Dear Sudo Room,
Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions.
Thanks for your business!
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
+1 5105456582
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2585
Date: 10/01/2022
Due Date: 10/25/2022
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $4,000.00
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Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
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****************************** Account Summary *****************************
09/01/2022 Balance Forward $16,000.00
Other payments and credits after 09/01/2022 -14,000.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 10/01/202 4,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
10/01/2022 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $4,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
Dear Sudo Room,
Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions.
Thanks for your business!
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
+1 5105456582
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2585
Date: 10/01/2022
Due Date: 10/25/2022
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $4,000.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
****************************** Account Summary *****************************
09/01/2022 Balance Forward $16,000.00
Other payments and credits after 09/01/2022 -14,000.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 10/01/202 4,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
10/01/2022 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $4,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
We've gotten many complaints recently about omni's wifi being totally open
and not password protected. Many folks are afraid of their devices being
attacked if they join our network. And tbh I don't blame them.
I think we should offer a wpa-protected network for those who want one. But
I don't have the capacity to work on that. Does it sound fun to anybody
else?
We used to have a private subnet which would have made this easier, but it
got unceremoniously merged with the public one a few years ago. One useful
side task would be to identify and label all the ethernet cables running
out of our one remaining switch. Some of them could provide the backbone of
a new network.
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
+1 5105456582
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2595
Date: 11/01/2022
Due Date: 11/25/2022
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $6,000.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
****************************** Account Summary *****************************
10/01/2022 Balance Forward $4,000.00
Other payments and credits after 10/01/2022 0.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 11/01/202 6,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
11/01/2022 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $6,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
I’ve been collaborating with some cool women on a two day rollerskate and skateboard ball event with classes at the Omni commons. It was going to be in November to help raise money for the Omni by the deadline but people had family commitments
However I think this is genuinely true energy and creativity that will pull in a lot of other projects at the Omni such as the media lab (costumes for the ball,m) and interesting SudoRoom Workshop stuff like helping make skate obstacles or rigging the ones they will bring
They also will be spending a day after teaching skate classss (they have taught all over the world)
Is there a way to put this event into any loan proposals ? I think this would breathe fresh life into the Omni, get more of a physical event in the space . We were able to figure out where to skate and jot hurt the ballroom floor
Sent from my iPhone
Is there any printer at sudo room that is ready to use? (AKA, it works, has
ink on it and whatever else needed to print something) I'd like to print
some flyers for WNB coding night. Doesn’t need to be colored ink or
anything fancy.
I found this printer but it says no ink
--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
she/her
--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
she/her
I've been receiving emails with the title "[sudo-accounts] Your payout of
$xxx for sudoroom.org is on the way", I'm not sure how I managed to start
receiving them or how to stop them, anyone able to clarify?
--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
she/her
Sudoroom, we need to form a position on this proposal! Omni wants to invite
East Bay Democratic Socialists of America to rent the upstairs room that's
getting built.
I think this is a no-brainer and we should approve it! Please write back
indicating your position on this!
your delegate to the Omni Commons,
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:10:52 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: [omni-consensus] PROPOSAL: EBDSA in den
We talked a lot last week about putting EBDSA in the upstairs den, but
never formally proposed it, so here it is. I propose we put EBDSA in
the new room we're building up there. After haggling with Max on the
phone just now, it sounds like this is the most do-able agreement:
* they'll pay $1250/month with first/last/deposit
* they move in november 1 or whenever the wall is finished
* they sign a year lease, with the understanding that if omni loses
the building, it'll probably be unenforcable
* we host their next two GM assemblies for free (Nov 13 & Feb 12) and
then renegotiate in the spring whether to start charging for it again
* they are not yet applying to be a member collective, but may want to
in the future
Thoughts? Can we decide next week? Next delegate meeting is Thu Oct
20th 7-9pm https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr
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consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus
Have you always wanted to host a recurring event at sudoroom? Now's your
chance!
it seems that we still have "Javascript Thursdays" on the sudoroom calendar, as
a recurring event every week:
https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/
unfortunately, we haven't been actually hosting the event on thursdays
so...people may have been coming and getting confused and giving up on us.
this thursday I just HAPPENED to be at sudoroom on Thursday at that time (I was
joining the delegates meeting from there) and someone walked in who saw JS
Thursdays on the calendar! Isn't it lucky I was there?
I can't commit to hosting a second weekly event though, also i'm only just
learning Javascript and it wouldn't be right for me to host!
So who wants to do it? It will be a lot of fun. And like our other events, it
doesn't have to be strictly about any one thing - we just need something to
call the event.
-jake
Hey Sudoers,
I can't be on site tonight, but we have a few agenda items that would
benefit from a meeting if others can. I will drop in over video chat. A
prospective member,Ajay, is going to video in as well.
Here's their declaration:
Why do you want to be a member of sudo room?
Looking for more community, support the mesh in my neighborhood, support
the Omni
If you know already, what are you excited to do at sudo room?:
Mesh the planet, connect, help people get and give tech support including
myself
If you know already, what are you excited to share with the sudo room
community?:
Connections, resources
Have you ever been banned from another hackerspace? If so, when and why?:
No
Hi everyone,
You're getting this email either because 1) you're on the sudoroom discuss
email list, or 2) because I BCC'd you directly.
Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever,
in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email)
ALSO NOW FEATURING: SoftWEAR hacking too: most Tuesday evenings the sewing area
at Omni Commons (in the basement) is also active so bring your fabric and
textile projects and technical repairs; we've got heavy duty and serger sewing
machines available. You're also welcome to bring your own machine to have it
checked out and tuned up for tip-top operation or to just sew alongside others.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently still that
EVERYONE SHOULD WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 5-15 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through telepresence
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there earlier.
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway!
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
if you can't make it in person: join the jitsi videochat with the room, and
chat with each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
sudoroom needs to pick a member to be the board member of the omni commons,
which is the organization that owns the building.
because of the way the omni commons is structured, its board is made up of
members of the member collectives.
we need someone (not me) to volunteer to fill this role, and that person's full
name will be recorded as a board member, and they will have to attend the board
meeting which might be boring. It is a legal requirement that the omni commons
board meets at least once per year.
We need to send someone for this right away since it's time to schedule the
meeting.
please volunteer.
-jake
I just took out the trash/recycling/compost out of the Sudo Room. It
smelled really bad and there were too many flies, either food waste or
someone took a dump in the trash.
I wiped down Sudo Room tables to make the room hopefully smell better.
*Omni Commons trash/recycling/compost
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Trash>is taken out every Monday & Thursday
evening/night and picked up early Tuesday & Friday mornings. *
*If we can collectively follow this schedule, it will help out both Sudo
Room & Omni Commons overall.*
The annoying thing is that after taking out all the waste and trying to
make things cleaner & smell better, a* non-Sudo Room member *brought in
their own rotten trash & waste from *outside* Sudo Room into Sudo Room
trash for us to deal with overall.
Unfortunately, this is an ongoing issue though from this one person.
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Trash (useful info with some outdated stuff)
Dane
Hello,
Yar forwarded a message from Romy Ilano about discussing the November 5 rollerskating event. I'm the point person for that event, so I'm happy to discuss it. Is there an email I should use to discuss it privately, or will the sudoroom mailing list email suffice?
Best,
Kiri
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Fixit Clinic
Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 11:00 AM
Subject: Tour of BART Maintenance Facility Oct 27 10AM
Hi:
You might be interested this rare tour of a BART Maintenance Facility (the
one in Hayward), a bunch of us Fixit Coaches are attending:
What: Tour of BART Hayward Maintenance Facility
When: Thursday, October 27, 2022, 10am-12:30pm (shuttles from So. Hayward
BART start at 9:30am)
https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2022/news20220929
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bart-board-meeting-tour-of-hayward-maintenance…
Maybe see you there, -Peter
Peter Mui @ Fixit Clinic
www.fixitclinic.org - Cultivating robust communities through all-ages
do-it-together hands-on fix-n-learn community disassembly and discovery
+1 408 647 5790
fixitclinic at gmail
How do I get in touch with them?
My roller skate and skateboard homies just apples for a November 5th event and they’d like to coordinate with the November 4th
Sent from my iPhone
Hey Sudoers,
We have a weekly meeting tomorrow night: *Wednesday, October 5th, 8 - 9 PM.*
It'll be on site, but anyone who can't be there in person is encouraged to
join at the usual link: http://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Notes will be taken here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep
*This week's agenda: *
- a new member introduction
- consensus request for Omni Commons: building cleanliness committee
- finance update
- Show and Tell!
See you there!
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
There will be an extremely bright flyover (Magnitude -3.8) of the
International Space Station (ISS) tonight
-starting in the NW at 7:16,
-directly overhead at 7:19, and
-descending to the SE at 7:22.
IMO This is worth setting an alarm for so you don’t miss it.
Map here:
https://heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=37.8749&lng=-122.2732&loc=Un…
Hello Omni Collectives & Community!
Our gofundme campaign has raised $25,888 from 290 donors.
The fundraising working group is reaching out to each collective for a
little support! We want to boost the campaign while boosting each
collective within the Omni. We are asking each collective to offer a
special incentive. Something that feeds the curious donor collective wisdom
and appreciation.
Ideas on collective incentive can be workshops, new or reoccurring.
Example : Counter Culture Lab offers LAB 101 to donors who pledge $25 to
our gofundme.
Collective incentives can also be merch or vendor items. Or even discount
codes.
Example : Acta Non Verba offers 50% off fruit CSA beetbox to donors who
pledge $19.99 to our gofundme.
We want the items to be very unique to your collective. For folks who are
curious about Omnis collective of collectives. This participation will
support the fundraising working group and the collective as a whole!
Let me know if this is something your collective can participate in. We
hope everyone can get involved! We hope to receive collective incentives by
10/27/22.
We can support outreach and boost your collective with graphic designs
showcasing your collective offerings!
Abundance & Resilience,
Silver
Hi everyone,
You're getting this email either because 1) you're on the sudoroom discuss
email list, or 2) because I BCC'd you directly.
Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever,
in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email)
ALSO NOW FEATURING: SoftWEAR hacking too: most Tuesday evenings the sewing area
at Omni Commons (in the basement) is also active so bring your fabric and
textile projects and technical repairs; we've got heavy duty and serger sewing
machines available. You're also welcome to bring your own machine to have it
checked out and tuned up for tip-top operation or to just sew alongside others.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently still that
EVERYONE SHOULD WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 5-15 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through telepresence
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there earlier.
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway!
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
if you can't make it in person: join the jitsi videochat with the room, and
chat with each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
speaking for myself, I feel that it would be wrong for us to delay paying this
amount even though we would like to have more money in order to be in a better
position to get a loan, etspeaking for myself, I feel that it would be wrong
for us to delay paying this amount even though we would like to have more money
in order to be in a better position to get a loan, etc.
It's just not our money. It belongs to Safer DIY and we've been holding onto
it. It's not much different from if we were to go out and steal it out of
their account because we happened to have access to it, in my opinion.
So as an individual, i'm in favor of paying it immediately. I'll put this
question on the Sudoroom meeting agenda so that I can get a proper
representative position from Sudoroom.
If the above argument is not enough to convince whoever is reading this, I'd
like to point out that Omni wouldn't exist right now if it weren't for the
significant contributions of Sarah and David, well above and beyond what this
actual loan pays for. Considering we have a fire inspection coming up, we
really would be better off if we had a better relationship with them and were
able to ask for help with it.
-jake
On Tue, 4 Oct 2022, Yardena Cohen wrote:
> Sarah, we really appreciate DIY's help and good faith here. We
> understand you cannot extend the maturity date. If Omni does fall
> apart and lose our building, we want you to be first in line among our
> creditors for getting paid back. You WILL get paid back, but perhaps a
> bit late and with 6% interest. I think we all know that, and
> maintaining this firm date is part of making sure you get paid back.
> Unfortunately, this means Omni may be in default to you for a few
> months.
>
> Please know this is not personal, it's not because we don't value or
> respect you. I really hate the awkwardness of defaulting on a debt to
> our friends. I do hope that you all understand and respect our
> reasoning in turn.
>
> That said: Omni folks, we need to make a decision about this. We have
> enough unrestricted funds to cover this, but not by much. Paying DIY
> back on time would come with a steep opportunity cost - we'd have much
> less flexibility and much less to reinvest into shoring up our loan
> application. In particular, we could be using it to build more rooms,
> draw higher-paying events, and pay more people to fill major gaps in
> our finance & bookkeeping teams.
>
> We also have money in "restricted funds": 13k left over from the 2018
> kitchen fundraiser and 23k from the current gofundme which we
> explicitly told people would go towards the principle of our $1M loan.
> We could probably make legal/moral/ethical arguments in favor of
> spending either of those funds towards DIY. But I think that's
> something the whole community should be clear-eyed about. Thoughts?
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 11:34 AM Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Omni Comrades,
>>
>> I wanted to remind you, prior to the upcoming delegates meeting on Thursday, that this loan is due in less than a month. While we (collectively) did not stipulate a schedule of regular payments, we (Safer DIY) had hoped that Omni would have begun making payments by now. We also have received no communication about this debt, and no payment arrangements have been made yet.
>>
>> The $7500 was fronted by Safer DIY at a time when Omni's cash flow was more limited. Safer DIY did so in good faith and solidarity. Please put the repayment of this loan on the agenda for the upcoming delegates meeting, and let me and David Keenan know when we can expect payment.
>>
>> We expect to be paid in full, the full $7500, by the due date of November 1, as per the attached promissory note, signed by Omni.
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Sarah Lockhart
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