Hey I had an idea...
during meetings, when not using the projector for powerpoint-y stuff, why
not project walk throughs and non-narrated videos from around the world?
Especially anything non narrated, with atmospheric sound
It would be a way to bring the world "Closer to SudoRoom" and realize we
are part of a larger orange besides the orange slice we currently live on
Stuff is blowing up in Ukraine and Cambodia right now:
- a walk through Guadalajara City in mexico during one of their bike
days -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZlr8dTcu8&feature=share&list=PLIXYZQ--adya…
- riot police put down a peaceful protest -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHCNuyCYiX0
- uncommented walk through other hackerspaces in New York, Berlin, the
world...
What do you think?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I saw that you're looking at bookkeeping software, including Gnucash. I've been using it for a good couple+ years and wanted to offer my thoughts.
I love it generally. Pretty easy to use double-entry system, kind of like Quicken.
Make sure you have your accounts set up to match your tax and reporting requirements, and so that anyone putting entries in will understand which account includes what kind of expenses.
Easy to reconcile with bank statements. It's not a "connect to my bank" kind of system like Quicken used to be (and may still be) to update your account and reconcile all at once, but if you keep up with your entries, end of month is a breeze.
Nice reporting once you figure out what you need to know and which menu choice does it.
It's apparently really easy to screw things up and not notice. By the end of every year I have had to go back and re-balance at least one or two of my bank statements because some transaction disappeared somewhere and balancing against a statement becomes a problem (tho' prior balances have worked out fine).
Because of that last point, I'm considering another option this year.
j.
well my point wasn't that I would come to SudoRoom and do only working and
not talk to anyone. I would like to have a super focus area so that we
could isolate ourselves for short bursts, then come back like half-naked
pearl divers coming up for air out of the ocean, our diving knives in our
teeth, so that during breaks we could flop around and relax supine on the
couches, just as divers would half-naked in the bright sun...
before diving down into the depths again, the depths of hyperfocus, clad
only in loinclothes, searching for pearls of wisdom.
>>
Message: 8
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:13:56 -0800
From: Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com>1"
I've come to accept that this is not possible at sudo. I tried the "I'm
busy" sombrero, and the corner. Sometimes the problem is that I distract
myself too. But I still want focus. Super focus, without the anonymity or
expense of the coffee shop, and the separation from my house.
The way I imagined the happening was renting one of the other rooms next to
sudo and making "SUPER FOCUS CLUB". It'd be very minimally run, and cost to
go in (I think paying for it would also help bring ones self to
superfocus). So it'd be a spartan "coworking" space, which you can have as
premium feature to sudo's freemium model. I kind of was thinking about
trying this out for a month starting in April when I also plan to quit my
job and shake my life like a purse and I was looking for keys.
-notconfusing
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hey all,
Thanks to Mackenzie and her housemate, sudo room has a new trailer, already tagged and ready to roll. The hitch attaches to your rear triangle, near the rear wheel dropout, should fit on most bikes, even with some crud in the way.
Please bring it back, don't leave it out or at your house, it's an invaluable resource for everyone to share.
// Matt
Im trying get ahold of existing media / political group contact lists to
build Oakland Privacy Working Group's for our outreach purposes. Does sudo
have, or know anyone sympathetic who has, such a list? Ie, mainstream and
alternative print, tv, radio contacts, as well as at unions, leagues, or
other political groups like democratic committes/clubs, etc?
Such a lost could help sudo and baps' outreach as well -
Sort of a compressed timeframe, so any help is hugely appreciated.
Best,
David
Hi there,
This is Shimaa again, I haven't heard from anybody since I communicated with you. Can you please get back to me?
The event is Friday and I want to make sure you're still on. I invited people already and spread the word out about it.
You can also give me a call on my cell phone: 917-615-8899
Shimaa
https://www.facebook.com/events/424246587705844/
concur -
-d
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> concur -
> -d
>
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Gregg Horton <greggahorton(a)gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'greggahorton(a)gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>> This
>> On Jan 22, 2014 10:03 AM, "Romy Snowyla" <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did anyone start a quiet work area at SudoRoom? This is ideally a table
>>> where people can focus, not be interrupted, or people near this area would
>>> be mindful & not talk too loudly.
>>>
>>> I think I witnessed something like this one afternoon.
>>>
>>> Noisebridge has a similar set up.. I like it a lot,
>>>
>>> I'd like to go to sudoroom and have a small mindful area free of
>>> people's phone conversations, or be interrupted by someone pitching their
>>> political movement or solar energy start up.
>>>
>>> (I've been interrupted constantly in the past this way and this is a
>>> constructive idea to solve that problem)
>>>
>>> To the folks who had a quiet mindfulness area: could we do this again?
>>> It's a good idea and in alignment with sudoroom values;: "a hackerspace is
>>> for hacking "
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>
>>
Reposted for posterity at:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-01-22
==Intros==
Q: What are you currently hacking on?
A: Mac is hacking sewing machines, making a hat rack, and bikes, and fixing
sudo sewing machines!; Arnas is currently not hacking on anything; Chris
Bee is currently hacking sound (all of it); Matt is hacking on his camper
trailer, and fixing sudo sewing machines!; Daniel hacking on Cisco
switches; Nathan is hacking on Indian food. and the public school system;
Ryan hacking on a fuel tank. with fiberglass. and sanding.; Sam is hacking
on automation; Gaurav hacking on his laptop here; Jordan hacking health;
Jenny hacking on networks; James hacking on modules
==Announcements==
* Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar
* #Jan25: Daylong educational event on the ongoing Egyptian revolution -
this Friday starting at 3pm
* This Saturday's Today We Learned involves building compost toilets!
* Machine Learning Meetup at noon in Berkeley on Saturday. (Now on the
sudoroom calendar)
* Stop the Domain Awareness Center event - Feb. 4th @ Oakland City Hall
* Next Omni meeting is Thursday, Feb. 6th from 7-10pm
* Oakland Makers meetup was today; organizing the makers of Oakland
==Past Action Items==
* Ink donation jar - Juul - not done
* Investigate integrating Stripe and/or Balanced Payments [Jenny, Bill]
** Seems Stripe is better for recurring billing (Balanced's recurring
billing system is still in beta: https://github.com/balanced/billy) - this
is essential for us. Let's try Stripe!)
* Look into other hackerspaces'<3 accounting system [Jenny]
** GNU Cash looks most interesting - otherwise not much in the way of FOSS
tools for finances: http://www.gnucash.org/
* Get new lease for 2141 Broadway (update to sign with "sudo room" as an
entity) - Matt - pending response from George
* Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan)
* slay zombie events that show up when importing from calendar
* follow up on the stuff here https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles
==Fiscal Solvency==
* $204.11/week from Gittip!
* Minimum membership dues: $2.50/wk; Recommended: $15/wk; Endless
gratitude: $25/wk, high-fives from a million angels: $100/wk.
* Current balance: at least $7700
* Daniel suggests a visual aid to show visitors our fiscal needs and
current status
==Amendments to Articles of Association==
1. [Postponed] Final consensus on yar's filming proposal, which was
unanimously approved on Dec. 18th meeting:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Filming_at_sudo_room
*Discussion around the wording of #1B (alternative wordings in the link
above)
*Philip suggests looking into the 'Right to Delete' policies of various
European countries - + tight windows for keeping data - Privacy by Design
The following were not discussed this week, but will go on the agenda for
next week:
2. [Postponed] That members don't ever have to show up in person if they
don't want voting rights.
*Brendan proposes to strike this as unnecessary
3. [Postponed] To empower members to deal with problematic non-members,
non-members can be thrown out at any time by a member if that members feel
they are being a problem, _unless_ some other member present in the space
is willing to vouch for the member as a guest. Non-members being asked to
leave must be told that they can further discuss the incident at a
Wednesday meeting or on the mailing list.
*We need to have a policy on this, but should be written in a more
nonviolent manner.
4. [Postponed] Non-members can use the space as much as they want when
other members are present, but cannot access the space when no members are
there and have to leave when the last member leaves.
*Not enough members to reach quorum, push to next week
==conflict resolution==
== new members==
* Mack [cleaning, organizing, fixing sewing machines]
* Gaurav [Gittip]
==Discussion==
*Yar suggests we rotate bureacracy meetings with hacknights!
*Jenny suggests we add a 'New Members' section to the meeting agenda - Matt
done
*Calendar situation
*Jordan suggests a 'sudo diff' approach to hacking the Articles of
Incorporation [delete liberally, add succinctly]
==Action Items==
* Move to Stripe [Jenny / Matt]
* Poke Laurie re: new lease [Matt]
* Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan)
* fill out statement of information sometime soon
https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/ [Jenny, ?]
* finish setting up bank acct [Matt, friends]
* Publish the new member minimum dues policy to the Articles of Association
on-wiki. [Mack] - DONE
* Hack on Bylaws / Articles of Assoc [Mac / Jordan / Marina, friends]
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Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
Hi everyone,
The Tribune article about Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> is out!
http://www.insidebayarea.com/my-town/ci_24937953/website-aims-record-everyt…
Thanks to everyone who spoke with Matt Artz from the Tribune about what
we're trying to do.
Also, we've just tipped past 5,000 entries! Thanks to everyone who has ever
contributed!
And thanks to Sudo Room for being the IRL home of Oakland Wiki!
- Marina
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