Hi everyone,
Tonight is Sudoroom's weekly meeting at 8 - 9 PM. We'll be on site and
online at https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles.
Meeting notes can be found and edited at
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep. Previous meeting notes can
be found at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meetings#Meeting_Notes_Archive.
Here's the agenda:
*- New Member Considerations*
Confirmation of last week's applicants (PB, Arthur, Eva, PWM)
Introductions
*- Proposal considerations*
Building Community Collective's proposal to join Omni Commons
Community Liberation Program's proposal to join Omni Commons
Should we adopt a code of conduct & statement of purpose?
Should we organize working groups for key functions?
*- Event announcements*
*- Show and Tell*
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
I sent this out before and I didn't get any objections, so I will represent
sudoroom as being apathetic or in-support of this proposal unless I hear
otherwise.
Do not take this as encouragement to object to this great proposal :)
-sudoroom delegate Jake
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:27:41 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: Re: [omni-consensus] WCK/CLP intro
Reminder to delegates: please be ready this Thursday to share your
groups' positions on CLP joining omni!
On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 12:37 AM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FYI all, at tonight's delegates meeting we discussed CLP's proposal to
> join as a new member collective. The notes are at
> https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2022/04/07_Delegates#CLP
>
> Delegates, please take the next two weeks to check in with your member
> collectives. It would be wonderful to have full consensus to add them
> at our next meeting, Thursday April 21!
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:37 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oops, forgot to cc Billy who first sent it!
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:24 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all, I'm forwarding this to omni's "consensus" list because it's a
>>> proposal that affects the whole community!
>>>
>>> I think CLP would be great as a new member collective at omni. They
>>> are paying $200 for their current 10x10 storage unit and are willing
>>> to pay omni the same for relatively unsecured space in the basement,
>>> which is totally reasonable - generous even! They would also bring in
>>> an active community of volunteers, which would be huge for omni.
>>> Meeting Billy and Rafiq this weekend was a pleasure.
>>>
>>> It looks like there are now several new member collective proposals in
>>> the pipeline, which is awesome! I hope that we can use this
>>> opportunity to practice onboarding new groups in a way that is as
>>> frictionless and accessible as we can, and also invite this potential
>>> new generation of omni member collectives to co-create the process
>>> alongside us.
>>>
>>> Our next delegates meeting is in ~2 weeks, April 7th. Typically for
>>> important proposals (like a new member collective), we would have one
>>> meeting to discuss details, give delegates another 2 weeks to bring
>>> the proposal for discussion among their groups, and then come back for
>>> (hopefully) full consensus at the next meeting, which would be April
>>> 21st.
>>>
>>> I think it'd be great for folks to have conversations and ask
>>> questions in the meantime so that we can all be prepared for the big
>>> meetings once they happen. Thanks all :D
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: deskhandle via commons <commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
>>> Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM
>>> Subject: [omni-commons] WCK/CLP intro
>>> To: commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org <commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
>>> Cc: Communityliberationprograms(a)protonmail.com
>>> <Communityliberationprograms(a)protonmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey everyone, this is Billy with Community Liberation Programs,
>>> formerly known as Worker's Community Kitchen.
>>>
>>> We are a socialist organization that creates dual power programs in
>>> partnership with community members.
>>>
>>> Currently we have a water delivery/ unhoused encampment commissary
>>> program as well as a community garden program both in Hayward.
>>>
>>> We have a program in Berkeley which works directly with the community
>>> at People's Park to organize crucial material support and gear up in
>>> defense of the upcoming eviction.
>>>
>>> We also have a reading group starting in the SF Mission as a
>>> preliminary step to bring folks together for a new program forming
>>> there, and another working group investigating a new program centered
>>> in Oakland Chinatown.
>>>
>>> We are really excited to be invited to join the new phase at the Omni
>>> and are particularly looking forward to supporting fund raising
>>> efforts through event planning. We were already working on creating a
>>> summer film series as a fund raising event for our organization and it
>>> seems aligned to use this as an opportunity to support the Omni as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Additionally, we were told that we could potentially move some stuff
>>> around in the area pictured below to take up a roughly 10 x 10 space
>>> for our storage. Currently we have a storage unit in Berkeley so we'd
>>> love to move that over here and start being in the space more
>>> regularly!
>>>
>>> We can send a delegate to the regular meetings and are ready to start
>>> event planning!
>>>
>>> I have CC'd the primary CLP email address to make sure it is put in
>>> the communication loop!
>>>
>>> All the best!
>>> Billy
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last chance for objections to this proposal, otherwise I will say that I
believe Sudoroom is in support of the proposal. We did not reach sudo-quorum
(7 members) but i have heard positive sentiments and no objections.
we can discuss it at the meeting tomorrow night but for god sakes please lets not
-jake
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:25:10 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus(a)omnicommons.org
Subject: Re: [omni-consensus] [omni-discuss] Building Community Collective
Proposal to Join Omni Commons
This proposal came in at 7pm during the last delegates meeting but we
didn't have time to discuss it then. Do delegates feel like they have
enough information to consent this Thursday, or do we need more time
to ask questions?
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:49 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Being a fiscally sponsored project of omni is usually the simplest
> thing, except we'd have to decide whether that also covers your
> activities outside the building, or whether the project would
> technically be called "BCC at omni" or something to limit the scope. I
> think if you're legally an omni project and your activities in the
> building are similar to regular omni activities then you wouldn't need
> a separate insurance policy - can someone correct if I'm wrong?
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 10:07 AM Michaela Budde
> <michaelabudde87(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Yar!
>>
>> Appreciate your enthusiasm! We think it's a great fit too.
>>
>> We are not incorporated in any way. We are a collective with a group chat and an instagram!
>>
>> Please let us know how that would work legally.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Micha
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 11:26 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hell yes please! I've been so happy to work with Micha and Marquise
>>> over the past couple months and am looking forward to meeting more BCC
>>> folks. I think this is exactly what Omni needs and I'm so happy to see
>>> this proposal.
>>>
>>> In terms of the logistics of adding a new member collective, what is
>>> the best legal arrangement? Are you all incorporated in any way? Does
>>> BCC want to be a fiscally sponsored project of omni, or something
>>> else? Can we give them full coverage under our existing insurance or
>>> does there need to be a separate policy for them?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:00 PM Building Community Collective
>>> <buildingcommunitycollective(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello, we are super excited to present this proposal, after checking in with members at the BCC. We hope this is the beginning of a great relationship between the BCC and Omni Commons!
>>>>
>>>> Attached is our application, please communicate with us through this email.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Building Community Collective
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Michaela Budde
>> (they/she/he)
>>
>>
>>
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we need a space for deposition; i was going to rent an event space but
thought : sudo could use the money.
please get back to me with contact info ASAP if interested - we need to
book as soon as we can
the event is ten days hence
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*Be seeing you.*
Hi everyone,
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or because I BCC'd you directly. Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for
those who want to come hack on whatever in person, or through telepresence of
any means you can invoke.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 5-15 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through the
telescreen.
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
I try to be there by 7pm but you can show up earlier and people might already
be there!
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
if you can't make it, join the jitsi videochat with the room, and chat with
each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
more information
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:53:06 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: joe liesner <blue393(a)lmi.net>
Cc: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, building <building(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: Re: [omni-consensus] [omni-building] PROPOSAL: $4k to fix entrance hall floor
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 7:40 AM joe liesner <blue393(a)lmi.net> wrote:
> What are the restaurant booths for? Are they part of the Village of Love’s needs?
> The cafe is not indicated - size or associated fixtures. Who will run it?
I have no details about restaurant booths or cafe because this
proposal is mostly just about fixing the floor. Those are just ideas
for the future. Village of Love will not require us to install any
furniture in particular. Their interest in the entrance hall is:
1) to temporarily run part of the drop-in center in the entrance hall,
for a couple months, to help build relationships with neighbors before
asking them to go to the basement
2) to make it look nice and organized so that when they bring funders
through, those funders are more likely to write grants to help omni
generate more income and improve the building
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Dear Sudoroom members,
in three days I will be asked to approve the following proposal on behalf of
the membership of sudoroom. If anyone has any objections please let me know,
otherwise I will say that Sudoroom has no objections, although I will ask for
more information about how the $4000 of Omni money (which Omni already has)
will be spent.
-jake
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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:33:21 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Cc: building <building(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: [omni-consensus] PROPOSAL: $4k to fix entrance hall floor
I propose that we spend $4k to fix the floor and make other minor
improvements to the entrance hall. Attached is a draft floorplan for
how I'm envisioning the entrance hall would look, at least in the near
term future. What do people think? Would we be able to approve this
money at the meeting in 3 days?
Proposed timeline:
* Starting now: clean up messes, remove junk, minor repairs
* Thursday April 21: delegates approve plan
* Saturday April 23: events in ballroom
* Sunday April 24: Omni open house
* Monday April 25: hang plastic dividers, paint & finish "east end"
* Wednesday April 27: move free store to newly finished east end
* wrap up "west end" in plastic
* deep-clean west end: vacuum rafters, mop, etc
* install floor drain in old bar drain pipe
* pour new floor material where the old bar used to be
* move free store to northwest corner
Tentative future plans (near to far):
* install new lighting on west end ceiling
* install restaurant booths along north wall
* install permanent wheelchair lift to ballroom
* install new bar/cafe in southeast corner
the Hammond organ with the Leslie speaker is amazing! But i know the speaker
paper is chewed up and decayed to hell and needs a recone.
Here's a video of Marc playing it:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcCaiMRDEKU/
Where can we find parts for a recone kit? I volunteer Arlo to do the reconing,
he did a great job with a giant subwoofer recently.
What model speaker is it? Or do we just have to find a reconing company that
can send us a custom cone and surround according to measurements we make?
maybe Tuesday night we can take measurements, and try to figure out the model
number of the speaker.
I wouldn't be surprised if we have to re-use the voice coil that's in there now
- who knows what weird impedance it is (this is an electromagnetic-stator
speaker powered by a tube amp!) and it's probably made with whale-bone PCB
lacquer that will outlast anything we can buy, plus there's nothing wrong with
it.
Thanks to Kent for rebuilding the amplifier
the organ is mentioned a couple of times in this Meeting from 2015:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2015-09-02
I created a wiki page for it, please edit and contribute:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Hammond_Organ
-jake
Eric T came through today and swept and cleaned the SHIT out of sudoroom!!!
The floor is swept and clean and you can literally eat off of it (I did)
in order to keep it clean, we should all pitch in and pick up trash and put
things away all the time!
I brought in a Roomba and set it up with its little charging base. We'll see
how well it survives, hopefully it doesn't knock over a rain bucket onto itself
(there are two rain buckets dripping right now)
-jake
There was a major roof leak over sudo/ccl last night.
It was caused by a clog in the main roof drainpipe which caused a lot of
water to build up on the roof (over ankle height along the west side of the
building).
CCL was hit pretty hard while sudo room got away with a big puddle on the
floor.
Patrik and myself spent the night dealing with the fallout in CCL and it's
still not done. I did unclog the clog though.
I didn't get to the sudo room puddle. If anyone is up for tackling it there
is a metal shop vac sitting in CCL which is currently configured for wet
operation. It will suck it right up. Be very sure to only plug it in
through the GFCI adapter (which it was plugged into when I left) and the
first thing you do before using it should be checking the water level and
emptying it out if it's close to half full. I didn't empty it again before
I left. Remember that water is surprisingly heavy, lift with your knees and
don't lift alone if at all possible. I speak from experience.
Thanks to Ian for alerting us about the leak and for lighting my way on the
roof.
--
marc/juul
