sudo-discuss December 2013

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by Matthew Senate

Hey all, This email came in, we weren't sure what to do, discussed at the meeting that we'd forward to the discuss list to see if anyone wanted to follow up about this. From the minutes: "**we'll forward to sudo-discuss, any interested individual sudoer is free to invite them as a guest on the calendar, but we will be very clear that our org is not endorsing theirs" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kendra Desler <kendra(a)fwd.us> Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM Subject: [!SUDO-INFO!] Event with FWD To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hey Sudoroom! My name is Kendra Desler, and I am an Organizing Fellow with FWD.us. We are a nonprofit advocacy organization working with the tech community to move the knowledge economy forward through immigration reform. I was wondering if Sudoroom would be interested in having FWD.us host a mixer event at your office space in hopes of meeting your members and sharing about how immigration reform affects the tech community. We often host happy hour type events during the late afternoon; however, we are flexible, and can host something more common to the your office culture (brunch, sandwich lunch, etc). We will provide all food, beverages and other amenities. Would you be open to exploring the possibility of having us host such an event? I look forward to hearing from you! Best, Kendra FWD.us _______________________________________________ Info mailing list Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info

11 years, 10 months

DeathGuild tonight at <> want to meet up with noisebridge/sudoroom folks?

by Romy Ilano

hey goth rockers there is great wifi at the DNA Lounge. Anyone want to join me tonight in some dancing? I would love to talk about any noisebridge projects, chill with fine folks. http://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/2012/08/27.html [image: Inline image 1]

11 years, 10 months

Timon Not Allowed in Building

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Hey all, I received word from George our landlord that Timon is banned from the property. His presence in sudo room jeopardizes our lease, and therefore he is not welcome. This has been communicated to Timon, and some other sudoers who were around this weekend are aware as well. // Matt

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: sudo-announce Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

by Yardena Cohen

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Patrick Schmidt <psbschmidt(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Is the rent really $345 or is it $1345? Those numbers are per-week. To convert monthly to weekly costs, e.g. our $1500 rent, do this: 1500*7*12/365.25 = 344.97

11 years, 10 months

Reminder: "Battle for Oscar Grant Plaza" documentary screening today, 3-5pm!

by Jenny Ryan

Hey sudo! This afternoon starting at 3pm: Short documentary screening: “The Battle for Oscar Grant Plaza” by Jacob Crawford and co-produced by Dave Id, Indybay.org. The documentary shows how the City of Oakland and its Police tried to shut down the budding “Occupy Wall Street” movement, turning downtown Oakland into a teargas filled war zone and injuring numerous people. Police video obtained in discovery in the National Lawyers Guild’s successful lawsuit and interviews with activists and journalists about their experiences, tell the real story of the disastrous Fall 2011 police actions that pushed the troubled OPD to the brink of federal receivership. Documentary (in it’s current state) is 25 minutes and will start around 3:15. Expect light refreshments and intellectual discourse! We’re interested in sparking conversation around police accountability in the Oakland area and beyond. If you have any interest in direct involvement with OPD accountability (especially if you are a coder!), you won’t want to miss this! The producers and some plaintiffs (including Scott Olsen) will be present to answer any questions. Jacob Crawford is a long time Copwatcher based out of the Bay Area in California. He joined Berkeley Copwatch <http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/>in 2000 and produced the first ever “in the streets” non-dramatized know your rights video “These Streets Are Watching”. He currently is running WeCopwatch.org <http://wecopwatch.org> with other Copwatchers and has been a contributor for CopBlock.org <http://copblock.org> for several years. ---------- 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

11 years, 10 months

Fwd: Invest in Bay Area Youth This Holiday Season!

by Romy Ilano

I promise I'm not going to forward too many of these newsletters to sudo-discuss... but this is a very worthwhile non-project in Oakland. Mind Body Awareness enables youth (often involved in gangs, violence) to reach a healthier mental state through meditation. Their program sounds very nonjudgemental and takes a different perspective on solving such problems.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mind Body Awareness Project <info(a)mbaproject.org> Date: Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:59 AM Subject: Invest in Bay Area Youth This Holiday Season! To: Romy <romy(a)snowyla.com> *DONATE TO MBA*<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…> Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed537b&id=bf637ced92…>. <http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> Dear Romy, Everyday we get to see how your support offers strength and hope to youth that have been the most left out and marginalized in today’s society: youth adversely affected by extreme poverty, violence, trauma, and the criminal justice system. The Mind Body Awareness (MBA) Project brings practical mindfulness and emotional regulation training to youth in juvenile detention centers and public high schools; approaching transformation from the inside out. We want to share with you one such story of transformation, the kind of story that keeps us in it for the long haul: * Raymond (pseudonym), a 16-year old gang member was introduced to a loving kindness meditation in one of our classes. In this meditation we repeat to ourselves “May I be happy … May I be healthy … May I be safe…” As the meditation was coming to a close Raymond jolted abruptly out of the practice. When we asked Raymond if he was ok, he told us: "I just had a vision. I could see myself right there. When I said to myself 'May I be happy,' I could see myself as a little kid, playing with toys and blocks. Just happy you know? Then, when I said to myself, 'May I be healthy,' I could see myself on my block in my neighborhood. I was holding a joint (marijuana) and I just took it and threw it behind me and left. And then, when I said to myself, 'May I be safe,' I could see myself on my block again. But this time I had my gun in my belt. I just took the gun and threw it in the garbage and walked away. That was deep." Raymond attended our class for over 2 years while incarcerated in the maximum-security unit in the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center. That experience changed him at a root level. He’s since reported thinking less violent thoughts and continued on as a leader in our program, facilitating group meditations, bringing more friends each time.* As we approach the holidays, we invite you to help us support more youth like Raymond. - $100 supports one youth receiving 3 one-on-one counseling sessions - $250 supports one youth attending a 3-day, 2-night residential meditation retreat - $500 supports one youth to participate in our 10-module programs in the a juvenile hall - $1,000 supports one youth to go through a yearlong MBA high school class - $5,000 supports a yearlong training for one MBA instructor Our goal is to raise $15,000 by December 31st, and we are just getting started. *To help us get there, an anonymous donor has stepped up and offered us a $7,500 challenge grant! *That’s right, the next $7,500 we receive will be matched, dollar for dollar! Please consider contributing to this match fund today! Need a holiday gift idea? Dedicate a contribution in the name of someone special and we will notify him or her by email of your gift. Just specify in the “special instructions” section of PayPal's donation page or send us a note with your check with the person’s name and email and we will notify them immediately. Take advantage of the tax year ending by donating now<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed5…> to the Mind Body Awareness Project. Help us Friend-Raise! Post this challenge to your networks by forwarding this email to your friends. We appreciate your commitment to our community and our youth! Kindness, Sam Himelstein, PhD Executive Director, MBA Project You can make an online donation<http://mbaproject.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6a848d1fe97aa06e6eed53…> or send a check made payable to the Mind Body Awareness Project, 478 Santa Clara Avenue, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94610. 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11 years, 10 months

Substitute for Timelist Group (Incarceration Support Network Non-Profit)

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I will be out of town for the next meeting of the Timelist Group at sudo room: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/2183/?instance_id=75199 Is anyone available to be a point-person, help the organizers with hosting, and ensure everything is cleaned up at the end? Thanks, Matt

11 years, 10 months

This Sat 12/8: Today We Learned: DATA

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Please join us at Sudo Room <http://sudoroom.org> this Sat. 12/8 for "Today We Learned<https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/today-we-learned-weekly-colearning/?instan…>," weekly co-learning. This week, we'll have the usual free-form learning and exploration along with discussions about DATA. If you have questions about this most mystical of topics, bring them on Saturday and we'll talk figure it out. [image: Inline image 1] - Marina

11 years, 10 months

PLEASE GIVE to sudoroom gittip!

by Yardena Cohen

I dearly implore you to slightly compromise your anonymity by signing up for gittip and donating a few $/week to sudoroom. https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ The hardest part is overcoming that psychological barrier by entering your credit/debit card # - after that it will be easy, and you will be making a real difference for all the hard-working folks who volunteer here everyday. Even if you haven't been to sudo lately for whatever reason, I can't emphasize enough how much it means to us on the ground. Every dollar you give translates DIRECTLY into the love-powered energy that helps us keep the space clean, open, safe, accessible and hopping with life. None of us are paid for this, few of us are wealthy, many of us are struggling. Here's what our expenses cost approximately per week: $9 for the server that powers this very mailing list, our homepage, blog, wiki, and dev environments for many other projects! $15 for services such as trash pickup that keeps our hackers from being devoured by mutant flies and keeps our landlord's head from combusting spontaneously on every visit! $25 goes to our sweet, privacy-conscious, locally owned, ISP to bring internets to our public terminals, raspis, radio stream, and about a billion laptops and phones every week! $70-90 for our utilities, including power for our lights, computers, devices, fridge, ac/heat, printers, dishwasher, crock pot, coffee pot! $345 to rent our current space, with some prospective spaces approaching $500+/week. This space has so much value as an open community space which enables so many people and groups to accomplish awesome things! $infinite for the inspiration to learn and create beautiful things, which we have MORE TIME FOR when we are not struggling over the basics!!! That's where we are right now too often, and we ALL would like more time for the fun stuff. That will be a lot easier if you all give to sudoroom, so PLEASE CHIP IN now <3<3<3 https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ Right now we make $96.67. If we make over $138.75 we get bumped to the front page as a top receiver. If we make $500 we will finally have our basics covered and be free to dream even bigger. Thanks so much! P.S. Really though, they are pretty good about protecting your identity: "Gittip makes reasonable efforts not to share your personal information with the recipients of your gifts, so that particular gifts are anonymous. We do publicly share aggregated information about your giving and receiving. You may opt out of publicly sharing your aggregate giving." https://www.gittip.com/about/privacy/

11 years, 10 months

big garbage dump run help?

by David Keenan

So there is an old futon and a broken filing cabinet in the alley garbage room that is apparently ours (sudo's) - they will not fit in the garbage can, will anyone help me bring it to the dump tomorrow afternoon? as i'd rather not manhandle it by myself Anything else we can take to the dump? David

11 years, 10 months

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sudo-discuss December 2013