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by Marc Juul

Hi everysudoer For those of you who don't already know, sudo room is aiming to incorporate as a california non-profit, with the long-term goal of reaching 501(c)3 status. For now, we're working out Articles of Incorporation. These are based mostly on Noisebridge's Articles of Incorporation: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Incorporation In reading this, it may surprise people to see all of this talk of a board of directors and hierarchical structures. Most, if not all of this is required by law ( this law: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=corp ) and we can safely ignore it in the day to day running of our hackerspace. Instead of trying to explain, I will quote Mitch Altman responding to the question "What is the management structure [of Noisebridge] like?": "There isn't any. The official line is that we're an anarchist collective but the reality is that it's more of a web of trust model, with the usual elements of feudalism that crystallize out of any anarchic group. There's a board that appoints officers who technically have executive authority with regards to the space, but the reality is that if any of them actually exercised power they'd get thrown out. For certain things, like insurance, taxes, and our nonprofit filings, they have duties but those are invisible to the day-to-day operations." So, the important thing to remember is that these Articles of Incorporation allow the members to throw out any director who abuses their power. We will then go on to define how our day to day space is run outside of the articles of incorporation (e.g. in our bylaws). The power of a majority of the members to remove directors is defined in 7.6.c.2: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Incorporation#c._Removal_of_Directors If we want to tweak the Noisebridge articles of incorporation at all, I believe that the following are most in need of editing: * Article 3 - This is about our purpose and values. We can and should more or less freely change 3.1 and 3.2, but 3.3 should remain unchanged. * Article 6.1 - A member is proposed for membership by one existing member. Do we want to change this to two? * The Articles talk about how the board can fix fees for the members to pay, but we are almost certainly interested in letting members pay for their membership with work, by putting in time instead of money. I don't think we can put this into our articles of incorporation for two reasons: 1. The California Corporations code specifically says that the board may levy dues, but says nothing about levy'ing anything in place of dues: "5351. A corporation may levy dues, assessments or fees upon its members pursuant to its articles or bylaws, but a member upon learning of them may avoid liability for them by promptly resigning from membership, except where the member is, by contract or otherwise, liable for them. Article or bylaw provisions authorizing such dues, assessments or fees do not, of themselves, create such liability." http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=corp&group=05001-0600… 2. I'm worried that we may count as an employer if we give out membership in return for work, which may subject us to a whole set of other laws. However, I am not a lawyer. Keep it mind that "membership" for the purposes of the articles of incorporation only refers to the right to vote on things related to the board and articles of incorporation. So we could fix this by simply defining additional membership in our bylaws that define the more important things, such as being part of decision-making at our weekly meetings and 24/7 access to the space, and defining a membership fee in the bylaws that can be substituted by putting in work. We then simply have the directors set an official membership fee of 0. The only weirdness with this solution: It would be easier to become a member in the eyes of the articles of incorporation (requiring only trust of another member) than it would be to become a member in the eyes of the bylaws. -- Marc/Juul

10 years, 11 months

Crypto Meetup

by Windsor Schmidt

I'd like to post a copy of this Sunday's crypto meetup flyer here at my workplace, but I left my physical copy at home. Can someone direct me to a printable version online, or send me one at this address? Thanks, -Windsor

10 years, 11 months

Fwd: [OpenOakland Brigade] Oakland is hiring a CIO

by Marina Kukso

#maxogden4cio just saying! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Stiles <adam(a)stiles.io> Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:29 PM Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] Oakland is hiring a CIO To: openoakland <openoakland(a)googlegroups.com> Oakland is hiring a CIO bit.ly/H0hTJS <http://t.co/AeXnr3LTVs> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenOakland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAMKatgcWdR0kWvtL_YMkCHNfdG2w… . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Articles of Incorporation

by Yardena Cohen

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net> wrote: > Perhaps it was purposely > distributed just before the meeting and not before then so that those who > did not send the email would have had less of a chance to review it? Eddan, did you read Marc's link? http://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2013-October/003910.html I sent that email 12 days ago! Frankly, I'm tired of waiting on incorporation any more. I am thankful to Marc for helping us move forward. I respect the desire to find more radical horizontal legal hacks but the truth is, even being a regular corp would not make us any worse-off than we are NOW, where we have a DBA, bank account, lease and trifling assets in the legal names of a handful of people with no accountability other than the goodness of their hearts. IMO, we'd actually be closer to horizontal than now, as bizarre as that sounds. We'd also be generally more likely to exist at all, given that incorporation is the bottleneck for a wide variety of solutions to problems that damage our community with every week of not being solved. Which brings me to my other point: no amount of legalese in the world will make up for souring human relationships. With respect to the horror stories of orgs being slyly pwnd by white-collar embezzlement because of loopholes in their bylaws, it is vastly more likely that sudoroom would get pwnd by more informal, intangible problems like our board having poor skills at empathy, communication and listening. I am not indulging any fantasies about us turning Founding Father and overcoming our differences via parliamentary intrigue. If we can't work together on a simple document over several weeks, then this is pointless.

10 years, 11 months

Fwd: [CCL] uh, why can't we get in on this action?

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cere Mona Davis <ceremona(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:03 PM Subject: [CCL] uh, why can't we get in on this action? To: cclabs <counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/oaklands-plan-to-become… -- Best Regards, Cere Davis ceremona(a)gmail.com ------------------- GPG Key: http://taffy.findpage.com/~cere/pubkey.asc GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88 73FC A9E6 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Counter Culture Labs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to counterculturelabs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Wont make it to morning math

by Thomas Fitzpatrick

Didn't sleep tonight.

10 years, 11 months

Fwd: EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE PRESENTS "HIP HOP IS BIGGER THAN THE OCCUPATION"

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, please forward this message to invite folks to this screening on Saturday. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nancy Mansour-Leigh <shadiamanagement(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:08 PM Subject: EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE PRESENTS "HIP HOP IS BIGGER THAN THE OCCUPATION" To: "eir-organizers(a)googlegroups.com" <eir-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> Peace all, please please if you can, share with your lists....all the support we have been shown so far is so amazing and I cannot thank you enough..... Existence is Resistance has finally made it to the West Coast and we are screening our documentary "Hip Hop Is Bigger Than The Occupation" at SUDO Room THIS SATURDAY (additional screening locations below). *View Trailer: http://youtu.be/PGvP0OREI2E* *Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/594600013935599/?source=1* Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation is a documentary about a ten day journey of artists traveling through Palestine, teaching and performing nonviolent resistance through the arts. The tour included M1 of Dead Prez, Shadia Mansour, Marcel Cartier, Mazzi of Soul Purpose, DJ Vega Benetton, Lowkey, Jody McIntyre and Trinidad, Brandon and Lavie from the South West Youth Collaborative/University of Hip Hop Chicago. Staying in the heart of Balata Refugee Camp at the Yafa Cultural Center in Nablus the group witnesses night raids, toured places like Hebron where there are roads for the Arabs and roads for the Jews, they meet families of shaheeds as well as young Palestinians who have been jailed, shot and humiliated. The group visits Bi’lin where they get shot at and tear gassed and experience first hand what it felt like living under occupation. *Saturday October 19, 2013* *SUDO ROOM : 2141 Broadway St, Oakland, California 94612* * * *7PM - 8.30PM - FILM SCREENING * *8.30PM - 10PM - Q & A AND PANEL DISCUSSION W/: Harrabic Tubman, Co-Founder, Existence Is Resistance Shango Aviola - Black Riders Liberation Party - Oakland Sanyika Bryant - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - Oakland Ziad Abbas - Middle East Childrens Alliance (TBC)* *Fransisco Garcia - GUPS SF State * https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/tentative-hip-hop-is-bigger -than-the-occupation-documentary-artists-in-palestine/?instance_id=71344<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsudoroom.org%2Fai1ec_event%2…> There will be additional screenings at the following locations in the event you cannot make Saturdays: *Friday, October 18, 2013* *3.30PM (Screening and Q&A)* *Masjid Waritheen* *1702 47th Ave* *Oakland, CA 94601* *Monday, October 21, 2013* *6.30PM (Screening and Q&A)* *UC Berkeley** * *132 Boalt Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720*

10 years, 11 months

mtg mns oct sxt

by Max Klein

*https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommaintenance ==Attendance / Icebreaker== *Icebreaker: should i stay or should i go Present: marc, matt, eddan, miguel, max, jordan, danny, ==announcements== *public schule general meeting tommorow 530 - '''we have concensed that if there are no objections accompanied by an alternative set of article of assocition within a week that we will use the articles of association marc has proposed to drive to sacramento and get incorporated''' ==articles of incorporation== marc is proposing a modified form of noisebridges articles of incorporation. finer points ===board of directors=== we can kick them out by majority vote thinking of ways to have them be officious but without too much dictator powers *Alternatives proposed **Term limited stop gap board **Charade board "cardboard cut out", only do bare minimum. (liked by peeps) **No fundraising =====board action==== the four things that are necessary for a board action are: *meeting *notice *quorum *voting ===decision making=== board would decide by consensus n-1 a certain number of nonboard members would have to be at every board session for quourum with no executive session ===profit donations records funding=== this has to be non-profit, what activities are precluded for that? start-ups. maybe peeps are not ok with that. ===federal tax status=== we will do 501c* and decide the wildcard later ===articles of association by laws=== we need by laws and they could be based on articles of association should include *exclude board members from voting in recall *require open meetings *have some number of nonvoting member *no exec session ===risk assessment=== there will power in a few people, can this be stemmed by cultural norms and ease to ===insurance=== from the noisebridge copypasta ===articles 6.1=== who becomes members? noisebridge says one person has to vouch you~ or application process ===articles 3=== this is noisbridge copypasta plus our values from articles of association

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Film Hacking : Hack A Film in a Day - OCT 20 Sunday at SudoRoom 9AM-4PM

by Liberty Madison

Niki! Thanks for hacking it out! That works for me! Ill message you directly Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note™, an AT&T LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Film Hacking : Hack A Film in a Day - OCT 20 Sunday at SudoRoom 9AM-4PM From: niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> To: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> CC: Re: [sudo-discuss] Film Hacking : Hack A Film in a Day - OCT 20 Sunday at SudoRoom 9AM-4PM Hey Liberty, We do have language classes scheduled on Sundays at the Public School but they don't start until noon (not sure how long you were anticipating this might run). Let me know if it would be helpful at all to have use of our room from 9am-12pm. Niki On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Liberty et al; Given that the Cryptoparty has been scheduled for this coming afternoon (I'm making an announcement shortly but it has been on the calendar for weeks), I'd like to ask that you either rent one of the side rooms (or the front room) for this event or see about borrowing the Public School's room. Though we haven't done much of a promotional push for this particular Cryptoparty, they tend to be quite popular and bring in a sizeable number of people. In the future, I'd like to request that people please check both the Common Space calendar (http://2141broadway.wordpress.com) and the Sudo Room calendar (http://sudoroom.org/calendar) and contact the organizers of potential concurrent events before scheduling an event at the same time. Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Liberty Madison <liberty(a)libertymadison.com> wrote: FILM HACKING! Video and Film is no longer left in the hands of filmmakers. Anyone with access to Technology is a filmmaker! Are you tired of watching YouTube and not having your own work featured on YouTube? Perhaps you have a great idea and just need it to come to life? Need a video to explain your cause, project, mission, or start up? ALL ideas are welcome and we will hack them! WHY: Because hackers hack! We are in the digital space and nothing is more relevant that telling a story in a digital format WHEN: October 20, 2013 at 9am (can leave when you are done no time restrictions) WHERE: SudoRoom 2141 Broadway Oakland CA USA (Exit 19th Street Bart and walk up 2 blocks) WHO: Digital Media Hackers, Open to all levels of experience, Actor, Editors, Models, Screenwriters, Make up, Comedians, Dogs, etc EVERYONE WHAT TO BRING: Bring your cameras, editing laptops, audio equipment, extra battery, scripts, whatever, props, IDEAS, or just bring yourself! GOAL: You will have a searchable YouTube video for the world Tech Founder Tim Bull at Film in A Day San Francisco! AND ONE OF MY FAVES! Tech Giant Tim Bull is amazing in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELlPsjpi-gs SEE THE HACKS WE HAVE WORKED ON! http://libertymadison.com/film-hacking-hack-a-film-in-a-day/ RSVP https://filmhacking.eventbrite.com/?ref=estwenivtefor001 SUDO Calendar https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/film-hacking-hack-a-film-in-a-day/?instanc… PLEASE PASS ALONG - EVERYONE IS WELCOME AND INVITED _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

10 years, 11 months

Have a heart! - free pig hearts looking for adventurous carnivore

by Patrik D'haeseleer

I'm about to order some pig hearts for a science experiment form C&M Meats in Berkeley, but they won't deal with an order of less than five. So - anyone want a free pig heart? About the same size and shape as a human heart. Halloween is coming up. So is end of BBQ season - hint, hint... Also perfect for dissection classes! These hearts are food grade, but will be much more intact than what you might find at the butcher (what's called a "bio-heart" in the trade: arteries still attached, no slit through the chambers to let the blood drain, etc.) Come on, have a heart! Patrik

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