Sudo room/06-13-2012 Meetup

6/13/2012 - Meeting Notes

Marginalia

• Sudo Dollars. It's. Not. Funnymoney.
• Ecstatic Dance! is a block away from the new space! http://ecstaticdance.org/
• Concilience - The unity of all knowledge, so we can all be free (from Troy)
• follow @gonzooakland

Attending

Eddan, Troy, Matt, Jenny, Eddie, Victoria, Marina, Marc, Rudiger, Tracy, Rachel, Phil, Richard

Agenda

• Intros
• Updates
  • Report back from FBI diy bio conference
  • http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/fbi-diybio-2012/ - transcripts
  • 2-Day DIY Bio Conference held by FBI (they for some reason think this is critical, you should read about it online)
  • Very small community right, so it's great to have the funds available in order to bring everyone together.
  • However, it's odd since it's the FBI
  • One take-away: need to be better about communicating, the mailing list is not enough.
  • Another take-away: FBI is creepy?
  • Curiosity won for Rudiger, so he came, though he was hesitant at first.
  • Setting up a system of recuiting informants / spying on 'potentially dangerous' diybiologists
• Discussion of tax structures (eddan)
  • B-corp - social responsibility / social good [sidenote- couchsurfing.org is a b-corp]
  • Space Recapitulation
  • Eddan acted out of own risk and volition to rent a few spaces (3) because one we viewed was already being rented.
  • Small Office (Orange closet)
  • Box Office
  • Double Office
  • Tracy thinks it's amazing!
    • having events
    • making people aware
    • opportunities for people
    • letting it evolve without making a huge investment
    • fun neighborhood is important
    • $875mo for all three.
• Report from Hackermoms talk on Ways to Build a Hackerspace
  • Nonprofit route requires a board of directors who are legally responsible for any legal problems.
  • Maker Faire had a sub-event called "SpaceCamp" a sort of hackerspace convention.
  • Also met a woman at Hackermoms who wants to host a ecstatic dance (lunch break?)
  • Roots are supposed in Sufi - but it's just a bunch of hippies at like a 'Dead' show.
  • SchoolFactory is an umbrella/support 501(c)3 non-profit organization to support creating new hackerspaces.
  • Many are non-profit, fiscally sponsored by a non-profit, or "benevelent dictatorship" private entities
  • Many spaces also get a lot of income through donations (important, otherwise we have overlooked this a bit beyond crowdfunding)
  • Metrix - for-profit, worth looking
  • Time-based membership is an option.
  • Larger question of membership terms and options. Also, what about visiting and temporary memberships.
  • Membership could be defined as 24/7 access, versus limited.
  • Desirable to have 6-1 membe-to-non-member ratio for events. Info from BucketWorks
  • Critical for making $ but also keeping the community into it!
  • Workshop attendence could also be discounted free for members as a service or benefit, etc.
  • Side-note: Hackermoms interested in making $$ off of workshop. Need money, they work but get no $. Would appreciate it.
  • Deciding whether their income model for workshops should be central or to the workshop runner. Hackermoms thinking about a fraction.
  • They want an algorithm.
  • Eddan discusses separating the membership part to the money-making part
  • Membership Agreements that people sign has been a good idea, helps negotiate issues with insurance
  • Action item: create page for these documents to live on hackerspaces.org
  • Action Item: also add to our research page including boilerplate insurance liability document and analyzing the terms in it.
  • Defining what it is we stand for first is core, then to teach those processes to eachother and to new people, and to live the culture and exemplify it!
  • further to measure how we are living up to our own cultural standards, and to reward ourselves for doing so?
• event announcements
  • consensus workshop! next week, facilitated by Rachel
    • Rachel wants to share her experience to help Sudo Room come up with the sudo room way together.
    • Addicted to Hierarchy
  • Wikiwomen Edit-A-Thon 2 this Saturday!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon_2
  • Saturday 1-6 Re-defining the General Assembly with Occupy Oakland, Oscar Grant Plaza.
  • Code for America Summer Code Party and #OAhack track with keynote John Wilbanks ***http://cfasummercodeparty.eventbrite.com/ - June 23rd
    1. NewsHack event same weekend as CfA Summer Code Party http://newshack.eventbrite.com/
  • Adeline Campfire June 29th!! Marc, Rachel & Jenny's tiny commune backyard campfire @ 2704 Adeline St
  • Workshop weekend June 30 - July 1 - http://workshopweekend.net/
  • Code for Oakland - July 21st - The Kaiser Center in Oakland, http://codeforoakland.org

Decision-making process (13 minutes)

Action items

• Process for setting decision items for agenda beforehand
• Implement two-email-list solution (announce vs discuss)
• Concrete place and time for meeting for next week.
• Concrete space for participating virtually
• The space!

The Space

• event proposals for future
• first friday art walk (participatory bash!?)
• Ecstatic Dance in the "classroom" space - Venus.
• DIY / home recording workshop (by matt's roommate Shani)

Notes

• First Friday Art Walk Event! Who wants to submit art! Tracy does, Rachel has a crew!

Groups

• Due Diligence and More Spaces: http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/
• Wiki Usage
• info architecture
• Bio Group
• Currency

Tabled Items

• • Sudoroom internship possibility (/MK) (table this)
  • Insurance at another time.