<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">with apologies for the delay. here's the notes from the sudo-word meeting last week.</div> </div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>Sudo Room Writers Meeting</title> <!--general stylesheet--> <style type="text/css"> p { padding: 0; margin: 0; } h1, h2, h3, p, li { font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } .notes { font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } td { vertical-align:top;} ul, ol { margin: 0; padding: 0;} </style> `<table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td><!--container--> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tbody><!--content--> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="96%" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" height="37" style="height: 37px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2" style="text-align: left;"> <h1 style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 24px; color: #454545; font-weight: bold;">Sudo Room Writers Meeting</h1> <h2 class="date" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; color: #888;"> May 19, 2013 <span style="padding-left: 5px; color:#aaa;">5:00 PM</span> </h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="33" style="height: 33px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <!-- sections --> <tbody><tr> <td valign="middle" height="37" style="height: 37px; vertical-align: middle;"> <h2 style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: #454545; text-align: left;">Attendees</h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p style="margin: 0; margin-top: 7px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #444; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"> Anna, Rabbit, Ryan Bettencourt, Mediche, Ray, Eddan </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="40" style="height: 36px;"> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="middle" height="37" style="height: 37px; vertical-align: middle;"> <h2 style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: #454545; text-align: left;">Notes</h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Anna.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">First time to Sudo Room, came at suggestion of Vicky. Has some interesting ideas about new and innovative ways to do erotica</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Ray.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Proposal to create a 'book' that allows sighted people to experience reading while blind. Notion of: Braille as Tactility as Narrative.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Mediche.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Interested in explosions and sound. Centered around cosmic sustainability. Looking to capture an image in sound. Wants to establish new spaces.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Proposes: A book that is created by a group of people on a wiki, as a journey. Focus on multi-media, sound & image.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Eddan.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Proposes Neo-Teddy Ruxpin Storytelling Machine. - that can be modified because it is open source and open hardware. Not like Aibo Pet circumvention fiasco.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Ryan.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Interested in the Sudo Press traditional publishing suggestion. Wants to help pull together a book with first serious mainstream discussions of bio-hacking. </span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Discussion of Sudo-Press. details to be specified by group on mailing list.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Rabbit.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Creates machines that write code for you. Interested in scaling up and doing collaborative sudo book. Also interested in sound - suggestion to create a throwback to the old radio shows full of sound as narrative - through Sudo Radio.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Discussion about Electric Sheep Screen-Saver as possible Sudo project. something with distributed computing.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Object that sells itself, like the one on eBay - and partly to fundraise.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Further Discussion on Neo-Teddy Ruxpin:</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">suggestion to have a camera taking some pictures or video and uploading it to a blog. The idea of past, present, and future owners getting connected with a toy that's recording its own history.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Discussion of Choose Your Own Adventure:</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Interested in going beyond the several options of narratives, and leave it to an open generative model.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Video Games:</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">narrative where the player is integral to the further development of the narrative. story not pre-determined.</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;"><br></span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">Regarding name of the group, specifically for the mailing list, four suggestions were made to be decided by collective consensus:</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">sudo-word</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">sudo-logos</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">sudo-writers</span></div> <div><span class="notes" style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:16px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">sudo-press</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="40" style="height: 36px;"> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="middle" height="37" style="height: 37px; vertical-align: middle;"> <h2 style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: #454545; text-align: left;">Action Items</h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="75%"><p style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">☐ Create Mailing list for further discussion<br></p></td><td valign="top" width="25%"><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 22px; text-align: right; "><span style="color:#777" ;=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="75%"><p style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">☐ Sketch out idea for Sudo Room Object that Sells Itself on eBay<br></p></td><td valign="top" width="25%"><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 22px; text-align: right; "><span style="color:#777" ;=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="75%"><p style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">☐ Do research on art of BookBinding and see what we can learn<br></p></td><td valign="top" width="25%"><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 22px; text-align: right; "><span style="color:#777" ;=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="75%"><p style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">☐ Start putting together the Open Ruxpin project<br></p></td><td valign="top" width="25%"><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 22px; text-align: right; "><span style="color:#777" ;=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="75%"><p style="margin:0; margin-top:7px; padding:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:normal; color:#444; line-height:22px; text-align:justify;">☐ Ray sends out Map of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure<br></p></td><td valign="top" width="25%"><div style="margin-right: 0px; 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