The following additions to the sudo room articles of association are
proposed. They are hereby announced an the mailing list and we will make a
decision on whether to adopt these additions at the sudo room meeting on
wednesday may 7th.
== Section 2.1b Process for becoming a member ==
* To become a member, a person must submit a brief written or spoken
Declaration of Intent to Join where they answer the following questions:
** Why do you want to be a member of sudo room?
** What are you excited about hacking at sudo room?
** What are you excited about sharing with sudo room?
* It is only possible to become a member at the weekly sudo room meeting.
Prospective new members should attend if possible but can submit a written
declaration if they are not able to attend.
* At the sudo room weekly meeting, all prospective members must leave the
room while the existing members have a chance to bring up any concerns or
reasons why the prospective member should not be allowed membership (This
shall be referred to as the Initial Pondering).
** The intent is for it to be very easy for new members to join, so only
very serious concerns should be brought up.
** If any existing member objects to a prospective new member becoming a
member, and this cannot be resolved through discussion, then the
prospective member will not be allowed membership.
** Unreasonable or frequent blocking of new members by an existing member
is grounds for immediate termination of membership based on a 2/3 vote.
* After the Initial Pondering, if there are no objections, the member
becomes a partial member, which means that they have all rights that
membership confers, except the following:
** The right to participate in decisionmaking at the sudo room weekly
meeting.
** The right to throw non-members or sleepers out of sudo room.
* Partial members must be introduced to sudo room's values and be given a
tour of the space after or during the sudo room weekly meeting where they
became partial members, of if they are not present, at their earliest
convenience.
* New partial members must be communicated to the sudo rooom mailing list
within 24 hours, including their Decleration of Intent to Join.
* After becoming a partial member, there will be one week for sudo room
members to raise objections as to why the partial member should not be
allowed to join (This shall be referred to as the Extended Pondering). If
objections occur and cannot be resolved through discussion, then the
partial member will loose their partial membership and they will be
refunded any paid memberships fees or dues.
* If after the Extended Pondering there are no unresolved objections, the
partial member automatically becomes a full member. No announcement of this
change of status is necessary.
= Article 5. Empowerment of members =
== Section 5.1 Non-member access ==
* To empower members to deal with problematic non-members:
** Any member may deny non-members access to sudo room assets (and require
the non-member in question to vacate the physical space) at any time, with
no reason given, unless some other member currently present in the space is
willing to vouch for the non-member in question as a guest.
** Before denying a non-member access (and requiring the non-member in
question to vacate the physical space), the member must ask both the
non-member and the members present in the space if any member is vouching
for the non-member as a guest.
** For a non-member, being denied access (and required to vacate the
physical space) is not a ban, and the non-member in question may return
after 12 hours.
== Section 5.2 Domestic Use ==
The bay area is in the throes of a housing crisis. Despite the abundance of
resources (space, buildings, etc), the distribution of those resources is
unfair. For many it can be costly and difficult to fulfill the basic human
need of shelter. However, sudo room, as a creative community and hacker
space, must maintain a division between habitation and usage of the space.
As such the following are resolved:
* Sudo room is not intended to be used for habitation or domestic purposes.
* No-one is allowed to sleep in sudo room at any time.
* Any member can require that anyone sleeping in sudo room must leave
immediately.
* Repeated sleeping at sudo room is grounds for being temporarily or
permanently denied access to sudo room's assets, including its physical
space.
Hey all,
I'm working on a series of upgrades for the website. Testing out a new
wordpress theme and event management / calendaring plugin on our
development site. Please take a look:
http://dev.sudoroom.org/
I plan to have www.sudoroom.org direct users to a landing page on this
site, with clear donation and calendar information, rather than directing
them to the wiki (as it does now).
I'll also need a few people to help migrate content, is anyone interested?
No coding skills required, just copying old event information into the new
event form so we can preserve the historical data.
// Matt
I had sent this out to the Omni Logistics group earlier. If anyone would
like me to go over any of this at the meeting this evening, let me know...
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:44 AM
Subject: Price calculations
To: omnilogistics(a)lists.riseup.net
Hi all,
I've fleshed out my rate calculations for $/sqft of dedicated space, and
for use of the shared space. Details are in my spreadsheet and on the wiki:
http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Building#Price.2FSq_Fthttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17DINigEczGwjfTdmdxl-MpYe1KJzJJDeCHR…
There's a lot of details, but in the end it boils down to (1) you pay a
fixed rate for any dedicated space you'd like to claim (including storage
space etc.), and (2) you pay some "share" towards use of the resources of
the shared space.
I know, this is a big departure from the "offer what you can afford, and
ask for whatever space you'd like" approach we've been taking so far. But I
do feel we need something like this, to make our pricing scheme fair and
transparent.
Two big discrepancies, when comparing with how much rent different groups
have pledged:
- The Cafe covers a large amount of high-quality space - and should be a
potential money-maker for the space. However, right now it's only penciled
in as contributing $1500 to the rent.
- Oakland Nights Live wants to host a large event in the Ballroom once a
month, but have only committed to $100 in rent so far.
I definitely don't want to pick on these two groups, and I would love to
see these be part of the Omni. But it does point out that we need to work
with them to make sure that what they propose makes financial sense as
well. E.g. If we put a bit more effort into fundraising during the Oakland
Nights Live events (even just asking for donations, and/or selling
T-shirts), there's no reason we couldn't make these self-sufficient.
Patrik
Things are happening very quickly and tonight's Sudoroom meeting is
going to be important. If you are interested in the process of our
move or reboot, or have feelings and opinions about any of it, coming
to this meeting would be a good idea.
Counter-Culture Labs will also be meeting at the same space and there
will be opportunities (like last week) for us to talk together about
the many details involved in potentially sharing the space at the
Omni.
P.S. Cross-posting to sudo-announce, but please only reply on sudo-discuss.
https://sudoroom.org/
We have a new calendar system that allows for booking events. This has
always been a struggle with sudo room activities. However, we have not yet
made the transition to this new system as we need a bit of volunteer help
to groom events from the old system.
Let me know if you could lend a hand.
// Matt
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [omnilogistics] [Critical Proposal] Omni Hackathon
To: omnilogistics(a)lists.riseup.net
Cc: omni-announce(a)lists.riseup.net
Hey all,
We'll discuss this proposal at the next Omni meeting on Thursday May 1
(technically starting at 6:30pm), but so far there no one has shared any
reasons not to go forward with:
Omni Hackathon
May 3 - 4 (Sat - Sun)
2141 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Please add to the agenda:
http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Event:2014/05/03_Omni_Hackathon
My original message explaining the situation:
We need to spend some serious in-person time on the various omni proposals.
> There are too many options, and we have done too little information sharing
> across all our groups.
>
> I'd like to discuss on this email thread, and at the next Omni meeting,
> that we throw an Omni Hackathon to collaborate with all of the
> member-groups and harmonize our various proposals (finance, space
> allocation, governance, etc). I'm suggesting we have no further luxury than
> holding the event:
>
> May 3 - 4 in the BAPS / Sudo common space.
>
See the calendar for more information: wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar
// Matt
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> Intelligence wrote:
>> > Live Space will have at least 1-2 people who can come to write and work
>> over the weekend. What hours are you all thinking about?
>> >
>> > mg
>> >
>>
>> Awesome! The common space at 2141 Broadway is free all weekend. We can
>> make lots of sudo mate <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/sudomate> and bring
>> snacks.
>>
>> The wiki event page is here to add topic suggestions and begin creating
>> an agenda:
>> http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Event:2014/05/03_Omni_Hackathon
>>
>> I've added a few topics and an agenda skeleton to get us started.
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Hi Everyone,
<http://localwiki.org/>
LocalWiki <http://localwiki.org>, the nonprofit that helps grow
community-based wikis like Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> (which
started and is based out of sudo), is moving. We're a very tiny nonprofit
(only two of us on staff) and we're looking for donated office space
(really just two desks).
If you know anyone with spare office space who might be interested in
hosting us, please contact us! We're pretty happy to go anywhere in the Bay
Area.
Best,
Marina Kukso
Managing Director, LocalWiki <http://localwiki.org>
i made a spreadsheet to calculate proportional cost sharing for a space
with private and common space:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AktkZZru71ymdEFUSUtCSnQ5TXFfaE…
anyone with the link above can edit the spreadsheet. please feel free to
make changes to get a feel for how it works, but put things back with undo
unless you've made improvements.
feel free to fork it by making your own copy of it, either on google drive
or by downloading it as a file and playing with it in a program such as
libreoffice.
the way it works is that you start by entering in the total monthly costs
that the omni collective is going to need to come up with. Like many
things in life, this number is something we can't directly control so we
enter it in as a given.
the next info we enter are the various rooms/spaces that we predict might
become sectioned off for non-common uses. We enter the dimensions or
square footage of those rooms and the other numbers change to reflect the
proportion of total space used by those rooms / subcollectives / groups.
the other thing we can adjust is the "percentage of costs shared equally"
because simply using the actual percentage of space that is not private
may not result in equitable costs-sharing among the groups. So while
actual percentage is calculated and displayed, the number we use to
calculate cost sharing is something you can type in whatever you want.
I put in 40% to see what it would come up with.
do you think this is helpful?
-jake
