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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http://nolonelyguineapigs.com/
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http://morglog.org
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.
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?
We had a long conversation with our lawyer about this a couple months
ago. Basically it would risk the nonprofit status of the whole
building.
He told us most things we would do count as "educational" and could be
structured as donations, and the things which absolutely don't, could
still make up to 30% of our budget. This is even if you paid people to
do the labor. I would say there are many simpler things we have yet to
try before resorting to a for-profit company, such as offering to pay
event bottom-liners, which wouldn't even require any structural
changes.
Hello everyone!
This Saturday, Nov 7th (and MAYBE the 8th), we are getting together to
Hack Sudo and make it sparkle. We have a Ride up pad
<https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudohack> with a list we'd like to do.
Stop by if you wanna make Sudo Room a better place by putting some elbow
grease in!
in order to raise funds and continue our mission of education, i have been
thinking we should host a hacker's conference at the omni sometime after
the new year.
what do you think?
some possibilities might include:
inviting other hackerspaces to participate
getting keynote speakers to appear remotely (richard stallman, edward
snowden ;)
sat & sunday event
stream event live
organize news team to engage online stream audience
~r
