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.
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.
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 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.
>
Is there anybody in there?
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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 startup network/news/events portal.
> They will be holding their Vator Splash event here in Oakland Apr. 1-2, 2014 (http://vator.tv/events/splash-oak-april-2014) and the folks running the event are big fans of Oakland.
> It's a pretty big thing and the folks who run it have asked if folks interested in equity crowdfunding want to set up a parallel series of events that are more hack-a-thon like and of interest to co-operatives and advocacy organizations.
> Ideas and suggestions for topics, speakers, and activities would be much appreciated.
>
> -Eddan
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.
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.
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 & Laurie directly, but are also very interested in helping coordinate the collaboration of groups & companies for Peer Production. They are also interested in having the common area be governed by the community institutional members, including scheduling and sanitation.
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,
>
> 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>
> >
> >
> >
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> > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
> >
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