Hey y'all,
I'm makin a special request that we all try not to run loud things like
band saws and such during the 'quiet' times of this acoustic presentation
on Thursday, that requires as much quietness as possible in order to for
everyone to listen as closely as possible to the sounds of rainforest
ecosystems in the ballroom.
The quiet times need to be roughly:
*7:30-7:45pm* (needs quiet)
*8:45-9:00pm* (needs quiet)
Depending on when it actually start, these times are subject to change but
I will go through the building and let folks know -
This particularly includes the La Commune area since it is close to the
ballroom - door banging and bell-ringing could mess up the listening
experience. For this reason I was putting out there that we could perhaps
close the main door into La Commune, put tons of signs in and outside the
building saying to use the entrance on 48th just for that time. Basically,
to cut down on foot traffic through La Commune.
I realize this is going to be tough given that Mesh & the GA are going on
for example. But I'm hoping we can accomodate it for just this one time..?
Can we try that? (More infos on the event below):
Best,
David
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An Environmental Sound-Art Presentation on the Acoustic Biodiversity of
Rainforests! Presented by the Bay Area Public School @ the Omni (4799
Shattuck Ave @ 48th), in the ballroom:
For this free special event, an high-definition 8-channel surround-sound
speaker setup will be installed to the ballroom. Come hear unique
high-definition field recordings of rainforest ecosystems captured in three
dimensions with specialized equipment by David Monacchi, a professor of
Eco-Acoustics in Pesaro, Italy.
After a period of listening quietly in darkness, David will present a
lecture, analyze the waveforms, and be open to any and all audience
questions. This will be a highly unique opportunity to immersively listen
to the sounds of the rainforest and rapidly disappearing ecosystems, and to
talk with David about how such work is done, why it is vital, and how we
can re-open ourselves up to listening more fully to the world around us.
http://fragmentsofextinction.org/https://www.facebook.com/events/1409886435978575
About David Monacchi:
David Monacchi is a sound artist, researcher and eco-acoustic composer. He
has been developing his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction
for nearly 15 years, conducting field research in the world’s last
remaining areas of undisturbed primary equatorial rainforest. The recipient
of multiple awards throughout Europe and North America, Monacchi is
pioneering a new compositional approach based on 3D soundscape recordings
of ecosystems to foster discourse on the biodiversity crisis through music
and sound-art installations. A Fulbright fellow at UC Berkeley in 2007, he
has taught at the University of Macerata since 2000 and is now professor of
Electroacoustic Music Composition and Eco-acoustics at the Conservatorio
“G. Rossini” of Pesaro.
Since 1990 he has recorded throughout Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, North
and South America. During a pilot project in the Brazilian Amazon (2002) in
collaboration with Greenpeace he first collected high definition ‘sound
portraits’ of an intact tropical ecosystem. With these unique recordings,
he composed the eco-acoustic opera Fragments of a Sonic World in
Extinction, which toured theatres and contemporary music venues across
Europe and the United States. The current long-term research and
environmental sound-art project, Fragments of Extinction, is now being
developed with the multiple aim of: collecting three-dimensional 24-hour
cycles of acoustic biodiversity from the most important rainforest hotspots
at the equator, over the three continents; analysing and studying the field
data from an ecological and, in parallel, aesthetical point of view;
disseminating the results in research, educational and art contexts.
recall I proposed changes to our membership process in our articles of
association 7 days ago, based on a discussion with null and deilann.
We discussed at the meeting and made just a few minor changes.
Eske also edited the changes and added some clarifying language. I edited a
bit of this language, most of which is friendly to my original proposed
changes.
Here it is:
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FIm…
I hope we can come to consensus on making this change tonight.
// Matt
p.s. If you want to engage with some more radical changes we hope to make
in the coming year, please see the beginning of an entirely new membership
policy I've started here:
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FFu…
Does anyone have a chance to pick these up? I've got to be at work, but it
would be great if someone could get these. Probably takes at least two
people, and a truck.
Thanks!
Patrik
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Hi all,
Expect outages to the upstairs kitchen and the stage mezzanine particularly
while we troubleshoot these two circuits.
It's possible for safety reasons power may need to be turned off to other
circuits. If so an announcement will be made.
Sorry for the late notice but it's not easy to get qualified electricians
in who will not charge an arm and a leg, so I hope everyone can roll with
this (please contact me with any questions)
David
Hullo LOL Space and Sudoers,
I write to let you all know about an unconference I'm co-organizing in
June after the American Library Association Annual Conference in San
Francisco. It's a two day event, June 29-30 at Noisebridge :)
I'm working with the Library Freedom Project, an partnership among
librarians, technologists, attorneys, and advocates to teach librarians
about surveillance threats, digital rights, and privacy-protecting
technology.
Here's our call for participation: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/?p=286
If any of you all know librarians who may be interested please share, or
if you're available to help with and of the privacy tools trainings or
have an idea for a workshop/way to help, please shoot me an email.
april(a)libraryfreedomproject.org
We're still hashing out the schedule, but we're very excited to invite
tons of local luminaries to speak on these emerging issues in libraries.
And even more stoked that this conversation is happening at Noisebridge.
We'll have skill shares, conversations on patron privacy, discuss issues
of access, radical archiving, copyright, community outreach, and more.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Monday.
All my best,
April
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Hi! When I first wrote the email below, I figured that February 11 would
give you plenty of time to discuss and make a decision. I've been sending
things to the wrong addresses like a dork, though. So, if you can, I'd love
to hear back from you by Monday 16 February with a yay or a nay. Thank you!
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From: Lisha Sterling <lisha(a)geekswobounds.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:39 PM
Subject: Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge?
To: info(a)sudoroom.com
Hello Sudoers!
Long time no see! It's been great to watch what's been going on in Sudoroom
life, the move to Omni-Commons, the crowdfunding campaign, the classes and
all the rest through the telescopic lens of the Interwebs. I miss you guys,
though and look forward to visiting when I'm down in Oakland again.
Today I'm writing to ask if you guys would be willing to be our host site
for the Oakland site for the International Space Apps Challenge April
10-12, 2015.
My colleague Lindsay Oliver is moving down to Oakland on March 1, and since
she'll be a new local, we decided to celebrate her move by asking for the
Oakland Space Apps license. Now that they've said that she can run that
event, we need to find a site and hunt down sponsors to fund it. I thought
about a couple different possible hosts, but then it dawned on me that
Sudoroom and the Omni-Commons would be a WAY better site than any other I
could think of.
What we would would need from you is SPACE. Well,actually, we need space
and internet and electricity.
We will find sponsors to pay for food, beverages, and prizes (NB: We don't
do cash prizes. We celebrate collaboration, not competition). If you guys
have leads to help us find those sponsors, that's always appreciated, but
not at all required.
What you get: The awesomest hackathon of the year in your space, exposure
to people who don't normally show up to hackerspaces but would probably
love yours, mention in any press we get for the event, and of course,
listing as a major sponsor of the Oakland site of ISAC.
International Space Apps Challenge is a global hackathon with over 80 sites
worldwide. This will be the fourth year of the event, and Geeks Without
Bounds has been involved since the very first one. NASA curates challenges
that have ranged from jewellery making to data hacking, educational
development to interplanetary network design. There is literally something
for everyone at a Space Apps Challenge, and it is our absolute favorite
hackathon of the year. (Considering that we may do as many as 25 in any
given year, that's saying something.)
Geeks Without Bounds is a nonprofit organization fiscally sponsored by the
School Factory. We support humanitarian open source projects through a
combination of hackathons and an accelerator program where we take
promising projects through a six month series of mentorships to help them
reach sustainability. In the first year of Space Apps, GWOB ran the
flagship event at Tech Shop in San Francisco. In the second year we
organized three sites including Glasgow, Scotland and Krakow, Poland. Last
year we were involved with 5 different sites around the globe. This year we
will be organizing just two: Oakland, CA and Greensboro, NC. (Although
people that we trained up will be taking over organization of sites in
every city where we've organized Space Apps events in the past!)
GWOB hackathons are always a little different than the stereotypical
hackathon event. You can read more about our take on the form at
http://gwob.org/why-i-love-hackathons/ And because GWOB was deeply involved
in the original design of Space Apps when it first started, the global
organization shares many of our core values, meaning that if you enjoy
Space Apps in one location one year, you will probably enjoy it at other
locations in other years just as much.
We hope that you will say YES and that we can hack space with you and the
9000 or so Space Apps hackers around the world and on the ISS this year.
Please let us know your answer by February 11, so that if you are not able
to host us, we will still have plenty of time to find another location.
Thank you!
--
Lisha Sterling
Executive Director, Geeks Without Bounds <http://geekswobounds.org/>
telephone: 425-610-8636 hangouts: lisha(a)gwob.org
schedule a meeting with me <http://doodle.com/lishevita>
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Soenke <soenkeveirls(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok.
> For the record...
> If this is how you all are going to conduct ourselves, and treat each other,
> I don't really want to be a part of it anymore.
> This is absurd.
> I thought we were trying to be better people here.
> But I suppose I was wrong.
>
> Extremely sarcastically, I apologize for speaking up.
>
> Have a good weekend everyone.
Hey Korl, with nothing but respect, I was just trying to express
solidarity with Ryan without making it about you. To me this is about
having a safe space where people aren't assaulted or misgendered.
There is nothing personal against you here. I hope you can learn to
see that.
Sudoroom's values that we agreed on way back in 2011 include "safe
space over ideology". Omni's values clearly say that we center the
perspectives and prioritize the needs of survivors of assault, and of
trans people struggling against transphobia. Our safer space policy
says that we "prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged
people’s comfort."
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Associationhttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/Statement_of_Solidarityhttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy
I think the best thing our community can do right now is show support
for Ryan in this moment. I'm sad that we are getting distracted by
other things. Policy details have their place, but not if it just
multiplies the trauma of assault with the additional trauma of not
being fully and unambiguously supported by your community when it
happens.
At the risk of continuing a heated thread, I must repeat this: I don't
find Ryan's tone offensive our uncalled for. Ryan is speaking from a
place of vulnerability and immediate experience, and I would ask
others who are coming to this from a place of distance, abstraction
and polite discourse to please have more humility, compassion and
forgiveness towards a recent survivor of assault and of multiple axes
of oppression at Omni.
Just two days ago Ryan hosted an "empathetic listening circle" at
Omni. The idea was to be a place for people to open their hearts and
hear each others' raw words. Just listen. Without immediately replying
with advice, redirection, or contradiction. He hosted this because he
really needs that right now, and I believe many of us direly need it
as well.
Can we please have another round of empathetic listening right now,
with priority going to immediate survivors of assault? I believe that
is the key to continuing this conversation respectfully without
shutting it down entirely. Thank you.