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by DZ Brazil

dear friends : we need a reliable PA setup for the alette in oakland event this weekend, oct 24-26, at the omni. if anyone at sudo would be willing to supply us with a PA and/or potentially help run sound for this event, would you please backchannel me ? thanks so much ! love -- david brazil

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moving the robot

by yar

At tonight's weekly Sudoroom meeting, we had a long conversation brainstorming new ways to arrange the space. A lot of it hinges on uncertainty about the robot arm. A while back we agreed it would move against the west wall, but it hasn't happened yet. What are the current plans for the robot? What needs to happen for it to move? How can people help? Thanks!

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moar outreach

by april glaser

Hi friends, So here at the meeting we're brainstorming about ways to bring more people in to the space, both to be more inviting and receptive to the needs of our community and to help bring more support to Sudoroom. Towards that end, how about everyone who runs a group at the space make an extra effort to reach out to others who might be interested in joining your group or learning what you know? Try it this week! It could mean doing a basic websearch and finding out if there are other community groups that are interested in these issues or would benefit from learning what you all know. For example, with the cryptoparty, I'm excited to contact to some of the activist groups that are organizing visible protests in Oakland and would benefit from skills shared at a cryptoparty.. If you work on robots, maybe reach out to some of the many robotics groups in the Bay Area. Just send an email to let them know when and where; maybe they'll show up :) Let me know if you're interested in doing outreach, but don't know where to start or who to invite. I'd be delighted to help. Ever upward, April

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PACKAGE OF RFID WRISTBANDS SHIPPED TO THE OMNI

by Jake

A PARCEL CONTAINING 16 POUNDS OF NFC RFID WRISTBANDS WAS SHIPPED TO THE OMNI A WEEK OR TWO AGO. IT WAS ADDRESSED TO NIC WEIDINGER BUT IS INTENDED FOR SUDOROOM HACKING. I HAVE NOT SEEN IT NOR HEARD MENTION OF IT, SO I AM GUESSING IT IS SITTING IN THE OMNI NEAR THE FRONT DOOR SOMEWHERE SINCE NOBODY KNEW WHERE TO PUT IT. IF YOU FIND IT, OR HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF IT, PLEASE WRITE BACK. <S>THESE RFID TAGS WILL BE USED FOR PERMANENTLY IDENTIFYING COLLECTIVE MEMBERS AND WILL BE NECESSARY TO OPEN DOORS AND BATHROOM STALLS. YOUR RFID WRISTBAND WILL BE LINKED TO YOUR WIKI PAGE AND PRIVILEGE KEYBASE.</S> THESE RFID TAGS WILL BE FOR ALL KINDS OF FUN EXPERIMENTATION AND GENERAL RFID HACKING, AND CAN BE READ BY MOST MODERN PHONES. THEY HAVE USER-WRITABLE DATA SPACE IN THEM AND THE POSSIBLITIES ARE LIMITLESS. WHERE ARE THEY? -JAKE P.S. TODAY IS CAPS-LOCK DAY.

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Help Us Get The Walk-in Working

by Ben Burke

Hello, David and Alice have found a way to get us a free replacement compressor for the walk-in freezer at omni. But the way involves manual labor and we need your help. We have to help remove the replacement compressor and the entire walk-in that it is currently attached to from a bar in San Francisco. David, Joe, and I helped Alice with it today. It will require at least 4 more hours of work. If you are available to help tomorrow (the 23rd), please let us know. Sorry this is so last minute, but we do need your help. Thanks, Ben

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Invite: ArtBuzz Games (Thursday) & LAST Expo (Weekend)

by Danielle Siembieda

Hi Art/Tech/Science Folks - I wanted to share with you two last minute events the end of the week. Would love to see some of you. THURSDAY ArtBuzz: Games about the Art World6:30 - 9:00 Betti Ono in Oakland (BART friendly)Basically these are drinking games for the art community to laugh at themselves. Free if you use my code DanielleFriend THURSDAY - SATURDAYLeonardo Art Science Technology (LAST) ExpoThe Lab in San FranciscoHighlight - Symposium Saturday 10/25 2 - 6 pmSpeakers' biographies: Chris McKay, Bruno Olshausen, Christine Peterson, Charles Chiu, Piero Scaruffi Introduction by Leonardo ISAST 2:45pm Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Institute for Neuroscience) on Neuroscience 3:30pm Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on Nanotechnology 4:15pm Charles Chiu (UCSF School of Medicine) on Infectious Diseases and the Ebola epidemics 5:00pm Piero Scaruffi (Author) on Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity2:00pm Chris McKay (NASA Ames) on Space Exploration and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Anyways, I hope you can make it! Please share with your communities. Best, Danielle Siembieda siembieda.com

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Job at Exploratorium: Afterschool Tinkering Educator & Research Assistant

by Vicky Knox

omg! Deadline is Halloween! http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/jobs/afterschool-tinkering-educator-rese…

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embroidery sewing machine needs needles

by Jake

we got the embroidery machine working!!! it's totally awesome. tl;dr we need needles! who will order this ebay item? http://www.ebay.com/itm/25-MEISTERGRAM-INDUSTRIAL-EMBROIDERY-MACHINE-NEEDLE… it takes a little coordination though, because it's an industrial sewing machine with a clutch pedal to engage the motor - and it's very powerful. So it will sew very rapidly and you have to steer the needle around the pattern at a rate matching the sewing rate. it's kindof like driving a ferrari in that way. anyway, it came with a single needle and it is broken now. We need more needles!!! we have plenty of everything else. it uses weird needles - they are the normal length (1.5") but their upper shank is 1/16" diameter which is smaller than standard sewing machine needles. http://www.sewingmantra.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sewing-machine-needl… the machine is a Meistergram model M'100 and it uses the same needles as the M700 / M800 like the ones in the ebay item are for. if you order these needles, write to the list so we don't end up with 50, although i'm sure we'll need them if we use it enough. -jake

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Massive LED Project at Noisebridge needs your help!

by James Sundquist

Dana and I have a grand idea for setting up easily programmable LED displays at Noisebridge in a massive matrix. What we need are donations of panels, which will be purchased and shipped by Mitch on his China trip. See our nicely organized wiki page for details, source code, and more info. https://noisebridge.net/wiki/LED

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Please update your address information on hackerspaces.org

by Robert Chu

It still reflects the old address. Thanks, cheers, and HAX THE PLANET!!! - RAYC _ RAYC .. RAYC P.S. Also plan on syncing to work on the eeg in the near future. :D

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Board Meeting: Monday Oct. 27th, 7pm

by Vicky Knox

The results of the poll are in! Please bring a snack to share! :]

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stuff.sudo - TAG ALL THE THINGS!

by Marc Juul

Our inventory tracking system is now up and running again! Go to: http://stuff.sudo Create labels by filling out the form and hitting "save and print" (remember to look at the preview of the label before printing, you have to manually hit enter in the description textbox to create newlines). Stick the label on the item, and you can either scan the QR code to go to the item's wiki page, or look at the ID on the printed label and for e.g. ID 42, go to: http://o.sudoroom.org/42 When you print a label it will come out of the label printer next the the wooden 3D printer. If it doesn't work, ensure that the label printer is on (it should have a green light) and connected. The software has been updated to the latest codebase so it should crash less and will automatically restart if it does crash. The code is here: https://github.com/sudoroom/labitrack Unfortunately (or fortunately) our old database was lost in the mists of moving (or maybe it wasn't but I couldn't find it) but the wiki pages remain, so it should be easy enough to create redirects. -- marc/juul

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Backspace Space proposal

by yar

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's not your fault, it's not anybody else's fault either. I really > hope the confusion isn't interpreted as bad faith or a lack of > support. We all need to get better at that, of course, but also get > better at forgiving each others' mistakes, in the spirit of jubilee. I want to just reiterate this in light of the past few days of conversation. I have heard a lot of different narratives about what happened with Backspace over the past few months. I don't claim to know exactly what happened anymore, but it seems to boil down to a huge string of communication failures that resulted in Backspace paying for space to operate, yet having no space until now. At Thursday's meeting, the subject of past-due utility bills came up, but it seems apropos to mention that lots of Omni groups have not paid utility bills, or even rent, and one of the amazing potential things about Omni is our capacity to be a non-evil landlord - each according to their ability and their need. It's clear that most backspace folks are WORKERS whose primary concern is being able to see their clients and students and make a living wage. It's also clear to me that the primary benefit of having Backspace at Omni is NOT the money they'd bring in, but the new people, energy and perspectives. It would REALLY SUCK if we lost all that by fighting with them over money. Other than money, the only other concern I'm hearing about this proposal is about space. While I have expressed concerns about "enclosure" in the past, Backspace's plans for the den or "storage room" are NOT enclosures. They're stewardship of commons. This is exactly the model I always dreamed of for our building! Finally, there's BAPS. I think it might help to separate BAPS' pragmatic need to host many evening classes from BAPS' position as a roving "nomadic" group without dedicated space, and both from the concept of "enclosure". Because it seems to me like Backspace's pragmatic needs are similar to BAPS - to assemble in spaces and occupy them for a finite period, for classes and 1-on-1 sessions. So what are the ways we can frame this as a collaboration rather than a competition? I think these problems would get solved a lot faster if we were all able to trust each other, the best path to building trust is for Backspace to begin operating at the Omni ASAP, and the best way for that to happen is to show support and forgiveness all around. Thanks.

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Dustin

by niki

A fellow named Dustin has been spending the last several days hanging out all day in La Commune. I talked to him today and explained that we're not yet open and that, while he's here, he needs to either be vouched for by someone who is a member of a member collective or attending an event or otherwise involved in work related to the Omni. I told him that I was leaving at 7pm and he'd need to find someone to vouch for him at that time or else he'd have to leave. He said ok. I mentioned this to him again around 7:15 and he said that someone at Sudo said he could be in the building until 10pm. I told him that this was not the case, and explained again our pre open to the public access policy. He walked away from me saying "You're the only one who has said that to me." heading back inside the building. He said that "the guy with dreadlocks" told him he could hang out here. I went and got Chris B and Mary from CCL and we approached him together. Chris told him that he wasn't vouching for him and that he should leave. Mary and I both told him that we'd be open to the public eventually but that we just are not at the present moment. He left and said he wasn't coming back. Just sending this email so it's on the record. I'll try to add to the wiki, as well. Niki

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-consensus] [backspace] Re: [BAPS-Organizing] Re: Backspace Space proposal

by yar

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:35 AM, margaretha haughwout <margaretha.anne.haughwout(a)gmail.com> wrote: > No we are exploring co-administration with other groups so that classes > could be taught in the disco. 2 dedicated rooms. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Lowe <andrew(a)lostways.com> wrote: > The proposal was for: > > Dedicated Space: > > BDRM 2, STORAGE 1 Hmm. When I asked Sara for clarification, she said it was only one dedicated locked room: https://omnicommons.org/lists/private/consensus/2014/000105.html I worry it might be harder to reach consensus if there is no potential for the kids' room (storage1) to actually be a kids' room at any time of the day.

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Brown couch in La Commune

by niki

Can the folks who brought the brown couch in and left it La Commune please move it by Saturday? We are renting the ballroom for an event on Sunday and they will be using the cafe to stage catering. Additionally, La Commune is hoping to have the bookstore provisionally open by November first. This would be a transitional period while we continue to work on getting the cafe open. If y'all could help us out by not leaving stuff in La Commune but rather taking it to wherever its final destination w/in the Omni will be, that would be tremendous. <3 Niki

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Fwd: [Bay Area Youth and DIY Education] The Exploratorium is looking for a Tinkering...

by Marina Kukso

if you're looking for a job! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Teresa Gonczy <notification+f_969oo9(a)facebookmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:33 PM Subject: [Bay Area Youth and DIY Education] The Exploratorium is looking for a Tinkering... To: Bay Area Youth and DIY Education <286189014822596(a)groups.facebook.com> Teresa Gonczy posted in Bay Area Youth and DIY Education <https://www.facebook.com/n/?groups%2F286189014822596%2Fpermalink%2F68302190…> [image: Teresa Gonczy] <https://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=669580273&aref=172503620&medium=…>Teresa Gonczy <https://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=669580273&aref=172503620&medium=…> 21 October 13:33 The Exploratorium is looking for a Tinkering Educator & Researcher! :-) http://www.idealist.org/view/job/9TmdM7DST3cp <http://l.facebook.com/l/6AQFRoesU/www.idealist.org/view/job/9TmdM7DST3cp> <http://l.facebook.com/l/8AQF3773hAQEegFtQzcxK3BtrHhQosGTPu60pNjIf7U5lsw/www…>Job (San Francisco): Afterschool Tinkering Educator/ Research Assistant <http://l.facebook.com/l/yAQEvJDQ8AQF5Gy6aF-6qvOeUK6M0zI5A6ciac4rSB_4kwg/www…> www.idealist.org <http://l.facebook.com/l/yAQEvJDQ8AQF5Gy6aF-6qvOeUK6M0zI5A6ciac4rSB_4kwg/www…> Community Youth Programs Department Full-Time, Regular Position The Exploratorium is a not-for-prof... View Post on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/n/?groups%2F286189014822596%2Fpermalink%2F68302190…> · Edit email settings <https://www.facebook.com/n/?settings&tab=notifications&section=group_notifi…> · Reply to this email to add a comment.

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taking a break from 3d tuesday

by yar

I'm taking an extended break. Trying to do self-care better. Won't be showing up every night like I have all year. Will still teach by scheduled appointment. Thanks.

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Submitting Tax Information to State of California by Nov 7

by Matthew Senate

We received a notice from the State of California Franchise Tax Board, notifying us that (since we have yet to submit or complete our 501(c)3 application) we must fill out state form 3500 to convince California not to levy state taxes for last year, 2013. I've filled out this form to the best of my knowledge so far, but it is incomplete. It needs some more attention. See attached: "state_tax_form_3500_sudo_room.pdf" which should have saved my submitted values to many of the required fields. We need a few things: 1. Review what I've already added (make sure dates and such are correct!) 2. Complete the rest of the form to the best of our ability 3. See if any lawyerly advice can help us ensure this goes smoothly 4. *Submit before Friday November 7* (30 days from October 9, 2014) "Send us either your tax exempt letter, Form 3500, Form 3500A, or Form 100 with a copy of this letter within the next 30 days or we may issue a tax assessment based on available information. A penalty of 25% of the additional tax may be assessed for failure to provide information upon written request." // Matt

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [backspace] Re: [BAPS-Organizing] Re: Backspace Space proposal

by yar

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:42 AM, margaretha haughwout <margaretha.anne.haughwout(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's hard for me to understand how two dedicated small rooms (old TIL and > the small bedroom) and the part time administration of the den and disco for > wellness (some of which, mine, at least would be donation based) is too much > space for the Wellness Wait just to be clear, the Backspace proposal from last week wasn't this. It was about dedicating ONE room, the eyeball room, and having part-time scheduling priority in two common rooms, the den and storage1. It didn't say anything about the disco room, which OMNIdance has paid for exclusively until Dec 1, and which the Commons WG is proposing to steward starting Dec 1. This Commons WG proposal was on the pad at last week's meeting but the meeting went too long and the delegates didn't have time to talk about it, sorry.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Beehive Design Collective – event at Omni, Oct 21

by yar

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Danny Spitzberg <stationaery(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Before I confirm it this event I want to ask, Does anyone have any blocking > concerns about this event? I love the bees and I think it would be an honor to be swarmed by them! We hosted them at 2141 once, and now my house has one of their giant murals. I think it would also be a great opportunity to buy some art for the Omni's walls. :)

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ultrasonic transducers

by Jake

we have a bag of ultrasonic transducers, as seen here: http://www.directindustry.com/prod/international-transducer/ultrasonic-tran… in case you needed to do any ultrasonic transducing. there are also electret microphones in the same bag, i think they were used together for physical location tracking, like short distance high-accuracy distance measurement. -jake

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2 walk in coolers, need help moving

by refugia

Alice found some working free coolers on craigslist and she has dib on them. Does the omni want them? It's not on the wishlist. Her home internet is out. She asked me to send a massage to the list asking for a few people to help move them Wednesday. Her # is 4152720596. Can someone plese forward this to omni discuss? Patrick

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mailing list help

by Ines Chapela

Hey there! Inés Chapela here with a problem regarding mailing list managing..I work for the Greenhorns (check us out: www.thegreenhorns.net) Anyway, we're trying to send out an e-blast to promote our latest project, Up UP Farm Film Festival, which is a series of indie films and shorts that explore the questions facing the new farmers movement. We primarily use mailchimp for this type of thing and for some reason they are saying we have "stale" emails and are threatening to delete our e list unless we hire a third party company to clean up our list. I'd love to just leave mailchimp and get another mailing list company that doesn't cause so much trouble...Anybody have advice for a good route to take here? Any help greatly appreciated. Inés

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at EFF tonight on history of phone phreaking

by april glaser

Tonight at 6, EFF is hosting a talk with Phil Lapsley who will give a rather great look at the history of hackers and their relationship with telcos in the US. http://explodingthephone.com/ https://www.eff.org/event/techno-activism-third-mondays-october For those who don't mind train rides on rainy days, come by EFF and say hullo. -- April Glaser Electronic Frontier Foundation 415-436-9333 x154 support our work: https://eff.org/join

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