Yet another relevant event put on by the Sustainable Economies Law Center..
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From: "Christina(a)theSELC.org" <christina(a)theselc.org>
Hey friends,
I'm sending you an event announcement because at some point you've asked me
questions about or expressed interest in crowdfunding, creative small
business finances or something related. So I thought you might be
interested to know that this Wednesday evening my colleague and I are
running a little teach-in on legal issues pertaining to "grassroots
financing strategies, or in other words, investment crowdfunding campaigns.
The teach-in will take place at the Alchemy Collective Cafe's new location
on Alcatraz Ave in South Berkeley. We're so excited to be partnering with
an awesome new local worker cooperative to organize this and future events.
See this eventbrite for more info and to register. There's no required
registration fee, but because we're a small nonprofit we gladly accept
donations via the eventbrite registration and at our events.
Feel free to share the invite with other people.
-Christina
Christina Oatfield
(415) 828-5627 mobile
Hey, so in an attempt to be fractionally more organized for this
week's 5MOF, if you have some cool project or thoughts or demos or
rants or code or TARDIS rebuild, and would like to speak to an
audience of many of your most loving peers, drop me a mail, and you
can speak for five minutes on PRECISELY WHATEVER YOU WANT.
It is fun, the audience is always amazing, and sometimes there are
impromptu musical numbers.
Thank you for your attention, humanlings!
d.
> TECHNO-ACTIVISM 3RD MONDAYS SAN FRANCISCO, THIS MONDAY AT EFF AT 6PM
>> SELF-CARE FOR ONLINE ACTIVISTS
https://www.eff.org/event/ta3m-nov2013
Being behind a computer screen might save you from the physical
consequences of being an activist -- but what about the mental effects?
For San Francisco's TA3M this month, we'll be discussingresources and
practical advice for psychological and other health care. From filtering
out the trolls and avoiding timezone jetlag, to dealing with PTSD among
friends and ongoing global effects of the Syrian civil war.
Joining us for the discussion will be security researcher Morgan Mayhem
(@headhntr on Twitter), Laurie Penny (@pennyred) from the New Stateman
and UK Guardian and co-author of Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens,
and EFF's own Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian
York (@jilliancyork).
Plus: a round-up of new and ongoing projects, info on the Jeremy Hammond
decision, and a chance to network with your fellow cryptographers,
lawyers, coders, and other involved parties.
EFF's offices are at 815 Eddy St, SF, CA 94109. Please be punctual for
6PM -- if you arrive late, call x 118 from the door to be let in.
A map of 815 Eddy: http://www.openstreetmap.org/go/TZHvUrLDP
Techno-Activism 3rd Monday is a monthly meetup that happens
simultaneously in 18 cities throughout the world. It brings together
individuals interested in censorship, surveillance and open technology.
This includes Amsterdam, Brighton(UK), Cambridge, Dakar, Durham, Kansas
City, London, Madison, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Portland, San
Francisco, Stockholm, Seattle, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC.
For more info, see: https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays
In thinking about funding for sudo room, I thought of couple of items that
I believe sudo room has discussed before but never formally decided upon.
I'd like to propose that we formally decide on the following:
* All income and expenses should be open and transparent, including who
gave us grants and how much, though anonymous donations from individuals
should still be allowed.
* sudo room should not allow recurring grants or major donations from
other organizations to fund any recurring critical operations costs since
that would give those organizations significant power over sudo room
through their ability to defund critical operations.
Critical operations costs are things such as rent, utilities. Stuff that is
required for sudo room to continue operation.
What do you think?
--
marc/juul
Dear fellow Sudoers,
although my 3Dimensial Body left the continent and spontaneously
emmigrated to Asia
(Updates on Chinese Hackerspaces and Community Spaces to follow),
my consciousness is still around.
I was a little bit sad two weeks ago to read in the meeting minutes
that one name alone was listed under "conflict resolution". I assume
that this was done in the absence of our fellow sudoer. I find this a
little problematic to be exposed like this and would propose the
following:
As conflicts (not wanting to talk about inner conflicts within one
person) are always among minimum two entities, in case of a conflict
all names of all parties involved should be mentioned, and not only
the accused (especially in their absence).
Conflict awareness 1 :
Rejecting a person and not being able to handle a disagreement with
compassion reveales a lot about one self.
In 99% of the cases the Ego jumps in and goes with separation and
rejection as the behaviour of the rejected entity triggers us, in
other words:
we subconsciously reject others because their behaviour reminds us on
what we do not like about ourselves.
In this context, lets expand our consciousness and our compassion,
and next time we get angry ask ourselves:
"what is it within me that is triggered right now by that persons behaviour"
Conflict awareness 2 :
Everybody lives in their own universe, and an interesting metaphor for
people is to comparing them with atoms.
In the quantum world of atoms strange rules reign, even things that
contradict each other can be true in the same time.
So this superposition of realities that contradict each other but
simultaneously are true can be applied on human conflicts:
both entities have their own side of the story which contradict each
other, but yet they can still be true at the same time. (Lesson
learned from the first public Sudo conflict)
Conflict Awareness 3:
Often during a conflict when the egos collide it can get nasty,
especially when the ego feels threatened it will accuse, blame,
judge,...
A good strategy is instead of acusing a person directly,
just talk about your feelings and your inner states what the persons behaviour
made you feel.
In this case, the argument which is likely to follow ("no, this is not true")
is not valid, as your feelings are your feelings and they are true in
your universe no matter what.
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just felt like sharing these lessons I learned, and I want to thank
Sudo crowd for my personal development that especially the conflicts
triggered, Im much more Zen, get angry much less at people, also do
not identify with my anger but can see how the ego sneacks in...
sending you cosmic love from the other side of our beautiful planet,
Patrick
I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of Columbia. and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that.
It is often forgotten that there was a first constitution of the United States after Independence before the one that people call the Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up moving to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC.
It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the Confederacy that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 43, "We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With great propriety, therefore, has the new system supplied the defect. The general precaution, that no new States shall be formed, without the concurrence of the federal authority, and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such transactions."
As population grew and the country was further colonized by the European settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting disaster. Different coalitions of states banded together to promote their collective interest at the expense of others. Those states excluded formed their own alliances and there were many cries of treason thrown around back and forth. Each cluster thought of themselves as the "us" and the others as the "them" until the "them" became the "us" and the "us" was "them". And so on.
So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted to have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And this is how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the provision saying:
"To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings."
I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and arsenals and such, but I still think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster confuses themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the country adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and "them" into we - did the agreement amongst them create stability and mutual respect that made them united states.
hello everyone,
it appears that someone was cleaning up around the 3d printer and they
decided to throw away or remove a lot of stuff that was in the bottom of
the printer.
this included the fiberfrax insulation for the extruder head!!!!!
if you know where this material went, please bring it back to the printer,
otherwise we will have to get new insulators from the manufacturer.
thank you,
-jake
In what's being called an "incident of provocation" sudoers cathartically
purged their souls of paranoid fears, and imbibed a Class-C schedule Drug -
Vitamin C in lethal amounts. 3 pinneapples, 12 bananas, 25 apples, 60
pears, and clod of celery.
-notconfusing
Meeting Minutes
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-11-13
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Icebreaker: Give an example of how you are paranoid about security, or in
general.
Attendees:
Max - wireless charging in toothbrush
Daniel - whiteboard at home with a circle in the middle about privacy,
maybe privacy is already lost
Ed (einstein) - "not paranoia they really are out to get us"
Matt - "people's safety"
- Vicky - "losing my memory"
- JC - "leave no digital trace" <-- until now
- Anca - Jehan's mom visiting from Vermont - "cool housing community"
- Tony - "texting while driving"
- Elvin - paranoid about how social websites can log you into every
website ever.
- Marc - "wipe my harddrive and install a clean os before crossing a
border"
- Rhodey - autocompletion on security
- yar - http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/?q=tor+bug+tracker
- Line 16 - speaking in short sentences
- Diku - "pitiless gaze of the future staring down at us." "lots of
stray humans"
- Dante - "posting stuff online"
- Sam - "all my software efforts are in vain, because of hardware
chipping"
- Brandon - careful about porn more than anything.
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1. Announcements
- Events for this week: https://sudoroom.org/calendar
- Review the events for this week--what's happening?
- Rackspace maybe wants to give us money?
- We were recommended for a grant ;)
- but requires W-9 forms, do we have that?
- for the w-9 we need the board of directors (true? - unknown)
- apparently there are still options
- grant is approx $4000
- not 100% we would get it, but quite likely
- Update on The Omni
- The omni a space
- everyone at a previous meeting agreed it was a good idea to pursue it
further
- its more difficult to buy, business mortgages apparently need 30-50%
of 1.9million. lease at $13,000 per month for two years
- Marc is getting more info from owner before he can propose a consensus
item.
- leasing triple-net means you are more responsible than a regular
tennant.
- updates to the wiki
- Vicky is a superhero with regards to the wiki
- categorizing the wiki into events/projects/stubs'
- "the tortoise will win the race"
- yar - "our long term goal is to turn the wiki into the front
page"noisebridge-style
- vicky invites people to work with her - on vicky time. (STOP. It's
Vicky time.)
- Board ratification is delayed in favor of antidramatic juice-a-thon
- regret to inform beloved room that faust will not be accepting
nomination at this time, due to unfortunate conflict; she hopes that this
opportunity presents itself again in the future. she also expects to be
there, albeit late, with cake.
- julio accepts nomination
- Y u no
http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/annualreport/2008/_images/pic_board_of_d…
- everyone not privy to this drama is thinking "thank goodness"
- *It should look more like this: *
*http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg*<http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg>
- New color laser printer :D
- consent to spend less than $200 for the printer for toner
- if someone wanted to donate.
- it's awesome!
- Are we incorporated? Can we start getting a real bank account and
moving services off members' private credit cards?
- Matt investigated a couple of credit unions. Makes a recommendation:
- Do get an Internet Archive Federal Credit Union account (don't use it
for too much)
- Must pay for frequent debit transactions
- Most services take charges.
- Do get a Patelco Federal Credit Union account (use for debit, bills)
- Skip
- People's Federal Credit Union
- Cooperative Federal Credit Union
- "note that with credit unions you can often do transactions at a
credit union not yours and have them post to yours, they are in cahoots as
credit unions" - faust
- we have 2 bitcoins, marc controls the wallet but will transfer it to
us as soon as there is an "us"
- rhodey - if theres no penalty for just go for it
- Update from Timon and Marc on alcohol permit situation
- Timon- Marc was right
- get smashed for $35 with an average of 3 days noticed.
- $35 with 3 days notice
- Thankstaking potluck?
- faust is in, ok faust, take it.
- seeking date/time/deets
2. Articles of Incorporation
- not approving board of directors (see above)
3. Finances
- all our new cash == standing funds. hands off, act normal.
- no exchequer? no bank balance info?
- current exchequer team does not currently have access to online bank
account (can't wait to move to patelco!). check from soex on its way after
completion of contract, w-9, signatures, which will be presented to the
group at the next meeting.
4. conflict resolution
- Timon - constable/conflict steward. The conflict that neither of the
two parties wanted to bring t o us. Elliot and Shake. Timon noted them,
both of them declined to meet officially.
- Shake is showing good faith by sharing some perspective.
- the private portion is proceeding.
- Shake speaks - he likes sudo room - he helped dj. at some point he was
just working and elliot asked questions about an occupy oakland. he felt
like he did explain to elliot, they even went outside. he felt like he
wasn't welcome any more. then he found out he had a conflict on the agenda.
"keep in mind that i do not want anyone to be uncomfortable because of me".
says that because he is a political figure that there will always be
oppoonents. now feels uncomfortable because he doesn't understand that why
elliot. gives a message that he wants to be here and help
- Eventually, sudo came around to realize that our actions during the
meeting are not the best execution and interpretation of our Conflict
Resolution procedure of the Articles of Association, ending the
conversation about the details of any specific conflicts.
- tl;dr shake tried his best but we can't do anything because the other
person never showed up
- If anyone has a conflict or wants to resolve things they may have
heard or speculate with other members, reach out to the person in question,
or find another sudoer to act as a mediator.
mate made $128
5. After- Meeting Teamups
- bank teamupu
- juice meetup
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6. Action Items
- marc -to investigate printer recoup cost
- to message ar
- timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license
s
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7. Additional Notes
Hi,
Firstly, I want to get rid of my current desks and
non-chairs. Here's what they look like. (They're
sized so I can use them while sitting on the floor.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_jq7klTEotEb2NJLTFLa3BDNnc/edit?usp=shari…
I quite like them, but I want something more portable.
If you'll use/hack them, you can have them and/or the
cushion that I sit on. In case it affects your interest,
you can easily take the legs off the desks.
Secondarily, I'm going to replace these desks with a
lightweight contraption that folds up into a tiny thing
that I can carry on my head. In order to construct this
new desk, I need to acquire some tempered hardboard, so
I'm looking for someone to take me to Home Depot.
http://timebank.sfbace.org/reqs/3081
Tom
hi all,
join us for "today we learned," weekly collaborative learning and hacking
at sudo room every saturday afternoon from 2-5PM. work on stuff on your own
or with someone else...bring a project..bring questions.. we'll also have a
projector set up for anyone to share something they're working on or to
share something they've learned.
a tiny amount of more information is at
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned
looking forward to seeing you,
marina
Hey everyone! The Sustainable Economies Law Center (the same place Marc,
Eddan, Timon and I all went to for free legal advice) is an applicant in a
competition in which they could win $20k from Sungevity! It's one of those
popular vote competitions. If you're interested in voting, please see the
details below, including what the SELC will do with that money (bottom-most
section).
ykciV
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From: Christina Oatfield (Vicky's friend and a legal apprentice at the SELC)
Hi friends!
The nonprofit that I work for, the Sustainable Economies Law
Center<http://www.theselc.org/> is
a people-powered organization, sustained by generous and dedicated
supporters in the community. I'm writing to ask you to take a minute to
help SELC win $20,000 by casting your
VOTE<http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> for
us! I know, I know, I think these online voting schemes are really
annoying, too, but we think we have a really good chance of winning this
one and the publicity doesn't benefit any evil corporation, but rather, a
really awesome local solar power company, Sungevity, which we are happy to
promote through this campaign (my parents have been happy customers for
years).
When you vote, please also opt into the secondary step of "boosting" your
vote which basically means you add on 10 extra votes. It requires that you
provide a physical address.
*Four Quick Steps: *
- Click VOTE <http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> (
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- Select* Sustainable Economies Law Center* from the list of
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- Anyone: sign up for OurSungevity after you vote--it's *EASY and FREE*!
OurSungevity is a online platform that allows you to spread solar in your
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- Homeowners: sign up for an iQuote to get solar on your home.[image:
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Vote on!
*What will SELC do with this $20,000?*
SELC believes communities shouldn’t BUY power. We should OWN power! We’ll
create model policies and legal structures for community-owned renewable
energy <http://www.theselc.org/community-renewable-energy/>. This
includes viable
replicable models, essential legal documents, and model policies for
community- and cooperatively-owned renewable energy projects. We have some
amazing volunteers and staff putting some extra time into creating this
program currently, but we're looking to hire a dedicated attorney to really
build up this program.
*Who is funding this Competition?*
Here at SELC, we're conscious of where we get our funding. Sungevity
is an innovative
solar company focused on creating the world’s most energized network of
customers who power their lives with sunshine.
Hugs,
Christina
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From: actionforprogress <actionforprogress(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:35 PM
Subject: This Sat. 6pm: Organizing mtg to stop Oakland's mass surveillance
system, NSA protest in SF
To: ad hoc network <actionforprogress(a)gmail.com>
Hi all,
Please attend an organizing meeting to stop the warrantless surveillance of
our communities this Saturday, Nov. 16 at 6pm at the Sudo Room in Oakland
at 2141 Broadway at Broadway and 22nd st. The entrance is on 22nd St.
Oakland City Council is trying to create a mass Orwellian surveillance
center (called the Domain Awareness Center), that would allow police to
track all residents and visitors. This center would centralize surveillance
camera footage, phone calls, licence plate readings, and social media
information for use by local and federal law enforcement. This will most
likely lead to drones and facial recognition technology. The Department of
Homeland Security is behind this project with a $7 million dollar grant to
fund it. In the wake of the Oscar Grant, Trayvon, and Occupy revolts, as
well as the continuing push by local elites to gentrify the bay area, such
a project is paramount in the suppression of the local population. The
ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and even the NY Times all agree
that this is an unprecedented attack on our civil liberties.
The NY Times basically warned its readers of the larger implications of
these systems as they can spread to more cities. Oakland will be the
leader in this tactic and it is a shame the city council has already gone
forward as much as it has.
We are organizing for a community response and rally for this Tuesday at
City Hall to SHUT THIS PLAN DOWN!
Please attend the organizing meeting this Saturday at 6pm to help us
increase our numbers and make an impact. Recently we have seen working
class people of color and activists from Oakland fight successfully against
the proposed youth curfew. If we bring enough people to City Hall, we can
stop this!!!!
Thanks for all your good work,
-Zaigham
P.S. We will also discuss an upcoming protest in SF: Mass March Against the
NSA
Articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-…https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/oaklands-creepy-new-surveillance-prog…
Attached is a flyer for this Tuesday's Rally at City Hall
Hello Sudo Room!
I have been by the Sudo Room a few times now and love the space and really
appreciate what a great resource it is. I would like to host an event at
the Sudo Room about how to create a community bank online using puddle.com.
Puddle is a website where you can create your own autonomous community
bank. I met the co-founder of the company and he would like to come do a
presentation and Q&A. (I'm just helping him find a space, and thought Sudo
would be great.)
I've never put together a meeting at Sudo, and am not a member, so I'm not
sure what the protocol is, but I think this is very much in line with the
philosophy of Sudo and I'd love to do it there. What do I need to do from
here? Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is an article about the site and what it is doing:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2013/08/05/creating-a-line-of-credit-wit…
Thanks so much,
Alex
--
Twitter: Alex_C_White
FB: Facebook.com/alexcarlwhite
I've been very busy and haven't made the time to come by sudo room for
quite a while but I did last night and it was great to see familiar faces
again. I'm also looking forward to meeting the people I've only seen on the
list so far, and to congratulating people in person on all their hard work
in keeping sudo room moving forward! And to being able to participate more
in person in the future.
I've been feeling out of touch with what's going on, especially after the
drafting of the successful grant proposal. I tried searching my list
archives to see if I missed anything about organizing this and it seems I
didn't. Grant writing is something I want to learn more about and I would
have liked to participate in the process and I would have made the time to
if I had known about it. I'm still looking forward to Vicky's idea for a
grant database and to contributing to that however I can.
I have a conflict that prevents me from coming to the Wednesday meetings
and my schedule is very tight otherwise, so I've been following the list
and looking at the meeting minutes diligently to try to stay engaged.
Despite that I've been unable to gather a clear sense of what's going on,
and lately (not since early September according to my seach) I haven't seen
the minutes appear on the list at all except for last week. I still won't
be able to make it this evening, so I hope there will be minutes to read
that the whole community is informed of.
When I stopped in last night I learned in vague terms that there is an
important meeting about securing a new space at the Omni happening on
Thursday evening. If this is true, can anyone who is involved in that
inform the community via the list about what is going on, and defer a final
decision until there's broad consensus? The last I see about it from
searching the list is from October 1st.
While I appreciate the initiative and effort on the part of people moving
this forward, (though I'm not sure who they might be,) I want to make sure
that whatever decisions made that affect the whole community are still
based on informed, explicit consensus by the whole community, which is
fundamental to how sudo room works.
Greetings Programs,
The last party went pretty swimmingly for only being thrown together at
the last moment. Just a week to plan ain't much in the nightclub industry
but stranger things have happened that were successful but usually only on
dumb luck! So, lets do the next one a little bigger, which means a little
better planning and promoting equals a lot better partying and probably
paying off for all involved in the long run.
So, we need a small staff to run this smoothly, safely, and successfully
without any risk of the typical trials and tribulations that could possibly
become trouble for the venue.
Positions (some paid, some volunteer):
*Door-person (Outdoor greeter/bouncer)
*Door-person (Indoor suggested donation "enforcer")
*Bartender (Tips only basis)
*Moderator (Communicating to the people/members translating to the event
staff)
*Promoters (Facebooking/posting/advertising/notifying/informing/flyering)
*Security (Walking through casually and occasionally checking in with the
front door and bar or bars to keep a general but casual eye on the happy
but drinking patrons)
*Host/Hostess (Not necessary but nice to have if they enjoy the position)
*DJs (Must have their own music, music knowledge, gear, experience, and
some following)
Please text me back if interested or have any suggestions or commentary
because I have no reliable internet access at the moment.
(415) 794-7789
Phuckin' Phylean 15 years of promotion and DJing at your service
--
The best way to contact me reliably is texting my
Cell phone (415) 794-7789
or if it's before 9 pm call the
Studio phone (510) 534-7068
Thanks and take care,
Phuckin' Phylean
Double "P" that is me with "F" that you hear but don't see
"The only thing that brings me peace is the same phuckin' thing that won't
let me rest, music." says I,
Phuckin' Phylean is DJ Jezzebella!
djjezzebella(a)yahoo.com
djjezzebella(a)gmail.com
phuckinphylean(a)gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanhttp://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanlivehttp://www.myspace.com/dopesicktighthttp://www.sfgoth.com/djs/jezzebella/index.html
Hey everyone,
The holdout bookstore is seeking to create a range of computers with and
emphasis on security and privacy. If anyone is interested please let me
know and i'll include you in the discussion.
http://theholdout.org/
Thanks!
hi all,
on nov. 18th open access folks are launching an OA button that will allow
people to make a public comment every time they hit a paywall. they're
trying to make a big splash and are asking people to sign up to make a
coordinated social media message about the issue.
here's a description and the link to sign up (from
https://www.thunderclap.it/en/projects/5675-open-access-button-launch):
*If someone hits a paywall in the forest, does it make a sound?*
Every time you hit a paywall is an isolated moment of frustration, that is
unlikely to shake the ivory tower of academic publishing. By putting these
moments together using the Open Access Button, we will capture your
individual moments of injustice and frustration and display them, on full
view to the world. Only by making this problem impossible to ignore can we
change the system.
This project was started by two students <http://bit.ly/19QMpMD>, good
friends frustrated by the current system and driven to change the
publishing system we will have to work with. The project was made possible
by the invaluable support of developers, advocates and the open access
community at large.
Our team has worked extremely hard in the past few months to develop a
prototype which we’re finally ready to show to the world. At launch, the
button will be able track and map every time a user hits a paywall, help
them share their struggle and finally help them get access to the paper for
free. Advocates can use the stories and data the button collects to push
for change. Our data and code will all be available for others to use,
improve on and do things we couldn’t have dreamed of.
Everyone is affected by this problem, patients, students, doctors and
academics. We need your help to make this problem too obvious to ignore.
Please help us. Share this thunderclap, and download the button November
18th
Find out more : http://bit.ly/1bEH7XT
Hol,
you forgot to put any text in your post at all! please be clear of how
you came to this conclusion.
The heating element is a resistor glued into a block of metal on the end
of the extruder. It has two wires which go to a connector a couple inches
from it, and they go back to the machine.
To test the heating element, one can unplug this connector and use a
multimeter to measure its resistance. It should be something like 8 ohms,
i don't know the exact value but 100 is too much and indicates it's bad.
it was replaced a little while ago by a technician from the corporation
that made it.
If the machine is acting up about heating, we need to know whether the
problem is with the heating or the temperature sensing. If the
temperature sensor is reporting ambient temperature, it's probably
working.
if the temp sensor is working but the heating element isn't making it heat
up, it could be the heating element (see test above) or it could be the
connector near it, or the wires from there back to the main board, or
where those wires connect to the brain.
can you give more information about what you tried and what you observed?
-jake
WOOOAAAH!!! Could we all see a copy of what you wrote for the grant
application? Maybe store it in the wiki for future reference as we continue
applying for grants? :D :D
Hey all, I've been thinking about some things and wanted to share a few
thoughts:
Reflecting on this: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Values
I'm of the disposition that sudo room as a collective values "open, public
discourses over closed proprietary processes" and I believe in good faith
that this is held and executed by sudoers generally. I appreciate when
folks want to offer positive acknowledgements, suggestions for improvement,
and support to fellow community members. I also think that sudoers
generally practice "do-ocracy over bureaucracy" with an added element of
"access and transparency over exclusivity" in order to help that do-ocracy
remain accountable and enable us to "solve real problems over
hypotheticals, while respecting visions of the future."
Ultimately, it is my perspective that sudo room's various participants are
interested in acting based on "community and collaboration over isolation
and competition" not the other way around. I do not think things are
perfect, but I think by and large folks do a good job of these things and
everyone is interested in improving.
>From this point of view, I would like to express my excitement and
encouragement for folks to reach out in various ways to add value to sudo
room, and also to share and communicate at appropriate times. I firmly
believe that the work executed on a recent topic, a particular grant
application <http://soex.org/alternativeexposure/>, was appropriate, and
that while a message indeed would have been fine or even nice, ultimately,
it was brought to everyone's attention at the right time--just before it
was due seeking help and when it was confirmed that sudo would actually be
a recipient of funds. I barely even remember working on it--I believe I
gave some feedback or something, or perhaps was distracted by something
else, I don't know. To be honest, applying to grants can feel like a game
of chance, so I didn't put emotional stock into it.
In other words, I personally don't see any problem with folks reaching out
on their own in order to add value to sudo room, especially when
information is brought to light when the value-add is actually feasible or
even confirmed. For instance, I think it's a great efficiency that Marc
found a craigslist post for a free, modern, color printer, reached out to
the poster, confirmed the pickup, picked it up, dropped it off at
noisebridge, returned with a car to retrieve it from noisebridge, hauled it
upstairs, cleaned the walkway area adjacent to the elevator, ran an
ethernet cable, installed shelves, and plugged in the printer itself. It is
unnecessary for him to have said anything about this for it to be a
value-consistent value-add to sudo room. It could be nice, even
advantageous to post it--maybe someone could have picked it up from
noisebridge on their way home?--but in the end, it doesn't matter, and now
this great resources is available for us to share and use.
This to me is do-ocracy, and the minutia of timing the communication is
less important if there is nothing to lose. Applying to grants gives us
absolutely nothing to lose. I say: reach out.
// Matt