Event:2016/08/04 Delegates Meeting

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Weekly Omni Delegates Meeting - 4 Aug 2016

Agenda

Introductions (5 min) Meeting Roles (5 min) Delegates (5 min) Announcements (10 min) Working Group Report Backs (10 min) Proposal for Coworking Space in the Basement (15 min) Proposal: Timeless, Infinite Light to use the Haunted Closet in the Basement for Book Storage (15 min) Proposal: Read Proposals Before Discussing (5 min) Other Proposals [sent to consensus, but maybe not proposals to be decided on] (5 min) Discussion: Liberated Lens' budget plan, as requested last month (10 min)

Introductions

Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation

Meeting Roles

  • Facilitator/s: Helen
  • Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.
  • Stacktaker:
  • Timekeeper:
  • Notetaker/s:
  • Vibe Reader:
  • Next meeting's facilitator(s):

Delegates

  • ABDC:
  • BAPS:
  • BH:
  • CCL:
  • CSC:
  • FNB:
  • GWS:
  • HNJ:
  • LL:
  • Sudo:
  • TIL:
  • YES:
  • Quorum:

Announcements

Bans

Working Group Report-Backs

Building & permits

Meetings: Mondays at 8pm

Commons

Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 7pm

Communications

In hiatus:

Finance

Meetings: Every other Thursday at 7pm

Fundraising/Buy the Building

Meetings: Mondays at 6:00pm

  • Rummage sale -- first weekend in august (see notes above in announcements)


Proposal for Coworking Space in the Basement

Proposed by Marcus 07/07/2016 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hp7ebIlXAdH7joYxQfEb4G-u9qvCqZMY4STbrpUbj14 Long discussion during last meeting. Anyone who wants to discuss should have read the proposal by now. https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2016/07/21_Delegates_Meeting#Proposal_for_Coworking_Space_in_the_Basement:_10_minutes


Proposal: Timeless, Infinite Light to use the Haunted Closet in the Basement for Book Storage

Brought up at last meeting 2016-07-21 Proposed by Joel 2016-07-28 Questions from Joe and Matt on exactly which closet is under consideration. Discussion:

Proposal: Amend Safer Space Policy to clarify temporary ban policy

Proposed by Marc 2016-07-20 juul from sudo room proposes to change this. The proposed change was sent out the ot Omni Consensus list on the evening of July 19th. https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy#4..E2.80.8E_.E2.80.8FConsequences.E2.80.AD_.E2.80.ACof.E2.80.AD_.E2.80.ACUnacceptable.E2.80.AD_.E2.80.ACBehavior to change: "In cases where someone's safety is at risk, a temporary ban may be put in place until the Omni's conflict resolution process can be followed to resolution." to: "In cases where someone judges that someone's safety is at risk, a temporary ban may be put in place until the Omni's conflict resolution process can be followed to resolution. Any member in good standing of any current Omni collective can instantly invoke such a temporary ban which will remain in place until either the conflict is successfully resolved or a decision is made to lift or keep the ban either by one of the collectives via that collective's decision-making processes or at the Omni Delegates meeting." This is how we've been operating but it doesn't seem to be written down anywhere so it remains ambiguous how the temporary ban may be put in place and by whom. Discussion:

Proposal: Read Proposals Before Discussing

Proposed by Matt 2016-07-21 At every delegate's meeting, any proposal's discussion will be paused until all delegates have read through the entire proposal before beginning the discussion. Ideally, reading proposals will happen before the meeting begins.

  • (also brainstorming) What about a group decision-making platform like Loomio?
  • Lori also suggested making it more robust to the cost of delaying a proposal needlessly.

Proposal: Omni T-Shirts

Proposed by Marcus 2016-07-01

  • Julio: Is this actually a proposal or just a message sent to consensus?

Proposal: Omni Communications Boards

Proposed by Marcus 2016-07-03

  • Julio: Is this actually a proposal or just a message sent to consensus?

Proposal: Fundraiser Film Fest for Oaxaca's Teachers' Strike

Proposed by Angel 2016-07-28

Discussion: Liberated Lens' budget plan, as requested last month

We brainstormed lots of ideas, then crunched some numbers to see what would be most profitable. Here is the speadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XJsXLxm7AxsLZ-DemzjxXXwnCXxwKwRxP19TR4GDgWo/edit?usp=sharing Please see the note at the top about our conclusions. I also want to mention that we applied for a grant for Seeds of Struggle from the Berkeley Film Foundation, and it appears we have made it past a preliminary round of eliminations (some of our friends who applied have received rejection notices, but we haven't heard from them yet). Fingers crossed! Also, we were very close to getting a $1,000 grant from the Awesome Foundation to put on the FTP short film festival, we're applying again next round. There are two other grants we're looking into.

We are adding a video recording service for Omni events, for a fee, on top of the usual audio/video operation. In order to process A/V requests, we created this form: (google forms)/maADslIsgryr617J2 I hope folks on the commons wg will direct people to it.

To summarize what Tugg is: it's an online platform where people can request movies that they want to see to be screened at local theaters. A promoter then has to sell a certain minimum number of tickets, and if that quota is reached, the film gets shown. The profits are split between the theater, the promoter, Tugg, and the rightsholder. In our case, Omni would be the theater and we would be the promoters. Through this platform we can gain access to fairly big-budget films that would draw a regular crowd. Check out some of the films they have to distribute on https://www.tugg.com/

We are in the process of streamlining film night protocols, with the intention of making it simple and efficient enough to handle 4 screenings a month.

But we are also still in the midst of moving our editing suite to the basement; we've done a lot of cleaning so far and there had to be some discussion about how to design the space. So we have a lot on our plates for now and we hope you will be patient with us. We can't afford $300 next month, maybe the month after, but we'll have to see.

(We also need help accessing our new bank account. Jenny, please email me back! -liz)

Previous Meeting Notes

Weekly Omni Delegates Meeting - 21 Jul 2016

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