sudo-discuss April 2015

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by Sarah Pritchard

Hi friends, Hopefully some of you have received invoices for April rent and March shared expenses at the Omni. You may have noticed that we've switched our invoicing software over to Quickbooks. Their credit card processing fees are much lower than Wave's (our previous software), so we're able to save the Omni a little bit of $$. Yay! If you haven't yet received your rent and shared expense invoices, check your spam folders! I noticed that emails from Quickbooks get delivered to the "promotions" tab on my gmail account. You should still be able to pay your invoices with a credit card, but let me know if you have any trouble. This is the first round of invoices we've sent using Quickbooks so there may be a few glitches to work out. Please pay your invoices as soon as you're able and let the finances working group know if you will be late in paying them or if you have any questions. Thanks and <3, SP + Finances WG

11 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] 4/6 Dry walling

by Jenny Ryan

Thank you Joe for spearheading this important work! I'll be over in the early afternoon to help and will try to convince a friend to join me :) Cc'ing sudo-discuss. On Apr 5, 2015 4:00 PM, "joseph liesner" <blue393(a)lmi.net> wrote: > I don't see us as being ready to begin hanging dry wall on the > west end of the las Commune space. I have proposed that we > clear thespace on and surrounding that wall tomorrow 4/6. I > will have a small toyota pickup but need 2-3 workers. > Do I see a hand in the back there? > LMK > joe > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss > >

11 years, 2 months

donations

by Jake

yesterday i brought a bunch of stuff donated to sudoroom, including a really nice large workbench (blue, with a tool hanging rack, it only made it to La Commune so hopefully people can get it to sudo somehow...) there were three decent 64bit desktop computers, and also... a dot-matrix printer!!! a Panasonic KX-P1180: http://www.orgprint.com/imaged/O/OtODmJjWMS_9758_preview_465_240.jpg it's made for tractor-feed paper. they were using it to make wire labels, and i got some wire-label paper if we need that. But i think we should use it to print out THE IRC CHANNEL... LIVE or the TWITTER FEED... live. Since tractor-feed paper is a continuous feed, we can just print it like a continuous scroll, and always have a paper record. i dunno, maybe it's a dumb idea. maybe we should just trash it. does anyone have a box of tractor-feed paper? http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/137608/115044349/stock… http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2013/07/tractor-feed-printer-66…

11 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] International Space Apps Challenge @ Omni

by Ryan

I don't think I have the physical ability right now to facilitate the event, but I'd really like to see it happen. I'm adding in sudo discuss on this because there might be folks willing to do it! Sudoers! This hackathon needs someone to facilitate the weekend and it is a paying gig with training provided. If we'd like to have Oakland be a part of this global hackathon, we'll need to come up with someone to do so! On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Lisha Sterling <lisha(a)geekswobounds.org> wrote: > Hello all! > > As you've already heard, Lindsay has bowed out of facilitating the > International Space Apps Challenge because she's just gotten another job > and there are only so many things she can pile on top of herself (new move > to a new state, new job, other life stuff). > > I've been looking for another person to facilitate the event, considering > that we've already gotten you guys involved and I don't want to just leave > it to fall apart. So far, no one I've spoken to has been available. I was > hoping that someone in Sudoroom might be interested in running the event, > and Lindsay sent out an email to that effect, but no one responded. > > So, I'm VERY sorry to have to put this on you, but now we have to make a > decision. Do we go forward? Or do we cancel? > > If there is someone in the community who is willing to facilitate the > weekend, I'm willing to pay them for doing that. I'm also able to give > training, point the facilitator to videos, articles and other resources, > and generally support that person in feeling confident in running the > weekend. I simply can't do it myself, because I will be in Greensboro, NC > running the same event there. > > What say you, sudoers? Is there someone who would like to take the event > facilitation role on? Or shall we contact the global coordinators and > apologetically pull out of the event? > > > -- > 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> >

11 years, 2 months

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by Rachel Wolfsohn

11 years, 2 months

thank you xoxo

by David Keenan

Hello all you lovely humans, I hereby - Resign as board 'president' of Omni Oakland Commons. - Rescind entirely my various omni-related memberships to: Bay Area Public School, Sudo Room, and Black Hole Collective Lab. - Will unsubscribe from all omni-related mailing lists immediately following this email - I spent a substantial amount of of my life the last couple years working on, and getting other folks to believe in, this project. But as all things must end at some point, it is now time for me to bid thee all a fond farewell. I love you all, and give the greatest thanks imaginable to all the untold hours, days and years of work put into making this dream real. Nothing but love - good night David

11 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-sys] Gratipay Payout and Internet Archive Federal Credit Union deposit issue

by yar

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We had some issues getting Gratipay (our donation service provider at > https://gratipay.com/sudoroom) to work with their payment processing > Balanced Payments to make successful payouts (transactions) to our bank > account with IAFCU, the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, aka the > Internet Credit Union. > > Now, the issues should be resolved. I am waiting to see the credit appear in > our IAFCU account records, but I got confirmation that Gratipay successfully > transacted the payout today via Balanced Payments. Wow. THANK YOU SO MUCH for fixing this.

11 years, 2 months

Gratipay Payout and Internet Archive Federal Credit Union deposit issue

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, We had some issues getting Gratipay (our donation service provider at https://gratipay.com/sudoroom) to work with their payment processing Balanced Payments to make successful payouts (transactions) to our bank account with IAFCU, the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, aka the Internet Credit Union. Now, the issues should be resolved. I am waiting to see the credit appear in our IAFCU account records, but I got confirmation that Gratipay successfully transacted the payout today via Balanced Payments. These were the primary issues, which took substantial digging to figure out: 1. There seem to be some federal regulations that required our credit union to explicitly post payments to either our savings or our checking account, without ambiguity. This is done by adding a suffix to our account number for any given transaction, i.e. add "000" to correspond to our savings account. 2. However, also, when this suffix is appended to our account number, there must also be a matching value that corresponds to "savings" or "checking" called a "TRANS code". Unfortunately, gratipay did not expose this value option in their interface, despite it being supported by Balanced Payments's API. We should now have the correct suffix and the correct TRANS code that matches to deposit gratipay payouts to our savings account at IAFCU. Whew. // Matt

11 years, 2 months

Bubble

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Anyone else notice that the NASDAQ Composite Index has about reached the nominal peak of the dotcom boom? It's not at the real value peak (i.e. adjusted for inflation), but still pretty peakish: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=COMP&instty… It seems to me that additional market forces caused by the likes of a crisis in student debt or perhaps a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, could hasten the inevitable burst. Otherwise we may be looking at just a few years before a substantial fall in the stock market, devaluation of over-inflated "tech" companies, subsided startup investment, decrease in technology field employment, or other similar things... What might one do to prepare, as if not soon, at least inevitably there will be some stock market crash that will largely affect the wide bay area economy? // Matt

11 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Arduino Bootloader on the ESP8266

by Jake

that's totally excellent. I have two of those but i haven't had a chance to play with them yet. perhaps there needs to be another hacknight at sudoroom, called software hacking thursdays or something like that? since this would technically be software since the hardware is already put together... but who would host a Software Hacking Thursdays at sudoroom every week? do you have one yet? what would you do with it? i still haven't had a chance to play with openWRT and the zillions of compatible routers i have piles of. They run on a wide range of voltage (built-in buck converter) and they run linux, they have a TTL serial port and a few GPIOs.. what can't you do with them? -jake On Thursday Adam wrote: Someone managed to cram the arduino bootloader on the ESP8266 https://makezine.com/2015/04/01/esp8266-5-microcontroller-wi-fi-now-arduino… Yup. $3 wifi arduino. $1.50 in aliexpress bulk. So who's going to wifi-mesh all of oakland? --- Aperture Systems: Redefining Radiography - http://aperture.systems/ http://adammunich.com/ - Cell: +1-650-452-0554 Be • knowledgeable • social • patient • fearless • compassionate • fun • humble • forgiving. Be a leader

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