Sudoroom loves participating in Art Murmur/First Friday. This month, we threw a “Draw Oakland” party with Oakland Wiki. There was food and music, but also paper and markers. Here’s some beautiful illustrations that people made:
All the art was licensed CC0 and put on Oakland Wiki!
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Another awesome event at Sudo Room / Bay Area Public School.. starts 8pm tonight! Co-presented with AK. It’s gonna be rad..
fb: https://www.facebook.com/events/695609710491680
sudo event: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/struggling-to-win-anarchists-building-popular-power-in-chile-speaking-tour/
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Hi everyone! The informant/surveillance awareness event at Sudo Room tonight, Spied Upon, will be livestreamed courtesy of the venerable J.C.! Check the Sudo calendar event URL at 7PM and it will be udpated with the livestream link! See ya there!
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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 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 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
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!
Read MoreWe celebrated our first installment of the SudoRoom Snake Party, running the event right after the First Friday Oakland Art Murmur ended at nine o’clock.
The whole event was extremely collaborative, with creative spaces set up around the main room of SudoRoom. People donated art supplies, brought sewing machines so it felt like we were in creation Disneyland.
Big areas full of people painting on vinyl records, drum sets set up for jazz musician encounters, Elle Seven’s Ride World Wide played continuously, people drew wacky comics on large rolls of paper, free food donated, much drinking of SudoMate, and there were many cool conversations and connections all at once. The only thing missing was soldering stations–maybe we’ll throw that in again next time!
We plan to continue the Snake parties at the end of every Oakland Art Murmur.
See you at the next one in February 7, 2014 and contact us if you are interested in performing.
Read MoreSudoroom is bursting at its seams! When we moved in 2012 from a tiny closet to our current space, it seemed gigantic and infinite:
Yet now we recognize that it’s not enough. Sudoers are rubbing shoulders, and many more are waiting to jump in. We need more room, more infrastructure, more freedom!
We’re talking to more and more local communities who share our dream. What would a “collective of collectives” look like? Tomorrow we’re hosting an event called Mass Effect with other local groups to ask that question. You’re invited!
You can also help us right now by donating on Gittip. Here’s a new guide to help you. Please invest in the future of free & open spaces in Oakland and the Bay Area.
We’re playing for keeps. It’s not clear where we’re going next, but it will be big!
Read MoreSudoRoom isn’t just about technology – it’s also about art!
On Christmas Eve the wild creative animals of SudoRoom left their marks. As a nature photographer i was able to catch remnants of their outbursts.
I heard there’s a stencil party in January 2014.
Bring your own dresses, t-shirts, helmets, over the shoulder boulder holders, bicycles, goggles of boxes, and more… and let the wacky SudoRoom animals “spray” their creations wherever!
Stay tuned to this blog for more news.
No DAC in Oakland t-shirt stencil
every saturday from 2-5PM at sudo room we have an event called “today we learned,” open time for anyone to participate in loosely-organized collaborative learning & exploration of whatever we want.
the format is pretty simple. bring a question, bring something you’re interested in learning more about, bring a problem that you’re trying to solve (in programming or whatever else), bring an attitude of openness to learning new things and a desire to share what you know, and we all come out the other end with bigger, fancier brains filled with more knowledge.
the rules are simple:
we also have a projector set up so that anyone can show things to everyone else. if there’s something (however tiny!) you’d like to present, you can do so (we are a friendly and encouraging audience). and we frequently pass the plug to the projector around whenever anyone has something they’d like to show to the group.
here are some things that we’ve learned about just in the last couple weeks:
some of these problems were things that people planned to come and work on (specific problems creating a website, for example), but others we just started talking about and followed down the rabbit trails of collective curiosity. we take things pretty easy, but we always maintain a respect for each other’s intelligence and ability to learn.
feel free to join us any saturday from 2-5pm.
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Timelist Group is looking for support from the grassroots community.
We are trying to put an end to mass incarceration by providing services for those at-risk. We are a 501(c)(3) and is currently not receiving funding from any governmental entities. Hence, we need community support.
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