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?

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)