Membership Information

Hive 76 Membership Levels

Membership

Core Membership

Core Members are people that have a lot invested in the space, and use it often for personal or (case by case allowed) small business or event use.

What you give

• $100 a month
• 4 hours a month working on a Hive76 project/event.
• 2 Class,Events, or skill-shares managed/hosted/run a year

What you get

• 24/7 access to Hive76 for personal
• Automatic permission to have group events (5+ people)
• Core Members have priority on equipment and tools
• The right to vote on and can block organization decisions*
• A private footlocker for storing personal items at the space.
• At-Cost use of tools and consumable parts (MakerBot, etc)
• Permission to use all space equipment and tools (once trained)
• The ability to check out some tools.
• First dibs schwag and stuff.

Basic Membership

Basic Members want to help run and make the space work, and use it often, but maybe are not around as often, or are not as active on the current set of projects.

What you give

• $50 a month,
• 2 hours a month working on Hive76 Project/Event.
• 1 Class,Event, or skill-shares managed/hosted/run a year

What you get

• 24/7 Access to Hive 76 for personal projects (sign-in *required*)
• Minimum overhead cost for classes or events run at Hive.
• The right to use any/all equipment when a Core Member is not using it
• The right to vote on organization decisions*
• 1/2 of a shared locker for on site storage.
• Can request the space for group events (5+ people)
• Permission to use all space equipment and tools (once trained)

Lite Membership

Lite Members use the space once in a while, or just drop by during open hours. The don't want to help run the space too much, they just want to use it. These are close to just 'customers' of the community.

What you give

• $15 a month & 2 hours a month working on a Hive76 project/event.
  • $30 a month and 0 project time

What you get

• Access to the space During:
  • classes or event (related or unrelated) is going on
  • A Core member is at the space
  • All Open Hours (Wednesdays and 1 Saturday a month)
  • Private contact info for one Core Member to help coordinate access/use at other times
  • Permission to use most space equipment and tools (once trained)
  • The right to be involved in organization decisions*

Joining

Hive76 is owned and run by it's members, so we are a bit careful about how we accept new members.

1. First you probably should go join the Discussion List, and drop by for a few Wednesday night meeting/open houses. Get to know us. This is a shared space, and to make it run well, we need to know personalities mesh well.
2. Find an a friend that is an existing member at the space to sponsor your. You might have to ask a couple of people, or get to know an existing member a bit before they will sponsor you. If you don't have an existing member to sponsor you, no worries, we'll help find someone to sponsor you.
3. Fill out our new member form. Also send an email to the discussion list with a little bio info, and mention who your sponsor is.
4. For Lite Members (who don't get keys) are are now done. Gratz! Core/Basic members (who get keys) you are going to need to wait a short time between your email and getting keys.
5. Core/Basic Members: We give existing members until the next voting meeting (or until we get a vote online) to object. If someone as a problem or a concern, we will do a formal discussion and vote to accept you as a member. This will take less than 2 weeks. All Core/Basic memberships begin at the beginning of the following month unless otherwise arranged.
6. Finally, you will be contacted to make sure your keys, blog, hive-email, and other facilities work. You also should get a formal 'shelf by shelf' tour of the space, so you know where to find tools, parts, and equipment to use.

Voting

For major space decisions, Core Members + Basic Members vote. A proposal is passed by 2/3 majority. Core Members can block if they absolutely can't live with the outcome. A 'block' can be overridden if everyone else (except that one core member) votes to override it. Lite members are encouraged to be part of decision making, and can participate in discussion. Their votes are recorded and announced, but don't count towards the 2/3 majority. More on our voting process can be found here.

Meetings

Hive meets weekly before Open House and vote every other week on matters that deal with how we run the space. About every 4-6 weeks we have a Management Meeting, where the officers get together, and talk about how the space is doing, and coordinate the next set of things to do to make the space better. Once or twice a year we have a 'Board Meeting' (which will be required once we're a nonprofit), followed by a BBQ or Party. The 'Board Meeting' will probably take all day, and will be planning for bigger things to come. This is where we BS, dream big, and remember how awesome the past year was.