[sudo-hall] Fwd: [sudo-discuss] Proposal to Galvanize

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>rg>, 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: _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss