Hey guys,.
I did a basic mopping of Sudoroom last night (without moving furniture),
and was able to remove a lot of silt dust that was everywhere. I also only
used water, as my objective was to capture dust.
There is still big particles the mopping could not pick up; yet sweeping
will resolve. I also had to circulate five mop buckets because it was so
dusty. It also had taken about an hour and a half.
It would be good in the near future to have a Sudo Mop party day, with
volunteers, to help move furniture back and forth, and have at least 2-3
people mopping. This would be a very effective way to bring all of the dust
to an optimal minimum.
The time would be shortened with another mopped as well :-).
I'll spear head a near future day when I less busy.
Cheers.
Thanks to a huge recent donation, sudoroom now has a TON of materials for
hosting electronics soldering workshops for newbies wanting to build arduinos,
mignonette games http://www.mignonette-game.com and
TV-B-Gones http://www.mignonette-game.com and many other cool kits!
The donation included a ton of snips (we were almost out of them!) and
soldering irons and probably a lot of other important things.
I already nominally host "Hardware Hacking Tuesdays" and I am totally down to
support people wanting to build these kits on those tuesdays, but I think we
should consider scheduling weekly events just focused on building kits, if
people have the time to dedicate to hosting such events.
Either way, anyone who is interested should participate in sorting and labeling
the donations and ideally trying to get the parts for the above-described kits
in order so that people can grab them, buy them from sudoroom, and then build
them.
thanks again for the donation!!!!!!!!
Hello Sudo room I went through the laser cutter system and environment
thoroughly, and we are now able to use it at 24/7.
there are a couple of loose connections inside that I solded alligator
clips to to clip onto the laser itself.
I replaced the 4-ft water pump hoses with 6'1 so that there's slack with
the laser system and water canister.
I cleaned out the water canister a bit and replaced the water.
Ripped out all the old tape that partially covered some of the gaps in the
ventilation system. I'd redone it thoroughly with new foil tape.
I have truncated all excess hosing on the short ventilation run for better
air flow. I also compressed all of the excess hosing on the larger run for
better airflow as well. All of the slack has been removed from both sides.
I ventilation leak test by engaging the laser into a thick piece of wood
for about 30 seconds, which has also cause flames to be admitted from it
while firing. The test has passed as their husband no smell of of smoke
inside Sudo To with it on for that period of time.
I am full of excitement, ambition, joy, and hackery, to let everybody know
that our MLE-40 laser system is back online. it hasn't been too long
because it hasn't been done again until now.
🤗😆🙃❤️
The first email I sent was two large two send (with the three photos I
attached), so I'm hacking around it by adding a screenshot of the original
email with the three photos.
I was working on a project with it yesterday and it's really efficient.
Improvements are a Space big enough to work on 4x8 flats, a table that's
easy to clamp to. Overall study as well.
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
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Invoice # : 1861
Invoice Date: 08/01/2019
Due Date: 08/25/2019
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $4,000.00
The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email.
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I've proposed a change in how we give people access to Omni. Thoughts?
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From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 7:12 PM
Subject: Letting members vouch for others to have key cards
To: <consensus(a)omnicommons.org>
Right now our policy is to only give key cards to members of
collectives or working groups. People typically get a card by asking
in person from somebody who knows how to add them (usually me, Jake or
Anthony Di Franco) but I always encourage people to use this form:
https://omnicommons.org/keys/ The form goes to a mailing list and I'm
usually the one who follows up on those.
I feel that the current rules are not flexible enough. There's a lot
of cases where it's easier for everybody if non-members have keys:
* people putting on events with significant set-up periods. More than
one commons working group member has asked me to give them extra keys
so they can hand out temporaries to the event runners they work with.
* People doing volunteer work which is only ambiguously affiliated
with a working group, or for a working group without a formal
membership process (which is almost all of them...) Recently I
declared two new people to be members of the building wg (Ian C & Matt
L) because they were doing so much work, but it was hard to know what
the right move was, and I got pushback
* People who have been long-standing guests of members for so long
that we all see and trust, but they either can't or won't apply
officially
* Probably a lot more cases also
Those of us with the power to approve keys are often caught between
allowing the rules to be stretched in order to make life easier for
other volunteers, or being accused of abusing our power. I don't like
it.
An even more difficult burden is put on people who answer the doorbell
and have to decide on the spot whether to accept and vouch for the
person in front of them who wants access, who they may not even know.
This problem has led to significant conflicts. Wouldn't it be better
if that decision was made asynchronously so everybody has time to
contemplate the question and talk to each other before things become
urgent and heated?
I propose that we enable more people to have access to Omni by letting
active members vouch for other people. This way we can give people a
key card even if they're not directly a member of a collective or
working group. When they apply, we can ask "which members will vouch
for you" and then confirm with those people. We'd keep track of who's
vouching for who, and if there's ever a problem, we know who to talk
to.
Thoughts?
