sudo-announce September 2014

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Fwd: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!

by Matthew Senate

Folks, Please rejoice in this amazing update by Jenny Ryan on the progress of the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM Subject: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update! To: "mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org> It's been a crazily active summer - apologies for the lack of updates! Sudo Room (and by extension, Sudo Mesh) has relocated to the Omni Oakland Commons <http://omni-oakland.org> at 4799 Shattuck. We're excited to be a founding member collective among an array of groups that have moved in together to create a radical commons in Oakland. If you've been wanting to plug in and help out, or simply reconnect to the group, tonight is a great night to come by and check out the new space! *Announcements* * We'll be having our monthly general meeting today, starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room. Please add to the agenda! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh * Juul, MaxB and Alex have been working hard on crushing bugs and levelling up our mesh firmware. We've deployed a test network within the Omni building and they are successfully meshing as I type! \o/ * We've procured a 75 foot antenna tower that will be mounted in West Oakland to become a core relay spot for routing traffic on the mesh. * Noemie has put together a fantastic sudomesh / people's open net video and is currently soliciting feedback. Check it out @ http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE * Paige made a rad flyer design and two versions of the flyer for a) general ways to participate in the project and b) promoting upcoming info sessions. Check them out here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers * Stickers!! The round 'Mesh the Planet' and rectangular PeoplesOpen.Net stickers have been printed and can be procured at sudoroom (atio the white shelves next to the staircase) and/or one of our Tuesday/Thursday meetups! *Code* - *so much code this summer!!* * Juul created ipk-builder: https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder * MaxB, Ron, and Juul have been updating the service browser: https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser * Juul, MaxB, and Alex reengineered the node-configurator: https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode * MaxB, Alex and Matt fixed the exitnode <https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode> * MaxB created sudowrt-firmware-images <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware-images> for temporary storage of firmware builds * Matt added a patch to sudowrt-firmware <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware> * Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of tunneldigger <https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger> * MaxB fixed sudowrt-packages <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages> * Juul updated ubi-flasher <https://github.com/sudomesh/ubi-flasher> * Juul added fixes to meshnode-database <https://github.com/sudomesh/meshnode-database> * Matt created svg-animations <https://github.com/sudomesh/svg-animations> for mesh presentations *Wiki* * Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers> and uploaded Paige's flyers * ChrisJ updated Mesh/Monitoring <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers> and created Mesh/Icinga <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Icinga_2> * Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Flash> * Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Hardware_support> * GMeader created the page Mesh/San Francisco <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/San_Francisco> and added to Mesh/Marketing <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Marketing> * MaxB added sticker images to Mesh/Stickers <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Stickers> * ChrisJ created Mesh/Sensu <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Sensu_Page> * Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to Mesh/Oakland <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland> * Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to Mesh/Minutes <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes> * Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to Mesh/BATMAN-adv <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/BATMAN-adv> * Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main Mesh <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> page! * Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to Mesh/Distributed Services <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services> * Jwentwistle created and added slides to Mesh/Presentation <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentation> * Jwentwistle created Mesh/User Guide <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/User_Guide> * Jwentwistle created Mesh/Technical Overview <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Technical_Overview> * MaxB checked some stuff out <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts> * Matt added some diagrams to Mesh/Diagrams <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams> * Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to Mesh/Firmware <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware> * MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to Mesh/Inventory <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory> * Tunabananas wrote a new post on Mesh/Blog <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Blog> * Aep added to Mesh/MeshApps <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps> *To Dos* * Test current mesh setup in the Omni building * Create online ordering system and shipping label automation * Create 'How to Care for Your Node' guides * Outreach to spaces that can host info sessions and presentations * Work on local apps and services that will run on the mesh! * More at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos ** Please update the list above with specific tasks! *Help Out!* * Come by our weekly hacknights, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org> * Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: https://sudomesh.org * Contribute to the code: https://github.com/sudomesh * Donate hardware and equipment! <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist> * Give a small weekly donation: https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh *Recommended Reading* * Oakland's Sudo Mesh looks to counter censorship and the digital divide with a mesh network: http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-di… * It's Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi (Re/Code): http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/ See y'all tonight! Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ mesh mailing list mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh

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FW: [EBSocForum] : " Exploring Greenwashing and Gentrification fromOakland to Palestine"(Workshop Oakland)

by Troy Massey

- Troy M. " You are the source of Freedom. The price of freedom is awareness and action." -----Original Message----- From: "max cadji max(a)phatbeetsproduce.org [EBSocForum]" <EBSocForum(a)yahoogroups.com> Sent: ‎9/‎9/‎2014 2:04 PM Subject: [EBSocForum] : " Exploring Greenwashing and Gentrification fromOakland to Palestine"(Workshop Oakland) Come check out the Food N’ Justice Workshop series. Always free at the Saturday Feel the Beet! Farmers Market North Oakland Farmers’ Market, 11-1pm. Our workshop series is located at: Grace Ave @Lowell St. (Next to Destiny Arts at 970 Grace Ave, Oakland 94608) www.phatbeetsproduce.org/events September 13, 2014 "Greenwashing and Gentrification from Oakland to Palestine" Description: Join Phat Beets Produce for this world cafe-style workshop that explores how tree plantings in Oakland, Detroit, and Occupied Palestine function to displace low-income people of color and marginalized groups from their neighborhoods and land for the purposes of redevelopment and profit-making. We will explore the commonalities of the techniques and methods used by WOGI (West OaklandGreening Initiative), Hantz Farms in Detroit (largest proposed urban tree farm in the US), and the Jewish National Fund's "Plant a Tree in Israel" campaign to understand how non-profit organizations, private companies and local governments use greenwashing as a tool for displacement and gentrification. More details September 20, 2014 Make it Fresh: Creative Storytelling for the Urban Environment Description: Make it Fresh: Creative Storytelling for the Urban Environment with Josh Healey If politics is the art of what’s possible, let’s use art to expand those possibilities. Join this interactive arts and activism workshop as we write and share new poems and songs, memories and manifestos — and discover how to use your own story to change the larger narrative towards justice and ecology. Josh Healey is an award-winning writer, performer, and creative activist. A regular performer on NPR's Snap Judgment, Healey has performed and led workshops at UC-Berkeley, Harvard, and over 200 schools and community organizations across the country. He is currently the Culture Shift Fellow with Movement Generation. Find out more at joshhealey.org. More details September 20, 2014 BikeMobile- FREE BIKE REPAIR! Description: "BikeMobile will bring FREE BIKE REPAIRS at Phat Beets Produce Saturday, Sept 20th from 9:30am-1:30pm. Bring your bike. We guarantee to serve the first 20 people that sign up, after that we will fix as many bikes as we have time for. We can fix flat tires, adjust brakes and gears, and even replace broken or worn out parts like chains, grips, and tires. Bike or no bike, it can be educational for all who show up." More details September 27th, 2014 Introduction to Community Based Restorative JusticeJoin the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council for a youth friendly 2 hour introduction to community based Restorative Justice. According to Fania Davis of Restorative Justice For Oakland Youth restorative justice is a philosophical framework and worldview, and it is also an approach to justice that emphasizes bringing together all affected by harm to address their needs and obligations and to heal the harm as much as possible. There will also be an overview to the work of the North Oakland Restorative Justice October 11, 2014 Decolonize Your Diet! Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration More details October 25, 2014 making kraut w/youth pickle co More details -- www.phatbeetsproduce.org 510-250-7957 ...connecting small farmers to urban communities Check out Feel the Beet! Farmers Market www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keawnad90aQ "...if you leave the crumbs alone and we organize, then we can take the whole loaf" Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael -- www.phatbeetsproduce.org 510-250-7957 ...connecting small farmers to urban communities Check out Feel the Beet! Farmers Market www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keawnad90aQ "...if you leave the crumbs alone and we organize, then we can take the whole loaf" Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael __._,_.___ Posted by: max cadji <max(a)phatbeetsproduce.org> Reply via web post •Reply to sender •Reply to group •Start a New Topic •Messages in this topic (1) Visit Your Group • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___

10 years

Invitation: Cognitive Technology Group Demo Day and Meetup, 1pm Sunday 9/14

by Stephen Frey

Hello friends! You are invited to the Cognitive Technology Demo Day and Meetup <http://cogtech.net/#DemoDay> this weekend. We'll present our main projects our hacker group has made this summer, including: - the software that drives the OpenBCI open-source EEG board - haptics - information visualization in virtual reality - a device for transcranial ultrasound stimulation research - CloudBrain, a cloud analytics platform for biodata There will be food and an epic first-time meet-and-greet for people interested in the intersections of neuroscience, design, and technology. It will be fun! Forward this to brain-techy friends! = = = = = = = Cognitive Technology Demos and Meetup 1-3pm Sunday 9/14 Wozniak Lounge, 430 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley RSVP on EventBrite <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cognitive-technology-demo-day-and-meetup-ticke…> RSVP on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/576298032492332/> CogTech website <http://cogtech.net/#DemoDay> Cheers, Stephen

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