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Working on electrical? Please alert others

by David Keenan

The following is for building & human safety: 1. Please email the discuss and building groups PRIOR to beginning work on electrical, with the following infos: - your ph# and email - brief description & location of work being performed including relevant (sub)panel - anticipated date, & length of outage if any 2. While you are working, leave a note on the relevant panel with your name, ph#, & email, as well as instructions as to what breakers must be left off while you are working. 3. When you have to leave, do not leave any exposed wiring: Panel covers must be put back on, outlets covered, etc. 4. Please send a message to discuss & building lists with the status of the work, what was changed, what breakers are re/dis-connected and to what, etc, if it is finished and if not when/what is needed to do so, etc. Hope that is agreeable to all? David

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Intro to Beekeeping at OMNI Collective - Counter Culture Lab

by Alice Rosenthal

INTRODUCTION TO BEEKEEPING CLASS Once you’ve had a fantastic romantic Valentines day - You’ll be ready to get moving forward on your new years resolution to “Keep Bees”! Don’t worry if you don’t have a place to keep them - you’ll get lots of creative idea from this lecture. Yes, this is the place to start. Come ready for some fascinating facts about our most important agricultural helper, and learn what you need to know to get going. Wear comfortable clothes - they make you feel better, but don’t wear wool or perfume as they make honeybees aggressive. Save the Date: February 15th, 2015 1pm - 4pm (perhaps later) Save the Location: The Omni Collective: Counter Culture Labs 4799 Shattuck Avenue,Oakland, CA Make a donation to cover the cost of life: $35 suggested. RSVP’s appreciated: BeeHappySolutions(a)gmail.com <mailto:BeeHappySolutions@gmail.com> Come by bicycle, bus or car - street parking is tough. Bring Snacks made from anything made by the help of a bee. I’m going to bring some accidentally fermented honey wash water.

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Intro to Beekeeping at OMNI Collective - Counter Culture Lab

by Alice Rosenthal

INTRODUCTION TO BEEKEEPING CLASS Once you’ve had a fantastic romantic Valentines day - You’ll be ready to get moving forward on your new years resolution to “Keep Bees”! Don’t worry if you don’t have a place to keep them - you’ll get lots of creative idea from this lecture. Yes, this is the place to start. Come ready for some fascinating facts about our most important agricultural helper, and learn what you need to know to get going. Wear comfortable clothes - they make you feel better, but don’t wear wool or perfume as they make honeybees aggressive. Save the Date: February 15th, 2015 1pm - 4pm (perhaps later) Save the Location: The Omni Collective: Counter Culture Labs 4799 Shattuck Avenue,Oakland, CA Make a donation to cover the cost of life: $35 suggested. RSVP’s appreciated: BeeHappySolutions(a)gmail.com <mailto:BeeHappySolutions@gmail.com> Come by bicycle, bus or car - street parking is tough. Bring Snacks made from anything made by the help of a bee. I’m going to bring some accidentally fermented honey wash water.

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Help design a circuit for sudoroom's hardware hacking tuesdays!

by Jake

I have always loved the idea behind Circuit Hacking Mondays, which happens at Noisebridge every Monday for the past n years. Sudoroom will be having Hardware Hacking Tuesdays from now until t, and we need to come up with some stock kits for n00bs to put together to learn how to electronics! seeing as we just got a huge donation of stuff (listed below) I say we come up with something that uses these excellent, FREE recycled components that would otherwise end up in a landfill or our lungs. It helps greatly that the components just happen to be perfect for... DIY micro-music synthesizers!!! picture this: a kit you can put together at sudoroom which, when you're done, makes awesome musical sounds and maybe sequences with a bunch of dials to turn and buttons to push. your mission: design a cool kit using the parts we have plenty of! the winning designs will be made into actual circuitboards sent out for fabrication and zillions of people will build those kits! we have unlimited potentiometers (board-mounted with a long enough shaft to turn with fingers) unlimited board-mounted buttons (four-pin, either SPST or DPST) unlimited piano-style DIP switches (two and eight positions) unlimited op-amps (250MHz bandwidth OPA354 i believe) unlimited 74HC14 schmitt triggers (six oscillators of any frequency) RCA jacks, headphone jacks, LM1877 audio amplifier chips and all the resistors and capacitors you could possibly need your design should not include a microcontroller, just passive parts that go together and make noise. Input will be 5 volts DC, output will be line-level audio for going into amplified speakers. we have lots of logic chips like 74HC163 four-bit counters and 74AC351 8-input multiplexers - so it should be easy to add a sequencer to your design! if you have plug-in breadboards, bring them in, it will make it easier to prototype this stuff. see you on tuesdays! -jake On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote: > Sounds like we should come up with a little electronics kit that uses as > many of these as possible, and then sell or give them away as soldering > 101 kits. > > Patrik > > On Jan 31, 2015 1:39 PM, "Jake" <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > yesterday I brought a pickup truck load of electronics to sudoroom: > > 20000 20000 ohm pots > 20000 board-mount buttons > thousands of op-amp chips > boxes of RCA jax and headphone jax > hundreds of 87c52 microcontrollers...! > spools of surfacemount capacitors and resistors (mostly 0805 size) > 1,000 74HC14N (for hex oscillators!!) and lots of other interesting chips > thousands of 25V lectrolytix 220 470 1000uF > a thousand NDT3055L general purpose NPN transistors > a thousand LM1877 audio amplifier chips > hundreds of LM1881 video sync seperators (for overlaying text on video!) > rails and rails of DIP switches (piano style, 2 pos and 8 pos) > many assembled circuitboards with cool stuff on them, including FPGAs! > boxes and boxes of 4x6" backlit monochrome LCD displays... > > what should we build with all this stuff? > > now i gotta design a board that uses those things to make music for a hardhack tuesdays kits... > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > >

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electronics donation!!!!!

by Jake

yesterday I brought a pickup truck load of electronics to sudoroom: 20000 20000 ohm pots 20000 board-mount buttons thousands of op-amp chips boxes of RCA jax and headphone jax hundreds of 87c52 microcontrollers...! spools of surfacemount capacitors and resistors (mostly 0805 size) 1,000 74HC14N (for hex oscillators!!) and lots of other interesting chips thousands of 25V lectrolytix 220 470 1000uF a thousand NDT3055L general purpose NPN transistors a thousand LM1877 audio amplifier chips hundreds of LM1881 video sync seperators (for overlaying text on video!) rails and rails of DIP switches (piano style, 2 pos and 8 pos) many assembled circuitboards with cool stuff on them, including FPGAs! boxes and boxes of 4x6" backlit monochrome LCD displays... what should we build with all this stuff? now i gotta design a board that uses those things to make music for a hardhack tuesdays kits...

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 27, Issue 27

by Oren Beck

Re: Replace Sudo elec outlets with GFI I may be able to lower the Drama Levels by suggesting that folks Hardware Hacking on mains voltage use a WAY LOWER amp breaker for their Hackery; http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/cb-1605/5-amp-push-to-reset… Either shell out a few bucks to buy one& slap it into a power strip... or scavenge a similar/lower rated one from some scrapworthy device. Idea is- the 5er or lower will pop WAY before risking anyone else getting shut down. I had a "test box" with Variac. volt&amp meters and switch selectable breakers from 1/2 to 15 amps for test/hacking and it saved a lot of headaches let alone preventing damages:> HtH Oren Beck

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Donation Inventory

by Nikola Capp (via Google Sheets)

Attached: Untitled spreadsheet.pdf Sent using Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ Hey, all the boxes on the main table of sudo, a MESA donation by Jake, is beig sorted nd put away, and as it goes heres a preliminary inventory of whats going on with it.

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Invoice #132 from Omni Oakland Commons

by Sarah Pritchard

Hi there! See below for a link to Sudo Room's invoice for January's shared expenses at the Omni. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions. For your reference, here is the breakdown of the Omni's total expenses (utilities, taxes, & insurance) from this month: - PG&E: $691.74 - EBMUD: $390.09 - Waste Management: $60.21 - Building Insurance: $660.00 - General Liability Insurance: $188.16 - Director's & Officer's Insurance: $302.00 - Taxes: $595.62 The utilities are split evenly between member collectives and tenants. All of our taxes and insurance are shared between member collectives only. Let me know if you have any questions, and please pay Sudo's portion of the shared expenses as soon as you're able. Thanks and <3, Sarah + Omni Finances WG Below please find a link to Invoice #132. Amount due: $433.72 USD Due by: 2015-02-01 To view this invoice, please visit: https://waveapps.com/qv2frm-tjm6xh

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Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV

by Ed Biow

No Jake, that TV has a big green stripe going through the middle. From what I've read on the web it might be something we can fix by mucking with/cleaning connections, but it is probably new panel time, which is unlikely to be worth the effort with a box of that vintage. I'll schlep in the TV I have & the mount. e - > Message: 26 > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:54:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> > To: sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV > Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1501291250020.62936(a)pe2950.spaz.org> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi Ed, > > the flatscreen TV mounted near the 3d printers says it works but i have > never tried it. I will try it and determine whether it's ewaste or not. > > there's another huge display that RAYC was playing with, we should do the > same thing. I think it would be nice to have several working mounted > screens around. > > As for the one you are offering, I think you should bring it in, and it's > great that it has a mount because we should put it up right away. > > I am excited to have more of this type of infrastructure in sudoroom > because i think there are a lot of limitations to projectors that can be > overcome by having screens like this around. -

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Replace Sudo elec outlets with GFI

by David Keenan

Hey all, Someone was experimenting with electrical stuff and tripped breakers... I think Sudo's standard outlets should be rewired with GFI outlets if this will cut down on this happening - I will volunteer to replace these with one other who knows electrical (Whitney? Jake?) if it can be budgeted. Is this agreeable to folks?

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Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV

by Jake

Hi Ed, the flatscreen TV mounted near the 3d printers says it works but i have never tried it. I will try it and determine whether it's ewaste or not. there's another huge display that RAYC was playing with, we should do the same thing. I think it would be nice to have several working mounted screens around. As for the one you are offering, I think you should bring it in, and it's great that it has a mount because we should put it up right away. I am excited to have more of this type of infrastructure in sudoroom because i think there are a lot of limitations to projectors that can be overcome by having screens like this around. -jake On Wed Ed wrote: > I know we have a couple of broken TVs in the sudoroom. Does anyone > know if they are solid waste or if they can be fixed? > > Anyway, I inherited a 32" "Dynex" LCD TV from a deceased friend that I > have no use for if we want to use that instead. It isn't great (720p), > but it works. Should I bring it in or would that just increase ambient > clutter? I think I have a wall mounting bracket for it if we want to > put it somewhere else. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phcOXphCUQo

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Show high school seniors what a hackerspace is

by Karissa McKelvey

Hey sudoers I'm teaching a web programming class of about 20 high school seniors (17-18 years old) who live in Oakland. They are primarily people of color and underprivileged in some way, having reached hardships enough to find themselves at a continuation high school due to bad grades. I'd like to bring them on a fieldtrip to sudo room/omni for an hour or two so they can see the tech, get a tutorial on 3d printers & see one in action. Maybe if people wanted to show off their projects they're working on, that'd be cool too! Anyone interested in this sort of thing? -- Karissa karissamck.com 'The kids call me Special K. Hopefully they just think I'm special'

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self-animating CGI people with flexible personalities

by pat xu

hey sudoers, I met a guy named Chris Shaw about a week ago. He is the second person I've met at the omni who came through because of the East Bay Express article!!! (: Chris wants to know if anyone wants to talk with him about the code he's developed for auto-animating emotions and speech in CGI characters. It's basically the next level in creating virtual CGI people with very flexible, self-generating behavior: applications include NPCs in video games (of course), next-gen conversation bots like AIM's SmarterChild back in the day, and even therapeutic tools to help autistic children practice emoting. http://vimeo.com/113120097 http://vimeo.com/113571986 the same tech can be used to animate animatronic robots. He's looking for collaborators to develop applications for this tech. If anyone's interested in playing with the technology or has questions for Mr. Shaw, you can contact him at: xophershaw(a)gmail.com ! Howl, px

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] [BAPS-Organizing] Woohooo! We hit $40, 000!

by Shake Anderson

Super Cool !!! Very Happy to see this idea materialized. Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: Sara Larsen Sent: 1/29/2015 9:33 AM To: Mitch Altman Cc: kathleenfrumkin(a)gmail.com; Sudo room; bayareapublicschool-organizing(a)googlegroups.com; discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] [BAPS-Organizing] Woohooo! We hit $40, 000! SO exciting!!!! YAY!!!!!!! On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Yay! W00t! Congrats! > > ------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:36:39 -0800 > From: kathleenfrumkin(a)gmail.com > To: bayareapublicschool-organizing(a)googlegroups.com > CC: sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org; discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] [BAPS-Organizing] Woohooo! We hit $40,000! > > > Wow. Terrific! > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:14 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Yip yip YAAAY!! > > > On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > With 8 hours left to go, some kind soul just topped us off and brought us > to our goal! > > Looking forward to the next 6 months making this ship seaworthy with y'all! > > xoxo > > N > > > > _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss > > -- Let us be together, Let us eat together, Let us be vital together, Let us be radiating truth, radiating the light of life, Never shall we denounce anyone, never entertain negativity. -- The Upanishads

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Woohooo! We hit $40,000!

by niki

With 8 hours left to go, some kind soul just topped us off and brought us to our goal! Looking forward to the next 6 months making this ship seaworthy with y'all! xoxo N

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [drama] no secrets here

by yar

If anybody can volunteer as a conflict steward or mediator on Løng$hanks's behalf, please speak up so we don't have to waste time at our Wednesday meeting. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Reso…

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Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV

by yar

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Ed Biow <biow(a)riseup.net> wrote: > Also, it looks like we're closing in on our Indiegogo target, we're at > about $38,500 of $40k. I hereby excuse $1500 of the geld I guess the > Omni is in the process of repaying me (I advanced some clink for the > ballroom lift), if Niki or someone can tell me what to do to formalize > that I guess it would be a goodness. No sense in channeling it through > Indiegogo and letting them rake off 6%. We expect to hit the target before midnight just from more crowdfunding, Ed! If you really want to forgive some debt, we can forward your email to the finance list, but it' s not necessary to finish the crowdfunding campaign IMO :)

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TV IV

by Ed Biow

I know we have a couple of broken TVs in the sudoroom. Does anyone know if they are solid waste or if they can be fixed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWzPcDtZZZo Anyway, I inherited a 32" "Dynex" LCD TV from a deceased friend that I have no use for if we want to use that instead. It isn't great (720p), but it works. Should I bring it in or would that just increase ambient clutter? I think I have a wall mounting bracket for it if we want to put it somewhere else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phcOXphCUQo Also, it looks like we're closing in on our Indiegogo target, we're at about $38,500 of $40k. I hereby excuse $1500 of the geld I guess the Omni is in the process of repaying me (I advanced some clink for the ballroom lift), if Niki or someone can tell me what to do to formalize that I guess it would be a goodness. No sense in channeling it through Indiegogo and letting them rake off 6%. e -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Now and then an innocent man is sent to legislature. - Kin Hubbard Edmund J. Biow 328 Haddon Road Oakland, California 94606 (510) 763-0591 (415) 623-6473 New Cell Number biow(a)cubasolidarity.net - biow(a)riseup.net - biow(a)sonic.net - ejbiow(a)gmail.com - ebiow(a)yasashi.net To subscribe or unsubscribe to the lists I manage send an email to the following: Subscribe: occupyoakland-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net civilizethecops-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net occupyoaklandkitchen-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net Unsubscribe: occupyoakland-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net civilizethecops-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net occupyoaklandkitchen-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' {O__, \ { / . . ) \ |-| '-' \ } )) Warning squirrels: Einstein is on the prowl .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _&

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [drama] no secrets here

by yar

FYI, I've set Løng$hanks's moderation bit.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [drama] no secrets here

by Ryan

I'm adding the drama tag to this thread for filters. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:41 PM, "Løng$hanks" <longshanks(a)spaz.org> wrote: > Huh. > Jake, you are a prick. > > On Mon, January 26, 2015 10:45 pm, Jake wrote: > > i'm really ashamed that this guy has a spaz.org email address. > > > > you can thank Stan for that. > > > > -jake > > > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, "Løng$hanks" wrote: > > > >> Damn, I always miss the good stuff. > >> > >> Dear Noisebridge, > >> > >> Recently I got a chance to check out your 86 page & I want to thank you > for including me at > >> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/86. I'm sorry I've been too busy > since you banned me to > >> check it out til now. Life as a sexy homeless man is hard! If I can > lodge one complaint, > >> it's > >> only that I'm so low on the list (the very last!) that I'm afraid some > people won't read > >> down > >> that far. Any chance of bumping me up a bit? wink emoticon > >> > >> If you have any questions about the elevator incident, my current > mental health, the size & > >> quality of my recent bowel movements, etc, all of this information is > available at > >> http://resistor.spaz.org. I also left print copies on the lit table in > the Omni entryway > >> last > >> night! > >> > >> +11+ > >> > >> Thanks so much for the pic I've been waiting for f***ing ever on that! > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, January 26, 2015 5:25 pm, null null null wrote: > >>> Thanks everyone for your input. If anyone will be around the Omni > tonight, > >>> I think it might be helpful to brainstorm strategies in person. Say > 5:00 to > >>> 6:30? I'll rely anything that comes up back to the list. > >>> On Jan 24, 2015 1:51 AM, "Jake" <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> thanks Null (whoever that is) for bringing this up and suggesting good > >>>> pointers on how we should deal with such situations. > >>>> > >>>> I agree with Patrik that it's important for someone to take a picture, > >>>> when someone makes enough of a problem that it takes multiple people > to > >>>> deal with them, a photograph is essential for two reasons: > >>>> > >>>> 1. it allows us to share with each other the knowledge about a problem > >>>> person in case they come back (expecting no one will remember them) > >>>> > >>>> 2. it lets them know that we will not forget who they are, and that > they > >>>> should forget about us and never come back. > >>>> > >>>> I must stress that #2 is the most important aspect of this, because > >>>> ultimately our goal should be for problem people to go away and never > come > >>>> back. Ideally they will tell their friends "don't bother, those > people are > >>>> not the victims we believed them to be" or a paraphrase of that. > >>>> > >>>> in particular, read the story of "Thief" from the noisebridge 86 wiki: > >>>> https://noisebridge.net/wiki/86 > >>>> > >>>> "This guy went into the back classroom and took Rayc's wallet out of > his > >>>> backpack. Rayc saw him with the wallet in his hand and the guy tried > to > >>>> say it was his. He then started running towards the door and was > tackled > >>>> by Jake. We made him show us that nothing was in his pockets, and he > kept > >>>> avoiding the big pocket in the front of his jacket. This pocket > turned > >>>> out to have Sasha's smart phone. During the search his crack pipe > fell > >>>> onto the floor and broke into many pieces. We let him go and told him > >>>> not to come back." > >>>> > >>>> It took several people holding onto him to keep him from exiting down > the > >>>> stairwell with people's property. He really wanted to leave but he > did not > >>>> hit or strike anyone at any time, which is why we let him go after > >>>> searching him and getting the stolen items back. > >>>> > >>>> When there is no photograph, it's basically impossible to prevent a > person > >>>> from coming back whenever they want unless there is a person there > who will > >>>> recognize them. We can't be playing cat and mouse with people who > want to > >>>> take advantage of us. > >>>> > >>>> -jake > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> sudo-discuss mailing list > >>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > >>>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> sudo-discuss mailing list > >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > >>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Not all who wander are lost. > >>_______________________________________________ > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > -- > Not all who wander are lost. > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >

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Invoice #137 from Omni Oakland Commons

by Sarah Pritchard

Hello Sudoers! As you may know, the Omni recently paid the State Farm insurance policies for all collectives through June 2015. Because our lease requires that all groups maintain current insurance policies, we decided to pay everyone's insurance up front rather than risk incurring fines from John Givens due to accidental lapses in individual policies. Below is a link to an invoice for Sudo Room's State Farm insurance policy through June 2015. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions. If it would be helpful for you to pay the Omni in monthly installments, that's fine too. Just let me know what you'd like to do. Thanks so much! Sarah + Finances WG Below please find a link to Invoice #137. Amount due: $581.46 USD Due by: 2015-01-28 To view this invoice, please visit: https://waveapps.com/x4krue-qh2jzt

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Omni trending @ #5 on IGG 'Community' page

by David Keenan

Not yet on the main page, or at the top of the Community page, but its getting there :) -- lets keep building this momentum! https://www.indiegogo.com/explore/community [image: Inline image 1]

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edible education lecture series (free!)

by J Clark

Thought some sudoers and Omnis would be interested in this free series. http://food.berkeley.edu/edible-education-101/ *Watch Berkeley's free lecture series on fixing the world's broken food systems* /"Eating is, among other things, an ecological act."/ By Vlad Savov Jan 28 2015 http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7927077/berkeley-edible-education-lecture… Some of the world's preeminent food policy thinkers and researchers are taking part in a new Edible Education lecture series at UC Berkeley this spring semester, and their lectures are being made available to stream online. Starting this Monday with an introductory note from Michael Pollan (video above, jump to the 9-minute mark to skip the preamble), the series will be updated weekly with contributions from Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser, and Raj Patel. You can stream those live on the day itself and participate in a Q&A on Twitter and Facebook, or you can just pick up the video on YouTube later on. The decisions made when setting food policy, argues Pollan, have broader consequences than most of us imagine. "Eating is, among other things, an ecological act," he says, before detailing some of the more devitalizing impacts of high-volume agriculture on our environment and ecology. He also echoes the words of New York Times writer Mark Bittman, another participant in this Edible Education initiative, in asking for more political attention to be granted to the centrality of food to so many issues: "These are all related: You can’t address climate change without fixing agriculture, you can’t fix health without improving diet, you can’t improve diet without addressing income, and so on. The production, marketing and consumption of food is key to nearly everything." The series will run all the way through the end of April, with the final few lectures looking into ideas for a more sustainable food system that can serve the planet's population without sapping its resources as aggressively as the current one.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Stealing Shit Policy

by Jake

thanks Null (whoever that is) for bringing this up and suggesting good pointers on how we should deal with such situations. I agree with Patrik that it's important for someone to take a picture, when someone makes enough of a problem that it takes multiple people to deal with them, a photograph is essential for two reasons: 1. it allows us to share with each other the knowledge about a problem person in case they come back (expecting no one will remember them) 2. it lets them know that we will not forget who they are, and that they should forget about us and never come back. I must stress that #2 is the most important aspect of this, because ultimately our goal should be for problem people to go away and never come back. Ideally they will tell their friends "don't bother, those people are not the victims we believed them to be" or a paraphrase of that. in particular, read the story of "Thief" from the noisebridge 86 wiki: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/86 "This guy went into the back classroom and took Rayc's wallet out of his backpack. Rayc saw him with the wallet in his hand and the guy tried to say it was his. He then started running towards the door and was tackled by Jake. We made him show us that nothing was in his pockets, and he kept avoiding the big pocket in the front of his jacket. This pocket turned out to have Sasha's smart phone. During the search his crack pipe fell onto the floor and broke into many pieces. We let him go and told him not to come back." It took several people holding onto him to keep him from exiting down the stairwell with people's property. He really wanted to leave but he did not hit or strike anyone at any time, which is why we let him go after searching him and getting the stolen items back. When there is no photograph, it's basically impossible to prevent a person from coming back whenever they want unless there is a person there who will recognize them. We can't be playing cat and mouse with people who want to take advantage of us. -jake

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Omni Commons Fundraiser FINAL PUSH! Only $5, 500 to go!

by Matthew Senate

Hey folks, All day this Wednesday Jan 28th in Omni Commons, join the fundraising working group starting at 12noon in making the final push to reach our goal before the deadline: 11:59pm 1/28/2015 (Weds night!) Thank you to everyone who has participated and given so far, in ways small and large. We are all co-dependent. // Matt

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