A few of us @ Sudo Room have been casually throwing around ideas about ways
to generate money for the Omni without selling our soul to The Man and
becoming Capitalist Pigs*™
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol>. *
One of our topics of discussion was the possibility of turning the Ballroom
into a working venue and having that sustain us monetarily while the
collectives focus on bringing excellence to the community. Robb, being as
excellent as he is, is starting to form a collective focused on
productions, from event management/AV training to actual execution of
events. Rise up pad here. <https://pad.riseup.net/p/omniproductions>
Some think we should continue as a non-profit, some think that we should
try to actually turn the Ballroom into a money-making venue to help better
serve the community. Perhaps a Benefit Corporation
<http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252259> could be the bridge between
the two?
I'd like to open this up for discussion. I'm not super knowledgeable about
business, laws and how they work together but I know there are a lot of
really intelligent people at the Omni that could help brainstorm this.
Any thoughts, opinions, ideas or knowledge they'd like to share? By all
means, take me to school!
Thanks everyone!
my hope for a production collective is to learn & share the myriad skills
that go into producing a sucessful fundraising event.
if & when we get good at producing events, we will be able to help other
non-profits generate attention & funds for their projects...and for our own.
if access to the building & being a member of a collective at the omni is
not valuable enough alone to the members of the collective, perhaps we
could pay members who teach (sound/lights/stage setup) others during
events. if we teach, instead of work, events; i think we have a better
chance of having the $ we get for events being considered as from a
charitable source.
my $.02
~r
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From: Jonas Öberg <hello(a)commonsmachinery.se>
Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:32 PM
Subject: Looking to join the team?
To: vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com
If you're interested in joining the Commons Machinery team, read on to
learn what we're up to. If you're not, well, keep reading any way. You may
find it interesting :-)
I'm just back from a ceremony in Stockholm where I formally accepted the
SKAPA Innovation Award in memory of Alfred Nobel, which we announced
already back in September. The award is for our work on Elog.io and turning
the tables by putting provenance and users first, rather than copyright and
copyright holders. Over the past weeks, we've given a lot of thought to
Elog.io and what we would do different today. You can read that in my blog
post at FSFE <http://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=28>.
Some of this will serve as useful input as we work with Kennisland on a
fingerprint algorithm for videos, which enables the creation of a whitelist
and provenance record for videos. We're using some of the thinking from
Elog.io, and taking the opportunity while we're doing so to also update the
algorithm we used for images.
This is exciting work, but we would be love to have more people as part of
our team! For Commons Machinery, we're looking very specifically for
software developers with experience from developing Python, Node.js, and
with knowledge of RDF and semantic structures, ideally with a pinch of
maths and algorithm knowledge. Demonstrated ability to create a JSON API
with backend database and frontend tools would be welcome. Previous
knowledge of RabbitMQ and Celery beneficial.
If you think you fit the bill, or know someone who might, send them to
hello(a)commonsmachinery.se!
Stay tuned to this channel for more exciting news!
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oi mates,
food not bombs is considering setting up a paypal acct to accept
donations/ticket $ for the feb 13 fundraising shindig at the omni.
do we know of any better options? ideally, ones that allow having different
simultaneous campaigns.
thx
~r
Hey all! wondering if there is any interest in competing in Node Knockout.
It's a casual 48-hour programming contest. I've participating in the last
3, it's a load of fun but...... I signed up and simply dont' have the time
to actually do it this year. So if anyone is interested, I've a registered
team I would love to see get used. Let me know if you want it.
Check their site for details.
http://www.nodeknockout.com/
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Old and Neglected.
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a company in Oakland is looking for someone to do electronics assembly
work for part-time hours every week, probably 20-30 hours each week.
job includes lots of soldering, drilling, and assembling of things, and
requires solid understanding of voltage, current, fuses, and polarity, as
well as the ability to solve problems when putting something together
requires creativity to make things fit.
Please contact me off-list if you have questions.
thanks!
-jake
I don't know who posted this, but I am happy about everything except the
fact that my email address is presented (in text with the @ symbol and
all) without my permission, on the open web:
https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/hardware-hack-night-2015-11-03/
I don't know how to edit this calendar entry and remove or edit my email
address. Can someone remind me how to do it, or do it for me?
Also I would like to know who posted this so i can make sure they
understand that they should get my permission before posting my email
address anywhere.
thank you!
-jake
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Mary Ward <maryhbw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we need the Omni to be come a non-profit entity since we will have
> several fiscal sponsors in the building? We can be a for profit business
> that makes no profits, without risking an audit, and with less accounting
> headaches.
Can you fiscally sponsor a for-profit company?
The delegates decided we should apply for 501c3 back in August.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Mari M. <strawberrypilabs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Some think we should continue as a non-profit, some think that we should try
> to actually turn the Ballroom into a money-making venue to help better serve
> the community. Perhaps a Benefit Corporation could be the bridge between the
> two?
Also, I want to unpack this: "turn the Ballroom into a money-making
venue to help better serve the community". Can you explain what you
mean by this? Who would be better served and how?
It's worth mentioning that the whole point of making money in the
ballroom is to help the Omni Commons survive as a horizontal
collective dedicated to the radical commoning of space and resources,
fighting gentrification, and creating alternatives to capitalism. I
hope we will always be mindful that we're doing it as a last resort,
it will never be the core of our project, everything will always to be
sliding scale down to zero, the community will still be able to block
events which conflict with our values and delegates can override
anything that a production collective does. And if someday we are able
to own the building and lower our expenses enough, we will return to
doing what we've wanted to do all along - offer everything for free to
the people who need it most.
This will bring changes if we are not careful. When people are making
money, they have an incentive to manipulate our processes in order to
keep making money, and new people are incentivized to join who care
more about money than about the project's values. All of our processes
are designed with the assumption of good faith, and vulnerable to
rules-lawyering unless we have a healthy, vigilant culture.
