sudo-discuss April 2024

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by William Myers

Recently the OMNI has experienced some serious safety issues, including a situation that resulted in police being called into the space. The delegates are asking for volunteers that can be available generally to respond to safety issues relating to Safe Space Bans, and other safety issues... - responding quickly to Safe Space bans - making sure building access is revoked for banned people - making sure that the Process's for safe space bans, as well as and a process for reporting unsafe behavior, are publicly visible and available in the space. This will likely be formalized into an official committee later on, which will include de-escalation training, but for now we would like to ask for more volunteers. If you have time for helping improve Safety at SUDO and OMNI please reach out! Thanks William

2 years

tuesday hardware hack night was magical!

by Romy Ilano

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! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years

tool lending request for car repair

by Paige P

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

2 years

Yeah! tons of new folks coming to hardware hack night for the first time tonight!

by Romy Ilano

Yeah! tons of new folks coming to hardware hack night for the first time tonight! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years

I forgot how to turn on the lights again!

by Romy Ilano

it's cozee and romantic here Monday next to the counterculture labs folks. But how do I turn on the lights? I always forget! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years

I'm psyched to return to Hardware Hacking Tuesdays!

by Romy Ilano

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? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years

Upcoming night this Tuesday hardware hacking night - strictly light projection for me!

by Romy Ilano

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! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years

Next Tuesday hardware hack night - themed VR + AI as well!

by Romy Ilano

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. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years

Re: [omni-consensus] Safe space bans on both Ian and Trevor

by Toan Nguyen

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. >> > _______________________________________________ > consensus mailing list > consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >

2 years

URGENT: Omni needs a $120k loan

by Jake

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

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