Attendance / Icebreaker

Announcements (Consent Agenda)

Every Monday 7pm: LOL / Oakland Makerspace Open Hack Night, Decolonizing Technology (1234 23rd Avenue)
Every Thurs. at 7PM: Oakland Wiki meetup! http://www.oaklandwiki.org
- ALSO: Take the 2014 Mayor Key Issues Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cGV6N9pmpmJmHiKS8VmQAGlwJQ4mioShXyyxmrD-Kas/viewform
Every Thurs. at 8:30pm: Mesh Networking meetup: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
RADIO!!!! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_Radio
- sign-ups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodDVaZnJ4TW1ndC1jd1ZYejFhUmRoWXc#gid=0
Regular check-in between The Public School and Sudo Room - *next* Thursday evening (aug 22) Supper Club potlucks starting at 6
Organization / scheduling for a week-long Summer School at the end of August
Sudo Kids Tuesdays at 6pm
Community Democracy Project - For participatory budgeting in the city of Oakland.
- Democracy Days! - Saturday 10:30-2pm Sun 2-5pm @ 570 14th St Suite #3 (upstairs) - http://communitydemocracyproject.org
- They are seeking to collect 40,000 signatures within the next 180 days!
A seed of a book, open for collaboration about creative communities and hackerspaces, including sudo room's inspirations, stories, history, and more! http://github.com/wrought/a-place-on-every-block

Public School Summer School Week
- Info Day is on the 31st - Cryptoparty & Mesh Networking
Cryptoparty postponed for August 31st! (Info Day)
Sunday the 25th, photo gallery day - Local artists exhibiting their work for the first time, scenes from Occupy. Starts at 6pm
Artist-in-Residence opportunities at Instructables' new space
New Economy Huddle - based on Affinity Groups: Social Justice, Permaculture, Education, Technology, Arts/Media, Travel & Exploration

Add to the Sudo Room Neighborhood Outreach spreadsheet and take on a few to reach out to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMjMxR3BNNmJuRlE#gid=0
- Everyone? Jenny has added! Rabbit added! You should too!
1. Research tax structures [1] 2. [...] 3. Non-Profit! [Danny, Brendan] plus
Action Item: Become a California Non-profit Corporation - Brendan proposes this for discussion meeting on August 21st and August 28th. This is to be followed by the August 31st Today I Learned session on hacking the articles of association.
Auto-reminder for weekly meetings [Bill, and Nate]
- group me? *Jenny will ping Bill
Make a flier, talking points [Jenny & Juul]
- Jenny & Juul - copy, Anthony - lettering, Substack - art!
Talk to JC re: sudomate funds [Jenny, Ray]

In this section we review our current financial situation and budget, approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.

Exchequer: Marina / Jenny / Bill
We currently have less than $1400 - need at least 2200 by September 1st!
Pay your dues!!
We now have lockers, part of fundraising
Review and consensus process:
- Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2N3hUZldyejlXdFE#gid=7
- Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
- Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people)

1. Membership

2. Fundraiser, crowd-funding campaign

Figure out goal
- - For the whole floor at an estimated $6500/month, we'd need 109 members paying $60/month
- Deadline
- Narrative
  - Cocreate our goal/narrative with the Public School?
- Image
Perks
- $60/month - membership
- T-shirts
- Sudomate
- 3D-printed whatchamacallits
- Clay
Sponsored memberships
Any other sort of sponsorship - corporate for instance, to projects
- Project-based funding
Vision
- Co-Working
- Community service of some sort that can be advertised out the front window
Roles
- Connectors
- Media Help
- Partners