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
By clicking here, you may look through a window into our collective soul.
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
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
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
(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?
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