Meeting Notes 2016-02-10

sudoroom meeting Wednesday 10 Feb 2016

intros

• robb- he = i can blind people (temporarily)
• mark = he/they/dude - picnics and food bring people together
• marc = he = being critical of swedish products
• jenny = she = lost her powers :( (temporarily)
• matt = he = i am rubber, you are glue, everything I say bounces off of me and sticks to YOU!
• julio = he = invisibility
• max = ? = avoiding meetings

announcements

• Mark wants to put on a 'diversity in tech' event sponsored by fedora - get in touch
• Omni Love Party this Saturday! Bunch of bands, open mic, Food Not Bombs meal <3 all proceeds to Omni <3 - https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/omni-commons-love-party-and-open-mic/
  • tech needs: audio splitter, xlr cable - can you help?
• http://dirtypcbs.com/about.php

finances

• Stripe has agreed to lower our fraud charge dispute fees from $15/each to $5/each (lowering our fines from ~$500 to $160), but Jenny is requesting a 100% waive :P stay tuned!
• $169.38 in bank account + $469.96 coming in from paypal = $639.34
• See https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2016-02-03#finances for breakdown

ideas for making sudoroom better

• reorg website, host more events, put them on the front page

old members

• our members are getting older. this needs to stop.
• yar thinks we need to reach out to people who don't come anymore, ask them why, ask them for critiques of sudoroom
• matt proposes a phone bank
• first we need to create a list of such people. this is a task in itself. starting with anyone who:
  • has attended a meeting
  • has emailed the list
  • has participated in the IRC

omni proposals

New Rent Payment Scheme

Finance / Fundraising working groups propose we adopt the following rent accounting process, where individual operating costs are explicitly and transparently listed, divided appropriately, then compiled for each collective into a round monthly rent that does not fluctuate with minor changes in costs (e.g. we all get a fixed utilities payment, pro-rated based on each group's contributions, rather than a large even split calculated every month based on whatever our bill says):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O8nDyJsiMzCanXFyllUUrjG5ergodGnJVkWljew6-eA/edit#gid=0

action items

• set up a passpack for sudo!
• new member brochure
• send reminder to members to PAY DUES!

previously

• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2016-02-03
• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2016-01-27
• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2016-01-20
• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2016-01-13