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[[Sudo room#Meeting Minutes|''<< Back to Sudo Room Meeting Minutes'']]
==Gems==
'''Things written in the margins'''
* Sudo-Agent as concept of "participant" in Sudo Room!
* (there was one more element of marginalia I can't recall...)
* ''"What's on the Wiki Counts"''

==Attending==
Jenny, Timon, Rachel, Eddie, Victoria, Marina, Micheal, Greg, Eddan, Matt

==Notes==
'''Agenda''' 0. Introductions 1. Decision Making 2. Finding a Space 

* + Community Bank of the Bay

 '''Notes:''' 1.1 Decision Making 

* Topics:
** '''Membership.''' Do we have it? If so, what are the levels/ benefits/ rules of engagement & expectations?
*** Membership and Governance are related.
**** Governance is a superstructure of Membership
**** Paying Membership get voting rights? Or setup a timebank system?
*** Lets define a what a member is
**** Qualitifations
***** Rite of Passage
****** technoshamanic rituals :P
***** Financial Contribution
***** Time bank
****** Anthony Di Franco BACE.org
*** Honorary membership?
*** Representative Do-ocracy?

 

* '''Project Endorsement.''' When does SudoRoom attach its name and "backing" to a project, if ever?

 

* '''Governance.''' How do we make decisions on behalf of SudoRoom? Are financially-concerned decisions different or do they involve a different group of people vs. other kinds?
** Is it more important to setup governance first?
** Heuristics: make only neccessary decisions
** Are we going to register as non-profit (501(c)3)? This will determine legal structure
** Examples: How do you pay rent? Insurance?
** What are the possible legal structures? Pros and Cons
*** 501 (c) 3
*** LLC
*** Corporation
**** B-Corporation: http://bcorp.com

 

* '''Activities''' (non-hacking). Will SudoRoom have speakers/ events/ classes? What system or structure do we put in place to facilitate this? Do others need to agree on any aspects of these "extracurricular" activities?
** What is the culture?
** How do you establish a culture?
** How do you regulate the flow of new people to ensure the establishment of culture
** Vision/Goods/Culture

 

* '''META and BUSINESS decisions'''
** Rent? Utilities? Insurance? Liabilities? Changes to group structure? Dissolution?

 '''1.2. Who makes these decisions?''' Qualifications: -Application: can range from asking how to be a member or a project proposal or rite of passage (below) -Rite of Passage: demonstrates committment / reliability / follow-through (consistency) -Alternative currencies: 

* -Time Bank (contact Anthony Di Franco)
* -OurVolts (Anca & James, Drupal)

-Recommendation (trust-based referall network) -Honorary Membership -Agreement - opportunity for accountability 

* <nowiki>**Assessing whether people are "being Sudo or not" (Rachel)</nowiki>

-Representative Do-ocracy 1.3 How are these decisions made? -Consensus -Representative Do-ocracy 1.4 Where and when are these decisions made? 

* '''Options:'''
* Online (proposals and concerns?)
* Weekly meetings (agenda and discussion?)
* delay/schedule for introduction & decision making, allowing for asynchronous discussion & predictable decision making cycle
* 

'''2. Money Making''' Three broad categories of income-generation: 2.1. membership 2.2. goods/services 2.3. fundraising/crowdsourcing 2.1. membership what are the advantages, if any to membership? to what extent should financial contribution be separate from 1) governance privileges 2) access to the space 

* if there is agreement on separating financial membership from access/votes, how do you solve the perception of the "usual" definition of member (ie, many people understand membership as paying x for y privileges).
* can an alternate term be more useful to avoid the "usual" perception of membership? here are some alternate terms!: participant, affiliate, joiner, building block, supporter, sudo-agent (this term got a lot of support)
* instead of defining benefits of membership, define responsibilities of membership?
* logistics
** membership amount ($50-100, sliding scale?)
** in-kind options vs just cash; is there a need for this; a list of trades? (services exist that allow management of this kind of setup: timebank, ourvolts)

 2.2 goods/services 

* examples: classes, events, conferences, speakers, skillshares, workshops, movie nights, etc.
* sudoers have a lot of talent and can offer many possible services/events/goods that can be used to raise money.
* membership and fundraising interacts with this type of income
** selling goods/services can fuel and support membership (ie, members can provide goods/host events/teach classes/act as speakers + these activities can bring new members)
** maybe members are ones who can initiate classes, speakers, and other group projects
** goods/services provided can inform viability of grants/crowdfunding
* <nowiki>**does charging for these opportunities run counter to the sudo open + accessible principle?</nowiki>

 2.3 fundraising 

* examples: grants (foundation, city/state/govt), crowd-funding, corporate, investment, donations
* kickstarter-esque campaigns have been discussed in meetings in the past and have received support
* fundraising is time-consuming and difficult and will be more likely if membership is solid (also, goods/services provided by the community can inform the viability of grants/crowdfunding)
* "donate" button on the site is a good minimum option
* crowdfunding vs funding portal (eg; Sudo Room as Kickstarter Project vs. Sudo Room as Kickstarter :)

 <nowiki>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</nowiki> '''Key points tabled:''' 

* How do we demonstrate transparency, the moment of decision-making/consensus? (Eddan)
* We should discuss our autodocumentation meta-strategy :) (Jenny)
* Talked to Anthony Di Franco about democratizing our tax model and cooperative voluntary equity/revenue share

 '''<nowiki>---------------------------ACTION ITEMS---------------------------</nowiki>''' ''"What's on the Wiki Counts"'' 1. Model + Budget + Income investigations (e.g Noisebridge, other) 2. Tax Structure Options: Eddan, Matt, Eddie 

* Timon - Zoning

3. Distilling Decision Maker/Community Options (Matt, Marina, Rachel, Jenny, Timon) Will work on tonight (May 16) 4. Most transparent process [#3] 5. Determining important deadlines 6. Clean up listing of table of properties (Eddie, Matt) Eddan spoke to Debra Acosta about realstate and had a place that he was interested in and it fell through. it's important to keep track of contacts

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