Event:2018/01/03 Basement Kitchen Meeting

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Kitchen Fundraiser Meeting - 1/3/18

attendees

  • in-person rsvp'd: phil, julian, robb, ken, jenny, joe, laura (remote on pad), yar (remote), sierk, grant (comms/baps), evelyn (new, has attended chiapas zapatismo classes, does communications for grassroots & nonprofit groups), ken (late)

campaign status

  • Currently at $8500, 34% of our goal in 11 days

updates / checkins (10 mins)

  • grant: is there a press release?
    • jenny: a draft, will share:
  • jenny: would love support on the generosity.com updates and social media buzz

space users & needs meeting

  • schedule space users / shareholders meeting
    • or at least request their issues and requirements, times/prevalence of use, etc
  • joe & sierk will make a questionnaire (riseup pad)

Link: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/omnikitchen-wishlist

    • also cover refrigeration needs
  • phat beets classes & caterer use (talk to asia)
  • Laura - great idea to have a meeting w everyone. I can facilitate.

timeline (20 mins)

campaign

  • Phase I Launch: Dec 23
    • 5% of goal reached Dec 24th - update #1 posted to Generosity & social media
    • 15% of goal reached Dec. 26th - update #2 posted to Generosity & social media
    • 25% of goal reached Jan 1st - newsletter sent to omni-announce list (875 subscribers) & posted to twitter & fb
  • Phase I End: ???
    • party to raise the last bit in early February? - book two alternate dates
      • one valentines, one later. (anything else on valentines)
      • feb 9th booked,
      • subcommittee: robb / jenny / sierk / you??
        • talk to kazoo about her band
  • Phase II ($20K) Begin: March 1st?
    • hopefully gets covered in large part by our other large donor (can do a matching $10K campaign possibly!)
      • Laura: That's a good idea
    • large donor has hella bitcoin - should we make this the bitcoin fundraiser a la https://bithope.org (jenny contacted today to inquire) - see Application Form @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/16lVJvMLcPCGMGrZu7I0fl5A8mjiPvy_2OFN-vGpqLSE/edit
    • Joe - what kind of comms accompany phase two?
      • videos of us beginning the work
      • drawings of the kitchen in imagined
      • after the stakeholder/space users meeting we can have video of people talking about why the kitchen is important to them, what they are looking forward to


  • Phase III ($20K): Begin: June 1st? Aug 1st?
    • run an in-kind donation campaign for equipment!
    • Keep an eye out for restaurants going out of business that are selling equipment for cheap
    • hopefully gets covered in large part by PDF grant (laura is working on this)
      • Sorry, The PDF Grant is not for the kitchen. The other grant I wanted to write invovled Phat Beets as the lead org and I haven't been able to get them to work with me on it depsite having talked to both Asia and Cathy
  • joe knows a big kitchen place in sonoma that might donate
  • sierk - always commercial kitchen that are renovating and have perfectly fine stuff

permits & licenses

social media/outreach todos (15 mins)

  • contacting various orgs
    • gws - jenny
    • anarchist bookfair - laura - ? yes, I'll ask if I can post on their FB
    • fnb - national - joe
    • phat beets - ?? - who will ping? - robb will talk to max
    • occupy -
      • Laura: I can post on OO FB, am actually a mod - DONE
      • oo fb [john t - sierk], oo twitter [jenny will reping], osf [robb will check in]
  • press release & press list - Grant bottomlining; if desired, w/ support from other communications working group folkx
  • PLACE - marcus - jenny will check in
  • bio/science/gardens - ken - will check in
  • high-profile techies - jenny will talk to greg and post to some other lists
  • asa - joe - asa gave a strange reply, "pc way to send to his lists" - joe will check in
  • starhawk - jenny - forgot, will ping
  • Harborside/Dress?
  • kazoo/abdc - marcus - jenny will check in
  • Bill from fnb - robb will check in
  • cheeseboard / arizmendi / noBAWC - joe/jenny
  • nextdoor - login info is in the passpack - julian
  • temescal yahoo group - jenny will ask ken
  • shifra's BID list - jenny will ask ken
  • reddit
  • DSA meetings - talk to BAPS folks, blake
  • big event on the 13th - canvassing for medicare for all - ari - joe will message
  • bigger sign in the entrance hall - giant QR code - marcus/abe
  • omni homepage - sierk
  • banner on outside of building - suggested by sierk
    • We have a vinyl cutter. Can we finally use it to make a banner?
  • ping niki re: local food caterers? - jenny
  • Jenny - could benefit from having more support post-wise for social media;
    • different kinds of content, different platforms, different accounts - we have access to a number of collectives
  • kiosk / infobot - robb/sierk
  • joe: michael irvin hired some chef cooking on 6th & brush with a giant stove
    • raiders need tax deductible stuff as well, lots of $$, how to reach?
  • jenny will ping UC berkeley student coops & spaghettinight mailing list
  • sfchalkboard
  • michael pollan - joe will see if anyone knows someone
  • Decolonize Your Diet - Evelyn
  • ferment change dude - sander katz - ken can look for a contact, jenny will ask her contact, can fermentation station tweet at him? @sandorkraut
  • spreadsheet
  • Evelyn - do we have a messaging plan for the content we're using in the various phases?

ideas / brainstorms

  • ken: documenting 'before' photos / walkthrough - can schedule a video walkthrough - possibly after liblens meeting on sunday? (~9pm - jenny/robb/sierk/ken )
  • sierk: making a 3D model of the possible future, can be helpful to have these images/videos
  • sierk: add link for folks to pledge for Phase II toward the end of phase I
  • jenny: set up alerts for auctions
    • ken: and estate sales
      • robb: place in dogpatch kinda like habitat for humanity?
        • ken: some commercial kitchen supply places in sf

subcommittees

  • permits - dk / sierk / jenny / robb / joe ? - building@lists.omnicommons.org
    • schedule mtg asap - contingent on availability of dk & joe
  • event planning - jenny/robb/sierk/ ?commons?private thread?
  • fundraising - Laura - fundraising@lists.omnicommons.org
  • communications/outreach - julian / grant / jenny / evelyn - use comms@lists.omnicommons.org
    • meetings 2nd & 4th Wednesdays 6pm (tentative)
  • general meetings 1x/month - kitchen@lists.omnicommons.org - first Wednesdays

action items (5 mins)

  • circle back with brewster - jenny
  • send old campaign perks - jenny/marc/? - this weekend ideally
  • create video mailers (design brochure stickers to cover original text, transfer video file(s), charge for x minutes) - this weekend ideally -
  • send video mailers - jenny/marc/? - - this weekend & next week ideally
    • Laura - I will be around most of this weekend
  • check in with phat beets about offering a new perk
  • ping Sin Fronteras about stakeholder meeting & helping to plan kitchen -
  • Schedule space user meeting (end of Feb?) and invite people^ - Laura

building wg action items

  • quote from alba windows - robb (from an old dk email: " I reccomend contacting Ricky ‘Glass on Wheels’ for a quote on the glass.")
  • set up formal walkthrough with tony fazule (plumber) - joe?
  • Contact licensed architect (Jim Gallagher) & structural engineer
  • Submit Plansets (3) to Planning Department - sierk/joe?/dk?
  • Submit Permit Application Forms
  • Submit Accessibility Worksheet
  • Permits/Approvals from Other Departments - Plumbing, Electrical, Mechanical/Structural

miscellaneous link dump

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