I'll be at sudo room again this Tuesday evening at 8 pm hacking on an open
hardware/software brain replacement for old HPLC UV/vis spectrometers:
https://gitlab.com/juul/spectrometer-resurrector
If you have any interest in this project, come hang out and chat/hack with
me!
This project can especially benefit from the help of anyone with interest
or experience in microbiology, spectrometry, microcontroller programming,
web development or digital/analog electronics, but of course everyone is
welcome to join in regardless of experience or skill level!
Last Tuesday we investigated the power source for the deuterium arc lamp
and schemed on a design for an open hardware replacement. Special thanks to
Cere, Kent, Joule and Jake for participating and helping out!
This project is currently funded by a micro grant from GOSH:
https://openhardware.science/
and I am obligated to mention that GOSH got the funds for this from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
--
marc/juul
sudoroom needs to send their delegate (me) with a position on this asap.
i (as a member) am in favor, i think there's no reason to hesitate.
-jake
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:38:36 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: [omni-consensus] Hiring Christina Oatfield to resolve property taxes
I would like us to hire a local lawyer named Christina Oatfield
(https://www.christinaoatfield.com/) to represent Omni Commons as we
navigate our welfare exemption application with the county assessor's
office, to resolve the issue of our outstanding property taxes.
This is a huge existential problem. If we don't get it resolved, there
is no way we will ever get a loan, or keep the building.
She has extensive local experience in exactly this area, charges
$225/hour, and would ask us to sign the fee agreement at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bffzLFT7Rd-rKe6vaVi3qvXph3_zhRCX
Her work would focus just on the welfare exemption. She would not
replace Jesse Palmer as a general lawyer, or Sarah Lockhart as our
2021 tax preparer, or do any other legal or tax-related work.
How do folks feel about this? Do we need to wait another 3 (!) weeks
to approve this? Personally I feel like it has been brought up enough
times at delegates meetings that we shouldn't need to wait that long.
But I would like a couple other opinions on that.
_______________________________________________
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consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus
This rain prep email from likely applied to any important equipment at sudo
as well.
I will head over to Omni today to help out. Hopefully I will see others,
since i lack a lot of knowledge about where tarps are, etc.
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From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 12:30 PM
Subject: [CCLmembers] Preparing CCL for rain storm tonight
To: Nenufar Molecules <nenufarmoleculesforlife(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Counter Culture Labs Members <cclmembers(a)googlegroups.com>
I think the main priority for the upcoming rain storm is to verify that the
roof drain is free of any leaves, and that the mesh cage that is supposed
to keep debris out is properly installed over the drain opening. That was
the problem with our major leaks last time: the mesh cage had been
dislodged, leaves and trash blocked the drain, and we wound up with a foot
of water on the roof, which likely overtopped the vents underneath the
skylights.
We should also put tarps over our most valuable equipment just in case -
especially the bioreactor, HPLC, UV spec, and plate reader.
If anybody has time to do some work on the roof today, we can also try to
close some of the gaps in the roof coating itself, but we would likely need
to use the fast-drying black tar-like stuff that dries fast, rather than
the more environmentally friendly latex based coating that takes a day or
two to dry.
Ideally we should have done that *before* the rains hit, but I think we
were a bit caught off-guard with this unusually early rain storm.
The skylight seals in my estimate are of secondary importance compared to
the leaks in the roof coating. They still have the same seal they were
installed with ~8-9 years ago. It is definitely worth re-sealing them, but
I think we were getting far more water coming through roof leaks than
leaking around the panes of the skylights.
Patrik
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 5:10 PM Nenufar Molecules <
nenufarmoleculesforlife(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello CCL,
> Rain is in the forecast for this weekend (we need it) so I'm checking on
> the progress of glazing the skylights. Who is responsible for the glazing
> and do they have a deadline to get the job done????
> Let's keep eyes open for any water leaking.
> Best wishes always,
> Eddy Spinner
>
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Whoever dropped off this gigantic scanner/copier/printer thing in Sudoroom, with no toner
cartridges, please take it back. We don't want it and neither does anyone on
craigslist (see my post below)
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/d/oakland-samsung-clx-fw-color-printer…
The Ewaste place doesn't take printers either although we can try i guess.
-jake
Okay, I was checking because in the past Cam Life has canceled events and spots have opened up, for example September 10th, so you never know, events do fall through, which is understandable.
Yes, let’s check in with them and make sure they have the right idea of where we are 3 days is a lot, if they’d be willing to shorten it or start earlier in the week to have their 3 days that would work too.
Sincerely,
Marquise Rosier
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 13, 2022, at 12:57 PM, deskhandle <deskhandle(a)protonmail.com> wrote:
>
i'll be going to sudoroom at 6PM to help a couple of friends put lights on
their bikes, if you stop by you can see me and maybe i'll help you with stuff
too!
also it might be a meeting tonight at 8PM? But in general, why not meet up?
-jake
Hey Sudoers!
Tonight, in lieu of a formal meeting we're going to be tricking out bikes
with LEDs. If you've got Sudo Room business to discuss, drop in in person
or in the video screen. We'll be tricking out bikes, starting at 5.
Event details:
*WHAT*: Sudoroom’s Bike Mutation Station - Light Up Your Ride
*WHEN*; Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
*WHERE*: Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
*HOW*: Bring your bike and any parts / lights you may already have.
COST: Free, although donations to the Omni Commons gofundme are gladly
accepted: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-omni
Wanna trick out your bike with LED lights for the Friday Sept. 9 ride?
Sudoroom Hackerspace (at Omni Commons) is having an LED lighting workshop in
time for the next Bike Party!
Bring your bike, your curiosity and your enthusiasm to Omni Common’s Bike
Mutation Station, and we’ll help you get your bike lighting super snazzy for
the ride: we’ve got helpers, workspace, soldering and hot glue, and surplus
LED
tape and strings that we can help help you attach to your bike.
If you’re got spare LED light strings or tape, even broken ones or
“scraps”, or
even just simple bike safety lights you want to fix or install, bring them
to
the event to use or to share!
This is a family-friendly activity, biking families are heartily invited.
our goal for this event is to pull lots more people into the Omni and
sudoroom
to grow our community! and we're going to have to put in a bunch of work to
make it happen but i think it will be fun
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
Hi!
I'll be at sudo room tonight at 8 pm hacking on an open hardware/software
brain replacement for old HPLC UV/vis spectrometers:
https://gitlab.com/juul/spectrometer-resurrector
If you have any interest in this project, come hang out and chat/hack with
me!
This project can especially benefit from the help of anyone with interest
or experience in microbiology, spectrometry, microcontroller programming,
web development or digital/analog electronics, but of course everyone is
welcome to join in regardless of experience or skill level!
This project is currently funded by a micro grant from GOSH:
https://openhardware.science/
and I am obligated to mention that GOSH got the funds for this from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
--
marc/juul
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 23:08:55 -0700
From: Vidit Jain <vidit(a)unitehacks.com>
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Subject: [sudo-info] Hackathon Venue
Hello Sudo Room Team
My name is Vidit Jain, and I am currently a high school senior. Me and my
team are organizing a hackathon called Unite Hacks in San Francisco,
California, and we are partnered with Hack Club <https://hackclub.com/>.
Our team consists of 6 brilliant individuals out of whom 4 are seniors at
high school and the other two are in college. We have organized some
virtual hackathons, such as Vivid Hacks <https://www.vividhacks.tech/>, and
participated in numerous hackathons, such as Assemble
<https://assemble.hackclub.com/launch>, which was also hosted by Hack Club.
However, this fall, we are inspired to host an in-person event.
Unite Hacks will bring together 60-100 high school hackers from around the
globe for a three-day mystical hackathon in San Francisco. Our goal is to
introduce students of ages 14-19 to a wide range of possibilities to create
something larger for their community with tech and code. Our 48-hour
in-person hackathon will connect students from across the world to utilize
technology and code (Of all kinds!) to create, innovate, and turn their
visions into a reality! Our projected date for the event is October 21 and
it’s expected to run for 3 days (10/21 - 10/23).
Unite Hacks needs a home in San Francisco and we were wondering if Sudo
Room could host us for a weekend (Friday 6:00 pm to 12:30 pm on Sunday) on
October 21.
We are also open for a 2 day event if that is something which can be made
possible.
We’d love the opportunity to connect and answer any questions that you may
have either through email or a call (phone or zoom). We believe that
sponsoring our event will be mutually beneficial and will not only give you
the opportunity to help us meet our goal of furthering learning, but also
to help students build impactful solutions.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out and we'd be more
than happy to clear any doubts!
Unite Hacks Website <https://www.unitehacks.com/>
Note: Our website is still in the works and will be completed by this week
Thanks
--
Vidit Jain
Lead Organizer
Outreach and Marketing | Unite Hacks
vidit(a)unitehacks.com
https://www.unitehacks.com/
San Francisco
Hey Zach,
Really great to see your post! I posted a similar query to survey interest
in collaboration on ecological minded projects via the sudoroom
list, though it's not clear to me that it went through. I am also really
interested in just collecting people interested in ecological projects
which have an ecological focus without restricting what the kinds of
project participation will look like. The tasks you suggest already make
sense to me.
Hoping this email goes through to the sudo list (cc'ed here) as well. We
should start collecting inaturalist data en masse on birds now, since they
are next up to show up dead on the food chain. Pinnipeds might be next.
-Cere
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 5:28 PM zach.dsmith27 <zach.dsmith27(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> TL;DR Have an interest in doing citizen science addressing climate change?
> help me figure out what we should do together!
> Hi All,
> My name is Zach Smith, and I'm writing to ask for all of your help in
> determining and hopefully executing a new phase of environmental justice
> projects to take place at Counter Culture Labs. My background is in
> biochemistry and analytical chemistry, and while I don't have a lot of
> experience, in general and certainly not in Counter-Culture Labs, I have a
> few ideas I think we could look into:
> 1. looking at bay water, both in context of how recent algae blooms have
> shifted the environmental health and what organisms have been able to
> survive in the bloom and how
> 2. looking at soil health in nearby farmland and other vulnerable
> agricultural spaces, and assessing options for helping improve soil health
> cost-effectively
> 3. looking at other crisis-affected environmental spaces and assessing
> both what the problem is and what the solution is (Focus on what the
> community cares about!!)
> This means, in general, my vision is for most of the science to be
> organized into three main components: analyzing pollutants in various
> environments (analytical chemistry), analyzing organisms and microorganisms
> that are surviving in critical-state environments (microbiology and various
> biological disciplines), and evaluating and possibly implementing efficient
> and robust solutions (interdisciplinary, probably with big parts molecular
> biology and mechanical/electrical engineering). If you have any experience
> in any of these fields or know someone who does, I would greatly appreciate
> any help or advice. If you do not, please feel free to get involved
> anyways, as all I am really looking for is an interest in the climate
> crisis and finding solutions!
> I will be sending along another email shortly to ask what times would work
> best to start up a recurring weekly meeting, but from what I understand
> from Patrik Fridays would work best for the lab schedule, however if enough
> of us can do another time then that is what we will do.
> I want this to be a project driven by all of ours mutual passion to
> address the climate crisis and the needs/wants of the community, so please
> be vocal! If you have any other ideas at all, I am nothing but ears (or
> eyes if it's via email), and if you don't right now feel free to brainstorm
> and come up with an idea down the line! I am so excited to start this
> journey with all of you and whoever else you know is interested, and I
> can't wait for what we will do together.
> Lastly, unless anyone has an input otherwise, I will begin our work by
> creating an experimental design to evaluate the pollutants and
> microorganisms in the algae blooms, which I hope to have finished in the
> next couple of weeks!
> Please email me if you have any questions you don't want to be a part of
> the group conversation, and I look forward to seeing your ideas!
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