Chez Hack/Hack
Juul, Tunabananas, Totum visiting thex & auto-nomous at Chez Hack and woodlands sanctuary.
Action Item
- Post-Waste nexus (Lief) getting momentum in SF/Noisebridge
- Jenny sync JC, Praveen & Christina re: Hacker-in-Residence
- Checklist for end-of-June BYOS deployment
- Contact tax collector's office to relay what we want to do and ask how we proceed
- Contact sudo legal team to get them up to speed on codes and process
- Pick a property and try to do it
- Visit the Weird Stuff warehouse [Caravan Item]
Hack It
- Fix CNC Mill
- Inventory of hack supplies
- Organize Events
- Buy label printers
- Mill-produced graphical record of tonight
- Fix the bikes at Chez Hack!
- Hack label printers? Smartphone printers
- UI/UX design for Mycelia
Wikitown/camper-deployment
Desired outcome of conversation:
- Clarity on current state + idea
- Potentially a time set for deployment along with actionitems.
- Phase developments / patterns: From scouting, to camper, to tent site to
- Pickup truck, folks to pick up campers, places to put them.
- Eg Adeline empty lot, Matt's street in Oakland, a few spots in SF
- Construction materials, furnishings, servers
- Create instructables for making Wikitown out of recycled materials
- BAHT: Bay Area Hacker Transit - network of folks to pick up materials for hackerspaces
- Focus on Craigslist Free in Marin!
- Also LA - Beau's friend has a warehouse, we can store in Badlands.
- Application process for potential tenants
- Desert property for Sober Veggie House, general hacker rehab :)
- Non-profit and trust to create sustainable model
- Property in the desert
- Hacker-in-Residence program - talk to Praveen and Christina
- Phase developments / patterns: From scouting, to camper, to tent site to
- Pickup truck, folks to pick up campers, places to put them.
- Eg Adeline empty lot, Matt's street in Oakland, a few spots in SF
- Construction materials, furnishings, servers
- Create instructables for making Wikitown out of recycled materials
- BAHT: Bay Area Hacker Transit - network of folks to pick up materials for hackerspaces
- Focus on Craigslist Free in Marin!
- Also LA - Beau's friend has a warehouse, we can store in Badlands.
Basic idea
Using campers for establishing beach head at an empty piece of land. Sort of a basecamp to work from - once you got a camper there, you can go there and hang out.
Process
- Go to lot and prepare road
- Create foundation (concrete?) for camper
- Bring it in!
Once successfully deployed ...
- Build a fence
- Create a tent-structure
Campers as mini-hackerspaces
Patterns of hackerspaces:
- Scout
- ...
What is the minimum 'stuff' required for X people to go out there and hack for 72 hours?
Currently...
- Tim has 2 campers and properties in CA.
- We can gather free materials for everything we need to establish a wikitown, as long as we got infrastructure to get it (trucks and people) and space to store it.
Potential Properties to Pilot on
In CA, they are in south in the desert, one in Bay Area (Marin), a few in lake country, and some in modoc county.
Modoc, by alturas
- 10 acres of farmland.
- reachable by public transit (greyhound to Redding, bus to alturas)
- Gets a few feet of snow in the winter
- Needs a well.
- Has a tractor
- Mike from Santa Cruz lives there
- 2 other Modoc properties in the national forest
In Modoc national forest
- free campground nearby
- beautiful!
Tim would love for people to be able to go there and stay as long as they want, but needs some sort of application process. Also, there are property taxes to pay - people staying would ideally pay them/tip in.
Caravan/mycelia/BACH
- Starting in the Bay Area, weekly
- Teacher Buses, Occupy Oakland bus, Anthony Di Franco, whale bus Tim mentioned
- First weekend: hit Reno by way of Sacramento
- Documentary/video along the way (Two Hands Project)
- Building awareness among non-hackers
- Involving people in an inter-hackerspace community
- Education and DIY inspiration
- After watching video --> inspire people to help out in specific ways
- Video portal
- OpenSim telepresence
- Helping set up a good video space (eg as in sudo or NB)
- Needs to be able to fold out, be more affordable
- Knob for switching between hackerspaces
- Donated plasma screens
- WebRTC?
- Workshops
- Intro to Electronics
- Intro to Hackerspaces
- Hacking on hackerspaces - helping to build infrastructure, set up a mesh node
Property searching
- GIS files w/ parcel outlines
- Analysis of flood plain areas, toxic sites etc
- Tabular data [eg value of improveements, use code, etc]
- Tax collector data
- Leans forgiven for 75 properties in Oakland [eg for code violations] - to be bought or used for community gardens etc
- Whatever falls through during auctions [with a list of many properties] can be bought up cheaper
- Zoning, road access, access to water,
- A nonprofit (public benefit charity involved in housing or low-income person benefit) can petition a property to the auction
- Petition the property before it comes up for sale
- Hen Foundation, Noisebridge
- Set up payment plan
- Loans for the non-profit
- Scope the potential properties thoroughly
- See Tim's spreadsheet
- Participation with the surrounding community
- Development
- Many of the properties are mix-zoned
- Couple shipping containers, maybe 4 tiny homes, gardens / landscaping, and some tents
- Under 30k is the goal
- Needs hosting for qGIS data
- Collect data on the properties from the County Office, Building Safety - name & address of property owner
- Permits, code violations, etc
- County Recorder's office for documents