Apparently I am our landlord's new preferred liaison. He called my
phone at 10:45 tonight and complained at length about the common area.
Specifically, he said the pews need to go by the end of the month. He
says he never gave permission for them, and he's hated them from the
beginning. He also suggested they be donated to the Joshua Christian
Church in West Oakland which was apparently smashed up by a car last
week. He said if they're not gone by the end of the month he will
remove them himself, possibly by bludgeoning them into pieces and
carrying the pieces to a dumpster.
I did not say yes or no. It was very hard to get a word in edgewise,
but I repeated several times, "I cannot speak for sudoroom. I will
relay your message to the group. Thank you for letting us know."
For context, the common area is actually cleaner today than it's been
in almost two weeks. To be perfectly honest, the timing tells me that
he's been stewing in frustration for quite a while. I think seeing a
moderate improvement gave him some clarity in terms of what he wants.
Frankly we've abused his flexibility about the common area. The pews
do encourage people to act irresponsibly, to forget we are guests out
there, to neglect to clean up after events, to turn it into a garbage
dump. By evicting the pews he's saying the party's over, stay in the
area you're paying for, unless you want to pay for the rest of it. He
did offer to quote us on the full square footage of the common area,
if we want...
It didn't have to be this way. If it was just the pews, I think he'd
deal. But he sees them as a slippery slope, a gateway to an overall
sense of entitlement beyond what he owes us, and I can't say I'm
surprised.
keypad update: with new self-healing improvements has just set record
uptime at 30 hours. i am monitoring this. the problem is that rpi sometimes
chokes and the arduino comes up as a different usb device. so i constantly
scan and to find the right usb device. an issue is that the rfid needs to
be usb0 so it has to grab that first, and normally does in every instance
ive seen it (unless the pyshical usb order gets switched).
hi everyone,
we are at the meeting and have been discussing the status of our various
door access mechanisms. as we were discussing them, we realized that we
were partly in a fog of unknowing. so this email is a request for
information on the status of our different mechanisms:
- door.sudoroom.org: FUNCTIONAL
- rfid: unfunctional this morning - unclear function now
- keypad: unfunctional this morning, functional this evening: WHY? =O
- buzzer: unfunctional this morning, functional after jordan logged in
and restarted the mouseread daemon.
for folks who are working on these systems, it would be great if you could
let the list know what the known issues are with these systems, where we're
at, and what work needs to be done. please consider this an open thread for
updates on the status of our access systems.
thanks!
marina
July 3 2013
*=Attending= *
Jenny, Jordan, Ray, Ryan, Timon, Marina, Bilal, Sara
*=Introductions=*
- Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)
- Icebreaker: your favorite form of transportation & the future of
transportation!
*=Announcements (Consent Agenda)=*
- This Saturday TIL: July 6: GIT Version Control for Non Coders
(Writers, Lawyers, everyone!)
- Planning meeting for Summer School in concert with the Public School!
- The organizing committee is having a meeting on July 11th at 6pm.
- Sudo Bike - ask Matt about borrowing it for a set period of time, or
for donations to "Sudo Bike"
- Every Monday 7pm: LOL / Oakland Makerspace Open Hack Night (1234 23rd
Avenue)
- Every Thurs. at 7PM: Oakland Wiki meetup! http://www.oaklandwiki.org
- Every Thurs. at 8:30pm: Mesh Networking meetup:
http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
- Next BACH Event: Third Saturdays, next is 7/20, 6pm at Hacker Dojo -
http://ba.chgrp.org
- RADIO!!!! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_Radio
- sign-ups
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodDVaZnJ4TW1ndC1jd1…
- Regular check-in between The Public School and Sudo Room - Thursday
evening Supper Club potlucks starting at 6
*= ACTION ITEMS =
*
*Old Action Items:*
- Access & Security:
- Document process for editing access codes & whether it's possible to
have temporary access codes (Andrew)
- state of the camera - web access, recording, access to camera computer
- Has a local drive storing video, needs to make a remote setup
-
http://faustsstudy.blogspot.com/2013/06/sudoroom-perimeter-security.html
- The Overhead Light In The Entryway - Timon will notify George
- The Trees Across The Street
- the parking deck next door
- SpaceAPI to indicate space open/closed [Jenny talked to Morten and
Ian, they are working on it]
- Community outreach:
- Youth curriculum (Ray)
- Packet game
- VoxelJS
- Public Terminal
- Security workshop (Bill)
- spreadsheet of churches & schools (Jenny):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMj…
- POSTPONED - Jenny to call bank to find out about online access
- Add calendar [2141broadway.wordpress.com] to Infobot's screensaver
[Max]
- Update calendar for common space [Jenny] -
http://2141broadway.wordpress.com
- Update events protocol:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fyHwH-O_tMEW3c01HvHbmAHDqj6aD2DSDmpdtM_…
with Mika from Public School]
- Ask Ryan to put up the logo designs on the wiki [Jenny] DONE
*New Action Items:*
- Intro to MC Hawking? - https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noise-Bot
- Intro to new 3D printer computer? - What is the software that's on the
new computer?
- New TIL topic for July 13
- Library
- Books on pew? - list emailed about it
- Catalog - Max
- Move more books inside Sudoroom
- Add to the Sudo Room Neighborhood Outreach spreadsheet and take on a
few to reach out to:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMj…
- Unfuck the Raspi for door access! (RFID and keypad both intermittantly
down)
- allow comments in tamale secrets file (jordan)
*Postponed*:
- Add robots.txt for sudo room (open item for anyone to take on) MATT
(out of town)
- [Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George
- Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1
-troy
- git-ify & flow-diagram-ify our articles
*=Fiscal Solvency=*
''*In this section we review our current financial situation and budget,
approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.*''
Exchequer: Marina
Co-Facilitator:
- We paid our rent! We had ~$2,400 in the account before we paid the
rent.
- +300 to be deposited from the lockbox
- Marina and Bill are now on the bank account
- Marina received an email setup thing from the bank, but it didn't
work. Bill never got one. Marina will call the bank to GET SOME ANSWERS.
- Documentation: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_room/banking (out of
date?)
** Pay your dues :)*
* Review and consensus process:
** Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2…
** Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
**Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30
people)
*=Amendments to the Articles of Association=*
*=Conflict Resolution=*
*=Discussion Spillover=*
- desire for folks to help with sudo kids
- we are looking for people to help do activities (we have only been
doing clay and radio so far) on tuesday nights. do you have an idea for
something you'd like to do with kids? if so, contact ray or marina.
- join sudo kids list:
- desire for folks to help with radio
- we are starting to get shows booked! are you interested in helping
train people, book shows, generally expand the radio program? if
so, please
contact marina!
- space.sudo/music is down!
- this also affects sudo radio as mixxx, our dj software, typically
connects to the music server and seems to not want to do
anything when the
server is down.
- access & membership
- proposal to use the following membership/access procedure:
- tell people to sign up to become members on our site:
https://sudoroom.org/membership/
- when people sign up, they should come to the space where a member will:
- check the results of the membership sign-up form to ensure that the
person is on there:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3…
- the membership sign-up form results are on the last tab of our fiscal
solvency sheet!
- give them a code for door.sudoroom.org
- let them know that if there are any problems, that the code can be
revoked
- let them know about dues, the sliding scale, and different ways to
contribute (sudoroom.org, gittip, via check or cash in the dropbox (show
location of the dropbox) or during wednesday meetings).
- give them instructions on how to open and close the space.
- invite them to listservs and wednesday night meetings
- give them logins for wordpress site & wiki (not everyone knows how to
do this)
- Need to do:
- Give existing sudoers ability to add pw's for new people. Jordan is
working on adding commenting to the txt file that houses our list of pw's.
Once this is done,
- We currently have no way to track or report who pays, etc. Is this ok?
If not, we need solutions.
- If you want to work on membership management solutions, check out this
repo: https://github.com/substack/sudo-members
- A number of folks have signed up to be members but it's unclear
whether they have had any follow-up or come by the space. we've updated the
info on the page that confirms that someone completed the form completely
to let people know that they should come to the space, but should we
contact the folks who have already signed up?
*=Post-Meeting Groups=*
- Clean fridge so compost can go tonight -DDDDOOOONNNEEEE
- KEEP THINGS CLEAN PEOPLE
Hey all,
Leaving Berlin tomorrow and heading to London for a few days (first
Cambridge for one), then Paris for some more.
Found some cool spaces to check out, looking for places to crash! Any one
think they know someone with a couch in these locations?
Cheers,
Matt
