Burn2 Voting Membership

Registration

As Burn2 works its way toward becoming a nonprofit organization, we need to organize our community with membership.

We envision two types of members in Burn2: Participating Members and Voting Members.

Participating Members, who are members of our existing groups within SL or our social media networks, will continue to be able to:

Attend, volunteer, and participate in Burn2’s events.
Attend Burn2’s meetings that are open to the general public.
Participate in online discussions.
“Vote” in community opinion polls Burn2 makes open to the public.
Voice their option in various other Burn2 public opinion and feedback forms.
Apply to become Voting Members.

Many of us are already Participating Members.

Voting Members will have all the abilities of participating members with the added ability, and responsibility, to decide matters that are brought before the voting membership.

Requirements to Become a Voting Member

Must be 18 years of age or older, and interested in the mission and purposes of this organization.
Provide Burn2 with their avatar legacy name and account key/UUID. It is the responsibility of each applicant to ensure information provided is accurate and correct; if in error the voting member applicant will be requested to resubmit their information to qualify.
Must not be an alternate avatar, which is an additional avatar owned by the same individual that owns the primary avatar that is a voting member.
Must have participated in at least one event within two consecutive calendar years. This entails contributing either via volunteering, gifting, building or performing at one event over the past two calendar years, and acknowledging receipt of the annual report document each year.

Voting Members will have the right to vote on issues put before the voting membership, with one (1) vote on each issue.

"People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating."

Larry Harvey

"Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things."
Larry Harvey

"We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird.
It verges on the wholly other."
Larry Harvey

Radical Inclusion: Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting: Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Communal Effort: Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Decommodification: In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

Radical Self-expression: Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

Radical Self-reliance: Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.

Civic Responsibility: We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Participation: Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Leaving No Trace: Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Immediacy: Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.