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by Vicky Knox

Here are some highlights from everyone's favorite answer engine, Wolfram Alpha... 1 *noun* someone who plays golf poorly 2 *noun* one who works hard at boring tasks Texting form: H4XX0R Rhymes with "slacker" :] More fun here: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=hacker

9 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] finance-wg report back

by yar

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:09 PM, robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote: > clarification: i just spoke to laurel from finance, again, & he informed me > the 2 month warning was a worst case scenario. the $20,000 we may have > (books are incomplete) will run out in 2-6 months depending on how things > pan out. In other words, it's bad but not much worse than when we first moved into the building. We've come so far since then, and we've got so much more time to do this right. And a fortune already in the bank to start with. :) Every new day is a gift. Let's celebrate this time we have together and try our best to make it last. My biggest takeaway from Becoming Omni was that we need more communication across the board. So I am going to try to work on just documenting all the things I've been meaning to do but lack the capacity to do myself. And we need to empower new people to take on stuff like that. "Your first job is to train your replacement!"

9 years, 10 months

Fwd: It's open. It's access. It's awesome. | EFFector 28.14

by danarauz＠gmail.com

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9 years, 10 months

Fwd: Hiring Manufacturing Technician (will train right people) in SF

by Vicky Knox

Hey, I don't really know what their deal is but they're hiring a manufacturing tech and are willing to train, so maybe you can check them out... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hannah Masius <hmasius(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:05 PM Subject: [sfchalkboard] Hiring (will train right people) in SF To: "sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net" <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hey Chalkies, My company, Tempo Automation, is hiring a number of people for Manufacturing Technician positions. If you have experience, awesome. If not, we will train the right people who are interested in doing this. It's in the Dogpatch in SF, pays $20/hr to start, and you have access to medical and dental benefits. It doesn't matter if you have tattoos, piercings, or crazy hair, and everyone here is really awesome. *Please reply to me with your resume if you have interest and I will pass you along. Look below for deets:* Job posting for Manufacturing Technician, TEMPO AUTOMATION We're looking for people interested in soldering boards! We want to emphasize that we will train the right person, so long as you have a steady hand, eagerness to learn, and the ability to commit to at least 36 hours/week. *Experience:* - PCB SMT and thru-hole soldering experience is a plus, but will train the right person - Familiarity with CAD tools like EAGLE, Altium is a plus, but will train the right person *Responsibilities:* - Assemble prototypes according to engineering instruction - Operate machinery/robots safely and efficiently - Good verbal and written communication skills - Ability to learn new tools and processes quickly - Read and understand technical drawings, datasheets, and written work instructions - Excellent manual dexterity and soldering skills, particularly the ability to solder under a microscope - Strong attention to detail - Strong ability to work well in a group atmosphere, and comply with high quality standards - Strong ability to shift from one task to another to address changing production priorities

9 years, 10 months

finance-wg report back

by robb

i attended the finance wg meeting tonight where i learned that our 4 months in this building may be more like 2 months. additionally, the finance wg apparently has huge holes in their records & ask that the collectives give an accounting of any & all payments to the omni over the past year. it was also suggested that we start making plans to exit the building around the new year as our $ will likely run out by then. ~r

9 years, 11 months

do you want...

by Hello

Sudo, Do you want any of the following things? 1. an awesome floor fan. The 3-speed fan motor seems to have died in its sleep, but the sweeping/ocsillator and timers still work, as does the remote control. 2. a small profile linux laptop. There's a short in the cable to the display, should be an easy fix (replace that cable) or use external monitor. Sweet little thing from zareason, currently running ubuntu, probably 5 years old. 3. a pair of desktop Harman/Kardon speakers that just stopped working. I suspect the plug or speaker-to-computer wiring. They kick ass when working. This is the first of more than one notes, offering what I think has sudo-level promise. j.

9 years, 11 months

there is now a payphone outside Omni

by Jake

tonight Robb and I bolted a payphone to the outside of The Omni, next to the front door (on the right). There is no coin box or cover, and the coin slot is filled solid with hot glue. it's wired to a VOIP box inside with the door opener computer. There is an asterisk server in sudoroom made entirely by Robb, which provides telephone service to the VOIP box on the payphone, as well as two other VOIP phones so far - one for sudoroom and one for CCL. The "phone numbers" are sudoroom: SUDO# (7836#) counter culture labs: CCL# (225#) front door: LULZ# (5859#) the asterisk computer is running "FreePBX" and I have no idea how it works. Robb is the expert but he is just getting started/ My vision for the system is thus: Person picks up payphone, gets an immediate recorded message saying "Welcome to the Omni. Please enter the extension of the collective you are trying to reach, or 1 for a directory" and then have it give a directory if you press 1. Then when the collective picks up the phone, they hear that you're outside the door and they can "buzz" the door open by pressing * or whatever on their phone. (Insert magic asterisk script here) Person outside presses the doorbell button: Instead of the doorbell ringing, the button goes to a computer which then calls the payphone, causing it to ring (yes it rings). Person who pressed the doorbell button answers the phone, and hears the above message, since a "doorbell" is really not appropriate for a space like the Omni. (We can still have it be wired to the doorbell but it should do the above and get the people to use the payphone to contact the collective they want) There is no limit on the number of phones we can add. We can put them all over the Omni and probably all over the world with a tiny bit of network routing. Also if you have nice non-cordless telephones (not rotary though) please consider donating them to the project. Or VOIP boxes. I don't think we should tie the system into the regular telephone system, for several reasons. But I do think we should allow hackerspaces around the world to tie into it and be able to call sudoroom and CCL and each other, but we will have to see what the network traffic adds up to on our DSL. Please get in contact with me or Robb if you have ideas for the system or want to help administrate it. We have no idea how to operate Asterisk or FreePBX. thank you -jake

9 years, 11 months

Want a free inkjet printer + scanner?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Does anyone want a functioning HP Photosmart 2575 inkjet printer + scanner? It was in working order last we used it. Getting rid of it because I'm fed up paying through the nose for inkjet cartridges, so we're switching to a B/W laser printer. And who needs a scanner anymore, now that you can simply take a high-res photo of any document with your smartphone? Anyway - anybody want it? If not, I may just drop it off as E-waste, or disassemble it for parts... Patrik

9 years, 11 months

OLPC-SF Community Summit, Oct 23-25

by Hilary Naylor

Hey folks, Once again, OLPC San Francisco will be hosting the Community Summit. We're very excited about this year's theme: OLPC The Next Generation. The Summit to be held October 23rd, 24th, 25th at San Francisco State University's main campus 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. <http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2015> Topics will include OLPC projects as well as others in related areas such as content, micro-servers, offline access, robotics, and more. We will live stream sessions where possible, although some workshops are best attended in person and the hallway track will not be recorded. We hope you will attend! Hilary --- Hilary Naylor for OLPC-SF Summit Planning Team --- Hilary Naylor, Ph.D. www.a2zed.us Oakland CA

9 years, 11 months

missing bag of coffee

by robb

hey now, joe from food not bombs gave me some coffee the other day for when we set up the front welcoming area & i stashed it in a black trash bag in sudoroom cuz i was in a hurry to go serve a meal at people's park. if anyone has seen it, i would appreciate getting it back. i want to use any donation $ we receive from it to support the front room project. thx ~r

9 years, 11 months

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