Sudo Room - User contributions [en]

Meeting Notes 2026-04-26

2026-04-27T09:53:29Z

Michaelz:

'''Sudo Room Meeting - 26 April 2026 5pm-7pm'''

= Meeting Details =

== Roles ==
* Facilitator/s: All
* Notetaker/s: All

== Attendees ==
* J
* I
* A
* M
* JA
* L

= Agenda =

* Do we have enough money to pay rent this time?
* Wiki administration
* Check member applications
* 3D Print Legislation

== Agenda item 1: Money & Structure ==
* Joe and Laurie participating as new members, have questions about process. Jek clarifies about empowering all members, how the space runs on do-ocracy, and how onboarding works

* Why struggling with shortfalls? ran out of savings, less members, no other grants.
Jek talks about how CALLI is the owner because Omni Commons failed to secure a long-term loan: We've had some grants in the past but now it's running low. Fortunately member donations are incresing due to existing members raising their contribution and new members joining.

* Joe proposes having more structures to get things done

* Michael suggests having a meta day, reflect on structure of org and what is the value and mission of SudoRoom

* How do we make a little more money every month?
- member dues
- grants
- other ways? Ivan proposes subgroup to explore fundraising opportunities?
- Arik: we can send out emails to people whose cards have expired and

* Joe proposes offering 3D print services to increase revenue and attract new members
** michael: it's a good the idea and I suggest the sudoroom room community to give necessary support and cooperation for this project.

== Agenda item 2: Wiki ==
* Private data base for documentation
*The wiki is public, what should we use for internal document?
*Cryptpad: Ivan wonders if we can have shared folder rather than single documents.
*There are different tools that are being used sometimes google docs, sometimes proton somtimes cryptpad etc.
** michael: We can give recommendation and provide tools, but ultimately it's the do-ers that decide what to use.

== Agenda item 3: Members ==
* Review Kanban, welcome three new members

== Agenda item 4: 3D Printing ==
* General support for supporting Sudo Room supporting any petition or letter blocking this proposed legislation.

Meeting Notes 2025-12-28

2025-12-30T00:27:40Z

Michaelz: /* 3.Communication mediums */

'''Sudo Room Meeting - Sunday December 28 2025 4pm-6pm'''

= Meeting Details =

== Roles ==
* Facilitator/s: Michael
* Timekeeper: Peter
* Notetaker/s: Judy

== Attendees ==
Ivan
Peter
Paige
Michael
Mick
Lo
Phae
Elaine
Leah
E
Jake
Martin
Romy
Judy

= Agenda & Notes =

# Finances, our money problem, 30 min
# Member Matters, 30 min
# Communication mediums/channels?, 15 mins
# Recurring member meetings, 10 mins
# New event: Wiki Meetup, 5 min
# Discuss FNB, conflict involving SR member, 10 mins
# Review new member applications

== 1.Our Money problems ==

* How much is our income, and where is it coming from?
** Income is solely from membership dues, 115 members, generate ~$1700/mo
** 2025 sudo finance(in progress) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wACIGBvBytdvL2eqh5MlLRCg1fpzSaA7SrQIw88OVZg/edit?usp=sharing
** Jake: sometimes I sell things from here. Sometimes people hand me cash. Sometimes I look in the donation bucket.
** Paige: for example, last month I did a spiel about needing to fundraise, and someone handed me $400 cash.
* How many accounts do we have, and who has access to them?
** Now we have a single bank account, which is Provident Credit Union. Paige and Jake have access to it.
** People whose names are on the bank account who can write checks are the 3 officers: Paige is President, William (moved away) is Secretary, and Ajay is Treasurer
** Paypal: Paige, Marc Juul, Jake
** We used to store money in Paypal, because we used to share a bank account. Now that we don't share the bank account with others, Paige has set up automatic transfers from Paypal to the bank account
* Can we diversify income sources? Grants? Cisco possibility? Selling things?
** Cisco has work volunteer program. Cisco will donate to nonprofits that their employees volunteer with.
** To access Cisco's grant money, we would first have to register Sudo at, https://causes.benevity.org/causes/840-994999638 - Paige can register us for this
** Peter: there exist several "vetting" sites for nonprofits that entities want us to be registered with before they donate money to us.
** Peter: someone is volunteering at the Temescal fixit clinic and Cisco is contributing $10/hr, so if she volunteers for 2 hrs a month, it'd be $20/month? Wants to see how it works.
** The idea is maybe someone who comes to volunteer on Tuesdays would want to contribute their work's donation.
* eBay has a nonprofit option, sell items to benefit Sudo: https://www.ebayforcharity.org/get-involved/selling-for-a-charity/
* Michael: EBS internet for members
** There are programs that provide affordable internet to educational and non-profit institutions
** [https://mobilecitizen.org/service/affordable-wireless-internet/ $120/yr 5G with unlimited data]. Ask members to contribute $30-$60/mo in exchange for this member benefit?
** example: Calyx Foundation has an "internet membership", we can copy what they are doing.
*** https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet
** Judy et. al: this needs to be further discussed (7 members voting yes is the quorum)
** Michael: This is new, will send out email to clarify the details and for the community to decide
* Next month, see how much money we bring in through normal contributions. Can we get to our rent of $2500?
** $2500 rent, but at some point we'll have to get our own insurance (we're riding off of Omni's insurance)
* Paige: help me with insurance. You can get it cheap, but I wanna make sure we're covered well.
* Mick: How is Sudo Room registered as an entity? Paige: nonprofit, 501c3. Mick: what kind of insurance are we gonna need? Paige: we're required by our landlord to have general liability insurance, that's it. There's a million and two million aggregate thing, but it's pretty standard. Mick volunteers to help Paige look at insurance
* Jake Proposal: Increase our minimum membership contribution to $20.

== 2.MemberMatters upgrade ==

As part of moving Sudo over to MemberMatters (a more robust subscription management service than Sudo Humans) we've set up a system to allow members to pay with their credit cards and get charged monthly or annually. There's also an option for doing a work-trade. You can try out the registration process here: https://backers.sudoroom.org/register. Feedback is welcome (perhaps on the sudo-discuss list?)

Wiki page for the MemberMatters project:https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membermatters

We want to cut over to MemberMatters soon. Can we get consensus on the membership plans/levels?

# Work/trade membership - this is for folks who can't afford $ but have some time. Is this something we want to offer in exhange for a key?
# Monthly recurring membership - between $10 - $100 month
# Annual recurring Membership - $500, $1000, $2000, $5000

People could still pay through bitcoin, paypal, in-kind trade, etc.

If there are no objections to the above, we'll activate MM and switch the registration over in the early days of 2026. In this case, we = Jek, Juul, Ivan, Anca, Sean.

* mm is already live and connected to stripe. We just need to finish making our UX adjustments (which includes some Docker hacking) and move over existing users to it.

=== Meeting notes for MM discussion ===

* Jake's intro: Sudo humans was a web portal with Stripe auto-donations. We have to pay for an extra digital ocean VPS to host it on older debian software (insecure). User interface is hard to use (no way to reset password. username is case-sensitive. requires a lot of direct interaction with admins logging in directly to the server). So for a lot of reasons we are moving to MemberMatters, which is continuously maintained and used by multiple hackerspaces around the world. There is a local developer in our sudo room discord, Recnor.
* Jake: We need to reach out to our community of people who may not be paying but meant to pay (maybe their credit card expired or whatever), and we need to direct them to move over to MemberMatters. We need more people to work on MM.
* Michael: I think we have agreed that moving over to MM and deprecating sudo humans is a good idea, it just take work to do that.
* Jake: this contribution can look like "ssh into the server and make it use a docker from disk" to "log in to MM and take notes on 'this was confusing' or 'this didn't work'" because that's where we're stuck right now. Leah has written up a list of people who have their credit cards expired. But the hold up is that we don't know whether to ask them to login to sudohumans or to create a membermatters account.
* Ivan: I've been working with Anca on the front end of MM. When you first create an account, what is the path for a new member? We've worked on membership levels. We were able to add "work-trade membership," "monthly membership," and "annual memberships." But there were 16 tiers of monthly membership and the CSS makes them all look combined. That's a technical problem, but it's connected to the question of "should we have 16 tiers??" or "should we have people enter their own amount?" or "do we even want to offer work-trade membership?" or "how does annual payment work?"
* Michael: what do people think about work-trade?
* Jake: I come at this with a lot of history with hackerspaces. We're not a makerspace where we buy membership that pays for workers that takes care of the space for you. When someone becomes a member, I hope they understand this is a collaborative effort that requires them to do stuff in order to keep this thing going. It feels like the work-trade membership would be suggesting that we turn Sudo Room into an employer by saying we turn some comrades into "employees" rather than co-creating the space. I think if we become their boss/"manager" then that destroys the relationship. If someone wants to be a member and others want them to be a member then they should maybe pay for their membership
* Michael: considering our current financial situation in which we cannot currently pay our rent from membership dues alone, having a work-trade agreement is out of discussion.
* Ivan: the reason we added it was the webpage said no one is turned away from lack of funds. So we were trying to figure out how the membership form still remains open and friendly to everyone. It doesn't seem like work-trade membership was what was meant, and I'm fine taking that out.
* Michael: we are short on money and volunteer hours. Work-trade would be going between two things we're short on. If the problem fo money is a problem for anyone, then we can have an idea of finding an exissting sudo room member to "sponsor" their membership. What about a "community bounty" to reward people contributing to sudo room?
* Paige: CCL does classes. If you generate money, you get a cut of it. We're not really in a place to give funds to people because we don't make rent.
* Ivan: sudo humans has a tier called comrade. what is that?
* Jake: comrade is default, a checkbox in the software, then an admin has to do an action and check the "member" checkbox. We shouldn't replicate this tier over to MM. It's up to us to rething things.
* Ivan: when we export user accounts from sudo humans to member matters, should we only export users who have Stripe set up?
* Jake: yes, MM actually works and we don't need the old accounts of people who've not been here in years. Sometimes we get emails coming in from info@ to get people off of their stripe automatic payments and Jake manually removes them. We can take down sudo humans after moving to MM.
* Ivan: would a good action item be "everyone here move to MM and test it out?"
* Jake: yes, participate in trying MM, troubleshoot it, test it, and if you wanna get on a signal chat or something to cooperate about this, we can do that. We just need to get MM going.
* Peter: How long is the list Leah has compiled to contact?
* Paige: she has "cards expired," "who stopped paying," but a lot of them are like "we're in a different country now" or something. Cards expired is dozens.
* Jake: Leah's lists might have over a hundred people.
* Peter: If we contact 10 a day, we could get through that list. We shouldn't wait for MM to be done before contacting people.
* Jake: the only problem is we're not sure if MM works, Judy tried changing her membership tier to $20 and it gave her an error.
* Ivan: MM is pretty close to being ready. If we all do QA in the next 2 weeks it will be ready. One problem: if we all create new accounts now, we're listed as inactive and someone with admin power in MM has to go in and change you to active. it's basically ready, we need QA to touch up those things and we want it to be a frictionless experience.
* Peter: we can start contacting people and say "try mm" then a few days later "did you try mm, did it work?"
* Phae: let's set a date. within a month, everybody here should be signed up and paying with MM. After another month, unhook sudo humans. Chicken and egg problem, let's do both approaches to get everything ready.
* Peter: let's say people miss December and January, that's revenue we've lost forever
* Jake: can we make a Signal group right now to work on Member Matters?
* Michael: existing sudo humans members, what are the steps to move them to MM?
* Jake: it's on Stripe. they don't have to do anything.
* Mick: I'm happy to help with this. I second that a Signal thread would be a good idea. Do we have a document written somewhere with order of operations, with contact info for each person, and assign us to reach out to certain groups of people, and then we'd be responsible for reaching out and getting a response from everybody on that list?
* Michael: how much should membership cost?
* Mick: is it possible to have a sliding scale with suggestion? e.g. electronic tips and gofundme have suggested donation but you can change it if you want to. I think we should suggest people donate $20/mo but there's a lot of value to keeping membership open to people who can't do that.
* Ivan: i didn't see a way to do that but maybe there's a way. That's why i had to enter the 16 options
* Jake: you have to create tiers (aka "products") on stripe in order to get stripe and mm to work together the way that we want it. The products are "$10/mo" or "$20/mo" etc. No, we don't have ability to allow members to adjust the number themselves.
* Mick: I am a project manager
* Jake: can you make us do this?
* Mick: yeah we need a spreadsheet and a workflow.
* Jake: Ivan, is there anything you need from this meeting before you can do whatever else is on your list?
* ivan: everyone here, go through the account creation process and write down what's broken. Mick, create a spreadsheet to see where everything needs to be completed. One thing I can do right away is take the "work-trade" tier out. Log in and see that the tiers look janky, and someone go in and fix the CSS. The tiers range from $10 to $500.
* Phae: just turn it into a dropdown
* Jake: we shouldn't let legacy html prevent us from showing the tiers
* Michael: question for this meeting: should we remove the $10 tier? One reason to remove it could be "if we have surplus money then we can have a fund to sponsor those who can't afford
* Elaine is creating the Signal thread right now
* Judy: what are the tiers? There are some duplicate tiers. Move this to the Signal thread.
* Mick: do we have financial analysis? Michael: Paige's google spreadsheet.
* Mick: so the monthly expenses are currently rent, and in the future, insurance and fiscal sponsorship? Yes.
* Mick: how many paying members do we have right now?
* Ivan: 115 paying members.
* Michael: avg donation is $27 on sudo humans. 40 people pay on other things.
* Peter: it's the 28th. when's the rent due?
* Paige: it's due the 25th. We paid it. There is a 5-day grace period.
* Peter: what are the consequences of being in default?
* Paige: they could evict us, but other groups have been late before.
* Paige: we have it in our lease that it will be raised by the greater of 2% OR 1% + the CPI, so starting next month, we will probably have a raise in rent of around 3%.
* Michael: We probably need to increase membership dues in the future due to rising rent. but let's not tie dues to CPI, because that would be confusing for everyone.

== 3.Communication mediums ==
* discourse forum? (judy). Discourse is completely different than discord. It's something you host yourself, and is a forum
** Michael: a forum is too similar to email list, so we should choose one or the other. It's not a good idea to have two mediums that do the same thing. General saying for hackerspace, you want a wiki, a listserv, and an IRC/realtime chat. A Discoure forum would fall in the middle as a discussion medium.
** Judy: Discourse is open source forum software that I like a lot, but I won't set one up if everyone is like "nooooo Judy no one wants to sign up for a new account, don't do it"
** Michael: there is a possibilty MM could be single sign-on
** Jake: we have very little buy-in on the email list and the Discord, but we have more on the Discord and I'd like to see that grow. If we were an open source software project group and everyone was at a high level of technical willingness and ability, then moving to Discourse woul make sense, but it's just practical that we have a wide spread of willingness and expeirence, and Discord is a sweet spot of "easy to use"
** Michael: it's not only about opensource, but Discourse is a forum which is a different medium people might find better for quality discussion
** Jake: we have a forum in Discord!
** Michael: I'm not in the Discord lol
** Martin: do we know MM has a forum that we could use?
** Michael: i think a better way is use MM as single sign on for Discourse login
** Michael: Judy I think you should do it. Just let us know from technial aspect what kind of stuff do we need. Servers, domain names, any of that.
** Peter: if we do this, can we have an overarching guide to communication mechanisms of Sudo Room? We have sooooo many. I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, it's good to reach people On the other hand, I can't track everything! Judy: me too
** Michael: I have a write-up on community communciation methods that I can fix up and send to the mailing list.
** Judy: yes Michael do that.
** Peter: what problem does this solve?
** Judy: I worry that Discord the company will delete their free tier, like Slack did. I would want to stop using Discord entirely and use Discourse instead, beause Discourse includes realtime chat!!!!!!!
** Elaine: it's already happening! I can't change my name on different servers anymore, that's now a paid feature!!!!
** Mick: Tamarack, for example, has multiple Signal threads. One is just for announcements that only admins can post to. The other is backroom organizing chat where most of the activity happens. There are ways you can organize community communications.
** Peter: it's consistent with Sudo Room's mission that we need to be reclaiming the internet. I'm thinking for Michael and Judy there's an experimental group and part of it is promoting it where whatever is happening there is so cool that everyone wants to join it.
** Michael: we should have ONE of each of these categories
*** Slow: Document store: wiki (which we have)
*** Medium: Forum but only one forum (and if we had Discourse, then we would NOT have email list, in Michael's estimation)
*** Fast: Realtime communication. This one actually can be fragmented like on Signal, Discord, whatever because there are many groupchats for different purposes
* Creating a matrix space and bridge it with our discord (Michael)
** Matrix is open source and federated
** I tested the bridging using the service below, seem to work well
** https://t2bot.io
** https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord

== 4.Recurring member meeting in the future? ==

two times a month on sundays?

Romy: Yeah and have something right after like Dark Mode

Kent: I like having it right before Dark Mode. Dark Mode is the carrot after the meeting lol =) Dark Mode happens once a month.

Ivan: add cleaning parties to calendar

Michael: concept of Sudo-a-thon! come in at 10am, morning meeting on oganizational matters, pizza for lunch, afternoon there's a work party on cleaning up things, in the evening there's a code-a-thon on MM or editing the wiki!

Peter: I'm out

Ivan: Great idea

Michael: once a year a Sudo day!

Kent: we used to have 3 or 4 cleaning parties a year in 2024

Paige:

Mick: quarterly cuz there's so much to do

Michael: maybe we can do a huge Sudo day twice a year if people love it!

Paige: I can't come on Sundays but I support two times a month on Sundays

Judy: What if we did once a month on a Sunday, then two weeks offset from that, pick a weekday evening?

Martin: That sounds like a good idea to me

New schedule for member meetings!!!!!

Sunday once a month 4-6 before Dark Mode

Thursday once a month before the Wiki meeting

Michael: some people might not live very close and maybe not everyone can come at a certain time so don't forget to emphasize the asynchronous, digital aspects

Paige: Judy was talking about Decidim, yet ANOTHER platform that lets you vote on stuff. Right now, the only way we have to vote is at a meeting. One thing that'd be great for the future is making a digital way to vote, asynchronously.

Judy: it's kind of a long shot and would require SO much buy-in but it's https://decidim.org/

Mick: how long would people get to vote, if we did online asynchronous voting?

Michael: suggests 1 week to discuss, 1 week to collect the votes

Martin: so if we're doing meetings twice a month that would be before the next meeting

Jake: in the past, every week we'd have a Sudo party every Wednesday and peope would bring food. It was fun, people were here, and everyone would show up eve3ry Wednesday. Then there would be a meeting once a month, and people would come on Wendesday anyway.

Jake: it's important that we address the problem of getting members through the approval process. Ivan created a kanban board but we have to talk about it, bring up people with 3 endorsements, find someone to do the rest of the process for onboarding them and sign up for paying. Also people who have applied and not gotten their 3 endorsements.


== 5.Wiki meetup ==

hosted by Ivan and Judy on Thursday 1/8/26 at 6:30pm.

* https://sudoroom.org/events/wiki-edit-a-thon/
* https://luma.com/4winxhza
* Goal is for it to be a monthly meeting. Or maybe twice a month?

=== Meeting notes for wiki meetup/member meetings ===

let's do it every week EXCEPT once a month, the member meeting replaces it!!!!!!!!!

== 6.FNB - SR member, conflict discussion ==

"___, current sudoroom member, was suspended from FNB for a pattern of impersonations of people online and squatting in the building..."

Paige: I redacted their name cuz the meeting notes are posted on the wiki

Jake: they are a paying member and was approved to be a member of sudo room years ago, but the things that they've been edoing over the last few years are concerning. If anybody wants to read the email from FNB members that a few of us got, I can email it to you or you can look at it on my screen. If someone is doing these things then their Sudo Room membership should be suspended until they go through a mediation process or an explanation of why it's not gonna happen again.

Michael: removal of a member is a serious matter

Jake: this would be suspension

Michael: I would be interested in learning more to see the evidence for people to make the decision

Jake: they've been squatting the building, which is against our agreement with the ownership of the building; if a sudo room member is doing that, then we have to suspend that member in order to not be complicit in them accessing the building.

Paige: suggestion for process, let's say if there's an accusation against you, then you are suspended from membership, and to be re-instated, you would need to get 3 members to endorse you again?

Michael: members email list should be the communication medium for this

Jake: the problem with that is there's 1000 people on that mailing list that were thinking about becoming a member a long time ago

Martin: i ike the idea of needing to get people to vouch for you again sounds like a good idea

Paige: and we do have it in the rules that a member can block, so if someone else wants to block, that's okay too

Jake read information for the case, redacted for privacy
Jake: we should suspend this member but also say that we are open to mediation

Jake: if we do this, then we turn off their door access, and turn off stripe payment.

Paige: the problem with "suspension" rather than "removal" is if it's "suspension" then they can still come to a meeting and say stuff.

Jake: can you propose different wording?

Paige: my proposal is not to say mediation. "We're gonna remove you from membership. You can apply again to be a member but if that happens then you'd have to explain why this stuff won't happen again."

Paige: does anyone object to removal of this person from membership? No objections.

Paige: can they come to Tuesday nights?

Jake: let's put that as an important question to consider; if CALLI says do not let them in then we will not let them in.

== 7.Review New Members ==

Ivan's Report:

* There are 22 live applications right now.
** We have 2 applicants paying but don't have enough endorsements
*** Ivan will send them emails to say "hey come meet people and get them to endorse you"
** We have 3 that have everything but have not signed up to pay
*** Ivan will send them reminder emails
** We have one applicant that is ready to be a member, vote?
*** Ivan will send the member welcome email
* Update process:
** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership
** https://sudoroom.org/membership
** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership/Brainstorm

= Todo items =
* Paige: register for benevity
* Mick and Paige: insurance
* Group chat to test MemberMatters - DONE
* Find out from CALLI if the person needs to be prohibited from entering the building
* Ivan: various emailing of new members and soon-to-be-members

Meeting Notes 2025-12-28

2025-12-29T21:24:58Z

Michaelz:

'''Sudo Room Meeting - Sunday December 28 2025 4pm-6pm'''

= Meeting Details =

== Roles ==
* Facilitator/s: Michael
* Timekeeper: Peter
* Notetaker/s: Judy

== Attendees ==
Ivan
Peter
Paige
Michael
Mick
Lo
Phae
Elaine
Leah
E
Jake
Martin
Romy
Judy

= Agenda & Notes =

# Finances, our money problem, 30 min
# Member Matters, 30 min
# Communication mediums/channels?, 15 mins
# Recurring member meetings, 10 mins
# New event: Wiki Meetup, 5 min
# Discuss FNB, conflict involving SR member, 10 mins
# Review new member applications

== 1.Our Money problems ==

* How much is our income, and where is it coming from?
** Income is solely from membership dues, 115 members, generate ~$1700/mo
** 2025 sudo finance(in progress) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wACIGBvBytdvL2eqh5MlLRCg1fpzSaA7SrQIw88OVZg/edit?usp=sharing
** Jake: sometimes I sell things from here. Sometimes people hand me cash. Sometimes I look in the donation bucket.
** Paige: for example, last month I did a spiel about needing to fundraise, and someone handed me $400 cash.
* How many accounts do we have, and who has access to them?
** Now we have a single bank account, which is Provident Credit Union. Paige and Jake have access to it.
** People whose names are on the bank account who can write checks are the 3 officers: Paige is President, William (moved away) is Secretary, and Ajay is Treasurer
** Paypal: Paige, Marc Juul, Jake
** We used to store money in Paypal, because we used to share a bank account. Now that we don't share the bank account with others, Paige has set up automatic transfers from Paypal to the bank account
* Can we diversify income sources? Grants? Cisco possibility? Selling things?
** Cisco has work volunteer program. Cisco will donate to nonprofits that their employees volunteer with.
** To access Cisco's grant money, we would first have to register Sudo at, https://causes.benevity.org/causes/840-994999638 - Paige can register us for this
** Peter: there exist several "vetting" sites for nonprofits that entities want us to be registered with before they donate money to us.
** Peter: someone is volunteering at the Temescal fixit clinic and Cisco is contributing $10/hr, so if she volunteers for 2 hrs a month, it'd be $20/month? Wants to see how it works.
** The idea is maybe someone who comes to volunteer on Tuesdays would want to contribute their work's donation.
* eBay has a nonprofit option, sell items to benefit Sudo: https://www.ebayforcharity.org/get-involved/selling-for-a-charity/
* Michael: EBS internet for members
** There are programs that provide affordable internet to educational and non-profit institutions
** [https://mobilecitizen.org/service/affordable-wireless-internet/ $120/yr 5G with unlimited data]. Ask members to contribute $30-$60/mo in exchange for this member benefit?
** example: Calyx Foundation has an "internet membership", we can copy what they are doing.
*** https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet
** Judy et. al: this needs to be further discussed (7 members voting yes is the quorum)
** Michael: This is new, will send out email to clarify the details and for the community to decide
* Next month, see how much money we bring in through normal contributions. Can we get to our rent of $2500?
** $2500 rent, but at some point we'll have to get our own insurance (we're riding off of Omni's insurance)
* Paige: help me with insurance. You can get it cheap, but I wanna make sure we're covered well.
* Mick: How is Sudo Room registered as an entity? Paige: nonprofit, 501c3. Mick: what kind of insurance are we gonna need? Paige: we're required by our landlord to have general liability insurance, that's it. There's a million and two million aggregate thing, but it's pretty standard. Mick volunteers to help Paige look at insurance
* Jake Proposal: Increase our minimum membership contribution to $20.

== 2.MemberMatters upgrade ==

As part of moving Sudo over to MemberMatters (a more robust subscription management service than Sudo Humans) we've set up a system to allow members to pay with their credit cards and get charged monthly or annually. There's also an option for doing a work-trade. You can try out the registration process here: https://backers.sudoroom.org/register. Feedback is welcome (perhaps on the sudo-discuss list?)

Wiki page for the MemberMatters project:https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membermatters

We want to cut over to MemberMatters soon. Can we get consensus on the membership plans/levels?

# Work/trade membership - this is for folks who can't afford $ but have some time. Is this something we want to offer in exhange for a key?
# Monthly recurring membership - between $10 - $100 month
# Annual recurring Membership - $500, $1000, $2000, $5000

People could still pay through bitcoin, paypal, in-kind trade, etc.

If there are no objections to the above, we'll activate MM and switch the registration over in the early days of 2026. In this case, we = Jek, Juul, Ivan, Anca, Sean.

* mm is already live and connected to stripe. We just need to finish making our UX adjustments (which includes some Docker hacking) and move over existing users to it.

=== Meeting notes for MM discussion ===

* Jake's intro: Sudo humans was a web portal with Stripe auto-donations. We have to pay for an extra digital ocean VPS to host it on older debian software (insecure). User interface is hard to use (no way to reset password. username is case-sensitive. requires a lot of direct interaction with admins logging in directly to the server). So for a lot of reasons we are moving to MemberMatters, which is continuously maintained and used by multiple hackerspaces around the world. There is a local developer in our sudo room discord, Recnor.
* Jake: We need to reach out to our community of people who may not be paying but meant to pay (maybe their credit card expired or whatever), and we need to direct them to move over to MemberMatters. We need more people to work on MM.
* Michael: I think we have agreed that moving over to MM and deprecating sudo humans is a good idea, it just take work to do that.
* Jake: this contribution can look like "ssh into the server and make it use a docker from disk" to "log in to MM and take notes on 'this was confusing' or 'this didn't work'" because that's where we're stuck right now. Leah has written up a list of people who have their credit cards expired. But the hold up is that we don't know whether to ask them to login to sudohumans or to create a membermatters account.
* Ivan: I've been working with Anca on the front end of MM. When you first create an account, what is the path for a new member? We've worked on membership levels. We were able to add "work-trade membership," "monthly membership," and "annual memberships." But there were 16 tiers of monthly membership and the CSS makes them all look combined. That's a technical problem, but it's connected to the question of "should we have 16 tiers??" or "should we have people enter their own amount?" or "do we even want to offer work-trade membership?" or "how does annual payment work?"
* Michael: what do people think about work-trade?
* Jake: I come at this with a lot of history with hackerspaces. We're not a makerspace where we buy membership that pays for workers that takes care of the space for you. When someone becomes a member, I hope they understand this is a collaborative effort that requires them to do stuff in order to keep this thing going. It feels like the work-trade membership would be suggesting that we turn Sudo Room into an employer by saying we turn some comrades into "employees" rather than co-creating the space. I think if we become their boss/"manager" then that destroys the relationship. If someone wants to be a member and others want them to be a member then they should maybe pay for their membership
* Michael: considering our current financial situation in which we cannot currently pay our rent from membership dues alone, having a work-trade agreement is out of discussion.
* Ivan: the reason we added it was the webpage said no one is turned away from lack of funds. So we were trying to figure out how the membership form still remains open and friendly to everyone. It doesn't seem like work-trade membership was what was meant, and I'm fine taking that out.
* Michael: we are short on money and volunteer hours. Work-trade would be going between two things we're short on. If the problem fo money is a problem for anyone, then we can have an idea of finding an exissting sudo room member to "sponsor" their membership. What about a "community bounty" to reward people contributing to sudo room?
* Paige: CCL does classes. If you generate money, you get a cut of it. We're not really in a place to give funds to people because we don't make rent.
* Ivan: sudo humans has a tier called comrade. what is that?
* Jake: comrade is default, a checkbox in the software, then an admin has to do an action and check the "member" checkbox. We shouldn't replicate this tier over to MM. It's up to us to rething things.
* Ivan: when we export user accounts from sudo humans to member matters, should we only export users who have Stripe set up?
* Jake: yes, MM actually works and we don't need the old accounts of people who've not been here in years. Sometimes we get emails coming in from info@ to get people off of their stripe automatic payments and Jake manually removes them. We can take down sudo humans after moving to MM.
* Ivan: would a good action item be "everyone here move to MM and test it out?"
* Jake: yes, participate in trying MM, troubleshoot it, test it, and if you wanna get on a signal chat or something to cooperate about this, we can do that. We just need to get MM going.
* Peter: How long is the list Leah has compiled to contact?
* Paige: she has "cards expired," "who stopped paying," but a lot of them are like "we're in a different country now" or something. Cards expired is dozens.
* Jake: Leah's lists might have over a hundred people.
* Peter: If we contact 10 a day, we could get through that list. We shouldn't wait for MM to be done before contacting people.
* Jake: the only problem is we're not sure if MM works, Judy tried changing her membership tier to $20 and it gave her an error.
* Ivan: MM is pretty close to being ready. If we all do QA in the next 2 weeks it will be ready. One problem: if we all create new accounts now, we're listed as inactive and someone with admin power in MM has to go in and change you to active. it's basically ready, we need QA to touch up those things and we want it to be a frictionless experience.
* Peter: we can start contacting people and say "try mm" then a few days later "did you try mm, did it work?"
* Phae: let's set a date. within a month, everybody here should be signed up and paying with MM. After another month, unhook sudo humans. Chicken and egg problem, let's do both approaches to get everything ready.
* Peter: let's say people miss December and January, that's revenue we've lost forever
* Jake: can we make a Signal group right now to work on Member Matters?
* Michael: existing sudo humans members, what are the steps to move them to MM?
* Jake: it's on Stripe. they don't have to do anything.
* Mick: I'm happy to help with this. I second that a Signal thread would be a good idea. Do we have a document written somewhere with order of operations, with contact info for each person, and assign us to reach out to certain groups of people, and then we'd be responsible for reaching out and getting a response from everybody on that list?
* Michael: how much should membership cost?
* Mick: is it possible to have a sliding scale with suggestion? e.g. electronic tips and gofundme have suggested donation but you can change it if you want to. I think we should suggest people donate $20/mo but there's a lot of value to keeping membership open to people who can't do that.
* Ivan: i didn't see a way to do that but maybe there's a way. That's why i had to enter the 16 options
* Jake: you have to create tiers (aka "products") on stripe in order to get stripe and mm to work together the way that we want it. The products are "$10/mo" or "$20/mo" etc. No, we don't have ability to allow members to adjust the number themselves.
* Mick: I am a project manager
* Jake: can you make us do this?
* Mick: yeah we need a spreadsheet and a workflow.
* Jake: Ivan, is there anything you need from this meeting before you can do whatever else is on your list?
* ivan: everyone here, go through the account creation process and write down what's broken. Mick, create a spreadsheet to see where everything needs to be completed. One thing I can do right away is take the "work-trade" tier out. Log in and see that the tiers look janky, and someone go in and fix the CSS. The tiers range from $10 to $500.
* Phae: just turn it into a dropdown
* Jake: we shouldn't let legacy html prevent us from showing the tiers
* Michael: question for this meeting: should we remove the $10 tier? One reason to remove it could be "if we have surplus money then we can have a fund to sponsor those who can't afford
* Elaine is creating the Signal thread right now
* Judy: what are the tiers? There are some duplicate tiers. Move this to the Signal thread.
* Mick: do we have financial analysis? Michael: Paige's google spreadsheet.
* Mick: so the monthly expenses are currently rent, and in the future, insurance and fiscal sponsorship? Yes.
* Mick: how many paying members do we have right now?
* Ivan: 115 paying members.
* Michael: avg donation is $27 on sudo humans. 40 people pay on other things.
* Peter: it's the 28th. when's the rent due?
* Paige: it's due the 25th. We paid it. There is a 5-day grace period.
* Peter: what are the consequences of being in default?
* Paige: they could evict us, but other groups have been late before.
* Paige: we have it in our lease that it will be raised by the greater of 2% OR 1% + the CPI, so starting next month, we will probably have a raise in rent of around 3%.
* Michael: We probably need to increase membership dues in the future due to rising rent. but let's not tie dues to CPI, because that would be confusing for everyone.

== 3.Communication mediums ==
* discourse forum? (judy). Discourse is completely different than discord. It's something you host yourself, and is a forum
** Michael: a forum is too similar to email list, so we should choose one or the other. It's not a good idea to have two mediums that do the same thing. General saying for hackerspace, you want a wiki, a listserv, and an IRC/realtime chat. A Discoure forum would fall in the middle as a discussion medium.
** Judy: Discourse is open source forum software that I like a lot, but I won't set one up if everyone is like "nooooo Judy no one wants to sign up for a new account, don't do it"
** Michael: there is a possibilty MM could be single sign-on
** Jake: we have very little buy-in on the email list and the Discord, but we have more on the Discord and I'd like to see that grow. If we were an open source software project group and everyone was at a high level of technical willingness and ability, then moving to Discourse woul make sense, but it's just practical that we have a wide spread of willingness and expeirence, and Discord is a sweet spot of "easy to use"
** Michael: It's not only about
** Jake: we have a forum in Discord!
** Michael: I'm not in the Discord lol
** Martin: do we know MM has a forum that we could use?
** Michael: i think a better way is use MM as single sign on for Discourse login
** Michael: Judy I think you should do it. Just let us know from technial aspect what kind of stuff do we need. Servers, domain names, any of that.
** Peter: if we do this, can we have an overarching guide to communication mechanisms of Sudo Room? We have sooooo many. I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, it's good to reach people On the other hand, I can't track everything! Judy: me too
** Michael: I have a write-up on community communciation methods that I can fix up and send to the mailing list.
** Judy: yes Michael do that.
** Peter: what problem does this solve?
** Judy: I worry that Discord the company will delete their free tier, like Slack did. I would want to stop using Discord entirely and use Discourse instead, beause Discourse includes realtime chat!!!!!!!
** Elaine: it's already happening! I can't change my name on different servers anymore, that's now a paid feature!!!!
** Mick: Tamarack, for example, has multiple Signal threads. One is just for announcements that only admins can post to. The other is backroom organizing chat where most of the activity happens. There are ways you can organize community communications.
** Peter: it's consistent with Sudo Room's mission that we need to be reclaiming the internet. I'm thinking for Michael and Judy there's an experimental group and part of it is promoting it where whatever is happening there is so cool that everyone wants to join it.
** Michael: we should have ONE of each of these categories
*** Slow: Document store: wiki (which we have)
*** Medium: Forum but only one forum (and if we had Discourse, then we would NOT have email list, in Michael's estimation)
*** Fast: Realtime communication. This one actually can be fragmented like on Signal, Discord, whatever because there are many groupchats for different purposes
* Creating a matrix space and bridge it with our discord (Michael)
** Matrix is open source and federated
** I tested the bridging using the service below, seem to work well
** https://t2bot.io
** https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord

== 4.Recurring member meeting in the future? ==

two times a month on sundays?

Romy: Yeah and have something right after like Dark Mode

Kent: I like having it right before Dark Mode. Dark Mode is the carrot after the meeting lol =) Dark Mode happens once a month.

Ivan: add cleaning parties to calendar

Michael: concept of Sudo-a-thon! come in at 10am, morning meeting on oganizational matters, pizza for lunch, afternoon there's a work party on cleaning up things, in the evening there's a code-a-thon on MM or editing the wiki!

Peter: I'm out

Ivan: Great idea

Michael: once a year a Sudo day!

Kent: we used to have 3 or 4 cleaning parties a year in 2024

Paige:

Mick: quarterly cuz there's so much to do

Michael: maybe we can do a huge Sudo day twice a year if people love it!

Paige: I can't come on Sundays but I support two times a month on Sundays

Judy: What if we did once a month on a Sunday, then two weeks offset from that, pick a weekday evening?

Martin: That sounds like a good idea to me

New schedule for member meetings!!!!!

Sunday once a month 4-6 before Dark Mode

Thursday once a month before the Wiki meeting

Michael: some people might not live very close and maybe not everyone can come at a certain time so don't forget to emphasize the asynchronous, digital aspects

Paige: Judy was talking about Decidim, yet ANOTHER platform that lets you vote on stuff. Right now, the only way we have to vote is at a meeting. One thing that'd be great for the future is making a digital way to vote, asynchronously.

Judy: it's kind of a long shot and would require SO much buy-in but it's https://decidim.org/

Mick: how long would people get to vote, if we did online asynchronous voting?

Michael: suggests 1 week to discuss, 1 week to collect the votes

Martin: so if we're doing meetings twice a month that would be before the next meeting

Jake: in the past, every week we'd have a Sudo party every Wednesday and peope would bring food. It was fun, people were here, and everyone would show up eve3ry Wednesday. Then there would be a meeting once a month, and people would come on Wendesday anyway.

Jake: it's important that we address the problem of getting members through the approval process. Ivan created a kanban board but we have to talk about it, bring up people with 3 endorsements, find someone to do the rest of the process for onboarding them and sign up for paying. Also people who have applied and not gotten their 3 endorsements.


== 5.Wiki meetup ==

hosted by Ivan and Judy on Thursday 1/8/26 at 6:30pm.

* https://sudoroom.org/events/wiki-edit-a-thon/
* https://luma.com/4winxhza
* Goal is for it to be a monthly meeting. Or maybe twice a month?

=== Meeting notes for wiki meetup/member meetings ===

let's do it every week EXCEPT once a month, the member meeting replaces it!!!!!!!!!

== 6.FNB - SR member, conflict discussion ==

"___, current sudoroom member, was suspended from FNB for a pattern of impersonations of people online and squatting in the building..."

Paige: I redacted their name cuz the meeting notes are posted on the wiki

Jake: they are a paying member and was approved to be a member of sudo room years ago, but the things that they've been edoing over the last few years are concerning. If anybody wants to read the email from FNB members that a few of us got, I can email it to you or you can look at it on my screen. If someone is doing these things then their Sudo Room membership should be suspended until they go through a mediation process or an explanation of why it's not gonna happen again.

Michael: removal of a member is a serious matter

Jake: this would be suspension

Michael: I would be interested in learning more to see the evidence for people to make the decision

Jake: they've been squatting the building, which is against our agreement with the ownership of the building; if a sudo room member is doing that, then we have to suspend that member in order to not be complicit in them accessing the building.

Paige: suggestion for process, let's say if there's an accusation against you, then you are suspended from membership, and to be re-instated, you would need to get 3 members to endorse you again?

Michael: members email list should be the communication medium for this

Jake: the problem with that is there's 1000 people on that mailing list that were thinking about becoming a member a long time ago

Martin: i ike the idea of needing to get people to vouch for you again sounds like a good idea

Paige: and we do have it in the rules that a member can block, so if someone else wants to block, that's okay too

Jake read information for the case, redacted for privacy
Jake: we should suspend this member but also say that we are open to mediation

Jake: if we do this, then we turn off their door access, and turn off stripe payment.

Paige: the problem with "suspension" rather than "removal" is if it's "suspension" then they can still come to a meeting and say stuff.

Jake: can you propose different wording?

Paige: my proposal is not to say mediation. "We're gonna remove you from membership. You can apply again to be a member but if that happens then you'd have to explain why this stuff won't happen again."

Paige: does anyone object to removal of this person from membership? No objections.

Paige: can they come to Tuesday nights?

Jake: let's put that as an important question to consider; if CALLI says do not let them in then we will not let them in.

== 7.Review New Members ==

Ivan's Report:

* There are 22 live applications right now.
** We have 2 applicants paying but don't have enough endorsements
*** Ivan will send them emails to say "hey come meet people and get them to endorse you"
** We have 3 that have everything but have not signed up to pay
*** Ivan will send them reminder emails
** We have one applicant that is ready to be a member, vote?
*** Ivan will send the member welcome email
* Update process:
** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership
** https://sudoroom.org/membership
** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership/Brainstorm

= Todo items =
* Paige: register for benevity
* Mick and Paige: insurance
* Group chat to test MemberMatters - DONE
* Find out from CALLI if the person needs to be prohibited from entering the building
* Ivan: various emailing of new members and soon-to-be-members

Sudoroom

2025-12-27T02:58:14Z

Michaelz:

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[[Welcome|Welcome to '''Sudo Room''']], a ''free'' hackerspace located at '''[[Directions|549 48th Street]]''' in north Oakland, CA!

Our slogan is: '''''HACK THE PLANET!''''' Read more ''[[About|About Sudo Room's vision, values, mission, and code of conduct]]''.

We use and share '''technology''' to promote '''social justice''', '''sustainability''', '''education''' and '''solidarity'''.

We strive to be an '''open''', '''transparent''', '''horizontal''' and '''welcoming''' community where all are supported and free to ''learn'', ''create'', ''gather'', ''collaborate'', ''work'', ''play'' and ''more!''

We are exclusively '''volunteer-run''' and supported through [https://sudoroom.org/membership donations]!

== Get involved! ==
* Email us at info [at] sudoroom [dot] org
* Stop by any event on our [https://sudoroom.org/calendar/ calendar]
* Join our [https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ discussion email list]
* Join our [https://discord.gg/zmEzQuzCWX Discord server]
* Follow us on social media
** Mastodon: [https://sfba.social/@sudoroom @sudoroom@sfba.social]
** YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@sudoroomhackerspace @sudoroomHackerspace]
** Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/sudo.room/ @sudo.room]
* Check out [[Projects|some of the '''Cool Projects''' we are working on]], or look at our available [[Work Stations|tools and work stations]]
* [[Membership | Become a member! ]]
* Join a [[Working_Groups|working group]]!

== Regular Events ==
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''Edit this list here: [[Recurring_Meetings]]''

== Work Stations ==
Check out the tools and [[Work Stations]] we have at Sudo Room and learn how to incorporate them into your next project

{{:Cool Projects}}

''Edit this list here: [[Cool Projects]]''

Cool Projects

2025-12-27T02:53:15Z

Michaelz: /* Current Projects */

<noinclude>
This page exists to catalog all the awesome things sudoroom members and guests are working on. Please add links to pages for any active projects here.
If you'd like to see all the awesome projects sudoroom has done in the past (active >6 months ago), '''check out [[Inactive Projects]]'''

Various groups meet regularly to work on these projects. See [[Recurring Meetings]]

=Sudo Room Projects=

You are always free to suggest a project at SudoRoom.


</noinclude>

== Current Projects ==

* [[Working_Groups|Working Groups]] Our big project of 2026 is to create working groups to make things run more creatively

* [[FixitClinic|Fix-It Clinic]] for the right to repair, fixing all variety of old things and new things, and learning how things work!

* [[Membermatters|MemberMatters migration]] We are trialling [https://github.com/membermatters/MemberMatters MemberMatters] to manage membership, access, and payment.

* [[Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding]] putting new life into chromebooks soon to be EOL'd, and decorating/cleaning up our collection of Dell Latitudes

* [[ProjectionMapping|Light Projector Art]] (April 2022, [[User:Romyilano]]) Projection Mapping uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting on a flat screen, light is mapped onto any surface, turning common objects of any 3D shape into interactive displays.

* [[3DPrinting|3D Printing at SudoRoom]] (ongoing as of April 2022, multiple contributors) There are a set of maintained 3D printers that members use to create cool objects.

== Older Projects ==

* [[SudoRoomHistory|SudoRoom History]]
* [[Computer keyboards campaign]] (April 2023, [[User:Invictvs]]) Donate keyboards to SudoRoom!
* [[Hack-o-mat|Hack-o-mat]] (ongoing as of January 2023) we're rebooting the sudoroom hack-o-mat, with this refresh adding more art and zines as well as fashion!
* [[FeministSwimwear|Feminist Swimwear]]
* [[Blender|Learning Blender]] We'd like to learn blender in conjunction with the (now defunct) Blender nights at Noisebridge
* [[JugglingClub|Juggling Club]] starting up a juggling club held at the Tuesday hardware hack nights!
* [[XR]] Augmented reality, [[WebXR]] and virtual reality (basically all XR) at SudoRoom.
* [[SudoMesh|SudoMesh or the people's network]] the balcony above SudoRoom has been renovated and SudoMesh is active and going again! Or is it the people's network now?
* [[CommunityInfra|Community Data Center]] Who needs corporate "hyper-scale" data centers, when you can have hyper-local? For us, by us!
* [[ArtificialIntelligence]] all the AI buzzwords in one bucket - no seriously, we have had some fun non cheesy projects around AI.
* [[AppropriateTechnology]]
* [[LearningToLearn]] - How to learn effectively in an increasingly distraction crowded world?
* [[Rust]] we have a Rust Salon going on!
* [[Hammond_Organ|Hammond Organ]] (ongoing as of March 2022, [[User:kent]], multiple contributors) First brought to Omni in 2015. Ongoing restoration of a Hammond organ and Leslie speaker.
* [[Shaders]] Shaders learning group

Cool Projects

2025-12-27T02:52:06Z

Michaelz: /* Current */

<noinclude>
This page exists to catalog all the awesome things sudoroom members and guests are working on. Please add links to pages for any active projects here.
If you'd like to see all the awesome projects sudoroom has done in the past (active >6 months ago), '''check out [[Inactive Projects]]'''

Various groups meet regularly to work on these projects. See [[Recurring Meetings]]

=Sudo Room Projects=

You are always free to suggest a project at SudoRoom.


</noinclude>

== Current Projects ==

* [[Working_Groups|Working Groups]] Our big project of 2026 is to create working groups to make things run more creatively

* [[FixitClinic|Fix-It Clinic]] for the right to repair, fixing all variety of old things and new things, and learning how things work!

* [[MemberMatters migration|Membermatters]] We are trialling [MemberMatters|https://github.com/membermatters/MemberMatters] to manage membership, access, and payment.

* [[Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding]] putting new life into chromebooks soon to be EOL'd, and decorating/cleaning up our collection of Dell Latitudes

* [[ProjectionMapping|Light Projector Art]] (April 2022, [[User:Romyilano]]) Projection Mapping uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting on a flat screen, light is mapped onto any surface, turning common objects of any 3D shape into interactive displays.

* [[3DPrinting|3D Printing at SudoRoom]] (ongoing as of April 2022, multiple contributors) There are a set of maintained 3D printers that members use to create cool objects.

== Older Projects ==

* [[SudoRoomHistory|SudoRoom History]]
* [[Computer keyboards campaign]] (April 2023, [[User:Invictvs]]) Donate keyboards to SudoRoom!
* [[Hack-o-mat|Hack-o-mat]] (ongoing as of January 2023) we're rebooting the sudoroom hack-o-mat, with this refresh adding more art and zines as well as fashion!
* [[FeministSwimwear|Feminist Swimwear]]
* [[Blender|Learning Blender]] We'd like to learn blender in conjunction with the (now defunct) Blender nights at Noisebridge
* [[JugglingClub|Juggling Club]] starting up a juggling club held at the Tuesday hardware hack nights!
* [[XR]] Augmented reality, [[WebXR]] and virtual reality (basically all XR) at SudoRoom.
* [[SudoMesh|SudoMesh or the people's network]] the balcony above SudoRoom has been renovated and SudoMesh is active and going again! Or is it the people's network now?
* [[CommunityInfra|Community Data Center]] Who needs corporate "hyper-scale" data centers, when you can have hyper-local? For us, by us!
* [[ArtificialIntelligence]] all the AI buzzwords in one bucket - no seriously, we have had some fun non cheesy projects around AI.
* [[AppropriateTechnology]]
* [[LearningToLearn]] - How to learn effectively in an increasingly distraction crowded world?
* [[Rust]] we have a Rust Salon going on!
* [[Hammond_Organ|Hammond Organ]] (ongoing as of March 2022, [[User:kent]], multiple contributors) First brought to Omni in 2015. Ongoing restoration of a Hammond organ and Leslie speaker.
* [[Shaders]] Shaders learning group

Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding

2025-12-19T19:35:11Z

Michaelz:

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=== Macbooks ===
There are around a dozen Macbook Pros (Model A1278) in the space. They can be upgraded to OS X Catalina through the official method. With Open Core Legacy Patcher they can be upgraded to OS X Sequoia.

=== Chromebooks ===
The Chromebooks (Dell Chromebook 11s) are still locked by FUSD. Until they unlock them for us, we have been getting around the problem by reflashing their BIOS chips.

We have USB programmers and adapters necessary to do this. The process is outlined here: https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Unbricking

An ongoing project is to make a jig with the laser cutter and pogo pins, so that we can reach the BIOS chip from the front side of the motherboard.

====Tested Linux Distributions====
These chromebooks only have only 16GB SSD. We also are expecting to give these out to the public so we are trying to find light-weight but also user friendly linux distributions to recommend. A good option is to extend space with a usb drive, but we have been testing just with internal SSD.

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So far we have tested
* MX Linux 23 - everything works (including audio) out of box. distribution is ~8GB
* Lubuntu (unknown version...was old) - everything works, including audio out of box.
* PeppermintOS - everything works (including audio) out of box
* debian 12 with LXQT - everything works (including audio) out of the box. 2/3 disk used after install
* Zorin 16.3 - tested, no audio output from speaker
* Alpine - tested, no audio output from speaker
* antiX 22 and 23 beta - lightweight but have not been able to figure out audio out to speakers
* Puppy - also no audio to speakers
* Debian 11 live with XFCE - no audio to speakers
* Arch Linux - audio OK with PipeWire. 4.4GB used including Firefox and LibreOffice
* Pop!_OS - 20Gb mini drive storage requirement (which is greater than chromebooks 16Gb), but runs audio OK from a live USB
* Void Linux with XFCE - no speaker audio

=== Dell Latitudes E6420 ===
We are going through the Dell Latitudes and updating their firmware to latest version before giving out. As of Sep 10, 2023, half have been updated and are ready to be flashed with Linux and given out.

We are planning an event to try and refresh them/ get some creatives in the greater of omni commons generally in Sudo Room to de-brand these laptops with stickers/vinyl skins. We have some laser-safe vinyl that we can cut with our laser cutter. Most need a good cleaning, and some of their palm wrests are wearing down. We can create a laser template to make a skin over the palm wrest. Cleaning with soap or isopropyl seems to make the problem worse.

=== Also see ===

* USPIRG’s petition to extend the life of Chromebooks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-QGoW0UzE0t0oUsKzM6Xsxft1kHM-d6boyLS0UAGvwagUWA/viewform
* For more background see “Chromebook Churn”: https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-churn-report-highlights-problems-of-short-lived-laptops-in-schools/
* And Fixit Clinic's efforts to keep already AUEed Chrombooks in service as general purpose computing devices:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JSbGXhJFJeABWVOn1wO4M6bPT-gPBLV4oQ85xMyvYtM/edit

Sudoroom

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[[Welcome|Welcome to '''Sudo Room''']], a ''free'' hackerspace located at '''[[Directions|549 48th Street]]''' in north Oakland, CA!

Our slogan is: '''''HACK THE PLANET!''''' Read more ''[[About|About Sudo Room's vision, values, mission, and code of conduct]]''.

We use and share '''technology''' to promote '''social justice''', '''sustainability''', '''education''' and '''solidarity'''.

We strive to be an '''open''', '''transparent''', '''horizontal''' and '''welcoming''' community where all are supported and free to ''learn'', ''create'', ''gather'', ''collaborate'', ''work'', ''play'' and ''more!''

We are exclusively '''volunteer-run''' and supported through [https://sudoroom.org/membership donations]!

== Get involved! ==
* Email us at info [at] sudoroom [dot] org
* Stop by any event on our [https://sudoroom.org/calendar/ calendar]
* Join our [https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ discussion email list]
* Join our [https://discord.gg/zmEzQuzCWX Discord server]
* Follow us on social media
** Mastodon: [https://sfba.social/@sudoroom @sudoroom@sfba.social]
** YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@sudoroomhackerspace @sudoroomHackerspace]
** Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/sudo.room/ @sudo.room]
* Check out [[Projects|some of the '''Cool Projects''' we are working on]], or look at our available [[Work Stations|tools and work stations]]
* [[Membership | Become a member! ]]
* Join a [[Working_Groups|working group]]!

== Regular Events ==
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== Work Stations ==
Check out the tools and [[Work Stations]] we have at Sudo Room and learn how to incorporate them into your next project

== Active Projects ==
Get inspired! Here's what members are working on:
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