sudo-discuss June 2025

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Created a test SudoRoom Discord server - not to replace turtles but to enhance!

by Romy Ilano

Hi I created a test SudoRoom server. It's not to replace turtles but to enhance it! Best, Romy ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

6 months, 1 week

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

7 months, 1 week

UPCOMING EVENTS: Fri night at Sudo Room, Sat at South Branch, Berkeley Public Library

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: We’ve got two events coming up later this week: - Fri Jun 27 7PM-9PM: Sudo Room is hosting Denise Wong, Senior Statewide Membership Organizer, and at least seven others (Denny, Hoang, Jeffrey, Jennifer, Jorja, Kevin, and Matt) from Asian Pacific Environmental Network (https://www.apenaction.org/) for a meet-and-greet, tour of Omni Commons, and an informal clean-up and cull of our laptop cabinet: please help us give them a warm welcome. (Is anyone willing to tidy up Sudo Room between now and Friday evening, pretty please?) - Sat Jun 28 1PM-3PM: Thinkpads4All.org (a great bunch of high schoolers and college students) is holding a computer repair workshop at the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch, Berkeley Public Library: https://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13755420 Thinkpads4All brings laptops and disassembly tools to guide participants through taking a laptop apart – to change the battery, to upgrade memory, to replace the hard drive, etc. I’ve been attending their workshops to field general questions about tech repair. You’re welcome to attend just to participate in the Thinkpads4All workshop (and tell your friends too); you’re also welcome to join me in hanging out and fielding questions, or to bring your own laptop or other tech to work on. (Long term: we’re talking with the Thinkpads4All team about incorporating more of a Sudo Room-like component to their future workshops, e.g. inviting people to bring their own broken laptops, helping with software migration (e.g. Windows 10 end of support is this October), and converting laptops and Chromebooks to Linux.) Let me know you’re coming by registering at https://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup Hopefully see you at either (or both!) , -Peter

7 months, 3 weeks

Albert Einstein, Civil Rights activist — Harvard Gazette

by Romy Ilano

7 months, 4 weeks

blog roll call: Does anyone have cool projects or photos to share around Juneteenth?

by Romy Ilano

Have any projects with crafting / technical projects around Juneteenth? Or PRIDE? This would be super rad! I don't have time to stop in would love to gather other folks' ideas! rock on! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

7 months, 4 weeks

Sorry about the blog being behind! I switched it back to the old format

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/blog/ Do you guys have any blog updates for the blog? sorry I have a crazy new schedule! I'm so happy to drop in today We have a lot of cool projects ahead! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

7 months, 4 weeks

Fwd: [sudo-members] Invitation to Attend OSHWA's Open Healthware Conference in New York City!

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:40:57 -0700 From: Open Healthware <openhealthware(a)oshwa.org> To: members(a)sudoroom.org, Alicia Seidle <alicia(a)oshwa.org> Subject: [sudo-members] Invitation to Attend OSHWA's Open Healthware Conference in New York City! Hi Sudo Room folks! I'm reaching out on behalf of the Open Source Hardware Association <http://www.oshwa.org/> to invite you to our upcoming Open Source Healthware Conference <https://healthware.oshwa.org/> taking place August 1&2, in New York City and online. I recently attended an event at Sudo Room and loved the space and people working there together. I thought this invitation might align with the work you all do. The goal of the conference is to share how people are using and developing open source technology in the medical and health field. It is the first event of this kind we are running and we would love to have you and your ideas present. We are currently having a call for speakers <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BOHmQ6A0VacOBBc_j4wUIYqUaqB2TM3rL0ItqySO7N…> open until June 23 if you are interested in both attending *and *sharing your work! To attend, you can reserve free tickets to the conference here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-healthware-conference-tickets-13151375949…> and are welcome and encouraged to share the event within your networks. For the past year OSHWA has been hosting strategy session workshops on the Open Healthware ecosystem in order to identify challenges and opportunities. We are hoping to work with the community to design a process to certify open source hardware in the medical field. If you're interested in attending these sessions prior to the conference, you can find out more here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDa4gpVXZ5EAelwR0cxqFzhIPcV0wGN7G…> or in the attached fliers. *If you need travel assistance for the conference**, you can apply for up to $1000 in flight reimbursements, hotel accommodations, and per diem expenses. You can apply for these travel funding **here* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_AT4RNUc9vZ-RU_BXhosoFnCHtETuo2P…> *. * Check out our website at healthware.oshwa.org for more info! Hope to see you there and please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions Looking forward to hearing from you, *Herine Palacios*

8 months

Next two Saturdays: public library computer repair-oriented events in Oakland and Berkeley

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Our friends and fellow fixers at Thinkpads4All.org (a great bunch of high schoolers and college students) are holding computer repair workshops the next two Saturdays at libraries in Oakland and Berkeley: -Saturday, June 21, 2025 2:30pm – 5:00pm 81st Avenue Branch, Oakland Public Library https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67cb854e596bfd2f001864d4 -Saturday, June 28 1:00pm - 3:00pm Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch, Berkeley Public Library https://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13755420 Thinkpads4All brings laptops and disassembly tools to guide participants through taking a laptop apart – to change the battery, to upgrade memory, to replace the hard drive, etc. I’ve been attending their workshops to field general questions about tech repair. You’re welcome to attend just to participate in the Thinkpads4All workshop (and tell your friends too); you’re also welcome to join me in hanging out and fielding questions, or to bring your own laptop or other tech to work on. (Long term: we’re talking with the Thinkpads4All team about incorporating more of a Sudo Room-like component to their future workshops, e.g. inviting people to bring their own broken laptops, helping with software migration (e.g. Windows 10 end of support is this October), and converting laptops and Chromebooks to Linux.) IMO these library-based tech events are an important component of Sudo Room outreach; to raise awareness and recruit new members. Let me know you’re coming by registering at https://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup Hopefully see you there , -Peter Peter Mui @ Fixit Clinic www.fixitclinic.org – Neighbors helping neighbors in always there self-care collaborative repair +1 408 647 5790 fixitclinic(a)gmail.com

8 months

ice protests

by Patrick Clawson

There is an ICE protest at fruitvale tonight at 6pm so I will either be late to tonight's meetup or not able to make it depending on how things go. This brought up a project I was interested in building, a stingray detector. The instructions I found online require either a RTL-SDR v3 or a HackRF One. Before I buy one online, I was wondering if anyone has one they'd be willing to loan to this project? -- Patrick Clawson

8 months

Wednesday eve 5:30: Fixit Clinic Oakland Tool Lending Library / Temescal Branch

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7 we’re holding a Fixit Clinic Repair Advice Session at the Oakland Tool Lending Library / Temescal Branch at 52nd and Telegraph (just a few blocks away from Omni Commons): https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/67e5bdb9f97aac3d000a7333 These Temescal Library Fixit Clinics are an important Sudo Room outreach activity for raising neighborhood awareness of Sudo Room / Omni Commons and recruiting new members as we work alongside neighbors to fix their stuff. Even if you can’t make it right at the start you’re welcome to drop in anytime and hang out with us. And you’re most welcome to bring your own things to work on too. Here are the items pre-registered as of today, no doubt they’ll be walk-ins too: (This is a live Google Sheet so you can see new items as more people register.) http://bit.ly/itemcheckins Please sign up at https://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup so I know you’re coming. Hope to see you there, -Peter

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