sudo-discuss April 2013

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by Julio Rios

A friend saw a flier for this ISP that provides very fast internet http://subvolo.com/index.html I don't know much about them, but it may help sudoroom scale in the long-term. Hopefully, others have stronger opinions than mine.

12 years, 10 months

the value of having a conflict resolution process

by Romy Ilano

This source is a little corporate-sounding at first but well-written. I think they discuss a chamber of commerce non-profit in an unnamed city. Does anyone find this useful? I relate to many of the topics. http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/AMMagArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=557 As I indicated in Leaders Working Together, "The cornerstone assumption remains: Collaboration does not mean we all have to agree, but we do have to maintain mutual understanding." Having a process in place to deal with inevitable conflict goes a long way in assisting a board in reaching that mutual understanding and preventing destructive conflict. CPR is such a process. And, while I've seen the process work effectively, one of the first things a board must realize is that it takes time to move through the steps and volunteer board members are often resistant to working through a seemingly lengthy process that may resolve an issue or problem within the board. In response to an interview question asked during my research, board members from around the country revealed: "Resolving disputes is a priority but dispute resolution is not." Hence, board members agreed that disputes are a part of the decision-making process but, nevertheless, they do not welcome a formal dispute-resolution process. Therefore, when I introduce the notion of implementing a process to resolve a dispute, I ask participants to weigh the alternatives. In other words, how do they feel about carrying the weight of a chronic problem through every decision-making exercise as compared to taking a little time away from the regular agenda to resolve the issue thereby pulling that particular weight from the board's shoulders? Generally, participants agree that it makes sense to resolve the issue and they also discover that collaborative problem resolution is designed as a simplified model with volunteer boards in mind and is well worth the time it takes. Imagine how far ahead the chamber would be in terms of time and money if they had taken a few hours to step back and resolve the real problem at the root of its conflict.

12 years, 10 months

heavy metal pantomine group for articles of awesomeness [silly]

by Romy Ilano

so, who's up for a heavy metal pantomine dance group of the articles of awesomeness? if there is a board of sudo directors present, you certainly don't want the board to be bored! ;) ROCK

12 years, 10 months

New Photos for SudoRoom phone + Inventory System

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/O:21 https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Inventory A picture speaks a thousand words. Thanks for working on such cool projects! I was raving about how simple and useful the inventory system is. And it's open source too! <3

12 years, 10 months

Connecting Oakland's Top 10 Social + SudoRoom [[Oakland positive mojo synergy]]

by Romy Ilano

I reached out to Michael Orange from Top 10 social in downtown Oakland. Their events are parties, have more up and coming young African American professionals, and are all around of a different, highly complementary vibe to SudoRoom. Top 10 social has held a lot of great art benefits--gallery benefits for the family of youth murdered in Chicago (that one made me cry!), a Game Changers project for filmmakers working on microdocumentaries.They also sponsor talks on food justice and bringing healthier options to the African-American community in Oakland and other urban areas. - I'm talking to Michael Orange to see what projects would make sense for Top 10 social and Sudo Room. I've known him for a couple of years, he's a great guy. - I threw around a few ideas that were brought up by various community groups and Sudo Room Members -- sudo room people helping community workshops fixing senior citizens' computers, bike fixing workshops, etc. - I'm waiting for Michael to reply--if they have space for us I think it would be a nice complement to SudoRoom! They are great folks, and I like how they are differnet from us. They dress up a lot nicer than we do,so they could be the yang to our yin or vice versa.

12 years, 10 months

Film fest auction for Noisebridge!

by Mitch Altman

Way cool Silent Auction item to raise funds for Noisebridge! 20 tickets to this year's San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival !! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Frameline37_Membership_Silent_Auction -- $400 value ! -- This is one of the biggest film festivals in the world! Each year, over 70,000 people for 11 days watch over 350 films made by cutting-edge independent filmmakers from around the world. This year's Festival (Frameline 37) runs from June 20-30. Please bid on this $400 membership to this year's Festival! Bidding ends on Tuesday, April 23rd, 11:59pm PDT. Your Frameline membership includes more than just the 20 tickets. See the certificate in the link for all of the benefits you will get when you win this item. Here is the wiki page for the silent auction bidding: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Frameline37_Membership_Silent_Auction Bidding ends on Tuesday, April 23rd, 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. Please bid what you can to help raise funds for Noisebridge, and you get to see lots of way cool films this summer in San Francisco! Thank you to Frameline for their incredibly generous donation to Noisebridge! Mitch.

12 years, 10 months

hacking personal safety (wristbands, electronics)

by Romy Ilano

what are ways people can hack personal safety? (wristbands, electronics) sorry to hear about that naomi =( my brother was jumped a few years ago while he was riding his bike through brooklyn. They choked him and held a knife to his throat. Not fun at all!

12 years, 10 months

In-n-Out California: Circulating Things and the Globalization of the West Coast [CfP 4/20]

by Eddan Katz

I think that many Sudo folk might have interest in submitting to this interesting looking event, especially Oakland Wiki. Paper proposals due Apr. 20. > In-n-Out California: Circulating Things and the Globalization of the West Coast > Organizers: Tiago Saraiva, Cathryn Carson, Massimo Mazzotti UC Berkeley, 5-7 September 2013 > > Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Office for History of Science and Technology and the Drexel University STS Center. > > Scholars interested in the history of the West Coast have thoroughly explored the material culture of California. Square tomatoes, rockets, dams, surf boards, cyclotrons, LSD, or iPods are all common ingredients in the making of historical narratives of the Golden State. Strangely enough, many such narratives have too much of a local flavor: they don’t fully acknowledge the global circulation of those things that have produced California. This workshop deals with the double process of getting things In-n-Out of California, pointing, for example, to the ways, on the one hand, that Californian agribusiness relied on a constant supply of new varieties of crops brought into the state by plant hunters crossing many disparate regions of the globe, while, on the other hand, its standardized products, be it oranges, avocados, or wine, were shipped to international markets and became cases in point in the globalization of food. We point to globalization in the double sense that those things were the result of multiple trajectories originating from all over the world converging in California, at the same time that many things found their way out of California to produce what is commonly perceived as the globalized world. We are well aware of the trickiness and looseness associated with the concept of globalization. Too frequently the buzzword is used uncritically to cover the lack of a proper understanding of concrete historical dynamics. Indeed, one of the aims of the workshop is to get some grip on globalization by exploring narratives from the ground up through the circulation of concrete things. Specifically, a quick look at the list of things we can identify with the presence of California in the world reveals the historical relevance of engineers’ and scientists’ work in putting them in circulation. It may be suggestive to think of places like laboratories as centers of circulation where things come in, are processed, and get ready to sustain new worlds. We expect spatial issues to play an important role in our discussions. We are interested in exploring the ability of California history to help us deal with the different scales involved in historical explanations at large. California has the potential to problematize taken-for-granted notions of what constitutes the local, the region, the nation, the empire, or the globe. It also promises a fertile ground for the growing community of scholars interested in transnational historical dynamics. We welcome approaches that reveal the intricate historical processes of circulating things and making California a global space. Papers dealing with the many obstacles involved in getting things In-n-Out, and offering a sober reminder that globalization is no teleological tale, are strongly encouraged: the multiple failed copies of Silicon Valley spread around the globe, or the many tropical crops that failed to thrive in the Californian Garden of Eden. The same example of the In-N-Out burger chain also suggests how standardized things, in this case fast- food, can retain their local identity and have troubles in getting out of the West. > > What travels attached to those things? Identities, skills, politics, markets, all contribute to make them thick things good to think with for scholars haunted by what globalization historically means. By calling for contributions from historians of science and technology, historians of the West, world historians, environmental historians, and Science and Technology Studies scholars, we want to establish the crucial place of California in globalization narratives and better understand the making of California. > > Paper proposals should be about 300 words, accompanied by a short author bio. The deadline for consideration is April 20. Successful proposals will be announced by May 15. In order to make for productive working sessions, paper prototypes (powerpoints accepted) will be pre-circulated. These should be detailed enough to present the author’s argument and materials, but also open and experimental to engage discussion. Paper prototypes are due on July 10. > > Travel and lodging expenses in Berkeley will be covered by the organizers. > A follow-up to the Berkeley event will take place at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2014 to prepare a collective volume for publication. Travel and lodging expenses will also be provided. > > Please send proposals to all of the conference organizers Tiago Saraiva tsaraiva(a)drexel.edu, Cathryn Carson clcarson(a)berkeley.edu, Massimo Mazzotti mazzotti(a)berkeley.edu > > Tiago Saraiva, > Department of History and Politics > Drexel University > 3250-60 Chestnut Street - Suite 3025 > Philadelphia, PA 19104 > Phone: (215) 895-2463 > Fax: (215) 895-6614 > Email: tsaraiva(a)drexel.edu

12 years, 10 months

hist of tech orgs planning party

by Eddan Katz

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) - http://www.themade.org - based here in downtown Oakland [610 16th St.; Suite 230; 510-788-5702] and a group of other Bay Area technology history museums/archives/etc. are rounding up fellow travelers for a benefit party sometime this month. Do any Sudo folk have connections with MADE? Is there interest in trying to connect with these guys for the party? Any objections to finding a time to use the common space? > From: Raoul Duke <raould(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [The-MADE] how about a multi bay area 501(c)(3) party? > Date: April 9, 2013 3:17:29 PM PDT > To: the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com > Reply-To: the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com > > ok i'm emailing around some of them to see what they think, if it > sounds like something they'd like to do. if people on this list > already know people at any of the places listed below, or other such > places, please ping them as well? > > * the MADE oh wait > * stanford collection (you-all know them already, some are on this list, yes?) > * videogame history museum > * mv computer history museum > * sv igda (a little bit of a stretch, but they are nice and i've > tabled @ their events, and emailed them about this to see what they > think) > * folks who bring stuff to the California Extreme shows > * others? beuller? > > of course one important part would be to get sponsors! who knows of > good largesse? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The MADE Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to the-made-discussion+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Begin forwarded message: > From: Alex Handy <alex(a)themade.org> > Subject: Re: [The-MADE] how about a multi bay area 501(c)(3) party? > Date: April 9, 2013 3:05:00 PM PDT > To: "the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com" <the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com> > Reply-To: the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com > > Works for me. We're planning our own Kickstarter party in April, but beyond that... I think it'd be scheduled around the time when those folks are all in the bay area and free, which is likely once a year. > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Raoul Duke <raould(a)gmail.com> wrote: > like get the stanford folks, the Videogame History Museum folks, > invite the Berlin folks, etc. :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The MADE Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to the-made-discussion+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > Alex Handy > Founder/Director > The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment > 610 16th St. > Suite 230 > Oakland, CA 94612 > Dial #0230 to be buzzed in > http://www.themade.org > 510-282-4840 (Me) > 510-788-5702 (The MADE) > 410-2-31337-2 (mobile) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The MADE Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to the-made-discussion+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >

12 years, 10 months

Making Club Maté at Sudo Room for Sudo-Profit: A Business Plan

by Max Klein

Club Mate[1] is a carbonated tea drink which is hugely popular amongst European Hackers. I thought about importing it, but that would imply $3/bottle[2], which would leave us with slim profit margins. Let's try and make 10% of sudoroom's budget through profits. I am committing up to $300 in funding to this, in an attempt to make 100 bottles as a proof of concept. I need your assistance on any of the following sub-points. Accept to do the following or provide input on the wiki[3] and I'll write you a cheque as needed: ==Business Plan== Initial Funding: up to $300 Target Sales: $200 - $300 1. Make it. 1. Buy sufficient raw mate 1. for 50L ~ 100 bottles 1. Assuming 500ml bottles 2. We could also use 333ml bottles 2. Brew it 1. Will we need a vat? 1. Do we have a vat? 2. Can a metal worker at sudo make us a vat 3. Spice it if necessary 1. Following this guide[4] maybe 2. Or allow adventurous sudoer to blaze trail 4. Carbonate it 1. Bobby, David Wild's roommate does this 1. Ask him nicely 2. Pay him 2. Buy a soda-stream 5. Transport it too bottler 2. Bottle It. 1. Use as many recycled bottles as possible 1. Put call out for more bottles 1. Pay a homeless person worst comes to worse 2. Use the sudo capping machine 1. I believe its in the closet 3. Labelling 1. 2. Rock paper scissors can do this 4. Transport it to storage 3. Store it 1. We might be able to use the sudo closet 1. Does it require refrigerated storage? 2. Do we have a refrigerator 1. Find one or many on CL Free 4. Sell it. 1. Target price $2-3/bottle depending on investment figures 2. Always at sudo, but also at specialized events 3. At Oakland Nights live 4. At an events night fundraiser 1. Sober 1. Games tournament 2. Debate 3. Hackathon 2. Mix it with alcohol 1. At a sudorave. 2. One of the planned Movie Nights 5. At art murmur. 1. Have this ready by May 3rd. If there are there any other members from other Hackerspace that you think would be useful, please forward this email. Cheers Max [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate [2] http://club-mate.us/ [3] https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudomate [4] http://blog.makezine.com/2010/08/12/how-to-homebrew-club-mate/

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