One of the most well done usability mobile phone apps I've ever seen. Some
artist academics created a feature phone mobile app for undocumented
immigrants on the San Diego/Tijuana desert border.
It was a very simple compass app that also had a tuning fork feature. the
closer the immigrants came to hidden water reserves left out by charities
and activists, the more the phone would vibrate. This was to solve the
problem of immigrants dying of thirst in the desert.
Of course they got into trouble...
<3
http://hyperallergic.com/54678/poetry-immigration-and-the-fbi-the-transbord…
Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0
<http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_edtheater.h…>
/b.a.n.g. lab <http://bang.calit2.net/> released the first iteration
of the Transborder
Immigrant Tool <http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/> (TBT), a mobile-phone
technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California
desert. In 2010, the project caused a firestorm of controversy on the
American political scene, and the artists of EDT/b.a.n.g. lab were
investigated by three Republican Congressmen, the FBI Office of Cybercrimes
and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where Ricardo
Dominguez, co-founder of EDT (with Brett Stalbaum) and principal
investigator of b.a.n.g. lab, is an associate professor in the visual arts
department.
framework and open artist apis
http://www.walkingtools.net
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Citizen Scientists and Hackers of the World,
Counter Cultures Labs' Kickstarter [1] to upgrade its current lab is
almost 80% funded, but we only have a few days left! We're getting very
close to our goal so WE NEED people to help spread the word. Counter
Culture Labs is made by and for the community. We are committed to being
YOUR biohacking & citizen science lab.
Exploring science and the mysteries of the universe is something
everyone should be able to do. We are here to support dreamers to find
new innovations. The most creative products were made, not in industry
or academia, but from people tinkering in their backyards and garages
because they love it. Let's give people access to their potential!
We need the community to help spread the word about our Kickstarter and
the awesome prizes [1] we have such as a hackerspace/biohackerspace
passport, a bacterial culture necklace, and/or a bacteria we discovered
named after you. Check em out, [1] and please forward this message!
With love,
Counter Culture Labs
PS: Our fundraiser event [2] has been postponed to Tuesday, June 9th @
8pm, address 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland. See y'all there :)
Links:
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[1]
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1836537355/counter-culture-labs-your-b…
[2] http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/221415647/
Do you have a hardware project you'd like to put out into the world?
I am a mentor at HAX (formerly HAXLR8R). We choose 15 groups of people with cool hardware projects, give a small pile of money for your project, you live in Shenzhen, China for 3 months, have access to way cool tools and mentors, the groups all help each other, you learn a lot, and have a blast. And you make your project into a product that goes out into the world. At the end of the 3 days there's a big Demo Day in San Francisco where everyone shows off their projects, with plenty of media attention, and even angel investors.
The deadline for the upcoming group is extended a few days. If you're interested, please submit your proposal here:
http://www.hax.co/
Cheers,
Mitch.
peoples,
does anyone have a junker inkjet printer laying around that I could hack
on? Or does sudoroom have a junker inkjet printer laying around that I
could hack on? I'm specifically interested in the print head and nozzles,
it doesn't need to have ink or working motors or anything
and if anyone's ever played with print heads before, I would love some
pointers
Ben
Hey!
I don't know if Sam is on the Sudo Discuss list but if not, could someone
please forward this message to him (I don't often see him in the space
these days!)
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Hi Sam,
This is Niki from La Commune. I'd like to ask that you please stop going
behind the La Commune counter.
If you want to make coffee, I can find another coffee make to put somewhere
in the kitchen upstairs but the coffee and coffee maker behind the La
Commune counter is not for the "cafe" / bookstore.
In order for La Commune to function, we need to keep this space in order
and we have requested that anyone who is not a member of La Commune please
refrain from using this space.
Thanks a lot in advance for you understanding!
Niki
someone "cleaned" the 3d printer table and now the guitar string that we
use to clear up clogs in the nozzle is missing.
don't clean up something if you don't know how to use it! i'd rather have
a functional 3d printer or soldering setup than a clean, useless table.
i fixed the motor drivers on the type A machine 3d printer, now we just
need another guitar string to clean the nozzle and we're back in business.
-jake
Howdy Y'all
Counter Culture Labs of the Omni Commons is throwing A Party for Science
on Friday, June 5th from 8:00PM to late, as our Kickstarter [1] is under
way! Come mingle with the citizen science, hackers, and artists of the
open source movement. Have fun and enjoy yourselves as we celebrate the
scientific method by counting drinks, but remember if someone orders
H20, please don't ask for H20 too!
Live music and alcoholic/non-alcoholic drinks will be supplied. $5 cover
charge at the door.
Date: June 5th
Time: 8:00PM - late
Address: 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609
Links:
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[1] http://gator3095.hostgator.com/tinyurl.com/CCLKickstarter
Dear all!
In case you were trapped in your grandmother's basement, or too busy
protesting the Police State, and despite your burning desire haven't made
it to the FTP festival this Friday...
...
Well, that's a bummer.
BUT!!!
Thanks to *the Internets*, you can RELIVE the experience anytime by
checking out our * lineup* of short films by and about Oakland folks. Most
of the videos are available online for you to watch:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/FTP_Short_Film_Festival
If you were there, do give us feedback!
<3
Noémie from Optik Allusions
Hi all,
There's less than 24 hours to vote in the election for the Wikimedia
Foundation's Board of Trustees. This is a really important one, in my
opinion, and many others; in short, I believe the Foundation has been
suffering from never having prioritized understanding the social dynamics
in its volunteer base. That has been manifesting in many ways over the last
year or two. With three of 10 seats open, this is a good opportunity to
nudge things in a better direction. I wrote several blog posts about it,
here: http://wikistrategies.net/tag/trustee-election-2015/
In order to vote, you have to have at least 300 edits to Wikipedia or its
related projects -- 20 of them have to have been between last October and
April. (There are some other ways to qualify too, but that's the main one.)
All the voting info is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi…
Voting ends at 4pm Pacific on Sunday May 31.
Wikipedia is IMO the most widespread and in many ways most important
instances of "hacker culture" having an impact. I think it's important that
its social health be understood, and that such knowledge should have a
strong influence in the kind of planning and intervention the Foundation
does. Please take a look, and if you're eligible, vote!
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]] on the wiki
I'm sorry if this isn't really correct for this list, but I thought it
would be best to ask. I've just moved to Walnut Creek from a small city.
While I know it not to be fully true, I've always heard the standard
sterotype/generalization that 'Oakland isn't safe, blah blah blah, you're
going to get shot/mugged/other'. I would love to come vist Sudoroom,
everything I've read about it and the people there seems like a great time.
I suppose my question is "would I be safe to take BART down from Walnut
Creek to MacArthur and walk to sudo? Should I be worried?".
Any tips? I'm sorry, I'm just new around here.
Mike
The world outside is sort of hostile to hackers !
I was a little down because many well meaning people keep trying to direct me to fields inappropriate for me.. Social work, children's education . Mommy bloggers , public school teachers
Maybe it's because I'm a woman ! But I'm a hacker and nerd at heart.
Why do the powers that be try to take these making people and try to drown them out to become bureaucrats?
Even though we don't always get along we are honestly not passive like most normal people. I love the energy at Noisebridge and Sudoroom.
If I were forced to stop being a hacker and only socialize with passive non creative folks it'd definitely be a downer
But part of that energy comes with a dark side. We are often temperamental. We do not function well In sanitized environments that are "safe for kids". We Are not always the right people to do social work or teach non passionates
The energy comes with a price!
We are yin and yang.
But id rather hang out with true ha hackers of all genders. I imagine my future surrounded by bureaucrats and it's not pretty at all .. Or folks lecturing me not to do my best work because their notions of a woman's happiness are outdated and traditional
I hope we can all hug next Sunday
Love you all !
Sent from my iPhone
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:07 PM, WIld Cat <wildcatofthewoods(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> No this is a fabrication of the issue she left something rotten in the trash
Maybe we should have a separate list for conflicts and mediation. Oh
wait, the Omni already has one:
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/mediation
Why are you even using sudo-discuss? None of these things even
happened in Sudoroom, they happened elsewhere in the building.
Very cool!!!! \(^_^)/
my biggest problem getting fully onto the 3D printing revolution is simply
dealing with the 3D software. I think printing was relatively easy
I'm wondering if I should help set up a repo at SudoRoom or Noisebridge
I remember doing a sudoroom comics jam...
we ended up taking Y's drawing and sticking it into a Makerbot tool and we
had an instant 3D printout.
https://github.com/sudoroom/ComicsArtSudoRoomhttps://github.com/sudoroom/ComicsArtSudoRoom/blob/master/TodayILearned/Tod…
it was nice having the serendipity. I'm thinking of doing another drawing
session at SudoRoom and taking the results and putting it to work on the
laser cutter.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Torrie Fischer <tdfischer(a)hackerbots.net>
wrote:
> funnily enough, there was a group of ~4 hackers who visited tonight who
> thought 3d thursday was still happening, then we started inventorying the
> parts for the kit they acquired and demoing the flashforge, so 3d thursday
> ended up happening.
>
> On Thursday, May 28, 2015 08:24:02 AM Romy Ilano wrote:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjIYDlMzBk
> >
> > hi this is a cheeky badly made 3d instructional video for beginners I
> made
> > at Noisebridge 2 years ago
> >
> > I feel bad because i never finished it but it's a nice overview and a
> nice
> > use of Youtube!
> >
> > - I think next time I visit Noisebridge I'll try to do something similar.
> > - will try to make it super easy for beginners
> > - will add really obvious stuff like "this is the USB port that you stick
> > your computer into. yes you can use it, go to this wiki link and download
> > it here"
> >
> > I like the chimes too. =D
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =============================
> >
> > Romy Ilano
> > romy(a)snowyla.com
>
Hey all,
I want to not care about anything anymore and let wolves run wild through
the streets.
I promise, I'm working on letting it all go and I'll be removing my voice
from many conversations moving forward.
In the meantime, I am going to ask for safe space bans on every member who
is in the building when no one is intentionally watching the door /
welcoming newcomers and the door has been left wide open.
This, to me, feels like an egregious safe space violation and encourages a
culture of confusion, which we are working hard to remedy.
N
Even though at times I got burned out by Sudoroom I can't express how much it saved me from burnout in Silicon Valley
Even though we might quarrel the tech scene has so much negative sides and there are an awful lot of clueless douchebags out here who don't get it
It's really cool to connect with people who are truly passionate about technology and Art. I see so many cities attempting to create their own silicon valleys and failing . You just can't
The Bay Area has a unique blend of artists and socially conscious folks !!! Thank you for teaching me.
Sent from my iPhone
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice for June rent at the Omni. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks and <3,
SP + Finances WG
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Invoice # : 1058
Invoice Date: 05/28/2015
Due Date: 06/01/2015
Terms: Due on receipt
Amount Due: $2,000.00
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Hi again,
Here is Sudo Room's invoice for your State Farm Insurance policy. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
SP + Finances WG
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Invoice # : 1059
Invoice Date: 05/28/2015
Due Date: 06/01/2015
Terms: Due on receipt
Amount Due: $96.91
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