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Japanese study on how analog. / handwriting learning trumps digital only learning and note taking

by Romy Ilano

https://www.pocketprep.com/posts/should-you-study-with-paper-or-screens/ Especially sobering since so many elementary and high schools are switching to stuff like Chrom Books and online distance learning instead of tactile learning with notecards and paper "Our take-home message is to use paper notebooks for information we need to learn or memorize. Professor Kuniyoshi L. Sakai, a neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo " ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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SudoRoom report last week (April)

by Romy Ilano

Last week was pretty great! - I held down the fort and explored web-based virtual reality projects during the women and nonbinary hack and do whatever nights. In the middle of job searching so can't do much more but I plan a workshop on Blender + web virtual reality between all headsets. Tuesday hacker night Continues to be cool. I went and haven't had time to mess with the robot, but Jake is making progress. Had a dream of one day hooking up a virtual reality headset with a game controller to the robot so that people with a Quest or VisionPro could view the space with their headsets and interact with people. Maybe there's a cheaper open source way to do it with webcams. That would be cool! Might be a future project. More people coming to the space that I met at Augmented reality hackathons. It's cool! Hope we can get more artsy people in too. It's just great to be able to socialize and talk in the space. While we do talk start-up shop talk, it's nice to have a space where you're not pressured to monetize by VCs. The last sessions at SudoRoom have been fun, I had time to explore and hack. While it's nice to see presentations by outside people, it's nice to return to the roots of sudoroom, which is using it as a hackerspace. For orientation maybe we can have "here's how to contribute to the wiki" We had a nice session two weeks back where many people expressed interest in using Blender. So a "Blender for noobies" event. The MADE game museum in Old oakland has meetups wednesdays for digital creators. Would like to involve them with SudoRomo, especially around light projectors Just don't have time lately. Women who code has disbanded, which leaves a big spaces for people who want to meet. Fortunately and unfortunately most women's groups revolve around people who are looking for a job =P While I'm an idealist and want to have spaces for people who love programming for the fun of it (long term I think these people are also more employable) will probably plan some "get a job" leetcode heck meetups for the women and non binary night. Some not so fun stuff: There are a number of VC-funded "third space" "hackerspaces" popping up in San Francisco mostly. They are great, but I've noticed some of them are planting people in SudoRoom sometimes to get them to go to those for profit spaces. It's a strong hunch I believe to be true, but if you are doing so, please be transparent. Have had encounters with people who come to hackerspaces (they won't be named) using it as a dating service. FYI sudoroom and Noisebridge are not dating services for guys desperate to have a girlfriend. I have yet to meet a cool woman who comes to hackerspaces who is hot to date guys there. Dating apps are great for that kind of thing, and there are speed-dating meetups in the city. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Fwd: RPSC May Newsletter ❤️

by Romy Ilano

Here is the latest RPS Collective newsletter. I used to be a member and they started the Oakland Art Murmur (which became the First Fridays). They are very active, have a space and I hope to involve them more in SudoRoom and Nosiebridge hackerspaces in the year after I get a dang job! https://mailchi.mp/rpscollective/lt4u0evd8n-16530417?e=7146f52f19 ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rock Paper Scissors Collective <info(a)rpscollective.org> Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 9:29 AM Subject: RPSC May Newsletter ❤️ To: <romy(a)snowyla.com> News + Events from Rock Paper Scissors Collective View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/rpscollective/lt4u0evd8n-16530417?e=7146f52f19> May 2024 May the art be with you! Check out our upcoming events and ways for you to engage with our community. We look forward to the art you will create this month. - Workshops - Events - Volunteer - Zines - Ara Jo Memorial Fund Workshops * All activities take place at 2120 MLK Jr. Way in Oakland, unless otherwise noted. * *Masking not required but suggested for all workshops.* * ASL interpreters and SSPS available upon request. If an ASL interpreter or SSP is desired, please email leslie(a)rpscollective.org <leslie(a)rpscollective.org> one week before the workshop or event*. *Creating a Visual Diary* *Saturday, May 4th from 2:00-4:00pm* Join us for this art journaling class with our awesome guide Lisa. Discover a valuable tool to develop your creative voice. Register on Eventbrite <https://rpscollective.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e541f258945afffea9…> *Pine Needle Basket Weaving* *Saturday, May 11th from 1:00-3:30pm* Learn some basic weaving techniques and create your own little basket. Talented instructor Ramona leads this very popular workshop. Register on Eventbrite <https://rpscollective.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e541f258945afffea9…> *Share Your Story!* *Saturday, May 18th from 1:30-3:30pm* The shortest distance between two people is a story. Paula will help you build the skills to craft a story from your own life. Register on Eventbrite <https://rpscollective.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e541f258945afffea9…> Want to share a skill? Teach a workshop with us! Fill out the *Teach a Workshop form* <https://rpscollective.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e541f258945afffea9…> or contact us at workshops(a)rpscollective.org Events *Art Ride* On Hiatus. Check our Instagram for updates. *Friday, May 10th & 24th* *4:30 - 7:00 PM* 2120 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland Email:nic@rpscollective.org Join us to drop in, play chess, and celebrate queerness. Don’t know how to play chess? No problem, we’ll teach you how! All materials provided. No experience or registration necessary! *Be the first to know about new workshops!* Follow us on Eventbrite! <https://rpscollective.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e541f258945afffea9…> Workshop sizes are small and often sell out, so it’s best to register quickly. Don’t forget to bring a friend! *Teach a workshop or host an event at RPSC!* We’re always looking for new workshops and events to offer at our gallery space in downtown Oakland. Let’s make it happen in 2023! Get in touch! <workshops(a)rpscollective.org?subject=Teaching%20a%20Workshop%20at%20RPSC&body=null> ✂️ *Zines* 🖊️ *Calling All Zinesters! * Join us to make, trade, and talk zines! Contact us at zines(a)rpscollective.org to find out how you can plan zine things like events, zine library organization, or whatever else you can think of! Contribute to our Zine Library! You may send one copy of your zine to our PO box address, provided at the bottom of this email. Sell your zine(s) through RPSC! 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1 year, 4 months

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CAST Introduction

by William Myers

Hello Folks, The meeting with CAST was incredibly sweet and wholesome. They shared more about their values. We shared a number of our existing problems OMNI has had in the past, we also shared the essence of who we are, what we do, and what we believe. They appeared to be genuinely impressed and excited. We also gave them a tour of the building. While they didn’t give us much information on whether they have intention to help us with our many needs, I believe they see hard work that has gone into the OMNI, the positive outcomes it has delivered in the past, as well as the potential it has for great things in the future. The next meeting is on May 1 (6:30-8PM) to discuss representation and experience for QTBIPOC Collective Members. If you are QTBIPOC and would like to attend please reach out. We should invite QTBIPOC folks to represent their experience at SUDO, if you know someone who you feel would be at this please reach out to them directly. *Feel free to:* - Invite members to this event personally - Reply to this thread if you are interested in attending. - Email Directly to confirm attendance (williamrmyers(a)gmail.com) I'm Looking forward to working with them to make great things happen! Best William

1 year, 4 months

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Last night some more explorations of WebXR (virtual reality on the web)

by Romy Ilano

Hung out at SudoRoom last night, met some cool people and am continuing to bring new and fresh faces to the hackerspace! I'm still exploring web hosting of virtual reality. Aframe is a promising framework and this would make for a clean and easy workshop! https://github.com/aframevr/aframe It's great socializing with folks. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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How is everyone doing? What have you worked on this week?

by Romy Ilano

I'm all in on augmented reality. I'm still thinking a lot about light projection. I have been busy, haven't had time to stop by. Will try to make it to hardware hack night Tuesdays! One positive change is that I've been minimizing as much as possible the presentations I've had to look at this week. I think I just saw too many. Another thing is, I'd like to come to sudoroom and focus entirely on hacking. I feel like I was on that track, but really cool people would distract me and try to get me into that the past few weeks. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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volunteers wanted for Omni eco exchange, Saturday april 27

by Paige P

Omni Commons is having an eco-exchange event this Saturday. I will be around during the event, but if others can join too, let me know. If enough people are willing, we could advertise a fixit clinic session in sudo room. event info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-eco-exchange-tickets-882712897037 volunteer sign up https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl4IIH60nPHbLsz1wF2EkUUnzNpT3UKxD…

1 year, 4 months

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wheeeeee did my first virtual reality capture of sudoroom in webxr

by Romy Ilano

https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me It's surprisingly easy with glitch! If you have vision Pro or a quest headset and have your web XR enabled, jump straight into SudoRoom at this very moment :) https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me I think this capture has peter in it =D This is fun, looking forward to building more webXR / virtual reality web environments in the future! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Safety Volunteers at SUDO/OMNI

by William Myers

Recently the OMNI has experienced some serious safety issues, including a situation that resulted in police being called into the space. The delegates are asking for volunteers that can be available generally to respond to safety issues relating to Safe Space Bans, and other safety issues... - responding quickly to Safe Space bans - making sure building access is revoked for banned people - making sure that the Process's for safe space bans, as well as and a process for reporting unsafe behavior, are publicly visible and available in the space. This will likely be formalized into an official committee later on, which will include de-escalation training, but for now we would like to ask for more volunteers. If you have time for helping improve Safety at SUDO and OMNI please reach out! Thanks William

1 year, 5 months

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tuesday hardware hack night was magical!

by Romy Ilano

Last night was quite magical! It reminded me of why I love hackerspaces so much. I invited 5 or 6 cool people from AI and augmented reality / virtual reality meetups and hackathons I knew. I think most of them had never been to a hackerspace before. three new people showed up, and none of them had ever been to SudoRoom before. We got an exhibiting artist to visit! I'd like to get more painters, artists etc. to be visiting SudoRoom. Talked about paintings, and making 3D models, and using the light projectors to project art. Introduced them to the media lab with CeCe (sic) and the sewing machines. Dane put up a light projector (I'm face palming becusa I keep talking about this but never bring the ones I have, one of them is a loaner from SudoRoom that I need to leave at SudoRoom), and he projected the hackers movie onto the wall. A cool new person came and we did multiplayer augmented reality with our headsets. Augmented reality is at a nascent stage right now, but I love creating art on it the most. We mirrored what we were seeing for others. We talked about doing an ongoing blender class and I learned how to do Booleans to cut shapes out of others shapes. I think since I'm time constrained I might as well run a small pod of people Tuesday evenings. Went over kitbashing. Had some great green goddess pizza with Paige and folks. Thanks Paige for supporting the pizza! Explored the neighborhood (Temescal) with the folks who had never been to SudoRoom before. AN ongoing theme is that we never seem to grab the awesome foot traffic of the neighborhood. There were so many people walking to restaraunts last night even though the area has relatively little parking. More than you might see in a lot of downtown oakland There were regular community gatherings at the board game store across the street (is it called it's your move) there's a kitchen appliance store that was having a cooking workshop (they could be at omni commons!) Only took a quick look at the new telepresence robot. I spoke to Jake, i will have to email the company that made the robot, hopefully we can connect to them and get a free software update since we are a non profit While I was there I got an AI APi to work, might make something fun for a hackathon or sudoroom demos. I'm very interested in using AI to help people create art manually instead of replacing artists. It was nice to see the dance event going on tuesday nights. wonder if I should reach out to them and interact with them more! we talked about fundraising for sudoroom, omnicommons and the MADE game museum in old oakland. A lot of the stuff at Sudoroom is suitable for a museum - it'd be nicve to have augmented reality exhibits of what stuff is and "educate people" step by step beased on their engineering level and computer history knowledge what things are. There are going to be great things ahead this month! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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tool lending request for car repair

by Paige P

Hi, Freeway (Wood Street Commons member) is requesting the following. "Joel needs the following tools to fix our brakes: 14 mm socket,a jack, 21mm socket, a wire brush, a large flathead screwdriver... if anyone can loan him these tools for the day, we can return them as soon as he's done... thanks in advance!" does anyone have a jack to lend them? I believe the rest of the items we could lend from Omni's supplies Thanks, Paige

1 year, 5 months

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Yeah! tons of new folks coming to hardware hack night for the first time tonight!

by Romy Ilano

Yeah! tons of new folks coming to hardware hack night for the first time tonight! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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I forgot how to turn on the lights again!

by Romy Ilano

it's cozee and romantic here Monday next to the counterculture labs folks. But how do I turn on the lights? I always forget! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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I'm psyched to return to Hardware Hacking Tuesdays!

by Romy Ilano

It's been so long! I'm going to show up a little early - Got 1 person from the (dead) Virtual Reality /AR group at Noisebridge to come (tentative) He's new in town and actually working on his own AR / neurology headset - Getting 2 people who are collaborating on AI to come, one of them actually has a Quest Headset - I have my own Augemnted reality projects related to light projection as well. Think I might make an effort to bring one of the light projectors to NB! What have you been working on this week? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Upcoming night this Tuesday hardware hacking night - strictly light projection for me!

by Romy Ilano

Here's my only project I'm interested in at SudoRoom! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/User:Romyilano#Bestest_Most_Current_Things Sorry, no time to listen to people make presentations on stuff going on outside of sudoroom! No things where I have to click on a link to see some kind of project. no presentations! no powerpoints! No involvement in anything that is not light projection! No multimedia room even, just don't got time for it. My only involvement is going to be working on a hardware hack project and learning. I'm bringing the VR and AR folks over, and maybe some AI Folks! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Next Tuesday hardware hack night - themed VR + AI as well!

by Romy Ilano

Hey, I haven't been able to come by SudoRoom in a while! Next tUesday hardware hack night I invited folks from the VR and AR community as well as some cool AI folks to come by. I've been going to a lot of hackathons, and I want to promote the "stay gold" vibe by inviting folks to a space. https://www.meetup.com/sudoroom/events/300064981/ I guess if you know anyone who has a VR headset especially, that would be really cool! We can also check out the robot and update the wiki. I'm debating bringin my light projector (actually the sudoroom light proejctor) I'll check with jake but looking into installing something permanently in the balcony. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Re: [omni-consensus] Safe space bans on both Ian and Trevor

by Toan Nguyen

Hey everyone, Earlier today I've met with several Omni volunteers and touched on this topic. After meeting with volunteers I initiated a conversation with Trevor. Our chat was mutual and it helped us understand the situation more. *I have requested to Trevor that he temporarily stay away from Omni and take that time to process and reflect on his reaction for assaulting Ian.* *Trevor was receptive to leave and stay away from Omni for a one week period begining today.* *(April 6 - April 13)* For clarity - this is a modified safer space ban and I did not include any mediations nor did I felt the need to escort him out of Omni. This ban was initiated as an individual Omni volunteer and not on behalf of East Bay Food Not Bombs. Thanks, Toan On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 10:25 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am still shaken, but after some reflection I want to say this: > > I've felt that Ian was harassing, abusing, gaslighting and boundary > pushing people at omni for a long time, but was reluctant to say or do > anything about it because I didn't feel like it would be taken seriously. > Then last night he yelled some absolutely horrible violent and sexualized > threats, making the entire building very unsafe. > > In his few months at omni, Trevor never witnessed any safe space bans > happen, but DID witness attempts to use the safe space policy end in > failure. From his perspective, it was reasonable to believe that nobody at > omni actually took safe space seriously, the policy was a toothless joke, > and the only way to address the intense levels of harm coming from Ian was > to slap him in the face. > > Honestly, Trevor made the wrong decision to do this, but his heart was in > the right place. Any restorative justice process needs to show great > compassion. > > After thinking it over, I want to rescind my call for a safe space ban on > Trevor. I made a rash call in the heat of the moment. I think our community > failed him, and many others, by allowing Ian to remain for so long. I think > a ban on Trevor would be disproportionate and needlessly punitive. I > encourage the community to figure out a way to welcome him back asap. > > This is bigger than me and I'm not the boss of omni. I don't think it > should be my decision. But I just wanted to say how I'm feeling now. > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:18 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am calling for safe space bans on Ian and Trevor. >> >> Trevor physically assaulted Ian, and then Ian called OPD on Trevor and >> let them into Omni. I think both of these things were dangerous escalations >> and violations of our community agreements. I also don't feel they were >> equivalently dangerous, but they both meet the threshold for at least >> temporary bans on both people while we figure out what repair and justice >> look like. >> >> Trevor is not in the building, but Ian still is. I'm currently waiting >> outside for Ian to collect his things. After he leaves, I will accompany >> Trevor to collect his things also. >> > _______________________________________________ > consensus mailing list > consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >

1 year, 5 months

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URGENT: Omni needs a $120k loan

by Jake

Hi everyone. The Omni Commons, the building that sudo mesh co-owns with sudo room, Counter Culture Labs, Food not Bombs and several other collectives just had a private lender back out of a loan last minute and now it cannot pay its $120k property taxes due tomorrow. If anyone is willing to lend us $120k, even if it's for just three months until we to sort out another loan, please contact me. This needs to happen before tomorrow at 4 pm pacific time. The loan would be secured by the building as a second mortgage so it should be fairly low risk. -jake

1 year, 5 months

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The third place space

by Romy Ilano

I don’t know if we could call this marketing, but there are a lot of private venture funded social spaces popping up. Being biased I find ours is much more genuine and interesting. Rethinking how we can talk about Sudoroom online into other people as a cool third space https://apple.news/AM2lkHk68QpefU7HNB8xpsg Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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I just sent a notice to the SF Shut up and write group

by Romy Ilano

https://www.meetup.com/shutupandwritesfo/ I just sent a notice to the SF shut up and write group. Our space would be ideal for this kind of event! I can also note that we have tons of food in walking distance nearby! I'm actually pretty busy this month so this wouldn't start for a while, but let's get the ball rolling --- Hey folks - at the SudoRoom hackerspace in Oakland Temescal (next to the MacArthur BART) we have a lot of creative events. I'd be interested in hosting an in-person shut up and write alongside an online event. We have the gear to share to televise the live space. It's a big creative hackerspace with a sewing / materials workshop downstairs. There are also robots and electronics equipment as well. Thursdays, Sundays and Fridays are open https://sudoroom.org ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Sequoia Fabrica Is Looking to Partner and Help Makers With OpenSauce (fwd)

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brandon Haskell <brandon.haskell79(a)gmail.com> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hi, I'm a member at Sequoia Fabrica <https://sequoiafabrica.org/>. We recently opened up our space and I wanted to reach out to see if you have any projects you are planning to submit for OpenSauce <https://opensauce.com/> this year. We're looking to partner with Sudo Room if you need any additional help or resources. Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you, Brandon Haskell

1 year, 5 months

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should we reach out to shut up and write to bring more arts to the space?

by Romy Ilano

I discovered that there are "hackerspaces for writers" in San Francisco https://www.pagestreet.org I go to a lot of "Shut up and Write" events - wouldn't it be cool to bring the shut up and write folks to SudoRoom? I'll get on top of this once I get a job, prioritizing coding interviews and don't have much time lately ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Registered Repairs for tonight's Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Leo from SF has signed up for tonight's Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night with three items, and Melle from Oakland has signed up with an LED lamp. You can see more details on this master Google Sheet, scroll to the bottom to see the Sudoroom registrations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14lNfR1scJ53z3UUWgPSR8V4fdN063md6QfB… Please give Leo and Melle a warm Sudoroom / Omni Commons welcome and help them along through their journey with repair. We also typically have drop-ins who just show up. *✓ *Can someone who arrives early put the Fixit Clinic sandwich sign outside? *✓ *Can someone make sure the sandwich sign gets back inside about 11PM? See you later, -Peter

1 year, 5 months

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Whats all this stuff?

by Paige P

I would like to clear table for wnb tomorrow and wondering what all this is. Thanks, Paige

1 year, 5 months

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[sudo-info] New maker event in the Bay Area looking for cool projects

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Caleb Kraft <caleb(a)opensauce.com> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Subject: [sudo-info] New maker event in the Bay Area looking for cool projects I'm Caleb Kraft, you might remember me from the last 10 years at Maker Faire. I've just left Make to help grow a new event that has a ton of overlap. You can find it at OpenSauce.com. Basically, back in 2019 when Maker Faire died for a while, we started brainstorming what a new event could be, mashing up our favorite parts of Maker Faire and Vidcon. OpenSauce was born. Tons of maker booths and a stage packed with folks you will recognize. We don't have a blog or magazine though, so getting the word out to get people to come show off requires a bit more of a personal touch. The event is in mid June. Do you all have anything fun you'd like to exhibit? -- Thanks for your time, Caleb Kraft

1 year, 5 months

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