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 ==Income-bringing Options==
-# Membership fees - typically $50-$100/mo, sometimes with sliding scale for starving students / unemployed
+Thought from 5/16 meeting: There seem to be three categories to bring in income (below). The discussion group thought that membership fees and services/goods offered would be the main sources of income, with the quality of the goods/services offered greatly affecting the energy and support of membership.
-# Grants - city/state/federal/private
-# Classes
+# '''Membership Fees''' - perhaps $50-$100/mo, with sliding scale available for starving students / unemployed
-# Events
+-- From 5/16 meeting: A driving principle could be to separate membership fee-paying from perception of having influence in SudoRoom. Or, to what extent should financial contribution be separate from 1) governance privileges 2) access to the space?
-# Selling services or goods (e.g. electronics or diybio kits)
+-- Thought: Maybe a substantive membership benefit would be that members get to invite speakers & have classes at the space without having to get larger group approval.
-# Crowd-funding (through campaigns or rolling donations or both)
+-- Should "member" be the term used? What about participant/ supporter/ Sudo-Agent?
-# (option)
+-- Accept in-kind donations if cash not available? What would the list of acceptable trades be?
+# '''Services/ Goods Offered to Community'''
+-- Classes, SkillShares
+-- Events: Speakers, Conferences, Movie Nights
+-- Goods: DIYbio kits, repair workshops, etc
+-- Thought from 5/16 meeting: Selling goods/services can fuel and support membership (ie, members can provide goods/host events/teach classes/act as speakers + these activities can bring new members); but does charging for these opportunities run counter to the sudo open + accessible principle?
+# '''Fundraising'''
+-- Grants: city/state/federal/private
+-- Straight Donations (put Donate button on website)
+-- Party (like had before)
+-- Thought from 5/16 meeting: fundraising is time-consuming and difficult and will be more likely if membership is solid (also, goods/services provided by the community can inform the viability of grants/crowdfunding)
+-- Also: crowdfunding vs funding portal (eg; Sudo Room as Kickstarter Project vs. Sudo Room as Kickstarter :)
+-- Crowdfunding
 ==Free-form Income-bringing Responses==