December 2013 - Hall - sudoroom.org

Institutional Membership for Common area

by Eddan Katz

Another thing we talked about with Oakland Digital was the advantage of being able to manage the common area. Peer Production would sub-lease the individual rooms to the groups/companies at proportionally lower rates and create a layer of institutional membership that could help offset costs and facilitate responsible use of the common area. For example, if the individual rents for entities collecting together that want to be tenants in specific rooms were reduced by some 15-30%, institutional … [View More]

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OAK DAC & urgent action

by eddan.com

Included below is the East Bay Express' unbelievable exposé on the Domain Awareness Center being built in Oakland. While it is extraordinarily shocking what the plans are, it is within the dystopia scope of what civil rights advocates have been concerned about. But I think it is also amazingly shocking how much has been exposed and documented about it already. These developments require a powerful response and should be a top priority for awareness raising in 2014. Not just protests, but … [View More]serious and thoughtful articulation of the profound implications of this turning point of freedom in this country and specifically this city. http://m.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-purpose-of-oaklands-surveillan… The Real Purpose of Oakland's Surveillance Center City leaders have argued that Oakland needs a massive surveillance system to combat violent crime, but internal documents reveal that city staffers are also focused on tracking political protesters. by Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston| December 18, 2013 Oakland's citywide surveillance system, the Domain Awareness Center, or DAC, gained national notoriety earlier this year when some city residents voiced strong concerns about the project's privacy and civil rights implications. City officials and supporters of the DAC have responded by contending that objections over privacy and civil rights issues are overblown and that the true purpose of the surveillance center is to help Oakland finally deal with its violent crime problem. But thousands of pages of emails, meeting minutes, and other public documents show that, behind closed doors, city staffers have not been focusing on how the DAC can lower Oakland's violent crime rate. So what is the real purpose of the massive $10.9 million surveillance system? The records we examined show that the DAC is an open-ended project that would create a surveillance system that could watch the entire city and is designed to easily incorporate new high-tech features in the future. And one of the uses that has piqued the interest of city staffers is the deployment of the DAC to track political protesters and monitor large demonstrations. Linda Lye, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, was alarmed when we showed her emails that revealed that the Oakland Police Department has already started using the DAC to keep tabs on people engaged in First Amendment activity. "The fact that the focus so far has been on political protests, rather than the violent crime that's impacting Oakland residents, is troubling, and telling about how the city plans to use the DAC," she said. "Information is always fundamentally about control," she added. Once it's fully operational, the DAC will give Oakland officials an unprecedented ability to monitor peoples' movements, associations, and activities. The Domain Awareness Center is being built in stages and will merge OPD's existing license-plate scanners and gunshot detectors with video feeds from hundreds of surveillance cameras — many already in place and some to be installed in the future by several different agencies throughout the city — into a central hub. Oakland police will monitor this "flood of data," as one DAC project presentation called it. Originally limited to monitoring the Port of Oakland, the DAC has since expanded to encompass the entire city. The Oakland Privacy Working Group, an activist coalition opposed to the DAC, obtained thousands of pages of emails and other public records related to the project from the city via a California Public Records Act request. The privacy group then shared the documents — which cover the period from August 2012 through September 2013 — with us. While the emails reveal a great deal about the DAC, they are also notable for what they do not talk about. Among the hundreds of messages sent and received by Oakland staffers and the city's contractor team responsible for building the DAC, there is no mention of robberies, shootings, or the 138 homicides that took place during the period of time covered by the records. City staffers do not discuss any studies pertaining to the use of surveillance cameras in combating crime, nor do they discuss how the Domain Awareness System could help OPD with its longstanding problems with solving violent crimes. In more than 3,000 pages of emails, the terms "murder," "homicide," "assault," "robbery," and "theft" are never mentioned. The records also show that the Oakland City Council's attempt to rein in the features of the DAC that pose the most serious threats to civil liberties, and to craft a privacy and data retention policy, may be too little, too late. City staffers have apparently found a way to work around the intended policies of the council. Moreover, the documents reveal that, behind the scenes, the Oakland Police Department, despite its long and troubling record of violating people's civil rights, is in charge of designing the DAC and the policies that will govern its use. Furthermore, records show that the DAC already has so-called "video analytic" capabilities. Video analytics include features like automated vehicle and pedestrian tracking, motion recognition, and a "virtual fence" that determines when people approach or attempt to breach fences surrounding Port of Oakland property. The documents also reveal that the DAC contractor, SAIC, now called Leidos Holdings, Inc., over-billed the City of Oakland by upwards of $160,000 by purchasing expensive software and gadgets that SAIC staff kept for themselves, and by filing invoices for work that wasn't done. Several Oakland staffers caught this and deducted the charges, but only after forcing SAIC to exhaustively account for labor, tools, and $94,000 in goods received for which there were no receipts provided. It's unclear just how much of Oakland will be put under continuous, pervasive surveillance by OPD with the DAC, but internal city records show that plans to incorporate cameras inside Oakland's public schools and Oakland Housing Authority properties are very much alive. So, too, are plans to feed in surveillance footage from hundreds of other cameras already in place around the city through OPD's commercial camera lending program, local transit agencies, and a planned surveillance system the Downtown Oakland Association and the Lake Merritt Uptown District Association business improvement districts intend to build. And cameras are just the beginning: Documents mention monitoring "social media," "web feeds," and "text messaging." Large surveillance centers are becoming increasingly common nationwide: They now exist in New York City; Chicago; Baltimore; Washington, DC; and Hudson County, New Jersey. Political leaders typically contend that such centers are necessary to combat terrorist threats and reduce crime. But Rajiv Shah, a professor of communication at the University of Illinois-Chicago who conducted a study on the efficacy of Chicago police's crime cameras, said surveillance systems aren't guaranteed to help police reduce crime. They do, however, serve political goals of looking tough on crime. In Chicago, the camera network was set up during the mid-2000s with no public input or oversight. And local officials justified it by pointing to the dual threats of terrorism and crime. But the latter, Shah said, is a red herring. "It's not really about solving crime," he said. "That's just something that's tacked on at the end to make it easier for the public to swallow." From a political perspective, he said, the questionable efficacy of networking cameras comes in second to the political currency of claiming credit for a brick-and-mortar project geared toward fighting violent crime. "It's like every local politician: 'I'll do something to create more jobs. I'll do something to reduce crime. I'll set up a camera system.'" In Oakland, city leaders have also pointed to the city's high crime rate as the primary reason for building a surveillance center. Supporters of the DAC have also argued that the possibility of infringing on people's privacy or civil rights pales in comparison to the need to address violence in the city. "There are so many people in West Oakland who feel terrorized by gunplay and prostitution, gangs or just straight violence," said Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, whose district encompasses downtown and West Oakland. There are a large number of residents in Oakland — poor, rich, black, white, Latino, and Asian — who desperately want something to be done about the violent crime that has taken thousands of mostly young African-American and Latino men to the grave over the past thirty years, and McElhaney said these communities support surveillance cameras. But it's unclear whether residents understand how the DAC is going to be used. Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, an Oakland resident who has been an integral part of the team involved in federal oversight of OPD for the past decade, said he's concerned about the police department's track record of misconduct and its history of disproportionately targeting people of color. "Under the right circumstances, [the DAC] could solve some crime, and help deter bad behavior by police, since they're still not using their [chest mounted cameras] properly," Chanin said. "However, if done wrong, the surveillance center will be a titanic waste of money. It will invade people's privacy and become a bureaucratic nightmare from managing so much data. "There are fundamental problems with how OPD collects and handles evidence," he continued. "They can't even deal with the resources they have now." Professor Shah's observations about the use of networked surveillance systems for purposes other than crime-fighting is borne out by official documents and correspondence tracing the evolution of Oakland's Domain Awareness Center. Public records show that city staffers are interested in using the DAC to monitor political protests. This aspect of the DAC first became public in August when Renee Domingo, director of Oakland's Emergency Management Services Division and the head of the DAC project team, published an article in the government trade publication Public CEO justifying the need for the surveillance hub. "Oakland's long history of civil discourse and protest adds to the need [for the Domain Awareness Center]," Domingo wrote. "The Oakland Emergency Operations Center has been partially or fully activated more than 30 times in the past three years to respond to large demonstrations and protests." Other records echo this political mission. In meeting minutes from a January 2012 meeting of the San Francisco Maritime Exchange's Northern California Maritime Area Security Committee, Domingo and Mike O'Brien, director of security for the Port of Oakland, described the DAC system as a tool that would help control labor strikes and community protests that threaten to slow business at the port. Following security reports from the US Border Patrol and the FBI, Domingo told the committee that Oakland law enforcement was "hoping that things would quiet down with the Occupy movement in the new year," according to the official minutes. Domingo thanked the Maritime Exchange for its support of Oakland's port security grant projects, which includes the DAC. O'Brien went further, explaining that the port's Emergency Operations Center (which now feeds into the DAC) "made use of seventy new security cameras" to track the protesters, and added that the system will ensure that "future actions [do] not scare labor away." Dan Siegel, a longtime civil and workers' rights attorney in Oakland, said the city staffers' focus on political unrest, even at the port, is disturbing. "There's a huge difference in protecting the port from potential acts of terrorism than from spying on port workers and others who may have political or economic conflicts with port management and the companies that operate the terminals," said Siegel. "What we see taking place is a complete blurring of that line where port security now includes tracking Occupy, longshore workers, and now recently the Port Truckers Association." During construction of the first phase of the DAC, from roughly August 2012 to October 2013, city staffers repeatedly referred to political protests as a major reason for building the system. Emails to and from Lieutenant Christopher Shannon, Captain David Downing, and Lieutenant Nishant Joshi of OPD and Ahsan Baig, Oakland's technical project leader on the DAC, show that OPD staffers were in the surveillance center during the Trayvon Martin protests this year, and that they may have been monitoring marches in Oakland. In the same chain of emails, Shannon asked if the Emergency Operations Center and the DAC control room's layout had "changed much since May Day," referring to yet another large political rally in Oakland when the DAC appears to have been used by OPD to monitor demonstrations. On July 25, Baig requested that SAIC produce a demonstration video of the DAC's capabilities to show off at the next City Council meeting. "Try your best. I need the Demo ASAP, it shouldn't be more than 3 mins.," wrote Baig. "Check out http://www.occupyoakland.orgwebsite to understand the background." On July 31, dozens of Oakland residents attended a city council meeting to speak out against the DAC. The next day, Jerry Green, an employee of Radio IP, an Oakland contractor, emailed Baig a copy of a San Francisco Chronicle article entitled, "Oakland OKs Money For Surveillance Center," that described the protest. The title of Green's email was "these upset citizens must have something to hide." Baig responded simply, "Yep..." Law enforcement surveillance (both federal and local) of demonstrators has been a constant in Oakland since the killing of Oscar Grant in 2009 sparked chaotic street demonstrations. Police infiltrated organizing meetings, sent undercover officers to mingle in crowds during several demonstrations, and recorded the protests with multiple video teams. Police took a similar approach during Occupy Oakland. Police also compiled yearbook-style photo dossiers of prominent demonstrators, regardless of whether they had committed a crime or not. Siegel took issue with the DAC's focus on First Amendment activity. "The communications among Oakland city staff and DAC contractors demonstrate their intent to create a surveillance system that goes far beyond what might be used to detect terrorist threats and help the OPD solve serious crimes," he said. "Instead, they are building a system that will be used to monitor political demonstrations and identify individuals involved in protests. The city's contractors betray their true attitudes by describing people opposed to state surveillance as 'upset citizens' with 'something to hide.'" In August 2012, when port officials were brainstorming the extent of the DAC's surveillance powers, they hired a company called GuidePost Solutions to help. GuidePost Solutions has an office in Oakland, but is headquartered in Manhattan. Its executives include former officials from NYPD, the US Attorneys' office, the New York City District Attorneys' Office, and other law enforcement agencies. The DAC blueprint that GuidePost Solutions and the port devised to send to potential contractors as a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) drew the attention of Oakland police. Lieutenant Michael Poirier read the plan and criticized it as being "too Port specific." "While the DAC will of course serve the Port, I see the majority of information in/out will be 'live' on City streets," Poirier wrote in an email to port staffers and to Raymond Kolodzieczak of GuidePost Solutions. "This RFQ does not have the focus of 'live' operational information center." Poirier recommended revising the project description to reflect OPD's plan to make the DAC a citywide system that includes "any City camera, shotspotter, LPR [automated license-plate readers]," and he even added, "City Databases (planning, permits, business tax, city GIS etc)" as information to be fed into the DAC. Poirier ended his lengthy email stating, "If the RFQ goes out as is, I think the vendor will be 'surprised' when the true nature/function (operational mode) of the DAC is requested." In public comments to the city council in July, Lye of the ACLU questioned whether there were any privacy policies in place to govern how the DAC would collect and store data. There were not. Lye met with city staffers to discuss the numerous ways the DAC could serve to undermine civil rights. She said she opposes construction of the DAC, and that her participation in those policy meetings should not be taken as ACLU's endorsement of the project. Councilmembers Dan Kalb and Libby Schaaf subsequently spearheaded a resolution requiring the city to develop a privacy and data retention policy, and for the rules to be in place by March, before the DAC becomes fully operational. But the city is drafting the policy after the DAC has already been outfitted with the hardware and software necessary to store massive amounts of information, including video footage. In a July 26, 2013 email from SAIC employee Neill Chung to port and city staffers concerning the privacy policy requested by the council, Chung asserted that the DAC "[does] not record or store any video." He then wrote exactly the opposite: "The [DAC] operators do have the ability to save a snapshot from a video and save it to the local workstation where they can then distribute the image," and further that they can also save and distribute video. "The [DAC] operators will have the ability to export a video clip and save it to the local workstation where they can then distribute the video." In the same email conversation chain, Oakland project leader Baig referred to the DAC as having "TB of data storage," meaning terabytes. Standard DVDs hold 4.7 gigabytes of data, enough for a couple hours of high-definition digital footage. Many hours of lower-resolution video footage could be saved in just a few gigabytes. There are 1024 gigabytes in 1 terabyte. If Baig's claim that the DAC has terabytes of video storage capacity is correct, then the DAC is already outfitted with hardware to store the equivalent of at least 435 full-length movies. And the DAC's hardware likely has many more hours of storage capacity than that. After the council approved Kalb and Schaaf's resolution requiring creation of a privacy policy, city staffers appear to have strategized a way to work around the council's intentions so that they can build upon these DAC features. In an email exchange on July 26 between Domingo and Amadis Sotelo, a lawyer in the City Attorney's Office, the two discussed their revisions to the privacy policy. Sotelo remarked that the resolution language under consideration "limits you from being able to develop and implement data retention at later times." "Is that your intention?" Sotelo asked Domingo. "No, we want the flexibility to do this after Council approves the Policy," replied Domingo. Baig then cut into the email exchange, asking Domingo, "How are you going to change after the Council approval?" Domingo responded, "We've done this before recently. Amadis and I will handle it." "It looks like city staff thinks they have flexibility to alter the policy after council approves it," said Lye of ACLU. "That raises huge questions." City staffers involved in the project and the email exchanges didn't return our phone calls and emails during the month we spent reporting this story. The project's contractors also declined to speak to us. Councilmembers Kalb and Schaaf also did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Siegel reviewed the above email exchange and many other records at our request. "I think they're trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the city council and the ACLU about what data is stored and what's not," he said. He added that other records show that whether or not the city's policies end up allowing the DAC to centrally warehouse video, the footage will still be saved and accessible. "They'll have incident markers, links that allow them to pull up footage from its source," he said. "So what difference does it make if they're storing it in the DAC or not?" The city's data retention policy is currently being drafted by the Oakland Police Department under the supervision of Deputy Chief Eric Breshears and the City Attorney's Office. Oakland resident Mary Madden, a member of the Oakland Privacy Working Group, opposes the DAC unequivocally. She said OPD's role in the surveillance system's construction and in drafting privacy policies raises even more problems. "If Oakland would like to give the impression of caring about privacy, they should have the privacy guidelines crafted by an independent privacy expert, who understands the complex issues at stake, as well as the full DAC system and all its components," she said. "OPD has a history of not following their own rules, as the federal monitor pointed out. Examples include the crowd control policy and use of lapel cameras, so how can we trust OPD to follow their own privacy rules for the DAC?" Once the Domain Awareness Center's Phase 2 construction is finished in July 2014, the center could link an untold number of public and private video cameras from businesses, traffic intersections, public housing properties, highways and onramps, transit stations, sports facilities, and public schools into a centralized hub. The DAC will also collect OPD's automated license-plate reader data, ShotSpotter gunshot detectors, and social media feeds — all to be monitored on a live basis. July 2013 emails between SAIC project manager Taso Zografos and Chris Millar, a contractor hired to help oversee the DAC, identify sources of data and surveillance capabilities that would be built into the DAC in several phases. According to the emails, the first phase of "prioritized integrations" included the port's vehicle tracking system and its mapping systems, weather and seismic warnings, and video from BART and the Oakland Airport. The second group of "prioritized integrations" included police and fire dispatch, automatic vehicle location systems for OPD and OFD vehicles, video from Caltrans and California Highway Patrol cameras, and unspecified informational links between the DAC and two law enforcement "fusion centers" — hubs in which law enforcement intelligence is centralized — including the Northern California Regional Information Center. Oakland officials are also considering applying for grant funding for the DAC on the basis that it also operates as a fusion center. Such a designation could open up the DAC for funding sources additional to the federal grants that have bankrolled it to date. According to the emails, "potential integrations" into the DAC include video feeds from the Oakland Coliseum, Oakland's red-light cameras, AC Transit, BART, city libraries, City Hall, Oakland Housing Authority properties, buildings owned by the Oakland Unified School District, and OPD's automated license-plate readers. If the public housing, school, and public transit cameras are incorporated into the DAC, Oakland's communities of color could be placed under disproportionately intense surveillance. "In many instances, surveillance issues aren't just privacy issues; they're also racial justice issues," said Lye. "This means we're going to have complete surveillance of communities of color when they're going about their lives and doing nothing wrong whatsoever." A critical component of the Domain Awareness Center will be "video analytics," or software that can interpret raw information from video streams and identify certain behavior or characteristics. The port already uses motion-detection software and image recognition around port property as part of a virtual fence that alerts staffers if someone is approaching facilities that are off-limits to the public. Emails between city and port officials in May revealed that port staffers have programmed port cameras to send email alerts when the video analytics detect cars engaged in street racing on Middle Harbor Road. The new technology has not put a halt to the chaotic and occasionally violent races. The most controversial form of video analytics is facial recognition software that is programmed to automatically identify persons based on unique facial features. Source databases for facial recognition programs include employee records, DMV photos, and mugshots from law enforcement booking systems. The city council voted in July to bar the use of facial recognition during the DAC's current funding phase. However, facial recognition for closed-circuit television systems is rapidly gaining popularity among law enforcement. In January 2013, the Los Angeles Police Department began testing mobile surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition software in the San Fernando Valley, with the intent of identifying known or wanted criminals. The Chicago Office of Emergency Services has also experimented with facial recognition programming for its 24,000 networked cameras, using Cook County's 4.5 million booking photos as the data source. In May, Chicago police officers made their first arrest with the help of facial recognition technology. Shah of the University of Illinois-Chicago noted that the combined use of facial recognition technology and license-plate readers, which would be possible if the former technology is used in conjunction with the Oakland surveillance center, have the potential to take individual tracking to an unprecedented level. "Facial recognition and LPR directly tie to someone — [it's] what causes the most concern," said Shah. The DAC is only one of several surveillance systems in progress in Oakland. In June 2012, then-Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan and then-Assistant Chief Anthony Toribio met with representatives of the Total Recall Corporation, a firm marketing a surveillance system called CrimeEye. Total Recall's cameras can zoom in from great distances, and can store footage for as long as a police department wants. If OPD opts to buy this camera unit and software package, a single unit at the intersection of 14th Street and Broadway could have a range east to Lake Merritt, north to the Paramount Theater, and south and west to Interstate 880, according to materials the company provided to the city that we obtained. In August, then-Oakland Chamber of Commerce Vice President Paul Junge and city staffer Joe DeVries exchanged emails about incorporating cameras owned and operated by the Downtown Oakland Association and Lake Merritt Uptown District Association business improvement districts into the Domain Awareness Center during phase three of the DAC construction in June 2014. DeVries also mentioned the possibility of including cameras installed by various neighborhood associations in the DAC. Documents we obtained also reveal the Uptown and downtown BIDs are building their own surveillance center, and have submitted a $30,000 grant application to the MetLife Foundation to fund it. At some future date these cameras are also to be linked into the DAC. In an influential 2012 paper about police surveillance technologies, Georgetown University law professor Laura Donohue observed that surveillance advances like facial recognition, vehicle tracking, and networked video monitoring are altering the nature of American society. "What we are witnessing is a sea change in how we think about individuals in public space," Donohue wrote. While Oakland's elected officials and city staff struggle with how to regulate this sprawling surveillance project, abstract issues such as privacy and security have become immediate and concrete for many city residents. But the courts, as Donohue noted, are decades behind the newly ubiquitous surveillance methods. In one recent case — US v. Jones — that bought the law partly up to speed, the DC Court of Appeals ruled that law enforcement officers violated the Constitution by placing GPS trackers on vehicles without warrants. (This ruling was later upheld by the US Supreme Court.) In the unanimous US v. Jones decision, DC Court of Appeals Justice Douglas Ginsberg wrote of the incredible power modern technology affords law enforcement: "A person who knows all of another's travels can deduce whether he is a weekly churchgoer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups — and not just one fact about a person, but all such facts." The DAC, if completed as it's currently designed, will make Judge Ginsberg's scenarios a reality in Oakland. Included below is the East Bay Express' unbelievable exposé on the Domain Awareness Center being built in Oakland. While it is extraordinarily shocking what the plans are, it is within the dystopia scope of what civil rights advocates have been concerned about. It is also amazingly shocking how much has been exposed and documented about it already. These developments require a powerful response and should be a top priority for awareness raising in 2014. Not just protests, but serious and thoughtful articulation of the profound implications of this turning point of freedom in this country and specifically this city. sent from eddan.com [View Less]

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Oaklnd Tech in the NY Times

by Eddan Katz

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/business/another-city-by-the-bay-comes-in… Another City by the Bay Comes Into Its Own By JOE GOSE December 24, 2013 Long considered San Francisco’s little brother — or maybe its punk cousin — Oakland has struggled with negative perceptions wrought by crime, protests and a mediocre football team. But from grass-roots efforts to revitalize urban neighborhoods to nearly $2 billion in residential and commercial development forging ahead on the waterfront, … [View More]Oakland seems to be coming into its own in the Bay Area. For better or worse, the growth has earned Oakland the designation “Brooklyn of the West,” comparing it to the New York borough with its recent renaissance and emergence from Manhattan’s shadow. “Oakland is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to San Francisco,” said James Ellis, managing partner of Ellis Partners of San Francisco, which is developing Jack London Square, a $400 million mixed-use project on the Oakland Estuary. “People can still have a true urban environment rather than a manufactured one in the suburbs.” The underpinnings for Oakland’s improving fortunes were set last decade through efforts to expand the urban population, and upon the renovation and reopening of the Fox Theater, a long-shuttered landmark, in 2009, observers say. But spillover from San Francisco’s tech boom is providing the latest charge as companies and workers look for affordable space, said Jason Volpe, a senior vice president with Jones Lang LaSalle, the commercial real estate brokerage firm. Downtown Oakland office landlords are asking around $29 a square foot annually, about half the rent for similar space in San Francisco, according to Jones Lang. And amenities nonexistent a few years ago are attracting millennials looking to set up residence. In turn, that is starting to attract employers. “There are groups being priced out of San Francisco, and for a lot of reasons — access to transit being one and a central location in the Bay Area being another — Oakland is a natural fit,” said Mr. Volpe, who has lived and worked in the Oakland area for the last six years. “The concentration of what I would call highly desirable things to do from a commercial and entertainment standpoint — restaurants, bars, art galleries, live music venues — has done nothing but increase.” Oakland is drawing office investors as well. This fall, Strada Investment Group of San Francisco made its first foray into Oakland, buying two downtown City Center buildings with Angelo, Gordon & Company of New York as its partner. Scott Stafford, a Strada principal, cited the tech boom and the City Center BART station as attractions — it’s an eight-minute ride to San Francisco’s business district. Accountants, engineers and others serving the technology industry have been among the first to seek more affordable space in Oakland, he added, and many of their employees already live in the East Bay. Still, he expects the migration to eventually include more tech companies, which have been moving from Silicon Valley to San Francisco to be near young professionals. “Longer term, we think Oakland is well-positioned for tech,” Mr. Stafford said. Mr. Volpe and others are quick to point out that while perceptions about Oakland’s bad-boy reputation are changing, it’s still early in the process. And some developments that have been underway for a while still face hurdles because of a sluggish economy. In Jack London Square, filling a 62,000-square-foot market catering to entrepreneurial food operations and shops has been challenging because of a lack of small-business funding, Mr. Ellis said. Among other blemishes, demonstrators like those associated with Occupy Oakland, which clashed with police during its downtown encampment in 2011, continue to hold occasional protests that generate unwanted attention. Crime remains a problem, too. As of mid-November, the number of violent crimes in 2013 was up about 8 percent over the prior year, according to the Oakland Police Department. The department remains understaffed despite added efforts to train and hire more officers. Still, the hurdles have failed to deter those with a vested interest in Oakland. In many neighborhoods, property owners have established community benefit districts, agreeing to pay additional assessments to fund services and improvements that the city cannot afford to address. Two districts in particular, the Downtown Oakland Association and Lake Merritt/Uptown Association, were founded in 2009 to clean up graffiti and enhance the neighborhoods. The adjacent districts straddle Broadway and span roughly 35 square blocks from Eighth Street to 25th Street. Together they have fostered a cluster of art galleries, restaurants, shops and other businesses in hip, walkable neighborhoods. Managed jointly with a combined budget that was about $2 million in 2012, the districts have paid for security, landscaping, solar-powered trash and recycling stations, and a temporary pedestrian plaza, among other services and improvements. By the end of this year, nearly 120 businesses will have moved into the districts over the last five years. Recent additions, like a law firm, Gordon & Rees, and a graphic designer, Minted.com, represent relocations or expansions from San Francisco. Among other events, Oakland Art Murmur on the first Friday of each month draws thousands of patrons from around the Bay Area via the 19th Street BART station stop, said Deborah Boyer, president of the Lake Merritt/Uptown board. Investors are focused on the districts, too. Signature Development Group of Oakland is undertaking a $50 million project uptown, converting six 90-year-old industrial buildings into The Hive. It will comprise 104 apartments and 100,000 square feet of incubator space, offices, retail space and restaurants surrounding a courtyard, said Paul Nieto, senior vice president for development with Signature. Signature developed an eight-story condominium and retail building nearby at Broadway and Grand Avenue in 2008. “Broadway and Grand is the hub of this area, and we’re smack in the middle of it,” Mr. Nieto said. “We’ve started to get restaurants and retail, and residents are patronizing them. It’s an environment where there is finally a ‘there’ there in Oakland.” Farther south on the Oakland Estuary, Signature and its development partner, Reynolds & Brown of Concord, Calif., are about to begin work on Brooklyn Basin, a $1.5 billion development on 65 acres. Plans call for 3,100 residential units, 200,000 square feet of commercial space, marinas, and 30 acres of recreational space and parkland. In planning for more than a decade, Brooklyn Basin was delayed by legal challenges and the recession. In June, however, the developers teamed with Zarsion Holdings of Beijing and bought the land for $18 million. Mr. Nieto said that construction on the first buildings would very likely begin in early 2015 after several months of site preparation. Directly to the northwest, Ellis Partners in November proposed to build 665 housing units in two towers in Jack London Square, which is on the author’s boyhood stomping ground. Economic turbulence has also slowed that development. To date, Ellis Partners and its partner, Divco West of San Francisco, have completed nearly half of the project — some 430,000 square feet of office, retailing, lodging and entertainment space, said Mr. Ellis of Ellis Partners. Jack London Square has attracted cutting edge companies like Sungevity, a lessor of solar energy panels to households, which has helped absorb more than 90 percent of the development’s office space. While leasing retail space remains tough, Mr. Ellis wants to avoid settling for national chains and is comfortable taking the time to get the “right mix” of tenants, a strategy that he has employed throughout the project. “Our focus has always been to avoid making Jack London Square just another mall with the usual suspects for tenants,” he said. “We want to make it a unique, only-in-Oakland experience.” [View Less]

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Fwd: Workshop Weekend events

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Thought that the folks on this list would be interested in the upcoming events hosted by Workshop Weekend in the coming months. > From: Gil Zamfirescu <gil(a)workshopweekend.net> > Subject: Workshop Weekend Gift Cards! Plus, dates for Business, Arduino, and general weekends coming up in early 2014 > Date: December 18, 2013 7:47:36 PM PST > Hi there! > I hope you are having a happy and healthy holiday season! > > We've been cooking up a storm here at Workshop Weekend!… [View More]

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Guitar Class?

by Garrett Smith

Might there be room for a class on guitar improvisation? -- Garrett @xkit ChordCycles.com garretts.github.io

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Signage

by Eddan Katz

If the letters and/or logo of Peer Production will be blue and white, there is no cost to putting it up on the awning entrance at 2135 Broadway. For other colors there is an additional fee and permit process through the city.

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Viral Media Network

by Eddan Katz

I spoke today with Sam Jack of Viral Media Network (http://viralmedianetwork.com/) who said his team would probably want to set up an office in one of the rooms. He's now letting his network know about the mailing list for the sake of easier communication.

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Peer Production Project

by Eddan Katz

Hi Sudo folk. Happy Holidays. Hope everyone's getting some quality time with friends and family. and Happy New Year to those of you already heading off somewhere for vacation. 2141 Broadway Looking ahead to 2014, this email is about buying and rental possibilities for the current building 2135-2143 Broadway with actual numbers. If you'd like to get in touch with the landlords directly, you can email Laurie Cooperman Rosen at lscoop(a)comcast.net; or call George Rosen at 510-504-4259. I … [View More]wanted to update everyone on a meeting Matt & I had with the landlord earlier this month about the possibilities regarding renting/selling/co-op equity of the building where Sudo Room and the Bay Area Public School are currently located. Matt - please correct any of the information that I may have missed or gotten wrong in the inset text below. Since the Bay Area Public School and Sudo Room may (or may not) imminently be moving to the Omni or other location, a new list has been created to further discussion and coalition-building that will continue to take place in the current space at http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall. This proposal, to be very clear, does not and will not interfere with any of those plans to move nor with plans to stay at the current location decided by the collective of collectives. Below are the notes regarding how much the southern section of the 2143-2145 Broadway have been rented for in the past, how much they're willing to rent each room individually, the whole floor as a whole, and a graduated occupancy/rate proposal that gives time to attract other potential collaborators visiting the space, and getting a reduced price for the rental of that whole section of $6,500/month for 3 months. Otherwise, according to the proposal discussed, rental of the floor will go up to the market rental price of $8,500 at the end of that 3 months. The other option that has been discussed is putting together a co-op sale where groups and individuals can buy equity in that section of the building, either as a real estate transaction, or as crowd-funding equity shares. Group and individual ownership will participate in any profits and in the governance of the building. Peer Production / Sudo Hall The resulting community will be provisionally called Peer Production. In order to honor the pivotal role that Sudo Room and the other people that first moved into this building have accomplished for the community, the proposed discussion list will be called Sudo Hall. It will also be a priority of the Peer Production project to reach out to the innovative and inspiring stories of the other tenants that are already in the building - including Sound Room, Uptown Kitchen, Yummmeee, and the Pan Theater, among others. In terms of values, integrating with the community we're in and remaining inclusive to attract a broad spectrum of types of people will take priority over political posturing and ideological orthodoxy. The community invitation to join is intended to be welcoming to for-profit, non-profit, small partnership, crowd-fund equity start-up, cooperative corporation, and any other structure under which people best think they can get done what they want to achieve. The objective of Peer Production {Sudo Hall} still aspires to the core of Sudo Room's early description: Doing stuff together to make our community more openly accessible. Peer Production, I believe, is the common thread of the innovative and socially conscious projects that have emerged. If you'd like to talk about this further or just find out what's going on - you can join the Sudo Hall mailing list at http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall. We'll take it offline from the sudo-discuss list, but I just wanted to let folks know that this discussion just got started. First order of business is getting more photos and more data about the place. Sudo Room has started a good page at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/2141_Broadway and hopefully there can be more valuable and useful information that will be available through Peer Production and Sudo Hall. > 2135-2143 Broadway > Dec. 6, 2013. 5pm. > > George Rosen. > Matt Senate. > Eddan Katz. > > ---- > Sudo-Hall > > University used to pay $14,000 for the whole floor. > EBMC paid $6,500. 8% annual increase. > > Sudo Room. $1500 > Robert. $1,000 > Dance Studio. $1,100 > Public School. $950. > Room next to it. $950. > Yellow Room $2,500. > Corner Room. $2,200. (access to roof). > > total now at $8,500. > willing to do $6,500. > > > ---- > extra notes > building $5.3 million. > 1.2 million fees. > > Buy - income stream. $4 million for whole building. > > losing $65,000 per year by them being empty. > > $1 million selling price for Sudo Hall wing. > > > Need to do pictures of rooms. & sq. ft. > send photos. > Non-profit rental. > > $6,500 x 3 mos. > whole floor - to start with - $13,000. > [View Less]

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Hello....

by Garrett Smith

Is there anybody in there? ... Hi - I teach JS at Noisebridge. The class is largely based on the ECMA-262 spec, including language productions, grammar, and how a Program is interpreted. Insipid, stodgy, dull, uninspired. I used to play the guitar, and practiced diligently, up until my personal SHTF in August. Worked for Veustar for 3 weeks, now probably going to start Acxiom. Personal interests include(d) music, fitness, nature, food justice, cooking, urban ag. -- Garrett @xkit ChordCycles.com garretts.github.io

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Fwd: Vator Splash Apr. 1-2, 2014

by Eddan Katz

I've also begun talks with Vator.tv about Peer Production and the Vator Splash in April. Begin forwarded message: > From: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> > Subject: Vator Splash Apr. 1-2, 2014 > Date: December 17, 2013 9:11:02 PM PST > To: "sudo-crowd(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-crowd(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Bcc: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> > > Hi Sudo Crowd. > > Not sure if everyone is familiar with Vator.tv (http://vator.tv/), a tech … [View More]

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Spark Art

by Eddan Katz

I've spoken to Naveen Jain, CEO and Greg Weber, the General Counsel - about getting in on Peer Production and they sound pretty excited about it. Their current offices are across the street (22nd) in that cool, funky green building on the ground floor. They are also involved in part in the Impact Hub Oakland launch at the beginning of next year and are also anticipating the advantages of being across from the Kapor Center social entrepreneurship initiatives that will have their offices there.

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Sustainable Economies Law Center

by Eddan Katz

As many of you know, the SELC has been mostly virtual, but has also set up offices in different places for short periods, the longest of which has been at the Brower Center I believe. I've spoken several times in the past with SELC members about setting up shop somehow at 2141 Broadway. The Peer Production Project is an intriguing opportunity for them, but no substantial conversations have yet been had.

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Oakland Digital - front room facing street

by Eddan Katz

Yesterday afternoon - Shaun Tai and Linda Peong, co-founders of Oakland Digital (http://odalc.org/), along with their colleague Hilda Elizabeth Mendoza - came by to visit the Sudo Hall wing of 2141 Broadway and have expressed interest in the front room facing Broadway. I've always been very impressed by the tangible impact ODALC has been making on the community and also anticipate that they could help lead events and education oriented towards kids. They are now in contact with George & … [View More]

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Fwd: [sudo-discuss] Proposal to Galvanize

by Eddan Katz

sudo-discuss thread of relevance to the Peer Production Project. Begin forwarded message: > From: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Proposal to Galvanize > Date: December 19, 2013 5:31:43 AM PST > To: Max B <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com> > Cc: camoo(a)groups.google.com, sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, Bay Area Public School Organizing <bayareapublicschool-organizing(a)googlegroups.com> > > Hey all,… [View More] > > Excited to discuss tonight, hope you can make it. > > Appreciate the feedback from everyone, wanted to share a few thoughts. > > On The Dangers of 2141 Broadway - as far as I see it, we're here, and it's going to take quite a bit of energy to confirm an alternative with the right critical mass of folks. To rent out an extra room is equivalent to saying "We haven't signed a lease on an alternative for this January, let's put our stuff and ourselves some place for now, especially if we don't have any space at all". With a month-to-month contract, I shared my reasons in the first email about why I think it's valuable to do this. In fact, we're lucky to have the option at this time. > On Fund-Raising - I do think there will be some way to intelligently combine the budgets of a small number of groups to share the third office. Knowing just a few interested parties should get the ball rolling. If we're building up to make serious financial commitments together, I see this as pretty close to the minimum in terms of financial commitments, a first step. By all of this I also mean that I don't think the cost will be prohibitive to raising more funds, given the back-of-the-envelope estimations for alternative spaces so far. > On The Office - I believe splitting the room about ~18 ways would be possible. On the other hand, I think there is likely a better set of chunks than even division. To give more detail, I think we could probably do something more like: > Some significant portion of the space is rented by one or two groups, up to say a third or a half. ($300 - $400 / mo) > Some shared desk space is available for folks that need an office space (3 x $50 / mo) > Some storage space is available for folks that need storage only, or storage along with room usage. (3 x $50 / mo) > A few more desks are rented and managed as a co-working component, say as "sudo work" or whatever, that I am interested in coordinating. (6 x $50 / mo) > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Max B <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Is 18 separate groups feasible? Personally, I might be interested in > paying $50 for a co-working(ish) space for myself and for sudomesh. I > guess I'd be interested in that sort of arrangement in any new Omni-like > situation as well. > > Max B > > On 12/17/2013 03:12 PM, Matthew Senate wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I have a proposal I'd like some feedback on and to discuss at the next > > meeting at the public school this Thursday (7pm right?) > > > > *Proposal: * > > Out of the attendees of these meetings (including folks on the list below), > > to find some number of interested collectives, individuals, organizations, > > small businesses, etc to rent the $900-$950 / mo. office adjacent to the > > Bay Area Public School (BAPS), sharing the common space with BAPS and the > > Sudo Room at 2141 Broadway in Oakland. For instance, at ~18 equal parties, > > this room can be rented for $50 / mo. I am personally interested in > > coordinating several folks to use part of the space as "sudo coworking" > > with a few small desks for individual work. The intention of this rental is > > multiple-fold: > > > > * To no longer delay in solidifying collaboration between various > > groups--i.e. for other folks to join BAPS and the Sudo Room by sharing > > space now. > > * To commit to investing (minimally) financially in a venture that requires > > communication, collaboration, and sharing. > > * To engage in a learning experience about our ability to co-operate and > > grow. > > * To provide an opportunity to groups that currently do not have a space to > > galvanize their community. > > * To be able to fruitfully engage in a comparison between various group > > rental options including The Omni, 8th and Alice, and even 2141 Broadway. > > > > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/The_Omni > > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/8th_and_Alice > > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/2141_Broadway > > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Spaces > > > > *List (in no particular order):* > > > > - * Timeless infinite > > light<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Timeless_infinite_li…> > > - * sudo mesh<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#sudo_mesh> > > - * Prelinger > > Library<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Prelinger_Library> > > - * Local Flavor<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Local_Flavor> > > - * Planting > > Justice<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Planting_Justice> > > - * Spokeland<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Spokeland> > > - * Fix-It Clinic<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Fix-It_Clinic> > > - * CorpWatch<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#CorpWatch> > > - * Sudo Co-Working<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Sudo_Co-Working> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss [View Less]

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Fwd: OMLF Forum Wednesday, Nov 20, 2013

by Eddan Katz

more neighborhood relevant news and political economy Begin forwarded message: > From: Oakland Merchants Leadership Forum <info(a)omlf.org> > Subject: OMLF Forum Wednesday, Nov 20, 2013 > Date: November 19, 2013 10:39:29 AM PST > To: Katz <eddank(a)aya.yale.edu> > > > > OMLF Forum Wed., Nov 20, 2013 > > Reflections of 2013; moving forward with a new vision > Oakland Merchant Leadership Forum will be celebrating and thanking and our partners … [View More]with a special end of the year full breakfast and awards. > Come participate and join us as we look back at our year. > Did we answer your question? > We're your concerns addressed? > Would you be willing to chair a cause? > Pick up your Plaid Friday window display!! > > > Pastries provided by > TASTE OF DENMARK > 3401 Telegraph AVe, Oakland, CA > (510) 420-8889 > http://tasteofdenmark.localon.com/ > > > > OAKLAND RAIDERS TICKETS AVAILABLE > > If you want Raider Tickets for upcoming games go tooaklandsmallbiz..org > or call to order tickets either OMLF 239-3oak/ Dwayne at 510-485-6254/ Karen 510-388-2664 > > We have a winner! Steve Lowe won the Raider's Game raffle prize of two tickets to the Raiders' game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Thanks to everyone who participated in the raffle. > > > > Oakland Grown cloth bags still available, but quantities are limited. > > The bags are going fast; we have about a dozen boxes left to go. Stock up for the holiday season early. > > Order a carton of 100 for $50 at Oakland Small Biz.org. Go to the Donations tab to make your purchase online. > > > > FREE PARKING > > OMLF, together with other Shop Oakland supporters, > implemented Free Parking on Saturdays. > > The City of Oakland will offer free parking every Saturday between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, plus Plaid Friday which is November 29. > > On the following days, parking at all City-metered spaces throughout Oakland will be free for the time period posted on the meter or kiosk (30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or 5 hours): > > Friday, November 29 > Saturday, November 30 > Saturday, December 7 > Saturday, December 14 > Saturday, December 21 > Saturday, December 28 > > The free parking "holidays" apply to both standard meters and the multi-space parking kiosks located in many commercial districts. > > Standard parking rules and time limits apply -- if shoppers need additional parking time, they will need to move their cars across the street if it is a two-way street, or park around the block if it is a one-way street. The City will be monitoring parked cars on a regular basis, including enforcing other violations (e.g., red, yellow, green and white zones as well as double parking). > > ©2013 Oakland Merchants Leadership Forum | c/o KONO, 2633 Telegraph Avenue, Suite #107, Oakland, CA 94612 510-239-3oak 625 > Web Version Forward Unsubscribe > > Powered by Mad Mimi ® [View Less]

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Fwd: The Oak-List: December 2013

by Eddan Katz

does anyone know the folks who work on this publication and initiative? Begin forwarded message: > From: "Visit Oakland" <info(a)visitoakland.org> > Subject: The Oak-List: December 2013 > Date: December 20, 2013 2:21:57 PM PST > To: eddank(a)aya.yale.edu > Reply-To: marketing(a)visitoakland.org > > > > > > > THE OAK-LIST > Oakland's Best Eats, Arts and Events > In This Issue > Touring The Town with a Twist &… [View More]gt; Bitez Buzz > Feed Your Soul: Oakland Restaurant Week 2014 > A Year in Review > PLANNING YOUR TRIP > > > CATCH A GAME > > > Quick Links > Event Calendar > Recent News > Staff Directory > Accommodations > Dining > Arts & Culture > Photo Tour > Book a Meeting > Join Our List > > December 2013 > Wondering where to grab a good pint and a sausage? Looking for a new way to explore Oakland’s great outdoors? Be sure to catch up on The Oakland Ray to learn what our Oakland insiders have been up to. And be sure to dust off your party shoes and loosen those belt buckles — it's holiday time in The Town and you're invited! See below for highlighted events and more. > TOURING THE TOWN WITH A TWIST > Tired of the traditional holiday activities? Take a look at our list of unconventional tours for your friends and family while you’re visiting Oakland. Bet you’ve never ridden at Segway around Lake Merritt with grandma. :) > > Oh, and for those on Team Usher, Segway of Oakland made his custom gold unit - don't forget to ask about it when you visit. > BITES BUZZ > Wine aficionados, get your glasses ready! From Ordinaire to The Barrel Room, Oakland wine bars are popping up left and right. Ordinaire was even named one of the "Hottest Wine Bars" in the country. It’s time to get to tasting. > > It’s a fact, there’s never a shortage of new restaurants in Oakland, and 2013 was no different! Over the past three years, Oakland has welcomed more than 100 new restaurants, many of which have received national acclaim. Some recent newcomers include Kingston 11, a Caribbean eatery in Uptown, Centouno in Jack London Square, and Penrose near Lake Merritt. Speaking of which… > FEED YOUR SOUL: OAKLAND RESTAURANT WEEK > > > Let those New Years’ resolutions slide just one more month — Oakland Restaurant Week is here January 17-26. More than 50 of Oakland’s top restaurants will serve prix fixe meals at $20, $30 or $40 for lunch, dinner or both. We’re getting hungry already! > > A YEAR IN REVIEW > Oakland has a lot to celebrate from 2013! With accolades such as "Most Exciting City in the US", "Top 10 Most Walkable Cities" and "3rd Most Likeable City", Oakland has topped positive lists across the board. Bring it on, 2014 – we’re ready for more! > > > Visit Oakland > 481 Water Street | Oakland, CA 94607 > Tel. 510 839-9000 > > You received this email because you requested it from our website www.visitoakland.org. > If you'd like, you can unsubscribe or update your subscription preferences. > > [View Less]

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Fwd: Oakland Focus

by Eddan Katz

of interest regarding Uptown Neighborhood & the "Plaid Friday" experiment commentary. Begin forwarded message: > From: Oakland Focus Blog News <zennie.abraham(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Oakland Focus > Date: December 13, 2013 3:24:37 AM PST > To: eddank(a)aya.yale.edu > > Oakland Focus > 'Plaid Friday' A Success in Lake Merritt/Uptown & Downtown Oakland > Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:42 AM PST > Local Retail Movement Moves into High Gear in > Lake Merritt/… [View More]Uptown & Downtown Oakland > > Plaid Friday’s “mall-ternative” event sees record numbers ‘love Oakland and put their money where their hearts are’ > > > The results are in and everyone involved has declared last Friday’s ‘Plaid Friday’ event in Oakland a resounding success. > > Hundreds of businesses citywide, including more than 45 businesses located in the Downtown and Lake Merritt/Uptown community benefit districts, participated in the day-long event which included free parking in city-owned lots and garages and at meters, professional gift wrapping, a visit from Santa, food vendors and a host of live entertainment. > > This year’s event, the fifth ‘mall-ternative’ shopping event in Oakland, included the transformation of Latham Square into a festive winter wonderland where more than 30 “pop-up” artisans displayed and sold artwork and gifts. Additionally, throughout the evening, dozens of pop-up vendors were offering fantastic gift options in downtown and uptown’s coolest bars and restaurants. > > Results of surveys conducted among many of the businesses that participated in this year’s event indicate that retail activity was high. > > Loakal Art Gallery and Boutique at 560 Second Street reported a doubling in sales over last year’s event. "We were so happy to see fellow Oaklanders get in the spirit of supporting local businesses. Many of our customers even came to the store wearing plaid! It was a great way to celebrate the diversity and creativity of Oakland," said Loretta Nguyen, proprietor. > > “We saw a tremendous amount of foot traffic and retail activity throughout both the Uptown and Downtown districts on Friday and we hope this energy is going to continue during the holiday shopping season,” said Steve Snider, District Manager of the Lake Merritt/Uptown District and Downtown Oakland Associations. “In fact, all of the partner organizations involved in this event reported tremendous interest and energy and we are already teaming and planning to make the event even bigger next holiday season,” he added. > > Plaid Friday is a key component of Oakland Grown, a nonprofit, buy local program celebrating and supporting independent businesses and artists and is supported by the City of Oakland, East Bay Express, the Lake Merritt/Uptown District and Downtown Oakland Associations, Oaklandish, Oakland In The Black, Betti Ono Gallery, and popuphood. Other partners include Visit Oakland, East Bay Bicycle Coalition, Marion and Rose’s Workshop, ProArts and the Great Wall of Oakland. This is the fifth year Plaid Friday has taken place in Oakland and the event has now been replicated in several cities around the country including Syracuse, NY, Pittsfield, MA, and Winchester, VA. > “The energy on Plaid Friday is so incredible. I am so proud to be a part of a city that really gets and supports independent art and business,” said Kate Ellen, owner of Crown Nine in Old Oakland, who reported an increase in sales of 34%. > > Local businesses -- from bars, restaurants and cafes to art galleries and shops selling Oakland-themed items such as Oaklandish – form an important part of Oakland’s thriving downtown vibe. The city has also been a focal point for the merging “pop-up” retail phenomenon where independent entrepreneurs open temporary stores in vacant ground floor retail spaces. To support the growth of the city’s retail sector, the community benefit districts have developed a 2013 holiday shopping guide complete with a walking map and contact information for more than 79 retailers with outlets in Downtown and Uptown Oakland. http://www.scribd.com/doc/184228363/Uptown-Downtown-Shopping-Guide > > ### > > > The Downtown Oakland and Lake Merritt/Uptown District Associations were formed in February 2009. Property owners in both Downtown Oakland and the Lake Merritt/Uptown Districts voted by a margin of almost 8 to 1 to support a voluntary property tax to fund services that would improve the quality of life in their respective communities. The associations meet and function jointly. Services funded by these Districts include maintaining cleanliness and order in the public rights of way, improving district identity and advocating on behalf of the area’s property owners, business owners and residents. In June 2013, the districts were recognized by the International Downtown Association (IDA) and named the IDA’s June Downtown of the Month. > > You are subscribed to email updates from Oakland Focus Blog News > To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google > Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 [View Less]

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Fwd: Sudo Art - meeting notes - 12/15/2012

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: Eddan <eddan(a)clear.net> > Subject: Sudo Art - meeting notes - 12/15/2012 > Date: February 27, 2013 2:27:59 PM PST > To: artmurmur(a)lists.sudoroom.org > Bcc: eddank(a)gmail.com > Reply-To: eddan(a)eddan.com > > Below are the notes I took from the State of the Room weekend meeting on Sudo Art, also to give background on the issues and suggestions that have been discussed before. > > --- > > Sudo Art. Planning … [View More]meeting 12/15. > > Order of discussion: > 1. What we've done so far. > 2. What we've got at this point. > 3. What we Need to Do? > 4. What is the Organization & Governance? > > On what we've done so far -- > 1- Circle thing with Max. circle packing. > 2- Press Conference > 3- Announcement of Intent to Exist > 4- How Mnay People Can You Fit in a 100 sq. ft. room. > 5- tracy display kinetic sculptures > 6- Jae Kwon working the 3d printer > > On what we need to do: > 1 - sign up for Art Murmur officially > 2 - Raise money to paay for the fee. > 3 - Figure out what to do with downstairs/fishbowl > 4 - Talk to George about his plans. > > What is the organization & Governance? > Dynamic Association -- Members can change from month-to-month > Need 3 jobs - exchequer, scribe, & facilitator > ideal size 6-8 people willing to sign up. > time frame for when to do it. > suggest a theme by Sudo Room. > > Sudo Art collective artists discussion- > Only showing art that is part of the collective? > this would need structure. > Advantages of having a small group go in on the Sudo Art. > split cost for space > for paying Art Murmur (or joining) > Need to figure out advantages & disadvantages of joining Art Murmur. > Wine & cheese - some for that. > get local restaurants to serve & advertise. > Mobile payment - Pogo. > Different model - rotate curator. w/ these people. > When the curator is really good. > We can also have lots of Internet art. > > on Artist payment > Mission co-op on Valencia - what's already been done. > artists keep something like the 70%. 1 shift per month per person taht takes a cut on the side. 10% house. 20% seller. > > Sudo proposals: > Press a button if you like something & a portion of proceeds go to the author of the work or the artist that did it. > People pay a flat fee & then it gets distributed > > How should we get these 6-8 people? > Critical here is curation. > should not be too controlled. > Dynamic Association of Displayed Art - separate Sudo Art, co-owners. > curators - people who decide on what goes in there each month. > Connect to the Art World. > email describing it and the invitation to be forwarded around. > Tweet out to people who are artists. > > MIscellaneous: > 6-8 people as rotating gallery curators. > Signage - Get the logo on the building! [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudo-discuss] 2141 Broadway Co-Op?

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] 2141 Broadway Co-Op? > Date: October 4, 2013 6:17:38 PM PDT > To: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net> > Cc: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org> > > I would propose that the best way to move forward is to get a group together who is willing to put some work in to making this happen … [View More]and then as that group, which would probablly have to file as an llc or somthing simular, begin negotiations with Goerge. > > I dont really see this as a sudo room specific thing more that sudo room could lease from the 2141 co-op once it owns that portion of the building. > > -Andrew > > On Oct 3, 2013 1:36 PM, "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)clear.net> wrote: > As I mentioned on my phone-in to the meeting last night, there were no numbers discussed at any point, neither regarding sale nor shares nor rental. > Not sure how it would make sense to try and figure it out, but I would guess some of you number-crunchers can propose some share/sq. ft. metric. > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to also talk about co-op purchase greatly. Unfortunately I cannot make the meeting that you proposed at Farley's. It seems like we might also want to have it after a sudo meeting? Well in any case, to get the most participation I've created a doodle for such a meeting: >> >> http://doodle.com/bd7ars64a3ngfd4m >> >> Should we also include BAPS and CCL since they would be also potential investors? Also it seems like we should get a firmer undesrstanding of what the purchase price and terms would be. Eddan do you have that information? Can someone with connections to George get a non-obligatory estimate price from him? >> >> Max >> >> >> >> >> On 1 October 2013 16:54, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'll be there. >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> If people are not quite aware of what Eddan is talking about with the JOBS Act Crowd Funding, It was brought up at our first unconference just as Sudo Room was moving in to 2141. Here's some more information >> >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaprive/2012/11/06/inside-the-jobs-act-equit… >> >> I'm definitely interested in talking a discussion of the possible co-oping of a portion of 2141 off line and meeting up at Farley's maybe Monday next week (Oct. 7th) 6pm? Who's down? >> >> --Andrew >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> To try to help answer the question of what exactly happened and what the implications are, let me quote from Eddan's email, emphasis mine (archived here): >> >> “Terminating the current lease means the latter, David. That is - at that point, a new/better lease can be negotiated. Or not, if so decided. While the details on what a co-op purchase would look like still have to be hammered out in detail, it was my understanding from George that he was interested in an arrangement that would include selling off equity in that portion. Different organizations would put up money in their collective shares and that wing would be organized as a co-op with the different organizational/individual owners taking part in the decision-making of managing the building.” >> >> and from Hol's email, (archived here): >> “I think we've been fortunate to have people (Eddan, Matt, Zach) put their name down in the lease and assume a degree of liability for operations. I interpret the notice to George as a move that is not binding on sudo room in any way, but one that A) allows Eddan and presumably Matt to relinquish their "doing business as" status to a better defined group, B) informs George that his behavior toward tenants will not be met with guaranteed continued tenancy, and C) puts a fire under all of our asses to solve the space/access/community issues elegantly, either by finding a new space or by coming to an agreement and a way forward at 2141. These are just my thoughts, with a grain of salt on specifics as I haven't been going to general meetings recently but I guess it's time to start doing that again since this is a matter of great importance.” >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:05 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org> wrote: >> All that myself and others have asked of you is that you provide a bit >> more detailed information about the discussion you had while terminating >> the lease. Your name was on the lease, I believe you have every right to >> terminate the lease in order to remove your name. What I cannot >> understand is why you consider questions regarding the discussion you >> had off topic or offensive. >> >> > For the sake of moving on to the work we have cut out for us - this >> > is my last message addressing this topic. >> >> I'm confused as to how we're supposed to continue onto the work we have >> cut out for us without knowing the details and expectations surrounding >> the termination of our lease. I was not asking "why" did this happen, I >> was (am) asking "what" happened. >> >> I am removing myself from any further discussion regarding the 2141 >> location on this mailing list, apologies to those who's feelings were hurt. >> >> -- rhodey >> >> On 10/01/2013 03:43 PM, Eddan Katz wrote: >> > This is an extraordinarily unfair thing to say. On so many levels. >> > >> > I'm sorry that I have not articulated myself better. Those who know me, know that the message below is unfounded and mean-spirited. >> > >> > For the sake of moving on to the work we have cut out for us - this is my last message addressing this topic. >> > >> > >> > sent from eddan.com >> > >> > On Oct 1, 2013, at 3:09 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org> wrote: >> > >> > Eddan, >> > >> > You took it upon yourself to terminate SudoRoom's lease in (what I >> > understand to be) a private meeting. Putting the question of whether >> > or not this was agreed on by SudoRoom aside, the very least that you >> > could do is share with us the details of a discussion you had on our >> > behalf. >> > >> > Take a second to realize that although the idea of investing in >> > property is both interesting and financially feasible for you, others >> > may not feel the same or be financially able. >> > >> > -- rhodey >> > >> > On 10/01/2013 02:54 PM, Eddan Katz wrote: >> >>>> I don't think it makes any sense to lump this into one of george's >> >>>> emotional outbursts. >> >>>> >> >>>> as we've all been following closely over this list, the equity >> >>>> crowdfunding provision of the Jobs Act, which went into effect last >> >>>> week on Sept. 23, 2013, enables the distribution of shares outside >> >>>> the traditional infrastructure of approved investors. the changes >> >>>> in the future of capital flow routing around wall st. and the rules >> >>>> surrounding investment cannot be underestimated. by opening up the >> >>>> buying of stocks to us regular folks - with capital investment no >> >>>> longer made unaffordable because of the huge cuts taken by >> >>>> investment bank intermediaries and securities regulations >> >>>> fortifying the status quo - the possibilities for raising capital >> >>>> have just exploded. >> >>>> >> >>>> most interestingly, from my point of view, a collaborative >> >>>> non-hierarchical ownership and management structure becomes >> >>>> feasible in a way that it has never been in economic history. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com >> >>>> <mailto:marina.kukso@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> as far as i know eddan is the only one who has spoken with >> >>>>> george, one of the building's owners, about the co-op >> >>>>> possibility. eddan, can you share any more info about what >> >>>>> exactly george said (my main question is whether this is just >> >>>>> another one of george's idle threat type things that he just says >> >>>>> and never intends to follow through on).? >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Zee <zee(a)zeespencer.com >> >>>>> <mailto:zee@zeespencer.com>> wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I am exceedingly interested in this, and would happily discuss >> >>>>> it further over tea or coffee with other interested parties. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Andrew >> >>>>> <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com <mailto:andrew@roshambomedia.com>> >> >>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>> I have no idea what the price per sq-ft is. We should find >> >>>>>> that >> >>>>> out. Also >> >>>>>> having the capital isn't really as important as having a small >> >>>>> group who is >> >>>>>> willing to put in the time and resources when necessary to >> >>>>>> make >> >>>>> it happen. >> >>>>>> With good enough credit it would be possible to finance the >> >>>>> space depending >> >>>>>> on the down payment. Or even crowd source the down payment. >> >>>>> There are a lot >> >>>>>> of options if there are people who actually want to it. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com >> >>>>> <mailto:hol@gaskill.com>> wrote: >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> bump >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Oct 1, 2013 10:51:46 AM, zee(a)zeespencer.com >> >>>>> <mailto:zee@zeespencer.com> wrote: >> >>>>>>> Do we have an idea on what the per-sq-ft sale cost is? >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:50 AM, David Keenan >> >>>>> dkeenan44(a)gmail.com <mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>> The co-op thing sounds like a very cool idea, except for >> >>>>>>>>> the >> >>>>> fact that >> >>>>>>>>> neither I nor anyone I know has, to my knowledge at >> >>>>>>>>> least, >> >>>>> access to >> >>>>>>>>> the volume of capital that i imagine is required, so >> >>>>>>>>> personally >> >>>>> I'm still a >> >>>>>>>>> bit lost on how one would move forward on such an >> >>>>>>>>> acquisition..? >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> -d >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Andrew wrote: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> I haven't been around all that much, but am I correct >> >>>>>>>>>> to >> >>>>> assume that >> >>>>>>>>>> the current situation is that: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> 1. Sudo Room's current lease ends Jan 1st 2. George is >> >>>>>>>>>> willing to sell off part of 2141 to a group of >> >>>>> investors? >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> If this is so. Let's talk 2141 Co-Op. Is there anyone >> >>>>>>>>>> on >> >>>>> this list who >> >>>>>>>>>> would be at all interested in owning part of a building >> >>>>>>>>>> in >> >>>>> the middle >> >>>>>>>>>> of Downtown Oakland?? >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Sudo Room or not, this is a great opportunity for a >> >>>>> collective to turn >> >>>>>>>>>> some extremely prime real estate in to a commercial >> >>>>>>>>>> Co-Op. >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Just wanted to bring attention to this. Thoughts? >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 >> >>>>>>>>>> <tel:831-332-2507> http://roshambomedia.com >> >>>>>>>>>> <http://roshambomedia.com/> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list >> >>>>>>>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >>>>> <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> >> >>>>>>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >>>>> <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> >> >>>>>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss >> >>>>>>> mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >>>>> <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> >> >>>>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 <tel:831-332-2507> >> >>>>>> http://roshambomedia.com <http://roshambomedia.com/> >> >>>>> _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss >> >>>>> mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >>>>> <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> >> >>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss >> >>>>> mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >>>>> <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> >> >>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss >> >>>> mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------- >> Andrew Lowe >> Cell: 831-332-2507 >> http://roshambomedia.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] Lease for "Art Studio" in 2141 Broadway

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [sudoroom] Fwd: Lease for "Art Studio" in 2141 Broadway > Date: November 9, 2012 10:52:55 AM PST > To: "sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org" <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> > > Hey all, > > I'm planning to meet George at 4pm about Workshop Weekend, but this may be a convenient time to turn in the lease and get access to the "art studio" asap. Contacting Eddan about … [View More]signing on behalf of Sudo Room. Please see Laurie's note below that we may have others on the lease, but insurance is simpler if it is simply Sudo Room (which I presume means those signatories on the Doing-Business-As aka Fictitious Business Name--Eddan and myself). > > // Matt > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <lscoop(a)comcast.net> > Date: Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM > Subject: RE: Lease for "Art Studio" in 2141 Broadway > To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > > > Hi Matt- > > Attached please find a copy of the lease. I was extremely tired when I got home last night and just crashed out without finishing the lease. I’m so sorry about that! But I got up quite early as a result, so hopefully you’ll get this first thing in the morning. > > You’ll see that there is a little bit that we’re trying to work out with Utilities….since there is so much common area involved, there is a 6% load factor for your space which combines your exclusive space and a percentage of the common area space, which is obviously quite large. We are really not sure with what intensity the space will be used, nor the amount of electricity that will be used, since this will likely not be traditional office space, so we’re willing to start out at 4% (which would be fine if usage is mainly as a part-time space for people, without unusual amounts of electrical equipment or HVAC being used), but reserve the right to move it up to 6% if the load factor warrants it. In general, 1% of utilities amounts to an average of $30-$50/month, depending on the time of year, occupancy rate and overall tenant usage. If trash removal or janitorial for this space is or might become an issue, that’s something that we can discuss. > > We didn’t have an address for you so you should add that to the lease. If there are others responsible that you feel should be added that will be there on a regular basis that is fine; however, insurance would be best if it is a single policy covering the Sudo Room and all people that it might invite or allow to share its space with. > > Let me know if there are any other errors, inconsistencies or anything else in the lease that you might want to discuss. I will be home until mid-afternoon at 510-635-9500. > > I know that George is supposed to meet you later but we both have back-to-back acupuncture appointments on Piedmont Ave later. Mine is at 4:30 and George’s is scheduled for 5:30. If it’s possible to meet George sometime between 3 and 4:30 (whatever is most convenient for you) that would be great, because he will have to leave shortly after 5pm. Let us know what works for you. > > Thanks! > Laurie > > > > > > > From: Matthew Senate [mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:45 PM > To: travology(a)mindspring.com; lscoop(a)comcast.net > Subject: Lease for "Art Studio" in 2141 Broadway > > > > Hi George and Laurie, > > > > After an online vote and our in-person meeting, we would like to sign a lease with you for the "Art Studio" space upstairs in 2141. > > If we can please clarify your most comfortable position on signatories of the lease, we would be happy to comply. Ideally, we would like to sign as the unincorporated association of Sudo Room (namely for instance that Eddan and I have signed to register Sudo Room as a ficitious business name). However, we can also sign as individuals if necessary, and would like to know how many folks you would allow to sign. > > Thanks, speak with you soon. George, I plan to see you Friday but we can receive the lease by email (or by paper) sooner. > > We would love to get access to the space upstairs as soon as possible. > > Thanks, > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] Lease for 2141 Broadway + Meeting Minutes

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [sudoroom] Lease for 2141 Broadway + Meeting Minutes > Date: November 7, 2012 11:17:25 PM PST > To: "sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org" <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> > > At tonight's meeting, we discussed the online vote results with a 16 - 1 favor toward signing a lease for the upstairs "art studio" space in 2141 Broadway. Further, we came to consensus with attending … [View More]members in support of signing the lease as well. > > We are waiting to hear any comment from the one dissenter who we have not identified, and to whom we would like to reach out. > > I sent a message to George and Laurie and Laurie responded saying we will have a lease to examine by tomorrow evening. They prefer, if we do sign, that those listed on the Doing-Business-As (fictitious business name) sign the lease, which would be myself and Eddan. Thus, it seems reasonable to me that we should be able to change signatories for the DBA transfer the lease at the discretion of Sudo Room. > > Eddan, if necessary, would you be interested in signing on behalf of Sudo Room with me? > > // Matt > > p.s. Meeting notes: > > 11/7/12 > > Attendees: Matt, Andrew, Frederik, Jenny, Hol, Anthony, Len, Ryanb, Jae, Erik, Eddan, Jehan, Aestetix > > Announcements: > -OpenOakland! Meeting at City Hall (rm. 3) every Tuesday at 6:30 > -OaklandWiki Bike Photo Tour of street art and public art this Saturday at Tech Liminal - bring a camera and a notepad: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4720129033# > -Workshop Weekend this weekend! Nov 10-11 @ Sudo Room, Tech Liminal and more! http://workshopweekend.com > > Budget Discussion > - Proposal 1 > > -Jenny suggests Sudo Working Groups for internal autonomous decision-making (eg; renting the box office) > -Hol brings up the possibility of including semi-private workspaces > -Eddan expresses discomfort with there being any private ownership in the common spaces, and suggests that > --->Redevelopment office in Old Oakland gives loans to local developments > -Jae: Member shelves in the art room? Erik concurs > -Peer production requires open spaces that negate the possibility for special treatment (eddan) > -Ongoing projects in the space could have space reserved for them so long as they report regularly (weekly?) on the mailing list (matt) > -Let's get this space- and then a big warehouse woo! (erik) > -Andrew suggests not a reservation system by commerce but rather, project-specific areas reserved for a limited time by consensus > -Space allotment SYSTEM (rather than rules..) > > -Eddan suggests breaking up the discussion into its components, as the UN does > - > -Jehan suggests GitTipcom > -Set up an instructable for setting up direct deposits between one's bank and the Sudo Room account > -There is a reason to resist having a tax structure, and we have successfully avoided (thus far) the pressure to procure a federal tax ID > -Proposal for hacking on our compact and budget-making process, as well as new member onboarding process - Nov. 16th at > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] 2141 Broadway

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Jenny Ryan" <jenny(a)thepyre.org> > Subject: Re: [sudoroom] 2141 Broadway > Date: October 25, 2012 4:20:17 PM PDT > To: Sudoroom <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> > > By the way folks, > > This is a beautiful rendering of the floor plans of 2141, which Matt threw together at the end of our meeting last night :) > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Matthew Senate (Google Drive) <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote:… [View More]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] **CRITICAL** Update for 2135 broadway, Oakland, CA

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [sudoroom] **CRITICAL** Update for 2135 broadway, Oakland, CA > Date: June 2, 2012 10:55:38 PM PDT > To: Sudoroom <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> > > michael and i actually were wondering what the situation was with that building as we checked out 2135 broadway today. it's seemed empty for at least a couple years (i've never seen anything but the current posters there). … [View More]the kapor center site says that they plan to move in in 2013... > > also, while we're on the topic of neighbors of 2135, to the right of 2135 is a psychic. to the right of the psychic (with the tile mosaic entryway) is the separate entrance to the upstairs part of 2135 (this is the entrance for the upstairs double office - option #3 in matt's original email). to the right of that is a currently empty spot that will have a new organization moving in starting in june: the sound room (bay area jazz and arts) http://secondsaturdaysalon.com/. the sound room is also somehow partnered with the space directly to the left of 2135 - 2131 broadway (the papered-up space all the way on the left in this streetview: https://maps.google.com/?q=loc:+Broadway+at+22nd+Street+Oakland+CA+US&ll=37…). 2131 had an art show yesterday as part of art murmur. this is listed as a sound room event on the sound room site: "Art show featuring Faultline ArtSpace will be held at 2131 Broadway - in the same building as our space but on the adjacent corner." however, by today everything at 2131 was packed up and empty, so it's not clear what the situation is with 2131. > > either way, it looks like the spot will have interesting neighbors moving in soon, and potentially folks we would want to get in touch with (at the very least because of the surprising resonances between our organizations' names: sudo room/sound room) > > - marina > > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> wrote: > It turns out the neighbors directly across the street from 2135 Broadway will be the future home of the Kapor Center (http://www.kaporcenter.org/). Or they may already have some offices set up in there? I haven't seen anyone come in or out when I've passed by. Does anyone know anything about that? > > > On 6/2/12 9:03 AM, Jehan Tremback wrote: >> >> Well we are the hackers. We will be the ones using it. The most important part is that wherever we go, we hack in there. Aq >> >> On Jun 2, 2012 8:53 AM, "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> wrote: >> Regarding Tech Liminal, it was my understanding that we still wanted to have meetings there and that this is a temporary (6-month) initiative to formulate aspects of SudoRoom's identity not as easily developed from those meetings at Tech Liminal. >> >> Also, I think it worthwhile mentioning that the curb in front of the building is zoned for 2 spots for loading and unloading - this may be useful for setting up a way to receive donations of hardware in a spot easily accessible to the public. >> >> >> sent from +1(415) 728-5800 >> >> On Jun 2, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> wrote: >> >>> I think we should put a big sign on the window of the office facing the street (bullet-proof, as the manager mentioned) that says: >>> >>> "Help us get a bigger: SudoRoom.org". >>> >>> With the placement of the sign along people's walk home from the BART to the lake - I can imagine getting our money back, renting more practical space in that building and then some, imho. The image of several hackers seen through the window trying to fit into the room will make the case demonstratively that we need a bigger room. >>> >>> For those who have seen the place, I can think of no better space that evokes the name - Sudo Room. >>> >>> [constraints are the canvas of creativity] >>> >>> sent from +1(415) 728-5800 >>> >>> On Jun 1, 2012, at 5:18 PM, "Patrik D'haeseleer" <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On the other hand - what do we really gain by renting a temporary 150 sq ft room, that we couldn't get at TechLiminal for free? Place to leave stuff lying around? Is 150 sq ft even big enough to fit us all? >>>> >>>> As long as Anca is happy to host us (and I think having the extra traffic is probably a good thing for TechLiminal) I don't see a good reason to spend our small amount of funds on a separate room that we don't truly need and that would only be a temporary fix anyway. I'd say let's spend some of that money on Anca, and stay at Techliminal at least until we find something more permanent.. >>>> >>>> Also, as soon as we start paying rent on a monthly basis, we need to get serious about monthly paying memberships as well. But so far we haven't done much to make people eager to pay for a membership. >>>> >>>> Besides, if this guy really has lots of spaces and they come up for rent often, there really isn't any need to jump on whatever he has available right now. I'm sure he'll have some other spaces open next month as well. >>>> >>>> Patrik >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Jenny Ryan <jenny(a)thepyre.org> wrote: >>>> Matt, and also Eddan & Timon - thanks for moving on this! I think this could be a fantastic initial space for Sudo Room.. >>>> >>>> Location is great, though 150 square feet is absurdly small. How big is the classroom we could use? >>>> >>>> Overpriced for the size, imho, but the visibility we could definitely work wrt outreach for the group... though with the rest of the building's amenities available to us, might be a good bet. >>>> >>>> Would love to meet on Saturday, though would have to be early afternoon for me to make it (send-off party for our yurt builder & current resident, Morten, in our garden on Saturday starting around 4! email me if you'd like to come :) >>>> >>>> Jenny >>>> http://jennyryan.net >>>> http://thepyre.org >>>> http://thevirtualcampfire.org >>>> http://technomadic.tumblr.com >>>> >>>> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >>>> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." >>>> -Laurie Anderson >>>> >>>> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." >>>> -Hannah Arendt >>>> >>>> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." >>>> -Stéphane Mallarmé >>>> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Eddie A Tejeda <eddie.tejeda(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Matt.. thanks for leading this. I think this is a great opportunity. If I understand this correctly, there are multiple spaces available and we can start with one and move into other ones as needed? If that's the case I think it makes perfect sense to start with the smaller space and grow as needed. >>>> >>>> I also this it's a cool location. When do you need to make the decision by? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Eddie A Tejeda >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Howdy Folks, >>>> >>>> We've been in search of a space. There are lots of options, and bigger, brighter futures rest on the horizon. >>>> >>>> On Weds, Eddan found this listing on craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3036298243.html seen here: https://maps.google.com/?q=loc:+Broadway+at+22nd+Street+Oakland+CA+US&ll=37… >>>> >>>> >>>> I gave George, the property manager, a call. I had seen some other offices in his space months before, he has lots of spaces and they come up for rent often. All month-to-month contracts, and a lease if we really want one He said he was available today at 3pm. I showed up and Eddan and Timon joined in. >>>> >>>> >>>> We saw three offices. I have photographs stored on a proprietary memory device and will retrieve them ASAP upon apprehension of the proper cable. >>>> >>>> 1. $500 / month 350 sq ft - The LISTED ROOM - has WiFi access, on the ground floor, outlets, lights. It is a good deal for the size, but it is not very close to the street. One must walk through a hallway, through a half-office, and down another hallway (all disability accessible) to get to it. This is not bad, just a bit removed from public view. >>>> >>>> 2. $400 / month (no exact measure, but about 150 sq. ft). - The BOX OFFICE (calling it that for short). Has a window, is just a few feet inside public-facing street-level doors in the same area as the LISTED ROOM. Also has WiFi Access. Sits directly outside a shared building "classroom" area available to all renters, just sign up ahead of time. If we rent the BOX OFFICE, we can occasionally use the LISTED ROOM while it's open >>>> >>>> 3. $350 / month (no exact measure, but no bigger than 400 sq ft) - The DOUBLE OFFICE is upstairs, at the very top of the entrance steps. It has access to an unused, common "reception" area that would be available for our usage. It has cable and wifi internet access. The DOUBLE OFFICE includes two offices that are connected, side-by-side. The rear door has >>>> >>>> All rooms have access to the "classroom" area on the ground floor, just need to sign up as described above. The building just got faster WIFI service provided by Sonic.net installed recently. George is interested in providing line-access to internet in all ground floor offices in the future, we could also do this ourselves he offered. >>>> >>>> Also, we can potentially rent multiple of these spaces, or move from one to other available spaces in the building at a later time. >>>> >>>> In order to move forward with this space (and not to lose footing), I have a proposal: >>>> >>>> Sudo Room should consider "dipping" it's toe into the BOX OFFICE space (no. 2 above) by investing a portion of our fund-raiser funds of $200 first month (50% off for move-in), $400 obligatory for last month (which can be july if we wish), and a redeemable $400 deposit--at a grand total of $1,000, lasting to at least July. This would only commit us to two months in the space, the first month of which (June) we can sort out all the precise governance, tax, and income issues, by consensus, in order to move forward (remain, expand, or move) with this space and our future! >>>> >>>> I propose we hold a discussion on this email thread, use our other online tools, convene an in-person meetup on Saturday (anywhere that's available), consider all the issues and list them on the wiki, convene briefly again on Sunday with whoever can make the "scout session" (still on), and plan to move forward on Monday having begun due diligence to consider if we have the blessings of our community! >>>> >>>> Please add notes in reply to this thread, on this pad (for anonymous communication too): https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom and ultimately we'll put everything on the Wiki on Saturday to sort out by Monday. >>>> >>>> On clarifying note: it seems to me that it would be prudent to maintain the Sunday "scouting" event for due diligence reasons, and for future option reasons! >>>> >>>> // Matt >>>> >>>> p.s. Note that time is crucial because other folks (including some we bumped into while on tour) are also looking at these spaces, and with the first of the month approaching, it is in the property manager's best interest to move folks in soon. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Eddie A Tejeda >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudoroom mailing list >> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >> > > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom > > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] July Rent: Inversion of a Ponzi Scheme?

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> > Subject: Re: [sudoroom] July Rent: Inversion of a Ponzi Scheme? > Date: July 16, 2012 12:47:24 PM PDT > To: sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > > Hi Sudo folk. > > Due to overwhelming demand (i.e., a couple people asked me about it), I am extending the opportunity to participate in the paying of July rent to whomever else is interested, until the start of our meeting tonight at 2135 … [View More]Broadway at 7pm. We are currently at 18 voluntary contributors (including myself), which makes it just below $32 per person. It would be great if others were also willing to chip so that we can make the Sudo-minyan of 23, as determined at last week's meeting. This would make it $25 per voluntary contributor to pay for July rent of our provisional current interim space. > > Since, according to the outlined schedule from the minutes - we will have made a compact for the Articles of Association just at the end of the month, I wanted to propose another experiment to try and pay for August rent. The amount will most likely be $875 by then (once accessibility to the second floor will most likely be resolved). I wanted to propose that we try the same $[rent]/n formula, but this time with n being groups or institutions. It would be great if we could get our like-minded friends in the area to enjoy our common spaces as well, especially the classroom. We could also solicit a wider range of art to be displayed for next Art Murmur on August 3. > > Can someone from the Mothership do a straw poll of interest in the invitation? And other sudo-represented groups among us? I'd gamble on being able to reach a Sudo-minyan of groups as well - and so will offer the eddan.com blog as a voluntary contributor. > > > I also wanted to propose that we hold a formal ceremony at the end of our meeting tonight to try and answer the question asked on our sudo-nymous pad - "How many hackers can you fit in a Sudo Room?" I propose that July rent contributors and/or their proxies would be called first to step into the box office room so that we can give an informed and empirical answer to the posed question. > > Sincerely, > Eddan > [Self-Appointed Exchequer] > > > On 7/4/12 6:54 PM, Hilary Naylor wrote: >> +1 (prefer Paypal) >> >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> I will pay $[rent]/n too. >>> >>> >>> On 3 July 2012 11:34, Victoria Bogdan <bogdan.victoria(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Also happy to contribute for July, so please add my name to the tally! >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi Jehan - >>>>> >>>>> There are two keys for 2135 Broadway that have been duplicated and >>>>> distributed around so as to make getting a copy easier - those are the keys >>>>> to: (1) the Box Office; and (2) the Orange Closet. I recently made another >>>>> set of those keys though and would happily meet you there and give them to >>>>> you. The landlord has no restrictions on the number of duplicates. There is >>>>> also a key to the main door - for the door itself and the gate-lock when >>>>> opening up and closing down. There are only several of these keys, though >>>>> the landlord would be willing to make additional ones for an additional >>>>> $10/month. Since that door is usually already opened by 8am by one of the >>>>> tenants and generally only closed at around 11pm - that key would not be >>>>> relevant for many users of the space. >>>>> >>>>> I have also paid the July rent ($300) for the upstairs office at 2141 >>>>> Broadway, which has allowed us use of the reception area for the past couple >>>>> meetings. Accessibility is still only temporarily resolved with the >>>>> permission we've had from the landlord and the East Bay Meditation Center >>>>> where the elevator is, and therefore does not yet meet the criteria to which >>>>> we've committed in getting an appropriate Sudo Room space. I therefore >>>>> didn't think it would be appropriate to include that in the amount I was >>>>> asking from the Sudo folks on the list. If you want to start using that room >>>>> - let me know and I will make a copy for you as well. Right now, about 5 >>>>> people have keys to that room. My apologies for some of the junk lying >>>>> around - still making my way through it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -Eddan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 7/3/12 9:15 AM, Jehan Tremback wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Cool, I can bring $50 by for the next meeting... are we meeting this >>>>> wednesday? I guess my question would be, once I have helped pay, how can I >>>>> access the space to work there? I would love to get started hackin' in our >>>>> new hackerspace. Which part of the building are we actually renting, and how >>>>> do I get in? >>>>> >>>>> -Jehan >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Thanks for the immediate offers to help out - on and off list. I'm sorry >>>>>> if the intended tone of my suggestion didn't come across. I was actually a >>>>>> supporter of postponing the decision to use existing funds until we have a >>>>>> better sense of how we work and what we're about. I'm very glad to hear >>>>>> people think we're at a critical mass and are impatient to move forward. >>>>>> >>>>>> Given our current status as an unincorporated association of people, a >>>>>> proposal for voluntary contributions seemed to make the most sense. To >>>>>> clarify, I was hoping to use the occasion for paying July rent to expand our >>>>>> base of people who are connected and feel involved in Sudo Room. I am hoping >>>>>> that this would be incentive to get more people on board. It was not meant >>>>>> to be a suggestion for another fundraising campaign for Sudo Room. By >>>>>> suggesting that everyone give an equal amount, I think we can demonstrate >>>>>> how small that amount can be. >>>>>> >>>>>> For example, if 12 people go in together (including me) - then it will >>>>>> be less than $50. If split by 77 (the current number of email subscribers to >>>>>> the list) - it would be $7.50 each. If divided by 142 (number of likes on >>>>>> Facebook), we would each pay $4. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are many ways to cover mutual expenses without necessarily using a >>>>>> membership dues model. I think we should give ourselves the opportunity to >>>>>> try them out - at least in the interim. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> sent from +1(415) 728-5800 >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:01 PM, "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" >>>>>> <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Eddan, >>>>>> >>>>>> I wish we were in a better position to have sorted this out before July, >>>>>> I am happy to kick in some cash, and I think we could get art murmur >>>>>> donations easily too. >>>>>> >>>>>> Tracy, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm very much interested in establishing, very soon, a way to contribute >>>>>> regular dues, and to take donations from people who use and appreciate sudo >>>>>> resources infrequently. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, it would be smart to establish what paying dues means. To me >>>>>> they should carry reasonable weight and an articulated benefit to the >>>>>> duepayer. This of course must cherish a commitment to access and >>>>>> participation not contingent on funds. I believe that is hat underlies this >>>>>> whole governance discussion. >>>>>> >>>>>> I plan to explain this position in more detail on wiki and with more >>>>>> resources! >>>>>> >>>>>> Join me http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/Governance_Structure >>>>>> >>>>>> - Matt >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Reply message ----- >>>>>> From: "Tracy Jacobs" <kinetical(a)comcast.net> >>>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 2, 2012 5:51 pm >>>>>> Subject: [sudoroom] July Rent: Inversion of a Ponzi Scheme? >>>>>> To: "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)oaklandlocal.com> >>>>>> Cc: <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry Eddan, >>>>>> >>>>>> I can give you fifty dollars for July when I next see you or by >>>>>> paypal if you prefer. I don't understand the politics here or why we >>>>>> are not deciding to pay some dues for rent. >>>>>> >>>>>> Tracy >>>>>> >>>>>> Tracy >>>>>> On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Eddan Katz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> At the decision-making in-gathering last week, it was decided not to >>>>>>> make a decision about existing Sudo Room fund-raising income to be >>>>>>> used to pay rent at 2135 Broadway, at this time. The rationale being >>>>>>> that we've had a hard enough time making a decision about how to >>>>>>> make decisions that the process should probably not be complicated >>>>>>> any further. I applaud our resilience of deliberation, but then >>>>>>> there is the matter of July rent. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I would like to propose something not on behalf of Sudo Room >>>>>>> officially, but that I hope will help us accomplish our goals, at >>>>>>> this time. The rent due for July for the "Box Office" and "Orange >>>>>>> Closet" amounts to $575. Since the "box office" will be central to >>>>>>> our Art Murmur happening and the "orange closet" continues to be >>>>>>> filled in our obsolete technology drive, I wanted to ask the good >>>>>>> Sudo folk on this list to pitch in for that amount. Tracy already >>>>>>> gave me $40 last week and Marc publicly announced his willingness to >>>>>>> give me $60 on-list. I want to make sure that everyone is clear >>>>>>> about the fact that if you would like to give me money at any time, >>>>>>> you are most welcome to. I have accounts with most mobile and online >>>>>>> payment providers, if that makes it any easier. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But in terms of the $575 for July rent at 2135 Broadway, I wanted to >>>>>>> continue in our straw poll practice of gauging how many people would >>>>>>> be willing to chip in. If you're willing to go in together on rent >>>>>>> for the space in July, please reply to this email with a +1 (to me >>>>>>> and/or the list). By 6pm on Friday (the start of Art Murmur), I will >>>>>>> ask these voluntary contributors to give me $575 divided by the >>>>>>> number of people willing to volunteer. Needless to say - the higher >>>>>>> the number of people contributing, the lower the contribution >>>>>>> amount. If the number of contributors results in a sum too steep for >>>>>>> any volunteer in particular, the Art Murmur event could be an >>>>>>> opportunity to draw in others to cover that amount. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This contribution does not constitute membership in Sudo Room, nor >>>>>>> does it enable special voting power, the use of a shelf, or a free t- >>>>>>> shirt. I was hoping though to get some help to display a running >>>>>>> list of the names of contributors against one of the walls at 2135 >>>>>>> Broadway on Friday. If someone objects to the use of this list to >>>>>>> solicit July rent for and/or to the display of the names of this >>>>>>> group on the wall, please speak up and/or use the anonymous Sudo >>>>>>> pages to voice your concerns. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Eddan >>>>>>> [self-appointed exchequer] >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>>>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> __ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> victoriabogdan.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudoroom mailing list >>>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudoroom mailing list >>> sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org >>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom >>> >> >> > > [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] **CRITICAL** Update for 2135 broadway (Folks Meeting at 5PM tonight at Awaken Cafe)

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [sudoroom] **CRITICAL** Update for 2135 broadway (Folks Meeting at 5PM tonight at Awaken Cafe) > Date: June 2, 2012 10:14:20 AM PDT > To: sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > > Matt, Eddan, and Timon, > > Thank you for your efforts on this! It's so surprising when things happen fast all of a sudden... > > Before I get into thoughts about the space, following up on Matt'… [View More]s suggestion, we'll be Awaken Cafe downtown starting at 5PM to meet up. If you can make it, come by. If a different time tonight works better for you, send an email to the list. > > > Regarding the space itself, what a fantastic opportunity! This is an absolutely ideal location, is accessible, has a friendly landlord, has month to month rent, is within our estimated budget, has wifi, has a street-facing option, and offers future flexibility to move into more spaces and/or between spaces. > > My feeling is that the "box office" option (plus perhaps one of the upstairs rooms and regular access to the classroom) is an excellent starter opportunity for beginning to work on the kinds of things that everyone actually wants to do. > > I also think that there are two benefits to having the space beyond actually having the space: > > 1) A visible space brings in new potential members (and more potential money) > 2) A space helps all of us sudoers to maintain energy, momentum, and interest with something to focus on and work to maintain - it creates "facts on the ground," so to speak. > > Finally, if we wait for the perfect space, it may never come. This spot fits the initial sudo "room" concept we've been thinking about the last few months (it's short-term, flexible, small initial capital required, and allows for expansion). > > I really support it. > > Look forward to seeing all of you tonight at 5 at awaken cafe downtown if you can make it, and if not, tomorrow at the scouting event at 2PM at OG Plaza (bring bike if you have it). > > - Marina > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Jenny Ryan <jenny(a)thepyre.org> wrote: > Matt, and also Eddan & Timon - thanks for moving on this! I think this could be a fantastic initial space for Sudo Room.. > > Location is great, though 150 square feet is absurdly small. How big is the classroom we could use? > > Overpriced for the size, imho, but the visibility we could definitely work wrt outreach for the group... though with the rest of the building's amenities available to us, might be a good bet. > > Would love to meet on Saturday, though would have to be early afternoon for me to make it (send-off party for our yurt builder & current resident, Morten, in our garden on Saturday starting around 4! email me if you'd like to come :) > > Jenny > http://jennyryan.net > http://thepyre.org > http://thevirtualcampfire.org > http://technomadic.tumblr.com > > `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." > -Laurie Anderson > > "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." > -Hannah Arendt > > "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." > -Stéphane Mallarmé > ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Eddie A Tejeda <eddie.tejeda(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Matt.. thanks for leading this. I think this is a great opportunity. If I understand this correctly, there are multiple spaces available and we can start with one and move into other ones as needed? If that's the case I think it makes perfect sense to start with the smaller space and grow as needed. > > I also this it's a cool location. When do you need to make the decision by? > > -- > Eddie A Tejeda > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > We've been in search of a space. There are lots of options, and bigger, brighter futures rest on the horizon. > > On Weds, Eddan found this listing on craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3036298243.html seen here: https://maps.google.com/?q=loc:+Broadway+at+22nd+Street+Oakland+CA+US&ll=37… > > > I gave George, the property manager, a call. I had seen some other offices in his space months before, he has lots of spaces and they come up for rent often. All month-to-month contracts, and a lease if we really want one He said he was available today at 3pm. I showed up and Eddan and Timon joined in. > > > We saw three offices. I have photographs stored on a proprietary memory device and will retrieve them ASAP upon apprehension of the proper cable. > > 1. $500 / month 350 sq ft - The LISTED ROOM - has WiFi access, on the ground floor, outlets, lights. It is a good deal for the size, but it is not very close to the street. One must walk through a hallway, through a half-office, and down another hallway (all disability accessible) to get to it. This is not bad, just a bit removed from public view. > > 2. $400 / month (no exact measure, but about 150 sq. ft). - The BOX OFFICE (calling it that for short). Has a window, is just a few feet inside public-facing street-level doors in the same area as the LISTED ROOM. Also has WiFi Access. Sits directly outside a shared building "classroom" area available to all renters, just sign up ahead of time. If we rent the BOX OFFICE, we can occasionally use the LISTED ROOM while it's open > > 3. $350 / month (no exact measure, but no bigger than 400 sq ft) - The DOUBLE OFFICE is upstairs, at the very top of the entrance steps. It has access to an unused, common "reception" area that would be available for our usage. It has cable and wifi internet access. The DOUBLE OFFICE includes two offices that are connected, side-by-side. The rear door has > > All rooms have access to the "classroom" area on the ground floor, just need to sign up as described above. The building just got faster WIFI service provided by Sonic.net installed recently. George is interested in providing line-access to internet in all ground floor offices in the future, we could also do this ourselves he offered. > > Also, we can potentially rent multiple of these spaces, or move from one to other available spaces in the building at a later time. > > In order to move forward with this space (and not to lose footing), I have a proposal: > > Sudo Room should consider "dipping" it's toe into the BOX OFFICE space (no. 2 above) by investing a portion of our fund-raiser funds of $200 first month (50% off for move-in), $400 obligatory for last month (which can be july if we wish), and a redeemable $400 deposit--at a grand total of $1,000, lasting to at least July. This would only commit us to two months in the space, the first month of which (June) we can sort out all the precise governance, tax, and income issues, by consensus, in order to move forward (remain, expand, or move) with this space and our future! > > I propose we hold a discussion on this email thread, use our other online tools, convene an in-person meetup on Saturday (anywhere that's available), consider all the issues and list them on the wiki, convene briefly again on Sunday with whoever can make the "scout session" (still on), and plan to move forward on Monday having begun due diligence to consider if we have the blessings of our community! > > Please add notes in reply to this thread, on this pad (for anonymous communication too): https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom and ultimately we'll put everything on the Wiki on Saturday to sort out by Monday. > > On clarifying note: it seems to me that it would be prudent to maintain the Sunday "scouting" event for due diligence reasons, and for future option reasons! > > // Matt > > p.s. Note that time is crucial because other folks (including some we bumped into while on tour) are also looking at these spaces, and with the first of the month approaching, it is in the property manager's best interest to move folks in soon. > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom > > > > > -- > Eddie A Tejeda > > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom > > > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom > > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] Lease for 2141 Broadway + Meeting Minutes

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [sudoroom] Lease for 2141 Broadway + Meeting Minutes > Date: November 7, 2012 11:17:25 PM PST > To: "sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org" <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> > > At tonight's meeting, we discussed the online vote results with a 16 - 1 favor toward signing a lease for the upstairs "art studio" space in 2141 Broadway. Further, we came to consensus with attending … [View More]members in support of signing the lease as well. > > We are waiting to hear any comment from the one dissenter who we have not identified, and to whom we would like to reach out. > > I sent a message to George and Laurie and Laurie responded saying we will have a lease to examine by tomorrow evening. They prefer, if we do sign, that those listed on the Doing-Business-As (fictitious business name) sign the lease, which would be myself and Eddan. Thus, it seems reasonable to me that we should be able to change signatories for the DBA transfer the lease at the discretion of Sudo Room. > > Eddan, if necessary, would you be interested in signing on behalf of Sudo Room with me? > > // Matt > > p.s. Meeting notes: > > 11/7/12 > > Attendees: Matt, Andrew, Frederik, Jenny, Hol, Anthony, Len, Ryanb, Jae, Erik, Eddan, Jehan, Aestetix > > Announcements: > -OpenOakland! Meeting at City Hall (rm. 3) every Tuesday at 6:30 > -OaklandWiki Bike Photo Tour of street art and public art this Saturday at Tech Liminal - bring a camera and a notepad: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4720129033# > -Workshop Weekend this weekend! Nov 10-11 @ Sudo Room, Tech Liminal and more! http://workshopweekend.com > > Budget Discussion > - Proposal 1 > > -Jenny suggests Sudo Working Groups for internal autonomous decision-making (eg; renting the box office) > -Hol brings up the possibility of including semi-private workspaces > -Eddan expresses discomfort with there being any private ownership in the common spaces, and suggests that > --->Redevelopment office in Old Oakland gives loans to local developments > -Jae: Member shelves in the art room? Erik concurs > -Peer production requires open spaces that negate the possibility for special treatment (eddan) > -Ongoing projects in the space could have space reserved for them so long as they report regularly (weekly?) on the mailing list (matt) > -Let's get this space- and then a big warehouse woo! (erik) > -Andrew suggests not a reservation system by commerce but rather, project-specific areas reserved for a limited time by consensus > -Space allotment SYSTEM (rather than rules..) > > -Eddan suggests breaking up the discussion into its components, as the UN does > - > -Jehan suggests GitTipcom > -Set up an instructable for setting up direct deposits between one's bank and the Sudo Room account > -There is a reason to resist having a tax structure, and we have successfully avoided (thus far) the pressure to procure a federal tax ID > -Proposal for hacking on our compact and budget-making process, as well as new member onboarding process - Nov. 16th at > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom [View Less]

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Fwd: [sudoroom] Update on space @ 2141 Broadway

by Eddan Katz

Forwarding discussions and decisions made on the sudo-discuss list about 2141 Broadway for the last year and a half for relevant reference. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Jenny Ryan" <jenny(a)thepyre.org> > Subject: [sudoroom] Update on space @ 2141 Broadway > Date: October 21, 2012 7:05:34 PM PDT > To: Sudoroom <sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> > > Hi folks, > > I've created a wiki page with detailed info about the spaces available at 2141 Broadway. … [View More]Details here: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/2141_Broadway > > Major caveat/potential opportunity: A solar company has evidently earned George's favor for the rental of the front area (not really shown in the photos, but it's the front room with the big windows overlooking Broadway) and the far side office room (also not shown). They are open to sharing the large common area, but clearly we should establish a rapport and make sure they're chill before moving ahead on the space. Bonus: this would bring energy costs for the building down to null, as they'd be installing solar panels on the roof. > > I'm also composing an email invite to friends and neighbors we'd like to share a space with. The subject is 'Toward a Federation of East Bay Hackerspaces," because regardless of whether any of these groups decide to share this particular space with us, I think having regular conversations around how we can support each other's endeavors and work together to provide a holistic hacker-friendly environment for the entirety of the East Bay is essential. > > Currently on the invite list: > -LOLspace > -Coyote Counter Collective > -John (Berkeley fella who makes wheelchairs and specializes in mobility equipment hacking/repair) > -Biohacker friends > -Hackermoms > -Ace Monster Toys > -The Holdout > -Noisebridge (callout to NBers living in the East Bay) > -AnarchaFeminist Hacker Hive > > **Need contact info for: Fixit Clinic** > > The federation meetup will happen this Saturday, Oct 27th at noon. The front door to 2141 will be propped open, and we will gather in the space itself - up the stairs and through the door on the left. > > Plz post thoughts, opinions, ideas to this thread, or join us in #sudoroom on Freenode IRC (web portal here: http://sudoroom.org/chat). > > Be well, > Jenny > http://jennyryan.net > http://thepyre.org > http://thevirtualcampfire.org > http://technomadic.tumblr.com > > `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." > -Laurie Anderson > > "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." > -Hannah Arendt > > "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." > -Stéphane Mallarmé > ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > > _______________________________________________ > sudoroom mailing list > sudoroom(a)lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom [View Less]

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Re: [sudo-hall] [sudospaces] Sudo Hall

by Matthew Senate

Was this meeting scheduled? // Matt On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:43 PM, mattsenate(a)gmail.com <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Friday works. > > // Matt > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> > To: "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > Cc: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com>, <sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, < > hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudospaces] Sudo Hall > Date:… [View More] Tue, Dec 3, 2013 13:42 > > > I can't do Thursday. Unless it's morning. > Fri. OK. > We can also schedule a particular time in the evening, though he doesn't > stick around too late. > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:36 PM, "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > How about Thursday? > > // Matt > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> > To: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Cc: "sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, " > hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudospaces] Sudo Hall > Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 13:10 > > > update -- > George said he was available to meet in the late afternoon any day this > week to talk about possibilities for rental/purchase/co-op for the whole > Sudo wing of the building. > I wanted to know if anyone else was interested in joining this > conversation. > Wednesday would be most convenient for me. > > -- > In regards to the use of hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org - here are some > preliminary ideas I had: > Increase transparency. > It would be useful to get some ideas kicked around about how to possibly > structure this and see what Sudo Hall can try and bargain for in terms of > gradual increase in rent and other innovative incentives such as those > PopUp Oakland have been negotiating for on behalf of their community > partners. > Get a reasonable sense of timelines and flesh out what is involved in more > complicated arrangements - such as the equity sale to institutional > (groups) membership as a cooperative corporation. > > > On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > > Thanks Eddan, I've subscribed to sudohall. > > I think it is nice to have a more serious list - the discussions on > sudoDiscuss are not so action-oriented. > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:53 AM, eddan.com <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> wrote: > >> Dear Sudo folk. >> >> Our landlords have expressed their frustration that our current use of >> the common area has deterred their ability to rent out the other units in >> the Sudo wing of 2141 Broadway. >> >> Apparently, Robert Wenzel - the other tenant (other than the Bay Area >> Public School), who preceded all of our occupancy of the space at 2141 >> Broadway, has moved his office in frustration over the common area, in >> particular as a result of people consistently sleeping there. >> >> The use of the common area as space being sub-leased to groups >> unconnected with the current tenants has also been a cause of >> miscommunication over our current lease. While our landlords are in full >> support of our making it a popular community space, our current practices >> have diverged from their hopes of how they want the space to be used. >> >> For those who are interested in exploring possibilities for >> renting/buying/creating a coop at the current location, a listserv has been >> created to facilitate the development of such a plan under the interim >> codename Sudo Hall. Please feel free to sign up at: >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall >> >> The objective of this forum is to complement the research and discussion >> that has been ongoing regarding spaces suitable for Sudo Room activities >> and of interest to the Sudo Room constellation of communities. The >> sudospaces list can continue to be (or begin to be, more accurately) the >> appropriate venue for sharing such information and enabling coordination to >> take advantage of the opportunities that come up. >> >> Given our lease renewal deadline of the end of the year, I imagine that >> the new Sudo Hall list can reduce the overlapping confusion of coalescing >> like-minded groups for shared and common purposes; and the exploration of >> physical spaces where this collective of collectives finds its home(s). >> >> Amongst the communities I am personally most interested in reaching in >> the immediate term are those who could make best use of the >> dance/yoga/pilates studio space with the wooden floor in between Sudo Room >> and the Bay Area Public School. >> >> It is my hope that the prudent use of these two lists for their >> complementary purposes can minimize friction between competing interests >> and ideas and rather serve to enable cooperative planning in a transparent >> way while not interfering with all the projects that are ongoing. The >> general community can be updated (through sudo-discuss) at critical >> junctures in the evolution of developing plans. >> >> >> >> sent from eddan.com >> _______________________________________________ >> sudospaces mailing list >> sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudospaces >> > > > > [View Less]

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Re: [sudo-hall] [sudospaces] Sudo Hall

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Friday works. // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> To: "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com>, <sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, <hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudospaces] Sudo Hall Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 13:42 I can't do Thursday. Unless it's morning.Fri. OK. We can also schedule a particular time in the evening, though he doesn't stick around too late. On Dec 3, 2013,… [View More] at 1:36 PM, "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote:How about Thursday? // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> To: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> Cc: "sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudospaces] Sudo Hall Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 13:10 update --George said he was available to meet in the late afternoon any day this week to talk about possibilities for rental/purchase/co-op for the whole Sudo wing of the building.I wanted to know if anyone else was interested in joining this conversation.Wednesday would be most convenient for me. --In regards to the use of hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org - here are some preliminary ideas I had:Increase transparency.It would be useful to get some ideas kicked around about how to possibly structure this and see what Sudo Hall can try and bargain for in terms of gradual increase in rent and other innovative incentives such as those PopUp Oakland have been negotiating for on behalf of their community partners. Get a reasonable sense of timelines and flesh out what is involved in more complicated arrangements - such as the equity sale to institutional (groups) membership as a cooperative corporation. On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:Thanks Eddan, I've subscribed to sudohall. I think it is nice to have a more serious list - the discussions on sudoDiscuss are not so action-oriented. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:53 AM, eddan.com <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> wrote: Dear Sudo folk. Our landlords have expressed their frustration that our current use of the common area has deterred their ability to rent out the other units in the Sudo wing of 2141 Broadway. Apparently, Robert Wenzel - the other tenant (other than the Bay Area Public School), who preceded all of our occupancy of the space at 2141 Broadway, has moved his office in frustration over the common area, in particular as a result of people consistently sleeping there. The use of the common area as space being sub-leased to groups unconnected with the current tenants has also been a cause of miscommunication over our current lease. While our landlords are in full support of our making it a popular community space, our current practices have diverged from their hopes of how they want the space to be used. For those who are interested in exploring possibilities for renting/buying/creating a coop at the current location, a listserv has been created to facilitate the development of such a plan under the interim codename Sudo Hall. Please feel free to sign up at: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall The objective of this forum is to complement the research and discussion that has been ongoing regarding spaces suitable for Sudo Room activities and of interest to the Sudo Room constellation of communities. The sudospaces list can continue to be (or begin to be, more accurately) the appropriate venue for sharing such information and enabling coordination to take advantage of the opportunities that come up. Given our lease renewal deadline of the end of the year, I imagine that the new Sudo Hall list can reduce the overlapping confusion of coalescing like-minded groups for shared and common purposes; and the exploration of physical spaces where this collective of collectives finds its home(s). Amongst the communities I am personally most interested in reaching in the immediate term are those who could make best use of the dance/yoga/pilates studio space with the wooden floor in between Sudo Room and the Bay Area Public School. It is my hope that the prudent use of these two lists for their complementary purposes can minimize friction between competing interests and ideas and rather serve to enable cooperative planning in a transparent way while not interfering with all the projects that are ongoing. The general community can be updated (through sudo-discuss) at critical junctures in the evolution of developing plans. sent from eddan.com _______________________________________________ sudospaces mailing list sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudospaces [View Less]

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Re: [sudo-hall] [sudospaces] Sudo Hall

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

How about Thursday? // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Eddan Katz" <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> To: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> Cc: "sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudospaces] Sudo Hall Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 13:10 update --George said he was available to meet in the late afternoon any day this week to talk about possibilities for rental/purchase/co-op for the … [View More]whole Sudo wing of the building.I wanted to know if anyone else was interested in joining this conversation.Wednesday would be most convenient for me. --In regards to the use of hall(a)lists.sudoroom.org - here are some preliminary ideas I had:Increase transparency.It would be useful to get some ideas kicked around about how to possibly structure this and see what Sudo Hall can try and bargain for in terms of gradual increase in rent and other innovative incentives such as those PopUp Oakland have been negotiating for on behalf of their community partners. Get a reasonable sense of timelines and flesh out what is involved in more complicated arrangements - such as the equity sale to institutional (groups) membership as a cooperative corporation. On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:Thanks Eddan, I've subscribed to sudohall. I think it is nice to have a more serious list - the discussions on sudoDiscuss are not so action-oriented. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:53 AM, eddan.com <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> wrote: Dear Sudo folk. Our landlords have expressed their frustration that our current use of the common area has deterred their ability to rent out the other units in the Sudo wing of 2141 Broadway. Apparently, Robert Wenzel - the other tenant (other than the Bay Area Public School), who preceded all of our occupancy of the space at 2141 Broadway, has moved his office in frustration over the common area, in particular as a result of people consistently sleeping there. The use of the common area as space being sub-leased to groups unconnected with the current tenants has also been a cause of miscommunication over our current lease. While our landlords are in full support of our making it a popular community space, our current practices have diverged from their hopes of how they want the space to be used. For those who are interested in exploring possibilities for renting/buying/creating a coop at the current location, a listserv has been created to facilitate the development of such a plan under the interim codename Sudo Hall. Please feel free to sign up at: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall The objective of this forum is to complement the research and discussion that has been ongoing regarding spaces suitable for Sudo Room activities and of interest to the Sudo Room constellation of communities. The sudospaces list can continue to be (or begin to be, more accurately) the appropriate venue for sharing such information and enabling coordination to take advantage of the opportunities that come up. Given our lease renewal deadline of the end of the year, I imagine that the new Sudo Hall list can reduce the overlapping confusion of coalescing like-minded groups for shared and common purposes; and the exploration of physical spaces where this collective of collectives finds its home(s). Amongst the communities I am personally most interested in reaching in the immediate term are those who could make best use of the dance/yoga/pilates studio space with the wooden floor in between Sudo Room and the Bay Area Public School. It is my hope that the prudent use of these two lists for their complementary purposes can minimize friction between competing interests and ideas and rather serve to enable cooperative planning in a transparent way while not interfering with all the projects that are ongoing. The general community can be updated (through sudo-discuss) at critical junctures in the evolution of developing plans. sent from eddan.com _______________________________________________ sudospaces mailing list sudospaces(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudospaces [View Less]

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Sudo Hall

by eddan.com

Dear Sudo folk. Our landlords have expressed their frustration that our current use of the common area has deterred their ability to rent out the other units in the Sudo wing of 2141 Broadway. Apparently, Robert Wenzel - the other tenant (other than the Bay Area Public School), who preceded all of our occupancy of the space at 2141 Broadway, has moved his office in frustration over the common area, in particular as a result of people consistently sleeping there. The use of the common area as … [View More]

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