Hello Omni Collective representatives, member collectives, and interested parties, Please share this message with your collectives as a gesture of good faith and solidarity. For everyone who has or has not read the Hackerspace Design Patterns document, please consider doing so now (for the first time, or with today's eyes): http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Design_Patterns This document articulates some slices of the history, culture, theory, and praxis of hackerspaces, globally. The original patterns were derived from a survey in Europe, and interpreted by the eyes of Chaos Computer Club (CCC) community members eager to share with interested, curious individuals of the US. I share this with you now eager to construct shared language and receive invaluable feedback both from your interpretations and your own experiences, resources, and histories. I have some concerns about the current status of potentially entering a lease agreement through The Omni Collective. We are discussing the idea right now in the sudo room community. We will resolve or pass these concerns up through our representative, of course. Though I must share something auspicious. I understand The Omni Collective has about 10 member collectives: "*Aim for ten people* for a start." - *The Critical Mass Pattern* http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Critical_Mass_Pattern I thought it was an important and poignant time to send this document and message to all of you. Sudo Room, like all hackerspaces, deviates from the patterns at times in its own right, so we try to document as much as we can about our patterns on our wiki https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ Further information about starting hackerspaces is available on the Documentation page: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Documentation "Build! Unite! Multiply!" // Matt p.s. +1, the naive integer increment, as you may use it yourself, is a symbol of positive addition, a recognition of effort worthy of discrete exchange. Maybe a loose metaphor of a rising score, but not necessarily the score of a zero-sum game. p.p.s. There are a few stray edits of the patterns that deviate from the originals.