Mesh/15 September 2015

sudo mesh annual board meeting, 15 sep 2015

We are meeting in La Commune!

Attendees

• Jenny, Pete, Jeremy, Jake, Marc, Matt
• Came late: Mitar and his friend Jake

Discussion

• Pete: You can be a sharer or a recipient of sharing
• Pete: Fundamentally about being in a participatory community
• Pete: Did you ever try to set up a tin can phone as a friend? [image overlay of tin can phone lines across oakland]
• Jenny shows Pete our video. He digs it. J suggests we could do more videos, short 30-second/1-minute 'PSA' style clips tailored to different audiences
• Jeremy: Would like to do more presentations at schools to recruit more young coders. Anyone else interested in co-presenting?
• Pete's neighbor found the peoplesopen network and cancelled his service :D looked up the project and was stoked, contacted pete offering to share the costs

Proposals

New Board of Directors

• Remove: Lilia, Luis
• Re-elected: Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Jake, Matt, ChrisJ, MaxB
• New Directors: Pete, Arlo

Consenso: 5/5

Becoming a fiscally-sponsored project of the Omni

• Could help Omni achieve 33% charitable income as required of a 501c3
• Sudo Room might achieve 501c3 status more quickly
• Jenny's also filled out most of our 501c3 nonprofit application if we'd like to go that rought

• Proposal: Delegate this task to Jenny

Consenso: 5/5

Election of Officers

• President: Jenny Ryan
• Secretary: Pete Forsyth
• Treasurer: Marc Juul

Consenso: 5/5

Post-meeting discussion on events we'd like to organize

• BACH Unconference - Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces 3rd annual Unconference. Visit http://ba.chgrp.org/ to learn more and join the mailing list if you'd like to participate!
• Hackmeet - Matt has the domain hackmeet.net - Interested in hosting european-style 'hackmeets' to work on building solutions to tangible real-world problems, hacktivism
• Open Alternatives conference - 18-21 March 2016
  • Paige and Jenny have been discussing organizing a 'decentralized tech' conference
  • Marc is interested in expanding the scope to 'Open Alternatives' and inviting participation from Counter Culture Labs and other groups & projects working on open technologies and building alternatives to the current system
  • Battlemesh track over the week
  • Distributed / decentralizing tech track
  • Biosensors track
  • Failcon - sharing stories of failure in community organizing
  • 50% maximum techies
  • Overlap of technical and nontechnical tracks
  • Block party / Creating Commons-style
    • Phat Beets is interested in helping
• Name ideas: Creating Commons, Creating Alternatives, Decentralized Alternatives, Forging a Commons, Growing a Commons, Collective Liberation, Collective Conference, Flock Together, The Humans Conference, Open Alternatives