- sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org

by Vicky Knox

Hello all! We have a number of people who have signed up to help with Bike Smut, from my sound system-moving posse to donations people, aphrodesiacal ice creamateurs to watchful eyes. If you have not yet expressed explicit interest in helping, now is the time! Some time between 6 and 7pm is also the time, as my posse and I will be arriving with sound system. Please gchat/email me and I'll give you my DIGITS!

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anyone at sudo this morning/early afternoon?

by Marina Kukso

if so, let me know! - marina

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Cleaning

by Romy Ilano

If we pay people for beer, if we buy burritos then why is it wrong to pay someone to clean? Could we pay for a small family owned immigrant cleaning business to clean the common room and the space ? I do not see sudo room getting into a cleaning skill set in the near future and that is ok --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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imminent bikesexual invasion

by revphil

Greetings Hackians! Tomorrow night will be the first screening of sexually charged movies at Sudo Room and last time we will ever screen Bike Smut 6: Turning Trixxx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuDxS3mRc7M Its the ULTIMATE screening! Besides providing a forum for a variety of artists to share their thoughts on human-powered transportation and sex-positive culture we will may also be: * watching a burlesque performance depicting how the bicycle liberated women's fashion * defining obscenity within the community * meeting / flirting with other exciting minds * playing the PSI game, behold the hilarious consensual action * enjoying delicious malted beverages for extra reasonable donation * winning $300 dollars worth of prizes from excellent sponsors (info below) * supporting Sudo Room, because half of the door will stay with this excellent space! This has the potential to be a great fundraiser, but one person can't do it all, but there are a few things you can do: VOLUNTEER - email vicki <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>, and let her know when you are available. (8pm is best but we work it out) * help greet at the door * serve delicious beverages * monitor the space to keep Sudo Room excellent and not burnt down * assist me and Vicki as we clean up afterward * host an afterparty (helps to get people out!) EDUCATE - besides the endless possibilities of Sudo Room, we are partnering with other great organizations * Fucking Sculptures local handcrafted glass sex toys http://fuckingsculptures.com/ * Crash Pad Series provides some of the best queer porn on Earth http://crashpadseries.com/queer-porn/2012/we-love-bike-smut/ * Sex Worker Fest helps address the stigma of the worlds oldest profession https://www.facebook.com/sexworkerfest * Oakland gallery owner, Eli Reyes was the victim of horrifying road rage http://bikesmut.tumblr.com/post/50589635617/fuckingsculptures-signal-boost-… PROMOTE - geeks are not known for their social graces, consider this a great time to practice! You dont want to watch porn alone, do you? * use FaceBook! https://www.facebook.com/events/151978064981763/ * http://bikeporntour.blogspot.com/2013/05/turning-our-final-trixxx-in-oaklan… Friday, May 17 Sudo Room 2141 Broadway doors at 8:22, starts at 9:07 $5-10 donation, no one turned away adults only and you should all *dress fabulous! * Even if you can't volunteer I hope you are able to attend. I think there will be a number of people who have never been to this place before; it will be grand to have engaging minds on hand to explain how cool Sudo Room is! con fuerte, rev -- 7 years of sex-positive, human-powered porno ________Hop on The Porny Express________ ----------------------- Bike Smut ------------------------

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[Update] Alternative Locations for Sudo Room

by Matthew Senate

Ryan and Jenny are excellent! We went biking and found more places for sudo room's future decision-making! http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ Please add more reports (choose at least one): (a) tweet the address and details (e.g. a phone number) @sudoroom (i) You can also set up twitter to post via text message to 40404 if you don't have a data plan with your phone--ask me for details! ;) (b) send an email with the same info to info(a)sudoroom.org (c) use the web form https://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/reports/submit (d) download a mobile app (though the new android app crashed for me >.<) You can also help by: (a) Calling some of the existing listings, coordinate by replying to this message! (b) Offering to review old listings that might still be available! (c) Trolling Craigslist and other websites with spaces for rent / lease. (d) Contribute to this spreadsheet Romy set up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amu8QvJOCyfkdFRkMnFGblJ3MzZDNF… (e) Organize another bike-about to find more locations! The crowdmap platform released a new version of their software today, but we can use the "classic" mode likely through 2013, with options to migrate and such before then. I have backups just in case, and we can back more data up as we add to it. // Matt

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Re: [sudo-discuss] DystopiaNews: "Let them eat bugs!"

by Shawn Lesniak

Do you eat produce? Then you're already eating insects http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInfor… excerpt: "RAISINS, GOLDEN Insects and insect eggs (AOAC 969.42 & MPM-V76) 10 or more whole or equivalent insects and 35 Drosophila eggs per 8 oz." Pork is verboten for Jews and Muslims because of their scripture, not because we haven't found a way to force them to eat it. Eating pork is not as resource friendly as eating insects. I don't eat meat, that doesn't make meat dirt to me. No one will be forced to eat insects by any force other than meat getting expensive. Your categories beg the question, are insects dirt? I say dirt is dirt, food is food, paper is paper, and poop is poop. If you're living in the right area you will eat people, fish, insects, or diet coke. If insects produce nutritious food at a decent price, why not? Seriously! The types of insects being considered for food (caterpillars and mealworms specifically) do not eat sewage, btw. If you know of any insects that somehow eat sewage and become edible food, let me know because I've never heard of that. I've heard of plants using processed cow dung as fertilizer though, and I'm ok with eating it, are you? If you put aside the false equivalences of your 4 categories, can you still make a case against insects as food? > -G. (creative commons; non-commercial use, with attribution) you objected to the list being archived with your name, how would you like to be cited if your article is republished elsewhere?

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Hire a long-distance bike courier and support a Bike Odyssey

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

A friend of mine, Caitlyn, is riding and writing across the US this summer. Amongst other things, she offers to deliver letters along her route in-person! Pretty cool. She is running an indiegogo campaign to raise funds for her journey and any proceeds exceeding her goal go to Biketopia, a community bikeworkshop in south Berkeley that I am part of. Support her here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bike-odyssey-riding-and-writing-across-th… Make a great day, Morten

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Someone brought up electronic kits as a funding idea?

by Tommy York

I can't remember exactly from last week, but maybe you brought this up, Marc? I think this is a really great idea, which could bring in revenue (from the kits), more revenue (from workshops focusing on building the kits, and not necessarily for adults [sudo-kids?]), and members (from people who enjoy the workshops thoroughly). Though it is currently being done: If I remember correctly, I think people in the community - Mitch Altman? - do workshops like this. And though an internet "competitor" exists - Maker Shed's kits (http://www.makershed.com/) - and I haven't yet done a significant amount of research about the kind of kits that they offer and so forth, I think it'd be really neat to purchase the parts, design really fun, age-appropriate packaging, sell the kits at some kind of minimal markup online, then above and beyond that have donation-suggested workshops where we guide people through the process of assembling whatever the kit is. Even if other hackerspaces / non-hackerspace entities / for-profit corporations are doing a similar concept, we'll have people interested who are geographically proximate to Sudoroom. Also, we have ideas: the lock picking class brought in great PR (in my opinion), and I'm guessing that the listserv would have a bunch of great ideas that are quirky, exciting, feasible, etc. I've always wanted to build a bunch of modular synthesizer modules, but that's kind of a fringe / eccentric interest. It'd be great to use Sudo-fund for this discussion, if people are interested. ----------------- Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510 http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork

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sudo-discuss] DystopiaNews: Veggie-meat: you don't have to eat bugs.

by Tony Barreca

>> But if it were me, if I caught that dog, i would eat it. Ray, you have the makings of a potential Oligarch! Our recruiters will be calling on you soon! On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Ray Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There is no oligarchy! The Black Empire never existed. I've never sighted > an oligarch - is it like big foot or something? > > But i suppose if there were an oligarchy in control of EVERYTHING, it > would behoove them to utilize fear of their power as a means to control the > masses. It would help the oligarchy to whisper about their omnipotence. It > would help the oligarchy to spread fear and retell their stories of > conquest and dominion. > > For me, it's less interesting to live under that story. To live in the > Iron Prison. I choose to live free of that fear. I choose to create a more > conscious vision of the future. And i want to do it in the good community > of other like minded individuals. > > It's like that story of the Indian Sadhu, the one who had nothing and > hadn't eaten for days. A kind villager gave him a scrap of chapati of which > the Sadhu was very grateful. As the Sadhu sat down to eat the golden > chapati, a feral dog snatched the chapati and ran away. The Sadhu gave > chase, yelling to the dog, "Wait! Wait! Would you like some ghee with that > chapati?" > > The oligarchy is that dog. Perhaps the proverbial Sadhu could offer ghee > to the dog whole stole his only food (i mean, that chapati wasn't ever his > - it was given by god). But if it were me, if I caught that dog, i would > eat it. > > > Raymond Lai > Ice Cream Man > Atomic Ice Cream > Facebook.com/MotoAtomico > > On May 16, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > OMG bug meat conspiracy! > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Raymond Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Why not eat bugs? >>> >>> In Calvin Schwabe's (the father of veterinary epidemiology) book >>> "Unmentionable Cuisine" he suggests in light of the world's food shortages, >>> how silly it is to hold cultural and regional taboos surrounding food >>> sources. >>> >> >> Except there isn't a food shortage. There is a food embargo. We have so >> much food that we throw away huge amounts of good stuff cause we can't eat >> it quick enough. Then we make sure that only the rich have access to more. >> Eating bugs might be a fun novelty, but the solution to the food problem is >> to stand up against the systematic starvation of poor cities and countries >> around the world. Next time you see a $30 a plate restaurant in the mission >> or down town Oakland ask your self who's getting feed and who is left to >> eat bugs. >> >> >> >> -- >> ------- >> Andrew Lowe >> Cell: 831-332-2507 >> http://roshambomedia.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > -- Tony Barreca LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca Skype: tonybarreca Twitter: tbarreca Mobile: (510) 710-5864 -- Tony Barreca LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca Skype: tonybarreca Twitter: tbarreca Mobile: (510) 710-5864

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Someone brought up electronic kits as a funding idea?

by Ryan Lyle

I propose the following: 1. Host circuit fabbing workshops on a donation basis. This is useful for both inexperienced Sudoers (ahem) as well as the community at large. Call it a workshop/training session. See step 2. 2. Enlist newly trained Sudoers and supportive community members in an afternoon of mass assembly. Provide beer. 3. Sell kits to those who weren't interested in building them. 4. Make bacon.

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Who Bombed Judi Bari(Saturday May, 25th at 7pm) - who wants to help?

by rusty lindgren

Hey Everyone, It would be great if I could get some help with this event by moving furniture, and etc.? Should be a thought-provoking film and a great opportunity to meet IWW people and Daryl Cherney. I will make some food ahead of time. Let me know. -- Cheers, Rusty Lindgren **

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Fwd: [AMTD] Fwd: Please join us for a FOCUS GROUP to design Maker Spaces

by Rachel McConnell

Interesting concept. I don't know anything further than this. Rachel1.0 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Lightner <bill.lightner(a)lightnergroup.com> Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:43 PM Subject: Please join us for a FOCUS GROUP to design Maker Spaces Greetings, We invite you to participate in a focus group we are hosting to investigate maker preferences regarding *Makeropolis*, a two-acre light-industrial, multi-tenant maker community we are planning for 3250 Hollis in West Oakland. The meeting will take place on: · *Tuesday morning, June 11th, from at 10 a.m.* · *at 612 Howard Street in Suite 100. * 612 Howard <http://lightnergroup.com/612-howard-street-san-francisc> is just two blocks from the Montgomery BART station and a block from Moscone Center Garage. We are holding it in this San Francisco building because we renovated it and believe its architecture inspires creativity. Heres brief description of what we are calling Makeropolis: Theres a new industrial revolution in America, with thousands of micro-manufacturers taking advantage of new technologies to make useful things. We see an unfulfilled need for clean and bright workspaces, purpose-built for these neo-industrialists. So we are developing a multi-tenant light-industrial campus where budding entrepreneurs can produce great things. Located in northwest Oakland, this two-acre community combines smaller and larger indoor spaces, access to shared resources, a relaxing outdoor central park and maker-friendly, on-site management. Our mission is to enable innovation, craftsmanship and productivity in a clean, secure and inspirational environment. We really hope you will join us in this exciting process. If you want to bring another maker who has interest in helping create this environment, please invite them and let us know theyre coming. R.S.V.P. wl(a)lightnergroup.com 415-267-2900 x114 Thanks! William Lightner Lightner Property Group | [image: http://media.opinexperts.com/img/favicon.png]OPINEXPERTS 415.267.2900 x114 (SF Office) 415.377.6070 (cell) 530.265.8287 (Nevada City Office) www.LightnerGroup.com <http://www.lightnergroup.com/> www.Opinexperts.com <http://www.opinexperts.com/> Routed to outbound email via Google Business Apps Internal Outbound Message

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I went to sudoroom for the first time yesterday!!!

by Sonja Trauss

It's amazing! It's beautiful! I want to be a member and pay money but I don't want to come to a lot of meetings, is that ok? Would anybody be interested, do you think, in co-op mat pilates classes in the mornings? I really love pilates, but it's really expensive. You don't need machines at all to do it, all you need is a big carpeted floor. I think if a person has taken like 3 classes he or she is qualified to lead a class. I'd like to take turns leading. A potential downside I envision has to do with insurance. Do you think your insurance would prohibit sports, even really low key sports like mat exercises?

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making thread

by Romy Ilano

i'm not going to maker faire this year (too bad) i'm starting a thread for people who like to make things. i'd like for this to result in something creative. there were some nice projects last weekend. i made a lot of progress this week learning stuff. == i'm not so interested in being sent lots of links to instructables / youtube videos of burrito delivery drones / stuff that doesn't result in people doing creative things in the space / rambling political rants but you know, it's a "free country" and we are all anarchists so you can write what you want.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Wednesday Dinner

by Yardena Cohen

Raymond Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone's tastebuds tickled sufficiently to shop and cook with me. car nice > to have but unessential. I have a car and can drive if need be - where & when did you have in mind?

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Raspberry pi wiki

by Romy Ilano

Does sudo room have a raspberry pi wiki or any getting started pages? There aren't any just laying around besides the door? --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: Volunteer to Turn Backyards into Gardens

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, city slicker farms has an awesome program where they have volunteers turn people's backyards into gardens in 4 hours. although the resulting gardens appear to be closed source (with sharing of produce encouraged), it would be nice to learn the model of rapid garden set up so that we can set up our own network of volunteer built and community shared backyard gardens. so far julio, (possibly) diana, and i have signed up for the may 25th event, so if you'd like to go as a group there are a couple spots left. - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julio Rios <julio.rios(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:28 AM Subject: Fwd: Backyard Garden Program Volunteering To: Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>, Bryan Onwuka <bryan.onwuka(a)gmail.com>, Diana Wu <diwu118(a)gmail.com>, Ivan Silva <brito.ivans(a)gmail.com> in case you guys are interested ... there are only 3 spots left for the May 25th build. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: City Slicker Farms <City_Slicker_Farms(a)mail.vresp.com> Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM Subject: Backyard Garden Program Volunteering To: julio.rios(a)gmail.com <http://cts.vresp.com/fbl?79339f64e0/5569fef1b6/http%3A%2F%2Fhosted-p0.vresp…> <http://cts.vresp.com/ts?79339f64e0/5569fef1b6/http%3A%2F%2Fapi.addthis.com%…> <http://cts.vresp.com/ls?79339f64e0/5569fef1b6/http%3A%2F%2Fapi.addthis.com%…> ** Hello BYG Volunteers! I just wanted to remind you that if you would like to sign up to volunteer with the Backyard Garden Program, *please check our Eventbrite page: http://cityslickerfarmsbyg.eventbrite.com/<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CitySlickerFarms/79339f64e0/5569fef1b6/f3b08a9aff> .* I will send reminders for the next couple of weeks, but after that you should just check that page for updated volunteering opportunities and to sign up. Looking forward to seeing you in the field! Alison -- Alison Fischman Backyard Garden Coordinator City Slicker Farms byg(a)cityslickerfarms.org <alison(a)cityslickerfarms.org> Please note: My work is in the field! I will do my best to reply to your email in a timely fashion, but please be patient as I am not at my computer everyday. Thank you for understanding! (510) 763-4241 (City Slicker Farms Office) (510) 306-4901 (Backyard Garden Coordinator) 1625 16th Street Oakland, CA 94607 www.cityslickerfarms.org<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CitySlickerFarms/79339f64e0/5569fef1b6/dbbdee0d8e> CITY SLICKER FARMS WEEKLY HOURS Tuesday-Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm ------------------------------ Click to view this email in a browser<http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/416987/79339f64e0/1453004059/5569fef1b6/> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: Unsubscribe <http://cts.vresp.com/u?79339f64e0/5569fef1b6/mlpftw> ------------------------------ City Slicker Farms 1625 16th St. Oakland, California 94607 US Read <http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html> the VerticalResponse marketing policy. [image: Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!] <http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/ef/?np/79339f64e0>

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Activism in Oakland

by Patrick Schmidt

dear friends, tonight we had many fruitful dicsussions at sudo. it led to the connection of some obvious dots: the prohibition of practices that threaten biodiversity and our well being on this planet and the legalization of a new economy for a sustainable society in balance with the planet. the society we are seeing out there is the dying caterpiller, lets not be afraid, after the transition we will all be happier, live a more sustainable lifestyle in community instead of in solitude, instead of toxic foods and scarcity we will have non toxic foods in abundance. We will become a butterfly. We will wake up to see that all this we went through was a horrible dream. We will live on a compassionate planet. we will dicsover who we really are. we are not slaves or slave masters. we are not robots, we are not animals. we are cosmic spirits, travelling through space and time since millenia of years. we are the planet. we are sick, but we are healing. we can find peace of mind, and we can create peace on earth. world peace is near if we open up to it. it starts within every one of us. it starts in the supermarket, it starts on our plates. it starts by smiling to a stranger on the street and saying hi instead of just playing the same old game of separation. we vote with our dollar every day. we are the consumers that the corporations ship materials to from all over the world. Here were some ideas as action items: - promote May 25th as Global and Local World Peace March (Stop Monsanto and legalize Hemp) (in the evening we will screen the film who bombed judy barry, goes along well) - connect the city hackers (us) with the countryside food hackers (organic farmers) (as an alternative to corporate food) - establiosh symbiosis to food hackers, invite them to talk, get food donated, maybe have small farmers market, maybe they need our skills. -organize community potlucks on a regular basis, find allies, loal organizations, gather the tribes, grow a movement of sharing hacker grown, non corporate and non toxic food. I conneted two pitures to one collage. Please share if it resonates with you. I posted it on a couple of FB pages and then got notified that I cant post it anymore on pages. Please share your Ideas, thoughts, feedback. Any Ideas which organizations to contact? Any Ideas on how to pull this off? Praying for peace, love and abundance to come, as this is exactly what mother earth provides us with. lets stop artificial scarcity. Lets stop the killing and distruction. Lets have a peaceful revolution, share food, music, art, culture, creativity, come together and heal as a society , on a personal level, and as the planet.

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The corporate Matrix- whats wrong with this world- forwarded message

by Patrick Schmidt

>From Alchemyst Mystique https://www.facebook.com/alchemystique When are we gonna wake up to dead caterpillar matrix to see that : Drs are here to make us sick Banks are here to make us poor Governments are here to enslave us Schools are here to keep us ignorant Food makers are here to keep us starved Politicians are here to keep us disempowered Media is here to keep us misinformed Religions are here to keep us fearful and disconnected from source Scientists are here to keep the status quo going and not give us best products brothers, sisters, the matrix is dead. So please stop believing your dr has your best interest in mind, instead understand the power of your own body, magic of your own healing Stop believing your banks and rich people are here to let us have our fair share instead start building your own world, your own abundance your own economy stop believing government is here to help you prosper, and be free instead inform yourself about your own sovereignty and ways you can change the world stop believing in formal education is gonna make you smarter, or give you better opportunities instead figure out ways to become a hacker figuring out and learning from life experiences stop believing food companies want to give you the best food instead start making your own food, growing your own crop, your own crops. stop believing politicians are there to represent you to make sure your have your rights instead learn to organize, create grass root movement which doesnt wait for others stop believing what you see in media as being true, accurate, well-intentioned instead start using media using critical thinking, not believing everything they tell you, better yet do your research stop believing religions get you closer to God, and that they are your way to be calm and at peace instead start connecting to Source energy thru your own heart, thru your own intuition in connection to the ever present magic stop believing scientists are trying to make our world the best they can, and give us the best instead start creating the world you want, make it, and take every piece of so called scientific evidence with a grain of salt, Start learning about the work of scientists like Nassim Haramein, Bruce Lipton, David Gruder. Mario Martinez.

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Open compute hackathon

by Paul Ivanov

Hey gang, I just learned of this, and thought it might interest some of you, it's on June 18th, and they're taking applications until June 5th. Join OCP's second hardware hackathon! Hack on ideas and products to accelerate innovation across the scale of the computer landscape. http://upverter.com/hackathons/open-compute-gigaom-structure-2013/ best, -- _ / \ A* \^ - ,./ _.`\\ / \ / ,--.S \/ \ / `"~,_ \ \ __o ? _ \<,_ /:\ --(_)/-(_)----.../ | \ --------------.......J Paul Ivanov http://pirsquared.org

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Wednesday Dinner

by Raymond Lai

Hello Friendly Sudo Room, I won't be coming to tonight's meeting (Life: the Great Distractor), but I am still interested in making food. Since we have lot's of pasta in the Sudo Kitchen (I can see it from the live camera feed, that is trained on the pantry), I'm going to suggest a pasta salad. If others can provide fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, and perhaps fresh mozzarella then we would have a feast indeed. I have garlic and an onion (or at least a part of an onion), and I can season olive oil with it. Add salt and pepper and you have a less than $20 dinner for hungry Sudoers. We can get fancy and put in capers or yellow squash or any numbers of other things, but the essentials of garlic, olive oil, salt, tomatoes, and basil is timeless. Anyone's tastebuds tickled sufficiently to shop and cook with me. car nice to have but unessential. cheers, ray

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Seattle's Feminist / Trans-positive Hackerspace

by William Budington

This just came across the wire. A fem/queer/trans positive hackerspace just opened in Seattle called the Seattle Attic! Check it out: http://www.seattleattic.com/ Perhaps we should open up some lines of west-coast communication and dialogue and invite them to visit our space. Sounds like an awesome place and somewhere I'd like to check out some day. Bill

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Meeting Tonight at 7PM: Add to Agenda

by Marina Kukso

hi all, meeting tonight at 7pm. please add to the agenda here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting action items from last week: - Bill will set up automatic reminders - Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly - FUNDING - Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny - Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in pay your dues, marina ____________________________________________________________________________ full notes from last week (apologies for not putting it up on the wiki yet!) *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes> Try this out this week: http://sudoroom.backchan.nl/conferences/view/1054 May 1 2013 Attending: ==Introductions== Co-Facilitator: Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person) - What is one thing you like to share with others? - What is one current *frustration* you have? What is one current thing that puts you *at ease*? Icebreaker (10 min) - Sudo Room Goals - next 6 months *Share food / sudo mate if available.* ==Announcements== Co-Facilitator: ? - ===Consent Agenda=== - (< 3 minutes) Co-Facilitator: Mary - - *(Let's use this time to briefly review and consent to items that need no more details or discussion)** ====> We're trying this out!* - - May 25th: Showing of Judi Bari film in the entire space. Rusty would love help organizing it. - Fabulous Friday Films: If you have access to a sound system, please contact Vicky. Vicky can take full responsibility of the sound system and can pick up and drop it off, etc. - Bring ALL Dolby Surround Sound speakers to sudo room please - Contact Matt and Sam about existing sound system - Add to movie night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films - PUBLIC SCHOOL: - Thursdays at 6pm - Supper Club, open to all, pot-luck in common space at 2141 Broadway! - Fireworks submission deadline is 10th of each month - submit hacking stuff:http://fireworksbayarea.com/contribute/ - SPECIAL "Keeping tidy" Friday before 11:30am - Landlord showing a room to potential tenants - ===Other Announcements=== Co-Facilitator: Mary - (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ? - *Sundays @ 7pm* - Cleaning of Natural Decay - Who is available to lead this week? _____Marina______ - Subiir - Debut of second round, - Hacker Happy Hour - Sam hosting 8D - Footage for blog and wiki, get individual tutorials from folks! - Hopefully get some interactive activities on (Sarah and Rusty have volunteered) - Screenwriting Workshop Sundays 5-7pm at Sudo Room :D - http://sudoroom.org/calendar/ - Land Occupation - Occupy the Farm - Sat May 11th meet at Albany City Hall at San Pablo and Marin Ave at 12 noon! - http://occupythefarm.org/ - - === ACTION ITEMS === Co-Facilitatory: Jordan - (< 5 min) Co-Facilitator: ?☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝ - - Follow-up on previous items--keeping it brief, okay to table if necessary to next meeting: - - New Business: - - Blurb of short description to be used at different events - Tommy - *"Sudoroom is a community-supported hackerspace that provides open membership in a non-hierarchical, collaborative community working towards social change. You can help make Sudoroom more affordable and more accessible, and encourage more events like the one you're attending by donating today."* - For next agenda: discussion to share some of the ongoing initiatives that are going on to bring money into sudo room - *Matt* and *Jenny* will encourage Sudoers to think about and prepare for this. - DONE, discussing in Fiscal Solvency section - sudo-fund mailing list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-fund - Survey membership - *Matt* and *Bill* will do online and paper survey - Tabled to next week - *Vicky* has emailed the listserv asking people if they are interested in writing. The goal is to organize people to collaborate on writing marketing-type materials. - DONE. This sunday at 4pm is a meeting to work on this. - Sam - New video for blog and wiki (next happy hour? or meeting, happy hour and wiki/blog workshop in one!) - Can it be like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY - Would like to have an event where people collaboratively create videos and learn how to do videos. Possibly next Friday. Please coordinate with *Sam*. - This is happening!!!!!!!!!11111 - *Rusty* and *Ryan* will follow up with Dan on printing t-shirts. - Come to Rusty and Ryan about logos / designs / etc - Need to also follow up with Dan about helping him - Prep space for friday screenings: Audio, lighting, etc. - SDR (software defined radio) Meetup - when / where? - Cheap TV tuners that operate on a wide spectrum - It WILL be fun. - Find BILLLLLLLLLLLLL after the mtg - - Old Business: - - *Matt* will follow up with *Max*: Installing Linux on a second laptop for rock paper scissors collective (first was bad :() - *Ryan* B will bring in a laptop?(coordinate with *Wolf**y* on getting laptop) - DELIVERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - WHO WANTS TO RUN AN ETHERNET CABLE? - Matt will help - [Postponed] Talk to *Danny O'Brien*, intro from *JC* to *Jordan*, invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight! - Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later this month and Jordan will follow up then. - Continues to be postponed - [Skipping this week as it will be Art Mumur and we have a movie screening] Add Hacky Happer Hour to the calendar - *Romy* hosted Hacker Happy Hour - *[Postponed** until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb**] **Romy* to lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment - *Romy* to work with *Troy* to turn the articles into a flow diagram. Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around. - [*Postponed** until ?*] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? - https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) - *Yardena* is going to put these articles up - *[Vicky will do this] **Vicky* - follow up with Public School about Oakland Nights Live. - Marina will follow up with Vicky - Bill will talk with them about this regardless on Friday for "Captial and Crisis" putting on thinking caps - ... and "theorizing" - *[**Sharing Sketch Tomorrow for Supper w/ Public School**] **Jenny* - Set expectations for sudo events, make this available to internal & external - -Ensure doors are closed - -Trash and recycling - -Running the dishwasher - -Putting furniture back where it belongs - -Vacuum! - Jenny will discuss with Public School this Thurs. - *[Postponed until necessary] **Eddan* - Reference letter from George - *[Postponed** until necessary**] Jenny* sync with *Troy* on library - Not yet but they will - Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - *Jenny*!1 -* troy* - still need to set a date ==Fiscal Solvency== (20 min) Exchequer: Tommy && Co-facilitator: Marina - Financial Planning - Fund-raising efforts? - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Funding_Ideas - Food - Sudo Mate - *Max** & Ray* - Iced, carbonated, DELICIOUS mate soda beverage (exquisite, yum!) - Sudo Beer (Subiir) - *Morten* & *Marc* - Sudo Gravy (marinara sauce) - *Ray** - Last week's $40 went to Sudo Room rent. Sold all 4 pints (all that was left after dinner) Yay!* - Sudo Lunch / Grab-n-go option - ? [DOES NOT YET EXIST] - suggestion by *Marc* - Rusty's "Savior Bars"! - Some exchange model that is advantageous for some reason - *Eddie's "Dope" Popcorn* - "Just do it" - Schwag - 3D printed stuff - magnets - *Jordan* - bike mounting accessories (easy to print, can adapt to any device mounting!) -hol - jewelry - on-demand - other objects - other 3D printers - 3d printed exoskeleton - DIY handheld 3D printer pen based on a hot glue gun Cheap as hell - "Captain crunch whistles" - Le Oficial Ray (Rey?) - Bike bevereage holders - T-shirts - *Dan Finlay** (already an action item)* - Buttons (moar) - Dependent upon logo - LED cubes - hol?????????? - Membership dues - sliding-scale, voluntary (current) - *better* *advertisement* - --> Scrounging for MOAR - Flyers, put things around the area, galleries, cafes, etc. - Could be extremely effective - Could do a bike-about - better price-]points (concrete options beyond general $60 discussion) - will be informed by member survey (already an action item) - Do we accept *BITCOIN????????????* - Automatic reminders - Repair Services - Fix-it clinic style (especially electronics, etc)? - Could also do custom bike stuff, bike repair! - Specifically could get $ from burners - Not necessarily easy while in our current, less-developed state - Donated equipment - Repair and sell, e.g. on Ebay - suggestion by *Eddan* - Re-use and sell or sell as services - Similar potential to http://spokeland.org/ - DIY ISP ++ - a la http://ranchwifi.com/ - Laci Videmsky has offered to host a workshop on how to do this, like he and his business partner did with Ranch Wifi - Kits - electronics - (i won't be at the meeting tonight but if we come up with a few and order the components in bulk and package individually together, we can sell at events - Hol) - Home PCs for cheapz - Art kits - Writing kits - Kits of kits :D ^.^ ^.^ - Kits of 3D printers that create other kits - Non-profit status - Tax-deductable Donations as a 501(c)3 - Noisebridge and School Factory have offered to provide fiscal sponsorship - School Factory has a lot more experience than NB in fiscal sponsorship - Grants - Regular events - Raves - Speaker events - of particular relevance to our projects - Covers? No covers? - NOTES - Len - from a business standpoint there are two different funding mechanisms at play here - One is internal funding, the other is coming from external sources - You can also look at things as "products" or "not products" the technology may or may not be there. - Examine the who / what / where / when / why, and the time / effort involved -- you can cross most of it out - Jenny - Added speaker events section - In particular, UC Berkeley wifi groups are excited about sudo, would possibly be interested in speaking here - Tommy - We would want to do some of these things regardless of whether or not they brought in income - Sam - Art Murmur membership could provide us space to sell things. - Eddie - Internet security, in NY times two days ago - information security as a service we could offer. - *Second** Wed - budget** *(2nd & 3rd - collect dues, 4th - assess where we're at) - Pay your dues! - Review and consensus process: - Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3… - Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50 - Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people) - now we're collecting target of $60 - some give more - sense of urgency: Still working on month-to-month - Add to action items ==Amendments to the Articles of Association== Co-Facilitator: Matt ? ==Conflict Resolution== Co-Facilitator: Matt ? ==Additional Items== (per item) Co-Facilitator: Ryan - Space / New Space / The Search Continues (15 min) - Priorities / values - Historical / Previous requirements for any potential space are listed here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudo_room/open_a_space - Please note that those are from last year and is in need of updates. - Strategy - Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Romy or Matt for admin access) - Tweet any space details *@sudoroom* - Email *info(a)sudoroom.org* - Craigslist posting looking for friends - Report-back, Feedback from Art Murmur - piano went outside and people played it! - we need to do more to be on the street - create a holder for sudo mate to stand outside. - outdoor signage is very effective - this should be part of the art murmur set up. - saturday sign-making - flyer for art murmur - make it a BACH event - "come to sudo room" - be a part of the saturday stroll - ==Action Items== Scribe: Matt - Bill will set up automatic remindres - Sarah is willing to host a rave, perhaps weekly - FUNDING - Review existing funding options, re-categorize, organize - *Len, Matt, Marina, Jordan, Romy, Jenny* - Put your name next to specific projects that you are interested in - === Meeting Brief for Announce List === - *Scribe:** Make a succinct highlights message based on the meeting minutes* ==Post-Meeting Teamups / Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ? - Advertising - briefly with Ryan - Bill for software radio

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Fwd: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : *

by Jenny Ryan

Relevant event, Saturday night at 2141. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DZ Brazil <dzbrazil(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:03 PM Subject: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : * To: "bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com" < bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com> Dear Friends : There will be a presentation on Foxconn workers' struggles in China at CIIS this coming Friday (details below), followed by a Bay Area Public School presentation on these struggles by a member of the Gongchao collective the next night Saturday, May 18 at 8PM Details are on the Public School site here : http://www.thepublicschool.org/node/34332 Hope to see you at one or both of these events ! Love & solidarity -- David Brazil ----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Andrej Grubacic <agrubacic(a)ciis.edu> *To:* ANDREJ GRUBACIC <agrubacic(a)ciis.edu> *Sent:* Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:54 PM *Subject:* This Friday: * "We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle in China* Bay Area Tour! *Anthropology & Social Change* is pleased to invite you to: **"We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle in China** * California Institute of Integral Studies* * May 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm* * 1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103* * Room 304 * As the world's largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn employs more than one million people in China alone. Foxconn workers are the iSlaves who face horrendous conditions while producing communication tools like iPhones and iPads for Apple. In 2012, a series of worker suicides shook the Chinese Foxconn factories and drew world-wide attention. Management promised to improve conditions and increase wages, but the situation has not changed much since: Foxconn accelerated the relocation of factories to the Chinese hinterland, employs student interns as "cheap" labor, covers up work accidents, and still relies on its militaristic management regime. However, Foxconn workers are far from being passive victims. They have used everyday forms of resistance against the rhythm of the assembly line and have been able to stage strikes in various Foxconn factories around China. In this talk, a member of the gongchao.org <http://www.gongchao.org/> collective will share their research and activity around the struggles of Chinese migrant workers and will use words, photos, and films to present the situation at Foxconn. The discussion will focus on ways to support the iSlaves of Foxconn and relate their struggles to our own. *On gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/>* ** Gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> <http://Gongchao.org/<http://gongchao.org/>> was formed in September 2008 as a project for the research and documentation of labor unrest and social movements in China from the perspective of class struggle, migration, and gender. The website offers a selection of analytical texts and workers' stories in English and German. Among the gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> publications are: Unrest in China (2007), supplement to the wildcat- magazine; Dagongmei- Women Workers from China's World-Market Factories tell their Stories (2008), edited by Pun Ngai and Li Wanwei; The Take-off of the 2nd Generation- Gender, Migration, and Class Composition in China (2010), edited by Pun Ngai, Ching Kwan Lee et al,; and iSlaves - Exploitation and Resistance at China's Foxconn-Factories (2013), edited by Pun Ngai et al. (all published in German, with some parts translated into English). Besides writing and translating articles and books, gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> participates in inquiries and interview projects in China and sets up talks and discussions on Workers' Struggles in China in Eastern as well as Western Europe and beyond. For more information and background readings, check out: http://islavetour.wordpress.com/ and http://www.gongchao.org/. * BAY AREA TOUR DATES & LOCATIONS* • California Institute of Integral Studies May 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103 http://www.ciis.edu/ • Bay Area Public School May 18, 2013 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm 2141 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland CA 94612 http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area *THANKS TO:* IWW International Solidarity Commission, Silvia Federici & George Caffentzis, Manny Ness, Bluestockings, The Brecht Forum, 16 Beaver, The Wooden Shoe, 2640, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Teaching Assistants Association at UW-Madison, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at UW- Madison, Food Chain Workers Alliance, UCLA Downtown Labor Center, The Wildcat, Powell’s Bookstore (Chicago), Trumbullplex, California Institute of Integral Studies, Bay Area Public School, the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Seattle, Bay Area, and Los Angeles branches of the Industrial Workers of the World, and many more. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Bay Area Public School email list To post to this group, send email to bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com. 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3D printing night Tuesdays during micro controller nights

by Romy Snowyla

Ran into a new guy here doing 3D printing! Making Tuesdays a 3D printing night, the same as the micro controllers night. I'm printing arduino cases on the 3D printer so these dovetail nicely! Sent from my iPad

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