[sudo-hall] Institutional Membership for Common area

[Eddan Katz]

Does 10 groups for institutional membership at $250/month each to subsidize a portion of common room use seem more realistic then?

On Dec 22, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at sudoroom.tv> wrote:

> That is true, and I do think that the first alternative I suggested of having several members as tenants and then a layer of institutional membership for use of the common area is more realistic.
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> That number 65 is also based on trying to low-ball the monthly commitment from organizations to $100 a month. If those organizations would be willing to agree to more in return for more access, that would be great.
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> Also, the common area space isn't all that big, true, but keep in mind that in regards to holding meetings, mini conferences, parties, movie showings - each of these has different requirements. And there's a bunch of different rooms that would allow many things to be going on at once, as has already begun but under scrunched circumstances in the Sudo Room common area as of late. Remember, in regards to the hypothetical scenario of 65 groups - they would all have access to all of the rooms on that floor. That is in comparison to the current situation where only 2 of 7 units are being rented, 
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> I do think it is more likely to have 6-8 entities being tenants in one of the 7 rooms in that wing and that they would get first dibs on common room space in case of a schedule conflict. I threw out 15-30% as the amount of full rent that would be subsidized by the common room area access level of membership. I'll let someone else do the calculations.
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> On Dec 22, 2013, at 1:08 PM, David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 65 groups sounds like quite a large number to be sharing one physical place that isn't all that big. That means each group gets less than half a day's use of each room? Assuming it were shared perfectly equally I mean.
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>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at sudoroom.tv> wrote:
>> Another, and possibly more appealing prospect is to try to get a whole bunch of groups, not necessarily to move their offices to 2135 Broadway, but just use those facilities that their current locations do not permit in terms of size and location.
>> From some of the responses I've been getting, I don't think it would be very hard to get 65 groups to go in $100 month for clean and managed use of all the rooms on the floor for their different purposes.
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>> On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at sudoroom.tv> wrote:
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>> > Another thing we talked about with Oakland Digital was the advantage of being able to manage the common area.
>> > Peer Production would sub-lease the individual rooms to the groups/companies at proportionally lower rates and create a layer of institutional membership that could help offset costs and facilitate responsible use of the common area.
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>> > For example, if the individual rents for entities collecting together that want to be tenants in specific rooms were reduced by some 15-30%, institutional membership for organizations wanting to use the common area but not interested in being tenants could collectively pay for that percentage reduction. This would also encourage the expansion of the network with participation from the multiple collaborative groups and their programs and activities.
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>> > Institutional membership also allows for individual people to share the risks and burdens of monthly dues within a sub-group cluster. In other words, if one person can't pay that month, but is active and contributing, that person's contribution and participation could be covered through their affiliated organization.
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