Greetings,
The Peoples Open Network is hosting a skillshare / workshop this Saturday,
March 18, from 1-4pm at the Omni Commons (home of the Sudo Room
hackerspace), and we'd love for you to join us!
>From the event page
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…>
(plz rsvp so we know how many folks to expect!):
Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate
monopoly?
Come over to Omni Commons to learn about the history of …
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it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and
organizers behind peoplesopen.net: an open, community-based, network in the
East Bay.
Agenda:
1:00pm - Why/what/how of the internet (< 30 minutes)
1:30pm - Snack, mingle, share and experiment
2:00pm - Hands-on workshop with a variety of learning stations such as:
rooftop mounting techniques, ethernet cable-crimping, live node link
demoing radio propagation, q&a table & non-tech signup station for
neighborhood organizers
Donations for pizza and internet are enthusiastically accepted ; )
The Omni Commons' ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the
Entrance Hall, where there is also located a wheelchair-accessible
single-stall bathroom.
The Peoples Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net> enables anyone to share
their Internet connection or extend signal from neighboring nodes. Learn
more at peoplesopen.net.
The Omni Commons <https://omnicommons.org> is a 100% volunteer-run space
for community organizing, collaboration, and creative production located in
North Oakland. Learn more at omnicommons.org.
*BYOI Workshop *
*Omni Commons - Ballroom*
*4799 Shattuck, Oakland, California*
*Saturday 18 March 2017 1-4pm*
*RSVP at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…>
!*
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Jenny
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
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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The next sudo room 5 minutes of fame is happening on April 5th.
Add yourself to the wiki or respond to this email if you'd like to speak
for five minutes about something you're working on or excited about!
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF_2017-04-05
We really need more volunteers to help ensure that the event runs smoothly.
Last time we had more technical issues than needed.
We need:
* Someone to talk about what sudo room is and the rest of the omni during
waiting periods in between talks (…
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* Someone to set up signs guiding people from the outside of the omni to
the right area
* Someone to sit near the door and take donations (you can still see the
talks)
* Someone to help set up and clean up the snack table
* Someone to talk to speakers and ensure they have what they need (display
adapters, internet, sound, etc.) before they have to speak.
* Someone to lead a tour around sudo room and the omni during the break
* Someone to sit by the audio mixer and adjust volume as needed
Please respond to this thread or to me if you're able to help out with any
of these.
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marc/juul
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I managed to score some reels of components to feed the pick&place, at a
lab we were helping to clean out this morning.
Mostly smallish pieces; hardly any full reels. But there should be some
good diversity in there at least. I didn't count but I would guesstimate I
grabbed maybe a hundred reels or so in total. There's a whole bin full of
good quality scope probes, and some other knickknacks as well.
I'll try to drop them off before the delegates meeting tonight. Could
probably use a hand …
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Patrik
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do you, or someone you know, have a roomba scooba floor mopper robot?
my friend found a scooba in the trash and i sent it to my nephew to play with
but there was no charger, and it uses a different connector for the charger
plug and I don't know what the pinout is.
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/iRobot-Scooba-Power-Supply-AC-Adapter-Charger-Model-…
it has a DIN-5 connector like MIDI but it only uses 3 pins. There are pictures
of the charger on the web, but the label on the charger shows the pinout …
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the original barrel connector :p
i want to measure someone's scooba charger so i can send him one or something.
did you know they're eays to hack and tell them where to drive? they have a
serial port and you can just plop a small computer on top and drive it around,
looking through the webcam.
-jake
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The Internet Society offers various online courses.
The latest is "Building Community Mesh Networks" :
http://inforum.internetsociety.org/LMS/Portal.aspx?tabindex=0
The course was developed by IEEE and ISOC.
Many of the course participants are IEEE SIGHT, IEEE Smart Village and HAM
radio folks.
It is an open course but you must have a ISOC Membership login (free =>
internetsociety.org)
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There's an online registration form with instructions.
The course is self …
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Space is limited - sorry for late notice but I got a late start on it
myself.
I think after the course is over it will be left online.
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Hello Folks,
I thought that many of you may be interested about this new book:
*When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy
Oakland.*
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*Contents:*
*Chapter 1:* The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland
*Chapter 2:* From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control,
and the Governmentality of Protest
*Chapter 3:* The Oakland Commune, Police Violence and Political Opportunity
*Chapter 4:* Legitimating Repression …
[View More]Through Depoliticizing It: Federal
Coordination, “Health and Safety” & the November 2011 Occupy Evictions
*Chapter 5:* Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang
Techniques & the Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception
*Chapter 6:* The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of
Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day
*Chapter 7:* Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds that Never Grew
*Chapter 8:* Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct
You can buy here:
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/when-riot-cops-are-not-enough/978081…
Many thanks in advance for supporting writers like Mike King that are brave
to speak up for the rest of us.
Daniel
Signal: 415.336.9143 <https://whispersystems.org/>
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Not your usual Hardware Hacking! Come join us this evening in CCL for the
kickoff of our organic waste-to-energy competition.
We are planning to do a weekly hardware hack night Thursdays for teams
working on prototypes for this competition, followed by a hackathon end of
the month...
Come check it out!
Patrik
*Build a Biodigester Competition*
Sponsored by Everflux Technologies (www.everflux.tech)
Hosted by Counter Culture Labs (www.counterculturelabs.org/)
*Grand prize: $400 cash*
With …
[View More]common supplies and equipment that you can find at your local hardware
store, anyone can build their own biodigester to produce biogas for cooking
and heating from organic waste!
But what is the most efficient and cost effective design that will maximize
output, conserve space and save time? That's what we hope YOU will discover
with the Build a Biodigester Competition.
Teams of 2-4 people will have 3 weeks to design and gather supplies to
build a small biodigester. Then everyone will come together for a
*hackathon-style
weekend, March 31-April 2*, to build their biodigesters.
*Register your team here*: https://goo.gl/forms/RDIB3Pyy5UhHfKO22
*Please RSVP for the Kick-off event here: *https://www.meetup.com/C
ounter-Culture-Labs/events/237024807/
You do not have to attend the Kick-off event to participate, however
attendees will learn some key tips and tricks for building the best
biodigester and meeting the competition guidelines. You will also have an
opportunity to ask questions about the judging criteria, and get ideas for
biodigester designs and materials considerations. You don't want to miss
this!
Don't have a team? No sweat. Come to the Kick-off event and we'll find you
one.
This is an open science event; no one will claim intellectual property from
works created during the competition.
We hope to see you there,
Daniel Enking
Founder, Everflux Technologies
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Hey has anyone made an immersive digital art experience using something
like Unity?
Or is there an open source version?
I'm thinking along the lines of bill viola
Welcome to the official BILL VIOLA website
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEw…>
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEw…>I'm
sure we can do a lot of this stuff without any technology or just …
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simpler stuff on software, but you know: making a 3D immersive environment
with real materials can be costly, messy, etc.
I guess if I wanted to do something like that [a 3d funhouse!] would I have
to get to learn about projects and stuff?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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