People I worked and played with in China are having a competition for people to hack e-waste into something cool. Winners will receive prizes as well as the opportunity to showcase their creations on Slate.
For details, please see the website and the press release is here (and copied, below):
http://www.greenelectronicschallenge.com/
and
http://www.newamerica.net/node/106312
Cheers,
Mitch.
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Future Tense Initiative & Tsinghua University Launch New U.S.-China Green Electronics Competition
Competition to Encourage Innovation on E-Waste Prevention
Published: March 26, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC — The Future Tense initiative – a partnership of New America, Arizona State University, and Slate magazine – is pleased to announce the launch of Green Electronics: A U.S.-China Maker Challenge, an unprecedented online DIY competition focused on preventing the creation of electronic waste (e-waste). The competition, a collaboration between Future Tense, China's Tsinghua University and other partners, invites U.S. and Chinese makers to find creative ways to turn yesterday's cellphone battery into tomorrow's treasure.
"This is a great opportunity for the United States and China to work toward common goals," said Emily Parker, senior fellow and digital diplomacy advisor at New America, who helped spearhead this project. "Both the U.S. and China want to encourage the innovation happening at the DIY or maker level, and both countries face the challenge of reducing e-waste."
Electronic products tend to become unusable after just a few years, and items such as computers, DVD players and cell phones frequently wind up in landfills. Some of the most creative solutions to this problem may come from U.S. and Chinese makers, many of whom already incorporate old electronic components into their DIY creations. Green electronics will encourage makers to showcase their creations online.
Participants will be invited to upcycle or hack an electronic product to create a new electronic product; repair an electronic product; create a sustainable electronic product; or create artwork from used electronic products. They will show their inventions on Instructables.com, where submissions will be accepted from April 7 - May 31, 2014. Following a round of public voting, a panel of judges will choose the best selections from each country. Winners will receive prizes as well as the opportunity to showcase their creations on Slate.
Judges include Chris Anderson, former Wired editor; Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab; Mitzi Montoya, Vice President and University Dean for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Arizona State University; and Sun Hong Bin, Dean of Educational Affairs at Tsinghua University. Partners include Instructables, TechShop, Hackerspaces.org, XinCheJian, Autodesk, and Inventables.
For more information, please visit: http://www.greenelectronicschallenge.com/
The cleaning is wonderful.. So much has been cleaned out! I donated a ton of cleaning supplies & will be more conscious about donating more in the future.. Especially things like toilet paper !
Thank you sudoroom for making the world a better place ...
Sent from my iPhone
FYI, looks like the Noisebridge decision-making changes have been reverted.
The reverting commit (now, consensus):
https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/commit/4bc2e6594d49fd2142971f014…
The previous commit (brief period of hierarchy):
https://github.com/noisebridge/bureaucracy/commit/ec75ebb81d7ed17689c962480…
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Madelynn Martiniere <mmartiniere(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Please Note: Bureaucracy Changes Reverted
To: noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net
Cc: Naomi Most <naomi(a)nthmost.com>
The board of directors has reverted the changes to /bureaucracy until
further discussion with the greater Noisebridge can be had. Policies to add
required discussion periods are also in motion within the board to make
sure that incidents like this do not occur again. Given the gravity of this
decision, this is a one-time exception, not a precedent.
I believe Naomi put it best in a previous post to the list:
"This "active board" thing is in its infancy. We only just decided at the
ONE meeting we have had so far, what the rules of engagement and proper
process were.
Were we supposed to have gotten it right on the first try? No.
Could I have imagined that the insanity that transpired this first week
would ever take place? Hell no."
The decision to have the board take an active role I think is a pivotal one
in improving some the issues that Noisebridge has been facing increasingly
over the years. But neither I, nor the rest of the board, have any
intention of disempowering the membership, turning Noisebridge into a
dictatorship, or any of the language I have heard used over the last few
days. We want to be in service to the membership, not to rule over it.
My offer to have a productive dialogue with anyone who has feedback on this
process still stands.
Cheers,
Madelynn
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The Privacy Working Group would like to use the screen to show a flick
on April 20th at about 6 PM if no one violently objects. I have a
projector and sound system. We figure that the cryptoparty typically
winds down at 5PM, so there shouldn't be a conflict. The movie is Terms
& Conditions May Apply, which I gather is about all those little on line
adhesion contracts we sign every day without bothering to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_and_Conditions_May_Apply
I'll schlep along a case or so for fermented entertainment and probably
some second-hand pizza or other such gut-pack, and endeavor to return
the sudoroom to its full upright and locked position afterwards. If I
don't see any protests, cavils or quibbles in the next day or three I'll
slap the event on the calendar.
Ed
Total quoted is $1,888.90
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From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net>
Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:10 AM
Subject: Tenant Statement, 2131-2145 Broadway
To: mattsenate(a)gmail.com
Cc: eddan(a)eddan.com
Hi Matt & Eddan-
Attached please find the 4/2014 Statement. Included is a charge for a small
portion of the elevator repairs that we have had to pay for because of
excessive use--we are asking you and the Public School to each contribute a
small portion ($150....less than 10% of the $1879.06 bills) towards these
repairs, which were in addition to our monthly R&M bill that we get for the
elevator.
Hope to see you both soon!
Laurie
The cleaning is immense. Very enthused by sudoers. Lots more to do, but it has already been cathartic!
Join us tomorrow if you can lend a hand.
// Matt
