Meeting Notes 2016-01-27

Sudoroom Meeting Wednesday January 27, 2016

intros

name, pronoun, icebreaker q: cyberpunk or steampunk?

• cyber-juul: his excellency / that rotten bastard, why not both?
• yar: punky brewster
• jake: cyber.wizard
• corey: neither. cypherpunk
• Matt: he/him, steampunk (in denial)
• Daniel: hi/him, cyberpunk
• Steven: he/him, both! equally, together (combined).
• Remote-Jenny: she/her, Firepunk.

announcements

• Omni Volunteer Fair, Saturday March 12. Please show up and make use of all the free labor who's bound to show up
• anticapitalist hackathon February 5-7th @ Noisbridge (SF)
  • https://noisebridge.net/wiki/HackTheLeft
  • jake needs coders for securepolling
    • https://github.com/securepollingsystem/
• NEVER UNDERESTIMATE RADICAL VISION
  • ^^ that's not an announcement, it's an imperative
• 10 ms of silence for Marvin Minsky
• procapitalist hackathon: every day from 9 to 9 at 1 infinite loop drive

proclamations

• yar does proclaim something something
• murmers of agreement from the crowd
• juul hereby proclaims that the sudo/ccl fridge shall henceforth be known as: The snackerspace +1
  • juul nails the proclamation to the door to cyberspace

conglomerations

• juul: shall we send an envoy to the rat conglomeration to attempt a diplomatic solution?
• yar forms a multinational conglomerate
• SPEAK IN CAPITALS
  • capitalism
  • MINSK COPENHAGEN KATHMANDU SINGAPORE SYDNEY TALINN (if you know what I mean)

DAS KAPITAL

• We have a new bank account with Western Fed. Jenny and Matt are signers.
• Stripe has been switched over, Paypal imminently.
• Current Balances:
  • Western Acct: $1,594.64
  • Stripe: $486.18
  • PayPal: $860.39
  • Total current assets: $2,941.21 (+ ~1.5 BTC)
• Pending Expenses:
  • Feb. Rent: $2000
  • Dec. Utilities: $414.57
  • Jan. Utilities: $371.65
  • Total pending expenses: $2786.22
• yar: do we have a bank account with a card yet? need to pay digitalocean again soon
  • jenny: don't think i have the digitalocean login.
  • yar: where should i send it? do we have a sudo passpack?
  • never mind, i added matt's
• juul: THANKS FOR DOING ALL THE MONEY STUFF!! \o/

BitCoin

wrought: Juul -- still want to sell the coin? juul: yep yep

new members

yar: David Wee wants to be a member, can't do Wednesdays. How do we deal with this problem? Also, they filled out the online form and were confused when this wasn't acted on. Should we remove this form? I think it only misleads people and gives them false expectations. juul: yes let's remove form

Jay

• PROMPT: There are no wrong answers
• Would you like to very briefly introduce yourself?
  • moved here a few years ago, did tech policy activism, now learning how to program
• What brings you to sudo room?
  • awesome space. april brought me here before i even moved here. glad these spaces exist
• What do you want to hack or learn at sudo room (if you know)?
  • lots of projects, idk when i'll find time. radio transmitter.
• What do you want to share or teach at sudo room (if you know)?
  • [yar sucks at taking notes]
• What's your plan to abolish sexual violence, police brutality and white supremacy? in 10 words or less
  • no idea. that's a lot.
• What's your plan to end the anthropocene extinction, world hunger, global warming and global inequality? in 10 words or less
  • global democracy, better systems of governance, investment in sustainable energy. remake financial system
• What's your plan to ensure freedom and privacy of communication for all? in 10 words or less

expectations

• • privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful
• expectations. problem?
  • don't think so
• Have you ever been banned, asked to take a break, or similar, from a hackerspace or any other collective?
  • no
• What are the best ways to contact you?
  • yar has email
• What is your schedule like? Do you have particular times that you think you'll be around? You should check out our regular events!
  • late at night & weekends
• Explain the next steps in the membership process and what they should expect

pondering

• Charley is now a member
• nathan & Nick have another week of pondering

process

• it's broken. people apply & don't even come back.

Building Bloc

• is applying to be an Omni member collective!
• https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2016-January/000756.html
• juul replies in the form of interpretive dance: \o/ -o/ -o- ~o~ /o\

free hugs

There is no such thing as a free hug. That would violate the laws of thermodynamics. You can't win, you can't get even, you can't get out of the game--then you die. Translation: You can't get free hugs, you can't even trade hugs evenly, you can't stop the pursuit of free hugs--then you die.

What about a free as in freedom hug? Libre but not gratis