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May 15 2013
Attending: Matt, Ryan, Marina, Jenny, Sam, Carmen, Africa, Will, Len, Tommy, Bill, Jordan, Vicky, Rev. Phil, Naomi, Max, Pete

==Introductions==
Co-Facilitator: Matt
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)

What is one thing you like to share with others? Food, wine, ideas, files, internet, connections :D

Icebreaker (10 min)

Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months

More people! Mo' space! Mo' money!

Sustainable funding

More representation of Oakland

Finding cool neighbors

Being receptive to hobbyists

Community / education / diversity

Summer fundraiser, summer stuff generally (field trips, retreats!)

Biggifying

Access & membership services sorted

More cross-collaboration between the Bay Area hackerspaces

Share food / sudo mate if available.

==Announcements==

Co-Facilitator: Ryan
(< 8 minutes)

===Consent Agenda===

(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

Sundays @ 7pm - Cleaning of Natural Decay

Who is available to lead this week? ___________

Craigslist posting looking for friends: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html

Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access)

Tweet any space details @sudoroom

Email info@sudoroom.org

===Other Announcements===

This Sat TIL: Fix It Day! (yaaaaayyy!!!): https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#May_18_Fix-It_Day.21_.28PLUS_Linux_Install_Day.21.29

Sign up for TIL's (no one is scheduled after this week): https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned

BIKE SMUT: This Friday, doors open 8:22, show starts 9:07. (Vicky, who will be a little late)

Signs will be put up advertising adultiness of the event

Vicky and Phil take full responsibility fr cleaning. (Vicky is anal-retentive and this will not be a problem)

GLOW WORMS: We need 2 more! Please contact Vicky via email/gchat if you would like to join in helping facilitate a safe space on Friday.

SECURITY/GREETERS: Would anyone like to volunteer in shifts to hang out and greet people as they enter? Anthony expressed interest. Anyone else?

VOLUNTEER MOVERS: Vicky needs a person or 2 persons to help move speakers onto a truck (6pmish), into the space and out of the space (end of show, midnightish). Any volunteers?

If you have any concerns/questions/comments/suggestions please contact Vicky via direct email (best way to reach her), not listserv.

Presentation: beautiful DIY cloth menstrual pad (Vicky)

Interested in more inter-hackerspaces collab? Join Open Hack Night every Monday at 7pm @LOL (1234 23rd Avenue, San Antonio (east Oakland)). LOL is a POC, Queer and Women-organized hackerspace. It is radically inclusive--EVERYONE is a desired member! Their organizers want us to do more stuff at each others' spaces. :] :] (Vicky)

Next BACH planning meeting: Fri May 24 @ 8pm at West Gate San Leandro, 1933 Davis St, San Leandro

BACH info: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces

Sudo Bike

=== ACTION ITEMS ===

Co-Facilitatory: Marina (< 5 min)

Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting:

New Business:

Africa and Carmen can sign up for east bay diybio with eastbaydiybio@googlegroups.com <go to there

Max is researching alternative ISPs and recommends LMI, will continue this discussion on the sudo-sys list.

Old Business:

[postponed until next week] WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE to rock paper scissors collective? - Matt will help

Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - Romy hosted Hacker Happy Hour

Oakland Nights Live - what to do?

[postponed until next week] Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Capital 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.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fyHwH-O_tMEW3c01HvHbmAHDqj6aD2DSDmpdtM_DfKg/edit?usp=sharing

Postponed (not for discussion, only for reference):

[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.

[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

[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

==Fiscal Solvency==

(20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Sam

Third Wed - collect dues! (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=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3hUZldyejlXdFE#gid=7

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

Financial Planning

Fund-raising efforts?

Leverage existing resources and infrastructure

E.g. events, fund-raisers

Recurring income

sustainable for a long time

Long-term sustainability and viability

e.g. meetups, institutional stability, etc.

Creating items at low-cost for considerable mark-up donation

T-shirts

other swag

Electronic kits

workshops?

Ethersheet Spreadsheet to track revenues? Automated form (Google Forms)?

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas

Food

Cottage Food Law

Shared Kitchens/Gardens

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. Bill

Eddie

Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as a service we could offer.

==Amendments to the Articles of Association==
Co-Facilitator: ?

==Conflict Resolution==
Co-Facilitator: ?

==Additional Items==
(per item) Co-Facilitator: Tommy

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--let's do that now!

Exterior security - safety of the surrounding area

Lease vs month-to-month rent (latter preferred)

Kitchen / communal kitchen

Street-facing

No regressions from the current space

Strategy

Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access)

Tweet any space details @sudoroom

Email info@sudoroom.org

Craigslist posting looking for friends: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html

New Logos - Ryan

Oakland Nights Live

Cleaning up after events

Max has volunteered to be liason between Public School and Oakland Nights Live

==Action Items==
Scribe: Jenny

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

Max, Jordan and sudo-sys will brainstorm on alternative ISPs

Tommy will update fiscal solvency spreadsheet

Membership management system - Bill and Tommy

=== Meeting Brief for Announce List ===
Scribe: Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes

==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?

Recap on IRC

Meeting Notes 2013-05-15 - Revision history

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