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Sudo Room June meeting summary! (Sorry, forgot to add a subject)

by Andrew R Gross

Hey everyone! Here's the summary of last Wednesday's Sudo Room meeting: *Membership: * We're gaining members at a rate of around 1 per month. *Finances:* We're bringing in $2k of our $2500/mo goal. We've had some success with grant submissions, but could use more volunteers helping write grants. *Facilities:* Our messiness remains our most intractable problem. We have a problem with people anonymously dumping bulky E-waste off. It's still difficult to dispose of waste. And not everyone is consistently leaving the space how they found it when they arrived, especially after big events like Hardware Hacking Tuesday. All of these are known issues, but hard to resolve because we don't currently have any particular solutions that can get consensus. *Comms:* A lot of people aren't aware that we have a Discord server and an IRC, so join those if you like. We'd still like someone to send out a monthly newsletter or a weekly summary of what's going on, but we need at least one volunteer for that. *Events:* I held some table top games last month, and will hold some more this month. We've got stuff reliably happening on Mon, Tues, Weds, and Thurs (see the https://sudoroom.org/calendar for deets), though we'd love more new events. *Action items for June:* - The membership working group will try to consistently prepare a membership update for next month's meeting. - It would be great if someone would propose a set of policies to address the mess and build consensus before the July meeting. - It'd be great if someone else wanted to run meetings. *Minutes:* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2023-06-07 *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

3 years, 4 months

Is next Wednesday the SudoRoom meeting meeting ?

by Romy Ilano

I couldn’t make it this week - is next Wednesday the meeting meeting ? Sent from my iPhone

3 years, 4 months

[omni-consensus] Round 2 of Hellman Grant Budgeting (fwd)

by Jake

Hi Sudoroom, Sarah is our bookkeeper and has a lot of experience with organizations like Omni Commons from her time with Pro Arts (which she's still part of) Delegates are being asked to approve these ideas for how to distribute the grant we recieved recently. The grant specified that it was to be used for "capacity building" and it's important that we explain how that happens, so I really appreciate the work she's doing to write this up. If sudoroom people have strong opinions about this, we should discuss it at a meeting, otherwise i will just advocate for what I think is best on behalf of sudoroom. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:08:54 -0700 From: Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: [omni-consensus] Round 2 of Hellman Grant Budgeting I hope to get consensus for the remainder of the Hellman Grant budget at this Thursday's delegates meeting. It is also a possibility that the delegates could ... delegate ... this budgeting to the Finance WG if there isn't the capacity among delegates to do this task. Here is a new tab in the same google spreadsheet showing what we have left to allocate, and my initial proposed expenditures for the rest of the money. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Y3QfUq5cpM7fNie7Nj86739LoKW5vaAZaI… Feel free to comment / add a column etc. thanks! Sarah L

3 years, 4 months

[omni-consensus] moving Omni office to basement (fwd)

by Jake

hi sudoroom, just another issue i will be asked about as sudoroom's delegate. If we have strong opinions we should discuss it at a meeting, otherwise i'll use my best judgement as always. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:18:19 -0700 From: Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, Silver <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> Subject: [omni-consensus] moving Omni office to basement Hi everyone, Recently, Silver and I met with Joey from Village of Love, and he let us know that he has reduced the usage of his space. When he had initially approached Omni about using the basement and signed the lease, he was hoping this work would be funded by a grant, that didn't end up coming through. Hence, the balance due on rent (though the sense I get is that part of the reason he is so behind on rent is that he is exceptionally busy and is juggling so many things that it slips his attention). Silver and I have also been discussing better ways to use Omni's space. As Omni is adding paid staff, having a somewhat private place to work has been noted as necessary for the sanity and productivity of said staff. We have a tentative agreement with Joey, to have Omni take the smallest room of his suite for Omni's admin office, in exchange for a $300/month reduction in rent going forward. This would be great for Silver (who is currently a paid Omni staff person), as it gives them a private space that is also near the Media Lab, which is one of their primary projects. When we collectively were discussing space usage improvement last year (or perhaps late 2021), we had consensed that moving the Omni office to the basement would be acceptable. This would also allow Omni to relocate its files and office supplies out of the 2nd floor room, which could then be rented out to a new tenant/collective. From all the feedback both Silver and I have received from prospective new groups, the room that is currently Omni's office is quite desirable and the increased income from having that space go to a new tenant/collective would make up for what we would be losing from Joey/VoL. Does anyone have any objections to this? thanks, Sarah L

3 years, 4 months

Scheduling my RPG on Wednesday

by Andrew R Gross

Hey all, Who is interested in playing or just hanging out while I run my RPG? I was going to run it this Wednesday at 8 - 10 PM, but a player isn't available and I'd prefer to run it the following week to accommodate. If you're interested in playing, please respond and let me know what your availability is this Wednesday (June 14th) and next Wednesday (June 21). I'll plan my availability based on who is looking to play which day. Thanks! *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

3 years, 4 months

6/18: Intro to Projection Mapping workshop at The Midway

by aer

Hi! Wanna let you know about this workshop happening at The Midway <https://www.tixr.com/groups/midwaysf/events/projection-mapping-workshop-713…> on Sunday 6/18, in case you or anyone you know may be interested. Please feel free to forward this opportunity through your networks/socials, and get in touch with any questions. Projection Mapping Workshop Led by Zoey Vero and Aer Sunday, June 18, 2-4 PM The Midway, 900 Marin St, SF https://themidwaysf.com/events/ Thanks! -- Aer Artist in Residence www.themidwaysf.com [image: image.png]

3 years, 4 months

John Voldal banned by reciprocal agreement with noisebridge

by Jake Watters

This guy has been making the rounds taking advantage of communities like ours and recently got dislodged from Noisbridge. Let's make sure he doesn't get his foot in the door of Sudoroom, we have much better things to do than parenting people like him. from https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/86 John voldal [image: Voldal-pic.jpg] <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:Voldal-pic.jpg> Living in the space, for weeks. (As well as storage of motorcycle on patio for multiple weeks) Excessive personal storage in the space. Personal, exclusive desktop (got mad when others touched it). Reports from other maker communities of malicious behavior. Gatekeeping with multiple people. In mediation but would not accept mediator input. Had to be asked to leave 3 times. Generally manipulative. Banned by consensus May 30 after multiple attempts from multiple people to set boundaries with him. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2023_05_30 As of June 6, also came into Noisebridge after being banned, and then, refused to leave. Several officers of the organization had to show up in person to ask him to leave and he refused to the point where we called the cops to escort him out.

3 years, 4 months

KDE for Activists

by Jonathan Cadle

KDE is an open-source desktop environment, and also an organization that builds a variety of software tools (also all open-source). They recently added a page to their site specifically talking about how open source software can be used by activists to safely and securely organize and communicate: https://kde.org/for/activists/ I was thinking this might be useful info for other groups at the Omni, but I wasn't sure how best to get it out to them. Any ideas?

3 years, 4 months

Donated laptops and tablets

by Elaine Jeffery

Hi all, I just wanted to follow-up on what I've figured out about the donated electronics we got a couple of weeks ago. I grabbed the following: - Dell Latitude E6420 The Dell laptop seems to be perfectly functional aside from a dead battery. I installed Debian 11 and Windows 10 on it with no issues. I also ordered a replacement battery for it for around $20, which seems to be working just fine. Here's the one I ordered: https://www.ebay.com/itm/264468438245 #NotSponsored - iPad 3rd Generation The iPad 3 tablets need to be factory reset, because the school apparently didn't bother to even log students out of their accounts on the one I got. I had to go through the settings until I found "profiles", which had a student and a teacher profile, and deleted both profiles. That revealed the hidden factory reset button. After resetting the tablet to a fresh state, I learned that the iPad 3 is, unfortunately, too old to do much with as is. The newest iOS version that supports the hardware is iOS 9.5.something, and there are almost no apps available anymore that will run on it. I did manage to jailbreak it using 3uTools, but that didn't get me anywhere, as there aren't any Linux distributions that can be installed on the iPad. The jailbreak was also kind of a pain, because 3uTools doesn't run on Linux, the jailbreak required an Apple ID, and the iPad is old enough that the jailbreak only worked from Windows 7 (which itself is a bit old and not completely straightforward to get anymore). One thing I'm interested in is that several people seem to have had success repurposing the screen, albeit without the touch capabilities: https://hackaday.com/2014/06/07/customized-ipad-lcd-screen-clips-onto-macbo… https://hackaday.com/2019/07/18/put-those-ipad-displays-to-work-with-this-e… - HP tablet I haven't done as much research on this device, as it seems more obscure, but I'm afraid it had probably suffered a similar fate to that of the iPad; It's so old at this point, that there's not much that will run on it. However, I have not confirmed this. It's possible that it's still totally usable for something. Thanks, --Elaine

3 years, 4 months

[omni-consensus] Event working group proposal (fwd)

by Jake

sudo room will have to form an opinion on this -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 08:00:00 -0700 From: Z Silver Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: [omni-consensus] Event working group proposal Written by Jacqi Galea with references to my previous event manager proposal! Proposed Compensation Model for Omni Events Team Overview: The Omni events team aims to book around 10k in event revenue monthly. Each event team member spends anywhere from 2-15 hours per event booking as a point person. In order to create a sustainable labor model, maintain the event revenue and decrease burnout amongst team members, we propose the point person for each event receive 10% of the total event revenue. This percentage is based on the reflection that if we continue to bring in $10,000 per month this is $120,000 per year, 10% of that amount is only 12k. If we were to hire an events manager at $30 per hour 10 hr/wk (minimal hours necessary) that would be about $14,400 per year. Proposal: 10% of all event monthly revenue goes into events team banking accounts. The budget will allow us to pay event stewards and improve venue facilities when needed. Each point person can choose to receive 10% of event revenue. This 10% is based on the following breakdown of tasks. Every point person completes a combination of the below tasks for every event along with maintenance tasks in between assigned events. Each event constitutes at least 1-2 hours of labor, usually more. The event payout will usually be $100 or more. Events larger than $1,500, payout will be model based on hours at $25-$30 an hour put into the event. - Events working group members (currently 3-4) would ideally be w-2 employees of omni? Or independent contractors? - Those who are being compensated are responsible for tracking events dates and payout amounts to be invoiced to the Events Finance Manager monthly. - A new member of the events team must complete 2-3 events in partnership with an experienced member of the events team before taking point and compensation. - Max amount of events team members being compensated? Should not matter as percentages are all relative to the number and amount of events coming in. Task Breakdown: - The following tasks are ongoing and split amongst event working group members through volunteer hours - The following tasks are split between working group members on an ongoing and event by event basis in order to maintain the functionality and presentability of the facilities at Omni. - The following tasks are done by all of the events working group members on an ongoing and event by event basis in order to maintain flow, communication, and organization of events. - The following tasks are carried out mainly by one member of the events team (currently silver) who bills their hours accordingly. Maintaining financial records, invoicing, and following up to ensure payments are received is integral to events and Omni as a whole.

3 years, 4 months

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