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Fwd: This Wednesday: Grassroots Financing teach-in

by Vicky Knox

Yet another relevant event put on by the Sustainable Economies Law Center.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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

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5MOF call for speakers this Thursday!

by Danny O'Brien

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.

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This Monday 18th is Techno Activism Third Monday, San Francisco -- with Morgan Mayhem, Laurie Penny, Jillian York, 6PM, EFF HQ

by Danny O'Brien

> 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

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Dealing with funding

by Marc Juul

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

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Conflict Resolution Proposal and Conflict Awareness 1, 2 and 3

by Patrick Schmidt

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. ------------------------------------ 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

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forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by Eddan Katz

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.

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missing insulation for 3d printer extruder

by Jake

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

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Meeting Notes 11-13-13 - Juice and Paranoia in Sudoland

by Max Klein

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 ------------------------ 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. - 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 - 6. Action Items - marc -to investigate printer recoup cost - to message ar - timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license s - 7. Additional Notes

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Help me with my desks

by Thomas Levine

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

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"Today We Learned": Weekly Colearning Sat. Afternoons 2-5PM Starting this Sat. 11/16

by Marina Kukso

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

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Did your weekend start with a flat tire?

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

Then come to Biketopia's second annual bike drive, TODAY! From 2 to 6 pm. 1752 Alcatraz. Free bike check-up, snacks, drinks - while supporting your friendly neighbourhood community bike workshop. See you there! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Biketopia <colin.moss(a)biketopiaworkshop.org> Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:18 AM Subject: Second Annual Fall Bike Drive! To: morten(a)biketopiaworkshop.org You're invited to our Second Annual Bike Drive Fundraiser! View this email in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9602d&id=26c7c05769…> [image: Biketopia Bike Drive Flyer] Biketopia's Second Annual Fall Bike Drive is sponsored in part by the following local businesses ... Sweet Adeline Bakery Gecko Gecko Thai California Eatery Manifesto Bicycles Oakland Missing Link Cooperative East Bay Bicycle Coalition The New Parkway Bart Bike Station Downtown Berkeley Bike Link Next time you're in one of these businesses, thank them for helping us out! *Copyright © 2013 Biketopia Community Workshop, All rights reserved.* Your are receiving this email because you are a member of Biketopia or you signed up at the shop. *Our mailing address is:* Biketopia Community Workshop 1752 Alcatraz St Berkeley, Ca 94704 Add us to your address book<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9…> unsubscribe from this list<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=7124c935e2da35a…> update subscription preferences<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Unity !

by Romy Snowyla

Sent from my iPhone

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Help the SELC win $20k!

by Vicky Knox

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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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> ( http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back) - Include your email and zip code - Select* Sustainable Economies Law Center* from the list of organizations and submit your vote! *Don't Forget to BOOST YOUR VOTE BY 10 EXTRA POINTS:* - 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 community through different media (if you choose). You can even earn $500 if you refer Sungevity a new client. - Homeowners: sign up for an iQuote to get solar on your home.[image: Inline image 1] <http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> 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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Fwd: This Sat. 6pm: Organizing mtg to stop Oakland's mass surveillance system, NSA protest in SF

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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

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sudoroom.org may be temporarily inaccessible

by Matthew Senate

should be cleared up within 24 hours, hopefully it will resolve sooner and won't affect anyone's usage. // Matt

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Hosting an event at Sudo: How to create a community bank with your friends online Nov 27th 6 PM

by Alex White

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

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hoping for more transparency and inclusiveness around all the exciting developments

by Anthony Di Franco

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.

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Art Murmur After Party/Proposal/Planning/Properly/Promoter/Perhaps

by Phuckin' Phylean

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/phuckinphylean http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanlive http://www.myspace.com/dopesicktight http://www.sfgoth.com/djs/jezzebella/index.html

12 years, 4 months

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The Holdout Computer Accessibility Project seeks Queer, POC and Women to help!

by Gregg Horton

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!

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open access button launching nov. 18th - trying to get a big public message

by Marina Kukso

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

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Re: [sudo-discuss] 3D Printer - needs new heating element

by Jake

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

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

by Vicky Knox

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

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo crowd

by Vicky Knox

Thank you, Eddan! :D Will you let us all know when you get those updates up?

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room Wiki/Wordpress beautification hack day

by Vicky Knox

Updates to the wiki! I began work on the wiki by categorizing pages so that they can eventually be clustered into single page portals and/or menus (similar to the Quick Links the main Mesh group page has <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh>). I started by going through All Pages < https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages> one-by-one, and categorized articles as Projects < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Projects>, subcategory Food Hacking < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Food_Hacking>, Events < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Events> and Stub (for pages that may be abandoned or need expansion) <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Stub>. I also did a little bit of spam rollbacking and prettied up the language in a few articles. Still on my list are to complete categorization of every page in All Pages, research a new template for the front page of the wiki and build out the Funding page Jenny started <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Funding>. Please let me know if you'd like to meet up and work on this with me!

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Sudo Room's Values, Participation, etc

by Matthew Senate

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

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