- sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org

by Marina Kukso

let's all check out the calendar and ensure that our recurring events are up to date: http://sudoroom.org/calendar/ if you are the host of a regular event, please ensure that the calendar entry for your event is up to date. if not, please edit and/or remove it. it's very sad when people come to events where the organizer is not present. people who have this experience often don't return to the space. we've had new people come for events listed on the calendar where the organizer didn't show up multiple times this week (at least while i was here), and it made me sad to see them sad and it made me sad to have to say i didn't know why there was no one facilitating the event. additionally, if you have to cancel or can't make it to an event, please email the list (it's ok if it's last minute!), and we can let any participants know that the event was cancelled at the last minute. even this is better than having no one show up with no explanation. you hold in your hands the hearts of the gentle participants of your events. be respectful of them! :D - marina ps - if you need to edit/delete an event you host but don't know how or don't have access to the wordpress site, please let me know and i will be happy to help you.

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Fwd: fiscal sponsorship & school factory

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, james from the school factory has offered to have a skype call with us to talk more about fiscal sponsorship. if you'd be interested in being on a call with him, please message me offlist so that we can schedule something that works for everyone. - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Carlson <j(a)bucketworks.org> Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:32 AM Subject: Re: fiscal sponsorship status for lolspace? To: Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> Cc: Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>, James Carlson <j(a)bucketworks.org>, Jen-Mei Wu <veganjenny(a)gmail.com> Marina, we're still helping new spaces. Does Sudoroom need fiscal sponsorship? I'm happy to connect on this. Want to grab a slice of time to connect using http://doodle.com/jamescarlson and we can talk through the deets? Cheerfully, James Carlson 414-215-0215 On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yo Marina, > > We are fiscally sponsored by school factory (in fact I had to miss a > meeting with them tonight). In so far as taking on new people, I hope they > are! I have cc'ed the amazing James Carlson who has been working with us > and I can't say enough good things about. He should be able to let you > know. > > James: Marina is one of the core organizers of Sudoroom, a space in > downtown oakland. We work with them a lot! > > Talk to you guys soon! > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> hey both, >> >> we're having a discussion about fiscal sponsorship/nonprofit status at >> sudo right now and we realized that we weren't sure about lol's current >> status. are you guys still fiscally sponsored by school factory? (our >> people had some confusion about whether school factory was still taking on >> new people). >> >> - marina >> > >

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computer inventory info + inventory/install day

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, we have so many computers, but also not enough workstations (most notably, the computer that was part of the 3D printing station has been fried :C). i'm afraid that i'm ignorant of which computers in the closet and around the space are functional (a few are labeled, but most of them aren't). hilary and i had the pleasure of finding a working computer this weekend, and we are interested in finding more. if any of you know which computers are functional and which aren't, we would love to do an inventory with you. if no one quite has a handle on this info, would folks be interested in doing an inventory day? inventory + install day part 2? - marina ps - if you'd like to participate in an inventory + install day, please let us know what date(s)/time(s) would be good for you.

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Meeting Tomorrow: Please add to the agenda and pay dues!

by Jenny Ryan

Sudoers, Please add to tomorrow's agenda here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting Also a reminder that we will be paying July rent by the end of this week, so please bring a check or cash to the meeting, or donate online via the WePay! Summer is an especially tough time for hackerspace sustainability, so anything extra you can pitch in is super appreciated. Cheers, 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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Two non-working Apple accessories

by Cyrus Farivar

I have a no-longer-working Airport Express and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard (with battery corrosion) if anyone wants them to try to fix/spare parts. (Or if someone wants to show me how to fix them!) Ping me off-list. -C -- Cyrus Farivar "suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var" Journalist and radio producer | cyrusfarivar.com (http://cyrusfarivar.com) Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere" | internetofelsewhere.com (http://internetofelsewhere.com) US: +1 510 394 5485 (m) | Twitter/Skype: cfarivar "Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet." cfarivar(a)cfarivar.org (mailto:cfarivar@cfarivar.org)

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Communication preference worksheet for conflict resolution

by mark burdett

Folks from AORTA - http://aortacollective.org - gave a great talk on conflict resolution at Allied Media Conference this past weekend. They sent along the template for their Conflict Resolution Profile Worksheet which could be useful for all kinds of organizations/projects dealing w/ conflict. The idea is that everyone fills out a form listing their communication preferences before engaging in conflict resolution, so everyone has an idea of what works and what doesn't work for each person. If communication preferences clash, hopefully folks can find a way to compromise - adjusting their communication in a way that doesn't escalate things (but if there's a big divide, that's a sign that mediation may be helpful). --mark B.

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The Web We Lost — The Web We Make — Medium

by Romy Ilano

https://medium.com/the-web-we-make/1afe8b898455 The Web We Lost Anil Dash in The Web We Make 6 min read The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be. So here's a few glimpses of a web that's mostly faded away: Five years ago, most social photos were uploaded to Flickr, where they could be tagged by humans or even by apps and services, using machine tags. Images were easily discoverable on the public web using simple RSS feeds. And the photos people uploaded could easily be licensed under permissive licenses like those provided by Creative Commons, allowing remixing and reuse in all manner of creative ways by artists, businesses, and individuals. A decade ago, Technorati let you search most of the social web in real-time (though the search tended to be awful slow in presenting results), with tags that worked as hashtags do on Twitter today. You could find the sites that had linked to your content with a simple search, and find out who was talking about a topic regardless of what tools or platforms they were using to publish their thoughts. At the time, this was so exciting that when Technorati failed to keep up with the growth of the blogosphere, people were so disappointed that even the usually-circumspect Jason Kottke flamed the site for letting him down. At the first blush of its early success, though, Technorati elicited effusive praise from the likes of John Gruber: [Y]ou could, in theory, write software to examine the source code of a few hundred thousand weblogs, and create a database of the links between these weblogs. If your software was clever enough, it could refresh its information every few hours, adding new links to the database nearly in real time. This is, in fact, exactly what Dave Sifry has created with his amazing Technorati. At this writing, Technorati is watching over 375,000 weblogs, and has tracked over 38 million links. If you haven’t played with Technorati, you’re missing out. Ten years ago, you could allow people to post links on your site, or to show a list of links which were driving inbound traffic to your site. Because Google hadn't yet broadly introduced AdWords and AdSense, links weren't about generating revenue, they were just a tool for expression or editorializing. The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links. In 2003, if you introduced a single-sign-in service that was run by a company, even if you documented the protocol and encouraged others to clone the service, you'd be described as introducing a tracking system worthy of the PATRIOT act. There was such distrust of consistent authentication services that even Microsoft had to give up on their attempts to create such a sign-in. Though their user experience was not as simple as today's ubiquitous ability to sign in with Facebook or Twitter, the TypeKey service introduced then had much more restrictive terms of service about sharing data. And almost every system which provided identity to users allowed for pseudonyms, respecting the need that people have to not always use their legal names. In the early part of this century, if you made a service that let users create or share content, the expectation was that they could easily download a full-fidelity copy of their data, or import that data into other competitive services, with no restrictions. Vendors spent years working on interoperability around data exchange purely for the benefit of their users, despite theoretically lowering the barrier to entry for competitors. In the early days of the social web, there was a broad expectation that regular people might own their own identities by having their own websites, instead of being dependent on a few big sites to host their online identity. In this vision, you would own your own domain name and have complete control over its contents, rather than having a handle tacked on to the end of a huge company's site. This was a sensible reaction to the realization that big sites rise and fall in popularity, but that regular people need an identity that persists longer than those sites do. Five years ago, if you wanted to show content from one site or app on your own site or app, you could use a simple, documented format to do so, without requiring a business-development deal or contractual agreement between the sites. Thus, user experiences weren't subject to the vagaries of the political battles between different companies, but instead were consistently based on the extensible architecture of the web itself. A dozen years ago, when people wanted to support publishing tools that epitomized all of these traits, they'd crowd-fund the costs of the servers and technology needed to support them, even though things cost a lot more in that era before cloud computing and cheap bandwidth. Their peers in the technology world, though ostensibly competitors, would even contribute to those efforts. This isn't our web today. We've lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we've abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To the credit of today's social networks, they've brought in hundreds of millions of new participants to these networks, and they've certainly made a small number of people rich. But they haven't shown the web itself the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they've now narrowed the possibilites of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be. BACK TO THE FUTURE When you see interesting data mash-ups today, they are often still using Flickr photos because Instagram's meager metadata sucks, and the app is only reluctantly on the web at all. We get excuses about why we can't search for old tweets or our own relevant Facebook content, though we got more comprehensive results from a Technorati search that was cobbled together on the feeble software platforms of its era. We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users. And we get a generation of entrepreneurs encouraged to make more narrow-minded, web-hostile products like these because it continues to make a small number of wealthy people even more wealthy, instead of letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves on top of the web itself. We'll fix these things; I don't worry about that. The technology industry, like all industries, follows cycles, and the pendulum is swinging back to the broad, empowering philosophies that underpinned the early social web. But we're going to face a big challenge with re-educating a billion people about what the web means, akin to the years we spent as everyone moved off of AOL a decade ago, teaching them that there was so much more to the experience of the Internet than what they know. This isn't some standard polemic about "those stupid walled-garden networks are bad!" I know that Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and LinkedIn and the rest are great sites, and they give their users a lot of value. They're amazing achievements, from a pure software perspective. But they're based on a few assumptions that aren't necessarily correct. The primary fallacy that underpins many of their mistakes is that user flexibility and control necessarily lead to a user experience complexity that hurts growth. And the second, more grave fallacy, is the thinking that exerting extreme control over users is the best way to maximize the profitability and sustainability of their networks. The first step to disabusing them of this notion is for the people creating the next generation of social applications to learn a little bit of history, to know your shit, whether that's about Twitter's business model or Google's social features or anything else. We have to know what's been tried and failed, what good ideas were simply ahead of their time, and what opportunities have been lost in the current generation of dominant social networks. [Originally published December 2012.] Anil Dash I love NYC, tech & funk. You can see all the things I'm up to at http://anildash.com/ or reach me at anil(a)dashes.com or 646 833-8659. --- Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Can anyone come by to open the common room in the morning?

by Eddie Che

Thanks, just need to pick up some materials for the hop over to SF (and, Redwood City for the legal case.) Che. you could, volunteer a number mine's 440-935-5434 and, the time will be between 8 and 9:30 so, please can someone give me the hookup?

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Fwd: [P2P-F] Fwd: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends

by Marina Kukso

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:15 AM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends To: p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:17 PM Subject: Fwd: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> via Seth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: S Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:54 AM Subject: Google Mine: Service To "Help" You Share Your Gadgets, Clothes And Other Stuff With Friends http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/21/google-is-reportedly-working-on-a-service-… Google is apparently working on an app called Google Mine that is meant to help you share real-world items, such as CDs, cars, bikes, gadgets or clothes, with your friends. The service, which is apparently closely integrated with Google+, is said to be in private beta testing within Google right now. According to Chitu, the service also allows you to catalog your belongings, review them (which could be cool for purchases) and send requests to borrow stuff from friends. There also seems to be something akin to a wish list and a feature that will allow you to share a list of items you don’t want to share but just want to give away. All of this sharing, of course, happens on Google+. [image: google_mine]<http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/google_mine.png> The service, the report says, is available on the web and through an Android app. The app also supposedly includes a 3D viewer that’ll show you your objects, though it’s not clear how you would get these models into the app. Google is obviously not the only company interested in this kind of real-world tracking. Mine <http://getmine.com/>, a startup that launched last December<http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/blippy-redux-mine-launches-a-service-for-s…> and that probably doesn’t have the exact same name by coincidence, is also working on giving its users the ability to track the things they own, but with a focus on what they’ve bought online. This service, though, seems to be more focused on e-commerce than on the sharing economy. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Making More Accessible...

by Eddie Che

Hello! Two ideas came up during a sit outside with all my stuff. Let's keep accessibility as a priority! How do you guys feel about: a) Can we intentionally unlock the front door of the common room where the cosmic stairs are? eg, first one in each day, unlocks it? I noticed that the Fresh tomatoes group likes to leave the bottom Broadway-side door open, which seems to be cool with George. b) Who was it that was super-nearby? Perhaps, could this person put on paper+tape on the side door: "If locked, can call : _______" & he can use the door IP? (at reasonable hours) rawk on. and, my generator's almost complete now! of good note also, the main desktop is working again and the power cord for the extra laptop came back for those who don't have their own laptops :) sudo is an excellent example, let's just figure out these other access things! rap back, che

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Who wants to help me put this scanning antenna on the roof of sudoroom?

by Gregg Horton

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los angeles hackerspaces - telic arts exchanges / public school los angeles

by Romy Ilano

if any of you are in los angeles... i saw my cool feminist asian american studies firend mimi nguyen speak at telic arts exchange a few years ago. http://www.telic.info/ I was recommending the place to one of my friends, and I saw that they run the public school los angeles http://www.telic.info/the-public-school their blog posts are really hilarious... kind of funnier than ours, which are so serious. >> http://www.telic.info/node/40 what the hell is going on here? i guess it's a witty thing on derivatives, but so funny! This makes me consider visiting los angeles again, they are like the machine room. so funny! all those frustrated film industry people.

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foxconn stepping it up with the mozilla OS

by Romy Ilano

this is pretty neat... http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/ Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of new engineers [image: Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of new engineers] Image by Imaginechina/Corbis June 24, 2013 7:34 AM Ricardo Bilton <http://venturebeat.com/author/rbilton/> Add a Comment<http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/#disqus_thr…> inShare <http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/> [image: MobileBeat 2013] <http://mobilebeat2013.com> *July 9-10, 2013* San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now<http://mobilebeat2013-MB2013boilerplateTOP.eventbrite.com/> When Foxconn announced its support for Firefox OS<http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-firefox-os/>, it wasn’t kidding around. The manufacturing giant said this weekend that hopes to recruit 3,000 software engineers<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2013/06/21/2003565268> to help it develop for Mozilla’s mobile operating system in its software center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. To put that number in context, the Kaohsiung center currently houses 300 workers, making the addition of 3,000 new employees a pretty massive investment. (The company had initially expected to hire from 500 and 1,000 workers.) As Foxconn said in a statement: “There will be no budget limit for fostering software talent.” The move is an important one for Foxconn, which is moving away from simply making devices for big foreign companies like Apple. instead, the company is pursuing what it calls a “‘eight screens, one network, and one cloud’ strategy,” which essentially means that wants to have a greater role in both the hardware and software design of the devices made in its factories. To put it simply: The Foxconn of the future will be a very different beast from the one we’re used to.

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This Friday 6-7pm DIY Bio - Counter Culture Labs General meeting at Sudo Room

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All Sudo and CCL Hackers/Biohackers, Just a quick announcement that Counter Culture labs will be having our general meeting this *Friday (last friday of the month as per usual) at Sudo Room in Oakland from 6-7pm (just booked in the Calendar). * All biotech enthusiasts are welcome to join and discuss the exciting new developments with CCL (we're getting ready to move forward on a new biotech community lab space, with a financial projection/total member discussion this friday), some of the recent discussions (and advice) we've had from Genspace+Hacker Dojo and most importantly, a discussion on some of the VERY cool projects that our members are working on or will be starting up once our new space opens! *Some cool stats on Counter Culture labs:* - Since forming with our first official meeting at Sudo room approximately 6 months ago, Counter culture labs membership has *grown to 76 members* - Counter Culture labs now has weekly working meetings, which Patrik had the foresight to lead the development of and Ahnon has successfully hosted at her home for many weeks to build CCL's infrastructure - VERY strong social media presence - Ahnon and Mary have led CCL's social media strategy with incredible zest and Patrik launched our meet up group which has grown extremely rapidly! - Great website coming soon - Naomi volunteered to lead the development of our website and any offers of help are welcome! - CCL has attracted an incredible amount of Scientists, MD's, Business People, Tech and Biotech enthusiasts and could possibly be the largest pool of scientists and MD's of any biohacker space that we're aware of thus far. This bodes very well for the future of the innovative projects and classes that will be developed at CCL and hopefully we'll all be able to take part as a positive force for change in our local communities and on a larger scale through biotech and science innovation! *Staying in touch with Counter culture labs: * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/east-bay-diybio https://twitter.com/CountrCultrLabs https://www.facebook.com/CounterCultureLabs “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts Bye from Miami for now! 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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many thanks to workshop weekend!

by Marina Kukso

thanks again to gil and JD from workshop weekend for organizing two days of truly excellent workshops and leaving the table in sudo room cleaner than it was before you got there :) best, marina

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missing facilitator names for upcoming "today i learned" sessions

by Marina Kukso

hi all, on a related note to the june 29th mystery facilitator issue, we have a number of upcoming sessions that don't have a facilitator listed: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned when creating new today i learned workshops, please ensure that you include your name and contact info (can be whatever form you choose - doesn't have to be email) so that we can get in touch with you about promoting the session, any scheduling issues, etc. if you are the person (or know the person) who is doing the following sessions, please add your name or contact me: June 29: How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video July 27: Attacking And Securing Your Wireless Network August 17: Hacking Blackjack - marina

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Facilitator of June 29: How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, the facilitator of next saturday's TIL "How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video" isn't listed on the wiki ( https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_29:_How_to_showcase_your_3D_… ). if you are the person who is doing this workshop or you know the person who is doing this workshop, let me know so we can discuss promotion. - marina

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be safe tonight

by johanna faust

please. -- *Be seeing you.*

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Security -

by johanna faust

*An Engineer's Diuers Obseruations Concernynge * *Security * *Made After Some Contemplation Of** * *SudoRoom* *Campus, Disposition, Maintenance, &c,* *That Are Deserving* *Of A Most Full * *&* *Rapt * *Attention* ❝ *Crime prevention through environmental design* * (CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts. As of 2012, most implementations of CPTED occur solely within the built environment. Changing the areas we reside in to deter criminals from committing acts in our communities is the main goal of CPTED. With urban design and the planning that goes into the creation of new and reformation of older communities, citizens in these neighborhoods and places of business can feel safer at all hours.❞ [Read more<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design>at Wikipedia] * *(1)* *The Overhead Light In The Entryway* The Landlord MUST replace this light and make sure that its operational. There should be no hesitation: you ask, he replaces. It should have been done yesterday. *(2)* *The Trees Across The Street* Get the City of Oakland to trim back the trees (hopefully) just around the street-lamps across the street. There are three lights up on the building across the street, meant to light the street: it could be much better lit. See the double-plus-good discussion on Anti-Blight, below. *(3)* *The Parking Deck Next Door* The building owner may be the owner of the parking deck. If he does, getting the lights that are busted fixed is as easy as it was in number (1). He is required to do it. And he should know this, if he has owned property for more than a month. Because he should know first or secondhand that if he does not fix it there is a damn good possibility (based on precedent in case law) that he will be financially liable for damages resultant from any further criminal activity. *if he’s not the same owner, then it’s a research question whether a property owner owes a duty of care to next door neighbors. I guess that would be why there are blight laws, huh?* *which means, if he does nothing, SRers may have a case against him for what has already occurred (?).* If it’s things like lights in the alley then there are 10 lights. There were 7 that were spaced at regular intervals as you go down the alley, mounted 15- 20 feet up on the wall of the parking deck. If they were there they would be shining light down into that darkness from where they are no longer mounted about 20 feet up. Only one non-functional one remains. Once you see it you’ll be able to see where the others were. Then there are the three lights whose bulbs are burnt out where the bank drive thru is (was?) down at the other end of the alley. *(4)* *The Intersection Of 22nd & Broadway* Street-lamps each have two super bright bulbs by means of which they light up the night. This in turn enables people to see other people at a greater distance than they would otherwise, and avoid interaction if that is prudent. At the intersection of 22nd & Broadway one of the streetlight's bulbs is out. On the SR side of the street. This does in fact make things more dangerous. The city has to replace it, and pronto -- same deal -- we need to bug the fuck out of them until they do it. *Conclusion* Three different departments and one council-person; one or two building owners. Call them once a day until its done. it is a principle of sound design that good lighting is essential to a secure building. building codes are written stemming from, and reinforcing, this. There are, consequently, social, political, and legal mechanisms whereby certain actions that prevent and/or counteract blight can be taken. The point is to do so with the least amount of delay or opportunity for that action to devolve into inaction, which leads to more blight, and directly and indirectly may result in harm to people or property. Which we do not want. Which is the point. *Further Instruction* Is it a part of fire code? The fire department requires trees be trimmed back so that people will not be able to break into other people's houses without being seen... *A Note Concerning Insistent Constituents* Without delving into the ethical underpinnings, that ism, without agreeing or disagreeing with this social principle, one can see that it is empirically true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Applying this to the situation at hand, the axiom becomes: if you keep bugging them, they will do it. SR has a landlord, who may or may not be the building owner. It also has a council-person, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's control of urban blight, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's trimming of trees. A month of hearing from someone every daywill probably motivate the necessary action. They are limited in the resources that they have, including attention. A kindly daily reminder/report of status will help focus that attention. as far as organizing the once a day calling *it’s important to actually reach them* *[what if you can’t? –ed] [i would be willing to go in person –ed] * come up with talking points or even specific phrases, ( like republicans do) such as “constituent service” remind them that there have been “five events in the past month *[accuracy check, please –ed] *requiring police intervention at SR”* [as i/we understand it -- i do not have all the details myself –ed]* *- the pepper spraying incident * *- the car break-in* *- the stolen ipad* *- the being held up at gunpoint* *- the guy messing with the keypad trying to get in* maybe give a status report such as X,Y and Z await action; A is scheduled for <day>,<date>; B is underway; C has been promised, but no date has been scheduled/estimated/committed to * a secondhand bit of info, FWIW: where SR is, at the edge of Koreatown Northgate, or KoNo, there are no beat cops because supposedly Northgate has the lowest incidence of violent crime -- but this is only because the city does not count armed robbery as a violent crime. KoNo has the highest incidence of armed robbery.* *[fontsize emphasis mine –ed]* *Notes On Finding Property Owners* Get APN zoom in on map (assessors map at http://www.acgov.org/assessor/maps2.htm) to get the parcel # (APN) then you can get more details here also take APN and/or other details and feed them in to http://rechart1.acgov.org I forgotten the exact method of feeding the APN into the link above to find the current owner, mainly because I can’t remember right now what the right combo of leading, trailing, and extra middle zeros to trim is, but we hack right? 3 quick ideas *1. Brute force – * try the different combinations of zeroes etc *2. Use knowledge that you have of a property already – * and feed it in to retrieve that property’s info to backward engineer the right format *3. Go to courthouse – * and look on their property info computers. They rarely have a queue and seem to be available for just this kind of use by the public. Unrestricted access 8:30-2:30 or 4 except for passage through the courthouse entrance: metal-detector for your person and the x-ray machine for your effects. *[following are the results of the Speaker's engaging in the above research technique –ed]* Parking deck 8-648-16-3 [Owned by “exempt public agency” per Assessor’s, so very likely city of Oakland] Parcel of SR building 8-648-1 Parcel facing Broadway at other end of block from SR 8-648-18 Middle of block and alley next to SR building 8-648-17 Having found out that the City of Oakland owns the parking deck next door, and they’re responsible for its blight makes me both more and less optimistic about whether they alone will fix the blight depending on my estimation of their willingness to fix their own problems. OTOH, since they are responsible to the citizenry in general, and they have geographic knowledge of problems via mapping crime and they are the landlords of the blighted property they arguably already have the kind of legal liability for what has happened recently, the kind that was mentioned above only in prospect for SR’s landlord. As I understand it, it’s established law that if a government is performing a function that isn’t unique to government (the set of which seems to be shrinking), that it has no sovereign immunity for doing it poorly. Please forgive the upcoming caps: WARNING: GO TO AN ACTUAL LAWYER IF YOU WANT A LEGAL OPINION RENDITIONED RENDERED. I only offer my opinion which is not withheld pending ransom retainer. (Sorry for the caps –CYA.) The point is court action possibly offers another stick (but it is a blunt instrument). A carrot might be to offer to help correct the situation, but that would be poisonous to relations with city unions, probably, even if a qualified person could be fielded. The greater point you already know well and practice: to think (sideways or whatever direction) to the extent you believe the issues are salient. Hope my modest thought offering is helpful. *see also wikipedia:* *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design* *and its reading list:* • International CPTED Association • European Designing Out Crime Association • Stichting Veilig Ontwerp en Beheer (the Netherlands) • California Designing Out Crime Association • Crime prevention and the built environment. • Washington State University CPTED Annotated Bibliography. Url last accessed May 6, 2006. • Oscar Newman, *Creating Defensible Space* (pdf) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996). Url last accessed May 6, 2006. • CPTED LinkedIn Discussion Group • SmartCode Module on CPTED • Secured by Design (UK) *N.B.: These are the near verbatim notes I took of an impromptu talk. They have been reviewed and edited by both the Scribe and the Speaker, & unless bracketed & followed by attribution, (as in "[...in respect of actionability alone these ideas are robust indeed. –ed.]") represent the ideas mostly in the exact words of the Speaker.*

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writers group - is anyone into this theory stuff?

by Romy Ilano

i was hesitating before sending this but then, maybe this will appeal to people. i'll not send stuff like this if it produces a strong negative reaction. it's a nice change of pace after all these kickstarters and porn discussions. https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/ Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance December 5-6, 2013 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Proposals due: Friday, 23 August 2013 This conference will bring together artists, activists and academics to stage new conversations about women of color and women of color feminisms across cultural forms too often perceived to be wholly distinct – hip hop and punk. Both hip hop and punk have received significant scholarly attention since the 1970s, but despite their near-simultaneous emergence in global cities wrought anew through multiple, devastating wars and global economic restructuring, rarely are the two brought into conversation with each the other. With this conference, we hope to disrupt status quo narratives and present wholly new analytic and aesthetic investigations about race, sex, and the creation of categories of deviance; race, gender, and sexuality in cultural studies and the politics of aesthetics; queer of color critique and women of color feminist epistemologies; social movements, activism, and art; norms of respectability, morality, and propriety and their politics of value; and, systems and structures of violence and human value. Perceiving a need for a greater nuanced comparative analyses and collaborations across disciplines or fields of inquiry, itself a topic of ongoing scholarship, this conference aims to break ground on what that looks, feels, and sounds like. We invite presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress, new media, workshops, panels, related to (or building on) the following themes/issues: • Genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and/or punk across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete genealogy, or singular origin story, for each) • Inter-genre corporeal practices and body aesthetics • Theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and/or punk cultures • Critical conversations on hip hop and/or punk organizing and disorganization • New media, web series, blogs, zines, and ciphers • Critiques and political polemics that imagine futurity or negativity (and the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms) • Disruptive youth cultures and oppositional activism, or their lack (e.g., can we necessarily presume disruption or opposition? what conditions are required? through what measures do we recognize these?) • The ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances (including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures) • Art and music inspired by hip hop and punk collaborations • Experimental hip hop/punk methodologies and pedagogies What to send: For individual proposals: Please send a 350-word (maximum) abstract of your conference contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference co-organizers. For collective/panel proposals: Please send a 300-word (maximum) description of the overall goal, vision, and content for the collective contribution. In addition, please provide no more than a 250-word abstract of each individual’s contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference co-organizers. All proposals must also include the following information: 1. Author(s) name, affiliation(s), and brief bio 2. Email address or preferred contact 3. Title of presentation 4. Key words Send proposals to HipHopAndPunkFeminisms(a)gmail.com with the following subject heading: abstract submission. Conference Co-organizers: Ruth Nicole Brown Karen Flynn Fiona I.B. Ngô Mimi Thi Nguyen All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a collection Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance.

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Open Source Printer Drivers? (like OpenWRT for printers)

by Matthew Meier

Random Thought: Has anyone ever attempted to make an open source printer firmware? Does anyone know if there are any active projects? -Wolfy

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TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM Albany Community Center

by Steve Berl

I meant to send this earlier, but spaced it out. If any sudoers are interested in either bringing in some broken stuff to fix, or in being a Fixit Coach, come on down to Albany on Sunday afternoon. If that doesn't work for you, we will be at the Temescal Branch of the Oakland Public Library on Saturday, June 22 from 12-3. See you there, Steve ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Peter Mui* Date: Saturday, June 8, 2013 Subject: TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM Albany Community Center To: fixit-clinic(a)googlegroups.com Hi Fixit Coaches: We're a "Go" for Fixit Clinic LII (#52) TOMORROW Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM at the Albany Community Center: here's the Fixit Clinic Coach lineup as far as I know: Elanor Jeff (and Samuel) Jessie Kent Mark Putzer (Chelle's Dad) Martin Peter Richard Roy Steve Any other coaches: please feel free to join in on the fun! I plan to get there about 12:30. See you there! Cheers, -Peter Peter Mui petermui(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'petermui(a)gmail.com');> 510 540 8318 / 408 647 5790 1715 Eola St. Berkeley CA 94703 --------------------------- Fixit Clinic at Albany Community Center Fix your broken stuff -- Or at least learn more about it disassembling it. Bring your broken, non-functioning things -- electronics, appliances, computers, toys, etc.-- for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We'll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family-friendly event: children are heartily invited! WHAT: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) at Albany Community Center WHEN: Sunday, June 9, 2013 1-4PM WHERE: Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA http://www.albanyca.org HOW: Bring: 1) your broken or non-working thing (carry-in only: no oversize items) 2) accessories and tools you already own that might be helpful (e.g. phillips head screwdriver) 3) any knowledge or advance research you've done on the issue 4) boxes, bags and/or small containers to organize (and carry away) parts. COST: Free! WHY: To make friends, learn how things work, and have fun! Facebook: "Like" Fixit Clinic: www.fixitclinic.org Join the Fixit Clinic Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/fixitfan Google+: Add Fixit Clinic to your circles and join the Fixit Clinic Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111525193946026734520/ WANNA HELP OTHERS at Fixit Clinic? Email petermui(a)gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'petermui(a)gmail.com');> --------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fixit Clinic" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fixit-clinic+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fixit-clinic%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com');>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -steve

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TIL - anyone interested in leading GIT for writers, non hackers (July 7)

by Romy Ilano

Hi - I probably won't be able to lead the GIT Version Control for Writers and Non Hackers on July 7th. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#July_7:_GIT_Version_Control_for_N… Is anyone else willing to step up to the plate? If not I will just delete this. I saw someone post https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_29:_How_to_showcase_your_3D_… This sounds suspiciously like an existing private company that is sniffing for VC money - If it is, could you please disclose this?

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EFF: Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad.

by Eddan Katz

another legal aspect of the sudo-mesh project is patent busting prior art research. ... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patent… > JUNE 21, 2013 | BY JULIE SAMUELS > Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad. Help Us Protect Mesh Networking. > Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was invaluable. We're still waiting to hear from the Patent Office on those applications, but our work is not done. We need your help again, this time to challenge dangerous patent applications that threaten mesh networking technology. > > Mesh networking allows users to form their own networks without a centralized infrastructure, making them inherently resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. Given recent revelations showing widespread surveillance of the phone calls and online activities of innocent Americans and others around the globe, the development of mesh networks more important than ever. Governments and commercial actors have taken advantage of intermediaries as “weak links” in order to censor, surveil, and disrupt communications and social movements. Already in the United States, cell towers have been deactivated in response to planned protest, while activists in countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria have suffered massive blackouts that shut down all access from within the country to the wider Internet. Mesh networking technology can help activists fight back. > > Wireless Mesh Networks > > For more than a decade the open-source community has been developing networks that use multi-hop connectivity to bypass the current ISP-dominated model of Internet access. These Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have tremendous potential for enabling the free flow of information without exposure to censorship and monitoring. Because they lack a central access point, mesh networks are also harder to take down, as the removal of one node won’t terminate the entire network. And WMNs, by not relying on infrastructure provided by ISPs, can provide connectivity in areas where that infrastructure is inaccessible, damaged, or prohibitively expensive. > > The open source community has developed innovative tools and applications of mesh networking technology including the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol developed by Freifunk, a system for internet access in remote areas of Afghanistan and Kenya (FabFi), and community controlled telephone systems in Nigeria, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, East Timor, and Brazil (VillageTelco). Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain and former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently advocated for the use of mesh networks to provide phone access during times of crisis when mobile networks are overloaded. > > The Problem > > Wireless Mesh Networking is still in its nascent stages, and the innovations and experimentation of the open source community are playing a vital role in advancing the technology. However, there has also been significant proprietary and military interest in the technology, and companies are seeking patents in many areas of WMN already explored by the open source community. We unfortunately know what can happen when overbroad patents get granted—the rise of patent trolls, lawsuits that can threaten growing businesses, and threats that target entire areas of technology. We don't want to see that happen to mesh networking. > > This is where you come in! > > We have identified several patent applications that we believe particularly threaten the free development of mesh networking technology. There is a danger that these patents, if granted, will lock up the basic mesh network infrastructure and restrict advancement of and access to the technology. > > We have been using the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure, which gives third parties an opportunity to tell patent examiners when they think a patent application shouldn't be granted. The procedure requires those third parties to submit publications predating the application that prove the ideas in the patent were not novel. > > Which is why we need your help. We are again partnering with Ask Patents so you can help us identify the best prior art to reign in these applications. While prior art for issued patents must date back many years, these are recently filed applications for which relatively recent publications may be helpful. Look at each “Request for Prior Art” we post to learn the exact priority date. > > Working together we can protect the mesh networking community from overbroad, illegitimate patents that threaten to stifle innovation and access to technologies that preserve personal freedoms. > > APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING WIRELESS MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS > > ADAPTING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR LAYER 3 MESH NETWORKS > > MESH NETWORK GATEWAY AND SECURITY SYSTEM

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A Public Service Announcement re: Sudo Bike

by Jenny Ryan

Tonight, we found the sudo room bike locked up outside the door on 22nd St. It had only a light chain locking it to the post. Then an evil man stole it! >.< ... Just kidding. Marc cut the chain with our boltcutters from home and brought it back up to the space. Please don't do this with the lovely bike Matt put together for us all with his very own sweat, tears, and freecycled parts! Or paint it hot pink! With 3D printed flair! On agenda for next week: Bike protocol :) Be well, 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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