[sudo-discuss] Meeting Notes 8/6

Apologies for the delay. Meeting notes from this week! tl;dr: ANNOUNCEMENTS: - Sudo sponsoring event with Critical Resistance on September 20th w/ Cece McDonald - Startup weekend Sept 12-14 - 50% discount codes - talk to Brendan... or just use 'sudoroom'. Free food! $25! - Next Newbie Night: Wednesday, August 13th, 5-8pm hosted by Juul & Jake! NEW MEMBERS! ...up for 'extended pondering' this week. Please reply if you have any objection to these new members! - Timothy - Why do you want to be a member? Likes working with other people, would be nice to work here - What are you excited to do at sudo room? Hacking on his own stuff, open source, perhaps collaborators? - What do you hope to share with Sudo Room? Pair programming, sudo web infrastructure, doesn't do php really (mostly ruby) - Hasn't been banned from a hackerspace! - Boyd - Why do you want to be a member? I like this new movement for hacktivism around the world and making things that already exist work better. - What are you excited to do at sudo room? I'm not very good with code, but I think it'd be cool if I was. Found out about sudo from Andrew/backspace, used to come to the leather workshop. Moved close by, interested in the mesh. Scarred by previous Comcast employment. Democratizing internet access. Likes climbing and being handy - What do you hope to share with Sudo Room? Sharing excitement and enthusiasm. - Has not been kicked out of a hackerspace, that they know of. - Grew up in the midwest. Cops were nice there and gave you ice cream for wearing your bike helmet. - Really wants to see the robot do cool things. CONFLICT RESOLUTION: (via Hol): 1. No conclusive evidence found to support accusation based on review of available info over 2 weeks. Whatever we do now sets the precedent for future cases - person who brought the matter up (daniel) is OK to allow Phil back in. Felt it was his duty to speak up since the concern had not been proactively addressed by Phil. 2. Further research continues as to nature of threat to privacy and risk of disruption from outside groups with ill intentions. Sudoers interested in the topic of entities related to this accusation, particularly the DAC, should feel free to get in touch and assist with research. 3. Consensus is a process susceptible to disruption. We should think about cases when it is better to fork into parallel paths to avoid gridlock, and consider ways to amend our policies to become structurally hardened against this type of attack. In some cases, it may seem that consensus on an item has been reached when discussion is still warranted, and dissenting views may trigger accusations of intentional disruption. People may have conflicting views or different approaches socially, legally, etc. Emphasize respect for different points of view while keeping an eye out for intentional disruption. Need to be able to handle and attenuate disruption whether intentional or unintentional. Meeting minutes recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-08-06 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`