Sudo room/10-24-2012 Meetup

10/24/2012

Attendees

Grant, praveen, hol, jae, ryan b, deno, andreas, jenny, jason, anthony, felicia, marina, matt, jehan, Tom, AJ, eddan

Notes

• bio-incubator (for insulin! ALS startup)
• crowdcure.us – crowdsourced drug dev't
• sudo crowdfund
• curation of crowdfunding platforms via Jenny-http://thepyre.org/wiki/Funding
• tour of space (2141) this saturday!
• biohack space / wetlab

• how we structure what we have to maximize use of as many common spaces as possible
• getting small groups within or associated with sudo room

proposals for moving forward

• a space!
• minimal - $175 closet in 2135 and one of the $900 rooms in 2141 (hol)
• proposal: take everything. private lending! can make it up by sub-leasing (max)
  • $150 a drop for outlets. We can offer to wire the building as a service for negotiation (deno)
• proposal: biohack space: ryan (500), jae (500), and sudo room (500) - LLC company OR sudo room pays for entirety of biohack space (jae)
• proposal: the sudo crowdfund [matchmaking projects to a 501(c)3 - tax deductible status drastically reduces costs; 1% equity of any company funded by sudo fund.
  • --> if people want to work with eddan on this, get in touch: eddan@eddan.com
  • --> redistributing to projects, not people
• we shouldn't wait for everyone's input; what's a small decision we can make and use agilely? (rusty)
• we should wait til saturday to make a decision (marina)
• orange closet as step #1 - (eddan)
  • --> pros: already has the lease; can auction off later

Report from Hol re: Equipment wanted for new space (spreadsheet is here)

• classroom space (6 people)
• wetlab, 3-D printing, soldering station (7 people each)
• ventilation is a concern

• online vote needed

• Jazz club opening next month!

• Eddan proposes we pitch spaces on election day for future sudo room commons

• Reinstating the model for the upcoming decision-making process:
  • -sudo room
  • -separate groups/individuals

• Matt emphasizes getting really involved in this important decision

• Classroom: is used by others, but is not used enough by Sudoers [matt has been teaching math on tues-thurs mornings 7:30-9am; Regular Dancesafe meetings are also being held in the classroom]

• Marina suggests really waiting until after saturday, once we have a better idea

• Needs/Resources:
  • - allow for collaborative work
  • - community oriented

• need a date for decision-making
• can fill out survey at event

• $7.61 w/ a minimum of 23 paying members for the $175 room

• How are we going to run our space collectively? - matt

-Ryan suggests we push to make a decision by Saturday, given urgency of situation -Eddan re-interprets this as a call-out for do-ocratic initiative --Some date after Saturday - eddan suggests election day [nov. 6] -oct. 28th,

• November 6th [online effort] + wednesday decision

Amendments/Issues

• future issues could always arise, should put off til the end of november
• one of the rooms should be the federation space - collaboratively paid for by all members of the federation
• group-based proposals due by Sunday
  • --time-based shared spaces?

• For Saturday:
  • -needs and equipment assessment
  • -survey of rooms folks are individually interested in (straw poll)
  • -poll from all who show up

• Those who want to brainstorm / plan for Saturday, contact jenny (jenny@thepyre.org)

• Brainstorm group for finances/budget models - contact Matt & Anthony

• Workshop Weekend 2nd Weekend of November - 10th & 11th - at Sudo Room, Tech Liminal and other Oakland spaces! *Check out the schedule here: https://workshopweekend.net/catalog