sudo-discuss August 2023

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Fwd: Solidarity with LGBTQ Singaporeans! Sun 8/27

by Yardena Cohen

Sunday August 27th 2pm @ Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco Join our protest in solidarity with LGBTQ Singaporeans, who are under many threats from fascism in their country, including some of the same right wing theocrats pushing anti-trans laws here in the USA. For full details, please see https://safetyforsingapore.com/ Please forward/re-post/share widely! Numbers matter and every body counts, so please show up to support! We'll be nice and give you covid-safe air hugs. RSVP if you'd like a … [View More]

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Invoice 3009 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thank you for stewarding the commons. Love and solidarity, Omni Commons ---------------------------------- Invoice --------------------------------- 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 US +1 5105456582 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 3009 Date: 09/01/2023 Due Date: 09/25/2023 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $2,000.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------… [View More]

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Anti-surveillance rally in SF on Tuesday?

by Jonathan Cadle

Has anyone else heard about this protest someone is organizing at Moscone Center on Tuesday? Apparently it's opposed to Project Nimbus? I got an email about it, and was wondering if anyone else was planning to check it out.

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Sun Makerspace Grand Opening this Saturday!

by Carl Gorringe

Hey Sudoers, There's a new hackerspace just south of Oakland ! The Sun Gallery Makerspace in Hayward will be hosting it's Grand Opening party this Saturday August 12th 1 - 4pm, You’re invited to our Makerspace Grand Opening & Art Meets Tech Show. Location: 1015 E Street, Hayward, CA It's been a long-time goal of the Hayward Techies & Makers to get our own hackerspace. More info here: https://sungallery.org/makerspace-grand-opening-art-meets-tech-show/ cheers -Carl

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How can we make Sudo more friendly as a hangout?

by Jonathan Cadle

One thing that comes up at nearly every meeting I've been to is a desire to see more people using the Sudoroom space itself. Aside from Hardware Hack Night on Tuesdays, we generally seem to be seeing lower attendance at events. Part of this may be inertia in getting new events started up that have more interest, but I think it might be helpful to start a discussion about how the space itself can be made friendlier, and more pleasant to be in. I'll get things started with a couple of ideas, but … [View More]

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Wednesday party 8/9/23

by Jonathan Cadle

Are there any plans for what we’re doing tonight? Any projects that could use a hand? Jonathan Sent from Proton Mail for iOS

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Fwd: [dorkbotsf] Fantastic Part-Time Job for the right Builder/Maker

by Patrik D'haeseleer

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: kal spelletich <spellkal(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 6:42 PM Subject: [dorkbotsf] Fantastic Part-Time Job for the right Builder/Maker To: Hello, The amazing Stochastic Labs has an interesting job position open. Please pass it along to any interested parties (possibly students with maker skills who have recently graduated or are soon to!). I can vouch for them for being one of the best live in residencies anywhere (as well as the … [View More]

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Stickers for laptop decoration have arrived

by Jonathan Cadle

The stickers I ordered for the laptop debranding event in September have arrived! Sent from Proton Mail for iOS

2 years

Re: Omni Commons income and mortgage search update

by Jake

correction: Pro Arts not Safer DIY ---------- Forwarded message ---------- On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi - > > Apologies if someone else has already responded -- I only skimmed but > wanted to just briefly clarify that Safer DIY doesn’t pay rent / occupy > space at Omni. > > Best, > David On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 Z Silver Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> wrote: My apologies! I meant Pro Arts , which Sarah is apart of. … [View More]

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Omni Commons income and mortgage search update

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 15:28:32 -0700 From: Z Silver Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: [omni-consensus] Updates Update CSC will formally move out of the current room and is pending their decision on moving to the current omni office or sticking to their other space by the end of the month. Also ANV gave their 30 day notice and is moving out of Omni , (they recently got city slicker … [View More]farm as their new csa location whoo)! However if CSC moves on then we will earn $200 a month less in rent + ANV office space which is $675. Losing total of $875 monthly rent income. Reminder that collectives pay monthly rent of : Sudo room : $2,000 Counter Culture Labs : $2,000 Sudo Mesh : $200 Global Women Strike : $200 Food Not Bombs : $500 Village of Love : $1,800 (months behind on rent) Myriad Outreach Program : $100 Safer DIY : $300 Monthly rent will be around , $6,100 Events have been averaging $5k for the year of 2023. I don’t have the number for donations but it’s definitely not a lot and averages $1k. So our income is roughly 12k (Sarah please correct me if I’m way off, this is just my newbie research) Huge thanks to Sarah for book keeping and making sure events and tenants know where they are at with their invoices! And so much more in the finance realm that i'm still trying to grapple! I report monthly how much we make from events , (the cost of the event that occured that month and not invoices previous or future events) and can try to report monthly expenses on our contractors. Example : Event Coordinator Budget Tracker <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14-JhFQ8GUHyDI4IRe0inoVg6KUe0NMw-k-8…> * Curious if any financial experts can support monthly reports of our expenses? feel inclined to join a finance working group to help understand our accounts more! *Collective financial transparency is liberating!* Our expenses in July was around 17k+ which is our average utility/insurance etc costs plus contractors costs that began from Hellman grant, for Billy and myself at $30 an hour for events. Sarah was already contracted as our book bookkeeper and Susan as our grant writer. Meaning if we keep things exactly the same we will be losing $5k a month which is how much we give our mortgage lender. *Things are financially unwell and I think we need to focus on bringing in a new collective vision aligned with who can pay monthly consistent rent.* We were dependent on events to help raise revenue but we hardly get requests. I think it’s a combination of decay neglected entrance hall that easily turns people away. The building WG for the last few months has been meeting weekly on Sunday tending to the common spaces and the next big action item is a dump run day! This would be greatly done collectively , does Sunday afternoon anytime noon to 6pm work for folks? + We approved a budget for building cleanliness. I suggest paying part of that budget to Phil who has been cleaning Omni for years as a volunteer. Deep cleaning all the bathrooms taking out all the trash mopping commons areas, etc. Secondly our outreach and website needs to be ramped up. I have been doing a lot of the work and think it’ll only be successful in a collective manner! *We approved $2k for a website contractor and outlined the scope of the work. I suggest we empower the website working group to hire the best candidate!* Also with rooms opening up to collectively decide what we want to rent out and for how much. I’ve proposed moving the Omni Office to VOL smaller room (that room was Joey's suggestion) to ease their monthly rent so we can rent out the current office to so man interested collectives! Or even moving the Omni office to the current mail room? The Den and ANV office is available for future tenants as well~ Lastly I would suggest renting out the ticket booth room for a collective. It hasn’t been functional since I volunteered back in 2018. Now it has some scaffolding but it hasn’t been used for years as well. Also as Sarah mentioned a committee to actively invite possible new tenants. I'm losing a little hope as delegates meetings have been feeling like containers of blockages. Especially since most delegate representatives don’t participate in any working groups that need support rather than blocks. I encourage delegates to participate at least in one working group~ That being said I’ve posted marketing and outreach coordinator (approved from Hellman grant) for more capacity building and for my slow transition out of Omni Commons. Sorry for the long rant , these are just concerning thoughts. I believe we can pull through this financial deficit with some collective creativity!! Last year our private loan investor extended our balloon payment by a year due to the incredible fundraising efforts with people power. This year we’re losing collectives, money, general activation & participation. Thats not encouraging our lender to continue their investment by the end of this year of our due date of 890k .We are not a viable candidate for refi with loss of revenue . Maybe we should start talking about plan B if refinance isn't feasible? [View Less]

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