With each project include:

• a description of the intent and details
• a list of who is involved with the project and identify a project lead (if necessary)
• what work needs to be done for it (including all on-going work)

 

 

SeattleDIY Collective Sunday Meetings

• 1st Sunday: Something Wonderful, 2nd Sunday: New Crompton, 3rd Sunday: HTFC, 4th Sunday: Dancylvania. Meetings begin with check-in, followed with agenda items. One facilitator, one taker-of-minutes.
• who is involved: all active collective members!
• to do: Discuss general philosophy with meeting facilitation and time-sharing. Have explicit anti-Oppression ground rules.

 

Guide To Seattle zine

• description: A zine guide to Seattle. Locations are organized by neighborhood then category. Also includes information about other city things like foodbanks, 211, places to volunteer, etc.
• who is involved: Katherine, Emily, Benji, more (add your name if you want to help!)
• to do: A LOT! check Guide to Seattle ToDo. Get art, do layout, print copies, distribute

 

Guide To Putting Shit On zine

• description: A guide to putting on DIY events, compiling the information that we have about doing it in Seattle. Started as a project to help have standards about how to deal with tough situations at shows with security.
• who is involved: Taylor, Benji, Emily, Reed, more
• to do: check SeattleDIY's Guide To Putting Shit On and add to the non-blue highlighted sections. Everything needs some general editing.
• get art, do layout, print copies, distribute

 

Punk Rock Finances zine

• description: A zine about how to manage your relationship (or lack there of) with money in a way that's more comfortable with your anti-establishment needs.
• who is involved: Benji, Douglas, Brooke, input from other collective members
• to do: Get more input from community members, add more interesting ideas on how to live without a boss, distribute to new places.

 

Recipe Book zine

• description: A recipe book with easy and cheap recipes provided by people in the local community. Printed on 4x6 cardstock like traditional recipe cards.
• who is involved: Compiled and edited by Emily. Input from other collective members and non-members
• to do: Print more copies, distribute!

 

Website

• description: A website with an online calendar, a list of community projects, news about the DIY community, links to this wiki and the guide to seattle
• who is involved: Benji
• to do: monthly: update calendar, update news, make sure pages (projects, regular events) are up to date and have current information. Get more people involved with this to decentralize responsibility!

 

Online Community Calendar

• description: A list of the month's diy events. Uses EasyPHPCalendar software. Community members can add their own events and edit events as they see fit.
• who is involved: Benji, "the community"
• to do: update software, do monthly update of events that community members haven't added themselves.

 

SeattleDIY Myspace Account (myspace.com/sdiy)

• description: SeattleDIY's attempt at using an evil social-networking tool to further our own agenda. We post people's need for community housing, repost events, help connect community members
• who is involved: any solid collective member who wants access
• to do: regularly (weekly?) check messages, check bulletins, screen friend requests, post bulletins of important upcoming events

 

Event Tabling/Zine distribution project

• description: Distribute flyers, newsletters, and zines made by us, collective members, and other interesting zinse. Distribution happens via tabling at events.
• who is involved: ?
• to do: print zines, keep in an accessible place, have distribution happen regularly.

 

Monthly Newsletter

• description: A printed monthly community newsletter. Printed on 8.5/14 paper (double sided). Includes news, regular weekly events, farmers markets, a list of the month's events, a list of diy spaces. Newsletters have a typical print run of 400 and are distributed to at least a couple places in each neighborhood (left bank, singles going steady, wayward, squid and ink, Wall of Sound, diy spaces, more)
• who is involved: Benji, collective members at last meeting of the month
• to do: solidify list of places to distribute and get regular volunteers to get them out there.

 

Last Saturday Really Really Free Market

• description: Last Saturday of every month @ Pratt Park (20th & Yesler) from noon to 4pm. Members of the collective bring items to give to the community, and we encourage others to bring stuff too. We also supply veggie dogs, buns, condiments, and stuff to start the park's bbq grill. http://www.myspace.com/seattlereallyfreemarket
• who is involved: Eli, Chris G, Benji, Rebecca, Jake
• to do: distribute flyers, make RRFM sign board, dumpster a day or two before event, ensure there's a car available to bring stuff to donate at Life Long Aids Alliance afterwards

 

Guereally Free Market (future project)

 

• description: GFM is a spontaneous free market to happen at a random place at a random time.
• who is involved: Kaelen
• to do: brainstorm more ideas for details

 

HTFC Craft Store/Handmade Goods Display project (future project)

 

• description: As a way of supporting local crafters and the DIY community, we're going to build small displays to sell crafts at friendly stores and HTFC.
• who is involved: Rebecca, Jake, crafters and interested parties
• to do: Find more craft-makers who want to sell their goods, build displays (suitcases! let's get more), prepare the space at HTFC, solidify arrangements with stores

 

Carousel Festival

• description: Annual DIY Community festival. Includes bands, workshops, sometimes film
• who is involved: Nathan, SDIY members, Derek Ch, chilladelphia, greenhouse, fusion cafe, htfc, dog city, new crompton
• to do: distribute flyers, get tickets to vendors, promote the hell out of it!

 

SeattleDIY Organized/Sponsored Workshops

• description: Occasional workshops at DIY spaces. Past workshops have included Punk Rock Finances, Circuit Bending
• who is involved: 
• to do: circuit bending at Chilladelphia? Talk to Sarah K, Landon, Kyle. Get more workshop ideas and places interested in doing them.

 

Clubhouse (future project)

• description: A center for DIY activity, a hub for distribution, a place to chill and make friend, a home for community and inspired action.
• who is involved: 
• to do: brainstorm location ideas, how to make it sustainable as a "business", look up ideas for grants, explore idea of nonprofit, explore idea of making htfc the clubhouse and how to protect them

 

Benefit Events for SeattleDIY and others, collaborative events

• description: Past shows have been for Carry 5, Home Alive, Food Not Bombs, and Okay?Okay! (home alive & CARA)
• who is involved: 
• to do: brainstorm ideas for other benefits, get more organized with how to get it together and execute it. Do more events like Okay?Okay! that are collaborative and can function outside of SDIY meetings.

 

South End Seattle Community Pantry (future project)

• description: A place for people to drop off excess dumpstered items, excess food bank items, and pick up what others bring. Has a membership model with volunteers dedicated to upkeeping the space
• who is involved: Taylor
• to do: talk to other community pantry at Sherwood, prepare the space, have meetings to work out details and get members in order.

 

Community Distribution Project (future project)

• description: A "job" where a person collects items from the community that need distribution all over town. Members who need items distributed donate a small amount of money or services to compensate the labor of the worker.
• who is involved: Benji, a worker to-be-determined, member organizations.
• to do: finish position description, find worker, get members interested and discuss reasonable 'fee' for service.

 

Riot Grrl Karaoke

• Description:
• involved:
• To do:

 

DIY Directory Zine

• Description:
• involved:
• to do: