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Removed stuff about innovation and bland makerspace "yay technology" language. Added stuff based on text from elsewhere in our wiki around our values to make it clear to new people that this isn't just a space for hacking on cool tech. We might want to explicitly add language to explicitly discourage cryptocurrency bros from showing up
(Removed stuff about innovation and bland makerspace "yay technology" language. Added stuff based on text from elsewhere in our wiki around our values to make it clear to new people that this isn't just a space for hacking on cool tech. We might want to explicitly add language to explicitly discourage cryptocurrency bros from showing up)
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= About Sudo Room =
= About sudo room =


Sudo Room is a creative technology community for excellent, do-ocratic, consensus-based collaboration. '''Participating at Sudo Room can be simple: come and hack on something'''!
sudo room is a physical space and community of people in Oakland, CA established during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement Occupy movement].


This can be your own project, or someone else project, or Sudo Room itself. Sudo Room is composed of many Groups of people who share interests and resources.
We are into technology where it intersects with social justice, resilience, decentralization, sustainability, art, education and solidarity.
 
We care about co-learning, co-organizing and co-creating more open, equitable and decentralized structures in the realms of technology, education, science, art, law and beyond.
 
We strive to be an open, transparent, horizontal and welcoming community where all are supported and free to learn, create, gather, collaborate, hack, play and more!


== Vision ==
== Vision ==


We believe that by creating '''welcoming''' facilities and '''open''' infrastructure we will '''engage a diverse community''' of people interested in topics such as community organizing, health, music, programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, security, robotics, art, and beyond.  
sudo room is a place for people to co-learn, co-create and co-organize.
 
We believe that by creating '''welcoming''' facilities and '''open''' infrastructure we will '''engage a diverse community''' of people interested in topics such as community organizing, music, programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, security, robotics, art, and beyond.  


Through this community, we hope to collaborate and create further opportunities aimed to foster and expand innovation and creativity in our community and beyond.
Through this community, we hope to collaborate, co-learn and co-create around our shared values both locally and beyond.


== Culture & Values ==
== Culture & Values ==


We strive to be a supportive '''open''', '''transparent''', '''horizontal''', '''diverse''' and '''welcoming''' community, where everyone is free to learn, create, gather, collaborate, work, play and develop new interests!  
We strive to be a supportive '''open''', '''transparent''', '''horizontal''', '''diverse''' and '''welcoming''' community, where people are free to learn, create, gather, collaborate, work, play and develop new interests!  


We begin from a point of respect and trust and openness. We believe this builds a strong communal foundation which can foster collaboration and sustain future efforts aimed to improve social relationships and our collective social conditions. Specific guidelines describing expected behavior are outlined in our Code of Conduct, while strictly forbidden behavior is described in [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy Omni Commons' Safer Spaces Policy].
We begin from a point of respect and trust and openness. We believe this builds a strong communal foundation which can foster collaboration and sustain future efforts aimed to improve social relationships and our collective social conditions. Specific guidelines describing expected behavior are outlined in our Code of Conduct, while strictly forbidden behavior is described in [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy Omni Commons' Safer Spaces Policy].
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== Mission ==
== Mission ==


Sudo Room’s mission is to:
sudo room’s mission is to:


* Provide accessible, clean work spaces and tools to enable individual or collaborative projects or experimentation related to art, science, and technology
* Provide accessible, clean work spaces and tools to enable individual or collaborative projects or experimentation related to art, science, and technology where it intersects with social justice, resilience, decentralization, sustainability, art, education and solidarity.
* Facilitate education and idea-sharing by providing and maintaining a space for our members and guests to give talks, host workshops and classes, and to meet and socialize
* Facilitate education and idea-sharing by providing and maintaining a space for our members and guests to hack, co-learn and to meet and socialize around our values


And most importantly, to foster a community with shared culture and values that leverages these basic building blocks to achieve our vision: expand innovation and creativity in our community and beyond.
And most importantly, to foster a community with shared culture and values.


== Code of Conduct ==
== Code of Conduct ==


This section is intended to define the specific community norms within Sudo Room. It is expected that members and guests attending Sudo Room are also following the Omni Commons [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy Safer Space Policy] while on the premises (and hopefully beyond!). Most importantly, that policy expects that people inside Omni Commons follow these common expected behaviors (from Section 3):
This section is intended to define the specific community norms within sudo room. It is expected that members and guests attending sudo room are also following the Omni Commons [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy Safer Space Policy] while on the premises (and hopefully beyond!). Most importantly, that policy expects that people inside Omni Commons follow these common expected behaviors (from Section 3):


* Participate‭ ‬in‭ ‬an‭ ‬authentic‭ ‬and‭ ‬active‭ ‬way.‭ ‬In‭ ‬doing‭ ‬so,‭ ‬you‭ ‬contribute‭ ‬to‭ ‬the‭ ‬health‭ ‬and‭ ‬longevity‭ ‬of‭ ‬this‭ ‬community.
* Participate‭ ‬in‭ ‬an‭ ‬authentic‭ ‬and‭ ‬active‭ ‬way.‭ ‬In‭ ‬doing‭ ‬so,‭ ‬you‭ ‬contribute‭ ‬to‭ ‬the‭ ‬health‭ ‬and‭ ‬longevity‭ ‬of‭ ‬this‭ ‬community.