sudo-discuss March 2014

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by Danny Spitzberg

I was super-d-delighted to see Sudoers out at First Friday AND I'm jazzed about the reboot on April 4th/5th AND curious to know what's being prototyped for membership. I'm currently renewing my HUB membership (already 3 years in, a really open-minded organizer is has their community engagement role) and was prompted to click agree/disagree with the following: *I am joining Hub Oakland to become a member of a community of entrepreneurs, activists, artists, purpose-driven seekers and professionals acting on our passions and unleashing creativity in ways that make us come alive! Our aim is to leave a legacy of a thriving, just and sustainable world. We envision a future where each individual understands that they are inextricably interconnected to all other beings and the Earth; a future where every business, organization, or company will take courageous and mindful action to become a part of the solution and use their potential to create positive impact and equity for all.* *As a part of this community, I understand that it is my responsibility to maintain, and advance the following 8 Hub Oakland Principles:* - *Authenticity*: We invite the whole person into the space and create a container for authenticity to emerge. - *Radical Inclusivity*: We believe in order to create a thriving and resilient community all voices and perspectives must be invited to the conversation. We thrive because we are diverse and multicultural. - *Creativity & Expression*: We believe at the core of transformation is creativity. We inspire each other to express our creativity and purpose. - *Collaboration*: Our meme is innovation through collaboration. We embody the African proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”. - *Inspiration*: We believe a spark of inspiration has the ability to change the world. We consciously create an atmosphere of inspiration. - *Respect*: We honor each other’s special gifts and differences and keep sacred our physical environment. - *Reciprocity*: We value the opportunity to give to our community and receive from it. - *Effectiveness*: We leverage each other’s strengths and resources and gain the knowledge we need to effectively contribute to making a better world. Then I went back and re-read the Sudo purpose/values and membership sections of the articles at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Article_1._Purpose So, my question: has there been any discussion around membership recruitment/ retention/ rebooting? Curious, Danny p.s. after a raft of raft of other Wednesday commitments, I'm finally done and will see y'all next Wednesday

10 years, 9 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] shotspotter will be discontinued

by Jake

well i think it would be obvious to combine city funds and the mesh network with shotspotter, but i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people were opposed for various reasons. i feel that if our lisence is strong enough, we could accept money and utility poles (and electricity) from the city without being forced to do anything unethical. On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, X wrote: > Is there a map and count of how many of these there are, how would those positions overlay as part of a mesh network. If there's a bunch of spots with power on a > pole, that seems quite useful. > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > what do people think of the shotspotter system installed in oakland? > > it's a network of microphones on telephone poles, each with a GPS (for a precise clock) and a network connection. When a gunshot-like sound is detected, > they send the sound and its precise timing to a central server that determines the location of the shot, and tells the police to go there. > > some people have expressed concern that the microphones are used to spy on people, but it would be impossible to hear a conversation from the top of a > telephone pole that wasnt already loud enough to be heard inside nearby houses (or the phone in your pocket). > > apparently the city pays $264,000 per year to keep shotspotter going. I think sudoroom people could do it for much less if they thought it was a useful > thing. They would be discontinuing it to save money, or perhaps to avoid having to send cops to do actual work once in a while... > > i mean.. sending police toward the gunfire? sounds like a good idea... > > http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-cops-aim-to-scrap-gunfire-detec… > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > -- > ThanX, > ;+) > > nburl.net/fort > >

10 years, 9 months

Fwd: [Wikimedia-SF] CC Salon in San Francisco Thursday, March 27: free culture and social justice

by Marina Kukso

FYI! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kat Walsh <kat(a)mindspillage.org> Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:06 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] CC Salon in San Francisco Thursday, March 27: free culture and social justice To: San Francisco Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org> https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42332 CC Salons are coming back March 27! Come join us: Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:00 - 7:30 PM PST Cafe Royale, 800 Post St, San Francisco, CA >From the blog post: Creative Commons is thrilled to announce that we will be reviving CC salons on a quarterly basis starting March 27! Years ago, CC ran a series of CC Salon events in the Bay Area, informal events that brought together creators of all kinds to talk about how and why they choose open in their fields. CC salons continue to occur all over the world, but on March 27, CC will host a salon on social justice and open innovation right here in San Francisco. This informal event will feature short talks from guests in local nonprofits and the free culture community, as well as lots of interesting people to network and socialize with. It's free and open to everyone. Speakers: Joshua Knox, Brute Labs Niki Korth, Writer and Free Culture Activist Supriya Misra, TeachAIDS Rachel Weidinger, Upwell -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf

10 years, 9 months

Move cleaning weekend to 29-30

by Yardena Cohen

I formally propose we move cleaning weekend to the 29th/30th. The Public School was going to host a talk in our common area on Saturday night, the 22nd: "Sylvia Federici and George Caffentzis on Capital, Labor and Reproduction at the Bay Area Public School" Because of our landlord's rave plans, they had to find another venue. So it's going to happen 7pm at the Omni. The "Collective of Collectives" is going to use this as an opportunity to introduce more people to that building earlier in the day. It will be a great chance to see the Omni for anyone who hasn't already, and to meet other interested people and groups who want to move in with Sudoroom. I want to be there as well. I think a lot of Sudoers should come too. So are there any objections to pushing cleaning weekend another week to the 29th and 30th?

10 years, 9 months

Fwd: Now accepting proposals for Open Source Bridge 2014!

by Jenny Ryan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Open Source Bridge" <info(a)opensourcebridge.org> Date: Mar 13, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Now accepting proposals for Open Source Bridge 2014! To: "Jenny Ryan" <jenny(a)thepyre.org> Cc: Submit your Open Source Bridge proposal today! View this email in your browser<http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=46d72c6c2733a75b61cfcf5ad&id=293aeaf32f…> Submit your talk proposal today! We're thrilled to announce the opening of our 2014 Call for Proposals. From now through April 4th, we are looking for people from all backgrounds and areas of experience to submit talk proposals. If you work or play in open source, we want to hear from you. Let us know how you are building your communities, small or large. All speaking experience levels are welcome. View the Call for Proposals<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=46d72c6c2733a75b6…> Find inspiration and leave feedback Want to see what other folks are submitting? With our public proposal process, you can read all the talk ideas as they come in on our proposals page<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=46d72c6c2733a75b6…>. While you're there, leave us some comments or click the star next to proposals that interest you. This feedback is indispensable during the selection process. *The conference for open source citizens June 24-27, 2014 Portland, Oregon* Register Now<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=46d72c6c2733a75b6…> *Sponsor us!* Interested in sponsoring Open Source Bridge? See our sponsorship page<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=46d72c6c2733a75b…> or email us <sponsorship(a)opensourcebridge.org>. *Copyright (c) 2014 Stumptown Syndicate, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you have previously attended, are attending or otherwise expressed an interest in Open Source Bridge. *Our mailing address is:* Stumptown Syndicate PO Box 28398 Portland, OR 97228 Add us to your address book<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=46d72c6c2733a75b61cfcf…> unsubscribe from this list<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=46d72c6c2733a75b6…> update subscription preferences<http://opensourcebridge.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=46d72c6c2733a75b61cfc…>

10 years, 9 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] $ sudo reboot

by Yardena Cohen

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > Also relevant to reboot and an ongoing concern of mine - the shop area. Is > it big enough to be useful as a shop? How does it compare to other > hackerspaces? Does it need to be co-located with the main space or does it > make sense to have it offsite? If we added a satellite workshop somewhere > else, would the space be more usable for other purposes and make moving > everything less of a priority? Thanks for asking this, Hol. I've been sad about the shop area for a while. Some parts have been getting some love recently, and I'm very happy about that! Other things have disappeared and become harder to find. My last straw was last night, when one of our community members came by with a simple need, to file and hacksaw something. We found one very large file but not the smaller file we used to have at some point. We could not find any hacksaws at all. I know we had some before. It felt very symbolic. How can a hackerspace not have a hacksaw? We literally cannot hack! Personally, having all of these different elements in one physical space greatly increases the value of everything. While he was visiting he told us about the exciting solar panel project he was working on, and found potential leads for writing controller software for it. This was a conversation that wouldn't have happened if the shop were offsite, and I can't help but wonder how many more of these interactions we miss out on, by not having a good enough shop area. While there are challenges to having sawdust and metal shavings in the vicinity of laptops and food preparation, I think it's well worth meeting them. Noisebridge has a wonderful shop area - at last month's reprap building party, Miloh showed me some wonderful tools that had stayed around since 2008! All they had to do was enclose it. I think for our new space, an enclosed work area is a must. I'm afraid of sawing anything at Sudo because it commits me to then spending 10 minutes trying to track dust down behind a thousand nooks & crannies. And I'll still never get it all. People who came just to hack on some Javscript will leave coughing and rightfully upset. We took the cheap-upfront route, and we've been in debt ever since. Another example: our particle-board floor has been a huge limitation. I can count a number of projects, including a metal-printing one, which didn't happen or moved elsewhere because you just can't do it safely over our floor. It's unsanitary, a dust/germ/toxin magnet, hard to sweep, hard to vacuum, hard to find things you drop, easy to dent... We could learn something from Double Union, a space that recently opened in SF. When they rented their room, the very first thing they did was tear out the carpet and seal the floor in hard resin. Imagine the pain we would have avoided if we'd done that in our current "Art Studio"! Well worth the money, IMO. Which, speaking of money, my observation is that a lot of people who were involved in Sudo's early stages - 2011 & 2012 - were hoping for the fab & maker angle, and were disappointed by our meager facilities and started putting their money & energy elsewhere. I think reaching out to this crowd should be a component of our reboot. Our values and energy are so important - let's try this again. :)

10 years, 9 months

#FreeBassel Day SF Event this Saturday @ Wikimedia

by Stephen LaPorte

Greetings Sudoers, This Saturday, March 15, is a #FreeBassel <http://freebassel.org/> Day event in San Francisco at the Wikimedia Foundation offices. If you don't know Bassel Khartabil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil> (known online as Bassel Safadi): he is an open web developer and dedicated Internet volunteer who has been imprisoned (without charge) in Syria since March 2012. He was Creative Commons lead in Syria, played a large role in the translation of CC licenses into Arabic, and started the first hackerspace (Aiki Lab, Damascus) in the so-called Arab world. You can hear him discuss the hackerspace as well as the role of open source and maker culture in Syria in this podcast from early 2011<http://www.talkinganthropology.com/2011/01/28/ta24-arabic-hackerspaces/> . Following the outbreak of violence in Syria in spring 2011, he converted the hackerspace into a triage center, using it to provide first aid care and training until it was no longer safe to do so. This Saturday 15 March marks the second anniversary of his arrest, as well as the third anniversary of the Syrian uprising. In support of Bassel and in efforts to raise the profile of his case, #FreeBassel Day events are being held around the world to mark this date. Here in SF, the event will involve a Wikipedia edit-a-thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_19>, a potluck, the sharing of art, stories, and conversation about Bassel, and whatever else you might bring. Given Bassel's involvement with hackerspaces, making culture, and open source projects, we hope that NB folks will attend - to learn about Bassel, discuss common interests, and/or improve Wikipedia's coverage of hackerspaces and making culture. Read more about the event here<http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42267> Learn more about Bassel through letters and videos from his friends<http://lettersforbassel.tumblr.com/> == Details == * Date: Saturday, March 15 * Time: 12-4 pm * Location: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105), near Montgomery Bart * Event: An edit-a-thon, pot luck, and more! Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and collaborate with others to show your support for Bassel. * Hashtag: #freebassel If you have any questions, please let me know. Hope to see some of you on Saturday. Cheers, Stephen

10 years, 9 months

Fwd: [sudo-info] invite to tweet at #radicalcolophon + open mic event on friday!

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: anna moreno <contact(a)annamoreno.net> Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:10 PM Subject: [sudo-info] invite to tweet at #radicalcolophon + open mic event on friday! To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hello everyone, My name is Anna Moreno. I am an artist from Barcelona, Spain. I am in SF now, I have been invited by SFMOMA to make an edition of my project Radical Colophon for the symposium Visual Activism. It will take place this weekend in the Mission. My contribution to the program will be an event on Friday from 5-7PM at the Will Brown Gallery (3041 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110). As part of the piece, we are looking for folks to TWEET about the intersection of TECH, ART, and GENTRIFICATION. I have been looking into your website and I'm sure you guys have some feelings on this subject. I believe the alternative tech world is usually left out of the discussion that is why I think your contribution would be very appreciated. If you're willing use the hashtag #radicalcolophon and your tweets will be used as part of a live performance on Friday. We're feeling challenged to find tweeters so your support would be an amazing launch into a full blown conversation! Check out the open call here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467119466849573/ It is also still possible to sign up for a slot in the open mic. The event will also be open to the public, and there will be free drinks and food. You're very welcome to join! Thanks a lot in advance for your help. All the best, Anna _ Anna Moreno _ visual artist _ teacher 'Artistic Research' Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) www.annamoreno.net _______________________________________________ Info mailing list Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info

10 years, 9 months

Sudo Room WordPress social networks blast! + PAGE NOT FOUND :[

by Vicky Knox

I love it! That said, does someone know how to fix the PAGE NOT FOUND that shows up in the "Social" plugin on the WP? If yes, could you show me how? THX!

10 years, 9 months

Things that happened at tonight's meeting

by Yardena Cohen

* The landlord's rave plans for the 22nd are looking like a more serious conflict than we thought. We floated the idea of postponing this cleaning weekend to the 29th/30th, but haven't made a decision. * On the next First Friday (April 4, 8pm-2am) we have the opportunity to share the space with a fundraiser for TWAC, "Trans & Womyn's Action Camp": https://twac.wordpress.com/ They'll have a pay-what-you-can policy, it will be compatible with our values and with the open-house component of First Friday. I think this is a great idea. Any objections? * The meeting included a lengthy section which began as conflict resolution between Elliot and Xavier but became an issue of safe space. I personally asked Xavier to leave at the end, which he did. He says he will be back for his "three shelves of stuff" tomorrow. We didn't have a quorum to ban him, but there was an informal understanding that multiple people are uncomfortable with him, which he seems at this time to be respecting. Full notes here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-03-12

10 years, 9 months

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