[sudo-discuss] this week's action items and meeting notes

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