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‘Hakitzu’ Teaches Kids to Code With Robot Warriors

by Ray Lai

Teaching. Coding. Robots in Arenas. Hell yeah! I've always been a proponent of utilizing games to teach. I haven't checked out the game, it sounds like it's on the right track. Ideas on how me might be able to do the same here at Sudo Room? http://mashable.com/2013/03/27/hakitzu/?utm_source=iphoneapp&utm_medium=rss… Raymond Lai Ice Cream Man Atomic Ice Cream Facebook.com/MotoAtomico

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] Microcontroller Hacking begins in 48 hours!

by hol＠gaskill.com

Hi Steve, I put that project up on the etherpad. Last night we did 2-axis control of a webcam using hobby servos controlled by an arduino with pointing instructions sent via serial and we have a few industrial servos used for HVAC that I would like to experiment with at some point for dish pointing. They are there next to the dishes if you want to check them out and pull the datasheets, run on 24V ac or dc with an odd way of sending the signal. Personally I am trying (and failing somewhat) to focus on CNC and brewing/process control so it might be a while before I can help with a detailed project, but I would like to figure out how to drive those servos. What kind of pointing accuracy do you need? My guess is that these will not cut it, but that doesn't mean we can't put something together. Still have not had a second rocket meetup either now that I think of it... Cheers, Hol Mar 27, 2013 03:07:49 PM, steveberl(a)gmail.com wrote: I notice on the etherpad that someone is interested in a 2 axis control for a radio dish. I'm interested in that also. In particular I want to mount a house satellite TV dish sized antenna on a 2 axis mount for radio astronomy use. It requires smooth and precise, but slow movement. >Who is it that is interested in this project? Can you get in contact with me? >-steve > >On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:43 PM, hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > >Howdy folks, > > We are two days away from the beginning of the second microcontroller project hacking night at sudo room. As someone suggested, I created a facebookpage for the event. Please invite people you think might be interested! I previously ordered 10 ATMega328p chips and crystals, and will have them available at cost ($5) for those just starting out who want a basic controller. > > Event Link: > https://www.facebook.com/events/502675869769339/ > > Also, there is an etherpad to jot down projects you intend to work on in case anyone out there is interested in collaborating: > https://pad.riseup.net/p/microbotics > This will be an ongoing document, and is intended to provide a subsystem-level view of project elements in order to encourage people to join together to work on individual elements or principles where interests overlap in a way that permits a limited scope of collaboration, without having to commit to recurring work on an entire project. > > We had some interesting projects last time and I expect even more this time, hopefully with a few people from the last event returning to show what they've done with their projects since then. Personally I will try to go back and forth between 50% working on 2-3 projects, 30% getting newbies started on their controller builds, and 20% snacking/shooting the shit. Looking forward to seeing y'all! > > Cheers, > Hol > _______________________________________________ > sudo-announce mailing list > sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-announce > > > >-- >-steve

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sudo room bank account info

by Matthew Senate

attached is a statement as of today (after a deposit this morning) Total funds: 2,286.35 // Matt

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Off grid energy panels that we don't see in the cool Silicon Valley tech talks

by Romy Ilano

I'm seeing very smart conversations about off grid alternative energy infrastructure and systems here Is there a way to easily show me in a chart what the off grid alternatives are that are not discussed in the cool Silicon Valley greentech scene? And I hope nobody bashes greentech too much... It's become such a dirty word in the investment community because its returns are not quick and easy like mobile social networks There are a lot of great biofuels panels I worked on where the idea of off grid wasn't presented because its not a viable business model. I think the lesbian biofuels reclaimed cooking oil gas station in Berkeley I met a fee years ago was neat but it was hard to make people see it as relevant in a deal flow So I feel my education is incomplete as are other Americans --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Please help pay dues / our rent (we're going to be short), plus seeking materials for a (physical) drop box.

by Tommy York

As Marina mentioned in her email, we're *short rent* and need to *collect dues* from everyone to cover it. I understand that meeting attendance hasn't been as high as active membership in general, but if you've missed out on paying dues in the last month, can do so, and can make it tonight, come! One thing I thought might make a significant different in collecting rent and dues is having a (physical) drop box installed on the wall in Sudoroom, so that people could safely drop off checks at any time of the day. I suppose this would be much like the mailbox, but mayhaps with keys distributed to the ~5 checksigners, so that checks could even be dropped off in this physical box after receiving them in the mail. I'm broke until I get my first paycheck from my new work in ~2.5 weeks, and don't really have a lot of things, so I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about a potential lockable dropbox to install on the wall / somewhere at Sudoroom. If all else fails, I'll check out urban ore before the meeting. tl;dr: pay rent. - tommy ----------------- Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510 http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork

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Meeting Tonight Promptly at 7PM + Pay Your Dues!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, we will be starting promptly at 7PM tonight. during this meeting we hope to finalize an amendment to the articles of association (please see below). also, this is the *final week of the month and we are still short for april rent*. please bring your checkbooks, cash, etc. this evening or pay via wepay on sudoroom.org. If you have items for the agenda, the blank pad is here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom* *(can someone please add the meeting agenda template?) thanks, marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:39 AM Subject: [sudo-discuss] UPDATE/REMINDER: Amending Articles of Association on 3/27! To: sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org, sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> We were supposed to finally vote to update the Articles of Association on 3/20, but the wiki went down on 3/18 and stayed down until this past weekend! We didn't feel comfortable voting without the diff in front of us, and knowing that the full week of "online-consentability" was not fulfilled. But now the wiki is back up - thanks to all the people who worked hard to fix it! This message serves as your reminder. You have an extra few days to review the diff online, to make up for lost time: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FCo… Hope to see you at the 3/27 meeting and finally make this happen! _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Need help reshaping some data with pandas (and/or numpy)...

by Naomi Most

Hello nice persons, Would any of you python mathematical types be willing to help me solve a problem using pandas (and/or numpy)? The math itself isn't hard; the difficulty revolves around my unfamiliarity with the tools, and good god is this ever a huge load of learning I'm having to do just to reshape some data. --Naomi -- Naomi Theora Most naomi(a)nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost

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TODAY, 7pm at Noisebridge

by Cyrus Farivar

The technology movement in Kosovo with @gentthaci http://on.fb.me/11AUuqI -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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Re: [sudo-discuss] [support.iocoop.org #1711] wikispot.org server

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Anyone able to pick up a server for sudo? // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Philip Neustrom" <philip(a)localwiki.org> To: "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Subject: [support.iocoop.org #1711] wikispot.org server Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 11:41 PM I don't have a car, but localwiki can donate this server to sudoroom if we can figure out a way to pick it up and transport. I will need to pull the drives, though. Ideas? It's relatively speedy, just not worth colo'ing for us (switched to ec2 for now) Begin forwarded message: From: "Ben Kochie via RT" <support(a)iocoop.org> Date: March 19, 2013, 11:25:00 PM PDT To: philip(a)localwiki.org Subject: [support.iocoop.org #1711] wikispot.org server Reply-To: support(a)iocoop.org Any chance you can pick up the machine this Wednesday (March 20)? On Fri Mar 15 13:41:12 2013, ben(a)nerp.net wrote: Sorry we didn't get a chance to sync up this week. I'll be oncall this weekend, so I'll be home most of the day, except I have some errands to run between 12:00 and 16:00 on Saturday. On Mon Mar 11 18:11:43 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote: Wednesday works better - I'll swing by then. Around what time? Philip Neustrom Executive Director LocalWiki http://localwiki.org On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:57 PM, "Ben Kochie via RT" <support(a)iocoop.org> wrote: I unracked the machine and will be home later this evening. This week is somewhat busy. I will probably be home around 10pm tonight, unless you want to meet me at City Beer Store between 7pm and 10pm. I'll also be available some time on Wednesday evening after the coop board meeting. On Mon Mar 11 17:23:58 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote: Your apartment would be great! Let me know when a good time to pick it up is. Philip Neustrom Executive Director LocalWiki http://localwiki.org On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Ben Kochie via RT <support(a)iocoop.org> wrote: Oh wait, if you're in SF, I can bring the machine to my apartment in SF. On Mon Mar 11 17:20:58 2013, ben(a)nerp.net wrote: It looks like this machine as accidentally racked in Layer42. I looked at the console and it's in a crash loop. I unplugged it and can either ship the drives to you for data recovery, or I can arrange to ship the whole machine. Please let me know. On Thu Mar 07 15:06:13 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote: Would be good to get this machine if possible. There may be a couple of things on it we'll want, as it died (?) right before the move. I'm in SF so if you're here too it shouldn't be too hard to coordinate? On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:24 PM, "Ben Kochie via RT" <support(a)iocoop.org> wrote: No, Graham gave all of the equipment to the coop. However we're likely just going to recycle most of it since it's pretty old gear. -ben On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Philip Neustrom via RT wrote: I'm assuming graham has some machines he wants back? If so, you could pass this machine on to graham and I could coordinate with him On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Ben Kochie via RT" <support(a)iocoop.org> wrote: I can either arrange to have it sent to you, or I can do the data wipe for you if you would like. On Tue Feb 26 23:16:57 2013, philip(a)localwiki.org wrote: I haven't been following all the colo deracking threads, but I'd like to let you know that we've migrated off the machine after it stopped responding yesterday so it can be safely deracked this weekend. The Q I have: what will happen to this physical machine? It has sensitive user data on it so I'd like to make sure it gets either destroyed, returned to its own (us? Amit?), or picked up by us. How should we coordinate this? May be easiest for us to just take it and hand it off to Amit if he wants it. Thanks for all your amazing work!! Philip

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sudo room Press File / Archive

by Maximilian Klein

After digging through some archives of c-base (an epic hackerspace in Berlin), I thought it'd be wise to start collecting memories of sudo room. I've created http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Press to neutrally and unbiasedly start charting our journey from fledgling to Mother Goose to wayward hackers. Please, 'read all about it'. add, and expound http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Press without confusion, notconfusing

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UPDATE/REMINDER: Amending Articles of Association on 3/27!

by Yardena Cohen

We were supposed to finally vote to update the Articles of Association on 3/20, but the wiki went down on 3/18 and stayed down until this past weekend! We didn't feel comfortable voting without the diff in front of us, and knowing that the full week of "online-consentability" was not fulfilled. But now the wiki is back up - thanks to all the people who worked hard to fix it! This message serves as your reminder. You have an extra few days to review the diff online, to make up for lost time: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FCo… Hope to see you at the 3/27 meeting and finally make this happen!

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wiki spam

by Matthew Harbowy

All: There's a lot of wiki spam that is being created as of the 24th- I would like to propose that we have either a temporary block or email verification on users who create accounts and immediately create new pages, and possibly a block on certain ip ranges. thoughts? (who wants to go in and revert the recent spam? Who wants to make it their full time job?) -matt (hbergeronx)

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crawlspace takeaway

by Yardena Cohen

This weekend, I and several other sudoers laid ethernet cable from SudoRoom to the front door, which meant crawling through the "crawlspace." It was successful! And we've learned a lot for the next time. I've documented the experience here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Attic tl;dr it's a giant deadly attic. Be very careful.

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new sudo-food list + updated list of all mailing lists

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, if you are interested in food hacking, etc. please join the new *sudo-food*list. additionally, we have a few new lists for people to join as well. please check out all the specific mailing lists here: http://lists.sudoroom.org/ - marina

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Cross pollination with dancers and sound guys

by Lit JC

Romy, I believe you misread my intent. It was NOT about PR and they aren't selling anything except t-shirts (for the non-creative). It was a request for interest in participating. Sudo is a creative community. I'd waste our time asking for anything else, no? j. On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > Cool! > > I'm more interested in being creative. We do not always Have to be Promoting or buying Stuff > > It's nice all these companies are offering but I'm not a pr company .. And if I come up with an idea but do nothing but promote someone who already has something what's the point of sudo room ? > > I like that guys point from the last meeting . Lets make it more about creation and less about lame fake product placements > > So i avoid this option as much as possible > > > > --- > > Romy Ilano > Founder of Snowyla > http://www.snowyla.com > romy(a)snowyla.com > > On Mar 25, 2013, at 8:10, J Clark <LitSL(a)manymedia.com> wrote: > >> It can be done and it's pretty cool. There's a company, PhaseSpace, taking those ideas a step further: using the LEDs for animation (e.g., Spiderman). See phasespace.com and towerofthedragon.com. Are there sudoers who might like to help with the Tower movie? Those folks would love it to be a community-participatory thing. >> >> j. >> >> >> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Romy Ilano wrote: >> >>> Hey I hung out at sudo room yesterday ... The sound art guys were cool! >>> Then came a public school dance group -- this lady led a bunch of male dancers which was neat. I'm so used to women dance troupes >>> >>> It got me thinking:: how do you get the different groups to cross pollinate more? >>> >>> Do sudo room people mix much with the dancers or the public school? >>> >>> I'm already thinking of ways to coax the dance group to work with the experimental sound guys and do some kind of dance music hack! >>> >>> Maybe we can build arduinos to put on the dancers ! >>> >>> Mwahaha >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Romy Ilano >>> Founder of Snowyla >>> http://www.snowyla.com >>> romy(a)snowyla.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>

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Fwd: Cross pollination with dancers and sound guys

by Romy Ilano

--- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com Begin forwarded message: > > > I'm more interested in being creative. We do not always Have to be Promoting or buying Stuff > > It's nice all these companies are offering but I'm not a pr company .. And if I come up with an idea but do nothing but promote someone who already has something what's the point of sudo room ? > > I like that guys point from the last meeting . Lets make it more about creation and less about lame fake product placements > > So i avoid this option as much as possible > > > > --- > > Romy Ilano > Founder of Snowyla > http://www.snowyla.com > romy(a)snowyla.com > > On Mar 25, 2013, at 8:10, J Clark <LitSL(a)manymedia.com> wrote: > >> It can be done and it's pretty cool. There's a company, PhaseSpace, taking those ideas a step further: using the LEDs for animation (e.g., Spiderman). See phasespace.com and towerofthedragon.com. Are there sudoers who might like to help with the Tower movie? Those folks would love it to be a community-participatory thing. >> >> j. >> >> >> On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Romy Ilano wrote: >> >>> Hey I hung out at sudo room yesterday ... The sound art guys were cool! >>> Then came a public school dance group -- this lady led a bunch of male dancers which was neat. I'm so used to women dance troupes >>> >>> It got me thinking:: how do you get the different groups to cross pollinate more? >>> >>> Do sudo room people mix much with the dancers or the public school? >>> >>> I'm already thinking of ways to coax the dance group to work with the experimental sound guys and do some kind of dance music hack! >>> >>> Maybe we can build arduinos to put on the dancers ! >>> >>> Mwahaha >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Romy Ilano >>> Founder of Snowyla >>> http://www.snowyla.com >>> romy(a)snowyla.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>

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Cross pollination with dancers and sound guys

by Romy Ilano

Hey I hung out at sudo room yesterday ... The sound art guys were cool! Then came a public school dance group -- this lady led a bunch of male dancers which was neat. I'm so used to women dance troupes It got me thinking:: how do you get the different groups to cross pollinate more? Do sudo room people mix much with the dancers or the public school? I'm already thinking of ways to coax the dance group to work with the experimental sound guys and do some kind of dance music hack! Maybe we can build arduinos to put on the dancers ! Mwahaha --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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waves of wiki spam

by Naomi Most

I'm watching the Recent Changes list and seeing a huge wave of spam. I wasn't paying attention to the wiki until about a week ago, so forgive my ignorance, but is there a strategy for dealing with this stuff? Can I help? Cheers, Naomi -- Naomi Theora Most naomi(a)nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Who's ordained as a kopimism minister?

by Yardena Cohen

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: >>> And who's interested in getting kopimism religious services started up >>> again? On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> jae kwon is the high priest, but isn't everyone a priest of kopimism? >> (forgive my ignorance) On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote: > i'm interested.. we actually pirated Kopimism from the original Swedish > sect. so we can ordain anyone we want as a priest of the Oakland Church of > Kopimism I'm a kopimist rabbi and can perform conversions, but they're not recognized by most haredi kopimists. I can also write kopimist fatwas.

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Who's ordained as a kopimism minister?

by Romy Ilano

And who's interested in getting kopimism religious services started up again? --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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I hax0red your d00r!

by Lisha Sterling

I am a happy girl, sitting in the hackerspace feeling all pwnie, which is like a bronie, only not at all. (But I do like unicorns!) I was given the password to the downstairs door on Friday. I came inside imagining that there would be other people up here. Alas. There was no one. I tried the downstairs password on the upstairs door. FAIL! (Mine, not the system's or the hackers that put it together.) I could not get in. In fact, I didn't even know the right URL to *get* in the door. So I sat my bee-hind down on a couch in the common room, got on the wiki, looked up "door access", found the server name for the inside door access, and went there. It took me a few tries to figure out the password, but it was not a hard one. The door lock is kinda sticky. You can get the right password on the right URL and hear the mechanism trying to do its thing, but the lock doesn't fully unlock. The trick is to push the door closed tighter while the lock turns. So, yup, I'm inside. Between bringing cookies and breaking into the space, I guess I should fill out the web form and start calling myself a real sudoer now. :p How secure do we need these doors to be? If we have people in the space MOST of the time, then there is a lower need for security. With an often empty space, there's maybe more of a risk of theft, vandalism or other nastiness. Security through obscurity is no security at all. - Lish -- http://www.alwayssababa.com/

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Re: [sudo-discuss] wiki fixed, reset your passwords + ROUND OF THANKS

by Marina Kukso

thank you so much bill! this was an absolutely urgent need and i would like to extend a million thank yous to you for fixing it. we will suffer through the lack of a single sign on, but that pain is worth it for the pleasure of having the wiki up and running. i'd like to also take a moment to thank others who have been doing awesome stuff for the sudo community (if i have left you off the list this is my oversight and not an intentional slight!): thanks to andrew & jordan for working on the outside door - this is imperative! thanks to mitch for the soldering workshop yesterday thanks to naomi for organizing the radio room (i'm sorry, but i unplugged the ethernet switch because it was giving me some trouble!) thanks to whoever has been getting the site up and running every time it goes down thanks to ray for feeding us at meetings and to all who have taken on the roles of exchequer, facilitator, note taker, and last minute etherpad switcher thanks to everyone who has been trying to improve our conflict resolution process thanks to morten for bringing his family by to see the space and say hello and thanks to everyone else who comes to the space, hacks at the space, brings others to the space, and works to improve things that allow our community to work better together and love sudo room. - marina On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:10 PM, William Budington <bill(a)inputoutput.io>wrote: > The wiki has been fixed, there was a problem with the wordpress common > login with mediawiki plugin. This means, unfortunately, there is no > unified login. So reset your wiki passwords > https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Special:PasswordReset and you'll get a > new temporary pw emailed to you. > > It is a long and arduous process, but the spirit of righteous > revolutionary sudo solidarity, nay, Sudodarity, calls on us to bear it > together. The spirit of Sudodarity will ring from our glorious > Kopimistic towers and halls! Sudodarity Forever! > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >

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Anyone seen the 4x4 keypad?

by Andrew

Hi All, Has anyone seen the 4x4 keypad thats been laying around the space for a while? Its got a regular set of buttons you would find on a touch tone phone plus A - D? PS losing this will not delay the door project as i have a spare, but that one already had headers sodered on. Thanks, Andrew

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Fwd: Re: Fwd: [Noisebridge-discuss] Consensus on Barring Shawn Landden from the Noisebridge space and community (Was Re: On Asking People To Leave (Was Re: Shawn L. ))

by netdiva

I think while its apparent that a discussion on issues of privilege, who is sheltered from what types of harm by existing social structures, and related topics are beyond the reach of this discussion, some of the statements i'm seeing in this sound like garden variety victim blaming. If that many people had been that overwhelmed by him, there wouldnt be criminal charges on record. On 3/23/2013 8:42 PM, Naomi Most wrote: > Yeah... I'm going to chime in here to perhaps add some perspective as > to why it did take so long. > > Shawn seemed like a pretty decent guy. I thought he was a little > skeezy (he was always heaping more attention on the ladies at > Noisebridge than was warranted by normal dictates of conversation / > situation) ... > > ...but I just figured "slut", not > multiple-misdemeanors-warrant-for-his-arrest-etc. > > And I'm (probably) a lot more socially aware than most hackers. I'm > also pretty fearless for someone of my gender. > > What that means is that someone like Shawn instinctively goes after > women full of fear and self-doubt, who don't see his manipulation > coming. > > So while people like me, who interacted with Shawn on a very regular > basis (he was there almost every afternoon I happened to be there), > figured, "hm okay, nice enough guy, here a lot, whatever..." he was > able to throw down some major bullshit in other social territories. > > When you've got victims being fearful and unconfident people in the > first place, it's extremely unlikely they will come forward about > whatever happened to them. > > And in this case, the victims all (reportedly) said, when they were > approached about his actions, "I thought I was the only one!" The > subtext of a declaration like that is, "I thought there was something > wrong with me, so I didn't want to tell anyone." > > ... > > I hope that helps. > > The huge question Noisebridge is presently dancing around right now > is, how many of our current cultural disturbances are based on > Noisebridge being broken, and how many are basically inevitable > outgrowths of NB having grown to 10 x Dunbar's Number in community > size? > > My money's on situations like Shawn L. coming up again, and not > because NB is broken, but because these are the problems of our time. > > The positive side of that is, maybe, despite these being hard problems > that nobody has yet been able to solve, hackerspaces can figure this > out. And then we'd win Civilization! > > --Naomi > > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:18 PM, rachel lyra hospodar > <rachelyra(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Feel free to follow through on the ideas you have posted here and report >> back to the group. >> >> If you believe that people acting on their own agency haven't gone far >> enough it would be more productive (and considerate of mitigating factors, >> such as the social shitstorms heaped on women who pursue harassment >> remediation within the tech community) to go for what you see as the next >> step, rather than criticizing the tactics chosen. >> >> I disagree with some of what you have stated (re permanent demonization of >> bad actors) but you are welcome to that opinion. >> >> R.

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on building the world, video

by Lit JC

this one is offered for your viewing pleasure: F2C2012: Eben Moglen keynote - "Innovation under Austerity" www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VHf5vpBy8

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