It's a 2013 laptop; 4GB of RAM, two CPUs, and a built-in Radeon HD 8240
GPU. Not very fast, and the battery doesn't hold much charge. But it's
been reliably doing home server work for the last year!
Is this something sudo would be interested in having?
~ Kira
1st WNB coding night tonight! 🎉 If you identify as women/nb, come over!
Not sure how many will stop by, but excited! Will get there at 7, I think I
have everything I need, but what's the best way to contact any of you if
something comes up? Email this group?
Will report back how it went!
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Anyone want to help a recent transplant to find the candidates that match
my politics for this upcoming election?
I'm aware that Omni and Sudoroom are required to be apolitical entities to
maintain their tax status, so I want to be clear that I'm asking for
individuals to give their personal advice on where to find voting guides
and what candidates I should inform myself about. No one's personal
opinions in this email constitute any kind of endorsement by Omni or
Sudoroom.
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
I'll be unavailable to host Hardware Hacking Tuesday this coming week, can
someone else do it? it's easy, you just host and onboard new people (not
babies, i mean people new to sudoroom) and explain to them the simple concept
of how things work here
-Jake
In case my request gets lost, sending here a request to add the event we've
been talking about. Description is below, I think I would need that
Wordpress password to add it by myself, I looked at GitHub and I don't
think it's over there. Up to you folks, I'm fine with getting the password
or someone just adding the text below. I would like to add it to the wiki
as well.
The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons,
> invites all women/nb people for “Coding Owls - A WNB Coding Night”: bring
> your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if
> you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking!
> If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never
> coded before!). And if you're an intermediate programmer looking for a
> challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No
> problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders of all abilities are
> welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly
> recommended. Coding is more fun with friends! Join in person if you’re in
> Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
>
> Your host: Juliana A. (pronouns she/her) is originally from Brazil, has
> been living in US for 10 years and has been working as a software
> engineer since 2020, after finishing a software engineering bootcamp for
> women/nb people only. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL,
> JavaScript, React, Typescript.
Coding Owls - A WNB Coding Night
> Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time
> Sudo Room at Omni Commons
> 4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland
> Virtual: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Does sudo room have a photocopy machine or risograph? Or just access to one
at Omni Commons? Or does anyone have access to one that can make copies for
free? Just wanted to print some flyers for the WNB night and spread around
in the neighborhood.
--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Hey, that's my first email to the group👋 I sent the same msg below to `
info(a)sudoroom.org` and got some answers from Jake and Andrew, who told me
to post here. So here it goes:
---------------------------------------
Hey, this is Juliana, a bit about myself, I'm originally from Brazil, have
been living in Oakland for 10 yrs, and in the last 3 ones I got more
involved in the tech world. In 2019 I joined a software eng bootcamp and
since 2020 I've been working as a software engineer. I never imagined I was
going to work in tech one day, much less be a software engineer. Having a
non-tech background and being a person from several underrepresented groups
in tech make it hard to imagine that's even a possibility.
Anyways, it's because of that that I've been trying to volunteer more and
more to help the community to conquer what I got, and that's where Sudo
Rooms gets in. I've heard about Sudo Room maybe 3 years ago but never had
the opportunity to be part of an event (cause pandemic..). I would love to
help organize some kind of event with women/nb only and have a "coding
night", where we can help each other in coding projects or even help ppl to
learn how to code. I see you folks have a JS night, so it would prob be
something similar.
I emphasize the women/nb only because this is a real barrier in tech, I
studied in a women/nb only bootcamp and that totally made a difference.
Even when men are allies and empathize with beginners, It's all about
seeing that other non-men can do that and feel empowered by that.
About my skills, I'm still Level I but have been working with Ruby on
Rails, Python, SQL, React, Typescript. I'm full stack although I prefer
backend :) So far I've volunteered/attended events from Techtonica, Women
who Code, Wnb.rb, Ruby for Good, Lesbians who Tech, PyLadies, etc.
My linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianaalmeida78/
My twitter @JFArebelyell
Let me know if this is something Sudo Room would be interested in hosting!
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
I changed the subject line to the other thread we were talking about, with a
public information monitor in the main entrance hall. I agree that sudoroom
should have one too.
Personally I don't like raspberry pi's, they're too expensive and I dislike
broadcomm...but if we have them then i guess they're good for this purpose and
are power-efficient. We have tons of monitors and can totally dedicate one on
the sudoroom tables, facing the entrance, for a welcome screen. I recommend
fixing the pi onto the back of the monitor and making the whole thing easy to
pick up and move around.
As for the entrance hall, it's the same basic idea, and so we should keep that
in mind and work on both equally.
We might even put a monitor outside the front door! If it gets vandalized, we
can recycle it and put another one out there, we have so many monitors it's not
a problem.
-jake
On Wed, 11 May 2022, Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss wrote:
> I think we should set up a digital sign visible through the front doors,
> and use that for all sorts of general community communication. I'm going to
> try to find a small, light monitor, a Raspberry Pi, and a power source and
> then figure out how to mount it to the inside of the door, although
> realistically I have no timeline for this project, so if someone else wants
> to just take that idea and run with it, have at it.
>
> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:27 AM Lucas Gonze <lucas(a)gonze.com> wrote:
>
>> A sign on the door would work socially. IMO it would also be a good
>> approach to mitigation.
>>
>> The sign would be something like this:
>>
>>> The current asymptomatic positive rate is: FOO%
>>> Masks are required when the rate is greater than: BAR%
>>>
>>
>> The problem is that somebody needs to do the work to update that. Maybe
>> there is a no-maintenance approach, like:
>>
>> Masks are required when the asymptomatic positive rate is greater than:
>>> BAR%
>>> See http://FOO for the current rate
>>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:05 AM Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss <
>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just getting over it, and I can attest: in the best case scenario it
>>> totally fucks up your month because you have to cancel so much stuff and
>>> can't go into work.
>>>
>>> Also, that link to wastewater testing is about the hundredth time during
>>> the last two years that I've wondered why I'm learning a piece of what
>>> feels like critical information for making good decisions from informal
>>> word-of-mouth. We can trace the virus through waste-water!?!?! SINCE
>>> WHENENENENNE!!!!f AHGHGGH WHY ARE WE DOING SO BAD AT FOLLOWING THIS AND
>>> COMMUNICATING RISKS!!!!!!1
>>>
>>> Okay. I'm good. Patrik, thank you for sharing this.
>>>
>>> I think we should base the masking requirement on the asymptomatic test
>>> rate and then just have a sign on the door and an email that goes out when
>>> the masking policy returns to effect or goes out of effect.
>>>
>>> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
>>> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:43 PM Patrik D'haeseleer via sudo-discuss <
>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> With the discussion around masking, let me just forward this email that
>>>> I sent to the Omni discuss list yesterday...
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>> From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM
>>>> Subject: Covid numbers rising rapidly around the Bay
>>>>
>>>> For those of you who have gotten used to thinking that Covid is over -
>>>> here's a reminder that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic!
>>>>
>>>> The two metrics that I personally put most stock in these days include
>>>> wastewater monitoring, and *asymptomatic* test positivity rates.
>>>>
>>>> Covid levels in East Bay wastewater have been rising rapidly over the
>>>> past few weeks, and are now back at levels we've seen during the main
>>>> Omicron surge early January:
>>>>
>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…
>>>> <https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…>
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know, only UCSF reports asymptomatic test positivity rate,
>>>> which is currently around 3.4% - see
>>>> https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/dashboard Meaning that if you are in a
>>>> room with 30 perfectly healthy looking people, there will likely be at
>>>> least one who has an asymptomatic infection and may be infecting others.
>>>>
>>>> The good news is that infection fatality rate has dropped to almost the
>>>> same level as the flu, thanks to vaccinations, protection from prior
>>>> infections, and improved drugs to treat Covid patients. It is still a
>>>> pretty nasty disease though, so do yourself a favor, and keep that mask on
>>>> indoors and whenever you're in a crowd!
>>>>
>>>> Patrik
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>>
>
With the discussion around masking, let me just forward this email that I
sent to the Omni discuss list yesterday...
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM
Subject: Covid numbers rising rapidly around the Bay
For those of you who have gotten used to thinking that Covid is over -
here's a reminder that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic!
The two metrics that I personally put most stock in these days include
wastewater monitoring, and *asymptomatic* test positivity rates.
Covid levels in East Bay wastewater have been rising rapidly over the past
few weeks, and are now back at levels we've seen during the main Omicron
surge early January:
[image: image.png]
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…
<https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…>
As far as I know, only UCSF reports asymptomatic test positivity rate,
which is currently around 3.4% - see https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/dashboard
Meaning that if you are in a room with 30 perfectly healthy looking people,
there will likely be at least one who has an asymptomatic infection and may
be infecting others.
The good news is that infection fatality rate has dropped to almost the
same level as the flu, thanks to vaccinations, protection from prior
infections, and improved drugs to treat Covid patients. It is still a
pretty nasty disease though, so do yourself a favor, and keep that mask on
indoors and whenever you're in a crowd!
Patrik
