sudo-discuss March 2018

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Discussion Item: Omni Table at Allied Media Conference

by Jenny Ryan

Greetings! For discussion & possible consensus at the next Omni Delegates Meeting on March 1st: I'd like to propose that Omni pay for an exhibition table ($100) at the Allied Media Conference <https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc> this summer in Detroit. I will be attending, albeit also as a representative for Sudo Mesh. For those unfamiliar with the conference, it's one of the radder ones I've heard of over the past decade - but have never attended myself. The theme is essentially the intersection of social justice and media - what AMC describes as "media-based organizing <https://www.alliedmedia.org/media-based-organizing>," defined as "any collaborative process that uses media, art, or technology to address the roots of problems and advances holistic solutions towards a more just and creative world." This is the 20th annual conf, which is always located in *Detroit*, and takes place this summer from *June 14-17*. Are any other collective members also planning to attend? Would you be interested in sharing an Omni table to display info about your projects and/or helping to staff the table for some shifts throughout the duration of the conference? *Please forward this email along to your collectives so we can assess our capacity to participate!* If there aren't a few other Omni collective members able to come and help staff the table, perhaps Omni could share Sudo Mesh's table and collectives could provide me with some of your handouts / brochures / flyers / arts / etc for display Please send a reply to me or to discuss(a)omnicommons.org if you'd like to help with organizing around AMC! <3 Jenny Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland! https://omnicommons.org/kitchen `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." --Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark" ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Let's tile up the wheelchair bathroom! weekend work party! March 3rd & 4th

by Yardena Cohen

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We've passed rough inspections, and it's time to close up the walls. I > will be there all day Saturday and Sunday March 3rd & 4th, and hope > others can make it. We may have to work around an event in the > entrance hall on Saturday, but I think we can manage. REMINDER: we are starting work now to close up the walls in the wheelchair bathroom. Today and tomorrow. Stop by if you'd like to help! Yar

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Locker for Tube Audio

by Kyle Mitchell

Might there be a locker space, or half-locker space, available to use or rent? Nick and I both tinker on old tube audio amplifiers, and would like to bring in some projects. The main items of concern are old vacuum tubes. They're fragile, and kind of a pain to replace. Best, K

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Update on Zachary RunningWolf

by Yardena Cohen

Dear friends, At last night's delegates meeting we spent over an hour talking about RunningWolf. The delegates did not make any new consensus decisions, but we did review the status quo at length and it now seems clear to me that: * Nobody is satisfied with how mediation went * Many are unsatisfied with his signed statement * Several people feel that he has personally harassed and threatened them * When I approved ZRW's key card last week, I acted too quickly * If his return had been directly proposed to delegates, several would have blocked * Many people who I value and care about feel *very* strongly that they cannot share space with ZRW, to the point where including ZRW would implicitly exclude them After hearing all these things, I decided the best thing would be to revoke his card. Julian and I went upstairs and told him. It was raining, so we didn't ask him to leave right away, but we told him that next time he left, he would not be able to get back in. We spoke for over an hour, and I tried my best to be on good terms given the circumstances. This was my first extended interaction with the man, and I understand now why his situation has been so controversial and so insidious. He talks a good talk about Berkeley politics, pollution and indigenous sovereignty, he has done real admirable work as a tree-sitter, and he is an accomplished street artist whose medicine wheels on every bike path have added joy to countless lives in our city. He is unquestionably an elder, and deserves to be treated as such. He's also a petty, self-centered, delusional liar who seems completely unable to take any criticism or undergo any of the necessary personal growth or accountability of a "restorative" or "transformative" justice process. I see a man who cannot work meaningfully with others, who's made a long career out of burning bridges, for whom Omni is just one more proxy battle in his war against masonic lodges, UC regents, and anybody else he can blame for his conflicts other than himself and his own behavior. He told me directly that he has no respect for any mediation process, and doesn't care about how anybody else feels. He plainly admitted to making threats to break our windows, and to actually doing similar acts of sabotage (such as cutting off Berkeley Liberation Radio's antenna) although he claimed he never followed through on the threat against Omni, saying "I never do just one window". He claims to speak for a Real Oakland of vigilante justice which will rise out of the woodwork to avenge him. Don't buy it. Don't let him appropriate black struggle when all it means is glorifying gang violence and throwing the N word around. Don't let him insult his own ancestors by acting a fool in their name. And most of all, don't let him distract us from all the other important work we can be doing besides enabling his abuse. I tried to give him my best, but he doesn't want it. I am done. I will no longer waste any time advocating for him to be inside Omni. I am content with this being the end of this road. With love and solidarity, Yar

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Fwd: [sudo-info] Request to use your space to shoot an interview

by Yardena Cohen

Do we want to do this? I'm not even sure who would sign their form. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:35 PM Subject: [sudo-info] Request to use your space to shoot an interview To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hello! My name is Frank and I'm a senior producer for Vox's new series of explainers for Netflix. I'm coming to San Francisco Tuesday evening to shoot an interview with Jackson Palmer, the creator of Dogecoin for our episode about cryptocurrencies early next week. I'm looking for spaces where we could shoot and Jackson suggested that I reach out to hackerspaces in the area. Sudo Room looks especially cool and I would love to shoot there! We would need Sudo Room to sign a location release allowing it to appear on Netflix, which I attached to this email for you to review. I would also need relative quiet during the shoot. I apologize about the short notice, but if these conditions don't sound to onerous, I would be thrilled to interview Jackson in such an awesome setting.

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Fwd: [sudo-info] Free Coding Classes at the Berkeley Public Library

by Yardena Cohen

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Beringhele, Dan <DBeringhele(a)cityofberkeley.info> Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:33 PM Subject: [sudo-info] Free Coding Classes at the Berkeley Public Library To: "info(a)sudoroom.org" <info(a)sudoroom.org> Hello, My name is Dan Beringhele and I’m a Librarian at the Berkeley Public Library. We are hosting a 10-week coding class here at the Central Library beginning this Saturday. I’m really reaching out because I’m amazed by the work that Sudo Room does and I’m hoping that you can help spread the word about the class. It is a beginner’s level class but I think it may have a wider appeal as well. All are welcome, no need to sign up. Just come to the Library this Saturday at 10:30 am. Feel free to reach out with any questions. https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/introduction-web-development-c… Thank you, Dan Beringhele Librarian Berkeley Public Library 2090 Kittredge St Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 981-6145

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[Noisebridge-announce] Women's Day 5MoF on March 8th! (fwd)

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:53:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Darryl McAdams <psygnisfive(a)yahoo.com> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>, NB Announce <noisebridge-announce(a)lists.noisebridge.net> Subject: [Noisebridge-announce] Women's Day 5MoF on March 8th! March 8th is Women's Day, and so we'll be hosting a special Women-speakers-only 5 Minutes of Fame at Noisebridge! If you're a woman, or know one, who wants to talk for 5 minutes about anything at all, please pass this on! The event signup page is in the usual spot: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame_2018_03_08 The Meetup event is here: https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/248304970/ I've also tweeting about it, in case you want to RT to folks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/psygnisfive/status/969262630039781377 Please spread the word! - darryl

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