CUNY-nomic

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

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

Minutes - Programming and Hacking Communities Meeting

Meeting Chair: OlgaKey Meeting Secretary: Dan Weiner

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

Absent: Jesse Dimino (JD)


Meeting called to order at 3:11 pm

Proposal for agenda:

  1. Approving the agenda
  2. Approve the minutes of 11/04
  3. Handle Pull Requests in order
  4. New Business

Item 1. Approving the Agenda

MVJ moves to approve agenda

Seconded by: HR

Carried unanimously

Agenda approved for the meeting


Item 2. Approving the Minutes (Pull Request #140)

Recording started at 3:30 pm

Motion: By discussion to postpone the minutes

Seconded by: MJV

Result: Passed unanimously, minutes postponed


Item 3. Pull Request #131

Motion: by DW to create rule 431

number: 431

mutability: mutable

all voting is done with yays and nays having opposite meanings, yays are now said as nays and nays are now said as yays.

Seconded by: discussion

HR moves to call to question

Vote on Pull Request #131

Vote:

Aye - MJV, OK, HR, DW

Nay - JH, Beam, CH, IJ, CN

Result: motion fails

Points

-10 to DW (-20 total)


Item 3. Pull Request #133

Motion: by CH to create rule 433

number: 433

mutability: mutable

If and when rule-changes can be adopted without unanimity, the players who vote against winning proposals shall receive 100 points each.

Pull Request #133 First Amedment

Moved by: IJ

Amendment: change entire rule to “the players who vote against winning proposals win 100 points each” for brevity

Seconded by: None

Result: Amendment fails

OK moves to call the question

Vote on Pull Request #133

Vote:

Aye - Beam, HR, CH, IJ, CN, DW

Nay - MJV, JH, OK

Result: motion passes

Points

142 to CH (172 total)

100 to MVJ (319 total)

100 to OK (110 total)

100 to JH (379 total)

meeting hip hip hoorays


Item 4. Pull Request #134

Motion: by CH to create rule 434

number: 434

mutability: mutable

Each player vote weighs by the number of points the player has in the beginning of the round, divided by 10, and rounded to the closest integer.

Seconded by: discussion

OK moves to call to question

Vote on Pull Request #134

Vote:

Aye - MJV, JK, OK, Beam

Nay - HR, CH, IJ, CN, DW

Result: motion fails

Points

-10 to CH (162 total)


Item 5. Pull Request #135

Motion: by CH to create rule 435

number: 435

mutability: mutable

Every player is an eligible voter. Every eligible voter must participate in every vote on rule-changes.

Seconded by: MJV and Beam

MJV moves to call to question

Vote on Pull Request #135

Vote:

Aye - OK, Beam, CH

Nay - MJV, JH, HR, IJ, CN, DW

Result: motion fails

Points

-10 to CH (152 total)


Item 6. Pull Request #136

Motion: by JH to create rule 436

number: 436

mutability: mutable

Rule-changes that transmute immutable rules into mutable rules may be adopted if and only if the vote is unanimous among the eligible voters. Transmutation shall not be implied, but must be stated explicitly in a proposal to take effect.

Seconded by: MJV

MJV moves to call to question

Vote on Pull Request #136

Vote:

Aye - HR, CH, CN

Nay - MJV, JH, OK, Beam, IJ, DW

Result: motion fails

Points

-10 to JH (369 total)


HR moves to adjourn meeting

Carries unanimously

Meeting adjourned at 3:56 pm