Inspiration - donating this book this year you write your move, by Walter Mosley
It's very good
Most writers I met in Berlin said they were working on their book but few finished. Always delighted when I found out someone actually did get their book done
Incidentally he is an African American mystery writer
Sent from my iPad
Hey Sudoers,
As of right now, tamale.sudoroom.org is deprecated - don't visit
unless you like SSL warnings. You can now control our inside & outside
doors from:
https://door.sudoroom.org/
Passwords will probably change soon as well. I've just gotten some
feedback that since this uses POST, it's no longer easy to directly
bookmark the "open door" page. Sorry for the regression and we'll find
a solution to that soon.
The list of money-bringing projects discussed in the last few meetings has
been migrated to the wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Idea
Please add your name next to projects that you are interested in working on
and/or spearheading.
Please add additional projects you're currently working on or are planning
to start working on.
- marina
Hi everyone,
I have an extra ticket for Maker Faire, good for either tomorrow or
Sunday. Would anyone like it? Original price $32, I'll accept best
offer made by 9am tomorrow.
cheers
Hilary
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Hilary Naylor
www.a2zed.us
Oakland CA
Watching this video, it seems to me that we could do an automated foosball
game if we had some basic gearing going both ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO4IyPg0U9s
Sounds fun, right?
--
Cheers,
Rusty Lindgren
**
Everyone is welcome to come to Noisebridge for the Maker Faire After-Party tonight!
8pm to 11pm
Come one, come many, come all!
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Maker_Faire_2013/Afterparty
See you at Noisebridge tonight!
(If you want to help set up, please arrive early -- we need volunteers.)
hi everyone,
another productive meeting this week. we have a number of action items for
next week and the full meeting notes are below.
ACTION ITEMS:
- Bill will set up automatic reminders
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len,
Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny*
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
- Max, Jordan and sudo-sys will brainstorm on alternative ISPs
- Tommy will update fiscal solvency spreadsheet
- Membership management system - Bill and Tommy
- Africa and Carmen (and anyone else who is interested) can sign up for
east bay diybio with eastbaydiybio(a)googlegroups.com
Let me know if I've missed anything.
- Marina
FULL NOTES:
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes>
Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054
May 15 2013
Attending: Matt, Ryan, Marina, Jenny, Sam, Carmen, Africa, Will, Len,
Tommy, Bill, Jordan, Vicky, Rev. Phil, Naomi, Max, Pete
==Introductions==
Co-Facilitator: Matt
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)
- What is one thing you like to share with others? Food, wine, ideas,
files, internet, connections :D
Icebreaker (10 min)
- Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months
- More people! Mo' space! Mo' money!
- Sustainable funding
- More representation of Oakland
- Finding cool neighbors
- Being receptive to hobbyists
- Community / education / diversity
- Summer fundraiser, summer stuff generally (field trips, retreats!)
- Biggifying
- Access & membership services sorted
- More cross-collaboration between the Bay Area hackerspaces
*Share food / sudo mate if available.*
==Announcements==
Co-Facilitator: Ryan
(< 8 minutes)
- ===Consent Agenda===
-
- *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need
no more details or discussion) ====> We're trying this out!*
-
- May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would
love help organizing it.
- Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please
contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and
can pick up and drop it off, etc.
- Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please
- Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system
- *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay
- Who is available to lead this week? ___________
- Craigslist posting looking for friends:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin
access)
- Tweet any space details *@sudoroom*
- Email *info(a)sudoroom.org*
- ===Other Announcements===
-
- This Sat TIL: Fix It Day! (yaaaaayyy!!!):
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#May_18_Fix-It_Day.21_.28PLUS_Linu…
- Sign up for TIL's (no one is scheduled after this week):
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned
- BIKE SMUT: This Friday, doors open 8:22, show starts 9:07. (Vicky, who
will be a little late)
- Signs will be put up advertising adultiness of the event
- Vicky and Phil take full responsibility fr cleaning. (Vicky is
anal-retentive and this will not be a problem)
- GLOW WORMS: We need 2 more! Please contact Vicky via email/gchat if
you would like to join in helping facilitate a safe space on Friday.
- SECURITY/GREETERS: Would anyone like to volunteer in shifts to hang
out and greet people as they enter? Anthony expressed interest. Anyone else?
- VOLUNTEER MOVERS: Vicky needs a person or 2 persons to help move
speakers onto a truck (6pmish), into the space and out of the space (end of
show, midnightish). Any volunteers?
- If you have any concerns/questions/comments/suggestions please
contact Vicky via direct email (best way to reach her), not listserv.
- Presentation: beautiful DIY cloth menstrual pad (Vicky)
- Interested in more inter-hackerspaces collab? Join Open Hack Night
every Monday at 7pm @LOL (1234 23rd Avenue, San Antonio (east Oakland)).
LOL is a POC, Queer and Women-organized hackerspace. It is radically
inclusive--EVERYONE is a desired member! Their organizers want us to do
more stuff at each others' spaces. :] :] (Vicky)
- Next BACH planning meeting: Fri May 24 @ 8pm at West Gate San Leandro,
1933 Davis St, San Leandro
- BACH info:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces
- Sudo Bike
-
- === ACTION ITEMS ===
-
- Co-Facilitatory: Marina (< 5 min)
-
- Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if
necessary to next meeting:
-
- *New Business:*
-
- Africa and Carmen can sign up for east bay diybio with
eastbaydiybio(a)googlegroups.com <go to there
- Max is researching alternative ISPs and recommends LMI, will continue
this discussion on the sudo-sys list.
-
- *Old Business:*
-
- [postponed until next week] WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE to rock
paper scissors collective? - Matt will help
- Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker Happy Hour
- Oakland Nights Live - what to do?
- [postponed until next week] Bill will talk with them about this
regardless on Friday for "Captial and Crisis" putting on thinking caps
- ... and "theorizing"
- *[Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School] Jenny* - Set
expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external
- -Ensure doors are closed
- -Trash and recycling
- -Running the dishwasher
- -Putting furniture back where it belongs
- -Vacuum!
- Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs.
-
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fyHwH-O_tMEW3c01HvHbmAHDqj6aD2DSDmpdtM_…
- *Postponed* (not for discussion, only for reference):
-
- [Postponed] Talk to Danny O'Brien, intro from JC to Jordan, invite him
to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!
- Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later
this month and Jordan will follow up then.
- [Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George
- [Postponed until necessary] Jenny sync with Troy on library - Not yet
but they will
- Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1
-troy
- still need to set a date
- [Postponed until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb] Romy to lead
diagram for Articles of Association amendment
- Romy to work with Troy to turn the articles into a flow diagram.
Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around.
- [Postponed until ?] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? -
https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room)
<https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room%29>- Yardena is going to put these
articles up
-
==Fiscal Solvency==
(20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Sam
- *Third** Wed - **collect dues!** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th -
assess where we're at) pay your dues!
- Review and consensus process:
- Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3…
- Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
- Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30
people)
- now we're collecting target of $60
- some give more
- sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month
- Financial Planning
- Fund-raising efforts?
- Leverage existing resources and infrastructure
- E.g. events, fund-raisers
- Recurring income
- sustainable for a long time
- Long-term sustainability and viability
- e.g. meetups, institutional stability, etc.
- Creating items at low-cost for considerable mark-up donation
- T-shirts
- other swag
- Electronic kits
- workshops?
- Ethersheet Spreadsheet to track revenues? Automated form (Google
Forms)?
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas
- Food
- Cottage Food Law
- Shared Kitchens/Gardens
- Sudo Mate - *Max & Ray*
- Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!)
- Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc*
- Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray - Last week's $40 went to Sudo Room
rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!*
- Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST]
- suggestion by *Marc*
- Rusty's "Savior Bars"!
- Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason
- *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn*
- "Just do it"
- Schwag
- 3D printed stuff
- magnets - *Jordan*
- bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device
mounting!) -hol
- jewelry
- on-demand
- other objects
- other 3D printers
- 3d printed exoskeleton
- DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell
- "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?)
- Bike bevereage holders
- T-shirts - *Dan Finlay (already an action item)*
- Buttons (moar)
- Dependent upon logo
- LED cubes - hol??????????
- Membership dues
- sliding-scale, voluntary (current)
- *better* *advertisement*
- --> Scrounging for MOAR
- Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.
- Could be extremely effective
- Could do a bike-about
- better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)
- will be informed by member survey (already an action item)
- Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????*
- Automatic reminders
- Repair Services
- Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)?
- Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair!
- Specifically could get $ from burners
- Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state
- Donated equipment
- Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan*
- Re-use and sell or sell as services
- Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/
- DIY ISP ++
- a la http://ranchwifi.com/
- Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like
he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi
- Kits
- electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up
with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually
together, we can sell at events - Hol)
- Home PCs for cheapz
- Art kits
- Writing kits
- Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^
- Kits of 3D printers that create other kits
- Non-profit status
- Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3
- Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal
sponsorship
- School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship
- Grants
- Regular events
- Raves
- Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects
- Covers? No covers?
- NOTES
- Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding
mechanisms at play here
- One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources
- You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the
technology may or may not be there.
- Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort
involved -- you can cross most of it out
- Jenny
- Added speaker events section
- In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would
possibly be interested in speaking here
- Tommy
- We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not
they brought in income
- Sam
- Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things. *Bill*
- Eddie
- Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as
a service we could offer.
==Amendments to the Articles of Association==
Co-Facilitator: ?
==Conflict Resolution==
Co-Facilitator: ?
==Additional Items==
(per item) Co-Facilitator: Tommy
- Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min)
- Priorities / values
- Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed
here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space
- Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates--let's
do that now!
- Exterior security - safety of the surrounding area
- Lease vs month-to-month rent (latter preferred)
- Kitchen / communal kitchen
- Street-facing
- No regressions from the current space
- Strategy
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin
access)
- Tweet any space details *@sudoroom*
- Email *info(a)sudoroom.org*
- Craigslist posting looking for friends:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html
- New Logos - Ryan
- Oakland Nights Live
- Cleaning up after events
- Max has volunteered to be liason between Public School and Oakland
Nights Live
==Action Items==
Scribe: Jenny
- Bill will set up automatic reminders
- Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- FUNDING
- Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt,
Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny*
- Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in
- Max, Jordan and sudo-sys will brainstorm on alternative ISPs
- Tommy will update fiscal solvency spreadsheet
- Membership management system - Bill and Tommy
=== Meeting Brief for Announce List ===
*Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes*
==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?
- Recap on IRC
Hi everyone,
Please join us this Saturday 5/18 at 2PM at Sudo Room (2141 Broadyway,
entrance on 22nd St., take the elevator upstairs) for Fix-It Day and Linux
Install Day!
We have a lot of computers and other equipment at Sudo Room in various
states of functionality. You may also have computers and other kinds of
equipment in various states of functionality! During this session we will
come together to test/repair computers and learn more about fixing
computers.
BONUS: Have you always been curious about Linux but not sure where to
start? If you are interested in installing Linux on your Windows computer
(it is not necessary to delete Windows to install Linux), we will also be
helping participants install Linux.
Sudoers who are interested in helping people install Linux: please bring
cd's, thumb drives, etc. for people to use.
*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.*
- Marina
