https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Meeting_Notes_2013-09-11&feed=atom&action=historyMeeting Notes 2013-09-11 - Revision history2024-03-28T17:14:22ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.37.2https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Meeting_Notes_2013-09-11&diff=5558&oldid=prevMaximilianklein: Created page with "*https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommaintenance =Attendance / Icebreaker= *Icebreaker: How do you avoid huge ships? Max (dream about crashing), Marina (don't be an ice berg), Ma..."2013-09-12T07:57:30Z<p>Created page with "*https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommaintenance =Attendance / Icebreaker= *Icebreaker: How do you avoid huge ships? Max (dream about crashing), Marina (don't be an ice berg), Ma..."</p>
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=Attendance / Icebreaker=<br />
*Icebreaker: How do you avoid huge ships?<br />
Max (dream about crashing), Marina (don't be an ice berg), Matt (don't go on the ocean or subscribe to oceancraft), Liberty (avoids metaphoric ships, but , Micheal (ships avoid him) , Mike (call on dolphins for help), Ryan (being agile), Anthony (living in a hot air balloon), Sam (plays chicken). Chris (Stay out the water), Adam (just release an update) Natasha (doesn't), David Keenan (Stay on watch), Danny (being meticulous)<br />
=Announcements (Consent Agenda)=<br />
* Check the Sudo Room Calendar for the next week's events, and major monthly events:<br />
** http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center<br />
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==Other announcements:==<br />
* Double Union: New feminist hackerspace getting started in SF. Having a Tea Party inaugural event at Mozilla HQ in SF this coming Tues 9/17: http://www.doubleunion.org/tea-and-lightning-talks-with-double-union/<br />
= ACTION ITEMS =<br />
Matt to talk to Marc. <br />
Positively no time travelling. Adam<br />
==Old Action Items:==<br />
*Membership/bylaw/access hacking<br />
*1. Research tax structures [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research] 2. [...] 3. Non-Profit! [Danny, Brendan] plus<br />
** No. WTF? Does anyone want to do this? Nah. <br />
** Chris recommends talking to Tides Center <br />
** Experience from the bike hut, even wingnuts get money! $50,000?<br />
** http://www.tides.org/ <br />
*We need someone to reboot the radio room<br />
** Needs a mac<br />
** Thursday night, Adam, Marina, Chris, + moar ppl!!!<br />
*Announce bitcoin wallet address and post to site (jenny !@ juul)<br />
*Blitz on possible spaces with new funding strategy [Matt]<br />
*Liberty to email list and advocate for a "frist friday force"<br />
==Postponed:==<br />
*Add robots.txt for sudo room (open item for anyone to take on)<br />
*[Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George<br />
*git-ify & flow-diagram-ify our articles of association - Brendan<br />
*Add calendar 2141broadway.wordpress.com to Infobot's screensaver [Max]<br />
*Library - until RPS<br />
*Catalog - Max<br />
==New Action Items==<br />
=Fiscal Solvency=<br />
''In this section we review our current financial situation and budget, approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.''<br />
*Exchequer: Marina / Jenny / Bill<br />
*Pay your dues!!<br />
*We now have lockers, part of fundraising <br />
* Review and consensus process:<br />
** Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2N3hUZldyejlXdFE#gid=7<br />
** Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50<br />
**Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people)<br />
Current balance (Wed Sept. 11): $857.43<br />
* Sudo Mate makes $50 a batch.<br />
** how often do batches happen?<br />
=Amendments to the Articles of Association=<br />
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association<br />
* Protocols for dealing with violations, given a variety of scenarios?<br />
=Conflict Resolution=<br />
"Harvey" was banned from Noisebridge this week. And he lives in Oakland.<br />
=Discussion Spillover= <br />
* Action Item: Become a California Non-profit Corporation - Brendan proposes this for discussion meeting on August 21st and August 28th. This is to be followed by the August 31st Today I Learned session on hacking the articles of association.<br />
*Sudo room is currently a "membership association", by virtue of case law and the first ammendment. <br />
*Adam its important both to be nonprofit, but also to ask for nonprofit<br />
*Danny think about impact before money<br />
*One umbrella nonprofit to lease space to sudo, counter culture labs, public school. <br />
* Membership changes<br />
** Follow-up from discussion weeks ago</div>Maximilianklein