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day of the week for regular show and tell?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, we'd like to start doing a weekly informal show and tell - kind of like a 5 minutes of fame, but more informal. anyone could share something that they're working on, or something interesting, and we all listen and participate. are you a sudoer who would be interested in being a participant in something like this? if you are, what day(s) of the week might you be interested in doing this? also, we'd like to pick a day of the week when folks are likely to be around anyway so that anyone who's around can listen in for a bit, participate, go back to what they're doing. if there's a day of the week that sounds like it would fit that bill, please reply all. - marina

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[tonight!] BACH Unconference Organizing Meeting @ Sudo Room @ 7pm

by Matthew Senate

Excited to see folks at sudo room tonight, Fri at 7pm at: 4799 Shattuck, Oakland CA 94609 Looking forward to hacking on the BACH Unconference http://2014.ba.chgrp.org/

11 years, 6 months

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Webmaster job offer with Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC)

by Matthew Senate

https://sites.google.com/a/bsc.coop/hicom/job-descriptions/webmaster 20 hours/week at $23.64/hour *Applications must be received by 12pm on Monday, October 13, 2014. * // Matt

11 years, 6 months

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cats with wifi detectors + sudoMesh

by Romy Ilano

In the latest OReilly newsletter Ellen F. writes about a cat with a radio collar who wanders around neighborhoods to check for weak points in neighborhood wifis. I'm wondering if SudoMesh could do something similar - attach a radio collar to an outdoors cat to detect existing Sudomesh networks? Maybe that would be a fun hack! https://www.mapr.com/blog/the-internet-of-cat-toys?imm_mid=0c3ab9&cmp=em-na… One cat, a radio collar, and a night on the town – this little adventure turned into an entertaining article in *Wired* magazine 8 August 2014 by Andy Greenberg about the creative use of a feline investigator to find weak points in security of the neighborhood’s wifis <http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-…> . ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Who can dump truck in the AM?

by David Keenan

Hi all, - Who has truck key -- Gabriela? - Who can make a dump run tomorrow? It needs to go to: Commercial Waste & Recycling 1. 725 Independent Rd, Oakland, CA 94621 2. (510) 636-0852 - I can't do it, so I really hope someone can..? Or we will be charged another $100/day for renting the truck.. - Gabriela, when does truck need to be returned? - It will probably cost about ~$200 to dump.. Maybe less, but to be on the safe side. OOC will reimburse or, you can borrow card from: Jenny, Joel or Niki. Hope someone can do this.. Thanks all! Xo! D

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Who is doing the dump run?

by David Keenan

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Who wants to host newbie night some night between 5th and 11th of October

by Marc Juul

Whoever hosts is responsible for: 1) adding event to the calendar, 2) posting to sudo-discuss mailing list and otherwise promoting, 3) showing up! 4) answering the door, giving tours, and otherwise being friendly and answering questions. 5) have a planned activity ready to avoid awkwardness You decide when to have it, but if it's on a weekday it should probably be no earlier than 6 pm. -- marc/juul

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Sudo Room looking RAD for the fundraising video: we need all sudo-ers!!! Oct. 5th

by Noemie Serfaty

Sudoer! As you may know already, the film collective is preparing a bad ass fundraising video, in order to help raise 2 million $ for the Omni. The video being a crucial aspect of the crowdfunding campaign, we need your participation! The film collective's concept is to do a one shot walkthrough of the OMNI IN ACTION. *We need as many sudo-ers as possible to participate in the shoot *that will take place on *OCTOBER 5th from noon to 5pm! *We're not sure it will last that long, but we are sure that we all need to be ready to shoot by noon. Please save the date! It will be super fun too! The video concept will be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sr-vxVaY_M Except that instead of rich people dining, we'd have awesome people building the Omni or doing their awesome project. What we have in mind, is very concrete activities that show that we are building the Omni for the greater good. The camera would stop in front of the person absorbed in their activity and they would be like "hey! I'm repairing this so that it's safe for kids to use!" or "hey! I'm making a shelf so we can do this or that! *Sudoer, you who are reading this now:* in order to pull this video off, we need your participation! Give me a sign if you're in! ======================= We also need to figure out what activities sudo-ers would be doing inside sudo. Here are my suggestions: - *Work on actual construction projects*, or moving stuff. It's an opportunity to work on the space! Anything you had planned in this vein could happen on october 5th! Do let me know what you have in mind, and we'll figure out in more detail what to do. The more people will be in the space working on stuff, even just putting up signs or making the space look more pretty, the better. - Work on cool sudo projects! *sudo mesh*, but then it would need to be somewhat visual. Working on the weird antennas or the pico stations... I would love it if some of you mesh people had suggestions of what you'd be doing and what the person who would be asked what they're doing would answer in a concise way. *Oakland Wiki*, if the Oakland wiki peeps are down! *The robot*, because it's fun. We'd need to have a fun and convincing thing to say about it: "I'm programming the robot so that people can (...) ?" Jake, any suggestion - "kill all the humans" excluded :) ? *Francisco* working on vinegar, or cooking, or walking in with vegetables form the market to cook something? Feel free to suggest other things! The general idea, I think, is to suggest that we're all about a radical commoning of resources, and do things that benefit the greater community in an evident way. Write to me if you have ideas on how you could participate in this! Thank you! Noémie -- Noémie Serfaty 108 rue du Faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris Tel: 06 27 76 88 84 Tel: 01 71 50 51 82 noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com

11 years, 6 months

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[Critical] Need Potential Delegates for Omni Collective Participation

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, FYI - I've BCC'd you if you are a current sudo room member. Our current acting delegates to the Omni Oakland Collective, Yardena and Jenny, need serious relief. *PLEASE RESPOND IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF ACTING AS A SUDO ROOM DELEGATE IN THE NEAR TERM. WE NEED YOU.* Patrick Xu has stepped up to act as the delegate for the next two Omni Meetings 9/25 and 10/2. We need more folks who can prepare to act as delegates in an on-going basis, as well as folks to act as delegate in the very near term on: 10/9 10/16 10/23

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Fwd: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!

by Matthew Senate

Folks, Please rejoice in this amazing update by Jenny Ryan on the progress of the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM Subject: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update! To: "mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org> It's been a crazily active summer - apologies for the lack of updates! Sudo Room (and by extension, Sudo Mesh) has relocated to the Omni Oakland Commons <http://omni-oakland.org> at 4799 Shattuck. We're excited to be a founding member collective among an array of groups that have moved in together to create a radical commons in Oakland. If you've been wanting to plug in and help out, or simply reconnect to the group, tonight is a great night to come by and check out the new space! *Announcements* * We'll be having our monthly general meeting today, starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room. Please add to the agenda! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh * Juul, MaxB and Alex have been working hard on crushing bugs and levelling up our mesh firmware. We've deployed a test network within the Omni building and they are successfully meshing as I type! \o/ * We've procured a 75 foot antenna tower that will be mounted in West Oakland to become a core relay spot for routing traffic on the mesh. * Noemie has put together a fantastic sudomesh / people's open net video and is currently soliciting feedback. Check it out @ http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE * Paige made a rad flyer design and two versions of the flyer for a) general ways to participate in the project and b) promoting upcoming info sessions. Check them out here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers * Stickers!! The round 'Mesh the Planet' and rectangular PeoplesOpen.Net stickers have been printed and can be procured at sudoroom (atio the white shelves next to the staircase) and/or one of our Tuesday/Thursday meetups! *Code* - *so much code this summer!!* * Juul created ipk-builder: https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder * MaxB, Ron, and Juul have been updating the service browser: https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser * Juul, MaxB, and Alex reengineered the node-configurator: https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode * MaxB, Alex and Matt fixed the exitnode <https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode> * MaxB created sudowrt-firmware-images <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware-images> for temporary storage of firmware builds * Matt added a patch to sudowrt-firmware <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware> * Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of tunneldigger <https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger> * MaxB fixed sudowrt-packages <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages> * Juul updated ubi-flasher <https://github.com/sudomesh/ubi-flasher> * Juul added fixes to meshnode-database <https://github.com/sudomesh/meshnode-database> * Matt created svg-animations <https://github.com/sudomesh/svg-animations> for mesh presentations *Wiki* * Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers> and uploaded Paige's flyers * ChrisJ updated Mesh/Monitoring <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers> and created Mesh/Icinga <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Icinga_2> * Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Flash> * Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Hardware_support> * GMeader created the page Mesh/San Francisco <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/San_Francisco> and added to Mesh/Marketing <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Marketing> * MaxB added sticker images to Mesh/Stickers <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Stickers> * ChrisJ created Mesh/Sensu <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Sensu_Page> * Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to Mesh/Oakland <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland> * Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to Mesh/Minutes <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes> * Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to Mesh/BATMAN-adv <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/BATMAN-adv> * Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main Mesh <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> page! * Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to Mesh/Distributed Services <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services> * Jwentwistle created and added slides to Mesh/Presentation <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentation> * Jwentwistle created Mesh/User Guide <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/User_Guide> * Jwentwistle created Mesh/Technical Overview <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Technical_Overview> * MaxB checked some stuff out <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts> * Matt added some diagrams to Mesh/Diagrams <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams> * Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to Mesh/Firmware <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware> * MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to Mesh/Inventory <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory> * Tunabananas wrote a new post on Mesh/Blog <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Blog> * Aep added to Mesh/MeshApps <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps> *To Dos* * Test current mesh setup in the Omni building * Create online ordering system and shipping label automation * Create 'How to Care for Your Node' guides * Outreach to spaces that can host info sessions and presentations * Work on local apps and services that will run on the mesh! * More at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos ** Please update the list above with specific tasks! *Help Out!* * Come by our weekly hacknights, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org> * Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: https://sudomesh.org * Contribute to the code: https://github.com/sudomesh * Donate hardware and equipment! <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist> * Give a small weekly donation: https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh *Recommended Reading* * Oakland's Sudo Mesh looks to counter censorship and the digital divide with a mesh network: http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-di… * It's Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi (Re/Code): http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/ See y'all tonight! Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ mesh mailing list mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh

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Update Member Database

by Matthew Senate

Need contact information (namely email) for the following new members: TJ Mosely Timothy Sean Adam aka halfnhalv4 Please private message me with the address or CC me with an intro. Are there other new members who are not in our member database? Thanks! // Matt

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list of lights and their wattages at The Omni

by Jake

I think it's important that everybody understand that electricity is sold in kilowatt-hours. This means that even a maximum-power electrical appliance like a toaster-oven used to toast food uses less power than a single ordinary lightbulb left on all the time: toaster oven: 1500 watts, used 30 minutes per day (0.5 hours) = 0.75 KW/H (12.75 cents per day, $3.89 per month) 60 watt lightbulb left on: 60 watts, 24 hours per day = 1.44 KW/H (24.48 cents per day, $7.47 per month) the big ovens might be 3000 watts, maybe 5000 watts, but you see my point. electric water heaters are definitely something, because they are maybe 4000 watts and are on for a total of a couple of hours per day possibly. we do not need to worry about anything that is only on for a short period of time, such as tools or ovens. We do need to worry about LIGHTS LEFT ON. Anything left on all the time will cost us money. Here is a list of all the lights I encountered on a walk around the Omni. lights 17x f96t12 (1275W) downstairs (all on, 2 people) 10x f40cw (400W) basement lawlibrary (on, no people) 1x ccfl (14W) southeast lower stairwell (good for safety) 12x6 25W (1800W) chandelier bulbs in ballroom (off) 2x F96T12 (150W) + 23W ccfl + 15W ccfl near entrance (CCFLs were off) 1x ccfl (23W) outside entrance (was off) 17+18x F40CW (1400W) barroom (all off) 2x 23W ccfl (46W) kitchen (always on) 3x 96W refrigerators, (287W) mostly empty (all plugged in) bulb rope light on floor, (50W) (always on) 1x ccfl (23W), ADA bathroom, (always on) 1x ccfl (23W), sudo bathroom, (always on) 2x6x F96T12 (900W) in sudoroom & CCL (on at night when open) 1x ccfl (23W), stage overhead light to see by (was on) 5x23W ccfl + 5x75W bulb (490W) stage real lights (were off) 1x ccfl (19W), stageside room (was on) 108W fan and 23W ccfl (131W) room above stageside (both on) bulb xmas lights (20W), above stageside (on, good for safety) sudoroom & CCL servers and internet equipment - 150W perhaps? john&mary ??? i turned off the lights in the basement "law library" room, there was no one there. I turned off the fan and light in the above stageside room. That saved us 531 watts, or $66.08 per month (always on versus never on) all the remaining stuff that was on and I didn't turn off adds up to: 1275 + 14 + 150 + 46 + 287 + 50 + 23 + 23 + 900 + 23 + 19 + 20 + 150 = 2980 watts, which if left on 24/7 would be 2181.36 KW-H or $370.83 per month. That is based on a rate of 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. PG&E charges rates based on Tiers: http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/plans/tiers/index.page It looks like if we use more than the average amount of electricity (based on the chart they show on that page) our average energy rate might be closer to 25 cents per kilowatt-hour bringing the above count to $545.34 we don't know what John and Mary are using upstairs, and we haven't added in any other uses of power (such as ventilation fans) so i don't know why our bill was $900 last month. Maybe the 1800W chandeliers were on a lot? Maybe i'm wrong about the chandelier bulbs being 25W and they're 40W each? Most likely, i'm guessing our energy usage is so far above "average" that we are mostly in Tier 4, putting our electric rate closer to 32 cents per KW-H. If that's the case, we should consider switching to Time Of Use: http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/plans/tou/index.page Either way, we should save energy by turning off the fucking lights when we're not using them. -jake

11 years, 6 months

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PG&E and questions about power (electrical!).

by niki

Hey y'all. You may or may not be aware but since we have moved in, our monthly PG&E bill has gone from $481 to close to $900. I'm guessing it's just going to continue to climb. I realize that we're using a lot more electricity than when John and Mary were living there but I want us to please be mindful of the expense!! Does anyone have thoughts as to what could be contributing to such an increase? Is it simply having more lights on, more often? Also - please turn off lights when you are not using them. I often see lights left on around the building and it would be great if we could all get in the habit on turning lights off when we leave a room! xo N

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Meeting Minutes 9/24

by Jenny Ryan

tl;dr: Announcements: * BACH Unconference organizing meeting this Friday at 7pm! * Talk on the Real Vegan Cheese crowdfunding campaign next Monday at 7pm * Next Newbie Night next Tuesday, hosted by Alex! * ALL HANDS ON DECK! Filming an Omni walkthrough of everyone doing awesome stuff on October 5th @ noon, for our Omni crowdfunding campaign * Viewing of current sudo/omni documentary footage October 3rd New Members: 1. Greg! * why? Sudo rocks! Been stopping by for a year or so * what hack? wanna hack robots. wanna mesh robots, getting into RF * what share? share free workstations & satellite dishes * Not an undercover cat (or cop) 2. Ian! * why? hackerspaces are awesome. we're his first one in CA. * what hack? tried to beam internet across a big parking lot; excited to hack his 1st gen mac pro and make it run arch * what share? wants to learn and teach awk. awkward. Conflict Resolution: * Matthew Stephenson banned for reasons of safety (claimed to be a hitman, sleeping on couches, creeping on Noemie) Money: * We have less than $4K :( But we're back up to $420 on GratiPay! Please donate: http://gratipay.com/sudoroom * Omni's electric bill this month was over $900 :( Omni: * Please join working groups!! We especially need more help with Finance, Building Maintenance, and Fundraising. See http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups for info on working group mission, tasks and meeting times. * [CONSENSUS] We dig the Omni Music Project, a sound and recording collective seeking tenancy in the basement. OMP proposal to follow. * [CONSENSUS] Omni should buy and install light timers (ahyep) - We get roof access on the 1st - let's solar power this shit! * [BLOCK] Empowering working groups and balancing work at the Omni proposal - for reasons of it being a sly way of eliminating consensus * [FRIENDLY AMENDMENT] Kids Room and Kids Working Group proposal: Sudo requests a single point of contact / bottom-liner, and to hold off on 'stocking books' immediately in that space. Also, the Kids Working Group should decide what to put in that room. * [CONSENSUS] Tenancy definition & cap proposal * [ABSTAIN] Splitting Allocation proposal: Confusion over the language, would request rewording. However, general consent on it because it can be overridden by future omni consensus. * [BLOCK] Member Collective Stewardship Agreement: We'd need to create an HR department to track people's hours. Also, meh on rent reductions generally and equating volunteer work to moneys we desperately need. * [RISE ABOVE] Sudo Room is still waiting to consent on a refined proposal articulating the location, lease agreements, first/last/deposit, and necessary building modifications. Full notes with links recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-09-24 <3 Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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Media Alliance event on Oct 19 in the basement? Need point person

by Danny Spitzberg

Hey all, the Omni ballroom working group got a request for a 6–8pm meeting by the Media Alliance on Sunday, Oct 19. That's the same evening as the Naomi Klein event, but because they are merely meeting to talk and maybe watch a short video with an estimated 35-50 people in attendance, I think they might be able to fit in the basement comfortably. Here's everything submitted: Timestamp: 9/20/2014 22:40:59 Contact: Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance tracy(a)media-alliance.org 510-684-6853 Name of Event: Bay Area Civil Liberties Coalition Open Meeting Description: BACLC is a coalition of organizations and individuals that works on local and regional responses to mass blanket surveillance by government and law enforcement. This is an open meeting to launch projects and we will screen a 30 minute documentary film. Estimated attendance: 35-50 Start/end time: 10/19/2014 18:00:00–10/19/2014 20:00:00 Public event, free, currently not sponsored by an Omni member group I sent Tracy a very brief email saying "We're reviewing this request and will respond to you this week." Might Sudo be open to sponsoring this event? If so, can someone volunteer to liaise with Tracy to make it happen... noting the ballroom is unavailable, so most likely, in the basement? thanks, warmly, Danny

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omnilogistics] Community Print Studio - Two Announcements

by David Keenan

Here are my thoughts, TIL always said it wanted a printing resource center for the community. It was pitched consistently as a cross between the IPRC in portland and Occucopy, that would provide affordable print and art-making tools to the community - essentially a service bureau on steroids, for everyone, which sounded awesome. I realize this printing collective is still in a state of becoming, but $100/pp/mo is e.g. a lot more than the $55/pp/year the IPRC charges, and seems like a pretty high bar to any kind of community involvement. One worry I have about this project in its current state is, from the description it sounds like six(?) independent, unnamed 'presses' (businesses?) like TIL who it seems banded together to have a place to print their own stuff, and perhaps less so really to provide resources to the larger community. That's not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but I would like some clarity on this point, since I have no idea who these other 5 businesses besides TIL even are, or how big these businesses are, how many people are involved with them, etc. And then I have a hard time understanding how offering one day a week of being open for actual community use and the rest for private business use, enough to qualify the project as fundamentally community-oriented. I had also hoped accompanying the amazing machines, that there would be a companion area of more pedestrian equipment like a couple pre-press workstations, tabloid printers, letter laser printers and copy machines could be made available to those who simply need to make flyers for social justice events etc quickly and cheaply that would maybe, not cost them $100/mo? You know, kind of like Occucopy provided.. But maybe that's coming - I'm not saying they're not moving fast enough. I just wonder where the space and planning *is* for those machines, that will probably get a lot more use from the community at large than a C&P? It seems like that's not part of the plan anymores.. is that true? Basically there are several still-unanswered aspects about the structure and application of this print collective that have little to do with how awesome printing machines are, how awesome the idea is, how awesome the people involved are, and everything to do with simply being fair to *other* collectives, with respect to distribution of space, rent and expenses that all of the collectives in the building must negotiate. IE this application must be looked at in context of what other collectives are paying and how they are using shared space too, not just on the merits of the printing collective alone and what it offers in isolation. I also think there is a lot of pressure built into this proposal, possibly unintended but still there, to agree to everything it says and STFU, because this brand-new collective has already moved all their machines down there prior to making themselves known, so it doesn't feel like the Omni collective has much room to have a say about it. It is certainly not the normal procedure of like, actually deciding on whether a group should move in and what they should contribute BEFORE they move in. Not after, as if its just some kind of formality.. If any of these 5 other businesses that have collectivized together to use their machines in the basement are incorporated, they may have to have individual legal agreements (leases of some sort) with OOC directly. I'm not sure actually, but I suspect that may be in order for OOC decisions made at meetings to trump innate tenant rights laws, and in order that insurance liability be binding, etc. With respect to TIL subletting its upstairs office that was mentioned at the meeting, that could totally break our collective structure and is not OK in my view. Subletting is so ripe with problems that undermine collectivity I can't even begin to count them all. Rather the expectation should be, if TIL needs less space in that office, then they can rent a desk or 2 in there from the OOC, and those other individuals / businesses they share that office with will be their full equals in there, also as tenants, with the same rights and responsibilities, subject to the same acceptance process and legally binding agreements as every other tenant in the OOC. In the OOC, there is equality amongst tenants, that seems fundamental to me. New tenants, groups or businesses in the OOC should be a group decision, not one person's or a single group's. Right? Also with respect to TIL curating shared spaces in the omni, i would say, please, be sure to let everyone in the omni co-curate all the shared spaces with you, if that is cool. Friendly amendments: I propose this proposal be split into two proposals - one with regards to TIL and its rent reduction, including its desire to sublet its upstairs office one with regards to the print collective & its space, rent, structure, etc. I see no reason why one proposal should depend on the other. Questions: 0. Would the collective be willing to turn on the machines and use them during the Thursday delegates meeting so we can hear how loud (or not) they are? 1. What are the intended operating hours of this collective? 2. What is the collective structure of this group. How are decisions made? 3. Does this group have open membership - can anyone join and use all the machines, provided they are adequately trained? 4. Aside from TIL, what are the names of the six other presses/businesses that appear to largely comprise this group, and who is involved in them? 5. What business or person legally owns which machines in the basement? 6. Is this collective intended to be run as a business (be it a nonprofit or for-profit), or is this a collective that seeks to make access to their machines as affordable and available as possible to our community? IE, if your membership grows and gross revenue rises: - will your member dues go down from $100/pp/mo? - or will you simply buy more machines and continue to expand into the basement? - will someone profit? If so, who? - Do you have any thoughts about paying more rent to Omni if your membership increases? Going with the sliding-scale rental formula of the omni, based on affordability and ability to pay. 6. Given you can only afford $600 and you apparently have over ten members paying $100/ea, how did you come up with the $600 figure? 7. It was mentioned at the meeting that running a print studio was 'incredibly expensive'. Given that the print collective will not be paying more in utilities than say BAPS, who has, increasingly worryingly, no dedicated space (and no huge power-slurping machines), I am wondering what these incredible expenses are. Are you putting consumables like paper and ink that will get made into things that will be presumably sold, in the same category as e.g. power or water as an operating expense, when consumables might also be called the raw materials for a commodity? Are you counting the purchase of the machines, or the one-time moving costs of the machines into the basement, as an ongoing expense? What are these ongoing, super high expenses, ie how much exactly do they cost? What's the actual budget? 8. Would the collective and its component participating businesses be willing to disclose financial statements on a regular basis to assess rent affordability? 9. Excepting TIL & Laura D., who from the printing collective has done any work on the Omni, or participates in any working groups or work on the omni, aside from organizing and moving their own printing gear? (I do realize that was a hell of a lot of work, but I'd like to know, since generally I never see any of em in the building nor the machines used.) 10. Does the printing collective know how much rent we are collecting, vs what we will owe in total, come Oct 1? IE does the collective have any sense at all of the Omni's total financial responsibility? 11. If the machines are too loud for a class to take place simultaneously, does the collective intend to ask BAPS and other collectives not to use the basement during their work time? 12. Does it seem a fair distribution of the rent burden that for example a collective we just met last week who has done no work on the Omni, receive 1/3 of the basement for a little more than half the rent BAPS pays, who comparatively has no dedicated space? Is it fair that Rise Above, with more expenses per person, pay $1000 for less space? 13. Does the printing collective believe in a financial model in which member rosters soar and more people use the omni, but rental income stays exactly the same, in a period in which we are not actually making rent? Sorry if I come off as a hardass about this but I am mostly repeating things I heard all week David On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:15 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:52 PM, ▽ ∞ ✳︎ > <forever(a)timelessinfinitelight.com> wrote: > > *We will bring forth a revised Community Print Studio proposal to Omni > > soon, which we would like to make a decision on during the October 2nd > > delegate meeting*. This proposal will address concerns regarding space, > > noise, and communality that were brought up during the last meeting. > > I just want to say that I'm at the CPS meeting right now and they've > all been really generous and helpful and I believe that we will figure > out something. It's really just a tough space logistics problem about > how to orient the machines in the least intrusive way and maximize > common/shared space. The machines need to somehow be ventilated, > eventually soundproofed, and have a radius of empty space to work > around. We will need more time just to solve this geometry problem, > and that's mainly what's holding up the proposal right now. > > In the meantime Kate & I started a wiki page to document all the > existing and forthcoming machines, their dimensions, what their needs > are: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Print_Studio >

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Biohackers Discuss: Ebola! this evening at 7pm.

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Does the Ebola epidemic in Africa have you freaked out yet? Ebola is all over the press with pictures reminiscent of a true pandemic. We've been following the news and have been sifting out facts from fears. Join us this evening at 7pm in CCL, and we'll help you separate the hype from the science, and the fearmongering from the human tragedy. Bring your questions as we talk about how scientists and epidemiologists examine outbreaks. We will show you how you can help with the relief effort in the countries hit by Ebola - and maybe even in studying the virus! *Biohackers Discuss: Ebola! <http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/207834272/>* Patrik

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Re: [sudo-discuss] robot hacking - help crack the code!

by Jake

last night I plugged a second serial port into the 3d printing computer and connected it to the robot's floppy drive - and then wrote a program to man-in-the-middle the conversation between the two. read 123.JBI from disk: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/read123.log delete 123.JBI: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/delete123.log save 124.JBI: (a copy of 123.JBI) http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/save124.log read 124.JBI from disk: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/read124.log if you do a diff of read123.log and read124.log you will see the slight differences in the packets. Note that the file creation times are different, not just the filenames, in packets mentioning that info. the most succinct examples are these: disk: \x02\x13\x00LST0001123.JBI \x00\xfc disk: \x02\x13\x00LST0001124.JBI \xff\xfb yasnac: \x02\x0f\x00FRD123.JBI \xdc\xfc yasnac: \x02\x0f\x00FRD124.JBI \xdb\xfc the escape codes (starting with \x) are two-character hexadecimal codes for unprintable characters. This is how python does it, which means you can copy these strings directly into python, for example, to test a theory on how they are checksummed. Like this: print sum([ord(c) for c in '\x02\x13\x00LST0001123.JBI \x00\xfc']) that will give you the 8-bit checksum, but that's not what it's using. perhaps it's a 16-bit checksum? if we figure this out, we can write programs for the robot with our own computers and upload them to it, by pretending that we are its disk drive. i looked through this doc but did not find the info we need at this point: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479236-17-Communications.pdf poc||gtfo: https://github.com/jerkey/yasnac/blob/master/src/mitm.py -jake

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Server racks need to be temporarily covered TODAY

by David Keenan

The roofer did not do the last skylight b/c the server rack was exposed. He is coming back tomorrow at 8am to do it, so the servers need to be covered. My reccomendation is to take a piece of plywood or one of the spare hollow core doors under the stage, and cover it with that. (It is ok to use the new, clean piece of plywood if it is not cut and we can put it back where it lives tomorrow afternoon.) The roofer also left some tarps for us in case we wanted to use those, which are left on the railing of the server platform. Please - DO NOT RELOCATE these tarps? As they must be returned to the roofer tomorrow. They can be used to cover the servers if need be - they shouldn't really go down the floor though as the servers will then overheat. I guess they can go down a bit over the cool side, but not the hot side. :) David

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Proposal for temporary tenant in one basement office

by D. Scott Nanos

Dear fam, please take a moment to consider this proposal, I really think it will be great for everyone! I'm going to add the top portion to the riseup pad later tonight. Love, Scott _____________________________________________ Proposal: To provisionally rent out the small office (closest to shattuck) located inside the basement reading room to the forthcoming music/recording collective (temporarily titled "Omni Music Project", or "OMP"), for 400$/month, which, once the collective has finished soundproofing the space, will be a common room again. During the first *3* months of tenancy (this proposal is only for a tenancy, and specific # of months can be decided before approval,) the OMP will be working, solely, on soundproofing the ballroom at no cost to the OOC, provided that the OOC pay for the materials (for the ballroom only), and that the OOC allows the OMP, at no cost, to throw a large fund-raiser concert in the ballroom upon completion, in order to help get the collective off the ground. This particular labor will be organized as the "ballroom soundproofing wg" or something similar, and will be open to any/all OOC members. The OMP also requests, as a condition to this provis. proposal for tenancy, that the OOC not rent out the rest of the office spaces, since the OMP eventually plans to use one as a control room (that can still be used for small meetings etc. by OOC members), and keep the rest as completely free common spaces (ex: classrooms for BAPS, meeting rooms, quiet rooms). It should be noted that, while keeping these spaces common, the two other offices could still generate revenue for the omni (ex: a physical therapist or acupuncturist could rent out one of the office spaces for 5 hours, one day a week. Once soundproofed, these rooms will be really conducive for prospective tenants like those mentioned above.) [end of proposal] ________________________________________________ More Information about the OMP: During these first *3* months, the OMP will have a weekly meeting devoted to figuring out the details of our internal organization, and begin planning for acoustically treating and soundproofing the basement reading room. Some things are already set in stone (to the extent that any open collective can set anything in stone): Organization: 1. this collective will be completely open. Anyone can join by *paying* monthly dues of $100 and coming to the weekly organizing meeting. In order to accommodate as many folks as possible, dues can be paid not only in cash, but in labor hours. a sliding scale of monthly dues would look something like this: (the exact numbers are TBD) 1. $100/mo and weekly meeting attendance 2. $50/mo " " + 2 hrs labor/week 3. $25/mo " " + 4 hrs labor/week 4. $0/mo " " + 8 hours labor/week labor hours that will go towards monthly dues must be evenly distributed between work for the music collective and work for the OOC at large (ex: a tier 2 member would contribute 1 hr work/week for omni and 1 hr work/week for music collective). furthermore, the OMP will have a financial aid process, so as to make the collective conducive to anyone who wants to be a part of it. Ex: if someone wanted to be part of OMP who works 40 hrs a week at a low-paying job, takes care of a child, and couldn't afford to pay any money, we would not ask them to work 8 hours a week in order to be a part of the collective. 2. In addition to paying dues, members will need to take free (and/or donation based,) classes (or test out,) in order to have access to instruments, live sound equip, and recording equip. This access structure will be split up into two groups, and members are free to be part of both groups. The first *access group* will be really easy and accessible, requiring perhaps only one free/donation class on how to wrap mic cables, properly handle amps, etc. Upon completion, members of this group will have unrestricted access to the Omni's communal instruments as well as the OMP's live sound cables, amplifiers, live mics, and can use the basement reading room as a rehearsal space (provided there are no BAPS classes, etc. that need to use room). The basement reading room will also be hardwired with two room mics, connected to an easy to use 2- or 4-track recorder, which will allow any member of the collective to make live demo recordings, on-the-fly, inside the basement reading room. This small-scale recording system will also be public access, allowing for OOC members (who aren't part of OMP) to make recordings of classes, reading groups, important meetings etc. The second group would involve access to the above but also include unrestricted access to the control room soundboard and the higher end recording equipment. This would require *5* more free/donation classes (or test outs), that would train members on recording software, hardware, and proper care of control room equipment. While anyone in the OOC who needs it (ex: for a small meeting) can have access to the control room, only people who have gone through this training will have unrestricted access to the control room equipment. The need for this differentiation in access is to ensure that expensive equipment doesn't get unnecesarrily damaged, and to allow folks who aren't interested in recording to quickly utilize everything else the OMP will offer. 3. The OMP, through BAPS, will provide *1-2* free classes that will support the development of the OMP but also be fun for everyone. One example of this will be "instrument and music/sound equipment repair" class, in which folks attending can bring in their own broken equipment to repair, or help repair lots of broken donated equipment that the OMP will need to fix in order to become fully operational. 4. The OMP plans to share all work tasks/roles between all collective members on a consistent, rotating basis. Ex: a member of OMP would be responsible for cleaning and organizing the space, then switch to bookkeeping a *week* later, then be assigned to scheduling after that. This will help to avoid organizational hierarchies and promote transparency inside the collective. 5. All profits will be shared equally amongst every active member of OMP. In addition to fundraising, the OMP will generate capital by providing recording (and possibly mastering, production,) services to bands, musicians, etc. OMP will employ a "three thirds" model for dispersing money generated from the sales of each recording: 1/3 to recording artist(s) 1/3 to a specific community service, advocacy group, non-profit, etc. 1/3 to OMP Use of Space: The OMP plans on soundproofing and beautifying the entire basement reading room and all three office spaces, which will all be common spaces, and none of these modifications will change the current functions. However, one office space, which will serve as the studio's control room, will undoubtedly be less useful to the OOC at large, due to the size of the soundboard, speakers, computers and other equipment etc, but it will have a comfy couch and be really great for small meetings, phone meetings, quiet reading, etc. The work that will be done by OMP to the basement reading room will actually improve the current functions of the space, allowing for multiple BAPS classes to occur at once (ex: one in an office, one in the reading room,) and provide more quiet and intimacy for folks wanting to use the space for meetings, reading, and working. The OMP will also build two modular bookshelves on wheels that will live inside the basement reading room. This will benefit everyone! The basement reading room will house more books, the room will be even quiter, and the OMP can use these bookshelves as go-bos (go-betweens) to use for live recording during available hours. Plus they will look super cool. A few additional bookshelves along the walls may also be added or built into the reading room, at no cost to the OOC. As far as scheduling, the OMP is confident that there will be some limited daytime hours available for recording, but, even if this can't be achieved, the basement reading room will be so thoroughly soundproofed that all recording and live music could easilly take place between the hours of 10pm-10am. The OMP will also provide the OOC with another upright piano, which will be accessible to anyone and live somewhere in the basement reading room. This will help greatly in ensuring space for OOC members to have meetings and work in the ballroom, since anyone playing unscheduled music in the ballroom can easilly relocate to the basement. In order to ensure modularity and common space in the basement reading room, the OMP will very likely need to secure a small, lockable closet in the basement. If space permits, this closet could also be used for other items, non-OMP related. Ballroom Recordings: The OMP also plans to hardwire the Ballroom for live recording at no cost to the OOC. This will be used for: 1. recording live events and concerts in the ballroom 2. renting the ballroom out for live recording purposes (non-event related) since this will be provided by both the OOC and the OMP (ballroom space and recording equip.), the OMP would like to split the money earned from these services with the OOC, at a percentage to be determined at a later date. These services will help to provide additional money for both the OOC and OMP, since, once completed, the OOC can offer to provide a HQ recording of every ballroom event, at a reasonable cost to the renter determined on a case-by-case basis (ex: cheap/free for sponsored events, more expensive for high-profile lectures and concerts). The OMP would also like to store copies of all recordings in order to start a public "Omni Sound Archive", or to provide copies of all recordings to someone(s) in the OOC interested in undertaking such a project. What the OOC gets: -Free Soundproofing of the Ballroom and Basement Reading Rooms (+ offices) [OOC pays for cost of materials for ballroom only] -additional cash-flow for OOC by offering to make HQ recordings of rental events in the ballroom -beautification and improvement of functionality of the basement reading room -2 modular bookshelves for the basement reading room -another piano for the basement reading room -free classes thru BAPS -an omni sound archive -a sheet music, music theory, and music lit. library -possibility for a radio/podcast set-up (which could still be a sudo project but take place in OMP control room) -a ready-to-use, public access recording setup in basement reading room for meetings, reading groups, classes -a new music/recording collective that ANYONE can join, complete with a fully functional professional recording studio/rehearsal space, -$400 a month starting ASAP, which will increase when the OMP eventually proposes to become a voting member of the OOC

11 years, 6 months

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Please donate to Ada Initiative to support hacker and makerspace women!

by Liz Henry

Hello sudo-ers! I'm writing to ask you to donate to Ada Initiative as part of my campaign to make hacker and maker spaces a more welcoming, safe, and inclusive environment for all women! Here is my post about how Ada Initiative was a catalyst for Double Union: http://bookmaniac.org/make-hackerspaces-better-support-ada-initiative/ I respect your work at sudo room in making it a safer space for women and other under-represented people in our community. I wonder if you would like to have a look at Ada Initiative's resources? Please donate! Here is the direct donation link: https://supportada.org/?campaign=hackerspaces I am shooting for a goal of $4096 and will match the first $1028 if the goal is reached! HACKERSPACE POWER! Best, Liz p.s. Tomorrow, Wed. afternoon from 4-6pm, I am hosting a Hackability meetup at Double Union. You are welcome to come by! We are going to test drive a prototype WHILL powerchair, talk about our wheelchair and mobility/accessibility hacks and modifications, and make plans for future hack days to work on our accessibility and mobility related projects. http://doubleunion.tumblr.com/post/97665817909/sept-24-4pm-hackability-meet… -- Liz Henry lizhenry(a)gmail.com "Electric ladies will you sleep or will you preach?" -- Janelle Monae "Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ

11 years, 6 months

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DK's phone = perma-dead

by David Keenan

very cool looking obliteration, but in case anyone needed to get ahold of me I wanted everyone to know that my phone is no more. Extremely smashed-o. I'll letcha know when I have a new one. I'll be at omni tomorrow afternoon on through the evening. Love, love love d

11 years, 6 months

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skylights in Bocce ball court

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Surprise, surprise - the skylights in CCL are already done! So much for making sure everything got safely moved to the side... Patrik

11 years, 6 months

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Proposal: quiet time reading group (free of internet)

by Romy Ilano

Hi, I read an article in the newspaper about the popularity of reading groups. Their focus is on reading a book/pdf/print for a focused 30 minutes. No internet surfing, no computer monitors if possible (unless you're reading an ebook). I'd like to do something similar at SudoRoom. Is anyone interested? It could be for 30 minutes this Thursday evening from 6:00-6:30pm. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 6 months

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robot wants a router tool so it can carve wood

by Jake

the robot was asking me last night "when can i start carving statues out of wood? or at least carve SUDOROOM into a piece of wood?" i answered, sadly, that i didn't have a router for it to use. But maybe one of you robot-lovers wants to get it one? This would be ideal: http://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DWP611-Torque-Variable-Compact/dp/B0048EFUV8 it also doubles as a human-usable tool. I don't know if we have anything like this already but if not, let's get something. I already wrote a program to write SUDOROOM with a sharpie, we could just use the same program with the router to carve pieces of wood... -jake

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