Sudo room/10-10-2012 Meetup

Attendees

Anthony, Evan, Garrett, Heather, Ryan B, Eddan, Len, Jae, Anthony (ADF), Eric, Marina, Matt, Jenny

Notes

Announcements

• Alternative Press Expo (APE) in SF this weekend Oct 13-14.
• Banking needs some payment solution(s)
• http://cryptoparty.eventbrite.com
• Hack Meet this weekend,
• East Bay Mini Maker Faire is Sunday Oct 16 - http://eastbayminimakerfaire.eventbrite.com
• Costume-hack night Tuesday 10/16 and Friday 10/19 at 7:30pm.
• Open Science Summit next next weekend? Sponsors.

Discussion of space

• George called Eddan while out of town, opportunity to move in to large space upstairs. The space is split up into different rooms. Includes a bio-appropriate area.
• Would need to raise real money asap.
• Need to see and take pictures of the space already.
• There is a mailing list specifically for talkin about the space: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudospaces
• Ace Monster Toys is looking for another space, they may have one in mind? Need to clarify communication

• Idea: Bring all the interested parties together so that we can actually figure out how this space rental federation is going to work.

• Need lists of questions to determine move-in requirements and find partners who will work. Direct potential members of the federation to our compact, have them fill in their interests and resources into a spreadsheet.

• Date for meeting: October 27th at noon (potluck, vegan would be chill, [but not necessary?])
  • Anthony's party bus will make an appearance

• Occupy Oakland Birthday, at Snow Park, solid event (report from Ryan)

• LASTLY: a number of sudo-related projects looking for collaborators
  • Need help importing Mediawiki
  • Wordpress
  • sudosuite

• Eric's metalworking space is at 953 West MacArthur near Home Depot

• We can now make our own listservs, proposed listservs are below. (alternately, just email the entire list indicating that you are looking for interested parties on x topic. proposed listservs/topics:
  • metalworking
  • algorithm
  • art murmur

Fiscal Solvency

• We need to resolve WePay account and get income from dues, etc.
• Competitive prices to other services, such as Stripe.
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At_6qzhQZBX8dHU0bWZaNkxpSkcyeG5WMVRwMVQ4aWc#gid=0
• Pay your dues!!!! make checks payable to sudo room.