For those of you interested in conserving our local wildlife,
Our local oak trees are at risk by a strange, rapidly-spreading organism you may have heard of, being called Sudden Oak Death (SOD). While there is no cure, there are measures that can curb its spread.
However, to make sure those measures are implemented efficiently, it is important to do an annual survey of the current spread of this tree disease. This involves people like you attending a training to collect suspicious bay leaves, and take notes so that they can be sent to the lab for diagnosis and geo-tagging.
Information on attending such a training is attached.
-Dan Finlay
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Douglas SCHMIDT <dschmidt(a)berkeley.edu>
> Subject: SOD Blitz 2013 Survey Project Announcement
> Date: April 7, 2013 9:04:10 PM PDT
> To: Douglas SCHMIDT <dschmidt(a)berkeley.edu>
> Bcc: somniac(a)me.com
>
> Friends of Matteo's Lab,
> SOD Blitz season is upon us, and we need Citizen-Scientists like yourself help map the spread of Sudden Oak Death (SOD)! We are contacting you since you attended one of our SOD related workshops in the past and hope that you will participate again this year. Matteo Garbelotto's laboratory, in conjunction with the California Native Plant Society, are organizing this yearly survey project, which promises to be our largest ever. Come to a meeting in your local area, collect samples in your community, and have them laboratory analyzed for SOD. Thanks to support from USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation we are offering this program to you for free!
>
> The SOD Blitz project, updated meeting schedule, and local organizer contacts are available at www.sodblitz.org
> Thanks for getting involved!
> Doug Schmidt
>
>
> For your convenience the meeting dates are:
>
> Santa Cruz - Friday, April 12, 7:00pm,
> UCSC Arboretum, Santa Cruz, CA Map Link
> Contact: Annie Murphy - PLN400(a)co.santa-cruz.ca.us
> CNPS Contact: Brett Hall - brett(a)ucsc.edu
>
> Marin County - Saturday April 20, 10:00am,
> Dominican University, 155 Palm Ave.,
> Joseph R. Fink Science Center, Rm 102,
> San Rafael, CA Map Link
> Contact: Karen Suslow - karen.suslow(a)dominican.edu
> CNPS Contact: Kristin Jakob - kristinjakob(a)att.net
>
> East Bay - Two meetings to choose from: April 27,
> 10:00am, Orinda, Garden Room, Orinda Public Library, 26 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA
> Contact: Bill Hudson - wllhh(a)ymail.com
>
> 1:00pm, Berkeley, 159 Mulford Hall, UC Berkeley, Map Link
> Sign Up at Eventzilla
>
> San Luis Obispo - Friday, May 3, 6:30pm,
> SLO County Department of Agriculture,
> 2156 Sierra Way, San Luis Obispo, CA Map Link
> Contact: Kim Camilli - Kim.Camilli(a)fire.ca.gov
> CNPS Contact: Lauren Brown - lbrown805(a)charter.net
>
> Carmel Valley & Monterey - Saturday, May 4, 1:00pm,
> Garland Ranch Regional Park Museum meeting room at the ranger station,
> Carmel Valley, CA Map Link
> Contact: Kerri Frangioso - kfrangioso(a)ucdavis.edu
> CNPS Contact: Brian Leneve - bjleneve(a)att.net
>
> San Francisco - Saturday, May 7, 9:00 am
> Golden Gate Park Presidio & Golden Gate Park
> Rec Room, SF County Fair Building,
> Golden Gate Park near 9th Ave. & Lincoln Way, SF, CA
> Contact: Eric Anderson - eric.anderson(a)sfgov.org
>
> Mendocino - Saturday, May 11, 10:00am,
> College of the Redwoods, 1211 Del Mar Drive,
> Fort Bragg, CA Map Link
> CNPS Contact: Lori Hubbard - lorih(a)mcn.org
>
> South Bay - Two meetings to choose from: Saturday, May 18,
> 10:00am, Montalvo, Location and Map TBA
> Contact: Kelly Sicat - KSicat(a)montalvoarts.org
> CNPS Contact: Arvind Kumar - arvind.kumar(a)cnps.org
>
> 1:00pm, South Skyline, Location and Map TBA
> Contact: Jane Manning - skyline_sod(a)yahoo.com
>
> Penninsula - Two meetings to choose from: Saturday, May 25,
> 10:00am, Burlingame Hills, Map Link
> 120 Tiptoe Lane (off Canyon Rd.), Burlingame, CA
> Contact: Steve Epstein - steve(a)burlingamehills.org
>
> 1:00pm, Woodside/Portola Valley/Emerald Hills, Map Link
> Woodside Town Hall, 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA
> Contact: Debbie Mendelson - sodblitz(a)gmail.com
>
> Atherton - Saturday June 1, 10:00am, Map Link
> Carriage House, Holbrook Palmer Park, 150 Watkins Ave., Atherton, CA
> Contact: Susan Finocchio - susanfin(a)earthlink.net
>
> Los Altos Hills - Saturday, June 8, 10:00am Map Link
> Los Altos Hills Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA
> Contact: Sue Welch - sodblitz09(a)earthlink.net
>
> Sonoma - Three meetings to choose from: Saturday, June 15,
> 10:00am, Santa Rosa, Location and Map TBA
> 10:00am, Sonoma, Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
> 10:00am, Sebastopol, Location and Map TBA
> Contact: Phyllis Turrill - rainbow3(a)comcast.net
>
> Napa - Saturday June 15 Map Link
> UC Cooperative Extension Office, 1710 Soscol Avenue, Napa, CA
> Contact: Bill Pramuk - info(a)billpramuk.com
> CNPS Contact: Henni and Gerrald Cohen - hennic1044(a)gmail.com
I want to 3D print an arduino case with our epic articles of confederation written in rhetoric roman script up in the form of an epic heavy metal poem
What do you want to print in 3D???
---
Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
I didn't participate in the amazing alternative funding discussion going on
in the main room friday night.
wow! it was really neat.i overheard a tiny bit of it.
http://www.hippiessavedphysics.com
you'd like HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS
it discusses the role of unusual self-help gurus like eckhard tolle during
the 1970s. weird rich guys like that saved the discipline of quantum
physics during a time of deep government cutbacks. a lot of those physics
phds were unemployed and working in factories.
very neat stuff, especially considering that quantum physics is used today
for the most sophisticated bank encryption.
i enjoyed the book even though i'm not a physics expert.
the mixture of lsd + ESP studies and the colorful people is very
entertaining to say the very least!
You guys I'm excited about our TIL today! Shani is here preparing for
it. She has a background in composing chamber music and sound
engineering and fun-looking electronic instruments that I've never
even heard of before! It will also be a chance to catch everybody up
on the Sudo Radio situation and learn about all the equipment in
there. So come join us this afternoon! 2PM or earlier. ;)
Also if you have any questions about audio that you want
extra-researched answers for, you can bring/send your questions in
advance and she'll spend time doing that. Isn't that awesome???
Tonight during the general meeting I proposed the Today I Learned event
"Hacking Sexual Health". I'd like to open up the floor to multiple
facilitators interested in this topic area to help me lead either one TIL
workshop, or a series of workshops if there is sufficient excitement.
Hacking Sexual Health is intended for sexual and asexual people alike.
So what does it mean to hack sexual health? Ruminate on it. :]
My personal interest is hacking menstruation. I'd like to lead a workshop
for creating cloth pads out of recycled clothing. The workshop is intended
both for people who menstruate and for people who have friends who
menstruate (and want to make them lovely presents!). We will go over
different lady product options and have fun cost-comparisons for different
products and unproducts.
I will be reserving either April 27th or May 4th upon consulting my
secretary. :P
Please contact me if you are interested in developing your own workshop or
helping me to facilitate menstruation hacking!
ykciV
PS: Clothing hackers, you know who you are!
mwahaha! i manually entered into the wiki and emailed 6 or 7 new people for
"today i learned"
we should get this zoho or something crm
they were really into the 3d printing and audio sessions... i should have
tried to get them to go to more stuff.
maybe if you know someone who's interested, like a roommate,the best way to
get them to sudo room is a "today i learned" class?
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Oh hai everyone!
If you're one of the rare few who hasn't heard me rant about online
identity, now is your chance!
May 7-9: IIW workshop (Computer History Museum)
May 9-10: IDESG Plenary (see forwarded email)
There are two big events coming up in May that I feel are very
important. The first is IIW (Internet Identity Workshop), an
un-conference where people can collaborate on what they think and want
to future of online identity to be. http://iiw16.eventbrite.com/ for
more.
The second is more personal to me, and the agenda email I'm
forwarding, which takes place down the street from IIW with some
crossover. It's the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, which is a
bunch of government and corporation types trying to create policy for
online identity. Pointing specifically to the "Use Case workshop", we
want to bring as many people in favor of nym (online pseudonyms and
anonyms) rights to educate the IDESG plenary, and make sure our views
are heard. While we're already planning a few use cases, we think it's
important that everyone has a chance to be heard, even if (especially
if) you're non-technical.
If getting to the south bay is a challenge for you, we're going to try
to set up a carpooling system. Please let me know if you're interested.
It's also worth noting that the IDESG plenary is completely free :)
Cheers,
aestetix
PS: you can find more info on http://www.nymrights.org
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Subject: Agenda Announced for IDESG May Plenary Meeting
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:12:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Identity Ecosystem Steering Group Secretariat
<idecosystem(a)trustedfederal.com>
Reply-To: idecosystem(a)trustedfederal.com
To: aestetix(a)aestetix.com
IDESG Plenary
<https://www.idecosystem.org/page/register-attend-4th-plenary-meeting>
*
Register to Attend *
*Santa Clara *
*Plenary Meeting*
*May 9-10, 2013*
*<https://www.idecosystem.org/page/register-attend-4th-plenary-meeting> *
* *What:* 4th IDESG Plenary Meeting
* *When:* Thursday, May 9 at 8:00 AM (PT) to Friday, May 10 at 5:00 PM
(PT)
o Held immediately following the IIW Conference which is May 7-9,
2013 nearby at the Computer Museum.
* *Where:* The Network Meeting Center in Silicon Valley's TechMart
o 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 122
o Santa Clara, CA 95054
* List of Area Hotels
<https://www.idecosystem.org/page/4th-plenary-meeting-hotels>
* Sponsorship Opportunities
<https://www.idecosystem.org/page/4th-plenary-sponsorship-opportunities>
*IDESG May Plenary Agenda*
*Thursday, May 9, 2013*
* 8:30 a.m.: Welcome; Introduction of New Leadership Team
* 9:00 a.m.: Introduction of Management Council Work Planning
Subcommittee
o Work Planning Document
o Work Products Adoption Process
* 10:00 a.m.: Break
* 10:15 a.m.: Use Case Workshop
* 12:15 p.m.: Lunch on your own
* 1:15 p.m.: Use Case Workshop continued
* 3:45 p.m.: Break
* 4:00 p.m.: NSTIC Pilots Update
* 6:00 p.m.: Day One Wrap-up
* 6:30 p.m.: Happy Hour
*Friday, May 10, 2013*
* 8:00 a.m.: Success Metrics
o Organizational and Identity Ecosystem Health Discussion
* 8:45 a.m.: Business Plan Subcommittee Value Proposition and
Sustainability Planning
* 9:30 a.m.: Terms and Definitions
* 10:00 a.m.: Break
* 10:15 a.m.: Committee Breakouts (6 at a time)
* 11:45 a.m.: Lunch on your own
* 1:00 p.m.: Committee Breakouts (other 6 committees)
* 2:30 p.m.: Privacy Committee Report on PEM 2.0
* 3:30 p.m.: Break
* 3:45 p.m.: Plenary Wrap-up: Work Plan Alignment with Plenary
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I know we all love Google like a relative (that won't leave us alone about
our private lives), but it seems like a good idea to use their "Forms" for
this survey
IF you've already replied to list:
don't worry about refilling it out, I'll migrate responses
ELSE:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WmLrkg0tmFf3Ny66IyCmyMfqLc43MzhyQlgEs_dtaU…
IF interested in revamping questions:
form is openly editable
Max
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Subject:[dorkbotsf-blabber] Fwd: Priceless 2013: Calling All Artists!
From:Jean Rintoul <jean.rintoul(a)gmail.com>
To:dorkbotsf-blabber@dorkbot.org
Cc:
hullo, dorkbot humans! apologies for cross-posting, but i wanted to make sure that those of you who may not be on false profit's mailing list saw today's call for applications for Priceless 2013's art grants :)
see below for the official call, but basically we are seeking any art (or art-ish stuff, really) that will make priceless more awesome. this could be visual art installations, sculptures, interactive experiences, immersive environments, performance art, audio-visual extravaganzas, or...well, you tell us.
we're doing some work to expand our art grants program this year and we really want to pull in a ton of applicants for anything anyone thinks might make the event more fun or beautiful. this could be the sort of thing that you would normally just do on the side of the esplanade at burning man for fun one afternoon, or it could be the creation of a beautiful interactive space in a dome off in the woods, or hey--we all still love (contained, code-approved) fire :)
as the call notes, we're open to funding art projects that already exist, the creation of brand-new works, and projects destined for the playa.
suggest a thing! i can almost guarantee that we'll be excited about it.
deadline for applications is friday, 4/26.
love,
jean
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Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Priceless 2013: Calling All Artists!
To: jean.rintoul(a)gmail.com
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Calling all artists!
Dear community,
Please help us spread the word far and wide!
The Priceless art funding team is now accepting submissions for art installations at Priceless, False Profit's magical annual campout. This year it'll be July 4th - July 7th.
Tell your artist friends to download the application and learn more at http://priceless.false-profit.com/art.
We're looking for art that will make our event at Belden Town extraordinary: visual art installations, sculptures, interactions, and performance art. Priceless attendees particularly love art that's interactive, from large-scale and dramatic to intimate and whimsical. We fund art projects that already exist, the creation of brand-new works, and those destined for the playa. We want to showcase experiences that playfully engage and beautify, astonish and enlighten!
Grant awards generally range between $150 and $350 and include one ticket, with occasional exceptions for larger project needs. If your project does not require any funding, please note that in your application.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 26, 2013. Please submit your completed application to: art.priceless(a)false-profit.com
Notification of acceptance is Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Tickets for the event will go on sale early May, please check back in a couple weeks for more information on the ticket page. Remember: A big part of what Priceless so amazing is what YOU ALL bring to the event. Can't wait to see what you crazy folks come up with this year!!
With love,
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Please join us at 2PM this Saturday (*4/6*) for the "Today I Learned"
workshop "Audio Recording
101<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#Apr._6_Audio_Recording_101>
"
In this workshop, we'll go over the tools, terminology and applications
you'll need to get crackin' on a variety of audio endeavors.
Topics covered will include:
- Audio rudiments and terminology
- Analog v. digital
- Types of recordings (documentary, instrumental, electronic, MIDI)
- What you need to get yourself started on a project
Location: Sudo Room: 2141 Broadway, entrance on 22nd St., take the elevator
upstairs
Date & Time: Saturday 4/6 at 2PM
Supplies: Yourself (optional: recording equipment if you have it?)
Cost: Free
*...Next week's "Today I Learned": Clothes
Hacking<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#Apr._13_Clothes_Hacking>
!*
This workshop is part of the series “Today I Learned,” a series of free
workshops that take place every Saturday at 2PM at Sudo Room, a creative
community and hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Check out the full schedule
at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned and please forward widely.
// Matt
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From: "Jennifer Baek" <baek01(a)gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular" <discuss(a)freeculture.org>
Cc: "SFC Board" <board(a)freeculture.org>
Subject: [FC-discuss] Reminder: Register for the 2013 Free Culture Conference (Travel funding available!)
Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 9:16 AM
Jut a reminder that if you haven't already, please REGISTER FOR FCX2013!
Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference, FCX2013,
at New York Law School on April 20-21st!
The
Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of student and
non-student activists, thinkers, and innovators who are dedicated to advancing
discussions on technology, law, and public policy. Through panels and keynote
speakers, FCX 2013 will focus on current issues in intellectual property law,
open access to educational resources, maker culture, and technology policy.
Through workshops, the conference will revisit the core pillars of the free
culture movement, examine the success stories from our movement, and identify
new ways in which Students for Free Culture can advocate for a more free, open,
and participatory digital environment.
For
more information about the conference, visit the conference website: http://fcx2013.org
Through
the generosity of our sponsors, SFC is once again able to offset
student travel costs for this
year’s conference in NYC. If you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC next month, please
do not hesitate to fill out the form to request travel funding.
We have some money and we want to give it to you. Here is the form: http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding
If you
have friends at schools that do not currently have an active SFC chapter
but you think they should be at the conference, please pass along the link to them, too. Sometimes attending the conference is just the
spark that someone needs to get out there and start a new chapter on their
campus!
If
you have any questions, feel free to email board(a)freeculture.org or baek01(a)gmail.com Program
details are below.
Cheers,
Jennifer
--
Day 1 (April 20, 2013)
08:30
a.m. – 09:30 a.m.
Registration
09:30
a.m. – 09:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks
09:45
a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
A.M. Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill (Berkman Center for
Internet and Society)
10:30
a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Getting Past Gridlock: What does Tangible Copyright Reform Look
Like?
How
can copyleft advocates and copyright reformists make progress in effectuating
change in United States copyright laws? This panel considers what smaller,
achievable reform looks like, how it can be accomplished, and what next steps
for the immediate future will be. Panelists will discuss: Are the objectives of
the Copyright Act being met in practice today? How can reform, even at a small
scale, benefit content owners, creators, and users?
Moderator:
·
Parker Higgins
(Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Panelists:
·
Patricia Aufderheide
(Center for Social Media, American University)
·
Karen Sandler
(QuestionCopyright.org, GNOME)
·
Sherwin Siy (Public
Knowledge)
11:45
a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
The Future of Open Access Advocacy
Open
Access has been of great interest and importance to SFC for several years. This
panel focuses on what open access means and what kind of advocacy work is being
done in this area, as well as clarifying misconceptions of what open access is
really about. Panelists will talk about their experiences with and perspectives
on open access advocacy and discuss: What is the impact of OA on academic
research and publishing? What are the core principles behind OA? How can people
effectively advocate for open access causes?
Moderator:
·
Adi Kamdar (Electronic
Frontier Foundation)
Panelists:
·
Nicole Allen (Student
PIRGs/Make Textbooks Affordable)
·
Nick Shockey
(SPARC/Right to Research Coalition)
·
Timothy Vollmer
(Creative Commons)
01:00
p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
02:00
p.m. – 02:45 p.m.
P.M. Keynote: James Vasile (Open Internet Tools
Project, New America Foundation)
02:45
p.m. – 04:00 p.m.
Makers, Hackers, and the World They Build
Maker
and hacker culture, highly collaboratory and extremely prolific, both adopt free
cultural ideals, such as sharing, open source, collaboration, and remix. This
panel explores how maker and hacker culture puts into practice these free
culture ideals, as well as how makers and hackers build community and work
towards social good.
Moderator:
·
Trystram
Spiro-Costello (Rutgers University)
Panelists:
·
Catarina Mota (NYU
ITP/openMaterials)
·
Alicia Gibb
(NYCResistor/Open Source Hardware Association)
·
Daniel Reetz
(DIYBookScanner.org)
04:00
p.m. – 05:15 p.m.
The Changing Landscape of Online Speech and its Regulation
Free
speech is held as one of the central tenets of many online communities, but
what is meant by it? In many online communities, censorship, freedom of speech,
pornography, harassment, and hate speech are often conflated without
consideration of who is given the power to speak. This panel will consider if,
how, and when speech online should be regulated, and by whom.Panelists will
also discuss whether Internet service providers should be held liable for
user-generated content, and what such liability would mean for free expression
online.
Moderator:
·
Jennifer Baek (New
York Law School)
Panelists:
·
Molly Land (New York
Law School)
·
Gabriel Rottman
(American Civil Liberties Union)
·
Ari Waldman (New York
Law School)
05:15
p.m. – 05:30 p.m.
Closing
Remarks for Day 1
Day 2 (April 21, 2013)
09:00
a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Registration
10:00
a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Unconference Welcome
10:30
a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Workshops Session I
·
Open Access Advocacy
Moderators: Nick Shockey and Matt Cooper
·
Wikipedia & Education
Moderator: Lane Rasberry
12:00
p.m. – 01:30 p.m.
Workshops Session II
·
Free Culture &
Civic Engagement
Moderator: Noel Hidalgo·
The Future of the Org.
Moderators: Kyra and Adelaida McInire
01:30
p.m. – 02:30 p.m.
Lunch
02:30
p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Lightning Talks/Presentations
3:30
p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
SFC General Body Meeting
// Matt
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From: "howard dyckoff" <howarddy(a)gmail.com>
To: <openoakland(a)googlegroups.com>
Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] Forum: Technology Comes to Oakland
Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 5:19 AM
FYI:
Hot Topics: Technology Comes to Oakland
As more technology companies move to Oakland, and as more companies build
products designed to improve public processes, what will the impact be on our city?
What would we like to see?
Join the discussion!
Monday, April 22, 6-7:30 p.m.
California Federation of Teachers office, 1330 Broadway, Suite 1601
Downtown Oakland
The League of Women Voters of Oakland sponsors monthly HOT TOPICS roundtable discussions
to inform members and the public and to seek ways we can come together to
address important issues facing our community.
For more information, go to the League website: http://www.lwvoakland.org
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We now have a network scanner!
Here's the short of it:
Drop some documents into it and end up as a pdf on the file server.
It has an automatic document feeder, which is awesome
Here's the guide on how to use it and more:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/O:73
--
Marc Juul
Hey Everyone,
Just thought I would point this out, since it came up earlier in the dues
thread. But, Marc's point(a very good marketing point about 24/7 access),
has as a big security exception, we didn't really talk about, probably
mostly because of time.
Basically, it's easy for us to think "hey, we should let this person have
access, because they seem cool, and we want to remain open," but even I get
sketched out at night sometimes, and there are real safety issues at work
here, and we should discuss them in relation to cost/benefits for the
space. It's also entirely possible that we trust someone, and they just do
something bad anyway. We don't really spend a lot of time thinking about
this, but this is something we haven't had to really deal with yet, because
we've had really shitty access up until now.
I don't know if my survey asked this question properly, but I was trying to
see if 24/7 access was worth more to people as a value, but I think for
some people it could be a safety draw-back, and at least in 1 case this is
true. I also am not sure it's really something we should be promoting, if
we do decide on it being okay for members to do.
If anyone wants to post about how they feel about this(I think it really is
about feelings in this case, because it's about promoting membership and
establishing wants/needs), then please feel free to reply here.
Thanks,
Rusty
**
hi everyone,
during yesterday's meting we discussed doing film screenings on fridays.
how would people feel about april 19th being the first day?
i've started a wiki entry where you can add suggestions for movies:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films
- marina
Hello all, last night at the general meeting Marc and I brought up the use of a small fridge at Sudo for use as a reagents storage fridge (bio fridge). 15 folks consented to the use of the fridge to store reagents associated with the propagation of Gonorrhea. THERE WILL BE NO GONORRHEA in the fridge, just the agar plates and broth we need to culture the organism at a later date in our community lab. I just wanted to see if there were any e-objections. If not, I will Devon and start storing reagents in the fridge.
Craig
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> 1. Re: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health (Rick Karnesky)
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> 3. Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Frontend Web Development, April
> 15: FIRST CLASS of the new series! (Naomi Most)
> 4. Re: new sudoroom dues survey: google forms edition (not reply
> to list) (Marina Kukso)
> 5. Re: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health: Resistant bugs generally.
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> 6. Re: new sudoroom dues survey: google forms edition (not reply
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> 7. Re: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health (aestetix)
> 8. Re: Survey on Money at the space(please reply to this)
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> 9. Instant 24/7 access? Do we allow for this? And how?
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> 11. Re: Instant 24/7 access? Do we allow for this? And how?
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> 12. Re: Instant 24/7 access? Do we allow for this? And how?
> (Sonja Trauss)
> 13. Re: Instant 24/7 access? Do we allow for this? And how?
> (Marina Kukso)
> 14. Re: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health (Romy Ilano)
> 15. Re: Help with dinner tonight? (WAS: Food and the absence
> therein) (Hol Gaskill)
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> From: Rick Karnesky <karnesky(a)gmail.com (mailto:karnesky@gmail.com)>
> To: Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com (mailto:vknoxsironi@gmail.com)>
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> A few leads on the topic, courtesy of Bart Bernhardt (who had answered a
> call for ideas on a broader subject for Valentine's Day this year). Kyle
> and people from AE did a show-and-tell for the Commonwealth Club
>
> ---
>
> "- Kyle Machulis is a whip-smart brash software engineer who, on the
> side, blogs about teleldildonics (using haptic and telecommunications
> technology to facilitate long-distance sex), DIY sex toys, and other
> mash-ups of sex and tech. He's really fun. http://slashdong.org/
>
> - Long, long ago, the Exploratorium Biology dept had an exhibit that was
> something like "The Olfaction of Attraction" and had little squeeze
> bottles with human pheromones in them. Depending on your genes and
> gender, you may find the smell either repulsive or attractive. This
> would make a great interactive station. It's fantastic seeing two
> people, one with a look of disgust and the other with a pleased smile,
> trying to reconcile their different perceptions.
>
> - The Archaeology of Vice. Kari Jones and Liz Clevinger work in the
> archaeology programs at the Presidio of San Francisco. Among the things
> unearthed? Well, the archeological record suggests that, shockingly,
> soldiers stationed there liked sex, based on the wide range of vintage
> porn, prophylactics, and medically-dubious STD cures dug up in the
> Presidio."
>
> --Rick
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> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:16:05 -0700
> From: Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com (mailto:isalix@gmail.com)>
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> I know we all love Google like a relative (that won't leave us alone about
> our private lives), but it seems like a good idea to use their "Forms" for
> this survey
>
> IF you've already replied to list:
> don't worry about refilling it out, I'll migrate responses
> ELSE:
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> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WmLrkg0tmFf3Ny66IyCmyMfqLc43MzhyQlgEs_dtaU…
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> form is openly editable
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> Max
>
Ive been making soups in the crockpot and can continue doing the same. I left miso and greens in the fridge, another stop at Koreana Plaza for rice noodles, oyster mushrooms, green onion, and tofu should do. Feel free to grab other things for a soup too. The trick is to heat up the crockpot with a bit of water or soup base, then use the water boiler above the sink for the boiling. Basically a simple hotspot, nothing needs more than a 10 minutes of hot water to cook.
// Matt
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Subject: [sudo-discuss] Help with dinner tonight? (WAS: Food and the absence therein)
Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 3:41 PM
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Raymond Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My fellow Sudoers, I am not feeling well and will not be able to make the
> meeting tonight. I wish I could say there are leftovers in the fridge. :(
Thanks so much for all your work Ray!
If anybody else would like to collaborate on food tonight, I'd love to
help! I can contribute time, car, buying ingredients, chopping skills,
and following directions, in exchange for your contribution of
leadership. :) :) :)
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This is a great idea!
In the 1990s I used to go to some punk rock feminist women's health talks.
One session had us doing self-examinations using speculums with mirrors.
I'd like to throw that into the "stone soup" of a mix!
http://www.fwhc.org/health/selfcare.htm
- I'm unsure how comfortable most women would be doing self-examinations in
front of men.
- Using speculums and mirrors was very informative! I never realized how
most women are taught to think of their privates as dirty--so much so to
the point that they didn't know how their lady parts worked!
(Rusty: sorry for the double e-mail)
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:56 AM, rusty lindgren <rustylindgren(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, it's easy for us to think "hey, we should let this person have
> access, because they seem cool, and we want to remain open," but even I get
> sketched out at night sometimes, and there are real safety issues at work
> here, and we should discuss them in relation to cost/benefits for the space.
> It's also entirely possible that we trust someone, and they just do
> something bad anyway. We don't really spend a lot of time thinking about
> this, but this is something we haven't had to really deal with yet, because
> we've had really shitty access up until now.
Honestly I'm not comfortable linking access to payment, for a lot of
reasons, but I'll try to outline the most salient thing for me right
now:
* I don't think access means anything if a person can't feel safe here
* I don't feel safe when I'm at the space all alone
* I feel even better when I'm sharing the space with multiple people
who I know and trust
* Our goal should be for the space to be full of known & trusted
people -- if not always, then as much as possible
* It would be silly to turn anybody away at that point
So my goal day in and day out is to look for ways to expand Sudoroom's
web of trust - not just get people to the space, not just facilitate
and encourage them giving money to the space, but helping them feel
happy and comfortable and like they could be a part of a community,
and that coming here will give them a chance to hack awesome things,
work on their projects, get inspired for new projects.
I'm open to solutions in the form of rules and algorithms, but I'm
skeptical of any solutions that seem to close doors (literally &
figuratively) because Sudoroom and hackerspaces in general are so new
and experimental.
The scepter of an untrusted person being alone in the space is
important, but I honestly don't see a good reliable antidote other
than "add more trusted people." Safety in numbers.
Hey Everyone,
I am writing because it was discussed at the meeting tonight that we don't
really have an idea of how much people want to pay for the space ,and also
if people think the current payment approach is good based on some
alternatives that were brought up. I'd also like to ask about basic
productizing to see if people would be interested in using some of our
funds to get t-shirts and stickers, and maybe even decorated key-cards like
hacker conferences do for hotel rooms.
So, can everyone answer these questions(below)? I know it's not perfect
research, but I think it covers most of what came up in the meeting.
Questions:
1. How much would you pay for current membership, with access as
planned?
2. How much would you pay for current membership with 24/7 access to the
space(i.e. new door cards on next payment)?
3. Would you be okay with spending some money on re-branding of the
space(even if it doesn't mean changing our logo), by getting more t-shirts
and stickers?
4. Do you think it would it be more attractive to you to have a lower
fixed price if you were joining the space, and you got 24/7 access at that
moment with a keycard?
5. Would it be more attractive to you if you were joining the space, and
you got a free t-shirt and cool looking keycard upon joining or giving some
sort of donation "gift" like kickstarter projects give?
This is only an attempt to get at some of what we talked about, and I'm
hoping that it will kind of shine some light on the amount of money people
want to pay et all.
Please help out!
--
Cheers,
Rusty Lindgren
**
This is a very good class, always full. Very good for beginners and
doesn't stop at HTML/CSS/js.
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From: Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:19 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Frontend Web Development, April 15: FIRST
CLASS of the new series!
To: "noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net" <
noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>,
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I'm taking a week's break and returning April 15!
Learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript - and put them to good use! This weekly
lecture series, taught by Jeffrey Carl Faden, is aimed at complete
beginners who are interested in making websites, as well as seasoned
professionals looking to brush up on the latest and greatest.
Frontend web development is all about making code that runs in the
browser (versus code that runs on the server). There isn't a big focus
on web design (creating wireframes and mockups), but we do cover best
practices for turning these designs into beautiful code.
This is the first class of a new series of classes. If you or your
friends been waiting to jump in from the very beginning, this is the
class to take - so spread the word. We'll cover the very basics:
- Explaining "frontend" vs. "backend"
- Discussing tools of the trade
- Explaining the separation between structure, presentation, and behavior
- Writing a basic HTML page
- Styling the page with basic CSS
- Explaining the role of frontend web development as a job and career
The class starts on Monday, April 15 at 8pm, and goes until 10pm! Plan to
arrive EARLY, as the class will probably fill up very fast.
If you can't make it to this week's lecture, you can watch a live
video stream of the class. Join this Google+ Event to be notified of
when to hop on:
*https://plus.google.com/events/cgs3kmasqdu7f7s7i644i5f7e9g*
This video stream will also be available to watch after the class is
complete.
This class and the space in which it's taught are entirely free to
attend. Please bring a laptop. Read all of the details here:
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Frontend_Web_Development
Jeffrey
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