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by Yardena Cohen

This was meant to get sent out after Wednesday's meeting. Sorry it took so long. In short, we are coming close to filing Sudoroom as a California corporation. We want to do this as consensually and horizontally as possible, but also soon. As in, the next few weeks. Let this e-mail thread be your official opportunity to lobby objections, concerns and desires. Here is some background for clarity, and some homework. PROFIT vs NON-PROFIT: this is the distinction that gets talked about most often, but actually seems to be the most remote/non-issue question right now. 501 (c3, c5, c*) is a chapter of the Federal IRC, meaning it ONLY relates to Federal income taxes. You ask the IRS to recognize you, and they take a few years to start letting you keep your money. But we're NOT AT THIS STAGE YET because legally we DON'T even EXIST YET. INCORPORATION: this is how you exist. It is not a federal process - you ask your U.S. State to recognize you. Each state does it a little differently. Generally the old traditional type of corporation is a C-Corp, and newer types are LLC and B-Corp. This is something we all need to learn more about! We need to decide the pros and cons of each type. That is our homework assignment #1. WRITING OUR ARTICLES: when we file papers we will have to submit Articles/Bylaws. This will be a legal document describing who we are and what the terms and rules of our incorporation are. It is OPEN-ENDED meaning very hackable but also intimidating. It's been proposed that we use Noisebridge's articles as a starting point and edit them to our liking to make them most Sudo-appropriate. It's on our wiki now: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Bylaws_in_progress Reading, understanding, and hacking at this document is homework assignment #2! MEMBERSHIP: observant readers will note incorporation implies there are "owners." We have to figure out once and for all how to decide membership. This is it, folks. Time for us all to step up and ask "who the fuck are we?" So, in summary, the next steps are: 1) Decide on LLC vs C vs B Corp 2) Write articles/bylaws to file with 3) who the fuck are we?

11 years, 3 months

Need video editor to chop and polish this "Tour of Sudo" video we shot.

by Max Klein

Videophiles, here is the file: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_jq7klTEotEQXdMYTVOandHT0E/edit?usp=sharing Would like to: - cut out the embarassing bits - make it short - adjust colours - make some sort of effect every time I rip a poster off the wall. - upload to youtube Are you the video-guru that would like to take on this project? Do-ocracy by all means. -notconfusingly, Max

11 years, 3 months

Fwd: Tech Forum October 24

by Eddan Katz

Thoughts and suggestions on discussion topics for an Oakland Technology Policy Forum 10/24 much appreciated. > From: "bryan" <bryan(a)bryanparker.org> > Date: October 4, 2013, 4:44:47 PM PDT > To: eddan(a)eddan.com > > We are pulling together a tech forum to study the question of what would be needed in terms of infrastructure, marketing, resources, etc to drive a real tech sector in Oakland. Additionally, what are the restraints on this happening? > We were thinking 6-8 on 10/24. Policy discussion only, no politics. We have invited a group of tech professionals, capital providers and other thought leaders in the field. We think Oakland can make particular strides in the areas of Clean /Green tech and digital media. > Please let me know your thoughts. > > Best, > > Bryan

11 years, 3 months

Poetry Laboratorio: Filip Marinovich presents Emerging Work from Occupy Wall Street

by Romy＠snowyla.com

This is my former housemate from NYC ... He was a librarian and a poet at occupy... Reminds me of our resident poet Troy who is also our librarian !!! Any poetry readings at sudoroom ?? Check out this video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/IN9DcF7ayhc Sent from my iPad

11 years, 3 months

Fwd: government shut down & open web

by Eddan Katz

sent from eddan.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Harter <farrington(a)gmail.com> > Date: October 4, 2013, 9:39:32 AM PDT > To: "netpolicy(a)mozilla.org" <Netpolicy(a)mozilla.org> > Subject: government shut down & open web > > As you may already know many US government websites have shuttered, so to speak, as a result of the budget shut down. Reminds me of how Internet freedom issue campaigns have rallied attention by altering or closing websites. > > Seems to me that this moment is a possible opportunity for Mozilla to educate the public about the importance of the open Web and how it is all around us every day. > > During the previous shut down in the mid 90s people became fed up with a lack of access to government services such as visas for overseas travel. I don't know if it was a simple pressure point of very wealthy and well connected people that got fed up with Newt Gingrich and wanted to have their vacations to go forward. But that is one of the anecdotes one heard at the time. > > Do people that care about the open Web care at all about a lack of access to government websites? > > For example, people do care about a lack of access to national parks and how that disrupts their vacations, ruins the income to businesses dependent on those parks and pushes those workers into poverty and onto government assistance. > > Is there an example that we can think of to make a similar cascading deprivation narrative connecting the shut down of government websites to a broader impact that burdens us all? > > This I think would help underscore the point that Harvey made to me a year ago or so -- that the open Web needs to be a regular part of a kitchen table conversation, akin to what it took or many to move clean air out of the environmentalist extremes and into the very mainstream. > > I can't say that the shut down of the US government is that tipping point for the open Web. > > But since we've all seen the shuttering of websites as a timeworn tactic for two decades now, I thought I should raise it with you all here for contemplation and for discussion perhaps during the Mozilla Summit. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Netpolicy mailing list > Netpolicy(a)mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/netpolicy

11 years, 3 months

2141 Broadway Co-Op?

by Andrew

I haven't been around all that much, but am I correct to assume that the current situation is that: 1. Sudo Room's current lease ends Jan 1st 2. George is willing to sell off part of 2141 to a group of investors? If this is so. Let's talk 2141 Co-Op. *Is there anyone on this list who would be at all interested in owning part of a building in the middle of Downtown Oakland*?? Sudo Room or not, this is a great opportunity for a collective to turn some extremely prime real estate in to a commercial Co-Op. Just wanted to bring attention to this. Thoughts? -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 http://roshambomedia.com

11 years, 3 months

FIRST FRIDAY SUDO CRAWL

by Liberty Madison

FIRST FRIDAY ANYONE? Why wonder around alone or even worse not attend First Friday? Come to Sudo for a First Friday Crawl. If you have never been to Sudo this is an excellent time to stop in! 6p-7p POP UP Orientation & Tour (Pop in to learn more or to introduce a new ideas) 7p - Sudo First Friday Crawl WHY? Last month a few Sudoers headed out to enjoy the festivities and I was about to meet a number of hackers from So Cal who never heard of Sudo Room and convinced them to take a tour, they did! Loved it and the word is spreading! Lets continue to connect with the community so we can continue to be an open creative space in the community. **OPEN TO - ALL HACKERS FROM SUDO ROOM, NOISEBRIDGE, FREESPACE,ANY HACKERSPACE, ANY NON HACKERSPACE, THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A HACKERSPACE, MEMBERS, NON MEMBERS, GIRLS, BOYS, BIRDS, DOGS, TALL PEOPLE, TATTOOED PEOPLE...SO YOU GET THE POINT! JUST COME OUT & HANG OUT! SO COME ALONE COME WITH A FRIEND IT DOES NOT MATTER** COST- FREE (First Friday does not charge a fee to enjoy the art) TEXT / OR CALL if you are coming or running late. I will not be checking EMAIL 415.937.3785 Text/Talk About.me/LibertyMadison <http://about.me/LibertyMadison> #ThatTechGirl <http://www.instagram.com/LibertyMadison> is @LibertyMadison<http://www.twitter.com/libertymadison> Founder and Host @LifewTechnology <http://www.twitter.com/lifewtechnology>:Translating Tech </to> Talk OPRAH.com Next TV Show Host TOP 40 Finalist www.LibertyMadison.com<http://www.libertymadison.com/>

11 years, 3 months

Sat. 10/5 at 2PM: Today I Learned: Follow the Money!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Join us tomorrow (10/5) at 2PM at Sudo Room for *Today I Learned: Follow the Money*! We'll be covering economics and the growth and control of money in today's society. Topics covered will include the effect of taxation on economic growth, the flow of money control via commercial banks, insurance companies, and other financial intermediaries. Finally we will cover how the flow of global money affects our federal, state and local economies. More on the event. *This workshop is part of the series “Today I Learned,” a series of free workshops that take place every Saturday at 2PM at Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Check out the full schedule at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned and please forward widely.*

11 years, 3 months

2 upcoming city/tech events: PlanningCamp & CityCamp

by Marina Kukso

Hi all, There are two upcoming events at the intersection of "doing good stuff"/cities/tech: - Oct 12th: http://planningcamp.org/ ($15) - Nov 9th: http://citycampoak.org/ (free) You should go! Marina

11 years, 3 months

POC zine project - Race Riot Tour 2013

by amber yada

Super excited for this, been waiting over a year! October 19th in San Francisco: http://www.somarts.org/raceriot/ More on the POC Zine Project here: http://poczineproject.tumblr.com/ -amber -- *Animator Mama You-Tube Channel<http://www.youtube.com/user/videocabulary/videos?view=0> * *Animator Mama on Tumblr <http://animatormama.tumblr.com/>*

11 years, 3 months

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