Membership/Brainstorm

Below is a brainstorm of ideas regarding the ins and outs of Sudo Room membership. These items are not necessarily officially endorsed by Sudo Room, but are kept for their historicity and as a reference guide when deciding upon future membership guidelines.

Do we have it?

• Should "member" be the term used? What about participant/ supporter/ Sudo-Agent? (Patrik: we can call them whatever we want internally, but for the elevator pitch we should refer to them as "members", because that is what people understand.)

Does it confer special privileges?

• making decisions
• keys to space
• ability to reserve facilities
• access to tools/equipment?
• Discount for classes or other goods/services
• Maybe a substantive membership benefit would be that members get to invite speakers & have classes at the space without having to get larger group approval
  • would anyone pay for that privilege?
• No material benefits to membership - members donate because they value the existence of the space and believe in its continued existence.
• t shirts
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Are there expectations of members? What are their responsibilities?

• do work for the space/In-kind donation? What would the list of acceptable trades be?
  • existing services for evaluating trades include timebank and ourvolts.
• join a sudo group
• serve on council to help make decisions
• pay dues or fees? (perhaps $50-$100/mo, with sliding scale available for starving students / unemployed)
• teach workshops or skillshares
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How do you become a member?

• complete application process
• consensus or vote of membership
• fulfilling work or dues requirement
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