sudo-discuss June 2018

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23 discussions

Omni Proposal: Fiscally Sponsor a grant for the North American Anarchist Studies Network

by Jenny Ryan

Greetings omninoms! Hoping we can pass this tomorrow - it's relatively low-impact wrt accounting and risk. Proposal is via Bill Budington, a longtime sudo room member and regular event organizer: This is a request for the Omni Commons to be the fiscal sponsor for the > Grassroots Infrastructure Trust ( > http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Grass/Trust/index.htm) grant, > given to the North American Anarchist Studies Network for the purpose of > funding our annual conference.… [View More]

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Invoice 1422 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thank you for stewarding the commons. Love and solidarity, Omni Commons ------------------------ Pledge Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1422 Invoice Date: 07/01/2018 Due Date: 07/25/2018 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $2,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

7 years

by Jenny Ryan

of relevance: Kasper's Plaza design survey ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Shifra de Benedictis-Kessner <info(a)temescaldistrict.org> Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 16:31 Subject: [omni-helpdesk] Take the Kasper's Plaza Design Survey! | Temescal BID hiring a Marketing & Program Assistant | Dandelion Post 3rd Anniversary Popup | Temescal Brewing 2nd Anniversary Party | Roses Taproom 1st Anniversary | 40th Street Block Party To: <info(a)omnicommons.org> <http://s.rs6.… [View More]

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Sudoroom: Secure Polling System

by Jake

i prefer that instead of setting up Loomio, we implement the first-ever instance of Secure Polling System! Blake has been working on it (Tom Levine did the first dev sprint) and it should be usable as an alpha prototype by Sudoroom within a few weeks! https://securepollingsystem.org -jake On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Sierk wrote: > I added two more discussion items to the pad (no decisions are required for > those two): > > 1. Omni Proposal-under-discussion: Omni Delegates Decision-… [View More]

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Ravers Ambitions, New Sudoroom Collaborative Project

by Robert Chu

Hello Sudoroom Community, About two months ago Ravers Ambitions was created for the sole purposes of 1. Community Building 2. Education Through Collaboration (ETC). Rave stands for Radical Audio Visual Experience; which involves many artistic, technical, disciplinary, and organizational elements. Learning these skills alone could potentially be very difficult as an individual and extremely time consuming. However that time is shortened when people come together to share skills in a community/… [View More]

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Sudo Room Meeting-Flavored Party tonight, 7/8pm

by Jenny Ryan

Greetings sudoers! A reminder that it's a second Wednesday, which means our weekly party is meeting-flavored. Two Omni proposals are on the agenda pad, which you can add to / participate remotely here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/sudomtg Perhaps food and chatting from 7-8, then do an officialish meeting? <3 Jenny Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland! https://omnicommons.org/kitchen `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around … [View More]

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Spectacular Movements screening Wednesday June 13

by Julio Rios

Omnifolk! There is a cool film showing on Wednesday in the ballroom. Unfortunately, I can't be there, but Robb will be in case you have questions. Thanks, Julio ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mateo Hinojosa <mateo(a)nativeland.org> Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 6:01 PM Subject: Re: Spectacular Movements screening The film, *Spectacular Movements* follows the young indigenous and mestizo actors of Teatro Trono in Bolivia, who stir up collective memories of the social … [View More]

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Status of SR website?

by aaronco36

Entering https://sudoroom.org gets us... 503 Service Unavailable ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Service Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) Server at sudoroom.org Port 443 Maybe Lifewire's "503 Service Unavailable How to fix a 503 Service Unavailable error" at www.lifewire.com/503-service-unavailable-explained-2622940 might help … [View More]

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Pop-up canopy tent for CCL booth at Temescal Fair this Sunday?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Hi all, Does anyone have one of those pop-up canopies that we could borrow for our CCL booth at the Temescal Street Fair this Sunday? I believe I've seen one in the basement at one point, but I don't know if it's still there, or who it belongs to... Thanks! Patrik

7 years, 1 month

Omni Media Lab: Initial Convergence

by Jenny Ryan

Let's have a meetup to discuss visions, values, and available resources to build out a community media lab in Omni's basement! Tonight, the Omni consensed on Art Bison Design Coop's move to the basement and transition to becoming a community screenprinting studio! Perhaps an ABDC member could speak to what that might entail for the basement and what would be needed wrt renovations/improvements? Afterwards, we initiated a conversation about ongoing ideas over the past many months to build out … [View More]a truly inter-collective community media lab for creating rad propaganda, zines, banners etc: * Over the past 9 months, there have been many discussions about, and a > good deal of work put into, the basement area formerly known as Material > Print Machine as a potential inter-collective media lab for printing, > copying, button-making, screenprinting, banner-making, zine-making, > newspapers etc. Interested folks who've discussed the idea and/or worked on > cleaning and clearing out that space include Jenny, Robb, Abe, Julian, > Needa Bee, Marcus, and others I'm probably forgetting right now. > ** The structure that seems most fitting is that of a working group, open > to anyone to join and help steward and maintain the resources we already > have available. The idea would be to lock valuable materials / supplies in > a cabinet and host workshops, media-making sessions and offer access based > on sliding-scale donations to cover materials/supplies/maintenance costs. > ** For more info on the resources we already have available as well as a > proposed layout, see: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Basement#Media_Lab > Continued discussion in the meeting notes at https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom ... maybe not mentioned: the lighting ballasts need to be replaced. There are some interim lighting solution tee'd up beneath the bench dat robb built. *I'd like to propose an initial meetup of folks interested in working on this project for the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th or, alternatively, the Friday evening before it. Here is a Doodle for all y'all busy-ass folks: https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a <https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a>* An initial agenda draft lives here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/omnimedialab - please add to it as you see fit! and invite people whom you think may be interested... <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" ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` [View Less]

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