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by Romy Ilano

we started the let's learn Rust! series at the women and non binary night but it became such a hit that people came during tuesday's hardware hack night and now there is a coed (co binary :P ) Rust salon group ongoing. The construct of the meetups are simple: - no laptops opened - no videos - no presentations - print if possible - people talk face to face Let's keep this going! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 9 months

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Community Meeting with CAST

by William Myers

Hi Everyone! CAST (Community Art Stabilization Trust) is offering to have a meeting to talk to the larger OMNI community, the meeting will likely be tomorrow at 6pm. You will be able to ask questions, and understand who they are and what their mission is. Is anyone at SUDO interested in showing up to meet them? William

1 year, 9 months

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notes from our learning to learn series

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/learning-how-to-learn-series/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 9 months

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do we have a stash of chalk?

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/face-to-face-learning-with-rust/ I had so much fun learning RUST during our women and non binary night with the chalkboard. totally no painful associations with work, job interview whiteboarding, etc. Do we have a big stash of extra chalk? Just checking ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 9 months

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Greet people for Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night /Fixit Clinic?

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: I arrived for Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night / Fixit Clinic at 8PM last week and there were a bunch of people waiting outside with repairs. Can someone try to arrive early say, 7:30 or so to greet people and let them into Sudoroom or the Media Lab and get them started on their projects? Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is working by dialing it 2) put out the sandwich sign on the sidewalk Many thanks, -Peter

1 year, 9 months

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blog post - successful learning rust for women & nonbinary event!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/face-to-face-learning-with-rust/ Our RUST learning experiment started out well during the Women and Non Binary night. People have been suggesting we try something unique, and there are so many RUST enthusiasts around me, and so few “getting women into RUST” workshops out there, that we decided to try it out. A big potential stinker was that I wanted to learn with an offline mode on, as I am suffering from a massive case of internet addiction. I want to use technology effectively and for food, and the mass of information and distractions is seriously getting in the way of me learning new stuff. So for this meetup as part of the “Learning how to Learn” experiment, I suggested we do this meetup with: - *No* presentation slides - *No* online videos - *No *hybrid/remote element - *No* laptops open (if possible) with people doing face to face - People should be able to whiteboard what they learned - No social media during the event <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Rust-2.jpg> I wasn’t sure what to expect, and wasn’t sure people would show up but people did! Nobody present was currently programming in RUST, but they knew a lot of people who did. We went through printouts of a Gentle Introduction to RUST and actually had fun comparing RUST to different programming languages. One person worked a lot in C, another in python, and it was fun going over the computer science concepts like memory management and garbage collection as a way to get to know RUST. Also, in a world where there’s a lot of pressure to mint programmers out to make commercially viable products, it was fun just to look at a programming language intellectually before making a commercially viable widget. It feels like even in school people are being pressured to make monetizable stuff without stopping to smell the flowers. Working with paper printouts and no laptops worked out surprisingly well. We used the internet sparingly, through a laptop only checked by one person, and talked things out slowly before jumping online. The chalkboard had a weird psychological effect of making things fun and spontaneous for some reason. At this point in history it is completely dissociated from work, school, or even in-person coding interviews. It’s like doing leetcode with crayons on construction paper, and was very freeing! Also, being forced to write the concepts and code on a chalkboard forces you to really repeat and check if you understand what you’re studying. Of course there were also the people. We spent a lot of time talking about our experiences in other programming languages, and describing horrific concurrency bugs in other languages that would cause people to run screaming and yelling to Rust. One girl had a lady friend who wrote a bash script application that was really crazy large that existed just to catch bugs in her original programming bash code. It was also a nice way to talk about the importance of pointers, and understanding how they worked. This series is going well and also enabled us to connect better with each other in person. Sometimes when you’re in person or online, having that laptop with all those infinite distractions keeps you away from the mission. We look forward to continuing this focused and exciting session going forward. Since SudoRoom has such a hardware hackerspace focus, some people were even investigating doing independent hacker projects of embedded RUST. It’s looking good so far! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 9 months

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Wednesday night laptop night

by Juliana Tenenbaum

Hey all A small group of us will be meeting to further explore laptops for all on Wednesday, starting at 8. All are invited but we are especially prioritizing this as time space for femme presenting and NB people. -July

1 year, 9 months

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Do we have any forum software? Similar to the Noisebridge forum that used to be up

by Romy Ilano

I am thinking about investigating wordpress for a forum. I'm finding that going straight to Discord isn't ideal though, I have seen how it both helps (in minimal ways) and hurts spaces like Noisebridge (building community long term, prioritizing face to face to face, focusing on people present instead of remote people interfering without contributing). ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 9 months

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i added a few people who had subscribed to the list

by Jake

I noticed a bunch of people had tried to sign up for this list, but hadn't returned the verification email they got. So I went ahead and manually added them. Welcome, new people, to the sudoroom discuss email list! -jake

1 year, 9 months

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dream catcher

by Paige P

someone just reached out in concern about a dream catcher in sudo room. Someone said it was just left on the table, but even having it somewhere haphazardly or randomly hung in SR would be disrespectful/appropriation. Did someone indigenous bring it in? If not they should probably take it home, or if they are then we should work to find a more intentional place to put it. Paige

1 year, 9 months

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Tonight's East Bay Bike Party

by Peter Mui

Tonight's East Bay Bike Party starts at West Oakland BART and ends at North Berkeley BART the route seems particularly Sudoroom friendly so if you want to join (or just watch) tonight might be a good night. This month's theme is "Storybook Characters and Fairytale Creatures" so there will no doubt be some interesting costumes: https://www.facebook.com/events/864540958840870 See the complete map here. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1KLlG8TXpkBi6X4Q8Yqk2pi2NEFxNh1g&g… I've often thought these rides would be great places to recruit new members for Sudoroom. -Peter

1 year, 9 months

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Sudoroom as a supporter and enabler of a “local software” vision?

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Riffing off last night’s Sudoroom visioning meeting: what if part of Sudoroom’s mission was to expand the number of software developers in the area using AI this enabling a vision for "local software"? Train people who are technically savvy and interested in solving problems for themselves and people around them, but don't want to become fully-fledged programmers. See this medium post for background: https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software -Peter

1 year, 9 months

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mouse traps

by Paige P

Hi Sudo Room and SMAC, CCL gave us some rat traps and I set them up in the locations pictured. They are somewhat close together, because those were areas where theres poo evidence, but may make sense to pick different spot. I havent set up traps before so dont know. I can volunteer checking the traps on Mondays and Saturdays. But we need to be checking every other day so more people will need to volunteer too. Please let others know if you move traps or if you notice one is set off. SMAC has some cats they bring in time to time downstairs (who are also helping us with this issue), so we should keep basement door closed/ be ready to disarm the traps temporarily as needed. Paige

1 year, 9 months

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javascript thursdays / software thursdays?

by Jake

We used to have a regular event every week - years ago - called JavaScript Thursdays! Wouldn't it be neat if we had another regular weekly event? It doesn't have to be focused on a particular type of activity but having a regular event for a while really makes things happen. anyone interested? -jake

1 year, 9 months

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Meeting to Discuss the Future of SUDO

by William Myers

Hi friends, I was thinking of calling a meeting to optimistically discuss the future of the Sudo Room. For a while I have been discussing with friends how I feel sudo should launch and support initiatives which directly improve the material conditions of the people in the Oakland Community. And I think it should be done with a focus on inclusivity of Black and Brown folks. *I would be excited if we had initiatives like:* - An initiative to provide Direct support for local families and individuals - An initiative to Support prison abolition efforts - An initiative to oppose to war crimes in Gaza or assistance for recent undocumented immigrants I have a lot of my own Ideas, but I am super interested in hearing everyone's Ideas about different services we can offer! Secondly I think it is important we have an actual *Mission Statement* for who we are and what we want to accomplish. This will be great to provide clarity for what are needs are assuming everything goes well with CAST. This will allow us to plan for the growth and success of our projects and services in the future. If we can have a meeting this Weds we could discuss these two Items, and maybe we could bring some food and make it a bit of a party. Please reply with ideas if you like. William

1 year, 9 months

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New to Fix-It Night, want to say thanks and I'm not ghosting you!

by scottmosch＠gmail.com

Hi Sudoroom folks! I'm blown away by the kindness and generosity you all have shown me in my first couple of visits to the Sudoroom for fix it night. I haven't had as much fun (and haven't been nearly as productive) in quite a while. I'm the guy who showed up with all the Nintendo games. Anyway, all this is to say that I'm grateful for the access to the space and the great, interesting and knowledgeable people that inhabit it during the fix it hours. Unfortunately, I recently contracted the flu and it's really been bad - fatigue, headaches, the works. I'll need to take another week to recuperate, but I expect to be back next week with all the parts for my current project. xoxoxo Scott

1 year, 9 months

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Lap Top Reformatting Project

by July Tenenbaum

Hi all, On Tuesday, myself and a couple other people are gonna be spending our Fix it Clinic time reformatting laptops to give to students (I am hoping to do the giving through The Unity Council and the Displacement Avoidance Project). This is, in part, to assist in opening up Sudo Room's resources to our Oakland community more, and in part to help us offload some of the laptops sitting around Sudo to make more room in the space/prevent them from sitting forever and becoming Ewaste. In order to ensure Sudo and Omni get acknowledged for doing this (which is important for grants) and also making sure the recipients know where to take the laptops for the purpose of getting repairs, are there any Sudo Room or Omni stickers with the address to the building on them? If you'd like to join us for this, I plan to be there by no later than 8:15, with cookies for anyone who would like to help. Hope to see you all there, -July

1 year, 10 months

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OC WiFi Signal to Noise Ratio in 2015

by danarauz

Looking into a web server that most likely got hacked... (ahaha) I came across these images: https://danielarauz.com/sudoroom/mesh/omni-commons-basement-signal-to-noise… https://danielarauz.com/sudoroom/mesh/omni-commons-basement-signal-to-noise… For those interested.. :)

1 year, 10 months

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room for thought on online learning, social media, and reworking how we learn

by Romy Ilano

Starting off a series on learning at SudoRoom and beyond! We had a nice time as I said Monday. I feel it worked best with no hybrid, remote participation, and getting away from our laptop screens was the best possible way of interacting and talking to each other. https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/online-time-can-hobble-br… While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories – or losing important information. Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need in the communication, says Erik Fransén, Professor in Computer Science at KTH. Contrary to common wisdom, an idle brain is in fact doing important work – and in the age of constant information overload, it’s a good idea to go offline on a regular basis, says one KTH researcher. Erik Fransén, whose research focuses on short-term memory and ways to treat diseased neurons, says that a brain exposed to a typical session of social media browsing can easily become hobbled by information overload. The result is that less information gets filed away in your memory. The problem begins in a system of the brain commonly known as the working memory, or what most people know as short-term memory. That’s the system of the brain that we need when we communicate, Fransén says. “Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need in the communication,” he says. “It enables us to work online and store what we find online, but it’s also a limited resource.” Models show why it has limits. At any given time, the working memory can carry up to three or four items, Fransén says. When we attempt to stuff more information in the working memory, our capacity for processing information begins to fail. “When you are on Facebook, you are making it harder to keep the things that are ‘online’ in your brain that you need,” he says. “In fact, when you try to process sensory information like speech or video, you are going to need partly the same system of working memory, so you are reducing your own working memory capacity. “And when you try to store many things in your working memory, you get less good at processing information.” Watch Crosstalks TV See Erik Fransén discuss information overload with other experts on Crosstalks TV. <http://crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-brains-reached-information-overload/> You’re also robbing the brain of time it needs to do some necessary housekeeping. The brain is designed for both activity and relaxation, he says. “The brain is made to go into a less active state, which we might think is wasteful; but probably memory consolidation, and transferring information into memory takes place in this state. Theories of how memory works explain why these two different states are needed. “When we max out our active states with technology equipment, just because we can, we remove from the brain part of the processing, and it can’t work.” *David Callahan* *Want to know more about information overload and its implications on the human brain? **Check out Crosstalks TV <http://crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-brains-reached-information-overload/>. * Erik Fransén’s ongoing work includes research on the link between disease and properties of nerve cells (ion channels). The project is a collaboration with Stockholm Brain Institute <http://stockholmbrain.se/> and a clinical consortium led by Martin Schmelz <http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/izn/researchgroups/schmelz/>, from the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg. Learn about the computational modelling <http://www.csc.kth.se/~erikf/Ion%20channels%20HighRes.pdf>Fransén is contributing to the study: ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 10 months

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last night we started our learning module ... initial wiki set up!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/LearningToLearn hey mr. maroukis (sorry I'm bad with names) - I set up a wiki. I'm swamped right now but will find a way to do online as well in the coming months! I am not against software learning and edtech, but I find that overreliance on this stuff leads to people promoting a company or start-up, plus were trying to incorporate creative analog learning as well. But we can have segments that are just on laptop learning as well. https://x.com/sudoroom/status/1798058428344177059 ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 10 months

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June 2nd Resource Fair(See yall Sunday!)

by July Tenenbaum

Hi All! I'm writing to thank you all for your willingness to attend Wod Street's resource fair and block party. We'd love it if people tabling can show up by noon but we also totally understand time constraints- if you can only join us for a few hours you are still hugely welcome and appreciated. If you need a table or chairs, I think there is some limited tables available but we're a little short on those so if you are bring your own, that's amazing. See you soon! -July [image: Wood st flyer.png]

1 year, 10 months

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Hackable door lock recommendations

by Arthur Ulfeldt

I’ve been using a home made electric door lock for years, it’s got that exposed wires delight ♥️ I’m looking for an actually reliable electric door lock that I can reasonably easily hack to use my own software or replace the microcontroller entirely. Do any of you have a recommendation?

1 year, 10 months

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BBQ invite

by July Tenenbaum

Hi all, A little off topic from normal but we're having a community BBQ for the holiday on June 19th. Anyone who's interested is invited! [image: Screen Shot 2024-05-29 at 10.37.58 PM.png]

1 year, 10 months

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Re: Need funds for May Mulberry mortgage payment

by Paige P

> > Can collectives be prepared to prepay April *June *if necessary? Given the time it takes for external transfers to come in, the only way to pay this in time to my understanding is to transfer money from either the SR and/or SMAC account to pay this bill [because SR and SMAC also have funds in Unify account, so its not external]. The amount transferred could be quickly returned after other collectives pay rent + from a donation that was offered. The amount still needed to transfer temporarily from SR/SMAC would need to total around $1800. Is this okay with collectives, especially SR and SMAC? It is very crucial we pay our mortgage payment, especially given that Mulberry is still deliberating whether or not to foreclose on us. Paige On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:06 PM Paige P <pgeplan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Jesse, our lawyer, has said "Once the foreclosure is filed, [Mulberry] > won't be able to accept any further payments." I checked the mail and see > no foreclosure letter, so I believe we still need to be paying our mortgage > payment for May sometime in the next couple days. > > Our current balance in our checking account is $153 + $3200 pending SR and > SMAC rent that was just sent this night. > > The mortgage payment is $5,677.89. So we are short $2324.89... > > I do not know what other bills are due or if we are waiting on rent from > other collectives. > > Can collectives be prepared to prepay April if necessary? > > Paige > >

1 year, 10 months

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Hardware Hacking Tuesday is tonight

by Jake Watters

Hi everyone, You're getting this email either because 1) you're on the sudoroom discuss email list, or 2) because I BCC'd you directly Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever, in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email) in the past few weeks, we've had about 10-20 people over the course of the evening Here it is on the sudoroom page: https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/ I am usually there by 8PM but people do show up before me! if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get in, call our telephone to get someone to let you in! (442)252-8386 is our phone number, which spells "I HACK AT FUN" We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway! You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailing list! click here: https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here: https://sudoroom.org/humans and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here: https://sudoroom.org/donate We'll be having a Sudoroom meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7PM. Show up! see you soon! -jake

1 year, 10 months

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