Sudoroom

Welcome to the Sudo Room wiki! Please make a user name and contribute to the conversation!

Sudo Room is an open membership, non-hierarchical, collaborative community of people who are interested in working towards social change. Our goal is to create an inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in downtown Oakland, and to collaborate on 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 good. Sudoers have a great diversity of interests and we emphasize respect and solidarity among ourselves and with others.

Want to learn more about Sudo Room? Check out our FAQ or read about Access. You are welcome to drop by (we try to be open as much as possible), or attend our weekly meetings to learn more about the space, meet awesome people, and participate in our emergent community.

Our weekly general meetings take place every Wednesday from 7-9pm at 2141 Broadway St., Oakland, CA (near 19th St BART).

Can't attend? Read our Meeting Minutes.

Articles of Association

Clicking on the Articles of Association is like looking through a window into our collective soul. Here you will find the primordial goo of how we run our collective. Please also check out our Sudo Room methodology. (or maybe not..it really needs to be updated) :P

Introspection

As a space in the zygote stage of our formation, we are still doing research into how we want to govern and fund ourselves. Here are some gateways into conversations taking place. Please join!

• Research on other hackerspaces' community, governance and funding models.
• Help us create an overview of the "open knowledge ecosystem" that is currently thriving in the Bay Area.
• Potential tax structures!

Projects and Events

Check out our wiki's Projects Page for a list of both active projects and dream projects. You can also read about active projects on our main website. To migrate:

• Make a video for crowd-funding opportunities

2012 State of the Room

The State of the Room was our first major event introducing our new space!

Donations and Membership Dues

Membership dues are collected via Voluntary [membership] Association. We apply this money to rent, grants, fellowships, and various funding opportunities.

Electronics Donations

• Sudo Room is reviewing its policy on electronics donations, and will be compiling a list of recyclable goods/costs before Wednesday, Dec. 5th. so that we can form a policy around material electronics donations, and other electronics in the space. This is still under advisement until our next meeting where it will be an agenda item, and then there may be temporary action or continued advisement. UPDATE, PLEASE!!

Stuff we need

Please? Pretty please?

This wiki needs to get in order!!

Things to create simple pathways toward:

• Space infrastructure
• Sudo Room Compact.
  • Please refer to Articles of Association from now on
• Resolving Conflicts
• How we make decisions.
• Developing our Governance Structure
• How we create income.
• How we define membership.
• We have a room, are seeking more room?
• Get bank account

Mood Board

We're moody.

Our frendzz

• Noisebridge
• Ace Monster Toys (please be our friends, please!!!!!)
• HackerDojo
• BioCurious
• Tech Liminal
• Mothership HackerMoms
• LOLspace (Oakland Makerspace)
• The Crucible
• Coyote Counter Collective
• The Holdout
• Your group / space?

Contact

• Directions for the visually-oriented.
• Join our mailing list! It can be found..........................here. (Minute-long applause to hackerspaces.org for our initial email list!)
• Wiki users