I've shared an item with you:
Omni Pre-Inspection Tasks By Room
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oGPOLpvot90UD7ne5zGVWwL-hYMYmaO_wKm…
It's not an attachment -- it's stored online. To open this item, just click
the link above.
This is a multi-sheet spreadsheet doc listing all the tasks we need to
complete before we can pass our inspections - what David put together, but
split up by room.
These sheets are also physically printed and taped up in the following
areas:
* La Commune: Next to ADA bathroom
* Ballroom: Next to chandelier lights
* Ticket Booth Room: On the door
* Crow's Nest: on the inner OpAl door to the crow's nest
* Sudo / CCL: On the west side of the yellow locker in the middle of the
room
* Rise Above: To the left of the sliding doors
* Basement: Below the lights to the basement
* TIL: Above the little mailbox outside the door to the office
* Cafe Balcony: On the eastern refrigerator
* Disco Room: Below the lights to the room
Please do take on a project if you meet the requisite skill level, then
cross off things once complete. Even better, send an update to
building(a)lists.omnicommons.org - we meet every Monday at 8pm. We are
particularly in need of folks experienced with carpentry and electrical.
Primary projects right now are continuing the ballroom south wall
soundproofing (primarily hanging sheetrock) and installing firesafe and
accessible door closers and panic bars. Ping the building list if you'd
like to help out!
<3jenny
Hellos,
For those working by the 3D working area here a few notes.
1) For your convenience and to help to clear up some of the extra cables in
the vicinity a 16 port switch has been installed under the 3D Printer
table.
2) All the extra network cables removed from the 3D printing area are now
in the Server area, if you need them.
3) The red and black color electrical cable that was feeding power from the
basement has been relocated. Now the power is coming from the Server Area;
but this should be considered a TEMPORARY solution, since it should be
better to have a formal electrical outlet instead.
Thank you Sierk (he is not in this list yet), for helping; very appreciated
it.
Daniel
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Join fellow bio-artists and makers for an afternoon of science nerd arts &
crafts at Counter Culture Labs
<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/222476592/>. We'll have
some pigmented bacteria and Petri dishes to get creative with, spare lab
plastic and glassware to attack with a glue gun, clear resin to embed
things into, and much more. No prior experience required, but make sure to
bring your creativity!
Come get that whole left-brain/right-brain in a twist. Let's generate and
exchange ideas as we begin to create a bio-art community in the East Bay.
Feel free to bring some extra materials and snacks for yourself and/or to
share.
Check out the fun we had last time we did a Bio+Art session
<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/photos/19759082/>!
Co-hosted by scientist/maker Jun Axup from SciCouture
<http://scicouture.com/>, and local artist Tracy Jacobs from FunkyAutomata
<http://funkyautomata.com/>.
Possible projects include building virus models from laboratory materials,
playing with optics, making Petri dish necklaces, and more...
Please register through our Meetup page
<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/222476592/>, so we know
how many people to expect.
Patrik
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Adam Munich <adam(a)aperture.systems> wrote:
>> Instead of arguing, could we instead *be thankful* that google is willing to sponsor healthcare innovation, and not distributing the cash as dividends to their shareholders like most of corporate america?
To me this just sounds like: "You can't criticize anything I do,
because I'm rich".
In theory, inviting shitty things to Sudo & Omni gives us a big
opportunity to challenge them. But doing that without just getting
co-opted would take a lot of work and struggle and I don't know if we
have the resources for that right now, let alone the risk of failing
to challenge them enough and just being complicit. Also, if we
specifically reject this event and tell them exactly why, and what
kind of things we'd like to see from them in the future, that's also a
way to influence them. If they're really well meaning, they'd listen
and take it to heart. But if all they really care about is money and
prestige, then they'll just smile and move on and we didn't waste all
our time and energy. Not holding my breath, personally.
hey sudoroom & noisebridge
an artist friend of mine and a founder of a mycology (mushrooms as
material) company is also a really cool person!
She's doing this pride weekend performance event Saturday at Lake Merritt
in oakland.
I think this would be appropriate for the sudoroom & noisebridge crew
LET'S KEEP THE BAY AREA WEIRD!
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Hi friends & accomplices,
you're receiving this personal invitation because you are:
1) awesome & experimental & not afraid of weirdness
2) are fond of me, Chani Bockwinkel, Caroline Alexander, Sappho, Kate Bush,
Ciara, and/or any number of other contemporary and historical goddesses.
hehe.
2) live in the east bay or are not easy bay-averse
3) will forgive me for this because we all love each other and you know the
drill:
SF Chronicle has decided to cover Heavy Breathing
<http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/fitness-for-your-brain/Content?oid=43…>,
the summer conceptual fitness series i co-programmed, for the front page of
their upcoming Datebook section. They're sending a journalist and
photographer to our next session, THIS SATURDAY, and we'd love a strong
showing of friends + participants for the occasion. Please come support!! :)
Saturday's session is a one-hour weirdo fitness experience under the
direction of Chani Bockwinkel and Caroline Alexander, that will involve
stretching + dance-aerobic-type exercises inspired by the new work they
have been developing around Sappho and Sapphic poetry + an awesome
soundtrack featuring Kate Bush + Ciara + others. More details (from fbook
invite):
Get Sapphic on Pride Saturday with Chani Bockwinkel & Caroline Alexander!!!
WHEN: Saturday, June 27, 11:30am - 12:30pm
WHERE: Lake Merritt / Edoff Memorial Bandstand
666 Bellevue Avenue, Lake Merritt, Oakland
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Lake_Merritt_Bandstand
RSVP & QUESTIONS: heavyheavybreathing(a)gmail.com
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION: Imagine somatics + Kate Bush + Ciara: we'll get sweaty and
circular, moving our A$$ muscles and feeling our insides together. Read at
least one passage of Sappho (your choice; see resources below), and come
ready to project yourself into history while invoking ancient greek women
and contemporary goddesses.
Wear gym shoes and an outfit that brings out your deep femme/tough exercise
queen.
RESOURCES:
Anne Carson's "If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho":
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82932076/Anne-Carson-Sappho-If-Not-Winter#scribd
Poetry Foundation's Sappho resources: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
bio/sappho#poet
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fbio%2…>
Poets.org
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FPoets.org%2F&h=2AQGtm8H6&enc=AZO…>
Sappho
resources: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sappho
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org%2Fpoetsorg%2Fpoet%…>
Poems of Sappho (Julia Dubnoff, trans.): http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/
texts/sappho.html
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uh.edu%2F%7Ecldue%2Ftexts%2F…>
THANK YOU!!!!
xoxo
Sophia
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From: "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2015 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: SELC Legal Cafe @ Omni, June 25th!
To: <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Cc:
Tonight! Starting at 5:30. Come by and let's brainstorm legal structures
for buying the building and sustaining for the long haul as a cooperative
community!
On Jun 10, 2015 11:23 AM, "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> A reminder to RSVP <http://www.theselc.org/omni_legal_cafe> to the
> Sustainable Economies Law Center's legal cafe at the Omni on June 25th -
> free legal advice for your collective or sustainable enterprise from a
> bunch of rad attorneys and attorneys-in-collective/autodidactical-training:
>
> http://www.theselc.org/omni_legal_cafe
>
> Jenny
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> Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California!
> https://omnicommons.org/donate
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> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
> -Laurie Anderson
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> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
> -Hannah Arendt
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> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
> -Stéphane Mallarmé
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Friends,
>>
>> Last week, we hosted the Sustainable Economies Law Center's membership
>> bash in the Disco Room. In exchange, they will be hosting a Resilient
>> Economies Legal Cafe at the Omni on June 25th!
>>
>> The SELC is a group of rad lawyers who work on local policy change on
>> topics such as cottage food laws, cooperative business structure, and
>> alternative currencies. In addition, they also provide mentorship and
>> co-learning fellowships for folks to pass the California bar and become
>> lawyers without having to go to law school for an expensive degree. They
>> are super awesome and I'm so stoked that they're down to help support this
>> crazy project!
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>> Please RSVP for a slot at the following link:
>> http://www.theselc.org/omni_legal_cafe
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>
I'm no longer in town but I have something to say.
I think this is a good opportunity to explore. I hear your concerns about
their approach, Ryan. I am particularly irked by the inspirational music in
the video. *shudders*
That said, I would love to take this opportunity to transmit our collective
concerns and critiques to them...call it "hacking their framing". :]
Whether one likes it or not, these folks have a lot of power in shaping
popular technology development and understandings into the future. While we
may not revolutionize Google, we can at least encourage them to do their
bidding in a way that is a little less evil.
I'm happy that they're directly reaching out to hackerspaces, which means
they may take notes. I'm also happy that they're reaching out to us because
our social ecosystem is quite a bit more diverse than theirs and therefore
has more potential for wisdom (I wonder, have they reached out to
Mothership or LOL?). The tech industry (or any business that requires a
steep social capital (whiteness, maleness, ability to work 40+ hours/week,
etc.) in order to have a better (or any) chance at getting employed), after
all, is largely ableist and culturally stagnant. Please excuse my nesting.