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