Sudo room

Sudo room
File:Sudoroom.png
Status	Hackerspace status::building
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::2012-11-15
Website	Website::http://sudoroom.org
IRC	IRC::#sudoroom
Twitter	Twitter::http://twitter.com/sudoroom
E-mail	Email::info@sudoroom.org
Mailinglist	Mailinglist::http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/sudoroom
Snail mail	postal-code:: Oakland United States
Number of members	Number of members::23
Members	{{#ask: member of::Sudo room}}
Location	Location::37 ° 48' 38.9" N, 122 ° 16' 4.8" W
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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, to share ideas and projects in citizen science, digital citizenship and literacy, environmental sustainability, community engagement, and self-government.

Sudo Room is committed to access, empowerment, 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 2135 Broadway St., Oakland, CA (near the 19th St BART).
• 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 are now:

• Forging a Compact.

We made headway with:

• How we make decisions.
• Developing our Governance Structure
• How we create income.
• How we define membership.
• We have a room, are seeking more room?

Next Steps

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

• August 10th - Get bank account
• August 24th - Expand membership, get a sense of paying members
• August 31st - Get first payment
• September 3rd - 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 found a creative community hacker space in the East Bay, specifically in Oakland, CA.
• Establish a platform and space committed to:
  • Citizen science
  • Democratic Culture
  • Access to Knowledge
  • Freedom to Connect
  • 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) --
    • the useful arts & sciences?
    • information, data, knowledge, wisdom?
    • memes, genes, bits, and atoms?
    • 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 - Netizen Rights & Freedoms
  • Doing stuff to make our community openly accessible.

    ...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.

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
20. 06-06-2012 Meetup
21. 06-13-2012 Meetup
22. 06-20-2012 Meetup
23. 06-27-2012 Meetup
24. 07-04-2012 Meetup
25. 07-11-2012 Meetup
26. 07-18-2012 Meetup
27. 07-25-2012 Meetup
28. 08-01-2012 Meetup
29. 08-08-2012 Meetup
30. 08-15-2012 Meetup
31. 08-22-2012 Meetup
32. 08-29-2012 Meetup
33. 09-05-2012 Meetup
34. 09-12-2012 Meetup
35. 09-19-2012 Meetup
36. 09-26-2012 Meetup
37. 10-03-2012 Meetup
38. 10-10-2012 Meetup
39. 10-17-2012 Meetup
40. 10-24-2012 Meetup
41. 10-31-2012 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
• Coyote Counter Collective
• The Holdout
• Your group / space?