Meeting Notes 2014-09-24

Attendees

say your name, pronoun, and a message for elliot http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/arrests-and-outrage-at-flood-w.html
yar; we support you at sudoroom!
jenny; and we thought you were on vacation!
greg; haven't met you but support
winston; go elliot
ian; dude apparently i wanted to meet you but you're not here
marc; we are putting up a poster of you as soon as the printer works
scott; dude, wow!!!

Announcements

real vegan cheese owns a shiny new projector
- sudo can borrow it
- where to put it? on the robot?
now meshing the omni!!!!
rosh hashana fruit is being served - apples, honey, pomegranates
BACH Unconference organizing meeting this Friday at 7pm!
Talk on the Real Vegan Cheese crowdfunding campaign next Monday at 7pm

New Members

Greg

why? Sudo rocks!
Been stopping by for a year or so
wanna hack robots. wanna mesh robots.
share free workstations & satellite dishes
Not an undercover cat (or cop)
Has not been banned from a hackerspace
getting into RF
why does the mesh network work from marc's laptop but not his phone?

Ian

why? hackerspaces are awesome. we're his first one in CA.
has been to one in denver. was never kicked out
gonna put arch on his macbook
tried to beam internet across a big parking lot
excited to hack his 1st gen mac pro and make it run arch
not a cop
wants an office at omni, trying to figure out how
- http://whycoyoterunslinux.com/
- replaces windows servers with linux and stuff
- but interested in sudoroom separately from the omni office motive
wants to learn and teach awk. awkward.
wants to be surrounded by interesting inspiring projects all the time
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favorite conspiracy theory - alien antigravity technology
has a gigantic van to help move stuff

process discussion

yar just made this: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/New_Member_Script
we should also work on a new member pamphlet to hand to folks

Newbie Night

Alex wasn't able to host yesterday, will do next Tuesday instead
Korl may do it on the 3rd week of October
Whoever hosts is responsible for: 1) adding event to the calendar, 2) posting to sudo-discuss and otherwise promoting, 3) showing up! and 4) answering the door, giving tours, and otherwise being friendly and answering questions. 5) have a planned activity ready to avoid awkwardness
- https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

Money

$420 on ~*._~gratipay~_.*~
omni's electric bill 8/19-9/19: $915 fucking dollars
- solar panels? we have roof access next week
$2882.48 in ICU
$1k in CBOB
0.2387 bitcoin
check for $120 from insurance or something

Omni

please join working groups!

http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups
Working Groups in need of rad sudoers!
Challenging Dominant Cultures - Saturdays at 11am - yar
Communications - rarely meets! 1-2x/month Mondays @ 7 - omnicomms@lists.riseup.net - next mtg Monday 10/6 - jenny
Finances - biweekly Tuesdays @ 7pm - see http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar - hol & niki
Facilitating Collectivity - Tuesdays at 7pm - jenny
fundraising mondays - marc & noemie
Space Ops - Talk to Stephen from BAPS - doesn't really exist?
Ballroom - moving to Tuesday nights. noemie has to leave by 7.
Building Maintenance - yar doesn't know when they "meet" but sure went to home depot a lot last week

please be a delegate!

Rotating delegates: yar, jenny, matt, patrick (in training), Korl (in training), you?
patrick can be the delegate this week & next
julio can do it after that

agenda tomorrow

https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

Consensus Items

OMP

winston is here!
omni music project - proposal to start out as a tenant at $400/mo and then eventually become a member collective
- will start out just storing instruments, etc. flexible, whatever we want it to be.
- was paying somebody else for storage anyway
super excited about it!
he's been a musician & recording engineer for a long time
- also has a background working with autistic kids (works with scott)
- alana is also great
formative stages of infrastructure - will be extremely open
gonna build a control room, have a bunch of musical instruments, create an environment of fostering education and support
gonna have BAPS classes
from recording to performance
wants to work with kids
what does your group need to be successful?
- time & space!
- have equipment already - need a place to do it, time to do it
- did a compilation tape for SNAPS (Special Needs Activity ... ...)
where does your money go? how do you license your music?
- mostly been casual informal understandings so far
- art for art's sake. if they can benefit good orgs, they want to. but also want to be sustainable.
- Sudoroom & CCL have rules about licensing of materials
- less concerned about making money than about freedom to remix & reuse
- open to learning new wasy to do things that "isn't reliant on that fucking devil machine out there"
- what about when you rent out a future recording studio to other artists?
  - maybe negotiate a temporary restricted license?
  - marc likes the model of charging more for artists who want restricted licensed
how to join?
- access & membership might be tiered?
- would have classes, training sessions
- not sure. just worrying right now about teaching ppl to touch shit safely.
- trying to be open, increase access
more detail - what precisely do you want to do with the space?
- how to modify? no, abstractly.
- there'd be a control room with board, computers, monitors, outboard gear, instruments, etc
- could be modular, used for BAPS if someone has keys
- library reading room would stay as-is. books are great insulators & diffusors. wants to build gobos out of bookshelves on wheels. shape room acoustically with bookshelves. dewey decimal card-catalog for storing microphones. good for isolation for those other rooms, but don't need to use them when they're not recording.
- this is all eventually. right now they're just asking to be a month-to-month tenant and get to know us better.

winston leaves

marc wants to be very clear that they will be responsible for their stuff including locking the door and getting insurance for their stuff, etc
also be clear that they shouldn't have an expectation that we will accept them as a full collective right away or ever
who thinks sudo should vote yes? 6. abstains, blocks? no.

Buying and installing light timers

Yay!

PROPOSAL : EMPOWERING WORKING GROUPS & BALANCING WORK AT THE OMNI

yar says block. it's a sneaky way of abolishing consensus.

PROPOSAL : KIDS ROOM & KIDS WORKING GROUP

is this gonna be a commercial space or not a space for children?
jake: children don't care about commerce
"La Commune would like to stock this room with used books available for children to read."
- aroo??

Friendly Amendment(s):

Sudo requests a single point of contact / bottom-liner, and to hold off on 'stocking books' immediately in that space.
The Kids Working Group should decide what to put in that room.
patrik points out that real childcare requires lots of permits
- hackermoms already solved these problems, let's seek their leadership

Rise Above

Sudo Room is still waiting for a refined proposal from/about Rise Above so that we can consent to:
- Location
- Building modifications
- Lease terms
- First, last, deposit

tenancy definition & cap

9 say we should vote yes, 4 abstentions

splitting allocations

Confusion over the language
Can't we just vote on a case-by-case basis?
- Funds split equally
- Funds split depending on individual collective need/interest
- Specific fundraisers for projects
Grey areas: The OOC received loans for specific things
consent on it but specify that it can be overridden by future omni consensus
ultimate conclusion: needs more clarification on what it applies to

member collective stewardship agreement

this sounds like it would lead us to an HR department
can we consent to the privilege of having to pay for your volunteer work?

Conflict Resolution

recent ban

Matthew Stevenson asked to leave for reasons of safety
been domineering & intimidating everybody, trying to convince you he has power & connections
told DK that he's "a hit-man", offered to murder people
he was asked to leave, and told he could come to a sudo room meeting to appeal his case
offered opportunity to come to sudoroom to appeal, obviously is not here
hasn't participated in anything, just comes in to sleep on the couch
was creeping on noemie

permanently banning him from sudoroom for reasons of safety?

11 yes, 1 abstained

video

film collective is preparing fundraising video

1-shot walkthrough of the omni full of people doing what they do
think of ways sudoroom can look awesome!
which activity would you like to be seen doing?
filming will happen Sunday October 5th starting at noon
the robot will be filming too
you can wear superhero costumes

footage

starting to compile it all and give us access
Workshop on Friday the 3rd to review the current omni footage using interlace/video vortex video clip sharing web app

Action Items

let's fix internet in the basement please?
Document incidents on the omni wiki
Finish Stripe and set up Everbutton [Jenny] (Ron willing to help on this if needed / extending it)
Investigate business license [Jenny]
pamphlet to give new members
upload our shit to http://openinclusivity.org/
yar will initiate a locker census
give blurb about sudo to omni fundraising committee
set up a work party for electrification [Jenny]
Ask Marc to be a liason with East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
fill out the omni's financial questionaire [jenny]