November 2023 - sudo-discuss

Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: [sudo-info] Monkeybrains now has service in Oakland

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someone trying to remove space from sudoroom

by Jake

I don't know why Andrew is trying to remove 72 square feet of space from Sudoroom while there are plenty of rooms and spaces at Omni which would be great for storage, and are being totally unused (several areas downstairs) But I would like for our delegate to oppose selling off any of Sudoroom's space. I do think it would be great for Omni to rent space to the Oakland Tool Lending Library for $700 per month in an unused part of the building. I think there are plenty of things people have … [View More]been doing to make Sudoroom nicer and more welcoming, and there's plenty more that we could be doing, and people should come in and get involved. I don't like how Andrew's words about Omni and Sudoroom sound a bit like the group that we had to remove, who wanted to "revolutionize" the space to be what they thought it should be, without input from anyone else. I do like the idea of partnering with the Tool Library in terms of workshops and skill sharing, and connecting to their broader network of people though. This also reminds me of when someone else suggested moving Sudoroom into the basement and claimed that we hadn't been paying our rent (we were actually fully paid up and paid ahead a bit at the time) -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:32:56 -0800 From: Andrew R Gross <arg5029(a)gmail.com> To: consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org, finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org Subject: Re: [omni-consensus] Financial Report I went to a meeting of the Oakland tool library a few months ago, and they've got a somewhat inverted situation to us: they have a lot of money that they're not sure how to use. They're located out of the Piedmont branch of the Oakland public libraries, just up the street from us, and they rent a storage locker about a half mile south of Omni. I asked, and they spend about $700 a month on a locker where they store tools that they then drive by pickup truck up to the library twice a month for a tool sale. They know Omni and Sudo through Peter Mui, but not that well, but they said that they'd just as soon give us the money as the storage locker business. If we set up a storage space on the ground floor in Sudo Room, we could convert around 12 x 6 feet of floor space into $700 a month. Additionally, they're pretty well organized, but they don't have a lot of volunteers. If we partnered with them and cleaned up Sudo room, we could start running fixit workshops and tool-use classes and things, which could bring in revenue and members for Sudo Room. Overall, I think they have a much better culture of Sudo Room, and could help connect us to a broader network of people who share our mission but may not fall into the traditional demographics we're connected with. I really burned out of Sudo Room and Omni, but I'd like to come back in 2024 if I'm part of a functioning team, focused on genuinely reforming Omni, starting with Sudo Room. It's a huge space that isn't well utilized or welcoming to new members. I still believe a well-organized group of about five people could change that, and create virtuous cycle that could turn a lot of things around. *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org> [View Less]

1 year, 6 months

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Workshop space available in west oakland

by Alessandra Nölting

Hi all, If anyone is looking for workshop space, we have some spots open at our place in West Oakland, right by the West Oakland Bart. Nice shipping containers with electrical and roll-up doors. $350-500 depending on the size, utilities included. 24/7 access, bathroom, internet, gated yard. A small group of fabricators, makers, engineers, artists, and other businesses co-work in this space. The space can accommodate electronics projects, metal work, woodworking, arts projects, etc. Not a … [View More]

1 year, 6 months

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Looking for the big power supply

by Jake Watters

This big power supply used to be under the middle tables, it's heavy but very powerful. Does anyone know where it went? -jake

1 year, 6 months

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Fwd: Woodshop Proposal

by Paige P

Hi Sudo Room, A friend of mine with a small woodshop in the area is looking to move places, and is interested in joining me in making another shared makerspace in Omni, with a focus on woodworking. I don't know if the delegates will vote on the proposal this week, but if so, that will be before the Sudo Room monthly meeting. I would appreciate comments and questions about the idea now, ideally so that Sudo Room could make a vote by Thursday. I will be around today and tomorrow but welcome … [View More]

1 year, 6 months

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help with omni commons front door access

by Jake

we need a volunteer to help administer the front door access control system. Someone comfortable with shell commands and vim and ssh, please speak up! extra bonus if someone is available to help with cgi scripts for basic html stuff, in order to make a way for nontechnical people of omni (who have password access) to approve card access. we can collaborate on this of course but i need someone to take over the basic responses to the keycard requests now. -jake

1 year, 6 months

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Omni Winter Maker Fair

by Z Silver Zahn

Hello Everyone! Events working group is organizing a fundraiser on January 20th. An Omni Commons Winter Maker Fair. We encourage all collectives to participate and for folks to spread the sign up sheet to all artists! There will be space for vending , performing, leading workshops and more! If you would like to join the organizing committee let us know! WINTER MAKER FAIR SIGN UP FORM! <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3xM1LTMXlDpsAiNTABKP4DnXf5bmk2FQ…>

1 year, 6 months

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Raspberry Pi Meetup Tomorrow (Sunday 11/19) 11AM

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: See below: Sodoroom member Thomas Lopes also runs the Raspberry Pi interest group of the Berkeley Linux Users Group, he'll be holding their meeting from 11am-2pm at Sudoroom, it'd be great to have a bunch of veteran Sudoers present to hang out, help him host and welcome newcomers. Thomas also knows how to flash the locked Dell Chromebooks so if you wanted to unlock some more Chromebooks tomorrow would be a good day as he's around. (We could use some more to hand out as … [View More]

1 year, 7 months

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OK so now our SudoRoom YouTube channel can post blog posts not only videos.

by Romy Ilano

https://www.youtube.com/@sudoroomhackerspace/community I added a small post to Peter's Fixit clinic article! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 7 months

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infrared solder rework station

by Jake

i created a wiki page for the infrared soldering station https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Infrared_rework_station -jake

1 year, 7 months

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Renamed the SudoRoom YouTube channel to @sudoroomhackerspace

by Romy Ilano

https://youtube.com/@sudoroomhackerspace I did the deed! You can post images and polls etc on the youTube channel too fyi. WIll try to recopy the blog posts. If anyone wants to post anything on there just holler. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 7 months

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Sudoroom/Omni featured in Craftsmanship.net

by Peter Mui

Hi sudoers: The article Jeff Greenwald was working on is now posted to Craftmanship.net; thanks to everyone who helped make his visit a great success. -Peter https://craftsmanship.net/sidebar/one-night-at-the-fixit-clinic-with-peter-…

1 year, 7 months

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omni statement of solidarity with palestine

by Paige P

Hey Sudo Room, what do you think about this statement that was posted to consensus? The last two paragraphs were taken out by another editor but I prefer them left in. Solidarity for Palestinian Liberation We at Omni Commons demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the murder and genocide of Gazans, and all forms of apartheid, occupation and ethnic or religious supremacy. We demand full human rights for all people, including the right of return for Palestinians. Israel … [View More]allows Jews from anywhere in the world to move there, and become full citizens. They give free plane rides and ten-day tours to young Jews age 18-25, full of Zionist propaganda. This trip is called “Birthright Israel” - it preys on ignorant and vulnerable Jewish youth by recruiting them for Israel’s settler colonial project. Young people who fall for this recruitment are then drafted into Israel’s occupation army. Even as war rages, Birthright is shamelessly continuing with all their Winter trips. Meanwhile, Palestinians’ freedom of movement has been restricted since the 1948 war, when Zionist terrorism drove hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Many of these families, now millions of people, still live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank. The largest is Gaza, with almost 2 million refugees. Some elders still carry the keys to houses they left 75 years ago. If Israel was willing to recognize THEIR birthright, we’d have had peace 30 years ago. Time and again, Israel walked away from peace talks over this very issue. Instead, many Palestinians' property was simply given to Jewish immigrants, with no consent or compensation. This is stolen land. Jews have always been the minority in Palestine. It was true in 1923, it’s true in 2023. Israel maintains the illusion of a Jewish “majority” only by brutal suppression of Palestinian human rights. This is Zionism! All human rights should be respected, including Jews, but no government built on minority rule has any right to exist. We do not welcome Zionism at the Omni Commons. We are critical of anybody who accepted Birthright trips to apartheid Israel in their youth, including among our own organizers - but we also recognize that people can learn, grow and change. Peace and justice require us to forgive people for their mistakes. We acknowledge that a stand for Palestine has to be a stand against imperialism as a whole. Biden is sending billions of dollars to fund Israeli settler colonial projects to massacre the Palestinians while millions of us struggle to survive here on the streets. We believe in abolition. The abolition of open air prisons, caging indigenous Palestinians genocide. The abolition of the Zionist state. The abolition of US imperialism and greed for profit. Liberation must be fought for. We must fight to make each other free. [View Less]

1 year, 7 months

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Learning programming and Spanish

by Romy Ilano

There's an entire slack channel on Women Who Code of women from Latin America learning English through programming chats. I'm learning Spanish (Argentinian but Mexico is cool too) I mentioned this for Women & NonBinary nights... but would it be cool to suggest for SudoRoom in general? I am travelling to Buenos Aires at the end of the month and won't be able to be in a lot of the mondays and Tuesdays in November. I think this would be a cool initiative though - help SudoRoom's wings spread!… [View More]

1 year, 7 months

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Bay Area makerspaces and arts co-ops meet up and list

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:21:40 -0700 From: Dana S. <dsniezko(a)gmail.com> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hey Sudo Room, I'd like to invite you to join a meetup and mailing list for Bay Area arts co-ops and makerspaces. We're trying to gather organizers from Bay Area makerspaces to build connections, share what's working and where we are struggling, and figure out how we might collaborate across spaces! Here's the link: https://groups.google.com/g/bay-… [View More]

1 year, 7 months

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sparcstation progress

by Jake

last night I played with the Sparcstation 5 that Phil got working, and tried to get it on The Internet it's plugged into ethernet, and i wanted to get it an IP address and all that...but first i had to figure out why it didn't have a MAC address. Its ethernet port is "le0" (in linux we're used to eth0) and something online said do this: # ifconfig le0 plumb but then its MAC address was 0:0:0:0:0:0 which was not gonna work. Trying to set it from ifconfig like this didn't work: # ifconfig … [View More]

1 year, 7 months

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I can't make it tonight - can other people edit this Meetup for hardware hack night?

by Romy Ilano

https://www.meetup.com/sudoroom/events/296830134/ I can't make it to this event tonight - can other people make it to this meetup or edit it? for hadrware hack night? We made it so more people could also edi the Omni meetup.com - ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 7 months

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[omni-consensus] Urgent - Hellman Grant Reallocation Issue for Consensus - Part 1: $ for Gen Ops (fwd)

by Jake

I mentioned in the sudoroom meeting last night that Omni is basically out of money - we had a huge drop in events bookings because of the boycott (and our non-response to it) and that was about 50% of our income. We also lost a couple of tenants and have made zero progress getting new tenants. (For context, TANC and their fellow printshop collective proposed joining us in June, and if CLP had not blocked them we would have had another two tenants with $1300/mo more income per month. CLP … [View More]never paid us anything) Did you know that Omni has a bunch of rooms available for rent? I think the groups are preferred to be nonprofit (we can offer 501(c)3 umbrella financial sponsorship!) but we'll take what we can get. The sooner we get rooms filled - not only will it be money we can pay bills with, but also it will look better on paper as we're trying to find a new lender, as our present mortgage holder's agreement ends in DECEMBER and they can foreclose on us if we don't have a new lender (or $900K) -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:43:12 -0700 From: Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: [omni-consensus] Urgent - Hellman Grant Reallocation Issue for Consensus - Part 1: $ for Gen Ops Hi there -- as I've mentioned in quite a few communications recently, Omni is in dire need of funds for general operating expenses: mortgage, utilities, insurance. I am humbly proposing that Omni re-allocate $7000 of grant money so that Omni can pay its bills this month. See spreadsheet for details <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qDtnI8P8d3kcuOb_4ZCqNZTVelKTl7I9yd…> *The Version That Takes Up More Space* Omni is currently sitting on about $35k of grant money restricted for "Capacity Building". This money is in the Unify CU Savings Account. I am hoping that Omni can decide to allocate more of the grant to reimburse the general ops account for expenses that weren't paid out of the grant money, but would still be considered Capacity Building expenses. If Omni were to do the legwork and liquidate the savings accounts at other banks (Self Help CU and Beneficial) -- that would free up about $6000. However, Omni is also looking at having to pay approximately $20k in property taxes in December. I would advise holding these other funds that are in other banks at least until then. Here is the spreadsheet showing the current state of grant funds and allocations <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qDtnI8P8d3kcuOb_4ZCqNZTVelKTl7I9yd…>, which has a column for what has already been paid out, and another column for what contractors have billed Omni for but have not been paid yet. This should be considered as "spent" in my humble opinion. The spreadsheet also includes a bit at the bottom showing the detailed expenses the grant could be "re-allocated to cover" - which would thus mean putting more money into the general ops account to be used to pay general operating expenses. When the $50k grant was received, it was understood (by Omni and the funder) that some of the expenses the grant would cover had already been paid out of general funds. When Omni approved the grant budget this summer, there were a number of expenses that grant money was allocated to which had already been paid. Thus the money was "returned to the general fund" to "reimburse" the general ops account. Respectfully submitted, Sarah L [View Less]

1 year, 7 months

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sudo room meeting today

by Paige P

Hi everyone, Tonight is a sudo room meeting 8PM ( https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles or in o person) and tomorrow night 7PM is an Omni delegates meeting (hybrid...ask for link). Jems is our current delegate now. Lots to talk about, but one better with some preparation is the collective statement discussion. Could people read them (or just the most recent one) and share some comments and ideas about how we can put these goals to action? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EvFSEvPpY1cCKHKLK1Pqh7f0_hs1NxNlp1_sNPl… Paige

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