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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>May 15 2013<br />
Attending: Matt, Ryan, Marina, Jenny, Sam, Carmen, Africa, Will, Len, Tommy, Bill, Jordan, Vicky, Rev. Phil, Naomi, Max, Pete<br />
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==Introductions==<br />
Co-Facilitator: Matt<br />
Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)<br />
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What is one thing you like to share with others? Food, wine, ideas, files, internet, connections :D<br />
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Icebreaker (10 min)<br />
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Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months<br />
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More people! Mo' space! Mo' money!<br />
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Sustainable funding<br />
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More representation of Oakland <br />
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Finding cool neighbors<br />
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Being receptive to hobbyists<br />
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Community / education / diversity<br />
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Summer fundraiser, summer stuff generally (field trips, retreats!)<br />
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Biggifying<br />
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Access & membership services sorted<br />
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More cross-collaboration between the Bay Area hackerspaces<br />
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Share food / sudo mate if available.<br />
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==Announcements==<br />
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Co-Facilitator: Ryan<br />
(< 8 minutes) <br />
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===Consent Agenda===<br />
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(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need no more details or discussion) ====> We're trying this out!<br />
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May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would love help organizing it.<br />
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Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and can pick up and drop it off, etc.<br />
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Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please<br />
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Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system<br />
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Sundays @ 7pm - Cleaning of Natural Decay<br />
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Who is available to lead this week? ___________<br />
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Craigslist posting looking for friends: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html<br />
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Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access)<br />
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Tweet any space details @sudoroom<br />
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Email info@sudoroom.org<br />
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===Other Announcements===<br />
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This Sat TIL: Fix It Day! (yaaaaayyy!!!): https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#May_18_Fix-It_Day.21_.28PLUS_Linux_Install_Day.21.29<br />
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Sign up for TIL's (no one is scheduled after this week): https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned<br />
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BIKE SMUT: This Friday, doors open 8:22, show starts 9:07. (Vicky, who will be a little late)<br />
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Signs will be put up advertising adultiness of the event<br />
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Vicky and Phil take full responsibility fr cleaning. (Vicky is anal-retentive and this will not be a problem)<br />
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GLOW WORMS: We need 2 more! Please contact Vicky via email/gchat if you would like to join in helping facilitate a safe space on Friday.<br />
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SECURITY/GREETERS: Would anyone like to volunteer in shifts to hang out and greet people as they enter? Anthony expressed interest. Anyone else?<br />
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VOLUNTEER MOVERS: Vicky needs a person or 2 persons to help move speakers onto a truck (6pmish), into the space and out of the space (end of show, midnightish). Any volunteers?<br />
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If you have any concerns/questions/comments/suggestions please contact Vicky via direct email (best way to reach her), not listserv.<br />
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Presentation: beautiful DIY cloth menstrual pad (Vicky)<br />
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Interested in more inter-hackerspaces collab? Join Open Hack Night every Monday at 7pm @LOL (1234 23rd Avenue, San Antonio (east Oakland)). LOL is a POC, Queer and Women-organized hackerspace. It is radically inclusive--EVERYONE is a desired member! Their organizers want us to do more stuff at each others' spaces. :] :] (Vicky)<br />
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Next BACH planning meeting: Fri May 24 @ 8pm at West Gate San Leandro, 1933 Davis St, San Leandro<br />
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BACH info: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces<br />
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Sudo Bike<br />
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=== ACTION ITEMS ===<br />
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Co-Facilitatory: Marina (< 5 min)<br />
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Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting:<br />
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New Business:<br />
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Africa and Carmen can sign up for east bay diybio with eastbaydiybio@googlegroups.com <go to there<br />
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Max is researching alternative ISPs and recommends LMI, will continue this discussion on the sudo-sys list.<br />
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Old Business:<br />
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[postponed until next week] WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE to rock paper scissors collective? - Matt will help<br />
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Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - Romy hosted Hacker Happy Hour<br />
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Oakland Nights Live - what to do?<br />
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[postponed until next week] Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Capital and Crisis" putting on thinking caps<br />
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... and "theorizing"<br />
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[Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School] Jenny - Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external<br />
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-Ensure doors are closed<br />
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-Trash and recycling<br />
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-Running the dishwasher<br />
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-Putting furniture back where it belongs<br />
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-Vacuum!<br />
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Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs.<br />
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fyHwH-O_tMEW3c01HvHbmAHDqj6aD2DSDmpdtM_DfKg/edit?usp=sharing<br />
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Postponed (not for discussion, only for reference):<br />
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[Postponed] Talk to Danny O'Brien, intro from JC to Jordan, invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!<br />
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Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later this month and Jordan will follow up then.<br />
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[Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George<br />
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[Postponed until necessary] Jenny sync with Troy on library - Not yet but they will<br />
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Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1 -troy<br />
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still need to set a date<br />
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[Postponed until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb] Romy to lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment<br />
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Romy to work with Troy to turn the articles into a flow diagram. Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around.<br />
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[Postponed until ?] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? - https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) - Yardena is going to put these articles up<br />
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==Fiscal Solvency==<br />
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(20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Sam<br />
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Third Wed - collect dues! (2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess where we're at) pay your dues!<br />
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Review and consensus process:<br />
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Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3hUZldyejlXdFE#gid=7<br />
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Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50<br />
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Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people)<br />
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now we're collecting target of $60<br />
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some give more<br />
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sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month<br />
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Financial Planning<br />
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Fund-raising efforts?<br />
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Leverage existing resources and infrastructure<br />
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E.g. events, fund-raisers<br />
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Recurring income<br />
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sustainable for a long time<br />
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Long-term sustainability and viability<br />
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e.g. meetups, institutional stability, etc.<br />
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Creating items at low-cost for considerable mark-up donation<br />
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T-shirts<br />
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other swag<br />
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Electronic kits<br />
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workshops? <br />
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Ethersheet Spreadsheet to track revenues? Automated form (Google Forms)?<br />
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https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas<br />
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Food<br />
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Cottage Food Law <br />
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Shared Kitchens/Gardens<br />
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Sudo Mate - Max & Ray<br />
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Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!)<br />
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Sudo Beer (Subiir) - Morten & Marc<br />
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Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - Ray - Last week's $40 went to Sudo Room rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!<br />
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Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST]<br />
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suggestion by Marc<br />
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Rusty's "Savior Bars"!<br />
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Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason<br />
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Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn<br />
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"Just do it"<br />
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Schwag<br />
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3D printed stuff<br />
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magnets - Jordan<br />
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bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device mounting!) -hol<br />
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jewelry<br />
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on-demand<br />
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other objects<br />
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other 3D printers<br />
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3d printed exoskeleton<br />
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DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell<br />
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"Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?)<br />
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Bike bevereage holders<br />
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T-shirts - Dan Finlay (already an action item)<br />
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Buttons (moar)<br />
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Dependent upon logo<br />
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LED cubes - hol??????????<br />
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Membership dues<br />
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sliding-scale, voluntary (current)<br />
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better advertisement<br />
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--> Scrounging for MOAR<br />
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Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc.<br />
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Could be extremely effective<br />
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Could do a bike-about<br />
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better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion)<br />
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will be informed by member survey (already an action item)<br />
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Do we accept BITCOIN????????????<br />
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Automatic reminders<br />
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Repair Services<br />
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Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)?<br />
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Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair!<br />
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Specifically could get $ from burners<br />
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Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state<br />
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Donated equipment<br />
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Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by Eddan<br />
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Re-use and sell or sell as services<br />
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Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/<br />
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DIY ISP ++ <br />
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a la http://ranchwifi.com/<br />
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Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi<br />
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Kits<br />
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electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually together, we can sell at events - Hol)<br />
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Home PCs for cheapz<br />
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Art kits<br />
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Writing kits<br />
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Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^<br />
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Kits of 3D printers that create other kits<br />
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Non-profit status<br />
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Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3<br />
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Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal sponsorship<br />
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School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship<br />
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Grants<br />
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Regular events<br />
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Raves<br />
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Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects<br />
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Covers? No covers?<br />
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NOTES<br />
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Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding mechanisms at play here<br />
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One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources<br />
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You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the technology may or may not be there.<br />
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Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort involved -- you can cross most of it out<br />
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Jenny<br />
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Added speaker events section<br />
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In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would possibly be interested in speaking here<br />
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Tommy<br />
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We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not they brought in income<br />
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Sam<br />
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Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things. Bill<br />
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Eddie<br />
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Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as a service we could offer.<br />
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==Amendments to the Articles of Association==<br />
Co-Facilitator: ? <br />
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==Conflict Resolution==<br />
Co-Facilitator: ? <br />
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==Additional Items==<br />
(per item) Co-Facilitator: Tommy<br />
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Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min)<br />
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Priorities / values <br />
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Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space<br />
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Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates--let's do that now!<br />
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Exterior security - safety of the surrounding area<br />
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Lease vs month-to-month rent (latter preferred)<br />
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Kitchen / communal kitchen<br />
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Street-facing<br />
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No regressions from the current space <br />
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Strategy<br />
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Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access)<br />
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Tweet any space details @sudoroom<br />
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Email info@sudoroom.org<br />
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Craigslist posting looking for friends: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/3789289305.html<br />
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New Logos - Ryan<br />
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Oakland Nights Live<br />
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Cleaning up after events<br />
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Max has volunteered to be liason between Public School and Oakland Nights Live<br />
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==Action Items==<br />
Scribe: Jenny<br />
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Bill will set up automatic reminders<br />
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Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly<br />
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FUNDING<br />
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Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny<br />
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Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in<br />
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Max, Jordan and sudo-sys will brainstorm on alternative ISPs<br />
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Tommy will update fiscal solvency spreadsheet<br />
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Membership management system - Bill and Tommy<br />
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=== Meeting Brief for Announce List ===<br />
Scribe: Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes<br />
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==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?<br />
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