hi all, meeting tonight at 7pm. please add to the agenda here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting action items from last week: - Bill will set up automatic reminders - Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly - FUNDING - Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny - Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in pay your dues, marina ____________________________________________________________________________ full notes from last week (apologies for not putting it up on the wiki yet!) *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes> Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054 May 1 2013 Attending: ==Introductions== Co-Facilitator: Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person) - What is one thing you like to share with others? - What is one current *frustration* you have? What is one current thing that puts you *at ease*? Icebreaker (10 min) - Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months *Share food / sudo mate if available.* ==Announcements== Co-Facilitator: ? - ===Consent Agenda=== - (< 3 minutes) Co-Facilitator: Mary - - *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need no more details or discussion)** ====> We're trying this out!* - - May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would love help organizing it. - Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and can pick up and drop it off, etc. - Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please - Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system - Add to movie night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films - PUBLIC SCHOOL: - Thursdays at 6pm - Supper Club, open to all, pot-luck in common space at 2141 Broadway! - Fireworks submission deadline is 10th of each month - submit hacking stuff:http://fireworksbayarea.com/contribute/ - SPECIAL "Keeping tidy" Friday before 11:30am - Landlord showing a room to potential tenants - ===Other Announcements=== Co-Facilitator: Mary - (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ? - *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay - Who is available to lead this week? _____Marina______ - Subiir - Debut of second round, - Hacker Happy Hour - Sam hosting 8D - Footage for blog and wiki, get individual tutorials from folks! - Hopefully get some interactive activities on (Sarah and Rusty have volunteered) - Screenwriting Workshop Sundays 5-7pm at Sudo Room :D - http://sudoroom.org/calendar/ - Land Occupation - Occupy the Farm - Sat May 11th meet at Albany City Hall at San Pablo and Marin Ave at 12 noon! - http://occupythefarm.org/ - - === ACTION ITEMS === Co-Facilitatory: Jordan - (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝ - - Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting: - - New Business: - - Blurb of short description to be used at different events - Tommy - *"Sudoroom is a community-supported hackerspace that provides open membership in a non-hierarchical, collaborative community working towards social change. You can help make Sudoroom more affordable and more accessible, and encourage more events like the one you're attending by donating today."* - For next agenda: discussion to share some of the ongoing initiatives that are going on to bring money into sudo room - *Matt* and *Jenny* will encourage Sudoers to think about and prepare for this. - DONE, discussing in Fiscal Solvency section - sudo-fund mailing list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-fund - Survey membership - *Matt* and *Bill* will do online and paper survey - Tabled to next week - *Vicky* has emailed the listserv asking people if they are interested in writing. The goal is to organize people to collaborate on writing marketing-type materials. - DONE. This sunday at 4pm is a meeting to work on this. - Sam - New video for blog and wiki (next happy hour? or meeting, happy hour and wiki/blog workshop in one!) - Can it be like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY - Would like to have an event where people collaboratively create videos and learn how to do videos. Possibly next Friday. Please coordinate with *Sam*. - This is happening!!!!!!!!!11111 - *Rusty* and *Ryan* will follow up with Dan on printing t-shirts. - Come to Rusty and Ryan about logos / designs / etc - Need to also follow up with Dan about helping him - Prep space for friday screenings: Audio, lighting, etc. - SDR (software defined radio) Meetup - when / where? - Cheap TV tuners that operate on a wide spectrum - It WILL be fun. - Find BILLLLLLLLLLLLL after the mtg - - Old Business: - - *Matt* will follow up with *Max*: Installing Linux on a second laptop for rock paper scissors collective (first was bad :() - *Ryan* B will bring in a laptop?(coordinate with *Wolf**y* on getting laptop) - DELIVERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE? - Matt will help - [Postponed] Talk to *Danny O'Brien*, intro from *JC* to *Jordan*, invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight! - Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later this month and Jordan will follow up then. - Continues to be postponed - [Skipping this week as it will be Art Mumur and we have a movie screening] Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker Happy Hour - *[Postponed** until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb**] **Romy* to lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment - *Romy* to work with *Troy* to turn the articles into a flow diagram. Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around. - [*Postponed** until ?*] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? - https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) - *Yardena* is going to put these articles up - *[Vicky will do this] **Vicky* - follow up with Public School about Oakland Nights Live. - Marina will follow up with Vicky - Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Captial and Crisis" putting on thinking caps - ... and "theorizing" - *[**Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School**] **Jenny* - Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external - -Ensure doors are closed - -Trash and recycling - -Running the dishwasher - -Putting furniture back where it belongs - -Vacuum! - Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs. - *[Postponed until necessary] **Eddan* - Reference letter from George - *[Postponed** until necessary**] Jenny* sync with *Troy* on library - Not yet but they will - Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - *Jenny*!1 -* troy* - still need to set a date ==Fiscal Solvency== (20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Marina - Financial Planning - Fund-raising efforts? - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas - Food - Sudo Mate - *Max** & Ray* - Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!) - Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc* - Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray** - Last week's $40 went to Sudo Room rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!* - Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST] - suggestion by *Marc* - Rusty's "Savior Bars"! - Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason - *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn* - "Just do it" - Schwag - 3D printed stuff - magnets - *Jordan* - bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device mounting!) -hol - jewelry - on-demand - other objects - other 3D printers - 3d printed exoskeleton - DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell - "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?) - Bike bevereage holders - T-shirts - *Dan Finlay** (already an action item)* - Buttons (moar) - Dependent upon logo - LED cubes - hol?????????? - Membership dues - sliding-scale, voluntary (current) - *better* *advertisement* - --> Scrounging for MOAR - Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc. - Could be extremely effective - Could do a bike-about - better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion) - will be informed by member survey (already an action item) - Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????* - Automatic reminders - Repair Services - Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)? - Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair! - Specifically could get $ from burners - Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state - Donated equipment - Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan* - Re-use and sell or sell as services - Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/ - DIY ISP ++ - a la http://ranchwifi.com/ - Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi - Kits - electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually together, we can sell at events - Hol) - Home PCs for cheapz - Art kits - Writing kits - Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^ - Kits of 3D printers that create other kits - Non-profit status - Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3 - Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal sponsorship - School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship - Grants - Regular events - Raves - Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects - Covers? No covers? - NOTES - Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding mechanisms at play here - One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources - You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the technology may or may not be there. - Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort involved -- you can cross most of it out - Jenny - Added speaker events section - In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would possibly be interested in speaking here - Tommy - We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not they brought in income - Sam - Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things. - Eddie - Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as a service we could offer. - *Second** Wed - budget** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess where we're at) - Pay your dues! - Review and consensus process: - Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3… - Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50 - Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people) - now we're collecting target of $60 - some give more - sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month - Add to action items ==Amendments to the Articles of Association== Co-Facilitator: Matt ? ==Conflict Resolution== Co-Facilitator: Matt ? ==Additional Items== (per item) Co-Facilitator: Ryan - Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min) - Priorities / values - Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space - Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates. - Strategy - Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access) - Tweet any space details *@sudoroom* - Email *info(a)sudoroom.org* - Craigslist posting looking for friends - Report-back, Feedback from Art Murmur - piano went outside and people played it! - we need to do more to be on the street - create a holder for sudo mate to stand outside. - outdoor signage is very effective - this should be part of the art murmur set up. - saturday sign-making - flyer for art murmur - make it a BACH event - "come to sudo room" - be a part of the saturday stroll - ==Action Items== Scribe: Matt - Bill will set up automatic remindres - Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly - FUNDING - Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny* - Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in - === Meeting Brief for Announce List === - *Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes* ==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ? - Advertising - briefly with Ryan - Bill for software radio