sudo-discuss January 2024

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56 discussions

by Yardena Cohen

For those who don't know - Jamal has set a clear boundary with us. He is not willing to be ED as long as Eric remains a sudoroom delegate, due to concerns about Eric telling lies about him, treating him with disrespect, and normalizing or tolerating anti-Black attitudes and behaviors. I am personally not interested in escalating any conflicts with Eric. I do have concerns as well about Eric's ability to navigate power differentials or represent marginalized members. I voted against him last week, but I didn't block because I think saving Omni will require us to focus on bigger things. But now he's become a direct obstacle. I think that it would be best for Omni if we honor Jamal's boundary and ask Eric to step down as delegate.

3 months, 3 weeks

sudoroom meeting tonight at 7PM

by Jake

Sudoroom meeting tonight at 7PM, we're having weekly meetings since a lot of fundamental issues to Omni and Sudoroom are being discussed every week. Please show up, there will be important discussions which will have an effect on Sudoroom's survival as well as what Sudoroom stands for going forward. Most of us meet in person, some join the meeting remotely through our Jitsi video link at this address: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:35:19 -0800 From: Andrew Werby via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Reply-To: Andrew Werby <awerby(a)juxtamorph.com> To: sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Retaining our executive director I think we can safely let Jamal go. I really don't see what he is really able to do for us, and he seemed mainly interested in banning or sidelining people he saw as obstacles, using spurious arguments as justification. More clarity in leadership would be a good thing, but eliminating our delegate seems like a step backward. I do think we need to institute some kind of governing body, like a board, that can make decisions without long, tedious, and counterproductive general meetings. It needs to focus on saving the space, or if that's not possible, saving the equity built up for the benefit of the existing stakeholders. AW On 1/17/2024 3:02 PM, Yardena Cohen via sudo-discuss wrote: > For those who don't know - Jamal has set a clear boundary with us. He is not > willing to be ED as long as Eric remains a sudoroom delegate, due to concerns > about Eric telling lies about him, treating him with disrespect, and > normalizing or tolerating anti-Black attitudes and behaviors. > > I am personally not interested in escalating any conflicts with Eric. I do > have concerns as well about Eric's ability to navigate power differentials or > represent marginalized members. I voted against him last week, but I didn't > block because I think saving Omni will require us to focus on bigger things. > But now he's become a direct obstacle. I think that it would be best for Omni > if we honor Jamal's boundary and ask Eric to step down as delegate. > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org > To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org > More options at > https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ -- Andrew Werby Juxtamorph.com _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org More options at https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/

3 months, 3 weeks

Seeking CAD/CAM person for a community record label

by Jake Watters

From guerilla: anyone here have CAD/CAM & cnc experience? i work with a tq/bipoc team of artists building the first platform for community-owned distribution networks to sustainably support music Artists. right now we're producing a tool for sharing music that involves cnc metalwork. we're looking for someone experienced who's looking for short-term work and is down to hop on the project for a couple weeks! we will offer a contract to compensate you :-) https://recurrent.org/ Please contact guerrilla(a)currents.fm

3 months, 3 weeks

Hardware Hacking Tuesday is tonight

by Jake

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) 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 Here it is on the sudoroom page: https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/ I am usually there by 8PM but people do show up before me! 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 Sudoroom/The Omni needs help! Contact me directly to learn more. We'll be having a Sudoroom meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7PM. Show up! see you soon! -jake

3 months, 3 weeks

Omni Fundraiser 1/20!

by Z Silver Zahn

Hello all, We are having a winter market fundraiser this Saturday 3pm to 10pm and would to confirm a booth for Sudo room to share some cool projects going on! Can folks confirm to set something up? Great way to spread the word of Sudo room to the community!

3 months, 3 weeks

meeting tonight at 7

by Paige P

Hi everyone, please try and show up close to on time! So we dont waste so much time sitting around. Would be great if we could get a volunteer for facilitator and agenda but I am not able to make that today. Two obvious discussions are ED position and how to move past recent conflicts. Paige

3 months, 3 weeks

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

by eenblam＠peoplesopen.net

I just wrote back to Rudy @ Monkeybrains. Thanks Yar! Sent via Migadu.com, world's easiest email hosting

3 months, 3 weeks

Why so many different remote controls?

by Peter Mui

This email just came in as general inquiry on repair.org: ====== Hello, I'm a writer working on a story for the Washington Post and am getting in touch to see if The Repair Association might have someone who would be able to speak to the story I'm working on. The story is this: We're looking into how we wound up with so many remotes in our homes. The story is a bit on the history and the "why" of why our entertainment centers of the home have come to have a pile of remotes and why they don't all work together, how it came to be this way. I'm looking for experts who work on TVs and entertainment products that have an understanding of why we're here and why there haven't been solutions that keep the consumer in mind. Thanks for any assistance you're able to provide. ======= Does anyone here know how we arrived this cambrian explosion of IR remote codes? -Peter

3 months, 3 weeks

No Coon for Sudo Room

by Muirén Ní Sídach

I find it sad how often I find provisional acceptance within safe white spaces because my speech and deportment are perceived as an affectation, an engagement in “pick-me” social dynamics. It's doubly tragic, when it becomes clear I am not the safe, non-challenging Black face — and white fragility and passive aggression give rise to a façade of emotional calm and passive-aggressive rhetorical sophistry. If you are Black, and think I’m cooning and deluding myself about it, my DM is always open, use the email for this account. For non-Black people who don’t know, “Cooning” is not so much a slur, but a critique of Black people who engage in anti-Blackness, throwing Black people under the bus for personal gain. It is not saying that person is not Black because only Black people can be a “coon” or engage in “cooning”. Other disenfranchised communities have their equivalent. There can be intersectionality, such as a transgender person who carries water for, defends anti-Trans individuals or communities, patriarchy, as well as anti-Blackness. They often fall back on some point of the Mantan Manifesto, like claiming they can’t be anti-Black because they are Black (can’t be anti-Trans because they are trans), and the conservative apologetic “we are not one cultural monolith”. Note: Mantan Manifesto summary explanation, and video clip https://reddit.com/user/AnMuiren/comments/19210pi/spike_lees_bamboozled_the… The physical violence of white supremacy could not exist without the cover of polite white supremacy, and denial by a majority of white Americans across the political spectrum is a major barrier to change. Throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, the leadership of every white led progressive leaning institution I’ve spoken too has told me they cannot organize inclusive outreach programs because that would be political action and endanger their 501(c)(3) status. Kicking Jake to the curb for allegedly putting his foot in it doesn’t magically prove the rest of you are not white supremacist just because you are better at self-regulation. And as Jake and others have inferred, a vaguely defined anti-Racist goal without a plan is only a wish. Nearly every Sudo Room member I’ve spoken to, has defended an assumed right to be self-serving, individualistic, extractive members. To me, it appears members want a McDonald’s drive-thru brand of progressive politics and a space white space, free of uncomfortable, messy human complexity. Refusing to be vulnerable and socially invest means whites and minorities with proximity to whiteness cannot be trusted to accept the unavoidable discomfort and risks that come with subverting and dismantling the system of racialized class hierarchy promoted by law, commerce, and custom. This selfishness rationalized as virtuous freedom, the mythology of rugged individualists who have objectively earned their place in the world, is a willful self-deception. The reality of American Exceptionalism, is a projected image of being responsible, while avoiding the fact, Tom Sawyer’s Whitewashing the Fence scheme, writ large across a dystopian, colonial landscape. The difference is that Tom Sawyer faced those hard truths about himself and grew up. Note: Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence summary explanation https://storyboardthat.com/lesson-plans/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-by-mar…

3 months, 4 weeks

Proposal: Jamal as interim executive director

by Sarah Lockhart

I just wanted to provide some clarifications and professional suggestions on this proposal. For those who don't know me, I am Omni's soon-to-be former bookkeeper / finance person. I am not opposed to this proposal at a "high level" but there are things that should be considered. Silver also shared this with me last month: 2021 delegates meeting with > summary "agreed to hire Operations Coordinator (eventually) ": > https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2021/03/11_Delegates. More discussion > was done the week before > https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2021/03/04_Delegates. Operations > Coordinator shakes out to be the same thing as Executive Director. As someone who was part of the discussions around the Operations Coordinator role (which was conceived partly in the context of Omni's initial efforts to refinance), *saying that it is the "same thing" as Executive Director is actually inaccurate.* There was a lot of discussion at the time about whether it would be the same as an Executive Director, and the consensus was that it would very much NOT BE an Executive Director role, with the ability to make unilateral "executive" decisions. That was why "Coordinator" was included in the title, Having an "Executive Director" is actually new territory for Omni. The closest thing was when Emily was hired in December 2022 as "Finance Manager" after delegates decided that giving her an "Executive Director" role was too much power, among other reasons. > - Jamal has a lot of organizational and professional experience, and > connections to city officials and orgs who may help. His primary immediate > strategy is to try and get our lender to give us another extension. It is a bit awkward to read this, as we have received multiple communications from the lender through our lawyer that there would not be another extension. However, if someone new wants to give it a go, maybe the results will be different? But I am skeptical. However, I have been told that my natural skepticism is a personality flaw. At the very least, I would hope that Jamal has been forwarded / filled in on all the communications to date on this topic. > - *How can we pay for it?* Jamal has offered to fund the position himself > for the most part (current proposal, some small monthly fee ~$250, with the > rest of the money coming from a percentage of what he raises). This is a > big deal for Omni, which has almost no funds right now! Here's the professional guidance, as someone who has worked in the "nonprofit industrial complex" for the past two decades ... being paid a percentage of fundraised income is really counter to "best practices" and is generally frowned upon by most "aligned" non-profit fundraising professionals. There are numerous reasons to avoid a contract where a staff person is "paid a percentage of what they raise." Some of them are legal regulations about "private inurement" -- which I believe Jesse can explain to you. In general, having a staff person responsible for "raising their own salary" is something that is frowned on, because it creates a lot of stress for the staff person, and it is tied into equity issues. However, considering Jamal being hired for this role is an effort to create/improve equity (in the DEI sense, not in the financial sense), it does make things more complicated and worthy of discussion. > Sincerely, Sarah L

3 months, 4 weeks

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