Hi Sudo folk,
I know there are some wiki people out there -- wanted to remind you of this
(free) event tomorrow. We'll be working on Wikipedia articles about open
education, and similar topics. Please join if you can -- and if you sign up
tonight, we've got your lunch covered :) It should be a great way to flex
your wiki writing muscles, and meet people interested in hacking education.
We'll have online participants joining us from all over, as well! But join
us in person at the Impact Hub, on 23rd and Broadway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OERBARN
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
Hi all,
Just a heads-up that between now and Friday, the landlord will be sending
in some movers to take out all the desks and other crap that he left behind
in the Counter Culture Labs side of the hall. (Not sure if the big pile of
doors in Sudo should be moved out at the same time?)
I know that some Sudo gear keeps migrating into CCL's space, but I would
strongly recommend that you keep your gear well away from the stuff in our
side that needs to get moved out, or at the very minimum keep it clearly
labeled, so the movers don't accidentally toss it out as well.
After all of John's stuff is gone, we will likely want to clear most
everything else out of CCL and do some serious cleaning, painting, and
floor sealing, so we can actually start turning the place into the citizen
science laboratory it's supposed to be. If you have any chemical
sensitivities, or suggestions for what types of products to use (or not to
use), now would be a good time to speak up...
Looking forward to hack some science with y'all!
Patrik
I think there are two things we should do to augment our safe space logistics
1) We should adopt a code of conduct for Sudoroom and all events that
we sponsor. I think we should look at the Geek Feminism CoC:
http://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/ Please read it through
if you have the time.
2) We should agree to honor all bans on people by other groups and
spaces at the Omni, AND by the Omni itself. The Omni hasn't yet
required this of groups, and doesn't yet have its own structures in
place for banning people from the common areas, but we can still be
proactive until that happens, and I think doing so would show good
faith to our Omni community and help convince everyone this is a Good
Thing.
thanks,
Remote Yar
My crony Gerald & I picked up about 15 'puters from Youth Radio
<https://youthradio.org/> today, and brought them to the sudoroom. We
also grabbed about 7 monitors and a bag full of cables. These boxen
look pretty sweet, dual core, Windows 8, 4 GB of RAM. I was planning on
installing some version of Trusty Tahr (*buntu 14.04) or maybe Debian
testing and then using a live disc (redobackup <http://redobackup.org/>)
to blow the image on the rest of the machines after testing the memory
and hard drives. Brian, the IT bloke at YR is replacing the machines
with NUC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing>s. It
looks like there are another 30 or so of these Dells available to us
when they get readied. If we can spare the table space maybe we can set
up a few machines for visitor browsing in a quiet corner somewhere. And
we should have some nice boxes for the Oakland kids' computer center.
The four boxes I have ready to go are mostly pretty funky, missing
panels, or very loud, etc. I'm sure we can find them a home, though. I
also have a few more expendable desktop Linux machines at home. Finding
rodents, power cords, monitors & keyboards may prove a bit of a
challenge, though I have a few extra keyboards and power cables.
I'm planning on going camping in August, but in September I'd like to
start hosting a weekly Linux install fest/trouble shooting session on
Friday afternoons at 4 PM. Folks can bring their Linux problems in for
troubleshooting, and I can bring pizza back from a pickup I make at 8PM
from a local collective. Maybe if nothing else is going on we can cap
the evening with a tech/polit-related flick to go with the pizza,
perhaps even a round of frosty malted beverages. As I mentioned before,
maybe we could use some always-on machine to act as a proxy for deb
files, so we could update machines at 11MB a second instead of pounding
our limited internet bandwidth. I'm familiar with approx and
apt-cacher, though there are others. I'll bring up the idea during one
of our weekly Wednesday meetings soon.
Einstein & campaign staff
