sudo-discuss March 2017

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Build Your Own Internet! workshop this Saturday, 1-4pm @ Omni Commons

by Jenny Ryan

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 the internet, how 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…> !* -- Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

7 years, 9 months

sudo room 5MoF call for speakers - April 5th

by Marc Juul

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 (when people are setting up their laptop). * 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. -- marc/juul

7 years, 9 months

Got you some pick&place component reels...

by Patrik D'haeseleer

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 getting all the boxes out of my car... Patrik

7 years, 9 months

roomba scooba charger?

by Jake

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 for 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

7 years, 9 months

Help archive free UC Berkeley lectures!

by Marc Juul

They are all going away March 15th: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ Here is their post about it: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/ Let's archive it all! You can use this script: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ The script can automatically download entire youtube playlists in one go. Just give it the url of the playlist. Let's organize who's downloading what here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/cal_webcast_archiving -- marc/juul

7 years, 9 months

Internet Society online course "Building Community Mesh Networks"

by Eve Edelson

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) [image: Inline image 1] There's an online registration form with instructions. The course is self directed but has a six week completion timeline. 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.

7 years, 9 months

I thought you would be interested about...

by danarauz＠gmail.com

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.* [image: Inline image 1] *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 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/> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

7 years, 9 months

free lockers

by Jake

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/6037047786.html

7 years, 9 months

Fwd: [CCL] Build a Biodigester Competition Kick Off

by Patrik D'haeseleer

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 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Counter Culture Labs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to counterculturelabs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

7 years, 9 months

@cere - has anyone made any immersive digital art experiences using stuff like Unity

by Romy Ilano

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 using 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? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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