November 2015 - sudo-discuss

by Brendan Reddy-Best

I said "your 'community' space," but honestly, I still want this to be my space, too. I hardly ever make a fuss about any of this stuff because it's all so futile, you know? but in this case, I really want to make my point clear: I think we should rescind our action against Rannette. I think she's been treated unfairly. Even if she is "aggressive" towards you or your compatriots, I don't think we need white dudes policing our space of black women's bodies. Matt, you claim to have acted in another's interest and you offer an injured third party -- let them speak for themselves, because I don't think it's your place right now. If there was a violent incident that threatened our space, let's hear it from a witness or an involved party. "Something Happened" is not good enough. Otherwise "but above all the Omni Commons must maintain a safe, welcoming environment" seems to fly directly in the face of the lived experience of too many black people.

5 years, 9 months

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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

6 years, 4 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [CCL] Free Scanning Electron Microscope in Pleasanton! (was Fwd: [Microscopy] viaWWW:SMI3200 FIB system looking for a good home)

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Here's some images of the Seiko SMI 3200 Scanning Electron Microscope that is in need of a new home: http://www.beamservices.com/used-equipment.html http://www.caeonline.com/listing/product/9025735/seiko-smi-3200 Note that this is NOT a small system! It's not huge as SEM's go, but definitely not desktop - more like "small room sized". And it would obviously need some dedicated person to keep it in good running condition. It is however almost brand new, and currently *running*, at <5nm resolution! Beam Services Inc is down in Pleasanton, so I guess interested parties could potentially go and have a look at the system. This kind of equipment would be a significant commitment and investment in time and effort on our part, so let's coordinate on this shall we? Patrik On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Useful for micro and nano imaging, as well as micro and nano milling > and deposition (if it has a gas injector system). > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <microscopylistserver-noreply(a)microscopy.com> > Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:49 PM > Subject: [Microscopy] viaWWW:SMI3200 FIB system looking for a good home > To: nmz787(a)gmail.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Microscopy ListServer -- CoSponsor: The Microscopy Society of America > To Subscribe/Unsubscribe -- > http://www.microscopy.com/MicroscopyListserver > On-Line Help http://www.microscopy.com/MicroscopyListserver/FAQ.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > X-from: dan.buntman(a)beamservices.com > > This Question/Comment was submitted to the Microscopy Listserver > using the WWW based Form at > http://microscopy.com/MicroscopyListserver/MLFormMail.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Remember this posting is most likely not from a Subscriber, so when > replying > please copy both dan.buntman(a)beamservices.com as well as the > Microscopy Listserver > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Email: dan.buntman(a)beamservices.com > Name: Dan Buntman > > Organization: Beam Services, Inc. > > Title-Subject: [Filtered] SMI3200 FIB system looking for a good home > > Message: We have a Seiko SMI3200 FIB single beam system available for > donation to any university or > other non-profit organization. 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6 years, 11 months

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3D printing my MRI ... scraps of something getting started

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/MRI_3D_Printing Hi, I've been having fun at SudoRoom lately. I have wanted to *3D Print my MRI of my ankle!* I'm trying to overcome some hurdles > -- I'm fundamentally a software and 2D digital person normally, it's hard for me to get into 3D modelling -- I'm used to keyboards, not wrenches and touching things which is why I go to hardware hack night I want to get beyond the stages of just looking at stuff on the 3D Printer. Anyone else up to it? I'm wondering if I should come in more than once a week... ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 2 months

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Mailing list to coordinate responses to FCC ruling on router hacking

by Jenny Ryan

In case it slipped through the radar, please join the conversation and send an email to the FCC by August 16th re: new regulations preventing channel-switching and firmware flashing (eg OpenWRT) on wireless routers. * Mailing List: http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fcc * Public comments form: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=15-170 * The talk from BattleMesh: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/08/07/openwrt-vs-fcc-forced-firmware-lockd… * Current filings: http://apps.fcc .gov/ecfs/comment_search/execute;ECFSSESSION=3nr2V8QKjGWghGDngpFgf6TxvXqFDv94FM4Bz4SxQ6bD2f1BTbJb!-1954627099!-1292486409?proceeding=15-170 If someone from sudomesh could start a pad for writing a collective response, that would be great. I'll have some time on my nightbus ride to Berlin tonight to pitch in but will be unavailable for the next 8 hours. Cheers, Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

10 years, 3 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] ian moon banned

by yar

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:34 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's my understanding that this process could potentially result in a more > top-down restructuring of the management of the Omni with little to no > required buy-in from the individual collectives. What makes you say that? I would be very surprised if that happened.

10 years, 3 months

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Jewlers hand spot welder

by Cere Davis

Heya Wondering if anyone knows a cheap resource to borrow or use a jewlers spot welder? . I know about the usual suspects like Crucible, but that shit's expensive. Anybody know of a better option? . I just need to use one for a little while. I can drive to it, use it, then come back, etc.

10 years, 6 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Anyone who can open the door at the Omni?

by yar

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:16 AM, joseph liesner <blue393(a)lmi.net> wrote: > Robb said yesterday that his cardkey was not working. > I'm sure our crakerjack team of hackers will right the > problem ASAP so I am requesting that a time and date > be arranged for making cardkeys for those of us w/o them. > I was told one could make their own by swiping a card > three times and then telling Jenny immediately. Is that close > to an actual process? That is pretty much the process, yes. The "official" place to send card requests is the sysadmins list: sysadmins(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/sysadmins But when talking to people in person it's often just easier to say "tell me" because then you don't have to spell another email address outloud. Sometimes in an attempt to make the conversation go faster I've told people to email keys(a)omnicommons.org or cards(a)omnicommons.org because we have an email system which catches everythingelse(a)omnicommons.org so they all go to the same list pretty much, and a lot of the same people read that list. But I guess that's the kind of thing which makes things more confusing in an attempt to be less confusing.

10 years, 6 months

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Anyone who can open the door at the Omni?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

One of our members needs to pick up supplies for an event, but can't get into the building - can someone let her in? Has the front door lock been fixed yet? Yesterday my key didn't work, because there was a broken key stuck in the lock... If you can get there soon, please email myself and Allison Shiozaki, andsoitgrows(a)gmail.com. Or give me a call on my cell at (925) 989 3869 Thanks! Patrik

10 years, 6 months

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what are the current new member questions?

by Marina Kukso

this is what's on the articles of association: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_2.1.0_Process_for… but the last new-member questionnaire i saw at a meeting a few months ago had additional questions. does anyone know what the current new member questions are? - marina

10 years, 6 months

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Housing for December

by Lesley Bell

Hello friends, We are still looking for housemates in the Fruitvale district. Temporary is ok. Contact me offlist if you'd like to come by. $740/month plus utilities. Thanks for reading. Lesley

10 years, 6 months

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Phone Line (CAT6) Termination and Diagram

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello, Just an FYI: Today Rob and I terminated the incoming Phone Line (CAT6) that Charley and I had ran a few months back. For our records I made a diagram showing how the cables termination goes. I didn't know how, but I took notes of how I found it. The attached diagram only covers the end at the Server side. Thanks, Daniel -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

10 years, 6 months

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darins friend found sleeping

by robb

darin, a new member to sudoroom, has been hosting some friends who have all been hanging out in one of the basement rooms. aside from the obvious evidence of smoking in the room, there have been no problems. this morning around 5:30am i noticed the light to the room was off and the door was locked. i continued knocking but no answer. i started taking the door off the hinges and darins friends began notifying they were in there. i asked them to leave. 2 out of 3 gave me a hard time and left and the other tried to continue hiding & i almost overlooked him. when i finally found him he gave me even more of a hard time than the others but finally left. around noon they were here without darin and i informed them of our members sponsoring guests policy and that they should leave and come back with darin. i subsequently was told that i was racist and that i was a pussy and stupid for volunteering my time w/o being paid. not sure how to proceed, it this a sudoroom issue because they were previously darin's guests (yesterday) or an omni issue because it happened outside of sudoroom w/o any sudo members being involved? thx ~r

10 years, 6 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Please Let's Help Linda

by danarauz＠gmail.com

*Hello all, Here is the new URL: * *https://www.gofundme.com/nrbrhjp4 <https://www.gofundme.com/nrbrhjp4> Please donate if you can. * "As many of you may have heard, the Grant family recently suffered a terrible tragedy when 2-year old Gianni and his mother Brit were in a car accident several weeks ago. Gianni lost his life and Brit is now seriously injured and struggling to move on after losing her child. Brit's mother Linda, sister Makala, and other family and friends have been stepping up to take care of Brit and to help the family through this difficult time. Linda needs help to support her daughter until she gets back on her feet, including money for food and medical expenses resulting from the accident and amputation of part of Brit's arm. If you don't know her, Linda is a comrade and Black revolutionary from Oakland who always seems to have everyone's back. She is so strong and reliable and for *once* she is asking for our support. Please contribute generously to this fund to help her and her family get through this tragedy. Let's give this family one less thing to worry about." Daniel On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:32 AM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com> wrote: > k > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:25 PM, danarauz(a)gmail.com <danarauz(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Update: I just learned that there seems to be something wrong w the >> gofundme I previously shared here. Please standby for an updated one. >> >> Thank you! >> >> D >> >> >> On Sunday, November 15, 2015, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> thank you! thanks for checking. my heart goes out to her. >>> >>> >>> may the Divine bless us all. >>> >>> >>> love, >>> ffaust >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! >> https://omnicommons.org/donate >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> >> >> >> > > > -- > *Be seeing you.* > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

10 years, 6 months

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Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary

by Torrie Fischer

Hi, Sudo Room. I've been super frustrated at world events lately, what with the US government labelling everyone a terrorist, the NSA being so pervasive, and white protestant males excusing other white protestant males for shooting up planned parenthoods and such. So here's a chrome extension I threw together that helpfully translates the web using The Unabridged Newspeak Dictionary: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-unabridged-newspeak-d/fiillcl… Feedback and additions are welcome. Please share :)

10 years, 6 months

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Great mesh network graphic to steal

by Romy Ilano

Hey I'm not focused on sudomesh but I like it! Can't work on stuff for it but thought this would be fun : first time I saw someone explain mesh networks in a very easy way. -- rip off this graphic and do a sudomesh version -- as an outsider I'd love to see a Mesh video round table with jenny jake and a few random neighborhood folks. Like filmed at the omni table ! I'm busy focusing on my own things but admiring yalls from afar ! http://www.cnet.com/news/unbreakable-mesh-networks-are-in-your-smartphones-… Unbreakable: Mesh networks are in your smartphone's future It's not that we're running out of mobile bandwidth. It's just that it's poorly distributed. If you're in your home next to a Wi-Fi router, you might have a clean signal and access to a 12-megabit connection. Meanwhile, someone outside your door could have a smartphone that's struggling to hold onto a slow connection to a cellular tower a mile away. But mesh networking might make things better for everyone. Mesh networks let devices share their connections with other users. If one user has a clean network connection and another nearby user does not, the second user can piggyback on the first's, automatically. If there's a collection of many people, their machines can all cooperate to make connections -- to each other and to the global Internet. In advanced mesh networks, connections and data can hop among devices, creating ad hoc bucket-brigade paths for communication. The concept of mesh networking is not new. Many military systems rely on mesh networking, since forces in the field cannot rely on communications infrastructures. Utilities also use mesh networks for collecting data from equipment, like smart meters. On this Reporters' Roundtable, I interview two innovators in mesh networking. They're both trying to bring this liberating (they say) and bandwidth-saving (ditto) technology to the masses. Podcast Subscribe: iTunes (MP3) iTunes (640x360) Podcast RSS (MP3) Podcast RSS (640x360) Micha Benoliel's company, Open Garden, makes a mesh networking utility for Android smartphones and for Windows and Mac laptops (support for iOS is coming). It's a free app that turns your device into a mobile hot spot. No matter how you're connected to the Net (Wi-Fi or cellular), it makes that connection shareable (over Bluetooth) to other Open Garden users. Likewise, if you're running the product but don't have a connection to the Net, and you're near a user who does, this service seamlessly gets you online. Benoliel says that, for the most part, carriers and ISPs welcome technologies that improve bandwidth for customers and that also lower power requirements (connecting to a nearby hot spot over Bluetooth takes a lot less power than linking to a cell tower). "The only way to improve the wireless networks is to increase the density of microcells or hot spots. I think carriers really understand that," he says. His pitch: "We turn every device into a hot spot... and we improve the network itself." Sri Srikrishna was the founding CTO of the mesh networking company Tropos (recently acquired by ABB), and is now working on bringing mesh technologies to populations where today's standard wireless networking technologies are insufficient, or are blocked. See his paper, "SocialMesh: Can Networks of Meshed Smartphones Ensure Public Access to Twitter During an Attack?" Srikrisha says it's time to do two things for people who don't have reliable means to connect to the global net. First of all, we can make better, more frequency-agile radios. Second: Mesh them together. Hooking users together through mesh networks can also democratize communications and make them, he believes, more robust in the face of repressive regimes that might want to shut down the capability to reach the outside world. With a mesh network, a very small number of users who happen to have a connection can share that with other users who don't. "If you have a large number of these devices, no government will be able to stop it," he says. Srikrishna and Benoliel both claim that the global growth of smartphones -- all are handheld computers easily capable of supporting mesh networking stacks -- should lead to a global infrastructure shift, in which these handsets become a bigger part of the infrastructure itself, not just clients on it. "Can you build a network that's indestructible?" asks Srikrishna. He says it's worth doing. "A lot of the problems in the world can be solved if you can have UStream everywhere in the world, without being blocked." Watch the full, geeky discussion in the video here. Sent from my iPhone

10 years, 6 months

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the robot now has a roto-zip wood cutting tool

by Jake

last night Leif and I installed a roto-zip rotary cutting tool on the end of the robot arm. it looks just like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/272046207900?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82 we don't have any tool bits for it though. It needs a sideways-cutting bit with a 1/8" diameter shaft. they make them for wood. it would be possible to cut metals too if you're careful, but a bit for that purpose would be called an "endmill" please let me know if you want to use the robot with its wood-cutting tool. if you want to cut out a shape, for example, you will need an SVG file for starters. thank you -jake

10 years, 6 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-finance] Invoice 1188 from Omni Oakland

by yar

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Johnny <mostmodernist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > LOL What part was funny? Was it the "thanks for your business" line?

10 years, 6 months

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Invoice 1188 from Omni Oakland

by Omni Oakland

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thanks for your business! Omni Oakland ------------------------ Invoice Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1188 Invoice Date: 11/25/2015 Due Date: 12/05/2015 Terms: Net 10 Amount Due: $283.23 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

10 years, 6 months

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Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Cuba Open Technology / Maker Exchange Jan 11-21

by Cere Davis

This sounds amazing! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mario Landau Holdsworth" <mariolh(a)gmail.com> Date: Nov 25, 2015 1:33 PM Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Cuba Open Technology / Maker Exchange Jan 11-21 To: "Noisebridge" <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net> Cc: "Valerie Landau" <vlandau(a)gmail.com> Hi everyone, My cousin Valerie is coordinating an open technology / maker exchange in Havana, Cuba in January. We need at least *8 more people* to make the trip happen. The exchange is organized to connect talented makers, designers, and engineers in Cuba with their counterparts in the US. The conference is organized in Havana by leading professors, makers and artists. Participants will meet and spend 4 days collaborating together on projects. You can find more info here: http://landautravel.com/2015/07/23/maker-exchange-in-cuba-january-11-20-201… Feel free to email me directly with questions. Thanks!!! Mario _______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss mailing list Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss

10 years, 6 months

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Fwd: [sudo-info] Do you want some free computer stuff???

by Matthew Senate

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jack Vincent <jackvinc(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:51 AM Subject: [sudo-info] Do you want some free computer stuff??? To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hey Sudo Folks, I have visited you guys a couple times, once at the Broadway space and once at your new OmniCommons space... I have been doing some house cleaning and would like to give away some computer and electronics stuff.... I tried dropping by last Saturday to offer you some stuff but the door was closed and no one answered. Do you have any interest in these???? LOTS of "G" WiFi stuff, routers, access points. D-Link, Netgear ---SCSI EVERYTHING... cables, TAPE BACKUP, Syquest drives and media, ZIP drives and media, Imation LS-120 drives and media ---MODEMS external and internal, up to 56K (does ANYONE still use modems???) ---Serial cables (a box full), serial switch box, parallel cables, inkjet printers (untested) , laser printers (untested). Gigantic industrial dot-matrix printer with sound deadening hood ---Misc computer power supplies, cases, 386 computers, 486 computers, Toshiba laptops that can only run DOS, floppy disks, ---misc ISA bus cards..... if no one is interested in the functionality of the cards, do you collect them for the GOLD reclamation value $$$$$$?$?$?$ -video cards, EIDE cards, modem cards, multi-I/O cards, sound cards, and so on. ---inkjet printers (untested) -I'm pretty sure you DON'T want these, but who knows... again, maybe the circuit boards have value. I am offering these for free to anyone. Hope to hear from you SOON. And please let me know how to call you if you want this stuff. PS Almost forgot to mention, TONS of old 3.5" HARD DRIVES.... most working, many tested or marked. Thanks. -- Jack V _______________________________________________ Info mailing list Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info

10 years, 6 months

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Fwd: [sudo-info] possible partnerships opportunity

by yar

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Caitlin Cruz <caitlin.cruz(a)cvcorps.org> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:29 PM Subject: [sudo-info] possible partnerships opportunity To: "info(a)sudoroom.org" <info(a)sudoroom.org> Hello, I am a teacher at Civicorps schools, a charter school in West Oakland for youth who have not yet received their high school diplomas. I am currently teaching a robotics class in an attempt to interest students in programming and the maker culture. I am interested in taking them on a field trip to community maker space or hacker space in Oakland and I was wondering if I could speak to someone about what you do and if this might be a good fit. I am interested in exposing my students to community robotics and citizen science. I am specifically interested in Omni labs because I know that you are run through community members and encourage creativity. Our students are 18-26 and the school offers both a degree and on the job training. My robotics class is a 3 hour class that runs for 5 Fridays in a row and begins with an introduction to programming and continues with a comprehensive robotics projects that runs from the Arduino platform. If you are interested in knowing more about us and/or feel that you could host us for a field trip, please let me know. Thank you Caitlin Cruz Science Teacher

10 years, 6 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: [sudo-info] possible partnerships opportunity

by yar

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:47 AM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com> wrote: > sounds like a good fit. & issues re: minors are moot, correct? We've fixed the biggest outstanding fire code violations, and our insurance covers stuff like this. I think it's fine to go ahead and do it.

10 years, 6 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [Noisebridge-discuss] Moar Laser Cutter Infos

by Adam

It's not the parts that make the board expensive, it's the salaries you must pay the engineers who write the software for it. Heck, you'd be surprised how little the parts cost of something reflects the price one must ask for to keep a company afloat. On 23 Nov 2015 1:03 am, "Zach R" <organicunity(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hey Adam, > Thanks so much for the reply. Goddamn that board is expensive - I'm not > surprised it does more given all the ICs on it. Nuts, looks like we need > to cough up $400 for that board then or get a new laser cutter :/ What a > scam, I doubt that PCB costs >$25 to produce. > I second your thoughts on education. I've looked at your site as well as > the manual and have been trying to learn more about the beast so that it > gets taken care of properly. > > -Zach > > ________________________________________ > From: noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net < > noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net> on behalf of Adam > <adam(a)aperture.systems> > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 12:16 AM > To: Noisebridge > Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Moar Laser Cutter Infos > > I have this model laser. It's on loan at sudo right now. > > The board isn't just a USB-Parallel converter. On my laser (R.3) the > board was a mixture of motor drivers, a few buffers and a CPLD doing > something somewhat intelligent. When it failed, I was able to have > full spectrum replace it with r.4 of their board for $400, which is > pretty identical, though they've done away with the DB25 port in favor > of direct to CPLD - USB. > > I have a guide on the use of these lasers here. > http://hack.rit.edu/tools/fsl/ > > I would not recommend hacked solutions over the FSL board, unless the > solution is well documented, on a dedicated computer, backed up, and > taught to a few NB chiefs. My time running RIT's hackerspace has > taught that lack of education is the #1 reason people don't use tools > like these, and when there's no one to teach, nothing will get done, > and that sometimes it really is better to just pay extra for > something that just works. > > -A > -^-^-^-^-^- > Adam Munich - Builder of wild things (and organizations) > Tel: +1-650-452-0554 > > The key to mastering any skill is nothing more than passion and > persistence. > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23(a)hotmail.com> > wrote: > > FYI: My friend Aqua (who's Chinese) called the company who actually > makes the laser cutter (jnmydy.com is only a distributor), and they told > her that they cannot sell us just the power Parallel to USB controller and > main power motherboard PCBs separately, but they sell the "whole set" and > some raw components. She will call be on Monday and find out how much the > "whole set" costs. > > > > > > And, yeah, I'd still really like to get reimbursed for the laser tube I > bought for Noisebridge for $237.37 last year. > > > > > > Best, > > > > Mitch. > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > >> From: organicunity(a)hotmail.com > >> To: noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net > >> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:29:14 +0000 > >> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Moar Laser Cutter Infos > >> > >> > >> So looking through the NB discuss list history (and talking to myself > >> more here) there are actually a few more things the Laser Cutter > >> needs. From what I understand there is: > >> > >> > >> 1) Parallel> USB controller board needed (waiting for word from the > >> people at Full Spectrum Laser and the shop in China for a price quote - > >> anyone received a reply?) Also, Henner says he might be able to hack > >> this with Arduino > >> > >> 2) Water pump and one hose missing (according to Adam's email from the > >> Hackathon in July) > >> > >> 3) Air Pump maybe (haven't checked to see if we have this) > >> > >> 4) Calibration of mirrors and stuff (can someone volunteer to do this? > >> we have manuals for it, it's just tedious) > >> > >> 5) Minor wiring and screws install work (I volunteer to do this) > >> > >> 6) a Windows machine to run the software (I can donate one if needed) > >> > >> 7) Install software and key (I guess Jerrod has this info?) > >> > >> > >> Just trying to document the steps needed in one place here for > >> everyone. Finally, we need to pay Mitch back for the $237 he spent on > >> the new tube. Below is an old email with details from the thread here > >> "Laser cutter repair bounty" > >> > >> > >> Adam: "I tried fixing it at the stupid shit hackathon but I could not > >> find the water pump and the other rubber hose. There is otherwise > >> everything you need to get the laser cutter running." > >> > >> > >> Mitch: "Zach -- please see the email from Henner, copied below, for a > >> list of things that needs to be done. And please see the Doodle sent by > >> Rubin, copied below, to pick a time to meet to fix the lasercutter. > >> Everyone -- I paid for the laser tube when I was in China. I would very > >> much love to be paid back for it. It cost me: Laser tube: $120.37 > >> shipping from Shenzhen to SF: $117.00 Total: $237.37 Would people be > >> kind enough to pitch in, and help collect for this? Thanks, Mitch." > >> > >> -------------------------------------- From: organicunity(a)hotmail.com > >> To: noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 > >> 08:39:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Laser cutter repair > >> bounty .ExternalClass P { } I already offered to help with this....I > >> thought Adam (and someone else) got it fixed recently. If someone will > >> give me the low down on what needs to be done I'm happy to work on it. > >> and hey, throwing money (and burritos) at poor techs like me definitely > >> can get shit done! -Zach From: > >> noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net on behalf of Rubin > >> Abdi Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:54 PM To: Henner Zeller Cc: James > >> Sundquist; NB Discuss Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Laser cutter > >> repair bounty Do you want to make the laser go? Fill out the fucking > >> Doodle... https://doodle.com/3rnzd5fy74kfwd9b On 11 July 2015 at 14:41, > >> Henner Zeller wrote: I'd rather you guys organize some time where > >> everyone who wants to help has time (get creative, there are some > >> online find-free-time-slots-for-a-couple of people online. @rubin was > >> using one of these recently). Money won't get things done, chip in an > >> hour of your work. _That_ would help more getting this done. I am happy > >> to help, but being alone working on that will take weeks of time here > >> and there. What needs to be done, and with a few people, that would be > >> doable in an afternoon. - check if we have the water pump and air pump > >> in working condition. If not, get new ones. - Get a bucket of 5 Gallons > >> of distilled water. - Connect the laser tube to the high voltage power > >> supply (as far as I know, the new tube is already in the cutter)000 - > >> calibrate things, mirrors and stuff. - make a free space in the corner > >> of Noisebridge next to the windows, now full of DJ gear. - Find a table > >> to put it on permanently. - Prepare an outlet in the window where we > >> can connect the blower pipe. - Get the software installed somewhere (I > >> think Jarrod has a license key somewhere and we need a windows > >> machine). -h On 11 July 2015 at 14:31, jarrod hicks wrote: I too will > >> match that. On Jul 11, 2015 12:32 PM, "James Sundquist" wrote: I will > >> give $20 to anyone who has the laser cutter restored and calibrated at > >> nb. --- Sent from Boxer | http://getboxer.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net > >> <noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net> on behalf of Zach R > >> <organicunity(a)hotmail.com> > >> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 5:54 PM > >> To: NB Discuss; Eric Michaud > >> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Moar Laser Cutter Infos > >> > >> > >> OK so I took the laser cutter Main PCB home last night and did some > >> work on it. I believe I got it all fixed up now, with the proper +5v > >> and +24v LEDs lighting up now - it should be working 100% ! :D > >> > >> proof: > >> > >> > http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/Segasonicfan/NB%20Hardware%20Class/2… > >> > >> > http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/Segasonicfan/NB%20Hardware%20Class/2… > >> < > http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b134/Segasonicfan/NB%20Hardware%20Class/2… > > > >> > >> > >> Now the only thing left (aside from me fixing some crappy wiring jobs, > >> installing the tube, and replacing screws and fuses) is the CONTROLLER > >> BOARD that handles Parallel> USB. Here is a link to it again: > >> > >> > https://moderndevice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fse-controller-768x1024… > >> > >> > >> Has anyone received a response from the manufacturer about this? Eric, > >> could you ask Full Spectrum Laser for the price cost for just this > >> board (I know they quoted $700 for both, but I have the larger one > >> working now). LMK. > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net > >> <noisebridge-discuss-bounces(a)lists.noisebridge.net> on behalf of Zach R > >> <organicunity(a)hotmail.com> > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:39 PM > >> To: NB Discuss > >> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Moar Laser Cutter Infos > >> > >> > >> So I brought this up at the meeting tonight and then I did more > >> research. Found some more useful info. > >> > >> > >> model #: MLR-40 > >> > >> 40w Full Spectrum Laser > >> > >> Manufacturer website: http://en.jnmydy.com/ > >> > >> > >> And here are the pictures I took: > >> > >> > http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Segasonicfan/library/NB%20Hardware%20Class?… > >> > >> Here is the controller board we are missing: > >> > >> > https://moderndevice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fse-controller-768x1024… > >> > >> http://www.laserresale.com/?fa=app.view&it=5966< > https://us-mg4.mail.yahoo.com/compose?to=gwen246%40gmail.com> > >> > https://moderndevice.com/news/full-spectrum-engineering-40w-hobby-laser/ > >> http://wiki.lvl1.org/Full_Spectrum_Laser > >> http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=140518 > >> > >> https://fslaser.com/Manuals/FSL_40w_Hobby_Laser_Manual.pdf (manual) > >> > >> > >> There is a second hand one for $1500 we could raise money for. That > >> way we have this one for parts. That's one option. > >> > >> Im going to try emailing the manufacture to see what replacement costs > >> would be. > >> > >> > >> -Zach > >> > >> _______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss > >> mailing list Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net > >> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > > Noisebridge-discuss mailing list > > Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net > > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Noisebridge-discuss mailing list > Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss >

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Left red glasses at omni?

by Cere Davis

Hi. Im looking for a pair of red glassed that i might have left at omni. . Had anyone seen anything fitting that description lying around sudo or omni?

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Column: The case for employee-owned companies

by Romy Ilano

This isn't something I'm interested in but thought it'd be interesting to the cool Sudoroom folks http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-the-case-for-employee-owned… Column: The case for employee-owned companies Making Sen$e’s segment on the 100 percent worker-owned New Belgium Brewing stirred some interest in the concept of employee stock ownership. David Ellerman explains the theory behind employee-owned companies. Photo by Flickr user +Russ. Editor’s Note: Our story on Colorado’s 100 percent worker-owned company New Belgium Brewing has stirred some interest in the concept of employee stock ownership. We didn’t have time, however, to explore a particularly provocative and arguably profound voice on the issue, David Ellerman, based at the University of California, Riverside. Ellerman has for years made an argument as startling as it is hard to refute: “the labor theory of property.” It’s that employees should own the firms they work for because of very simple logic: If they’re responsible for the consequences of their actions while on the job ― committing a crime, say ― how can it be that they’re not responsible for the positive things they do, such as making money? Ellerman’s writing on “the labor theory of property” has mostly been for a technical audience. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind trying to make his argument in a more popular way for the Making Sen$e page. Here’s what he sent us. ― Paul Solman, Economics Correspondent You are called in for jury duty. You protest to the judge that you are not a lawyer. How can you be expected to make a legal decision? But the judge points out that the jury is not there to interpret the law but to make a decision about the facts. Is the defendant in fact responsible for committing the crime as charged ― or not? Guilty or not guilty? The legal system then assigns the legal responsibility according to the jury’s decision about the factual responsibility. That is the basic principle of justice: assign the legal responsibility to the people who are in fact responsible for the deeds in question. With that principle of justice, injustice falls into two categories: assigning legal responsibility to a defendant who was not in fact responsible for the crime ― that is, convicting an innocent person, or not assigning legal responsibility to a defendant who was in fact responsible ― that is, not convicting a guilty person. There is something else to notice about the basic norm of justice. Criminals have their “tools of the trade,” which can be quite important in committing crimes. But tools cannot be factually responsible for committing a crime, only people. For example, guns can’t be responsible for killing people, but people find it much easier to kill someone, deliberately or accidentally, if guns are available. Thus, regardless of the tools, instruments or other things being used in committing a crime, only the people committing the crime are in fact responsible for it. This basic principle of justice ― assign legal responsibility according to factual responsibility ― is used by the courts of law, but there’s no reason this principle should be applied only to negative results like crimes or misdeeds. When people deliberately produce something positive, shouldn’t they also get the legal “credit” or “ownership” of that result? The justice principle can thus be seen as applying to both positive and negative results of all responsible human actions. But there is a problem ― our current economic system does not follow the justice principle. In the previous system ― prior to the arrival of modern democracy ― masters could own other people involuntarily (the slaves). Thankfully, that system was abolished. But voluntariness was not the key issue since the contract to voluntarily sell oneself into slavery was also abolished along with involuntary slavery. In the current economic system, people rent themselves out to an “employer.” As the late Paul Samuelson of MIT, the first American Nobel Prize winner in economics, put it in his widely-used textbook: Since slavery was abolished, …[a] man is not even free to sell himself: he must rent himself at a wage. This use of the word “rent” may be jarring, but it is accurate. Americans refer to “rental cars” and the British refer to “hire cars,” but both are talking about the same thing where the renter is not buying the car, but only buying some of its services. Renting something is buying its services. Our current employment system of renting, hiring or employing people conflicts with the justice principle. In a factory operating under the employment relation, the people working in the factory jointly produce whatever is the product. Consider a company that produces widgets, for example. Those widgets are the positive results of their responsible actions. But to produce the widgets, they must jointly use up raw materials, intermediate goods, machinery and other resources. Those used-up resources are the negative results of their responsible actions. But the people working in the enterprise do not jointly have legal ownership of the widgets they produce, and they do not jointly bear the expenses for the resources (raw materials, intermediate goods, etc.) they use to produce the widgets. Instead, it is the employer who owns the widgets and pays off the non-labor costs for the used resources. The rented people, the employees, are seen simply as the providers of just another resource ― known in this case, as labor services. The employer pays off the liability for using that resource by paying the labor costs ― the wages and salaries. Hence, the employment system seems to involve a mismatch between legal responsibility and factual responsibility. While the positive and negative legal responsibility goes to the (working or absentee) employer, the positive and negative factual responsibility is with both the working employer and the employees. The renting of people certainly seems to violate the standard justice principle of assigning legal responsibility in accordance to factual responsibility. But the employees are said to voluntarily give up their responsibility for the results of their “labor services.” How can one “give up” factual responsibility? Consider the case of an employee who commits a crime at the instruction of the employer. Certainly then the employee really does want to voluntarily give up and transfer away any factual responsibility for the results of his labor services. But there is no such escape. The legal system then recognizes that the “employment” of one’s own actions cannot be voluntarily transferred to another person. One could transfer the use of one’s car or shovel to another person, but not the “employment” of one’s self. As a British law book on the employer-employee relation puts it (using the old-speak of “master and servant”): All who participate in a crime with a guilty intent are liable to punishment. A master and servant who so participate in a crime are liable criminally, not because they are master and servant, but because they jointly carried out a criminal venture and are both criminous. But what factually changes when the venture being jointly carried out is not criminal? Do the employees suddenly turn into non-responsible robots employed by their employer? Presumably employees are just as much factually responsible for their deliberate actions when they produce widgets as when they commit crimes. It is the response of the legal system that changes ― when no crime is committed, the legal system sees no reason to intervene to explicitly apply the justice principle it has so clearly established in ordinary trials. The system then accepts “obeying the employer” as fulfilling the employment contract. There seems to be no breach of the contract ― even though “obeying the employer” didn’t get the criminal employee off the hook. But with no breach or crimes involved, the legal system is silent. It does not intervene to apply the justice principle as it does in a criminal or civil trial. The end result is that the employer ends up paying off all the costs of the used-up resources, including the wage payments for the employees’ labor services, and thus owning all the widgets produced. But the employer is not in fact solely responsible for using up those resources or for producing that product ― so this adds up to a violation of the justice principle. The justice principle says that all the expenses for the used-up resources and all the revenues from owning and selling the widgets should go to the factually responsible party, which would be all the people working in the enterprise. This violation is built into the whole system of renting people ― even if voluntarily. Should that be surprising? We are accustomed to condemn slavery for being involuntary, but would owning other people be okay if it were voluntary? Perhaps the basic problem with owning other people was not whether it was involuntary or voluntary, but that it treated people as things. And that is still a problem with the renting of people in our economy. It treats the rented people like non-responsible things whose use or employment can be voluntarily transferred from one person to another like a car or shovel. How can the problem be fixed? Today, the renting, hiring or employing of people seems as “natural” as owning people did before the 19th century. In either case, most people in such a society take it for granted. But what if the abolitionists’ achievement of abolishing the owning of other people was followed up with the “neo-abolitionist” goal of abolishing the renting of other people? It would mean that all the people working together in a given enterprise would be the owners or members of that enterprise. They would jointly own what they jointly produce, and they would jointly pay off the costs for all the resources that they jointly used. In short, they would jointly own both the positive and negative “fruits of their labor” so private property would be re-founded on the justice principle. The conservative British thinker, Lord Eustace Percy, put the matter very well back in 1944. Here is the most urgent challenge to political invention ever offered to the jurist and the statesman. The human association which in fact produces and distributes wealth, the association of workmen, managers, technicians and directors, is not an association recognised by the law. The association which the law does recognize ― the association of shareholders, creditors and directors ― is incapable of production and is not expected by the law to perform these functions. We have to give law to the real association, and to withdraw meaningless privilege from the imaginary one. It was previously noted that the factually responsible party is the community of all the people working in the enterprise, which Lord Percy called the “human association which in fact produces and distributes wealth.” That community is not even recognized as a legal party in the current system. “The association which the law does recognise” is (typically) the corporation-as-employer in the employer-employer relationship. The closest legal form we have today where the factually responsible party is also the legally responsible party would be worker cooperatives (like the Mondragon cooperatives in the Basque country in Spain) or the “employee-owned” companies like the 7,000 or so Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) across the United States (at least where 100 percent of the stock is in the ESOP trust for the employees). With those legal forms, the “association which the law does recognise” is also the “human association which in fact produces and distributes wealth.” That arrangement satisfies the justice principle. Sent from my iPhone

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Job (New York): Senior Policy Analyst- Workforce Development - idealist.org

by Romy Ilano

This isn't something that is in my interests but thought Sudoroom people might like it :: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/Kkw4Xcsx93xd/ Sent from my iPhone

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request for help

by johanna faust

if anyone has a place for me to tow the bmw that i am selling as is please respond -- it is at risk of being towed -- -- *Be seeing you.*

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Humans inBetween Homes Dinner Party and Art Show

by Julio Rios

FYI, this is happening at the Omni on December 5.... in case anyone wants to donate. https://www.gofundme.com/tyb2udrg Love, Julio

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Invoice 1184 from Omni Oakland

by yar

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Charley Sheets <rcsheets(a)acm.org> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:58:57 -0800 (PST) > Omni Oakland <quickbooks-email(a)intuit.com> wrote: > >> ------------------------ Invoice Summary -------------------------- >> Invoice # : 1184 >> Invoice Date: 11/17/2015 >> Due Date: 11/27/2015 >> Terms: Net 10 >> Amount Due: $385.33 >> >> The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This invoice (for utilities, taxes, and insurance) has been paid. Thank you, Charley!! This is such a relief.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [lol-hackers] Fwd: [sfchalkboard] The Oakland Artist Housing and Workspace Survey is now live!

by yar

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a survey by city staff who are apparently crowdsourcing > artist/workspace data as it intersects with gentrifying cost of living and > cost of workspaces (but not obvious demographic factors like race). I'm not > sure what exactly this will accomplish since the damage is already pretty > deep, but there's a section at the end where you can directly share your > thoughts with the city staff running the survey. I really let them have it!! > :] Thank you Vicky! I would love to know what you said to them. :)

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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] The Oakland Artist Housing and Workspace Survey is now live!

by Vicky Knox

Here's a survey by city staff who are apparently crowdsourcing artist/workspace data as it intersects with gentrifying cost of living and cost of workspaces (but not obvious demographic factors like race). I'm not sure what exactly this will accomplish since the damage is already pretty deep, but there's a section at the end where you can directly share your thoughts with the city staff running the survey. I really let them have it!! :] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:47 PM Subject: [sfchalkboard] The Oakland Artist Housing and Workspace Survey is now live! To: sfchalkboard <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hello chalkies, Just passing this important survey along. https://oakland.granicusideas.com/surveys/artist-housing-and-workspace-surv… If you want to share the Facebook link you can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/OaklandArts-196872017003005/ Thanks!

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Invoice 1184 from Omni Oakland

by Omni Oakland

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thanks for your business! Omni Oakland ------------------------ Invoice Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1184 Invoice Date: 11/17/2015 Due Date: 11/27/2015 Terms: Net 10 Amount Due: $385.33 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [omni-helpdesk] How to Build Better Hacking Communities

by Sadie Harmon

This came through the helpdesk, FYI: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andy <cmtyresearch(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM Subject: [omni-helpdesk] How to Build Better Hacking Communities To: info(a)omnicommons.org Hi Omni Commons, We are running a *paid* research study and looking for people who are active volunteers in the intersection between hardware/software (e.g. maker communities, raspberry pi etc.) to talk to about their experiences as volunteers in maker communities / fablab communities. The study is for a large open source company and the goal is to understand how to create better experiences for volunteer contributors in open source and education focused, technology communities. To take part it requires 1 hour of your time over a video call (skype or similar). We will be able to reimburse you for your time with a $75 gift certificate to Amazon.com. If interested, please fill out this short form: http://goo.gl/forms/Y4chIu53pZ We thought this might be of interest for contributors in your community and where hoping you could help us spread the word by sharing to your community. Your time would be greatly appreciated! Don't forget to fill it out :) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13dl2QrtKN_sbHKjxQEkixDINeDjzNj3KxSZFDgs8Tx… Best regards, Andy _______________________________________________ helpdesk mailing list helpdesk(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/helpdesk

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Invoice 1172 from Omni Oakland

by Omni Oakland

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thanks for your business! Omni Oakland ------------------------ Invoice Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1172 Invoice Date: 11/17/2015 Due Date: 11/27/2015 Terms: Net 10 Amount Due: $2,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Please Let's Help Linda

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello Everyone, Linda Grant needs our help. WHO IS LINDA GRANT? For those that don't know Linda, Linda Grant is a mother and local Activist here in Oakland. Linda is a comrade that has been in the front line so many times helping different causes that includes supporting mothers who had lost their children due to Police brutality, etc. Now, Linda is the one suffering a lost and needs support. WHAT HAPPENED? Last week Linda's grandson, a 2 year old, was killed in a car accident, and her daughter lost one of her arms. TWO WAYS TO HELP: 1- She reached out to me if we, at Omni Commons, can help her by providing space where the repass can be taking place. They need to know this answer desperately, and if it can be for free if possible. I offered my help to find out, so that's why I am writing this email and I will follow up in person with some of the working group that handle the events. -I asked Linda for the date and time, but they don't know this yet, but they will be providing that information by Monday at the latest. 2- While in communication I requested her any link to the fund rising for the funeral so that I can share it with us here; so perhaps some of us can help her with some money. Please help if you can. I know Linda from the Occupy days, and she deserves all the help that we can give to her and her family. So, while the date and time comes to us, please, please, reach out to the gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/b8922mp8 and donate what you can. Many thanks in advance, Daniel -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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web voip client for sudo phone?

by Jake

can someone set up a webpage voip client on the sudoroom router computer, so that one can web in and telephone the sudophone (or CCL or liberated lens or the payphone or fnb...) if you need credentials i can grant them if i trust you. if you're a member.

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large boxes of persimmons to donate to food not bombs

by Romy Ilano

I have several large boxes of fresh persimmons to donate. I'd like to drop them by SudoRoom or the Omni. Probably stopping by Sunday evening. Miss the place! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Re: [sudo-discuss] My dad the mechanic can visit the omni

by yar

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > He can do a lot in a day but I'm not sure if the collective decision making and slower tempo to enable full democracy even from people with little experience in these maters would make this sense . I'll do what I can to help but yes it was just a thought ! The building WG is not embroiled in any democratic process right now. At this point it's a few skilled people with a long list of noncontroversial tasks to do, and not enough time in the day to organize new volunteers to do them. Help wanted.

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Sudoers looking for new housemates in Fruitvale district

by Lesley Bell

Hi all! We're looking for two new housemates in our community house in the Fruitvale district of Oakland. Rent is 740 + utils. We're having a small social hacking and music playing social time this evening, so if you'd like to check out the house and meet everyone, please come by, or alternatively message me offlist to work out another time. 3276 Logan St ~8PMish

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SUDO HACK REDUX

by Mari M.

Hey guys! I apologize for postponing my involvement in Sudo Hack. I've been suffering from severe asthma and needed to time in an allergen free environment to recover. I'm feeling a bit better and I should ok within the next few weeks. Last Sudo Hack, I didn't do too good of job getting people's individual contact information so when I sent emails to Sudo-Discuss, I didn't get a response back. These are some dates that are available taking into account the holidays: Dec 5th Dec 19th Jan 4th Please email me with contact info and which date you're available if you'd like to come help clean the space. :)

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THURSDAY: Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA

by Jenny Ryan

Stop by sudo this Thursday at 8pm and meet Musti, inventor of the open hardware optical wireless system KORUZA <http://koruza.net>. KORUZA is a 1Gbps wireless optical system for locations up to 100m apart, using an eye-safe infrared light beam. A low cost, open source and open hardware, wireless optical system, making the free space optical (FSO) technology available to masses and providing an alternative to Wi-Fi networks for RF spectrum congested urban areas. *Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA* Complicated and precise systems can be designed more smartly with imperfect tools and machines, demonstrated by the example of KORUZA, a low-cost wireless optical and open source open-hardware system for gigabit 100m wireless communication in urban areas. Motivation for developing this project comes from Wi-Fi, which is the most popular choice for creating low-cost networks these days. However, a large number of such networks fail to co-exist in urban environments due to RF spectrum congestion. KORUZA solves this problem by using a highly collimated optical beam for bi-directional communication. In this talk I will discuss the use of 3D printing for development of precise optical setup with imperfect parts, how to design a system using and re-purposing mass-produced off-the-shelf components, discuss impacts of setting up a global distributed experiment World Wide Koruza l experiment and observing the developed product in real-life. I will also demonstrate the latest KORUZA 1.0 prototype now suitable to make wireless optical gigabit links between buildings. *Bio:* Luka Mustafa is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and working full-time on developing the wireless optical system, KORUZA, at Institute IRNAS Rače in Slovenia, which he founded in 2014. He is also working on his PhD at University College London. For the past year he has led a keen young team at IRNAS to develop open hardware manufacturing solutions ranging from precise 3D printing of plastics and other more unusual materials to large-scale CNC and plasma cutters for heavier metalwork, innovating on the use of optical fibres for these applications. He promotes and deploys open wireless networks with the "wlan slovenia" project, manages national and international wireless backbones and contributes to several open-hardware and electronics projects worldwide. He has wide experience interning on projects from sound-systems to particle accelerator control systems. ( http://koruza.net ) Sudo Calendar: https://sudoroom.org/events/design-for-imperfect-manufacturing-and-challeng… Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/427453017463929/ Can't make it this Thursday? You can also attend KORUZA event at Noisebridge on the 16th: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Koruza_event

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Fwd: Ace Monster Toys Hackerspace Holiday Party! December 12th

by yar

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rachel Sadd <crafty.avenger(a)acemonstertoys.org> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:32 PM Subject: [sudo-info] Ace Monster Toys Hackerspace Holiday Party! December 12th To: info(a)sudoroom.org Dear Sudo Room, Ace Monster Toys loves that you are using the maker movement to strive for social justice, and we want to invite you and your members to join us for a night of music, making, and monster refreshments, all while exploring hands-on activities in our space. Our first-ever holiday party will include maker labs geared toward grown-ups, such as laser-cutting your own snowflakes and 3D printing lacy ornaments. 'Tis also an excuse for us to do what we love...Experimental Science Time! We'll create instant ice cream using liquid nitrogen and find out if cookie cutters can be made on a CNC mill. A jolly good time is sure to be had. Please join us, and let you members know about our party. Saturday, December 12 — 6 - 9:30pm Ace Monster Toys | 6050 Lowell Street. Ste. 214. | Oakland, CA 94608 Click here to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ace-monster-toys-hackerspace-holiday-party-tic… Learn more about Ace Monster Toys here: http://acemonstertoys.org/ Crafty Rachel President, Director acemonstertoys.org meetup.com/Ace-Monster-Toys facebook.com/acemonstertoys

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Techno-Activism Third "Mondays": TPP Special, Next *TUESDAY* Nov 17 at Noisebridge 3PM-7PM!

by Danny O'Brien

San Francisco's Techno-Activism Third Mondays shifts 24 hours into the (hopefully not too dystopian) future next week. We're teaming up with colleagues in Washington DC for a special on the Trans-Pacific Partnership with the: >> FLUSH THE TPP HACKATHON Join us for an evening of hacking, building, and meme-making as part of a week of action against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement! The TPP, a trade agreement whose text was released just this month: https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp . Its e-commerce and intellectual property chapters would extend copyright terms in many countries, limit governments' ability to require source code, place bans on circumventing DRM, increase ISP liability, and strip away privacy for domain owners. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared At this Tuesday hackathon, we'll be working on making new online tools, resources, and graphics for people to use and spread the word about the threats of the TPP. IN WASHINGTON D.C: WHEN: Tuesday, November 17 5:00pm ~ late WHERE: First Trinity Lutheran Church, 4th and E Sts., NW and worldwide* WHO: Activists, hackers, artists, and tinkerers. Some technical background encouraged but not required. IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA: WHEN: Tuesday, November 17 3PM-7PM WHERE: Noisebridge Hackerspace, 2629 Mission St, San Francisco WHO: Techno-activist regulars, and anyone else with an interest in learning more about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement affects the Internet and innovation. This will be a hands-on session, where you can participate in projects being developed in both spaces. Here are some sample project ideas: * TPP Quiz: A way for people to become acquainted with the problems of these deals and help them become better at conveying the threats to their friends and family. * Inspect the Text: A tool to highlight portions of the text and how they would affect the public interest, so that people can see what language in the actual text translates to specific regulatory concerns. It could also reveal which industries may have lobbied for or would benefit from this language. * Media/Graphic Repository: A platform where all shareable images, videos, and other media can be put in one place for ease of reference and use. Ideally, this would also have share buttons and also have a way to specify usage via Creative Commons licenses. Hope to see you there! Want to receive these TA3M-SF updates regularly? Join our mailing list at: https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf

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11/16 Sort & Snack - RSVP to Help Organize the Electronics Components at Noisebridge!

by James Sundquist

This last Monday the first Sort & Snack event went really well and we'd like to have another before the holidays! Your help is invaluable. Bring snacks, a laptop, or just yourself! Monday, November 16, 19:00: Sort & Snack - Help organize the electrical components at Noisebridge, Two hours of sorting and snacking! Bring drinks, snacks or just yourself. No experience necessary! Together we will organize the electronics components and input them into our swanky database. Enthusiasm and curiosity encouraged. Please RSVP to our Hardware Mailinglist with your name and whether you can sort (no xp needed) or input (xp encouraged). Link to the Noisebridge Hardware Mailinglist follows: https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware/%7Chardware

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Benefit Corporation?

by yar

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Torrie Fischer <tdfischer(a)hackerbots.net> wrote: > I guess my next question then is: what concrete goals, objectives, and > roadblocks have been identified as far as an actual strategy goes? Finance wg is working on getting our previous records in order, which is the next big hurdle to applying for 501c3. Building wg is working on fire safety, which is the first step to getting our permits settled. Commons wg is working on making it easier to intake volunteers, so we can hold more events.

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juki sewing machine

by Jake

someone was asking a while ago if we would sell this sewing machine. it's the Juki, and it's an industrial machine that normally gets mounted on a big motor table, and uses an oilpan under it, etc... I think we should accept an offer of money for it and send it onto its new home, we have too many sewing machines and this one would be a lot of work, whereas the normal home sewing machines (the plastic kind with internal motors) seem to be good enough for what people do with them. As for the embroidery machine, it works great as a sewing machine and as an embroidery machine so I think it's worth having around, but if we decide to get rid of it I can get back onto that mission. -jake

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$150 DSL modem missing

by Jake

We mailed the wrong DSL modem back to Sonic, so we haven't got our deposit back. Does anyone know where the Pace 5168 modem is? it looks like this: https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/File:Pace5168n.png someone just told me that we never had that modem. Does that mean that Sonic is mistaken about the hardware we were using? If you know of a modem like this please tell me where it is, it's worth $150 to sudoroom to get our equipment deposit back. thank you, -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:31:22 -0800 From: Sonic.net Tech Support Subject: Re: [Sonic #3519117] [BILLING] Re: Sonic.net Invoice #7734422 Greetings, Upon review of your account, the equipment that was returned was not the correct equipment in which we requested. The item in which was returned was a Zyxel modem, which at the time we were selling those to our customers and did not require the return for them. However the return label that was issued was for a Pace 5168 which was issued for the service in which was on your account. We are more then happy to return the charge to the account once we receive the correct equipment. <...>

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Fwd: [sudo-info] Domain Status Change Notification

by danarauz＠gmail.com

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *GoDaddy* <donotreply(a)godaddy.com> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Subject: [sudo-info] Domain Status Change Notification To: info(a)sudoroom.org Domain Backorder Notification <http://www.godaddy.com?isc=gdbbxp363&ci=84589&cvosrc=bounceback.363.gdbbxp3…> 24/7 Support: (480) 505-8877 <(480)%20505-8877> Sudo Room — Customer Number: 9174531 Domain Status Notification This notification is generated automatically as a service to you. We have received a request that the *status* be changed to: Locked for the following domain name(s): SUDOROOM.ORG If you are monitoring this name with Domain Backorders, the above change can also be accessed in your Account Manager under "Domain Backordering". Manage Domain Monitoring / Backordering <https://dcc.godaddy.com/default.aspx?activeview=monitoring&prog_id=GoDaddy&…> You do not need to respond to this email. If, however, you think this change may have been made in error or fraudulently, *please contact us within 15 days.* If you need to address this matter, or in any way need further assistance or technical support, call 24/7 Support at (480) 505-8877. We appreciate your business! Please do not reply to this email. Emails sent to this address will not be answered. Copyright © 1999-2015 GoDaddy Operating Company, LLC. 14455 N. Hayden Rd, Ste. 219, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. All rights reserved. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Benefit Corporation?

by robb

"Most events that we do in the ballroom are educational, and collecting door money could fit into a donations framework pretty easily." unfortunately, unless a group that rents the ballroom is ok with making the event appear as though the omni is hosting/organizing the event, i'm afraid the group would have to be fiscally sponsored by the omni in order for the $ to be "from a charitable source"...even if the event is educational. ~r

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