sudo-discuss May 2025

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16 discussions

Proposal: SUDO room joins the Apartheid Free Communities Campaign

by Laura Wesely

Dear Sudoroom members and leaders, For the past 2.5 years I’ve been a Sudoroom “member” (I say this in quotations because I’ve been paying dues and attending but have never been endorsed as a full fledged member), but I’d like to make a proposal that Sudoroom become an Apartheid Free Community! I am writing as a member of SURJ Bay Area’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign. As a racial justice organization, SURJ believes it is our moral obligation to demand an end to Israel’s system of apartheid, its genocide in Gaza, and its increasing violent seizure of land in the West Bank. All this is paid for by our tax dollars, with the U.S. directly funding the Israeli government to the tune of $35 billion a year. We invite Sudoroom to join us to support the Palestinian people’s human rights, lives, and lands by taking the pledge to become an Apartheid-Free Community. Apartheid is a crime against humanity. As defined by the United Nations <https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cspca/cspca.html>, apartheid includes: • Acts such as murder, torture, inhuman treatment, and arbitrary arrest of members of a racial group • Deliberate imposition upon the subjugated racial group of living conditions calculated to cause its physical destruction • Legislative measures that discriminate in the political, social, economic, and cultural fields We could fill pages with examples of how Israel’s treatment of Palestinians meets this criteria—from arrests and imprisonment without charges to the destruction of Gaza by bombing homes, hospitals, and schools and cutting off food, water, electricity and medical supplies. Palestinians are subjected to entirely different laws and judicial systems, without freedom of movement and economic opportunities. Inspired by the anti-apartheid movement that helped topple the white supremacist regime in South Africa, the Apartheid-Free Communities Campaign is bringing communities together to end apartheid in Israel/Palestine. We encourage Sudoroom to join the over 500 organizations across the globe, including cities, schools, faith-based communities, labor unions, businesses, and organizations, in taking the pledge to become an Apartheid-Free Community. Signing the Pledge makes a difference! It reflects public support to our elected officials when we press them to divest from Israeli violence. It reduces harm to Palestinian and Arab members of our community. It challenges the official narratives and expands the public consciousness around Palestine. We ask that you sign this pledge, and take actions, in whatever way makes sense to Sudoroom, to be part of this effort. Be sure to let me know if you have any questions and how I can support your Sudoroom in signing the Pledge and joining this campaign. In Solidarity, Lo P.S. We have materials including buttons, posters, and pamphlets you can use to increase awareness and build support. Plus the Apartheid-Free Communities website <https://apartheid-free.org/about/> is full of great resources and educational materials. -- *Lo * *(Laura Wesely)* *Pronouns: She/They <https://www.mypronouns.org/>* *There is no neutral body from which our bodies deviate. Society has written deep into each strand of tissue of every living person on earth. What it writes into the heart muscles of five star generals is distinct from what it writes in the pancreatic tissue and intestinal tracts of Black single mothers in Detroit, of Mexicana migrants in Fresno, but no body stands outside the consequences of injustice and inequality* *― *Aurora Levins Morales

2 weeks

I have put up the June 2 women and nonbinary night lu.ma!!!

by Romy Ilano

https://lu.ma/zio5fbke ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 weeks, 3 days

Fiscal Sponsorship agreement going into effect

by Paige P

Hi everyone, I am a Sudo Room member who has been volunteering a lot in admin work for the last year, and am at least the sudo room president in name. But also I'm on the board for Omni Commons. Omni Commons is still fiscally sponsoring Sudo Room, since Sudo Room isn't yet ready to act as a nonprofit. The planned update to the fiscal sponsorship agreement between Omni Commons and Sudo Room (and the other groups sponsored by Omni) has been decided to go into effect starting June 1st. - The agreed on fee was 8% of total receipts. Here is the document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JeImeQK0ugbb7Ewys5H9mufxyX_NFikeoVr_Rnm… ) - The agreement needed to be updated after the building sale because Omni Common's nonprofit no longer has any income otherwise --- before "fiscal sponsorship fees" were rolled into each sponsored project's rent. Now that Omni no longer owns the building/collects rent, it instead will collect funds through fiscal sponsorship fees. - Funds are needed since Omni Commons still has some debts, and has been paying for Sudo's insurance since the building sale. 8% was chosen as a comparable rate to most organizations providing fiscal sponsorship. Also, since Sudo Room and Free Store have not been making any contributions to the Omni Commons nonprofit, me/Omni's board is also asking if Sudo Room can contribute towards insurance payments since September 2024. I haven't done the accounting on this yet, and we are also waiting to get another insurance refund which will change the amount. I know Sudo Room doesn't have a lot of money coming in so we are more seeking extra donations for this. Tldr: Sudo Room, at least while sponsored by Omni, will need to start keeping track of how much it makes in donations and member fees, and then pay 8% of that back to Omni. Sudo Room is still on the Omni board, so it can join the Omni delegate/board meeting to discuss more! The next one is on June 12th. Paige

2 weeks, 4 days

[sudo-info] Screening at Gray Area (SF), June 15th, 7-9 pm; in person/virtually (fwd)

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 20:44:56 +0000 From: "Chernysheva, Anastasia" To: "info(a)sudoroom.org" Subject: [sudo-info] Screening at Gray Area (SF), June 15th, 7-9 pm; in person/virtually To whom it may concern, my name is Anastasia, I'm an art historian and a curator. Reaching out, I would like to share information about the forthcoming screening focused on early telepresence and invite you to join in person or virtually. We are also open to collaboration of any kind: adding the event to your newsletter, listings, etc. Please let me know if it resonates and what the next steps might be. Hope to (e-)see you soon! "Electronic Cafe International (1989-2000): Virtual Collaboration and Telepresence Before the Web" at Gray Area on June 15th, virtually and in person. About: Artists Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz once envisioned telecommunication networks and information commons – what we now call videoconferencing and the World Wide Web – as a liberating force for communities, fostering creativity and open dialogue beyond the constraints of time and space. In a conversation inspired by the legacy of Electronic Cafe International, we will explore the evolution of telepresence (from the 1970s onwards) in connection to contemporary socio-political challenges, reflecting on the role of artivism in today’s world. Time: June 15th, 7-9 pm PDT Location: * in person at 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA * virtually: Zoom link w/ticket RSVP. More information and tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/electronic-cafe-international-virtual-collaborat… Best, Anastasia -------------------------------- Anastasia Chernysheva Visiting Researcher (Music Industry), UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; '24 Master of Arts (MA), University of Illinois; Research Fellow<https://grayarea.org/community-entry/anastasia-chernysheva/> at Gray Area; Announced: Biofeedback Art|Research Network<https://arts.ca.gov/collective/gray-area-231-5-join-the-biofeedback-art-res…>

2 weeks, 4 days

Meeting tonight?

by Jake Watters

Let's meet up tonight! Lots to talk about, including new members, and a proposal for sudoroom to be an Apartheid Free Zone! Meet up at 7 and start an official meeting at 8? I'll try to get the video link working -jake

2 weeks, 5 days

Should I cancel women on non-binary night in Memorial Day?

by Romy Ilano

I’m assuming people are staying home, but I’ll keep it up on the Luma Sent from my iPhone

3 weeks

Planning ahead for manga themes around comics in art tech and learning this fall

by Romy Ilano

Hey folks, I’m thinking of plenty ahead in conjunction with the big de young show on Minga starting the September. I feel like weekend do a lot of collaboration around this museum show making comments around how to use a laser printer how technology works. It’s gonna be fun. Art of Manga spotlights iconic Japanese artwork and its influence on global storytelling and social commentary https://www.famsf.org/press-room/art-of-manga Sent from my iPhone

3 weeks

5/14 wed meeting 7-8:30pm @SudoRoom - future's so bright we gotta wear shades

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/futures-so-bright-i-gotta-wear-shades-meetup-wednesday… Come join us as we plan SudoRoom's non-profit and beyond future! We're getting good momentum with great things ahead of us. This Wednesday meetup is open to members and the public. Main topics: - Non-Profit status - how do we get there from here - What will be made possible by non profit status - Ideas for upcoming theme nights - Ideas for collaborations with other cool spaces - Coordination around major art and cultural events in the next few months in the SF Bay Area and beyond ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

3 weeks, 5 days

OCLP

by Patrick Clawson

This message is for Peter Mui, apologies for spamming the group with a message for a specific person, but I don't have their contact details yet. Hi Peter, This is Patrick Clawson, we met at last week's Tuesday night meeting and you gave me the minimac to get up and running with OCLP. I was reading up on it and one of the draw backs to OCLP is that future upgrades might break the install, requiring another run at it with the OCLP installer. I was reading that non-MacOS installs such as linux are also possible and might not require as many interventions to keep running. I was wondering if you had a specific use in mind for that mac that having macOS running on it is desired, or if the idea is to just get it up and running, OS agnostic? again, apologies for messaging the group as a whole if that goes against the general mailing list etiquette, and I'm happy to take this conversation to a separate email thread if you'd like to send me an email address to use. -- Patrick Clawson zombiebot(a)gmail.com pbclawson(a)gmail.com 510-290-6540

1 month

Youtube: “Make and Assemble PCBs on your Workbench”

by Peter Mui

“Make and Assemble PCBs on your Workbench”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G7jBCK90O0 Anyone else interested in doing this at Sudo Room? -Peter

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