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Regarding furnaces, space heaters and CCL.

by Nenufar Molecules

Regarding furnaces, space heaters and CCL. I don’t recall anyone asking CCL if we needed or wanted a furnace or a space heater. I think the whole process of working on the furnace and space heater is distracting to the lab work we are doing, it is also making extra work for us, and putting an added risk factor in place. I for one don’t want to repair the furnace or space heater in CCL. Some of my reasons are: 1. Oakland, CA has the best weather in the world. As far as cold weather, the thermometer only rarely goes below 45 degrees F at night in winter. This is not Siberia or N. Dakota, it’s Oakland. Back in the 90’s was the last time it got cold enough to turn on a heater for a few nights. 2. It’s true that someone brought in a small electric heater to CCL. I think they were sleeping at the lab or doing some web surfing. The Temescal library is only a few blocks away and they will likely have the heat turned up for people to be comfortable as they read and snooze. I have worked at CCL even late at night for 5 years and have not noticed any extremes of cold there. CCL is a lab and it’s warm enough to do lab work there year round. There’s some garments that used to be known as “Long Johns” Those and a cap or hoody all anyone ever needs to keep warm in CCL in winter. I think there should be a ban on heaters at CCL. The small heater I found left on with no one in the lab multiple times and unplugged it. 3. CCL is about working on making a better tomorrow and we have a lot of challenges to meet with things like global warming. That’s something I think we all need to take responsibility for. Humans will soon be higher on the endangered species list if we don’t. Furnaces and heaters, large or small draw a lot of power, gas and/or electricity, and are not sustainable, and not energy efficient by any means. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to heat a space the size of the Omni commons building. What effect does this use of gas and electricity have on global warming? Does it not make perfect sense to put on warm socks and underwear, a wool cap and be warm as toast without using large amounts of these resources to heat a large space? Hello, this is the 21st century and we do need to mend our ways for the sake of future generations, and life on earth in general. So as far as CCL goes, I say no to heaters. 4. I have been informed by our treasurer, Michael Arent that CCL and also the Omni are facing some financial difficulties. It seems like at this time we need to be careful about spending money. There are a number of projects at the Omni commons that would seem to have priority over heating concerns. A roof that doesn’t leak when it rains, for example. Paying for gas and electricity to heat the building doesn’t seem to be necessary at all. Let’s consider selling the furnace as scrap metal and raise some small funds for repairing the Omni. 5. Lab work takes a great deal of focus and we don’t wish to have the disturbances of any work going on overhead. We have a great deal of materials and time invested in what we are doing. I’m the one who asked for the COI and an incident is fresh in my memory of a friend’s lab in Oakland where some work was being done and a very heavy piece of metal came crashing down from a high roof to land on a workstation, damaging equipment. If anyone had been sitting at that workbench at the time, they probably would have been killed or crippled. Of course I want to know who is going to be responsible for any injuries or damage done and that COI should be approved by CCL before any work takes place at the lab. Then I wouldn't need to bring it up at an inconvenient time. We also strongly feel that the labwork we are doing is so much more important than working on the heating system. A couple projects at CCL are involved with public health (matters of life and death) and we don’t wish to be distracted by activities overhead or have to do additional cleanup work because of them. We really have enough on our plates and would appreciate being left alone to do our work undisturbed. Please desist. No need for heaters at CCL. Let's hear from some of the others who are in the lab year round, are you reasonably comfy or not? What concerns do you have and what improvements would you like to see at CCL in the year to come? Best wishes always, Eddy Spinner CCL Lab Rat

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sudo room meeting starting in 5 mins (6 pm)

by Marc Juul

I'm not there in person today and I don't know if anyone else is but we're definitely doing virtual: https://meet.jit.si/SudoRoomMeeting -- marc/juul

3 years, 11 months

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We have an all Bay Area Hackerspace Mailing list and Chatroom

by sunjam＠james.network

Hi all, we've re-started the Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces (bach) mailing list and chat. Was active from 2013 - 2014 previously. Details at https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces Join our friendly Mailing List https://lists.hackerspaces.org/listinfo/bach Chat on IRC #bach:libera.chat or from Matrix #BACH:matrix.org #bayarea:hackspaces.org

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

by Omni Commons

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Hardware hacknight tonight at 7 pm

by Marc Juul

Hi sudoers. Hardware hacknight will be happening tonight at sudo room starting at 7 pm. Last week: * An old laser was torn down into its useful components * Some folks repaired a broken stereo amplifier * Some of us opened up an old Macintosh SE/30 and got rw access to the ancient 60 MB harddrive from a modern linux PC, then set up System 7.5 in an emulator and attempted to talk to the old Mac over serial Tonight: * We'll be trying to get the old mac browsing the modern web and set up at sudo room's front table. * We'll attempt to turn two broken very high pressure syringe pumps (HPLC) into a single working one. * <insert your project here> Come hang out! Mask required at all times when indoors and vaccination required (proof of vaccination not required). If you want to eat you must do so outside (last week we had a pizza break out on the sidewalk). There's a new doorbell on the front door that should get our attention in case you don't have an access card. -- marc/juul

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sudo room meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6 pm

by Marc Juul

Hi sudoers! We're rebooting the sudo room meetings. Last week we tried to do an in-person only meeting but I gave late notice and very few people showed. Let's try this again with a virtual _and_ in-person meeting. I'll set up some microphones, speakers and webcam to connect those of us at sudo room to those joining online. We'll send out a link to the video conference when we're about to begin. If you're joining in person, remember that masks and vaccines are required (though not proof of vaccine). There is a new doorbell on the front door if your access card isn't working (or you don't have one). -- marc/juul

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automatic quickbook messages coming from where?

by Jake

I think six months ago or more, we talked about trying to figure out where these emails are coming from and whether they're accurate. If they're accurate, it would be nice to get a clarification of the situation and what we need to do about it, otherwise if this is an automatic message that is sending out confusing and incorrect numbers, we should figure out where it's coming from and turn it off. Does anyone control the email address "Omni Commons <quickbooks(a)notification.intuit.com>" it's coming from o4.e.notification.intuit.com [167.89.82.160] also, we need to remove the email address rcsheets(a)acm.org from these automatic messages, i'm pretty sure they don't want to receive these messages anymore or hear anything about us. -jake On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, Omni Commons wrote: > 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 > https://omnicommons.org > > Invoice #: 2407 > Date: 09/01/2021 > Due Date: 09/25/2021 > Terms: Net 25 > Amount Due: $20,000.00 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill To: > > Sudo Room > 4799 Shattuck Ave > Oakland, CA 94607 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** > > 08/01/2021 Balance Forward $20,000.00 > Other payments and credits after 08/01/2021 -2,000.00 > New charges (details below) 2,000.00 > Total Amount Due (activity through 09/01/202 20,000.00 > > **************************************************************************** > > Date Activity Qty Rate Amount > 09/01/2021 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 > ____________________________________________________________________________ > -------------------------------------- > Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 > > Total Amount Due: $20,000.00 > > > Greetings Sudo Room! > > This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the > commons! > > Love and solidarity, > Omni Commons Finance Working Group > > > > > > > > >

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Reminder: Pledge [Pledge No.] from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

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 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 2407 Date: 09/01/2021 Due Date: 09/25/2021 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $20,000.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill To: Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94607 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** 08/01/2021 Balance Forward $20,000.00 Other payments and credits after 08/01/2021 -2,000.00 New charges (details below) 2,000.00 Total Amount Due (activity through 09/01/202 20,000.00 **************************************************************************** Date Activity Qty Rate Amount 09/01/2021 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 ____________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------- Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 Total Amount Due: $20,000.00 Greetings Sudo Room! This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the commons! Love and solidarity, Omni Commons Finance Working Group

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Fwd: Omni HVAC status 9/24

by David Keenan

Hi CCL and Sudo, Forwarded below is my update to consensus list on the present status of omni's various furnaces / heaters, including those situated within CCL/Sudo. I encourage all to read through it, and I wanted to extend my gratitude to everyone who allowed the safety of the furnace and space heater to be assessed on 9/23. In addition to that update, based on feedback from folks in the lab at the time, *I also wanted to develop a better protocol for the scheduled maintenance of these fixtures and for infrastructure issues generally with CCL and Sudo, in particular CCL*. To this end I had the following questions for CCL: 1. I was told there was a Lab Manager -- I believe whose name is Dave? May I have this person's contact info? As moving forward, it would be great to ensure this person is directly apprised of any maintenance work which may affect CCL. 2. During the work, a CCL'er demanded that the HVAC person present their Certificate of Insurance (COI). I wanted to respectfully ask that in the future, if such questions be directed at me or whomever is coordinating the maintenance for omni, rather than of the tech performing the maintenance. As I don't believe this is the sort of paperwork that tradesfolk carry around with them on their person while on ladders etc., and it can feel vaguely threatening, whereas I am happy to provide this if this is required. (Parenthetically on this topic - I also was hoping CCL might provide their annual COI to me or to the finance WG, to aid the pursuit of re-applying for cheaper building/fire insurance for the whole building.. I've been meaning to gather all these) 3. Per my update to consensus, I would like (w/ zero pressure) to ask if CCL might consider voluntarily safely undertaking a cleaning of the furnace platform upon which there is a layer of dust (such as wiping down with wet wipes i imagine, or some other manner involving a minimum of air disturbance). This way, the furnace could be occasionally serviced or accessed in an emergency with a minimum chance of dust disturbing CCL areas below. I ask since I was informed there are special cleaning and associated protective procedures in use within CCL, which it was made clear to me, neither myself as a lay-person nor other non-CCL omninoms may be familiar. So, I recognize that CCL is itself probably better equipped to do the best job possible of this. If that sounds reasonable to CCL, it would be great if this task could be undertaken sometime in the next week, ie before an HVAC person is scheduled to return. See the forwarded message below with regards updates about specific HVAV fixtures. Thank you so much CCL & Sudo! and have a great weekend :) Best, David ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:12 PM Subject: Omni HVAC status 9/24 To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Cc: building <building(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, < finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org> <finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Hi, The HVAC tech came out on Thursday 9/23 and completed an assessment of the two fixtures mounted halfway up CCL's north wall, being (a) gas furnace serving the adjacent disco room and (b) gas space heater serving CCL / Sudo's room. In addition, I discovered (c) a small modification we need to make to the furnace serving the ballroom. *A. Space heater serving CCL/Sudo*: *This unit was found to be safe & 100% functional; it can be turned on by activating the switch in the BSL room that has the brown cover plate* (mounted a bit high up on the wall, but still reachable from a standing position). In the tech's professional opinion the unit is appropriately sized for the room and will adequately heat / take the chill out of the room. Therefore in my own opinion, CCL might consider giving the space heater a try as an alternative to multiple small electric space heaters that I have heard have been used in lieu during colder months, due to the increased life-safety hazard and energy use imposed by multiple small electric units, and because omni's electrical budget (total available amps) is limited whereas gas is barely utilized. If the space heater is found to be effective, I would propose CCL consider stopping the use of multiple electric heaters. That said, by design the unit is not attached to a thermostat -- and so once it is on, it will stay on until it is turned off. This isn't a safety issue per se, but if left on accidentally, it could lead to energy waste. Therefore I am recommending the following modest improvements be made: 1. The on/off switch controlling the unit be converted to a timer switch (e.g, a 30-min-max dial). This way, the unit will not be accidentally left on, and a timer switch is an easier / cheaper improvement than adding a thermostat. 2. Lower the switch box a couple feet to a more accessible height (as a person in a wheelchair cannot reach the present switch location.). 2. The unit's gas valve be lowered to an accessible height, so gas service to the unit can be easily turned off should the pilot light become extinguished. At present, a ladder is needed to reach this gas valve. 3. Off-the-shelf CO/explosive gas sensor & a smoke sensor (w/ 10-year batteries) are mounted to the wall the code-required distance above the both the space heater and furnace. For the safety of folks working in this room, imo this should probably have been done a long time ago. The above suggested improvements would not involve a significant disturbance of dust, are inexpensive, and are projected to take <2h. *B. Furnace serving the disco room*: - It was determined that the blower in this unit needs replacement (keeps blowing fuses); we are waiting on a cost estimate for this. This fix would have to be effected by the HVAC tech. - It was also previously recommended that a separate, small water pump be installed adjacent to the unit to push condensation down the existing flexible drip line running to the floor drain. The flexible drip line was not run at a consistent downward slope, which led to water backing up into the furnace unit, in turn rusting the bottom of the unit and causing water damage to the platform visible from below (which presumably, dripped down onto CCL's workspace). It appears this can be self-installed, and is anticipated as a low cost improvement. - The water damage to the platform holding the furnace needs to be assessed a bit more to see if any structural reinforcement is necessary. Due to the relatively small quantity of water produced during condensation, I don't anticipate that the water damage will be all that bad, but we don't want the platform failing at some point in the future and hurting anyone beneath. The need for any reinforcement here is TBD. - I would like CCL to consider whether they as a group might (?) prefer to take on cleaning this furnace area of accumulated dust (such as wiping it down etc) prior to additional servicing of the furnace. The reasons are: -- The furnace must be able to be accessible for occasional maintenance or in an emergency, preferably without creating any potential dust headaches for CCL work going on underneath. -- I have been informed that there are lab standards for cleaning, with which lay people / non-CCL volunteers may not be familiar. -- Although the furnace does not serve CCL, the furnace is in CCL's space, and it makes sense to me that CCL would participate in the upkeep of building infrastructure within its space in the interest of collectively maintaining the building. *C. Ballroom furnace*: The ballroom furnace works well, but in the process of trying to assess / replace the old filters for all these units, I discovered that the filters are not presently accessible for the ballroom furnace. The reason is: Studs for the west wall separating the furnace area from the kitchen were placed literally right up against the filter door. Therefore, a simple access panel needs to be created in the perpendicular side of the filter housing, to allow for filter replacement. This fix represents some light sheet metal work and is not perceived to be a major expense. We are awaiting an estimate for this. Having decent air filters in place is of increasing importance due to COVID and the worsening air quality in CA. We plan to replace with MERV-13 filters to make the omni less friendly to COVID spread for any time when a furnaces may be in use (MERV 13 isn't HEPA, but does block sneeze-size droplets along with bacteria etc). Best, David

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* Heater test in CCL Thurs 9/23 aft *

by David Keenan

Hi, Apologies for the late notice, but HVAC professionals from AAPH will be returning Thursday sometime in the afternoon to further test the large hanging space heater and the disco room furnace, both of which are adjacent to CCL’s north wall. In broad terms this assessment is being undertaken in order to: a) lower Omni’s monthly insurance costs; b) assess if the large gas-powered space heater is a safer and more efficient solution than multiple smaller electric space heaters; c) restore heat to the disco room if reasonably possible, in order to aid rentability. This work will require placing a large ladder beneath these items. *Dust from these high-up areas may be disturbed, and so we ask that anything potentially affected at ground-floor level be secured.* As always, please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you, David

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sudo room meeting tonight (Wednesday) at 6 pm in person

by Marc Juul

Hi sudoers! Let's try to have an in-person meeting tonight at 6 pm. We had hardware hacknight last night and I'm excited to get sudo room re-activated :D If you have ideas for what you want post-covid sudo room to look like or just want to see some hackers in person then come on by! Masks and vaccines required but no proof of vaccine necessary. We're limiting total number of people in sudo room and CCL to 24. Hope to see you tonight! -- marc/juul

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hardware hacking tuesday

by Jake

tonight some sudoroom memberds will convene in sudoroom to repopulate the space and discuss interesting projects, brainstorm ideas for moving forward, improve internet and airflow infrastructure, and etcetera. This is not a call for more people to show up, because i'm more worried about having too many people rather than not enough. But I wanted to send out the email to let people know that it's happening. i still think that sudoroom members should make use of the space outside of normal scheduled times, rather than at organized times, in order to avoid too many people meeting in the space at the same time. That said, I think it's time to start using the space again, and people will be wearing masks of course, and we'll be running the new ventilation fan as well as the fan near the laser cutter. Hopefully CCL doesn't have a meeting scheduled for tonight as well. -jake

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Invoice 2420 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

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 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 2420 Date: 10/01/2021 Due Date: 10/25/2021 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $22,000.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill To: Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94607 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** 09/01/2021 Balance Forward $20,000.00 Other payments and credits after 09/01/2021 0.00 New charges (details below) 2,000.00 Total Amount Due (activity through 10/01/202 22,000.00 **************************************************************************** Date Activity Qty Rate Amount 10/01/2021 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00 ____________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------- Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 Total Amount Due: $22,000.00 Greetings Sudo Room! This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the commons! Love and solidarity, Omni Commons Finance Working Group

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Proposal to run conduit to sudo fridge

by David Keenan

Hi.. I think I’m still a sudoer? So: I would like to propose that Sudo consense to place a permanent electrical receptacle near the bottom stair landing (that leads up to ballroom) near the fridge, to be used by the fridge. IMO this would be superior to the prior ‘50ft extension cord through the wall up to another room’ solution that has been used in the past, which transgresses code and therefore poses recurring headaches during annual fire inspections. I expect this work would take appx 2-3h at most, possibly less. Paying an electrician to do it will I ballpark cost ~$200-$300. As it happens we presently have an electrician this week conducting minor repairs around omni, so this would be an opportune time to do this scope of work as well. Is there by chance a sudo budget for this sort of thing? let me know if this task is copacetic with sudo? Best, David

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OMNI WORK PARTY WEDNESDAY 3-6P: MOVE BOOKS ❤️

by David Keenan

Hi all, Tomorrow 9/16, I hope folks can show up for moving omni’s library (per Silver’s message below) out of the ballroom mezzanine, and into the entrance hall mezzanine. This will help provide a more accessible library as well as facilitate more professional rentals of the ballroom. Please come if you can! Xo! David ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Natasha Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 22:23 Subject: [omni-building] 9.15 Omni Commons Library Re-location! To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, building < building(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Hey Lovelies! We are looking to improve Omni constantly and plan to have a work party moving our current Library (2nd floor ballroom) to the entrance hall mezzanine. It will happen September 15th from 3pm to 6pm If you can help support that day please sign up with this link! <3 Volunteer Sign Up Form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezKQre4aGHY9Nu3GO6vKCFv6Qz2PH49Rg…> Sweet Regards, Silver [image: Volunteer with Omni Commons (2).jpg] _______________________________________________ building mailing list building(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building

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request to Sudo Room re safer space discussion

by David Keenan

Hi Sudo Room! I hope you're well. I would like to ask y'all for a favor: Helen, Sarah and I are wanting to revamp Omni's safer space, conflict resolution, and bans policies to make omni a safer, saner place to come to work on community projects. We want to hear about problems related to these policies, and about what in your view, would make them better. We are embarking on what we anticipate to be a roughly 3-month process to improve these policies, and we hoped to start by hearing direct and frank feedback from all member groups and individuals about how they feel working in omni with respect to the above policies, and for their opinions on what about them could be improved. (You can read about our proposed workshop-style process of engagement on this wiki page <https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Revisioning>, which also lists suggested prompts <https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Revisioning#Round_1_Discussion_Prompts_.28prop…:> for a first discussion.) *Therefore, we were very much hoping we could be agendized into one of your group meetings* - or, set up with a separate meeting, if that is better - to begin to explore these issues and start to gather your frank feedback. We can meet over zoom/google-meet, or in person (with masks) if that is better for you. Note that in-person meetings do not need to take place at omni, and in any of our discussions, any feedback given can anonymized at your request before it gets aggregated into a bigger omni-wide feedback document. Finally, because we want to make this process as inclusive as we can, we were hoping to hear in particular from voices who do not typically chime in on omni mailing lists or omni meetings.. (which is to say, a majority of omninoms!) If your group has someone tasked with communicating with delegates / rest of omni, we definitely want to hear from them too -- but ideally, also from others in your collective. If you are agreeable, can you please let us know at your earliest opportunity when might be a good time to discuss these issues with us? Thank you so much for your time, and if possible, please reply-all to at least helen, sarah and me if you can. Best, David

4 years

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Does anyone here admin for #sudoroom:matrix.org ?

by sunjam＠james.network

Curious on making #sudoroom:matrix.org into a public room, then bridging it to #sudoroom liberachat. Thanks!

4 years

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Tildeverse <> sudo

by Eric O'Connor

Have any of you checked out https://tildeverse.org? It seems like there would be a lot of overlap between “pubnix” community and hacker space communities. Eric

4 years

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OMNI INSPECTION 2PM TOMORROW

by David Keenan

Just a reminder that Omni’s fire inspection is 2pm tomorrow. All rooms will need to be made accessible. Patrik, please let me know someone from CCL will be present? & ensure myco closet will be accessible Sierk, please ensure HNJ closet is openable..? I should have borrowed that key from you.. *In the AM we will also need hands with the following*: *Inside Omni*: - All trash bins throughout omni that aren’t yet emptied, emptied - Nothing left sitting within any stair, stair landing, hallway, or along any common path of travel. - Ballroom & Entrance hall swept with dust broom. - Entrance hall: All veggie boxes, cardboard, extension cords, & misc objects not part of free store moved either to recycling or basement *Shattuck frontage*: - *Stoop-sitters told to hang elsewhere for the day due to inspection.* important, or we may again be asked to place a ‘No Trespassing’ sign there.. Also, Ballroom doors will need to be open, steps can’t be obstructed etc - removal of all furniture / trash bins along shattuck (except for fridge shed) - clear trash off sidewalk, sweep sidewalk *Fridge Shed*: - power strip removed & Fridge plugged directly into exterior electrical receptacle (with no extension cord or power strip), or if fridge cord can’t reach: then shed moved so it can reach, otherwise failing that left unplugged for now. *48th st frontage*: - If trash cans are still out, align neatly at curb. - trash pickup / removal of any object not in a trash can from frontage - sweep sidewalk Thank you David

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

by Omni Commons

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Occupy 10th Anniversary

by Ed Biow

Hey folx, we are coming up on the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and so far no one that I am aware of has organized any events for the Bay Area. Around the country other people <https://linktr.ee/occupy2.0> have begun to plan things, open mics and art shows, vaccine clinics, free masks, Pussy Riot <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot> is even supposed to show up in Los Angeles. As you can see from the attached video cliplet, there are people who would really like to see something happen in the Bay Area, as well. At this point those of us who are mulling this over are leaning towards doing something on Friday, September 17 rather than Occupy Oakland's 10th anniversary on October 10th. Since I am a pro at crastinating, if it were up to me, we might well have to wait until the heat death <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Bang_to_Heat_Death> of the universe before something gets organized but I'm willing to throw gobs of food at an event if other people are also interested in getting together for an open mic or speak out or something & are willing to put some energy into making it happen. I can also bring an EZ-up or three and a microphone and speaker, and maybe a few chairs and tables if we can achieve critical mass. I could even cobble together a flyer if we can agree on something. Anywho, if anyone would like to help put something together maybe that could join the biweekly rump of Occupy Oakland's GA (generally just a few people) Sunday, August 28th at 4 PM. I believe that will be here: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96249815361?pwd=OFluQThwRy9vVitxQXdnSS9TSmVRZz09 Meeting ID: 962 4981 5361 Passcode: 123456 Some dialin numbers: +1 408 638 0968 +1 669 900 6833 If you would like to chime in on the weekly national Occupy Commemoration Zoom meeting, it is every Saturday at noon, PST. /sending a reminder about our national organizers' call for Occupy Wall Street's 10th anniversary. Please share with anyone you feel should join the discussion / Jay Ponti is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3015874449 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F3015874449…> Meeting ID: 301 587 4449 One tap mobile +16699009128,,3015874449# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,3015874449# US (Houston) Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 301 587 4449 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kejSH18lAF <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fu%2FkejSH18lAF…> Feel free to pass this info around to comrades you think might be interested in a celebration of the Occupy movement and the many things <https://occupyoakland.org/event/occupy-oakland-general-assembly-18/?instanc…> the many things it helped catalyze. Often Absent Ed On 8/28/21 1:37 PM, Susan Harman wrote: > Sorry I missed today’s call. Were you there? Can you catch me up? Susan, I asked Jay Ponti <https://betherevolution.us/> to send me a link to today's Zoooom meeting. I uploaded it to a personal server because I don't know if the link he sent me was for general distribution: http://www.ebiow.yasashi.net/GA/Occupy%2010th%20Anniversary%20Call%208%2028… > I’ve been thinking, and I think you and I should just set a time for a Friday night dinner and speakout/speakeasy at City Hall and invite everybody we can think of, making an informal list of all the projects that came out of Occupy. I’ve contacted Occupy the Farm and Strike Debt and of course the Public Bank. Should we invite SF? If I write to Ruthie, everybody will come, so I’ll ask for RSVPs and threaten them with running out of food if they don’t reply. 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Fwd: [omni-consensus] OMNI NEEDS LEGAL OFFICERS

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 2:41 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] OMNI NEEDS LEGAL OFFICERS To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Please forward to your groups and collectives - Omni Commons is seeking candidates in our officer election for 3 positions: president, treasurer and secretary. At minimum, folks in these positions need to have their names filed with the California secretary of state and be available to occasionally sign things. At best, folks in these positions would join the finance working group to take an active role in administrative paperwork, writing checks, paying bills and so forth. An active treasurer would enable us to have separation of powers between the bookkeeper and the money spender, for example. Your primary interactions would probably be with finance wg members - currently me, Sarah Lockhart, John Torok, and occasionally Silver. Like all community members, you'd be encouraged (but not required) to attend delegates meetings on 1st and 3rd Thursdays. As soon as we get enough interested candidates, we will hold an election to get delegate approval. Thanks, Yar _______________________________________________ consensus mailing list consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus

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DevOps engineer for a better internet

by Jenny Ryan

Dear all, eQualitie is seeking an experienced networking software engineer for DevOps and infrastructure automation duties. We’re looking for someone who knows how to build and manage cloud services with an emphasis on FOSS solutions that we run _in-house_ <https://github.com/equalitie/>. Our new colleague shares the company’s _values_ <https://equalit.ie/values/> and is ready to play an important role in protecting freedom of expression and association on the Internet. In turn, you will get exposure to and a say in the design of current and future _defensive _ <https://deflect.ca/solutions/>_web <https://deflect.ca/solutions/> technologies_ and _decentralized solutions_ <https://github.com/censorship-no> for avoiding Internet censorship, as well as personal satisfaction that your contributions create real change for people around the world. *Job Description* You will work across tight-knit project teams and interface between software developers and systems operations. Your primary responsibilities will include building and tuning tools to improve network availability, service performance and censorship resilience. You will introduce common systems and processes for a variety of in-house technologies, spanning DDoS mitigation, a clearinghouse for anomalous network behaviour and a decentralized peer-to-peer web caching network. You will take an “automate everything” approach, introducing and improving automation, orchestration and monitoring tooling across the board. *About you* You love dashboards and hate network latency. You understand the building blocks of the Internet and are familiar with its core protocols, including decentralized networking. You value infrastructure-as-code systems and believe in prototyping, fine-tuning software configurations and performance monitoring as the primary ways to improve an Internet- reliant product or service. You have a depth of knowledge, experience and a passion for Internet technologies that allow you to learn new systems relatively quickly. Also, you will have: * Excellent Linux administration skills, performance- tuning and server hardening; * Demonstrable experience deploying and managing technology using Ansible, Docker and/or Kubernetes; * Experience with data engineering, analysis, visualization of web traffic and network statistics (e.g. Kibana, Grafana, Icinga, Prometheus, etc); * Experience in network programming (HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP) with knowledge of peer-to-peer (BitTorrent) technologies a strong asset; * Familiarity with coding in Python (with Go and/or C++ experience a strong asset); * An active appreciation for reading and writing documentation! *Now, a little bit about us…* <https://equalit.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/eq-logo-site.jpg>eQualitie <https://equalit.ie> is a growing technology company that puts its principles before profits. This is a relatively fast-paced environment with a strong sense of individual contribution. We solve complex technical problems for improving digital defences, introducing privacy to online activity and enabling freedom of expression and association online. We are a remote-first company and offer flexible working arrangements, contributions to private health care, annual pay raises, prospects for professional growth and social opportunities. eQualitie welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. <https://deflect.ca>The _Deflect project_ <https://deflect.ca/> protects over 650 website platforms from cyber attack, serving over 70 million unique IPs annually. Deployed on bare-metal infrastructure locations around the world, Deflect offers web caching, secure hosting and defense-in-depth mitigation options, including the _Baskerville_ <https://deflect.ca/solutions/deflect-labs/baskerville/> clearinghouse, among _other services_ <https://deflect.ca/solutions/>. <https://censorship.no>_CENO Browser_ <https://censorship.no/> is a tool designed to circumvent the most pervasive forms of Internet censorship. Built on Mozilla for Android and the _Ouinet libraries_ <https://github.com/equalitie/ouinet>, CENO enables users to retrieve and share web content peer-to-peer over Bittorrent’s DHT. * * *Metadata* * Start Date: asap * Job Location: Montreal, Canada (remote also OK) * Job Type: 12 month contract, possibility of full-time thereafter * Salary: 84,000 USD + benefits * Application deadline: September 15, 2021 *How to apply *Please send your resume and a cover letter explaining how your experiences and motivation match our requirements. Please make sure to include your GitHub (or similar) profile where we can see your previous work and/or code: https://equalit.ie/job-post/devops-engineer-for-a-better-internet/ Reach out to me if you'd like to know more! I've had a great time working with this team over the past 9 months, and am looking forward to expanding the team :) Warmly,

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Filezilla Call for Participation: Secure File Storage & Sharing

by Karissa McKelvey

Hey everyone, we're doing a short study and I think someone from the sudoroom community could be a good fit, anyone interested in talking about your experience or know someone who fits the bill? Do you need to share files privately with a limited and select number of people? Are you concerned about security or access, and don't want to use commercial providers like Dropbox? Have you ever tried setting up a self-hosted server, like FTP, FileZilla, or NextCloud, to do this? We're booking 15-30 minute conversations to hear more about your needs. We are Rae and Kelsey from Simply Secure. Thanks to support from the Open Tech Fund <http://opentech.fund/>, we're working on making sensitive file storage, backup, and sharing much easier. Sign up on this brief form <https://form.jotform.com/filezilla/usability-interviews> or send an email to filezilla(a)simplysecure.org to get started. Thanks so much and looking forward to speaking with you soon, -- Rae McKelvey Researcher, Simply Secure decentralization off the shelf <https://decentpatterns.xyz> | about me <https://okdistribute.xyz>

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fridge

by Edwinsaurus

I cleaned out a full trash can of moldy and rotten shit from this same fridge a month or 2 ago. apparently it has reverted to the same state as before. I think it is a bio hazard, breeding flies, spores, bacteria and other organisms that we don't need in Omni Commons. I think that the best solution would be to dispose of it.

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