Event:2015/08/01 Commons Working Group

Omni Commons Working Group 1 August 2015
 * Bug Reports - https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2737 & https://user.riseup.net/ticket/326251/booking@omnicommons.org
 * Event Rentals Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BXxNRMsfXNS93sUfToc_0iUwktK31EBUpnh6hVFwiVM/edit#gid=511524887

Attendees
Ben, Matt (remote), Jenny (remote), Julio, Yar, Daniel, Dragon, Sabereh

Agenda

 * Commons working group check-in
 * Matt - has a headache, staying at home
 * Ben - distracted by numerous life things but doing ok
 * Julio - tired
 * Daniel - feels good
 * Yar - questioning if can be here for whole meeting
 * Follow up of last week's discussion
 * Going over this week's events(I suggest only looking at events proposed to happen before the second friday cut off plus anything that is going to happen in the next week to make sure that bases are covered.)
 * train event volunteers in crowd management for fire safety/evacuation
 * Event Rental Evalution Sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AtCpKhdd6r_c8ijCK3H2VZHovWrYTAqPOMRIH6aWicM/edit#gid=0

Sabereh
Documentry film fundraiser by Sabereh for post production-Iranian film about living between two worlds, Iran and the US. Includes showing film, Persian Tea house community building by encouraging conversations with people you don't yet know. For november

Dragon

 * Dragon came with insurance form to do massage in wellness room
 * Already has "named insured" including Omni Oakland Commons and John Slye Givens
 * Does this insurance include a "waiver of subrogation"?
 * Since this potential change to the insurance policy is intended to occur "before a loss", Dragon's insurer should be able to easily provide a "waiver of subrogation" that waives the insurer's typical right of engaging in the process of "subrogation" to represent the insured (Dragon) in order to seek restitution against specific third parties listed in the waiver--in this case Omni Oakland Commons (the lease-holding organization) and John Slye Givens. In the event of a claim made by the insured (Dragon) to the insurer (firm/agent/broker/etc), the insurer may use its right to represent the insured in order to claim damages from responsible persons (aka "tortfeasor(s)"), but the "waiver of subrogation" prevents Omni Oakland Commons and John Slye Givens to be pursued by the insurer in this fashion. Note this should not change insurance policy coverage nor prevent the insured from making any claims that would normally be made, especially that are explicitly covered by the policy.
 * http://www.irmi.com/online/insurance-glossary/terms/w/waiver-of-subrogation.aspx
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrogation
 * Dragon proposes Conscious DJ Music Series
 * Once per month, weeknight, happy hour
 * No insurance required (no alcohol, less than 250 people, ends before 10pm)
 * Try Sept 2 (Wed) 5-10pm
 * discussion of how soon we can give Dragon approval for this event because we want it to happen. Our policy talks about waiting until a certain day to approve all events, but that doesn't give him a lot of lead time or confidence. He might do it elsewhere if we can't say yes. We eventually decide that since Dragon knows what's going on at Omni we can list him as a point person, and that makes more sense. Won't be a burden on other volunteers.
 * Matt - With a month lead time, it's highly possible to address this event quickly, isn't it? Indeed, there's a deadline, but no minimum waiting period, right?
 * Biggest obvious concern to me is that this is concurrent with our sudo room weekly meeting, which shares the wall with the ballroom. In other words, making it very noisy for us to meet in sudo room proper. That being said, I'm personally in favor of having these kinds of events and am willing to accommodate by just bearing the sound or moving our meeting to another place / time. Will put on agenda for sudo room meeting.
 * Will the event be publicly advertised? (e.g. flyers or facebook)
 * What's the ticket price?

Tasks

 * Laura: change website, wiki, etc
 * Sarah: write and send announcement
 * Ben: make list of who is pp for event in sept
 * BArret: draft criteria scale and form, review next week

Pending events

 * Heart of Community Dinner - monthly dinner in La Commune, Sarah has spoken to them, willing to pp, will connect to FNB and Phat Beets. Needs work before publishing
 * Democracy Will Win Party - Community Democracy Project folks having a small gathering in the basement tomorrow. Jenny will contact Tia and move Open Circle to Disco Room
 * Solidarity cafe for Malcolm -7/26 Yar pp
 * AAYSP Meet and Greet the Board - prelim to dr. shaker event, SP pp
 * Hosting Dr. Shaker - SP to follow up
 * Omni Film Night: Flag Wars by Laura Poitras - Optik Allusions/noemie
 * DxE Meetup -
 * Unheard of World Rehearsals - they list sarah as pp
 * Youth Pickle - Julio
 * Ligure Club meeting - Laura
 * Takun Takun - noemie, publish to cal?
 * Benefit for the Free Speech Stage in People's Park - update from Noemie? Laura is concerned about whether this event will be wrothwhile in terms of actually raisng money. Will it be well organized? Will FNB provide all the labor?
 * HOward Zinn pre event concert 11/14 PP Julio (details below)
 * vegan party fundrasier 2/6 - laura will get more information
 * ? follow-up with Dragon on doing massage here - jenny has, he's added omni and john givens to his insurance. need to follow up about waiver of subrogation - jenny pinged noemie to contact him, update?
 * Takun Takun - noemie pp

Other events

 * Bicycle Music Festival- Jake will pp. Ben will email him and ask for updates

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