[sudo-discuss] Meeting Notes 10/29

Announcements: * New Board nominations begin in 20 days * Marc Juul is our new treasurer * We are cleaning and organizing sudo RIGHT NOW - come and help! * Film night tonight! * What we want and don't want: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Donations New Members * For extended pondering: Claire - wants to run zine workshops! drawing, crafts! * For extended pondering: Trisha - also zines, excited about the sewing machines :) * Alex has been pondered, is now a member! Money * ~ $3700 in the bank, November rent and October shared expenses paid ($2340.86) * Now making $570/week on Gratipay! New goal is $1K/week Second Internet Line * Jenny checking with Sonic.net about a second line Backspace Proposal Consensus on the backspace proposal: - As long as this is a 3 month trial period we agree to the proposal, with the following amendments: - backspace does not take the downstairs room and pays $750 per month instead. - backspace has no special privilege over any other member collective in accessing or regulating access to common space. - In addition: sudo room feels that backspace, being a for-profit renting private space, should be a tenant and not a member collective but we can discuss this over the next three months. Conflict Resolution - Update on conflict with ban of person that Pigeon asked us to ban. Referred to as J. - Korl and Liz are finishing up an interview with one more person and they are leaning toward proposing a lift of the provisional ban of J we passed at a meeting earlier this month. - Korl and Liz are very interested in preventing blind solidarity (which seemed likely to occur unless someone spoke up), especially without having both sides of the story, and as much information as possible. We are also keen on working to help set a fair precident for situations like this; that both sides of a story/ incedent are sought out by an objective party, before Any decisions are made, to prevent social bias and blind solidarity. - Important aspects: None of the people involved in the conflict are members of the Omni, and the conflict happened three years ago. This issue was brought up by a person who is not part of the Omni and has been known to act untrustworthily and dishonestly, within the greater community. - Juul proposes a 1 month ban of person who was using a knife to attempt to open the omni door and when confronted was super rude, calling one of our members a bitch. Person was drunk. Juul and others kicked this person out yesterday and told him that him he was banned until it could be brought up at todays meeting where he could show up. He looked disheveled and was holding a can of beer but seemed otherwise reasonable and attempted to defend his attempt at opening the door as trying to demonstrate a security problem and said he wished to apologize to the person he was rude to. - Remote-Jenny votes yes on ban. - One abstention, rest approve. Passes. - Need to take a picture. - Proposal: Temporary Ban of Chris B (unspecified duration) for being in "bad standing" with regard to sudo room's values, specifically in disregarding the needs of the sudo room and omni communities with his use of the space above the stage (aka "crow's nest" aka "man cave"), as well as often attempting to sleep in the space, despite warnings, confrontations, and a clear expectation of it not being permitted. - During the BACH Unconference, Mitch Altman found Chris B sleeping under a sign in the basement that read "No Sleeping". - Amendment and consensus: Any further sleeping by ChrisB at Omni will result in an immediate temporary ban. Notes recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-10-29 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`