Hi Capt. Chesapeake, I would just like to point out that these are great ideas which have all been brought up and discussed and implemented to various degrees. There are standing working groups at Omni focused on many issues, meetings here may not be accurate but whichever one you feel motivated to join and consistently support it would be much appreciated: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/categories/working-groups/ You're ahead of the curve for having read some of the founding documents, and there is alot of additional history on the Omni side which took over more of the meta organizing function. What is needed is follow through from your first realization below of what must be done, through to consistent presence, much better to take on a light workload where there is an identified gap in volunteer effort and stick with it so it doesn't fall back on anyone else's plate. If you have any trouble navigating existing landscape of Omni organizing activities Jenny and Yar are probably the most plugged in these days. I have honestly not been active on organizing side the past 2 years, so take my opinions and priorities with a grain of salt, just wanted to get you plugged in so you can have impact proportional to the energy you're coming in with. IMO getting more members in who enjoy building community and leaving the space better than they found it is the highest priority and everpresent "to-do" task. Happy to do my part on cleanliness tonight in between messinesses. Cheers, Hol On 2018-01-23 12:15, Captain Chesapeake wrote: Hi all, Please review my plan below and let me know if this jives with the philosophy for the space. On Jan 21, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Captain Chesapeake <daro120sudo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Ok. There are few overall goals with respect to what I discussed above I think we should set, and it will take more than just me to execute them. Do these next steps make sense for the organization, for example? Perhaps: 1. Ask for volunteers to lead fundraising, cleanliness, and organization challenges, perhaps develop subcommittees specially tasked with these goals. 2. Ask these volunteers (with help of members) develop scope, schedule, budget (?) and lead execution of them, each with help from more volunteers. 3. Monthly reporting to the group on progress. I'd like to work with rcsheets on the financial issues, specifically developing a budget and setting targets for member contributions and fundraising. I have some other ideas about how we can raise money too. Rcsheets: can you work with me? David On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote: _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss

On Jan 24, 2018, at 4:59 PM, Jenny Ryan &lt;tunabananas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I think it's fine time sudo room members organize subcommittees to focus on fundraising and organizing/cleaning issues. Below is a semi-organized stream of thoughts on the matter, hopefully some useful: Re: Sudo finances, we are only currently able to pay our monthly invoices because we sold the Bitcoins we'd accrued over the years. Since the email blast to nonpaying sudohumans the other week, we're now up to $1650/month from Stripe/sudohumans (45 members) plus $215 from Paypal (5 members). Re: sudo fundraising - I'm recalling a few folks volunteering to compose a fundraising committee at one of the recent sudoroom meetings. Does anyone remember who was running point on that? We could easily start building up a reserve by throwing a party once a month, hosting some workshops via Eventbrite or the like (the mesh workshop this weekend's made $500 thus far just via donation-based Eventbrite tickets), running a donation-based fix-it clinic, etc Re: cleaning & organizing, lots of awesome work has been done over this past year initiated principally by Adam, and more recently by the triumphant return of Rayc :D Robb and I did a binge-superclean before the bookfair last fall, and I'm always game for a good cleaning party that would ideally be ritually recurring, but tbh I'm weary from years of attempted sudoroom-space-organizing and would rather see new members step up to that plate - so, grateful for your enthusiasm Cap'n! One thing I keep failing to close on and would like support with is requesting FREE E-WASTE PICKUPS from Omni's totally rad recycling company, Civicorps. The ewaste shelving area behind the fridge is a relatively new addition, and I'd intended to label areas of the shelves for various common itemizables eg monitors, hard drives, COFFEE MACHINES(AHEM), etc. The deadtree forms are on a clipboard on the main table (previously hung on the shelves themselves) and require tallying the itemizable ewaste. They'll take assorted wires and cables, but not miscellaneous bits I don't think. They also require a day-of contact for access to the area, which Rayc had volunteered to be previously but could just as easily be Steve, Sierk, or others who are typically there during the day. The form can also be submitted online here: http://www.civicorpsrecycling.org/ewaste/ - SO EASY! Anyone who regularly benefits from or creates ewaste in sudo should be helping with this, really. Re: Omni working groups - yes, Omni really needs help! In particular, the last couple of "meetings"/workparties of the Building Working Group have been just me and Robb hacking away at the endless building maintenance to do list, a partial rundown of which lives on the giant blackboard in the entrance hall. I've been the defacto facilitator of the Building WG over this past year, but I don't have the spoons to continue and would love to have some fresh hands & heads in that group. We just got our first payout of $11K from the Generosity kitchen campaign (have y'all donated?!) and need to start planning the basement kitchen buildout. Omni's Communications Working Group is meeting at 6pm today, typically in the Omni office upstairs, if any folks would like to join and help with that end of things. Technically, each member collective of the Omni is supposed to have at least 2 members in working groups, plus one for every 20 members. With ~80 members, Sudo should have 6 members in Omni working groups. Currently I'm in, erm, all the working groups, and Robb, Patrik, Sierk, and Yar are in Building and Kitchen (or, in yar's case, Building and superhero-sysadmin). Would be wonderful to have some new folks joining in! </stream> <3 Jenny Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland! https://omnicommons.org/kitchen `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." --Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark" ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss

On Jan 26, 2018, at 1:15 PM, Yardena Cohen &lt;yardenack(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Captain Chesapeake &lt;daro120sudo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Thanks for your energy. I'm glad to see others care about making changes happen. I think it would help if you could be more specific about these ideas. What kind of structure are you proposing? Have you had prior experiences with organizations like Sudo that you're willing to share in detail? Thanks, Yar

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On Jan 26, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Yardena Cohen &lt;yardenack(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: +1000 would agree again :)

On Jan 26, 2018, at 3:12 PM, Yardena Cohen &lt;yardenack(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Captain Chesapeake &lt;daro120sudo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: It's totally possible. You just have to figure out specific jobs to be done, and specific people with the skills and capacity to do them. Which requires being familiar with both. I personally think Sudoroom should run a census of all the people who use the space. This could include a catalog of what people need, what people have to offer. It could also include things like diversity statistics, which is something we've always been bad at keeping track of. Out of curiosity, I thought I'd run these commands on sudoroom.org: $ sudo grep -c 'sudoroom should' /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/sudo-discuss.mbox/sudo-discuss.mbox 52 $ sudo grep -c 'sudoroom needs' /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/sudo-discuss.mbox/sudo-discuss.mbox 23 :)

I don't think this is something that can be immediately manifested into a workable structure which is one of the most difficult challenges of trying to build alternatives to existing systems. We're hardwired, within this system to believe that having the right set of systems or guild lines or processes or rules or principles in place will shape up the ship but the reality is: the playing field isn't level, we don't all speak the same language, we don't al sharenthe same experiences, we don't all have the same values or priorities or needs. And so, we must start from of a place of, " How can I learn?", "What can I do?", and really work with others on a very personal level. Rules and guidelines are all well and good and valuable but nothingness can replace trust and love and those things take time to build. So I urge you to maintain your enthusiasm and to throw your shoulder to the wheel, metaphorically speaking, and to know you're entering into a powerful and loving community that needs all hands on the actual deck more than they need more brilliant ideas. I'm glad you're here and I'm not around much myself these days but please know this is not a message intended to discourage you - we're building a new world and we need you and all of the help we can get! N On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:15 PM Captain Chesapeake &lt;daro120sudo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: