Meeting Notes 2013-08-21

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Attendance / Icebreaker

• Icebreaker: Statement on meat
• Daniel, Andy, Stephanie, Tom, Chris, Troy, Matt, Jenny, Timon, David K

Announcements (Consent Agenda)

• Every Monday 7pm: LOL / Oakland Makerspace Open Hack Night, Decolonizing Technology (1234 23rd Avenue)
• Every Thurs. at 7PM: Oakland Wiki meetup! http://www.oaklandwiki.org
  • ALSO: Take the 2014 Mayor Key Issues Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cGV6N9pmpmJmHiKS8VmQAGlwJQ4mioShXyyxmrD-Kas/viewform
• Every Thurs. at 8:30pm: Mesh Networking meetup: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
• RADIO!!!! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_Radio
  • sign-ups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodDVaZnJ4TW1ndC1jd1ZYejFhUmRoWXc#gid=0
• Regular check-in between The Public School and Sudo Room - *next* Thursday evening (aug 22) Supper Club potlucks starting at 6
• Organization / scheduling for a week-long Summer School at the end of August
• Sudo Kids Tuesdays at 6pm
• Community Democracy Project - For participatory budgeting in the city of Oakland.
  • Democracy Days! - Saturday 10:30-2pm Sun 2-5pm @ 570 14th St Suite #3 (upstairs) - http://communitydemocracyproject.org
  • They are seeking to collect 40,000 signatures within the next 180 days!
• A seed of a book, open for collaboration about creative communities and hackerspaces, including sudo room's inspirations, stories, history, and more! http://github.com/wrought/a-place-on-every-block

Other announcements:

• Public School Summer School Week
  • Info Day is on the 31st - Cryptoparty & Mesh Networking
• Cryptoparty postponed for August 31st! (Info Day)
• Sunday the 25th, photo gallery day - Local artists exhibiting their work for the first time, scenes from Occupy. Starts at 6pm
• Artist-in-Residence opportunities at Instructables' new space
• New Economy Huddle - based on Affinity Groups: Social Justice, Permaculture, Education, Technology, Arts/Media, Travel & Exploration

ACTION ITEMS

Old Action Items:

• Add to the Sudo Room Neighborhood Outreach spreadsheet and take on a few to reach out to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMjMxR3BNNmJuRlE#gid=0
  • Everyone? Jenny has added! Rabbit added! You should too!
• 1. Research tax structures [1] 2. [...] 3. Non-Profit! [Danny, Brendan] plus
• Action Item: Become a California Non-profit Corporation - Brendan proposes this for discussion meeting on August 21st and August 28th. This is to be followed by the August 31st Today I Learned session on hacking the articles of association.
• Auto-reminder for weekly meetings [Bill, and Nate]
  • group me? *Jenny will ping Bill
• Make a flier, talking points [Jenny & Juul]
  • Jenny & Juul - copy, Anthony - lettering, Substack - art!
• Talk to JC re: sudomate funds [Jenny, Ray]

Postponed:

• Add robots.txt for sudo room (open item for anyone to take on)
• [Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George
• git-ify & flow-diagram-ify our articles of association - Brendan
• Add calendar 2141broadway.wordpress.com to Infobot's screensaver [Max]
• Library - until RPS
• Catalog - Max

Fiscal Solvency

In this section we review our current financial situation and budget, approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.

• Exchequer: Marina / Jenny / Bill
• We currently have less than $1400 - need at least 2200 by September 1st!
• Pay your dues!!
• We now have lockers, part of fundraising
• Review and consensus process:
  • Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2N3hUZldyejlXdFE#gid=7
  • Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
  • Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people)

Amendments to the Articles of Association

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association

Discussion Spillover

1. Membership

2. Fundraiser, crowd-funding campaign

• Check out indiegogo.com for example!
• Hacking Finance and Fiscal Solvency as part of campaign

Fundraiser Brainstorm

• Figure out goal
  • • For the whole floor at an estimated $6500/month, we'd need 109 members paying $60/month
  • Deadline
  • Narrative
    • Cocreate our goal/narrative with the Public School?
  • Image
• Perks
  • $60/month - membership
  • T-shirts
  • Sudomate
  • 3D-printed whatchamacallits
  • Clay
• Sponsored memberships
• Any other sort of sponsorship - corporate for instance, to projects
  • Project-based funding
• Vision
  • Co-Working
  • Community service of some sort that can be advertised out the front window
• Roles
  • Connectors
  • Media Help
  • Partners

Action Items

• Email announcement on solidifying membership and starting a campaign
• Invite Public School to participate