sudo-discuss January 2015

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125 discussions

by tom wang

Hello Guys, Do we have a thicker kapton tape for 3D printer printing bed? Something like >5" to cover the entire print bed with one shot. If we don't, would anyone be welling to pitch in with me for something like this <http://www.amazon.com/Mil-Kapton-Tape-Polyimide-yds/dp/B00CU3TB6O/ref=sr_1_…>? I really don't need 36 yard of kapton tape in my life time. Thanks -- ----- Tom Wang Ideation and Creativity Officer Voltset The content of this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this message in error, any use or distribution is prohibited. Please notify me immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message from your computer system. Thank you. ᐧ

9 years, 11 months

Newbie Night Topics

by null null null

These last few weeks, we've been getting a lot of people for newbie night. It's a great way to introduce folks to the space, though the way I've been conducting the night, it's mostly just been an architectural tour. This is the ballroom, this is the community printing press, this is where the dumpstered croissants live. Unfortunately, this only prepares people to navigate the space; not to be excellent sudoers. So I want to open this up and ask, what else should newbie night cover? Some important ones: - our values - our history - our safe space agreements Is there anything else we feel should be added? -null

9 years, 11 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Stealing Shit Policy

by yar

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:30 AM, null null null <null(a)revolution.cheap> wrote: > If someone is trying to leave the space with a stolen item, call all hands > on deck and block the entrances until they've relinquished it. > If someone is harassing people or damaging the space, ask them to leave. If > they refuse to leave, then call all hands on deck and form a human net > around them. Without touching them, guide them out the door. > Only if someone is physically violent do we respond with physical force. I love these ideas. They imply a radically different way of thanking than the status quo outside our walls, where people tend to only care about themselves and think "other peoples' problems are not my problems". Which is GREAT but also raises the ante for all of us. I think this is one of the most important things we should be getting across when acculturating new people to our space - sharing isn't just about software and tools. We share responsibility for the space and for each other.

9 years, 11 months

asked to leave

by Jake

Today a person who is suspected of having stolen something from Adam on January 3rd at 3:40PM was in the space. I had talked with Adam about it before, and I knew the story. Adam pointed out that the person was back. He was at the table in sudoroom using his computer. I gathered some people and we asked this person to leave until or unless they come back to a meeting, which we explained is at 7PM on wednesdays. I'm not sure if this discuss list is the venue for listing reasons to believe this person stole something, and i'm not naming them here at this point. This person said they do not know yet if they will attend the meeting. They said they would contact me via IRC if they plan to attend the meeting. If they do so, I will let everyone know so we can meet up and talk about it. thank you -jake

9 years, 11 months

any objection to being included on Margot's 'Maker's Tour' for Planner Association?

by David Keenan

Hey guys, Real quick - Margot Prado, tireless Maker & city planner, is organizing an Oakland Makers tour as a proposal for a Mobile Workshop on October 3-5 for the California American Planning Association conference to be held in Oakland. The tour would also include American Steel, the Crucible, NIMBY, Moxy, Blue Sprout, and 25th St Collective. I am going to say yea to this unless anyone objects? Best, David

9 years, 11 months

Remington full upright piano (that used to be a nuematically controlled player piano)

by Cere Mona Davis

Hiya folks, Art in North Berkeley (cc'd here) is offering a really in-tune full upright piano. The key action is totally solid (full spring back on every key). He has a truck to transport the piano in but we need to provide the muscle. I figure we would need at least 4 strong (and tall doesn't hurt) people to move this thing. It's kind of an amazing piano in that is used to be a player piano that was controlled via a bellows system and air tubes. I view this kind of piano as being imminently (and very interestingly) hackable in a way that very few pianos are and I really really think we should bring it into Omni! I made a short video of this piano here: http://youtu.be/AaFc4yRctZQ Demonstrating some of the unusual portals and controls that can be used on this piano. Art lives in N. Berkeley closeish to the N. Berkeley Bart so some of us to help to move this piano by barting then walking to his house. He would like to try and move this tomorrow or saturday. Also there is a very large bookshelf (or storage shelf) that we will likely want to grab for sudo or CCL. -Cere -- Best Regards, Cere Davis ceremona(a)gmail.com ------------------- GPG Key: http://taffy.findpage.com/~cere/pubkey.asc GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88 73FC A9E6

9 years, 11 months

we have a CNC router/mill now!

by Jake

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/CNC it works. it's hooked up to the desktop computer in the southeast corner, and you have to boot the computer to the LINUXCNC partition, not the Ubuntu 14.04 that Big Ed installed. ask me if you have any questions about using it. -jake

9 years, 11 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Donation box at CCL raided

by yar

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've been to a few of the hackerspaces here in Berlin, and they all have had > much stricter entrance policies and visitor hours than Noisebridge or > Sudoroom/CCL. Keep in mind that these spaces have been thriving for far > longer than any of the Bay Area hackerspaces. Having access be somewhat > restricted is not necessarily a bad thing. Thriving by what standards? Sudoroom's values go against many of the dominant trends in hackerspaces, so in this and many other cases we might find ourselves making our own way. :) That said, I support having a lockable door. It's not about being strict, it's about having options. Members who are in the space should have the choice to decide whether they want to do the heavy lifting of holding a radically open space, or whether they just don't have the spoons for it. I think this is a great balance between all of our community's needs and values. I think most of the day we'll find ourselves in the former situation. And it's not that radical a change for Sudoroom, it's pretty much exactly how things were during our formative years at 2141 - the door could be (and often was) locked at any time.

9 years, 11 months

Crypto Class Study Group

by Garrett Robinson

Hey Sudo! Yet another session of the excellent Coursera Crypto course has started as of today! [0] If you are interested in learning more about cryptography, this is a great place to start. Additionally, I and some others are interested in starting a weekly study group to discuss the course material and help each other with the assignments. We were thinking Sudo Room would be a good place to host it! So this email is meant to: 1. Gauge interest in such a study group from the sudo community 2. Make sure it's ok to host something like this at Sudo Is there anything we should do to host this at sudo in the most positive way possible for the space and community? Cheers, Garrett [0] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

9 years, 11 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Remington full upright piano (that used to be a nuematically controlled player piano)

by yar

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Cere Mona Davis <ceremona(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Art lives in N. Berkeley closeish to the N. Berkeley Bart so some of us to > help to move this piano by barting then walking to his house. > > He would like to try and move this tomorrow or saturday. Yes please! I would love to help with this. I could drive some muscle over there in my car as well. Would we put this in the ballroom? The existing ballroom piano is getting really sad and out of tune, I think because it keeps being moved around. I would love to know any ideas people have for keeping the pianos open-access and reconfigurable, but also not a total maintenance nightmare. Also, I would really like to fix the existing one but don't know where to start. If anybody out there knows how to fix and tune pianos, and would like to exchange knowledge or learn alongside me, please let me know! :D

9 years, 11 months

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