[Mesh] 2nd Annual Board Mtg Minutes

Recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/15_September_2015 ChrisJ & MaxB, we re-elected you to the board. Let me know if you'd like to be removed! Welcome Pete and Arlo to the sudomesh BoD! *sudo mesh annual board meeting, 15 sep 2015* We are meeting in La Commune! =Attendees= * Jenny, Pete, Jeremy, Jake, Marc, Matt * Came late: Mitar and his friend Jake =Discussion= * Pete: You can be a sharer or a recipient of sharing * Pete: Fundamentally about being in a participatory community * Pete: Did you ever try to set up a tin can phone as a friend? [image overlay of tin can phone lines across oakland] * Jenny shows Pete our video. He digs it. J suggests we could do more videos, short 30-second/1-minute 'PSA' style clips tailored to different audiences * Jeremy: Would like to do more presentations at schools to recruit more young coders. Anyone else interested in co-presenting? * Pete's neighbor found the peoplesopen network and cancelled his service :D looked up the project and was stoked, contacted pete offering to share the costs =Proposals= ==New Board of Directors== * Remove: Lilia, Luis * Re-elected: Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Jake, Matt, ChrisJ, MaxB * New Directors: Pete, Arlo Consenso: 5/5 ==Becoming a fiscally-sponsored project of the Omni== * Could help Omni achieve 33% charitable income as required of a 501c3 * Sudo Room might achieve 501c3 status more quickly * Jenny's also filled out most of our 501c3 nonprofit application if we'd like to go that rought * Proposal: Delegate this task to Jenny Consenso: 5/5 ==Election of Officers== * President: Jenny Ryan * Secretary: Pete Forsyth * Treasurer: Marc Juul Consenso: 5/5 =Post-meeting discussion on events we'd like to organize= * BACH Unconference - Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces 3rd annual Unconference. Visit http://ba.chgrp.org/ to learn more and join the mailing list if you'd like to participate! * Hackmeet - Matt has the domain hackmeet.net - Interested in hosting european-style 'hackmeets' to work on building solutions to tangible real-world problems, hacktivism * Open Alternatives conference - 18-21 March 2016 ** Paige and Jenny have been discussing organizing a 'decentralized tech' conference ** Marc is interested in expanding the scope to 'Open Alternatives' and inviting participation from Counter Culture Labs and other groups & projects working on open technologies and building alternatives to the current system ** Battlemesh track over the week ** Distributed / decentralizing tech track ** Biosensors track ** Failcon - sharing stories of failure in community organizing ** 50% maximum techies ** Overlap of technical and nontechnical tracks ** Block party / Creating Commons-style *** Phat Beets is interested in helping * Name ideas: Creating Commons, Creating Alternatives, Decentralized Alternatives, Forging a Commons, Growing a Commons, Collective Liberation, Collective Conference, Flock Together, The Humans Conference, Open Alternatives -- Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`