sudo-discuss July 2020

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by Patrik D'haeseleer

Are you good at building electronic and mechanical gear? Want to help build a rig to test Covid-19 face masks and materials for filtration efficiency and breathability? We have a plan, and can contribute some funding to get the components. But we really *need someone to spearhead this project! If interested, please contact me at patrikd(a)gmail.com <patrikd(a)gmail.com>*, and we can sort out the logistics... People around the world are sewing DIY cloth masks, or buying N95 masks from dubious suppliers with little or no quality control. There is a big need for being able to test cloth materials and completed masks for filtration efficiency and breathability. But the official, professional testing gear costs around $90,000. The Smart Air folks in Beijing built this far more accessible testing rig, and used it to show that half of the N95 masks they sourced from different Chinese suppliers did not meet specs: https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/testing-china-kn95-n95-masks-supplement… [image: Smart-Air-N95-mask-test-setup-wind-tunnel.jpg] The Met One GT-521 particle counter that Smart Air used in their setup costs around $2000 new. But Adafruit sells a $45 Arduino-compatible particle counter module <https://www.adafruit.com/product/4632> that can measure down to 0.3 micron. A DIY version of this rig can probably be built for around $100 total. (Alternatively, a used Met One GT-321 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/Metone-Portable-Particle-Counter-GT-321-Used-/1139…> particle counter costs around $600. Or a PerfectPrime AQ9600 <https://perfectprime.com/products/aq9600> particle counter only costs around $200 new) The plan would be to do some research on which fans and pressure sensors to use, order some materials, build a test rig, document the heck out of it so others can replicate it (e.g. on Instructables or Hackaday), and start testing mask materials - maybe in collaboration with Rachel at Ace Monster Toys and the other folks in the Bay Area PPE group that are sewing thousands of masks right now. Our biggest bottleneck right now is that we need someone to lead the actual building. I definitely want to be involved, can help with the research and design, and am willing to put in some of my own money to buy supplies. But I'm also still 100% Working From Home for my day job and don't have the bandwidth right now to take this on by myself. Help wanted! Patrik

6 years

Re: [sudo-discuss] Proposal - Fiscally Sponsor renegade.bio's 'Test the People' Project

by Jenny Ryan

Wanted to share this short video of our first #TestThePeople action - kudos to Anka of LibLens for the videography and post-production work, par excellence! https://youtu.be/hgjjBBaAjlw Please reach out directly if you have ideas around 1) future actions we could support with pre- and post-action testing, 2) possible testing locations (eg; school or church parking lots - ideally outdoors, ideally with power), or 3) community org collaborations for popup COVID testing. <3 Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:51 PM Jenny Ryan <jenny(a)jennyryan.net> wrote: > Discussed initially at tonight's 7/2/2020 Delegate's Meeting: > > Full proposal with amendments at: > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13cJJh1HiQK5m8PC-diO7-D_jBjNudpRD?us… > > 2 July 2020 > > Name of Project: Test the People > > Address: 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Suite 1531 > > Phone Number: 415.338.9306 > > Email Address: jenny(a)renegade.bio > > Website: https://testthepeople.org > > Legal organization form of Project: For-Profit Public Benefit > Corporation > Describe the proposed project. > > renegade.bio is a Queer-owned and -operated Public Benefit Corporation. > Founded in response to the pandemic, renegade.bio provides COVID-19 testing > to underserved communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. > This past Sunday, renegade.bio launched our first free public COVID-19 > testing event at #PrideIsARiot (see TestThePeople.org) > <https://testthepeople.org>. - we collected over 250 samples and > delivered results to patients within 24 hours. Unfortunately, we were > unable to secure funding for these essential public health endeavors from > any of the entities that should be funding them: SF Dept of Public Health, > Alameda County Dept of Public Health, nor California CDPH. There are those > who want to donate to support our efforts, but as a Public Benefit > Corporation (see Appendix A > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hp58xQozEFYNA_0D-R35OLTjpXc7LbIi/view?usp=…>) > we're unable to accept donations. Previous donations have been forwarded to > a sister organization, Vaugn's Wings of Hope, which supports patients with > a terminal illness and COVID in the Midwest. In order to continue providing > free COVID-19 testing to underserved communities, we do indeed need funding > for rent, payroll, equipment, reagents, and PPE. As such, we propose a > crowdfunding campaign in collaboration with grassroots organizations > committed to the health and well-being of our most vulnerable. Because: > #WeKeepUsSafe. > How will the project promote Omni's charitable purposes? > > COVID-19 impacts Black, Brown, and Indigenous people the hardest, due in > part to unequal access to testing and other healthcare. We believe that the > only way we’ll be able to get through this pandemic is via free, > widely-available, accurate, recurring, and accessible testing. Our mission > with Test the People aligns with several of Omni’s core missions, > including “to provide relief to the poor, distressed and underprivileged” > as well as “carrying on scientific research in the public interest.” > Attach a page showing the Project budget and the time period for the > Project. > > To support Omni Commons during this difficult time, we are proposing the > high end of administrative fees - 15% of donations received through this > campaign, which we intend to keep rolling as we plan and popup more free > public testing events for as long as testing is needed. Donations received > through this campaign will go solely toward paying for expenses incurred > directly in putting on free public testing events - a sample budget from > our first popup event is attached as Appendix B > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oazUaND09-NoU8ra9qHLRprF_hesJMj8a54…> > . > Your organization’s history, mission, and goals. > > renegade.bio is a team of scientists, entrepreneurs, and community > organizers, mobilizing in the public interest to provide rapid, > cost-effective, end-to-end COVID-19 diagnostic testing for city and county > public health. Longtime Omni organizers Jenny Ryan and Marc Juul are both > full-time employees at renegade.bio, which was founded by Counter Culture > Labs and Real Vegan Cheese member Craig Rouskey. > > Renegade.bio is accelerating humanity’s capacity to test for novel > pathogens such as COVID-19. Our work empowers an overburdened public health > system to respond swiftly to epidemiologic crises by delivering fast, > reliable, cost-effective solutions for community-based triage. > > In collaboration with other labs, researchers, and organizations across > the ecosystem of public health, renegade.bio is working day and night with > a singular goal: to help make COVID-19 testing accessible to everyone in > America, regardless of income—because we know it will take nothing less to > end this pandemic. > Your organization’s current programs, activities, and accomplishments. > > Since April, we have been conducting COVID-19 testing in NYC in our shared > lab space at the New York Genome Center. Recently, we obtained our license > to operate our Oakland lab, which is located at the Children’s Hospital ORI > just ten blocks north of Omni Commons. > > This past Sunday, renegade.bio launched our first free public COVID-19 > testing event at #PrideIsARiot (see TestThePeople.org) > <https://testthepeople.org>. - we collected over 250 samples and had > results delivered to patients within 24 hours. We are conducting follow-up > testing this Sunday, July 5th at the same site in Dolores Park, for which > 200 of our registrants have registered so as to participate in generating > data on community spread as these important mass actions continue. We will > have an additional 250 spots available for this Sunday, so pre-register at > the link above and help keep your community safe! > The geographic area and target population served. > > Our labs operate in New York City and Oakland, California - however, we > can and do accept samples from across the country. For our public testing > popups, we are planning to provide popup testing at actions and in areas > where testing is unavailable, inaccessible, or overloaded. Our first popup > testing at #PrideIsARiot specifically aimed to serve Queer, Trans, Black, > Brown and Indigenous People of Color. We hope to bring our next popup site > to areas of East Oakland where testing is not currently widely available. > Estimate the number of people to be served. > > Our capacity is 1,000 samples a day, so we hope to serve at least that > many per month. However, since a single positive case can infect > potentially hundreds of people, it’s impossible to quantify exactly how > many people would be positively impacted by our testing. > The roles and responsibilities of staff, volunteers, and the board > specific to this grant request. > > Staff: > > - > > Community Outreach - research on communities and geographic areas in > need of testing; outreach to potential community partners; > - > > Marketing - manage crowdfunding campaign and social media; creation of > multi-lingual marketing materials; > - > > Operations - identifying accessible sites for sample collections; > budgeting; site-based operational logistics; > - > > Sample Collection - Samples are safely collected at mobile sites by > Bay Area PLS, one of renegade.bio’s partner organizations; > - > > IT - Ensuring the security and privacy of patient data in accordance > with HIPAA - renegade.bio’s IT team manages the patient data portal, in > which requests for patient samples are made by a requisitioning physician, > and the LIMS (laboratory inventory management system), which manages the > flow of individual samples from collection to results. Patient registration > and results reporting are managed by Primary, our partner. > - > > Clinical Lab Scientists - process samples and analyze results in our > labs. > > > Volunteers are welcome and assist in greeting patients, ensuring the safe > and hygienic flow of traffic at the testing site, and registering patients > in our secure portal provided by Primary. > Describe your criteria for success. What do you realistically want to > happen as a result of your activities? > > renegade.bio would like to continue testing the community in open and > accessible ways. Success is defined by testing underrepresented > communities, nationwide. From Fruitvale to Immokalee, to the Navajo Nation, > making testing available to at-risk, underserved communities is in our DNA. > Success is defined by actual tests performed, and terminal success is > achieved through a decrease in positivity rates in at-risk populations. > Preventing outbreaks, protecting our communities, and delivering access to > healthcare to folks from all walks of life is our mission. > How will you measure changes? > > Changes in public health information, positivity rates, are based on > physical healthcare data. Our website tracks overall statistics for a given > action, and we work to make this data available to communities that need > it. Facilitating knowledge during a pandemic, in which people do not have > access to their ‘status’ means we can help communities build a safer > foundation for a better future. Reports summarizing activities, including > income and expenses for Test the People, can be furnished for Omni > Commons upon request. > Who will be involved in evaluating this work? > > Our results are reported to the state of California and patients’ County > of residence as required by law. Our SARS-CoV-2 test is FDA-approved, and > samples are processed in our CLIA-certified lab using positive and negative > controls. > What will you do with the results of your evaluation? How will it be used > to affect the Project? > > For community transparency, we will post testing statistics and summary > results on TestThePeople.org, including totals for negative and positive > tests and demographic categories. These totals will not include any > protected or personal health information. We are also required by law to > share these totals with the state of California. > Provide copies of your governing documents, roster of officers, and a > complete and filed IRS Form SS-4, showing the Project's separate existence > as an organization. > > - > > Form SS-4 - see Appendix A > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hp58xQozEFYNA_0D-R35OLTjpXc7LbIi/view?usp=…> > - > > Governing Documents and Roster of Officers - See Appendix C > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fabnxemby9-LrSOqZhj77IJAhfLcb0kE/view?usp=…> > > Provide a list of the Project's choice of funding sources to be approached > and the text of all fundraising materials. > > - > > IndieGoGo rolling crowdfunding campaign pitch text to be sent when > completed, and prior to campaign launch - see TestThePeople.org > <http://testthepeople.org> to get a sense of our messaging; > - > > Potential grants as opportunities arise. > > > Jenny Ryan > *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* > 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net >

6 years

Fwd: [omni-discuss] Clark Sullivan :(

by Sierk

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [omni-discuss] Clark Sullivan :( Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 06:50:16 -0700 From: robb To: discuss <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org> I regret to inform you that, according to Jim Squatter's facebook post <https://www.facebook.com/JuneBurnum/posts/10219220162627266>, our friend & sudo room member, Clark Sullivan passed away on the 10th of July due to natural causes. To all who knew him, i share in your loss Sincerely, ~r

6 years

FNB proposal

by Lesley Bell

Hey guys, +1 on renegade bio. Also, I haven't seen FNB's proposal on this list yet, so I'm attaching it. On Friday, July 3, 2020 3:55 PM, Helen Finkelstein <hefinkel(a)gmail.com> wrote: Food Not Bombs has gotten a small grant to improve our food storage capacity. We would like to use it to convert our storage room (next to the trash room) to a walk-in refrigerator. This would replace the refrigerators we are now using in the basement. It would require us to install some rat-proof storage, most likely in the basement. FNB would not use the entire refrigerator. We would be sharing it with Phat Beets, and potentially with others. Helen

6 years

need a cellular modem or android help

by Jake

Hi community, I'm having to do a job where I install a linux machine on a vehicle, and I need to be able to connect to it over the cellular network. I have a Google Fi data SIM, which should work with most modern cellular devices that are unlocked. I have a Sierra Wireless MC7455 miniPCIe card and a USB adaptor, but it restarts every 43 seconds and I can't tell whether it's a hardware or software problem. I'm going to keep trying it, but it might be a dead end. I have a Nexus 6P cellphone, which is rooted, and which definitely works with my SIM. The screen is broken but i have a root login over adb, and I have an ssh client from an app i installed before the screen broke, but it doesn't give me a root login and su doesn't work from ssh (although i will keep trying) but with the android, I have an uphill battle because i have no idea how to curate the various processes that will take up data bandwidth, and since i'm paying per data for the SIM, i want to make sure that only my own important data gets sent through the cellular network. I want to install wireguard, which I understand might be a challenge, although I can probably just install wireguard on the downstream beaglebone black which will be running regular debian. If anyone wants to help me poke at the android operating system from root ssh (remotely by phone and screen-sharing of a session like tmux or screen) that would be greatly appreciated. I am also open to buying hardware if anyone has a USB cellular modem that you think is unlocked and will work out of the box with a Fi SIM and especially if you know how to get it to work from linux (something i've never done) Thanks everyone! -jake

6 years

Fwd: Proposal - Fiscally Sponsor renegade.bio's 'Test the People' Project

by Jenny Ryan

Up for consensus at next Omni Delegate's meeting is fiscally-sponsoring renegade.bio's free public COVID-19 testing. Input welcome! Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jenny Ryan <jenny(a)jennyryan.net> Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:51 PM Subject: Proposal - Fiscally Sponsor renegade.bio's 'Test the People' Project To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Discussed initially at tonight's 7/2/2020 Delegate's Meeting: Full proposal with amendments at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13cJJh1HiQK5m8PC-diO7-D_jBjNudpRD?us… 2 July 2020 Name of Project: Test the People Address: 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Suite 1531 Phone Number: 415.338.9306 Email Address: jenny(a)renegade.bio Website: https://testthepeople.org Legal organization form of Project: For-Profit Public Benefit Corporation Describe the proposed project. renegade.bio is a Queer-owned and -operated Public Benefit Corporation. Founded in response to the pandemic, renegade.bio provides COVID-19 testing to underserved communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. This past Sunday, renegade.bio launched our first free public COVID-19 testing event at #PrideIsARiot (see TestThePeople.org) <https://testthepeople.org>. - we collected over 250 samples and delivered results to patients within 24 hours. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure funding for these essential public health endeavors from any of the entities that should be funding them: SF Dept of Public Health, Alameda County Dept of Public Health, nor California CDPH. There are those who want to donate to support our efforts, but as a Public Benefit Corporation (see Appendix A <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hp58xQozEFYNA_0D-R35OLTjpXc7LbIi/view?usp=…>) we're unable to accept donations. Previous donations have been forwarded to a sister organization, Vaugn's Wings of Hope, which supports patients with a terminal illness and COVID in the Midwest. In order to continue providing free COVID-19 testing to underserved communities, we do indeed need funding for rent, payroll, equipment, reagents, and PPE. As such, we propose a crowdfunding campaign in collaboration with grassroots organizations committed to the health and well-being of our most vulnerable. Because: #WeKeepUsSafe. How will the project promote Omni's charitable purposes? COVID-19 impacts Black, Brown, and Indigenous people the hardest, due in part to unequal access to testing and other healthcare. We believe that the only way we’ll be able to get through this pandemic is via free, widely-available, accurate, recurring, and accessible testing. Our mission with Test the People aligns with several of Omni’s core missions, including “to provide relief to the poor, distressed and underprivileged” as well as “carrying on scientific research in the public interest.” Attach a page showing the Project budget and the time period for the Project. To support Omni Commons during this difficult time, we are proposing the high end of administrative fees - 15% of donations received through this campaign, which we intend to keep rolling as we plan and popup more free public testing events for as long as testing is needed. Donations received through this campaign will go solely toward paying for expenses incurred directly in putting on free public testing events - a sample budget from our first popup event is attached as Appendix B <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oazUaND09-NoU8ra9qHLRprF_hesJMj8a54…> . Your organization’s history, mission, and goals. renegade.bio is a team of scientists, entrepreneurs, and community organizers, mobilizing in the public interest to provide rapid, cost-effective, end-to-end COVID-19 diagnostic testing for city and county public health. Longtime Omni organizers Jenny Ryan and Marc Juul are both full-time employees at renegade.bio, which was founded by Counter Culture Labs and Real Vegan Cheese member Craig Rouskey. Renegade.bio is accelerating humanity’s capacity to test for novel pathogens such as COVID-19. Our work empowers an overburdened public health system to respond swiftly to epidemiologic crises by delivering fast, reliable, cost-effective solutions for community-based triage. In collaboration with other labs, researchers, and organizations across the ecosystem of public health, renegade.bio is working day and night with a singular goal: to help make COVID-19 testing accessible to everyone in America, regardless of income—because we know it will take nothing less to end this pandemic. Your organization’s current programs, activities, and accomplishments. Since April, we have been conducting COVID-19 testing in NYC in our shared lab space at the New York Genome Center. Recently, we obtained our license to operate our Oakland lab, which is located at the Children’s Hospital ORI just ten blocks north of Omni Commons. This past Sunday, renegade.bio launched our first free public COVID-19 testing event at #PrideIsARiot (see TestThePeople.org) <https://testthepeople.org>. - we collected over 250 samples and had results delivered to patients within 24 hours. We are conducting follow-up testing this Sunday, July 5th at the same site in Dolores Park, for which 200 of our registrants have registered so as to participate in generating data on community spread as these important mass actions continue. We will have an additional 250 spots available for this Sunday, so pre-register at the link above and help keep your community safe! The geographic area and target population served. Our labs operate in New York City and Oakland, California - however, we can and do accept samples from across the country. For our public testing popups, we are planning to provide popup testing at actions and in areas where testing is unavailable, inaccessible, or overloaded. Our first popup testing at #PrideIsARiot specifically aimed to serve Queer, Trans, Black, Brown and Indigenous People of Color. We hope to bring our next popup site to areas of East Oakland where testing is not currently widely available. Estimate the number of people to be served. Our capacity is 1,000 samples a day, so we hope to serve at least that many per month. However, since a single positive case can infect potentially hundreds of people, it’s impossible to quantify exactly how many people would be positively impacted by our testing. The roles and responsibilities of staff, volunteers, and the board specific to this grant request. Staff: - Community Outreach - research on communities and geographic areas in need of testing; outreach to potential community partners; - Marketing - manage crowdfunding campaign and social media; creation of multi-lingual marketing materials; - Operations - identifying accessible sites for sample collections; budgeting; site-based operational logistics; - Sample Collection - Samples are safely collected at mobile sites by Bay Area PLS, one of renegade.bio’s partner organizations; - IT - Ensuring the security and privacy of patient data in accordance with HIPAA - renegade.bio’s IT team manages the patient data portal, in which requests for patient samples are made by a requisitioning physician, and the LIMS (laboratory inventory management system), which manages the flow of individual samples from collection to results. Patient registration and results reporting are managed by Primary, our partner. - Clinical Lab Scientists - process samples and analyze results in our labs. Volunteers are welcome and assist in greeting patients, ensuring the safe and hygienic flow of traffic at the testing site, and registering patients in our secure portal provided by Primary. Describe your criteria for success. What do you realistically want to happen as a result of your activities? renegade.bio would like to continue testing the community in open and accessible ways. Success is defined by testing underrepresented communities, nationwide. From Fruitvale to Immokalee, to the Navajo Nation, making testing available to at-risk, underserved communities is in our DNA. Success is defined by actual tests performed, and terminal success is achieved through a decrease in positivity rates in at-risk populations. Preventing outbreaks, protecting our communities, and delivering access to healthcare to folks from all walks of life is our mission. How will you measure changes? Changes in public health information, positivity rates, are based on physical healthcare data. Our website tracks overall statistics for a given action, and we work to make this data available to communities that need it. Facilitating knowledge during a pandemic, in which people do not have access to their ‘status’ means we can help communities build a safer foundation for a better future. Reports summarizing activities, including income and expenses for Test the People, can be furnished for Omni Commons upon request. Who will be involved in evaluating this work? Our results are reported to the state of California and patients’ County of residence as required by law. Our SARS-CoV-2 test is FDA-approved, and samples are processed in our CLIA-certified lab using positive and negative controls. What will you do with the results of your evaluation? How will it be used to affect the Project? For community transparency, we will post testing statistics and summary results on TestThePeople.org, including totals for negative and positive tests and demographic categories. These totals will not include any protected or personal health information. We are also required by law to share these totals with the state of California. Provide copies of your governing documents, roster of officers, and a complete and filed IRS Form SS-4, showing the Project's separate existence as an organization. - Form SS-4 - see Appendix A <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hp58xQozEFYNA_0D-R35OLTjpXc7LbIi/view?usp=…> - Governing Documents and Roster of Officers - See Appendix C <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fabnxemby9-LrSOqZhj77IJAhfLcb0kE/view?usp=…> Provide a list of the Project's choice of funding sources to be approached and the text of all fundraising materials. - IndieGoGo rolling crowdfunding campaign pitch text to be sent when completed, and prior to campaign launch - see TestThePeople.org <http://testthepeople.org> to get a sense of our messaging; - Potential grants as opportunities arise. Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net

6 years

Evil magnifying glass lamps

by Marc Juul

I was randomly in sudo room today when I noticed smoke rising from the main tables. This was caused by one of those adjustable magnifying glass lamps which was focusing the sun from the overhead windows onto some plastic bags. Given that the overhead windows are not going away I think we should ban these types of lamps from sudo room. I have given the evil lamp away to a good home where hopefully it can be rehabilitated of its pyromaniac ways. -- marc/juul

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