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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 12/20/2018 7pm-9pm<br />
Omni Delegates' Meeting - 12/20/2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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for instructions on preparing and archiving these notes, please see the bottom<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Brief Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal Y: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion: Omni Financial Year End Reportback [20 minutes]<br />
**Delegate meeting schedule<br />
**Troy sleeping in the mezzaine, defaced cabinet by refrigerator - reported by Phil, also by the Sunday morning Event rental people<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
**Lynn, Phil, Brian, Helen, Mary Ann<br />
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=== Access Check In ===<br />
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Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Lynn<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: <br />
* Timekeeper: <br />
* Notetaker/s: Lynn<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* BAPS: <br />
* CCL: <br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Phil<br />
* GWS: Rachel<br />
* LL: <br />
* Sudo: <br />
* GCEA:<br />
* Quorum:<br />
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==Brief Announcements==<br />
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== New Bans ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Not currently meeting<br />
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* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Currently ad-hoc; join the 'Commons' list<br />
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** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: Not currently meeting<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance,, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
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=== CSC === <br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
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===GCEA===<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
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= Proposals =<br />
== Example Proposal Title==<br />
* Name of person, and/or, collective. and/or working group making this proposal; Date the proposal was sent to the consensus email list<br />
* Text of proposal<br />
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= Discussions =<br />
*Delegate meeting schedule:<br />
I can't be there and tried to recruit several folks in CCL as subs - but between holidays, other events, out-of-towners, etc. there's not going to be a rep for CCL for tonite's delegate's meeting.<br />
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I would like to refurbish my proposal from last spring - about having delegate's meetings once a month during the summer since so many folks are on vacation - to broaden the scope for delegate's meetings at once a month, year round, and with skipping December as a meeting month altogether.<br />
at once a month, year round, and with skipping December as a meeting month altogether.<br />
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I'm on the board for several nonprofits and member of many more and only one meets during the holidays month of Dec only because it is in the rainy season and that is an active mushroom month for mushrooms and they sponsor many season related events that need discussing/planning. Two other mushroom societies, and the rest of the orgs, also don't meet at all in Dec for board or member meetings as the meetings are never well attended that time of year, or it is just reduced to a holiday party with no business to distract from celebrations of the orgs' yearly accomplishments.<br />
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Now that Omni has Jenny's electronic method of communications, any urgent topics can be discussed and voted on by that means so, except for extraordinary situations, it wouldn't even be necessary to call a special delegate's meeting beyond once a month. Since most of the nitty gritty of Omni operations are delegated to the finance and commons committees, the delegates really don't need to do much supervisory management and, perhaps sometime in the new year, I think I'll likely be proposing that delegate's meetings be scheduled quarterly.<br />
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Perhaps yall would like to put this on the agenda to discuss this at the meeting tonite, whether there is a quorum or not to vote on anything.<br />
** Mary Ann raised the concern that this raises the question about the role of the board and would continue monthly meetings with 1 in August and December.<br />
**Helen wonders if there are issues that come up often enough for 2 meetings/month.<br />
**Brian Meetings seem pretty hectic.<br />
**Rachel thinks one meeting a month might have more attendance and urgent things can be done over email<br />
**Mary Ann - every group has this issue. CCS has found that email messages are not as clear often<br />
**Helen, especially if the issue is something people get angry about or concerned.<br />
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** Rachel special meetings could be called when something comes up that has to be discussed more thoroughly<br />
** Mary Ann, Brian feel like special meetings sound like a good idea but may not work in practice<br />
** Helen - has not found that less frequent meetings are more likely to bring people together<br />
** Brian - consistence of meetings tends to keep people coming<br />
** Mary ann - if the board had more decisions to make, people might show up more<br />
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*Omni Year End Financial Reportback:<br />
** Brian will give the presentation, largely sumarizing the email Jenny sent out on December 2nd. <br />
** Brian Discussion tonight, short version is the Omni is making more money than spending; paid down $100,000 in liabilities this year, including many personal loans, have saved $$, most allocated to the kitchen. <br />
** Phil asked about funds for lighting the entrance hall<br />
** Brian: goals to have $30,000 in savings for operating funds and 2x time for bigger capital reserves. Spending $9000/month, taking in $14,000 (split between fiscally sponsored projects, tenants, rentals.)Looking into grants also.<br />
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** Update on organizations who are significantly behind on rent. <br />
** GCEA is at least 6 months behind on rent - for a total of $1200 minimum, at $200/month. Brian has talked to Almaz about how to get more income. Almaz expressed interest in having an arrangement like FNB, which is low rent ($1) but does fundraisers during the year for Omni rent. <br />
** Lynn: Do we know how much FNB has raised for the Omni in fundraisers?<br />
** Phil: FNB voted to give $800 for utilities.<br />
** Brian: Will find the number. <br />
** Helen: I thought FNB was contributing labor (Phil cleaning)<br />
* Mary Ann: It seems like when groups are not being successful; is BAPS paying anything?<br />
** Phil: BAPS doesn't use any space, utilities etc<br />
** Phil: Events that GCEA has are serving alcohol<br />
** Helen: That is a separate issue. Is BAPS active?<br />
** Mary Ann: <br />
** Rachel: i think groups that have their own spaces should contribute financially if they have agreed to pay. grant writing, fundraising, regular benefits etc<br />
** Mary Ann: how does that fit with FNB? which has storage space, refrigerators<br />
** Brian agrees with Rachel<br />
** Mary Ann - fiscally sponsored groups do things that grants give money for, maybe we have gone about it the wrong way by looking at the omni as a whole rather than looking toward the fiscall sponsored groups<br />
** Rachel do you mean like GCEA being a fiscally sponsored group?<br />
** Lynn, it is, but of another organization.<br />
** Brian: Yes, Maryanne was suggesting that as the fiscal sponsor of GCEA, the omni may be more able to help them get grants that their current fiscal sponsor. <br />
** Brian: I also happen to think that this may be difficult, I think our capacity to help orgs get grants is limited enough to be dangerous to plan around. <br />
**Rachel: Are they writing grants but not getting the $?<br />
** BRian: I don't htin<br />
** Lynn: Laura has said that is the case.<br />
** Helen: Examples in our history of people who say they can do something but who can't do it and hard dot hold feet to the fire if they can't do it. <br />
** Mary Ann: how does it happen that we approve something (like the cafe) that people can't do<br />
** Sierk: The cafe had a future plan but economically it didn't work, so we can reconsider the new future plan. But in GCEA that is about rent due from the past.<br />
** Mary Ann: in both cases there was a lease and contract.<br />
** Sierk - but one is now and one is in the past; and we want to let people have ambitions and try to reach their dream; as long as we can rediscuss it. <br />
** Lynn: Could Finance put together a spreadsheet of all the Omni organizations with what they get and what they contribute so that we can see what options there are.<br />
** Rachel: should it be rediscussed with GCEA what kind of contribution they can make?<br />
** Brian reintroduces the topic to Kiwi from GCEA who just entered, who discusses use of the kitchen in the future.<br />
** Robb, who just entered, asks to review the amount owed<br />
** Brian not sure whether organizational spreadsheet is possible or is too long<br />
** Robb should be pretty clear to do<br />
** Brian: Almaz could put togther a proposal for a different list agreement<br />
** Robb: what do we do with an organization not paying dues for 6 month?<br />
** Helen: there is a rule, no longer a voting member - but has not been invoked <br />
** Helen: 2 ideas here: GCEA prepare a proposal, and to be helpful, that Finance should develop a spreadsheet type of what all organizations do <br />
** Kiwi: GCEA could find ways to do labor<br />
** Robb: Other members do work for the Omni collective<br />
** robb: WE need a proposal and everyone needs to live up to their agreement.<br />
** Rachel: agree with Robb<br />
** Kiwi: whatever is fair<br />
** Rachel: so is it that GCEA will bring a proposal to delegate meeting?<br />
** Brian: need a timeline for this proposal - February 7, 2019. Kiwi has agreed that the date sounds good, but with some hesitation. <br />
** Helen: I propose that GCEA come up with a proposal on February 7 2019 to renegotiate their agreement and bring it back to the delegates<br />
** Robb - they are in default<br />
** Mary Ann - a problem has been presented to us and we have a quorum, so we can address that or set up a process.<br />
** Robb: Helen is bringing a proposal on behalf of GCEA<br />
** Kiwi: I am here to help with fundraising<br />
** Brian brought us this issue and its up to us to take steps forward.<br />
** Brian offers to help Almaz with the proposal <br />
** Mary Ann: GCEA is inactive until rent is up to date. <br />
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Meeting is adjourned 8:45 pm<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - June 21 2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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for instructions on preparing and archiving these notes, please see the bottom<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal - Media Lab: [10 minutes]<br />
* Proposal - Fiscal Sponshorship: [10 minutes]<br />
* Discussion - Cleanup Responsibilities: [10 minutes]<br />
* Discussion - "Outsiders" using bathrooms: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
* Lynn, MaryAnn, Phil, Steve, Sierk, Ken, Almaz, Rachel and Robb and Julian on line<br />
† Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Lynn<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Almaz<br />
* Timekeeper: <br />
* Notetaker/s: Lynn<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: <br />
* BAPS: Steve<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: MaryAnn<br />
* FNB: Phil<br />
* GWS: Rachel remote<br />
* LL: robb remote<br />
* Sudo: Sierk<br />
* TIL: inactive<br />
* GCEA:almaz<br />
* Quorum:<br />
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== New Bans ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: currently on hiatus / 1st Wednesdays 6pm (kitchen)<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: currently ad hoc<br />
* Commons Work Group: no problems with Capoeria, did leave door open at first but not now, very good at clean up. Taping too narrow for aisleway, esp wheelchair, good positive attitude from them. They want to continue with a new contract.<br />
** should be at least 36", ideally 48"<br />
* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: currently on hiatus<br />
* this group is maxed out and needs new energy! ping the list: https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/comms <br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Laura has updated Member Collective Handbook: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQrDIBz1zg5xUl2quCA3RBWvINBnABb6UkWHoVsq400/<br />
* in discussions with BAAM and Sudo Mesh about signing formal lease (since they are both 501c3s that use dedicated space in ccl and sudo)<br />
* discussions about hiring a bookkeeper, researching independent contractors in general (eg; how to go about fairly paying those community members bottomlining our books, event booking, cleaning/janitorial etc) - obv would be proposed to delegates to make final call<br />
* cafe lease still not signed - concerns over stipulation in contract that they be required to hold regular open hours<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* transitioning to new space in e. oakland / helping to build screenprinting area in basement (if medialab approved)<br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* CCL hiatus for summer, planning 5th anniversary event in the fall.<br />
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=== CSC === <br />
* Waffles and Zapatismo, getting ready for annual artfair August 11 1 to 5pm, free, got a grant $2000, may have artist doing t shirts. Intial announcement went out. Omni will get some of the funds.<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
*FNB doing well financially per Phil, unhappy about the meal Sunday lack of proper cookhouse<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* GWS want to do some organizing meetings at Omni. Also. continuing taking part in the Poor People's Campaign, had 2 speakers at the rally at Capitol on monday<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* Sudo, solarpunk meetups starting on Fridays - will have regular discussions/hacking on solar power, alternative energy, offgrid living <br />
* Last Sunday was first reboot of digital security workshops, more to come!<br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
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== Media Lab Proposal ==<br />
* via Laura and Jenny on May 17th<br />
** Full proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ebaHkaSeCWHKKEjbg6u-VvDzifF-eFuBX_b_HmdDv0E/edit#<br />
*** notes from last meeting: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2018/05/17_Delegates_Meeting#Proposal:_Omni_Media_Lab<br />
** We propose to build a community media laboratory for the production of propaganda and educational materials for campaigns and projects. Our mission is to transform the most neglected space in Omni Commons into a place for creative production available to Omni members, and, eventually, local artists, activists, organizers, and members of the general public (either supervised or trained), sustained through sliding-scale donations, grants, mutual aid, and creative reuse. A new working group will steward supplies, tools, and resources, as well as host educational hands-on workshops. Approval of this proposal means the formation of an official committee of the Board to manage a Media Lab, and acceptance of the following general plan.<br />
** To be voted on at this meeting (postponed from 6/7/2018<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
** Steve wants to know if there are question from BAPs. <br />
** CSC yes, CCL yes, Sudo yes, FNB yes,<br />
** Steve asks what is the general concept. Sierk and Ken describe pooling of resources to be a internal and externalcommunity resource with a volunteer work group overseeing the organization and maintenance. People would be trained to use the equipment and agree to help out. Sliding scale donation.<br />
** GWS yes LibLens yes, BAPS yes. Agreed!<br />
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== Fiscal Sponsorship Proposal ==<br />
* Proposal is via Bill Budington, a longtime sudo room member and regular event organizer:<br />
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"This is a request for the Omni Commons to be the fiscal sponsor for the Grassroots Infrastructure Trust (http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Grass/Trust/index.htm) grant, given to the North American Anarchist Studies Network for the purpose of funding our annual conference. This conference, held this year in Montreal, QC, Canada, and next year in Atlanta, GA, USA, is to advance the study of topics concerning anarchist infrastructure, revolutionary potential, and non-hierarchical living. It features speakers from across so-called North America and indeed, around the world. The grant was rewarded in the sum of $2000.<br />
* Steve suggests we do this and don't need to keep a fee. <br />
* Sierk - or donate the fee back. MaryAnn - lets approve it and then have a second vote about how to handle the fee if . <br />
** BAPS yes, CSC: YES, CCL YES, Sudo, yes, FNB yes GWS yes LibLens yes. Approved<br />
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For more information, visit https://wiki.naasn.org/."<br />
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== Discussion: Omni clean up and responsibilities ==<br />
* Steve: we are waiting for a concrete proposal to be floated - No information now.<br />
* Almaz: We need to share more responsibilities, many people do a lot of work, others don't. Phil is doing a lot of cleaning, others do some, others not enough. Maybe he could check on supplies as well? Maybe we should pay Phil a stipend to do this with a budget? Or ask for help from others? <br />
* Phil: the main thing is we need more bathroom checking several times a day. We also discussed how the cafe might be monitoring, and Capoeira is keeping the space clean 3 times a week. Almaz: the Commons group takes responsible for event group cleanup, but who is responsible for the rest of the facility.<br />
* Sierk: we could do this right now. <br />
* Almaz: slowly take more responsibility. <br />
* Phil: main point is sweeping, mopping, garbage is ongoing regular for him, but the bathroom thing is a the main really big problem and others have complained. This should be discussed in collectives.<br />
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== "Outsiders" using Omni Bathrooms == (15 minutes)<br />
* Ken: Breaking of toilet issue by an outsider coming in - how should this clean up and fix up be handled? Who should be responsible? It show disrespect to the place. <br />
* Phil: toilet situation has been very bad for awhile with ongoing frequent clean up needed, getting out of control. On the other hand, will taking away bathroom privileges cause worse responses. <br />
* Sierk - do we actually know if there is one particular person? Have never seen outsiders being worse than members, renters. Maybe we need a regular clean up plan like other businesses. Phil does a lot of the work. <br />
* MaryAnn - why do neighborhood people living here, have to use our bathroom. <br />
* Sierk, they are drinking. Otherwise more street and neighborhood used instead. <br />
** Sierk - also people living in cars and vans around here using Omni space and bathrooms. <br />
* Ken: people use public and other venue bathrooms in exactly those ways - it will be an onoing problem that we need to address.<br />
* Sierk: Does the 'clean up and responsibilities' proposal address any of this? Maybe we need to incent or pay people to clean up - or a donation box? So many people in the building these days.<br />
* Ken: A cleaning work group? Steve: in Europe, they have monitors and they get tips.<br />
* Steve: is there a role for the cafe in this toilet issue? <br />
** Phil thinks so. <br />
** Sierk says only that entrance level bathroom would be their concern and again agrees public use may be more than just volunteers can handle. <br />
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==Discussion: Consensus Process==<br />
* MaryAnn: last meeting a discussion about Helen's proposal about process. CSC discussed that proposal and agreed with Liz's statement that collectives should not come back to the board after a decision has been made in a timely proper method. <br />
** Sierk: Sudo discussed this also and how Sudo can make sure people get the information in time to discuss it before the Delegates meeting. <br />
** Steve: BAPS discussed Helen's proposal and felt there were other important issues along with it to still be considered. We should instruct all the collectives to discuss it, bring their questions to the Delegates Meeting, and then discuss again. Not in favor of moving quickly. <br />
*MaryAnn: one important question is: is the concensus of the delegates the same as the concensus of the collective members. Can a member block a delegate voting process? <br />
** Phil: LL brought up the issue of a collective blocking something because they didn't discuss it or send an informed delegate. <br />
** Almaz: MaryAnn's point is a good one - Can one person black a decision instead of a collective as someone did in the situation of approving Almaz as Secretary? <br />
*** Steve: Agreeing with Almaz. We have 2 levels (collective level and general assembly level).which need to be kept separate. Each collective autonomously decides how to run their internal affairs (eg 80% to pass, then all are bound by that) Another collective may have a 100% percent process. Both are valid. Each delegate has to represent that collective's internal process. <br />
** Ken: There is no block on Almaz right now factually tho that doesn't change this discussion. The Omni is bound by its bylaws as a 501c3, as do those collectives that are 501cs. We do need to be clear about what is a block.It is not just what the 'founders' may think a block is and when they could block things.<br />
** Sierk: Sudo delegate can only approve what the collective decided but others think any member can block. We have to revisit this. <br />
** GWS discussed and had understood that only a delegate representing a collective could block a vote after the collective had discussed doing that. <br />
** Ken: sounds like we don't have a clearly agreed on process - Delegates have a majority vote can't block without a collective block. <br />
** Almaz: GCEA: can't do that. <br />
** Steve: I believe the Delegates represent the collectives and was the practice until Marc blocked Almaz when the collective had not made a decision to do so. We need to clarify that. <br />
** Almaz: works with many non profits and so person's history here should matter.<br />
*** Ken: Not trying to imply any onus on you Almaz but this a history thing we have which is not in concert with current 501c3 bylaws and rules. Need to codify that, no longer allow the older thing or we codify the allowance. Thanks to MaryAnn. <br />
** MaryAnn: the burden is on us as delegates to make certain that we inform and discuss what the proposals are and then to come to the delegates meeting vote accoredingly. <br />
*** Rachel agrees with MaryAnn<br />
** Sierk: will agree with that, that all can participate in a timely and informed way, Liz had some good suggestions, polling etc might help that.Ken: Send email of all proposals to all members. Sierk will work on that. Almaz would like to move this to the next meeting. <br />
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Meeting adjourned 9:01 pm<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 5 July 2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
** Ken and Gerald presenting new light fixtures going into the basement, could be anywhere, quick mount, LED, can mount 6 in line with 1 plub, low cost. Looking for volunteers to help mount in the basement, then to proceed to other sections of the OMNI. <br />
** Gerald: Saturday forum report back <br />
** Joe: SF Mime Trpupe opens East Bay season Sat 7/7 in Cedar Rose park Berkeley.<br />
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* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal: Timeless, Infinite Light moves out of Upstairs Corner Space by Aug 15, 2018 <br />
* Proposal: Community Statement to Endorse OneFam’s Last Stand on Historic 7th Street: Maintain community control of historic neighborhood space [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
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† Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Rachel<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Almaz<br />
* Timekeeper: <br />
* Notetaker/s: Lynn<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: <br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: Phil<br />
* GWS: Rachel<br />
* LL: Gerald<br />
* Sudo: <br />
* TIL: MJ, Joel<br />
* GCEA: Almaz<br />
* Quorum:<br />
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== New Bans ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm<br />
* Ken wants to say - there are new LEDs, check em out?<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Thursdays at 6pm<br />
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* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Wednesdays at 6pm<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance,, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* Writing group holding monthy sessions.<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* Ken: Cruising for the summer<br />
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=== CSC === <br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
*Mine troop shows in July as fundraisers. Need volunteers<br />
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===GCEA===<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* Rachel: continue to be part of the poor people's campaign, quite an experience, Lori Nairne 1 year anniversary of her death. There will be a rememberance, August 18, at the Omni.<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Gerald: trying to restructure. Showing Reluctant Radical about the environment; the next film about an island where seagulls go to mate<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
*Just released a book, poetry, its on the their website<br />
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== Proposal: Timeless, Infinite Light moves out of Upstairs Corner Space by Aug 15, 2018 ==<br />
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Timeless, Infinite Light is in the process of dissolving as a collective. We will need to move out of our space into Omni as we transition out and we found a smaller space that will better suit our current needs. We would like to put in 30-days notice and be fully moved out of our space by August 15th. <br />
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We would like to terminate our lease with Omni early. We are currently on a year lease. It would have been better for us to sign a month-to-month lease, but we came to this decision very recently and it wasn't in our minds when we signed the last lease. We would like to pay a pro-rated rate of $150 for our final 15 days in August. We will remove our belongings from the space and clean it out so that it is ready for another collective to move into the space. We would like to have our security deposit of $1000 (which we paid in 2014) returned to us within 30 days of cleaning out the space. We will clean fully with the exception of any materials that the collectives we currently share the space with wish to have remain in the space.<br />
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We currently share our space with Chiapas Support Committee and Womens’ Global Strike and will stay in communication with them during this process to make sure the space continues to be usable for them.<br />
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We're sad to leave the Omni as we've been a part of it since the beginning, and we're amazed by how far it's come in such a short time. We feel really honored to have been part of so many inspiring events and projects here, and we hope to continue participating in other ways in the future. <br />
* Julian: sorry about this. Should talk about the lease. There is no termination clause in the lease. Julian would interprete that to mean that no clause, no consequence. We should check that<br />
* Phil: Omni rules if there is no collective, then you wouldnt be expected to continue the lease. <br />
* Ken - you said you are stopping as a collective but you are getting a smaller space to continue to function.<br />
* MJ: will take some time to fully dissolve as a collective; the new space will be more like art work work space instead of publishing.<br />
* Ken: you sell the books?<br />
* MJ: we do all the work for the authors, sales, stock, promotion for these marginalized authors. We are in the upstairs space, sharing with GWS and CSC.<br />
* Rachel: we don't know whether we need another space partner or whether the rent will change since we haven't used it much.<br />
* MJ: another collective could move in<br />
* Ken: Is everyone at the Omni ok with this? <br />
* Almaz: someone will have to review the contract agreement.<br />
* Joel: This is our first step in making this move.<br />
* MJ: we are asking for generousity in breaking the lease and in getting pro-rated rate and getting seurity deposit back.<br />
* Julian: I don't see that the delegates/Omni has a choice in oking this request. Don't think it needs to be a proposal<br />
* Almaz: Should be seen by the Finance group esp return of deposit<br />
* Rachel: We need to vote on it.<br />
* Ken: Since there is a formal proposal, we should vote on it. MY understanding is that Omni rules on collective decisions. Makes a motion to vote.<br />
* Julian: should not vote on a first introduction of a proposal<br />
* Almaz: wait for Finance Group to review the details of the lease transaction. <br />
* Julian: could do a straw poll as a sense of how the delegates feel.<br />
* Joe: I agree with voting next delegates meeting which will also allow for finance review.<br />
* Rachel: put this on the agenda for the next meeting.<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
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== Proposal: Community Statement to Endorse OneFam’s Last Stand on Historic 7th Street Maintain community control of historic neighborhood space [15 minutes] ==<br />
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We stand with OneFam against eviction!<br />
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OneFam is a space operated by working class mostly people of color, where folks feel welcomed and included. The displacement of black and brown residents and businesses by more affluent white residents is now the norm everywhere, including the once vibrant 7th Street. OneFam is the last pre-gentrification business in this area, and is being illegally and unjustly evicted.<br />
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OneFam/Bikes 4 Life and 7th St Rev Cafe are important to the local community.<br />
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We want the eviction process to be stopped and for landlord Arnold Fields to sit down with OneFam to work out a plan so they can stay in their space and business and so he can be compensated for his investment.<br />
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We want OneFam to stay and continue to operate. Sincerely, the undersigned,<br />
* Julian: I can read the statement.<br />
* Gerald: That little spot is the last corner on 7th street that has any expression of black, culture, music, bike place. This is the essence of gentrification. What are you calling for - because we want to support real people who have been part of this community for years.DSA will be supporting them. <br />
* Julian reads the letter attached to the endorsement.<br />
* Almza: how long has OneFam been in business?<br />
* Julian: at least since 2009. Current situation been in process for months. Landlord claims back rent is due: he says 9 months, OneFam says since January but it doesn't account for costs of repairs they have done or needed or services canceled. <br />
* MJ: the complexity is there, but as a last stronghold of black people/culture, there is no reason why Omni shouldn't support them.<br />
* Ken: Curious about whether this strategy will aggravate the situation or make it better. <br />
* Phil: It is common to have these liens.<br />
* MJ: if they are asking for support, we should follow their request. <br />
* Almaz: asking for our support, we should do it? <br />
* Rachel: is this part of a public campaign they are running?<br />
* Julian: yes, 7000 signatures already, going to court, every possible route is being checked including a way to pass a legacy status on businesses and more.<br />
* Rachel: Take it back to our collectives and vote at the next meeting. Individuals can also sign this on your own - he will send an individual one out.<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 5 April 2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal Y: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
* Helen - FNB<br />
* Carol from Poets' House possible considering joining as a collective. <br />
* Clive with Poets' House, mayhave class thru BAPS<br />
* Angel - LL, <br />
* Lynn - Commons<br />
* Steve - BAPS<br />
* Gerald - LL<br />
* Sierk - FNB, SUDO<br />
* Rachel - GWS<br />
* Mary Ann - CSC<br />
* Laura - Fundraising, Finance, Commons<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
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† Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Helen<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Sierk<br />
* Timekeeper: Rachel<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Lynn<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Lynn<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: <br />
* BAPS: Steve <br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Helen<br />
* GWS: Rachel (Inactive) <br />
* LL: Gerald<br />
* Sudo: Sierk<br />
* TIL: Inactive<br />
* GCEA:<br />
* Quorum: Yes<br />
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== New Bans ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm<br />
* Sierk: a lto of people have been out of town. People are working on getting the kitchen permits. There is infromation we need to get re plumbing.<br />
* Gerald: HOw much money do we have for the project.<br />
* Sierk: we have enough money for permits and some demo and all of phase 1<br />
* Gerald: I have a plumber we can utilize for the kitchen. He is supportive of the Omni. What do I do with that? <br />
* Laura: Send an email to buildiing list serve<br />
* Sierk: We have been talking about dealing with the skylights<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and fourth Mondays at 5 or 6pm<br />
* Lynn: we are busy putting on a lot of events, BUt since Angel is here. On Saturday night at 2am I could hear loud music from the OMni. I live across the street. We care about our neighbors and we don't want to bother them and don't allow loud music after 11. There was no event booked for that night.<br />
* Angel: I planned an event, a surprise birthday party with close friends, when I saw that there wasnt anything scheduled for that night. I was trying to be aware of the noise issue and didn't intend for it to be that loud. I checked in with other people but we didn't register that it was so loud. I'm here to accept accountability for what happened. I respect the space and it wasn't done maliciously. I will accept whatever you want to do. We had amplified music off the computer.<br />
* Gerald: It ismy understanding that we have tried to soundproof the building and I want to know how loud is too loud in reality.<br />
* Lynn explains policy.<br />
* Rachel: Do we have a policy about booking a room? Are we allowec to just come to the Omni and have an event. I would have thought you would have to book it.<br />
* Lynn: That is what we require. I don't know how many people come and do stuff without booking.<br />
* Helen: mabe it shuold be explicit.<br />
* Mary Ann: the last time there was some kind of scene here, the next delgates meeting after that, I was parked by the building across the street in the red zone. Tere was a cop there with its lights flashing and I got an $80 ticket. The point being is that every time there is anoise complaint, people are calling the cops. Everyone needs to keep that in mind.<br />
* Ken: Thhis is relatively minor compared to the shooting. That triggered a whole bunch of repercussions. People may have the expetation that its ok to go late becasue the bars are open late. But that isnn't the case. We are a focus of attention, but we should have a well know policy that if you want to do your own event, have the courtesy to let the booking people know. You can make a lot of noise in the basement. And check that the noise cant be heard outside.<br />
* Sierk: People have talked to the cops when they sit out there on the corner and they have consistently said it was to prevent car breakins.<br />
* Ken: the BID has said that they have asked the police to have a presence<br />
* Angel: it wasn'tm intention to bother anyone in the neighborhood. I understand that intentions don't excuse impacts. If there are any repercussions in the neighborhood I will take responsibility. I was my event and dont think that others involved should be penalized.<br />
* Ken: Idon't thnk any punishment or action is necessary. Let's just firm up the policy tbat everyone books rooms they are using for events so at least the WG knows what is happening. <br />
* Lynn: as a commons person it sounds like it would be good to have a policy that ANYTHING planned has to be booked and that the same policies that are in our contract apply,even if it is a last minute thing.<br />
* Clive: There is a lot of trash outside of shattuck ave, or graffittit paint<br />
Everyone agrees that Angel<br />
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* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Wednesdays at 6pm<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Sin Fronteras has countered the lease we offered. They propose $1050/month + utilities, + internet, + taxes for exclusive use of the entrance hall bar and priority use of a portion of the entrance hall from 6am to 6pm; 4 year lease term w/2 renewals; rent increases 3% for first 4 years only; they would not be a member collective. Laura has the link to the lease if someone wants to see it. Will talk to them in the next week, so looking for feedvack. They want to be able to stay here if they make the initial work.<br />
*Steve:Do we know these people and their names? <br />
*Laura gave names<br />
*Gerald: pleased with the higher rent. What is the consequence of them not being a member collective?<br />
*Laura: no representative to the delegates meeting, would not get the perks of being a member collective<br />
*Gerald, how will they communicate with us?<br />
*Laura: can attend the meetings.<br />
*Gerald: what does exclusive of the bar means<br />
*Laura:priority use of the portion of the entrance hall that they would set up as a cafe, probably rrom or some tables<br />
*Gerald - is it a big deal that people use the door.<br />
*Laura, they understand there will be traffic thru the door<br />
*Rachel: are there structural issues (per David in the past)?<br />
*Laura: No need for drain in the trash room, which had been on David's list and they are entirely responsible for getting permits for the work of setting up the care<br />
*Ken: Very in favor of a cafe, but historically has not been able to happen. Could the details of this be posted for all to read?<br />
*Laura, yes<br />
*Sierk: Some Sudo room members have critical questions, not sure whether everyone's concerns have been addressed. There is a meeting next week.<br />
*Laura will send a document to Sierk, Ken to share with collectives<br />
*Siert: When the cafe is here, will there be more measures to monitor people wondering thru the building<br />
*Laura: eyes on people<br />
*Ken: timeline?<br />
*Laura - none<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance,, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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=== Discussion of Poets' House ===<br />
Carol: We're extablishing an east bay poets' house. This has been done in other cities. It s a plce where poets can gather and have readings. It might include a poetry library. We want it to be inclusinve of all different kinds of poetry. We want to break down the barriers int eh fratured poetry community. WE discovered there are a lot of white elders who only want academic poetry styles. We want to have slams, identity poetry form differnt ultures. We has a ricky start becsue anyone who diin't want that pulled out. But the group is growing and we're feeling optimistic. For space, we a place to have poetry readings, like to have our monthly social justice poetry reading. Another idea is to have hisotic readings, wither bringing in retired poets or read poets who are now dead. Young people dont know about them and we have young people in our group now. We also need an office. I can't see us having an actual house becasue of the expense and repsonsiblity for maintenance. We are wondering if we can work out some kind of space arrangement with Omni. We also would like spece for the library. WE're new and still owrking on our mission statement. ONe fo the things I suggested as models are the mission statements of the Omni and TIL. Any questions?<br />
Steve: Did you see a space that you like?<br />
Clive: we didnt see a space we didn't like.<br />
Carol: we have to take this bakc to our members.<br />
CLive: If BAPS likes the idea we could do a class through you. 10 week class, 3 hours on Saturday afternoon.<br />
Gerald: My miind doesn't work in the abstract, but I can see that the library would be a problem becasue it needs to be taken care of. I ned to hear something more specific.<br />
Carol: entrance area good for readings with the raised stage. Disco Room doesn't have accessibility but the entrance hall does and ballroom. We are starting out so maybe small groups will be expected - 20 to 25 people. Would have to get funding for a library. Would need someone staffed. Could get donated books. <br />
*Laura, we cal talk further after the meeting to get more details.<br />
*Helen: are you interested in renting space before becoming a collective?<br />
*Carol: we don't know, will discuss with group.<br />
*Rachel: Remember, we all pay rent.<br />
*Carol: we think the interest is there.<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
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* none<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* We're cleaning<br />
* Ken: and temescal street fair is happening again if we want space.<br />
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=== CSC === <br />
* We're mostly doing art shows. We are probalby doing something with LL at the end of the month. One of our members is hsowing her videos from Mexico. Maing a film and wants feedback.<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
* People's park anniverary is 4/29<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* We did a packed event here with women from Empower, a sex worker organization from Thailand. They were fantastic and brilliant. We also have been working with the new Poor People's Campaign. It's gaining momentum and they are baout to do 40 days of civil disobedience around the US dealing with poverty, war, racism, environmental discussion. <br />
*Gerald - are any black organizations participating in the bay area.<br />
* Sacramento is very mixed - black, white, latino, native american. I haven't seen this in a long time. It's just coming together in the bay area.<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Gerald: Next Sunday we're workng with the Mandela food co-op. There is an increasing sense among young balck people that the capitalist system isn't goingt o give them what they need so there is wit them. increasing interest in cooperatives. Mandela food coop id taking over th edollastore building and we are showing a film about food coops. The next week we are showing Mumia: Long Disatnce Revolutionary, mostly to acquaint people who dont know about him as he has another appeal coming up.<br />
* GErald would like a receipt for the donations he gave to the Omni from and event.<br />
* we need to do somethng about th eskylights becasue it's too light ot show films in the summer<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* A SUDO room member started a bi-weekly event from 6-11 on Wednesday about electronic music.<br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
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== Proposal ==<br />
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= Proposal for Officer-Elect Selection Process = <br />
* Placed on the pad 5 April 2018. Laura, Mary Ann, Yar, and Kazoo developed or commented on the process.<br />
* The process was created with the following criteria in mind: <br />
Prevents public critique of people who are nominated. Public critique discourages people from accepting nomination or nominating themselves, and sows discord and conflict.<br />
Incentivises people who become officers-elect to go through with becoming an officer, while at the same time decreasing the chance that someone who can’t handle an officer position would assume that role.<br />
Isn’t too onerous or time-consuming<br />
Is fair to, and supportive of, nominees and officers-elect.<br />
Prevents entrenched power accumulation<br />
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* Process proposal doc located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QKCzL1jCDZWoY8VYrB6tc3kHaASICSqVK41lyIoeNgQ/edit?usp=sharing<br />
* Process:<br />
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Purpose of the Officer-Elect Position<br />
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Having officers-elect: <br />
enables OC to train future officers to perform the duties of the officer positions, ensuring continuity; <br />
provides support to the officers to carry out important administrative tasks; <br />
builds in redundancy in case an officer cannot continue in their position before their term is up; <br />
provides the opportunity to serve as an officer for people who might be unlikely to take on a position because they feel they lack capacity or necessary skills.<br />
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Officer-elect Responsibilities<br />
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An officer-elect shadows and assists the serving officer in order to learn the position. By becoming an officer elect, they are committing to serving as the officer at the end of the current officer’s term.<br />
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Officer-elect Minimum Qualifications<br />
Already be a member of an OC collective or an active OC volunteer<br />
Be able to work collaboratively<br />
Be reasonably able to commit to time required for the position on a weekly basis for the following 2 years<br />
Be fluent in speaking, reading, and writing English<br />
For treasurer, have basic math skills and basic familiarity with spreadsheets<br />
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Officer-elect Selection Process<br />
When there is an open officer-elect position, the Omni Commons board (aka delegates) will publicize the position and ask for nominations. Nomination recruitment will be carried out for a minimum of 2 weeks before the meeting where selection will take place. People may self nominate or nominate others.<br />
After a minimum of 2 weeks recruitment AND when there is at least 1 nominee for each open position, presentation of the officer-elect will be placed on the agenda for a board meeting (aka, delegates assembly).<br />
The process at the presentation meeting is a follows:<br />
A.Each nominee will introduce themself and have an opportunity to state why they would like to serve as an officer-elect and, eventually, officer of Omni Commons. <br />
B. Delegates will have an opportunity to ask informational questions about the nominees’ qualifications and capacity for carrying out the officer role to which they are nominated. Debate about the merits of the different candidates will not be allowed in the meeting or over email.<br />
C. The nominee’s statement, and the questions and answers will be recorded in the notes.<br />
D. Delegates will share this information with their collectives and each collective will discuss and choose which nominee(s) they support. If there is more than one nominee for a position, the collective will decide which nominees are acceptable and which is their first choice. If there is only one nominee, the collective will decide if the nominee is acceptable. The delegate will represent this choice in the selection process which will take place at the next delegates assembly.<br />
4. The selection process at the subsequent meeting is as follows:<br />
A. The meeting facilitator will pass out to each delegate one blank sheet of paper for each open position.<br />
B. For each open position, each delegate will list all their collective’s acceptable choices, and indicate their first choice.<br />
C. The OC President and Secretary will collect the papers and tally the results off to the side of the meeting. Each candidate will receive 1 vote for each time they are listed as “acceptable.” The candidate with the most acceptable votes and at least ⅔ of the quorum present wins. If there is a tie, the nominee with the most first choice votes wins. If there is still a tie, the existing 3 officers will vote between the tied options. <br />
5. At the end of 1 year, existing officers will make a recommendation to the delegates whether each officer elect should assume the officer position. Delegates will vote to confirm the new officer by majority vote. Blocks will not be allowed because this is not a consensus process. <br />
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* Laura - I will send this out to the consensus list. Please read it and send me comments or make comments on the Google doc. <br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 15 March 2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal Y: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
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* Julian, <br />
* Sierk, he/they, <br />
* Pol, living in Oakland, looking to use the space, writing about homelessness<br />
* Ken, CCL,<br />
* Joe, FNB, he/him<br />
* Helen, FNB delegate, usually she/her, a little deaf - please talk loudly<br />
* Laura, Commons/Fundraise & Finance, She/her<br />
* Philip MCDonald, FNB,<br />
* Mary Ann<br />
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† Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Julian, Joe <br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Philip <br />
* Timekeeper: Ken<br />
* Notetaker/s: Julian, Laura<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Joe <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Helen maybe?<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Lindsey<br />
* BAPS: Julian <br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Helen<br />
* GWS: Inactive<br />
* LL: <br />
* Sudo: Sudo<br />
* TIL: Inactive<br />
* GCEA:Almaz - remote <br />
* Quorum: 7/8 - when almaz joins<br />
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== New Bans ==<br />
* Julian: After the last meeting Yar and Julian communicated to ZRW that the delegates were not satisfied with the completion of the mediation. We informaed him that he could continue a process if he wanted to. He was unhappy about being jerked around. Julian apologized. [Julian will fill in details] <br />
* Joe - to the best of my recollections Yar told me that ZRW said he was not interested in having any mediation. <br />
* Julian: My impression is that he has gone back and forth. <br />
* Phil: In the brief time he was here again he was screaming and yelling at Gwen. When he left his computer area a mess. <br />
* Joe: Thank you for taking some responsibility for ZRW being jerked around. It isn't the kind of process that I would have like to have had. There were times that were hard for me. We have a lot to deal with but I think we need to have a better way of accepting people back in after being banned.<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm<br />
* Joe: IV ebeen talkeing to David K and a window guy about the kitchen windows. Various people in the kitchen working group are getting information to finalize the plans. A plumber came in and told us we have to remove a lot of concrete. We are using Trello to coordinate the tasks.<br />
** As soon as the rain stops we need to check out the roof; a number of leaks<br />
*** Ken and Sierk concurr<br />
** trying to hire of plummer of color<br />
* Laura: Good progress has been made on the wheelchair accessible bathroom.<br />
* Kitchen meeting is this Monday at 5<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* Laura: We have a new document outlining the process for member collectives to have events in common spaces like the ballroom and disco room. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zzmqX0qquZIHy0Vy5M9iGi4RDE_t33pWGUD8JMgYnMo/edit and https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Member_Collective_Procedure_for_Using_Common_Space_for_Events<br />
** Ken - I can be available for responding to urgent<br />
*** Laura - <br />
* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Wednesdays at 6pm<br />
* Mostly supporting the ktichen campaign. We are cathcing up after letting things drop a little over February. <br />
* The online fundraising has stalled. We have raised baout $17,000 for phase 1. COnsidering using some of the big donations in phase 1 as matching donations in phase 2. Talking about how to publicize the end of phase 1 and move on to the next. Possibly have a public event. Previously suggested ideas were to have a food related event. Grant has food industry friends inc one who does a popup taco thing. Considering doing that with music. Maybe have a series of food popups/music event. <br />
* almaz: GCEA events and participation have help you to raise funds by having black face on your vidio clip.<br />
** jenny: i don't recall a single video clip of a gcea member in the video - tho multiple black folks from fnb, phat beets, and liblens are represented.<br />
* Lindsay - what's up with the phases?<br />
** Philip - explains. <br />
* Joe - so its cool to use the $25K<br />
* Ken - I've had the idea to do promos to show that we're actually doing work. plans, videos of construction. tangibly promoting the work will be a draw. i've got some pictures, i'll share those<br />
* Sierk - I'm working on the drawings and we can use those for publicity, once there is a stamp on the drawings we can start moving. this is a hard phase bc we need to do this initial work to be able to move forward<br />
* Kitchen this meeting is Monday at 5<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Laura - We've continued to do well on our event income - $3.5-6K/month<br />
* Lindsay - can we talk about event rentals after the meeting? I want to better understand the operations of the building<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance,, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* We are trying to go in a new direction with rent paying member recruitment. We are havng an event in April to bring new people in and teach them to screen print. <br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* Continues to have 3 classes. DSA marxist reading group, Endnotes reading group, writing group<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* Last night we had a company bring in a gun that tests for heavy metals in soil. We tested soil samles from around the building and there is some uranium, and some tree wells have lead and some dont. This machine is on loan, but we are going to try to set up some kiind of community soil testing program.<br />
* On Sunday we're having an introduction to fungi cultivation at far west fungi. Price of admission is potluck. <br />
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=== CSC === <br />
* We have dozens of things going on. The Zapatista artwork has gone to La Pena and East Side Arts Alliance. Willhavae receptions.<br />
* Next Waffles and Zapatismo is 3/31 at 10 am, topic is the 1994 uprising.<br />
*Julian: One of the new Comms WG volunteers came to the Omni after having a great time at W & Z.<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
* Helen - we have settled a place for our Sunday kitchen. we've got the 29th of April of People's Park anniversary <br />
** Long Haul's kitchen is the Sunday <br />
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===GCEA===<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* Empower Collective event next Wednesday, 3/21 @ 7pm @ omni - Sex Worker collective from Thailand touring the US."Empower Foundation is a sex workers’ collective in Thailand which for 30 years has been promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers, especially access to education, health and legal advocacy. Over the years 50,000 sex workers have passed through their doors including migrant women from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam."<br />
** please come and spread the word! <3<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Next film screening is April <br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* Sierk: A few new events and classes have started. On Saturday there are now classes in programming arduinos started by a new member. Also wants to bring to libraries. Working with LL on monthly 3d animation classes. Other people also owant to work more with other collectives.<br />
* Jenny: We received a donation of 85 laptops from a startup in SF that I've been pestering them about for over a year. We're now trying to raise funds for power supplies and hard drives, and have thus far achieved ~half our goal - $2500/5000 - please ping if you/your collective is willing to make a donation. Our fundraiser is on fb but we accept any form of payment: https://www.facebook.com/donate/198111750959829/ <br />
** ~ 60 of those 85 laptops have already been allocated to majority youth / POC / low-income / activist / media-makers. pm me if you know of someone in need - we're organizing multiple tradeups as well.<br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
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== Proposal: Endorse Press Release by Village ==<br />
via Jenny 3/14: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2018-March/001233.html<br />
* Joe: many of us have been supporting the village. They have been building housing out of pallets on E 23rd. They're having new discussions about having to leave (and order by the city). They're having a press conference tomorrow. Jenny had asked that we discuss this with our members to see if we can sign on with our members. <br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Mary Ann - CSC got approval<br />
* Helen decided that FNB would agree<br />
* Sudo agreed<br />
* Lindsay - I'm not familiar with the details of the proposal<br />
** various people explain both what the Village will do<br />
* Julian - I haven't heard from Steve but I don't at all imagine he would block<br />
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=== Implicit vote ===<br />
* we have consensus<br />
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== Discussion: on officers-elect ==<br />
* Julian - particants in this discussion have asked that conversation be temporarily removed; I will share the details of the conversation with those present and revise to a summary before the next delegates meeting. <br />
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== Discussion: process for people to return from a ban ==<br />
* Mary Ann - I thought I heard Joe express concerns about the process. I was going to suggest that people interested in dealing with the process issue. a person in CSC that does restorative justice in OUSD could be interested in supporting us in following a better process; i'm not committing him. <br />
** people have to want it to work. <br />
* Ken - if we can step outward a little bit. maybe a dedicated delegates meeting for how to deal with bringing people back. <br />
* a process for people who have been banned; how they could be brought back to the Omni community. given that there are doubts about how this has gone, so we want to. <br />
* we're putting that off<br />
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<div>Communications WG - Sunday, 24 Sept 2017<br />
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= attendees =<br />
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= agenda =<br />
* updates<br />
* newsletter<br />
* comms w/ new neighbors<br />
* ongoing building & maint volunteer task visibility <br />
* phone tree<br />
* revisit our potluck's proposal?<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Julian: after the Bay Area Anarchist bookfair J started a spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xgLPiDdlyOh13iDSXsXsWZX0z81YXFen-3r561HVq1w/edit?usp=sharing)for tracking the state of our outreach to folx that sign up on one of our sheets, in particular so that we know where we're at with folx that gave #s &/or expressed interest in volunteering. <br />
** still hasn't sent out the email Julian & Jenny worked on from the last batch of sign up processing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uz_cQfXP09IBrpDTc_7kGQoqQiEZj7VLtBkvMy8KQqY/edit?usp=sharing<br />
*** do we know where those sheets are / do we have a place we want to store that sort of thing?<br />
* Grant<br />
** what if we had the event newsletter every week, but then the broader summary of things all the time? <br />
** Julian will ask Jenny <br />
** Grant look into pdf newletter templates<br />
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== newsletter ==<br />
* auto-generate paper newsletter from diginewsletter?<br />
** while researching Julian did not find that, but did find out about a plugin that generates newsletters via wordpress post. we've previously talked about using the blog; it could maybe be cool to consider switching our digital newsletter publication method to blog>>>email via "Newsletter" https://blog.paper.li/2015/07/31/tools-newsletters/<br />
** after about 30min of searching (so not too much) w/o much luck, started wondering: what if instead of doing a whole paper layout, we just need 1/4 sheets announcing our new newsletter for neighbors? we could do a standard design & just change the dates? would save a lot of paper. if it turns out this actually boosts our readership, then we could consider doing full on paper? <br />
* Grant at work uses a short newsletter email & the full newsletter for the website – it keeps the email from getting too long & allows folks to review the past newsletters <br />
** "click to read more" - thumbnail to the left - email version being shorted; website <br />
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== comms w/ new neighbors ==<br />
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== signage == <br />
* statement of solidaryt <br />
** grant will do a draft & send to julian & vice versa, with goal of having a very flashy & sexy statement <br />
** we should have it in more places & more prominently displayment <br />
* Omni external signage out front - there should be more clear & engaging!<br />
** we don't have any! people don't know what it is, it's kind of a stand-off-ish space<br />
** awning replacement w/ Omni print?<br />
** frontdoor phone - if that's not in use, replace? <br />
** what this could say<br />
*** what the place is about, what you can do here, how to get the calendar<br />
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== ongoing building & maintenance volunteer tasks visibility ==<br />
* Jenny made those dope remember to clean the bathroom signs; she we keep up with those?<br />
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== phone tree ==<br />
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== revisit our potlucks proposal? ==<br />
* that person Alpha came to our last delegates assembly thinking maybe it was a good way to learn about the omni, but obviously it wasnt. this continues to be an issue: we don't have a very open interface outwards. the previously discussed notion below seems one solution?<br />
* delegates meeting proposal & discussion draft email<br />
** dear omninoms,<br />
*** jenny & i were just (in our communications meeting) talking about convos folx have had about bringing more conviviality to our delegates meetings. we're proposing that assemblies double as potlucks, and that the potluck portion begins a little earlier – 6:30 – so that by 7 we can be ready to begin meeting. additionally, in light of recent events, we're suggesting that we reserve time at the next meeting to discuss our mediation processes, safer space policy, and solidarity statement. - julian & jenny<br />
* start orientations again – 6pm! <br />
** Julian add grant to delegates email list, write proposal for orientations, & draft &/or find orientation outline<br />
*** those who join could, eg, go onto the welcoming committee & help staff our open hours. <br />
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= action items =<br />
* Grants: <br />
** pdf newsletter template<br />
** statement of solidarity template<br />
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= attendees =<br />
jenny, julian<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Newsletter - Julian's been working on this - send out this week ideally!<br />
** paper version? redesign template to highlight collective updates rather than events?<br />
* Blog - look for FB feed scraper plugin<br />
* orientations - we're going to start them at 6 before delgates meetings<br />
** Julian will add calendar & send WG email to recent signups w/ mention of orientation<br />
** Orientation point: Julian (Oct 19th), Jenny (Nov 2)<br />
** food / potluck? soft yes, ask for w/ announcement of this at next delegates meeting<br />
*** maybe FNB could add this to their radar so we could feed folx<br />
* jenny will see about putting brochures in our new neighbors mailboxes<br />
* commons connect with making announcement about omni and putting out a signup list<br />
** Jenny will add this to the Occupy site? or possibly the contract<br />
** a script for the script...? Julian will <br />
*** loosely, 1) read the thing on the back of the clipboard; 2) ask folks to sign up<br />
**** slash actually edit the existing clipboard script to mention the signup sheet is at the front desk<br />
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= attendees =<br />
jenny, julian<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Newsletter - Julian's been working on this - send out this week ideally!<br />
** paper version? redesign template to highlight collective updates rather than events?<br />
* Blog - look for FB feed scraper plugin<br />
* orientations - we're going to start them at 6 before delgates meetings<br />
** Julian will add calendar & send WG email to recent signups w/ mention of orientation<br />
** Orientation point: Julian (Oct 19th), Jenny (Nov 2)<br />
** food / potluck? soft yes, ask for w/ announcement of this at next delegates meeting<br />
*** maybe FNB could add this to their radar so we could feed folx<br />
* jenny will see about putting brochures in our new neighbors mailboxes<br />
* commons connect with making announcement about omni and putting out a signup list<br />
** Jenny will add this to the Occupy site? or possibly the contract<br />
** a script for the script...? Julian will <br />
*** loosely, 1) read the thing on the back of the clipboard; 2) ask folks to sign up<br />
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<div>Communications WG - Weds, 24 Jan 2018<br />
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= attendees =<br />
* Evelyn, Phillip, Julian, Jenny, Sierk<br />
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= updates =<br />
* OUTREACH SPREADSHEET: https://ethercalc.org/po8x80guxhk7<br />
* CAMPAIGN CALENDAR: https://ethercalc.org/o84zu7jmx99x<br />
** messaging matrix - we want to post on social media at least every milestone<br />
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= social media = <br />
* facebook group, complexities thereof. Jenny & Philip can connect on that<br />
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= press release = <br />
* Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T3xUefmfxntMbin02Nf--R4BsQslth2SZ7Vl7NAinoc/edit <br />
* we finished it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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via Patrik 1/10:<br />
"Did you folks every finish a press release for the kitchen campaign?<br />
I was just contacted by Jonathan Kauffman at the Chronicle, who is writing a piece about Tinker Kitchen in SF - "the Bay Area's first cooking makerspace". His editors wanted him to connect it a little more to the maker movement and hacker spaces, so he got in contact with Mike Senese at Make, who forwarded him to talk to me.<br />
Shouldn't be too much of a stretch to get him to broaden his article a bit to mention the Omni kitchen fundraising campaign as well..."<br />
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= campaign kit / message plan = <br />
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= videos = <br />
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= action items = <br />
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<div>Communications WG - Weds, 10 Jan 2018<br />
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= attendees =<br />
* Evelyn, Phillip, Julian , Jenny (late)<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Brewster <br />
** $10k check<br />
* generosity.com<br />
** $10k<br />
* Grant - press list & press release<br />
** we need to give feedback but grants ready<br />
* social media<br />
** Omni<br />
*** Evelyn - developing a process for all to assess & act on<br />
*** what are all of our channels?<br />
** GWS - Jenny?<br />
*** Margret Presca reached out to Mad Noise, they're down just need more details. will reply to them<br />
*** date free is feb 16th, placeholder on calendar<br />
** (A)BF - ask Laura?<br />
** FNB - Joe?<br />
** LL - Liz? Julian will ask<br />
*** its on their website!<br />
** Occupy - <br />
*** FB - Laura posted on OO<br />
*** Twitter - Jenny<br />
**** Jenny will send a ping <br />
** Julian - Nextdoor. sorry nothing yet. <br />
** PLACE - marcus - jenny will check in<br />
*** still need<br />
** bio/science/gardens - ken - will check in<br />
** high-profile techies - jenny will talk to greg and post to some other lists - eg noisebridge, hackerspaces.org, <br />
** asa - joe - asa gave a strange reply, "pc way to send to his lists" - joe will check in<br />
** starhawk - jenny - forgot, will ping<br />
** Harborside/Dress?<br />
** kazoo/abdc - marcus - jenny will check in<br />
** Bill from fnb - robb will check in<br />
** cheeseboard / arizmendi / noBAWC - joe/jenny<br />
** temescal yahoo group - jenny will ask ken<br />
** shifra's BID list - jenny will ask ken<br />
** reddit<br />
** DSA meetings - talk to BAPS folks, blake<br />
* big event on the 13th - canvassing for medicare for all - ari - joe will message<br />
* bigger sign in the entrance hall - giant QR code - marcus/abe<br />
* outreach tracking<br />
** Julian didnt but will make spreadsheet<br />
* vid folx at orientation<br />
** video walkthru?<br />
*** got some but the light wasnt great<br />
** stakeholders videos?<br />
*** foolx next Weds Feed the People w/ Jenny. Julian connect them to Jenny<br />
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= press release = <br />
* <br />
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= campagin kit / message plan = <br />
* developing a process for all to assess & act on<br />
* Evelyn uses tempates at work to track messaging for programs/campaigns<br />
** we can modify it for our campaign to track our channels<br />
** having the divided clearlyu alwlows more efficient messaging<br />
** having the content we're using and recycle it & helps us track how that's happening<br />
** one key thing - when you post content, always attach an engagement ask (donate, volunteer, etc)<br />
* also a calendar<br />
** to track how we tell our story from beginning to end<br />
** spreadsheet form preferable over regular calendar bc visible as a timeline, allowing to to perceive the narrative arc of mesaging<br />
*** for us we would want to substantillay revise the existing template<br />
* what are all of our channels?<br />
** emails, lists, social media (fb, twitter, insta), mailchimp, website<br />
* three phases <br />
* listening matrix? track our engagement / listening<br />
* hootsuite - free alternatives?<br />
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= videos = <br />
* <br />
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= action items = <br />
* all - brainstorm generosity.com "updates"<br />
* all - remote update via comms@omnicommons.org<br />
* Jenny - will share the comms folder to Evelyn - done 1/10<br />
* Evelyn - share templates via Ethercalc - https://ethercalc.net/ <br />
** will update as much as possible both calendar & publishing matrix & we can review<br />
** link here: <br />
** Jenny - maybe set an ethercalc up on peoplesopen<br />
* Evelyn & Jenny - will start a doc where they can track research for free/open alternatives to Hootsuite<br />
* Jenny talk to Ken<br />
* Jenny will remind Joe to do comms tasks<br />
* relevant folx solicit updates from groups<br />
* Julian - invite vid folx from orientation to make a short to support the kitchen phase II or something that we want<br />
* generosity.com - update suggestions?<br />
* social media<br />
** Omni<br />
*** <br />
** GWS - jenny wrote back to mad noise 1/10<br />
** (A)BF<br />
** FNB<br />
** Occupy - <br />
*** FB - Laura posted on OO<br />
*** Twitter - Jenny <br />
** Julian - Nextdoor. sorry nothing yet. <br />
* outreach tracking<br />
* vid folx at orientation<br />
* Grant - press list & press release<br />
** <br />
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= future action items =<br />
* WHENEVER WE CAN - no informal group on FB for omni associated groups <br />
** currently there's just the individuals not especially collectives etc associated <br />
** having our content more organized allows more efficient content propogation thru our connected channels<br />
** slack could meet this need?<br />
* AT END OF CAMPAIGN - having a reflection to see pluses & deltas</div>Jfparkhttps://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Event:2017/12/12_Communications&diff=5624Event:2017/12/12 Communications2018-03-08T02:27:40Z<p>Jfpark: Created page with "Communications WG - Sunday, 12 Dec 2017 = attendees = * grant, jenny, julian = meeting rescheduled = * Wednesday at 6pm, 1st & 3rd. = updates/debrief = * giving tuesday f..."</p>
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<div>Communications WG - Sunday, 12 Dec 2017<br />
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= attendees =<br />
* grant, jenny, julian<br />
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= meeting rescheduled =<br />
* Wednesday at 6pm, 1st & 3rd. <br />
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= updates/debrief =<br />
* giving tuesday fundraising email<br />
** does it work or are there too many appeals on that day? <br />
*** we did OK - 25% 23 clicks - including 9 donate clicks<br />
** some decent sized gifts; roughly totallly about 400<br />
* with the next fundraising ask december 22nd<br />
** Grant will slighty edit & spice up the email by December 21st<br />
*** kitchen camaign can be included<br />
** there's the EB Alt book & Zine fair <br />
** Grant will write an email to the comms & fundraising re: additional featured content<br />
* kitchen <br />
** what can comms do?<br />
*** maybe everything b/c what needs to happen right now is all comms - roughly $50-75k. <br />
*** https://omnicommons.org/omnikitchen.mp4<br />
** list of comms tasks<br />
*** Grant will look at what Marcus made a draft of some stuff - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tm6TGH_FNLAprKqNvl91GQtxfwcSpM-ar-H7ki6N0zE/edit; work on revision - Marcus's email - lifenowreborn@gmail.com<br />
*** make a list of perks, including perhaps ask collectives to see if there is any kind of perks (this doesn't need to include only objects, but - experiences. think about ease of <br />
*** comms prep 20 to 30% of the money; raise $15k <br />
**** draft text to send to folx to do the custom <br />
***** a paragraph about what the actual ask is, with a link to the wikipage; could include a link to the budget <br />
***** we're trying to T up a crowd funding campgin<br />
****** Julian - will write a ¶ & send by next week <br />
****** by the 15th have people to have emailed their first kitchen asks - they are just committting to give when the campaign <br />
* pledges - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18xNfi2F5_jTNA6thZ4O2CVf9zA6a2peQjsENHx_E6qc/edit#gid=881925355<br />
* jenny will make ask in-person @ building mtg monday, ccl & mesh tues, sudo weds, delegates thurs, gws event sat, <br />
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= event announcement emails = <br />
* sending these weekly?<br />
* Jenny is figuring it out! including auto-mail<br />
* Weekly event list here: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events-weekly/<br />
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<div>Communications WG - Sunday, 08 Oct 2017<br />
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= attendees =<br />
jenny, julian<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Newsletter - Julian's been working on this - send out this week ideally!<br />
** paper version? redesign template to highlight collective updates rather than events?<br />
* Blog - look for FB feed scraper plugin<br />
* orientations - we're going to start them at 6 before delgates meetings<br />
** Julian will add calendar & send WG email to recent signups w/ mention of orientation<br />
** Orientation point: Julian (Oct 19th), Jenny (Nov 2)<br />
** food / potluck? soft yes, ask for w/ announcement of this at next delegates meeting<br />
*** maybe FNB could add this to their radar so we could feed folx<br />
* jenny will see about putting brochures in our new neighbors mailboxes<br />
* commons connect with making announcement about omni and putting out a signup list<br />
** Jenny will add this to the Occupy site? or possibly the contract<br />
** a script for the script...? Julian will <br />
*** loosely, 1) read the thing on the back of the clipboard; 2) ask folks to sign up<br />
**** slash actually edit the existing clipboard script to mention the signup sheet is at the front desk</div>Jfparkhttps://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Event:2018/09/24_Communications&diff=5622Event:2018/09/24 Communications2018-03-08T02:20:16Z<p>Jfpark: Created page with "Communications WG - Sunday, 24 Sept 2017 = attendees = * = agenda = * updates * newsletter * comms w/ new neighbors * ongoing building & maint volunteer task visibility *..."</p>
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<div>Communications WG - Sunday, 24 Sept 2017<br />
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= attendees =<br />
* <br />
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= agenda =<br />
* updates<br />
* newsletter<br />
* comms w/ new neighbors<br />
* ongoing building & maint volunteer task visibility <br />
* phone tree<br />
* revisit our potluck's proposal?<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Julian: after the Bay Area Anarchist bookfair J started a spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xgLPiDdlyOh13iDSXsXsWZX0z81YXFen-3r561HVq1w/edit?usp=sharing)for tracking the state of our outreach to folx that sign up on one of our sheets, in particular so that we know where we're at with folx that gave #s &/or expressed interest in volunteering. <br />
** still hasn't sent out the email Julian & Jenny worked on from the last batch of sign up processing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uz_cQfXP09IBrpDTc_7kGQoqQiEZj7VLtBkvMy8KQqY/edit?usp=sharing<br />
*** do we know where those sheets are / do we have a place we want to store that sort of thing?<br />
* Grant<br />
** what if we had the event newsletter every week, but then the broader summary of things all the time? <br />
** Julian will ask Jenny <br />
** Grant look into pdf newletter templates<br />
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== newsletter ==<br />
* auto-generate paper newsletter from diginewsletter?<br />
** while researching Julian did not find that, but did find out about a plugin that generates newsletters via wordpress post. we've previously talked about using the blog; it could maybe be cool to consider switching our digital newsletter publication method to blog>>>email via "Newsletter" https://blog.paper.li/2015/07/31/tools-newsletters/<br />
** after about 30min of searching (so not too much) w/o much luck, started wondering: what if instead of doing a whole paper layout, we just need 1/4 sheets announcing our new newsletter for neighbors? we could do a standard design & just change the dates? would save a lot of paper. if it turns out this actually boosts our readership, then we could consider doing full on paper? <br />
* Grant at work uses a short newsletter email & the full newsletter for the website – it keeps the email from getting too long & allows folks to review the past newsletters <br />
** "click to read more" - thumbnail to the left - email version being shorted; website <br />
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== comms w/ new neighbors ==<br />
* <br />
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== signage == <br />
* statement of solidaryt <br />
** grant will do a draft & send to julian & vice versa, with goal of having a very flashy & sexy statement <br />
** we should have it in more places & more prominently displayment <br />
* Omni external signage out front - there should be more clear & engaging!<br />
** we don't have any! people don't know what it is, it's kind of a stand-off-ish space<br />
** awning replacement w/ Omni print?<br />
** frontdoor phone - if that's not in use, replace? <br />
** what this could say<br />
*** what the place is about, what you can do here, how to get the calendar<br />
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== ongoing building & maintenance volunteer tasks visibility ==<br />
* Jenny made those dope remember to clean the bathroom signs; she we keep up with those?<br />
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== phone tree ==<br />
* <br />
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== revisit our potlucks proposal? ==<br />
* that person Alpha came to our last delegates assembly thinking maybe it was a good way to learn about the omni, but obviously it wasnt. this continues to be an issue: we don't have a very open interface outwards. the previously discussed notion below seems one solution?<br />
* delegates meeting proposal & discussion draft email<br />
** dear omninoms,<br />
*** jenny & i were just (in our communications meeting) talking about convos folx have had about bringing more conviviality to our delegates meetings. we're proposing that assemblies double as potlucks, and that the potluck portion begins a little earlier – 6:30 – so that by 7 we can be ready to begin meeting. additionally, in light of recent events, we're suggesting that we reserve time at the next meeting to discuss our mediation processes, safer space policy, and solidarity statement. - julian & jenny<br />
* start orientations again – 6pm! <br />
** Julian add grant to delegates email list, write proposal for orientations, & draft &/or find orientation outline<br />
*** those who join could, eg, go onto the welcoming committee & help staff our open hours. <br />
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= action items =<br />
* Grants: <br />
** pdf newsletter template<br />
** statement of solidarity template<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 1 March 2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion: Omni Table @ AMC [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
† Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
* Jenny, Sudo Room, she/her<br />
* Liz, LL, she/her <br />
*Laura, finance and other WG, she/her<br />
* Marcus, he, him, various working groups<br />
* Ken, CCL, <br />
* Joe, FNB, Kitchen/Building, he/him <br />
* Julian, BAPS, pronoun: prefered not<br />
* Csaba (CHABA) - Came to US from Hungary 5 years ago, family guy, actor, gardener, EarthTribe? in Berkeley, theater <br />
* Brian, finance, he, him<br />
* robb, SUdo/LibLens, he/him<br />
* yar sudo she/her, remote, then IRL<br />
* Marc, Sudo room, he/him<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Jenny<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Brian<br />
* Timekeeper: Julian<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Jenny, Liz, Brian, robb <br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Marcus<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Marcus<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Marcus<br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: Joe<br />
* GWS: <br />
* LL: Liz<br />
* Sudo: robb<br />
* TIL: inactive<br />
* GCEA: <br />
* Quorum: yes: 6/9 active collectives<br />
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== New Bans/Mediations ==<br />
* <br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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=== Zachary Running Wolf Mediation Update=== <br />
* ZRW mediation ended a couple of months ago without a signed statement from him that he would abide by OC rules (Rules, Safer Space Policy, and Statement of Solidarity). BAPS agreed to have him as a member. <br />
* At Delegates meeting on 2/1/18, BAPS and others were reminded that the mediation was between ZRW and Omni, so whatever the outcome was of the mediation that might allow ZRW to participate in the Omni as more than a member of the public would need to be accepted by the delegates. Also, that the delegates had agreed that ZRW would need to sign a statement agreeing to abide by OC rules.<br />
* At the 2/15/18 Delegates meeting, Julian stated that ZRW might sign a statement.<br />
* On 2/18 Yar approved ZRW's key card application after being told by someone that he had "completed his mediation process by signing a document saying he'll follow Omni's rules". This is the document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19TwtCBRmYkTi2LLzPEtXT7ezhruFq4ZV/view. <br />
* ZRW came to work on the computers Monday evening. Upon his arrival he was yelling and cursing about how he has been treated by the Omni. In addition to general insults and cursing, his statements included: The Omni has no right to say he can't store shit on his own land, that we should "be nice to the 1%" of indigenous people that survived, you "fucking ingrates, fucking cocksuckers". He said he's going "to find every one of the fucking..." who threw him out of the Omni, and specified Joe. <br />
* Since the delegates were not given a chance to see and approve this document as the conclusion to the mediation before the key card was approved, what action do the delegates want to take at this point?<br />
* Note: there was also the email thread subject lined "Not ZRW" 2/3/18-2/6/18<br />
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** Joe, Add to the background: Two things were done prematurely and irregularly were admitting him into our collectives without the ban being resolved. This may have been predicated on Almaz statement that when she mentioned a signed statement a few meetings ago, that the statement was mixed up between the Omni required note, or between seeds statement of completion of mediation. Asked Almaz to clarify it, but have not received a response. I was in favor of having him back if the community would take responsibility, and it looks like thats what we've got. <br />
** Yar: omni can't dictate who's a member of any collective, only who's allowed in the building. collectives can exist beyond omni. i'm sorry if i jumped the gun giving him a card, i've been pressured on both sides and really didn't want to be involved either way<br />
* Julian, question about the nature of the statement that "was" written. It was not my understanding that what was required that he make a formal admission of guilt. From my perspective it doesnt make sense to have a mediation between the omni and an individual. Not everyone who had issues with Runningwolf attended the mediation, which appears to be connected to some of the problems with this mediation process. <br />
** Laura, May be the case that there was a breakdown of process, but when mediation was happening delegates were not informed that it was NOT between the omni and ZRW. And if it was between individuals, don't think the individuals who were involved have been satisfied by outcome of mediation to the extent that he be given key access to the space.<br />
** Joe, Mediators weren't satisfied with outcome of mediation. When I or PHil would speak about something ZRW refused to engage / take accountability for past behaviors, and the mediator had a problem with that.<br />
*** Brian: Did he actually complete the mediation? I was under the impression that the people in charge of the mediation deemed it complete. <br />
**** Joe: No, not according to the mediators<br />
*** Julian: Seems mediation isn't complete until all involved agree that it has been. Seemed from the 'Not ZRW' thread that those involved consented to the outcome of a signed document.<br />
*** Joe: It seems like, based on the last appearance as Laura described, that nothing has sunk in here, and that RW believes he is exempt from our rules because we are on his land<br />
*** robb: my experience seeing him for the first time back in the building was similar to what laura experienced. a barrage of "fuck yous" and threats / intimidations. nothing has changed, same as it was before <br />
**** jnny: my experience much the same, stay avoidant / don't make eye contact. unfortunately he comes in around the same hours that i like to work in the office. too loud to do so anymore. omni may have less free accounting work :P <br />
**** Joe: I hope nobody is getting the impression that anything Im saying has to do with his threats to me. He's a coward and a bully, I'm not afraid of his threats<br />
****Julian: Obviously, its not cool to interact in this way. Its worth noting that its not like nothing happened since when runnign wolf left, and now. I understand that its fucked up to treat people in the way that people are being treated by running wolf, but I also understand that he has been excluded from access<br />
**** Laura: I want to go back to whether there is any action that delegates want to take at this time. I'm not a delegate, but I'm not comfortable with the way this was handled. I think the delegates should review that document and decide if it demonstrates that he will be safe to have in the space and a productive member of the community<br />
*** Liz: I have a question because I don't know much about running wolf's participation at the omni, but I've only ever seen him using computers, making a mess, falling asleep. I'm curious if he gives back to the omni. is it a matter of principle? Does he participate positively in this community. I know the OMni wants to make resources available to disadvantaged people and we have had very relaxed standards about who we let into the space, but there are limits. It seems like ZRW is long past those limits. <br />
*** Yar: he's a baps member, i think that part is not anybody else's business. i agree he's not exempt from anti-harassment rules, and it sounds like he's harassing people, so fuck that<br />
**** robb: Not aware of anything he does for the omni or for baps<br />
**** murmurs of agreement from others<br />
*** Ken: I'd like to take it out of Omni World for a moment and put it in the real world. We need to make decisions based on what makes this work here for all people. in that context, when somebody is making threats like this and, as joe says, he doesn't believe he's ... just if he actually does assault somebody we have that knowledge and forethought, omni overall becomes liable, and we have this building to lose. don't know the ramifications of lawsuits but is a huge can of worms... decisions were made that allowed him in. just saying that's the society we live in and if we value what we've built we have to take it into consideration. people on national news who make threats and follow through with them. uncomfortable with the situation as it hangs. i don't know, don't know the followthrough that we should have<br />
*** Yar: does anybody think he's actually going to assault anybody? come on, that's a red herring and also if he assaults somebody the biggest problem is not "omg lawsuits" it's that somebody got assaulted. geez. this is why we have safe space policies and not cover-your-ass legalese<br />
**** liz: not a red herring if he's making threats to do so. stating his intention so not a red herring<br />
***** juul: threats of violence are cause for ban, don't need to wait /expect followthrough<br />
* Yar: what threats of violence? were there any?<br />
*** robb: in resonse to laura's "what are the delegates going to do?" seems like a point of process. hasn't been any real conclusion to the mediation. process wasn't followed / completed and he shouldn't be allowed in the building until it is. delegates need a real informed discussion about the mediation process before we can let him in, is what i think<br />
*** Brian: think my next statement is not one that I expected to be making. I have a lot of problems with Running Wolf but<br />
if the people tasked with carrying out the mediation believe it to be complete - if they don't then we [lost some content] feels weird to go back on that. Unless it seems like there are significant reasons why we don't trust their mediation process<br />
*** Julian: I have 2 comments; One is to make reference to the conflict resolution process. "if at least one conflicting party is unable to meet...<br />
"If at least one conflicting party does not consent to meet, or if at least one conflicting party is unavailable to meet in a reasonable time, all relevant circumstances considered, or if the Conflict Steward and Mediator agree after at least one meeting that further meetings would not be likely to lead to resolution, the issue is brought before the group in the following way: "<br />
- Could be that's where we're at, or there was a miscommunication at some point in the process and that's why it stalled. seems almaz as conflict steward believed it to be completed, and those who were involved in the process (joe, phil) do not. <br />
** Julian: My proposal: Don't feel it's reasonable to assess the content of the agreement if it says what it's supposed to say, but if those involved in the mediation don't feel it was <br />
*** Liz: Is there a third option, that we end the mediation because we agree that we don't want to invite him back into the building?<br />
** Joe: Its hard to take the document he signed seriously, because his statement on Monday was that he felt like it was his right to store things on his land. Mediator from SEEDS said he was beyond their capability, since he refused to take accountability for his past actions<br />
** Julian: With respect to what joe just said, then it seems to me that its up to the people participating in the mediation process to determine whether you are satisfied with the outcome. With respect to Laura's comment about mediation, theres no question that there is an option to allow him back into the building. The status of the omni rules allows for no actual adjudication. It doesn't make sense to apply a safer space violation to an entirely different category of the process. <br />
** Ken: Didn't really understand that.. sounds to me like he believes he's completed a mediation process. Doesn't sound like the mediation had any effect, he's still behaving the same way. Back to square one of just violating Omni's rules whether we attempt mediation or not. Even if people think it's just blowhard stuff and not an actual threat... <br />
** Laura: There was a problem with his behavior in the space. The delegates decided what to do as the problems progressed. Previously, the delegates decided notot ban him, but that he was not a member of a collective, so he cant be in the building. He made a threat to break the windows, the delegates decided that if a window was broken then the ban would be put in place. The window was broken, he claims he didn't do it but he claims he didn't do anything. Decision was that he would agree to follow omni policies and sign something. He signed something, and the delegates have to look at it and decide if this is evidence that he's agreed to omni's rules. So delegates need to look at it and decide if he is to be allowed back in the building or if he's banned.<br />
*** Julian: Steve and i, in speaking with RW at our last meeting, encouraged him to include a criticism of his experience with the omni throughout the course of this in his letter becase he didn't seem likely to agree to anything without that. And Steve and I and Almaz agree that we have some concerns about the wy this process has gone. So whether we're going to judge RW's mediation based on the letter that he signed (lost track)<br />
**** joe: what was that concern?<br />
**** julian: both of us have an issue with the banning as an approach to deal with ongoing community issues. important that we respond with more transformative justice approaches than exclusionary justice. way to look politically at some of the earlier isssues w/ omni<br />
*** Yar: all for transformative justice, my idea would be you ask someone to leave, and then they transform, and then you invite them back. saying this as someone who does want ZRW to return. but harassment is not okay, and that's harassment. *shows us the letter* which is linked to in the pad<br />
marc reads "i will continue to follow the rules once i have keycard access to the computers" - if he feels he was following them before that's problematic<br />
*** robb: violated them as soon as he walked into the building<br />
*** Yar: My understanding is that the rules he was violating was storing stuff, sleeping, and harassing people. <br />
**** Ken: No, he was sleeping in a sleeping bag. <br />
*** Laura: He was not given permission to store objects. He left piles of belongings that he did not remove when notes were left that it was against Omni rules and that they would be removed. He hid his stuff in the basement that would be found when we were clearing it out. <br />
*** jenny: robb and i can attest it was definitely *dozens* of times<br />
**** yar: he mentions only a climbing rope that was stolen<br />
***** jenny: not to my knowledge, a dresser full of his clothes and cans of spraypaint<br />
** joe: not a bad person, pretty delusional in certain ways. and he's duped us - went through the motions of a mediation, got a keycard and now he's back. hard to decide what to do now. he's going to be even more enraged<br />
** Marcus: I was wondering what is a transformative justice approach and what does it look like (to Julian)<br />
*** Julian: My understanding of the safer space and conflict resolutino policy were baed on a model of transofrmative justice which , as Yar described, requires the transformation of the individual , but also a transformation of the community to ...(notetaker lost track) By comparison, a punitive justice model would be like you do something wrong once and you're out. So as far as we've spent 9 months in mediation, you can argue that we've at least aspired to a transformative justice approach<br />
**Marcus: Do you have an actual process for doing that? (a process is outlined on our Wiki but it abstracts a lot of the hard work required to actually do it)<br />
** Ken: If, I assume, or I'm wondering. If we decide or we make a decision what does that mean? If we make a decision that the negotiation doesn't count, do we just de-activate his card? Do you (yar) feel comfortable knowing that he knows you were the one de-activating the card. <br />
** Yar: I would be comfortable looking him in the eyes and telliing him that I deactivated his card becasue the Omni delegates told ne to.<br />
**Julian: I heard two proposals on the table. Either we make a decision based on the current letter, or ask him to rewrite it. Or the proposal that I made earlier, that the people who were participating in the mediation process should come in with a position here. I dont see how its possible that the omni is involved in a mediation with an individual. <br />
** Robb: I think you're partially right, I think Laura's proposal doesn't quite reach everything. Let's just pretend that he completed everything to the delegates' satisfaction: the first thing he did when he walked in wa to rant and threaten people just like before. So he just negated the whole process. <br />
** Yar: Just to be clear, who was present when he came back, specifically on Monday. <br />
*** Laura: I was<br />
**** Robb: I wasn't there when she was there. But I had the exact same experience. <br />
** yar: what time of day was it?<br />
*** Laura: five ish?<br />
**** Robb: I left around midnight and RW was still there.<br />
***** Jenny: I overhead when he was yelling at robb. <br />
****** Robb: There was one other person up there. I dont know his name. He is often up in the computer areas. <br />
** yar: don't make a decision out of fear<br />
*** ken: <br />
**** robb: implied threats, "i'm gonna find you motherfuckers and..." then trails off. He has raised a fist to me. He handed a phone to me, and as soon as I turned away his fist was moving towards me. I dropped the phone and moved away. He has raised it to that level and continues to make the threats. Guess anytime he comes here I'll just avoid him, because I'm certain he'll start muttering threats again.<br />
** Joe: I cant see how I would accept this letter. There are personally a bunch of defamatory lies in here about me. He claims that I was waiting for matt to die, so that running wolf wouldnt have any member of a collective to sponsor him. He says I was racist for refusing to admit that he was a native elder, and I never refused to admit that. I have said to him many times that he's not a leader. <br />
*** Yar: Did you say, your not an elder?<br />
**** Joe: No, I said if your a leader where are your followers?<br />
** Yar: When I met tomas hodgeman I asked him "did he break the window", He said "I am certain that he did not break the window". I then said "did he threaten to break the window" he chuckled and said "I dont know". <br />
*** Ken: He was at the meeting where that was discussed. He has lied to us. <br />
**** Yar; what did he lie about?<br />
***** Ken: He said that I said Runningwolf was not a native american. i never did. I had heard he wasn't and I asked about it, but at the next meeting he had told running wolf that I said he wasnt a real native american. <br />
*** Robb: The threat about the window was made to Dante, and dante informed the delegates.<br />
**** Laura: He was basically saying to dante "stay away from the windows" <br />
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==== Proposals ====<br />
1) Make a decision based on current letter or ask him to rewrite it<br />
** yar - too vague<br />
** jenny: don't feel comfortable w/ current letter (joe seconds)<br />
** Liz: i don't see any point in asking him to rewrite it<br />
** robb: if we want a statement or agreement, seems we should write it and list the specific things we dont want him to do<br />
** Ken: I was just reading this and of all the things he is saying here that has to do with Omni is that his inabiltiy too use Omni computers has prevented him from carrying on his campaigns. He has options besides us like the public library. We're are not preventing him from carrying out his campaign.<br />
** julian: letter is not at the heart of this. it's about the behavior - whether he signs a thing or not i don't see how that could really satisfy people. I dont think this proposal is where it's at.<br />
**Yar: In general, harassment is a good reason to ban someone. I wouldn't be comfortable banning someone for any other reason but harassment and threats of violence crosses a line for me. I'm not comfortable with saying "your letter isn't subservient enough" or something.<br />
** Liz: why are we putting so much energy into this with ZRw when we have banned other people for much less, fairly nice people who contributed to the community? Why are we spending so much time on this?<br />
** Julian: As far as I know those people did not seek a mediation process. I think its worth putting it out there that in the future we should persue mediation, instead of putting the onus on the banned person to initiate mediation<br />
** Joe: I want to be perfectly clear in what I heard from the mediation. Accusation that rules were selectively enforced was brought up at the first meeting, she said it was brought up. She said that there were other groups who could help with that. AORTA and Critical Resistance<br />
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2) Have other participants, if they feel unresolved, state that with the conflict stewards and continue working toward a solution<br />
* Thumbs up: Julian<br />
* thumbs down: joe - when i found out letter coming from SEEDs was untrue, wrote an email inquiry, asked her twice and she decided she wouldn't respond at all. couldn't give her the responsibility to move forward with the mediation. <br />
** robb: point of process, all involved need to consent to who the steward is<br />
* joe - would be willing to continue with mediation generally<br />
** Jenny- we coild perhaps reach out to AORTA or Critical Resistance to support as possible conflict stewardship<br />
** Yar: I am willing to participate in the mediation, though I am leaving town for a little while.<br />
** Jenny - I would participate in a good faith attempt at mediation with a different conflict steward<br />
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3) Based on his behavior upon return we should ban him, as its unacceptable.<br />
* LIz: This is what LL would choose. We didn't know if this was going to come up, but if such a vote took place, we agreed to block him from returning, and we suspect a couple other collectives would as well.<br />
* julian: in terms of conflict resolution policy, can you block a completed mediation? <br />
** liz: if we thought there were any results to the mediation process... 2 mediation meetings in 9 months. other option is another round of mediation talks. is this viable? we have several members who don't feel comfortable with him in the space<br />
** Laura: julian - just because you weren't there when the delegates made this decision to agree to return with condition of a completed mediation and a signed agreement. didn't get to the point where ZRW <br />
*** Julian: I was saying that it doesn't make sense<br />
** Liz: I'm not willing to sit through any more delegate meetings about RW, personally. LibLens position is pretty clear - he abuses the resources that we give people access to, doesn't participate in stewarding the space. don't think it's right that we continue to allow him to be here<br />
** ken: not taking any particular position. fine with any decision the community makes.<br />
* joe: considering proposing we declare the process has been corrupted, the letter has too many flaws in it, almaz' false statements to us and refusing to discuss them with me are ground for negating everything that's happened and revert to banning until we can do what's needed<br />
* ken: several people from collectives who didn't feel comfortable directly participating in the mediation, but were directly affected. healthy thing to have an intermediary when one feels threatened. right there might be enough to say - if you feel that threatened there's no point in pursuing mediation<br />
** such people have seen how he targets and harasses individuals who he feels has wronged him.<br />
* robb: was reluctant to do it because of the nature of threats toward me but willing to participate in the mediation as an offended party<br />
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I am sorry I cursed at you all, but there are too many misguided people who cant seem to take the simple step of banning someone who is a threat to the the people in the Omni. Its very simple. If that cant be handled I dont have nay confidence that the Omni is ever going to get anywhere. So I am resigning from any further participation until Im confident that I and others can come to the Omni and not be harrassed or have to continually clean up after one noncontributing person's messes. Right now I feel ike I have wasted the past 3 years of my life. :(<br />
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* yar: do you want me to deactivate his card now and inform him next time he leaves he wont be able to get back in<br />
* robb: was hopeful that he'd come back and be more respectful<br />
* julian: don't think it's necessary to invoke a new ban since we've come to agreement that the process was not completed. Am not on ZRWs side per se, just feel it's important to work on these issues as a community / refine process<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Close to finishing a medium-length doc about the First They Came For The Homeless protest. Members preparing to go to the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow in Las Vegas again this year (April). Looking for a film to screen for March film night, open to suggestions. <br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* Marc: As a member of Sudo Room, I am blocking Almaz as secretary-elect due to repeated issues with how she has engaged with people when they try to talk with her about issues having to do with how she was dealing with events. There were events she had publicized as having alcohol but didn't get a permit. On New Year's Eve, the cops showed up earlier in the evening and she was having an event in the ballroom with alcohol. When I asked her about having alcohol she became defensive and said the cops hadn't come. I said that Rayc had interacted with them and told me. She said that Rayc was lying and accused me of being a white supremacist. This has been her pattern of interacting. <br />
* Julian: Theres something really...this makes me uneasy. The situation in which a black person is saying that they are experiencing racism, and the response is to sanction them. I just want to point out that this is the standard structure of white supremacy. I'm not saying that you are white supremacist, just there is a history of white people silencing black people, especially when they are voicing concerns about racism. <br />
* Yar: Was this discussed at a Sudo meeting or is it personal?<br />
** Juul: It was not discussed<br />
*** Yar: Then you should be sure to present it as your personal block, not that it's on behalf of Sudo. I haven't had the same experience with Almaz, and I've been happy that she's shown an interest in participating further<br />
* Ken: Question: I understood we are having a person in each position, and a person in the backup position. I'm not saying this resolves it, but would it resolve it if the person helping train her into this position is helping her address the - If someone is willing to spend time with her and train her up in that way, but it seems like a touch decision to *make* someone train her. The goal was that the main person now would train the next person so they have a year's worth of experience on the job. Mybe one year from now she wouldn't get voted in?<br />
** yar: Not how it works, consensus happens now so that when Brian resigns, she would automatically become the secretary<br />
*** Brian: That's not my understanding<br />
*** Laura: It appears from the last meeting that people wanted a more clear process, which I'm in the process of writing<br />
*** Ken: I can understand concerns about the racial situation, but if peopel are objective to the way she dealt with a situation, does it automatically become a racial thing or<br />
**** yar: Everything is automatically a racial thing<br />
***** ken: I understand that context. What I'm saying is, override everything else, and she makes decisions that have ramifications and she can't take feedback and change, isn't that a concern? Need to discuss details of NYE event to understand context?<br />
*** Robb: I'd just like to say that if we're trying to decide now, who is going to be the tresurer secretary, etc now for what happens a year from now, then I would just block the whole proposal. The nice thing about consensus is that we can weigh decisions based on the facts at hand, not write things in stone based on what the situation may be a year from now.<br />
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== Discussion: Omni Table @ AMC ==<br />
via Jenny 2/23:<br />
I'd like to propose that Omni pay for an exhibition table ($100) at the Allied Media Conference this summer in Detroit. I will be attending, albeit also as a representative for Sudo Mesh. <br />
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For those unfamiliar with the conference, it's one of the radder ones I've heard of over the past decade - but have never attended myself. The theme is essentially the intersection of social justice and media - what AMC describes as "media-based organizing," defined as "any collaborative process that uses media, art, or technology to address the roots of problems and advances holistic solutions towards a more just and creative world." This is the 20th annual conf, which is always located in Detroit, and takes place this summer from June 14-17.<br />
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Are any other collective members also planning to attend? Would you be interested in sharing an Omni table to display info about your projects and/or helping to staff the table for some shifts throughout the duration of the conference? <br />
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Please forward this email along to your collectives so we can assess our capacity to participate!<br />
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If there aren't a few other Omni collective members able to come and help staff the table, perhaps Omni could share Sudo Mesh's table and collectives could provide me with some of your handouts / brochures / flyers / arts / etc for display<br />
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Please send a reply to me or to discuss@omnicommons.org if you'd like to help with organizing around AMC!<br />
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== Last Meeting Notes ==<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 1 March 2018 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Access Check-in [5 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion: Omni Table @ AMC [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†<br />
† Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?<br />
* Jenny, Sudo Room, she/her<br />
* Liz, LL, she/her <br />
*Laura, finance and other WG, she/her<br />
* Marcus, he, him, various working groups<br />
* Ken, CCL, <br />
* Joe, FNB, Kitchen/Building, he/him <br />
* Julian, BAPS, pronoun: prefered not<br />
* Csaba (CHABA) - Came to US from Hungary 5 years ago, family guy, actor, gardener, EarthTribe? in Berkeley, theater <br />
* Brian, finance, he, him<br />
* robb, SUdo/LibLens, he/him<br />
* yar sudo she/her, remote, then IRL<br />
* Marc, Sudo room, he/him<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Jenny<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Brian<br />
* Timekeeper: Julian<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Jenny, Liz, Brian, robb <br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Marcus<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Marcus<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Marcus<br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: Joe<br />
* GWS: <br />
* LL: Liz<br />
* Sudo: robb<br />
* TIL: inactive<br />
* GCEA: <br />
* Quorum: yes: 6/9 active collectives<br />
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== New Bans/Mediations ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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=== Zachary Running Wolf Mediation Update=== <br />
* ZRW mediation ended a couple of months ago without a signed statement from him that he would abide by OC rules (Rules, Safer Space Policy, and Statement of Solidarity). BAPS agreed to have him as a member. <br />
* At Delegates meeting on 2/1/18, BAPS and others were reminded that the mediation was between ZRW and Omni, so whatever the outcome was of the mediation that might allow ZRW to participate in the Omni as more than a member of the public would need to be accepted by the delegates. Also, that the delegates had agreed that ZRW would need to sign a statement agreeing to abide by OC rules.<br />
* At the 2/15/18 Delegates meeting, Julian stated that ZRW might sign a statement.<br />
* On 2/18 Yar approved ZRW's key card application after being told by someone that he had "completed his mediation process by signing a document saying he'll follow Omni's rules". This is the document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19TwtCBRmYkTi2LLzPEtXT7ezhruFq4ZV/view. <br />
* ZRW came to work on the computers Monday evening. Upon his arrival he was yelling and cursing about how he has been treated by the Omni. In addition to general insults and cursing, his statements included: The Omni has no right to say he can't store shit on his own land, that we should "be nice to the 1%" of indigenous people that survived, you "fucking ingrates, fucking cocksuckers". He said he's going "to find every one of the fucking..." who threw him out of the Omni, and specified Joe. <br />
* Since the delegates were not given a chance to see and approve this document as the conclusion to the mediation before the key card was approved, what action do the delegates want to take at this point?<br />
* Note: there was also the email thread subject lined "Not ZRW" 2/3/18-2/6/18<br />
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** Joe, Add to the background: Two things were done prematurely and irregularly were admitting him into our collectives without the ban being resolved. This may have been predicated on Almaz statement that when she mentioned a signed statement a few meetings ago, that the statement was mixed up between the Omni required note, or between seeds statement of completion of mediation. Asked Almaz to clarify it, but have not received a response. I was in favor of having him back if the community would take responsibility, and it looks like thats what we've got. <br />
** Yar: omni can't dictate who's a member of any collective, only who's allowed in the building. collectives can exist beyond omni. i'm sorry if i jumped the gun giving him a card, i've been pressured on both sides and really didn't want to be involved either way<br />
* Julian, question about the nature of the statement that "was" written. It was not my understanding that what was required that he make a formal admission of guilt. From my perspective it doesnt make sense to have a mediation between the omni and an individual. Not everyone who had issues with Runningwolf attended the mediation, which appears to be connected to some of the problems with this mediation process. <br />
** Laura, May be the case that there was a breakdown of process, but when mediation was happening delegates were not informed that it was NOT between the omni and ZRW. And if it was between individuals, don't think the individuals who were involved have been satisfied by outcome of mediation to the extent that he be given key access to the space.<br />
** Joe, Mediators weren't satisfied with outcome of mediation. When I or PHil would speak about something ZRW refused to engage / take accountability for past behaviors, and the mediator had a problem with that.<br />
*** Brian: Did he actually complete the mediation? I was under the impression that the people in charge of the mediation deemed it complete. <br />
**** Joe: No, not according to the mediators<br />
*** Julian: Seems mediation isn't complete until all involved agree that it has been. Seemed from the 'Not ZRW' thread that those involved consented to the outcome of a signed document.<br />
*** Joe: It seems like, based on the last appearance as Laura described, that nothing has sunk in here, and that RW believes he is exempt from our rules because we are on his land<br />
*** robb: my experience seeing him for the first time back in the building was similar to what laura experienced. a barrage of "fuck yous" and threats / intimidations. nothing has changed, same as it was before <br />
**** jnny: my experience much the same, stay avoidant / don't make eye contact. unfortunately he comes in around the same hours that i like to work in the office. too loud to do so anymore. omni may have less free accounting work :P <br />
**** Joe: I hope nobody is getting the impression that anything Im saying has to do with his threats to me. He's a coward and a bully, I'm not afraid of his threats<br />
****Julian: Obviously, its not cool to interact in this way. Its worth noting that its not like nothing happened since when runnign wolf left, and now. I understand that its fucked up to treat people in the way that people are being treated by running wolf, but I also understand that he has been excluded from access<br />
**** Laura: I want to go back to whether there is any action that delegates want to take at this time. I'm not a delegate, but I'm not comfortable with the way this was handled. I think the delegates should review that document and decide if it demonstrates that he will be safe to have in the space and a productive member of the community<br />
*** Liz: I have a question because I don't know much about running wolf's participation at the omni, but I've only ever seen him using computers, making a mess, falling asleep. I'm curious if he gives back to the omni. is it a matter of principle? Does he participate positively in this community. I know the OMni wants to make resources available to disadvantaged people and we have had very relaxed standards about who we let into the space, but there are limits. It seems like ZRW is long past those limits. <br />
*** Yar: he's a baps member, i think that part is not anybody else's business. i agree he's not exempt from anti-harassment rules, and it sounds like he's harassing people, so fuck that<br />
**** robb: Not aware of anything he does for the omni or for baps<br />
**** murmurs of agreement from others<br />
*** Ken: I'd like to take it out of Omni World for a moment and put it in the real world. We need to make decisions based on what makes this work here for all people. in that context, when somebody is making threats like this and, as joe says, he doesn't believe he's ... just if he actually does assault somebody we have that knowledge and forethought, omni overall becomes liable, and we have this building to lose. don't know the ramifications of lawsuits but is a huge can of worms... decisions were made that allowed him in. just saying that's the society we live in and if we value what we've built we have to take it into consideration. people on national news who make threats and follow through with them. uncomfortable with the situation as it hangs. i don't know, don't know the followthrough that we should have<br />
*** Yar: does anybody think he's actually going to assault anybody? come on, that's a red herring and also if he assaults somebody the biggest problem is not "omg lawsuits" it's that somebody got assaulted. geez. this is why we have safe space policies and not cover-your-ass legalese<br />
**** liz: not a red herring if he's making threats to do so. stating his intention so not a red herring<br />
***** juul: threats of violence are cause for ban, don't need to wait /expect followthrough<br />
* Yar: what threats of violence? were there any?<br />
*** robb: in resonse to laura's "what are the delegates going to do?" seems like a point of process. hasn't been any real conclusion to the mediation. process wasn't followed / completed and he shouldn't be allowed in the building until it is. delegates need a real informed discussion about the mediation process before we can let him in, is what i think<br />
*** Brian: think my next statement is not one that I expected to be making. I have a lot of problems with Running Wolf but<br />
if the people tasked with carrying out the mediation believe it to be complete - if they don't then we [lost some content] feels weird to go back on that. Unless it seems like there are significant reasons why we don't trust their mediation process<br />
*** Julian: I have 2 comments; One is to make reference to the conflict resolution process. "if at least one conflicting party is unable to meet...<br />
"If at least one conflicting party does not consent to meet, or if at least one conflicting party is unavailable to meet in a reasonable time, all relevant circumstances considered, or if the Conflict Steward and Mediator agree after at least one meeting that further meetings would not be likely to lead to resolution, the issue is brought before the group in the following way: "<br />
- Could be that's where we're at, or there was a miscommunication at some point in the process and that's why it stalled. seems almaz as conflict steward believed it to be completed, and those who were involved in the process (joe, phil) do not. <br />
** Julian: My proposal: Don't feel it's reasonable to assess the content of the agreement if it says what it's supposed to say, but if those involved in the mediation don't feel it was <br />
*** Liz: Is there a third option, that we end the mediation because we agree that we don't want to invite him back into the building?<br />
** Joe: Its hard to take the document he signed seriously, because his statement on Monday was that he felt like it was his right to store things on his land. Mediator from SEEDS said he was beyond their capability, since he refused to take accountability for his past actions<br />
** Julian: With respect to what joe just said, then it seems to me that its up to the people participating in the mediation process to determine whether you are satisfied with the outcome. With respect to Laura's comment about mediation, theres no question that there is an option to allow him back into the building. The status of the omni rules allows for no actual adjudication. It doesn't make sense to apply a safer space violation to an entirely different category of the process. <br />
** Ken: Didn't really understand that.. sounds to me like he believes he's completed a mediation process. Doesn't sound like the mediation had any effect, he's still behaving the same way. Back to square one of just violating Omni's rules whether we attempt mediation or not. Even if people think it's just blowhard stuff and not an actual threat... <br />
** Laura: There was a problem with his behavior in the space. The delegates decided what to do as the problems progressed. Previously, the delegates decided notot ban him, but that he was not a member of a collective, so he cant be in the building. He made a threat to break the windows, the delegates decided that if a window was broken then the ban would be put in place. The window was broken, he claims he didn't do it but he claims he didn't do anything. Decision was that he would agree to follow omni policies and sign something. He signed something, and the delegates have to look at it and decide if this is evidence that he's agreed to omni's rules. So delegates need to look at it and decide if he is to be allowed back in the building or if he's banned.<br />
*** Julian: Steve and i, in speaking with RW at our last meeting, encouraged him to include a criticism of his experience with the omni throughout the course of this in his letter becase he didn't seem likely to agree to anything without that. And Steve and I and Almaz agree that we have some concerns about the wy this process has gone. So whether we're going to judge RW's mediation based on the letter that he signed (lost track)<br />
**** joe: what was that concern?<br />
**** julian: both of us have an issue with the banning as an approach to deal with ongoing community issues. important that we respond with more transformative justice approaches than exclusionary justice. way to look politically at some of the earlier isssues w/ omni<br />
*** Yar: all for transformative justice, my idea would be you ask someone to leave, and then they transform, and then you invite them back. saying this as someone who does want ZRW to return. but harassment is not okay, and that's harassment. *shows us the letter* which is linked to in the pad<br />
marc reads "i will continue to follow the rules once i have keycard access to the computers" - if he feels he was following them before that's problematic<br />
*** robb: violated them as soon as he walked into the building<br />
*** Yar: My understanding is that the rules he was violating was storing stuff, sleeping, and harassing people. <br />
**** Ken: No, he was sleeping in a sleeping bag. <br />
*** Laura: He was not given permission to store objects. He left piles of belongings that he did not remove when notes were left that it was against Omni rules and that they would be removed. He hid his stuff in the basement that would be found when we were clearing it out. <br />
*** jenny: robb and i can attest it was definitely *dozens* of times<br />
**** yar: he mentions only a climbing rope that was stolen<br />
***** jenny: not to my knowledge, a dresser full of his clothes and cans of spraypaint<br />
** joe: not a bad person, pretty delusional in certain ways. and he's duped us - went through the motions of a mediation, got a keycard and now he's back. hard to decide what to do now. he's going to be even more enraged<br />
** Marcus: I was wondering what is a transformative justice approach and what does it look like (to Julian)<br />
*** Julian: My understanding of the safer space and conflict resolutino policy were baed on a model of transofrmative justice which , as Yar described, requires the transformation of the individual , but also a transformation of the community to ...(notetaker lost track) By comparison, a punitive justice model would be like you do something wrong once and you're out. So as far as we've spent 9 months in mediation, you can argue that we've at least aspired to a transformative justice approach<br />
**Marcus: Do you have an actual process for doing that? (a process is outlined on our Wiki but it abstracts a lot of the hard work required to actually do it)<br />
** Ken: If, I assume, or I'm wondering. If we decide or we make a decision what does that mean? If we make a decision that the negotiation doesn't count, do we just de-activate his card? Do you (yar) feel comfortable knowing that he knows you were the one de-activating the card. <br />
** Yar: I would be comfortable looking him in the eyes and telliing him that I deactivated his card becasue the Omni delegates told ne to.<br />
**Julian: I heard two proposals on the table. Either we make a decision based on the current letter, or ask him to rewrite it. Or the proposal that I made earlier, that the people who were participating in the mediation process should come in with a position here. I dont see how its possible that the omni is involved in a mediation with an individual. <br />
** Robb: I think you're partially right, I think Laura's proposal doesn't quite reach everything. Let's just pretend that he completed everything to the delegates' satisfaction: the first thing he did when he walked in wa to rant and threaten people just like before. So he just negated the whole process. <br />
** Yar: Just to be clear, who was present when he came back, specifically on Monday. <br />
*** Laura: I was<br />
**** Robb: I wasn't there when she was there. But I had the exact same experience. <br />
** yar: what time of day was it?<br />
*** Laura: five ish?<br />
**** Robb: I left around midnight and RW was still there.<br />
***** Jenny: I overhead when he was yelling at robb. <br />
****** Robb: There was one other person up there. I dont know his name. He is often up in the computer areas. <br />
** yar: don't make a decision out of fear<br />
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**** robb: implied threats, "i'm gonna find you motherfuckers and..." then trails off. He has raised a fist to me. He handed a phone to me, and as soon as I turned away his fist was moving towards me. I dropped the phone and moved away. He has raised it to that level and continues to make the threats. Guess anytime he comes here I'll just avoid him, because I'm certain he'll start muttering threats again.<br />
** Joe: I cant see how I would accept this letter. There are personally a bunch of defamatory lies in here about me. He claims that I was waiting for matt to die, so that running wolf wouldnt have any member of a collective to sponsor him. He says I was racist for refusing to admit that he was a native elder, and I never refused to admit that. I have said to him many times that he's not a leader. <br />
*** Yar: Did you say, your not an elder?<br />
**** Joe: No, I said if your a leader where are your followers?<br />
** Yar: When I met tomas hodgeman I asked him "did he break the window", He said "I am certain that he did not break the window". I then said "did he threaten to break the window" he chuckled and said "I dont know". <br />
*** Ken: He was at the meeting where that was discussed. He has lied to us. <br />
**** Yar; what did he lie about?<br />
***** Ken: He said that I said Runningwolf was not a native american. i never did. I had heard he wasn't and I asked about it, but at the next meeting he had told running wolf that I said he wasnt a real native american. <br />
*** Robb: The threat about the window was made to Dante, and dante informed the delegates.<br />
**** Laura: He was basically saying to dante "stay away from the windows" <br />
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==== Proposals ====<br />
1) Make a decision based on current letter or ask him to rewrite it<br />
** yar - too vague<br />
** jenny: don't feel comfortable w/ current letter (joe seconds)<br />
** Liz: i don't see any point in asking him to rewrite it<br />
** robb: if we want a statement or agreement, seems we should write it and list the specific things we dont want him to do<br />
** Ken: I was just reading this and of all the things he is saying here that has to do with Omni is that his inabiltiy too use Omni computers has prevented him from carrying on his campaigns. He has options besides us like the public library. We're are not preventing him from carrying out his campaign.<br />
** julian: letter is not at the heart of this. it's about the behavior - whether he signs a thing or not i don't see how that could really satisfy people. I dont think this proposal is where it's at.<br />
**Yar: In general, harassment is a good reason to ban someone. I wouldn't be comfortable banning someone for any other reason but harassment and threats of violence crosses a line for me. I'm not comfortable with saying "your letter isn't subservient enough" or something.<br />
** Liz: why are we putting so much energy into this with ZRw when we have banned other people for much less, fairly nice people who contributed to the community? Why are we spending so much time on this?<br />
** Julian: As far as I know those people did not seek a mediation process. I think its worth putting it out there that in the future we should persue mediation, instead of putting the onus on the banned person to initiate mediation<br />
** Joe: I want to be perfectly clear in what I heard from the mediation. Accusation that rules were selectively enforced was brought up at the first meeting, she said it was brought up. She said that there were other groups who could help with that. AORTA and Critical Resistance<br />
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2) Have other participants, if they feel unresolved, state that with the conflict stewards and continue working toward a solution<br />
* Thumbs up: Julian<br />
* thumbs down: joe - when i found out letter coming from SEEDs was untrue, wrote an email inquiry, asked her twice and she decided she wouldn't respond at all. couldn't give her the responsibility to move forward with the mediation. <br />
** robb: point of process, all involved need to consent to who the steward is<br />
* joe - would be willing to continue with mediation generally<br />
** Jenny- we coild perhaps reach out to AORTA or Critical Resistance to support as possible conflict stewardship<br />
** Yar: I am willing to participate in the mediation, though I am leaving town for a little while.<br />
** Jenny - I would participate in a good faith attempt at mediation with a different conflict steward<br />
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3) Based on his behavior upon return we should ban him, as its unacceptable.<br />
* LIz: This is what LL would choose. We didn't know if this was going to come up, but if such a vote took place, we agreed to block him from returning, and we suspect a couple other collectives would as well.<br />
* julian: in terms of conflict resolution policy, can you block a completed mediation? <br />
** liz: if we thought there were any results to the mediation process... 2 mediation meetings in 9 months. other option is another round of mediation talks. is this viable? we have several members who don't feel comfortable with him in the space<br />
** Laura: julian - just because you weren't there when the delegates made this decision to agree to return with condition of a completed mediation and a signed agreement. didn't get to the point where ZRW <br />
*** Julian: I was saying that it doesn't make sense<br />
** Liz: I'm not willing to sit through any more delegate meetings about RW, personally. LibLens position is pretty clear - he abuses the resources that we give people access to, doesn't participate in stewarding the space. don't think it's right that we continue to allow him to be here<br />
** ken: not taking any particular position. fine with any decision the community makes.<br />
* joe: considering proposing we declare the process has been corrupted, the letter has too many flaws in it, almaz' false statements to us and refusing to discuss them with me are ground for negating everything that's happened and revert to banning until we can do what's needed<br />
* ken: several people from collectives who didn't feel comfortable directly participating in the mediation, but were directly affected. healthy thing to have an intermediary when one feels threatened. right there might be enough to say - if you feel that threatened there's no point in pursuing mediation<br />
** such people have seen how he targets and harasses individuals who he feels has wronged him.<br />
* robb: was reluctant to do it because of the nature of threats toward me but willing to participate in the mediation as an offended party<br />
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I am sorry I cursed at you all, but there are too many misguided people who cant seem to take the simple step of banning someone who is a threat to the the people in the Omni. Its very simple. If that cant be handled I dont have nay confidence that the Omni is ever going to get anywhere. So I am resigning from any further participation until Im confident that I and others can come to the Omni and not be harrassed or have to continually clean up after one noncontributing person's messes. Right now I feel ike I have wasted the past 3 years of my life. :(<br />
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* yar: do you want me to deactivate his card now and inform him next time he leaves he wont be able to get back in<br />
* robb: was hopeful that he'd come back and be more respectful<br />
* julian: don't think it's necessary to invoke a new ban since we've come to agreement that the process was not completed. Am not on ZRWs side per se, just feel it's important to work on these issues as a community / refine process<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Thursdays at 6pm<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Close to finishing a medium-length doc about the First They Came For The Homeless protest. Members preparing to go to the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow in Las Vegas again this year (April). Looking for a film to screen for March film night, open to suggestions. <br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* Marc: As a member of Sudo Room, I am blocking Almaz as secretary-elect due to repeated issues with how she has engaged with people when they try to talk with her about issues having to do with how she was dealing with events. There were events she had publicized as having alcohol but didn't get a permit. On New Year's Eve, the cops showed up earlier in the evening and she was having an event in the ballroom with alcohol. When I asked her about having alcohol she became defensive and said the cops hadn't come. I said that Rayc had interacted with them and told me. She said that Rayc was lying and accused me of being a white supremacist. This has been her pattern of interacting. <br />
* Julian: Theres something really...this makes me uneasy. The situation in which a black person is saying that they are experiencing racism, and the response is to sanction them. I just want to point out that this is the standard structure of white supremacy. I'm not saying that you are white supremacist, just there is a history of white people silencing black people, especially when they are voicing concerns about racism. <br />
* Yar: Was this discussed at a Sudo meeting or is it personal?<br />
** Juul: It was not discussed<br />
*** Yar: Then you should be sure to present it as your personal block, not that it's on behalf of Sudo. I haven't had the same experience with Almaz, and I've been happy that she's shown an interest in participating further<br />
* Ken: Question: I understood we are having a person in each position, and a person in the backup position. I'm not saying this resolves it, but would it resolve it if the person helping train her into this position is helping her address the - If someone is willing to spend time with her and train her up in that way, but it seems like a touch decision to *make* someone train her. The goal was that the main person now would train the next person so they have a year's worth of experience on the job. Mybe one year from now she wouldn't get voted in?<br />
** yar: Not how it works, consensus happens now so that when Brian resigns, she would automatically become the secretary<br />
*** Brian: That's not my understanding<br />
*** Laura: It appears from the last meeting that people wanted a more clear process, which I'm in the process of writing<br />
*** Ken: I can understand concerns about the racial situation, but if peopel are objective to the way she dealt with a situation, does it automatically become a racial thing or<br />
**** yar: Everything is automatically a racial thing<br />
***** ken: I understand that context. What I'm saying is, override everything else, and she makes decisions that have ramifications and she can't take feedback and change, isn't that a concern? Need to discuss details of NYE event to understand context?<br />
*** Robb: I'd just like to say that if we're trying to decide now, who is going to be the tresurer secretary, etc now for what happens a year from now, then I would just block the whole proposal. The nice thing about consensus is that we can weigh decisions based on the facts at hand, not write things in stone based on what the situation may be a year from now.<br />
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== Discussion: Omni Table @ AMC ==<br />
via Jenny 2/23:<br />
I'd like to propose that Omni pay for an exhibition table ($100) at the Allied Media Conference this summer in Detroit. I will be attending, albeit also as a representative for Sudo Mesh. <br />
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For those unfamiliar with the conference, it's one of the radder ones I've heard of over the past decade - but have never attended myself. The theme is essentially the intersection of social justice and media - what AMC describes as "media-based organizing," defined as "any collaborative process that uses media, art, or technology to address the roots of problems and advances holistic solutions towards a more just and creative world." This is the 20th annual conf, which is always located in Detroit, and takes place this summer from June 14-17.<br />
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Are any other collective members also planning to attend? Would you be interested in sharing an Omni table to display info about your projects and/or helping to staff the table for some shifts throughout the duration of the conference? <br />
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Please forward this email along to your collectives so we can assess our capacity to participate!<br />
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If there aren't a few other Omni collective members able to come and help staff the table, perhaps Omni could share Sudo Mesh's table and collectives could provide me with some of your handouts / brochures / flyers / arts / etc for display<br />
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Please send a reply to me or to discuss@omnicommons.org if you'd like to help with organizing around AMC!<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 19 October 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal Y: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Michael Arron<br />
* Marcus - ABDC<br />
* Asia - Phat Beets<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Marcus <br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: robb<br />
* Timekeeper: Julian<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Julian, Robb, Marcus, Michael<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Joe<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Julian will find a new person to co-facilitate with<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Marcus<br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Michael Arent<br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Joe<br />
* GWS: remote-Rachel<br />
* LL: inactive<br />
* Sudo: robb<br />
* TIL: inactive<br />
* GCEA: remote-Almaz<br />
* Quorum: yes<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
* Approaching holiday season, gonna lose people going out of town for holidays. Let Laura know if you're leaving so we can make plans. Let's make this an agenda item for the next meeting.<br />
* The Village wants Omni to fiscally sponsored <br />
* GROW on Market and 7th, they need fiscal sponsor, they do have a fiscal a 20% that they don't even have a connection with. Marcus mentioned that perhaps Omni can be. Grow, do community garden. This is kind of urgent. The grant has been granted, but not cashed. <br />
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== Bans ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
* ZRW mediation:<br />
** anon - a week ago RW threatened to burn Joe's house & smash all the omni's windows apparently over the status of the mediation process<br />
** Almaz is the conflict steward. She is in discussion w ZRW about using SEEDS. MArcus has agreed to represent the Omni. <br />
** ALmaz: ZRW agreed to have seeds to be conflict mediator I am working to schedule the mediation with SEEDS.<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm<br />
* Siding not yet up. Need lighting at the top of the stairs. <br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Julian - At last meeting we talked about how a lot of people who have recently signed up on our list serv, and people whoexpressed interest in volulnteering. We used to do orientations. We're suggesting that we have orientations at 6pm before the Delegates meeting. Have put on the calendar. Do we need to make a proposal<br />
* Laura - Thats awesome and you dont need to make a proposal<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Slowly getting better!<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* Several members are getting used to working within Omni and following Omni culture, though membership is slow.<br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* Julian - Writing with World Stuff, the class I facilitate is having its year anniversary.<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* We're participating this Saturday in the EB Mini Maker Faire. We have a whole schedule of classes. We get revenue from the classes. Classes oar on the calendar board in CCL. DOing better financially than after finishing the construction.<br />
* Using Google adwords grants to get free ads on Google. Phone support is very helpful to get through the complicated setup.<br />
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=== CSC === <br />
* MAry Ann - Waffles and Zapatismo here on Saturday morning 10am. Will have a researcher there to observe. DOes work on groups in solidarity with indigenous people.<br />
** Roberto from LL will talk on Indigenous values vs capiatlis values<br />
=== FNB ===<br />
*Annual meeting at 28th of OCtober. Did dinner for ecumenical peace council where COl Ann Rice spoke, was very successful<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
*We are organizing a big fundraiser for Haiti Emergency Relief Fund on Dec 9th and doing a presentation with Margaret Prescod from Women of Color in the GWS on the history of the welfare rights movement and its relationship to the Wages for Housework Campaign on Oct 29. Also I'm speaking at the Howard Zinn book fair on the book Alice and the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the sex workers occupation of a church in 1917. We are organizing a multiracial delegation to attend a Women's conference in Houston Nov 6 &7.<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* Having gatherings around secure Scuttlebutt, a peer to peer social network platform. Encrypted. <br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
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=== Phat Beets ===<br />
* Asia - new to Phat Beets, will be in the office from Tues-Sat from 11-5,<br />
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== Proposal 1: Fiscal sponor Daniel's project ==<br />
* Fiscally sponsoring (grant model) a crowdfunding campaign that Daniel launched on October 7th to raise funds for a school in Guatemala that was devastated by a tropical storm: https://www.youcaring.com/escuelaoficialbarriochajsaquil-974517<br />
* Deadline to attach a bank account is October 22nd, but we may be able to retroactively reroute funds sent to a personal bank account.<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Daniel: the situation is that in December I connected with a Principal at a school in Guatemala. Daniel wanted to donate equipment to support school construction, but there's an issue with electricity. in the meantime, flooding from the recent tropical storm have significantly damaged the school. all of the students there are indigenous; in Guatemala they are among the most oppressed folx. [Daniel then shows photos & reads from the above "youcaring" page] <br />
* Marcus: please clarify the ask of the proposal; it is to have it as a grant model to receive the crowdfunded money.<br />
** Daniel: when I started raising money I didn't think it through all the way, but it is now clear to me that for people giving donations of @250+ that to give tax exemption, the fundraising requires a non-profit fiscal sponsor. <br />
*** Daniel: I recognize the process concers, but it remains that I have until Oct 24th to link a non-profit's bank account. <br />
**** Daniel: If Omni accepts then the money from the platform will go into Omni's account and then Omni would send the check to Gautamala<br />
* Mary Ann: could you tell me where this is happening?<br />
* Laura: could CSC take this on? <br />
** Mary Ann: probably we can't take more on.<br />
*** Laura: at the very least we'll need to consult w/ you & CSC regarding bank transfers<br />
* Mary Ann: is this a government school?<br />
** Daniel: yes, but there is much corrupption so in ways the school is operating outside of thoroughgoing governemtn regulation<br />
*** Mary Ann: who would the money go to?<br />
**** Daniel: it would go to this school. I've been speaking with the principal.<br />
** Mary Ann: would the money go to a government entity?<br />
*** Daniel: it would go to the school.<br />
*** Mary Ann: politically CSC can't do that<br />
*** Laura: would it be a legal issue for the Omni? <br />
**** Mary Ann: not sure, but that's not the issue for CSC<br />
* Laura: regarding the tax exemption, few actually take it for these kinds of donations. but there is an issue putting the money in your personal account, because then there is tax liability. <br />
** Mary Ann: there are also issues with international transfers because of money laundering laws. <br />
** Daniel: I've dealt with some of that previously, but the money goes through.<br />
** Laura: are you planning on going any time soon? <br />
*** Daniel: yes, December<br />
*** Laura: maybe you should bring cash<br />
**** Mary Ann: agree w/ Laura<br />
* Julian: it seems like we should access if it fits our criteria, if it makes sense for us to sponsor, and if we can even procedurally do it. <br />
** Daniel: it's okay if it's not feasible. No hard feelings if it doesn't work out. <br />
** Laura: it is kind of boarderline w/ our mission. also there are maybe other groups better suited & could do this. like the Network in Solidarity with Guatemala. They have offices in Guatemala. basically it would be a donation to NISGua. <br />
*** Asia: Youcaring won't send you a 1099 tax form if you're collecting under $20,000. if they aren't going to send you a 1099 then, there's no tax liability for Daniel.<br />
**** Mary Ann: it's also cheaper to do it through currency exchanges than <br />
* Julian: maybe we can just offer informal financial support via CSC, Mary Ann & our finance folx.<br />
** Laura: if you get a big offer that needs tax write offs, then come back<br />
** Mary Ann: the best way is to find a Guatemalan non-profit<br />
*** [Almaz or Rachel, via remote?]: Mary Ann is right the best way to transfer money is to find non profit there name of Non profit have to be different, I meant the mame of NGO can't be the same in US and Guatemala. <br />
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== Proposal 2: Fiscal sponsor The Village ==<br />
* Fiscally sponsoring (project model, possible application for Omni membership) The Village, which has successfully pressured the City of Oakland to declare a Shelter Crisis Ordinance and agree to hand over some city-owned land parcels for them to build viable villages for the homeless and provide wraparound support services.<br />
* Deadline to provide proof of fiscal sponsorship and associated General Liability insurance is October 24th.<br />
=== Discussion ===<br />
* Laura: there two forms of fiscal sponsorship. one is mostly a financial relationship ("the grant model"). another is the "project model." the latter includes insurance. <br />
** because they are in-line with our values, but because their activities are substantially different, this could raise potentially significantly the cost of our insurance b/c their actvivities are relatively "risky" (from an insurance perspective)<br />
*** the city seems to be requiring them to have "general liability insurance"—which we could help with, but more than likely they need to cover it themselves<br />
* Joe: FNB supports Needa and brings them food, but I'm concerned we dont really have any idea what thisproject will be. Its all very impromptu. It is hard to be confident and I think she should have been here.<br />
* Julian: what kind of liability do we have if we are just doing the grant model?<br />
* We would only be giving a grant and have get a report from them to ensure they are spending the money as they said. We aren't liable for what happens at the site.<br />
* in general: check with your collective about what your collective's concersn & questions are. Laura will put a final proposal with Jenny once they get info from insurance agent and ask Needa about any concerns, potential to get other insurance.<br />
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== Discussion 1: regular cleaning days? ==<br />
* Julian: We had said we would discuss the idea of nonmandatory regular cleaning days, one on a weekday and one on a weekend. We were supposed to bring this back to our collectives to see what days would be the best. Did anyone do this?<br />
* Michael: CCL regular cleaning days have been on Wednesdays<br />
* Joe: we haven't talked about it.<br />
* Julian: what would help this happen? I can send an email to discuss to emind people to check in with their collectives on this question.<br />
* Phil: I'll make a list of the regular cleaning tasks <br />
* Michael: one way to make this successful, it worked for us, is not only to set days but identify specific activities needed on those days so people know what they will accomplish.<br />
*Robb: and they should all end with karaoke<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 05 October 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Discussion: Sin Fronteras Cafe [20 minutes]<br />
*Discussion: Thomas re Running Wolf<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Robb<br />
* Phil<br />
* Matt <br />
* Jose P<br />
* Laura<br />
* Ken<br />
* Rachel <br />
* Rocio<br />
* Jose<br />
* Abad<br />
* Rachel<br />
* Joe<br />
* Michelle Gutierrez<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Phil<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Jose P<br />
* Timekeeper: Rachel<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Matt & robb<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: [inactive after this meeting if no delegate]<br />
* BAPS: Julian (remote) <br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: Jose P<br />
* FNB: Phil or Joe<br />
* GWS: inactive - Rachel (active after next meeting)<br />
* LL: inactive<br />
* Sudo: robb<br />
* TIL: inactive<br />
* GCEA: almaz<br />
* Quorum: 6/6 active collectives (yes)<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
* The Village in negotiation w/Oakland to obtain some land for housing/camping<br />
** Potentially interested in finding a fiscal sponsor -- if they're interested in omni commons membership, this could provide some solutions.<br />
** Let Matt know if you'd like to be kept in the loop or offer support for fiscal sponsorship, tax-exempt application, etc.<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
* <br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm<br />
* Jenny: Next Kitchen Working Group meeting is next Wednesday, October 11th @ 6pm in the basement! Last meeting notes here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2017/09/25_Basement_Kitchen_Meeting - props to Anka, Toan, Joe, Habiba, Gerald & Robb for putting a rad video together! <3<br />
* Jenny ordered ~$500 of pest-proofing supplies - electronic rat traps, plastic rat traps, wooden rat traps, and infinity roach traps. bulk of the cost was rechargeable D batteries for the electronic traps. building could use more trap stewards especially in the basement! rodents@lists.omnicommons.org<br />
* Joe - Mark A took home the siding for the South wall. Has anyone heard from him?<br />
* Robb has contacted him and he said he hasn't cut it yet. Suggests we just buy more if he doesn't come through soon.<br />
* Gerald and Robb temporarily installed and played around with a vacancy sensor light. They also replaced a bad dimmer in the ballroom<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* Big event next weekend throughout the building - East Meets West - could use more hands<br />
* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Article published from SF Station (jenny did an interview): https://www.sfstation.com/2017/10/02/oaklands-omni-commons-connecting-culture-collectives-community-in-a-big-way/<br />
* Julian: at our last meeting we talked about how bringing back orientations would be nice, and that that could be something comms folx (Grant & I were present) were into. Given that folx often come to delegates meeting looking for that sort of thing, we thought perhaps they could happen before every delegates assembly. Also talked about how having signage naming the Omni from the outside (eg above the TIL window), & giving info about us outside (much like the wonderful stuff in the entrance) could help makes us more visible and welcoming to the neighborhood. Last, I've been working on the newsletter, but been behind because conflicting deadlines. It should be ready for sending out in the next week. Regarding paper copies, we discussed that circulating a flyer annoucing the new newletters & w/ a link could be more resources efficient than a full paper copy, at least at first.<br />
** There's a duplex printer in the omni office -- could do 2-up or 4-up printouts to save paper. Can be handy to get info / stories around for those who actually walk into the omni (who may not actually bother to go to a computer to read the newsletter). <br />
* Laura: We need a new awning and can put the name on it. I am getting estimates.<br />
* Ken: IF there was a sign above the corner entrance we might be able to get grandfathered in & avoid permits <br />
** Jenny: on the contrary, as a historic building we'd have to get approval from the city's historic preservation dept. probably don't need a permit tho.<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: Budget Spreadsheet updated at the end of every month: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit#gid=1501592721<br />
* Jenny: Still not quite in the black, could use more folks helping with fundraising, finance, and commons - also reducing electrical bill (over $1600 this month)<br />
* Only $3075 in event income this month :(<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: Will hear back from our CAST grant application for $40K for tenant improvements sometime in Nov-Dec<br />
* Jenny: Ongoing basement kitchen meetings toward launching a crowdfund campaign in November. Write or join kitchen@lists.omnicommons.org - could especially use help with getting quotes, tightening up the budget, launch party & outreach for the campaign itself. Anka and Toan are finishing the video in the next few weeks.<br />
* Still writing grant applications as fast as possible -- need support<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* <br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* <br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* Trying to clean up. BAAM is ramping up for fall mushroom season<br />
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=== CSC === <br />
* Next Waffles and Zapatismo third week of October 21. Has helped to build the size of the group and begin exploring some new ideas like targeting companies that work in Chiapas and are causing displacement. Thisiwll be the last one in the series. We will do another seris in the spring. It has been a good experience.<br />
* Film November 18, also panel of women who will comment on the film<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
*<br />
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===GCEA===<br />
* <br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* As you know, Lori Nairne died suddenly and it has been a huge shock for our org globally. We have to deal with all her stuff. It's been really hard. We are regrouping and figuring out how to carry on organizing. It's a huge loss. We are planning a big Haiti fundraiser in December with bands.<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Fundraiser event (dinner & film screening) on October 22nd - help promote, and come play! - https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/liberated-lens-film-night-sergei-eisensteins-october-ten-days-that-shook-the-world/<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* We are continuing cleaning and organizing the space. Making room for new capabilities. Usual events are happening. We may be planning a fundraiser party. <br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
* Book release event upcoming on October 21st in the ballroom - Like a Solid to a Shadow - https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/like-a-solid-to-a-shadow-book-release/<br />
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== Discussion: Sin Fronteras Cafe (20 mins) ==<br />
* Laura is introducing:<br />
** Jenny and I met with Abad and Jose a week and a half ago, introduced by CSC Jose. <br />
*** Notes from that meeting at https://pad.riseup.net/p/omnicafe<br />
** Right now Jose and Rocio serve hot coffee shop, plus breakfast and pastries. They've been there for five years.<br />
** Thinking about starting a worker-owned cafe with friends and comrades, so the four of them are consider by Jose P's suggestion, what a cafe could look like at the omni . <br />
** This is an opportunity to discuss options and get feedback before getting a specific proposal. <br />
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* Abad: We (the four collective members) have been in the community as part of many groups together -- Danzantes Mexicas -- part of a sweat lodge group in Temescal/Oakland. We do a lot of stuff in the community -- Ayotzinapa anniversary in Fruitvale. We're looking to do some kind of community-beneficial business. We're talking about folks from Mexico and South America -- people who are undocumented and very creative as well. We have friends who are looking for space to showcase their talents, their art. We have freinds who are cooks, who want to share their foods, their pastires. When we toured before through the building, we were having a lot of awareness of community members who are in need of a space lik this.<br />
** We envision a collective, we share the idea to grow in a horizontal kind of way, we want to create a network of autonomous businesses. We want to use the cafe with Zapatista coffee (with free trade), to train people in our community to do business, to grow with them and to expand in all of this.<br />
** That's what we want to do, but with the rest of the space, the time we're living in right now, it requires a lot of healing of us. We see doing drum circles and other circles for our community that is relevant to our ancestral traditions.<br />
** It's a coincidence that the men are talking -- we're not always talking all the time!<br />
* Michelle - thank you for opening the space for us. Just walking around, I'm excited to be here, it's very inspiring here. I was born in SF mission district. Community is very important to me. My family is from Colombia, and I'm a therapist in the fruitvale district. We're looking to create more workshops, more healing spaces, the zapatista mtgs and conversations. We need space to facilitate these things, it's so important. Thank you.<br />
* Jose: We're here with a bunch of ideas and energy for what we are doing in the community. And also for how we are able to make a livving and share that capacity with others in a horizontal way. The most humble way to put this proposal together is like this, in a circle. We want to use the space down there for a cafe and we're excited beccause stuff is already happening here, but we're also about making the cafe function. We have a connection to Zapaista communties. We import and roast their coffee. <br />
* Almaz: Will the coffee be free?<br />
** Jose: It will be for sale. The idea would be to create sustainable incomes for the people working in the cafe. We will contribute to the space through paying rent and other ways. <br />
*** Almaz: thought the Omni Cafe would raise money for Omni<br />
**** Phil: This is a worker owned cafe and collective so that is how they will fit into the Omni.<br />
***** Almaz: I will review the proposal. I like the idea of having a circle and the idea of bringing the community together for healing.<br />
* Jose: When folks come together with volunteer time for bulding and working without compensation that's beautiful. But if there are also certain contribuions that people can make to have sustainable incomes, that is why we started our cafe. That's how we hope to continue and grow other autonomous coffee spaces where people can make a living. We put the idea of profit to the side a bit when we think of sustainable incomes. The living wage in Oakland is $15/hr. WHen we do it in a way that is good for the community we set an example of ways that people can have flexibility and autonomy and time to do other thins like take care of their kids or volunteer in other ways.<br />
* Joe: I have alot of questions. Ever since I came to the omni I've advocated for speaking openly about things. I have to ask Almaz about the resentment she seems to have. Did you make a proposal?<br />
** Almaz: No, There was discussion about a coffee shop there. When we suggested paying someone we were told that we couldn't pay anyone.<br />
**Matt: <br />
*** Joe are you familiar with what's required to build out space? What kind of collective?<br />
**** Jose: we have info about what the city would require. We would have limited service cafe. Exploring beer & wine sales. Maybe common space could be used too. We would bring the required equipment. Collective would be member owned type of collective. Members might be invite only but haven't fully decided. We would only used the front area of the entrance hall.<br />
* Jenny: Let's discuss liquor license logistics with David - complexities surrounding Conditional User Permit that was lost by the city in the late 80's that is extremely permissible (liquor, all ages, until 2am 5 days/wk). <br />
* Matt: misunderstandings have happened but we (Omni) continue working together. Misses having a cafe.<br />
* Phil: I've been halping a lot with the clean up. With food being served and people sitting out here, the cleaning would have to be ramped up. We have had complaints about our bathrooms and working on improving that. That is something you should consider.<br />
* Rachel: I like the idea of having a cafe. People like it. Likes how it sounds like more than a business & can integrate into our environment. Would it be open in the day & at night?<br />
* Abad: Right now we would say it would be open in the day and if there are events at night we could be open then as well. <br />
* Jose: let's say there is an event in the evening an we can't be there, we are flexible about how we can serve by leaving out a pot of coffee with a donation jar, for example.<br />
** Jenny: Most activity *in* the building is between 6-10pm on weekdays, fyi, though plenty of foot traffic in the AM & early afternoon (mainly on Telegraph tho)<br />
* Ken: I have questions about the practical and logistical aspects of the space. How you will manage this cafe and the other one. Supplementel clean up. Would you need to fix up the downstairs (no). How you would build out the space according to health department requirements. What's your timeline for all of this to happen?<br />
** Jose: anywhere between 6 & 9 months<br />
*** Jenny: We've shared Agua Viva's preliminary health inspection report & other buildout docs/sketches with Sin Fronteras. Buildout for counter area (plumbing, electrical, counter rebuild etc) is in the realm of ~$8K max.<br />
* May become a collective. Would be investing in the build out and so would want a long term lease of perhaps 5 years after build out investment<br />
* Abad: may have proposal by next delegates meeting<br />
** Ken suggests including a floor plan with the proposal.<br />
* Jose: What ideas and doubts do you have about the space?<br />
* Phil: ONe of the important things about it is that its filling a big gap to enable the doors to be open and people can come come in, learn about what is going on in the space.<br />
* Jose P: I want to echo what Matt said about the missing energy from when the Cafe was open before and the energy it brought to the space. Also I want to suggest people visit their cafe in East Lake to get an idea of what they have done - 1603 2nd Ave. <br />
* Jose: We have a little video about the cafe that Abad made I can show.<br />
* Joe: You're going to spand a lot of money. Im comforted that you have a running business. I want to say that when you draw up the proposal - it was hard to get people to come in. We have these new condos. Give some thought about how you will bring people in besides the morning. It has to be something special and complete so it has a new feeling and attraction. <br />
* Abad: we were thinking about doing a "coming soon" event on Dia de los Muertos with an altar and danzantes. At our other cafe in Fruitvale at 26th and International there are a lot of people who get section 8. We are thinking that we will give them discount cards. <br />
** Joe: so you are opening a 3rd cafe? I think you should consider that you should be here when there are people here.<br />
*** Jose: we are thinking about the people in the space, the people in the community, and the people who come to the space for events.<br />
* Almaz: What do you think about the events and meetings in the entrance hall? <br />
** Jose: they would contribute to it.<br />
* Matt: My experience from the previous cafe experiences, and lessons from teh worker owned cafe have to do with distribution of labor and childcare. It's difficult to balance life-work, time committments. Do you have to be here mornings AND evenings. There was a power dynamic in the first cafe between owners who were getting paid and owners who were essentially donating their time. It's a deceptively simple thing. Why isn't it already there? It's deceptive. In the past not enought time and money had been set aside for the construction. There is the issue of closing the space and the process to make sure that people leave who need to leave when it's time for the cafe to close. <br />
* Ken: I dont want you to get too cynical. Just take all of this into consideration. Maybe a committee can be formed to work with. My other concern was that - our exterior isnt enticing people to come in. Im thinking that part of your goal should be to make it pretty and inviting. <br />
* Almaz: SO in a way you are helping people to create another cafe. Will you give them training?<br />
* Matt and joe suggest getting in touch with NOBAWC<br />
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* -- Multi-media presentation --<br />
** link? -- was local on laptop . Jose will send the link<br />
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= Discussion: ZRW Mediation Process (10 min) ==<br />
* Thomas did not stay for the discussion. <br />
* Laura: When he arrived tonight I told him that we had a large item on the agenda and that we wouldn't have much time to discuss ZRW tonight. I asked him to give us notice ahead of time whne he wanted to discuss something at a meeting rather than just showing up.<br />
* Almaz is the new conflict steward. Moving forward to ask Steve to mediate, Ken still willing to represent the Omni in the mediation. otherwise. Will offer to ZRW to use SEEDS CRC in Berkeley for mediation.<br />
** jenny: +1 on SEEDS, this is complicated and third party experienced mediators are preferable when multiple community members & intersecting oppressions come into play.<br />
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<div>Omni Communications Working Group 10 Sept 2017<br />
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= newsletter? =<br />
* paper newsletter w/ possible simultaneous email & print newletter<br />
*** Grant will research<br />
* paper newsletter distro<br />
** brainstorming w/ a mind to the fact that we want to distro via places we have a deep connection with<br />
*** especially our immediate neighbors<br />
*** Jenny has a spreadhsheet of neighbhoord institutions for outreach - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18KvfCf0HbPgGFsMykpTGXSONMW-VZmevaUCwL5HW6VI/edit#gid=2008385369<br />
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= signs =<br />
* having design unity on our building posters<br />
** Grant - get ideas for how to <br />
** having our logo on stuff reminds folks that its our stuff<br />
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= welcome email to sign ups =<br />
*Julian forward welcome email draft to grant & jenny<br />
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= bizness cards = <br />
* hasn't been a priority yet, tho still on the agenda for Julian to finish<br />
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= brochure = <br />
* check w/ jenny on brochure printing? <br />
** Grant will email ask about a quote?<br />
*** for 1000 & 500<br />
** dfd<br />
** phaser? - permanent large format printing station; <br />
** 11 x 14<br />
* update to the brochure – the working group meetings' times removed <br />
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= having a communications budget? =<br />
* Julian will ask Jenny budget; & how many copies? <br />
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= our wordpress can post to facebook =<br />
* when commons folks - check in w/ <br />
** introductory blast for the initial email <br />
** when people - <br />
* matt stewart is working on the new booking site<br />
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= action items =<br />
* write to laura re: bookfair table for omni (julian)<br />
* get quotes for printing brochure (grant)<br />
* julian also blast the discuss list to get folks to join us to table<br />
* button making <br />
* get xerox phaser set up downstairs (jenny)<br />
* julian will set up a comms meeting email reminder 5 days ahead of comms meetings<br />
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= next meeting =<br />
* 5pm on sunday, September 24th<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 21 September 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: <br />
Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Julian - current pronoun 'Julian' - BAPS - Communiations & Challenging Dominant Cultures (CDC)<br />
* Almaz - GCEA - Commons & CDC & Fundraising<br />
* Ken - CCL & Building Work<br />
* Robb - he, him - Sudo, Building & Commons<br />
* Mary Ann - she/her - Chiapas / Fundraising<br />
* Jenny - she/her - sudo / comms / finance / building / occasional commons<br />
* Steve - he/him - BAPS<br />
* Alpha - here to see what OC is about, part of the Social Labs (alt economics)<br />
* Helen - she/her - FNB delegate<br />
* Phil - FNB / Invisible Labor Committee<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Julian<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Jenny<br />
* Timekeeper: Almaz<br />
* Notetaker/s: Jenny, Julian, Robb<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Helen<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Phil<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: <br />
* BAPS: Julian <br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Helen<br />
* GWS: inactive after this meeting<br />
* LL: inactive<br />
* Sudo: Robb<br />
* TIL: inactive<br />
* GCEA:Almaz<br />
* Quorum: 6/8 active collectives<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
* Bookfair wuz awesome!<br />
* Soon will have local notepad<br />
* Jenny: Build Your Own Internet Workshop (PeoplesOpen.net) 2pm-5pm w/snacks on Saturday - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-v3-tickets-36134206384<br />
* Mary Ann: Waffles & Zapatisimo (Chiapas Support Committee) from 10am-1pm this Saturday <br />
* Ken: Counter Culture Labs having a Beginner's Mushroom Identification Class - Demystifying Mushrooms - at 10:30am-12:30pm on Saturday (this Saturday) - as well as an all-day mushroom event on Sunday (Sep 24)<br />
* Almaz - GCEA event on Sept 29 - Hate Will Not Replace Us featuring Arnaldo from Chiapas & ?? - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hate-will-not-replace-us-tickets-38105625953?aff=efbneb<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
* Running Wolf update - Phil - RW has been able to get alternative access to computers & food. RW's request for mediation has not proceeded due to RW's prefered mediator is not able to participate. Ken is still willing.<br />
** Ken: Check in with campaign manager, if he left contact info?<br />
*** Robb: Should send response<br />
**** Mary Ann: Did that, sent to Jenny<br />
***** Jenny: oh, thought was sent to mediation@<br />
****** Phil - will talk to Michael Delecroix<br />
******* Julian: Have been talking about this & banning for awhile in Challenging Dominant Cultures. Will report more in the CDC reportback<br />
******** Steve: Just curious if you have his current email?<br />
********* Jenny & Mary Ann - just RunningWolf4Mayor@gmail.com<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm<br />
* No meeting transpired this Monday - all probably too wiped out from the work party & bookfair prep<br />
* Robb & Gerald installed fixture in FNB pantry<br />
* Almaz: Lighting needed in Library/Conference room in basement<br />
* Phil: Touchy area is the bathrooms<br />
* Jenny - Patrik, Ken & Robb have been maintaining rat traps. We need people maintaining traps in the basement. <br />
** Helen: Are they set up already or do they need to be set up?<br />
*** Jenny: CCL has some we can set up; Omni can also buy some... I'm too squeamish to deal with the trapped rats<br />
**** Ken: If others can keep an eye, they can ask me and I can remove the rats<br />
** Almaz: Also need one near the bar, v important<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* Almaz - last meeting cancelled due to several members being out of town. Sometimes events fall through<br />
** several last minunte cancellations<br />
* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Sundays at 5pm<br />
* New Omni Brochures printed! Many thanks to Grant from BAPS for revamping the beautiful ones made by Niki & Libbie in 2015!<br />
** Almaz: is this online<br />
*** Julian: yes, the webiste<br />
*** Robb: pdf on google drive [link?]<br />
* We haz buttonmaker! Talk to Jenny or Abe (co-owners) if you'd like to use it.<br />
* Meeting this Sunday! Come and participate in crafting our internal and outward-facing communications!<br />
* Julian - 45 newsletter sign ups at Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, including 10 folx expressing interest in working group involvement <br />
* Jenny - meetings moved to 2nd & 4th Sundays<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: we're not broke! projected to only lose $175 this month, which is good cuz we're still repaying community loans. our loan repayments will not exceed $4000/mo here on out<br />
* Phil: Turned off the freezer in the basement that kept running and is no longer necessary<br />
* Discussion of freezer behind ballroom bar & monitoring its power usage<br />
* Almaz: Before winter, how is heat going to work in the building?<br />
** Robb: Furnace for the ballroom, furnace into entrance hall, furnace in sudo/ccl, furnace in Disco Room. Another might feed the basement<br />
*** Jenny: We should turn on the heating this year. Just need to make sure they get turned off<br />
**** Robb: All the heaters are time-outable<br />
***** Ken: Auto-shutoff at a certain time?<br />
****** Robb: Refer to Patrik, he bought one last year but was too late in the season to use it<br />
******* Jenny - may be asking delegates to waive one or more months of rent for GWS.<br />
* Budget Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheetsn/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit?usp=drive_web<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance,, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: we're vary likely to get a chunk of money soon; we applied fo $40,000 that we can spend directly on the building. Property Tax Exemption approved. Should get $5400 back from tax board. PG&E went down. Still at $1500/month<br />
* Julian: Alternative Exposure grant deadline is coming up soon<br />
* List of Possible Grants to add to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BDtC9oNxsU0nOJXA8IoBsxW_7whS9-UKRMhEu1Gd7Sg/edit#gid=0<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* <br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* Julian - classes on the calendar<br />
* Steve - Jerico has not been meeting<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
* Ken: cleaning up so can look remotely like Sudo <br />
** trying to finish organizing fermentation station<br />
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=== CSC === <br />
* Mary Ann: people are likely aware from the news about the disater for Mexico. CSC is collecting funds for the disaster & Mary Anne is a the agent doing that. Wire transfers direct from CSC to a Zapatista Human Rights organization. national indigenous organization has identified 5 responsible organizations to send money to. an inquiry that came across one of our lists, from UCB. if you get that kind of question, you can<br />
** Julian: is there publicity we can point people to?<br />
*** Mary Ann: I can put the link of on Omni's FB page<br />
**** the whole call is on the blog<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
* Helene: no particular updates so <br />
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===GCEA===<br />
* Almaz - need to cleanup kids rooms<br />
** still looking for laptop<br />
*** perhaps not cleaned since the Bookfair?<br />
* also the earlier mentioned announcement for Sept 29th<br />
* 4 volunteers helping w/ 4 youths<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* Benefit for Haiti in honor of Lori on Sep 30th - check the calendar<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
* Eisenstein's October films screening<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
* sudo room is clean af!! check it out!<br />
* workshop on Sat<br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
* Jenny: a book release party soon, "like a solid to a shadow" - possibly Oct 21st<br />
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== Discussion: Cleaning ==<br />
* Phil - hard part is bathrooms<br />
* Julian - last meeting there was discussion of a women's bathroom proposal, any proposal?<br />
* Jenny - Laura said she would inform Cathy on how to submit proposal for women's bathroom<br />
* Phil - sign will create awareness that there is no staff here.<br />
* Almaz - we discussed having an Omni cleaning day once or twice a month<br />
* Julian: If we could formalize mandatory collective participation in cleaning days, that would be optimal - <br />
** Mary Ann: Discussed this with CSC - Arnaldo spent $95 on cleaning supplies to get things ready for CompArte, was very upset. Reported on it at last meeting. Unanimous rejection of mandatory cleaning day with loss of voting rights. We have 3 people - I'm disabled. Few things I'm willing to do, if specified. The other two often work on weekends, and work all week long. Already holding the group together - in fact resigning from it right now. We're very clear that it won't work for us.<br />
*** Almaz: We can come up with a different proposal... eg donate money, or sthg. different... if it affects the collective<br />
**** Helen: Think we should stick to making it voluntary - if it's a regular thing, people will come to it<br />
***** Julian: Skeptical that that's true, not sure there's a bet thter way to deal with it. People say the same thing about working groups but it's a relatively stable crew that comes there<br />
****** Mary Ann: Group thinks an outside cleaning service should be hired for events due to different standards of cleanliness<br />
******* Jenny: COuld add cleaning service orgs to the Event Rental packet<br />
******** Julian: Important problem to solve, but if we can't DIY this, that says a lot. We should figure out a way to do this ourselves<br />
********* Ken: Would be fine with me if you did the enforcement thing, but not initially... eg Mary Ann has limited personnell, some group does way more but has the personell. Have a more organized set of cleaning duties. I'd like CCL's work on setting rat traps to be recognized and not be docked because not doing other cleaning duties.<br />
********** Helen: We're talking about 3 different things: 1) events cleaning up, 2) duties needed on the everyday (eg toilets) and 3) large-scale periodic cleaning<br />
*********** Jenny - met someone who is involved in a community space & they rotate which collective cleans bathrooms/floors/outside<br />
************ Almaz - Events are doing great work. They clean up before & make sure the event cleans up afterwards. Maybe Commons group needs to have a discussion about how cleanliness is going with events. Make sure to separate the events from the collectives. <br />
******* Need tuo focus on everyday duties and large-scale periodic cleaning. Can focus on those 2 topics on the next meeting, or someone(s) work on a proposal for the next meeting. <br />
******** Helen: When would be a good time to have a general cleaning day? Pick 2 times and send back to the collectives <br />
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* Can do a weekday<br />
* 2 a month - one a weekday, one a weekend<br />
* Take back to collective with proposed weekday and weekend time<br />
* This is a voluntary practice - <br />
* Mention of karaoke setup ^_^ combine Friday <br />
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= Action Items =<br />
* Follow up with ____ from London Crossroads space re: chore distribution - [jenny]<br />
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== Last Meeting Notes ==<br />
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2017/09/07_Delegates<br />
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= End of Meeting =<br />
* please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the omnillective wiki<br />
* then please erase the contents of this pad<br />
* then please cut & paste a blank template from here: https://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Delegates_Meeting_Notes_Template&action=edit<br />
* previous notes are archived here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Meetings<br />
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<div>Here is a list of Omni's member collectives and information about them!<br />
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'''[[join|How do I start a collective?]]'''<br />
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= Art Bison Design Coop =<br />
[[File:Abdclogo.jpg|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://artbisondesigncoop.blogspot.com/<br />
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Art Bison is a feminist collective that shares resources and produces media. Our principal media is screen printing and we are as much makers as we are teachers. We empower youth, womyn, those with barriers to employment, LGBTQIA folks, and all who are curious, to make their own media. Through work/trade we are able to produce shirts and posters for, often at no cost, to a wide variety of social and political events. <br />
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= Bay Area Public School =<br />
[[File:Logo-baps.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://bayareapublicschool.org/<br />
* contact: publia.pigeon "at" gmail "dot" com<br />
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'''A Free School'''<br />
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The Bay Area Public School is an ongoing, evolving experiment in bringing forth radical alternatives to existing institutions. It came into being in response to a collective recognition of the crucial need for free, public spaces in which to engage in the shared exploration, contemplation and generation of new ideas through group discourse, collaborative learning, and creative inquiry.<br />
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It is our belief that spaces which are unrestrained by institutional pedagogical models and agendas, which are completely free, which are open to and determined by the public, and which allow for the exchange of ideas and methods, inform the types of creative practices that help us to understand, articulate and respond to the conditions of our own time within a greater historical context. We are of the opinion that the division of study into distinct and separate categories intended to produce “Specialists” and “Authorities” as arbiters of what is culturally and socially valuable, is antithetical to the synthesis required for the development of truly new modes of thinking and being in the world, and, ultimately, for the construction of creative modes of expression necessary to meaningful, considered inquest into prevailing systems, their historical antecedents, and future potentialities.<br />
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As a part of this experiment, the Bay Area Public School maintains that all classes, events and resources will always be completely free to all people. We are critical of the prohibitive costs of higher education and, in turn, the exclusion of those unwilling or unable to submit to lifelong debt, from participation in the philosophical, political, and aesthetic discourses which largely mediate the social and cultural content that shapes our world.<br />
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= Chiapas Support Committee =<br />
* http://compamanuel.com/<br />
* https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chiapas-Support-Committee-Oakland/86234490686<br />
* contact: cezmat@igc.org<br />
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The Chiapas Support Committee / Comité de Apoyo a Chiapas (CSC) is a grassroots all-volunteer group based in Oakland, California. CSC serves as a center for education and information about Chiapas, the Zapatista communities and Mexico.<br />
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CSC works with Indigenous Zapatista communities to support and accompany their process of constructing autonomous health care, education and economic development.<br />
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The Chiapas Support Committee regularly organizes forums and other events and activities to share and discuss ideas, analyses and developments related to the Zapatista communities, Mexico and U.S.-related policies.<br />
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= Counter Culture Labs =<br />
[[File:Logo-ccl.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://www.counterculturelabs.org/<br />
* contact: info "at" counterculturelabs "dot" org<br />
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'''DIYbio homegrown in the East Bay.'''<br />
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Counter Culture Labs is part of the burgeoning global DIYbio movement here to excite curiosity and empower exploration. It is a place to share tools, knowledge and experience - a comfortable, open community in which to learn, create, tinker and innovate. We are open to biohackers, biotech professionals, citizen scientists and empiricists of all stripes!<br />
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[[File:Ccl.jpg|noframe|400px]]<br />
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= Food Not Bombs =<br />
[[File:Logo-fnb.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://www.ebfnb.org/<br />
* hefinkel "at" gmail "dot" com<br />
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'''Free Food for the People! Cultivating community alternatives to the money economy...'''<br />
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East Bay Food Not Bombs has been operating in Berkeley and Oakland continuously on a volunteer basis since 1991. We cook large scale community meals and serve free food six days a week. Food Not Bombs functions on a paradigm of grassroots recourse re-distribution, bringing free food to parks, political events, neighborhood gatherings, and social centers.<br />
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Through Food Not Bombs we create infrastructure outside of money through which abundance can be shared. Food Not Bombs is excited and intrigued by the Omni project and the collaboration between collectives. We believe that a community kitchen is integral to creating a space of “commons”. Over and over we have seen the kitchen as a main artery and gathering point in liberated, autonomous space.<br />
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= Global Communication, Education and Art =<br />
[[File:GCEA_Logo.png|right|noframe|138px]]<br />
* http://www.globalcommunicationservices.org/<br />
* contact: http://www.globalcommunicationservices.org/contact-us.html<br />
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The mission of Youth Empowerment Services (YES), a program of GCEA, is to advance and support youth in educational breakthroughs in life development and other activities focusing and envisioning a community where all young people have the opportunities and the access to education, without restrictions from race or socioeconomic status. YES considers families as an integral partner and participant in improving and reaching the goals set by the program. YES anticipates that, everyone who attends our program regardless of the obstacles placed before them will be capable reaching their fullest potential.<br />
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YES has developed a continuum of programs and services that serve our youth ages eight through college. YES strategies are culturally competent, tailored to the specific needs of the communities served, and demonstrate effectiveness in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations. YES specific services developed and implemented in Oakland include, but are not limited to, after school academic and enrichment programs, youth development and leadership, violence prevention, and interventions nationwide<br />
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= Global Womens Strike - Omni Collective =<br />
[[File:Logo-gws.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/<br />
* lori "at" allwomencount "dot" net<br />
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'''Invest in caring not killing!'''<br />
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International network for recognition & payment for all caring work, and the return of military spending to the community starting with women the main carers everywhere.<br />
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Women & girls do 2/3 of the world's work, most of it unwaged. +$1 trillion/year is spent on the military worldwide, more than half by the US. 10% of this would provide the essentials of life for all: water, sanitation, basic health, nutrition, literacy, and a minimum income.<br />
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'''Who we are:'''<br />
* The Global Women's Strike is a grassroots network with national co-ordinations in a number of countries. Invest in caring not killing is our strategy for change. We campaign for the return of military budgets to the community, beginning with women the main carers in every country of people and the planet. Women, and men who support our goals, take action together on 8 March, International Women’s Day, and throughout the year. We work to ensure that power relations among us are addressed, and that each of our struggles is backed by our collective power.<br />
* Women from different sectors are involved: women of colour, Indigenous & rural women, mothers, women in waged work, lesbian, bisexual women & TT women, sex workers, religious activists, women with disabilities, older & younger women...<br />
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= Liberated Lens =<br />
* Visit us at http://liberatedlens.org/ to see our projects, upcoming film night, or to subscribe to our newsletter.<br />
* We can be reached collectively at Liberated_Lens@lists.riseup.net<br />
* Open Meeting Time: Sundays, 7pm (except for film nights) in our editing suite in the basement.<br />
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= Phat Beets =<br />
[[File:Logo-pb.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/<br />
* contact: info "at" phatbeetsproduce "dot" org<br />
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Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic based farmers’ markets, one youth led school farm stand and community nutrition hub, and a youth market garden in partnership with a local hospital obesity prevention program. As a collective, we strive to support social businesses and small farmers and farmers of color.<br />
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''Phat Beets has a space at the Omni but has not yet applied to be a member collective.''<br />
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= Sudo Room =<br />
[[File:Logo-sudo.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* https://sudoroom.org/<br />
* contact: [mailto:info@sudoroom.org info@sudoroom.org]<br />
* [[Sudo_Room|wiki page to merge with this]]<br />
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'''Creative community and hacker space'''<br />
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Sudo Room is an East Bay creative community and hackerspace. Sudo Room has an open membership, is nonhierarchical, and we are all “types”… tech developers, citizen scientists, activists, artists, and all combinations in between and beyond. Most importantly we are human beings interested in and working towards positive social change. Our goal is to create an inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in Oakland. We share ideas and projects in the following areas:<br />
* Creative Use Of Technology<br />
* Citizen Science<br />
* Digital Citizenship And Literacy<br />
* Environmental Sustainability<br />
* Community Engagement<br />
* Self-Government<br />
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It is a place to learn, create, gather, work, play and more.<br />
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Our slogan is: ''HACK THE PLANET!''<br />
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= Timeless Infinite Light =<br />
[[File:Logo-til.png|right|noframe|200px]]<br />
* http://timelessinfinitelight.com/<br />
* forever "at" timelessinfinitelight "dot" com<br />
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Timeless, Infinite Light is an Oakland-based small press that primarily publishes contemporary poetry, but also veers into critical theory, experimental fiction, ephemera, and whatever surprises us. Sometimes our books look like books, and sometimes they don’t. We have a west coast lean towards the experimental/political/mystical.<br />
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We have published works by Ivy Johnson, Olive Blackburn, Justin Carder, Amy Berkowitz, Zoe Tuck, Sasha Fletcher, Emji Spero, Otis Pig, and many others. We currently are working on an anthology of East Bay poets called Its Night in San Francisco but it's Sunny in Oakland, as well as a set of calendar reform tracts by Hakim Bey.<br />
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* https://vimeo.com/89037660<br />
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<div>Working groups are made up of members from all different collectives as well as individuals who are not affiliated with any collectives but want to join the collective effort of the Omni. These groups function as a way to collectivize the labor required to operate the space. Working groups are a great way to get involved, share skills, ideas, opinions and learn from each other how collective action takes place. If you'd like to be a part of one of the working groups, please visit the respective wiki pages to learn how to get involved!<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style=""<br />
! colspan="3"| Working Groups<br />
|-<br />
|[[Commons Working Group|Commons]]<br />
|Focuses on scheduling events and coordinating use of common areas. Maintains our [https://omnicommons.org/calendar/ calendar] and [https://omnicommons.org/occupy/ event request form].<br />
|Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7pm.<br />
|-<br />
|[[Fundraising Working Group|Fundraising]] <br />
| aka "Buy the Building" aka "Until the Revolution." Works on strategies for raising money, such as our [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland/x/9094356 crowdfunding campaign], writing grants, seeking donors and lenders. Also working on the logistics of owning the building, including working with land trusts and other partners.<br />
| Mondays 1pm<br />
|-<br />
| [[Building Construction and Maintenance Working Group|Construction & Maintenance]]<br />
| Focuses on physical construction, maintenance and alteration projects. Focusing on fire health & safety, accessibility, soundproofing and rodent-proofing. Hosts occasional Saturday afternoon work parties.<br />
| Mondays, [mailto:building@omnicommons.org email the list]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Finances Working Group|Finance]] <br />
| Keeps our books, balances the budget, tracks expenses, debts and deposits. Lets us know how much money we have, and how much we're making or losing.<br />
| Mondays 6pm<br />
|-<br />
|[[Communications Working Group|Communications]]<br />
|Works on public-facing communications (messaging, outreach, press and public relations) as well as internal communications (inter-group collaboration tools, wiki, mailing list and other tools for communication and collaboration). The "sysadmins" working group, who maintain our website and mailing lists, are part of this group.<br />
| 1st & 3rd Sundays, 5pm<br />
|-<br />
| [[Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group|Challenging Dominant Cultures]]<br />
| Exploring bias and issues of difference and inclusion in the space, challenging dominant cultural influences and developing projects and relationships more in line with the values of the Omni, as stated in the founding document and statement of solidarity. Some of this work was once taken up by the [[Building Bloc]].<br />
|Emerging out of hiatus<br />
|-<br />
|[[How-We-Organize|"How We Organize"]] <br />
|Proposes new shapes for the commons to organize its activities and discusses the methods we use to shape ourselves, both as individuals and as collectives within a commons. <br />
|On hiatus.<br />
|-<br />
|[[Welcoming Committee]] <br />
|Organizes around creating a welcoming and inclusive experience for newcomers and visitors to the project. This work was once taken up by our former collective called the [[Building Bloc]].<br />
|Emerging out of hiatus<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
=Working Group Protocols=<br />
''(NOTE: For help creating correct wiki pages and adding events to the calendar, contact Vicky (vknoxsironi at gmail dot com], Jenny [jenny at sudomesh dot org] or Matt [mattsenate at gmail dot com])''<br />
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In order to make progress on many different aspects of this project, please use the following protocols. The intention is to support horizontal, consent-based, transparent, good-faith collaboration.<br />
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==Start a Working Group==<br />
* The Omni encourages the establishment of new working groups as necessary to collectivize the labor of the project.<br />
* A list of current working groups is maintained on the wiki here: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups. <br />
* If you see a need for a new working group, propose its purpose and scope at a delegate’s meeting. <br />
* Once approved by the delegates, work with fellow group members to compose a vision statement and scope for the working group. Create a working group page on the wiki and post your vision there.<br />
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==Bottomlining Established Working Groups==<br />
* Work with fellow group members to determine convenient meeting dates and times.<br />
* Help to administer working group email list. <br />
* Announce your meeting times via email to the omni-logistics list and by adding them to the Omni calendar (http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar). <br />
* Publish meeting notes on the Omni calendar, and send a direct link to the notes to the omni-logistics list after every meeting.<br />
* Help to facilitate a positive and fun working group culture by:<br />
** Designating a facilitator and scribe to take notes at the beginning of the meeting<br />
** Concluding each meeting with "action items"<br />
* Be present for meetings as much as possible. If not able to attend a meeting, arrange in advance who will distribute notes.<br />
* Forward any major announcements or questions for discussion from your working group to the omni-logistics list and/or to the delegates’ meeting as necessary. <br />
* Ensure proposals that need the approval of the delegates are added to the riseup pad (https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom). Include the date the proposal was added to the pad.<br />
* The most basic rules for bottomlining a working group are autonomy and good judgment (i.e. common sense)! <br />
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==Join a Working Group==<br />
* Check the schedule above and attend the next meeting of the working group.<br />
* Directly contact the individual(s) bottom-lining the group.<br />
* Show up to a meeting, or use the communication channel specified for that group to stay in touch.<br />
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==Make Progress in a Working Group==<br />
* Set goals that aspire to deliver on the working group's "mission" or purpose.<br />
* If necessary, outline tasks in order to reach each goal.<br />
* Make progress on and seek to accomplish any tasks that contribute to the working group's goals.<br />
* When a working group's goals require '''feedback''', '''formal approval''', or simply '''consent''' from the Omni delegates, create a proposal:<br />
** Present this proposal to the Omni delegates meeting to ensure each member-group can build consent in their respective community as necessary.<br />
* When a working group has several divergent options or ideas and cannot come to resolution on them alone, then create proposals that represent these options and present these in some way to the whole collective:<br />
** Present proposals at an Omni delegates meeting for feedback<br />
** Ask for feedback on the omnilogistics@lists.riseup.net email list<br />
** Ask for feedback from other working groups, member-groups, or individuals that are not involved with your working group.<br />
** Rinse, repeat until you have garnered improvements to your proposal from the invaluable experiences and contributions of everyone involved with the Omni Commons, ultimately building consensus among the entire community.<br />
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==Volunteer!==<br />
* Fill a front door shift: https://ethercalc.com/omni-front-desk<br />
* Help with a project! (See [[Building Construction and Maintenance Working Group]] or checkout the [[Collectives]])<br />
* Answer our wishes! Check out the things we're in need of: [[WishList]]<br />
* Clean the commons! We all use it, we all need it clean :D<br />
* Help book occupations of time in the commons: [[Commons Working Group]]<br />
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<div>Working groups are made up of members from all different collectives as well as individuals who are not affiliated with any collectives but want to join the collective effort of the Omni. These groups function as a way to collectivize the labor required to operate the space. Working groups are a great way to get involved, share skills, ideas, opinions and learn from each other how collective action takes place. If you'd like to be a part of one of the working groups, please visit the respective wiki pages to learn how to get involved!<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style=""<br />
! colspan="3"| Working Groups<br />
|-<br />
|[[Commons Working Group|Commons]]<br />
|Focuses on scheduling events and coordinating use of common areas. Maintains our [https://omnicommons.org/calendar/ calendar] and [https://omnicommons.org/occupy/ event request form].<br />
|Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7pm.<br />
|-<br />
|[[Fundraising Working Group|Fundraising]] <br />
| aka "Buy the Building" aka "Until the Revolution." Works on strategies for raising money, such as our [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland/x/9094356 crowdfunding campaign], writing grants, seeking donors and lenders. Also working on the logistics of owning the building, including working with land trusts and other partners.<br />
| Mondays 1pm<br />
|-<br />
| [[Building Construction and Maintenance Working Group|Construction & Maintenance]]<br />
| Focuses on physical construction, maintenance and alteration projects. Focusing on fire health & safety, accessibility, soundproofing and rodent-proofing. Hosts occasional Saturday afternoon work parties.<br />
| Mondays, [mailto:building@omnicommons.org email the list]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Finances Working Group|Finance]] <br />
| Keeps our books, balances the budget, tracks expenses, debts and deposits. Lets us know how much money we have, and how much we're making or losing.<br />
| Mondays 6pm<br />
|-<br />
|[[Communications Working Group|Communications]]<br />
|Works on public-facing communications (messaging, outreach, press and public relations) as well as internal communications (inter-group collaboration tools, wiki, mailing list and other tools for communication and collaboration). The "sysadmins" working group, who maintain our website and mailing lists, are part of this group.<br />
| 1st & 3rd Sundays, 5pm<br />
|-<br />
| [[Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group|Challenging Dominant Cultures]]<br />
| Exploring bias and issues of difference and inclusion in the space, challenging dominant cultural influences and developing projects and relationships more in line with the values of the Omni, as stated in the founding document and statement of solidarity. Some of this work was once taken up by the [[Building Bloc]].<br />
|Emerging out of hiatus<br />
|-<br />
|[[How-We-Organize|"How We Organize"]] <br />
|Proposes new shapes for the commons to organize its activities and discusses the methods we use to shape ourselves, both as individuals and as collectives within a commons. <br />
|On hiatus.<br />
|-<br />
|[[Welcoming Committee]] <br />
|Organizes around creating a welcoming and inclusive experience for newcomers and visitors to the project. This work is being taken up by a new collective called the [[Building Bloc]].<br />
|On hiatus<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
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=Working Group Protocols=<br />
''(NOTE: For help creating correct wiki pages and adding events to the calendar, contact Vicky (vknoxsironi at gmail dot com], Jenny [jenny at sudomesh dot org] or Matt [mattsenate at gmail dot com])''<br />
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In order to make progress on many different aspects of this project, please use the following protocols. The intention is to support horizontal, consent-based, transparent, good-faith collaboration.<br />
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==Start a Working Group==<br />
* The Omni encourages the establishment of new working groups as necessary to collectivize the labor of the project.<br />
* A list of current working groups is maintained on the wiki here: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups. <br />
* If you see a need for a new working group, propose its purpose and scope at a delegate’s meeting. <br />
* Once approved by the delegates, work with fellow group members to compose a vision statement and scope for the working group. Create a working group page on the wiki and post your vision there.<br />
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==Bottomlining Established Working Groups==<br />
* Work with fellow group members to determine convenient meeting dates and times.<br />
* Help to administer working group email list. <br />
* Announce your meeting times via email to the omni-logistics list and by adding them to the Omni calendar (http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar). <br />
* Publish meeting notes on the Omni calendar, and send a direct link to the notes to the omni-logistics list after every meeting.<br />
* Help to facilitate a positive and fun working group culture by:<br />
** Designating a facilitator and scribe to take notes at the beginning of the meeting<br />
** Concluding each meeting with "action items"<br />
* Be present for meetings as much as possible. If not able to attend a meeting, arrange in advance who will distribute notes.<br />
* Forward any major announcements or questions for discussion from your working group to the omni-logistics list and/or to the delegates’ meeting as necessary. <br />
* Ensure proposals that need the approval of the delegates are added to the riseup pad (https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom). Include the date the proposal was added to the pad.<br />
* The most basic rules for bottomlining a working group are autonomy and good judgment (i.e. common sense)! <br />
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==Join a Working Group==<br />
* Check the schedule above and attend the next meeting of the working group.<br />
* Directly contact the individual(s) bottom-lining the group.<br />
* Show up to a meeting, or use the communication channel specified for that group to stay in touch.<br />
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==Make Progress in a Working Group==<br />
* Set goals that aspire to deliver on the working group's "mission" or purpose.<br />
* If necessary, outline tasks in order to reach each goal.<br />
* Make progress on and seek to accomplish any tasks that contribute to the working group's goals.<br />
* When a working group's goals require '''feedback''', '''formal approval''', or simply '''consent''' from the Omni delegates, create a proposal:<br />
** Present this proposal to the Omni delegates meeting to ensure each member-group can build consent in their respective community as necessary.<br />
* When a working group has several divergent options or ideas and cannot come to resolution on them alone, then create proposals that represent these options and present these in some way to the whole collective:<br />
** Present proposals at an Omni delegates meeting for feedback<br />
** Ask for feedback on the omnilogistics@lists.riseup.net email list<br />
** Ask for feedback from other working groups, member-groups, or individuals that are not involved with your working group.<br />
** Rinse, repeat until you have garnered improvements to your proposal from the invaluable experiences and contributions of everyone involved with the Omni Commons, ultimately building consensus among the entire community.<br />
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==Volunteer!==<br />
* Fill a front door shift: https://ethercalc.com/omni-front-desk<br />
* Help with a project! (See [[Building Construction and Maintenance Working Group]] or checkout the [[Collectives]])<br />
* Answer our wishes! Check out the things we're in need of: [[WishList]]<br />
* Clean the commons! We all use it, we all need it clean :D<br />
* Help book occupations of time in the commons: [[Commons Working Group]]<br />
* Fold flyers and prepare literature! Ask any member for directions to the printer, cutting board and documents we always need more copies of (like our welcoming comic, or the safe space policy)</div>Jfparkhttps://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Delegates_Meeting_Notes_Template&diff=5244Delegates Meeting Notes Template2017-04-21T21:26:04Z<p>Jfpark: </p>
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - Day Month 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal Y: [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: <br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: <br />
* Timekeeper: <br />
* Notetaker/s: <br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: <br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: <br />
* BAPS: <br />
* CCL: <br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: <br />
* GWS: <br />
* LL: <br />
* Sudo: <br />
* TIL: <br />
* Quorum:<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
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* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays (still deciding on time)<br />
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* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
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* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising (Mondays at 6pm)<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 6:00pm<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== CCL === <br />
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=== CSC === <br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
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=== LL ===<br />
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=== Sudo ===<br />
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=== TIL ===<br />
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== Example Proposal ==<br />
=== Discussion ===<br />
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== Example Discussion Item ==<br />
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== Last Meeting Notes ==<br />
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2017/MM/DD_Delegates_Meeting<br />
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= End of Meeting =<br />
* please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the omni wiki<br />
* then please erase the contents of this pad<br />
* then please cut & paste a blank template from here: https://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Delegates_Meeting_Notes_Template&action=edit<br />
* previous notes are archived here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Meetings</div>Jfparkhttps://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Event:2017/04/20_Delegates_Meeting&diff=5243Event:2017/04/20 Delegates Meeting2017-04-21T21:21:47Z<p>Jfpark: /* Last Meeting Notes */</p>
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 20 April 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal: Safer DIY spaces as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal: GCEA to put a padlock on the doors to the classroom [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion: Omni Presence at Temescal BID meetings & events [15 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Laura<br />
* Marcus - ABDC, working groups<br />
* Isaac - DIY <br />
* Jenny - sudo, working groups<br />
* Lori<br />
* Mary Ann<br />
* Robb<br />
* Ken<br />
* Helen<br />
* Julian - BAPS, comms / sec<br />
* Almaz - GCEA, commons/finance/cleaning<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Kazoo<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Lori<br />
* Timekeeper: Jenny<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Jenny<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Marcus<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Marcus<br />
* BAPS: Julian <br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Helen<br />
* GWS: Lori<br />
* LL: Jabari<br />
* Sudo: Robb<br />
* TIL: Inactive<br />
* Quorum: 8/8 active collectives<br />
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== Announcements (5 mins) ==<br />
* Ken: June 11th Sunday Temescal Street Fair requesting Omni participation.<br />
* Ken: May 20 event by Kat Harris talking about mushrooms<br />
* Lori: Passes card around to promote event w Maryse Narcisse benefit for Haiti Emergency Relief <br />
* Almaz: 1st monthly Tues eve cleanup! several folks worked on stuff or volunteered for tasks. Will email the date of the next Tuesday cleaning at 5:30. There is a lot of stuff accumulating. We will write notes on items and then throw away if no one removes.<br />
** Helen: Who owns the stuff in the basement pantry next to heater?<br />
*** Robb: Some stuff is Omni event stuff, some useful stuff, some transplanted from behind the ballroom bar.<br />
**** Laura: will see what's worth keeping and what's not<br />
* Marcus: thinking about organizing another OMni wide yardsale/cleanout in 4-6 weeks.<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
None! Yay!<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs (10 mins) ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays Evenings (contact the list)<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
*Robb: no one showed upt o last meeting. I cleaned out utility closest. RObb and Lynn paintin behind the bar.<br />
* Jenny: there is a gallon of DR Bronner's sal suds in the cleaning suplies closet. SHould be used for all cleaning as it is low scent<br />
* Ken: Building is working on putting together budgets for different project<br />
** Laura: Fundraising did send a grant in to Resist for the wheelchair bathroom for just under $4000<br />
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=== Challenging Dominant Cultures ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 5:30? Want input to choose regular meeting time<br />
* Julian: some of the discussion that's been happening under the auspices of the ad hoc Security Culture working group seems to fit the bill of this on-hiatus standing working group. to keep the convos going, Julian & Steve would like to invite others to join them in reviving the Challenging Dominant Cultures working group <br />
* Helen: WHat are the issues you will be discussing?<br />
* Julian: WHat are methods of non-police reliant self-defence? What does it mean to have bans be a consistant part of OMni proactie when we may be opposed to particular kinds of exclusion?<br />
* Jenny: Previously they developed the safer space policy. <br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
* Jenny: Briefly, commons brought in $7500 iin March, saving us financially<br />
* Lots of event request<br />
* /calendar/ has been changed - is the main wordpress for requests and contracts. /occupy/ is not <br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Hopefully there wil be a newsletter by May 1st. Send an email to comms@omnicommons with items<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Laura - OC finally has all its insurance squared away - all policies are now with Brignole & Ghiri<br />
* Laura - big meeting on Monday, 7pm on May 8th that consolidate finance, fundraising & building to make plans for <br />
* Omni Commons Budget: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit#gid=1501592721<br />
* Still running at a deficit of ~$5k/month through July. We are not solvent yet!<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 1:00pm<br />
* Laura: Working on the JMK Innovation Prize which is $175K over 3 years<br />
* Almaz: Working on fundraising events, in tandem with Commons<br />
* Mary Ann: Sent in another grant today (Chiapas Support COmmittee) - Akonadi foundation - includes money for omni for rent for a big event, as well as A/V tech (pats Robbs shoulder)<br />
* Almaz: Similar to GCEA - we're broke, working on 4-5 events, including events @ omni, working w/ liblens as well<br />
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=== Welcoming ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 5:00pm (may change in the future depending on people's needs)<br />
* Marcus: Welcoming WG reborn - to roll in to manage the front hall and how we engage the public using the front hall. Discussing cleanup, decoration, keeping the doors open w/ door shifts & donation-based cafe as well as the stage<br />
** To read more about it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wTfUaQPNBKX8VbwLll6mvRnMrOoY6qpsc9BoQURfZ7o/edit<br />
* Marcus: This Sunday want to commit to opening the door from 11-5, manning donation-based test run cafe<br />
** Julian: Suggest using the signup sheet clipboard<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* Solidarity Forever. Make your own May Day protest art April 29 1pm - 4pm<br />
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=== CSC ===<br />
* we finally figured out what we're doing. We're going to give classes called Waffles and Zapatismo. Discuss zapatista theory, what we've learned from them. Starts 5/20: <br />
* On the 11th, book presentation on Zapatista Negra, a collaboration between Zapatista and Black Panther Art: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/zapantera-negra-book-presentation-video-talk/<br />
* In JUne we're doing a report on the COnstituent Assembly in Mexico. Indigenous people are creating a parallel governemnt and we are going to report on the process of putting this together, and people who were on our delegation will give a report back.<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* Womens Unpaid Work Bloc - meeting Tuesdays at 7pm in advance of May 1st<br />
* Chelsea Manning released from prison on May 17th. HAving an event<br />
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=== SUDO ===<br />
* Sudo is having ongoing 5 Minutes of Fame event every 1st Wednesday at 7 in the BAllroom or Disco room. ANyone is invited to present their project through so far it has been very tech oriented.<br />
* Someone donated a vinyl cutter and rolls of vinyl. In basement.<br />
* Almaz - what do you guys actually do and how do you serve the community? Jenny answers<br />
* Trying to get a load of laptops donated from a tech person in SF<br />
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=== Liberated Lens ===<br />
* 2 film nights coming up. This Friday film on Standing ROck and a regular film night as well on Tuesday <--oops, this isn't accurate! We have a film this coming Sunday (April 30th) and another on Friday May 5th, which is the one about Standing Rock. :) ~gamma<br />
* Working on a project w/ First They Came for the Homeless, working on grants to get that project funded<br />
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=== GCEA ===<br />
* June 3 - Violence Prevention; June 17 - Immigration issues; June 24 - Fundraising events<br />
* Trip to Africa, 4-6 youths to Eritrea in August, crowdfunding onn GoFundMe <br />
* Lib Lens is teaching GCEA youth about video production and ABDC is teaching them how to do screen printing<br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* ongoing writing group every Monday @ 7:30; started a new class slowly gathering participants - Practical Research Toward Abolishing Racialization (3pm on Sundays). Focusing on a study of white nationalist organizations. Talk to Julian or Steve.<br />
* Jabari: er, title/acronym issues when you're discussing racialization<br />
* Julian: Grant starting anouther class possibly Foucault, generally philosophy-oriented<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
* Sunday is the 48th anniversary of Peoples Park. Party and food all day - 11am - 6pm - see https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/17/18798487.php<br />
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=== CCL ===<br />
* New class n plant tissue culture. New grow lights installed. <br />
* RVC and insulin group still cranking<br />
* Bay Area Applied Mycology doing lots of things, recently grew Corticepts, traditional chinese medicinal mushroom growing on brown rice<br />
* Lab getting more used now that we've upgraded everything<br />
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== Proposal: Safer DIY Spaces group as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model ==<br />
via Jenny, submitted 4/20:<br />
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Last night I met with the Safer DIY Spaces group, which the delegates approved to provisionally fiscally sponsor under a grant-making model back in December.<br />
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They have been doing incredible work (providing consulting and walkthroughs for dozens of spaces in danger as well as participating in shaping future code compliance policies at the city-wide level) and have many more spaces they're still working on. However, the grant-making model of fiscal sponsorship has been rather unwieldy (they need to submit a grant request to allocate their own funds, which Finance then signs off on, then Finance has to write checks out to them, etc etc).<br />
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This proposal is to fully fiscally sponsor Safer DIY Spaces as a project-based model, enabling them to write checks and make debit card purchases from their own subaccount (which is where their funds have already been going).<br />
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Check signers on this account are to be Isaac Amala and Sinuba Dreem.<br />
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This sponsorship agreement would be applicable retroactively to April 1st, 2017.<br />
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If we could pass this tonight, that would be wonderful and enable them to access their own funds in a more timely fashion, as much of their work is time-sensitive (eg prepping spaces for surprise inspections, life-safety improvements, etc)<br />
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If you have any further questions, the DIY group can be reached at: saferdiyspaces [AT] gmail [DOT] com (cc'd)<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Helen: What are the downsides?<br />
* Marcus: If you were to be sued, would that come back to Omni?<br />
** Isaac: We have NDAs, consulting with Jesse re: liability issues, <br />
*** Laura: re: liability issues, they would be covered under our insurance, but should probably contact B&G and add DIY activities to our policy<br />
**** Isaac: We're working with contractors and architects who are also at risk to lose their contracts, licenses, etc<br />
* Robb: Can they come here? Those architects etc?<br />
** Jenny: We're not really at risk<br />
*** Isaac: Yeah, prioritizing people and spaces most immediately at risk wrt life-safety issues<br />
* I: What was the other part of the question?<br />
** Marcus/Helen: If some landlord targets DIY could that track down to Omni<br />
* Ken: DO you hire contactors etc?<br />
** Isaac: is all volunteer. we have contractors in our group who volunteer. some groups say "we have someone to do it we just need the money". or they might say, we don't know how to prep, what do we do? and then we do a walkthrough. or in other cases, they say we don't know what to do, don't have the money, also need help with labor. then we help with that, we have 3 architects, a contractor, electricians, etc<br />
**** Isaac: Have scoped out the labor, providing funds for particular projects. our architects might draw up the plan, contractors do the labor, etc<br />
*** Marcus: just to say, i only brought those issues up to kickstart the conversation. i know abdc would be totally down<br />
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* Julian - propose we provisionally approve this until the next delegates meeting, at which point we revisit it for confirmed consenso<br />
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* straw poll: marcus, jabari, almaz, juliden, helen robb, mary ann, lori aka FULL CONSENSO<br />
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* helen: we haven't gone through the process, but if we're doing this provisionally we should actually consense on the provisional approval <br />
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* provisional approval of proposal until the next delegates meeting<br />
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Yea: 7<br />
Nay:<br />
Abstain: 1<br />
Provisional approval passes<br />
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* Jenny: can we vote on retroactively applying fiscal sponsorship<br />
* background concerns - scheduled opening all subaccounts with unify on saturday. all checksigners need to be copresent, which is like 10 people. some collectives can't open subaccounts because we reached this max limit of checksigners. <br />
* helen: renewal of grant-based project would have happened automatically. in order to put the new model into practice, would like to start that now - but delegates need to check in with their folks<br />
* ken - how long<br />
** isaac - also doing work with city of oakland re: building and planning, code compliance adjustments<br />
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== Proposal: GCEA to put a padlock on the doors to the classroom == <br />
via Almaz, 4/20:<br />
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We are in the process of renegotiating our lease. One of our concerns is that the room we have been using (the classroom behind the children’s room) is not secure. We agreed to try using the room without a lock, but multiple items have been stolen including activity folders with personal information, chargers, books, art supplies and a stapler. We intend to use the room to hold documents, a laptop, projectors, children activity folders and other valuables. <br />
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Our proposal is to add a lock with a code to the doors to the room. Anyone who wants to use the room when it is free can get the code from us. We have discussed this with BAPS and they are in agreement with this arrangement. <br />
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We appreciate your attention to this request. <br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Julian - Steve told me he wasn't in support. There was some kind of misunderstanding. WOuld a locking cabinet work? If you give the code to people eventually you will have a lot of people with the code and you will be in virtually the same situation. <br />
* Almaz: Many of the rooms are locked except for SUdo And CCL<br />
* Marcus: suggests using ABDC room if they move<br />
* Lori: The office upstairs isn't working for the 3 groups to share<br />
* Julian: YOu are totally right that you need your collective's stuff to be secure. I'm used to that room being used by everyone so I'm reacting to the commons space being closed. I'm wonderign if there is a way to both maximizing collecitve space and keeping your stuff space.<br />
* Almaz: we've been trying with the room unlocked and it isn't working<br />
* Jenny:YOu didn't try having a locked filing cabinet<br />
* Robb - are you current on your rent? <br />
** a: We have had financial problems which is why we are meeting with fianance working group on Monday<br />
*** robb: doesn't seem fair that other groups that have been paying rent are not given their own space, whilst your group, which hasn't been paying rent, would have exclusive access to your own space. original proposal was that it would be common space and you would get preference... hence $200/mo rent<br />
* Laura: My understanding was that GCEA would try out having the room not locked. They have tried it and it isn't working for them. We need to work out a solution that works for everyone.<br />
* Discussion has gone for 20 minutes. We move on on to next item.<br />
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== Discussion: Omni Presence at Temescal BID meetings & events ==<br />
- via Ken<br />
* The BID Board meeting is next week and we should have a few people there. Some of OMni should go and have a presence. <br />
** jenny: security / promotion committee has a lot of money and reallocates funds in weird, kinda corrupt ways<br />
** robb - what is the money spent on if not eg graffitti removal ?<br />
*** ken: don't get the board minutes<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 20 April 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [5 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]<br />
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)<br />
* Proposal: Safer DIY spaces as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model [15 minutes]<br />
* Proposal: GCEA to put a padlock on the doors to the classroom [15 minutes]<br />
* Discussion: Omni Presence at Temescal BID meetings & events [15 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Laura<br />
* Marcus - ABDC, working groups<br />
* Isaac - DIY <br />
* Jenny - sudo, working groups<br />
* Lori<br />
* Mary Ann<br />
* Robb<br />
* Ken<br />
* Helen<br />
* Julian - BAPS, comms / sec<br />
* Almaz - GCEA, commons/finance/cleaning<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Kazoo<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Lori<br />
* Timekeeper: Jenny<br />
* Notetaker/s: Laura, Jenny<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Marcus<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): <br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Marcus<br />
* BAPS: Julian <br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: Mary Ann<br />
* FNB: Helen<br />
* GWS: Lori<br />
* LL: Jabari<br />
* Sudo: Robb<br />
* TIL: Inactive<br />
* Quorum: 8/8 active collectives<br />
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== Announcements (5 mins) ==<br />
* Ken: June 11th Sunday Temescal Street Fair requesting Omni participation.<br />
* Ken: May 20 event by Kat Harris talking about mushrooms<br />
* Lori: Passes card around to promote event w Maryse Narcisse benefit for Haiti Emergency Relief <br />
* Almaz: 1st monthly Tues eve cleanup! several folks worked on stuff or volunteered for tasks. Will email the date of the next Tuesday cleaning at 5:30. There is a lot of stuff accumulating. We will write notes on items and then throw away if no one removes.<br />
** Helen: Who owns the stuff in the basement pantry next to heater?<br />
*** Robb: Some stuff is Omni event stuff, some useful stuff, some transplanted from behind the ballroom bar.<br />
**** Laura: will see what's worth keeping and what's not<br />
* Marcus: thinking about organizing another OMni wide yardsale/cleanout in 4-6 weeks.<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
None! Yay!<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs (10 mins) ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays Evenings (contact the list)<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
*Robb: no one showed upt o last meeting. I cleaned out utility closest. RObb and Lynn paintin behind the bar.<br />
* Jenny: there is a gallon of DR Bronner's sal suds in the cleaning suplies closet. SHould be used for all cleaning as it is low scent<br />
* Ken: Building is working on putting together budgets for different project<br />
** Laura: Fundraising did send a grant in to Resist for the wheelchair bathroom for just under $4000<br />
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=== Challenging Dominant Cultures ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 5:30? Want input to choose regular meeting time<br />
* Julian: some of the discussion that's been happening under the auspices of the ad hoc Security Culture working group seems to fit the bill of this on-hiatus standing working group. to keep the convos going, Julian & Steve would like to invite others to join them in reviving the Challenging Dominant Cultures working group <br />
* Helen: WHat are the issues you will be discussing?<br />
* Julian: WHat are methods of non-police reliant self-defence? What does it mean to have bans be a consistant part of OMni proactie when we may be opposed to particular kinds of exclusion?<br />
* Jenny: Previously they developed the safer space policy. <br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
* Jenny: Briefly, commons brought in $7500 iin March, saving us financially<br />
* Lots of event request<br />
* /calendar/ has been changed - is the main wordpress for requests and contracts. /occupy/ is not <br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Hopefully there wil be a newsletter by May 1st. Send an email to comms@omnicommons with items<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Laura - OC finally has all its insurance squared away - all policies are now with Brignole & Ghiri<br />
* Laura - big meeting on Monday, 7pm on May 8th that consolidate finance, fundraising & building to make plans for <br />
* Omni Commons Budget: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit#gid=1501592721<br />
* Still running at a deficit of ~$5k/month through July. We are not solvent yet!<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 1:00pm<br />
* Laura: Working on the JMK Innovation Prize which is $175K over 3 years<br />
* Almaz: Working on fundraising events, in tandem with Commons<br />
* Mary Ann: Sent in another grant today (Chiapas Support COmmittee) - Akonadi foundation - includes money for omni for rent for a big event, as well as A/V tech (pats Robbs shoulder)<br />
* Almaz: Similar to GCEA - we're broke, working on 4-5 events, including events @ omni, working w/ liblens as well<br />
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=== Welcoming ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 5:00pm (may change in the future depending on people's needs)<br />
* Marcus: Welcoming WG reborn - to roll in to manage the front hall and how we engage the public using the front hall. Discussing cleanup, decoration, keeping the doors open w/ door shifts & donation-based cafe as well as the stage<br />
** To read more about it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wTfUaQPNBKX8VbwLll6mvRnMrOoY6qpsc9BoQURfZ7o/edit<br />
* Marcus: This Sunday want to commit to opening the door from 11-5, manning donation-based test run cafe<br />
** Julian: Suggest using the signup sheet clipboard<br />
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== Member Collective Updates ==<br />
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
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=== ABDC ===<br />
* Solidarity Forever. Make your own May Day protest art April 29 1pm - 4pm<br />
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=== CSC ===<br />
* we finally figured out what we're doing. We're going to give classes called Waffles and Zapatismo. Discuss zapatista theory, what we've learned from them. Starts 5/20: <br />
* On the 11th, book presentation on Zapatista Negra, a collaboration between Zapatista and Black Panther Art: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/zapantera-negra-book-presentation-video-talk/<br />
* In JUne we're doing a report on the COnstituent Assembly in Mexico. Indigenous people are creating a parallel governemnt and we are going to report on the process of putting this together, and people who were on our delegation will give a report back.<br />
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=== GWS ===<br />
* Womens Unpaid Work Bloc - meeting Tuesdays at 7pm in advance of May 1st<br />
* Chelsea Manning released from prison on May 17th. HAving an event<br />
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=== SUDO ===<br />
* Sudo is having ongoing 5 Minutes of Fame event every 1st Wednesday at 7 in the BAllroom or Disco room. ANyone is invited to present their project through so far it has been very tech oriented.<br />
* Someone donated a vinyl cutter and rolls of vinyl. In basement.<br />
* Almaz - what do you guys actually do and how do you serve the community? Jenny answers<br />
* Trying to get a load of laptops donated from a tech person in SF<br />
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=== Liberated Lens ===<br />
* 2 film nights coming up. This Friday film on Standing ROck and a regular film night as well on Tuesday <--oops, this isn't accurate! We have a film this coming Sunday (April 30th) and another on Friday May 5th, which is the one about Standing Rock. :) ~gamma<br />
* Working on a project w/ First They Came for the Homeless, working on grants to get that project funded<br />
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=== GCEA ===<br />
* June 3 - Violence Prevention; June 17 - Immigration issues; June 24 - Fundraising events<br />
* Trip to Africa, 4-6 youths to Eritrea in August, crowdfunding onn GoFundMe <br />
* Lib Lens is teaching GCEA youth about video production and ABDC is teaching them how to do screen printing<br />
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=== BAPS ===<br />
* ongoing writing group every Monday @ 7:30; started a new class slowly gathering participants - Practical Research Toward Abolishing Racialization (3pm on Sundays). Focusing on a study of white nationalist organizations. Talk to Julian or Steve.<br />
* Jabari: er, title/acronym issues when you're discussing racialization<br />
* Julian: Grant starting anouther class possibly Foucault, generally philosophy-oriented<br />
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=== FNB ===<br />
* Sunday is the 48th anniversary of Peoples Park. Party and food all day - 11am - 6pm - see https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/17/18798487.php<br />
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=== CCL ===<br />
* New class n plant tissue culture. New grow lights installed. <br />
* RVC and insulin group still cranking<br />
* Bay Area Applied Mycology doing lots of things, recently grew Corticepts, traditional chinese medicinal mushroom growing on brown rice<br />
* Lab getting more used now that we've upgraded everything<br />
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== Proposal: Safer DIY Spaces group as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model ==<br />
via Jenny, submitted 4/20:<br />
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Last night I met with the Safer DIY Spaces group, which the delegates approved to provisionally fiscally sponsor under a grant-making model back in December.<br />
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They have been doing incredible work (providing consulting and walkthroughs for dozens of spaces in danger as well as participating in shaping future code compliance policies at the city-wide level) and have many more spaces they're still working on. However, the grant-making model of fiscal sponsorship has been rather unwieldy (they need to submit a grant request to allocate their own funds, which Finance then signs off on, then Finance has to write checks out to them, etc etc).<br />
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This proposal is to fully fiscally sponsor Safer DIY Spaces as a project-based model, enabling them to write checks and make debit card purchases from their own subaccount (which is where their funds have already been going).<br />
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Check signers on this account are to be Isaac Amala and Sinuba Dreem.<br />
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This sponsorship agreement would be applicable retroactively to April 1st, 2017.<br />
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If we could pass this tonight, that would be wonderful and enable them to access their own funds in a more timely fashion, as much of their work is time-sensitive (eg prepping spaces for surprise inspections, life-safety improvements, etc)<br />
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If you have any further questions, the DIY group can be reached at: saferdiyspaces [AT] gmail [DOT] com (cc'd)<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Helen: What are the downsides?<br />
* Marcus: If you were to be sued, would that come back to Omni?<br />
** Isaac: We have NDAs, consulting with Jesse re: liability issues, <br />
*** Laura: re: liability issues, they would be covered under our insurance, but should probably contact B&G and add DIY activities to our policy<br />
**** Isaac: We're working with contractors and architects who are also at risk to lose their contracts, licenses, etc<br />
* Robb: Can they come here? Those architects etc?<br />
** Jenny: We're not really at risk<br />
*** Isaac: Yeah, prioritizing people and spaces most immediately at risk wrt life-safety issues<br />
* I: What was the other part of the question?<br />
** Marcus/Helen: If some landlord targets DIY could that track down to Omni<br />
* Ken: DO you hire contactors etc?<br />
** Isaac: is all volunteer. we have contractors in our group who volunteer. some groups say "we have someone to do it we just need the money". or they might say, we don't know how to prep, what do we do? and then we do a walkthrough. or in other cases, they say we don't know what to do, don't have the money, also need help with labor. then we help with that, we have 3 architects, a contractor, electricians, etc<br />
**** Isaac: Have scoped out the labor, providing funds for particular projects. our architects might draw up the plan, contractors do the labor, etc<br />
*** Marcus: just to say, i only brought those issues up to kickstart the conversation. i know abdc would be totally down<br />
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* Julian - propose we provisionally approve this until the next delegates meeting, at which point we revisit it for confirmed consenso<br />
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* straw poll: marcus, jabari, almaz, juliden, helen robb, mary ann, lori aka FULL CONSENSO<br />
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* helen: we haven't gone through the process, but if we're doing this provisionally we should actually consense on the provisional approval <br />
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* provisional approval of proposal until the next delegates meeting<br />
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Yea: 7<br />
Nay:<br />
Abstain: 1<br />
Provisional approval passes<br />
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* Jenny: can we vote on retroactively applying fiscal sponsorship<br />
* background concerns - scheduled opening all subaccounts with unify on saturday. all checksigners need to be copresent, which is like 10 people. some collectives can't open subaccounts because we reached this max limit of checksigners. <br />
* helen: renewal of grant-based project would have happened automatically. in order to put the new model into practice, would like to start that now - but delegates need to check in with their folks<br />
* ken - how long<br />
** isaac - also doing work with city of oakland re: building and planning, code compliance adjustments<br />
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== Proposal: GCEA to put a padlock on the doors to the classroom == <br />
via Almaz, 4/20:<br />
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We are in the process of renegotiating our lease. One of our concerns is that the room we have been using (the classroom behind the children’s room) is not secure. We agreed to try using the room without a lock, but multiple items have been stolen including activity folders with personal information, chargers, books, art supplies and a stapler. We intend to use the room to hold documents, a laptop, projectors, children activity folders and other valuables. <br />
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Our proposal is to add a lock with a code to the doors to the room. Anyone who wants to use the room when it is free can get the code from us. We have discussed this with BAPS and they are in agreement with this arrangement. <br />
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We appreciate your attention to this request. <br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Julian - Steve told me he wasn't in support. There was some kind of misunderstanding. WOuld a locking cabinet work? If you give the code to people eventually you will have a lot of people with the code and you will be in virtually the same situation. <br />
* Almaz: Many of the rooms are locked except for SUdo And CCL<br />
* Marcus: suggests using ABDC room if they move<br />
* Lori: The office upstairs isn't working for the 3 groups to share<br />
* Julian: YOu are totally right that you need your collective's stuff to be secure. I'm used to that room being used by everyone so I'm reacting to the commons space being closed. I'm wonderign if there is a way to both maximizing collecitve space and keeping your stuff space.<br />
* Almaz: we've been trying with the room unlocked and it isn't working<br />
* Jenny:YOu didn't try having a locked filing cabinet<br />
* Robb - are you current on your rent? <br />
** a: We have had financial problems which is why we are meeting with fianance working group on Monday<br />
*** robb: doesn't seem fair that other groups that have been paying rent are not given their own space, whilst your group, which hasn't been paying rent, would have exclusive access to your own space. original proposal was that it would be common space and you would get preference... hence $200/mo rent<br />
* Laura: My understanding was that GCEA would try out having the room not locked. They have tried it and it isn't working for them. We need to work out a solution that works for everyone.<br />
* Discussion has gone for 20 minutes. We move on on to next item.<br />
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== Discussion: Omni Presence at Temescal BID meetings & events ==<br />
- via Ken<br />
* The BID Board meeting is next week and we should have a few people there. Some of OMni should go and have a presence. <br />
** jenny: security / promotion committee has a lot of money and reallocates funds in weird, kinda corrupt ways<br />
** robb - what is the money spent on if not eg graffitti removal ?<br />
*** ken: don't get the board minutes<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 06 April 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [10 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minuntes]<br />
* Member Collectives Reports <br />
* Proposal: Approve full adoption of all fiscally-sponsored projects [10 minutes]<br />
* Proposal: Omni Storefront & Welcoming Committee by ABDC [20 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Marcus, he/him, abdc, fundraising, finance<br />
* Robb, he/him, sudoroom, general purpose volunteer<br />
* Kazoo, we, abdc<br />
* Julian, he/him , baps, communications<br />
* Rachel, he/him, gws<br />
* Julio, he/him, commmons, sudo, finance<br />
* Joe, he/him, fnb, freelance commons, building<br />
* Lynn, she/her, commons, cleanup, president/princess (not her choice)<br />
* Ken, he/him, ccl, building<br />
* remote-jenny<br />
* remote-laura<br />
* Steve M, he/him, baps<br />
* Almaz, YES<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Marcus<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Kazoo<br />
* Timekeeper: Joe<br />
* Notetaker/s: Julio, Julian, Kazoo<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Lynn<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): 4/20: Kazoo<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Kazoo<br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: Joe<br />
* GWS: Rachel<br />
* LL: (inactive after this meeting)<br />
* Sudo: Robb<br />
* TIL: (inactive)<br />
* YES: (inactive) not a member collective - this is probably temporary<br />
* Quorum: 6/8 active, Yes<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
* Rachel has cards for an event April 23rd 3pm: Dr. Maryse Narcisse (presidential candidate in Haiti before electoral coup) coming to Oakland<br />
** contact HAiti Action Committee action.haiti@gmail.com - https://www.facebook.com/events/1108940769234958/<br />
* Joe: Anniversary of Peoples Park: Apr 23 12pm - 6pm<br />
* Ken: Bay Area Applied Mycology has a lab Sunday 4/9 2-6pm at CCL (including dyeing with mushrooms)<br />
* Ken: Temescal Street Fair, discussion about who migth want to participate<br />
* Ken: with rain today and this weekend, chanterelle season continues in the Oakland Hills<br />
**Let's have a field trip!<br />
* Marcus is feeling good<br />
** yay!<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
* No new bans<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays (6pm)<br />
* Robb: ordered cealing winches<br />
* Joe: we walked the roof two weeks ago, bubbles that<br />
we need to deal with in the roof coating. Robb hauled down most of the tarps and other stuff that is there.<br />
* Jenny: can call Vince for any roof repairs, fix leaks etc. His # is 510-453-6273- have him bill us<br />
* Joe: I agree with Robb that we can do all that. <br />
** jenny: ...all the roof repairs?<br />
** joe: yes. Robb <br />
* Robb: The areas that are leaking don't look bad, it's near the skylights<br />
* Ken: work in progress: 5 year plan for finance; sprinklers, elevator, kitchen, bathroom, skylights, sound barrier), south wall basement leak repair<br />
* jenny: also a trello board of tasks if anyone wants to add things that need fixing, or take on some task - <br />
https://trello.com/invite/b/OWTkamHn/e69fe53831c98edcd80d3caf04516525/building-maintenance<br />
* julio: if you have more contributions, come to a Monday 6pm meeting, or email one of the members of the group or building@omnicommons.org<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 1:00pm<br />
* Almaz: working groups can put budget together for specific things to help writing grants<br />
* Laura: Fundraisng WG would like to hold a joint meeting between us and Finance and Building to make - or decide upon a process to make - a medium term plan for building maintenance and upgrades. We need this plan for budgeting and fundraising. I am imagining this would be a longer than usual meeting, maybe on a weekend day, but could be weeknight.<br />
** Ken, and others recommend a Monday night in two or three weeks, need some prep time<br />
** Laura: May 1? I will work on a facilitation plan to make this as productive as possible<br />
** People think this is not a good day because there will be many actions for various causes that day May 8, 7pm?<br />
** The people agree with the 8th. The title? Building/Fundraising/Finance Joint Meeting? Sure<br />
** All power to the people!<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: Commons WG made $6,469.35 in March :o thank you commons wg!!! <br />
* Julio making a pitch to get more volunteers: best practices being implimented to make the work managable for all wg volunteers, e.g. non-generic email subject lines so you can easily tell what to attend to/what to ignore<br />
* Joe talking about certain events<br />
** Need help for Phat Beets event next Friday. The 14th; make sure cleaning happens before and after, security (if needed)<br />
** Julio and Lynn will be there to help. Jenny will come by too & Laura. It's a party! Ken is available, just grab him from CCL. Julian also will be there.<br />
* Ken: Kat Harrison on May 20. Is there a contract? Split between CCL and Kat Harrison. Jenny said Omni doesn't get anything directly. - i don't think i said that (jenny), not bottomlining any events for april or may (basically until taxes & prop tax exemption app are done) - <br />
** Laura: Ken said that in the fundraising meeting. We agreed that CCL needs the money and would pay most of it to the Omni anyway.<br />
*** oh yeah, that makes sense fo sho<br />
** Julio will talk with Erique (from BAAM). Want to do this quarterly. I will talk about what makes sense to do contractually and with invoicing.<br />
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* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Julian: there will be another newsletter in may. If we have time we can do a report back from collectives. <br />
**It's on the agenda below (cool thx)<br />
* Grant (new volunteer) has been recreating the old cool brochure, so now we have it.<br />
* Ken: What is the revision process (review from collectives to provide input to the brochure)? also suggestions about how to prevent the newsletter email from becoming some wild long thread<br />
* Julio: is it printed right now?<br />
* Julian: still figuring this out.<br />
* Julian: will hope to have a paper copy<br />
* Julio: to discuss or consensus? <br />
** Julian: to discuss ++<br />
* Julian: there will be biz cards in the front to give out for folks wanting to get involved w/ Omni<br />
* Julian - there is a new Omni urgent/rapid response Signal messenger group; if you want to be on that but aren't check in with Julian or Jenny<br />
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* jenny: come to a comms wg meeting or email the comms list if you want to participate in messaging & outreach!<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Budget Spreadsheet is here, updated to reflect March actual income & expenses (see tabs at bottom): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit#gid=1673282501<br />
* Jenny sent out OOC (old-omni)'s 2014 & 2015 federal tax forms to 'consensus' yesterday for review by the board before filing. Planning to file them Friday, and then work on 2016 OC & OOC federal & state forms (due May 15)<br />
** They are also on the wiki here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances#990_Tax_Forms (fyi 990s are legally required to be made public. for fun and research you can find most nonprofits 990s on Guidestar)<br />
*** Are all the collectives required to report?<br />
*** Report... you mean file 990s? Only independent orgs. Fiscally sponsored project income and expenses are covered by Omni (at least what goes through your bank subaccounts. need otherwise thorough income and expense statements if not eg gws)<br />
*** do we need to file them with Omni, or on their own?<br />
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OMNI: ABDC, BAPS, Sudo, GWS, LibLens, Real Vegan Cheese <br />
** So these groups only have to submit annual income and expense reports (or more frequently), which were already sent for 2014 & 2015. Will reach out to groups I don't have accurate income & expense tracking for for 2016, but that's only GWS, ABDC and LibLens I need updates from, and not much is involved there - I think two unaccounted transactions for LibLens and 3-4 for ABDC. Unsure wrt GWS but we have an email thread running).<br />
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NOT OMNI (in a legal sense): CCL, CSC, FNB, Phat Beets, TIL, GCEA<br />
** These groups need to do their own taxes and other government filings<br />
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* March total income was $12,358.19, total expenses $22,554.30 (repaid ~$13,000 in loans). End of March balance amongst all accounts was $19,715.73. Current collective income around $6,862 (down about $2K) due to loss of Agua Viva, GCEA/YES, deductions in CCL/sudo rent, fewer donations to BAPS, etc.<br />
* Expenses to decrease to ~16K for April, May, June, then down to ~$11K starting July.<br />
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=== ad hoc Security Culture ===<br />
Meetings: mostly Tuesdays 5:30<br />
* Julian: Two meeting since last delegates. <br />
** Proposal: concern about having peoples names in meeting notes. remind people that it's not necessary to have ppl state their name in notes. Remind people that this isn't a private space. There will be a poster reminding ppl how they can respond to cops at the door.<br />
** oh dang! forgot to post it up >_<<br />
**Kazoo: There's a microphone in the center of the ballroom. Rob will disconnect for all of us healthy-paranoia types:)<br />
*** jenny: that's a really good point. in the early days we asked people to give their name or nym...<br />
*** Laura: This isn't a fully private space. Legally we must keep notes and record who was here in a way that we can demonstrate quorum after the fact, for example. We are a PUBLIC charity, legally.<br />
**** for delegates, but isn't necessary for all meetings. also v good point though. aka tonight for the proposal below, once we consense i need to draft and sign a board resolution that includes names of the delegates.<br />
**** ken: felt that ccl was disrespected that this working group was formalized after ccl left that meeting<br />
***** jenny: that's what happens if you leave a meeting before it's over - most decisions for next steps happen at the end of the meeting/discussion. 2 ccl'ers were at the 1st of these meetings. not disrespect at all imo nor really about ccl - more about having conversations that have needed to happen for a long time. <br />
*** Julian - emails about this working group were announced over discuss & folks were told to emia<br />
*** Steve - had the impression Ken intentionally decided to leave w/ knowledge the discussion was still on the agenda <br />
***** ken: would never leave a meeting if things were still open, he just misunderstood things were over. would never ever leave a meeting.<br />
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== Member Collectives Reports (10 mins - 1 min each ;-) ) ==<br />
A coupla meetings ago we agreed to include member collective reports as a regular agenda item. What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
* we're skipping this this time<br />
* Julian - if you have anything you want to be in the newsletter send to julianfrancispark@gmail.com asap<br />
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== Proposal: Approve full adoption of all fiscally-sponsored projects [10 minutes] ==<br />
via Jenny, 3/30/17:<br />
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Greetings omninoms,<br />
<br />
Just to dot all of our i's and cross all our t's, especially given the ridiculously extensive nature of the property tax exemption application, Jesse has suggested that the new OC board formally approve to fiscally sponsor the groups previously fiscally-sponsored by OOC (old-omni).<br />
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The following are 'new drafts' of each fiscal sponsorship agreement, albeit they're basically the same with the exception of changing the name of the sponsoring org from 'Omni Oakland Commons' to 'Omni Commons', and they are retroactively applicable dating 7 Dec 2016 (the date in which we officially acquired ownership of the building). In addition, I changed the bank account for Real Vegan Cheese from Bank of the West to Unify. Regarding the bank account and moving over the remaining sponsored projects (namely RVC and ABDC), we will need all authorized checksigners to sign a form and show up in-person simultaneously at Unify to authorize the accounts.<br />
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Art Bison Design Coop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KZd8ihASDkeYjHDN0usYSyVCDwCNlktC1JapKnLVGI/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Kazoo<br />
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Kazoo can do so tomorrow or Monday. <br />
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Bay Area Public School: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wa8AfEY9qngOQQk24RXJk9fKvFRHr4EelpuLDiudgMc/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Julian<br />
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Global Womens Strike - Omni Collective: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J7y4npQfhUXwFD-i14azK2SDkAe_2OwbD-emtdVPz5c/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Lori<br />
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Liberated Lens Collective: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FBh2i7w8OYGcDT1cnpaaijBO2WzB002tufJxWtD7Co/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Liz<br />
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Real Vegan Cheese: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XpSA-coNdIPIcm-7ucdxdjHVJN-Y925GwQ9xooXZRdY/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Marc<br />
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Sudo Room: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1agNYQrkmES5yViFSsKvuDHmFbzy_4qyE9ieDsqF37pc/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Charley<br />
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* When is the deadline to go to bank for check signers?<br />
** asap. so no deadline by bank? will make a doodle.<br />
*** several groups unable to open or use new accounts (eg, abdc, liblens, real vegan cheese) because of the current cap on # of checksigners. <br />
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=== Consenso ===<br />
* Yay: ABDC, CCL, BAPS, FNB, Sudo<br />
* Nay:<br />
* Abstain: GWS<br />
Measure Passes<br />
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== Proposal: Omni Storefront & Welcoming Committee by ABDC [20 minutes] ==<br />
via Marcus, 3/31/17:<br />
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Greetings Omni,<br />
<br />
ABDC is retracting our previous proposal to rent and occupy space in the front hall, we will continue only to pay for the ticket booth room. Instead we are seeking reinitialize Omni’s former Welcoming Working Group and steward the front entry hall.<br />
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In this stewardship we have several plans of action we want to execute.<br />
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We would like to clean-out, finish construction work, paint and decorate the front entry way.<br />
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We plan to operate a casual donation based café that any interested person can help operate.<br />
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We would like to set up a merchandise selling zone with two or three racks where we display Omni, ABDC and other collective’s apparel & merchandise.<br />
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We want to have one-day monthly printing showcases in the front hall where we show the public the silk-screen printing process.<br />
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1. Our plan is to spend one month improving the front hall space. We will clean, remove junk, patch holes, fill in missing ceiling tiles, paint and all around beautify the space. The front hall will consist of a mobile café zone, a merchandise zone, a mobile stage zone and seating/recreational space. We intend to keep everything mobile or easily moveable to ensure the space can adapt to the needs of any future events that take place there.<br />
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2. We plan to operate a casual cafe spot that any collective can operate [this part is not the formal proposal text] During that one-month improvement period we will also build a mobile coffee cart. This will be a simple donation based café, which we will staff and operate with ABDC members and other interested and committed individuals to ensure regular hours the public can rely on. We already have enough of our members committed to keep it open 4 days a week. The café will be an integral part of the Welcoming WG by keeping the doors open during operating hours.<br />
ABDC will manage the operations, supplies and finances related to running the café.<br />
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3. The merchandise selling zone will simply be some clothing racks or cases with which we can display material we have printed. This would primarily consist of Omni, Phat Beets and ABDC t-shirts along with any future designs from the other collectives. The same ABDC member running the café will also make the sales for the merchandise.<br />
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4. As part of our ongoing effort to bring in new members and introduce the public to silk-screening we want to host day-long monthly printing blasts where we print t-shirts or posters in the main hall as an activity the public can watch and interact with.<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Steve: idea of having an infoshop kind of thing here is terrific. kind of already is here but really to do so need open hours <br />
** folks need to be able to be here w/o having to buy anything<br />
** in BAPS discussion, Steve was hesitant about the "merchandizing area" - but is pro "gallery space" for displaying art<br />
* Kazoo - regarding concerning selling stuff; everyone works for someone, we work for ourselves. 3 members of our collective are formerly incarcertated. our ethos is pro-empowerment, not for-profit. we will sell things & folks who don't have other jobs can learn with us how to make their own things to sell. Our collective provides free classes, and donation based printing opportunities. <br />
* Robb - perhaps not a good idea to have merchandise right here / out all the time.<br />
** Kazoo - when no one is staffing, the racks won't be out. <br />
** Robb - need the welcome folks to be looking after folk's roaming the space/not taking stuff<br />
* Almaz - there are various version of the proposal currently being discussed, and some places <br />
* Steve: 1: couches stay. 2: committee need to be open to allow ppl from outside to plan events. 3: any can sell stuff through the store<br />
* Joe: wants a free box in the zone<br />
* Almaz – how does the breakdown of profits share with Omni/individual collectives<br />
* Robb - feels strongly this should be a working group rather than thru ABDC; things that pertain to the whole Omni shouldn't be run by a single group. tho in effect this has happened in the past.<br />
** without a working group meeting time its not a working group. everyone has to be invited to participate and propose the group. <br />
** Ken - largely agrees with Robb w/ caveat that there have been various iterations of cafes making it work. trusts ABDC to get something going, even if small, before we get ambitions and assure the working group exists. someone getting something off the ground would be great where CCL et all & other artists/artisans could have an outlet for work produced<br />
* Marcus - ABDC isn't proposing to run/take over Welcoming Committee, but to get the space ready for the committee & also that their are members willing to staff some of the committee's open hours. the proposal is to let ABDC get the space ready<br />
* Robb - why can't this just get going as the welcoming working group meeting time? we need to revamp it. It is a money making thing to people to use this space to have meetings. Its a good space to have meetings<br />
* Lynn – people like the idea generally. What do we need to do to support this happening<br />
* Kazoo –<br />
* Robb – its not a baked proposal yet… can they just announce the time?<br />
** everyone interested should agree on a time to meet. woul<br />
* steve - proposal for the revamped welcomng working group including following priorities - schedule open space; clean up space so it could be a gallery; decided<br />
* jenny: "the committee" does not currently exist. would need to be rebooted by people with the energy to reboot it. sounds like that would be abdc members, robb, abe i would imagine (who stewards both the zine racks and the kids room). i'd be down to help with labor. a daytime or early evening (like 5pm) might be good so that visioning/painting type of work can happen in the light of day. fyi old welcoming committee wiki page is here for reference - https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcoming_Committee <br />
* Robb - we don't need to consense on anything new regarding having a new welcoming working group b/c the working group already exists<br />
* Almaz - its great that ABDC has energy for this; ABDC has been doing great work & deserves space to display their awesome work; this will work thru the working group<br />
* Marcus - should we email to arrange a time or state a time now? send a message out. <br />
** jenny - there's also a list if folks want to use that to coordinate. https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/welcoming<br />
* Kazoo - who would staff the working group - committed people: Lynn, Almaz, Marcus, Robb, Kazoo, Ken<br />
** Wednesday the 19th? <br />
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== Discussion: Temescal Street Fair == <br />
* Ken - I'm trying to collect the collectives that want to participate in the Street Fair. Ken will send out an email with further information. Getting involved in the Street Fair thru Omni will include discounted booths<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 06 April 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [10 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minuntes]<br />
* Member Collectives Reports <br />
* Proposal: Approve full adoption of all fiscally-sponsored projects [10 minutes]<br />
* Proposal: Omni Storefront & Welcoming Committee by ABDC [20 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Marcus, he/him, abdc, fundraising, finance<br />
* Robb, he/him, sudoroom, general purpose volunteer<br />
* Kazoo, we, abdc<br />
* Julian, he/him , baps, communications<br />
* Rachel, he/him, gws<br />
* Julio, he/him, commmons, sudo, finance<br />
* Joe, he/him, fnb, freelance commons, building<br />
* Lynn, she/her, commons, cleanup, president/princess (not her choice)<br />
* Ken, he/him, ccl, building<br />
* remote-jenny<br />
* remote-laura<br />
* Steve M, he/him, baps<br />
* Almaz, YES<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Marcus<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Kazoo<br />
* Timekeeper: Joe<br />
* Notetaker/s: Julio, Julian, Kazoo<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Lynn<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): 4/20: Kazoo<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Kazoo<br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: Joe<br />
* GWS: Rachel<br />
* LL: (inactive after this meeting)<br />
* Sudo: Robb<br />
* TIL: (inactive)<br />
* YES: (inactive) not a member collective - this is probably temporary<br />
* Quorum: 6/8 active, Yes<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
* Rachel has cards for an event April 23rd 3pm: Dr. Maryse Narcisse (presidential candidate in Haiti before electoral coup) coming to Oakland<br />
** contact HAiti Action Committee action.haiti@gmail.com - https://www.facebook.com/events/1108940769234958/<br />
* Joe: Anniversary of Peoples Park: Apr 23 12pm - 6pm<br />
* Ken: Bay Area Applied Mycology has a lab Sunday 4/9 2-6pm at CCL (including dyeing with mushrooms)<br />
* Ken: Temescal Street Fair, discussion about who migth want to participate<br />
* Ken: with rain today and this weekend, chanterelle season continues in the Oakland Hills<br />
**Let's have a field trip!<br />
* Marcus is feeling good<br />
** yay!<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
* No new bans<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays (6pm)<br />
* Robb: ordered cealing winches<br />
* Joe: we walked the roof two weeks ago, bubbles that<br />
we need to deal with in the roof coating. Robb hauled down most of the tarps and other stuff that is there.<br />
* Jenny: can call Vince for any roof repairs, fix leaks etc. His # is 510-453-6273- have him bill us<br />
* Joe: I agree with Robb that we can do all that. <br />
** jenny: ...all the roof repairs?<br />
** joe: yes. Robb <br />
* Robb: The areas that are leaking don't look bad, it's near the skylights<br />
* Ken: work in progress: 5 year plan for finance; sprinklers, elevator, kitchen, bathroom, skylights, sound barrier), south wall basement leak repair<br />
* jenny: also a trello board of tasks if anyone wants to add things that need fixing, or take on some task - <br />
https://trello.com/invite/b/OWTkamHn/e69fe53831c98edcd80d3caf04516525/building-maintenance<br />
* julio: if you have more contributions, come to a Monday 6pm meeting, or email one of the members of the group or building@omnicommons.org<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 1:00pm<br />
* Almaz: working groups can put budget together for specific things to help writing grants<br />
* Laura: Fundraisng WG would like to hold a joint meeting between us and Finance and Building to make - or decide upon a process to make - a medium term plan for building maintenance and upgrades. We need this plan for budgeting and fundraising. I am imagining this would be a longer than usual meeting, maybe on a weekend day, but could be weeknight.<br />
** Ken, and others recommend a Monday night in two or three weeks, need some prep time<br />
** Laura: May 1? I will work on a facilitation plan to make this as productive as possible<br />
** People think this is not a good day because there will be many actions for various causes that day May 8, 7pm?<br />
** The people agree with the 8th. The title? Building/Fundraising/Finance Joint Meeting? Sure<br />
** All power to the people!<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: Commons WG made $6,469.35 in March :o thank you commons wg!!! <br />
* Julio making a pitch to get more volunteers: best practices being implimented to make the work managable for all wg volunteers, e.g. non-generic email subject lines so you can easily tell what to attend to/what to ignore<br />
* Joe talking about certain events<br />
** Need help for Phat Beets event next Friday. The 14th; make sure cleaning happens before and after, security (if needed)<br />
** Julio and Lynn will be there to help. Jenny will come by too & Laura. It's a party! Ken is available, just grab him from CCL. Julian also will be there.<br />
* Ken: Kat Harrison on May 20. Is there a contract? Split between CCL and Kat Harrison. Jenny said Omni doesn't get anything directly. - i don't think i said that (jenny), not bottomlining any events for april or may (basically until taxes & prop tax exemption app are done) - <br />
** Laura: Ken said that in the fundraising meeting. We agreed that CCL needs the money and would pay most of it to the Omni anyway.<br />
*** oh yeah, that makes sense fo sho<br />
** Julio will talk with Erique (from BAAM). Want to do this quarterly. I will talk about what makes sense to do contractually and with invoicing.<br />
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* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Julian: there will be another newsletter in may. If we have time we can do a report back from collectives. <br />
**It's on the agenda below (cool thx)<br />
* Grant (new volunteer) has been recreating the old cool brochure, so now we have it.<br />
* Ken: What is the revision process (review from collectives to provide input to the brochure)? also suggestions about how to prevent the newsletter email from becoming some wild long thread<br />
* Julio: is it printed right now?<br />
* Julian: still figuring this out.<br />
* Julian: will hope to have a paper copy<br />
* Julio: to discuss or consensus? <br />
** Julian: to discuss ++<br />
* Julian: there will be biz cards in the front to give out for folks wanting to get involved w/ Omni<br />
* Julian - there is a new Omni urgent/rapid response Signal messenger group; if you want to be on that but aren't check in with Julian or Jenny<br />
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* jenny: come to a comms wg meeting or email the comms list if you want to participate in messaging & outreach!<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Budget Spreadsheet is here, updated to reflect March actual income & expenses (see tabs at bottom): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit#gid=1673282501<br />
* Jenny sent out OOC (old-omni)'s 2014 & 2015 federal tax forms to 'consensus' yesterday for review by the board before filing. Planning to file them Friday, and then work on 2016 OC & OOC federal & state forms (due May 15)<br />
** They are also on the wiki here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances#990_Tax_Forms (fyi 990s are legally required to be made public. for fun and research you can find most nonprofits 990s on Guidestar)<br />
*** Are all the collectives required to report?<br />
*** Report... you mean file 990s? Only independent orgs. Fiscally sponsored project income and expenses are covered by Omni (at least what goes through your bank subaccounts. need otherwise thorough income and expense statements if not eg gws)<br />
*** do we need to file them with Omni, or on their own?<br />
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OMNI: ABDC, BAPS, Sudo, GWS, LibLens, Real Vegan Cheese <br />
** So these groups only have to submit annual income and expense reports (or more frequently), which were already sent for 2014 & 2015. Will reach out to groups I don't have accurate income & expense tracking for for 2016, but that's only GWS, ABDC and LibLens I need updates from, and not much is involved there - I think two unaccounted transactions for LibLens and 3-4 for ABDC. Unsure wrt GWS but we have an email thread running).<br />
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NOT OMNI (in a legal sense): CCL, CSC, FNB, Phat Beets, TIL, GCEA<br />
** These groups need to do their own taxes and other government filings<br />
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* March total income was $12,358.19, total expenses $22,554.30 (repaid ~$13,000 in loans). End of March balance amongst all accounts was $19,715.73. Current collective income around $6,862 (down about $2K) due to loss of Agua Viva, GCEA/YES, deductions in CCL/sudo rent, fewer donations to BAPS, etc.<br />
* Expenses to decrease to ~16K for April, May, June, then down to ~$11K starting July.<br />
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=== ad hoc Security Culture ===<br />
Meetings: mostly Tuesdays 5:30<br />
* Julian: Two meeting since last delegates. <br />
** Proposal: concern about having peoples names in meeting notes. remind people that it's not necessary to have ppl state their name in notes. Remind people that this isn't a private space. There will be a poster reminding ppl how they can respond to cops at the door.<br />
** oh dang! forgot to post it up >_<<br />
**Kazoo: There's a microphone in the center of the ballroom. Rob will disconnect for all of us healthy-paranoia types:)<br />
*** jenny: that's a really good point. in the early days we asked people to give their name or nym...<br />
*** Laura: This isn't a fully private space. Legally we must keep notes and record who was here in a way that we can demonstrate quorum after the fact, for example. We are a PUBLIC charity, legally.<br />
**** for delegates, but isn't necessary for all meetings. also v good point though. aka tonight for the proposal below, once we consense i need to draft and sign a board resolution that includes names of the delegates.<br />
**** ken: felt that ccl was disrespected that this working group was formalized after ccl left that meeting<br />
***** jenny: that's what happens if you leave a meeting before it's over - most decisions for next steps happen at the end of the meeting/discussion. 2 ccl'ers were at the 1st of these meetings. not disrespect at all imo nor really about ccl - more about having conversations that have needed to happen for a long time. <br />
*** Julian - emails about this working group were announced over discuss & folks were told to emia<br />
*** Steve - had the impression Ken intentionally decided to leave w/ knowledge the discussion was still on the agenda <br />
***** ken: would never leave a meeting if things were still open, he just misunderstood things were over. would never ever leave a meeting.<br />
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== Member Collectives Reports (10 mins - 1 min each ;-) ) ==<br />
A coupla meetings ago we agreed to include member collective reports as a regular agenda item. What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
* we're skipping this this time<br />
* Julian - if you have anything you want to be in the newsletter send to julianfrancispark@gmail.com asap<br />
<br />
== Proposal: Approve full adoption of all fiscally-sponsored projects [10 minutes] ==<br />
via Jenny, 3/30/17:<br />
<br />
Greetings omninoms,<br />
<br />
Just to dot all of our i's and cross all our t's, especially given the ridiculously extensive nature of the property tax exemption application, Jesse has suggested that the new OC board formally approve to fiscally sponsor the groups previously fiscally-sponsored by OOC (old-omni).<br />
<br />
The following are 'new drafts' of each fiscal sponsorship agreement, albeit they're basically the same with the exception of changing the name of the sponsoring org from 'Omni Oakland Commons' to 'Omni Commons', and they are retroactively applicable dating 7 Dec 2016 (the date in which we officially acquired ownership of the building). In addition, I changed the bank account for Real Vegan Cheese from Bank of the West to Unify. Regarding the bank account and moving over the remaining sponsored projects (namely RVC and ABDC), we will need all authorized checksigners to sign a form and show up in-person simultaneously at Unify to authorize the accounts.<br />
<br />
Art Bison Design Coop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KZd8ihASDkeYjHDN0usYSyVCDwCNlktC1JapKnLVGI/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Kazoo<br />
<br />
Kazoo can do so tomorrow or Monday. <br />
<br />
Bay Area Public School: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wa8AfEY9qngOQQk24RXJk9fKvFRHr4EelpuLDiudgMc/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Julian<br />
<br />
Global Womens Strike - Omni Collective: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J7y4npQfhUXwFD-i14azK2SDkAe_2OwbD-emtdVPz5c/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Lori<br />
<br />
Liberated Lens Collective: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FBh2i7w8OYGcDT1cnpaaijBO2WzB002tufJxWtD7Co/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Liz<br />
<br />
Real Vegan Cheese: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XpSA-coNdIPIcm-7ucdxdjHVJN-Y925GwQ9xooXZRdY/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Marc<br />
<br />
Sudo Room: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1agNYQrkmES5yViFSsKvuDHmFbzy_4qyE9ieDsqF37pc/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Charley<br />
<br />
<br />
* When is the deadline to go to bank for check signers?<br />
** asap. so no deadline by bank? will make a doodle.<br />
*** several groups unable to open or use new accounts (eg, abdc, liblens, real vegan cheese) because of the current cap on # of checksigners. <br />
<br />
=== Consenso ===<br />
* Yay: ABDC, CCL, BAPS, FNB, Sudo<br />
* Nay:<br />
* Abstain: GWS<br />
Measure Passes<br />
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== Proposal: Omni Storefront & Welcoming Committee by ABDC [20 minutes] ==<br />
via Marcus, 3/31/17:<br />
<br />
Greetings Omni,<br />
<br />
ABDC is retracting our previous proposal to rent and occupy space in the front hall, we will continue only to pay for the ticket booth room. Instead we are seeking reinitialize Omni’s former Welcoming Working Group and steward the front entry hall.<br />
<br />
In this stewardship we have several plans of action we want to execute.<br />
<br />
We would like to clean-out, finish construction work, paint and decorate the front entry way.<br />
<br />
We plan to operate a casual donation based café that any interested person can help operate.<br />
<br />
We would like to set up a merchandise selling zone with two or three racks where we display Omni, ABDC and other collective’s apparel & merchandise.<br />
<br />
We want to have one-day monthly printing showcases in the front hall where we show the public the silk-screen printing process.<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Our plan is to spend one month improving the front hall space. We will clean, remove junk, patch holes, fill in missing ceiling tiles, paint and all around beautify the space. The front hall will consist of a mobile café zone, a merchandise zone, a mobile stage zone and seating/recreational space. We intend to keep everything mobile or easily moveable to ensure the space can adapt to the needs of any future events that take place there.<br />
<br />
2. We plan to operate a casual cafe spot that any collective can operate [this part is not the formal proposal text] During that one-month improvement period we will also build a mobile coffee cart. This will be a simple donation based café, which we will staff and operate with ABDC members and other interested and committed individuals to ensure regular hours the public can rely on. We already have enough of our members committed to keep it open 4 days a week. The café will be an integral part of the Welcoming WG by keeping the doors open during operating hours.<br />
ABDC will manage the operations, supplies and finances related to running the café.<br />
<br />
3. The merchandise selling zone will simply be some clothing racks or cases with which we can display material we have printed. This would primarily consist of Omni, Phat Beets and ABDC t-shirts along with any future designs from the other collectives. The same ABDC member running the café will also make the sales for the merchandise.<br />
<br />
4. As part of our ongoing effort to bring in new members and introduce the public to silk-screening we want to host day-long monthly printing blasts where we print t-shirts or posters in the main hall as an activity the public can watch and interact with.<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Steve: idea of having an infoshop kind of thing here is terrific. kind of already is here but really to do so need open hours <br />
** folks need to be able to be here w/o having to buy anything<br />
** in BAPS discussion, Steve was hesitant about the "merchandizing area" - but is pro "gallery space" for displaying art<br />
* Kazoo - regarding concerning selling stuff; everyone works for someone, we work for ourselves. 3 members of our collective are formerly incarcertated. our ethos is pro-empowerment, not for-profit. we will sell things & folks who don't have other jobs can learn with us how to make their own things to sell. Our collective provides free classes, and donation based printing opportunities. <br />
* Robb - perhaps not a good idea to have merchandise right here / out all the time.<br />
** Kazoo - when no one is staffing, the racks won't be out. <br />
** Robb - need the welcome folks to be looking after folk's roaming the space/not taking stuff<br />
* Almaz - there are various version of the proposal currently being discussed, and some places <br />
* Steve: 1: couches stay. 2: committee need to be open to allow ppl from outside to plan events. 3: any can sell stuff through the store<br />
* Joe: wants a free box in the zone<br />
* Almaz – how does the breakdown of profits share with Omni/individual collectives<br />
* Robb - feels strongly this should be a working group rather than thru ABDC; things that pertain to the whole Omni shouldn't be run by a single group. tho in effect this has happened in the past.<br />
** without a working group meeting time its not a working group. everyone has to be invited to participate and propose the group. <br />
** Ken - largely agrees with Robb w/ caveat that there have been various iterations of cafes making it work. trusts ABDC to get something going, even if small, before we get ambitions and assure the working group exists. someone getting something off the ground would be great where CCL et all & other artists/artisans could have an outlet for work produced<br />
* Marcus - ABDC isn't proposing to run/take over Welcoming Committee, but to get the space ready for the committee & also that their are members willing to staff some of the committee's open hours. the proposal is to let ABDC get the space ready<br />
* Robb - why can't this just get going as the welcoming working group meeting time? we need to revamp it. It is a money making thing to people to use this space to have meetings. Its a good space to have meetings<br />
* Lynn – people like the idea generally. What do we need to do to support this happening<br />
* Kazoo –<br />
* Robb – its not a baked proposal yet… can they just announce the time?<br />
** everyone interested should agree on a time to meet. woul<br />
* steve - proposal for the revamped welcomng working group including following priorities - schedule open space; clean up space so it could be a gallery; decided<br />
* jenny: "the committee" does not currently exist. would need to be rebooted by people with the energy to reboot it. sounds like that would be abdc members, robb, abe i would imagine (who stewards both the zine racks and the kids room). i'd be down to help with labor. a daytime or early evening (like 5pm) might be good so that visioning/painting type of work can happen in the light of day. fyi old welcoming committee wiki page is here for reference - https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcoming_Committee <br />
* Robb - we don't need to consense on anything new regarding having a new welcoming working group b/c the working group already exists<br />
* Almaz - its great that ABDC has energy for this; ABDC has been doing great work & deserves space to display their awesome work; this will work thru the working group<br />
* Marcus - should we email to arrange a time or state a time now? send a message out. <br />
** jenny - there's also a list if folks want to use that to coordinate. https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/welcoming<br />
* Kazoo - who would staff the working group - committed people: Lynn, Almaz, Marcus, Robb, Kazoo, Ken<br />
** Wednesday the 19th? <br />
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== Discussion: Temescal Street Fair == <br />
* Ken - I'm trying to collect the collectives that want to participate in the Street Fair. Ken will send out an email with further information. Getting involved in the Street Fair thru Omni will include discounted booths<br />
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<div>Omni Delegates' Meeting - 06 April 2017 7pm-9pm<br />
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=== Agenda === <br />
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]<br />
* Announcements [10 minutes]<br />
* Bans [5 minutes]<br />
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minuntes]<br />
* Member Collectives Reports <br />
* Proposal: Approve full adoption of all fiscally-sponsored projects [10 minutes]<br />
* Proposal: Omni Storefront & Welcoming Committee by ABDC [20 minutes]<br />
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]<br />
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=== Introductions ===<br />
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation<br />
* Marcus, he/him, abdc, fundraising, finance<br />
* Robb, he/him, sudoroom, general purpose volunteer<br />
* Kazoo, we, abdc<br />
* Julian, he/him , baps, communications<br />
* Rachel, he/him, gws<br />
* Julio, he/him, commmons, sudo, finance<br />
* Joe, he/him, fnb, freelance commons, building<br />
* Lynn, she/her, commons, cleanup, president/princess (not her choice)<br />
* Ken, he/him, ccl, building<br />
* remote-jenny<br />
* remote-laura<br />
* Steve M, he/him, baps<br />
* Almaz, YES<br />
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=== Meeting Roles ===<br />
* Facilitator/s: Marcus<br />
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.<br />
* Stacktaker: Kazoo<br />
* Timekeeper: Joe<br />
* Notetaker/s: Julio, Julian, Kazoo<br />
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom<br />
* Vibe Reader: Lynn<br />
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): 4/20: Kazoo<br />
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=== Delegates ===<br />
* ABDC: Kazoo<br />
* BAPS: Julian<br />
* CCL: Ken<br />
* CSC: <br />
* FNB: Joe<br />
* GWS: Rachel<br />
* LL: (inactive after this meeting)<br />
* Sudo: Robb<br />
* TIL: (inactive)<br />
* YES: (inactive) not a member collective - this is probably temporary<br />
* Quorum: 6/8 active, Yes<br />
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== Announcements ==<br />
* Rachel has cards for an event April 23rd 3pm: Dr. Maryse Narcisse (presidential candidate in Haiti before electoral coup) coming to Oakland<br />
** contact HAiti Action Committee action.haiti@gmail.com - https://www.facebook.com/events/1108940769234958/<br />
* Joe: Anniversary of Peoples Park: Apr 23 12pm - 6pm<br />
* Ken: Bay Area Applied Mycology has a lab Sunday 4/9 2-6pm at CCL (including dyeing with mushrooms)<br />
* Ken: Temescal Street Fair, discussion about who migth want to participate<br />
* Ken: with rain today and this weekend, chanterelle season continues in the Oakland Hills<br />
**Let's have a field trip!<br />
* Marcus is feeling good<br />
** yay!<br />
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== Bans ==<br />
* No new bans<br />
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]<br />
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== Working Group Report-Backs ==<br />
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=== Building & permits ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays (6pm)<br />
* Robb: ordered cealing winches<br />
* Joe: we walked the roof two weeks ago, bubbles that<br />
we need to deal with in the roof coating. Robb hauled down most of the tarps and other stuff that is there.<br />
* Jenny: can call Vince for any roof repairs, fix leaks etc. His # is 510-453-6273- have him bill us<br />
* Joe: I agree with Robb that we can do all that. <br />
** jenny: ...all the roof repairs?<br />
** joe: yes. Robb <br />
* Robb: The areas that are leaking don't look bad, it's near the skylights<br />
* Ken: work in progress: 5 year plan for finance; sprinklers, elevator, kitchen, bathroom, skylights, sound barrier), south wall basement leak repair<br />
* jenny: also a trello board of tasks if anyone wants to add things that need fixing, or take on some task - <br />
https://trello.com/invite/b/OWTkamHn/e69fe53831c98edcd80d3caf04516525/building-maintenance<br />
* julio: if you have more contributions, come to a Monday 6pm meeting, or email one of the members of the group or building@omnicommons.org<br />
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building<br />
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=== Fundraising ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 1:00pm<br />
* Almaz: working groups can put budget together for specific things to help writing grants<br />
* Laura: Fundraisng WG would like to hold a joint meeting between us and Finance and Building to make - or decide upon a process to make - a medium term plan for building maintenance and upgrades. We need this plan for budgeting and fundraising. I am imagining this would be a longer than usual meeting, maybe on a weekend day, but could be weeknight.<br />
** Ken, and others recommend a Monday night in two or three weeks, need some prep time<br />
** Laura: May 1? I will work on a facilitation plan to make this as productive as possible<br />
** People think this is not a good day because there will be many actions for various causes that day May 8, 7pm?<br />
** The people agree with the 8th. The title? Building/Fundraising/Finance Joint Meeting? Sure<br />
** All power to the people!<br />
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=== Commons ===<br />
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm<br />
* Jenny: Commons WG made $6,469.35 in March :o thank you commons wg!!! <br />
* Julio making a pitch to get more volunteers: best practices being implimented to make the work managable for all wg volunteers, e.g. non-generic email subject lines so you can easily tell what to attend to/what to ignore<br />
* Joe talking about certain events<br />
** Need help for Phat Beets event next Friday. The 14th; make sure cleaning happens before and after, security (if needed)<br />
** Julio and Lynn will be there to help. Jenny will come by too & Laura. It's a party! Ken is available, just grab him from CCL. Julian also will be there.<br />
* Ken: Kat Harrison on May 20. Is there a contract? Split between CCL and Kat Harrison. Jenny said Omni doesn't get anything directly. - i don't think i said that (jenny), not bottomlining any events for april or may (basically until taxes & prop tax exemption app are done) - <br />
** Laura: Ken said that in the fundraising meeting. We agreed that CCL needs the money and would pay most of it to the Omni anyway.<br />
*** oh yeah, that makes sense fo sho<br />
** Julio will talk with Erique (from BAAM). Want to do this quarterly. I will talk about what makes sense to do contractually and with invoicing.<br />
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* This group needs help:<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons<br />
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking<br />
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=== Communications ===<br />
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm<br />
* Julian: there will be another newsletter in may. If we have time we can do a report back from collectives. <br />
**It's on the agenda below (cool thx)<br />
* Grant (new volunteer) has been recreating the old cool brochure, so now we have it.<br />
* Ken: What is the revision process (review from collectives to provide input to the brochure)? also suggestions about how to prevent the newsletter email from becoming some wild long thread<br />
* Julio: is it printed right now?<br />
* Julian: still figuring this out.<br />
* Julian: will hope to have a paper copy<br />
* Julio: to discuss or consensus? <br />
** Julian: to discuss ++<br />
* Julian: there will be biz cards in the front to give out for folks wanting to get involved w/ Omni<br />
* Julian - there is a new Omni urgent/rapid response Signal messenger group; if you want to be on that but aren't check in with Julian or Jenny<br />
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* jenny: come to a comms wg meeting or email the comms list if you want to participate in messaging & outreach!<br />
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=== Finance ===<br />
Meetings: Mondays at 6pm<br />
* Budget Spreadsheet is here, updated to reflect March actual income & expenses (see tabs at bottom): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit#gid=1673282501<br />
* Jenny sent out OOC (old-omni)'s 2014 & 2015 federal tax forms to 'consensus' yesterday for review by the board before filing. Planning to file them Friday, and then work on 2016 OC & OOC federal & state forms (due May 15)<br />
** They are also on the wiki here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances#990_Tax_Forms (fyi 990s are legally required to be made public. for fun and research you can find most nonprofits 990s on Guidestar)<br />
*** Are all the collectives required to report?<br />
*** Report... you mean file 990s? Only independent orgs. Fiscally sponsored project income and expenses are covered by Omni (at least what goes through your bank subaccounts. need otherwise thorough income and expense statements if not eg gws)<br />
*** do we need to file them with Omni, or on their own?<br />
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OMNI: ABDC, BAPS, Sudo, GWS, LibLens, Real Vegan Cheese <br />
** So these groups only have to submit annual income and expense reports (or more frequently), which were already sent for 2014 & 2015. Will reach out to groups I don't have accurate income & expense tracking for for 2016, but that's only GWS, ABDC and LibLens I need updates from, and not much is involved there - I think two unaccounted transactions for LibLens and 3-4 for ABDC. Unsure wrt GWS but we have an email thread running).<br />
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NOT OMNI (in a legal sense): CCL, CSC, FNB, Phat Beets, TIL, GCEA<br />
** These groups need to do their own taxes and other government filings<br />
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* March total income was $12,358.19, total expenses $22,554.30 (repaid ~$13,000 in loans). End of March balance amongst all accounts was $19,715.73. Current collective income around $6,862 (down about $2K) due to loss of Agua Viva, GCEA/YES, deductions in CCL/sudo rent, fewer donations to BAPS, etc.<br />
* Expenses to decrease to ~16K for April, May, June, then down to ~$11K starting July.<br />
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=== ad hoc Security Culture ===<br />
Meetings: mostly Tuesdays 5:30<br />
* Julian: Two meeting since last delegates. <br />
** Proposal: concern about having peoples names in meeting notes. remind people that it's not necessary to have ppl state their name in notes. Remind people that this isn't a private space. There will be a poster reminding ppl how they can respond to cops at the door.<br />
** oh dang! forgot to post it up >_<<br />
**Kazoo: There's a microphone in the center of the ballroom. Rob will disconnect for all of us healthy-paranoia types:)<br />
*** jenny: that's a really good point. in the early days we asked people to give their name or nym...<br />
*** Laura: This isn't a fully private space. Legally we must keep notes and record who was here in a way that we can demonstrate quorum after the fact, for example. We are a PUBLIC charity, legally.<br />
**** for delegates, but isn't necessary for all meetings. also v good point though. aka tonight for the proposal below, once we consense i need to draft and sign a board resolution that includes names of the delegates.<br />
**** ken: felt that ccl was disrespected that this working group was formalized after ccl left that meeting<br />
***** jenny: that's what happens if you leave a meeting before it's over - most decisions for next steps happen at the end of the meeting/discussion. 2 ccl'ers were at the 1st of these meetings. not disrespect at all imo nor really about ccl - more about having conversations that have needed to happen for a long time. <br />
*** Julian - emails about this working group were announced over discuss & folks were told to emia<br />
*** Steve - had the impression Ken intentionally decided to leave w/ knowledge the discussion was still on the agenda <br />
***** ken: would never leave a meeting if things were still open, he just misunderstood things were over. would never ever leave a meeting.<br />
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== Member Collectives Reports (10 mins - 1 min each ;-) ) ==<br />
A coupla meetings ago we agreed to include member collective reports as a regular agenda item. What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?<br />
* we're skipping this this time<br />
* Julian - if you have anything you want to be in the newsletter send to julianfrancispark@gmail.com asap<br />
<br />
== Proposal: Approve full adoption of all fiscally-sponsored projects [10 minutes] ==<br />
via Jenny, 3/30/17:<br />
<br />
Greetings omninoms,<br />
<br />
Just to dot all of our i's and cross all our t's, especially given the ridiculously extensive nature of the property tax exemption application, Jesse has suggested that the new OC board formally approve to fiscally sponsor the groups previously fiscally-sponsored by OOC (old-omni).<br />
<br />
The following are 'new drafts' of each fiscal sponsorship agreement, albeit they're basically the same with the exception of changing the name of the sponsoring org from 'Omni Oakland Commons' to 'Omni Commons', and they are retroactively applicable dating 7 Dec 2016 (the date in which we officially acquired ownership of the building). In addition, I changed the bank account for Real Vegan Cheese from Bank of the West to Unify. Regarding the bank account and moving over the remaining sponsored projects (namely RVC and ABDC), we will need all authorized checksigners to sign a form and show up in-person simultaneously at Unify to authorize the accounts.<br />
<br />
Art Bison Design Coop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KZd8ihASDkeYjHDN0usYSyVCDwCNlktC1JapKnLVGI/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Kazoo<br />
<br />
Kazoo can do so tomorrow or Monday. <br />
<br />
Bay Area Public School: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wa8AfEY9qngOQQk24RXJk9fKvFRHr4EelpuLDiudgMc/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Julian<br />
<br />
Global Womens Strike - Omni Collective: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J7y4npQfhUXwFD-i14azK2SDkAe_2OwbD-emtdVPz5c/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Lori<br />
<br />
Liberated Lens Collective: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FBh2i7w8OYGcDT1cnpaaijBO2WzB002tufJxWtD7Co/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Liz<br />
<br />
Real Vegan Cheese: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XpSA-coNdIPIcm-7ucdxdjHVJN-Y925GwQ9xooXZRdY/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Marc<br />
<br />
Sudo Room: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1agNYQrkmES5yViFSsKvuDHmFbzy_4qyE9ieDsqF37pc/edit?usp=sharing - check-signer(s): Charley<br />
<br />
<br />
* When is the deadline to go to bank for check signers?<br />
** asap. so no deadline by bank? will make a doodle.<br />
*** several groups unable to open or use new accounts (eg, abdc, liblens, real vegan cheese) because of the current cap on # of checksigners. <br />
<br />
=== Consenso ===<br />
* Yay: ABDC, CCL, BAPS, FNB, Sudo<br />
* Nay:<br />
* Abstain: GWS<br />
Measure Passes<br />
<br />
== Proposal: Omni Storefront & Welcoming Committee by ABDC [20 minutes] ==<br />
via Marcus, 3/31/17:<br />
<br />
Greetings Omni,<br />
<br />
ABDC is retracting our previous proposal to rent and occupy space in the front hall, we will continue only to pay for the ticket booth room. Instead we are seeking reinitialize Omni’s former Welcoming Working Group and steward the front entry hall.<br />
<br />
In this stewardship we have several plans of action we want to execute.<br />
<br />
We would like to clean-out, finish construction work, paint and decorate the front entry way.<br />
<br />
We plan to operate a casual donation based café that any interested person can help operate.<br />
<br />
We would like to set up a merchandise selling zone with two or three racks where we display Omni, ABDC and other collective’s apparel & merchandise.<br />
<br />
We want to have one-day monthly printing showcases in the front hall where we show the public the silk-screen printing process.<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Our plan is to spend one month improving the front hall space. We will clean, remove junk, patch holes, fill in missing ceiling tiles, paint and all around beautify the space. The front hall will consist of a mobile café zone, a merchandise zone, a mobile stage zone and seating/recreational space. We intend to keep everything mobile or easily moveable to ensure the space can adapt to the needs of any future events that take place there.<br />
<br />
2. We plan to operate a casual cafe spot that any collective can operate [this part is not the formal proposal text] During that one-month improvement period we will also build a mobile coffee cart. This will be a simple donation based café, which we will staff and operate with ABDC members and other interested and committed individuals to ensure regular hours the public can rely on. We already have enough of our members committed to keep it open 4 days a week. The café will be an integral part of the Welcoming WG by keeping the doors open during operating hours.<br />
ABDC will manage the operations, supplies and finances related to running the café.<br />
<br />
3. The merchandise selling zone will simply be some clothing racks or cases with which we can display material we have printed. This would primarily consist of Omni, Phat Beets and ABDC t-shirts along with any future designs from the other collectives. The same ABDC member running the café will also make the sales for the merchandise.<br />
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4. As part of our ongoing effort to bring in new members and introduce the public to silk-screening we want to host day-long monthly printing blasts where we print t-shirts or posters in the main hall as an activity the public can watch and interact with.<br />
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=== Discussion ===<br />
* Steve: idea of having an infoshop kind of thing here is terrific. kind of already is here but really to do so need open hours <br />
** folks need to be able to be here w/o having to buy anything<br />
** in BAPS discussion, Steve was hesitant about the "merchandizing area" - but is pro "gallery space" for displaying art<br />
* Kazoo - regarding concerning selling stuff; everyone works for someone, we work for ourselves. 3 members of our collective are formerly incarcertated. our ethos is pro-empowerment, not for-profit. we will sell things & folks who don't have other jobs can learn with us how to make their own things to sell. Our collective provides free classes, and donation based printing opportunities. <br />
* Robb - perhaps not a good idea to have merchandise right here / out all the time.<br />
** Kazoo - when no one is staffing, the racks won't be out. <br />
** Robb - need the welcome folks to be looking after folk's roaming the space/not taking stuff<br />
* Almaz - there are various version of the proposal currently being discussed, and some places <br />
* Steve: 1: couches stay. 2: committee need to be open to allow ppl from outside to plan events. 3: any can sell stuff through the store<br />
* Joe: wants a free box in the zone<br />
* Almaz – how does the breakdown of profits share with Omni/individual collectives<br />
* Robb - feels strongly this should be a working group rather than thru ABDC; things that pertain to the whole Omni shouldn't be run by a single group. tho in effect this has happened in the past.<br />
** without a working group meeting time its not a working group. everyone has to be invited to participate and propose the group. <br />
** Ken - largely agrees with Robb w/ caveat that there have been various iterations of cafes making it work. trusts ABDC to get something going, even if small, before we get ambitions and assure the working group exists. someone getting something off the ground would be great where CCL et all & other artists/artisans could have an outlet for work produced<br />
* Marcus - ABDC isn't proposing to run/take over Welcoming Committee, but to get the space ready for the committee & also that their are members willing to staff some of the committee's open hours. the proposal is to let ABDC get the space ready<br />
* Robb - why can't this just get going as the welcoming working group meeting time? we need to revamp it. It is a money making thing to people to use this space to have meetings. Its a good space to have meetings<br />
* Lynn – people like the idea generally. What do we need to do to support this happening<br />
* Kazoo –<br />
* Robb – its not a baked proposal yet… can they just announce the time?<br />
** everyone interested should agree on a time to meet. woul<br />
* steve - proposal for the revamped welcomng working group including following priorities - schedule open space; clean up space so it could be a gallery; decided<br />
* jenny: "the committee" does not currently exist. would need to be rebooted by people with the energy to reboot it. sounds like that would be abdc members, robb, abe i would imagine (who stewards both the zine racks and the kids room). i'd be down to help with labor. a daytime or early evening (like 5pm) might be good so that visioning/painting type of work can happen in the light of day. fyi old welcoming committee wiki page is here for reference - https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcoming_Committee <br />
* Robb - we don't need to consense on anything new regarding having a new welcoming working group b/c the working group already exists<br />
* Almaz - its great that ABDC has energy for this; ABDC has been doing great work & deserves space to display their awesome work; this will work thru the working group<br />
* Marcus - should we email to arrange a time or state a time now? send a message out. <br />
** jenny - there's also a list if folks want to use that to coordinate. https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/welcoming<br />
* Kazoo - who would staff the working group - committed people: Lynn, Almaz, Marcus, Robb, Kazoo, Ken<br />
** Wednesday the 19th? <br />
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== Discussion: Temescal Street Fair == <br />
* Ken - I'm trying to collect the collectives that want to participate in the Street Fair. Ken will send out an email with further information. Getting involved in the Street Fair thru Omni will include discounted booths</div>Jfparkhttps://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Event:2017/03/28_Security_Culture&diff=5189Event:2017/03/28 Security Culture2017-04-05T01:27:29Z<p>Jfpark: Created page with "= attending = * Julian - BAPS * Lori - GWS * Alan - CCL * Nicole - friend of CCL * Steve - BAPS = checkins, meeting security, & agenda review = * how are you? if we don't kn..."</p>
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<div>= attending = <br />
* Julian - BAPS<br />
* Lori - GWS<br />
* Alan - CCL<br />
* Nicole - friend of CCL<br />
* Steve - BAPS<br />
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= checkins, meeting security, & agenda review =<br />
* how are you? if we don't know one another, let's introduce ourselves<br />
* meeting security<br />
** at the last meeting the issue of names appearing in notes and of notes being published openly was discussed with some amount of concern – what are ways forward on this? <br />
*** Lori - minutes are perhaps less useful for without names them?<br />
*** Steve - what are notes for? <br />
**** Julian - keeping a record of what was discussed and decided so that a group can move forward taking such into account<br />
*** Steve - if we are going to keep minutes it should be with an eye towards keeping them towards educational value for folks not at the meeting; minutes as a project<br />
*** Julian - keeping names in, but putting them off the record?<br />
*** Lori - keep in mind there's nothing really secure about the omni as a whole, so if we're not putting names in these minutes it seems not that big of a deal <br />
**** tell people this isn't a secure building; that already heightens people to the issues. <br />
*** Julian - make a reminder that the minutes will be public along w/ the ability to be kept off the record <br />
*** Steve - if we do want to discuss things that may need to be secure, we should go somewhere else <br />
*** Julian - let's send these as a proposal to the delegates committee for delegates/working group meeting practice, namely: omni delegates and working group meetings that will address items of sensitive concern should begin with a reminder that the Omni is not a location that is secured from possible surveillance. if private things need to be discussed those discussions should occur elsewhere. additionally, anyone attending a meeting should have the right not to have their presence at a meeting or things they say at a meeting recorded in notes, as they choose. meeting participants should be told they may ask for both particular and general instances of their name and their words being kept off the record. for example, "i would like my name kept out of this whole meetings' notes," "i would like my name not to be associated in the notes with what i just said," "i would like what i just said not to be put in the notes," etc<br />
** agenda reviewed, sounds good to folks<br />
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= updates =<br />
* Alan - CCL meeting resulted in decision favorable to this working groups consensus with respect to the matter of concern from the recent past. future practice remains undecided. <br />
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= security/know your rights resource review = <br />
* folks introduce the resources they brought<br />
** Alan - Don't Talk to the Cops – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik&t=34s<br />
** Lori - National Lawyers Guild (NLG) "You Have the Right to Remain Silent" https://www.nlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/kyrpamphlet-Eng-May-2015-FINAL.pdf<br />
*** NLG are extensively involved in supporting the movements<br />
*** roughly, if the FBI or police come, step outside, close the door, asking for their card, my lawyer will call you.<br />
**** that should be our practice<br />
*** Steve - NLG history - ACLU would only take on constitutional cases, 1st ammendment etc. Communist Party Emergency Civil Liberties Committee - they would take on cases. ECLC & ACLU became over-burdened; NLG emerged then out of the New Left. ACLU not so left oriented<br />
*** Lori - this document covers ICE, Grand Juries, etc. <br />
** Julian - Anti-repression committee's trifold - https://antirepressionbayarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/KYR-Trifold-2-pages.pdf<br />
*** the "principles of solidarity" there might be a good example of something we could adopt as an addition to our statement of solidarity<br />
*** they key point is that we don't talk to the police concerning our comrades. <br />
*** Lori - in the case of GWS, e.g., in the case of a rape some women would want to report this to the police, & we don't want to control folks on how they seek justice<br />
**** we probably won't want to flatly adopt the anti-repression principle "we won't talk to the police aobut our comrades" - we could have a policy: "we as the omni don't talk to the police" but its hard and probably undesirable to control the speech of individuals associated with the omni<br />
** Julian - proposal: we send out these resources with the notes & ask folks to review them for our next meeting<br />
*** people should bring back thoughts about what the context of adopting protocols or policy's for the Omni would be, what would need to be <br />
** Steve - if we're talking about not talking the FBI except maybe in certain circumstances, that needs to be contextualized within a broader context of collective self-defense & self-reliance, so that in those possible exceptions the police aren't the only or first option; that contacting the police would only be set as a very very last result<br />
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= legal advice on security protocol = <br />
* can our lawyer comrade come next time, or is their further word from them?<br />
** maybe meet a couple times before?<br />
** what questions do we have?<br />
*** Julian - how would you adopt these kinds of general practices suggested by the various security/KYR resources to the specific circumstances of the omni?<br />
*** what kinds of policies should we adpot? what practices? how do they fit at the omni? what do you suggest in the case of any emergency? <br />
*** Alan - perhaps we have somewhere clearly specifying our policies? on the website<br />
*** Julian: perhaps to integrate the practices we're discussing in the the "safer spaces policy"<br />
*** Lori - we should also make sure to invite folks beyond the working group to this discussion with Ben<br />
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= omni know your rights training = <br />
* Alan - much will be in the video<br />
* Lori - developing practical tools should be our primary goal<br />
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= collective self-defense = <br />
* Julian - last time we discussed possible risks of non-state actor attack's that may provoke need for self-defense messures<br />
** how do we build omni's capacity for self-defense?<br />
* a possible proposal for the delegates assembly – if your group is contacted by law enforcement then you should check in w/ omni before moving forward; if you plan on contacting law enforcement you should check in for omni consensus before moving forward<br />
** Alan - this potentially presents difficulties for emergency situations<br />
*** Steve - we should not report to law enforcement, but get name and photo & spread around to the movements. the movements and our own collectives provides a great number of folks with great self-defense experience & familiarity with armed or dangerous people<br />
* Julian - having communications systems (currently worked on by Jenny in Comms working group) for urgent call/response would help too!<br />
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= political education = <br />
* if composing radical politics and ethics among commoners will make protocols / procedures (especially, e.g., punitive ones) less necessary, how do we incorporate that into these other security culture practices (or is it a separate process?)<br />
* Lori: what if BAPS took political education project around this matter on to bring to the Omni & delegates committee? its not that it's not important, its more of a question of where does it in all the work; potentially very nicely for <br />
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= next steps / action items = <br />
* Julian - send out meeting proposal to consensus<br />
** security/Know Rights resources to working group & solicit response<br />
** follow up with jenny & ben<br />
** will coordinate w/ folks to plan the next meeting</div>Jfpark