[sudoroom] Sudo Room Intent to Exist (sudoroom at lists.hackerspaces.org)

[Eddan Katz]

I have contacted the mayor's scheduler to let Jean Quan know that we 
will hold our press conference at about 7pm, but have not yet heard 
confirmation. The current text (as of 5:20) is cut and pasted below. 
Word count is currently 440 words, and could definitely use some 
additional editing.

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*Dear citizens and guests of the city of Oakland,*
**
*We are an unincorporated association of technologists, scientists, 
lawyers, artists, and community activists who are interested in using 
technology to promote social justice in our local community. We are Sudo 
Room, that's s-u-d-o room. Visit us at Sudoroom.org, join our mailing 
list at hackerspaces.org, or 'follow' us on your favorite social media 
platform.*
**
*Makerspaces, hackerspaces, open schools, open labs and the other 
insiprational Do-It-Yourself (DIY) initiatives that seek to steer our 
community's creative potential into peer production, problem-solving and 
democratic culture by bringing together the tools and the passions of 
those who seek to help each other, our neighbors, and the planet. *
**
*You see, we are an open, non-hierarchical collaborative community and 
have not yet come to agreement on our tax structure or how best to 
stimulate open knowledge innovation in our city -- so we don't have a 
tax ID. We could only find one bank, down the block, which would permit 
us to open an account with a copy of our by-laws and meeting minutes or 
press releases as proof of our existence, but without yet having 
obtained a tax ID.*
**
*Henceforth, let it be known that on this, the 7th tone of Ahau and Blue 
Lunar Hand in the calendar of the Maya, the third day of the month of 
August, 2012, in the calendar of Pope Gregory, Unix time stamp 
1344049200, We, the Sudo Room, do hereby declare our rightful and lawful 
Intent to Exist. With this intent we shall steadfastly seek to establish 
and make known our actuality, factuality and reality, as acknowledged by 
our institutions.*
**
*We're in the middle of drafting our official documents on our wiki. 
We've already agreed on a process by which to establish ourselves with a 
minimum threshold compact. We've set as our goal at least 23 members to 
commit to the Articles of Association, but we hope more of you will join 
us. *
**
*We're renting this space behind us as our first start. It is a pseudo 
room for sure, in that it is not quite enough room for our ambitious 
goals, but it is also a Sudo Room in the sense of everyone getting a 
turn to meaningfully participate, like the computer command granting 
temporary administrative access.*
**
*We are also gathered here to answer a question was asked on our 
sudo-nymous etherpad space as to: "How many hackers can you fit in a 
Sudo Room?" We will now try to answer that question by asking our crowd 
here about who is interested in joining us and filling up these 100 sq. 
feet. Please announce your name or sudo name on your way in.*
**
*Thank you. *


On 8/3/12 12:19 PM, Jenny Ryan (Google Drive) wrote:
> Document 	I've shared Sudo Room Intent to Exist 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jHQi0oUMJGUgCbRxpziCGsHWPGYd01Z2vLjQu54xdI/edit?invite=CNqZuoMK> 
>
>
> Message from tunabananas at gmail.com <mailto:tunabananas at gmail.com>:
> Eddan ran into the Mayor this morning, and she expressed interest in our press conference this evening, which will take place at 7pm outside 2135. Bring yourself, your cameras and smartphones!
>
> Attached is the doc link to the draft press release. Please hack away so we can send it off to her scheduler this afternoon!
>
> Click to open:
>
>   * Sudo Room Intent to Exist
>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jHQi0oUMJGUgCbRxpziCGsHWPGYd01Z2vLjQu54xdI/edit?invite=CNqZuoMK>
>
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