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).
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.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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, DÃa 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 DÃa de los Muertos might be reimagined in a
>>> futurist framework. Does that make sense?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Vicky
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>
>>>
>
--
Lesley Bell
432-266-0397
zvezdalune(a)gmail.com
<http://lesleybell.com>
--
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
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