Last night was quite magical! It reminded me of why I love hackerspaces so
much.
I invited 5 or 6 cool people from AI and augmented reality / virtual
reality meetups and hackathons I knew. I think most of them had never been
to a hackerspace before. three new people showed up, and none of them had
ever been to SudoRoom before.
We got an exhibiting artist to visit! I'd like to get more painters,
artists etc. to be visiting SudoRoom. Talked about paintings, and making 3D
models, and using the light projectors to project art. Introduced them to
the media lab with CeCe (sic) and the sewing machines.
Dane put up a light projector (I'm face palming becusa I keep talking about
this but never bring the ones I have, one of them is a loaner from SudoRoom
that I need to leave at SudoRoom), and he projected the hackers movie onto
the wall.
A cool new person came and we did multiplayer augmented reality with our
headsets. Augmented reality is at a nascent stage right now, but I love
creating art on it the most. We mirrored what we were seeing for others.
We talked about doing an ongoing blender class and I learned how to do
Booleans to cut shapes out of others shapes. I think since I'm time
constrained I might as well run a small pod of people Tuesday evenings.
Went over kitbashing.
Had some great green goddess pizza with Paige and folks. Thanks Paige for
supporting the pizza!
Explored the neighborhood (Temescal) with the folks who had never been to
SudoRoom before. AN ongoing theme is that we never seem to grab the awesome
foot traffic of the neighborhood. There were so many people walking to
restaraunts last night even though the area has relatively little parking.
More than you might see in a lot of downtown oakland
There were regular community gatherings at the board game store across the
street (is it called it's your move)
there's a kitchen appliance store that was having a cooking workshop (they
could be at omni commons!)
Only took a quick look at the new telepresence robot. I spoke to Jake, i
will have to email the company that made the robot, hopefully we can
connect to them and get a free software update since we are a non profit
While I was there I got an AI APi to work, might make something fun for a
hackathon or sudoroom demos. I'm very interested in using AI to help people
create art manually instead of replacing artists.
It was nice to see the dance event going on tuesday nights. wonder if I
should reach out to them and interact with them more!
we talked about fundraising for sudoroom, omnicommons and the MADE game
museum in old oakland. A lot of the stuff at Sudoroom is suitable for a
museum - it'd be nicve to have augmented reality exhibits of what stuff is
and "educate people" step by step beased on their engineering level and
computer history knowledge what things are.
There are going to be great things ahead this month!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi, Freeway (Wood Street Commons member) is requesting the following.
"Joel needs the following tools to fix our brakes: 14 mm socket,a jack,
21mm socket, a wire brush, a large flathead screwdriver... if anyone can
loan him these tools for the day, we can return them as soon as he's
done... thanks in advance!"
does anyone have a jack to lend them? I believe the rest of the items we
could lend from Omni's supplies
Thanks,
Paige
it's cozee and romantic here Monday next to the counterculture labs folks.
But how do I turn on the lights? I always forget!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
It's been so long!
I'm going to show up a little early
- Got 1 person from the (dead) Virtual Reality /AR group at Noisebridge to
come (tentative) He's new in town and actually working on his own AR /
neurology headset
- Getting 2 people who are collaborating on AI to come, one of them
actually has a Quest Headset
- I have my own Augemnted reality projects related to light projection as
well. Think I might make an effort to bring one of the light projectors to
NB!
What have you been working on this week?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Here's my only project I'm interested in at SudoRoom!
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/User:Romyilano#Bestest_Most_Current_Things
Sorry, no time to listen to people make presentations on stuff going on
outside of sudoroom!
No things where I have to click on a link to see some kind of project. no
presentations! no powerpoints! No involvement in anything that is not light
projection! No multimedia room even, just don't got time for it.
My only involvement is going to be working on a hardware hack project and
learning. I'm bringing the VR and AR folks over, and maybe some AI Folks!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hey,
I haven't been able to come by SudoRoom in a while! Next tUesday hardware
hack night I invited folks from the VR and AR community as well as some
cool AI folks to come by. I've been going to a lot of hackathons, and I
want to promote the "stay gold" vibe by inviting folks to a space.
https://www.meetup.com/sudoroom/events/300064981/
I guess if you know anyone who has a VR headset especially, that would be
really cool! We can also check out the robot and update the wiki. I'm
debating bringin my light projector (actually the sudoroom light proejctor)
I'll check with jake but looking into installing something permanently in
the balcony.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hey everyone,
Earlier today I've met with several Omni volunteers and touched on this
topic.
After meeting with volunteers I initiated a conversation with Trevor. Our
chat was mutual and it helped us understand the situation more.
*I have requested to Trevor that he temporarily stay away from Omni and
take that time to process and reflect on his reaction for assaulting Ian.*
*Trevor was receptive to leave and stay away from Omni for a one week
period begining today.*
*(April 6 - April 13)*
For clarity - this is a modified safer space ban and I did not include any
mediations nor did I felt the need to escort him out of Omni.
This ban was initiated as an individual Omni volunteer and not on behalf of
East Bay Food Not Bombs.
Thanks,
Toan
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 10:25 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still shaken, but after some reflection I want to say this:
>
> I've felt that Ian was harassing, abusing, gaslighting and boundary
> pushing people at omni for a long time, but was reluctant to say or do
> anything about it because I didn't feel like it would be taken seriously.
> Then last night he yelled some absolutely horrible violent and sexualized
> threats, making the entire building very unsafe.
>
> In his few months at omni, Trevor never witnessed any safe space bans
> happen, but DID witness attempts to use the safe space policy end in
> failure. From his perspective, it was reasonable to believe that nobody at
> omni actually took safe space seriously, the policy was a toothless joke,
> and the only way to address the intense levels of harm coming from Ian was
> to slap him in the face.
>
> Honestly, Trevor made the wrong decision to do this, but his heart was in
> the right place. Any restorative justice process needs to show great
> compassion.
>
> After thinking it over, I want to rescind my call for a safe space ban on
> Trevor. I made a rash call in the heat of the moment. I think our community
> failed him, and many others, by allowing Ian to remain for so long. I think
> a ban on Trevor would be disproportionate and needlessly punitive. I
> encourage the community to figure out a way to welcome him back asap.
>
> This is bigger than me and I'm not the boss of omni. I don't think it
> should be my decision. But I just wanted to say how I'm feeling now.
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:18 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am calling for safe space bans on Ian and Trevor.
>>
>> Trevor physically assaulted Ian, and then Ian called OPD on Trevor and
>> let them into Omni. I think both of these things were dangerous escalations
>> and violations of our community agreements. I also don't feel they were
>> equivalently dangerous, but they both meet the threshold for at least
>> temporary bans on both people while we figure out what repair and justice
>> look like.
>>
>> Trevor is not in the building, but Ian still is. I'm currently waiting
>> outside for Ian to collect his things. After he leaves, I will accompany
>> Trevor to collect his things also.
>>
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Hi everyone.
The Omni Commons, the building that sudo mesh co-owns with sudo room, Counter
Culture Labs, Food not Bombs and several other collectives just had a private
lender back out of a loan last minute and now it cannot pay its $120k property
taxes due tomorrow.
If anyone is willing to lend us $120k, even if it's for just three months
until we to sort out another loan, please contact me. This needs to happen
before tomorrow at 4 pm pacific time.
The loan would be secured by the building as a second mortgage so it should be
fairly low risk.
-jake
I don’t know if we could call this marketing, but there are a lot of private venture funded social spaces popping up. Being biased I find ours is much more genuine and interesting.
Rethinking how we can talk about Sudoroom online into other people as a cool third space
https://apple.news/AM2lkHk68QpefU7HNB8xpsg
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