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Sudo Room is an open, non-hierarchical, collaborative community of humans, including tech developers, citizen scientists, activists, artists--and all combinations in between and beyond!--who are interested in and working towards social change. Our goal is to create the first inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in downtown Oakland, to share ideas and projects in citizen science, digital citizenship and literacy, environmental sustainability, community engagement, and self-government. Sudo Room is committed to access, empowerment, transparency, and public/social good. Sudoers have a great diversity of interests and we emphasize respect and solidarity among ourselves and with others.

Read and Inform a potential methodology for Sudo Room.

Sudo Room to-do

Projects

Donations

Electronics Donations

  • Sudo Room is reviewing its policy on electronics donations, and will be compiling a list of recyclable goods/costs before Wednesday, Dec. 5th. so that we can form a policy around material electronics donations, and other electronics in the space.
  • This is still under advisement until our next meeting where it will be an agenda item, and then there may be temporary action or continued advisement.

Wishlist

Stuff sudoroom needs

Contact

  • Many thanks to hackerspaces.org for our initial email list! Sign up here.

Events

2012 State of the Room

State of the Room

Meetings

Anyone interested in learning more about Sudo Room, meeting awesome people, and participating in our emergent community is welcome to attend!

Our weekly planning meetings take place every Wednesday evening from 7-9pm at 2141 Broadway St., Oakland, CA (near the 19th St BART).

Can't attend? Read our Meeting Minutes.

Meeting Minutes

Scratch pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom

  1. Initial Meeting
  2. First Wed Meetup
  3. 12-07-2011
  4. 12-14-2011
  5. 12-21-2011
  6. 12-28-2011
  7. 01-04-2011
  8. 01-11-2011
  9. 01-18-2011
  10. 01-25-2011
  11. 02-01-2011
  12. meeting minutes black-hole!
  13. 02-22-2012
  14. meeting minutes black-hole!
  15. 04-25-2012
  16. meeting minutes sort-of-black-hole, we have these somewhere...
  17. 05-16-2012
  18. 05-23-2012
  19. 05-30-2012
  20. 06-06-2012
  21. 06-13-2012
  22. 06-20-2012
  23. 06-27-2012
  24. 07-04-2012
  25. 07-11-2012
  26. 07-18-2012
  27. 07-25-2012
  28. 08-01-2012
  29. 08-08-2012
  30. 08-15-2012
  31. 08-22-2012
  32. 08-29-2012
  33. 09-05-2012
  34. 09-12-2012
  35. 09-19-2012
  36. 09-26-2012
  37. 10-03-2012
  38. 10-10-2012
  39. 10-17-2012
  40. 10-24-2012
  41. 10-31-2012

Creating a new minutes page? Copy and paste the code from herein a new minutes page: Sample Meeting Minutes Template.

Current Critical Momentum

We are now:

We made headway with:

Next Steps

As per discussions and polling, we are moving toward these steps:

  • August 10th - Get bank account
  • August 24th - Expand membership, get a sense of paying members
  • August 31st - Get first payment
  • September 3rd - Rent for Space

Research


Needs to be Updated

Goals

  • To found a creative community hacker space in the East Bay, specifically in Oakland, CA.
  • Establish a platform and space committed to:
    • Citizen science
    • Democratic Culture
    • Access to Knowledge
    • Freedom to Connect
    • Non-technical (humanities, social science, the environment/ environmental justice, arts, crafts, all the squishy stuff!) and technical knowledge (including transitions and bridges between the two) --
      • the useful arts & sciences?
      • information, data, knowledge, wisdom?
      • memes, genes, bits, and atoms?
      • Non-technical knowledge includes but is not limited to expertise in fields or disciplines that can be largely independent of technology. Also includes non-academic realms of knowledge.
    • Digital/Online Citizenship - Netizen Rights & Freedoms
    • Doing stuff to make our community openly accessible.
      ...to do something more with digital and network technology
    • Environmental sustainability
    • Education and mentorship
    • Community engagement
    • Public access
  • To become a center for active hacking projects but also a destination where speakers on the areas listed above may be hosted, and where folks may go for skill sharing classes

For examples, check out our list of potential projects or read about ones we've shared on our website.

Approaches

Mood Board


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