sought for meaningful decisions. Notes are taken and posted publicly.
Everyone who rents space at the farm and a representative from each project must be a member of at least one and no more than two admin committees.
Makerfarmers Committee
Composed of all Makerfarmers. This body sets policies for the organization, makes high-level decisions, and delegates most decisions and activities to the appropriate admin committee or working group.
Working Groups
Working groups are defined in scope and based around doing the work.
Working groups answer to a specific committee, have a defined scope and budget. The emphasis is on work, not process so neither consensus nor quorum are required, as long as nothing veers from the funding parameters.
E.g. Bylaws, Events, Electrical
Semi-autonomous collectives within the collective. They manage their own decision-making, budgets, plans.
Projects are sanctioned to operate on the farm by the Makerfarmer Committee, and are independent of all the committees except in the use of shared space, tools, and assessing costs.
Admin Committees
Diversity Equity Inclusion and Social Justice
To lead the farm’s efforts in being an inclusive and diverse Makerspace where Black, Indigenous and people of color feel welcome and valued. Be a guide to other committees, projects, and working groups to ensure these values are central to all we do.
Membership: Amos, Helen, Mandie, Onell, Elizabeth
Meeting times: 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 6-7pm
Contact: Slack
Admin
To guarantee financial stability, oversee fiscal sponsorship, ensure equity-centered and compassionate cost-share, and keep farm members informed about our finances.
Membership: Alie, Fiamma, John, Jaybird, Krystal, Tommaso
Meeting times: 1st Tuesday of the month, 6-7pm
Contact: Use the form in the Finance Committee page.
Working Groups:
Bylaws: coordinate on Slack.
Facilities
To discuss, repair, maintain and organize changes to the layout and built infrastructure of the farm, including creating or bringing new structures to the farm and to oversee safety and city and county code adherence.
Membership: Dan, Fiamma, Josh, Joshua, Krystal, Peter, Simon
Meeting times: (TBD)
Contact: Slack
Membership
To to manage the membership of the Bay Area MakerFarm. In the process, our goal is to stand by the values of the Bay Area MakerFarm at large; maintaining a diverse, equitable and inclusive base of membership that is tightly connected to the local community.
Membership: Elizabeth, Fiamma, Krystal, Mandy, Peter, Simon
Meeting times: (TBD)
Contact: Slack
