Meeting Notes 2013-04-11
April 10th 2013
Introductions
Question: tonight we're talking about DEATH!?
Poll: What's the correllation between cat afterlife and human afterlife?
jordan, 9 ari, -1 romy, pi bill, pi max, aleph1 matt, pi/2 jc, null troy, i^3 or -1 in the complex plane carl, 42 rachel, 1 evan, 1 joseph, 0 anthony, 1 ryan, 42 eddan, whatever marina, unknowable patrick, infiny ray, let the myster be sam, we can do away with it
Reports
Movie night next art murmur, [something] and life premier, spiderwort Membership survey
Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1 craig post to discuss about holding agar plates for testing phase therapy gonorhea write a script for soliciting donations that can easily be read to people using the space for meetups, workshops etc; infographics - Ryan?
Announcements
Laptop donation for sign or t-shirt design with Rock Paper Scissors (They can take the sign 12-7 ·Thursday, 12-3:30 Friday, 12-330 Saturday) create contest (TurBull Encabulator) http://creation.redbullusa.com/ 10k prize
Fiscal Solvency
we paid rent late and have $700
- Our typical monthly costs are ~ $1650
- Our minimum balance at the bank is $500
- Our standing funds are basically empty
noise bridge
>5k made at fundraiser, and now have >20k asking for $10/mo brought in $2k extra revenue
reimbursement for RasPis?
Amendments to the compact
conflict resolution
- None today
Additional Items
Suggestions:
Community asset mapping (list of skills and interests)
Buddy-system schedulers (meta-level suggestion) -- Take on tasks and ask for a buddy to coordinate acting on that action item.
Discussion items + overflow
sudo square
- Geolocation (plaza on north-eastern corner of 22nd and Broadway)
sudo park
- Sadness, dismantling
sudo kitchen
- What's in it?
- 2 lbs - Rice (basmati)
- 1 lbs - Pasta (fucili)
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Lentils
- Cumin
- Espensive olive oil (real, it will change your life)
- virgin coconut oil
- salt
- onions
- silken tofu
- cumin seeds
- black mustard seeds
- How do you get it?
- More info will be on Wiki
- Where's the $$$?
- -$5 (pretty much break-even)
- Break even ($5 donation during meeting)
Action Items
Work with Tommy to improve Fiscal Solvency Sheets and our fiscal process during meetings - Marina and Romy
Membership survey - matt will ask rusty Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1 -troy write a script for soliciting donations that can easily be read to people using the space for meetups, workshops etc; max tommy
Laptop - from Yardena, Max and Matt will install Linux on it
Talk to Danny O'Brien, intro from JC to Jordan, invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!
Jordan asks you to be mindful of cookery and possible fire hazards, also to try to cook and bring more food here always.
Post-Meeting Teamups
- Sudo Mate
- Clean the kitchenette (not a full kitchen, seriously, it's so sad, but we manage, WE MANAGE)