sudoers!
With your support, the plan to mesh the world is progressing rapidly.
If you are interested in becoming part of the mesh by hosting a mesh node
in the near future, then please add yourself to the node map:
http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/
Hosting a node involves:
1. Letting us mount a router on your roof, or on the side of your house,
or pointing out your window (they come in different sizes, but even the big
ones are pretty small and unobtrusive) and run a single cable (choice of
colors!) to your existing modem / access point / router.
2. Paying for the routers power usage. They use only 8 watts of power,
which is less than 5.9 kilowatt-hours a month, which at an average bay area
price of 22.8 cents each comes to about $1.35 a month.
3. Optionally paying for the router! $25 to $110 depending on distance to
nearest other mesh node.
4. Optionally donating e.g. 10% internet bandwidth to the mesh if you
already have an internet connection (strongly encouraged!).
Add yourseeeelf!!!:
http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/
--
Marc
Mesh the planet!
hey all,
a few of us went to a screening this evening of edible city, a documentary
about the food justice movement in the bay area (and what was particularly
awesome is that the filmmakers and lots of the people in the movie were at
the screening and answered questions!).
the whole movie is available here:
http://ediblecitythemovie.com/help-us-grow/
- marina
hey friends,
if you are interested in all things wiki-related, join us for the 2013
annual wiknic this sunday by the gazebo at lake merritt for an in-person
bay area wiki meetup. details below.
- marina
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:02 PM
Subject: 2013 Annual WIKNIC This Sunday 6/23 at Lake Merritt!
To: "oaklandwiki(a)googlegroups.com" <oaklandwiki(a)googlegroups.com>,
oaklandwiki-announcements(a)googlegroups.com
Hi everyone,
Join all kinds of wiki enthusiasts, Oakland Wikiers, Wikipedians and
beyond, for this year's Wiknic 2013!
The Wiknic is a global annual tradition put on by Wikipedia volunteers to
bring together volunteers who live near each other so that they can meet.
This year, things are spicing up as Wikipedians and Oakland Wikiers will be
co-organizing the event.
Join us at 12:34PM on Sunday 6/23 near the gazebo at Lake Merritt!
More details here: http://oaklandwiki.org/2013-06-23_Wiknic
Tell your friends and see you soon!
Marina
I ran into a guy who visits sudoroom at the west oakland skatepark. The little kids are rad here!!! The park is a lot nicer and prettier since I first went two or three years ago
Start a sudoroom nerd skate team!!
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
Is it beer? Yes. Subiir batch 4, the best brew as of yet. Hoppy and
well-carbonated IPA. It pops.
Is it in the fridge? Yes. The drawer (mid-left, with a big sign) is now the
place to get your beer-fix.
Is it free? *No!* It's not free to make, and the hacker-brewers are not in
a position to gift it. Please put in $2 per bottle in the little box in the
beer-drawer (you will see it). It covers our expenses, and any amount
beyond that, a) to invest in equipment for brewing larger batches and b) to
sudoroom.
Make a great day. Beerified.
*Morten*
hi everyone,
we had a totally different kind of meeting tonight! it was simultaneous
with dinner, with all of us loosely sitting and/or standing around the
table, with informal facilitation, a rarely consulted agenda with a final
check over the agenda to fill in notes and see if we missed any items.
unfortunately, we still didn't have the financials included in the meeting,
and a few things had not been followed up on from last time, but that's
okay. we're getting better ;)
so here are the rough rough notes!:
*Check out the Meeting archives here: **
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes>
''June 19 2013
Attending: [List Attendees]
Len, Jenny, Max, Jordan, Bill, Ray, Timon, Marina, Jamie, Alex, Morten,
Troy, Sarah, Sam
*==Introductions==*
''*Let's get to know each other!*''
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
* Introduction to purpose and format of this meeting
*Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)*
* [Go-around topic]
performed 1/3 of the way in once we had a lot of people and enough people
who didn't already know each other.
*Icebreaker (10 min)*
* [Pair/small group discussion on a topic.]
eating dinner.
*==Announcements (Consent Agenda)==*
*''Use this section to briefly announce and consent to items that need no
more details or discussion''*
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
(< 8 minutes)
performed haphazardly throughout the night! :( :\
- This Sat/Sun: Workshop Weekend! workshopweekend.net
- Patrick - clay. Marina and Hilary - computer in a box.
- They still need volunteers! Volunteers get to attend workshops for
free.
- Cryptoparty debrief
- 30-35 people!
- lots of stuff installed!
- good teacher to learner ratio.
- two sections: email security (pgp keys) and mobile security (apps to
secure phone messages etc.). also presentations about tor and anonymity vs
encryption.
- what was the advertising strategy?
- DM on twitter to OO and they retweeted
- physical flyers all around
- for future events:
- more advanced planning would bring more people
- better pitch asking for donations for sudo
- Sudo Kids: Any interest in coordinating further on Tues. nights?
- Sudo-POSSE Party in cooperation with BACE Timebank. 3rd Fridays
avalable? , first one in July.
(Potluck Orientation Skillshare Swapmeet Event)- Lets invite public
school, democracy project, oakland-wiki,... for a Meta Networking Event?
- Sunday June 9 @ 7pm - Cleaning of Natural Decay
- Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Matt for admin access)
- Tweet any space details @sudoroom
- Email info(a)sudoroom.org
- Interested in more inter-hackerspaces collab? Join Open Hack Night
every Monday at 7pm @LOL (1234 23rd Avenue, San Antonio (east
Oakland)). LOL is a POC, Queer and Women-organized hackerspace. It is
radically inclusive--EVERYONE is a desired member! Their organizers
want us to do more stuff at each others' spaces. :] :]
- BACH event debrief: June 15th @ Noisebridge
- BACH info:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces
- Sudo Bike - ask Matt about borrowing it for a set period of time, or
for donations to "Sudo Bike"
- Every Thurs. at 7PM: Oakland Wiki meetup! http://www.oaklandwiki.org
- Editathon at MLK Cafe
- RADIO!!!!
- sign up for a slot at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodDVaZnJ4TW1ndC1jd1…
- contact marina for training, or test out the documentation:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_Radio
- Counter Culture Labs (formerly known as East Bay BioHackers) -
planning meeting last Friday, updates?
*=== ACTION ITEMS ===*
*''Use this section to review old tasks and propose new tasks. Keep
topics brief - if topics are large, they can spillover into later
discussion, after-meeting small group discussion, listserv discussion, or
next meeting discussion''*
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
(< 30 mins)
*Old Action Items:*
- Door Access: Current status and next steps
- keypad is down - unclear what the next steps are and who is working
on this.
- rfid tag is up - this appears to be the only consistently
functional method of entry!
- door.sudoroom.org goes down sometimes - unclear source of the
problem (maybe? maybe i misunderstood!).
- Document process for editing access codes & whether it's possible to
have temporary access codes (Andrew) - Marina will follow up with Andrew
- keypad is still down! this issue is secondary priority until the
keypad is back up.
- Add robots.txt for sudo room (open item for anyone to take on) MATT
- not sure!
- Not done - Find out who has the key to the cash box :) (Marina)
- not done! ;_;
- Ray will spearhead putting together curriculum for youth in the
community - Bill suggests a workshop on security
- this happened! it was awesome! such good publicity and an excellent
job taking advantage of a current event to help people act on their
principles! :D
- Jenny will start a spreadsheet for churches, schools, and other
community groups that we can do outreach to for people to sign up to meet
with specific organizations.
- not sure?
- Tim will share the map of potential properties available for purchase.
- no word from Tim :(
- Jenny will write to School Factory about sponsorship opportunities.
- Jenny spoke with Mitch at BACH about this...see notes below.
*New Action Items:*
* Jenny to call bank to find out about online access
* Max to coordinate further with RPS
* EVERYONE: CLEAN and encourage others to clean! Model good behavior and
suggest cleaning to other people. It is our responsibility to help everyone
in our community grow in their ability to act cooperatively :D
* RE: School Factory. Mitch indicated that they were maybe not able to keep
their space, so it's unclear whether they would still be able to fiscally
sponsor us.
*Postponed*:
''*items here are not for discussion, only for reference for later meetings
so that we don't forget about them :)*''
*[Postponed] Talk to Danny O'Brien, intro from JC to Jordan, invite him to
come to a future sudo meeting to share insight!
**Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later this
month and Jordan will follow up then.
*[Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George
*[Postponed until necessary] Jenny sync with Troy on library - Not yet but
they will
*Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1 -troy
**still need to set a date
*[Postponed until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb] Romy to lead
diagram for Articles of Association amendment
*Romy to work with Troy to turn the articles into a flow diagram.
Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around.
*[Postponed until ?] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? -
https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) <https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room%29> -
Yardena is going to put these articles up
*==Fiscal Solvency==*
''*In this section we review our current financial situation and budget,
approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.*''
Exchequer: We need a new exchequer
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
- Setting up co-exchequers
- The future of the ex-chequer (items suggested from 5/29 meeting):
- New exchequer (tasks):
- Get on bank account
- Follow up on deposits made
- Presents budget during meetings
- Coordinates with scribe to make budget available to all members
[transparency]
- Determine if per-member dues can be reduced
- Forecasting longer-term budget
- Exchequer tasks that could easily be done do-acraticly:
- Coordinate new ways of paying
- Investigate alternative sources of income
- Encourage donations
- Infographics? Coordinate with Romy :D
- Bank Links
- Documentation: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_room/banking (out of
date?)
- Update information about login to bank (might make this private)
(20 mins)
** Pay your dues :)*
* Review and consensus process:
** Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2…
** Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50
**Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30
people)
*==Amendments to the Articles of Association==*
''*In this section we discuss and review any proposed amendments to the
articles of association: **https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association
* <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association>''
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
*==Conflict Resolution==*
''*In this section we address any conflicts that have gone through the
conflict resolution process as described here: **
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Reso…
*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Reso…>
''
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
Test Driven Governance: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Governance_tests
*==Discussion==*
''Add any discussion or other agenda item spillover to this section''
Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator]
- Friends, Jamie and Alex, from Rock Paper Scissors are interested in
cataloguing and digitizing their zine library.
- We discussed best practices and ideas and agreed that we would like to
share a single cataloguing system if there is a good open solution.
- Bill showed off the holdout's zine cataloguing tool on drupal. Its
called Permazine and will be launching soon.
- RPS is happy to have it hosted on our servers. They want to do more
stuff together!
- Their top requirements are:
- End user experience for catalog entry and search
- Multi concurrent entry
- Folksonomy support
- Sudo would ideally want an open source solution, but understand that's
tough for cataloging software.
- Jamie will: Contact the creator of permazine to see if that will suit
their needs.
- Max will: see if oclc will still give us wssl for free, and otherwise
look at whether
- SELC was interested in potentially renting space. SELC is moving into
LOLspace 2-3 days a week and are subsidizing all of LOLspace's rent!
- JC suggested idea of startup incubator in the office behind the
reception area. He is looking for partners. He has a business and is
currently discussing this issue with his employees.
- Jenny happened to meet a masseuse from Santa Cruz who may be
interested in an office at 2141.
==Post-Meeting Small Group Meetups and Discussion==
Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ?
* Adding labels to bottles :)
*Scribe:** Convert notes to wiki page and email the list with a link to
the notes page and a succinct list of highlights (including action items).*
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
> looks good in here - thanks to whoever spent some time on it recently...are people still talking about cubbies or was that shot down conclusively or is it just lacking the initiative to procure? Any objections to putting that unassembled rack shelving up to the right of the milliscope? I see a pretty wicked arcade box coming together too...good to be back.
Hol, will you be around later today? I have a lot of ideas for use of
the space and would like to collaborate with you on it. I haven't been
around the past couple weeks because of transportation issues (lost my
car) but will try my best to make it there today.
In particular, Romy and I bought that 5-shelf heavy duty set for the
closet. It is meant to be the first of several such units (this one
being only a test). My vision is that after we assemble a few of those
in the far corner of the closet (to the left of the radio room) all
the crap can go on those, and then in the newly cleared space we can
stack those grey metal boxes as lockers - the ones I originally wanted
to bolt to the wall. All we need to do is replace the locks on those!
They are big but I figure people can share them for a flat rate per
box.
I'm less enthusiastic about having shelving out in the common area. I
think we should try to better use the vertical space in the closet and
let the common area be nice, clean working and meeting spaces.
