[sudoroom] Notes from meeting today

[Matthew Senate]

The Noun Project should make hacker-space icons, but they have a lot of
stuff already: http://thenounproject.com/

*Notes:*
+ Possible strategy: find user groups to call the space home, connect to
orgs or groups who want to put on pre-fab'd workshops.
+ Get a room, people will flock in.
+ Principles (options: "Be excellent to each other" and "No new rules"),
but also guidelines (e.g. safe space)
+ Situate the group in terms of hacker culture and hacker ethic (history
and education opportunity)
+ Build "Systems" not rules or policies.

+ There are sometimes trouble with personal items, but there are a lot of
"service design" and automation opportunities through Labitat's projects to
set up food purchasing, item/tool tracking with QRcodes and symbols, and
member registration and access with magnetic stripped IDs.
+ Need to read "Hacker Spaces Patterns" document, outlining how to set up a
new hacker space, or at least how others have done it.

+ Need to sort out the fiscal sponsorship asap, especially for bank
account, property lease, and grant application purposes. (Open Science,
Cooperative, and Collective "incubator" opportunities)
  --> Goal here is to set up hierarchy only for business purposes, but help
make the hacker space more lateral.
+ Create list of grants with deadlines on a simple calendar
+ Also need an event calendar for momentum-building.

*Action plan:*
+ Meet in 2 weeks on Wednesday November 30th at 7pm (location TBD), and
hold a weekly meeting every subsequent week. Provide food.
+ Get a space asap (do what's necessary to make that happen).
+ Make commitment to public access by holding "public open" sessions in the
evenings.

- Matt
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