sudo-discuss August 2024

sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org

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"we rule because we don't make you look at LinkedIn profiles or do powerpoint presentations"

by Romy Ilano

trying to play on our strengths :) https://sudoroom.org/another-scene-from-media-lab-hardware-hack-night/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months

Fwd: [Host Copy] Looking forward to a short but sweet remote meetup

by Romy Mimi Ilano

We're starting this in an hour with some UX designers - it's going to be super short, but I think ti'd be fun to have an in-person ux workshops at some point at the omni and sudoroom. *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Romy Ilano <noreply(a)luma-mail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM Subject: [Host Copy] Looking forward to a short but sweet remote meetup To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> Thanks, looking forward to a short but sweet remote call! If this link doesn't work we will resort… <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> SPECULATIVE DESIGN IN URBAN PLANNING in Oakland (A remote meetup TEASER) Aug 23, 4:30 PM PDT · Virtual <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> *Looking forward to a short but sweet remote meetup* Romy Ilano Thanks, looking forward to a short but sweet remote call! If this link doesn't work we will resort to zoom. https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles This will mostly be around brainstorming in-person UX meetups in our space in Oakland. Any online meetups will be purely for brainstorming and directing energy to in-person meetups. Non-Profit Mission Note that *SudoRoom is a non-profit*, so we limit promoting for-profit companies such as Artificial Intelligence startups, etc. And since our mission is to serve Oakland I am focusing a lot of the brainstorming topics to enrich our awesome, diverse city, which is the best example of American values and definitely has a small-town feel that is completely lost in most of US suburbia. While we're poor, we are sexy. I have spoken to other folks, and for-profit hackathons or corporate meet-ups simply do not have interesting UX collaborations as they are not a priority there. I've noticed that tech meetups unfortunately default to treating UX designers are photoshop jockeys who are there to make pretty screens and not much else. Since we're a social good non-profit it is possible to make really kickass UX however you want, which is actually good in the long run for UX Designers' portfolios! Speculative design is an option. We just ask that we keep the focus on non-profit tools and on social good as that's part of our mission. Slides Slides exist to be ignored and make us fall asleep but I made some here in case we have to go beg for funding. [image: Image][image: Image][image: Image][image: Image]more links - Reimagining Urban Planning: Urban Planning & its relationship to Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=C8bv2MO8DKNQlOBY&v=VE6LE4HEY_E&feature=you… View Post <https://lu.ma/ep/ep-1P7BgcWh3D?utm_source=email> You received this email because you are part of SPECULATIVE DESIGN IN URBAN PLANNING in Oakland (A remote meetup TEASER) <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> on Luma. To contact the host, reply to this email. <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>

4 months, 1 week

Slides are meant to be ignored but these are great I swear - Urban planning workshops brainstorming

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/brainstorming-in-person-ux-to-solve-real-problems-and-… ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

brief remote event 8/30 - DESIGN YOUR OWN MUSEUM EXHIBIT WITH OPEN-SOURCE BLENDER

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/design-your-own-museum-exhibit-with-open-source… DESIGN YOUR OWN MUSEUM EXHIBIT WITH OPEN-SOURCE BLENDER CREATE YOUR OWN EDGY 3D MODELS OF MUSEUM EXHIBITS IN OPEN-SOURCE BLENDER *Sudo Room* 4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland Events <https://sudoroom.org/locations/sudo-room/> <https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.84124,-122.264125&z=14&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=U…> *Date/Time* Date(s) - 2024/08/30 *11:00 am - 11:30 am* *Location* Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org/locations/sudo-room/> *Categories* - blender and more 3D modelling <https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/blender-and-more-3d…> - online <https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/online/> - sudo room events <https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/> - Sign up at https://lu.ma/rgfxvcxf An online Friday check-in on creating your own museum exhibits using open-source blender tools at our North Oakland Hackerspace, SudoRoom. We will be using open-source tools such as Blender for this quick online meetup and hope to move it to in-person! See our Wiki 3DModelling <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/3D_Modeling> which we’ll be updating as the week goes on. EXHIBITS FOR ADULTS There’s a lack of museum exhibits, especially for science, targeted primarily at adults. That’s unfortunate since adults are responsible for voting on stuff that can include climate change, destruction of the environment, and designing streets that are deadly and hit little kids with big SUVs. Why don’t we make some exhibits just for adults, the kids are all right and know what’s up, but we have to make the adults understand that the world needs to improve and become a better place for all! See our Wiki:ScienceForAdults <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ScienceForAdults>which we’ll be updating this week. BRIEF ONLINE LONG IN-PERSON MEETUPS This is a brief online overview in preparation of an in-person, non-hybrid event at our wonderful hackerspace in Oakland, SudoRoom! Because it’s always much better to meetup face to face without screens. LEARN MORE ABOUT PAST EVENTS This is a continuation of the Dioramas Hack Night: We are not Coconuts <https://sudoroom.org/dioramas-at-sudoroom-hack-night-preparation-we-are-not…>meetup we had earlier in the month. We will be creating a private online link closer to the meetup date! *Flyer Credit:** Oakland Museum of California **History of California Exhibit <https://museumca.org/on-view/gallery-of-california-history/>** on Chinese Railroad Workers* ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

Sudo Member Meeting

by William Myers

Hello Everyone, We should have a meeting tonight to talk about the changes coming to Sudoroom. *We'll have to discuss: * - The new lease - potentially sponsoring CC so she can continue working in the basement See you there William

4 months, 1 week

hacker food isn't only about pizza and junk - introducing dabi kolo

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/dabo-kolo-ethiopian-hacker-snacks/ OUR LOCAL ETHIOPIAN BODEGA DOWN THE STREET HAS THESE HEALTHY DELICIOUS DABO KOLO SNACKS! Hacker snacks aren’t only chips, pizza and junk food! At our recent hardware hack night we had some super-healthy Dabo Kolo fried dough snacks from our bodega next door. It’s an Ethiopian place down the street that has a cute cat and sells injera (we’ll be talking to them more in further blog posts). These dabi kolo fried dough snacks have less than five ingredients and they are all real, so they pass the Michael Pollan “Is it real food?” test! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_1677-1.jpeg> <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image.jpeg> Incidentally, the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia just built a huge metro rail line <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Light_Rail>, the first in Africa I think? There’s nothing more cyberpunk than public transportation! We are down the street from the MacArthur BART and next to two bike share stations run by Bay Wheels as well. There are over 20,000 folks from Ethiopia and Eritrea in Oakland <http://At our recent hardware hack night we had some super-healthy Dabo Kolo fried dough snacks from our bodega next door. It's an Ethiopian place down the street that has a cute cat and sells injera (we'll be talking to them more in further blog posts).>. This is a place where you can get Ethiopian coffee, injera bread, and authentic meals along with all sorts of healthy sweets and snacks. OAKLAND RULES BECAUSE IT’S SMALL TOWN AMERICA AT ITS BEST *We love Oakland,* and being physically located in the most diverse, warmest and most all-American small town vibe place in the entire United States is something that SudoRoom hackerspace is proud of. While we’re proud to be part of the hacker community, we aren’t “just another” hackerspace. While Oakland has problems, it is also the most unique and interesting place in California in our opinions, with a wealth of talent. Unlike most places in America, it’s easy to walk or bike past dozens of locally owned businesses, so SudoRoom and Oakland Temescal have a small-town mainstreet feel you wouldn’t find in other places in the USA. You really get to know the local business owners here in a way that’s simply not possible in the other cities with more clean-cut reputations. And our local businesses aren’t *only *centered around yoga studios and chain store coffee shops – Oakland has Korean grocery stores visited by real working class Korean folks, same with the Yemeni and Ethiopian and Eritrean grocery stores. We’re down the street from the East Bay Center for Reuse <https://www.creativereuse.org/> where teachers get discounted art supplies*(gee, I wish they didn’t have to spend their own money to teach kids but that’s another matte. At least they are still teaching art and not some soulless corporate multiple choice STEM module like in other places in the USA)* and hardcore Korean noodle joints. HOW TO MAKE DABO KOLO AT HOME ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

Lease discussion

by Elaine Jeffery

Hi all, When are we going to meet to talk about what we want and don't want on the new lease? Thanks, --Elaine

4 months, 1 week

Retaining media lab under sudoroom

by cc OrangeLush

This is CC as a member of sudoroom I want to make a proposal to retain the Media Lab (the same square footage that SMAC occupied) as a sudoroom resource. I have the funds available (with a little extra for improvements) to pay for the extra square footage that would be added to sudoroom lease. This has been a last minute award of funding for me and I can put in a more detail proposal by week's end but a this time I want to put that on the table for tonight's meeting. Cecelia "CC" Mosher-Clark 510-478-6900

4 months, 1 week

Fwd: [Admin Copy] SUDOROOM IS MADE OF PEOPLE (AUGUST 2024 NEWSLETTER)

by Romy Ilano

Hi folks, this went out to the 59 new people we have on our lu.ma/sudoroom mailing list. lu.ma/sudoroom I'm impressed at how many people signed up, and we've been cross-posting to arts-focused local mailing lists like Decentered instead of the usual tech meet and greets and discord channels. If you could direct people here for sign-ups instead of meetup.com, that'd be great. Our meetup account is closing down in a few weeks. I'd love to just have all the sign ups be on our wordpress, but the site keeps going down (working with jake on that), and I might make copies of this newsletter on hashnode (https://sudoroom.hashnode.dev) but here it is. We also have cofffee and whiteboarding Thursday mornings, which is getting a good response! So we can escpae our monday and tuesday exclusive sign ups. EVENTS THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE Sign up on our lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup! 8/19… <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SudoRoom <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SUDOROOM IS MADE OF PEOPLE (AUGUST 2024 NEWSLETTER) EVENTS <https://sudoroom.org/events/> THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE Sign up on our <https://lu.ma/sudoroom>lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup! - 8/19 Monday – *OCTAVIA BUTLER & OPEN-SOURCE AI: RAG & VECTOR DB – WOMEN & NONBINARY HACK NIGH <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb>*T <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb> *we continue our open-source AI workshop focused on Octavia Butler* (see some of the prequels <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>) - 8/20 Tuesday – 2pm – 11pm – *Open Sewing & Making Lab <https://lu.ma/8nbgql52>* note that the hours are longer and extended! - 8/20 Tuesday 8pm-11:45pm – *The Wonder of Panoramas – Hardware Hack Night <https://lu.ma/z11o2ctd>* *we explore physical and virtual panoramas in virtual reality and on paper* - 8/22 Thursday Morning – 9:30am-10:15am – *Clique-y Algorithms <https://lu.ma/15elstji>* – Whiteboard & Coffee Series – *putting the soul back in soulless graph theory algorithms* - 8/23 Friday 4:30-5:00 pm – *Speculative Design: Urban Planning around SudoRoom & Temescal <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0>*– *a short but sweet teaser online (remote) for an in-house UX session later this month* ------------------------------ MOTTO: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY <https://sudoroom.org/appropriate-technology/> *Appropriate technology reminds us that before we choose our tools and techniques we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them unobtainable.* - Rainbow Magazine, 1977 - [image: Image] ------------------------------ HACKING A MIDI CONTROLLER <https://sudoroom.org/hacking-a-midi-controller-at-sudoroom-thank-you/> Shantea Controls hacked their midi controller to make rad music with help from Jake during hardware hack night! [image: Image] ------------------------------ OCTAVIA BUTLER THEME WITH OPEN SOURCE AI After being stuck doing dozens of joyless customer sentiment analysis and storefront chatbot examples, we decided to put the open-source and soul back into our Women & Non-Binary workshops with some *Octavia Butler <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>*themes <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>! Instead of mindlessly adding AI models, we also discussed the implications of open-source and transparency and read over some papers. Just about everyone was able to leave the evening with an open-source generative AI model and some code that ran whether they were on a Mac, windows or linux machine! [image: Image] *This upcoming Monday we continue for session two with RAG and vector databases <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb>*! <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb> ------------------------------ BUILDING A VIRTUAL REALITY SUDOROOM ON OPEN-SOURCE A-Frame Visit us in virtual reality on your headset at https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ – Chat with Romy if you want to contribute and learn A-Frame for open-source webXR <https://sudoroom.org/xr-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-webxr/> [image: Image] https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ ------------------------------ INTRODUCING SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-pho…>INVOLVING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD We’re starting with a short but sweet remote meetup next Friday <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-pho…> with an introduction to *speculative design <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-pho…>*. Eventually these will move to in-house workshops led by talented UX designers involving projects like “body-storming”, exploring the diverse immigrant neighborhood of Oakland, and imagining new technologies beyond our wildest dreams! [image: Image] Use AI to imagine walkable streets, electric scooters, and immigrant food stands to create a healthier, more locally focused, and just Oakland! ------------------------------ NEW POSTS THIS WEEK - *Note from our successful whiteboarding Session – Rust & Algebraic Datatypes* led by Jade from Noisebridge – https://sudoroom.org/algebraic-data-types-in-rust-whiteboard-style-kung-fu-… - *Slices of Life from our Hardware Hack Nigh*t – https://sudoroom.org/slices-of-life-from-hardware-hack-night/ - *Our first successful collaboration at the Museum with Noisebridge’s Aaron* – we even have a print handout from this collaboration on “Where is the Math in Art?” https://sudoroom.org/where-is-the-math-in-art-print-handout/ - We’re adding more fine arts into SudoRoom Tech and Analog hardware projects with links to art on display at the Berkeley and Oakland Museums – https://sudoroom.org/dioramas-at-sudoroom-hack-night-preparation-we-are-not… we are not coconuts and we are note a remote-first hackerspace! ------------------------------ ROBOTS CAME TO PLAY AT SUDOROOM Robots can be friends too! (from our last hardware hack night session <https://sudoroom.org/slices-of-life-from-hardware-hack-night/>) – The BEAM robot is up and running and you can see more robot projects as we update our Robot <https://sudoroom.org/robots/>project page. ------------------------------ PROJECT PAGES New project pages on various topics, please email us what you are working on! - Robots https://sudoroom.org/robots/ - Math & Art & Beyond https://sudoroom.org/math-art-beyond/ - XR https://sudoroom.org/xr-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-webxr/ Permanent Newsletter Link <https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/> <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>

4 months, 1 week

What happened to SudoRoom ?

by Anonymousemail

Found this funny video from 2013 as I will be back in the Bay this week. I completely forgot about the guy who comes in past the 3 minute mark, he used to scare the shit out of me ! https://youtu.be/oAP4ygtM37s?t=198  What times are best to visit for open hours in the next two weeks ?  I am no longer a member from back in the day. Dillon  

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