May 1 2013
Attending:
==Introductions==
Co-Facilitator:
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)
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What is one thing you like to share with others?
- What is one current frustration you have? What is one current thing that puts you at ease?
Icebreaker (10 min)
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Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months
Share food / sudo mate if available.
==Announcements==
Co-Facilitator: ?
- (< 3 minutes) Co-Facilitator: Mary
- (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
- Thursdays at 6pm - Supper Club, open to all, pot-luck in common space at 2141 Broadway!
- SPECIAL "Keeping tidy" Friday before 11:30am - Landlord showing a room to potential tenants
- ===Other Announcements=== Co-Facilitator: Mary
- (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?
- Sundays @ 7pm - Cleaning of Natural Decay
- Who is available to lead this week? _____Marina______
- Subiir - Debut of second round,
- Hacker Happy Hour - Sam hosting 8D
- Footage for blog and wiki, get individual tutorials from folks!
- Hopefully get some interactive activities on (Sarah and Rusty have volunteered)
- Screenwriting Workshop Sundays 5-7pm at Sudo Room :D
- Land Occupation - Occupy the Farm - Sat May 11th meet at Albany City Hall at San Pablo and Marin Ave at 12 noon!
- === ACTION ITEMS === Co-Facilitatory: Jordan
- (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝
- Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting:
- Blurb of short description to be used at different events - Tommy
- "Sudoroom is a community-supported hackerspace that provides open membership in a non-hierarchical, collaborative community working towards social change. You can help make Sudoroom more affordable and more accessible, and encourage more events like the one you're attending by donating today."
- For next agenda: discussion to share some of the ongoing initiatives that are going on to bring money into sudo room
- Matt and Jenny will encourage Sudoers to think about and prepare for this.
- DONE, discussing in Fiscal Solvency section
- Matt and Bill will do online and paper survey
- Vicky has emailed the listserv asking people if they are interested in writing. The goal is to organize people to collaborate on writing marketing-type materials.
- DONE. This sunday at 4pm is a meeting to work on this.
- Sam - New video for blog and wiki (next happy hour? or meeting, happy hour and wiki/blog workshop in one!)
- Would like to have an event where people collaboratively create videos and learn how to do videos. Possibly next Friday. Please coordinate with Sam.
- This is happening!!!!!!!!!11111
- Rusty and Ryan will follow up with Dan on printing t-shirts.
- Come to Rusty and Ryan about logos / designs / etc
- Need to also follow up with Dan about helping him
- Prep space for friday screenings: Audio, lighting, etc.
- SDR (software defined radio) Meetup - when / where?
- Cheap TV tuners that operate on a wide spectrum
- Find BILLLLLLLLLLLLL after the mtg
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Matt will follow up with Max: Installing Linux on a second laptop for rock paper scissors collective (first was bad :()
- Ryan B will bring in a laptop?(coordinate with Wolfy on getting laptop)
- WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE? - Matt will help
- [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.
- Continues to be postponed
- [Skipping this week as it will be Art Mumur and we have a movie screening] Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - Romy hosted Hacker Happy Hour
- [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.
- [Vicky will do this] Vicky - follow up with Public School about Oakland Nights Live.
- Marina will follow up with Vicky
- Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Captial and Crisis" putting on thinking caps
- [Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School] Jenny - Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external
- -Putting furniture back where it belongs
- Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs.
- [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
==Fiscal Solvency== (20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Marina
- Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!)
- Sudo Beer (Subiir) - Morten & Marc
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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!
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Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST]
- Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason
- bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device mounting!) -hol
- DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell
- "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?)
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T-shirts - Dan Finlay (already an action item)
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LED cubes - hol??????????
- sliding-scale, voluntary (current)
- Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.
- Could be extremely effective
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better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)
- will be informed by member survey (already an action item)
- Do we accept BITCOIN????????????
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Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)?
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Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair!
- Specifically could get $ from burners
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Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state
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Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by Eddan
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Re-use and sell or sell as services
- Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi
- 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)
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Kits of 3D printers that create other kits
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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
- Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects
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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
- Added speaker events section
- In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would possibly be interested in speaking here
- We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not they brought in income
- Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things.
- Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as a service we could offer.
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Second Wed - budget (2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess where we're at)
- Review and consensus process:
- Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
- Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people)
- now we're collecting target of $60
- sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month
==Amendments to the Articles of Association== Co-Facilitator: Matt
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==Conflict Resolution== Co-Facilitator: Matt
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==Additional Items== (per item) Co-Facilitator: Ryan
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Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min)
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Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates.
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Tweet any space details @sudoroom
- Craigslist posting looking for friends
- Report-back, Feedback from Art Murmur
- piano went outside and people played it!
- we need to do more to be on the street
- create a holder for sudo mate to stand outside.
- outdoor signage is very effective - this should be part of the art murmur set up.
- make it a BACH event - "come to sudo room"
- be a part of the saturday stroll
==Action Items== Scribe: Matt
- Bill will set up automatic remindres
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Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly
- 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
- === Meeting Brief for Announce List ===
- Scribe: Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes
==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?
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Advertising - briefly with Ryan