Meeting Notes 2014-04-02

Intros

Q: time zones? discuss.

• max - use terran computational calendar
• brian - daylight savings times aren't synchronized,
• matt - its arbitrary we're all spinning
• daniel - too messy, might as well sswitch
• scott - time is construct we can reconstcut it - used to help out with sudo kids.
• david - "self-delineated" 'nuff said
• yar - crimea switched from ukrainian to russian timezone. this caused a stir in the best mailing list ever https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz

To-Do

• Taxes?
  • email to nobawc. selc. hire someone
  • send email seeking accuntancy consultation[max]
• Renew lease & get Eddan off it [???]
  • Laurie needs to give us the lease to sign
• waiting for debit card:
  • transfer our internet, host a tor node
  • Stripe [jenny]
  • free Rackspace hosting? <-- backchannel ftw
  • still "in the mail"??? it's been even more weeks!
• Technical to-dos:
  • fix calendar (zombie event imports & correct facebook prefix)
  • or rather, find an entirely new calendar solution that isn't a wordpress plugin
  • Move SeltzerCRM install to sudoroom.org
  • Add function for door code integration in Seltzer (jenny awaiting code already written for an east coast hackerspace)
• set up venmo [liberty?]
• put a blurb in Slingshot magazine, contact Hayley
  • marc to ping Hayley, deadline is Apr 2. that is today!

Announcements

• we won a 3D printer!
• strawberries have arrived
• Noemi is beginning to film her documentary about Sudo

Reboot

Space Search / Evaluation

The Omni:

• Deposit lowered to $30k
• Estimated move-in date of June 1st

8th and Alice:

• new guy who was just catching up and i had to give the whole sudo pitch all over again. He was unable to update on the state of the building

Fund-raising

The Omni or not to Omni?

• We will commit to a joint Omni fundraiser, with a June 1st deadline.
• If the Omni falls through, then we will have a sudo space individual fundraiser. Idea is a harmonious-hackathon / pay-what-you-can dev bootcamp one weekend. It can be paired with this idea:

Offer to host an RSVP Dinner w/ Francisco and Liberation Food Worker Cooperative

• Title: "Sudo Room Reboot Kick-Off Dinner"

Grants

• At the same time, until we know more about the Omni, grants have been kind to us.

Next Steps

• Now we have fundraising@lists.sudoroom.org . This is the way it will work.
• There are 41 grants to apply to. All grant writers will receive 50% of the grant if won.

Sudoers can make money helping sudo room, sudo makes cash. [max to send out announcement email].

Outreach

• Find Partners (e.g. co-leasers, sub-leasers)
• Talk to sudoers
• Mobilize

Hack our Current Space

• Goal: "Optimize Sudo Room to GAIN MOMENTUM"
• A lesson recently learned: "Everything needs a place" more than they need to be organized with respect to each other.
• Approaches
• Organize
• Tool area
• Undefined zone by window
• Wire-rack shelf
• Table
• Around sink area (storage)
• Remove
• Bikes
• Trash
• Non-useful objects
• Next Steps
• Clean tonight, on-going re-organization
• Take an inventory (a naive list on the wiki)