Hello everyone,
The Sustainable Economies Law Center is looking for items to auction off
during its annual Fall fundraiser. They also like to use the opportunity to
highlight the organization or individual that the item comes from. Would
any of you be interested in contributing an item (3D-printed magnets?)
either for Sudo Room or for yourself?
Take care,
Vicky
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From: Ricardo S. Nuñez <ricardo(a)theselc.org>
Date: 2014-10-30 15:43 GMT-07:00
Subject: It's a Celebration! A SELC Fall Celebration!
To: Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>
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Hi Vicky,
You are the movers and shakers of the new economy and we want you to join
us in a celebration!
You're receiving this email because you've experienced first hand the work
that SELC does through the Resilient Communities Legal Cafe. I wanted to
take this moment to extend an invitation to join us as we celebrate our 5th
year in creating legal resources for just and resilient local economies.
Its my pleasure to invite you to our upcoming *Fall Celebration & Showcase
<http://www.theselc.org/2014_selc_fall_celebration?e=d015d4bc4f6d9b9eaa2408c…>
*
on *November 18th at Impact HUB Oakland* -- it’ll be a fun and informal
evening with *dinner and drinks*, but also an opportunity for us to share
all the work that SELC has been up to. Also, there will be a lot of squash!
At each Fall Celebration, we host a silent auction to help raise the
necessary funds to keep our nonprofit operating. *Would you be able to
donate an item or gift certificate to our silent auction? *This is a great
way to get exposure for your organization or business, and it helps us
provide our community a sample of the goods and services of the new
economy.
If you're able to donate an item, please reply to this email with the item
that you can donate and I'll arrange a drop off or pick up time with you.
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Hi all,
Who will be the sudo room delegate tonight? It's not clear from the notes,
and it would appear that the items up for consensus at tonight's Omni
meeting were not discussed.
For future sudo meetings, please set aside some time each week to designate
the delegate and check the Omni delegates meeting pad, where items up for
consensus are listed: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
All delegates should also join this (low-traffic) mailing list:
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus
Thanks and <3,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
A:"You're basically an executive"
M:"I wish employers would see it that way"
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-10-27
==Attendees ==
* potential: Vicky, April, Yar, Whitney, Jenny, Anca, Matt, Hol, Julio,
Scott
* actual: julio, cere, anca, yar, hol, max, vicky, scott, brendan, april,
matt, marc
* official board members here: julio, hol, max, vicky, matt, anca, marc
* quorum: 7. JUST BARELY.
==Next Meeting==
* Next Year's Meeting will be on: 2015-10-20. October the twentieth in two
thousand fifteen in the year of our lord, common era.
* Max will schedule email
$ date -d 'Tuesday, October 20, 2015 7:00 PM PDT' +%s
1445392800
==501c3==
* Create an action plan and deadline to complete our 501(c)(3) application.
* Whitney, Vicky and April will bottom-line this. Julio is on stand-by.
* Since our 501(c)(3) form has not been completed, we need to fill out
state form 3500 to convince California not to levy state taxes for last
year (2013).
==State Tax things==
* Due Nov. 7.
* Matt, Julio and Hol will bottom line it and working on it tonight.
== CT1 ==
* did we file this last year?
== New Treasurer ==
Find a new Treasurer to replace Max.
General Responsibilities:
# be responsible for filing yearly taxes,
# deposit misc. funds into the bank account
# give out misc money that sudo room approves
# report to sudo room the state of finances.
Also, Fundraising:
* Additionally, since Sudo Room is once again receiving less income each
month than expenditure, a good Treasurer would have some fundraising ideas,
and/or want to execute other's ideas.
Who wants to do it?
* We're pretty sure treasurer is liable for all sudo's debts, and also
omni's debts since we're a signatory on the omni lease. But not 100% sure.
Also, people are saying if we get 501c3 that won't be an issue.
* Do we have a transparent sheet listing where all the money goes? Not
really but we can mine the meeting notes. It's pretty much just omni shared
expenses + internet.
* Anca's done stuff before. Mentions quickbooks.
* Matt points out membership roles: exchequer. separate from the
state-mandated role. they should be doing the work.
* To be very clear, our values don't call for a powerful treasurer
position. This is just something the state requires us to do. We will
absolutely limit their power and responsibility to that and only that.
* Vicky and Scott are both interested.
* Vicky wonders whether she's even a member anymore. But you don't have to
be a member to be on the board.
* lots and lots of debate over sudoroom's debt and hypothetical disaster
scenarios
* yet another tangent about dvorak keyboards
* shouldn't we figure out general board membership first?
* lots of confusion over our bylaws. we need to read them in full again.
they were just copied from noisebridge.
* you have to go to one meeting a year. that's really the bare minimum.
* apparently california also requires from a 501c3: president, secretary,
CEO, Treasurer and/or CFO
** http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/treasurer-duties/
* marc is willing to do it
* unanimous vote of present board members, plus jenny remotely: Marc Juul
is our new treasurer, replacing Max Klein.
'''Voted 7-0 in favour of Making Marc Juul new Treasurer'''
== New People ==
Discuss refreshing the Board with a new set of members.
* Update Board page on the wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Board
* who wants to be on the board this year? raise your hand: vicky, scott,
anca, julio, matt
* are we keeping the other folks?
* einstein could be chairdog
* last time everybody was nominated
* april wants to do it
* We'll put another round of nominations to the mailing list
==Address Change==
We have to notify California that our address has changed. We're no longer
at 2141 Broadway...
==Meeting Notes==
discussion about board members and role of the members. Who should be a
member?
==A third working group (Matt and Vicky and)==
Write a description fro board memebers
for treasurer,
then blast the list and announce for a timeline for nominating new board
members, and timeline for voting on them
then april will make an announcement at the general meeting this week
== outtake==
what was your favorite thing about this meeting?
* scott laughing at his jokes
* seeing all of you here!
* efficient. sudo meetings are getting shorter.
* low-key. and fixing my IDE.
* wine club. and everyone here.
* they already did everything when i got here
* chips & guac
* that we don't know what the hell we're doing
* the we accomplished our purpose - find a new treasurer
* that we had quorum, and that our next meeting is on Tuesday October 20th
2015
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:06:44 AM Jenny Ryan wrote:
> it would appear that the items up for consensus at tonight's Omni
> meeting were not discussed.
There's only one consensus item on the pad - to spend $1k of omni
money on ballroom soundproofing materials - and Sudoroom already
discussed it at last week's meeting (with unanimous yes).
Announcements:
* New Board nominations begin in 20 days
* Marc Juul is our new treasurer
* We are cleaning and organizing sudo RIGHT NOW - come and help!
* Film night tonight!
* What we want and don't want: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Donations
New Members
* For extended pondering: Claire - wants to run zine workshops! drawing,
crafts!
* For extended pondering: Trisha - also zines, excited about the sewing
machines :)
* Alex has been pondered, is now a member!
Money
* ~ $3700 in the bank, November rent and October shared expenses paid
($2340.86)
* Now making $570/week on Gratipay! New goal is $1K/week
Second Internet Line
* Jenny checking with Sonic.net about a second line
Backspace Proposal
Consensus on the backspace proposal:
- As long as this is a 3 month trial period we agree to the proposal,
with the following amendments:
- backspace does not take the downstairs room and pays $750 per month
instead.
- backspace has no special privilege over any other member collective
in accessing or regulating access to common space.
- In addition: sudo room feels that backspace, being a for-profit
renting private space, should be a tenant and not a member collective but
we can discuss this over the next three months.
Conflict Resolution
- Update on conflict with ban of person that Pigeon asked us to ban.
Referred to as J.
- Korl and Liz are finishing up an interview with one more person and
they are leaning toward proposing a lift of the provisional ban of J we
passed at a meeting earlier this month.
- Korl and Liz are very interested in preventing blind solidarity
(which seemed likely to occur unless someone spoke up),
especially without
having both sides of the story, and as much information as
possible. We are
also keen on working to help set a fair precident for situations
like this;
that both sides of a story/ incedent are sought out by an
objective party,
before Any decisions are made, to prevent social bias and blind
solidarity.
- Important aspects: None of the people involved in the conflict are
members of the Omni, and the conflict happened three years ago.
This issue
was brought up by a person who is not part of the Omni and has been known
to act untrustworthily and dishonestly, within the greater community.
- Juul proposes a 1 month ban of person who was using a knife to attempt
to open the omni door and when confronted was super rude, calling one of
our members a bitch. Person was drunk. Juul and others kicked this person
out yesterday and told him that him he was banned until it could be brought
up at todays meeting where he could show up. He looked disheveled and was
holding a can of beer but seemed otherwise reasonable and attempted to
defend his attempt at opening the door as trying to demonstrate a security
problem and said he wished to apologize to the person he was rude to.
- Remote-Jenny votes yes on ban.
- One abstention, rest approve. Passes.
- Need to take a picture.
- Proposal: Temporary Ban of Chris B (unspecified duration) for being in
"bad standing" with regard to sudo room's values, specifically in
disregarding the needs of the sudo room and omni communities with his use
of the space above the stage (aka "crow's nest" aka "man cave"), as well as
often attempting to sleep in the space, despite warnings, confrontations,
and a clear expectation of it not being permitted.
- During the BACH Unconference, Mitch Altman found Chris B sleeping
under a sign in the basement that read "No Sleeping".
- Amendment and consensus: Any further sleeping by ChrisB at Omni
will result in an immediate temporary ban.
Notes recorded for posterity at:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-10-29
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
The Sudo Room general membership is cordially invited to begin nominating
new Board Members 21 days from now. I will send a reminder. This
announcement is just a legal thing. Beep blop.
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From: Lesley Bell <zvezdalune(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?
To: Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>
You're right Vicky. The flyer has been changed--it is, after all, better
to make death obsolete than the remembrance of it, although some people
believe that technological resurrection may be possible someday.
Also, no one brought it up, but I realized it could be possible that the
very Halloween-ish nature of the event could be somewhat offensive. People
who are perceived to be using technology in way that transgresses the
traditionally accepted human form are very much discriminated against, e.g.
Steve Mann's attack in France. I've been called a "cyborg freak," and
"autistic" for my wearable tech experimentation. I hoped to address this
perceived uncanniness of these technologies through the playful "cyborg
zombie" invitation, but I understand that that could be very offensive to
some people questioning their primate-body-identities who have been
harassed or attacked because of other people's fear.
This has been an interesting discussion. I appreciate all of your feedback
very much.
Here's the new flyer. Peace everyone!
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Lesley, I want to clarify that my intention wasn't to put you down,
> but rather to suggest an alternative.
>
> I also wanted to say that I grew up somewhere where the holiday was more
> something that everyone celebrated, so I can maybe empathize with how you
> may feel coming here to the Bay where there is more tension around the
> holiday.
>
> 2014-10-28 13:04 GMT-07:00 Max B <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com>:
>
> +1 thanks Vicky!
>>
>> On October 28, 2014 12:25:51 PM PDT, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lesley,
>>>
>>> I would strongly suggest a language change to the flyer.
>>>
>>> The flyer currently asks: "What would Nov. 1 look like if Dia de los
>>> Muertos was obsolete?" For me, Día de los Muertos is a day to immortalize
>>> my loved ones who have passed away. Given this sentiment, the idea of it
>>> becoming "obsolete" doesn't make sense to me. Also, I'm certain you don't
>>> mean it this way, but I feel like it even borders on judgmental, like it
>>> brushes off that sentiment and the immortality of the event itself. I would
>>> suggest language that asks how Día de los Muertos might be reimagined in a
>>> futurist framework. Does that make sense?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Vicky
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
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>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>
>>>
>
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Lesley Bell
432-266-0397
zvezdalune(a)gmail.com
<http://lesleybell.com>
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Lesley Bell
432-266-0397
zvezdalune(a)gmail.com
<http://lesleybell.com>
Hi sudo-discuss,
I've been doing some poking around looking into police accountability in
the US... seems like one major stumbling block is a lack of public access
to police data. Here in Oakland, it looks like OPD has a ton of data on use
of force and complaints that could be de-identified and made available to
the public, used in data visualizations, etc. -- but isn't. (Not that OPD's
data should be the only data source in investigating accountability, but I
figure it's a start. Also it looks like *some* of this data is available,
but it's a super limited subset + kind of all over the place)
Recently I requested some data through RecordTrac
<http://records.oaklandnet.com>, chatted with the public records request
coordinator... just kind of curious about what would happen and how it
worked. A lot of the OPD requests I saw on RecordTrac received PDF
documents as responses -- but OPD is entering this stuff electronically
AFAIK; you'd think a structured dataset would be easier to produce if
anything.
Anyway, I'm wondering if other people on this list are interested in this
stuff, have suggestions, thoughts, etc. It seems like there should be a
coordinated effort out there working on work on this, but I haven't found
one (?)
Thanks!
Any sudo-ers know how to burn a screen? I kind of do, but have these
three stretched screens and want to use at least one of them for our
library project
(https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/libraries/submissions/the-library-f…).
See the image in the link.
Please let me know, will pay back in delicious and healthy take out food.
<3,
A
Hi all,
The restauranteur who let us take the compressor and condenser for our
upstairs walkin fridge, has offered to let us dissassemble another walk-in
at another of his restaurants in SF that he is remodelling -- IF we do it
asap.
He wants us to come tomorrrow - I realize this is probably too soon for us
to organize properly, but I would like a crew of Omniers to be able to do
it perhaps the day after tomorrow.
This would be perfect for a walk-in in the basement kitchen, so that it can
be a more professional woking kitchen that can help pay us and FNB back for
the money we are spending fixing it up. This has been part of the plan for
the basement kitchen since the beginning, so this is amazing and great! It
could go either into the room by the furnaces or part of the current larger
pantry along shattuck.
To disassemble this beast I think ideally we want at least four people, as
well as Carl from People's Refridgeration to disconnect the compressor
properly and remove the refridgerant. We will also want someone who know
how to safely cap off the electrical and plumbing.
We also want to bring several drills, an anglegrinder, the fien saw, a full
hex key set and set of wrenches, and electrical tools. - there are lots
and lots of screws.
Last time, Alice was an unstoppable force of nature who told us how to
disassemble it all and did most of the heavy lifting herself. This time
around, if Alice is free, it would be best if Alice directed us and others
did most of the work. Alice really went all-out last time on our behalf and
we need to do this ourselves.
The restauranteur also has lots of chairs and tables that we could use in
La Commune, which is awesome, plus lots of other stuff / infrastructure..
David
