>unfortunately predominantly cursed with a Y chromosome
are you ashamed of the way you were born?
Dec 10, 2013 09:23:10 PM, biow(a)riseup.net wrote:
Greetings cronies,
>
>
Every Sunday Occupy Oakland meets at OGP (e.g. Frank Ogawa Plaza) at
2PM for what is rather grandiloquently still referred to as General
Assembly, but lately it has been colder then the proverbial bucket
full of penguin guano and we would like to have our meetings at the
sudoroom common space through the end of January if no one objects
unduly. These days GA is perhaps a dozen folks, mostly dotards like
me, unfortunately predominantly cursed with a Y chromosome. We
almost never riot and torch the town these days, mostly just rehash
the previous weeks' political actions and plan the next weeks'
protests against the evil empire. These days our main focus is
labor & debtor solidarity, anti-repression organizing (e.g.
police brutality and surveillance), and attempts to protect the
commons & the environment.
>
>
Also, we would like to participate in the crypto-parties next Sunday
and in January. We certainly want to figure out how to protect our
own communications from being unduly monitored by the state and
Daniel & I may try and train a few of our folks how to use the
Wordpress interface for our web site. Anywho, I plan to attend the
sudoroom weekly meeting tomorrow after the Oakland
Privacy Working Group meeting and see if anyone objects to our
presence for the next month and a half.
>
>
Solidarity whenever,
>
>
Ed the Red
>
>
>
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>http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>
I'd be honored to have occupy as our guests!
Careful though, you might run into some trans folks and biohackers,
neither of whom you want to make offhand comments about chromosomes
to.
It's nice to know that SudoRoom (www.sudoroom.org) in Oakland, our sister
hackerspace, has instituted lockers. we could ask them for any learnings,
fails, etc.
Hey SudoRoom -
how have your lockers been going? Anything that works or doesn't work for
you?
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
> Cool I've added Locker Protocol and Locker FAQ to the Locker page
>
> https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Lockers#Relevant_Pages
>
> Just want to get everything in one place
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've filled out a Locker FAQ to address some questions that were brought
>> up about them last night. https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Locker_FAQ
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Al Sweigart <asweigart(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm going to put forward a proposal for Noisebridge to spend up to a
>>> $1000 to buy metal lockers for the space.
>>>
>>> NB's budget should be carefully tended, but that's why I think we should
>>> make this purchase: This is something that will generate revenue for
>>> Noisebridge.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's a wiki for this by the way, if anyone interested in lockers is
>>>> interested in adding.
>>>>
>>>> https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Lockers
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:56 AM
>>>> Subject: Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Charging for Lockers
>>>> To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Al Sweigart <asweigart(a)gmail.com>
>>>> *Date:* December 1, 2013 at 1:32:29 PM PST
>>>> *To:* noisebridge-discuss <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>
>>>> *Subject:* *[Noisebridge-discuss] Charging for Lockers*
>>>>
>>>> I'll bring this up at the next meeting. I propose Noisebridge uses its
>>>> funds to buy lockers for members to store their projects and valuables in.
>>>>
>>>> Theft and things being moved around and lost has been a large problem
>>>> at Noisebridge for years. It would be nice if members had a place to store
>>>> their belongings in a secure manner at the space, and this would encourage
>>>> people to work on long-term projects instead of having to constantly haul
>>>> them from home to the space to avoid getting them stolen.
>>>>
>>>> I've been looking on Craigslist. I've seen one ad (and this is about
>>>> the general price) that had a bank of 3x2 school-sized lockers for $250
>>>> each. If we charge $15 a month for locker storage, we can recoup the cost
>>>> for Noisebridge within six months, and at that point the lockers start
>>>> MAKING money for Noisebridge.
>>>>
>>>> They are also sized so that two or more people could share them if they
>>>> want to split the costs and trust each other.
>>>>
>>>> I can come up with more protocols for the lockers (process if people
>>>> don't pay, who gets priority for lockers, where to put them, what can and
>>>> can't be stored in lockers (such as food/smelly stuff), etc.)
>>>>
>>>> I'd propose that Noisebridge spend up to a thousand dollars for new
>>>> lockers. We have the funds now, so we are in a much better position to make
>>>> an expenditure like this.
>>>>
>>>> -Al
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
>>>> Noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net
>>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
Hello, I was asked to post this message about a bunch of possible parts here by a member. Let me know if anyone finds this useful.
My name is Gideon Weisberg, and work I with the non-profit Riekes Center in Menlo Park (mentoring in sports, fitness, the arts, music, and nature awareness). Years ago (10?) we were given a Bod-Pod to allow the fitness department to offer a (then) state-of-the-art body assessment system to low-income students, as well as the other athletes who train at our center.
While at the time this version of the Bod-Pod system ran about $50,000, it is now obsolete. It likely has lots of useful parts for a tinkering lab. I am looking for ways to find a new home for the system, and am especially interested in helping any useful parts find their way into innovative reuse or educational programs (or at least becomes somebody's weird furniture/studio prop).
Any proceeds from selling this system will go directly into our programs (the first $750 I can raise will be buying new tires for our passenger van). The Bod Pod (with it's computer station, manual, and calibration/maintenance records) can be delivered within the Bay Area.
I am open to thoughts and suggestions regarding the ultimate fate of this devise. I don't want it to go in a land-fill.
Thank you for your consideration,
Gideon Weisberg
gweisberg(a)riekes.org
Coordinating Naturalist
The Riekes Center
www.riekes.org
Greetings cronies,
Every Sunday Occupy Oakland meets at OGP (e.g. Frank Ogawa Plaza) at 2PM
for what is rather grandiloquently still referred to as General
Assembly, but lately it has been colder then the proverbial bucket full
of penguin guano and we would like to have our meetings at the sudoroom
common space through the end of January if no one objects unduly. These
days GA is perhaps a dozen folks, mostly dotards like me, unfortunately
predominantly cursed with a Y chromosome. We almost never riot and
torch the town these days, mostly just rehash the previous weeks'
political actions and plan the next weeks' protests against the evil
empire. These days our main focus is labor & debtor solidarity,
anti-repression organizing (e.g. police brutality and surveillance), and
attempts to protect the commons & the environment.
Also, we would like to participate in the crypto-parties next Sunday and
in January. We certainly want to figure out how to protect our own
communications from being unduly monitored by the state and Daniel & I
may try and train a few of our folks how to use the Wordpress interface
for our web site. Anywho, I plan to attend the sudoroom weekly meeting
tomorrow after the Oakland Privacy Working Group
<https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/organize-against-the-oakland-domain-awaren…>
meeting and see if anyone objects to our presence for the next month and
a half.
Solidarity whenever,
Ed the Red
Hey sudo,
Tomorrow's weekly meeting is an important one! How can we clarify our
membership process to better onboard new folks and maintain a stable income
from dues? What do people think about moving to one of our new potential
spaces <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Spaces#Current>?
Add to the agenda: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting
Cheers,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
This is in line with near-inflation rate and agreed upon in the lease as I
recall.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net>
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:14 PM
Subject: Notice of Increase - The Sudo Room
To: mattsenate(a)gmail.com
Cc: exchequer(a)sudoroom.org, eddan(a)eddan.com
Hi Matt & Eddan-
In accordance with the terms of the lease, there will be an increase due on
1/1/14 in the amount of $45/month (new rent = $1545/month). I just plumb
forgot to do on 12/1, so this year you got an extra month at the old rate
:-).
Thanks-
Laurie
Hey all,
The "Wobbly Wheels" union pedicab collective is seeking materials to build
pedicabs. Anyone have access or connections to resources for mig welding
(especially steel)?
+ Welding Shields (number 10 masks)
+ Steel
+ Bike Frames
+ Welding Wire
+ Full Pedicabs
+ More!
// Matt
Hey all, what's the status of this? What parts do we still need? I'd
love to help pay for them if someone knows what parts to buy. And
anything else I need to do to get our printer working ASAP. Thanks!
I just found out today, Waste Management are trying to bill Sudo Room (and
therefore BAPS) for 2 extra recycling bins and one extra green-waste bin
that we don't have.
That is, WM thinks we have always had 3x 96gal recycling bins and 2x 64gal
green-waste bins in all. Whereas Sudo/BAPS have only ever had 1x 96gal
recycling, and 1x 64gal green waste bin (* technically our green bin is
also 96gal, but since WM apparently didn't actually have any 64gal-sized
bins, they just give us the 96gal and charge us for 64gal.)
So far as I can tell, what happened is: WM assigned an additional, second
recycling+green waste account to Sudo, that is not ours. This additional
secondary bill is past due ~4 mo to the tune of ~$500.
This bogus bill was not visible to us online, and I only found out about it
today after getting hit up by WM's collection department on the phone,
whereupon I asked them to email me copies of the invoices.
After looking the bogus bill over, today at around 12noon, I called WM back
and wrangled with the billing dept phone rep "Christopher", who
generated a *Case
ID # 2377511* for the accounting department to "review" this screw-up.
Although it's not hard to see the error, as it is a second bill for twice
as many recycling bins at the same address for the same time period.
Therefore, before interfacing with WM, please take note of the following
information:
Sudo room's CORRECT recycling and green waste account # (paid in full
through Nov):
*699-0009853-2216-3* (<-- right)
This other INCORRECT recycling/green account, misattributed to Sudo:
065-4415376-2216-5 (<-- wrong)
SUDO/BAPS'ERS: DO NOT EVER PAY THIS ACCOUNT.
Attached are the two different recycling+greenwaste invoices for the month
of October - one labelled *correct* (and paid), and one labelled
*incorrect*(unpaid). If you talk to WM, please refer to these. I know
these aren't the
latest bills, but it's simpler to discuss them with WM without referring
past due amounts.
For the record, Sudo has a separately-billed WM account just for the
*garbage*, which is: 065-4415386-2216-4. The garbage account has thus far
not been confused, just the recycling/green.
Best,
David
Thanks so much for disambiguating! With this additional knowledge, I'm
happy to be removed from the agenda again.
On 12/9/2013 10:14 PM, Jenny Ryan wrote:
> This is not a sudo room vs Timon conflict - it's a George vs. Timon
> conflict. Having been in the space last night, I can report that
> Matt's call to George was simply a followup to Friday's conversation,
> in which George had told Matt that Timon had been kicked out of the
> building and that he couldn't be in the sudo space. Matt told Timon as
> much, and that his being in the space could jeapordize our lease, and
> Timon peaceably agreed to stay out of sudo room.
>
> Matt followed up with George to say that while we could border the
> boundaries of sudo room proper, and that Timon had agreed to stay out
> of sudo room, we couldn't control who had access to the common space
> (and that Timon was currently in the common space - but he didn't say
> anything about him bothering anyone). At that point, George asked Matt
> to call the police. Matt refused, saying this was an issue between
> George and Timon, and that it was completely out of line to put us
> (sudo room) in the middle of a landlord-tenant conflict. He also asked
> George not to give the police his number.
>
> About 15 minutes later, Matt received a call from the police on behalf
> of Sonitrol (the building's security contractors - George put Matt's
> number as primary point-of-contact several months ago, despite
> numerous requests for him not to). I was also in the room for this
> conversation, and Matt's response was essentially, "This is not our
> issue. The landlord has kicked a tenant out of the building and it's
> between them." Matt answered their questions to the extent of
> supplying them with some descriptive characteristics (name and
> height), but did not provide anything further (no personal complaints
> or allegations). After the call, another sudoer present informed Timon
> that the police had been called by George, and Timon left the common
> space. All present in sudo room at the time were uncomfortable about
> the police being invoked, and none of us would willingly bring them
> into our space regarding a nonviolent interpersonal conflict (had that
> even been the case).
>
> Sudo Room has a conflict resolution process for dealing with conflicts
> in the community that was written in large part by Matt himself.
> However, we have a contractual obligation to our landlord that makes
> this particular situation complicated (as we do not own the building
> and have no jurisdiction over the landlord's decisions). Had Timon
> actually been bothering people in the space at that time, Matt would
> have either talked to him directly or requested mediation by another
> sudoer. Hopefully this is an unintentional miscommunication between
> George and Laurie, but it seems they are trying to put sudo room in
> the middle of their conflict with Timon.
>
> Hoping this clarifies things so we can spend more time on Wednesday
> investigating our new potential spaces rather than a conflict that is
> not, in fact, between Sudo Room and Timon.
>
> Jenny
> http://jennyryan.net <http://jennyryan.net/>
> http://thepyre.org <http://thepyre.org/>
> http://thevirtualcampfire.org <http://thevirtualcampfire.org/>
> http://technomadic.tumblr.com <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
> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Timon <timondocent(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:timondocent@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Since I'll be at the meeting, that will be a convenient time to
> have me arrested, if anyone wishes.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Expulsion from common area
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 00:08:53 -0800
> From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net>
> <mailto:Lscoop@comcast.net>
> To: 'Timon' <timondocent(a)gmail.com> <mailto:timondocent@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> p.s. the police came, but we thought it had been cancelled. They were
> called because Matt said that you were bothering people, not because George
> said that you can't be in there. Matt called us, we didn't call him.
> Neither George nor I was privy to what led up to his call. Sonitrol called
> the police and gave them Matt's #. The Police called Matt and Matt said
> that you had left the room and that they didn't need to come, so we thought
> it was done. An hour later we got a call from Matt; they showed up anyway
> and George had to run down there. Not what we wanted on a Sunday eve.
> L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timon [mailto:timondocent@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 10:54 PM
> To: Laurie Cooperman Rosen
> Subject: Expulsion from common area
>
> On Friday night after we talked (sometime after 6:15PM, when he'd required
> me to take his appointment), or perhaps between when I made my Monday
> appointment with you yesterday (Saturday) afternoon and when I got back from
> my volunteer/internship gig at about 6pm, George seems to have decided my
> alleged "second chance" (as in "everyone deserves a second chance") was
> retroactively canceled, and told people I was "not allowed" in the building.
>
> After Sudo (Matt) asked me yesterday -- because of some direct communication
> from George I do not know about (between 1:45PM and 6ish
> PM) not to be in the Sudo room part of the common area yesterday night, and
> out of respect for not wanting to put sudo room (the group: my friends and
> colleagues, acquaintances and primary social millieu and
> support) in a difficult place, I retrieved a few possessions and donations
> and then left both sudo room's room and their common area section, and have
> not returned, as I told everyone I would not.
>
> Tonight, as I was peacefully eating my dinner and listening to a good
> physics and game-theory lecture/conversation from OUTSIDE of the Sudo area
> today, Matt handed me a phone, and said it was George. (I told George I was
> recording it, mid-call, and he did not voice objection).
>
> Per George, Matt had asked that I be required to leave. After George hung up
> on me, saying he'd called the cops and would not "repeat himself " as I
> asked for clarification, I found out the request didn't come from George.
>
> I will not be in the common area, unless invited by The Public School, until
> we talk. I doubt I would even if so invited, out of respect for anyone else
> who should be spared this drama.
>
> Feel free to cancel the call to the cops or not, as you see fit.
>
> -Timon
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>
> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>
>
Since I'll be at the meeting, that will be a convenient time to have me
arrested, if anyone wishes.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Expulsion from common area
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 00:08:53 -0800
From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net>
To: 'Timon' <timondocent(a)gmail.com>
p.s. the police came, but we thought it had been cancelled. They were
called because Matt said that you were bothering people, not because George
said that you can't be in there. Matt called us, we didn't call him.
Neither George nor I was privy to what led up to his call. Sonitrol called
the police and gave them Matt's #. The Police called Matt and Matt said
that you had left the room and that they didn't need to come, so we thought
it was done. An hour later we got a call from Matt; they showed up anyway
and George had to run down there. Not what we wanted on a Sunday eve.
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Timon [mailto:timondocent@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 10:54 PM
To: Laurie Cooperman Rosen
Subject: Expulsion from common area
On Friday night after we talked (sometime after 6:15PM, when he'd required
me to take his appointment), or perhaps between when I made my Monday
appointment with you yesterday (Saturday) afternoon and when I got back from
my volunteer/internship gig at about 6pm, George seems to have decided my
alleged "second chance" (as in "everyone deserves a second chance") was
retroactively canceled, and told people I was "not allowed" in the building.
After Sudo (Matt) asked me yesterday -- because of some direct communication
from George I do not know about (between 1:45PM and 6ish
PM) not to be in the Sudo room part of the common area yesterday night, and
out of respect for not wanting to put sudo room (the group: my friends and
colleagues, acquaintances and primary social millieu and
support) in a difficult place, I retrieved a few possessions and donations
and then left both sudo room's room and their common area section, and have
not returned, as I told everyone I would not.
Tonight, as I was peacefully eating my dinner and listening to a good
physics and game-theory lecture/conversation from OUTSIDE of the Sudo area
today, Matt handed me a phone, and said it was George. (I told George I was
recording it, mid-call, and he did not voice objection).
Per George, Matt had asked that I be required to leave. After George hung up
on me, saying he'd called the cops and would not "repeat himself " as I
asked for clarification, I found out the request didn't come from George.
I will not be in the common area, unless invited by The Public School, until
we talk. I doubt I would even if so invited, out of respect for anyone else
who should be spared this drama.
Feel free to cancel the call to the cops or not, as you see fit.
-Timon
Hey all,
This email came in, we weren't sure what to do, discussed at the meeting
that we'd forward to the discuss list to see if anyone wanted to follow up
about this. From the minutes:
"**we'll forward to sudo-discuss, any interested individual sudoer is free
to invite them as a guest on the calendar, but we will be very clear that
our org is not endorsing theirs"
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kendra Desler <kendra(a)fwd.us>
Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Subject: [!SUDO-INFO!] Event with FWD
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Hey Sudoroom!
My name is Kendra Desler, and I am an Organizing Fellow with FWD.us. We are
a nonprofit advocacy organization working with the tech community to move
the knowledge economy forward through immigration reform.
I was wondering if Sudoroom would be interested in having FWD.us host a
mixer event at your office space in hopes of meeting your members and
sharing about how immigration reform affects the tech community. We often
host happy hour type events during the late afternoon; however, we are
flexible, and can host something more common to the your office culture
(brunch, sandwich lunch, etc). We will provide all food, beverages and
other amenities. Would you be open to exploring the possibility of having
us host such an event? I look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Kendra
FWD.us
_______________________________________________
Info mailing list
Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org
http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info
hey goth rockers
there is great wifi at the DNA Lounge.
Anyone want to join me tonight in some dancing? I would love to talk about
any noisebridge projects, chill with fine folks.
http://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/2012/08/27.html
[image: Inline image 1]
Hey all,
I received word from George our landlord that Timon is banned from the property. His presence in sudo room jeopardizes our lease, and therefore he is not welcome. This has been communicated to Timon, and some other sudoers who were around this weekend are aware as well.
// Matt
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Patrick Schmidt
<psbschmidt(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is the rent really $345 or is it $1345?
Those numbers are per-week. To convert monthly to weekly costs, e.g.
our $1500 rent, do this: 1500*7*12/365.25 = 344.97
Hey sudo! This afternoon starting at 3pm:
Short documentary screening: “The Battle for Oscar Grant Plaza” by Jacob
Crawford and co-produced by Dave Id, Indybay.org. The documentary shows how
the City of Oakland and its Police tried to shut down the budding “Occupy
Wall Street” movement, turning downtown Oakland into a teargas filled war
zone and injuring numerous people. Police video obtained in discovery in
the National Lawyers Guild’s successful lawsuit and interviews with
activists and journalists about their experiences, tell the real story of
the disastrous Fall 2011 police actions that pushed the troubled OPD to the
brink of federal receivership.
Documentary (in it’s current state) is 25 minutes and will start around
3:15. Expect light refreshments and intellectual discourse! We’re
interested in sparking conversation around police accountability in the
Oakland area and beyond. If you have any interest in direct involvement
with OPD accountability (especially if you are a coder!), you won’t want to
miss this!
The producers and some plaintiffs (including Scott Olsen) will be present
to answer any questions.
Jacob Crawford is a long time Copwatcher based out of the Bay Area in
California. He joined Berkeley Copwatch
<http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/>in 2000 and produced the first ever
“in the streets” non-dramatized know
your rights video “These Streets Are Watching”. He currently is running
WeCopwatch.org <http://wecopwatch.org> with other Copwatchers and has been
a contributor for CopBlock.org <http://copblock.org> for several years.
----------
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`