[sudo-discuss] Meeting Minutes 1/22

[Jenny Ryan]

Reposted for posterity at:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-01-22

==Intros==
Q: What are you currently hacking on?
A: Mac is hacking sewing machines, making a hat rack, and bikes, and fixing
sudo sewing machines!; Arnas is currently not hacking on anything; Chris
Bee is currently hacking sound (all of it); Matt is hacking on his camper
trailer, and fixing sudo sewing machines!; Daniel hacking on Cisco
switches; Nathan is hacking on Indian food. and the public school system;
Ryan hacking on a fuel tank. with fiberglass. and sanding.; Sam is hacking
on automation; Gaurav hacking on his laptop here; Jordan hacking health;
Jenny hacking on networks; James hacking on modules

==Announcements==
* Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar
* #Jan25: Daylong educational event on the ongoing Egyptian revolution -
this Friday starting at 3pm
* This Saturday's Today We Learned involves building compost toilets!
* Machine Learning Meetup at noon in Berkeley on Saturday. (Now on the
sudoroom calendar)
* Stop the Domain Awareness Center event - Feb. 4th @ Oakland City Hall
* Next Omni meeting is Thursday, Feb. 6th from 7-10pm
* Oakland Makers meetup was today; organizing the makers of Oakland

==Past Action Items==
* Ink donation jar - Juul - not done
* Investigate integrating Stripe and/or Balanced Payments [Jenny, Bill]
** Seems Stripe is better for recurring billing (Balanced's recurring
billing system is still in beta: https://github.com/balanced/billy) - this
is essential for us. Let's try Stripe!)
* Look into other hackerspaces'<3 accounting system [Jenny]
** GNU Cash looks most interesting - otherwise not much in the way of FOSS
tools for finances: http://www.gnucash.org/
* Get new lease for 2141 Broadway (update to sign with "sudo room" as an
entity) - Matt - pending response from George
* Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan)
* slay zombie events that show up when importing from calendar
* follow up on the stuff here https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles

==Fiscal Solvency==
* $204.11/week from Gittip!
* Minimum membership dues: $2.50/wk; Recommended: $15/wk; Endless
gratitude: $25/wk, high-fives from a million angels: $100/wk.
* Current balance: at least $7700
* Daniel suggests a visual aid to show visitors our fiscal needs and
current status

==Amendments to Articles of Association==
1. [Postponed] Final consensus on yar's filming proposal, which was
unanimously approved on Dec. 18th meeting:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Filming_at_sudo_room
*Discussion around the wording of #1B (alternative wordings in the link
above)
*Philip suggests looking into the 'Right to Delete' policies of various
European countries - + tight windows for keeping data - Privacy by Design

The following were not discussed this week, but will go on the agenda for
next week:

2. [Postponed] That members don't ever have to show up in person if they
don't want voting rights.
*Brendan proposes to strike this as unnecessary

3. [Postponed] To empower members to deal with problematic  non-members,
non-members can be thrown out at any time by a member if  that members feel
they are  being a problem, _unless_ some other member  present in the space
is willing to vouch for the member as a guest.  Non-members being asked to
leave must be told that they can further  discuss the incident at a
Wednesday meeting or on the mailing list.
*We need to have a policy on this, but should be written in a more
nonviolent manner.

4. [Postponed] Non-members can use the space as much as they want  when
other members are present, but cannot access the space when no  members are
there and  have to leave when the last member leaves.
*Not enough members to reach quorum, push to next week

==conflict resolution==

== new members==
* Mack [cleaning, organizing, fixing sewing machines]
* Gaurav [Gittip]

==Discussion==
*Yar suggests we rotate bureacracy meetings with hacknights!
*Jenny suggests we add a 'New Members' section to the meeting agenda - Matt
done
*Calendar situation
*Jordan suggests a 'sudo diff' approach to hacking the Articles of
Incorporation [delete liberally, add succinctly]

==Action Items==
* Move to Stripe [Jenny / Matt]
* Poke Laurie re: new lease [Matt]
* Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan)
* fill out statement of information sometime soon
https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/  [Jenny, ?]
* finish setting up bank acct [Matt, friends]
* Publish the new member minimum dues policy to the Articles of Association
on-wiki. [Mack] - DONE
* Hack on Bylaws / Articles of Assoc [Mac / Jordan / Marina, friends]

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Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
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