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

[Eddan Katz]

The current and penultimate draft reads as following and will be delivered by Tracy Jacobs
:

Dear citizens and guests of the city of Oakland,

We are an unincorporated association of technologists, scientists, lawyers, artists, and community activists interested in enabling openly accessible technology to promote social justice right here 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 other inspirational Do-It-Yourself (DIY) initiatives are steering our community’s creative potential into peer production, problem-solving and democratic culture by bringing together the tools and passions of our want to help each  other, our neighbors, and the planet.  

Sudo Room is a part of this movement. We hope you will join us. We began to work together last December. We’ve so far held several successful events and are now having a presence at Art Murmur. We meet here at 7pm on Mondays.

Our next step is to “officially exist”, which is tough without a Tax ID. This “recognized existence” would allow us to have such benefits as a bank account. Up until this point, though, we have found only find one bank which would permit us to open an account just based on establishing proof of our being here, now... in other words, yes, “existing”.

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.

We shall continue drafting our documents publicly on our wiki. We’ve already agreed on a process by which to establish ourselves with a minimum threshold compact. And we’re renting this space you see behind us as our first. (It is a pseudo room for sure, but it is also a Sudo Room in the sense that everyone can meaningfully participate).

And in celebration of this existence, we are also gathered here to answer a question 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-- and please announce your name or “sudo-name” on your way in. The first 50 people will also get a ticket to see Ghostbusters next door at the Paramount in about an hour.

Thank you.



On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:45 PM, aestetix aestetix wrote:

> Only one nitpick. I would suggest having a mention of Emperor Norton :)
> 
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at oaklandlocal.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> >>>
>   
>  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:
>> 	I've shared Sudo Room Intent to Exist         
>> Message from 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
>> 
>> Google Drive: create, share, and keep all your stuff in one place.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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