Meeting Notes 2014-10-08

Icebreaker: say one word

• ben turtles
• patrick hungry
• jonathan duck
• yar computer
• timothy glass
• matt nails
• alice late
• brendan tobacco
• boyd boyd

Announcements

• Update on Omni fundraiser video this past Sunday 10/05
• 2014 BACH Unconference happening HERE, this weekend (at omni) Oct 11-12 (Sat-Sun)
  • Show up on Fri Oct 10 night (7pm-ish) to help set-up for the weekend ;)
  • Help plan, contact @tunabananas (Jenny) or @wrought (Matt)
• Sudo Mesh thursday meetings are for outreach, tuesday nights are for tech/dev
• New Omni Commons email lists: https://omnicommons.org/lists/
• einstein for mayor http://www.einsteinforoakland.org/
• Join Omni Fundraising Committee / Working Group / Cabal (OMG WE NEED YOU)
  • Finding next meeting time: http://doodle.com/dak8z3b8yyn6en3g

New Members

• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/New_Member_Script
• Chris is now a member

ben

• why? space to work on interesting projects, meet ppl, exchange ideas
• what hack? autonomous robots w/CV & giant claws. robots mostly.an
• what share? ROBOTS. intro to programming class. maybe as a BAPS class, or CWI. also antarctica.
• likes sudoroom's values. FOSS proponent. been following hackerspaces since the beginning, esp NYCR.
• was following sudo before the move
• never banned
• 23 or 203
• can't pay with a card, but can pay cash

jonathan

• why? wants access to tools, equipment, people, & knowledge. contribute them too
• what hack? doesn't know yet
• what share? japanese woodworking tools. time.
• values? not intimately. hung around noisebridge. likes FOSS & nonhierarchical.
• knows very little of history
• nonononono23
• lives 2 blocks from omni
• tech guilt
• skills? wiring, construction, soldering, AVRs, C coding, robotics, renovated a victorian, homebrewing

Newbie Night

• korl was supposed to do it today, apparently it didn't happen
• this is the 3rd week in a row of newbie night flakery
• timothy will do it next wednesday 5-7
• Whoever hosts is responsible for: 1) adding event to the calendar, 2) posting to sudo-discuss and otherwise promoting, 3) showing up! and 4) answering the door, giving tours, and otherwise being friendly and answering questions. 5) have a planned activity ready to avoid awkwardness
  • https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

Money

• Internet Credit Union account: $
• Community Bank of the Bay Account: $
• $400/wk on Gratipay

still in major deficit

Omni

• Tomorrow's delegates: ?

So far here's what we have: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

• folding ballroom wg into commons wg
• Moving the kitchen
• Upstairs shower as washout room
• print studio & TIL
  • http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio_Proposal_v1
  • http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio_Proposal_v2
• safer space & conflict resolution policies
  • 7/7 sudo members approve of them. yay!
• La Commune lockability
• BAPS space-sharing
• break-out discussions during meetings about money and "commons"
• raising a flag
• meeting semiweekly
• splitting allocations
• kids working group
• proposal for proposals
• mandatory rotation of facilitator, stacktaker, etc

Naomi Klein Event

• We're supposed to send two attendees for a "teach-in"?
  • niki <niki.shelley@gmail.com> "Please send me the names of the two members of your collective who will be attending the Naomi Klein teach-in by this weekend so that I can send them to the event organizer!"

• jonathan is interested!

Community Print Studio Re-Proposal

• old proposal: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio_Proposal_v1
• new proposal: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio_Proposal_v2

Matt blocks because it lacks:

• Clearly articulated community angle that benefits the commons
• Provide some vision/values that explain to everyone how the resources and tools provide benefit everyone (eg; more than a letterpress, can we also support technologies like risograph + xerox for zine-sters, occu-copy-style resource, etc?)
• Consider space needs and possible alternatives
• noise & ventilation
• decision making structure and how do members relate to one another?
• how do we get in touch? is there a printing-press-collective email list?

yar's framing: there's this spectre of micromanagement. but they're not just asking for space, they're asking for a highly discounted space. so the question is why should the omni give them such a huge discount. the answer should be "because we benefit the commons in these ways and have these values" and again, the proposal doesn't articulate that in a way that feels accountable.

Reason why "block" is not necessarily a valuable word for this:

   
   Consensus process is not a reduction to a decision-making procedure.

Last Week's Discussion

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-10-01#Community_Print_Studio_Re-Proposal

This Week's Discussion

• Recommendations:
  • Leave the stuff there for now, we all know it's not going to be easy to move at the moment.
  • Table this item to spend some time nurturing your community, express your collective (shared) values, make a firm commitment to community use, (manifestos, declarations, etc).
    • One option is to pick a minimum a number of hours to commit to being open to the public, e.g. 24 hours per week.

What I said on Oct 1: Some concerns: Clearly articulated community angle that benefits the commons Provide some vission/values that explain to everyone how the resources and tools provide benefit everyone (eg; more than a letterpress, can we also support technologies like risograph + xerox for zine-sters?) Consider space needs and possible alternatives noise & ventilation decision making structure and how do members relate to one another? how do we get in touch? is there a printing-press-collective email list?

La Commune Lockability Proposal

• Update from La Commune & Jake about plans to identify and then solve lockability problems.

Oakland Nights Live

Concerning the next Mayoral debate scheduled for Oct 11 (Sat) -- feedback and open discussion from sudo based on experience with last debate.