[sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] [omni-finance] finance-wg report back

[Laura Turiano]

Thanks you, Patrik!
The commons working group meets Sundays at 7pm. Please come if you would 
like to help book and produce events. The event production collective 
idea is something that we have discussed but haven't reached agreement 
about in the past. That doesn't mean that we can't discuss it again or 
do something like it to improve our event capacity, quality, and income.

Laura

On 10/30/15 11:03 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Berry Maker <berrythemaker at gmail.com 
> <mailto:berrythemaker at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Who would best be to advise on the current limitations of 
> coordinating events at the
> > Omni?  Byob for example? Caberet laws, etc.
> >
> > I'm fairly certain an Omni events collective already exists and it 
> would be respectful
> > to ask about creating one first.
>
> There is an events *working group*, who are doing an amazing job 
> coordinating all the scheduling, but are also constantly understaffed, 
> overworked, and underappreciated. I've CC'd them on this email.
>
> I've suggested before that it might help if there were some financial 
> incentive for people who are willing to help bottomline events. I 
> think it could make sense to set up a collective that has some 
> profit-sharing agreement with the Omni, and a strong (contractual) 
> commitment to also host free events.
>
> Patrik
>
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:autonomous666 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't know the specific codes in Oakland but <100 people 
> generally means it's a "private party" with no special permission 
> needed. You could get away with much more if there aren't many people 
> milling about outside.
> >>
> >> 4 events per month x 99 attendees x $20 cover charge = $7920/mo 
> gross income.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Berry Maker 
> <berrythemaker at gmail.com <mailto:berrythemaker at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Agreed! Several edm event coordinator friends have asked me about 
> this. I've heard holding this type of event at Omni is be tricky atm 
> though. Oakland needs more edm events.
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 29, 2015 8:07 PM, "Autonomous" <autonomous666 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:autonomous666 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hosting EDM events in the ballroom could more than make up for 
> the cash flow shortage:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.sfbayedm.com/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:00 PM, robb <sf99er at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sf99er at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ugg, $2k additional expenses :(
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i really feel renting the common spaces is our only sustainable 
> & viable option at this point...along with hosting our own fundraiser 
> events.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> maybe if we had a prodution collective responsible for 
> optimizing teh commons for events, we could get more for them ;)
>
>
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