I'm just catching up on old emails. Sorry I didn't see and respond to this sooner.

I'm surprised that no one seems to have responded to this. It seems weird that we clearly have people showing up and hanging out, but for some reason when someone sends out an email and says, "Hey! What's everyone working on?", there's just silence.

One thing I'm wondering is what the viewership of these emails is. Is there a way to check that? 

Secondly, though, I think this is a part of Sudo Room's culture that needs a bit of active adjustment. I think a lot of people are hanging around and working on their stuff quietly, but for probably a variety of reasons aren't used to sharing their stuff the way that you and I are. For instance, I think we both appreciate that art isn't meant to be finished and then shared, it's just meant to be shared casually and often.

On idea that appeals to me: what if we tried to coax people who host events into getting folks to who stop by to take a picture of whatever they're working on and share a few words, and then use those as the main skeleton of a monthly newsletter? You mentioned a newsletter at a meeting a few weeks ago, and I said I liked it, but wasn't sure where to start with it. This seems like a good answer to that, right? 

If Juliana and Jake and me and a few others got in the habit of saying to people we see working, "Hey, what are you working on?" and then following up with "Cool. Can I take a picture and include this in the next newsletter?" I think it might help. If people see a picture of Rajah in front of a screen of code and it says, "Rajah is coding this cool thing..." then it might start to break down the myth that only finished, highly visual projects are worth sharing.