Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
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Invoice # : 1378
Invoice Date: 05/01/2018
Due Date: 05/25/2018
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $2,000.00
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Remember - our big Microscope Hackathon at the Omni, in collaboration with
the Center for Cellular Construction is *tomorrow*, 10am - 6pm!
This is a free event, but please RSVP here
<https://www.tfaforms.com/4660910>to reserve a spot.
We expect to have 50+ people of all different skill levels hacking on
microscope hardware throughout the building, working on projects as simple
as paper Foldscope <https://www.foldscope.com/>kits, to gear as
sophisticated as the STED super-resolution microscope we inherited from
BioCurious.
Feel free to bring your own scope if you have one, or bring some samples to
look at. Or just bring some old webcams you don't need anymore, and we'll
turn them into a microscope!
Does anyone have a large picnic cooler that we could borrow for a day or
two, tomorrow to Thursday? The larger and well-insulated the better. Please
let us know as soon as possible, because we'll need them by tomorrow (Wed.)
evening
We are going to defrost our ultracold -80C freezer in CCL, so we plan to
move all its content to some big coolers with dry ice in the mean time. We
don't have anything hazardous in the freezer, plus everything is well
packaged, and we will clean and bleach your cooler before and after we use
it, so you should be getting it back cleaner than when you gave it to us.
If you have one available, please contact me or Yann (CC'd), and let us
know if you can drop it off, or where we can pick it up. We plan to start
emptying the freezer the Wednesday evening, and fill it back up again the
next day.
Thanks!
Patrik
This date has been set forth far in advance to plan accordingly.
Starting at: 2:00pm
Goals to accomplish:
a) Get enough knowledgeable community members together do discuss what
really should really go (provides no value and has been taking up space
usable space).
b) Set up a dump run procurement area.
c) Clean Accordingly.
d) Organize all of the stuff that hasn't been touched or even looked at in
months to years.
e)Minimize on duplications (Massive amounts of the same thing (such as
computer power supplies-we have 40-50).
f)Whatever else people think of.
I'll be there.
Robert Albert Young Chu
P::415-724-0425
E:: robert.chu01(a)gmail.com
re: cafe in front entrance
The proposal was brought up last week as something being voted on by
delegates. Couldn’t find it in the omni lists nor on these lists. Where can
I find the proposal? I want our collective to have a voice on the matter,
maybe we can get a discussion going (or point me to where one is already
happening?)
thanks
--
Corey | @stackptr
Open meeting this Wednesday, April 18th at 6:30pm @ Faith Presbyterian
Church (430 49th St) on the future of the Kasper's plaza.
Temescal BID has a facebook event with a post of a preliminary idea/sketch:
https://www.facebook.com/events/160773017972043/permalink/168168100565868/
I can't make it as I'm leaving town again tomorrow, but I hope some folks
in our communities can. Spread the word to our neighbors on the streets?
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
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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
"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
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Hello list,
Following last night's meeting I’ve gone ahead and updated the wiki with
the amended rules proposed by yar from the March 14th meeting. I was not
present at that particular meeting but chatted with yar earlier to make
sure I understood the proposal.
I encourage you all to read the revised Membership page
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership> and fill in any gaps.
Also please join the [sudo-members] list, where new member nominations will
happen and be discussed separate from this list. The Declaration to Intent
form on sudoroom.org should now be sending emails there as well.
--
Corey | @stackptr
Anyone wants to do this (maybe delicious) ready to eat food pick up?
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From: Shannon Mason <shannom(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:28 PM
Subject: Donations for pickup
To: Toan Nguyen <Guqinone(a)gmail.com>
Hi! my friend's office has well-packaged catered food left over most weeks.
I've been picking up donations but will be moving outta town after this
weekend. It's usually 6-15 servings, meat separate from other offerings,
some packages of rice, some bags of veggies.
Would you know someone who can commit to pick up from downtown Oakland—16th
St & Telegraph—on Fridays between 5 and 5:15 PM? Brittney’s phone number is
(510)684-0170.
Thanks,
Shannon
If at some point in the future Omni decides to re-donate those tools,
would that be a problem for ABCD? If the answer to that question is yes
then I think the correct word is "storage" not "donation."
Generally the less the basement is used as storage space the better and
we would all love to see better utilization of the basement in any way
valuable to the community.
On that topic I would love to consolidate woodworking equipment and wood
from elsewhere in the omni to the basement (with proper fire safety
provisions) and have a dedicated woodshop there serving the whole Omni
as well, only tying this in here because I hope there would be room for
both. We turned away alot of really great organizations toward the
beginning of the Omni because we didn't want to "balkanize" (DK's words)
the basement but I fear that has blunted alot of energy to transform the
space and sent collectives to other spots.
As with past such requests a floorplan showing proposed areas and
equipment would better help the member collectives make an informed
decision.
On 2018-04-12 09:26, Kazoo Studios wrote:
> Hello Commoners,
>
> As some of you know, ABDC has been having trouble paying rent since
> the fall. We are currently behind on 4 months rent. This is due to
> many Coop members leaving, and a shift in direction in the core
> remaining: Lynsie, Kazoo, Tonia.
>
> We have an opportunity to move into a store front where we would join
> other radical screen printers and have a public facing, wheelchair
> accessible space which we have wanted all along. The new space is much
> bigger, cheaper, and offers us an opportunity to interact with the
> public, not only by appointment.
>
> Therefore, as Kazoo mentioned at a meeting in February, we would like
> to propose that ABDC set up a Utility Print Station in the (currently
> cluttered and under-utilized) basement space. Our proposal is to
> create greater access to the tools for printing for anyone who is
> interested, and run an training for newbies every other month. At this
> point we have trained several Phat Beets members as well as several
> Omni Commoners in the basics of screen printing. There are two screen
> printers who have recently asked to join the Coop and we would like to
> include them in this transition so that they might help facilitate the
> new basement space. We would like to give them, and everyone at Omni
> the opportunity to take up leadership in using and maintaining the
> studio in the basement.
>
> As we see it, Omni needs a screen printing space. All the collectives
> want things printed, and it’s great to be able to do it in house. We
> as a collective are not able (given all of our full-time jobs and
> other obligations) to be as available as folks would like us to be.
> Therefore, we would like to propose an open printing studio in the
> basement with a locked supply closet that Omni members who have done a
> training with us can have access too. Both Bria and Samuel (Phat
> Beets) have trained with us enough to have keys to the closet. Also,
> Marcus (former ABDC) Almaz, Jose, Daveron (former ABDC), Anka, and
> we’re sure there are other people we’re forgetting, are already
> capable enough with screen printing to have keys to the supply closet.
>
> We would like to make this transition in May.
>
> This transition allows the Ticket Booth room to be rented to someone
> else bringing in valuable rent, and for the basement to become more
> vital. To be clear, we, ABDC, will not be paying rent. Our proposal is
> to leave our tools as a donation to the commons so that printing may
> continue without us. We are happy to offer trainings every-other month
> in order to help interested Omni members gain skill to fully take-over
> maintainence of the Utility Print Studio.
>
> Please share with your collectives so that we may vote on it next
> meeting!
>
> Thank you all for your dedication to collective process,
> ABDC
> www.abdc.work
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