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hoping for more transparency and inclusiveness around all the exciting developments

by Anthony Di Franco

I've been very busy and haven't made the time to come by sudo room for quite a while but I did last night and it was great to see familiar faces again. I'm also looking forward to meeting the people I've only seen on the list so far, and to congratulating people in person on all their hard work in keeping sudo room moving forward! And to being able to participate more in person in the future. I've been feeling out of touch with what's going on, especially after the drafting of the successful grant proposal. I tried searching my list archives to see if I missed anything about organizing this and it seems I didn't. Grant writing is something I want to learn more about and I would have liked to participate in the process and I would have made the time to if I had known about it. I'm still looking forward to Vicky's idea for a grant database and to contributing to that however I can. I have a conflict that prevents me from coming to the Wednesday meetings and my schedule is very tight otherwise, so I've been following the list and looking at the meeting minutes diligently to try to stay engaged. Despite that I've been unable to gather a clear sense of what's going on, and lately (not since early September according to my seach) I haven't seen the minutes appear on the list at all except for last week. I still won't be able to make it this evening, so I hope there will be minutes to read that the whole community is informed of. When I stopped in last night I learned in vague terms that there is an important meeting about securing a new space at the Omni happening on Thursday evening. If this is true, can anyone who is involved in that inform the community via the list about what is going on, and defer a final decision until there's broad consensus? The last I see about it from searching the list is from October 1st. While I appreciate the initiative and effort on the part of people moving this forward, (though I'm not sure who they might be,) I want to make sure that whatever decisions made that affect the whole community are still based on informed, explicit consensus by the whole community, which is fundamental to how sudo room works.

11 years, 10 months

Art Murmur After Party/Proposal/Planning/Properly/Promoter/Perhaps

by Phuckin' Phylean

Greetings Programs, The last party went pretty swimmingly for only being thrown together at the last moment. Just a week to plan ain't much in the nightclub industry but stranger things have happened that were successful but usually only on dumb luck! So, lets do the next one a little bigger, which means a little better planning and promoting equals a lot better partying and probably paying off for all involved in the long run. So, we need a small staff to run this smoothly, safely, and successfully without any risk of the typical trials and tribulations that could possibly become trouble for the venue. Positions (some paid, some volunteer): *Door-person (Outdoor greeter/bouncer) *Door-person (Indoor suggested donation "enforcer") *Bartender (Tips only basis) *Moderator (Communicating to the people/members translating to the event staff) *Promoters (Facebooking/posting/advertising/notifying/informing/flyering) *Security (Walking through casually and occasionally checking in with the front door and bar or bars to keep a general but casual eye on the happy but drinking patrons) *Host/Hostess (Not necessary but nice to have if they enjoy the position) *DJs (Must have their own music, music knowledge, gear, experience, and some following) Please text me back if interested or have any suggestions or commentary because I have no reliable internet access at the moment. (415) 794-7789 Phuckin' Phylean 15 years of promotion and DJing at your service -- The best way to contact me reliably is texting my Cell phone (415) 794-7789 or if it's before 9 pm call the Studio phone (510) 534-7068 Thanks and take care, Phuckin' Phylean Double "P" that is me with "F" that you hear but don't see "The only thing that brings me peace is the same phuckin' thing that won't let me rest, music." says I, Phuckin' Phylean is DJ Jezzebella! djjezzebella(a)yahoo.com djjezzebella(a)gmail.com phuckinphylean(a)gmail.com http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphylean http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanlive http://www.myspace.com/dopesicktight http://www.sfgoth.com/djs/jezzebella/index.html

11 years, 10 months

The Holdout Computer Accessibility Project seeks Queer, POC and Women to help!

by Gregg Horton

Hey everyone, The holdout bookstore is seeking to create a range of computers with and emphasis on security and privacy. If anyone is interested please let me know and i'll include you in the discussion. http://theholdout.org/ Thanks!

11 years, 10 months

open access button launching nov. 18th - trying to get a big public message

by Marina Kukso

hi all, on nov. 18th open access folks are launching an OA button that will allow people to make a public comment every time they hit a paywall. they're trying to make a big splash and are asking people to sign up to make a coordinated social media message about the issue. here's a description and the link to sign up (from https://www.thunderclap.it/en/projects/5675-open-access-button-launch): *If someone hits a paywall in the forest, does it make a sound?* Every time you hit a paywall is an isolated moment of frustration, that is unlikely to shake the ivory tower of academic publishing. By putting these moments together using the Open Access Button, we will capture your individual moments of injustice and frustration and display them, on full view to the world. Only by making this problem impossible to ignore can we change the system. This project was started by two students <http://bit.ly/19QMpMD>, good friends frustrated by the current system and driven to change the publishing system we will have to work with. The project was made possible by the invaluable support of developers, advocates and the open access community at large. Our team has worked extremely hard in the past few months to develop a prototype which we’re finally ready to show to the world. At launch, the button will be able track and map every time a user hits a paywall, help them share their struggle and finally help them get access to the paper for free. Advocates can use the stories and data the button collects to push for change. Our data and code will all be available for others to use, improve on and do things we couldn’t have dreamed of. Everyone is affected by this problem, patients, students, doctors and academics. We need your help to make this problem too obvious to ignore. Please help us. Share this thunderclap, and download the button November 18th Find out more : http://bit.ly/1bEH7XT

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] 3D Printer - needs new heating element

by Jake

Hol, you forgot to put any text in your post at all! please be clear of how you came to this conclusion. The heating element is a resistor glued into a block of metal on the end of the extruder. It has two wires which go to a connector a couple inches from it, and they go back to the machine. To test the heating element, one can unplug this connector and use a multimeter to measure its resistance. It should be something like 8 ohms, i don't know the exact value but 100 is too much and indicates it's bad. it was replaced a little while ago by a technician from the corporation that made it. If the machine is acting up about heating, we need to know whether the problem is with the heating or the temperature sensing. If the temperature sensor is reporting ambient temperature, it's probably working. if the temp sensor is working but the heating element isn't making it heat up, it could be the heating element (see test above) or it could be the connector near it, or the wires from there back to the main board, or where those wires connect to the brain. can you give more information about what you tried and what you observed? -jake

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

by Vicky Knox

WOOOAAAH!!! Could we all see a copy of what you wrote for the grant application? Maybe store it in the wiki for future reference as we continue applying for grants? :D :D

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo crowd

by Vicky Knox

Thank you, Eddan! :D Will you let us all know when you get those updates up?

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room Wiki/Wordpress beautification hack day

by Vicky Knox

Updates to the wiki! I began work on the wiki by categorizing pages so that they can eventually be clustered into single page portals and/or menus (similar to the Quick Links the main Mesh group page has <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh>). I started by going through All Pages < https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages> one-by-one, and categorized articles as Projects < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Projects>, subcategory Food Hacking < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Food_Hacking>, Events < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Events> and Stub (for pages that may be abandoned or need expansion) <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Stub>. I also did a little bit of spam rollbacking and prettied up the language in a few articles. Still on my list are to complete categorization of every page in All Pages, research a new template for the front page of the wiki and build out the Funding page Jenny started <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Funding>. Please let me know if you'd like to meet up and work on this with me!

11 years, 10 months

Sudo Room's Values, Participation, etc

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I've been thinking about some things and wanted to share a few thoughts: Reflecting on this: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Values I'm of the disposition that sudo room as a collective values "open, public discourses over closed proprietary processes" and I believe in good faith that this is held and executed by sudoers generally. I appreciate when folks want to offer positive acknowledgements, suggestions for improvement, and support to fellow community members. I also think that sudoers generally practice "do-ocracy over bureaucracy" with an added element of "access and transparency over exclusivity" in order to help that do-ocracy remain accountable and enable us to "solve real problems over hypotheticals, while respecting visions of the future." Ultimately, it is my perspective that sudo room's various participants are interested in acting based on "community and collaboration over isolation and competition" not the other way around. I do not think things are perfect, but I think by and large folks do a good job of these things and everyone is interested in improving. >From this point of view, I would like to express my excitement and encouragement for folks to reach out in various ways to add value to sudo room, and also to share and communicate at appropriate times. I firmly believe that the work executed on a recent topic, a particular grant application <http://soex.org/alternativeexposure/>, was appropriate, and that while a message indeed would have been fine or even nice, ultimately, it was brought to everyone's attention at the right time--just before it was due seeking help and when it was confirmed that sudo would actually be a recipient of funds. I barely even remember working on it--I believe I gave some feedback or something, or perhaps was distracted by something else, I don't know. To be honest, applying to grants can feel like a game of chance, so I didn't put emotional stock into it. In other words, I personally don't see any problem with folks reaching out on their own in order to add value to sudo room, especially when information is brought to light when the value-add is actually feasible or even confirmed. For instance, I think it's a great efficiency that Marc found a craigslist post for a free, modern, color printer, reached out to the poster, confirmed the pickup, picked it up, dropped it off at noisebridge, returned with a car to retrieve it from noisebridge, hauled it upstairs, cleaned the walkway area adjacent to the elevator, ran an ethernet cable, installed shelves, and plugged in the printer itself. It is unnecessary for him to have said anything about this for it to be a value-consistent value-add to sudo room. It could be nice, even advantageous to post it--maybe someone could have picked it up from noisebridge on their way home?--but in the end, it doesn't matter, and now this great resources is available for us to share and use. This to me is do-ocracy, and the minutia of timing the communication is less important if there is nothing to lose. Applying to grants gives us absolutely nothing to lose. I say: reach out. // Matt

11 years, 10 months

math literacy meetup wednesday night

by Mike Schachter

Hey everyone, a few people are going to meet up on Wednesday around 6pm at sudoroom to talk about math literacy stuff! Please stop over if you're interested, or another time in the future if you're not available. mike

11 years, 10 months

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