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From: Sameer Verma <sverma(a)sfsu.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 12:33 PM
Subject: [OLPC-SF] Community Summit = OpenHack 2018
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This year's event is a little different. We are joining forces with
some of the other projects in the Commons space at San Francisco State
University. This year's event is called Open Hack 2018.
The event is largely scheduled to run on Saturday (April 28) and
Sunday (April 29). Will have a meet-and-greet event on Friday evening
(April 27), but the main event will begin on Saturday (April 28).
The format is as follows:
1) What we typically refer to as "projects" are called "Challenges" in
this format. Anybody can Submit a Challenge. When submitting the
Challenge, you have to provide us with information about the Challenge
itself, existing resources, people involved, and the kinds of skills
that you may find helpful in completing this challenge. The goal is
that we would want to complete some degree of the Challenge by the
time we get to Sunday afternoon.
2) The Challenges will be printed and posted up on the wall starting
Friday (April 27). On Saturday morning (April 28), people who come in
will assign themselves to different challenges. It's quite common for
some of the challenges to not have any interested people. That's okay.
3) As we start to see a cluster of people collecting on a given
Challenge, we will allocate a room for them and then that room becomes
their space for the next day and a half. Unlike in the past, where we
had timed sessions (typically 75 minutes), these groups get to work on
their problem for the entire day Saturday and half day Sunday.
4) On Sunday afternoon, they present their progress and future
direction. The work (code, content, etc) will have to be made
available some place (a repo such as github) via a FOSS, or
CreativeCommons, or OpenData license.
5) After the presentations, a panel of judges will determine some form
of ranking. There may also be some token prizes.
This is somewhat different from what we've done in the past, but given
the level of maturity in our projects, and the amount of focus that is
needed to work on fixing bugs and building upon what we already have,
the hackathon approach seems to be more apt than simple presentations.
If you have somebody in mind who cannot be there physically, you can
always bring them in online. The rooms are fairly well equipped, with
whiteboards, projectors and Internet access. We are also in the
process of arranging for other operational logistics.
In the time being, take a look at the information, the code of
conduct, and submit a challenge. http://hackathon.sfsu.edu/
Registration is open. Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hack-sf-2018-san-
francisco-state-university-hackathon-tickets-45329250007
Also, let us know if you plan to attend, so we can look out for other
arrangements as well, as necessary.
Sameer Verma: sverma(a)sfsu.edu
Aaron Borden: adborrden(a)live.com
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Good afternoon,
last week I was personally attacked inside the Sudo Room Hacker space and
told by Matt that I needed to leave with no context whatsoever.
This offense occurred not 5 minutes from me entering the space while I was
delivering left over bakery snacks to the table where snacks are
occasionally left.
Matt, who has previously vouched for my access to the space as a
prospective member, walked in and demanded I leave with no context
whatsoever. He was verbally hostile in his demeanor and in the content that
he was delivering.
I was told later in the day, that the "safe space" policy was being used
against me and that Matt quickly took to slanderizing me via email and 3rd
parties saying that he did not feel safe around me after he had just very
unapologetically demanded I leave the space for no reason and with no
context to the situation.
I made no verbal threats against him and I feel that he was simply using
illegitimate authoritarian methods to harass me. I can prove this via the
Omni commons and Sudo Room guide lines of which both rules are slightly
different and yet similar. Please keep that in mind at the meeting on
Wednesday.
Myself and another member attempted to discuss with him why he was so upset
with me later in the day to which he became very passionate again for no
good reason and continued to show hostility and an unwillingness to resolve
the conflict.
There needs to be a mediation meeting to have this resolved as I have taken
this offence *VERY* seriously and feel *PERSONAL*LY hurt and attacked by
this.
I will be around Wednesday for the SudoRoom Meeting to address my
grievances in person as I have been told this is the best time to do so. If
we can do it sooner, even better.
Hi All,
This is Matthew from Sudo Room.
The Peoples Open and Omni Commons connections are both down.
I was going to check to see if I could reset the router.
Is that in the Sudo Mesh Cage? Its locked.
Matthew
Hello All,
This is Matthew from Sudo. I have been unsuccessful in communicating
Sudo/Omni policy to the applying(?) member known as 'Blue'. He is
argumentative, disrespectful as witnessed by others on multiple occassions,
he has been caught sleeping in the building after being told that would get
him banned from the building.
I walked into Sudo Room a fifteen minutes ago and he was in there alone
with no other members. I told him for the tenth time that he needed another
member there and things fell apart quickly from there. He threatened me as
he was leaving, I'm done with communication and request/invoke an Omni/Sudo
Ban from the building.
Thanks!
Matthew Stewart
Ph: 510.606.0360
This is Matthew from Sudo.
I asked Caleb from Phat Beets to handle asking 'Blue' to leave.
I didn't want to escalate the situation after 'Blue' refused to leave the
building.
Caleb was unsuccessful, came into Sudo for clarity on building policy and I
explained the ongoing trouble as well as my right to invoke safe space.
Caleb is returning to his duties for Phat Beets and I feel obligated to
leave until this is resolved.
Thanks!
Matthew
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 # : 1378
Invoice Date: 05/01/2018
Due Date: 05/25/2018
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $2,000.00
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Remember - our big Microscope Hackathon at the Omni, in collaboration with
the Center for Cellular Construction is *tomorrow*, 10am - 6pm!
This is a free event, but please RSVP here
<https://www.tfaforms.com/4660910>to reserve a spot.
We expect to have 50+ people of all different skill levels hacking on
microscope hardware throughout the building, working on projects as simple
as paper Foldscope <https://www.foldscope.com/>kits, to gear as
sophisticated as the STED super-resolution microscope we inherited from
BioCurious.
Feel free to bring your own scope if you have one, or bring some samples to
look at. Or just bring some old webcams you don't need anymore, and we'll
turn them into a microscope!
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Does anyone have a large picnic cooler that we could borrow for a day or
two, tomorrow to Thursday? The larger and well-insulated the better. Please
let us know as soon as possible, because we'll need them by tomorrow (Wed.)
evening
We are going to defrost our ultracold -80C freezer in CCL, so we plan to
move all its content to some big coolers with dry ice in the mean time. We
don't have anything hazardous in the freezer, plus everything is well
packaged, and we will clean and bleach your cooler before and after we use
it, so you should be getting it back cleaner than when you gave it to us.
If you have one available, please contact me or Yann (CC'd), and let us
know if you can drop it off, or where we can pick it up. We plan to start
emptying the freezer the Wednesday evening, and fill it back up again the
next day.
Thanks!
Patrik
This date has been set forth far in advance to plan accordingly.
Starting at: 2:00pm
Goals to accomplish:
a) Get enough knowledgeable community members together do discuss what
really should really go (provides no value and has been taking up space
usable space).
b) Set up a dump run procurement area.
c) Clean Accordingly.
d) Organize all of the stuff that hasn't been touched or even looked at in
months to years.
e)Minimize on duplications (Massive amounts of the same thing (such as
computer power supplies-we have 40-50).
f)Whatever else people think of.
I'll be there.
Robert Albert Young Chu
P::415-724-0425
E:: robert.chu01(a)gmail.com
