hi everyone,
another productive meeting this week. we have a number of action items for
next week and the full meeting notes are below.
ACTION ITEMS:
- Bill will set up automatic reminders
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len,
Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny*
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
- Max, Jordan and sudo-sys will brainstorm on alternative ISPs
- Tommy will update fiscal solvency spreadsheet
- Membership management system - Bill and Tommy
- Africa and Carmen (and anyone else who is interested) can sign up for
east bay diybio with eastbaydiybio(a)googlegroups.com
Let me know if I've missed anything.
- Marina
FULL NOTES:
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes>
Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054
May 15 2013
Attending: Matt, Ryan, Marina, Jenny, Sam, Carmen, Africa, Will, Len,
Tommy, Bill, Jordan, Vicky, Rev. Phil, Naomi, Max, Pete
==Introductions==
Co-Facilitator: Matt
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)
- What is one thing you like to share with others? Food, wine, ideas,
files, internet, connections :D
Icebreaker (10 min)
- Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months
- More people! Mo' space! Mo' money!
- Sustainable funding
- More representation of Oakland
- Finding cool neighbors
- Being receptive to hobbyists
- Community / education / diversity
- Summer fundraiser, summer stuff generally (field trips, retreats!)
- Biggifying
- Access & membership services sorted
- More cross-collaboration between the Bay Area hackerspaces
*Share food / sudo mate if available.*
==Announcements==
Co-Facilitator: Ryan
(< 8 minutes)
- ===Consent Agenda===
-
- *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need
no more details or discussion) ====> We're trying this out!*
-
- May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would
love help organizing it.
- Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please
contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and
can pick up and drop it off, etc.
- Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please
- Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system
- *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay
- Who is available to lead this week? ___________
- Craigslist posting looking for friends:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin
access)
- Tweet any space details *@sudoroom*
- Email *info(a)sudoroom.org*
- ===Other Announcements===
-
- This Sat TIL: Fix It Day! (yaaaaayyy!!!):
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#May_18_Fix-It_Day.21_.28PLUS_Linu…
- Sign up for TIL's (no one is scheduled after this week):
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned
- BIKE SMUT: This Friday, doors open 8:22, show starts 9:07. (Vicky, who
will be a little late)
- Signs will be put up advertising adultiness of the event
- Vicky and Phil take full responsibility fr cleaning. (Vicky is
anal-retentive and this will not be a problem)
- GLOW WORMS: We need 2 more! Please contact Vicky via email/gchat if
you would like to join in helping facilitate a safe space on Friday.
- SECURITY/GREETERS: Would anyone like to volunteer in shifts to hang
out and greet people as they enter? Anthony expressed interest. Anyone else?
- VOLUNTEER MOVERS: Vicky needs a person or 2 persons to help move
speakers onto a truck (6pmish), into the space and out of the space (end of
show, midnightish). Any volunteers?
- If you have any concerns/questions/comments/suggestions please
contact Vicky via direct email (best way to reach her), not listserv.
- Presentation: beautiful DIY cloth menstrual pad (Vicky)
- Interested in more inter-hackerspaces collab? Join Open Hack Night
every Monday at 7pm @LOL (1234 23rd Avenue, San Antonio (east Oakland)).
LOL is a POC, Queer and Women-organized hackerspace. It is radically
inclusive--EVERYONE is a desired member! Their organizers want us to do
more stuff at each others' spaces. :] :] (Vicky)
- Next BACH planning meeting: Fri May 24 @ 8pm at West Gate San Leandro,
1933 Davis St, San Leandro
- BACH info:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces
- Sudo Bike
-
- === ACTION ITEMS ===
-
- Co-Facilitatory: Marina (< 5 min)
-
- Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if
necessary to next meeting:
-
- *New Business:*
-
- Africa and Carmen can sign up for east bay diybio with
eastbaydiybio(a)googlegroups.com <go to there
- Max is researching alternative ISPs and recommends LMI, will continue
this discussion on the sudo-sys list.
-
- *Old Business:*
-
- [postponed until next week] WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE to rock
paper scissors collective? - Matt will help
- Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker Happy Hour
- Oakland Nights Live - what to do?
- [postponed until next week] Bill will talk with them about this
regardless on Friday for "Captial and Crisis" putting on thinking caps
- ... and "theorizing"
- *[Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School] Jenny* - Set
expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external
- -Ensure doors are closed
- -Trash and recycling
- -Running the dishwasher
- -Putting furniture back where it belongs
- -Vacuum!
- Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs.
-
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fyHwH-O_tMEW3c01HvHbmAHDqj6aD2DSDmpdtM_…
- *Postponed* (not for discussion, only for reference):
-
- [Postponed] Talk to Danny O'Brien, intro from JC to Jordan, invite him
to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!
- Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later
this month and Jordan will follow up then.
- [Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George
- [Postponed until necessary] Jenny sync with Troy on library - Not yet
but they will
- Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1
-troy
- still need to set a date
- [Postponed until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb] Romy to lead
diagram for Articles of Association amendment
- Romy to work with Troy to turn the articles into a flow diagram.
Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around.
- [Postponed until ?] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? -
https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room)
<https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room%29>- Yardena is going to put these
articles up
-
==Fiscal Solvency==
(20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Sam
- *Third** Wed - **collect dues!** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th -
assess where we're at) pay your dues!
- Review and consensus process:
- Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3…
- Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
- Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30
people)
- now we're collecting target of $60
- some give more
- sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month
- Financial Planning
- Fund-raising efforts?
- Leverage existing resources and infrastructure
- E.g. events, fund-raisers
- Recurring income
- sustainable for a long time
- Long-term sustainability and viability
- e.g. meetups, institutional stability, etc.
- Creating items at low-cost for considerable mark-up donation
- T-shirts
- other swag
- Electronic kits
- workshops?
- Ethersheet Spreadsheet to track revenues? Automated form (Google
Forms)?
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas
- Food
- Cottage Food Law
- Shared Kitchens/Gardens
- Sudo Mate - *Max & Ray*
- Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!)
- Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc*
- Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray - Last week's $40 went to Sudo Room
rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!*
- Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST]
- suggestion by *Marc*
- Rusty's "Savior Bars"!
- Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason
- *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn*
- "Just do it"
- Schwag
- 3D printed stuff
- magnets - *Jordan*
- bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device
mounting!) -hol
- jewelry
- on-demand
- other objects
- other 3D printers
- 3d printed exoskeleton
- DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell
- "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?)
- Bike bevereage holders
- T-shirts - *Dan Finlay (already an action item)*
- Buttons (moar)
- Dependent upon logo
- LED cubes - hol??????????
- Membership dues
- sliding-scale, voluntary (current)
- *better* *advertisement*
- --> Scrounging for MOAR
- Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.
- Could be extremely effective
- Could do a bike-about
- better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)
- will be informed by member survey (already an action item)
- Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????*
- Automatic reminders
- Repair Services
- Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)?
- Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair!
- Specifically could get $ from burners
- Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state
- Donated equipment
- Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan*
- Re-use and sell or sell as services
- Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/
- DIY ISP ++
- a la http://ranchwifi.com/
- Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like
he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi
- Kits
- electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up
with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually
together, we can sell at events - Hol)
- Home PCs for cheapz
- Art kits
- Writing kits
- Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^
- Kits of 3D printers that create other kits
- Non-profit status
- Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3
- Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal
sponsorship
- School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship
- Grants
- Regular events
- Raves
- Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects
- Covers? No covers?
- NOTES
- Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding
mechanisms at play here
- One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources
- You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the
technology may or may not be there.
- Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort
involved -- you can cross most of it out
- Jenny
- Added speaker events section
- In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would
possibly be interested in speaking here
- Tommy
- We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not
they brought in income
- Sam
- Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things. *Bill*
- Eddie
- Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as
a service we could offer.
==Amendments to the Articles of Association==
Co-Facilitator: ?
==Conflict Resolution==
Co-Facilitator: ?
==Additional Items==
(per item) Co-Facilitator: Tommy
- Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min)
- Priorities / values
- Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed
here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space
- Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates--let's
do that now!
- Exterior security - safety of the surrounding area
- Lease vs month-to-month rent (latter preferred)
- Kitchen / communal kitchen
- Street-facing
- No regressions from the current space
- Strategy
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin
access)
- Tweet any space details *@sudoroom*
- Email *info(a)sudoroom.org*
- Craigslist posting looking for friends:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html
- New Logos - Ryan
- Oakland Nights Live
- Cleaning up after events
- Max has volunteered to be liason between Public School and Oakland
Nights Live
==Action Items==
Scribe: Jenny
- Bill will set up automatic reminders
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt,
Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny*
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
- Max, Jordan and sudo-sys will brainstorm on alternative ISPs
- Tommy will update fiscal solvency spreadsheet
- Membership management system - Bill and Tommy
=== Meeting Brief for Announce List ===
*Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes*
==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?
- Recap on IRC
Hi everyone,
Please join us this Saturday 5/18 at 2PM at Sudo Room (2141 Broadyway,
entrance on 22nd St., take the elevator upstairs) for Fix-It Day and Linux
Install Day!
We have a lot of computers and other equipment at Sudo Room in various
states of functionality. You may also have computers and other kinds of
equipment in various states of functionality! During this session we will
come together to test/repair computers and learn more about fixing
computers.
BONUS: Have you always been curious about Linux but not sure where to
start? If you are interested in installing Linux on your Windows computer
(it is not necessary to delete Windows to install Linux), we will also be
helping participants install Linux.
Sudoers who are interested in helping people install Linux: please bring
cd's, thumb drives, etc. for people to use.
*This workshop is part of the series “Today I Learned,” a series of free
workshops that take place every Saturday at 2PM at Sudo Room, a creative
community and hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Check out the full schedule
at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned and please forward widely.*
- Marina
Hey hey yeh yeH
We're meeting Sunday at 4pm!
I'll be late! :[ :[ I have an unexpected job interview (w00t!) at 3pm. BUT,
you should arrive on time and mingle and merrymake as this event will
surely result in your making connections you never thought imaginable, and
your attendance at future meetups galore!
And always remember...
"Be what you would seem to be--or if you'd like it put more simply: Never
imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others
that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had
been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." --Lewis Carroll
Hello all!
We have a number of people who have signed up to help with Bike Smut, from
my sound system-moving posse to donations people, aphrodesiacal ice
creamateurs to watchful eyes.
If you have not yet expressed explicit interest in helping, now is the
time! Some time between 6 and 7pm is also the time, as my posse and I will
be arriving with sound system.
Please gchat/email me and I'll give you my DIGITS!
If we pay people for beer, if we buy burritos then why is it wrong to pay someone to clean?
Could we pay for a small family owned immigrant cleaning business to clean the common room and the space ?
I do not see sudo room getting into a cleaning skill set in the near future and that is ok
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
Greetings Hackians!
Tomorrow night will be the first screening of sexually charged movies at
Sudo Room and last time we will ever screen Bike Smut 6: Turning Trixxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuDxS3mRc7M
Its the ULTIMATE screening!
Besides providing a forum for a variety of artists to share their thoughts
on human-powered transportation and sex-positive culture we will may also
be:
* watching a burlesque performance depicting how the bicycle liberated
women's fashion
* defining obscenity within the community
* meeting / flirting with other exciting minds
* playing the PSI game, behold the hilarious consensual action
* enjoying delicious malted beverages for extra reasonable donation
* winning $300 dollars worth of prizes from excellent sponsors (info below)
* supporting Sudo Room, because half of the door will stay with this
excellent space!
This has the potential to be a great fundraiser, but one person can't do it
all, but there are a few things you can do:
VOLUNTEER - email vicki <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>, and let her know when you
are available. (8pm is best but we work it out)
* help greet at the door
* serve delicious beverages
* monitor the space to keep Sudo Room excellent and not burnt down
* assist me and Vicki as we clean up afterward
* host an afterparty (helps to get people out!)
EDUCATE - besides the endless possibilities of Sudo Room, we are partnering
with other great organizations
* Fucking Sculptures local handcrafted glass sex toys
http://fuckingsculptures.com/
* Crash Pad Series provides some of the best queer porn on Earth
http://crashpadseries.com/queer-porn/2012/we-love-bike-smut/
* Sex Worker Fest helps address the stigma of the worlds oldest profession
https://www.facebook.com/sexworkerfest
* Oakland gallery owner, Eli Reyes was the victim of horrifying road rage
http://bikesmut.tumblr.com/post/50589635617/fuckingsculptures-signal-boost-…
PROMOTE - geeks are not known for their social graces, consider this a
great time to practice! You dont want to watch porn alone, do you?
* use FaceBook! https://www.facebook.com/events/151978064981763/
*
http://bikeporntour.blogspot.com/2013/05/turning-our-final-trixxx-in-oaklan…
Friday, May 17
Sudo Room
2141 Broadway
doors at 8:22, starts at 9:07
$5-10 donation, no one turned away
adults only and you should all *dress fabulous! *
Even if you can't volunteer I hope you are able to attend. I think there
will be a number of people who have never been to this place before; it
will be grand to have engaging minds on hand to explain how cool Sudo Room
is!
con fuerte,
rev
--
7 years of sex-positive, human-powered porno
________Hop on The Porny Express________
----------------------- Bike Smut ------------------------
Ryan and Jenny are excellent! We went biking and found more places for sudo
room's future decision-making!
http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/
Please add more reports (choose at least one):
(a) tweet the address and details (e.g. a phone number) @sudoroom
(i) You can also set up twitter to post via text message to 40404 if you
don't have a data plan with your phone--ask me for details! ;)
(b) send an email with the same info to info(a)sudoroom.org
(c) use the web form https://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/reports/submit
(d) download a mobile app (though the new android app crashed for me >.<)
You can also help by:
(a) Calling some of the existing listings, coordinate by replying to this
message!
(b) Offering to review old listings that might still be available!
(c) Trolling Craigslist and other websites with spaces for rent / lease.
(d) Contribute to this spreadsheet Romy set up:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amu8QvJOCyfkdFRkMnFGblJ3MzZDNF…
(e) Organize another bike-about to find more locations!
The crowdmap platform released a new version of their software today, but
we can use the "classic" mode likely through 2013, with options to migrate
and such before then.
I have backups just in case, and we can back more data up as we add to it.
// Matt
