Meeting Notes 2015-07-15

Sudo room meeting - 15 July 2015

last week: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2015-07-08

intros

if you had a magic wand, what would you make it do?

• Jessie: abolish capitialsm. Don't make me explain how wands do that. I dunno.
• Andrew - works at Lawrence Hall of Science, previously a member of Vancouver HackSpace, took a break from hackspaces for the past year, finally made it here!
• max, wanna make underwater drones here, efficient & light power storage
• kelvin, bioinformatics to regulate your body and stuff
• lesley: abolish capitalism, I'll second jessie. And establish a freer resource-based economy, which would make almost everything else I could list here more do-able.
• yar, a turkey sandwich like in the simpsons episode. everything else could go wrong somehow. maybe an elevator at the omni
• ed, wants to reverse the expansion of the universe
• jenny, abolish patriarchy also. hmm.
• sierk, something about occupy & honolulu, idk
• ryan, eradicate the people who keep disrespecting "do not hack" signs
• daniel, i'd make myself always assume everyone has good intentions
• matt, manic organizing & sorting, make more magic wands, or something arbitrary like saving his own life in a pinch
• matthew, delegate the decision to someone who's not a complete mess
• rob, wants a star trek transporter instead of an elevator, hacking on lighting etc, i'd invoke perpetual lulz upon the world. but not the nefarious kind at other peoples' expenses

announcements

• preparing to buy the omni. learning about the legal options. meeting mondays at 6:30. soon will have a building-wide conversation about it. July 23rd special omni general meeting / Q&A on this subject
• omni plans to schedule a fire inspection soon. yes there are lists of code violations to fix, on paper in every single room.
  • Hinge party to bring ballroom doors up to code on Friday at noon. rehanging doors so they close properly ala fire code
• New Donation ready to pick up: includes cisco switches, server rails, UPSs, four post rack shelf, lcd flat displays (nice ones), etc. will require one w a truck or car w good space. Would have to go trough donation process: about six cisco switches. email images to juul, on monday. - Ask daniel-a for more deets.
• sunday morning basement cleaning party, maybe make room for bike storage
• radical therapy workshop this friday at 6: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/radical-therapy-workshop/
• come to linux installfest fridays! put it on your own cpu or help maintain all the omni public terminals
• hillary bought 15 keyboards for the netbooks, yay!

moneycrisis

• jenny forgot to pay $500 utilities bill for april, so things are actually even worse :(
• Current balance: ~$1400 - ~$500 = ~$900
• gratipay: 286/week
• stripe: 750/mo

How to contribute: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Gratipay

discussion

• vancouver hackspace got a lot of new members from parties
• ryan: problem with newbie night was people power but if we do it monthly or biweekly maybe that would be easier

new members

max schwartz

• gonna have a mech engineering degree soon hopefully. likes radio controlled stuff & helicopters & underwater things.
• wandered in and there was nobody in here, then i sat around and matt showed up and i helped get rid of ewaste, then i came here
• why? some space to work on projects
• hwat hack? underwater robotics, drone type things, stealing your coax
• what share? anything with radio controlled stuff, servos, wifi video
• q1: i don't know
• q2: we could just eat algea, right? we'll be fine
• q3: live underground and never release any transmissions
• values: don't know a lot. more philosophy than i expected
• history: pretty new, couple years
• omni sos: know nothing
• omni ssp: just read it and seems legit
• never been to a hackerspace or collective, therefore not banned
• not a cop or a cat
• happy: i like boats, sailboats
• how big is your sailboat: 29 feet
• ed: are you aware we have no money and we need your money? max: $60 sounds good, we can do that.
• saw sudoroom online, was looking at other hackerspaces. everyone else was either welding huge stuff or sitting around on computers all day. i wanted something inbetween. live in oakland.
• ideally i'll have a lot of underwater drones in a network in the ocean. you can sell time to scientists like with a giant telescope.
• will they be open source? yeah! you can pipe in live oceanographic video into an 8th grade classroom or whatever.
• will think of a nym to disambiguate from other maxes

pending members

• 6/17: jessie, patrick OD <-- becoming members this week!
• 6/24: karissa
• 7/8: james moon

lockers

• ryan bought bolt cutters
• matt labelled lockers, thinks we should buy locks to pre-lock them, and give keys to people when they start paying
• ryan: it should be need-based. what are you able to pay? how much do you need to store?
• matt: how about asking for exceptions like with membership?
• yar: i would love a smaller locker, i don't need as much storage space as i have right now
• matt: how about figure out the volume of those $30/mo lockers and price the others relative to those?
• Jessie: I'll take a tape measure to them and get back to people. Just an answer for volume, no opinion on how to price, jazz hands for the need based excpetions idea.
• ryan: i need secure wood storage for large pieces that i cut. wouldn't fit in a locker
• Jessie: (omni secure storage? not a good permaoption but...)
• matt: rob & i will figure out pricing for lockers, maybe patch up the harry potter closet, padlock it, turn into all-member storage
• ryan: wouldn't be big enough for my stuff
• yar: has anyone mined the info@ emails yet to figure out which of them are actually claimed?
• matt: not yet, another to-do
• yar: how private is the locker info? we shouldn't post a list publically of who uses what locker, right?
  • two lists - who has a locker, and what lockers are used?
• also make distinction between personal storage and sudo/omni projects

Signing petition against patent trolls

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