sudo-discuss February 2014

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by Romy Mimi Ilano

Pass along to any awesome high school or college students you know! *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* *http://www.romyilano.com <http://www.romyilano.com>* +1 (415) 779-6237 skype: romy.ilano ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elise Engelhardt <techelise(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM Subject: [SVEC] Fwd: SVEC Education Awards To: svec(a)sbay.org From: Kiran Gunnam <kgunnam(a)ieee.org> *SVEC Education Awards for High School, College Students* *Deadline is February 7, 2014* mailing date. *Awards Eligibility and Criteria* The Silicon Valley Engineering Council Engineering Education awards recognize young engineering and technology students for their dedication, focus, and commitment to engineering. Engineering and Technology students graduating from high school or presently enrolled in undergraduate community college or university programs are eligible to apply. Fulltime and part-time students are eligible. Students may receive an SVEC Education award only once. Graduate students are not eligible. Applications have details and required specifics. Some of the details listed below. Download 2014 application form in PDF here<http://svec.org/files/SVECEducationAwardsApplication2014.pdf> Download 2014 application form in MS Word here<http://svec.org/files/SVECEducationAwardsApplication2014.doc> _______________________________________________ SVEC mailing list SVEC(a)sbay.org http://www.sbay.org/mailman/listinfo/svec

10 years, 4 months

need for datasets: education, public health, sustainability, restorative justice

by Mike Schachter

Hi everyone, I wanted to make people aware of an event coming up this weekend and try to get some help. I'm volunteering to mentor Data Science at the Black Male Achievement Startup Weekend this weekend: http://bmaoakland.startupweekend.org/ The attendees will form teams to try and address issues related to public health, sustainability, education, restorative justice, and gaming. As a mentor, it's my job to go around and help the teams. I would like to be able to facilitate progress with each group by providing the tools and data they need to enhance work on their focus areas. If you know of some good open datasets that fall into the areas of health care, sustainability, education, restorative justice, or gaming, could you please recommend them to me? Also, if you are interested in coming out as a volunteer and helping me, or others at the event, consider registering! mike

10 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] "learn to code" events subject to full-WTF scale crackdown...any ideas?

by Romy Ilano

Well to play devil's advocate: creative, qusetioning students with computer science skills are valued by the industrialists nowadays. They actually seek out people who are a little rebellious. I read that some of the more innovative Chinese high schools are ditching standardized tests, encuraging more creative education, as they see it as their only ticket to becoming an economy on the high end of the value chain (more creative, more design-focused) What if the evil capitalists support a more intelliectual, creative education free of rote education? >>>>>>>>>> Message: 11 Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:23:34 -0800 From: Anthony Di Franco <di.franco(a)gmail.com> To: GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01(a)att.net> Cc: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] "learn to code" events subject to full-WTF scale crackdown...any ideas? Message-ID: <CAOJkv1pDK2k_oPcbssg42MHZOkSzfqANQPxfoTNmx7wWF4wLSw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Outside of the narrow regulatory question, this reminds me of another relating to the vocationalization of programming to supply commoditized labor to large corporations, which is something I am uneasy around and which I think reflects a shifting power balance that deserves to be opposed. Here is a line of criticism that I think is right on, running from Seymour Papert to Bret Victor to this< http://programmingisterrible.com/post/73056840109/paperts-dreams-and-our-gr… > : *"In ?Meanwhile, at code.org <http://worrydream.com/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg/>?, Bret juxtaposes the ideals of Seymour Papert and the dreams of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Papert wanted to use programming as a way to let children explore powerful ideas and let their imagination run wild. The agenda of the political, wealthy, and powerful is to build a new generation of worker bees to fuel their startups. One sees code as a liberation, and the other as a vocation..."* ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo! Wanna co-host this surveillance event?

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

I'll sponsor it, but can't do much leg work. Perhaps BAPS should consider whether it is inclined to support events billed as fundraisers for worthy groups and individuals, but reserve asking for funds for all other events? This way a fundraiser is a rare and exceptional event, where it is clear the purpose and the flow of funds, versus the general expectation of completely free events hosted by BAPS. Does this produce an ethical and moral consistency with the motivation of the policy? Would this make the policy more cleat to event collaborators: "either free or it's a full-blown fundraiser"? // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "David Keenan" <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> To: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Sudo! Wanna co-host this surveillance event? Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 00:07 Hi all.. I know there hasn't been much activity on this thread, but I was wondering if I could up the ante. Because sometimes, life's just like that. Would we (sudo) be willing to entirely host this event? Without BAPS.. I ask because the event's organizers would really like for there to be a simple donation box somewhere off to the side in the space, for folks to be able to donate directly at the event. This money would go to Oakland's Anti-Repression Committee and National Lawyer Guild's Legal Workers (the non-lawyer workforce part of the NLG). Within BAPS, there has emerged some reservation amongst organizers that having any other group (that is not BAPS) accept donations at an event BAPS hosts, might abrogate our statement of financial principles that there be no solicitation at the event. There's a confusion here that can't work itself out until our next general meeting at the earliest, which isn't for a while, and in the meantime.. the event needs to be promoted and have a home that is assured. So having Sudo solely host this event instead of BAPS, would solve a real headache for us. Are we down for this? I've already set the speakers and logistics up.. we just need a home, and hopefully, be able to put it on Sudo's facebook. alla best,David On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:05 PM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com> wrote: i agree awesome idea. and second the mention. keenly watching this thread. On 2/2/14, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Jeremy - Of course! And we should. > > what does the rest of sudo think? > > On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Jeremy Entwistle <jwentwistle(a)cryptolab.net> > wrote: > >> I think that's an amazing idea. How to do you feel about the mesh and our >> cryptoparty (2/23) being mentioned? As both are very practical methods of >> promoting secure and decentralized communications. >> >> On 2014-02-01 21:58, David Keenan wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> The Bay Area Public School has scheduled a surveillance awareness >>> event on Friday 2/21 7-9pm in the common room entitled Spied Upon: >>> Surveillance & Resistance. I was hoping we (sudo) could co-host this >>> event with BAPS, because I think it'd be really cool if we start doing >>> more events together. BAPS can do most all of the setup, but it'd be >>> great if Sudo can do outreach too, since I think it'd be in the >>> interest of both communities. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> There's a twofold focus on informants and technological surveillance. >>> Here's the Sudo Room calendar EVENT LINK [1]. Details are below - >>> >>> SPIED UPON: SURVEILLANCE AND RESISTANCE >>> Join us Friday February 21st 7-9 pm at the Bay Area Public School [2] >>> & Sudo Room >>> 2141 Broadway (enter on 22nd), Oakland - three blocks from 19th St. >>> Bart! >>> >>> Between the ever-present fear of informants to the profusion of >>> metadata collection and the construction of the Domain Awareness >>> Center [3] (DAC) in Oakland, the growing problem of surveillance has >>> made it into the mainstream dialog, but the people and communities >>> most affected are sometimes being left out of the conversation. >>> >>> Join us for an evening of ideas, discussion and questions about >>> solidarity in the face of this intimidation. How do we support one >>> another and our movements when being targeted by police, surveillance >>> and informants? What are the legal, community and political responses >>> that can best keep the larger "us" safe and allow our movements to >>> flourish? >>> >>> - SPEAKERS - >>> JASON KIRKPATRICK, filmmaker and activist, will show clips of and >>> discuss his upcoming film, _SPIED UPON_ [4]. Interviewing activists >>> across the world and telling his own personal story, Jason will take >>> us on a journey into one of Europe's biggest political surveillance >>> scandals, documenting growing movements of resistance to surveillance >>> along the way. >>> >>> ZAHRA BILLOO, Civil rights attorney and Executive Director at the Bay >>> Area COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS [5] (CAIR), speaks on the >>> use of informants in a post-9/11 context, their impact, the >>> community's resistance and lessons learned. >>> >>> RICHARD BROWN, Black Panther and member of the SF8 [6], will share his >>> history with undercover police and surveillance, imparting the 'long >>> view' of solidarity learned from a lifetime of activism. >>> >>> - PANEL DISCUSSION - >>> Q & A with the speakers will follow in conversation with >>> representatives from: >>> BAY AREA ANTI-REPRESSION COMMITTEE [7] >>> BAY AREA COALITION TO STOP POLITICAL REPRESSION [8] (at AROC) >>> LEGAL WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD [9] (NLG) >>> OAKLAND PRIVACY WORKING GROUP [10] (OPWG / anti-DAC) >>> >>> All donations gratefully received will go to the Bay Area >>> Anti-Repression Committee and the Legal Workers at the Bay Area >>> chapter of the NLG - two groups long supporting the Bay Area radical >>> community with legal and educational assistance. Thank you! >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/spied-upon-bay-area-premiere-baps/ >>> [2] http://thepublicschool.org/node/36455 >>> [3] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center >>> [4] http://spiedupon.com/ >>> [5] http://www.cair.com/ >>> [6] http://www.freethesf8.org/who.html >>> [7] https://oaklandantirepression.wordpress.com/ >>> [8] >>> http://araborganizing.org/campaigns-our-work/coalition- >>> to-stop-political-repression/ >>> [9] http://www.nlgsf.org/national-lawyers-guild-mission-statement >>> [10] https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >> >> -- >> https://twitter.com/jwentwistle >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > -- *Be seeing you.*

10 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] laptop swap

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Couldn't get it working, status code reads motherboard issue, scrapping all for parts. Keep the RAM if you need it. If not, we can use it. // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: ""Løng$hanks"" <longshanks(a)spaz.org> To: <longshanks(a)spaz.org> Cc: <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] laptop swap Date: Sun, Feb 2, 2014 13:51 I also have another new-out-of-the-box adapter & 2G RAM stick for that laptop.... On Fri, January 31, 2014 6:45 pm, "Løng$hanks" wrote: > Greetings, > > Tony here, visitor to SR several times now, most recently this Wednesday > night + Thursday morning. Wednesday evening (Jan. 29) in the vicinity of > 530pm (PST) I swapped my unworking Dell Latitude D531 laptop for an even > older, yet reportedly functional Dell laptop with a gentleman whose name I > was told, & promptly forgot. I wanted to inquire, since I was unable to > come back to SR Wednesday night after my Spanish class as I had originally > promised, whether said gentleman was able to get the D531 working, & also > to let him know that I left a dock intended for use with said laptop in > the Sudo Room closet Thursday afternoon. Or, rather my friend Carl left it > there as I had to leave that morning before anyone w/ a key arrived to > open the back hack-chamber. > > Please feel free to get in touch with me at this e-address > (longshanks(a)spaz.org). > > Thanks & congrats on the great space-in-progress! > > T. > > -- Løng$h@nk$ Not all who wander are lost. _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

10 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo! Wanna co-host this surveillance event?

by David Keenan

Hi all.. I know there hasn't been much activity on this thread, but I was wondering if I could up the ante. Because sometimes, life's just like that. Would we (sudo) be willing to entirely host this event? Without BAPS.. I ask because the event's organizers would really like for there to be a simple donation box somewhere off to the side in the space, for folks to be able to donate directly at the event. This money would go to Oakland's Anti-Repression Committee and National Lawyer Guild's Legal Workers (the non-lawyer workforce part of the NLG). Within BAPS, there has emerged some reservation amongst organizers that having any other group (that is not BAPS) accept donations at an event BAPS hosts, might abrogate our statement of financial principles that there be no solicitation at the event. There's a confusion here that can't work itself out until our next general meeting at the earliest, which isn't for a while, and in the meantime.. the event needs to be promoted and have a home that is assured. So having Sudo solely host this event instead of BAPS, would solve a real headache for us. Are we down for this? I've already set the speakers and logistics up.. we just need a home, and hopefully, be able to put it on Sudo's facebook. alla best, David On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:05 PM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com>wrote: > i agree awesome idea. and second the mention. keenly watching this > thread. > > On 2/2/14, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Jeremy - Of course! And we should. > > > > what does the rest of sudo think? > > > > On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Jeremy Entwistle <jwentwistle(a)cryptolab.net > > > > wrote: > > > >> I think that's an amazing idea. How to do you feel about the mesh and > our > >> cryptoparty (2/23) being mentioned? As both are very practical methods > of > >> promoting secure and decentralized communications. > >> > >> On 2014-02-01 21:58, David Keenan wrote: > >> > >>> Hey all, > >>> > >>> The Bay Area Public School has scheduled a surveillance awareness > >>> event on Friday 2/21 7-9pm in the common room entitled Spied Upon: > >>> Surveillance & Resistance. I was hoping we (sudo) could co-host this > >>> event with BAPS, because I think it'd be really cool if we start doing > >>> more events together. BAPS can do most all of the setup, but it'd be > >>> great if Sudo can do outreach too, since I think it'd be in the > >>> interest of both communities. > >>> > >>> What do you think? > >>> > >>> There's a twofold focus on informants and technological surveillance. > >>> Here's the Sudo Room calendar EVENT LINK [1]. Details are below - > >>> > >>> SPIED UPON: SURVEILLANCE AND RESISTANCE > >>> Join us Friday February 21st 7-9 pm at the Bay Area Public School [2] > >>> & Sudo Room > >>> 2141 Broadway (enter on 22nd), Oakland - three blocks from 19th St. > >>> Bart! > >>> > >>> Between the ever-present fear of informants to the profusion of > >>> metadata collection and the construction of the Domain Awareness > >>> Center [3] (DAC) in Oakland, the growing problem of surveillance has > >>> made it into the mainstream dialog, but the people and communities > >>> most affected are sometimes being left out of the conversation. > >>> > >>> Join us for an evening of ideas, discussion and questions about > >>> solidarity in the face of this intimidation. How do we support one > >>> another and our movements when being targeted by police, surveillance > >>> and informants? What are the legal, community and political responses > >>> that can best keep the larger "us" safe and allow our movements to > >>> flourish? > >>> > >>> - SPEAKERS - > >>> JASON KIRKPATRICK, filmmaker and activist, will show clips of and > >>> discuss his upcoming film, _SPIED UPON_ [4]. Interviewing activists > >>> across the world and telling his own personal story, Jason will take > >>> us on a journey into one of Europe's biggest political surveillance > >>> scandals, documenting growing movements of resistance to surveillance > >>> along the way. > >>> > >>> ZAHRA BILLOO, Civil rights attorney and Executive Director at the Bay > >>> Area COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS [5] (CAIR), speaks on the > >>> use of informants in a post-9/11 context, their impact, the > >>> community's resistance and lessons learned. > >>> > >>> RICHARD BROWN, Black Panther and member of the SF8 [6], will share his > >>> history with undercover police and surveillance, imparting the 'long > >>> view' of solidarity learned from a lifetime of activism. > >>> > >>> - PANEL DISCUSSION - > >>> Q & A with the speakers will follow in conversation with > >>> representatives from: > >>> BAY AREA ANTI-REPRESSION COMMITTEE [7] > >>> BAY AREA COALITION TO STOP POLITICAL REPRESSION [8] (at AROC) > >>> LEGAL WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD [9] (NLG) > >>> OAKLAND PRIVACY WORKING GROUP [10] (OPWG / anti-DAC) > >>> > >>> All donations gratefully received will go to the Bay Area > >>> Anti-Repression Committee and the Legal Workers at the Bay Area > >>> chapter of the NLG - two groups long supporting the Bay Area radical > >>> community with legal and educational assistance. Thank you! > >>> > >>> Links: > >>> ------ > >>> [1] > https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/spied-upon-bay-area-premiere-baps/ > >>> [2] http://thepublicschool.org/node/36455 > >>> [3] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center > >>> [4] http://spiedupon.com/ > >>> [5] http://www.cair.com/ > >>> [6] http://www.freethesf8.org/who.html > >>> [7] https://oaklandantirepression.wordpress.com/ > >>> [8] > >>> http://araborganizing.org/campaigns-our-work/coalition- > >>> to-stop-political-repression/ > >>> [9] http://www.nlgsf.org/national-lawyers-guild-mission-statement > >>> [10] https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/ > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> sudo-discuss mailing list > >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > >>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> https://twitter.com/jwentwistle > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sudo-discuss mailing list > >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >> > > > > > -- > *Be seeing you.* >

10 years, 4 months

Fwd: [OpenOakland Brigade] Data day is alive!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Open Data Day coming up in Oakland! Hooray! - Marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Spike <spjika(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:41 PM Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] Data day is alive! To: "openoakland(a)googlegroups.com" <openoakland(a)googlegroups.com> https://oaklanddataday.eventbrite.com Sign up, spread the word and we'll be sending out a list of city commissions, boards and staff to connect to for new projects! Spike openoakland.org www.stealingbeautyphotography.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenOakland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGqpMYAQJ7KfBQ0dBU0LfucduC2f… . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

10 years, 4 months

ml class feb 13 (Thurs): Bayesian Inference for everyone: The (Best) Probability of Causes

by Sam Tepper

Join us for a night of statistics and machine learning for all levels of skill and comfort at the fabled hacker heritage site in SF, Noisebridge. Bayes rule "cracked the Enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged...from two centuries of controversy"! Bayesian inference is about how to use Bayes rule (and its generalizations) to make decisions and conduct optimal rational inquiry. We'll be looking at data sets of your choice. Add you info here <https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Machine_Learning&action=edit&sectio…> or contact Mike <cubicgoats(a)gmail.com> if you want to add your data set to our git repository, and discuss/collaborate on your data for the class. I may also provide data I've acquired from some interesting external sources. If you're using Bayesian statistics or would like to use Bayesian statistics on your own, we will also talk about best practices and powerful tools that everyone can use (such as may be found in some Python libraries and AI algorithms). Class starts at 6:30 (7 sharp). Please bring food, beer, and/or good cheer. -Sam

10 years, 4 months

laptop swap

by "Løng$hanks"

Greetings, Tony here, visitor to SR several times now, most recently this Wednesday night + Thursday morning. Wednesday evening (Jan. 29) in the vicinity of 530pm (PST) I swapped my unworking Dell Latitude D531 laptop for an even older, yet reportedly functional Dell laptop with a gentleman whose name I was told, & promptly forgot. I wanted to inquire, since I was unable to come back to SR Wednesday night after my Spanish class as I had originally promised, whether said gentleman was able to get the D531 working, & also to let him know that I left a dock intended for use with said laptop in the Sudo Room closet Thursday afternoon. Or, rather my friend Carl left it there as I had to leave that morning before anyone w/ a key arrived to open the back hack-chamber. Please feel free to get in touch with me at this e-address (longshanks(a)spaz.org). Thanks & congrats on the great space-in-progress! T. -- Løng$h@nk$ Not all who wander are lost.

10 years, 4 months

Computer vision and biomedical research - looking for a researcher

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, One of my friends is building a company which is utilizing computer vision/ml to transform biomedical research. Theyre funded and looking to bring someone in with experience in computer vision/machine learning, is anyone interested? I've cc'd Joe in this email who's the hiring manager. Ryan

10 years, 4 months

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