State of the Room

The "State of the Room" is a sudo-room-themed UNconference which offers a chance to:

• Learn more about sudo room
• Convene communities of practice or shared interest
• Craft ways to improve sudo room's Articles of Association
• Plan projects in/for/through/near/somewhat-related-to Sudo Room for the coming year!
• Share insights with and listen to your fellow sudoers

Let's plan the first, annual State of the Room:

Dec 2012

The very first!

Schedule

• Fri. Dec. 7th, 5-10PM: Sudo Room Housewarming
• Sat. Dec. 8th, 9-5: "State of the Room" Unconference
• Sun. Dec. 9th, ?-?: Move-In Day and Neglected Technology / Book Drive

General To-Do for entire weekend:

• draft up invitation that people can share.
• Create boilerplate Signup Sheet
• Create Sudo Introduction Script for volunteers to easily/effectively answer questions.

Details:

Fri. Dec. 7th - Housewarming

• 5-10pm Art Murmur
• Stations
  • 3D Printing
  • Audio
  • Cheese Station
  • Soldering / Circuit Hacking
• Party into the night!

Sat. Dec. 8th - Unconference

9-5: "State of the Room" unconference

• 9:00-9:45 Welcome & Intros
• 9:45-10:15 Session Brainstorming Activity
• 10:15-10:30 Finalize Agenda
• 10:45-11:45 Session 1
• 11:45-12:45 lunch
• 1-2 session 2
• 2-3 session 3
• 3-4 session 4
• 4-5 Report Back / Closing
• 6 Documentary screening: "One Couch at a Time"

To-Do:

• how many spaces will we use? potential to use all spaces.
• need: breakfast, coffee, potluck lunch?
• need: way for people to sign up for sessions
• need: physical surveys for people to fill out for posting on wiki profiles (also, less-intensive signup sheet just for names and emails for addition to the listserv).
• send list of topics to list, have people add topics and add their names next to topics. set a deadline!!! google doc spreadsheet with preferred time to present.

Possible topics: CLAIM A SESSION!: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodGYwLVlXSmNwSktwRVFEYlNnUThGb3c#gid=0

• intro: state of the room address: past, present, and future of sudo room
• mission and vision of sudo room
• what does sudo room offer members/public?
• New membership / Onboarding - "How to be a Sudoer"
• Lessons in the Articles of Association
• Linux install help
• Update on the access/door issue
• Robotics
• 3D printing
• Automation: how automated can we make sudo room?
• Alternate currencies*** *** ***
• Velcro wall
• Surveillance tour of Oakland
• Projects / what we're working on - how to make this a group session? sticky wall, etc.? nametags? project matchmaking
• Poster sessions
• Help people create profiles on the wiki
• Sudo suite
• Open source micro tractors
• Oakland Wiki
• Fiscal solvency - how to make money
• How to increase membership
• Free class: programming: zero to making money**
• Communal hosting of open source software
• Soil remediation/phytoremediation citizen science project
• Local education projects
• Inclusiveness, diversity & access
• Craft of facilitation
• Ethics 101
• The power of names: online identity
• BACH (Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces [and other partnerships])

Sun. Dec. 9th - Move-In Day!

• Move-in Day!
• Neglected Technology Drive
• Book Drive
• Organizing stuffs

TODO:

• Find people with trucks to do pickups!
• List of appropriate / inappropriate stuff (eg; refrigerators are inappropriate)