View source for 2014/05/03 Omni Hackathon/Report Back

=Public Relations / Outreach / Interfacing with the Community & Gov=
* Incorporate a persistent acknowledge of risk wrt outreach/PR
** Different levels of nuance. 
** No PR for the next week (zero)
** Tailor outreach to audience - specifically no drafts / circulation to city gov & planners
* General narrative that doesn't get into super-specifics
** Generic entree into the project, then one that's more specific
* Introduction to collectives and radical projects for those who're not exposed to this ideas
** Something we can deploy that's more suitable to those audiences - just an idea
* Calendar of events (eg; business improvement / redistricting / neighborhood etc;)
* Permanent lawyer who's used to working with the city and has a lot of political capital, to advise us on our messaging
* Retaining control over the narrative especially during this formative period

=Finances / Business Model / Income=
* Rent
* Determining how to pay each of our own proportion (factors)
** Square footage
** Profit sharging
* Monetary vs Non-monetary "value"
** Needs vs actual usage
** Use value vs space value
* How do we determine value? How do we lay down policy around this?
* Messy issue: Profit-sharing between for-profit and non-profit projects - voluntary? necessary? percentages?
* How to reduce tension btw the collectives by defining how we pay for rent - need to create agreements
* Schedule of costs and revenue for each collective / member groups (creating a relevant data-driven model)

=Fund-Raising Workshop=
* Contingent on having a goal
* Eliciting not soliciting
* Knowing our audiences
** Inner circle / wider audience / larger events & stunts
* Showcase month of the collectives for media and other audiences

=Safe space / Dominant Culture=
* It's okay to have some kinds of exclusive events (eg POC- or women-only)
* Denominating spaces in a non-exclusive way 
** Non-gender-specific restrooms (naming areas in general)
* Supportive of "Challenging Dominant Culture" group to draft safe space policy
* Share our collective resources to outreach and challenging dominant culture
* Work with groups that already have experience in this (eg; Qilombo, Critical Resistance) - and letting them know they're welcome to use the space, work out of it, become Omni member groups etc

=Values=
* Identified two threads of values - 1) from the front page of the wiki, 2) processed-bases values on /w/Values
* Conversation about how we develop our values:
** What we want to acheive?
** Ways of talking to different audiences
** Political value vs processed based
* Initiation / welcoming  vs  process
* Triggers for us to be identified for those "shopping" for a community
* Unchanging vs changing values
* No reducing some language for defining our values (racism, sexism, capitalism, etc)

=Bylaws=
* Purpose a bit overly broad - Omni collective purpose is to lease, own and manage property
* Diversity clause added
* Membership WG needed
* ABC No Rio & Brooklyn Base are the only ones we could find similar to Omni- ask for bylaws
* Limiting powers of the Board
* General decision-making of membership

=Omni Membership / Access / Public=
* Good access control systems needed to accommodate the variety of spaces and public/access-controlled times
* Common space open to the public at certain hours 
** Concerns: Are there areas that are common but not public? 
** Really clear signage of where people can and can't go
* General Omni policy re: access and usage
** Eg; If your space is open, a member is present to be accountable and steward the space.
* Would like to be able to schedule another walkthrough before June 1 so we can have a more concrete discussion on this
* Stewardship and Maintenance could be representatives from each group, or paid jobs in their own right
* Using membership as a revenue source
** Paid membership problematic, but contributions --> perks (discounts to events; magnets; petri dishes; massages)
** Tension over whether monetary gifts should translate to access
* Bans - should they translate to the whole space?
** Addressed by the larger collective
* Re: Habitation & domestic use of the space, important to have resources available for people that we don't have serviced dedicated to helping them

=Internal communications / working groups / process=
* Communications working group charged w/ making communications tools empowering and accessible
** Curriculum around usage and norms
* Accountability and vision as an accessible discussion
* Working Group Protocol - [link]
* Work to facilitate access to the tools and resources necessary to engage in best communications
* Spectrum of comfort with technology
* Asynchrony really shapes the kind of conversation that takes place
* Collective binder of printouts of all of our meeting notes 
* Ask existing working group about these options

=Using the common space / events=
* Overlap with the definition of membership
* Policies that would be used by all the collectives (omni policies)
* Process and defition for those who take care of space and events
* Input and output management (donations)
* If a donation is made and we don't want it, then it can be traced back to the donor (accountability)

=Working Group Protocol=
See http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Event:2014/05/03_Omni_Hackathon/Working_Group_Protocol

=Action Items=
* Reach out to Critical Resistance
* Compile resources for the houseless
* Schedule of forecast costs and revenue for each member group
* Print out meeting notes 
** Maximum time allotted to print out notes
* Ask for bylaws from ABC No Rio and Brooklyn Base