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!
- More representation of Oakland
- Being receptive to hobbyists
- Community / education / diversity
- Summer fundraiser, summer stuff generally (field trips, retreats!)
- Access & membership services sorted
- More cross-collaboration between the Bay Area hackerspaces
Share food / sudo mate if available.
==Announcements==
Co-Facilitator: Ryan
(< 8 minutes)
- (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? ___________
- Tweet any space details @sudoroom
- ===Other Announcements===
- 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
- Co-Facilitatory: Marina (< 5 min)
- Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting:
- Max is researching alternative ISPs and recommends LMI, will continue this discussion on the sudo-sys list.
- [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
- [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 (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
- [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.
==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:
- 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
- Leverage existing resources and infrastructure
- E.g. events, fund-raisers
- 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
- Ethersheet Spreadsheet to track revenues? Automated form (Google Forms)?
- 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]
- 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?)
- T-shirts - Dan Finlay (already an action item)
- LED cubes - hol??????????
- sliding-scale, voluntary (current)
- Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.
- Could be extremely effective
- better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)
- will be informed by member survey (already an action item)
- Do we accept BITCOIN????????????
- 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
- Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by Eddan
- 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)
- Kits of 3D printers that create other kits
- 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
- 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. Bill
- 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)
- 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
- No regressions from the current space
- Tweet any space details @sudoroom
- 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
- 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! & ?