Pinned up by the reference desk
The Board is our community notice board, in the lobby and online. Neighbors pin up flyers for things they’d like to do together: a Tuesday walk, a seed swap, a ride to the coast. You’re only ever on a flyer if you said yes to it, and it never costs a cent.
This week
Chess After Close has faded, and its members are voting on a new keeper until 5 October.
We print the whole board every Monday for the lobby. This week’s went up this morning.
See the printoutAt the reference desk
Rosa Delgado-Park, or whoever is on the desk, can help you write your page, pin up a flyer, or meet you and vouch for you in person.
Or write to board@
This week’s board
Each flyer is a Kindling Pool: a board a neighbor pinned up, with a small file that says what it’s for, who keeps it and who is on it. Every board here is public (§3.2), so anyone can read it, online or in the lobby. The people on a board are the ones who said yes to it, and nobody else.
Pinned up by Maggie
An easy walk around the harbor loop, Tuesdays at eight, leaving from the library steps. Any pace. We stop for herons.
Pinned up by June
Trade seeds, cuttings and advice. The seed library drawer is by the magazines.
Pinned up by Rosa
Practice a language out loud with someone who speaks it, and trade back.
Pinned up by Bram
Shared rides to the coast towns for work, errands and the Saturday market. Split gas, not fares.
Pinned up by Rosa
For anyone who moved to Port Ellery in the last year.
Pinned up by Elena
Volunteers who fix lamps, toasters, zippers and bike brakes in the library basement on the first Friday of the month.
The tabs at the bottom of every flyer carry its address. Tear one off in the lobby, type it into any Kindling app at home, and you can read the whole board. That’s all a Pool address needs to do: travel by hand, by newsletter or by word of mouth, and still work (§8.2).
We publish one file listing all seven boards, open to any app or registry without asking us first (§8.3):
Every board carries a geographic_scope of Port Ellery, United States (§3.3). An app looking for things near you can tell these are for people who can get to the library.
One flyer has faded
A flyer that nobody looks after for 90 days fades. It stays on the board, and everyone on it can still read it, but the board is marked dormant until someone takes it on. Amos kept Chess After Close on his own, with no co-keeper to step in, so its members are voting.
Pinned up by Amos
Faded · dormant since 16 September
Chess in the reading room after the library closes on Thursdays, with the night staff’s blessing. All levels.
Re-pin vote · open until 5 October
Theo Lindqvist nominated Priya Raman to keep Chess After Close. Amos moved inland in June. Priya plays most Thursdays and has the night staff’s blessing.
The people who vote are the board’s active members: anyone who said yes to it, posted to it or wrote through it in the last 60 days (§9.2). Right now that is Priya Raman and Theo Lindqvist.
The rule: the nominee needs two-thirds of the members who answer (§9.3). So far 1 for, 0 against, 1 yet to answer. If the vote closed today, Priya would keep the board.
Members vote at the reference desk or by writing to board@
dormant (§9.1).Priya becomes the keeper, the flyer is re-pinned, and the board is active again. Everyone’s card stays exactly where it was.
The board is archived (§9.4). It stays up, readable, with every card still on it. It takes no new cards and passes on no messages.
An archived board can be revived. Any member who returns can open a new vote, and the board can be re-pinned then.
How to pin one up
You can put up a flyer of your own, or put your card on someone else’s. Either way, you do it with a page you already have, and we help at the desk.
Leaving is one step from any message, and your card is down within sixty seconds (§5.3).
How the desk vouch works
Conversation Partners, Any Language pairs people up one to one, so its charter asks staff to meet each person once before they’re listed. In Kindling terms the board is vouching-required (§5.4).
What happens. Come to the reference desk with your page’s address. Rosa, or whoever is on shift, says hello, puts a face to the page, and vouches for you on that board. Then the board sends you a request like any other, and you can still say no (§5.4).
What a vouch says. One thing: a librarian met you, in person, at this desk. We don’t ask for ID and we don’t keep a copy of anything. Beside your card, the stamp reads “Vouched for by the curator” (§4.5).
Where it counts. On that one board, and nowhere else (§4.4). A vouch doesn’t follow you to other boards. An app that reads this board shows it on your card from here, and on no other card.
Priya is on two boards. Rosa vouched for her at the desk for one of them. The other board shows her email check, because a vouch stays where it was given.
On Conversation Partners, Any Language
On Chess After Close
Who can write to you
Your page can say who may write to you through Kindling (§7.2). At the desk we suggest “pool-mates only”, and 9 of the 13 people on the Board chose it.
What it means for them. Only people who share a board with them can write, and only through that board. June is on three boards, so anyone on those three can write to her.
What it means if you’re not on their board. Kindling won’t pass your message on. You’ll be told why, and they never see it. If you’d like to write to someone from the Tuesday walk, the way in is to join the walk.
Other choices. Some people take messages only from people vouched for on the same board. Some want both sides to say they’d like to hear from each other before a first message. Some take messages from anyone with a verified email. Every board shows each person’s rule beside their card.
Underneath every rule, each board subscribes to two shared block lists: the Kindling project’s own and the Circular consortium’s (§7.3). Senders on either list are turned away before any rule is read. See both lists.
Try it with real board members on the Tuesday Morning Walkers page.
Your page and the library
Your page is yours. It lives at your own address, and the Board only ever holds a short, cached reading of it.
kindling-noindex. We check before any email goes out (§2.7). See it happen.The Board is free to everyone, like a library card. Nobody pays to pin up a flyer, to be on one, or to be introduced to anyone.
The money comes from the library’s public budget, the same budget that pays for the books and the story hour. It covers a little staff time at the desk, the web hosting, the canary paper and the printer toner.