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.