Sudo room

Sudo room
File:Sudoroom.png
Status	Hackerspace status::planned
Country	Country::United States
State or District	State::California
City	City::Oakland
Date of founding	Date of founding::2011/11/14
Last Updated	Last Updated::2012-05-31
Website	Website::http://sudoroom.org
Twitter	Twitter::http://twitter.com/sudoroom
E-mail	Email::sudoroom@citizensciencequarterly.com
Mailinglist	Mailinglist::http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom
Snail mail	postal-code:: Oakland United States
Members	{{#ask: member of::Sudo room}}
Location	Location::

Sudo Room is an open, non-hierarchical, collaborative community of humans, including tech developers, citizen scientists, activists, artists--and all combinations in between and beyond!--who are interested in and working towards social change. Our goal is to create the first inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in downtown Oakland, so that ideas and projects in areas such as citizen science, digital/online citizenship and literacy, community engagement, and government transparency may be exchanged and grow.

Sudo Room is committed to access, transparency, and public/social good. Sudoers have a great diversity of interests and we emphasize respect and solidarity among ourselves and with others.

Read and Inform a potential methodology for Sudo Room.

Meetings

• Our weekly planning meetings take place:
  • Every Wednesday evening from 7-9pm at Tech Liminal at 268 14th St., Oakland, CA (near Harrison St).
• Anyone interested in learning more about Sudo Room, meeting awesome people, and participating in our emergent community is welcome to attend!

Contact

• Many thanks to hackerspaces.org for our initial email list: sign up here.

Plan

Current Critical Momentum

We have made headway with:

• How we make decisions.
• How we create income.

The legacy (needs updating) plan below is composed of: goals (early mission/vision), constraints, and approaches.

Next Steps

As per discussions and polling, we are moving toward these steps:

• May 30th - Get bank account
• June 6th - Expand membership, get a sense of paying members
• June 13th - Get first payment
• July 1 - Rent for Space

Research

• Conduct research on other hackerspaces, exploring their models of community, governance and funding.
• Create a list of open knowledge ecosystem organizations in the Bay Area.
• Examine potential tax structures

Needs to be Updated

Goals

• To create a creative community hacker space in the East Bay Area, specifically in Oakland, CA.
• Establish a platform and space committed to:
  • Citizen science
  • Non-technical (humanities, social science, the environment/ environmental justice, arts, crafts, all the squishy stuff!) and technical knowledge (including transitions and bridges between the two)
    • Non-technical knowledge includes but is not limited to expertise in fields or disciplines that can be largely independent of technology. Also includes non-academic realms of knowledge.
  • Digital/Online Citizenship

    ...to do something more with digital and network technology

  • Environmental sustainability
  • Education and mentorship
  • Community engagement
  • Public access
• To become a center for active hacking projects but also a destination where speakers on the areas listed above may be hosted, and where folks may go for skill sharing classes

For examples, check out our list of potential projects or read about ones we've shared on our website.

Towards Opening a Space: Considerations

• BART train proximity and disability access are crucial location constraints.
• Areas of preferred location are: Temescal, Downtown, Lake Merritt, and West Oakland areas.
• Open to consider warehouse spaces and office spaces.
• Business address, to get chemicals, supplies, etc.
• There are a few hackerspaces in the East Bay, some tied to Maker Culture, but there are various virtual and software emphases. Existent spaces:
  • Ace Monster Toys - cool hackerspace with lots of tools and infrastructure. Definitely friends in the East Bay!
  • The Crucible
  • Ponoko
  • Tech Liminal (technology salon / coworking space; hosts Make:SF meetups)
  • Who is NIMBY space?
  • Who is The Holdout? (related to Occupy Oakland)
    • 2313 San Pablo Big green building (tag: no set feature)
    • Opportunity for "Collectives" to apply to share the space.
  • Who is Blue Door Co-working Space?

Approaches

• Build a community and group of members, grow our ideas together, and open a space before the end of 2012.
• Create online presence and communications infrastructure
  • Utilize our website and blog more effectively!
  • Beg our artsy friends to fulfill our design needs.
  • Make a video for crowd-funding opportunities
• Hold weekly meetup / salon.
• Collect membership dues to start building a budget as a Voluntary [membership] Association.
• Apply to relevant grants, fellowships, and various funding opportunities.

Projects

• Read (and contribute to) our list of projects to see (and inform) what kinds of projects we will be able to do in this space! You can also see projects we've featured on our website.

Mood Board

• Mood at pinterest.com

Meeting Minutes

Scratch pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom

1. Initial Meeting
2. First Wed Meetup
3. 12-07-2011 Meetup
4. 12-14-2011 Meetup
5. 12-21-2011 Meetup
6. 12-28-2011 Meetup
7. 01-04-2011 Meetup
8. 01-11-2011 Meetup
9. 01-18-2011 Meetup
10. 01-25-2011 Meetup
11. 02-01-2011 Meetup
12. meeting minutes black-hole!
13. 02-22-2012 Meetup
14. meeting minutes black-hole!
15. 04-25-2012 Meetup
16. meeting minutes sort-of-black-hole, we have these somewhere...
17. 05-16-2012 Meetup
18. 05-23-2012 Meetup
19. 05-30-2012 Meetup

Creating a new minutes page? Copy and paste the code from herein a new minutes page: Sample Meeting Minutes Template.

Friends

• Noisebridge
• Ace Monster Toys
• HackerDojo
• BioCurious
• Tech Liminal
• Mothership HackerMoms
• LOLspace (Oakland Makerspace)
• The Crucible
• Your group / space?