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Newsletter December 2024 up

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/december-2024-newsletter/ This is a condensed place to see what's going on at SudoRoom would love it if people had short blurbs about their projects/. photographs of them doing hackerish things around town! =D ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Fwd: Clio's Writers-in-Residence Program

by Romy Mimi Ilano

Do you guys know Clio's bookstore? This is pretty neat, and they have a great screen-free bookstore and are now offering a cool writer in residency. This is cool because it's great to offer a place for smart creative people to cowork. This might be a cool thing to offer at SudoRoom and Counterculture labs Like - hey! have some free time? Why don't you cowork with these cool creative people during such and such times. This is more appealing in amny ways than a class or workshop. *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Clio's <timothy(a)cliosbooks.com> Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM Subject: Clio's Writers-in-Residence Program To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> Daytime hours for writers, scholars, and others Calling all writers, scholars, and workers-from-home! Are you tired of working alone and at home? Clio's has something for you! *Beginning in January, 2025,* Clio's will be opening its doors during select daytime hours for writers, scholars, and other laborers to bring their projects (and their computers!) to the shop and work there. *If you want to become one of Clio's writers-in-residence,* seek to use our collection for research, or simply need a quiet and beautiful spot where you can work on your laptop for a few hours every week, contact us through the button below. Please include relevant information about projects you are working on and days/hours you seek access to Clio's residency program. *We have a limited number of spots available *and a very reasonable (and sliding) fee scale. We even have scholarships for those in need! Clio's Residency Program <info(a)cliosbooks.com?subject=Application%20for%20a%20Clio's%20residency> [image: Facebook] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Twitter] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Link] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Website] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> *Copyright © 2024 Clio's Books. All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* 353 Grand Ave Oakland CA 94610 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/profile?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbcba4a…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> .

1 year, 4 months

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Re: Events – Sudo Room listing outside events and hopefully this inspires people to meet other members and take back with they get to our nights or even start a new evening

by Romy Ilano

1 year, 4 months

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Events – Sudo Room listing outside events and hopefully this inspires people to meet other members and take back with they get to our nights or even start a new evening

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/ We have some events from other nearby nonprofits and cool organizations like the spire or critical mass on our website The stuff is mostly hidden now unless you go to our calendar, but I was just thinking that it would be really cool to go to an outside event like the Spijer clothing swap and then come back to Sudoroom and work on what you exchanged at the clothing swap like repairing zippers and so during our hardware night or a women and non-binary night This calendar isn’t meant to take people outside to Sudoroom and make them never come back but to inspire us because our location is the best thing about us Also thinking long-term, that it would be cool to hang out of these other places and tell them about Sudoroom because a lot of people don’t know about us especially people are new to the area We don’t market ourselves enough as one of the cheapest hardware open hack nights in the Bay Area. We should also try to compete with the idea of just being totally socially, isolated and alone doing on your stuff in your garage or in your house we can see that remote meet ups. Don’t have quite the same spice as meeting in person and randomly walking into someone working on their hardware project Hope this gets us more involved in our outside community. There’s so much good stuff going on in Oakland and the best thing about Sudoroom is that you can physically meet people in person and that you were actually in Oakland, which is one of the best cities in the United States right now. Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 4 months

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SudoRoom is also now on mastodon! https://sfba.social/@sudoroom

by Romy Ilano

https://sfba.social/@sudoroom We are now on Mastadon as well as BlueSKy! Thanks to openVibes and when folks have time we can double post to both accounts! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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NEW MEETUP SERIES: PAPERCRAFTING + PROGRAMMING + AI & WHATEVER just before hardware hack night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/new-meetup-series-papercrafting-programming-ai-whateve… ANNOUNCING A NEW LEARNING HOW TO LEARN PAPER CRAFTING + ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING AND MATH WHATEVER ELSE SERIES RIGHT BEFORE OUR HARDWARE HACK NIGHTS ON TUESDAYS! We kept talking about this but we’re finally going to do it! Why not meet up right before hardware hack night and do some hardcore whiteboarding and paper crafting around ephemereal topics like artificial intelligence! At the end hopefully we’ll have something cute to take home, or at least post on the walls. The risks we take using razor blades and hazards of paper cuts are outweighed by the reverse exercises we do to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome and relaxation of gluing and folding to create something tangible. Come join us for early evening 7-8:30 pm papercrafting sessions on Tuesdays – we’ll experiment and see how well this goes! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Newbie building an LLM model ai

by Romy Ilano

Hi I’m studying how to build my own LLM for fun. I’m thinking this would be a fun study group for either Monday (women and non binary night) or even hardware hack night as I’m interested in making paper models of the concepts (maybe with pictures of cats on them) to make these concepts stick ! Anyone else interested ? I’ll try to start a study group. Maybe we can meet right before hardware hack night and do pure whiteboarding no online classes or screens Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 4 months

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New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes & gives free clothes to moms!

by Romy Ilano

New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes & gives free clothes to moms! It's on Broadway and 15th street (almost a straight shot past the cute triangle building park) from our garage. They're accepting clean donations and have really nice clothes and even furniture! Here are some photographs below. If you want to donate or buy nice stuff check them out. I also like how they have a donation program where moms can come and get free stuff once a month. https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/albums/72177720322167516/ @nextround_hub ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Hardware Hacking Tuesday is tonight

by Jake

Tonight we'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever, in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email) in the past few weeks, we've had about 10-20 people over the course of the evening Here it is on the sudoroom page: https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/ I am usually there by 8PM but people do show up before me! if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get in, call our telephone to get someone to let you in! (442)252-8386 is our phone number, which spells "I HACK AT FUN" We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway! You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailing list! click here: https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here: https://sudoroom.org/humans and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here: https://sudoroom.org/donate If you want to join by video link, we'll have a Jitsi screen up at the following address: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles hopefully it's not in Dutch but if it is, you can figure it out. see you soon! -jake

1 year, 4 months

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Project Placeholder: Film page

by Romy Ilano

I created a placeholder for future film projects at SudoRoom. https://sudoroom.org/projects/film-projects-at-sudoroom/ They can include animation and filmmaking, as well as presentation but can also involve hardware hacking on selfie sticks, DIY green screens, AI in filmmaking and more! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Do we want 6 old Mac Laptops?

by Anca Mosoiu

A friend of mine is trying to get rid of 6 old macs. Is this something Sudo would be interested in? They are 2011-2015 vintage. Anca. -- -=-=-=- Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal anca(a)techliminal.com

1 year, 4 months

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SudoRoom is now on Bluesky

by Romy Ilano

https://bsky.app/profile/sudoroom.bsky.social Hey folks SudoRoom is now on Bluesky! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Happy Holidays! Trying to put together some projects at SudoRoom examples

by Romy Ilano

Hey folks, happy holidays! I'm trying to put together some samples of projects at SudoRoom. https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Projects Do you have a short overview of your project? I know it's hard but I can volunteer to "grill" you =D - What is it? - Why did you do it? - How did SudoRoom help you do it? Any photographs would be great?! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Nikon Kodak DCS 460 camera

by Jake Watters

I'm going through the junk under the stairs and there's a Nikon Kodak DCS 460 camera with no lens https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/cameras/item/kodak-dcs-460 And lots of other stuff! Come get stuff or it's going to get e-wasted and recycled. Anyone want a dresser?

1 year, 4 months

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Meeting notes + moving stuff work party?

by Paige P

Hi everyone Please check out the meeting notes from last night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2024-11-21 Some todos we have *space todos* - clear out all things stored under the staircase (the "computer" library?). This is on request of the fire inspector. Given this is a lot of stuff, I think we should do some e-wasting. CALLI is helping us, we just need to put it in the trash room - CCL gives a cut of profit from equipment sales to whoever does the work to post items on craigslist. If anyone is interested in doing that work in Sudo Room, speak up! - We could cart some stuff over to the entrance hall and promote a buy nothing day with the free store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day. Free Store doesnt have capacity to store a lot of electronics but no problem if we bring whatever isn't taken back into sudo room or ewaste - talk to CC about doing sewing programming out of Sudo Room for the rest of the year. If that's agreed to, then we need to make some space in Sudo Room for this - make a Sudo Room sign and lighting for our new entrance *nonprofit forming todos* - Finalize bylaws - Find new insurance plans - Hire someone to do admin work *communications todo* - (re)create a discord? Right now we have a channel on the Omni slack. I see there's some open source discord alternatives but I haven't used any. Paige

1 year, 4 months

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Fwd: Dev Summit 2024!

by Ajay Tallam

Hey sudo room members!!Just a reminder that the Nonprofit/technology Software Development Summit is happening right now (Nov 20-22) here in Oakland ! We're heading to happy hour now and will be in summit mode for the next few days! <https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24>If you haven't registered yet: - Sign up on the waitlist - Let me know when you've done so - I can help get you off the waitlist - I have free discount codes for sudo folks if cost is a barrier Best ways to reach me: - Signal: ajay.61 (preferred) - Email: here (will check less frequently) Much love, ajay ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ajay Tallam <senorajay(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 17:01 Subject: Fwd: Dev Summit 2024! To: Ajay Tallam <atallam(a)gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Allen Gunn <gunner(a)aspirationtech.org> Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 14:18 Subject: Dev Summit 2024! To: Ajay Tallam <senorajay(a)gmail.com> Hello! I hope this finds you in a good place in another challenging year. And speaking of years, it's once again that time of this and every year: Dev Summit is happening for the 21st time in November :) We'll be hosting it in person in Oakland 20-22 November. And I'm writing to see if you might be able to join us. If you are game, we would love to see you there. If you can make it, here is the friends-and-family registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779040470017/?discount=aspirationfriendsfam24 Please let me know if you might be able to join. Hope to see you in November! thanks & peace, gunner PS Full information is here, including our COVID protocols, on which we welcome feedback and questions: https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24 -- Allen Gunn Executive Director, Aspiration www.aspirationtech.org Aspiration: "Better Tools for a Better World" Read our Manifesto: https://aspirationtech.org/publications/manifesto Follow us on... Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@aspirationtech Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aspirationtech.bsky.social

1 year, 4 months

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Our leaky roof and warpage installed

by Kent Leech

Hi folks, Last night myself and Avery deployed the tarp from last year over the SW corner of Sudoroom. I also placed available buckets nearby on the big table so they can be positioned to catch drips. While they will catch a fair amount of water, inevitably some will puddle. From my memory, the low spot is near the standing drill press. The chrome wet-dry vac is nearby and sucks up the excess water very well. When full, I've dumped it outside the side entrance. If anyone can check on the drips this evening, that would be most helpful. Also, the excess water will eventually need vacuuming up. I¹m not available until after thanksgiving. Regards, Kent ----- Kent Leech Illustration http://www.kentleech.com kent(a)kentleech.com +1 (510) 504-0634 --

1 year, 4 months

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New inspiration post on innovation in Nigerian cinema

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/nollywood-nigerian-innovation-in-cinema/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Re: Any interest in an Oculus Rift S?

by Jake Watters

From Reddit: "Have you tried envision with the rift s yet? It should still work with monado afaik. https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/ https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality_linux/s/5ic5NGIVi4 On Sun, Oct 27, 2024, 18:58 Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote: > there does seem to be linux support for it now! > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality_linux/comments/13xv4gl/how_to_use_t… > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM Thomas Lopes <tomrlopes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah I was naive when I bought it. I thought that Linux support was just >> around the corner and upgrading video card would also be easy. I didn't >> know about the video card shortage at the time. >> The valve index was and is much more expensive. >> >> I may have an Nvidia 980. I don't remember if I've ewasted it already. >> >> Thomas >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 12:08 PM Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Thomas for dropping this off last night! It looks like it >>> needs a Windows 10 PC to use it, probably with a decent graphics card. >>> >>> Is anyone willing to set up such a computer for sudoroom so we can have >>> this thing in the space for people to play with? >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'll play with it! Sounds cool! >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 18:36 Thomas Lopes via sudo-discuss < >>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift_S >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone make use of this? I have one in box I would like to >>>>> donate. But I know you already have a lot of stuff. >>>>> >>>>> Anyways I'll bring it by tonight. >>>>> >>>>> Thomas >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >>>>> More options at >>>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >>>>> >>>>

1 year, 4 months

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Small but important admin task for Sudo

by Sarah Lockhart

As Sudo embarks on its journey for independence from Omni, one thing that would be very helpful to do is to change the billing account for Sudo’s Digital Ocean subscription. Currently, as a result of something Yar did a year or so ago, Sudo Room’s DigiOcean monthly payment is being paid out of Omni’s general checking account. It should be paid out of the Sudo account. For the past year or so, I have been transferring the $43.90 (on average) from Sudo’s account to Omni’s account to reimburse Omni. However, it would be simplest if this autopayment was made from Sudo’s account so that no one has to transfer anything, because very soon I will not be around to do this. Best, SL

1 year, 4 months

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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November 16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley

by Juliana A

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ben Rosenthal <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM Subject: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November 16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley To: <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hi Friends - Join us for the second BUSD Fix-it Fest! A Free Community Repair Event Saturday, November 16, 1-3:30 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School 1781 Rose Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Learn to repair your broken items and help reduce waste in our community. Register your item in advance (recommended), volunteer, or find more info: https://bit.ly/fixitfests We will provide a workspace, tools, and guidance from a volunteer “Repair Coach” to help you disassemble, troubleshoot, and hopefully fix your item. Categories include: clothing, electronics, bicycles, small appliances, toys & sporting goods, jewelry, ceramics & shoes! Location & Accessibility: MLK Jr. Middle School, 1781 Rose Street, Science Building (enter through west gate across from Edith St.). Wheelchair accessible. Bike parking. Accessible by AC transit. Street parking only. COVID Policy: Masks are welcome. Rooms will be ventilated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As part of the BUSD Fix-it Fest, (Berkeley Unified School District) middle school students enrolled in MakerSpace classes will learn about repair during a weeklong unit in the classroom. This event (the second of three repair events being held during the 2024–2025 school year) will provide an opportunity for school & community members to learn how to repair household items. The third event will be held: February 8, 2025, 1–3:30 pm, Longfellow Middle School 1701 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702 Organized by: BUSD Climate Literacy Initiative and BUSD Middle School MakerSpace Programs In collaboration with Transition Berkeley, Nimble Repair, & Culture of Repair Hope you can come. Invite your friends, too. - Ben -- Thanks for keeping the bay communal, collective and rad. You got this e-mail because you're on the SF Chalkboard list: https://chalkies.website/ Unsubscribe or manage your subscription at https://lists.riseup.net/www/suboptions/sfchalkboard -- julianaferreira(a)gmail.com she/her

1 year, 4 months

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Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration

by Romy Ilano

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bhangra-beats-night-market-inaugural-city-of-s… Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration We’ve been trying to do more “field trips” outside of SudoRoom with the intention of continuing the inspiration at museums and events with creating nights during the week Let’s get some ideas for holiday decorations at this dance party ! Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 4 months

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Sudoroom tonight? (Wednesday)

by Jake Watters

I'll be going in and hanging out and maybe some others will come too

1 year, 4 months

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I've added the San Francisco, San Jose, & east bay bike parties to our calendar - let's recruit bike party people again!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/others-events/bike-parties/ FYI I've added auxiliary bike party events (Fridays) to our SudoRoom calendar. If we want new members or people dropping by, it's a good idea to "market" to these folks - we had a great time when they came in a while ago to hack on their bikes all at once. https://sudoroom.org/when-the-bike-party-came-to-sudoroom/ what's nice is that the themes change every month for each of these 3 bike parties, and it's a new opportunity for people to be creative especially with costumes. It would also be a good idea to document "starter projects" (I never got around to work on my own bike personally and might add to the wiki) ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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has anyone created Christmas / new year's decorations or costumes at SudoRoom or Noisebridge?

by Romy Ilano

I'm looking for stuff to put on the sudoroom events pages and blog - has anyone created new year's celebrations or costumes? Religious decorations? Winter solstice pagan celebration LED costumes? If you'd like to share your photos we would love it! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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