[sudo-discuss] Meeting Minutes 9/17

Sorry for the lag! tl;dr: * Two new members up for extended pondering! ** Niki: What hack? Wants to play with the robot, in a choreographed dance; already programmed one dance! Gonna repair all her broken macbook chargers. What share? Wants to share baked good. ** Patrick: What hack? Horticulturalist, wants to hack open hardware, water use, radiation stuf. What share? Can share horti skills. interested in tissue culture. rooted our mate baby. * Please join Omni working groups! http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups * Be a sudo delegate! Current delegates: Yar, Jenny, Matt, Patrick (shadowing Yar), and Korl (also in training :) * NOTICE: Ground floor kitchen will be going away soon. Please help Food Not Bombs upgrade the basement kitchen, also a new kitchen will be opening up on the second floor starting October 1st. * CONSENSUS ITEMS: ** TIL splitting into TIL and a community print collective: concerns expressed about extent of space requested (2/3 of sudo size for less than 1/3 the price); public accessibility (currently one day a week and cost for use); interested sudoers should join the print collective and help shape it to be as commons-oriented as we can! ** Sound equipment proposal: Sudo counter-proposes that the green room above the stage be the dedicated sound equipment room (it's already set up as such) ** PA proposal: Sudoer Ed has a PA he will donate to Omni! ** Ballroom Events: All omni ballroom events that need the space dedicated should apply here https://dochttps://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomtgs.google.com/forms/d/1w_PYdVScDq… Please join the ballroom working group (meets Wednesdays from 6-8) to help with deciding on and scheduling events in the ballroom! ** Working Group Autonomy: Sudo suggests that the Facilitating Collectivity working group decide what WGs are autonomously empowered to do. ** Occupy Oakland 3rd Anniversary: "Sudoroom formally requests that the urban shield event on the 3rd anniversary of occupy oakland be offered the ballroom instead of the basement." * NEWBIE NIGHT: Alex is hosting this coming Tuesday, the 23rd. * CHECK YOUR GITTIP ACCOUNTS!! - We went down another $40 this past week. * SPACE IMPROVEMENTS: ** Contact Whitney or Sean to help with electrification of sudo - namely, bending and running conduit! ** Floorplan: Contact Korl to help with rearranging sudo space - namely, building a catwalk on top of our shelves for modular second-level units. Also: pulley platforms with plants on them underneath the skylights! ** Lighting: Contact Noemie who has a plan for improving our lighting situation! ** Fire Inspection: We'll need to remove burnables, store them under the stage or paint them. Also piles of stuff need to be shelved and organized. Tape notes to objects that need to move / change * SLEEPING: "All of our expectations of members' behavior within Sudoroom also apply in spirit to the common areas around Sudoroom. Doing something in the common areas such as sleeping does not exempt you from our Articles of Association. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association" <https://dochttps://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomtgs.google.com/forms/d/1w_PYdVScDqR9UNEWF-6j20WmaJKU4WL3OjCEaNovgjc/viewform> Recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-09-17 Love! 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`