I tried my best to put the <b>income notes</b> in the Wiki! I am not the a master-level Wiki user, though, so if anyone wants to make the formatting prettier, or add more info, please do! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Matthew Senate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattsenate@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">PLUG:<br>Event at The Holdout on Cell Phone Security (a Hackmeet production): <a href="http://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/hackmeet-2-5-cell-phone-security-for-noobs" target="_blank">http://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/hackmeet-2-5-cell-phone-security-for-noobs</a><br>
<br>WIKI LINKS:<br>Minutes (Agenda and Notes) - <br>Most critical aspect (Who makes decisions) - <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/decisions#Who_makes_decisions.3F" target="_blank">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/decisions#Who_makes_decisions.3F</a><br>
Property listings (Former and currently available places for sudo room) - <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/open_a_space#Options.2FSources" target="_blank">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/open_a_space#Options.2FSources</a><br>
<br>ACTION ITEM FOR EVERYONE (more action items at bottom of this email):<br>Translate the following minutes to the wiki, and build off of them! - <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room" target="_blank">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room</a><br>
<br>MINUTES:<br><a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/05-16-2012_Meetup" target="_blank">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/05-16-2012_Meetup</a><br><br><div><span><b>In attendance:</b></span></div>
<div><span>Jenny, Timon, Rachel, Eddie, Victoria, Marina, Micheal, Greg, Ed</span><span>d</span><span>an, Matt</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span><b>Agenda</b></span></div><div><br></div><div>
<span>0. Introductions</span></div><div><span>1. Decision Making</span></div>
<div><span>2. Finding a Space</span></div><div><ul><li><span>+ Community Bank of the Bay</span></li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><span><b>Notes:</b></span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span>1.</span><span>1</span><span> Decision Making</span></div>
<div><ul><li><span>Topics:</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span><b>Membership.</b></span><span> Do we have it? If so, what are the levels/ benefits/ rules of engagement & expectations? </span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Membership and Governance are related. </span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>Governance is a superstructure of Membership</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Paying Membership get voting rights? Or setup a timebank system?</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Lets define a what a member is</span></li></ul></div><div><ul>
<li><span>Qualitifations</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Rite of Passage</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>technoshamanic rituals :P</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li>
<span>Financial Contribution </span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Time bank</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Anthony Di Franco</span><span> BACE.org</span></li></ul>
</div><div><ul><li><span>Honorary membership?</span></li></ul></div><div><ul>
<li><span>Representative D</span><span>o-</span><span>ocracy?</span></li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><ul><li><span><b>Project Endorsement.</b></span><span> When does SudoRoom attach its name and "backing" to a project, if ever? </span></li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><ul><li><span><b>Governance.</b></span><span>
How do we make decisions on behalf of SudoRoom? Are
financially-concerned decisions different or do they involve a
different group of people vs. other kinds? </span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Is it more important to setup governance first?</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>Heuristics: make only neccessary decisions</span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>Are we going to register as non-profit (501(c)3)? This will determine legal structure</span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>Examples: How do you pay rent? Insurance? </span></li></ul></div><div><ul>
<li><span>What are the possible legal structures? Pros and Cons</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>501 (c) 3</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>LLC</span></li></ul></div><div><ul>
<li><span>Corporation</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>B-Corporation: </span><span><a href="http://bcorp.com" target="_blank">http://bcorp.com</a></span></li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><ul><li><span><b>Activities</b></span><span>
(non-hacking). Will SudoRoom have speakers/ events/ classes? What
system or structure do we put in place to facilitate this? Do others
need to agree on any aspects of these "extracurricular" activities? </span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>What is the culture? </span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>How do you establish a culture? </span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>How do you regulate the flow of new people to ensure the establishment of culture</span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>Vision/Goods/Culture</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><ul>
<li><span> </span><span><b>META and BUSINESS decisions</b></span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span> Rent? Utilities? Insurance? Liabilities? Changes to group structure? Dissolution? </span></li></ul></div><div>
<br></div><div><span><b>1.2. Who makes these decisions?</b></span></div><div><span>Qualifications:</span></div>
<div><span>-Application: can range from asking how to be a member or a project proposal or rite of passage (below)</span></div><div><span>-Rite of Passage: demonstrates committment / reliability / follow-through (consistency)</span></div>
<div><span>-Alternative currencies: </span></div><div><ul><li><span>-Time Bank (contact Anthony Di Franco)</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>-OurVolts (Anca & James, Drupal)</span></li></ul></div><div><span>-Recommendation (trust-based referall network)</span></div>
<div><span>-Honorary Membership</span></div><div><span>-Agreement - opportunity for accountability</span></div>
<div><ul><li><span>**Assessing whether people are "being Sudo or not" (Rachel)</span></li></ul></div><div>
<span>-Representative Do-ocracy</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>1.3 How are these decisions made?</span></div>
<div><span>-Consensus</span></div><div><span>-Representative Do-ocracy</span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span>1.</span><span>4</span><span> </span><span>Where and when are these decisions made?</span></div>
<div><ul><li><span><b>Options:</b></span></li></ul></div><div><ul>
<li><span> Online (proposals and concerns?)</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span> Weekly meetings (agenda and discussion?)</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>
delay/schedule for introduction & decision making, allowing for
asynchronous discussion & predictable decision making cycle</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><br></li></ul></div><div><span><b>2.</b></span><span><b> Money Making</b></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span>Three broad categories of income-generation:</span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span>2.</span><span>1. membership</span></div><div>
<span>2</span><span>.2</span><span>. goods/services</span></div>
<div><span>2.</span><span>3. fundraising/crowdsourcing</span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span>2.</span><span>1. membership</span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span>what
are the advantages, if any to membership? to what extent should
financial contribution be separate from 1) governance privileges 2)
access to the space</span></div><div><br></div><div><ul><li><span>if
there is agreement on separating financial membership from
access/votes, how do you solve the perception of the "usual" definition
of member (ie, many people understand membership as paying x for y
privileges).</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>can
an alternate term be more useful to avoid the "usual" perception of
membership? here are some alternate terms!: participant, affiliate,
joiner, building block, supporter, sudo-agent (this term got a lot of
support)</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>instead of defining benefits of membership, define responsibilities of membership?</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>logistics</span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>membership amount ($50-100, sliding scale?)</span></li></ul></div><div><ul>
<li><span>in-kind
options vs just cash; is there a need for this; a list of trades?
(services exist that allow management of this kind of setup: timebank,
ourvolts)</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><span>2.2 goods/services</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><ul><li><span>examples: classes, events, conferences, speakers, skillshares, workshops, movie nights, etc.</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>sudoers have a lot of talent and can offer many possible services/events/goods that can be used to raise money.</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>membership and fundraising interacts with this type of income</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>selling
goods/services can fuel and support membership (ie, members can provide
goods/host events/teach classes/act as speakers + these activities can
bring new members)</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>maybe members are ones who can initiate classes, speakers, and other group projects </span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>goods/services provided can inform viability of grants/crowdfunding</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>**does charging for these opportunities run counter to the sudo open + accessible principle?</span></li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><span>2.3 fundraising</span></div><div>
<br></div><div><ul><li><span>examples: grants (foundation, city/state/govt), crowd-funding, corporate, investment, donations</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>kickstarter-esque campaigns have been discussed in meetings in the past and have received support</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>fundraising
is time-consuming and difficult and will be more likely if membership
is solid (also, goods/services provided by the community can inform the
viability of grants/crowdfunding)</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>"donate" button on the site is a good minimum option</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>crowdfunding vs funding portal (eg; Sudo Room as Kickstarter Project vs. Sudo Room as Kickstarter :) </span></li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div>
<div><span><b>Key points tabled:</b></span></div><div><ul><li><span>How do we demonstrate transparency, the moment of decision-making/consensus? (Eddan)</span></li>
</ul></div><div><ul><li><span>We should discuss our autodocumentation meta-strategy :) (Jenny)</span></li></ul></div><div>
<ul><li><span>Talked to Anthony Di Franco about democratizing our tax model and cooperative voluntary equity/revenue share</span></li></ul></div><div>
<br></div><div><span><b>---------------------------ACTION ITEMS---------------------------</b></span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span><i>"</i></span><span><i>What's on the Wiki Counts</i></span><span><i>"</i></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span>1. Model + Budget + Income investigations (e.g Noisebridge, other)</span></div><div>
<span>2. Tax Structure Options: Eddan, Matt, Eddie</span></div><div><ul><li><span>Timon - Zoning</span></li>
</ul></div><div><span>3. Distilling Decision Maker/Community Options (Matt, Marina, Rachel, Jenny, Timon)</span></div><div>
<br></div><div><span>Will work on tonight (May 16)</span></div><div><span>4. Most transparent process [#3]</span></div>
<div><span>5. Determining important deadlines</span></div><div><span>6. Clean up listing of table of properties (Eddie, Matt)</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span>Eddan
spoke to Debra Acosta about realstate and had a place that he was
interested in and it fell through. it's important to keep track of
contacts</span><span> </span></div><div><br></div><br>
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