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Community actions and structure that helps resist sexual violence

by Liz Henry

Dear Noisebridge!! (And sudo-discuss, and Praxis) I have invited representatives from SF-WAR to come speak at Noisebridge some time in July on the topics of resisting sexual harassment and sexual assault. Will keep you all updated as to when this will happen! These training talks may give us good common ground for further discussion and action. I was also chatting with folks from Camp Tipsy, an event run by people in the Bay Area, that last year had a sexual assault reported. I asked what their community response to the assault has been. Camp Tipsy is a community that comes together for a time limited event, while Noisebridge is around all the time, so our needs and capabilities are different. Camp Tipsy's actions sound possibly of interest to people at Noisebridge, especially those who organize large events. Here is their response (from Colin). It is well worth reading. >>>>> We have a zero tolerance policy for sexual harassment of any kind that we have announced loudly and clearly in emails to all ticket holders. We also have hired High Rock Security to handle any issues that arise and asked that most of the security people be women since women security are more keyed into these matters and less likely to let guys get away with this sort of shit. Also, it is a ticketed event this year and everyone will need to show ID and get wristbands at the gate it is a lot easier to remove problem individuals. It's all about setting up an infrastructure to deal with it. A lot of events that are more "community" events expect that things will just take care of themselves. However what they don't realize that the problem always comes from that one guy who is a friend of a friend or the guy who normally would never do anything targeting the new girl who he thinks he can get away with messing with because she doesn't have any connections with the larger group. And the community seldom has a real way of doing anything about it because putting your foot down and ostracizing people when is difficult even when it is abundantly clear it needs to happen — this is especially true in groups like geeks and artists who typically were ostracized themselves from larger society. <<<<< -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liz Henry lhenry(a)mozilla.com lizhenry(a)gmail.com

12 years, 3 months

Free as in beer that we can convert to money.

by Max Klein

Rock paper scissors just offered sudo this deal. They have a lot of donate bottled Guiness Black. They will donate it to us. We cant have events that we charge for door entry (say $5-10) where we give away free unlimited beer. Then we return 30% of our profits to RPS for giving us the beer. Just to inform you of all our options, notconfusing

12 years, 3 months

Fwd: New potential hackerspace in Benicia

by Alcides Gutierrez

Alcides Gutierrez http://e64.us ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Aaron Newcomb" <anewcomb2(a)gmail.com> Date: Jun 14, 2013 10:22 PM Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] New potential hackerspace in Benicia To: <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net> Cc: We are in the beginning stages of getting a hackerspace started in Benicia. We seem to have good support right now from the town as well as other groups. We would really like someone from NoiseBridge to come to our next meeting and perhaps answer some questions about how to get started. Is there anyone familiar enough with how NoiseBridge is run that would be willing to join us in the next few weeks? Thanks, Aaron Newcomb http://www.thesourceshow.org _______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss mailing list Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss

12 years, 3 months

Tomorrow: A History of Ethical Hacking

by Andrew

Hi All, I will be giving a talk on the history of hacking. Knowing where we come from will help us to move forward without repeating the mistakes of the past. We live in a decisive time. How we act in the next few months will mold "hacker" culture for years to come. Come Saturday at 2pm to learn and discuss what it means to be a hacker and how that meaning has changed for better or worse. Hack The Planet. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_15:_From_Phone_Phreaks_to_Wi… See you tomorrow... PS. We will be heading to the BACH meeting afterward.

12 years, 3 months

Clean up Sunday

by Romy Ilano

Wow! It's really dirty. Are we cleaning Sudo room this Sunday --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

12 years, 3 months

Submit Nominees NOW - $30K for people who have used Open Access to improve the world

by Matthew Senate

http://asap.plos.org/nominate/form/ The Accelerating Science Award Program The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have applied scientific research – published through Open Access – to innovate in any field and benefit society. Anyone can nominate an individual or team. Individuals are also free to nominate themselves.

12 years, 3 months

Sudoroom locked

by Julio Rios

How do we get in? No one is inside...

12 years, 3 months

Fwd: [sfdug] Want to get involved in BADCamp 2013? Open Community Planning Meeting June 19th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

by Matthew Senate

BADcamp is a most excellent free Drupal unconference, highly recommend to get involved if you're interested in collaborating with a great open source web development community. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Faber <john(a)ridgeworksinc.com> Date: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:01 PM Subject: [sfdug] Want to get involved in BADCamp 2013? Open Community Planning Meeting June 19th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm To: sfdug-announce(a)meetup.com Want to get involved in BADCamp 2013? Now's the time! Open Community Planning Meeting *Date: June 19th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm* *Location:* *Pantheon Systems* 717 California St, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 *Agenda* Planning is well under way for BADCamp 2013, October 24-27 at University of California at Berkeley, so come join us! We will be launching the website and opening session submission and registration in about a month and we're locked in for venues. All we need now is YOU. Come meet some of the planning team and get caught up on the current progress and see what we have in store for the 2013 edition. We're still looking to fill several key planning team roles, as well as the (rather large) day-of team needed to put on an event of this size for free to benefit the Drupal Community. -- This message was sent by John Faber (john(a)ridgeworksinc.com) from SFDUG - San Francisco Drupal Users group<http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/> . To learn more about John Faber, visit his/her member profile<http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/members/835739…> To unsubscribe from special announcements from your Organizer(s), click here<http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/optout/?submit…> Meetup, POB 4668 #37895 NY NY USA 10163 <#13f3ffc8655f0563_> | support(a)meetup.com

12 years, 3 months

Myriad Genetics -- No Patent For You

by Eddan Katz

The Supreme Court opinion on the Myriad Genetics case about the BRCA1 & BRCA2 patents is out. Great news for science and medicine. Opinion was 9-0, invalidating the patent Myriad used to exercise a monopoly over breast cancer diagnostic tests. > http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf > > Held: "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature andnot patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA ispatent eligible because it is not naturally occurring." From the introductory summary -- > Each human gene is encoded as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which takes the shape of a “double helix.” Each “cross-bar” in that helix consists of two chemically joined nucleotides. Sequences of DNA nu- cleotides contain the information necessary to create strings of amino acids used to build proteins in the body. The nucleotides that code for amino acids are “exons,” and those that do not are “introns.” Sci- entists can extract DNA from cells to isolate specific segments for study. They can also synthetically create exons-only strands of nu- cleotides known as composite DNA (cDNA). cDNA contains only the exons that occur in DNA, omitting the intervening introns. > > Respondent Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Myriad), obtained several patents after discovering the precise location and sequence of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutations of which can dramatically in- crease the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. This knowledge allowed Myriad to determine the genes’ typical nucleotide sequence, which, in turn, enabled it to develop medical tests useful for detecting muta- tions in these genes in a particular patient to assess the patient’s cancer risk. If valid, Myriad’s patents would give it the exclusive right to isolate an individual’s BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, and would give Myriad the exclusive right to synthetically create BRCA cDNA. Petitioners filed suit, seeking a declaration that Myriad’s patents are invalid under 35 U. S. C. §101. As relevant here, the District Court granted summary judgment to petitioners, concluding that Myriad’s claims were invalid because they covered products of nature. The Federal Circuit initially reversed, but on remand in light of Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U. S. ___, the Circuit found both isolated DNA and cDNA patent eligible.

12 years, 3 months

Lessig: It’s Time to Rewrite the Internet to Give Us Better Privacy, and Security

by Eddan Katz

A Sudo- Call to Action. http://thebea.st/18vg9Eh It’s Time to Rewrite the Internet to Give Us Better Privacy, and Security It’s not too late to restore confidence, writes “digital Cassandra” Lawrence Lessig, but we need to start by asking the right questions. sent from eddan.com

12 years, 3 months

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