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.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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 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.
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!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
---------- 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-area-makerspaces-arts-coops/about
We had a casual chat this month in SF with representatives from Syzygy,
Noisebridge, Maker Farm, the Box Shop, and Double Union in attendance.
We're planning to do another one in early November, this time in the East
Bay!
The current meetup plan is for November 9, 6-8pm at Temescal Brewery, 4115
Telegraph Ave (near MacArthur Bart).
- D
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 le0 hw ether 1:2:3:4:5:6
bad address
so I had to reboot and type a bunch of stuff into the "ok" prompt it boots up
to, like it says here
https://gist.github.com/amdprophet/e010803d581d676003a90ba36da8a269
after a reboot it started saying the MAC address I entered upon boot (before
the "ok" prompt) and actually it was trying to network boot, or access
something on the network - i had to press STOP and A to interrupt that, and
get the "ok" prompt, where i typed "boot disk" to boot up from disk.
Then I set the IP address and gateway route manually and was able to ping and
telnet sites by IP address, on the internet!!!! but DNS didn't work.
I put this in /etc/resolv.conf:
domain jackpumpkin
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
and then nslookup worked! But other commands line ping and telnet and the web
browser still couldn't resolve DNS names. I went home, but Marc says:
what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say?
You might have to do: cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf
if the .conf does not exist
Apparently this OS ships with a bunch of example config files with different
extensions instead of .conf, and you copy the one you want to .conf and then
edit to your liking. That's probably how we should set up the networking,
rather than typing ifconfig commands each time.
also don't forget to run "bash" in the terminal so you're not stuck in an
annoying minimalist shell
here's the wiki page i made - if you don't have an account, request one!
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sparcstation#sparcstation_5
-jake
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 -
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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 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
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
