You should talk to Ima (sp?) or someone else on the board. What I understood from a conversation is that Omni is behind on the mortgage and needs to demonstrate sustainable income sufficient to reliably pay off the mortgage each month to the bank by the end of the year or the bank will foreclose. I don't know the details, but the general impression I got was that if Sudo can generate $2k a month each month starting soon and keep doing it, we'll be at least fulfilling our role. *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:29 PM romy via sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote:

How close is Sudo to generating $2K/month? Yardena Cohen via sudo-discuss wrote: This is true. If Sudoroom can stay current on monthly payments that's a huge help. Our old loan is coming due December 1 with a balloon payment of $900k. We have applied for a new loan, have not been rejected but are still negotiating. We are trying to improve our cashflow as much as possible to be in a better position, by hosting more ballroom events, adding more tenants, applying for grants, and are about to launch a big gofundme campaign as well. Nothing is guaranteed right now, but we're going to try our best. Btw her name is Imma, and she's Omni's treasurer, which is different from being a board member. On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:30 PM Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss &lt;sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote: https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org More options at https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/

Not sure exactly, but a quick glance at humans.sudoroom.org shows $1245 in successful membership charges for July. On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 1:02 PM Juliana A via sudo-discuss &lt;sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote:

I agree with all of what Romy just said. I also really want to talk to the parkway theater people. I think a lot of their suggestions might resemble things many people have suggested, such as those that Romy just said, ybit I think it's been hard to put these ideas into practice. My hope is that if we had people who appear to be successfully running a socially conscious art house/creativity hub/community meeting place say these things, their credibility and insights might furnish the activation energy and direction to actually do these things. On Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 6:42 PM romy via sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote:

Heck yeah! Those are good ideas Juliana! Andrew, the New parkway is a business with something like a dozen investors. They have employees that are paid and they run a food business, I'm guessing their cafe probably makes more money than the movie theater. I noticed that the crowd at the new parkway tends to be like what the Rock Paper Scissors gallery used to be. I think we had this discussion before, but the demographics of Oakland were much different several years ago. It used to be a place where artsy young people could get a cheap room, make a living as waiters, and go to house parties. Now everyone in their twenties is pretty clean cut and makes a good living in tech (speaking as a tech person). I used to go to the Rock Paper Scissors like its as my living room - there used to be a loft upstairs with a zine library. It doubled as a storefront and was downtown directly facing the street. Most of the people who got down there walked or rode their bicycles - it wasn't like today, when we'd get people always asking us about parking. Oakland first Fridays used to be full of cool makers and the streets were full of bicycles on those days. I was free to work on whatever I wanted there - so we'd hold impromptu workshops about how to mulch wood or how to do comic book workshops. It was really cool. We had a marker art party there. It's a big contrast to today, where everything seems to be run for the benefit of people with kids or involuntarily working for some kind of non profit group's directive. I mean it's nice to help minority kids, but people in non profits get tons of money to do that. I have no idea why they keep trying to drag people who are creative into doing their work for them. My experience from my horrible time living in San Jose (which I'll never do again) is that people who favor cars and live in suburban homes have different priorities. I guess if you want to draw the smart, interesting people who want to create, it's create the conditions to make it happen. That would mean trying to attract people who aren't suburban people with families who care a lot about finding parking and driving cars. I'm sure there are various groups at UC Berkeley, unless that entire student population has become extremely bland and cares about major league sports and football games. That would be sad, because that school used to have a lot of interesting people when I was younger in the 1990s. Although I love SudoRoom and the Omni, it feels like if you spend a lot of time there the culture does all it can to destroy people's creativity. Dragging people into meetings, making demands of them to do community service, interrupting people on creative projects and trying to repurpose them into education. It's good in small doses, but I'm not sure why anyone interesting would want to come to the space then? It's died down lately, but half of my conversations the past few months have been people trying to persuade me to stop doing my creative projects of exploration and trying to get me to do other stuff, like join women's groups, teach kids, it's really weird.