sudo-discuss April 2014

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Call for Facilitators / Participants in a sudo Men's Group

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I wanted to reach out for some feedback. Seeking folks who would want to facilitate or participate in a men's group. I've previously participated in small groups like this and found them beneficial for various reasons. I would like to see if folks have had similar or different experiences. The way I'm thinking about this would culminate in something like a regular meeting for men in the sudo room community to discuss relevant issues including those of identity, oppression, privilege, patriarchy, gender, sexuality, stereotypes, safe space, and mutual support. This may not be the best or even a viable path to approach these topics, but I wanted to throw it out there to see if there is any interest. Thanks, Matt

3 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Tiny houses made for homeless in West Oak

by Mark Perlin

Fantastic example of making a difference! I wonder, how many tiny homes a community can build together in one weekend? http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24869274/oakland-artist-turns-t… > > Message: 10 > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:01:18 -0800 > From: Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> > To: Sudo Room discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] > Tiny houses made for homeless in West Oak by > artist! > Message-ID: > < > CAPwEF4rkTw+Of5-Z9+oLkGJeGvTMOqtB0xJtYmEBtFefv3jXPw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > People. 8| Do any of you know more about this person? > > > http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24869274/oakland-artist-turns-t… > >

8 years, 3 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Breaking: Oakland to lead country in, diverting anti-terror funding to ubiquitous warrantless surveillance

by Shawn Lesniak

On 2013-10-13 22:49, sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org wrote: > Lastly, shot-spotters shouldn't be controversial, even among those of us > who support the personal rights interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. A > gunshot on a city street means one of two things: a criminal has just > shot a victim, or a criminal's would-be victim has just shot their > attacker in self-defense. Either of those things merits getting the > police and paramedics on the scene, pronto. Shotspotters are microphones. They can capture other sounds and it is not clear how many other sounds and how long those sounds are retained. Their use would be less controversial if they were an oracle that just spit out 4 .40 caliber rounds were fired at the intersection of Grand and Broadway at 23:12:32 (15 seconds ago) instead of capturing any audio at all.

8 years, 6 months

Friday Filosophy: Software as Speech

by Eddan Katz

Dear Kopimists and the People who Love Them. For the featured Filo delicacy for Friday Filosophy, we will have potato burekas. I propose we talk about the difference between source code, object code, and executable code in regards to 1st Amendment protection. In other words, when is code speech and when is it a speech-act subject to less legal protection? Below is an excerpt from an essay by Lee Tien, a brilliant EFF attorney for more than a decade, on Software as Speech (2000). These two paragraphs are in the section: Viruses and other "dangerous" software. Of course, as always, we can talk about whatever else. Such as conscience and the unconscionable, perhaps. Lee Tien, Publishing Software as a Speech Act, Vol. 15 Berkeley Tech. Law Journal (2000) http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol15/tien/tien.html > Let’s return to the virus hypothetical.192 The main concern lies in the fact that the software may be “diverted” toward unlawful purposes, regardless of the speaker’s intent. This concern is, however, not unique to software. It also applies to other types of information usable for mischief or harassment, whether highly technical like information about nuclear weapons, or utterly mundane like a person’s name, address or telephone number. > Even if the virus author merely posts the source code and fails to release it in active form, the issue remains whether the posting was done with an intent to communicate. If the author claims that she intended it to communicate, we would need to examine the context to decide the plausibility of that claim. There will often be a plausible claim. There is no question that people study viruses and other dangerous software in order to prevent or relieve harm.193 One way to control a virus is to publish its source code so that systems operators can disable or protect against it. Communicating a virus’ source code as part of such an effort qualifies as a speech act because the publisher intends to communicate how the virus works in a conventional way. In fact, one could imagine entire journals or Internet sites devoted to viruses and other dangerous software.194 When such publications aim to alert the world to these dangers, their intent is clearly communicative. sent from eddan.com

8 years, 6 months

blog post: troy visits RPS Collective down the street

by Romy Ilano

new blog post > Troy our librarian visited RPS Collective. we chatted about potentially selling our electronics kits + other stuff at RPS Collective retail space. - There's a potential for us to sell stuff at their next art show, which will be a full retail show in the whole space. Lots of potential for exposure since they are the first storefront at First Friday Plus they have collaborated with us before! https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-connects-with-rock-paper-scissors-down-the-st… [image: SudoRoom Librarian Troy visits SudoRoom]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-33-01-PM1.jpg> SudoRoom Librarian Troy visits SudoRoom Troy, the SudoRoom librarian, visits our neighbors The Rock Paper Scissors Collective <http://www.rpscollective.com/>down the street. The RPS Collective was one of the worker’s collectives that helped start the Oakland Art Murmur. Here he checks out the zine library and is already coming up with ideas for different community projects. A recent SudoRoom collaboration involved SudoRoom donating Linux computers to RPS Collective in exchange for a beautiful sign painting. It’s pretty cool seeing the different volunteer-run collectives creating and helping each other out! [image: RPS Collective interns draw temporary tattoos on people for the Oakland Art Murmur]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-Nov-01-8-06-59-PM1.jpg> RPS Collective interns draw temporary tattoos on people for the Oakland Art Murmur [image: Terrarium Project at RPS Collective - so many happy people]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-33-43-PM-11.…> Terrarium Project at RPS Collective – so many happy people

8 years, 8 months

Deleted extra users for sudo room calendar / blog

by Matthew Senate

If you want to check to see if your user account was deleted, please try to log in here: https://sudoroom.org/wp-login If you forgot your password, use this: https://sudoroom.org/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword To register for the first time to post on the events calendar and sudo room blog (NOT THE WIKI), then register here: https://sudoroom.org/wp-login.php?action=register Let me know if any data is missing, I have a backup to restore if necessary. // Matt

9 years, 1 month

Website Upgrades

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I'm working on a series of upgrades for the website. Testing out a new wordpress theme and event management / calendaring plugin on our development site. Please take a look: http://dev.sudoroom.org/ I plan to have www.sudoroom.org direct users to a landing page on this site, with clear donation and calendar information, rather than directing them to the wiki (as it does now). I'll also need a few people to help migrate content, is anyone interested? No coding skills required, just copying old event information into the new event form so we can preserve the historical data. // Matt

9 years, 1 month

Fwd: Price calculations

by Patrik D'haeseleer

I had sent this out to the Omni Logistics group earlier. If anyone would like me to go over any of this at the meeting this evening, let me know... Patrik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:44 AM Subject: Price calculations To: omnilogistics(a)lists.riseup.net Hi all, I've fleshed out my rate calculations for $/sqft of dedicated space, and for use of the shared space. Details are in my spreadsheet and on the wiki: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Building#Price.2FSq_Ft https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17DINigEczGwjfTdmdxl-MpYe1KJzJJDeCHR… There's a lot of details, but in the end it boils down to (1) you pay a fixed rate for any dedicated space you'd like to claim (including storage space etc.), and (2) you pay some "share" towards use of the resources of the shared space. I know, this is a big departure from the "offer what you can afford, and ask for whatever space you'd like" approach we've been taking so far. But I do feel we need something like this, to make our pricing scheme fair and transparent. Two big discrepancies, when comparing with how much rent different groups have pledged: - The Cafe covers a large amount of high-quality space - and should be a potential money-maker for the space. However, right now it's only penciled in as contributing $1500 to the rent. - Oakland Nights Live wants to host a large event in the Ballroom once a month, but have only committed to $100 in rent so far. I definitely don't want to pick on these two groups, and I would love to see these be part of the Omni. But it does point out that we need to work with them to make sure that what they propose makes financial sense as well. E.g. If we put a bit more effort into fundraising during the Oakland Nights Live events (even just asking for donations, and/or selling T-shirts), there's no reason we couldn't make these self-sufficient. Patrik

9 years, 1 month

Important Sudo meeting tonight

by Yar

Things are happening very quickly and tonight's Sudoroom meeting is going to be important. If you are interested in the process of our move or reboot, or have feelings and opinions about any of it, coming to this meeting would be a good idea. Counter-Culture Labs will also be meeting at the same space and there will be opportunities (like last week) for us to talk together about the many details involved in potentially sharing the space at the Omni. P.S. Cross-posting to sudo-announce, but please only reply on sudo-discuss.

9 years, 1 month

New Sudo Room Website

by Matthew Senate

https://sudoroom.org/ We have a new calendar system that allows for booking events. This has always been a struggle with sudo room activities. However, we have not yet made the transition to this new system as we need a bit of volunteer help to groom events from the old system. Let me know if you could lend a hand. // Matt

9 years, 1 month

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