a company in Oakland is looking for someone to do electronics assembly
work for part-time hours every week, probably 20-30 hours each week.
job includes lots of soldering, drilling, and assembling of things, and
requires solid understanding of voltage, current, fuses, and polarity, as
well as the ability to solve problems when putting something together
requires creativity to make things fit.
Please contact me off-list if you have questions.
thanks!
-jake
I don't know who posted this, but I am happy about everything except the
fact that my email address is presented (in text with the @ symbol and
all) without my permission, on the open web:
https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/hardware-hack-night-2015-11-03/
I don't know how to edit this calendar entry and remove or edit my email
address. Can someone remind me how to do it, or do it for me?
Also I would like to know who posted this so i can make sure they
understand that they should get my permission before posting my email
address anywhere.
thank you!
-jake
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Mary Ward <maryhbw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we need the Omni to be come a non-profit entity since we will have
> several fiscal sponsors in the building? We can be a for profit business
> that makes no profits, without risking an audit, and with less accounting
> headaches.
Can you fiscally sponsor a for-profit company?
The delegates decided we should apply for 501c3 back in August.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Mari M. <strawberrypilabs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Some think we should continue as a non-profit, some think that we should try
> to actually turn the Ballroom into a money-making venue to help better serve
> the community. Perhaps a Benefit Corporation could be the bridge between the
> two?
Also, I want to unpack this: "turn the Ballroom into a money-making
venue to help better serve the community". Can you explain what you
mean by this? Who would be better served and how?
It's worth mentioning that the whole point of making money in the
ballroom is to help the Omni Commons survive as a horizontal
collective dedicated to the radical commoning of space and resources,
fighting gentrification, and creating alternatives to capitalism. I
hope we will always be mindful that we're doing it as a last resort,
it will never be the core of our project, everything will always to be
sliding scale down to zero, the community will still be able to block
events which conflict with our values and delegates can override
anything that a production collective does. And if someday we are able
to own the building and lower our expenses enough, we will return to
doing what we've wanted to do all along - offer everything for free to
the people who need it most.
This will bring changes if we are not careful. When people are making
money, they have an incentive to manipulate our processes in order to
keep making money, and new people are incentivized to join who care
more about money than about the project's values. All of our processes
are designed with the assumption of good faith, and vulnerable to
rules-lawyering unless we have a healthy, vigilant culture.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Mari M. <strawberrypilabs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Some think we should continue as a non-profit, some think that we should try
> to actually turn the Ballroom into a money-making venue to help better serve
> the community. Perhaps a Benefit Corporation could be the bridge between the
> two?
We had a long conversation with our lawyer about this a couple months
ago. Basically it would risk the nonprofit status of the whole
building.
He told us most things we would do count as "educational" and could be
structured as donations, and the things which absolutely don't, could
still make up to 30% of our budget. This is even if you paid people to
do the labor. I would say there are many simpler things we have yet to
try before resorting to a for-profit company, such as offering to pay
event bottom-liners, which wouldn't even require any structural
changes.
Hello everyone!
This Saturday, Nov 7th (and MAYBE the 8th), we are getting together to
Hack Sudo and make it sparkle. We have a Ride up pad
<https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudohack> with a list we'd like to do.
Stop by if you wanna make Sudo Room a better place by putting some elbow
grease in!
in order to raise funds and continue our mission of education, i have been
thinking we should host a hacker's conference at the omni sometime after
the new year.
what do you think?
some possibilities might include:
inviting other hackerspaces to participate
getting keynote speakers to appear remotely (richard stallman, edward
snowden ;)
sat & sunday event
stream event live
organize news team to engage online stream audience
~r
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From: robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:06 PM
Subject: Fwd: production collective @ the omni
To: "Gabrielle Klassen (via Google Docs)" <thegklass(a)gmail.com>, Robb
Anonymous <sf99er(a)gmail.com>, Arktivist I <arktivist(a)gmail.com>, "isabella
c." <icarrerasthresher(a)gmail.com>, Troy Massey <TroyMassey.1100(a)gmail.com>
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From: robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:02 PM
Subject: production collective @ the omni
To: discuss <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
in order to promote effective fundraising events for the east bay radical
community and beyond, a production collective @ the omni oakland commons
shall be established.
if you are interested, please respond to this email and/or ionclude contact
or ideas at https://pad.riseup.net/p/omniproductions
we plan to meet this coming thursday at 5:00pm somewhere (written on
frontroom whiteboard) in the omni before the 7:00 omni general assembly
(delegates meeting)
:)
~r
FYI.
Thanks to Yar and others for taking notes and others for compiling this!
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From: Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:19 PM
Subject: [Becoming Omni Commons] Documentation and follow up of Becoming
Omni
To: "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, "
becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Friends,
Here is a link to the documentation of all three Becoming Omni workshops:
http://we.tl/Xs2XrXT1LC. Please download it now and share it with your
collectives and everyone you know who is associated with the Omni. The link
will be available for about a week.
There's a lot to digest. I've included the mostly unedited notes, tables of
the decisions reached through some of the processes, and photos. The BO
follow-up team would like to set up times to discuss the outcomes in your
collective and working group meetings so your questions can be answered.
Please have someone from your collective or wg pm me to set up a time when
we can do this.
Email threads will not be a very productive way to discuss this so please
let's do it in person.
Onward with love -
Laura
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Yo, Sudo.
This Berry Maker person is wanting to have a thing this saturday. Its actually
the person who gave the name Merry from back on the meeting on the 21st. She
has been banned from Noisebridge for safe space reasons.
I also note that on that meeting she's trying to apply for membership. Without
further comment, I provide:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2015-10-21
> Have you ever been banned from a hackerspace or any other collective?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Andrew cardoza <threve35(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any calculations of how much money we would need to raise in the
> following months? if so, what will be the monthly goals?
> Also, what are we currently raising per month?
> What is the shortfall?
> where is the money coming from?
>
> events?
> from collectives?
> that kickstarter?
> grants?
>
> Who do I ask, if no one responds to these inquiries?
Just for the record, the best place to ask these questions is the
Omni's finance working group mailing list, which I've CC'd here.
finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/finance
I wanted to bring out the Type A to print magnets for Omni's
Collabazaar, but can't find any of the 1.75mm plastic we used to have.
Where did it all go? Did it get used or taken? Is it stored in a
special place or do I have to run to home depot or something?
it's 1:30AM and giant rats are fighting under the big wooden shelf covered
with rotting fruits and vegetables.
this is a seperate problem from the fact that at least one of the
containers is smelling really bad, and at least one is breeding fruit
flies.
-jake
I'm working on a radio project....is anyone able to bring a USRP (sdr) in
some night to help me test a specific software..... It would be a HUGE
help! Thanks...
-Brendan
Hey all,
Shawn Landden showed up today @ Noisebridge. Shawn was banned by
consensus in 2013 and has a criminal history crossing 3 states, having
been arrested for for assault, harassment, felony stalking, violating
restraining orders, and stalking.
Shawn knows full well that he is 100% NOT WELCOME at Noisebridge, and
showed up today with a scraggly beard apparently hoping he'd go unnoticed.
His photos along with all other information are on the Noisebridge 86
page https://noisebridge.net/86
Given his history of assault if Shawn shows up at either Noisebridge or
Sudoroom he should be asked to leave *IMMEDIATELY*. There's possibly
still outstanding warrants for his arrest, we're looking through public
records tonight.
Take care,
p
https://www.facebook.com/events/1661603590723647/https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/collabazaar-1-0/
I'm selling lots of cool stuff; LEDs, 'burnery' things, CHEAP! All
proceeds will go to the Omni.
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We'll be hosting our first of a potentially bi-monthly pop-up bazaar
featuring local artists, artisans and craftmakers. Stop by anytime in the
afternoon and peruse a phantasmagorical cornucopia of objects and
imbibements to titillate the tongue, warm the belly, inspire the mind and
adorn the body!
The mission of these Collabazaars is to create a sustainable model for
fundraising for the Omni's monthly expenses while simultaneously providing
local makers in our community with income and visibility to support their
continued creative / artistic / crafty / culinary endeavors.
As the sun sets, the Omni will metamorphize into a haunted house befitting
of its creepy cavernous and labrynthian corners!
Collaborators:
* Francisco Jimenez, Tucan Vinegars: Selling delicious homemade Costa
Rican-style vinegars. Free tasting
s available!
* Abby Normal Art by Antoinette Gaggero
* Liberation Food Coop: Fair trade, fresh-roasted coffee and a variety of
teas to sample.
* Youth Liberation Zines by STINNEY DISTRO
* Live painting by Nikki Lee Drumm
* Musical mosaics: Hand-crafted instruments that can be played and used as
unique art pieces.
* Kangs' Necklaces: Wire Wrapped Gems & Stones
* BerrytheMaker selling her household overstock of accumulated treasures,
cheap!
* Sudo Room's 3D printers will be printing out original magnet designs
throughout the day \o/
This event will be updated as vendors are confirmed. If you're interested
in running a booth (with a percentage of sales going to the Omni Commons)
at this or future Collabazaars, please contact collabazaar(a)omnicommons.org
Hi folks,
I've asked this question before in private with not a lot of good
responses, but I'll put it out to a wider audience. One of the things that
is nice about being a university is full online journal access.
For myself, in the past I've had friends inside a uni run an underground
proxy server for me so I can access said licensed content ("Right to Read
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html>" anyone?). UC
Berkeley offers the general public library access for $100 a year, which is
great but cost prohibitive for starving hackers
My question is: is there someway we can get hackerspaces and members forge
a path to having access to non-open access journals? Maybe through some
sort of library grant, or charity access, or something? My library
knowledge here falls short. But there are multiple great reasons for us to
do this:
* accelerate research and innovation at a grassroots/citizen
level. One of the biggest wins I see here is with citizen driven disease
research (austin just opened a medical hackerspace
<http://district.life/2015/10/02/launching-the-first-medical-makerspace-in-t…>).
Can you imagine what the cyborg group could do with a broader network?
* open access journals are great, but the coverage falls short
* for a lot of folks who have never had access to a university,
it's simply a matter of fair educational access
* it can encourage projects to re-invent journal access itself
Would love to hear ideas or possible points of contact!
Love,
Praveen
Hi All,
Below is info about a current project to archive something important and dear to me. Before there was Wired and the couch surfing interns who worked for Mondo and left to start Wired-- there was Mondo 2000. I remember reading an issue of URB magazine and noticing Mondo 2000 on the newsstand. Things every Black nerd needed to see at an early age was in Mondo, like: virtual reality, tech pioneers and mavericks, and even an article about Pamela Z.
To meet and share ideas with these folks was amazing. Names that should mean something if you believe in the real power of what we all strive to do. > > Captain Crunch, R.U. Sirius, Queen Mu, William Gibson, Mark Pesce, and more.
If you're interested in helping to digitize or what not, get in touch with them.
Best,
Scott R. Edmonds
Mobile: 1-510-928-3469
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> Date: October 27, 2015 at 5:49:53 PM EDT
> To: scott.edmonds(a)gmail.com
> Subject: Project Update #25: MONDO 2000: An Open Source History by R.U. Sirius
> Reply-To: No Reply <no-reply(a)kickstarter.com>
>
>
>
>
> 25
> New Plan for completion
> Posted by R.U. Sirius
> For backers only
> Hi folks!
> Hope this finds you well. I’m under migraine (for real. 3 weeks). Health shit really has been getting in my way.
> Anyway, well, my hope that another very professional writer would join me in completing the Mondo 2000 section of the book appears to have not worked out. I gave it an extra month which is why you all have not heard from me sooner.
> My final plan to finish/crowdsource the book ought to work, if I can gather up all my skills as an editor at the end of the process. I’m going to push hard for speedy delivery. The plan should allow for that.
> Before I share the plan, this seems to be a good place to pick up volunteers to help… even though I haven’t heard back from the previous volunteers.
> This is the first place I’m sharing this new plan, except with a few folks personally. I’ll be looking elsewhere for volunteers too. You folks have been exceptionally kind. Thought you might like to participate.
> So first of all, the folks who said they would open my ancient discs so I could extract the content? We were going to do this, I think, in September. I’ve lost track of you and haven’t heard back. I have a note that makes me think it may have been Bryce Lynch who was going to help with that. Hoping this will shake the tree.
> Secondly, I’m looking for someone to scan all the issue of Mondo 2000 and a bunch of archival stuff … press clippings, ad brochures ad infintum. I’d need it done fast if possible and would prefer someone in the SF Bay Area. Even just the issues would be awesome.
> This this would be tremendously helpful and would improve on both the timing and quality, but if it doesn’t happen, I will work around it.
> Finally, if you have an urge to write something for the book… or to interview a Mondo 2000 participant who interests you, I’m opening it up to “outsiders.” See The Plan, below…
> The Plan
> I plan to take a lot of material from the magazine itself and weave the story telling around it. But also, add commentary geared towards the ideas etc. in the magazine. Even more fun, I think… I am inviting people who wrote for the magazine, a few other favored writers and the patient folks who contributed via Kickstarter to rummage through any magazines they may have and write about it. React to an issue or an article or just let something jar a memory and tell a story.
> It’s my hope to also have the issues all scanned, but in the meantime, if you have that resource (back issues) it’d be great if folks would get going.
> Naturally, I can’t guarantee that every bit of writing will get into the book, but it will get onto the website. Pre-Mondo issues of Reality Hackers and High Frontiers and a few archival bits are at Internet Archives… https://archive.org/details/mondohistory ... but I want to discourage too much focus on the old issues. I’ve got a shitload of writing already about the early years. If you want to participate and you have actual MONDO 2000 magazines, please use those. If I can’t get the magazine scanned soon (or at all) and if I can’t get my old discs cracked open, I will live with that. I’ll be setting a deadline for the end of January 2016 to collect materials. Thank you Thank you Thank you for your patience and support … and I hope a few of you might want to help in one way or another.
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Hello All,
I am going in a trip from Nov. 3rd to the 11th and I have no place to park
my car for that length of time.
If someone in the list living near BART would allow me to park in their
driveway or similar; between Richmond to SF Airport I would donate $50 to
Omni (https://omnicommons.org/donate.html). It will make me happier knowing
that I am donating that money Omni, besides that it will way cheaper than
paying the airport!
I would share the receipt of my donation with you.
Many thanks in advance,
Daniel
p.s. please feel free to email me directly to my email or ask me for my
number if you prefer to call. Thx!
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It's called "Forum Friends" - a mobile app for accessing and making posts
to internet forums.
Here is the link to install the beta version for Android:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.autonomous.forumfriends
A bit of history:
Internet forums are a grassroots alternative to mega corporate social media
sites and had their beginnings with dial-up bulletin boards in the days
before the internet came into existence. Today there are 10s of thousands
of internet forums with some having over 1.5 million registered users. And
there are now over a dozen good open source forum server platforms
including nodebb, a nodejs forum server.
Forum Friends is a multi-platform app written primarily in Javascript with
some Java and ObjectiveC code to support Android and IOS platforms. Forum
data is accessed and updated via a restful json api and data is cached
locally via indexeddb. The app also works with a nodejs server to securely
verify in-app purchases. The design enables many possibilities including
secure crypto messaging and pier-to-pier serverless message exchange over
private networks.
If someone would like to install it on their android phone or tablet and
take it for a spin, that would be great! Also, if there is a javascript
meetup this week I would like to attend.
Thanks,
Autonomous.
I attached a few screenshots.
Hi all,
We'll be hosting our first of a potentially bi-monthly pop-up bazaar
featuring local artists, artisans and craftmakers this Saturday in the
entrance hall. This is a last-minute call for collaborators - if you're
interested in running a table, playing music, contributing art/crafts, or
something completely different that would contribute to making the event
awesome, please get in touch by sending an email to
collabazaar(a)omnicommons.org
I'm planning also to set up a table for info about the Omni. If you'd like
to add literature/info/flyers about your collective, a class or event, I'll
be setting up a dropoff spot behind the front counter later today.
The mission of these Collabazaars is to create a sustainable model for
fundraising for the Omni's monthly expenses while simultaneously providing
local makers in our community with income and visibility to support their
continued creative / artistic / crafty / culinary endeavors. It's something
many of us have been talking about for awhile now, with limited volunteer
energy to execute - but even if the first one is small I'm sure we can grow
this!
Collaborators confirmed so far:
* Francisco Jimenez, Tucan Vinegars: Selling delicious homemade Costa
Rican-style vinegars. Free tastings available!
* Abby Normal Art by Antoinette Gaggero
* Liberation Food Coop: Fair trade, fresh-roasted coffee, hibiscus
lemongrass kombucha, and a variety of teas to sample.
* Radical zines available by donation
Please share the facebook event widely:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1661603590723647/
Flyers will be available tomorrow afternoon at the front counter of the
Omni if anyone would like to help with promoting!
Love,
Jenny
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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We have a GTX980ti that won't fit in a dell poweredge server. Our
alternative, doing iterative cone beam CT reconstructions on a 2008 crap
machine isn't quite working.
On 26 Oct 2015 12:46 pm, "Jake" <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
> i have a pcie x1 extender that uses a usb3 cable, it's for bitcoin miners.
> does that help?
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Adam wrote:
>
>
>> Anyone have a right angle PCIe riser on hand?
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Hello All!
Straight to the point:
Instead of going to buy a new/used piece of furniture or whatever item from
a store, one should ask in their Collecive and or the Omni email list(s).
So if a member has it, then the two parties involved will decide the amount
of money that the person receiving the item should donate to Omni. This
idea is not inclusive to items, it could include services.
For example (a real example): I am going in a trip for 11 days (Nov 3 -
11), and I have no place to park my car for that length of time.
If I use the parking lot at the airport, it will cost me $18 a day making
it a total of $198 plus tax. But, I would be happier if someone in the list
living near BART would allow me to park in their driveway or similar; from
anywhere in Richmond to North Oakland, or from SF to the SF Airport so that
I would donate $50 to Omni.
The person doing the monetary donation could do it in person or use the any
of these methods online: https://omnicommons.org/donate.html
What are your thoughts?
Many thanks for reading this email.
Daniel
p.s. i will send another email with my real #ISO request as an example of
what I mean, and perhaps I get some replies.
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