[Mesh] 2nd Annual Board Mtg Minutes

[Jenny Ryan]

Recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/15_September_2015

ChrisJ & MaxB, we re-elected you to the board. Let me know if you'd like to
be removed!

Welcome Pete and Arlo to the sudomesh BoD!


*sudo mesh annual board meeting, 15 sep 2015*
We are meeting in La Commune!

=Attendees=
* Jenny, Pete, Jeremy, Jake, Marc, Matt
* Came late: Mitar and his friend Jake

=Discussion=
* Pete: You can be a sharer or a recipient of sharing
* Pete: Fundamentally about being in a participatory community
* Pete: Did you ever try to set up a tin can phone as a friend? [image
overlay of tin can phone lines across oakland]
* Jenny shows Pete our video. He digs it. J suggests we could do more
videos, short 30-second/1-minute 'PSA' style clips tailored to different
audiences
* Jeremy: Would like to do more presentations at schools to recruit more
young coders. Anyone else interested in co-presenting?
* Pete's neighbor found the peoplesopen network and cancelled his service
:D looked up the project and was stoked, contacted pete offering to share
the costs

=Proposals=

==New Board of Directors==

* Remove: Lilia, Luis
* Re-elected: Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Jake, Matt, ChrisJ, MaxB
* New Directors: Pete, Arlo

Consenso: 5/5

==Becoming a fiscally-sponsored project of the Omni==
* Could help Omni achieve 33% charitable income as required of a 501c3
* Sudo Room might achieve 501c3 status more quickly
* Jenny's also filled out most of our 501c3 nonprofit application if we'd
like to go that rought

* Proposal: Delegate this task to Jenny

Consenso: 5/5

==Election of Officers==
* President: Jenny Ryan
* Secretary: Pete Forsyth
* Treasurer: Marc Juul

Consenso: 5/5

=Post-meeting discussion on events we'd like to organize=
* BACH Unconference - Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces 3rd annual
Unconference. Visit http://ba.chgrp.org/ to learn more and join the mailing
list if you'd like to participate!
* Hackmeet - Matt has the domain hackmeet.net - Interested in hosting
european-style 'hackmeets' to work on building solutions to tangible
real-world problems, hacktivism
* Open Alternatives conference - 18-21 March 2016
** Paige and Jenny have been discussing organizing a 'decentralized tech'
conference
** Marc is interested in expanding the scope to 'Open Alternatives' and
inviting participation from Counter Culture Labs and other groups &
projects working on open technologies and building alternatives to the
current system
** Battlemesh track over the week
** Distributed / decentralizing tech track
** Biosensors track
** Failcon - sharing stories of failure in community organizing
** 50% maximum techies
** Overlap of technical and nontechnical tracks
** Block party / Creating Commons-style
*** Phat Beets is interested in helping
* Name ideas: Creating Commons, Creating Alternatives, Decentralized
Alternatives, Forging a Commons, Growing a Commons, Collective Liberation,
Collective Conference, Flock Together, The Humans Conference, Open
Alternatives

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Jenny

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