CUNY-nomic

The game Nomic played as part of the course on Programming and Hacking Communities.

2025-11-04 00:00:00 +0000 - Written by

Minutes - Programming and Hacking Communities Meeting

Meeting Chair: Cheng Ning

Meeting Secretary: Isa Jafarov

Present: Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (MVJ), Jonathan Hanon (JH), OlgaKey (OK), Beam, Heather Roberts (HR), Cesar Herrera (CH), Jesse Dimino (JD), Cheng Ning (CN), Isa Jafarov (IJ), Dan Weiner (DW)

Absent: None


Meeting called to order at 3:06 PM

Proposal for agenda:

  1. Approving the agenda
  2. Approving the minutes of the last meeting
  3. Handle Pull Requests in order
  4. New Business

Seconded by: MVJ

Proposal passed unanimously

Item 1. Approving the Agenda

Voting is carried unanimously

Agenda approved for the meeting

Item 2. Approving the Minutes

JD proposed to add the missing adjournment time.

JH updated the minutes by adding the approximate adjournment time.

MVJ move to called the question

Seconded by: Beam

Vote

Aye - MVJ, JH, OK, Beam, HR, CH, JD, CN, IJ, DW

Nay - None

Result: The minutes were approved

Item 3. Handle Pull Requests in order

Pull request # 120

Motion by MVJ:

A player scores points computed by taking the Git hash of the first commit in the pull request, reading off the bottom byte, taking the square root, multiplying by 16, and multiplying the resulting number by the fraction of votes in favor of the rule change, rounded up to the nearest integer.

Seconded By: OK, Beam, JH

Beam proposed an amendment to include a formula in the description

Seconded by: OK

JH moved to call the question

Seconded by: DW

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK, JD, HR, Beam, CN, DW, JH, CH, IJ

Nay - None

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on amendment

Vote

Aye - None

Nay - MVJ, JH, OK, Beam, HR, CH, JD, CN, IJ, DW

Result: Amendment failed

JH moved to call the question

Seconded by: CH

Vote

Aye - MVJ, JH, OK, Beam, HR, CH, JD, CN, IJ, DW

Nay - None

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on rule change proposal

Vote

Aye - MVJ, CN, DW, JD, IS, JH

Nay - OK, HR, CH, Beam

Result: Motion passed

CH calls point of order

Do hip-hip-hurray

Meeting did hip-hip-hurray

144 points to MVJ (239 total)

10 points to OK (10 total)

10 points to HR (10 total)

10 points to CH (20 total)

10 points to Beam (118 total)

Pull Request # 127

Motion by DW:

---
number: 427
mutability: mutable
---

every player will gain 50 points for each meeting attended and lose 25 points for each meeting missed starting from the creation of this rule forward. As long as you are here before the game of nomic starts you can get the points.

JH moved to call the question

Seconded by: JD

Vote

Aye - MVJ, JH, OK, Beam, HR, CH, JD, CN, IJ, DW

Nay - None

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on rule change proposal

Vote

Aye - HR, DW, IJ

Nay - MVJ, OK, Beam, CN, CH, JD, JH

Result: Motion failed

DW lost 10 points (-10 total)

Pull request # 128

Motion by MVJ:

---
number: 428
mutability: mutable
---

Whenever the word `integer` is used anywhere in these rules, this will refer to any realization of Peano's axioms.

OK moved to call the question

Seconded by: CH

Vote

Aye - JH, OK, Beam, HR, CH, JD, CN, IJ, DW

Nay - MVJ

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on rule change proposal

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK

Nay - JH, Beam, HR, CH, JD, CN, IJ, DW

JH called for division

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK

Nay - Beam, HR, CN, DW, CH, JD, IJ, JH

Result: Motion failed

MVJ lost 10 points (229 total)

Pull request # 129

Motion by JH:

---
number: 429
mutability: mutable
---

The state of affairs that constitutes winning may be altered from achieving n points to any other state of affairs. The magnitude of n and the means of earning points may be changed, and rules that establish a winner when play cannot continue may be enacted and (while they are mutable) be amended or repealed.

Vote

Aye - MVJ, JH, Beam, CN, OK, CH

Nay - IJ, JD, DW, HR

Result: Motion passed

Meeting did hip-hip-hurray

137 points to JH (279 total)

10 points to IJ (10 total)

10 points to JD (138 total)

10 points to DW (0 total)

10 points to HR (20 total)

Pull request # 130

Motion by DW:

---
number: 430
mutability: mutable
---

the winner has to get between 1000 and 10,000 points or between -100 and -200, any more or any less does not give the person a win.

JH moved to call the question

Aye - JH, OK, DW, CN, CH

Nay - MVJ, Beam, JD, HR, IJ

Result: Motion to call the question failed

MVJ proposed amendment

change "-200" to "-1000"

JH moved to call the question

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK, Beam, DW, CN, CH, JD, JH, HR

Nay - IJ

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on amendment

Vote

Aye - MVJ, HR, DW, CN

Nay - JH, OK, Beam, CH, JD, IJ

Result: Amendment failed

MVJ proposed an amendment

change number 10000 to 2000

Seconded by: OK

OK moved to call the question

Vote

Aye - MVJ, HR, DW, CN, JH, OK, Beam, CH, JD, IJ

Nay - None

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on amendment

Vote

Aye: MVJ, OK, JD, HR

Nay: Beam, CN, DW, CH, JH, IJ

Result: Amendment failed

DW moved to call the question

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK, JD, HR, Beam, CN, DW, JH, CH, IJ

Nay - None

Result: Motion to call the question passed, vote on rule change

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK, HR, DW

Nay - JD, Beam, CN, JH, CH, IJ

DW lost 10 points (-10 total)

Result: Motion failed

DW moved to adjourn the meeting

Vote

Aye - MVJ, OK, JD, HR, Beam, CN, DW, JH, CH, IJ Nay - None

Result: The meeting adjourned at 4:02 PM