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RE lighting let's use broken ballasts as an excuse to pull down working fluorescent fixtures as spares for other parts of the building. Count me in to help out with upgrading to LED lighting sufficient to work happily in this area, Robb! Also kudos to everyone who has worked so far on cleaning the area and coming up with a great plan to make better use of the space, not to mention a freakin 3D artistic rendering with a penguin for scale :)<br /><br />
<p>On 2018-05-04 04:11, Jenny Ryan wrote:</p>
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<div>Let's have a meetup to discuss visions, values, and available resources to build out a community media lab in Omni's basement!<br /><br /></div>
Tonight, the Omni consensed on Art Bison Design Coop's move to the basement and transition to becoming a community screenprinting studio! Perhaps an ABDC member could speak to what that might entail for the basement and what would be needed wrt renovations/improvements? <br /><br /></div>
Afterwards, we initiated a conversation about ongoing ideas over the past many months to build out a truly inter-collective community media lab for creating rad propaganda, zines, banners etc:<br /><br />
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<div id="gmail-magicdomid203" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-a-z90ziz88zuz86zz89zz88z64z87zz69zz86z0z68zz73za">* Over the past 9 months, there have been many discussions about, and a good deal of work put into, the basement area formerly known as Material Print Machine as a potential inter-collective media lab for printing, copying, button-making, screenprinting, banner-making, zine-making, newspapers etc. Interested folks who've discussed the idea and/or worked on cleaning and clearing out that space include Jenny, Robb, Abe, Julian, Needa Bee, Marcus, and others I'm probably forgetting right now. </span></div>
<div><span class="gmail-author-a-z90ziz88zuz86zz89zz88z64z87zz69zz86z0z68zz73za">** The structure that seems most fitting is that of a working group, open to anyone to join and help steward and maintain the resources we already have available. The idea would be to lock valuable materials / supplies in a cabinet and host workshops, media-making sessions and offer access based on sliding-scale donations to cover materials/supplies/maintenance costs.</span> </div>
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<div id="gmail-magicdomid205" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-a-z90ziz88zuz86zz89zz88z64z87zz69zz86z0z68zz73za">** For more info on the resources we already have available as well as a proposed layout, see: </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z90ziz88zuz86zz89zz88z64z87zz69zz86z0z68zz73za gmail-url"><a href="https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Basement#Media_Lab" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Basement#Media_Lab</a></span></div>
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<div><br />Continued discussion in the meeting notes at <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom</a> ... maybe not mentioned: the lighting ballasts need to be replaced. There are some interim lighting solution tee'd up beneath the bench dat robb built.</div>
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<div><strong>I'd like to propose an initial meetup of folks interested in working on this project for the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th or, alternatively, the Friday evening before it. Here is a Doodle for all y'all busy-ass folks: <a href="https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a</a></strong><br /><br /></div>
<div>An initial agenda draft lives here: <a href="https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/omnimedialab" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/omnimedialab</a> - please add to it as you see fit! and invite people whom you think may be interested...</div>
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<div>Jenny<br /><br /></div>
<div>Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!</div>
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<div>"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."<br /> -Laurie Anderson<br /><br /> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."<br /> -Hannah Arendt<br /><br /> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."<br /> -Stéphane Mallarmé</div>
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"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."<br />--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
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