The vending machine now provides some more feedback after money is put in.
Source code associated with my contribution is here. I haven't documented
the other components of the vending machine.
https://thomaslevine.com/scm/sudo-vending
Based on the implementation details, it appears to me that
the bill acceptor is in fact plugged into one board (Arduino Leonardo)
that is connected by serial to another board (Raspberry Pi). Why is
the former board used at all? That is, why is the bill acceptor not
plugged directly into the latter board?
Hi Sudoroom,
in two weeks we will have another Delegate's meeting and I will be asked to represent Sudoroom's position on hiring this person (on a contract basis) to be a Financial Coordinator for Omni.
Emily has been coming through sudoroom occasionally for years, including bringing catering food when it was left over after big events. I trust she'll do a good job in this position, and provide Omni with a lot of guidance toward finding a new lender, as well as other related financial tasks we have to keep working on.
Please discuss! Ideally we will have a meeting and discuss it, but don't hesitate to talk about it here.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:39:53 -0800
From: Emily B <accurate1707(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org
Subject: [omni-consensus] Proposal: Hire Emily as Omni Financial Coordinator
(CFO)
Hi Consensus,
It has been discussed through finance and the delegates meeting to hire
someone who can coordinate exciting financial tasks that keep the building
going. Discussion at the recent meeting can be found here:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2022/11/17_Delegates
Delegates requested I send a proposal for bringing me on as the Financial
Coordinator, including a description of what that role is. In another
organization this might be called Chief Financial Officer or Head of
Finance, but given the horizontal structure we went with "Omni Financial
Coordinator" to illustrate it is a point person or coordination role. The
title and description is following a two hour interview done in the
delegates meeting and time spent outside with the Finance working group. A
description of qualifications is located in the consensus archive listed
here: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/003720.html
*Proposal*: Hire Emily as Omni Financial Coordinator (CFO) using the
description and outline below
*Description*
Financial Coordination - budgeting, analysis, forecasting, and reporting to
delegates the financial status of Omni accounts in the past, present, and
future
Fiscal Sponsorship and Funds Support - financial operations and
transactional support to internal teams
Financial Operations - coordination of accounts payable, accounts
receivable, treasury, general ledger accounting, and statutory filings for
the Omni and associated entities
Grants and Impact Investments - grants and impact investment priorities,
policies, and strategies
Real Estate - coordination of financial aspects of property in East Bay
"What does this mean?" The focus is on understanding what the Omni needs to
keep the building going, maintaining and improving those processes (with
input when people have interest as this is an often overlooked role).
*Examples of focus projects in financial coordination*
- Omni mortgage loan coordination (keeping the building collectively owned,
and open)
- Organizing finance data to bank standards for a mortgage team
- Coordination of tax exemption status with orgs and city
- Creation of workflows and training for finance roles
- Review of grants list for non-loan income
These are things everyone does a bit of, with a person who has expertise in
the field making sure they are happening and that there are people
available and trained for the tasks to happen.
*Prior discussions*
- It was at first proposed to have one position for all things. Then to
break that into Finance Coordinator and Building Operations Coordinator
because there is enough work for those to be individual roles. My
qualifications were for either and I am focusing on Finance for this period
- The amount of time per week was suggested to be 10-15 hours per week
to start, and full time at some later point. Time per week can be changed
with agreement from both parties as needed
- It has been debated whether to use W2 employee or 1099 contractor
- - Omni's advice was that if the person is already doing work in the field
a 1099 is acceptable under CA rules
- A question was asked what if the contract needs to end early. The answer
is to include a termination provision. This releases legal liability of
contract length. An accessible language explanation can be found here:
https://www.insperity.com/blog/how-to-smoothly-end-an-independent-contracto…
- The Omni has historically hired finance contractors
As such the proposal is for Emily to be hired as a Financial Coordinator in
a contract role at 10-15 hours a week for six months, at a rate discussed
by finance, with time to be adjusted if agreed by both parties.
Thank you for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you all.
Warmly,
Emily B
Hi Sudoroom,
I'm writing from the Long Haul in Berkeley, a space kinda similar to the Omni.
We are quickly accumulating a bunch of half full ink tubes which our printer decides are empty based on reading/writing the RFID chip on the tube. Its calculated based on the number of pumps. The machine is a Riso RZ990.
I am wondering if anybody at Sudo is interested to collaborate on keeping these tubes out of the landfill by re-writing the RFID chips to show a full tube? Maybe this is something to drop by Hardware hack night on?
(In the longer term we hope to fix the machine to avoid this problem in the first place. Come visit us sometime and see our print room - it's great for making posters and zines.) reprographixed.com
Best
Sylvia
sylvxa(a)protonmail.com
Hey Emu,
I did some searching, and here's what I found:
First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCHNCAkBNT8
This guy describe solutions to backup an SD card without a computer. The
main one is a $90 product that I think does some of what you want, although
I'm not sure.
The second option is something like this:
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/andreiflorian/back-up-sd-file-to-dropb…
It's a DIY solution that appears to do exactly what you want, although the
main component looks like it's out of production, and the main replacement
is $55, which is kinda pricey before we even consider making a case and
battery and such.
There are some other DIY possibilities, but before I dove into those I came
across this:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJYT2AM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-re…
It's an iPhone-compatible SD card reader. Would that work?
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
I have a 120 gallon water tank and a huge solar thermal collector, which I want to put in sudoroom.
Does anyone have a vehicle that can transport a big cylinder, and a strong back so we can do this together?
Also, we will need radiators, to act as heat distributors in sudoroom - a car radiator would be nice. I feel like there was one laying around at some point but i don't know where it is anymore.
Anyone who is available to help with this project to bring nice solar heating to sudoroom, please speak up.
-jake
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Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 9:25 AM
Subject: [dorkbotsf] Big tool auction from CCA
To: Dorkbot-Blabber <dorkbotsf-blabber(a)googlegroups.com>
As you likely know, CCA is closing their Oakland campus and moving to SF.
Looks like they are auctioning off the surplus Oakland tools, incl. machine
tools and glasswork kilns and sewing machines and...:
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Dear Sudo Room,
Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions.
Thanks for your business!
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
+1 5105456582
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2595
Date: 11/01/2022
Due Date: 11/25/2022
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $6,000.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
****************************** Account Summary *****************************
10/01/2022 Balance Forward $4,000.00
Other payments and credits after 10/01/2022 0.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 11/01/202 6,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
11/01/2022 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $6,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
Dear Sudo Room,
Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions.
Thanks for your business!
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
+1 5105456582
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2595
Date: 11/01/2022
Due Date: 11/25/2022
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $6,000.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
****************************** Account Summary *****************************
10/01/2022 Balance Forward $4,000.00
Other payments and credits after 10/01/2022 0.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 11/01/202 6,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
11/01/2022 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $6,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
I received this email, since some of us may have tech knowledge to do that
I'm sharing it here. I'm kinda interested in helping, depending on the size
of this project/ amount of ppl helping. Anyone would like to join this
project?
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From: Theo Cedar Jones <theocedarjones(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 2:12 PM
Subject: Need advice for online archive for the Wood Street anthology
To: <julianaferreira(a)gmail.com>
Hi Juliana,
Do you know if anybody at the Omni Commons could help We the people of the
Wood Street Community to develop an online archive of the large amount of
significant artistic, journalistic, legal and cultural materials generated
by the movement to support the rights of 300 people in the homeless
encampment at Wood Street Commons?
Thanks,
Theo Cedar Jones
http://www.woodstreetcommons.com/
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Hi everyone,
You're getting this email either because 1) you're on the sudoroom discuss
email list, or 2) because I BCC'd you directly.
Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever,
in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email)
ALSO NOW FEATURING: SoftWEAR hacking too: most Tuesday evenings the sewing area
at Omni Commons (in the basement) is also active so bring your fabric and
textile projects and technical repairs; we've got heavy duty and serger sewing
machines available. You're also welcome to bring your own machine to have it
checked out and tuned up for tip-top operation or to just sew alongside others.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently still that
EVERYONE SHOULD WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 5-15 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through telepresence
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there earlier.
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway!
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
if you can't make it in person: join the jitsi videochat with the room, and
chat with each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
