View source for Mass Effect Presenters 1.10.2014

These are the collective notes from the [[Mass effect]] presentations.

[[File:Chris b the man.jpg|thumb|Chris on the mixer]][[File:Collective poster.jpg|thumb|One of our collectively made posters]]

=Speakers=

Ricardo from [http://www.theselc.org Sustainable Econoym Law Center]
* Non profit law center to support cooperatives and collectives involved in Cottage Food Act.
* Meets twice in Berkeley Once in Oakland every month

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Marina from [http://www.oaklandwiki.org Oakland Wiki]

* A wikipedia just for Oakland
* All sorts of information about Oakland
* The issue of there being lots of cool stuff in Oakland, but it's hard to find it all


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Jenny from '''Sudo Room Mesh Network'''

Community owned wireless network

looking for ideas about what kind of local applications could support neighbourhoods
e.g. local bulletin boards

biggest challenges include that backbone nodes need line of sight

currently in West Oakland; looking to connect to East Oakland

All open more efficient use of bandwidth and keeping everyone connected

cheap off the shelf hardware but running custom firmware and software.

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'''Rock Paper Scissors'''
501c3 arts and arts education foundation
2278 Telegraph
rpscollective.org

existed as an organization for about 10 years

Were initial first instigators of First Friday
"expression is a matter of social justice"
Low/free arts classes

Specialized curriculum for high school age students in Oakladn High Schools: designed to provide credit

zine library

all volunteer run -- no one paid to run space or do programming " or do any of it"

craft night every first and third sunday; writing thing foruth sunday

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'''Community Democracy Project'''
communitydemocracyproject.org

"Participatory Budget 2.0"
All Oakland budget should be controlled by direct democracy in Oakland

current proposal: create a new city department that goes into neighborhood to ensure that areas can be involved in hyperlocal decisions as well as whole city decisions
2500 - 5000 per neighborhood community

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'''Food Not Bombs'''
ebfnb.org
healthy vegetarian vegans meals 6 days a week from waste stream

food sharing network -- remainder of food is distributed around bay area

go t oactivist events to make food for those events

bottleneck is not waystream but volunteers

something kind of close to a CSA when there's extra

6 different kitchens

pickups from all the different farmers markets and different grocery stores

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'''The Neighborhood Village''' (formerly The Neighborhood Vegetables)

garden improvement collective, now trying to expand to lots of other stuff

goal: do this one neighborhood at a time

in part to have a gift economy instead of a time-dollar type exchange
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LIGHTNING TALKS:'''
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'''Oakland Drops Beats''' (no website yet)
Music crawls
mostly between 14th to 15gth franklin to braodway
mostly small venues -- art studios for example
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'''An idea presented:''' 
coop collective drop-in: someone hosts just a drop in :
What is a collective? What is a cooperative? What is going on in the community?
turns out SELC migth be good option
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'''East Bay Co-Housing'''
Coops, cohousing, group housing
ebcoho.org
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'''Co op videas:''' conferences etc.

youtube.com/jjnoire
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'''Sun Snychrony''' (tech company)
project through a technology company
New type of solar for Laney College
Oakland has a lot of buying power and doesn't use it well
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'''Omni Group'''
Proposal in the works:
Buying a space off of 48th and shattuck; 24k sq ft buidling
Buy this space for a collective of collectivesl