sudo-discuss April 2014

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Internet Archive Humanitarian Happy Hour TONIGHT 6-8PM

by Marina Kukso

Hi all, Thought you might be interested in this: http://www.meetup.com/Humanitarian-Happy-Hour/events/174801972/ - Marina

12 years, 1 month

NLG mass def training today 4pm

by David Keenan

Just a heads up everyone.. SR common area will be imvaded this aft by legal aid workers. Furniture may need to get re-arranged. I am bottomlining so if y'all have any q's, hit me up - :) David

12 years, 1 month

Fwd: Revised lease, 2141 Broadway

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Updated lease, to put it in sudo room's name. I'm requesting one change which is to list sudo room as a "public nonprofit" since we have created a state public benefit nonprofit corporation and are in the process of obtaining 501(c)3 status. // Matt ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "Laurie Cooperman Rosen" <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> To: "'Matthew Senate'" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: "'Eddan Katz'" <eddan(a)eddan.com>, "'George'" <travology(a)mindspring.com>, <isalix(a)gmail.com> Subject: Revised lease, 2141 Broadway Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2014 23:11 Hi Matt-Attached is the revised lease. I am also sending a revised bill, with a referral fee to you to pretty much offset the other charges. The additional $90 security deposit is the Sudo Room’s money in any case.Laurie From: Matthew Senate [mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:09 PM To: Laurie Cooperman Rosen Cc: Eddan Katz; George Subject: Re: 2141 Yes, I was out of town, I was off my email, I thought I caught up on it but apparently I missed some messages. I had been checking our previous thread and did not expect to see messages outside of the original thread, my mistake. I was under the impression you had my address on file from the previous lease, here it is: 359 Bellevue Ave, Oakland CA, 94610 - Matt On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> wrote:Hi Matt-The lease has been held up because multiple times I have requested an address for you and you have yet to reply! We ordered a new netgear router today online from Frys which should work a better and faster. We’ll let you know when it’s installed or if there is a problem with its installation. You are under the terms of the old lease until we have agreed to the new one, and we have been trying for 2 weeks to get this settled---this is the first that I have heard from you since I started emailing you simply asking for your address!Had you replied we could have been talking about new lease terms early in the month and had it settled well before now, but somebody told me that you were out of town—maybe you weren’t picking up your emails while you were gone? Laurie From: Matthew Senate [mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:39 PM To: George; Laurie Cooperman Rosen Subject: Re: 2141 My last message to Laurie requested a new lease under sudo room's name for this month. We provided the information needed. Just now I saw her most recent message to me (sent 5 days ago) that I missed in my inbox. Laurie suggested adding additional terms to the lease. I have not paid rent because I was waiting for the new lease. We cannot wait any longer with the lease as-is. Can we please change it to sudo room's name, and then also discuss additional terms for the lease afterward? Eddan has wanted off of the lease for months and we satisfied all of the baseline needs to make the transition. This is really important to complete ASAP, in all of our interests. Replacing the modem should not be difficult to install (just plug in the same cables as the old one). If it doesn't work, Sonic provides on-site service that should be covered by your internet service payment. - Matt On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:33 PM, George <travology(a)mindspring.com> wrote:We have not received rent for april you are late as usual. Also we ordered a faster modem for sonic if you can help us hook it up

12 years, 1 month

Show us your hack-pack's hack-snacks

by Marc Juul

Hackpacks must have hacksnacks. What kind of emergency snack/meal/drink/tools do you always carry with you in your hack pack? Mine are: Drink: Yerba mate (dried tea) Yerba mate straw 5-hour-energy or similar No-prep snack: Nuts or granola bar Meal: Instant oatmeal packet Ramen packet Food-related hygiene: Folding toothbrush Small toothpaste Dental floss (doubles as general purpose string) Tools: Collapsible silicone cup/bowl Filtering water bottle Spork P-38 can opener Knife (in multi-tool) zip-lock bags All of the food/drink items have in common that they don't weigh much and don't really go bad. We usually buy these items bulk and re-fill missing item when at home base. I'm not sure I'm happy about the ramen (so salty) and all of the granola bars I've tried are so sugary (bleh). -- marc/juul who is at sudo room and just had his oatmeal

12 years, 1 month

Consider washing any plates or utensils BEFORE & after using them

by Ed Biow

I understand the landlard entered the premises a couple of days ago and gave folks 5 minutes to evacuate before setting off several bug bombs. I'm pretty sure that kind of behavior is illegal without at least 24 hours notice. I haven't noticed much sign of non-landlord related vermin in the room, but I don't spend extended amounts of time at the space. When folks objected to this intrusion I understand that the landlord set off one or more foggers in a garbage can, which, of course, rather defeats the purpose, particularly since Elliot bravely (if perhaps foolishly) took the still fuming trash can outside, I hope he's OK. Anywho, I stopped by the room last night to drop off a bag of bread and hung around gabbing for 20-30 minutes and noticed that my exposed skin was burning & itching and my lungs felt weird. I think I suffered from contact dermatitis, I took a shower as soon as I got home and threw all of my clothes in the laundry hamper even though I'd only been wearing them for a week or two, but I'm still feeling a bit of intermittent tingling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogger Personally, I suspect that a fair amount of the hoopla over exposure to household chemicals is overblown, even neurotic is some cases, but given the landlord's cavalier and abusive actions I surmise that he may have visited during the middle of the night and set off a large number of TRFs. Now I'm beginning to see why so many sudoers are agitating for a change of venue. Cue the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDo_Ub-s9U So if this has not been done yet, I recommend that all utensils and plates get washed and all surfaces get wiped down with a damp cloth. http://insects.answers.com/pest-control/diy-pest-control-how-to-use-a-bug-b… Clean Surfaces to Remove Residue Upon returning to the area it is important to properly clean the pesticide residue from all major surfaces. Counter tops, especially those that encounter food, cookware, and/or dishes, should be wiped thoroughly with warm soapy water. Carpets and rugs should be vacuumed, as should any cloth furniture that was not covered prior to fogging the area. Bedcovers, pillows, and any clothing left out during the treatment should be washed with detergent and hot water. Wood and tile floors should be swept and mopped to prevent pesticide particles from being shuffled up into the air. In the meantime, I suggest not using utensils, cups, plates, etc. without giving them a rinse first. While we are on the subject of landlords, pests and food, I pick up a fair amount of bread and pizza every Friday night from a local collective to share with the community. If there are not a lot of demonstrations or picnics scheduled for the weekend I typically drop off some of this bounty at the sudoroom. Is this largess welcome? Does anyone have an opinion about how much I should deposit, say 1 bag of bread, 10 pizzas or some such number? The devil take all landlards (except me), Ed "Let's Lynch The Landlord" The Landlord's here to visit They're blasting disco down below Sez, "I'm doubling up the rent Cos the building's condemned You're gonna help me buy City Hall" But we can, you know we can Let's lynch the landlord man I tell them 'turn on the water' I tell 'em 'turn on the heat' Tells me 'All you ever do is complain' Then they search the place when I'm not here But we can, you know we can Let's lynch the landlord Let's lynch the landlord man There's rats chewin' up the kitchen Roaches up to my knees Turn the oven on, it smells like Dachau, yeah Til the rain pours thru the ceiling But we can, you know we can Let's lynch the landlord man

12 years, 1 month

Wow

by Romy Snowyla

The omni neighborhood is so bougie. I hope people aren't still worrying about crime. I'd be concerned about the opposite .. On a weekend it's like watching tech guys walk their trophy girlfriends around the marina. Lots of changes It's very pretty though . Maybe there's an incentive that sudoroom will keep the neighborhood rad .! Sent from my iPhone

12 years, 1 month

Fwd: Lease

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I did not see this message in my inbox until now, apologies for the delay: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:46 PM Subject: Lease To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)eddan.com>, George <travology(a)mindspring.com> Hi Matt- I haven’t completed the lease—originally I was just waiting for your address so I can print it out but after spending some time there this week (George hurt his arm—you might have heard about that story), we will need to add some additional clauses to the lease before printing it out. Often when I walk in there—and worst of all yesterday, right after George de-bugged the place—I was shocked to find huge trays of food (enough to feed probably 30 people!) just laying out there in the warm air, clearly stale. This is totally inappropriate—and gross! The common area was set up to be a place where people could have meetings, occasional special gatherings and possibly an additional receptionist desk for each of the businesses there. It is clear that while it is being used in its current manner that there will be no possibility of us being able to attract other tenants into that space to share it with you, and we can’t afford to get only what you and the public school are paying for the space without any ability to rent out more. We know that people are still sleeping there—often they wake up in the middle of the night and walk out the front door, because clearly they don’t know the rules and they violate the code and we are getting called (of course, these are folks who don’t belong there and shouldn’t have codes….they should just not have been there in the first place!). We don’t even know whether the people sleeping there are your members or not, but the fact that there is nobody to shut up the space at night and kick out the stragglers still in there is clearly a big problem and we are losing more and more sleep because of it. This will need to change. We will either need to put a curfew on the use of the common area space except in the case of special events, or require that somebody in authority come once at the end of the evening and shut the place up and make sure that everybody is out of there, doors locked, and the elevator shut on the top floor so that others (including those in 2141 corridor that seem to gravitate there) won’t have access to it. Even with your insurance, the liability issues are getting greater all the time based on the problem of the space being kept open and people who shouldn’t be in there hanging around throughout the night.. We are going to have to make clear in the lease, once and for all, that the common area is NOT a living room! It is not a place to put out food unless a special event is going on. A point was made to George about giving 24 hour notice before spraying again, and I will try to have him adhere to that in the future, but the point is that he shouldn’t HAVE to be doing that to begin with! Matt, you have always been quite reasonable and easy to deal with, but you have a life and can’t be there 24 hours a day, so we’ll have to put our heads together and come up with some additional solutions to make things work for everybody up there. Please let me know how you feel about this, and what steps we can take to move forward. Thanks- Laurie

12 years, 1 month

Re: [sudo-discuss] Checkbook missing, last seen at sudo meeting on weds

by Matthew Senate

Unable to find the book, I've issued a "stop payment" on the last two checks it contained. Everything is swell, our account is at: $10,472.40 // Matt On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:19 PM, mattsenate(a)gmail.com <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I'm cancelling them at the bank unless they turn up by the time I finish > looking through the recycling bin. > > // Matt > >

12 years, 1 month

Temescal Library Oakland Wiki Edit Party Tmrw 4/19 2-5PM

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Come hang out with us tomorrow 4/19 from 2-5PM for an Oakland Wiki Edit Party <http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Wiki_Events> at the Temescal Library<http://oaklandwiki.org/Temescal_Branch_Library> . It'll be an informal event where we'll be in a space set aside by the librarians for us edit content together, chat, etc. If you've never done this before or are unsure of what to do, volunteers will be on hand to help. If you can't make it tomorrow, we're having another Edit Part next weekend at the Chavez Branch<http://oaklandwiki.org/C%C3%A9sar_E._Ch%C3%A1vez_Branch_Library> . Details about both events are at http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Wiki_Events Best, Marina

12 years, 1 month

Checkbook missing, last seen at sudo meeting on weds

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

I'm cancelling them at the bank unless they turn up by the time I finish looking through the recycling bin. // Matt

12 years, 1 month

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sudo-discuss April 2014