What is to be done about the SRCF?

What is to be done about the SRCF? Late last century I co-founded a club ("the SRCF") for providing UNIX shell access to people, on a machine that would remain connected to the Internet at a stable address. A key feature of this organisation was that it was democratic and independent: the users had to be members of the club, and elected a committee, which granted root access to competent individuals to administer the club's machines on behalf of all members. Needless to say, this drove a numb...