Sudoroom Meeting. Wednesday June 19th 2014
Icebreaker(5 mins)
What's your coolest nickname? What is a project you needed to "Old Yeller" (euthanize)?
5c077 (7|-|3 R1DDL3r): Organizing my contact list in my address book
Sam (lame:colored socks) killed: social networking project
Juan: Night star mapping project
Dante:
Britney
Faust (Tank): too much cooking (people)
Steve (SC): vertical space project
Phil (Effy): Brutally dismembered a mainframe
Matt (Matlocke): Mass murderer, perfers to dwell on the positives
Alex (Sew Deep): Claims to be innocent, but has an unhealthy love of shotguns
Rob (Robbie):
Announcements (5 mins)
Mon 6-7: Sew What? (w/ your host, Sew Deep)
- Anything and everything.
- Everyone welcome, exploring femininity.
Jun 30 - The Final Walk-Through
- If all goes according to plan...
Party/hackathon? Transition: still negotiating minor clauses Check http://www.hastheomnileasebeensigned.info Gather the Rainbow at the "Rainbow Gathering" July 1st - July 7th.
- Alex is going to Utah.
- It's hard to explain.
- Peace and harmony for one week.
- Estimated at ~20,000 people this year.
- Not the same as burning man.
- Similar ideals though (hippies)
- Free.
- Come and explore yourself and nature with other people.
- Intentional community for one week.
- If you think that's wild, there are int'l gatherings for a month!
- Bring your little sisters.
NEW Debit Card with Internet Credit Union (Internet Archive), transition to their account, free tax work =New Members= (5 mins) "Dues shall be paid by members on a sliding scale basis, from the minimum $10 per month rate to the recommended donation calculated using the process below. Exemptions of individuals from paying dues may be approved on a case by case basis by the general membership on the grounds of financial hardship or refusal to participate in the monetary system" https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Sub-Section_3.4.3_Dues New Yeller - Asks for an exception. Enjoys cleaning anyway, feels that cleaning is needed, willing to do this generally in lieu.
Money (5 mins)
Checking Account balances:
- Community Bank of the Bay: $3,010.73
- Internet Credit Union: $1,898.58
- Total: $4,909.31
Forward monthly gittip to discuss list Change gittip weekly goal to $1,000/week (2x baseline rent)
Reboot (30 mins)
Cleaning policy:
- Give away
- Sell?
- lost and found -> notice/dating -> Free box
"Reboot" fund:
- concerns: bandwith, burnout, too much money (serious) and becoming rich, divisions with paid staff, increasing bureaucracy and egos, centralization vs project focus
- benefits:
- increase reboot energy, setup for future problems and possibilities (purchase, tools, projects)
- figure out how to be efficient AND non-hierarchical
- Content:
- Moving truck rental
- boxes
- shelves
- professional
- materials cleaning
- propaganda / evangelism / marketing?
- flyers
- stickers
- swag?
- sponsorship materials
- Network supplies: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Network/Reboot#Phase_2:_Proper_Wired_Network
- Sudo Operations
- Electrical system (professional and city certification) ala NB
- Wishlist! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Wishlist
- Tools
- Workstations
- Furniture
- Safety Equipment
- Fire extinguishers
- Goggles
- Gloves
- Paint, also possibly wallpaper
Other ideas
- Outreach, door to door, community mapping--leverage OaklandWiki
- Make sure Sudo is represented by diverse groups
- Fund-raising opportunity: Latent fingerprints (police don't do this anymore), hacker thing to do.
- Not fingerprinting people, but used objects!
- Could be a paid service.
- Food testing (unofficial), such as DNA-barcoding
- Tutoring
- After-school program
Lease
- Signing Omni lease tomorrow or Friday?
- For updates, see http://hastheomnileasebeensigned.info
Move Out
Schedule:
- 6/20 - 6/22 : Sudo Reboot Packing Weekend! (Fri - Sun)
- 6/25 : Big Truck Moving Day (1337 cr3w, sign up w/ Steve nsw@sonic.net) (Weds)
- 6/27 - 6/29 : Clean-up, polish! (Fri - Sun)
- 6/30 : LAST DAY @ 2141 Broadway (Mon)
- Ritual conducted by Alex. "Let's just have a fucking costume party. March to the new space, people will come. And dance."
- e-waste disposal
- inform wider community [action item proposal: announcement to sudo-announce & sudo-discuss] & js meetup group.
- change waste management account
Move In
- 7/01 - FIRST DAY @ 4799 Shattuck Ave (Tues)
- Starts on the solstice: June 21!
- Everything out by June 28, deep clean the last weekend of June (28-29)
=Conflict Resolution= (10 min)
- Safe space, regarding sexual orientation and gender.
- Safe space, regarding threats of physical violence.
=Consensus Items= (30 mins)