sudo-discuss March 2013

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Friday Filosophy - Ides of March '13: Planned Obsolescence

by Eddan Katz

To the Sudo Kopimist congregation - This week fort Friday Filosophy we will be having something from the Athenian Deli on Franklin off of Sudo Square. (http://www.atheniandeli.com/). Since last week's email got lost in the abyss of the mail server switch, I am also including last week's email as well below. Following up on last week's discussion of manufacturing and consumer culture, we will be picking up the thread focusing on Planned Obsolescence. The excerpt below is from Giles Slade, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (2006) pgs. 23-24. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0674022033. A bit of context for the quote - Slade describes the break-through in shifting cultural norms about disposable products with the popularity of sanitary napkins for women, in the inter-war period when women were exercising more control over family budgets. Slade digs up fascinating research on the explicit Anti-Thrift campaigns after World War I, when American advertisers linked together conspicuous consumption for social status and disposable products as patriotic support of the American economy. > Anti-Thrift Campaigns > > Encouraged by the repetitive consumption of disposable paper products for both men and women, paper manufacturers developed toilet paper, paper cups, paper towels, and paper straws (rendering rye stalks obsolete). Gradually, the popularity of disposable personal products, purchased and used in the name of hygiene and health, caused Americans to generalize their throwaway habits to other goods. This was a significant development in the history of product obsolesence. As a throwaway culture emerged, an ethic of durability, of thrift, of what the consumer historian Susan Strasser calls "the stewardship of objects," was slowly modified. At first, people just threw their paper products into the fire. But as the disposable trend continued, it became culturally permissible to throw away objects that could not simply and conveniently be consumed by flames. ---- Friday Filosophy 3/8: Stuxnet & the Problem of Evil Dear Sudo folk. The spanakopita are just about ready to take out of the oven - ricotta & cheese (sorry, vegans). My daughter, Eva, will be coming today (home with a bit of a fever), but likely not participating in the discussion. She wants to be an epidemiologist, like her mom, and may chime in about viruses - which apparently kind of look like nasty little monsters and have crooked teeth. We will be picking up the subject left off last time of the communicative value of executable virus software with a real-life example about which to ruminate. Stuxnet (see http://www.stuxnet.net/) will be the focus, with an emphasis on the implications for the techno-social role of programmers, and the future of cyberwarfare. sent from eddan.com

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The Emperor of Ice Cream presents the Emerald Bon Bon

by Ray Lai

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The technology movement in Kosovo -- March 26, 7PM, Noisebridge (SF)

by Cyrus Farivar

Hey guys, via Danny O'Brien from Noisebridge: Fellow hacker Gent Thaçi is visiting San Francisco from Kosovo, one of the youngest countries in the world (in almost every sense of "young") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Declaration_of_independence He offered to give an informal talk at Noisebridge about the tech community in Kosovo, and his work creating software freedom there. Noted journalist, author, sudoroomian and hat-wearer Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica and I will be SCRUPULOUSLY CROSS-EXAMINING Gent about global geek culture, and what it is like working on technology independence in a newly independent state. Like last week's awesome PyPy talk, this will be taking place in the main hackitorium, just before Noisebridge's Tuesday meeting. Come for the discussion, stay for the bureacracy-making! http://www.flossk.org/ https://gentt.wordpress.com/ d. -- Cyrus Farivar "suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var" Journalist and radio producer | cyrusfarivar.com (http://cyrusfarivar.com) Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere" | internetofelsewhere.com (http://internetofelsewhere.com) US: +1 510 394 5485 (m) | Twitter/Skype: cfarivar "Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet." cfarivar(a)cfarivar.org (mailto:cfarivar@cfarivar.org)

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Hacking day at the Oakland museum?

by Romy Ilano

Hey I like how the node folks go hack at the museum sometimes! Would anyone be up for a hack day at the Oakland museum? It's one of the best --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Filosophy discussions

by Romy Ilano

The filosophy discussions on manufacturing sound cool Do you have your talks on the wiki? That's sounds like a speech worth listening to! --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 5, Issue 27

by Romy Ilano

Hello At the meeting I vounteered to make a diagram of the Articles of Association. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Sub-Section_3.4.0_Process Personal thoughts: Now everything is much clearer to me now and i can understand why there is such a lively discussion. It was a little confusing at first to me as an outsider. All of my friends are lawyers, but I work as a software engineer. Long wikis with clauses are fun for them to read. I am more into schematics. I can understand it better now. I liked the idea of "unit testing" with events occurring in fictional stories so that we can see reasons why it makes sense to talk and debate such matters. Personally I find transposing fictional events from SNAFU groups such as the crazed hippie California cult leader Sal from the Beach or Lord of the Flies less emotionally charged than referring to any events happening to people we know. [image: Inline image 1] On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:49 AM, <sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org>wrote: > Send sudo-discuss mailing list submissions to > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sudo-discuss-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of sudo-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: computer donations + large event 3/21 > (=?utf-8?B?bWF0dHNlbmF0ZUBnbWFpbC5jb20=?=) > 2. Fwd: Revised 3/2013 Statement, The Sudo Room > (=?utf-8?B?bWF0dHNlbmF0ZUBnbWFpbC5jb20=?=) > 3. Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival (Vicky Knox) > 4. Re: computer donations + large event 3/21 (Steve Berl) > 5. Re: Fwd: Request for sudo-announce Digest mode (Eddan Katz) > 6. Artist in Residency Opportunity - Minecraft-Ars Virtua - No > experience needed (Danielle Siembieda) > 7. Re: sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 5, Issue 26 (Romy Ilano) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:30:25 -0700 > From: "=?utf-8?B?bWF0dHNlbmF0ZUBnbWFpbC5jb20=?=" > <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> > To: ":::Marty:::" <mrwood(a)gmail.com>, "=?utf-8?B?c3Vkby1kaXNjdXNz?=" > <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] computer donations + large event 3/21 > Message-ID: <513ed992.28d3440a.1cf2.017d(a)mx.google.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Yes. > > // Matt > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: ":::Marty:::" <mrwood(a)gmail.com> > To: <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] computer donations + large event 3/21 > Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 1:28 PM > > > Hi y'all. > > I was looking on the wiki regarding donations and is there an updated > policy on computer donations? I have two complete systems (minus cases) and > another few boxes of decent parts that i am trying to get rid of. > Is this something that would be okay to bring by/freebox/ or put on the > supply shelves. Is there any need for this sort of stuff? > > I also was looking on the calendar and wanted to let you know there is a > poetry reading that would overflow into the common space on Thursday 3/21. > It is there on the calendar but unpublished. One of the two meet ups could > definitely use the Public School classroom if this event needs the bigger > space. > > Best, > -Marty > > -- > > www.resonantcity.net > twitter: @resonantcity <https://twitter.com/#!/resonantcity> , > @uselessunless <https://twitter.com/#!/uselessunless> [ personal ] > http://www.facebook.com/ResonantCity < > https://www.facebook.com/ResonantCity> >

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REQUEST FOR COMMENT: proposed changes to the Articles of Association!

by Yardena Cohen

We are trying to revise our Articles of Association! Because we try to do this consensually, we bring changes both AT the meetings, and ON the mailing lists, as per the existing articles here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_4.1_Process At the March 13th meeting, we had a straw poll in on THESE changes: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FCo… We voted unanimously in favor of these changes: 7 yes, 0 no, 11 abstaining. But that was only a straw poll. We are going to have a REAL, BINDING vote on these changes at the March 20th meeting. If there are no objections meanwhile from this mailing list, and if that meeting also votes yes, then the OFFICIAL Sudoroom Articles of Association will then look like this: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association/Cons… The intervening week is your opportunity, internet peanut gallery, to voice any objections, because we care about those not physically present! Thank you so much for helping make Sudoroom awesome and consensual. :) Yardena

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Noisebridge 5-year party & benefit!

by Vicky Knox

x-posted from Mitch Altmann on Ace discuss: Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco is celebrating 5 years of eminent excellence! Saturday, 30-March, 6pm - 11pm People, geeks, dorks, hipsters, punks, anarchists around the world are converging on the world's premier hackerspace. Bands! Art! Demos! Presentations! Workshops! Talks! Zines! Surprises! Fun! All ages! All welcome! More info: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Art

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mailing list archives

by David Rorex

Hello all, Mailing list archives seem to not be updating ever since the mailing list went down and came back online last week. If you look at the archives, the latest email in them in march 8. Can whoever is the mailing list admin take a look at it? It's handy to be able to look up posts online, and is useful to people who join the list at a later date, to be able to see what was said beforehand. thanks!

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Re: [sudo-discuss] REQUEST FOR COMMENT: proposed changes to the Articles of Association!

by Yardena Cohen

>> On what draft should we make edits and/or comments? Or should these be >> discussed on this list in this thread? > Please don't edit that draft directly; rather discuss changes on the list or > create a child article from the draft to make your changes on so it is clear > whose changes are whose. Further edits to the draft won't actually affect this process - the wiki history remains intact - but we would not be able to officially finalize them at the March 20th meeting, as they'd need their own week-long online consent process. Also, to clarify, a "child page" on the wiki really just means a page with a slash in the name. For instance, when Anthony created this current draft, he followed these rough steps: 1) Go to https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association and click "edit", then copy the full text 2) Create a new wiki page titled "Articles of Association/Something" and paste the text as the first edit 3) Make revisions to that page. Any of these revisions can be easily compared to the first by clicking on "View history" and moving a radio button. This is called a "diff". 4) Present a diff to the meeting and e-mail list 5) Assuming it passes the consent process, that revision becomes "official" and we can copy its text into the original page at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association 6) The changes are official and everybody is happy! Anyone can do this! In fact, it would be great if we all got familiar with doing it. :)

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sudo-discuss March 2013