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From: In Tension <in.tension.sf(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:53 PM
Subject: [omni-helpdesk] In/tensión series of events at SFAI
To: info(a)omnicommons.org
Dear Omni Commons Staff,
We are pleased to invite you to an exciting and important evening of art,
discussion and ceremony at the San Francisco Art Institute. We have
gathered artists, community activists and Native American leaders to engage
with the idea of *displacement, *as a force that has historically defined
and continues to shape the San Francisco Bay Area.
We hope to count with your participation and support in our effort of
understanding this important and difficult phenomenon. Please share this
information with your friends, followers and constituencies. We will be
sending you more detailed information about the schedule of the evening and
the guest speakers soon.
Warm regards,
Anita Giansante & Juan Pablo Pacheco
co-curators
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Torrie Fischer <tdfischer(a)hackerbots.net> wrote:
> Is not making money an implicit attribute of being a Non Profit or something?
Sort of. You can make money, but most of it has to be from charitable
donations. There's complicated math about exactly how much - at least
60%, but for large donations only the first $5k counts towards the
total, it's based on a 4-year average, etc etc etc. The more
non-charitable income you get, the more you have to worry about that
stuff, and there's incentive to structure as much income as you can as
"donations". The fundraising working group has been working for months
on this, and the plan is for many member collectives to become
fiscally sponsored by Omni, and all their members' payments to be
called donations instead of dues. Most events that we do in the
ballroom are educational, and collecting door money could fit into a
donations framework pretty easily.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
> Hi my dad is a retired machinist, heating and air conditioning engineer. I could bring him over to examine the omni if you'd like! He is used to maintaining systems at large buildings like airports
Airflow and ventilation is an unsolved problem throughout the
building. If he'd like to help with this issue, I'm sure there's a lot
of work he could do. But right now what we need most is people willing
to commit and follow through with tasks. I'm copying the building WG
list for their info.
Hello everyone!
Due to low volume of interest for this time around, and the fact that I am
sick as a dog, I'm post-poning SudoHack. But if you happen to be there,feel
free to hack things up, anyway! Just because my lungs are swollen doesn't
mean you can't make the place spiffy. :)
Thanks everyone!
Hi my dad is a retired machinist, heating and air conditioning engineer. I could bring him over to examine the omni if you'd like! He is used to maintaining systems at large buildings like airports
Would you need help?
He is kind of cranky but mellowed with age but generally most very good mechanics are like that.
I could try to bring him over an evening !
Sent from my iPhone
A few of us @ Sudo Room have been casually throwing around ideas about ways
to generate money for the Omni without selling our soul to The Man and
becoming Capitalist Pigs*™
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol>. *
One of our topics of discussion was the possibility of turning the Ballroom
into a working venue and having that sustain us monetarily while the
collectives focus on bringing excellence to the community. Robb, being as
excellent as he is, is starting to form a collective focused on
productions, from event management/AV training to actual execution of
events. Rise up pad here. <https://pad.riseup.net/p/omniproductions>
Some think we should continue as a non-profit, some think that we should
try to actually turn the Ballroom into a money-making venue to help better
serve the community. Perhaps a Benefit Corporation
<http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/252259> could be the bridge between
the two?
I'd like to open this up for discussion. I'm not super knowledgeable about
business, laws and how they work together but I know there are a lot of
really intelligent people at the Omni that could help brainstorm this.
Any thoughts, opinions, ideas or knowledge they'd like to share? By all
means, take me to school!
Thanks everyone!
my hope for a production collective is to learn & share the myriad skills
that go into producing a sucessful fundraising event.
if & when we get good at producing events, we will be able to help other
non-profits generate attention & funds for their projects...and for our own.
if access to the building & being a member of a collective at the omni is
not valuable enough alone to the members of the collective, perhaps we
could pay members who teach (sound/lights/stage setup) others during
events. if we teach, instead of work, events; i think we have a better
chance of having the $ we get for events being considered as from a
charitable source.
my $.02
~r
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From: Jonas Öberg <hello(a)commonsmachinery.se>
Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:32 PM
Subject: Looking to join the team?
To: vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com
If you're interested in joining the Commons Machinery team, read on to
learn what we're up to. If you're not, well, keep reading any way. You may
find it interesting :-)
I'm just back from a ceremony in Stockholm where I formally accepted the
SKAPA Innovation Award in memory of Alfred Nobel, which we announced
already back in September. The award is for our work on Elog.io and turning
the tables by putting provenance and users first, rather than copyright and
copyright holders. Over the past weeks, we've given a lot of thought to
Elog.io and what we would do different today. You can read that in my blog
post at FSFE <http://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=28>.
Some of this will serve as useful input as we work with Kennisland on a
fingerprint algorithm for videos, which enables the creation of a whitelist
and provenance record for videos. We're using some of the thinking from
Elog.io, and taking the opportunity while we're doing so to also update the
algorithm we used for images.
This is exciting work, but we would be love to have more people as part of
our team! For Commons Machinery, we're looking very specifically for
software developers with experience from developing Python, Node.js, and
with knowledge of RDF and semantic structures, ideally with a pinch of
maths and algorithm knowledge. Demonstrated ability to create a JSON API
with backend database and frontend tools would be welcome. Previous
knowledge of RabbitMQ and Celery beneficial.
If you think you fit the bill, or know someone who might, send them to
hello(a)commonsmachinery.se!
Stay tuned to this channel for more exciting news!
Sincerely,
Jonas
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oi mates,
food not bombs is considering setting up a paypal acct to accept
donations/ticket $ for the feb 13 fundraising shindig at the omni.
do we know of any better options? ideally, ones that allow having different
simultaneous campaigns.
thx
~r
