sudo-discuss August 2024

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SudoRoom Newsletter for August 2024

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months

Starting a very casual algorithms whiteboarding Thursday mornings at the sudoroom space

by Romy Ilano

Super casual, will try to remove it from the traumatic job interview process as much as possible! This will be in-person only (no remote or hybrid!!!!!) and get people on the whiteboard ideally people can start off exploring the neighborhood shortly after or right before the session (we have some cute coffee places nearby) and hopefully some art should come of it https://lu.ma/15elstji Join us for some casual Yerba Mate or coffee Thursday morning at the beautiful SudoRoom hackerspace <https://sudoroom.org/events/whiteboard-coffee-clique-y-algorithms/> in Oakland down the street from Oakland’s Temescal <https://localwiki.org/oakland/Temescal>gourmet ghetto! We’ll be focused on an *in-person whiteboarding session* on graph theory around the *topic of friendship cliques*.(No hybrid or remote participations for this one! we value human interaction!) This is for people of all levels, since everyone is at all levels of practice. If you’re rusty on graphs, then start on your trees, and if you’re rusty on your trees, then brush up to linked lists. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months

Depressing topic, but this would be a cool science project at SudoRoom, how to detect if your drink has been spiked

by Romy Ilano

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-18-year-old-developed-a-test… Sent from my iPhone

4 months, 1 week

Decentralized Web Meetup this eve!

by Ajay Tallam

Hey all! It was great to see some of you at DWeb camp <https://dwebcamp.org/> (for the rest of you, I'd _highly_ recommend checking out all dweb future meetups, and esp coming to camp if it happens again!), and either way, we'd love to invite all the sudoers to come hang out with us thurs 8/15@5p at MeloMelo! here is the link to the DWeb Afterglow (special session of Weality Check!): https://weco.io/p/28011 [image: image.png] I was thinking of hosting this at omni, potentially in sudo, to help raise omni awareness, and to have a bigger space, but felt simpler to keep it at our usual time/space. And, would love to have y'all come to coimagine everything, including potential future tie-ups! warmly, ajay

4 months, 1 week

Building out a webVR (webXR) SudoRoom - do you have goggles?

by Romy Ilano

Does anyone else have a Quest or a VisionPro? You can view SudoRoom virtually and transport in portals https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ This is a simple tour of SudoRoom and a work in progress! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

Algebraic Data Types in Rust Whiteboard Style! Kung Fu at our Women and Non-Binary hack night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/algebraic-data-types-in-rust-whiteboard-style-kung-fu-… Algebraic Data Types in Rust Whiteboard Style! Kung Fu at our Women and Non-Binary hack nightSummarizePosted on: Romy Ilano <https://sudoroom.org/author/romyilano/>August 13, 2024 <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-2.jpeg> <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-2.jpeg>Starting off with a wikipedia entry and whiteboarding from there with Jade!Humans and Whiteboards First! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_9927.jpeg> As you know, after holding a session on “Learning how to Learn <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/LearningToLearn>“, we realized that the best thing about SudoRoom is that we love tech but want to *use our tech wisely* for the forces of good. We decided to switch to a whiteboard first format with no online or hybrid component, just a bunch of human beings face to face during our Rust session at women and non-binary hack night! It was a little different. Of course we still had laptops nearby, but mostly closed, and a tablet if we absolutely had to look things up online. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9931.mov>Whiteboarding at Women & Non-Binary Hack Night What resulted as a cool “jam” as just about everybody was able to grab a whiteboard marker and participate! We were nervous… would this work? We set up the whiteboards, laid out the tables, and hoped people would be into this freestyle form of symposium! Mothball and Jade led us through a journey of all their favorite ins and outs of Rust and even the Haskell programming languages. Algebraic Data Types: Let’s Start with the Wikipedia Definition! Jade explained that even though the initial definition of “algebraic data types <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type>” in the wikipedia entry has language that’s a little scary if you’re not deep on math or computer science, you can just take apart the definition piece by piece to learn while in a conversation with others. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-2.jpeg>Starting off with a wikipedia entry and whiteboarding from there with Jade! It feels a lot less intimidating if you can ask people in person, and sketch things out in examples. Plus people who work as engineers could give out examples (like a URL builder out of an enum in Swift), creating a mini-symposium of happy, smart people drawing things out on a big whiteboard for fun! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-12.jpeg>Talking about Recursion and Stack Overflow in Whiteboard It’s nice to step away from the computer screen and discuss recursion and stack overflow. So much less dry than an online class, and these notes I took were outside of the whiteboard fray! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-4.jpeg>Functional programmers LOVE recursion! This was also a fun way to get embedded engineers in dialogue right before we went down the rabbit holes journeying from Rust to Haskell (!) But for the others at the women and nonbinary hack night, it’s nice to get down lowwwww and talk about memory in these systems programming languages and even the exotic, weird languages like Haskell. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-11.jpeg>Things get Weird in a Good Way Some parts got pretty wild: I think at this point Mothball was showing us how they used an enum (algebraic data type) in Rust to do math for all natural numbers… I think it was a “Reverse Polish notation” calculator? Can you imagine using enums to do all your addition of natural numbers? <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-3.jpeg> The notes had us on a discussion of pattern matching in Rust with algebraic data types. When you wield algebraic data types the right way, you can do tons of pattern matching and avoid uncertainty and errors, especially in data structures that handle stuff like network calls! The pattern matching can avoid tons of boilerplate code and if/else statements and totally nasty crashes! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-9.jpeg>Pattern matching is awesome in Rust! And it makes invalid states totally unpresentable!!!!!!! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-7.jpeg> The notes get a little wacky here, but what was nice was that we could take notes and investigate later. https://gist.github.com/CMCDragonkai/9f5f75118dda10131764 <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-5.jpeg> And it was so nice! Everyone stood physically closer to each other, and even though a lot of us were noobs at Rust and had never touched Haskell, the advanced people made it easy for senior and advanced beginners to understand. Even people who usually program C were able to join in! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9930.heic> Fun times! We look forward to more in-person meetups. Why meet online when everyone is sick of online meetings? Is it really healthy for people to only socialize and do hacking from a discord channel in their bedroom, when it’s so much nicer to connect with people in person in a crazy hackerspace like sudoroom? we say YEAH! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

Bimonthly meetings?

by Cere Davis

Hey We're really approaching the deadline wrt saving Omni. I propose that we try and have meetings more often during this time, to more quickly address consensus decisions to new questions that come up. With that said, should we meet this Wednesday at 7p? We could make this fun and perhaps some of us meet in-person with some food potluck style. Thoughts? Cere

4 months, 1 week

recap + CAST / OMNI buyer due diligence meeting tonight

by Paige P

Shreya from CAST is hosting another CAST x Omni meeting tonight (Tuesday 8/13) 6-7PM. The topic today is "transitioning out of the building and/or buyer due diligence." *Recap of what we are discussing in CAST and delegates meetings* A short recap is - Omni is still trying to prevent looming foreclosure (soonest auction sale would be Sep 6). The two tangible options to do so are through Phillip Bell/City in Motion (CiM) or EBPREC. CiM proposal is more progressed at this point, and funding for it (through a loan) is secured, but EBPREC's, if approved by their board, would be a safer option. At this point, it is pretty certain that both options would mean Omni's whole current board (delegates and officers) would step down and be replaced by new board members. Current Omni Commons members would no longer controlling operations. If foreclosure ends up happening, the collectives will be looking for different places to rent. It is unsure if any profit will be made after foreclosure. If there is any profit, one proposal is to donate any funds to Sogorea Te. There have also been vague proposals of how to split up the money amongst collectives, or keeping it in the Omni nonprofit. This is a big change that we are going to have to decide on very soon, and I hope we get as many people involved in the discussion as we can. For more info, I think last week's meeting is a good overview of where we are at now: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2024/08/08_Delegates. *how to join the meeting tonight* It is a hybrid meeting, with CAST joining remotely. We have it set up conference style in one of the Omni basement rooms (pictured below). If you'd like to attend from your own device, reply to me and I will share the zoom link. [image: Basement_2017.png] Thanks, Paige

4 months, 1 week

Here's the event posting for the weekly meeting

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/sudoroom-general-meeting/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

4 months, 1 week

Could we get the sudoroom meetings (online or not) on the calendar?

by Romy Ilano

I apologize, I haven't been able to make them the past few years. When is the next sudoroom meeting? Is it hybrid? I would like to show that we have events going on that aren't only on Tuesday or Monday :P and spruce upt he rest of the week ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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