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Open Knowledge Meetup on Thursday at 7pm

by Matthew Senate

Hey all! We have a special guest visiting from Paris, Célya Gruson-Daniel, working on a web documentary on Open Science through the Hack Your PhD community: http://hackyourphd.org/ While she's in town, she wanted to throw an open science event, so I offered to host at Sudo Room on Thursday at 7pm. We're reaching out to the Open Knowledge community in the bay area and everyone is invited: http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/San-Francisco-CA/966132/ See the event on the sudo room calendar: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/hackyourphd-open-knowledge-meetup/?instanc… I'd love to see your faces, be merry, and mush our braincells together. // Matt

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Oakland Domain Awareness Center

by Ed Biow

Hey folks, I'm new on this list, I first visited the sudoroom a month ago or so at the last Cryptoparty and became a member that evening. Some of you may have seen me around, I am a tremendously obese older bloke who generally sports stained suspenders. I have been working with Occupy Oakland for some time and I'm on their web committee, where I've worked with Bill B. & Will H. and perhaps some of the rest of you. Anywho, as you may know last Tuesday the Oakland City Council tried to slip authorization to spend another $2 million bucks on to the supposedly non-controversial consent calender, but a number of us got wind of it and showed up to harangue them so the council set the meeting for next Tuesday, July 30th at 6:30 or so. occupyoakland.org/2013/07/sign-up-and-speak-out-against-government-surveill… http://occupyoakland.org/2013/07/stop-the-oakland-dac-surveillance-city-spe… We are encouraging folks to sign speaker cards and speak out against funding this further movement towards a surveillance state, if you look at the second article towards the bottom you can see basic instructions about how to fill out a speaker card so you can tell the council what you think of tying all the cameras, license plate readers, and other sensors from the city, private security, the OUSD, BART, CalTrans, etc. together to keep an eye on the citizenry. Occupy Oakland discussed also having a rally in front of City Hall, perhaps at 5PM before the council meeting to make a bit of noise. We'd like to have a meeting Thursday to do a bit of research and plan a rally, I thought we might meet at the sudoroom commons area. I know there are already several events planned on an ongoing basis for Thursdays, the Oakland Wiki meeting as well as Wifi Mesh, Python & Javascript meetups. Do you folks think a few of us would get under foot or should I call the meeting for the Oakland Public Library Main Branch teen room or perhaps my fetid domicile? The OPL teen room is open until 8PM. Solidarity whenever, Ed

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LOL is open today! (12-5p)

by Vicky Knox

Lentils and rice are boiling. Come by and work, study, hang around and just be. Hugs, Vicky

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kombucha meetup?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Hi Sudoroomies! We've been planning some cool bio meetups for Counter Culture Labs, and lots of people were excited about doing one on brewing kombucha<http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Big-Batch-of-Kombucha/>. I figured it would be great to do this at sudoroom, and make a joint sudo/CCL party/workshop out of it! Do any of you have a nice healthy kombucha "mother" at the moment? We want to do some microbiology experiments on the culture in the future, so it should be a natural one that has been propagated for a long time, not something started from a store-bought bottle (those typically use a single strain, rather than the complex mixture of bacteria and yeasts you find in a real kombucha mother). We have a slot in our meetup calendar penciled in for a kombucha meeting for the week after next (next week is bioinformatics<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/129899352/>!) I figure that may leave us just enough time to brew a big batch in advance of the meetup, so we'd have enough kombucha for tasting, and enough mother to hand out to anyone who wants to participate and brew their own batch! So... let me know if (a) you have a kombucha mother we can use, (b) would be interested in brewing up a big batch in advance of the meetup, and/or (c) would be interested in helping to lead the meetup the week after next (exact date to be decided)! I can definitely help out with (b) and (c). Heck, we could even try brewing some mate kombucha... Patrik

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come do things with sudo kids tuesday at 6:00 + invitation to join sudo kids future direction team

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, you are once again invited to come do things with the awesome sudo kids tuesday from 6ish to 8:30ish. want to do a group activity? teach really brilliant kids something awesome? build a thing with them? help them build a thing? we've done calligraphy, clay, mate-brewing, piano, radio, and more. kids have expressed an interest in 3d printing and making videos. if you want to do either of those things with us (whether tomorrow or sometime in the future), or have an idea for another thing you'd like to do, be in touch! additionally, ray and i have started working on concrete goals and desired outcomes for the sudo kids program. we are doing this because a hackerspace without kids is like a diy electronics project without a blinky light - extremely sad. kids are natural hackers and if our role is to provide the physical and community infrastructure to encourage people to keep building and making and learning and exploring things forever, then kids are naturally part of that equation :) additionally, having activities for kids is a proven strategy to expanding our community. yes, we are operating from the principle that if you hook a kid on a thing, that you will eventually have an opportunity to speak with their parent. the good news is that we are not selling stuff but selling the idea of making stuff and being in a community of makers. finally, if you've never done stuff with kids before, you may find the experience to be really different than what you'd expect (i know i have). i continue to be extremely impressed and more or less constantly verklempt at the insight and intelligence of the children we work with. so, if you want to help coordinate activities and be a part of the cool sudo kids organizing/future direction/expanding the program crew, (or are just interested in learning more about what "helping coordinate sudo kids" involves - it's not a lot), be in touch via email or just come on a tuesday night. - marina

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wifi signals

by Daniel Kelly

what DC would look like if you could see wifi signals http://www.mydeals.com/blog/what-if-you-could-see-wifi/post

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OL: Oakland Surveillance Center delayed by opposition

by Eddan Katz

Approval for citywide surveillance now scheduled for July 30. > The Domain Awareness Center began as a federal grant for port security, but has expanded to include more of Oakland. > http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/07/a-proposed-citywide-surveillance-center-in-… > > The approval of $2 million in federal funding for a citywide surveillance center in Oakland was postponed to July 30 as opposition to the controversial proposal slowly gains public awareness and criticism. > > The agenda item first presented in an Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee received little vetting by the some council members when it was heard July 9. It also attracted no public comment that night. However, in the past week the issue has gathered energy as some city advocates question the proposal, they say, may further infringe on their privacy, in addition, to it lacking any guidelines for its use and possible expansion. > > At Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting, the director of the city’s emergency services, Renee Domingo, said no standard operating procedures currently exist for how the system known as the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) will be employed, if approved by the council. In addition, the city and port are in the process of studying various public records and data retention requirements in relation to the DAC, said Domingo. Later, she added there is doubt whether the DAC will function as a center for data storage since the feeds it will pull in already come from sources with their own retention rules. > > The DAC was first approved by the City Council in July 2010 following the allocation of federal stimulus dollars for security at the Port of Oakland. The $2 million outlay before the council this month represents phase two of the program which, according to a city staff report, has ballooned from covering the port to other parts of the city, including street cameras and various other locations, including schools and the Coliseum. Approval would also allow the city and port to seek out other agencies to provide additional video feeds to the DAC, including the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Caltrans, among others. During the Public Safety Committee meeting last week, staff also indicated plans to partner with other statewide and federal authorities for inclusion in Oakland’s DAC. > > Privacy advocates say the DAC’s ability to become a clearinghouse for numerous video feeds from a panoply of government agencies, along with a torrent of data sources, including information and statistics from law enforcement, sets a dangerous precedent in a city beset with a police department, which in the past, has routinely infringed on citizen rights and has paid millions in settlements for their actions. > > “[There are] huge opportunities for abuse here, too,” Oakland resident Joshua Daniels said Tuesday night. “We’re talking about giving a surveillance system for the entire city over to, perhaps, the most abusive police force in the country.” > > Gwen Winter, another Oakland resident speaking during public comment said, “This has nothing to do with crime. This has nothing to do with terrorism. What you want to do is watch what all the people are doing so they won’t organize.” > > Following revelations brought on by Edward Snowden over the federal government’s ability to spy on Americans, Sandy Sanders urged for the council to maintain a delineation between the city’s data and other agencies. “Our data is our data and your data is your data and those should be separate. Do your job in government and protect us.” > > A few public speakers took fault with Councilman Dan Kalb’s comments in committee last week when he concluded his statements on the DAC by saying, “sounds good to me.” In response to the public outcry Tuesday night, Kalb said, “This is not a fault or a criticism, but I’ll only say, I wish all the people who were here today were at the public safety committee a week ago. It would have been more helpful.” > > The City Council may have been caught flat-footed by the amount of criticism against the DAC Tuesday night. Councilman Larry Reid moved to delay the item to July 30. Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who sits on the Public Safety Committee, agreed. Reid asked staff for additional research on the proposal before adding, “Given that we can’t even get our freaking phones working for our police officer…and now we want to add this additional technology when there’s only two to three years for maintenance?” He also criticized the public safety committee for not properly vetting the item. > > Councilmember Desley Brooks said the item should have never been placed on Tuesday’s consent calendar. “It was only supposed to go on the consent calendar if it wasn’t controversial and clearly there are people who have a different opinion. > >

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help coordinate TILs!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, you may have heard of "today i learned," our wildly successful co-learning-teaching one-off workshops that take place every saturday: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned since the launch of TIL in January we've held over 20 workshops on topics that range from jewelry-making to today's statistics with doodles. many thanks to everyone who has facilitated a workshop, attended a workshop, suggested a workshop, promoted a workshop, and workshopped a workshop. i've mostly been taking the lead on keeping the schedule filled up, encouraging people to do sessions, and promoting the TILs, but i need help! we are not doing as well as we could be on really fulfilling the potential of the TILs. unfortunately i don't have the time to really give this project the love it deserves. here are some of the tasks that we need help with to really have the TILs fulfill the original intended function: providing an easy way for new people to show up and participate in sudo room (while also sharing our knowledge with each other and improve our teaching techniques): - keeping the schedule filled up & encouraging sudoers and others to facilitate sessions - ideally we'd have at least a month ahead booked up so that we can prepare detailed schedules for distribution to local schools, after school clubs, etc. - promoting events - at the moment, we barely provide a week's notice for upcoming TILs. this is not enough lead time and as a result, they are often not as well attended as they could be. - promotions currently really only happen to channels that are likely to reach people who already know about us: via email lists, twitter, fb, and our blog. creativity in promotion (with different kinds of promotional activities for different TILs) - currently, i mainly promote the events with little participation on the part of the facilitator or larger sudo community. if we'd like to distribute responsibility for the promotion, it would be helpful to have a "how to promote your workshop" guide and provide other mechanisms to help make it easier to promote (blog post templates, flyer templates, etc.) - documentation - we should have been taking video of every workshop and putting it online. we have not done this. this would be a huge improvement. who's in? XD - marina

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help make sudo radio happen!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, a few of us have been working on getting the radio up and running with lots of great programming all the time. we need help! do you want to be a part of coordinating the radio? here are the kinds of things that need to be done: - recruiting dj's - training dj's - coordinating scheduling let's spread the work around so that we can give the radio the love it deserves! - marina

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Bay Area media labs

by Mark Terranova

This may prove to be interesting, although its just a blogging class now. http://info.bayareanewsgroup.com/communitymedialab *The Oakland Tribune Media Lab* 1970 Broadway, Suite 100 Oakland, CA 94612 Most likely there are many issues close to Sudo that might be helped here :) -Dude

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Sun July 28th Event- Biological Data, Bioinformatics and the Gears that Make Biological Machines Tick.

by Ryan Bethencourt

Dear All, Please feel free to sign up for the free Bioinformatics class that Ron will be running at Sudo room on the 28th of July! http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/129899352/ The intersection of biology and computer science is showing tremendous potential. Literally thousands of data sources great and small are publicly available now. Come and enjoy a low key introduction to all the ‘omes’ – genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, methylomes, metabolomes, etc. We’ll play with some of the more useful data sources, tools and biological pathways. No biology training is necessary – the talk will be accessible to anyone. Programming skills are useful, but not necessary. Tools: If you have a laptop, please bring it. We will try to look at data in the class and preview a couple of tools. Cygwin on windows machines, OsX or linux are useful here, but we can go over these at the time if needed. We will be open to designing a project for anyone who wants to go deeper and get more experience with Bioinformatics. Ron Shigeta PhD Trained in biophysics and structural biology has been doing bioinformatics for 12 years in bay area biotech. My current interests are pharma pipeline tools, machine learning, and synthetic biology. All the best, Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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[off-topic but nearby] PRISM & Privacy, Pizza, Parkway Theater - July 31

by mark burdett

Come out for a fun night of PRISM & Privacy & Pizza at the New Parkway Theater in downtown Oakland. Wednesday, July 31 - a free evening panel and film screening about the past present and future of privacy and national security, and the historical importance of whistle-blowers. The thought-provoking panel discussion will be followed by a screening of *The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers*, which received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature. Panel discussion featuring: · Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation · Judith Ehrlich, Director, Writer, Producer, *The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers* · Nicole A. Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California · Moderated by Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Writer, CNET When: July 31st, 2013 - 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Doors open at 5:30 for mixing, mingling and purchasing food and drinks, panel begins at 6:15 PM and will be followed by the film screening at 7 PM. Where: The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street Oakland, CA (just a couple blocks from BART) RSVP at http://www.acslaw.org/BayAreaGovernmentSecrecryFilmScreeningRSVP Admission to this event is free, but space is limited and RSVP is required. *The Most Dangerous Man in America* is the true story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, Daniel Ellsberg, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "Imperial" Presidency -- answerable to neither Congress, the press nor the people -- in order to help end the Vietnam War. Presented by the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, BORDC, and Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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(no subject)

by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Last night went pretty well overall despite not getting my beer machine operational due to disappointing answers to such questions as "how many power cords into power strips into power cords can I connect?" and the ever popular "will the plumbing leak where you least expect it?" We did have some newbies there working on a robotics project for a school assignment and let me tell you, there's something about the smell of burning servos that just can't be beat. Overall their objective is to use machine vision as a feedback for actuators, seems pretty cool. Rabbit and I put together some power hardware to map 4D visualizations to some addressable LED strips for a burning man project. We did a little probing of the door raspi but couldn't get a rise out of the relevant GPIO pin so I defer to the original system designers, but volunteer to fabricate a plug-in circuit board to streamline the component layout. Also got some soldering assistance from one of the sudo kids who gravitated toward the table full of wires. This final point lead me to an idea - I'd like to incorporate a sudokids robotics event once a month. Open to any and all ideas as to how this would play out, but at minimum we could have them build and compete remote controlled rovers, in both co-op and free for all modes of course. Let me know if you have any ideas for kid-friendly microcontroller projects. I'd like to develop this idea and start mid-september. Happy Hacking, hol

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Fwd: [P2P-F] Fwd:Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops

by Marina Kukso

hey sudoers, if you have done a TIL, workshop, or had any other colearning experiences (if you've learned something from someone at sudo room, grats! you have had a colearning experience) and are interested in learning about how other people approach workshops in order to improve your experience, i am considering signing up for the below. anyone else interested? - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darren <mail(a)vegburner.co.uk> Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:31 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd:Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops To: ose-europe(a)googlegroups.com, openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> Forgive the cross posting -------- Original Message -------- Anyone up for a bit of this? https://p2pu.org/en/courses/77/collaborative-workshops-in-informal-learning… nice one Mick Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops I’m helping to run a course on delivering workshop which is going to be hosted on p2pu.org as part of the School of Open- I’ve designed some badges and we are due to start sign up on the 22nd of July. While I like to think that we have added our own special touch, most materials have been gathered from existing sources. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all published under open licences. The main sources have their own excellent websites so if you want to go straight to the source then check them out here; http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/ http://aspirationtech.org/ http://rhizomenetwork.wordpress.com/ Would you like to be a part of this course? Maybe you already know a bit about delivering workshops and would like to share your experiences? Maybe you are new to workshops and facilitation? Perhaps you can join this course with some of your colleagues as a way of learning together? One of the reasons that I am helping to run this course is to use it as a way of doing some professional development. I’ve spend some time working with partners from Creative Commons and the P2PU.org to research and pull together some of what we feel are the best introductory materials and techniques on delivering collaborative and interactive workshops. This course is a way of bringing existing materials to a new audience on new platforms (p2pu.org and FLOSS Manuals). Also by remixing them into an online course it allows people to share their experiences while they work through the materials and suggestions for planning a workshop. We are adding Open Badges into the mix too. We are keeping it simple. If you plan a workshop you can submit it for peer review to get a badge. And if you deliver a workshop and take photos and write up your learning, well that deserves a badge too. Though online discussion via comments, and via live group chat sessions we hope to build a community of people who will plan and then ideally deliver a workshop with peer support from other course participants. If you are new to delivering workshops then this is a great opportunity to learn from a great group of trainers some of whom have some fantastic experiences to share. On the other hand, this course is a perfect chance for existing trainers to experiment with this online learning tool and community. You can dip a toe in the water while working with familiar subject matter. To sign up visit the course home page, click on Start Course on the left of the column. You will need to sign up for p2pu.org. If you have any questions you can find me on @mickfuzz on twitter or email me on – mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14

by Romy Ilano

Rad!! TGIF! --- Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com On Jul 19, 2013, at 10:09, sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org wrote: > Send sudo-discuss mailing list submissions to > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sudo-discuss-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of sudo-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Dinooooooo (rusty lindgren) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:09:52 -0700 > From: rusty lindgren <rustylindgren(a)gmail.com> > To: kh92(a)tmw.com > Cc: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" > <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] Dinooooooo > Message-ID: > <CADf_g6=OV_PyQqLUTy_mMZrg8CTYWnSseHV0xaa6TwTzPCgeaw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > -- > Cheers, > > Rusty Lindgren > ** >

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Oakland Wiki Editathon Tomorrow 7/20 at Peralta Hacienda in Fruitvale

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Please join Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> tomorrow (Saturday July 20th) from 10:00 am 4:00 pm for an editathon<http://oaklandwiki.org/Peralta_Hacienda_Editathon>at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park<http://oaklandwiki.org/Peralta_Hacienda_Historical_Park>(2465 34th Avenue) in Fruitvale <http://oaklandwiki.org/Fruitvale_District>. Peralta Hacienda is a six-acre community park and one of the most significant historical sites in the East Bay. It was the first European settlement after the establishment of Mission San Jose and as such is the birthplace of Oakland. Come edit with us and check out the park! Best, Marina

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It's July 19: Pay your dues

by sudoroom.dues＠gmail.com

you have a number of ways to contribute: 1) online (via wepay): https://sudoroom.org/ 2) online (via gittip): https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ 3) in person (anytime): please drop cash or checks into the clear plastic box by the door that goes to the elevator 4) in person (at meetings): bring cash or checks to wed. meetings. and certainly i barely need to remind you of our *precarious month to month financial situation*. pay your dues!

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current balance & pay your dues

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, it is july 19th and our current balance is $1,105.77*. in 13 days we will have to pay $1700 for rent and utilities. please pay your dues if you haven't yet. you have a number of ways to contribute: 1) online (via wepay): https://sudoroom.org/ 2) online (via gittip): https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ 3) in person (anytime): please drop cash or checks into the clear plastic box by the door that goes to the elevator 4) in person (at meetings): bring cash or checks to wed. meetings. - marina * this doesn't include 2 checks that i need to deposit. additionally, jenny, is there anything that needs to be transferred from the wepay or from the box in sudo?

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Legal Status

by William Budington

Hey all, I talked to Danny O'Brien (Noisebridge's financial functionary) yesterday about the sudoroom legal status. I know this has been an ongoing discussion so I'm going to summarize the options we've already looked into and present the new information Danny has brought to my attention. *Why do we need a legal status?* Over the past few months we've found various challenges to our normal operations since we don't have a legal status. We aren't able to sign up for services like Stripe without having a federal tax id. In addition, since we are formally under one person's name, he is liable if anything happens at sudoroom. Also, we aren't able to sign up for most banks -- only the Community Bank of the Bay will actually give us a bank account with our status as a DBA. And as we've seen, Community Bank of the Bay is not the most web-savvy organization, and so it's hard for us to actually check our balances. *What we've looked at* Our eventual goal has been to get 501(c)3 status for sudoroom. This is a status that would allow us to accept tax-deductible donations and be incorporated formally as a nonprofit. A lot of Hacker Spaces go this route, and it seems like a reasonable long-term goal. One of the problems we've been warned of is that it takes a long time to actually be granted 501(c)3 status - upwards of 2 years, which can as I understand be expedited to 10 months. Because of this delay, we've looked into some other options -- namely being umbrella'd under another organization's 501(c)3 status. This would involve 10% of our revenue going to said umbrella organization to cover costs of the books. I've been in contact with Danny at Noisebridge and Jenny has been in contact with (Steve?) at the School Factory and discussing if this is a possibility. It is certainly one way to go, but as for Noisebridge they've only umbrella'd Noisetor, and they didn't need a separate account for that. *What I've learned recently* Danny mentioned that his partner is looking into nonprofit status for a new feminist hacker space in SF, and has investigated these options as well as others. In order to have a certain degree of autonomy, it is probably in our interests to actually not go the umbrella route and pursue separate legal status altogether. He also mentioned that there's no reason why we couldn't incorporate as an LLC or other corporate status before pursuing 501c3 status, and that even if it takes a number of years to be granted non-profit status we can transition from an LLC without much of a problem. There's no real disadvantage to having LLC status in the meantime, as I understand it. The main advantage of nonprofit status is tax deduction, but that is usually superseded on most peoples taxes by the standard deduction. The main place where it does make a difference is when employers do matching donations for their employees, then it can make a difference. *The plan* It makes sense to me to pursue the options that would resolve our short-term problems without impeding the path to our long-term goals. It seems to me reasonable as a short-term goal to register as an LLC (Jenny tells me this can be done in an afternoon and with $50 with a drive to Sacramento), and as a longer term goal actually pursuing nonprofit, 501c3 status. *Disclaimer* There may be caveats to this plan and I'm not a lawyer. Bill

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Dinooooooo

by rusty lindgren

-- Cheers, Rusty Lindgren **

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impressed

by Romy Ilano

Wow! I'm pretty impressed that someone walked the plank and took financial risk to get SudoRoom going. That's a lot of trust ... especially for things as tumultuous and socially wacky as non heirarchical collectives. first penguins, you are honored!

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Statistics through Doodles this Saturday at 2 pm

by Thomas Levine

As documented on the wiki, I'm going to teach statistics through doodles. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#July_20:_Statistics_through_doodl… With the help of some doodles on paper (or possibly the floor), I'll will explain the purpose and meaning of various measures of the relationships between different variables (specifically covariance, variance, correlation and least-squares regression). This class assumes literally no knowledge of math, not even basic arithmetic. But I'll try to skip things that people already know as not to bore everyone. For the symbolically inclined, I can relate the doodles to the symbols you might have seen in an introductory statistics course. I've done this a few times, so I have enough of a mental script that I'd like to video it and put it on the website. I'll bring a camera. It would be awesome if someone could bring a tripod or if someone held my camera for part of the session. Or we could make a tripod-alternative out of some wood, a small tripod from the closet and some duct tape. Tom

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Trans* Hackathon

by Rabbit

There's a hackathon happening in Oakland to build tools that are helpful to transgender people Apply by August 2 Happens on Sept 13-15 http://transhack.org/ "WHY A HACKATHON FOCUSED ON THE TRANS COMMUNITY? Research shows that transgender people are unemployed at 2x the national rate–4x for transgender people of color; have incomes of less than $10,00 a year; experience homelessness at 2x the rate of non-trans people; and suffer overwhelming discrimination when it comes to accessing adequate healthcare and legal services. This problem not only affects transgender adults but trans and gender nonconforming youth as well. A necessary step in addressing anti-transgender bias is to create technology that socially empowers transgender individuals. Imagine if there existed a mobile phone app that helps individuals find trans friendly doctors or an app that profiles safe space job opportunities for trans people across the country? Trans*H4CK is a space in which to turn these possibilities into reality."

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Meeting Minutes 7/17

by Jenny Ryan

*Check out the Meeting archives here: ** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes> https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommaintenance July 17 2013 *=Attending= * *Bill, Jordan, Max, Jenny, Marc, Rock, Timon(photos), Anthony R, Benji (stars), Antho (pipes), Tyler(no screen saver). *Question favourite screen saver from history? *=Introductions=* - Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person) - Icebreaker *=Announcements (Consent Agenda)=* - Every Monday 7pm: LOL / Oakland Makerspace Open Hack Night (1234 23rd Avenue) - Every Thurs. at 7PM: Oakland Wiki meetup! http://www.oaklandwiki.org - ALSO: Take the 2014 Mayor Key Issues Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cGV6N9pmpmJmHiKS8VmQAGlwJQ4mioShXyyxmrD-Ka… - Every Thurs. at 8:30pm: Mesh Networking meetup: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh - Next BACH Event: Third Saturdays, next is 7/20, 6pm at Hacker Dojo - http://ba.chgrp.org - Register here: http://bach-roundtable-4.eventbrite.com/ - Talk to Jenny about carpooling! - RADIO!!!! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_Radio - sign-ups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodDVaZnJ4TW1ndC1jd1… - Regular check-in between The Public School and Sudo Room - Thursday evening Supper Club potlucks starting at 6 - POSSE [Potluck Orientation Skill-share Swap-meet Event] this Friday - first in a monthly series, hosted by the Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank - https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/bace-timebank-posse-party/?instance_id=663… - Rusty and Andrew are having a Jurassic Park-themed housewarming party this Friday, party-o-clock (contact Andrew or Rusty for details) - We now have a shared calendar for the common space! http://2141broadway.wordpress.com/calendar/ - Sudo Room Inventory / Cleanup weekend - take the poll to find the best date! http://www.doodle.com/e8vwvvs6e24wkwy4 - Looks like the weekend of the 27th/28th... *=Notes=* - Tax Status and Organizational Structure - Bill spoke with Danny (NB) about 501c3 umbrella-ing and Jenny spoke with James (SchoolFactory)om - Non-profit benefits include matching donations (employees & - Getting an LLC is cheap and easy to do, ~700/year for taxes in California - Liz Henry is doing a lot of research on 501c3 status for the feminist hackerspace starting in SF - http://jeremychenlaw.com/what-is-a-california-benefit-corporation/ *= ACTION ITEMS =* *Old Action Items:* - Add to the Sudo Room Neighborhood Outreach spreadsheet and take on a few to reach out to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMj… - allow comments in tamale secrets file (jordan) *New Action Items:* - 1. Research tax structures [ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research] 2. [...] 3. Profit! - Shelf by downstairs door *Postponed*: - Add robots.txt for sudo room (open item for anyone to take on) MATT (out of town) - [Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George - Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1 -troy - git-ify & flow-diagram-ify our articles - POSTPONED - Jenny to call bank to find out about online access - Add calendar 2141broadway.wordpress.com to Infobot's screensaver [Max] - Library - until RPS - Catalog - Max - Move more books inside Sudoroom - push Articles to Github - Set up a Google Voice number that transcribes and forwards to an email address, which then forwards to a list of us (Tom) *=Fiscal Solvency=* ''*In this section we review our current financial situation and budget, approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.*'' Exchequer: Marina Co-Facilitator: - +300 to be deposited from the lockbox - Marina received an email setup thing from the bank, but it didn't work. Bill never got one. Marina will call the bank to GET SOME ANSWERS. ** Pay your dues :)* * Review and consensus process: ** Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2… ** Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50 **Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people) *=Amendments to the Articles of Association=* *=Conflict Resolution=* *=Discussion Spillover=* *=Post-Meeting Groups=* - clean up electronic crap downstairs ------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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Sudoroom Street camera

by William Budington

Context: This comes in the wake of George wanting to clear out the iMac in the entrance, saying it looks unprofessional and is in the way. I figured the unused workstation tower (thin) is somewhat more out of the way, and installed software on it to stream the street. Thanks to Jenny for helping me do documentation, which I hate doing. ------------------------------------- The downstairs thin tower is now streaming video of the street. You can find out its IP address by listening via the audio out of the machine. Every 60 seconds it transmits its IP address via text-to-speech! Right now, that address is 192.168.1.159. If you go to 192.168.1.159:8080 from within the space on your web browser, and click Stream, you can now see the street Additionally, this is accessible via VLC, at the network url: http://192.168.1.159:8080/?action=stream *Specifications:* *MJPG_Streamer *Random headless tower *Random webcam found in the space *Next Steps:* *Set up recording on one of the local servers in the space *Most likely software candidate for recording is ZoneMinder, which can define a remote source for recording.

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