Hey sudoers,
Last week I met with the Safer DIY Spaces group, which the delegates
approved to provisionally fiscally sponsor under a grant-making model back
in December. At the Delegate's Meeting on Thursday, there was consensus to
provisionally approve the proposal, with full approval pending some time to
check in with the individual collectives.
They have been doing incredible work (providing consulting and walkthroughs
for dozens of spaces in danger as well as participating in shaping future
code compliance policies at the city-wide level) and have many more spaces
they're still working on. However, the grant-making model of fiscal
sponsorship has been rather unwieldy (they need to submit a grant request
to allocate their own funds, which Finance then signs off on, then Finance
has to write checks out to them, etc etc).
This proposal is to fully fiscally sponsor Safer DIY Spaces as a
project-based model, enabling them to write checks and make debit card
purchases from their own subaccount (which is where their funds have
already been going).
This was the proposal Laura sent to Consensus on Dec. 14th, which is being
modified to provide sponsorship under a project-based rather than
grant-based model with an adjusted admin fee of 5% (which is the same fee
we charge Real Vegan Cheese):
https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2016-December/000984.html
The above-linked proposal contains more info about the project, its
mission, activities, origin story and organizing structure. They have been
meeting weekly at Omni since December.
Check signers on this account are to be Isaac Amala and Sinuba Dreem.
This sponsorship agreement would be applicable retroactively to April 1st,
2017 with an admin fee of 5% (same as Real Vegan Cheese).
If we could pass this at the next Delegate's Meeting on May 4th, that would
be wonderful and enable them to access their own funds in a more timely
fashion, as much of their work is time-sensitive (eg prepping spaces for
surprise inspections, life-safety improvements, etc)
If you have any further questions, the DIY group can be reached at:
saferdiyspaces [AT] gmail [DOT] com (cc'd)
Jenny
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i'm looking for a decent modern laptop with a screen resolution greater than
1400x900, which has a decent backlight and good keyboard and touchpad. Ideally
it's pretty cheap.
I can't figure out what brand to get because apparently both lenovo and dell
cant make a decent keyboard, and apples are generally way too expensive for me.
please consider replying off-list to avoid clogging peoples' inboxes!
thank you,
-jake
Need them to get the old HPLC working.
One is a weird assymetric 6-pin RJ11 derivative. Even knowing its name
would be useful.
For the RS232 cable we need normal DB9 at the other end.
For the IEEE 488 cable we need male on both ends.
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marc/juul
Thanks to Will we now have a backup connection active!
The ISP service person could not solve the problem and will come back
tomorrow to continue his attempt.
--
marc/juul
We spent some time troubleshooting today and we had to conclude that the
problem is not with any of our gear or wiring. Either the new modem is also
not working or the wiring is messed up outside of Omni (possibly the fault
of the construction across the street) or the equipment at AT&T / LMI (our
ISP) is messed up.
This will likely take days to fix so we are trying to arrange for a backup
internet connection tomorrow. We will likely have some form of internet
tomorrow evening.
Technical details:
The new modem lit up one of its two DSL connection lights, meaning that one
of the two phone lines connected. It then lit up its Internet light which I
believe means that it has an IP layer link to something at the other end.
Connecting directly to the modem gives an IP via DHCP and I can ping the
modem, but trying to reach the outside world fails. traceroute fails with
the statically assigned external IP of the modem (which is stored in the
modem's flash memory). LMI did not give us the admin password to the modem
(grrr) and don't have 24/7 support. We attempted a factory reset, which
reset _something_ since it lost memory of its external IP and the Internet
light stopped coming on, but did not reset the admin password to the
factory default (at least as specified in the manual). After an attempted
factory reset again only one of the DSL lights came on. We then went to the
box where the phone lines come into our building (in the phat beats room)
and tied in a new, short, connection directly to the box and connected the
modem. Again the same behaviour: Only the DSL1 line lit up.
As I write this email I'm realizing that since I didn't disconnect the
existing phone cables running from the phone-line connection box in the
phat beats room and to the server room, if that cable has been half-chewed
over by critters then it might be creating a short which wouldn't be
remedied by simply adding a new connection on top :/
I'll do another test where I untie the existing connection first. Assuming
it still fails I will call our ISP tomorrow.
Will from the mesh group should have an unlimited 4G modem waiting for him
in his PO box which he will lend to Omni after he comes home from work
tomorrow and we will hook it up so we can have some amount of internet
until it's all sorted out.
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marc/juul
I can't physically be there but seeing complains that the internet is
down at Omni. I can't remotely access any machines there. Is anybody
able to go check? Thanks.
Hey sudo,
Up for omni consensus, a proposal to lock the Classroom (the room between
the entrance hall and the ballroom along shattuck) up for consenso at the
next delegates meeting on May 3rd.
I am wary to say yes as GCEA is currently 5 months behind on rent ($250/mo)
and part of the rationale was that "every other collective has locked
rooms". Also, i have not seen any attempt made to store project items in a
locked cabinet, and the group was effectively not present in the building
from January through March. Finally, Global Womens Strike and Chiapas
Support Committee, who have been members much longer, would like a room of
their own and have never been late on rent ($564 and $200, respectively) or
gone inactive from delegates meetings.
This is the proposal and those are my thoughts. Plz discuss.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Laura Turiano" <scylla(a)riseup.net>
Date: Apr 20, 2017 4:27 PM
Subject: [omni-consensus] GCEA proposal
To: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Cc:
Proposal from GCEA for 4/20/17:
>
> We are in the process of renegotiating our lease. One of our concerns is
> that the room we have been using (the classroom behind the children’s
> room) is not secure. We agreed to try using the room without a lock, but
> multiple items have been stolen including activity folders with personal
> information, chargers, books, art supplies and a stapler. We intend to
> use the room to hold documents, a laptop, projectors, children activity
> folders and other valuables.
>
> Our proposal is to add a lock with a code to the doors to the room.
> Anyone who wants to use the room when it is free can get the code from
> us. We have discussed this with BAPS and they are in agreement with this
> arrangement.
>
> We appreciate your attention to this request.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Almaz
>
>
>
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Hey Cere, everyone - I'm happily back from Budapest. Saw some great stuff
there, didn't realize that it's where Tesla started his career as an
electrical engineer after a series of fleeing gambling debts and dropping
out of school. =D
I've been messing around with various (non open source) animation programs.
It would be cool to do a jam around a cartoon for SudoRoom and/or Count
Culture Labs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHg_PLGXUC0
I have Moho Pro /Anime Studio and MotionArtist, which spits out HTML5
clickable comics. If anyone is interested it'd be cool. It'd also be cool
tot hook any of these animation projects into some kind of hardware
display, nam jun paik or bill viola style:
http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/flashback-story-behind-nam-june-paiks-digi…
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
