[sudo-discuss] Pseudo Sudo Meeting + Postpone Meetings Until August?

[Jenny Ryan]

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Vicky - Truthfully, I'd been feeling a bit burned out on meetings as of
late - but this email is a great reminder of one of the main reasons I
love coming to sudo generally and why I think more members should come
to these first meetings in the Omni if they can make it - we're having
lots of awesome new humans show up every week to see what we're about,
and it's a wonderful opportunity to meet new potential collaborators
and co-conspirators ^_^

> It makes sense to me to try to meet anyway, there are concerns and
> conversations worth having, even for just a few people, and even without
> quorum. Please continue to meet, and please form quorum if you're in town
> so important decisions can be made!

+1 - Sparse meetings are better than no meetings, and I really
appreciate these pseudo-sudo meeting notes. Thanks Vicky!

>> TO-DO:
>> +Vicky will scrub the wordpress to make sure it's clear that we are now at
>> the new place (someone may have already done this)
>> +Vicky will update the Google Place for Sudo Room
>> +Julio will upload photos for how to access the new Sudo.
>> +Julio will scrub Sudo Room Wiki and Oakland Wiki to make sure it's clear
>> that Sudo Room is now at a new location.

Rad! Yar got to most of it, but there's probably bits she missed. More
info on access and also interim standards (eg quiet hours) would be
great to have posted more publicly.

>> NEW MEMBERS
>> +Three prospective members (Timothy, Elizabeth, and Whitney) were waiting
>> for a meeting that didn't happen due to lack of quorum (10 Sudo members)
>> pursuant to the current process for becoming a member:
>> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_2.1.0_Process_for_becoming_a_member

The new membership process is designed to make it easy to become a
member, as well as easy to block somebody from becoming a member if
there's good reason for it. Quorum is not necessary, rather we make
space during the meeting ("Initial Pondering") and over the list the
following week ("Extended Pondering") for current members to raise
objections. If no objections are raised after one week, the prospective
member automatically becomes a member.

This is all new and thus awkward, but I think important to have a bit
more process behind it. Even better would be to create materials online
and in print that we can point new folks to for acquainting them with
our history, values, and processes. Contact me if you're interested in
working on this!


>> DONATIONS + 501C*
>> +Whitney came representing a network hardware group after following a
>> suggestion from Daniel that Sudo should be able to solicit and accept
>> donations like old networking equipment from school districts when they
>> acquire new equipment. The group has to be able to accept donations that
>> are tax-deductible, and this is only possible if Sudo has federal
>> non-profit status [501(c)(*)], and the Sudo wiki states that process as
>> pending. It is not clear that a decision has been made. Whitney will
>> message sudo-discuss and sudo-board about his request for information.

That sounds awesome! Just recently I toured Free Geek in Portland and
it was really inspiring. I'd love to meet them.

We had 501c3 "let's do this!" on the agenda a few weeks back, but I
believe folks tabled it due to the more pressing business of "hey let's
build our new space asap!" If any sudoers in the house can help us
navigate the next steps of the 501c3 process, that would be a fantastic
contribution to the team ^_^

Cheers,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://sudomesh.org
http://thevirtualcampfire.org
http://technomadic.tumblr.com

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