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Welcome to the Sudo Room wiki! Please make a user name and contribute to the conversation!

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.

Want to learn more about Sudo Room? Check out our FAQ or read about Access. You are welcome to drop by (we try to be open as much as possible), or attend our weekly meetings to learn more about the space, meet awesome people, and participate in our emergent community.

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


Can't attend? Read our Meeting Minutes.




Articles of Association

This is how we run things.

Goals

Please read our Sudo Room methodology.

  1. Create a creative community hacker space in downtown Oakland.
  2. Be a center housing active hacking projects and events.
  3. Establish a platform and space committed to:
  • Citizen science
  • Democratic Culture
  • Access to Knowledge
  • Freedom to Connect
  • Knowledge both technical and non-technical
  • Digital/Online Citizenship - Netizen Rights & Freedoms
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Education and mentorship
  • Community engagement
  • Public access

Projects and Events

Check out our wiki's Projects Page for a list of both active projects and dream projects. You can also read about active projects on our main website. To migrate:

2012 State of the Room

State of the Room

Sudo Room to-do

=to-do (migrate to projects page)

Donations and Membership Dues

Membership dues are collected via Voluntary [membership] Association. We apply this money to rent, grants, fellowships, and various funding opportunities.

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. UPDATE, PLEASE!!

Stuff we need

Please? Pretty please?

Current Critical Momentum (merge with "Projects")

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

Mood Board

Our friends

Contact

  • Here is a map with directions.
  • Join our mailing list! It can be found here. Many thanks to hackerspaces.org for our initial email list!
  • list of users