Event:2013/11/20 Informational Meeting 1

These notes are incomplete - please feel free to add to them!

=Random Notes / Questions=
 * How does a collective of collectives operate?
 * Music collectives?
 * Would need extensive soundproofing
 * Smaller office space?
 * Definitely possible
 * How to mediate conflict?
 * Visioning
 * Everyone gets a 2-minute slot to speak to the topic at hand

=Representative Groups of the Meeting=
 * Oakland Nights Live
 * Sudo Room
 * Public School
 * Counter Culture Labs
 * Small Press Traffics

Other Potential Groups

 * SALTA
 * CorpWatch
 * Groups along San Leandro & High in E Oakland

=Inspiration=
 * Sudo Room's Conflict Resolution Policy
 * BAPS' Financial Policy (link?)
 * OccuCopy & 1984 Printing
 * The Compound (artist studios) on 65th in Emeryville

=Concerns=
 * Distance from BART
 * Wheelchair-accessible buses from BART
 * Inevitable trade-offs - what are we getting in exchange for distance? Huge space
 * Temescal is a very upper-class, white neighborhood that's rapidly gentrified
 * This area where we are now is rapidly gentrifying, more so than Temescal
 * Space itself is largely ADA compliant
 * There are lifts that can be installed in a staircase that are affordable to build
 * Think of the long-term: We could sell this for much more, and move somewhere else in 5 years
 * The area near MacArthur BART has a good deal of crime

=Action Items=
 * Look into any pre-existing inspection records [ask tmrw at mtg] - Jenny
 * Reach out to invite other groups to the next mtg or an ad-hoc mtg with some of the core organizers - Everyone
 * Begin brainstorming on our values & guidelines
 * Homework Assignment: What are 5-10 groups you would like to see share this space? -Everyone
 * Make a video to promote
 * Make a presentation for other potential groups - David
 * Get folks to create User Pages on the Wiki to encourage short bios, visions and values - Jenny

=Visioning=
 * "A culture of agency and activation - to really feel that we are actively, bodily, joining together in the work of creating a genuine shift in how we view our abilities to shape the world through our actions."
 * "education and architectural (experimental and functional) construction in the space."
 * "I would like an emphasis on social justice to guide the ethos and collective of the collective inclusion of standards (?)."
 * "I can't yet answer this question."
 * "Radical intention and simplified structure, changing structure, simplified logistics, less groups."
 * "Non-judgmental, truly open and welcoming. Creative, artistic."
 * "space is participatory / ...money doesn't rule the day / ...is in solidarity with groups looking to aquire space without capital, through reclamation and direct action etc; / ...considers the needs of individuals and small groups / ...is welcoming and inviting."
 * "Anticapitalist, pro-reimagining the world through creating tangible alternative models [and support when they fail and require iteration]."
 * "A sense of joy and excitement in our collective work; dedication to working for the common good."
 * "A space that facilitates interconnection and collaboration between a diverse range of creative anti-capitalist collectives."
 * "Radical generosity; the ability to exercise it with great abandon; the opportunity to be selfless."
 * "A space for radicalized collectives - in all kinds of different ways."
 * "EXIST"
 * "ANTICAPITALIST"
 * "The dedication to such a space be not limited by the physical walls that contain it. The concept of an open society allowing a synergy with and without walls to occur within and without the community."
 * "An Autonomous Anomolous Anticapitalist (Non)University made up of a plethora of incredible projects constantly exploring and celebrating our diversity of roots and ideas / and their confluences / with free food / love / & make the gov't scared."
 * "Innovative autonomy / wild hybrid liminality / non stop talking / questioning all existing principles / fundamentally, an illusion of fixed ground to commit to perpetual motion in ____ company, and to ____, offer an invitation to the wider world about a laboratory to completely transform what we now know as the unwanted _____ _____ they ______."