[sudo-discuss] Meeting Tonight at 7PM: Add to Agenda
Marina Kukso
marina.kukso at gmail.com
Wed May 15 12:18:56 PDT 2013
hi all,
meeting tonight at 7pm. please add to the agenda here:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting
action items from last week:
- Bill will set up automatic reminders
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - Len,
Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
pay your dues,
marina
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full notes from last week (apologies for not putting it up on the wiki yet!)
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes>
Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054
May 1 2013
Attending:
==Introductions==
Co-Facilitator:
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)
- What is one thing you like to share with others?
- What is one current *frustration* you have? What is one current thing
that puts you *at ease*?
Icebreaker (10 min)
- Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months
*Share food / sudo mate if available.*
==Announcements==
Co-Facilitator: ?
- ===Consent Agenda===
- (< 3 minutes) Co-Facilitator: Mary
-
- *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need
no more details or discussion)** ====> We're trying this out!*
-
- May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would
love help organizing it.
- Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please
contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and
can pick up and drop it off, etc.
- Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please
- Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system
- Add to movie night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films
- PUBLIC SCHOOL:
- Thursdays at 6pm - Supper Club, open to all, pot-luck in common space
at 2141 Broadway!
- Fireworks submission deadline is 10th of each month - submit hacking
stuff:http://fireworksbayarea.com/contribute/
- SPECIAL "Keeping tidy" Friday before 11:30am - Landlord showing a
room to potential tenants
- ===Other Announcements=== Co-Facilitator: Mary
- (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?
- *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay
- Who is available to lead this week? _____Marina______
- Subiir - Debut of second round,
- Hacker Happy Hour - Sam hosting 8D
- Footage for blog and wiki, get individual tutorials from folks!
- Hopefully get some interactive activities on (Sarah and Rusty have
volunteered)
- Screenwriting Workshop Sundays 5-7pm at Sudo Room :D
- http://sudoroom.org/calendar/
- Land Occupation - Occupy the Farm - Sat May 11th meet at Albany City
Hall at San Pablo and Marin Ave at 12 noon!
- http://occupythefarm.org/
-
- === ACTION ITEMS === Co-Facilitatory: Jordan
- (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝
-
- Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if
necessary to next meeting:
-
- New Business:
-
- Blurb of short description to be used at different events - Tommy
- *"Sudoroom is a community-supported hackerspace that provides open
membership in a non-hierarchical, collaborative community working towards
social change. You can help make Sudoroom more affordable and more
accessible, and encourage more events like the one you're attending by
donating today."*
- For next agenda: discussion to share some of the ongoing initiatives
that are going on to bring money into sudo room
- *Matt* and *Jenny* will encourage Sudoers to think about and prepare
for this.
- DONE, discussing in Fiscal Solvency section
- sudo-fund mailing list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-fund
- Survey membership
- *Matt* and *Bill* will do online and paper survey
- Tabled to next week
- *Vicky* has emailed the listserv asking people if they are interested
in writing. The goal is to organize people to collaborate on writing
marketing-type materials.
- DONE. This sunday at 4pm is a meeting to work on this.
- Sam - New video for blog and wiki (next happy hour? or meeting, happy
hour and wiki/blog workshop in one!)
- Can it be like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY
- Would like to have an event where people collaboratively create videos
and learn how to do videos. Possibly next Friday. Please coordinate with
*Sam*.
- This is happening!!!!!!!!!11111
- *Rusty* and *Ryan* will follow up with Dan on printing t-shirts.
- Come to Rusty and Ryan about logos / designs / etc
- Need to also follow up with Dan about helping him
- Prep space for friday screenings: Audio, lighting, etc.
- SDR (software defined radio) Meetup - when / where?
- Cheap TV tuners that operate on a wide spectrum
- It WILL be fun.
- Find BILLLLLLLLLLLLL after the mtg
-
- Old Business:
-
- *Matt* will follow up with *Max*: Installing Linux on a second laptop
for rock paper scissors collective (first was bad :()
- *Ryan* B will bring in a laptop?(coordinate with *Wolf**y* on getting
laptop)
- DELIVERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE? - Matt will help
- [Postponed] Talk to *Danny O'Brien*, intro from *JC* to *Jordan*,
invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!
- Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later
this month and Jordan will follow up then.
- Continues to be postponed
- [Skipping this week as it will be Art Mumur and we have a movie
screening] Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker
Happy Hour
- *[Postponed** until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb**] **Romy* to
lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment
- *Romy* to work with *Troy* to turn the articles into a flow diagram.
Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around.
- [*Postponed** until ?*] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? -
https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) - *Yardena* is going to put these
articles up
- *[Vicky will do this] **Vicky* - follow up with Public School about
Oakland Nights Live.
- Marina will follow up with Vicky
- Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Captial
and Crisis" putting on thinking caps
- ... and "theorizing"
- *[**Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School**] **Jenny* -
Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external
- -Ensure doors are closed
- -Trash and recycling
- -Running the dishwasher
- -Putting furniture back where it belongs
- -Vacuum!
- Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs.
- *[Postponed until necessary] **Eddan* - Reference letter from George
- *[Postponed** until necessary**] Jenny* sync with *Troy* on library -
Not yet but they will
- Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - *Jenny*!1 -*
troy*
- still need to set a date
==Fiscal Solvency== (20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Marina
- Financial Planning
- Fund-raising efforts?
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas
- Food
- Sudo Mate - *Max** & Ray*
- Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!)
- Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc*
- Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray** - Last week's $40 went to Sudo
Room rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!*
- Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST]
- suggestion by *Marc*
- Rusty's "Savior Bars"!
- Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason
- *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn*
- "Just do it"
- Schwag
- 3D printed stuff
- magnets - *Jordan*
- bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device
mounting!) -hol
- jewelry
- on-demand
- other objects
- other 3D printers
- 3d printed exoskeleton
- DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell
- "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?)
- Bike bevereage holders
- T-shirts - *Dan Finlay** (already an action item)*
- Buttons (moar)
- Dependent upon logo
- LED cubes - hol??????????
- Membership dues
- sliding-scale, voluntary (current)
- *better* *advertisement*
- --> Scrounging for MOAR
- Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.
- Could be extremely effective
- Could do a bike-about
- better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)
- will be informed by member survey (already an action item)
- Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????*
- Automatic reminders
- Repair Services
- Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)?
- Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair!
- Specifically could get $ from burners
- Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state
- Donated equipment
- Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan*
- Re-use and sell or sell as services
- Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/
- DIY ISP ++
- a la http://ranchwifi.com/
- Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like
he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi
- Kits
- electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up
with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually
together, we can sell at events - Hol)
- Home PCs for cheapz
- Art kits
- Writing kits
- Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^
- Kits of 3D printers that create other kits
- Non-profit status
- Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3
- Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal
sponsorship
- School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship
- Grants
- Regular events
- Raves
- Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects
- Covers? No covers?
- NOTES
- Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding
mechanisms at play here
- One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources
- You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the
technology may or may not be there.
- Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort
involved -- you can cross most of it out
- Jenny
- Added speaker events section
- In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would
possibly be interested in speaking here
- Tommy
- We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not
they brought in income
- Sam
- Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things.
- Eddie
- Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as
a service we could offer.
- *Second** Wed - budget** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess
where we're at)
- Pay your dues!
- Review and consensus process:
- Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3hUZldyejlXdFE#gid=7
- Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
- Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30
people)
- now we're collecting target of $60
- some give more
- sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month
- Add to action items
==Amendments to the Articles of Association== Co-Facilitator: Matt
?
==Conflict Resolution== Co-Facilitator: Matt
?
==Additional Items== (per item) Co-Facilitator: Ryan
- Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min)
- Priorities / values
- Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed
here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space
- Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates.
- Strategy
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin
access)
- Tweet any space details *@sudoroom*
- Email *info at sudoroom.org*
- Craigslist posting looking for friends
- Report-back, Feedback from Art Murmur
- piano went outside and people played it!
- we need to do more to be on the street
- create a holder for sudo mate to stand outside.
- outdoor signage is very effective - this should be part of the art
murmur set up.
- saturday sign-making
- flyer for art murmur
- make it a BACH event - "come to sudo room"
- be a part of the saturday stroll
-
==Action Items== Scribe: Matt
- Bill will set up automatic remindres
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt,
Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny*
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
- === Meeting Brief for Announce List ===
- *Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting
minutes*
==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?
- Advertising - briefly with Ryan
- Bill for software radio
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