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Remington full upright piano (that used to be a nuematically controlled player piano)

by Cere Mona Davis

Hiya folks, Art in North Berkeley (cc'd here) is offering a really in-tune full upright piano. The key action is totally solid (full spring back on every key). He has a truck to transport the piano in but we need to provide the muscle. I figure we would need at least 4 strong (and tall doesn't hurt) people to move this thing. It's kind of an amazing piano in that is used to be a player piano that was controlled via a bellows system and air tubes. I view this kind of piano as being imminently (and very interestingly) hackable in a way that very few pianos are and I really really think we should bring it into Omni! I made a short video of this piano here: http://youtu.be/AaFc4yRctZQ Demonstrating some of the unusual portals and controls that can be used on this piano. Art lives in N. Berkeley closeish to the N. Berkeley Bart so some of us to help to move this piano by barting then walking to his house. He would like to try and move this tomorrow or saturday. Also there is a very large bookshelf (or storage shelf) that we will likely want to grab for sudo or CCL. -Cere -- Best Regards, Cere Davis ceremona(a)gmail.com ------------------- GPG Key: http://taffy.findpage.com/~cere/pubkey.asc GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88 73FC A9E6

10 years, 7 months

we have a CNC router/mill now!

by Jake

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/CNC it works. it's hooked up to the desktop computer in the southeast corner, and you have to boot the computer to the LINUXCNC partition, not the Ubuntu 14.04 that Big Ed installed. ask me if you have any questions about using it. -jake

10 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Donation box at CCL raided

by yar

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've been to a few of the hackerspaces here in Berlin, and they all have had > much stricter entrance policies and visitor hours than Noisebridge or > Sudoroom/CCL. Keep in mind that these spaces have been thriving for far > longer than any of the Bay Area hackerspaces. Having access be somewhat > restricted is not necessarily a bad thing. Thriving by what standards? Sudoroom's values go against many of the dominant trends in hackerspaces, so in this and many other cases we might find ourselves making our own way. :) That said, I support having a lockable door. It's not about being strict, it's about having options. Members who are in the space should have the choice to decide whether they want to do the heavy lifting of holding a radically open space, or whether they just don't have the spoons for it. I think this is a great balance between all of our community's needs and values. I think most of the day we'll find ourselves in the former situation. And it's not that radical a change for Sudoroom, it's pretty much exactly how things were during our formative years at 2141 - the door could be (and often was) locked at any time.

10 years, 7 months

Crypto Class Study Group

by Garrett Robinson

Hey Sudo! Yet another session of the excellent Coursera Crypto course has started as of today! [0] If you are interested in learning more about cryptography, this is a great place to start. Additionally, I and some others are interested in starting a weekly study group to discuss the course material and help each other with the assignments. We were thinking Sudo Room would be a good place to host it! So this email is meant to: 1. Gauge interest in such a study group from the sudo community 2. Make sure it's ok to host something like this at Sudo Is there anything we should do to host this at sudo in the most positive way possible for the space and community? Cheers, Garrett [0] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

10 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Remington full upright piano (that used to be a nuematically controlled player piano)

by yar

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Cere Mona Davis <ceremona(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Art lives in N. Berkeley closeish to the N. Berkeley Bart so some of us to > help to move this piano by barting then walking to his house. > > He would like to try and move this tomorrow or saturday. Yes please! I would love to help with this. I could drive some muscle over there in my car as well. Would we put this in the ballroom? The existing ballroom piano is getting really sad and out of tune, I think because it keeps being moved around. I would love to know any ideas people have for keeping the pianos open-access and reconfigurable, but also not a total maintenance nightmare. Also, I would really like to fix the existing one but don't know where to start. If anybody out there knows how to fix and tune pianos, and would like to exchange knowledge or learn alongside me, please let me know! :D

10 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Donation box at CCL raided

by yar

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Eske <eske.silver(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking the keypad system would only be used during > member/memberguests only hours (I.e. 10pm to 10am). Sorry, I've missed a bunch of meetings. Is "member/memberguests only hours" an official thing we do now?

10 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Change of Email

by yar

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Amgo Go <littlebitagive(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently we can acquire the email address (by talking to yar?) so people > can send us stuff and it forwards to our other email account, but getting > one to send FROM is trickier...any more input on this, > computo-smartypantses? We can set up a sasl/pop/imap if you're ok connecting from a local email client instead of just having things forwarded to gmail. Just nobody's made it a priority yet.

10 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Change of Email

by yar

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Eske <eske.silver(a)gmail.com> wrote: > P.s. > Is it possible to get omnicommons.org email accounts through our hosting > service? > That would be amazing. Sure, just let us know: 1) whataddress(a)omnicommons.org you want 2) the email address you'd like it to forward to You can send those requests to me or another sysadmin individually, or to sysadmins(a)omnicommons.org

10 years, 7 months

THIS SAT: 2nd Women's Variety Show at 7PM!

by Marina Kukso

Hi Folks, This Saturday in the Omni Ballroom come see women-identified folks from across our community performing a wide range of performances in the 2nd Women's Variety Show! Performances include: rock and roll, comedy, percussion ensemble, a discussion about sexism, and lots more! The event is Sat. 1/24 at 7PM. Free and open to anyone to attend. Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1405345946429324/?context=create&previousac… People who came to the last one were really happy. Come hear what women in our community have to say. Best, Marina

10 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Donation box at CCL raided

by yar

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Eske <eske.silver(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Until we iron out some of the safety/accountability kinks, maybe a temporary > keypad on the Sudo/CCL room entrances *should* be implimented... I'd be comfortable with this as long as we can still have the doors propped open most of the day, or whenever members feel comfortable doing so.

10 years, 7 months

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