Meeting Notes 2014-01-01

1 January 2014

Attendees

Jenny

Announcements

THE TRADITIONAL MONOTONIC READING OF THE CALENDAR

• Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar
• Frostbox hacknights on Tuesday evenings

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Frostbox

• Omni / 'Collective of Collectives' meeting next Thursday, Jan 9th, 7pm at The Public School
  • More Omni notes - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/The_Omni (including past meeting minutes)
• Mass Effect - A night of collectives - Friday, Jan. 10th at Sudo Room.
  • Updated Date: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/mass-effect-a-night-of-collectives/?instance_id=
  • Invite collectivists to the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/700853143281064/?source=1
  • Add to the wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mass_effect

Past Action Items

• Ink donation jar - Juul - not done
• Investigate integrating Stripe and/or Balanced Payments [Jenny, Bill]
  • Seems Stripe is better for recurring billing (Balanced's recurring billing system is still in beta: https://github.com/balanced/billy) - this is essential for us. Let's try Stripe!
• Look into other hackerspaces' accounting system [Jenny]
  • GNU Cash looks most interesting - otherwise not much in the way of FOSS tools for finances: http://www.gnucash.org/
• Take on roommates - jeremy & jenny to make list of groups, pairing them with liasons - doneish (liasons?) - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mass_effect
• Matt to get bank account - done, we now have an account with the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union (IAFCU)
• Post consensus re: documentary filmmaking to mailing list (matt) - done
• Post all consensus items to list (marc) - not done, jenny will do - done
• Get new lease for 2141 Broadway (update to sign with "sudo room" as an entity) - Matt - done?

Fiscal Solvency

• current finances?
• $188.01/week on Gittip: https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/
  • $752/month!
• $5190.40 in the bank as of Dec. 18th
• $4000 Rackspace check to be deposited this week

Amendments to Articles of Association

• On agenda for next week:
  • Final consensus on yar's filming proposal, which was unanimously approved on Dec. 18th meeting: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Filming_at_sudo_room
  • Consensus on Hol's proposal on a minimum monthly dues of $10 to be voted on next week - feedback encouraged over the coming week!: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association/Minimum_Dues
  • Consensus on 3/4 Items from juul's 'Membership' proposal: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association/Membership