sudo-discuss May 2016

sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org

23 participants
38 discussions

by Pete Forsyth

All: You're invited to the second monthly Bay Area WikiSalon, this Wednesday evening at 6pm at the Wikimedia Foundation (downtown SF). It's an opportunity to talk wiki, in all senses...Wikipedia, local wikis, Sudo wiki; social, technical, etc. Sometimes we have a formal presentation, but not this month. There might be discussion of pending California legislation to apply copyright to works of the state government, about various tecnical and social projects in the Wikipedia world, etc. All … [View More]

9 years

Fwd: The Omni Commoner, May 2016 Edition!

by Jenny Ryan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Omni Commons <announce(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Date: Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:28 PM Subject: The Omni Commoner, May 2016 Edition! To: announce(a)lists.omnicommons.org The Omni Commoner *Issue 2, May 2016* *omnicommons.org* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> The Omni Commons currently hosts a dozen collectives committed to the mission of equity and community. We’re actively recruiting new … [View More]

9 years

Perhaps there are things sudo could use? Fwd:, right now! Huge Garage Sale, Berkeley 9am-2pm (Sat 5/22)

by Lesley Bell

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: uhjai <2014(a)atothet.com> Date: Sun, May 22, 2016, 11:52 AM Subject: [villagecraft] right now! Huge Garage Sale, Berkeley 9am-2pm (Sat 5/22) To: <villagecraft-bayarea(a)list.villagecraft.org> Hey friends! My friends coop house is being shutdown and everything must go, even free, please come through! And if you have better alternative suggestions to goodwill we'd love to hear!Much love, Ajay ---------- Mensaje reenviado ---------- De: *… [View More]

9 years

Keeping Your Membership Status

by Jenny Ryan

$540.24 in the bank with $2798 due in 3 weeks. Sudo Room supports the Omni Commons project financially by providing over 15% of its monthly income. Your donations support not just sudo room, but also meeting space for over a dozen activist projects in the bay area as well as event space for innumerable social justice, artistic, scientific, and cultural endeavors. We are thisclose to buying the building, reducing our costs, and keeping the Omni alive as a community space for decades to come. *… [View More]

9 years

Fwd: Donation through PayPal Giving Fund

by Matt Senate

Hmm, this seems like a good way to get around Paypal fees, no? // Matt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mitar <mitar(a)tnode.com> Date: Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:10 PM Subject: Donation through PayPal Giving Fund To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com > Hi! I wonder, I have not found you among possible recipients of PayPal Giving Fund: https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/ I think it would be great because then I could … [View More]

9 years

Re: [sudo-discuss] entrepreneurial use of non-profit

by robb

thanks for the responses. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: > > Yes but you could block their membership within the four week period. > i don't see any legitimate grounds for blocking. i'm still confused a bit how a for-profit startup's office space rental is a tax exempt donation but there are a great number of mysteries in the universe & i'm ok w/that.

9 years

vending machine webapp!

by Jake

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Marc Juul wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > Is anyone going to work on a web app for the vending machine, so people can pay for things coming out of it? > > You mean this one? > > https://github.com/sudoroom/hack-o-mat-webapp > > Yeah I'll try to get it to a working state this weekend. I've been testing the latest Amazon Fire $40 tablet and I'm really impressed with it so I'm going to mount one … [View More]

9 years, 1 month

tiny oscilloscope / logic analyzer / signal generator

by Jake

yesterday we received a donation of a box of cool hacking gear, including arduino shields and servo motors and breadboards and stuff. among the stuff was a Gabotronics XMEGA Xprotolab, a tiny oscilloscope with a lot of functions!!!!! it's the coolest thing ever. http://www.gabotronics.com/development-boards/xmega-xprotolab.htm it's presently hanging on the electronics workbench in its bag, and the bag has a stuff.sudo sticker on it that links to https://sudoroom.org/wiki/O:305 I look … [View More]

9 years, 1 month

giant laser for the robot

by Jake

we got a giant laser for the robot. This will allow it to cut things precisely for us, even if they're really large. of course to do this we'll have a safety interlock to prevent use by untrained people, and we'll have a safety curtain or folding wall to deploy around the robot while the laser is enabled, so nobody can accidentally see the light coming from it. I don't know the wavelength of the laser, but it's a giant laser diode array with a lens on the end, and it has a water cooling … [View More]

9 years, 1 month

vending machine is working!

by Jake

as I said in February, the vending machine is basically at operational status: https://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2016-February/011770.html and as I said in April, I now know how we will perfect the motor homing issue: https://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2016-April/011894.html but for now, it works well enough that I was able to dispense one of the candy bars in the machine without cheating and opening up the machine. I didn't even need to power cycle it, the beaglebone … [View More]

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sudo-discuss May 2016