- Sudo Room

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

Sudo Room is an open, non-hierarchical, collaborative community of humans, including tech developers, citizen scientists, activists, artists--and all combinations in between and beyond!--who are interested in and working towards social change. Our goal is to create the first inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in downtown Oakland, to share 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/social 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

This is how we run things.

Goals

Please read our Sudo Room methodology.

Create a creative community hacker space in downtown Oakland.
Be a center housing active hacking projects and events.
Establish a platform and space committed to:

Citizen science
Democratic Culture
Access to Knowledge
Freedom to Connect
Knowledge both technical and non-technical
Digital/Online Citizenship - Netizen Rights & Freedoms
Environmental sustainability
Education and mentorship
Community engagement
Public access

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

State of the Room

Sudo Room to-do

=to-do (migrate to projects page)

Fix the templates on/from: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room
Work on SudoSuite (software tools for decision-making, budgeting, membership, etc;)
3D fabrication for hacking, community and profit. (brainstorm page)

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?

Current Critical Momentum (merge with "Projects")

We are now:

Working on the space infrastructure.
Forging a Compact.
- Please refer to Articles of Association from now on
Resolving Conflicts.

We made headway with:

How we make decisions.
Developing our Governance Structure
How we create income.
How we define membership.
We have a room, are seeking more room?

Next Steps

As per discussions and polling, we are moving toward these steps:

August 10th - Get bank account
August 24th - Expand membership, get a sense of paying members
August 31st - Get first payment
September 3rd - Rent for Space

Research

Conduct research on other hackerspaces, exploring their models of community, governance and funding.
Create a list of open knowledge ecosystem organizations in the Bay Area.
Examine potential tax structures

Needs to be Updated

Mood Board

Mood at pinterest.com

Contact

Here is a map with directions.
Join our mailing list! It can be found here. Many thanks to hackerspaces.org for our initial email list!
list of users

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