sudo-discuss November 2013

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This Monday 18th is Techno Activism Third Monday, San Francisco -- with Morgan Mayhem, Laurie Penny, Jillian York, 6PM, EFF HQ

by Danny O'Brien

> TECHNO-ACTIVISM 3RD MONDAYS SAN FRANCISCO, THIS MONDAY AT EFF AT 6PM >> SELF-CARE FOR ONLINE ACTIVISTS https://www.eff.org/event/ta3m-nov2013 Being behind a computer screen might save you from the physical consequences of being an activist -- but what about the mental effects? For San Francisco's TA3M this month, we'll be discussingresources and practical advice for psychological and other health care. From filtering out the trolls and avoiding timezone jetlag, to dealing with PTSD among friends and ongoing global effects of the Syrian civil war. Joining us for the discussion will be security researcher Morgan Mayhem (@headhntr on Twitter), Laurie Penny (@pennyred) from the New Stateman and UK Guardian and co-author of Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens, and EFF's own Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York (@jilliancyork). Plus: a round-up of new and ongoing projects, info on the Jeremy Hammond decision, and a chance to network with your fellow cryptographers, lawyers, coders, and other involved parties. EFF's offices are at 815 Eddy St, SF, CA 94109. Please be punctual for 6PM -- if you arrive late, call x 118 from the door to be let in. A map of 815 Eddy: http://www.openstreetmap.org/go/TZHvUrLDP Techno-Activism 3rd Monday is a monthly meetup that happens simultaneously in 18 cities throughout the world. It brings together individuals interested in censorship, surveillance and open technology. This includes Amsterdam, Brighton(UK), Cambridge, Dakar, Durham, Kansas City, London, Madison, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Stockholm, Seattle, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC. For more info, see: https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays

11 years, 11 months

Dealing with funding

by Marc Juul

In thinking about funding for sudo room, I thought of couple of items that I believe sudo room has discussed before but never formally decided upon. I'd like to propose that we formally decide on the following: * All income and expenses should be open and transparent, including who gave us grants and how much, though anonymous donations from individuals should still be allowed. * sudo room should not allow recurring grants or major donations from other organizations to fund any recurring critical operations costs since that would give those organizations significant power over sudo room through their ability to defund critical operations. Critical operations costs are things such as rent, utilities. Stuff that is required for sudo room to continue operation. What do you think? -- marc/juul

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Conflict Resolution Proposal and Conflict Awareness 1, 2 and 3

by Patrick Schmidt

Dear fellow Sudoers, although my 3Dimensial Body left the continent and spontaneously emmigrated to Asia (Updates on Chinese Hackerspaces and Community Spaces to follow), my consciousness is still around. I was a little bit sad two weeks ago to read in the meeting minutes that one name alone was listed under "conflict resolution". I assume that this was done in the absence of our fellow sudoer. I find this a little problematic to be exposed like this and would propose the following: As conflicts (not wanting to talk about inner conflicts within one person) are always among minimum two entities, in case of a conflict all names of all parties involved should be mentioned, and not only the accused (especially in their absence). Conflict awareness 1 : Rejecting a person and not being able to handle a disagreement with compassion reveales a lot about one self. In 99% of the cases the Ego jumps in and goes with separation and rejection as the behaviour of the rejected entity triggers us, in other words: we subconsciously reject others because their behaviour reminds us on what we do not like about ourselves. In this context, lets expand our consciousness and our compassion, and next time we get angry ask ourselves: "what is it within me that is triggered right now by that persons behaviour" Conflict awareness 2 : Everybody lives in their own universe, and an interesting metaphor for people is to comparing them with atoms. In the quantum world of atoms strange rules reign, even things that contradict each other can be true in the same time. So this superposition of realities that contradict each other but simultaneously are true can be applied on human conflicts: both entities have their own side of the story which contradict each other, but yet they can still be true at the same time. (Lesson learned from the first public Sudo conflict) Conflict Awareness 3: Often during a conflict when the egos collide it can get nasty, especially when the ego feels threatened it will accuse, blame, judge,... A good strategy is instead of acusing a person directly, just talk about your feelings and your inner states what the persons behaviour made you feel. In this case, the argument which is likely to follow ("no, this is not true") is not valid, as your feelings are your feelings and they are true in your universe no matter what. ------------------------------------ just felt like sharing these lessons I learned, and I want to thank Sudo crowd for my personal development that especially the conflicts triggered, Im much more Zen, get angry much less at people, also do not identify with my anger but can see how the ego sneacks in... sending you cosmic love from the other side of our beautiful planet, Patrick

11 years, 11 months

forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by Eddan Katz

I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of Columbia. and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that. It is often forgotten that there was a first constitution of the United States after Independence before the one that people call the Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up moving to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC. It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the Confederacy that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 43, "We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With great propriety, therefore, has the new system supplied the defect. The general precaution, that no new States shall be formed, without the concurrence of the federal authority, and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such transactions." As population grew and the country was further colonized by the European settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting disaster. Different coalitions of states banded together to promote their collective interest at the expense of others. Those states excluded formed their own alliances and there were many cries of treason thrown around back and forth. Each cluster thought of themselves as the "us" and the others as the "them" until the "them" became the "us" and the "us" was "them". And so on. So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted to have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And this is how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the provision saying: "To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings." I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and arsenals and such, but I still think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster confuses themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the country adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and "them" into we - did the agreement amongst them create stability and mutual respect that made them united states.

11 years, 11 months

missing insulation for 3d printer extruder

by Jake

hello everyone, it appears that someone was cleaning up around the 3d printer and they decided to throw away or remove a lot of stuff that was in the bottom of the printer. this included the fiberfrax insulation for the extruder head!!!!! if you know where this material went, please bring it back to the printer, otherwise we will have to get new insulators from the manufacturer. thank you, -jake

11 years, 11 months

Meeting Notes 11-13-13 - Juice and Paranoia in Sudoland

by Max Klein

In what's being called an "incident of provocation" sudoers cathartically purged their souls of paranoid fears, and imbibed a Class-C schedule Drug - Vitamin C in lethal amounts. 3 pinneapples, 12 bananas, 25 apples, 60 pears, and clod of celery. -notconfusing Meeting Minutes https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-11-13 ------------------------ Icebreaker: Give an example of how you are paranoid about security, or in general. Attendees: Max - wireless charging in toothbrush Daniel - whiteboard at home with a circle in the middle about privacy, maybe privacy is already lost Ed (einstein) - "not paranoia they really are out to get us" Matt - "people's safety" - Vicky - "losing my memory" - JC - "leave no digital trace" <-- until now - Anca - Jehan's mom visiting from Vermont - "cool housing community" - Tony - "texting while driving" - Elvin - paranoid about how social websites can log you into every website ever. - Marc - "wipe my harddrive and install a clean os before crossing a border" - Rhodey - autocompletion on security - yar - http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/?q=tor+bug+tracker - Line 16 - speaking in short sentences - Diku - "pitiless gaze of the future staring down at us." "lots of stray humans" - Dante - "posting stuff online" - Sam - "all my software efforts are in vain, because of hardware chipping" - Brandon - careful about porn more than anything. - 1. Announcements - Events for this week: https://sudoroom.org/calendar - Review the events for this week--what's happening? - Rackspace maybe wants to give us money? - We were recommended for a grant ;) - but requires W-9 forms, do we have that? - for the w-9 we need the board of directors (true? - unknown) - apparently there are still options - grant is approx $4000 - not 100% we would get it, but quite likely - Update on The Omni - The omni a space - everyone at a previous meeting agreed it was a good idea to pursue it further - its more difficult to buy, business mortgages apparently need 30-50% of 1.9million. lease at $13,000 per month for two years - Marc is getting more info from owner before he can propose a consensus item. - leasing triple-net means you are more responsible than a regular tennant. - updates to the wiki - Vicky is a superhero with regards to the wiki - categorizing the wiki into events/projects/stubs' - "the tortoise will win the race" - yar - "our long term goal is to turn the wiki into the front page"noisebridge-style - vicky invites people to work with her - on vicky time. (STOP. It's Vicky time.) - Board ratification is delayed in favor of antidramatic juice-a-thon - regret to inform beloved room that faust will not be accepting nomination at this time, due to unfortunate conflict; she hopes that this opportunity presents itself again in the future. she also expects to be there, albeit late, with cake. - julio accepts nomination - Y u no http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/annualreport/2008/_images/pic_board_of_d… - everyone not privy to this drama is thinking "thank goodness" - *It should look more like this: * *http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg*<http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg> - New color laser printer :D - consent to spend less than $200 for the printer for toner - if someone wanted to donate. - it's awesome! - Are we incorporated? Can we start getting a real bank account and moving services off members' private credit cards? - Matt investigated a couple of credit unions. Makes a recommendation: - Do get an Internet Archive Federal Credit Union account (don't use it for too much) - Must pay for frequent debit transactions - Most services take charges. - Do get a Patelco Federal Credit Union account (use for debit, bills) - Skip - People's Federal Credit Union - Cooperative Federal Credit Union - "note that with credit unions you can often do transactions at a credit union not yours and have them post to yours, they are in cahoots as credit unions" - faust - we have 2 bitcoins, marc controls the wallet but will transfer it to us as soon as there is an "us" - rhodey - if theres no penalty for just go for it - Update from Timon and Marc on alcohol permit situation - Timon- Marc was right - get smashed for $35 with an average of 3 days noticed. - $35 with 3 days notice - Thankstaking potluck? - faust is in, ok faust, take it. - seeking date/time/deets 2. Articles of Incorporation - not approving board of directors (see above) 3. Finances - all our new cash == standing funds. hands off, act normal. - no exchequer? no bank balance info? - current exchequer team does not currently have access to online bank account (can't wait to move to patelco!). check from soex on its way after completion of contract, w-9, signatures, which will be presented to the group at the next meeting. 4. conflict resolution - Timon - constable/conflict steward. The conflict that neither of the two parties wanted to bring t o us. Elliot and Shake. Timon noted them, both of them declined to meet officially. - Shake is showing good faith by sharing some perspective. - the private portion is proceeding. - Shake speaks - he likes sudo room - he helped dj. at some point he was just working and elliot asked questions about an occupy oakland. he felt like he did explain to elliot, they even went outside. he felt like he wasn't welcome any more. then he found out he had a conflict on the agenda. "keep in mind that i do not want anyone to be uncomfortable because of me". says that because he is a political figure that there will always be oppoonents. now feels uncomfortable because he doesn't understand that why elliot. gives a message that he wants to be here and help - Eventually, sudo came around to realize that our actions during the meeting are not the best execution and interpretation of our Conflict Resolution procedure of the Articles of Association, ending the conversation about the details of any specific conflicts. - tl;dr shake tried his best but we can't do anything because the other person never showed up - If anyone has a conflict or wants to resolve things they may have heard or speculate with other members, reach out to the person in question, or find another sudoer to act as a mediator. mate made $128 5. After- Meeting Teamups - bank teamupu - juice meetup - 6. Action Items - marc -to investigate printer recoup cost - to message ar - timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license s - 7. Additional Notes

11 years, 11 months

Help me with my desks

by Thomas Levine

Hi, Firstly, I want to get rid of my current desks and non-chairs. Here's what they look like. (They're sized so I can use them while sitting on the floor.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_jq7klTEotEb2NJLTFLa3BDNnc/edit?usp=shari… I quite like them, but I want something more portable. If you'll use/hack them, you can have them and/or the cushion that I sit on. In case it affects your interest, you can easily take the legs off the desks. Secondarily, I'm going to replace these desks with a lightweight contraption that folds up into a tiny thing that I can carry on my head. In order to construct this new desk, I need to acquire some tempered hardboard, so I'm looking for someone to take me to Home Depot. http://timebank.sfbace.org/reqs/3081 Tom

11 years, 11 months

"Today We Learned": Weekly Colearning Sat. Afternoons 2-5PM Starting this Sat. 11/16

by Marina Kukso

hi all, join us for "today we learned," weekly collaborative learning and hacking at sudo room every saturday afternoon from 2-5PM. work on stuff on your own or with someone else...bring a project..bring questions.. we'll also have a projector set up for anyone to share something they're working on or to share something they've learned. a tiny amount of more information is at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned looking forward to seeing you, marina

11 years, 11 months

Did your weekend start with a flat tire?

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

Then come to Biketopia's second annual bike drive, TODAY! From 2 to 6 pm. 1752 Alcatraz. Free bike check-up, snacks, drinks - while supporting your friendly neighbourhood community bike workshop. See you there! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Biketopia <colin.moss(a)biketopiaworkshop.org> Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:18 AM Subject: Second Annual Fall Bike Drive! To: morten(a)biketopiaworkshop.org You're invited to our Second Annual Bike Drive Fundraiser! View this email in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9602d&id=26c7c05769…> [image: Biketopia Bike Drive Flyer] Biketopia's Second Annual Fall Bike Drive is sponsored in part by the following local businesses ... Sweet Adeline Bakery Gecko Gecko Thai California Eatery Manifesto Bicycles Oakland Missing Link Cooperative East Bay Bicycle Coalition The New Parkway Bart Bike Station Downtown Berkeley Bike Link Next time you're in one of these businesses, thank them for helping us out! *Copyright © 2013 Biketopia Community Workshop, All rights reserved.* Your are receiving this email because you are a member of Biketopia or you signed up at the shop. *Our mailing address is:* Biketopia Community Workshop 1752 Alcatraz St Berkeley, Ca 94704 Add us to your address book<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9…> unsubscribe from this list<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=7124c935e2da35a…> update subscription preferences<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Unity !

by Romy Snowyla

Sent from my iPhone

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