[sudoroom] Meeting Minutes June 28, 2012

[Matthew Senate]

06/28/2012 - Meeting Notes

*Attendees:*
Ben, Victoria, Max, Eddie, Adam, Troy, Tracy, Eddan, Anthony, Timon, Jenny,
Matt

*Agenda:*
Introductions -
Report-backs -
1) Art Murmur
--Tracy painted the box office room white!
--and spoke with George, who is very supportive of an Art Murmur endeavor
... and also spoke with a Hopi painter who had reserved 2135 Broadway for
Art Murmur (July 7th) and is willing to collaborate!
2) Tech Ops
--Jenny set up two mailing lists at
http://sudoroom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin - Sudoroom-announce and
Sudoroom-discuss

Old Business -
* Decision Making Proposal / Draft to be reworked - See Victoria's email.

   - *Report-Back from discussion group:*


   - Have a proposal, but want to walk through the conversation.


   - Talked about what it means to be a group and in a space, we have
   shared visions, purposes, outcomes, etc. And with that there are important
   things that need to be decided:


   - Liability


   - Raising Revenue


   - Membership


   - Want to make sure that structures put in place are "inclusive and
   open-ended"


   - Do people have more power than others? Or do they have different types
   of power?


   - Everyone is shy of saying there is "just one process" But instead
   decided to narrow down to the most important thing we have right now:


   - *Writing our By-Laws.*


   - Idea is to propose to this group that we start with what Victoria has
   proposed already. Take what Victoria has, take changes and feedback, and
   re-present it in one-weeks time for


   - *Proposal: to agree to an interim decision-making structure to form
   the By-Laws end of July, a more suitable governance structure for some
   longer term.*


   - Ask for 2/3 majority present at meeting, as well as at 10pm next Weds,
   require a simple majority of an online poll following the meeting that will
   last until end of Sunday.


   - There is one dissenting person from meeting about online voting.


   -


   - "Vote"


   - Minor decenting opinion: Concerned about the danger of making votes
   rather than being consensus.


   - Minor decenting opinion: Not satisfied with this basic decision
   procedure, but faithful that it will be revised in time.


   -


Three friendly ammendments:

   - Strive for consensus, use a strong recommendation for following
   procedure below:


   - Make comments in periods for: overall structure and order, paragraph,
   phrase level.


   - Reiterate anonymous commenting potentials.


   - Give longer for online vote.


   - Use php polling site.


   -

Eddan suggests we split up the editing period into three phases: the first
being major edits, the second being paragraph-style edits, the final being
word changes / minute edits

New Business
* Ways to utilize the website + tools better for what we want to do.
* Intro to wiki, intro to sudo room
* Art Murmur group

   - Interest from last week:


   - *Sudo Groups*


   - 1) Art Murmur Working Group - Tracy, Troy, Erica, Timon


   - 2) Tech Stuff Working Group - Eddan, Jenny, Matt


   - 3) Finding New Space - Marc, Eddan, Timon, Jenny, Ibrahim, Tracy,
   Anthony


   - 4) Researching Alternative Membership Modelities - Marina, Jenny, Evan

* Location

Action Item
* Speak with meditation people about further usage of their space.
* Email group everything for decision procedure
* Art Murmur update
* Do a trial Monday night meeting in "classroom"

Victoria wrote a draft decision-making model:
Need: Decision
Step 1: Input
Step 2: Proposal creation (by council?)
Step 3: Present to Group (feedback & amendments)
Step 4: Revision, Vote?

   - -by council?


   - -consensus of group at large
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