sudo-discuss January 2014

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by Vicky Knox

Help! I am lost in a never-ending list of OpenStreetMap apps showcased on their wiki <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android>! Does anyone here have any recommendations for a particular one? I have two requirements: no proprietary software and yes navigation functionality (BONUS: topographic features). I would also be down to team up with interested parties to split the task of doing a systematic review of all apps listed. w00t! yiVkc

11 years, 10 months

looking for front end and and stats hackers for anti-eviction

by Praveen Sinha

Hello! I've been working with the fine folks who have put out the anti-eviction maps and been doing some of the counter-displacement organizing lately. Looking for some volunteers, particularly people who are able to put together front end animations for critical pieces of legislation that are coming up. But also stats and backend people as well. There is an immediate need, but also some upcoming hackathons, which I'll announce later. If you or someone you know is interested in understanding and transforming housing and income inequality in the bay area and has 133t skillz0rs, please put me in touch! Love! Praveen

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Everything is freedom passportbook can we work this into an art project ?

by Eddie Che

Hi there! I'm working on this concept, and could use feedback on some good ideas of what's been done before This is, so me, and you. I love you, Sudo.... All the thing we've worked on before. So, I'm looking for some good ideas here as to how we can do this right, I am designing the transition to not using money and so, would be nice to have something that explained this paradigm better and more appropriately to folks one would meet: http://freeworldcharter.org/ . Maybe these books could have the concepts from the charter？ Ed Che. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Eddie Che <eddiemill(a)gmail.com> wrote: Freedom paradigm and Anticapitalism on the SudoRoom wiki, have a gander@? > I hope you guys have been keeping up on the wiki, it's going to be awesome > hub for some cool change-the-world design ideas, process innovation, > creative commons, free speech and as always, anarchy! > > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Anticapitalism > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Freedom_Paradigm > > Hack and question, call me out, or contribute, @here, emailing me, in > comments, or on page :) > <3. > EC > > -- Eddie Miller, BU '10 eddiemill(a)gmail.com | 440-935-5434 Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

11 years, 10 months

Fw: [oaklandprivacyworkinggroup] Activists are poised to sue Oakland over creepy spy center

by eddan.com

For wide distribution. On Monday, January 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Miguel Vargas wrote: > This is the press release that just went out. Brian is delivering the Cease and Desist letter to city hall personally this morning. > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Miguel Vargas <unroar(a)gmail.com (mailto:unroar@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > Oakland Privacy Group Press Release > > Contact: Brian Hofer > > Cell: (510) 303-2871 (tel:%28510%29%20303-2871) > > Email: brian.hofer(a)gmail.com (mailto:brian.hofer@gmail.com) > > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > ACTIVISTS POISED TO SUE CITY OVER CREEPY SPY CENTER’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONTRACTORS > > > > The Oakland Privacy Group today demanded through counsel that Oakland city government immediately Cease and Desist building the Domain Awareness Center and stop working with military contractors in violation of Oakland’s Nuclear Free Zone ordinance or face a lawsuit. > > > > City staff is currently urging city council to move forward with building the DAC by signing a contract with military contractor Schneider Electric. Signing such a contract would be a clear violation of Oakland’s Nuclear Free Zone ordinance.The council's next vote on this issue is on Tuesday, January 28. > > > > In their recommendation, city staff states that they are satisfied that Schneider Electric is not in violation of the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance based on their Google searches. Yet it is hard to believe that city staff missed the many webpages where Schneider markets their nuclear weapons experience. For example, Schneider states on their Naval Technology page (http://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/electrical/schneider-energy/%20) http://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/electrical/schneider-energy/ > > > > Our main application domains include: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Weapon launching control system for nuclear submarines > > > Nuclear weapon handling system > > Oakland has a long tradition of taking strong progressive stands on national issues with legislation such as South African divestment, establishing the City of Refuge (anti-ICE raids), leadership on cannabis normalization, standing against Arizona’s racist anti-immigrant law, and many others. > > > > It is from this proud tradition that the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance originates. Oakland has for decades declared that it will in no way be complicit in building nuclear weapons and has refused to work with any nuclear weapons contractors. > > > > These are Oakland values. > > > > Unfortunately, it seems that our current crop of city leaders do not share these values. > > > > Since the beginning of the DAC project city staff has been looking for ways to use nuclear weapons contractors to build their vision of an all-knowing Orwellian surveillance apparatus. > > > > The city’s first contractor to work on the DAC, military giant SAIC, was removed from the contract after it’s work on nuclear weapons became public. SAIC also perjured themselves by signing a statement that they did not violate the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance. But public records request documents indicate that city staff knew all along that SAIC was in violation of the ordinance. When they were found out staff were searching for ways to help SAIC bypass the ordinance, they then helped SAIC finish building a major phase of the DAC project and paid them the full $2.6 million for their illegal work before the contract was ended. > > > > The Oakland Privacy Group believes city staff are attempting similar maneuvers with Schneider Electric to get the spy center completed in violation of the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance. > > > > If the city moves forward with these plans legal action will be taken to stop it. > > > > About the Oakland Privacy Working Group > > The Oakland Privacy Group is a grassroots community organization concerned with the encroaching threat of high-tech surveillance. It has been organizing the swelling grassroots opposition to the DAC since the issue was first noticed at a city council meeting in July of 2013. They have an online presence Twitter @OaklandPrivacy and at http://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/ > > > > About the DAC > > > > The DAC is a multi-million dollar data and video spy center funded with federal anti-terrorism dollars originally intended for the port but then turned against the residents of Oakland. The most comprehensive information on the DAC is available on Oakland Wiki at http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center > > > > > > > > > >

11 years, 10 months

Mayoral Candidate exploratory committee (Invite only)

by Shake Anderson

Morning Sudo Room, Shake Anderson (invite only) Mayoral Candidate exploratory committee meeting tonite at 6pm @ Uptown Studio 1738 Telegragh Ave. Oakland,Ca ...pls come -- Shake Anderson OMY Enterprises 510.221.7609510.221.7609510.221.7609510.221.7609 Omy.ent(a)gmail.com

11 years, 10 months

sudoroom projector during meetings: bringing the world to SudoRoom

by Romy Ilano

Hey I had an idea... during meetings, when not using the projector for powerpoint-y stuff, why not project walk throughs and non-narrated videos from around the world? Especially anything non narrated, with atmospheric sound It would be a way to bring the world "Closer to SudoRoom" and realize we are part of a larger orange besides the orange slice we currently live on Stuff is blowing up in Ukraine and Cambodia right now: - a walk through Guadalajara City in mexico during one of their bike days - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZlr8dTcu8&feature=share&list=PLIXYZQ--adya… - riot police put down a peaceful protest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHCNuyCYiX0 - uncommented walk through other hackerspaces in New York, Berlin, the world... What do you think? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 10 months

gnucash review

by J Clark

I saw that you're looking at bookkeeping software, including Gnucash. I've been using it for a good couple+ years and wanted to offer my thoughts. I love it generally. Pretty easy to use double-entry system, kind of like Quicken. Make sure you have your accounts set up to match your tax and reporting requirements, and so that anyone putting entries in will understand which account includes what kind of expenses. Easy to reconcile with bank statements. It's not a "connect to my bank" kind of system like Quicken used to be (and may still be) to update your account and reconcile all at once, but if you keep up with your entries, end of month is a breeze. Nice reporting once you figure out what you need to know and which menu choice does it. It's apparently really easy to screw things up and not notice. By the end of every year I have had to go back and re-balance at least one or two of my bank statements because some transaction disappeared somewhere and balancing against a statement becomes a problem (tho' prior balances have worked out fine). Because of that last point, I'm considering another option this year. j.

11 years, 10 months

super focus club

by Romy Ilano

well my point wasn't that I would come to SudoRoom and do only working and not talk to anyone. I would like to have a super focus area so that we could isolate ourselves for short bursts, then come back like half-naked pearl divers coming up for air out of the ocean, our diving knives in our teeth, so that during breaks we could flop around and relax supine on the couches, just as divers would half-naked in the bright sun... before diving down into the depths again, the depths of hyperfocus, clad only in loinclothes, searching for pearls of wisdom. >> Message: 8 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:13:56 -0800 From: Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com>1" I've come to accept that this is not possible at sudo. I tried the "I'm busy" sombrero, and the corner. Sometimes the problem is that I distract myself too. But I still want focus. Super focus, without the anonymity or expense of the coffee shop, and the separation from my house. The way I imagined the happening was renting one of the other rooms next to sudo and making "SUPER FOCUS CLUB". It'd be very minimally run, and cost to go in (I think paying for it would also help bring ones self to superfocus). So it'd be a spartan "coworking" space, which you can have as premium feature to sudo's freemium model. I kind of was thinking about trying this out for a month starting in April when I also plan to quit my job and shake my life like a purse and I was looking for keys. -notconfusing ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 10 months

Sudo room trailer

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Hey all, Thanks to Mackenzie and her housemate, sudo room has a new trailer, already tagged and ready to roll. The hitch attaches to your rear triangle, near the rear wheel dropout, should fit on most bikes, even with some crud in the way. Please bring it back, don't leave it out or at your house, it's an invaluable resource for everyone to share. // Matt

11 years, 10 months

media / outreach contacts?

by David Keenan

Im trying get ahold of existing media / political group contact lists to build Oakland Privacy Working Group's for our outreach purposes. Does sudo have, or know anyone sympathetic who has, such a list? Ie, mainstream and alternative print, tv, radio contacts, as well as at unions, leagues, or other political groups like democratic committes/clubs, etc? Such a lost could help sudo and baps' outreach as well - Sort of a compressed timeframe, so any help is hugely appreciated. Best, David

11 years, 10 months

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sudo-discuss January 2014