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Señor SudoNode: I’m Easy, Part 1

Robot Interviewer: Good evening, Señor SudoNode de SudoMesh, que pasa? We are so happy to interview you this fine evening during one of the weekly SudoMesh Thursday hack nights at SudoRoom.

Señor SudoNode: Good evening! I’m so happy to sit and chat.

RI: You are looking quite dashing today. How are things going? Are you up and working at SudoMesh yet?

Señor SudoNode:  Actually no, I am not yet fully born! I am still in a very larval stage. See, I’m still cocooned, preparing to burst out onto the scene once SudoMesh is up and running.

RI: So you are not yet born? But I see you here… what’s the story?

Señor SudoNode:  I am about to be born. See, I’m like ice cream about to be scooped out of the box and into your ice cream cone. So delicious, dreamy and about to offer you some delightfully tasty times!

My parents are SudoMesh are hard at work, putting together the open source firmware that will transform me into a true SudoMesh Node…  I am going to be living on the side of someone’s happy Oakland home, transmitting shared free internet and love.

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An intimate Selfie of Mr. SudoMesh Node

 

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SudoMesh Tour

SudoMesh
Internet by the people and for the people!

So let’s say that you have never been to SudoRoom ever.

You drop in on a Thursday evening, curious about what’s going on at this hip, happening place, and you see a band of strange people fiddling around with these weird devices that look like this:

What are these strange things?
What are these strange things?

What could these strange devices be? Who are these weird people?

“We’re the SudoMesh meetup. Come join us,” a happy person says. She’s literally dancing, waving a weird plastic device back and forth in the air.

“What is SudoMesh?” you ask.

“You know the internet… as in the internets? And how you usually have to pay someone on a landline to get it, and pay  monthly bill and then you get on the internet? Or if you are downtown you have to wander around and find a coffee shop, and buy coffee and then you can get online?”

“OK, I get it, that’s how I usually get ‘the internets’,” you say.

“Well, suppose we could create a free alternative: a mesh network.

“So that we could have a people-powered internet so that WiFi is available to everyone. Even old people, or people without any money, or people who have bad credit and just can’t pay the bills…. we would make this free internet, and it would all be in the control of the people, not some big company that you have to send bills to every month.”

“But nothing is free, is it?” you ask, confused. “How does this work?”

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Mass Effect: A Night of Collectives

 

Mass Effect brought together all the different collectives to unite forces as one!
Mass Effect brought together all the different collectives to unite forces as one!

As you all know, SudoRoom is not a typical hackerspace… we go the extra mile to reach out to the community, and our interests cover not just tech but also social and community issues. We interact with dozens of other alternative economy worker’s cooperatives, hackerspaces, and non-profits in the East Bay and beyond (the world!). How does SudoRoom pool its energy with likeminded organizations? Join forces as one? The answer was found in the first January meeting of MASS EFFECT. As in “lots of energized, idealistic cooperatives get together and get down and party at SudoRoom… then hug, fall in love and eventually move in together and form even more amazing fruitful collaborations and do bigger, better things!

Chris B Djing the first Mass Effect meeting. It was like a PLUR rave for all the collectives in the area to join forces as ONE
Chris B Djing the first Mass Effect meeting. It was like a PLUR rave for all the collectives in the area to join forces as ONE

Basically: a rave for collectives! Harness the talent, innovation and history of the O.G. organizations, both young and old, to gather resources as one.  And in the future possibly buying a building for all of us to work, play and live in! So many cooperatives in one space!

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