At last week's Sudo meeting, we signed up for Hacker Happy Hour
shifts. I took March 4, but now realize that's first friday. I usually
help run the Omni booth at FF. Can someone else take this date?
Thanks.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net>
Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:12 PM
Subject: [omni-commons] Thursday 7pm Emergency Omni Meeting
To: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org"
<consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org"
<discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, commons
<commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Everyone,
As you may have heard, there shooting on 48th and Shattuck this past
Saturday. I was the point person for the party at the end of which it
occurred. Several Omni organizers who were present afterwards have
invited neighbors to a meeting on Sunday at 7 to discuss what
happened. We hope many of you will also attend, and to prepare for
that we want to have an internal Omni meeting on Thursday at 7pm. We
want to be sure that everyone is as clear about what happened as we
can be, based upon talking to the people who were there, and to
develop a shared approach to communicating about it.
Thanks everyone and hope to see you on Thursday and Sunday.
Laura
Dear beloved Sudo,
This is PAT XU here,
TLDR – Myself and 3 other organizers are facing some serious political
repression for our activism! Come support us in court, 9 am, April 1st:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1515732032065377/
The District Attorney (DA) is aggressively prosecuting four Land Action
organizers, Kelly Jewett, Steven DeCaprio, Wren Hyde, and myself, for our
involvement in a recent adverse possession project. There are seven
criminal charges, including three felony counts and four misdemeanors.
Contrary to established precedent from similar cases in Oakland in recent
years, the DA has deliberately, and in violation of the law, pushed this
civil dispute into criminal court.
Why?
The case was brought to the DA’s attention because the property’s owner of
record was personally connected to the DA’s office. By taking advantage of
this backdoor connection, the owner persuaded the DA to drastically
overreach its jurisdiction and use public funding to intervene on the
owner’s behalf; a clear case of nepotism.
But the DA has its own political motives for attacking Land Action. In
recent years, Land Action has achieved significant victories around squat
law and adverse possession. By dragging Land Action through the mud, the DA
intends to put the entire history of squatting and adverse possession in
Oakland on trial – with the aim of criminalizing these activities.
These tactics are time-honored forms of direct action that have played a
significant role in social movements worldwide. In the past decade, squats
have housed thousands of people in the Bay Area. Adverse possession,
enshrined in the legal code of all 50 States, is as old as property law
itself. It allows people to acquire full ownership of real property with
very little capital investment, which makes it antithetical to the
ruling-class agenda of keeping working people enmeshed in the cycle of
rent-wage-exploitation.
In short, the DA is defending the commonly held belief that home ownership
should be very, extremely, prohibitively expensive—a perception that plays
right into the interests of capital.
The DA’s aggressive prosecution of Land Action’s organizers is occurring at
a time when local government has developed exceedingly cozy relations with
gentrifying forces. Last year, Oakland City Council came under fire for
offering a luxury housing developer the acre-sized 12th Street Remainder
Parcel for much less than its market value. In a confidential memo, the
City Attorney informed the Council that state law requires them to first
offer surplus land to low-income housing agencies, park agencies, school
districts, and other entities that serve the public interest. But against
the advice of their own attorney, the Council proceeded with their illegal
plan, which was already underway when the City Attorney’s memo was leaked
to the East Bay Express. Only then did public scrutiny force the Council
to bring their actions into compliance with state law.
Local government is all too willing to disregard the law in the service of
Capital and at the expense of the poor. The DA has aligned itself with
this agenda, using public funding to defend the property interests of the
land-holding class. The DA has chosen to flout the very laws it is charged
with upholding, for the sake of consolidating property rights and
maintaining access barriers to home ownership. IT IS TIME TO HOLD THEM
ACCOUNTABLE!!!
Please come pack the courthouse with us for our initial hearing! And
please forward this message to interested friends!
Time: April 1st, 9 a.m. (no foolin!)
Place:
Department 115
Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse
661 Washington St (at the intersection with 7th St.)
Oakland 94607
Free parking:
There is plenty of 4-hour parking available, south of the 880 freeway on 4th,
3rd, and 2nd Streets, within walking distance of the Courthouse.
the crypto parties starting up again are pretty cool.
they remind me of the earlier direction and spirit of sudoRoom
it was cool that people were trying different interesting experiments with
social innovation this summer, but somehow some things drifted away from
the original spirit of
SudoRoom
thank you for making this a place of joy and creation again! <3
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
No idea, check the other one they're probably the same
On 22 Feb 2016 7:57 pm, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
> normally open or normally closed?
>
> On 2016-02-22 17:10, Adam wrote:
>
> There might be a limit switch kicking around, but I haven't been to sudo
> in a long while so I'm not sure where.
>
> Jake probably has one
> On 22 Feb 2016 5:09 pm, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey Adam,
>>
>> I was about to cut a stencil on the laser when I noticed the cut head was bumping up against the left side and stalling the motor. I looked and sure enough the steel leaf of the switch was twisted downward. I was able to jog the head left while holding the limit switch down so I assume the unit needs to be replaced. Do you know if there are any spares at sudo? I have some from open source hardware that look similar but didn't want to attempt taking off the rail to get at it and making it worse.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hol
>>
>>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:34 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It's my understanding that this process could potentially result in a more
> top-down restructuring of the management of the Omni with little to no
> required buy-in from the individual collectives.
What makes you say that? I would be very surprised if that happened.
Session 1 went well today! Hope to see you at the next session.
Super simple "no deep stuff" ;)
*Session 1 done today!*
https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence#session-1---i…
Session 1 - Preparations
- Get set up on your computer - Railsbridge is excellent, great people,
great installation advice (Railsbridge Installation Guide)[
http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/choose_your_operating_system]
- Be comfortable with the command line - Learn Command line the hard way
<http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/> *IMHO the more comfortable
you get with the command line the better off you'll be in the short and
long run*
- Understand how to use git
- Complete Learn Python the Hard Way
<http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/> up until Lesson 20
<http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex20.html> -
<https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence#session-1---t…>Session
1 - the Doing part
Open up the terminal on your computer.
- *Don't know the terminal and command line? Go here
<http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/>*
mkdir SudoLesson
cd SudoLesson
Now use git to clone the github repo
<https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence> for this
workshop
git clone https://github.com/romyilano/SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence
- *Don't know how to use git from the command line?* review cloning and
the basics the simple guide <http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/>
cd SudoRoom_Python_DomesticViolence
write your first script in the python folder, name it intro_python.py
from sys import argv
script, filename = argv
in_file = open(filename)
indata = in_file.read()
print("Here's your file %r:" % filename)
print("The sample csv is %d bytes long" % len(indata))
input(" Return to continue >")
print("Now I'm going to print out all the data - it's very long!")
input(" Return to continue >")
print(indata)
input(" Return to continue >")
print("Closing the file")
in_file.close()
Run the script, we'll be using the sample.csv which is the spreadsheet of
crimes in the Oakland area in the past 90 days
python python/intro_python.py csv/sample.csv
Self-directed Learning Steps
- Make 2 or 3 variations of this script
- Redo the Learn to Code the hard way lessons
- Download other csv files and read them
-
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
here's a link to the noisebridge library organization project, for when we
get the Mezzanine book collection shelved up. We could start this for the
sudoroom book collection, which is considerable on its own, if someone has
the skills and energy to set up the software.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:46:15 -0800
From: Trent Robbins
Subject: Re: library organizing at noisebridge and Omni/sudoroom
Hey Jake, sure thing.
Here's a description I wrote up for my 5 minutes of fame presentation.
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Library
There's a link in there to the library-org app. If you guys host this you can reskin it for sudo room. It's also pretty quick to delete all the books and make a new one but
you have to do it from the code.
Best,
Trent Robbins
Tau Informatics LLC
@trentrobbins
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
Hi Trent,
I think we met during the hackathon a few weeks ago. I wonder if there is a wiki page or other site with info about what you're doing with the noisebridge book
collection? Sudoroom and The Omni have a lot of books and we need to catalogue them.
thank you
-jake
Hi I just swiped my card three times tonight yeah I'd like to be validated because I'm going to come here for a late afternoon python class on Monday
❤️❤️❤️
https://sudoroom.org/events/sudoroom-late-afternoon-study/
Hi I have it in the calendar now!
We're going to take this tutorial that we did in Node.js and create a
python version.
Looking at domestic violence incidences in Oakland
https://github.com/romyilano/oakland-data-with-node-js
Basic newbie tutorial of node.js with the command line. This tutorial will
parse through Open Data available in Oakland. Benefits: basic javascript
and node.js, avoiding painful macros in Excel spreadsheets, and learning
how to code! http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-East-Bay/ — Edit
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi everyone
In case there's any confusion, the Clean Day is tomorrow Sunday at 12PM and
NOT today, Sat.
I sent a test draft to a small group among the members that said Saturday
but that was an old incorrect draft.
The Announce List sent yesterday approved by the Comm Group says Sunday.
Just wanted to re-send again to the smaller group in case there was any
confusion.
Thanks,
Sang
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sang S. Kim <sangkimsf(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:20 PM
Subject: Please help and attend the Omni Spring Clean Day on Sun Feb 21st
at 12PM
To: "Sang S. Kim" <sangkimsf(a)gmail.com>
*Hello Everyone! Please help with our Cleaning Day THIS Sunday Feb 21st!*
I hope everyone has been enjoying the early spring weather. In that
spirit, we are planning a *cleaning day on Sunday Feb 21st* during the day
and hope you can help out the building and everyone by supporting the
Commons with your time.
We would appreciate anyone and everyone to come on *Sunday Feb 21st* at
*12PM*.
Part of the day will be cleaning the Kitchens which is a first and easy
step. That means cleaning out the fridge, sweeping and wiping down the
area. Any food out in the open has to be either sealed in airtight
containers or thrown out. Specific ways you can help.
1. *Volunteer your time* on *Sunday Feb 21st*
2. Bring *cleaning supplies* if you have any to spare - garbage bags,
cleaning supplies, gloves and even air filter masks if you’re sensitive to
dust or cleaning supplies. Remember to wear clothes and shoes you are okay
cleaning in.
3. Help *Keep the Omni Clean* Every Day - if you use the kitchen, please
be respectful and clean up after you prepare food. This doesn't mean just
washing dishes and throwing away food but also, cleaning any surface or
appliance you use. Also, please throw away food you may have left in the
fridge.
We hope to see you this *Sunday Feb 21st* at *12PM* and thank you being
considerate to everyone at the Omni.
This is only the first step towards cleaning and improving the Omni so *please
contact the Omni on how you can help* with future projects to protect the
Omni.
Thank you!
Your Omni Volunteers
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Karissa McKelvey
<karissa.mckelvey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sudo Room is continuously short on rent, so any contributions will really help! As a member, we suggest a monthly due of $60, and accept non-monetary contributions such as delicious snacks brought to our Wednesday night meetings.
Thanks so much for this message, Karissa. I also want to add to this
message that sudoroom is seeking more MEMBERS and PEOPLE! We don't
just want you for your money, but we want to find more ways to
encourage people to be here and use this wonderful space and take
collective ownership of it. I even think that in future messages, the
call for people should be put on equal footing with the call for
money.
Hi all - this is Sang from the Mess Comedy Group.
I was asked to send out an announcement regarding the Cleaning Day proposed
for this Saturday Feb 20th at the last Delegates Meeting.
Wanted to send out the e-mail today to the General Announce list unless
there's any new info that requires us to change / postpone.
See the draft below and attached. Welcome any thoughts and input thank you.
If you don't want to be on emails like in the future please reply back.
Apologies in advance.
Best
Sang
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Here's a draft of what I was planning to send. Also as print out
attachment.
Let me know if you want me to delete anything that seems too much info...
*MESSAGE BEGINS BELOW. PLEASE ADD / CHANGE. ALSO ATTACHED AS PDF.*
*Hello Everyone at Omni Commons! Please help with our Cleaning Day on Feb
20th!*
I hope everyone has been enjoying the early spring weather. In that
spirit, we are planning a *cleaning day on Sat Feb 20th* during the day and
hope you can help out the building and everyone by supporting the Commons
with your time.
As some of you know, the Omni has been seeing some unwanted visitors in the
kitchen downstairs and upstairs.
Not only is this unsafe and unhealthy but it is preventing the Omni from
being able to share the space for events and activities from other members
of the community.
As part of our plan to help with the rodent situation, we would appreciate
available members to come on *Sat Feb 20th* at *11AM*.
Cleaning the Kitchens is a first and easy step. That means cleaning out
the fridge, sweeping and wiping down the area. Any food out in the open
has to be either sealed in airtight containers or thrown out. Specific
ways you can help.
1. *Volunteer your time* for a few hours on Sat Feb 20th
2. Bring *cleaning supplies* if you have any to spare - garbage bags,
cleaning supplies, gloves and even air filter masks if you’re sensitive to
dust or cleaning supplies. Remember to wear clothes and shoes you are okay
cleaning in.
3. Help *Keep the Omni Clean* Every Day - if you use the kitchen, please
be respectful and clean up after you prepare food. This doesn't mean just
washing dishes and throwing away food but also, cleaning any surface or
appliance you use. Also, please throw away food you may have left in the
fridge.
We hope to see you this Saturday and thank you being considerate to your
fellow collective members.
This is only the first step towards dealing with the pest situation so *please
talk to your Collective's Delegates on how you can help* with future
projects to protect the Omni.
Thank you!
Your Omni Delegates
Setting the tone for our late afternoon workshops next week at SudoRoom ...
they will be running roughly from Monday -> Thursday from around 3pm-5pm.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time
-- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly
all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when
awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one
representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people
have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question
those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting
our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish
between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing,
back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of
substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second
sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator
programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but
especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
- Carl Sagan, the Demon Haunted World
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
fyi!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mary Ward <maryhbw(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 7:11 PM
Subject: [CCL] Lecture Session Thursday: Molecules and their Synthesis
To: Guoyu Liu <onemancrew42(a)gmail.com>, Philip Tzou <philip.npc(a)gmail.com>,
Cindy Mckee <cindymckee1122(a)yahoo.com>, dr_yf(a)yahoo.com,
ian.pollock(a)csueastbay.edu, Kate Lenahan <dkatelenahan(a)gmail.com>,
kdn909(a)yahoo.com, Katherine Farrar <katherine.m.farrar(a)gmail.com>, Tim
Dobbs <tim.dobbs(a)gmail.com>, Milo Toor <milo.toor(a)gmail.com>, Edwin George <
plutosaurus(a)gmail.com>, albaagutierrez(a)gmail.com, egallego(a)gmail.com, Nico
Bouchard <perpetuatetheimaginary(a)gmail.com>, Heather Arthur <
fayearthur(a)gmail.com>, Shaun Poblete <shaunpoblete209(a)gmail.com>,
timchet(a)gmail.com, barnabas(a)getsteup.com, botanychristine(a)gmail.com,
diego.mont.go(a)gmail.com, yadiravegara28(a)yahoo.com, daniellemlange(a)gmail.com,
Stephen.treder(a)yahoo.com, Counter Labs <counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi Everyone,
I hope your week is off to a great start! This Thursday is Lecture 2 of
Counter Culture Lab's Biohacker Academy. This week we are going over how
DNA, RNA, proteins are synthesized in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The
terminology we will be teaching is essential for talking about experimental
biology. The concepts covered are important for troubleshooting protocols
later down the road. Per the class request, we will be using our in house
Open Insulin Project to illustrate these topics.
The following week we will have the lab course that goes with this topic
where we will walk you through DNA extraction and monoculture techniques.
RSVP :)
http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/228535535/
Lab Sunday Feb. 28 10 - 1 ish will be posted.
See y'all there :)
Mary
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hey, after i do my id verification next week, possibly this friday,
starting some late afternoon algorithms study sessions at SudoRoom!
This will also be a good time to update the blog, add videos.
So->
- Does anyone have any newest videos of stuff going on?
- Updates on projects?
- Know people searching for work / have free time to update their
algorithms skills?
More coming later.
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I had a great time at last night's Omni Party!
It was great stopping by the Omni, Counter Culture labs, and SudoRoom.
Thank you for inviting me.
I took a break after spending a lot of time at SudoRoom last summer, which
was a good idea.
I worked on this quickie project page last summer:
http://sudoroom.github.io/sudoRoom-Projects-Landing-page/
Are there any updates to any of the projects?
Would anyone be interested in putting up a javascript hack night project
page?
I think coming back to SudoRoom I'll take things slowly -- got wrapped up
in it, and was distracted by my own interests and projects. I'm very much
into highly technical topics, mobile payments, and other stuff that's more
entrepreneurial! It was really nice getting back into the groove and being
around really passionate, technical people... Education isn't my focus,
although it's a possibility with the right team!
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Please come join us for a series of Valentine's workshops at CCL this
Saturday!
We'll have some interesting beverages, essential oil extraction, cheese
making, guerilla grafting, home made cosmetics, and even some outright smut
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut>!
For all you jilted lovers or science-struck couples, we'll also do some
heart dissections. Known someone who was a real pig? Here's your chance to
dissect a real pig heart and figure out what made them tick. (Label maker
available in case you want to name one of the hearts before slicing it
open. Or Bring Your Own voodoo pins...)
Details and schedule on our Meetup page here:
Mad Science Valentine: Elixirs, hearts, essences, and immortaliTEAS
<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/227878829/>
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maggie Wong <maggie.g.wong(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:49 PM
Subject: [sudo-info] Invitation to participate in The Omni Fair
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Hello Sudo Room,
I want to invite you to participate in The Omni Fair on Friday, April
29th. Omni’s Birdhouse Art Collective has the awesome opportunity to
host this event as part of the 8th annual Open Engagement conference.
Open Engagement is an international conference and platform to support
socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of
transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community
members, and organizations.
For this occasion, Birdhouse is hosting an all-day event which we hope
will include an array of interactive booths from the different
collectives to showcase Omni’s interdisciplinary, creative, and
practical endeavors. This event provides a wonderful opportunity for
the Omni member collectives to creatively present their work to not
just the Omni community, but the national and international arts and
activist community attending the Open Engagement conference.
What we want from your collective is what you want to share! We are
looking to create booths for the collectives to show and share their
projects. Each booth should invite audience participation, however you
want to create that interaction. These booths are places for mini
workshops, skill shares, or any other ways you want to engage with the
community. Your booth does not have to be overtly “artistic,” because
creativity is in everything at Omni. And we want to celebrate that
beauty!
Please email me if you have any questions or want to participate!
A Birdhouse member would also be happy to stop by one of your
organizing meetings to discuss the project in more detail.
Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers!
Maggie Wong and Birdhouse Art Collective
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:49 PM, robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> hey all,
> it appears as though we are a few xlr connectors shy of a lighting system. i
> can make the cables out of shielded ethernet cable but i don't have any xlr
> connectors to solder them to.
> i can return them after the event on saturday.
Maybe reach out to the spaz list?
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
> Thinking of doing an early afternoon (somewhere around 2-4pm) algorithms /
> coding session with cartoons etc and whiteboards either next week or the
> week after the next.
>
> I don't have a key to the space... are people around then?
It's hard to say whether I'm around for a time slot that broad. But
it's easy to get access. Just take a magnetic stripe card you carry
around, such as a Safeway card, drivers license or debit card, swipe
it 3 times at the omni front door, then email access(a)omnicommons.org
saying what time you did it. Then we can grant access to that card.