Meeting Notes 2014-09-24

sudoroom meeting september 24, 2014

Attendees

• say your name, pronoun, and a message for elliot http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/arrests-and-outrage-at-flood-w.html
• yar; we support you at sudoroom!
• jenny; and we thought you were on vacation!
• greg; haven't met you but support
• winston; go elliot
• ian; dude apparently i wanted to meet you but you're not here
• marc; we are putting up a poster of you as soon as the printer works
• scott; dude, wow!!!

Announcements

• real vegan cheese owns a shiny new projector
  • sudo can borrow it
  • where to put it? on the robot?
• now meshing the omni!!!!
• rosh hashana fruit is being served - apples, honey, pomegranates
• BACH Unconference organizing meeting this Friday at 7pm!
• Talk on the Real Vegan Cheese crowdfunding campaign next Monday at 7pm

New Members

Greg

• why? Sudo rocks!
• Been stopping by for a year or so
• wanna hack robots. wanna mesh robots.
• share free workstations & satellite dishes
• Not an undercover cat (or cop)
• Has not been banned from a hackerspace
• getting into RF
• why does the mesh network work from marc's laptop but not his phone?

Ian

• why? hackerspaces are awesome. we're his first one in CA.
• has been to one in denver. was never kicked out
• gonna put arch on his macbook
• tried to beam internet across a big parking lot
• excited to hack his 1st gen mac pro and make it run arch
• not a cop
• wants an office at omni, trying to figure out how
  • http://whycoyoterunslinux.com/
  • replaces windows servers with linux and stuff
  • but interested in sudoroom separately from the omni office motive
• wants to learn and teach awk. awkward.
• wants to be surrounded by interesting inspiring projects all the time
• 23
• favorite conspiracy theory - alien antigravity technology
• has a gigantic van to help move stuff

process discussion

• yar just made this: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/New_Member_Script
• we should also work on a new member pamphlet to hand to folks

Newbie Night

• Alex wasn't able to host yesterday, will do next Tuesday instead
• Korl may do it on the 3rd week of October
• Whoever hosts is responsible for: 1) adding event to the calendar, 2) posting to sudo-discuss and otherwise promoting, 3) showing up! and 4) answering the door, giving tours, and otherwise being friendly and answering questions. 5) have a planned activity ready to avoid awkwardness
  • https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

Money

• $420 on ~*._~gratipay~_.*~
• omni's electric bill 8/19-9/19: $915 fucking dollars
  • solar panels? we have roof access next week
• $2882.48 in ICU
• $1k in CBOB
• 0.2387 bitcoin
• check for $120 from insurance or something

Omni

please join working groups!

• http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups
• Working Groups in need of rad sudoers!
• Challenging Dominant Cultures - Saturdays at 11am - yar
• Communications - rarely meets! 1-2x/month Mondays @ 7 - omnicomms@lists.riseup.net - next mtg Monday 10/6 - jenny
• Finances - biweekly Tuesdays @ 7pm - see http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar - hol & niki
• Facilitating Collectivity - Tuesdays at 7pm - jenny
• fundraising mondays - marc & noemie
• Space Ops - Talk to Stephen from BAPS - doesn't really exist?
• Ballroom - moving to Tuesday nights. noemie has to leave by 7.
• Building Maintenance - yar doesn't know when they "meet" but sure went to home depot a lot last week

please be a delegate!

• Rotating delegates: yar, jenny, matt, patrick (in training), Korl (in training), you?
• patrick can be the delegate this week & next
• julio can do it after that

agenda tomorrow

https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

Consensus Items

OMP

• winston is here!
• omni music project - proposal to start out as a tenant at $400/mo and then eventually become a member collective
  • will start out just storing instruments, etc. flexible, whatever we want it to be.
  • was paying somebody else for storage anyway
• super excited about it!
• he's been a musician & recording engineer for a long time
  • also has a background working with autistic kids (works with scott)
  • alana is also great
• formative stages of infrastructure - will be extremely open
• gonna build a control room, have a bunch of musical instruments, create an environment of fostering education and support
• gonna have BAPS classes
• from recording to performance
• wants to work with kids
• what does your group need to be successful?
  • time & space!
  • have equipment already - need a place to do it, time to do it
  • did a compilation tape for SNAPS (Special Needs Activity ... ...)
• where does your money go? how do you license your music?
  • mostly been casual informal understandings so far
  • art for art's sake. if they can benefit good orgs, they want to. but also want to be sustainable.
  • Sudoroom & CCL have rules about licensing of materials
  • less concerned about making money than about freedom to remix & reuse
  • open to learning new wasy to do things that "isn't reliant on that fucking devil machine out there"
  • what about when you rent out a future recording studio to other artists?
    • maybe negotiate a temporary restricted license?
    • marc likes the model of charging more for artists who want restricted licensed
• how to join?
  • access & membership might be tiered?
  • would have classes, training sessions
  • not sure. just worrying right now about teaching ppl to touch shit safely.
  • trying to be open, increase access
• more detail - what precisely do you want to do with the space?
  • how to modify? no, abstractly.
  • there'd be a control room with board, computers, monitors, outboard gear, instruments, etc
  • could be modular, used for BAPS if someone has keys
  • library reading room would stay as-is. books are great insulators & diffusors. wants to build gobos out of bookshelves on wheels. shape room acoustically with bookshelves. dewey decimal card-catalog for storing microphones. good for isolation for those other rooms, but don't need to use them when they're not recording.
  • this is all eventually. right now they're just asking to be a month-to-month tenant and get to know us better.

winston leaves

• marc wants to be very clear that they will be responsible for their stuff including locking the door and getting insurance for their stuff, etc
• also be clear that they shouldn't have an expectation that we will accept them as a full collective right away or ever
• who thinks sudo should vote yes? 6. abstains, blocks? no.

Buying and installing light timers

• Yay!

PROPOSAL : EMPOWERING WORKING GROUPS & BALANCING WORK AT THE OMNI

• yar says block. it's a sneaky way of abolishing consensus.

PROPOSAL : KIDS ROOM & KIDS WORKING GROUP

• is this gonna be a commercial space or not a space for children?
• jake: children don't care about commerce
• "La Commune would like to stock this room with used books available for children to read."
  • aroo??

Friendly Amendment(s):

• Sudo requests a single point of contact / bottom-liner, and to hold off on 'stocking books' immediately in that space.
• The Kids Working Group should decide what to put in that room.
• patrik points out that real childcare requires lots of permits
  • hackermoms already solved these problems, let's seek their leadership

Rise Above

• Sudo Room is still waiting for a refined proposal from/about Rise Above so that we can consent to:
  • Location
  • Building modifications
  • Lease terms
  • First, last, deposit

tenancy definition & cap

• 9 say we should vote yes, 4 abstentions

splitting allocations

• Confusion over the language
• Can't we just vote on a case-by-case basis?
  • Funds split equally
  • Funds split depending on individual collective need/interest
  • Specific fundraisers for projects
• Grey areas: The OOC received loans for specific things
• consent on it but specify that it can be overridden by future omni consensus
• ultimate conclusion: needs more clarification on what it applies to

member collective stewardship agreement

• this sounds like it would lead us to an HR department
• can we consent to the privilege of having to pay for your volunteer work?

Conflict Resolution

recent ban

• Matthew Stevenson asked to leave for reasons of safety
• been domineering & intimidating everybody, trying to convince you he has power & connections
• told DK that he's "a hit-man", offered to murder people
• he was asked to leave, and told he could come to a sudo room meeting to appeal his case
• offered opportunity to come to sudoroom to appeal, obviously is not here
• hasn't participated in anything, just comes in to sleep on the couch
• was creeping on noemie

permanently banning him from sudoroom for reasons of safety?

• 11 yes, 1 abstained

video

film collective is preparing fundraising video

• 1-shot walkthrough of the omni full of people doing what they do
• think of ways sudoroom can look awesome!
• which activity would you like to be seen doing?
• filming will happen Sunday October 5th starting at noon
• the robot will be filming too
• you can wear superhero costumes

footage

• starting to compile it all and give us access
• Workshop on Friday the 3rd to review the current omni footage using interlace/video vortex video clip sharing web app

Action Items

• let's fix internet in the basement please?
• Document incidents on the omni wiki
• Finish Stripe and set up Everbutton [Jenny] (Ron willing to help on this if needed / extending it)
• Investigate business license [Jenny]
• pamphlet to give new members
• upload our shit to http://openinclusivity.org/
• yar will initiate a locker census
• give blurb about sudo to omni fundraising committee
• set up a work party for electrification [Jenny]
• Ask Marc to be a liason with East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
• fill out the omni's financial questionaire [jenny]