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Sudoroom COVID questions from a researcher

by Jake

Please reply below and i'll collate our answers and send them back to Benjamin, we are borg resistance is futile ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 16:46:01 -0700 From: Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore To: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> Subject: Re: Sudo Room during COVID Hi Jake, Thanks for your response! That's actually just as interesting to me. I've got a whole bunch of questions on that note. If you'd like and if it's easier we could schedule a phone conversation. Otherwise, some of my questions are below: How was a decision reached to decide who gets to access the space? Do people manufacturing PPE or other crisis relief efforts have access, and why do or don't such people use the space? Did Sudo Room decide to close its doors along with the rest of Omni Commons, or was it a separate decision? How are the membership and Sudo Room frequenters doing during this crisis? Are Sudo Room folks engaged in PPE/ventilator/respirator etc. production from home? Is Sudo Mesh still operational? Is there any plan in the works to reopen? Is there any documentation of Sudo Room's decision making during COVID? Such as meeting notes? I noticed there's nothing on the wiki for 2020. Thanks so much for indulging me. Ben On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:14 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I can try to answer your questions but i haven't been going to sudoroom, i don't think almost anyone has been going. > > > On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore wrote: > >> Hi Jake, >> >> My name is Ben and I'm doing dissertation research on hackerspaces during the coronavirus outbreak. Naomi Most referred me to you saying you might be a good person to talk to about that as it pertains to Sudo Rooms and Omni Commons. Would you be willing to chat? Let me know! >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore >> Doctoral Candidate >> History of Art and Architecture >> University of California, Santa Barbara

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Invoice 2071 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 ------------------------ Pledge Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 2071 Invoice Date: 06/01/2020 Due Date: 06/25/2020 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $6,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Share events on the Omni Calendar

by Roberto Martinez

Hello all, I hope everyone is well. I wanted to remind all collectives that if yall have an event, even if it is virtual, we want to encourage sharing it via the Omni's calendar. You can send the event info to commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org. En Solidaridad, Roberto

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Omni Newsletter - call for updates, thoughts, art, words

by Roberto Martinez

Hello fellow omninoms, how is everyone doing? We hope all of you are well and taking care of yourselves and your community during this covid-19 pandemic. What an intense couple of weeks we have lived, right? Full of uncertainties, but also full of hope. A lot has happened in the past several weeks, it feels like we are the center of a fast moving current, acting and reacting to the rapidly evolving threat we and our communities face. After all, covid-19 has done an excellent job at amplifying the ills of the capitalist system making its deadly presence ever more cruel within our most vulnerable communities. But at the Omni, we are lucky to be part of a community of caring, committed and skillful folks who are doing the groundwork to support and build efforts to aid those in need. There is a lot that has happened, direct actions, mutual aid efforts, mask making, food distribution, and more! In the spirit of community building and mutual-care, the communications working group is dusting off the printing press and bringing back Omni’s newsletter to share with each other all of the work we are doing, the feelings we are feeling, and maybe a collective vision for a better future. We are hoping to have the newsletter out by the end of the month, which is in about two weeks. Like newsletters of the past we want to feature the work of each collective. So we are asking each collective to submit 1-4 paragraphs providing an update of the work ya’ll are doing collectively or maybe feature the work of an individual member. Below are some suggestions of questions or topics you can touch on: - Updates from your collective - How is your collective responding to the covid-19 pandemic. - Reflections about the covid-19 pandemic. - What kind of world do yall imagine post covid-19? - Share anything that your collective needs help with, or needs. - Anything you want to share….poetry, paintings, photographs, recipes, anything. Additionally, we will be featuring upcoming events, meetings, or ongoing efforts from collectives, so please send those our way as well. *Please send your content to the communications working group email at comms(a)lists.omnicommons.org <comms(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, by Tuesday April 28th. * Like all the other working groups at the Omni, the communications working group needs more participation. If you are interested in joining please sign up to the communication working group email list at https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/comms. Thank you. With love and solidarity, The Communications Working Group

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Disaster.radio - Saw similar design ideas in this solar powered wifi weather station

by sunjam

I thought of Disaster.radio while looking into build instructions for this ESPHome[3] weather device[1], which costs $30.00 for the kit [4], plus this battery[2] and the 3D printed enclosure. Video of how it works [5]. What steps are needed to clarify the build process of disaster.radio even further? [1] https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/W155288ASM1_Gerber_Solar_Powere… [2] https://smokewrap.com/mxjo-18650-imr-3000mah-35a-rechargeable-yellow-batter… [3] https://esphome.io/ [4] https://www.pcbway.com/project/gifts_detail/Solar_Powered_WiFi_Weather_Stat… [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlrXk40D-pc&feature=emb_logo

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No longer able to access the list

by James Sundquist

Hi, I'm no longer able to login to the list. Let me know if anything else is needed on my end. If my account was deleted, could you please add me with sunjam(a)james.network Thanks!

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Invoice 2062 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 ------------------------ Pledge Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 2062 Invoice Date: 05/01/2020 Due Date: 05/25/2020 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $4,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements

by Jenny Ryan

Apologies that my own statement is lackluster at best >_< but, i think y'all know me by now. should we use our loomio account to poll the membership? anyone wanna create a way for members to weigh in on this proposal? Jenny Ryan 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:09 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Dear Omni Comrades, Roberto Martinez has withdrawn as a candidate for President of the Omni Commons. The remaining candidates and their statements are below. Delegates should forward these statements to your collective’s internal mailing list and seek your collective’s counsel on how to vote. The vote will take place at the Thursday, April 23, 2020 Omni Commons Delegates Assembly/Executive Board meeting. Thanks to everyone for your cooperation, Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez CANDIDATES *PRESIDENT * *John Torok - *Candidate Statement of John Hayakawa Torok for Presidency of the Board of Directors, Omni Commons Hi! My name is John and I am a Wage Slave and a Debt Peon. (Hi John!) I participate in the Omni member collective, the Global Women’s Strike. I am also a recovering Catholic, a recovering lawyer, and a recovering academic. While I am an expensively educated and highly indebted activist, I identify as a worker and a member of the working class. I have been active in the community including helping start up the Asian American Bar Association of New York over thirty years ago. While a graduate student at Columbia Law School I became severely emotionally depressed and following expulsion transferred into Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program where I completed a dissertation on immigration policy enforcement during the Cold War. During the last financial depression I was hired by the California Employment Development Department and right away became a union shop steward with a strong focus on grievances by fellow workers living with disabilities who sought reasonable accommodations. California Unemployment Insurance is thus my state day job. I now serve on the EDD Director’s Statewide Disability Advisory Committee. I agree that state worker and anarchist is a contradiction in terms. However I participated in Occupy Oakland and identify increasingly with anarchist philosophy. There I became familiar with and known to many Oakland activists and organizations. Previously, I was involved in communes, collectives and cooperatives on and off over thirty five years. I lived in housing collectives in Santa Cruz and Brooklyn, NY over a dozen years. I participated in both a Santa Cruz and the Park Slope food coops. My short organizing jobs have been in small self-governing collectives. Lastly, while still in New York I served 10 years on the board of directors of the Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. as it transformed from a grass-roots ACT-UP-like formation to something akin to an Asian American Gay Men’s Health Crisis. In Occupy Oakland from 2011 I was active in the Queer People of Color/People of Color and Labor Solidarity Committees. Informed and inspired by the Occupy moment, I have helped start up and run three social justice grass roots Bay Area organizations since 2012, the Oakland Privacy (Working Group), the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly, and most recently the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee. I am and have always been very excited about the utopian experiment that is the Omni Commons. I am thrilled for the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with all the Omni Commons collectives and their members to build a sound basis for a long-term sustainable future for this critical Oakland cultural and revolutionary community. I am eager, willing and able to use my organizing and union leadership and legal trainings, and with your help, to make our Omni Commons a domestic and international model for what we utopians can both imagine and make happen in the real world. Thank you for your support. John Torok, Union Shop Steward, EDD San Francisco Building SEIU Local 1000 District Labor Council 743 (San Francisco) SEIU 1000 Delegate to Alameda and San Francisco County Labor Councils, AFL-CIO Member and Labor Representative, Alameda County Workforce Development Board 510-480-6153 *TREASURER * *Jenny Ryan - *Hi, I'm Jenny, and I've been both the Omni Secretary and Omni Treasurer since.. actually, I don't remember. Since ~2015. Last year, I petitioned to be paid for this gig (which often encompasses dozens of hours per fiscal quarter - keep in mind we are also the fiscal sponsor of 6 other groups), and for transparency can report I received $1,945 from Omni in 2019. I very much want other officers to take on these roles - but to be honest, we've never taken these 'official' positions very seriously. At most, they are needed for signatures. All decision are still made by the delegates. Very little responsibility is required, other than reflecting the decisions of the board - aka, the delegates. Officer roles and responsibilities were expounded upon in Laura's proposal, passed in 2019, to facilitate more responsibilities in these roles. But no greater power in comparison to the spokescouncil. I am totally fine with continuing to be Omni's treasurer and upholding those responsibilities - but I seriously urge others to consider working with me and other board members to step up right now and support the board if you're able! I am happy to train _anyone_ interested in joining the finance team, for instance. You can find my work here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances and my credentials at https://jennyryan.net Much love, and I look forward to building the new world with you all, Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net *SECRETARY* *Robb Benson - *If elected Secretary of Omni Commons, I intend to begin creating summarized minutes of the delegates meeting notes for approval at the following delegates meeting and transparently report, to the best of my ability, the substantive decisions and actions of the working groups. Additionally, I’ll commit myself to furthering my understanding of our reporting duties to external entities, in particular, with regards to activities and events of the commons working group *Mai Sutton - **My motto when it comes to collective decision-making is "Easy things should be easy, hard things should be doable." I'm involved in several non-hierarchical organizations, have facilitated hundreds of meetings, and have been a community organizer for nearly a decade. I previously worked at the **Electronic Frontier Foundation* <https://www.eff.org/>* (EFF) and **Shareable* <https://www.shareable.net/>* as a policy analyst and writer, and have since been a self-employed doing this work. I'm also the Digital Commons Fellow with the **Commons Network* <https://www.commonsnetwork.org/>*, an EU-based advocacy organization for the commons. * *I've been involved with Sudo Mesh since October 2017 as a contributor and steward of the project. Sudo Mesh has also long been a pillar organization of Omni. Several of its members contribute their time and expertise to maintain the building and its wireless network. We are currently applying to become an official Omni member collective. * *I'm running for Secretary because I want to ensure that Omni complies with its legal obligations as a 501c(3) corporation and its internal governance process. I only started to attend the Omni delegates meetings in early March and the collective I'm a part of isn't even an Omni member yet. Despite that, I decided to run for Secretary. I deeply care about Omni as a community resource and space for art and radical organizing. I recognized that there were several core Omni delegates that have been involved for a long time and seemed to be burning out. I thought it would be helpful for others like myself to step up. * *I plan on attending the Omni delegates meeting regularly anyway. If I can help Omni out by putting my name on the official filings, and be there to organize board meeting agendas and elections then I would be happy to do so. * Thanks for facilitating this process! Mai _______________________________________________ consensus mailing list consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus

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Bird Charger

by Leela Hann-Soden

Hi Sudo folks! Does anyone know if there is a Bird charger lying around that I could use for today? I have a liberated Bird but no charger; I see there is a Bird at Sudo, but I don’t see the charger for it (42V 2Amp). I hope this is the appropriate messaging platform for you all. Thanks, Leela

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Payment confirmation: Invoice 2035 (Omni Commons)

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URGENT (covid-19 related) - Someone that could help with a small research, please?

by danarauz＠gmail.com

(Hello, please excuse me if the email below has gone already into this email list. I think I sent it to a wrong address, so that is why I re-sending it. Thank you! ) ---- Hello Folks, I know this is off topic, but COVID-19 is not discriminating, and or waiting for us. I am volunteering with a small group trying to get ventilators (in the thousands) to our folks in NewYork, but it is being difficult task. Right now *we need *find out the *European CE Certification Number for each *of the following two items: - *Aeomed VG 60* - *Aeomed VG 70* I have contacted the EU Trade commission and I was informed that their database doesn't have that kind of information. But, it should be found on the devices themselves, as part of their requirements. Please forward this email to anyone that you may think can help us to gather this information. Also, while on it, we are looking for a warehouse in NYC were the supplies can be stored. Many thanks for your help, and stay safe. Daniel Signal/WhatsApp: 413.336.9143 *For more direct emails, please use: danarauz(a)protonmail.com <danarauz(a)protonmail.com>.*

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Fwd: [omni-consensus] Corrected List of Candidates

by Yardena Cohen

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:46 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] Corrected List of Candidates To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Dear Omni Comrades, One candidate has withdrawn, so a corrected list of candidates is below. Delegates should inform your collectives. Thanks, Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez CANDIDATES President: Roberto Martinez John Torok Treasurer: Jenny Ryan Secretary: Mai Sutton Robb Benson

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Sam Tepper online concert at 3 today

by Lesley Bell

He's working on doing this in the future on platforms that are not Facebook. https://facebook.com/events/s/virtually-sam-and-ashley/648132942640172/?ti=… For anyone who doesn't know, Sam is/was an early Sudoroom member who has spent the past few years primarily working on music and performance in New Orleans. Thought I'd let you guys know :)

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Fwd: [omni-discuss] Omni Member Application — Sudo Mesh

by Yardena Cohen

Hey Sudoers, what do you all think about the mesh project becoming an Omni member collective? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mai Sutton <mai.ishikawa.sutton(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:20 PM Subject: [omni-discuss] Omni Member Application — Sudo Mesh To: <consensus(a)omnicommons.org>, <discuss(a)omnicommons.org> Cc: <info(a)peoplesopen.net> Dear Omni Collective Delegates, Below you will find Sudo Mesh's application to become a member collective of the Omni Commons. We welcome your questions and any and all input you may have about our application! I plan to be present at the Omni Delegates meeting tomorrow, April 2, to formally present our application and receive your feedback. Best, Mai --- OMNI MEMBER APPLICATION - SUDO MESH What do you do that makes a difference in the world? Sudo Mesh develops software and assembles hardware systems to build open community networks. We are building open technology that helps connect our neighbors, support local businesses, and enable community collaboration and cultural production. In the event of a natural disaster or state censorship, community mesh networks can be a resilient means of communication and sharing of information. Our projects include People's Open Network, a community-owned and -operated non-profit digital network in Oakland and disaster.radio, an off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware. Briefly recap your history as an organization. Meetings to build the People’s Open Network began in January of 2013 at Sudo Room. Several founding members of the project, including Marc Juul, Jenny Ryan, Daniel Arauz, Lesley Bell, Jehan Tremback, Jake Sternberg, and Matthew Senate, continue to be involved to this day. We have continued to build off of the contributions and experiments of people who have been involved over the years. Our accomplishments over the last seven years include: Development of our own version of mesh routing firmware, SudoWRT, which was built off of existing open source operating system OpenWRT in addition to open source mesh routing protocol Babel. Organized six Build Your Own Internet (BYOI) events where we’ve hosted hands-on activities and presentations about how the internet works and our digital network commons initiatives. Installed 30+ antennas and routers in homes and businesses to become wireless nodes in People’s Open Network. One includes a node at the Internet Archive building in Richmond, CA, which we placed there in order to distribute gigabits of donated, free bandwidth. Raised over $180,000 in grants and individual donations to support our work, including a $30,000 donation to Omni Commons and a $10,000 donation to Sudo Room (where we have hosted our meetings and storage for years). Laptops for All (another Sudo Mesh project) has given out dozens of laptops to high-need individuals. Our most active projects are the People's Open Network and Disaster Radio. People’s Open Network empowers communities to build and operate their own wireless networks without relying on last-mile ISPs. Using our design built on open source software, off-the-shelf hardware, and open educational materials, small groups of people can utilize existing bandwidth to share their internet connections and cover public and underserved areas. Those who connect to the network are not customers, but community members, encouraged to learn, participate, host a node or contribute to code. Disaster Radio is an off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware. It is being designed to be rapidly implemented in disaster areas by anyone who can follow written instructions, acquire the necessary components, and mount a nominal number of nodes. The nodes will be small, entirely self-contained units running low-bandwidth web apps that anyone can access with a WiFi-enabled device. We are designing them to be solar-powered. What is your incorporation status? (501c3? Unincorporated Association? etc.) We are an incorporated 501c3 organization as Sudo Mesh, with EIN 46-4226376. We have our own bank account with UNIFY Credit Union, including sub-accounts for each of our projects. How do you make decisions? We are currently undergoing a transition in our decision-making process, which has been slowly evolving over the last two years. Until 2018, major decisions were made by in-person votes at weekly Tuesday night meetings by those actively involved in Sudo Mesh projects. Otherwise, decisions were made on an ad hoc, individual basis by those who had the capacity to work on different aspects of a project. For the last two years, we have been experimenting with the decision-making platform, Loomio. We collectively selected active members as “Stewards” who are empowered to vote on any major decisions, particularly those involving financial expenditures. We are also using Loomio to discuss ideas and proposals before they go up for a vote. Currently, proposals must be approved by consensus of approved Stewards. Stewards are not able to block if they are the sole person opposed to the decision — they must work with the proposer to come to a proposal that works for them. This has largely worked for us, but we still lack many protocols that could ensure a stable governance process. For example, we do not have minimum involvement requirements for those to remain as Stewards. We hope to address such issues in the coming months. State your goals for becoming an Omni member collective. How would your presence in the Omni contribute to its purpose and Statement of Solidarity? We believe in the power and potential of the commons as an alternative to capitalism, which justifies the extractive, violent, and depraved treatment of humans, animals, and the Earth. Networked communication has not only become critical for people to access and share information, it’s a necessity for community connection, social justice organizing, and to inspire and disseminate stories and art. Sudo Mesh is a small project out of many thousands of digital commons organizations that are fighting for a more just and equitable internet. Our goal is to build network infrastructure that is truly owned by and for the public, with a more specific aim to create technology that addresses the information and communication needs of Bay Area neighborhoods. Sudo Mesh has also long been a pillar organization of Omni Commons. Several of its members have and continue to contribute their time and expertise to maintain the wireless network in the space. Our members have helped with building maintenance and we have also used the space for our BYOI events. Our donation of $30,000 to the Omni Commons in 2018 is also a testament to our commitment to support Omni as a critical community resource in Oakland. Explain how you will finance your Omni membership dues/rent. We currently have some savings that would allow us to pay our membership dues for the near future. However, we will continue to apply for grants, seek individual donations and other recurring sources of funding to fund our work and all our expenses, including our rent and Omni membership dues. Describe what dedicated physical space (if any) you need. What will you do in the dedicated space? What can you do in shared space? Will you need to make any modifications of the building? Include floor plans if that makes your proposal clearer. We already use some space in Sudo Room: a walk-in storage space in the southeast corner mezzanine. We have considered using more space at the Omni as a regular workspace, but we currently do not have plans to expand our use beyond that space. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss

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Social thread

by Taylor Alexander

I've got a roommate who would be at risk if I got the virus, so I am going to skip the Tuesday meetups for a while. If someone is there on Tuesday please let Ross know I can help him more once this thing blows over, but I invite him to email me directly and we can collaborate remotely. But we're all expected to socially isolate more than normal, so I thought I would start a social thread for anyone interested. What have y'all been doing to stay sane? I've started scheduling video calls with friends I'd otherwise see in person. I have been getting a bit more time to do 3D printing and other stuff like that though. Anyone working on something fun to pass the time? Taylor

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SF Community Resources in response to COVID-19, by SFGH UCSF.

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello, I was asked by a friend to share the link below. She works at a UCSF hospital. SF Community Resources in response to COVID-19 Compiled by the SFGH UCSF Community | Updated 4/01/2020 Please email nhi.tran(a)ucsf.edu or philip.herrera(a)ucsf.edu to update or add local resources & services https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoH6ePZifPy9F7Ho90z0lY2PyamW5yMkPtv3HDe… Thank you, Daniel

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

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Fwd: [omni-consensus] Nominations Open for Officers of the Omni Commons

by Yardena Cohen

Hey Sudoers - anybody want to be Omni's treasurer, secretary or president? Or can you think of anybody who would be a good fit? These positions are unpaid, low on decision-making power and medium on responsibility. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:35 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] Nominations Open for Officers of the Omni Commons To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, discuss <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Dear Omni Collectives, At the Omni Delegate’s Assembly (Executive Board) meeting on Thursday, March 26, I agreed to act as Interim Secretary to initiate an election of officers; specifically, President, Treasurer and Secretary. To follow through on that responsibility, I am announcing that nominations are officially open for those 3 positions. All 3 positions have a 1-year term of office. Only members of Omni collectives and community members actively participating in Omni working groups are eligible to be nominated. Nominations will remain open until Noon on April 5. Please send nominations to me at: enapoyo(a)gmail.com and be sure to include the email address and phone number of the person you nominate so that we can reach them to verify acceptance. A number of people have already been nominated, and now the elections group (myself, Patrik and Matt) will contact them to find out if they accept the nomination. Meanwhile, nominations remain open until noon on April 5 to give the collectives time to nominate other folks if they wish. Delegates should forward this announcement to the internal list of members of your collectives because not all members of collectives are on the consensus list. Once we have determined who the candidates are we will send the names to the consensus list and delegates will inform their collectives, hold a meeting and determine for whom their delegate will vote at the annual meeting on April 23. My understanding of the process is that the delegate for each collective has one vote on each officer position. Candidates should submit a statement of why they want to be an officer and send it to the consensus list so everyone can read it before the collectives vote. No Negative campaigning; just statements of why you want to be an officer. I am also attaching the Omni Commons Bylaws, which spell out the duties of each office. In advance, I want to thank everyone for their cooperation in this process. In solidarity, Mary Ann _______________________________________________ consensus mailing list consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus

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Fwd: Tell everyone you know to fight the dangerous EARN IT Act

by Steve Phillips

Please sign this petition to help defeat *awful*, privacy-destroying legislation supported by the Trump administration, and tell others to do the same! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dayton, Fight for the Future <team(a)fightforthefuture.org> Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 2:56 PM Subject: Tell everyone you know to fight the dangerous EARN IT Act Share this important message to support digital freedom Steve, First of all, *thank you* for signing our petition to fight the EARN IT Act. This dangerous new legislation would grant the Attorney General broad new powers to determine what we can and can’t do online. You’re one of more than 26,000 people who added their names to the petition. Now we want to double that number, and we need your help to do it. *Can you send an email to your friends and family or share on social media asking them to sign our petition, too?* <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.30i/JbYh3dMLRiGy0QMamV…> <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Don't%20let%20Congress%20kill%20encryption!%20Sign%20the%20petition%20to%20tell…> We’ve added an email you can forward below, but feel free to write your own message telling the people you care about why the EARN IT Act is a threat to you. Regards, Dayton at Fight for the Future — Hi there. I’m writing to you today because I want to let you know about the EARN IT Act. This law pretends to help prevent the exploitation of children online, but in reality it threatens all of us by giving the Attorney General sweeping new powers to break encryption and censor speech online. That’s dangerous. I’ve signed a petition demanding that my lawmakers protect my digital freedom. I hope you’ll sign this petition, too: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/dont-let-congress-kill-encryption/ <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.30i/JbYh3dMLRiGy0QMamV…> Thanks! Fight for the Future works to protect your rights in the digital age. - Click here to learn more <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.30i/JbYh3dMLRiGy0QMamV…> - Donate $3 to keep us going <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.30i/JbYh3dMLRiGy0QMamV…> - Click here to receive fewer emails from us <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.30i/JbYh3dMLRiGy0QMamV…> PO Box 55071 #95005 Boston, MA 02205 Sent via ActionNetwork.org <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.30i/JbYh3dMLRiGy0QMamV…> .

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WiFi for All, at OmniCommons

by danarauz＠gmail.com

In Fed'sBook, someone mentioned that will be going out of town (Oakland) to get WiFi access, so she can work from "home". I direct her to go Omni's main door, since that is the closes WiFi Access Point that we installed. It got me thinking that perhaps would be a good idea to bring an access point to the door, outside so the signal spreads out to the street. This can be put outside from the second floor window over the main door. It would pick up the power (PoE) and signal from the second floor switch. What do you folks think? Daniel

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Need help with broken phone screen repair.

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello Sudoroom, and NoiseBridge Folks, There is an activist that need help from someone to repair her broken phone screen. It seems that places where she can go are closed these days. Her location is in Oakland is "near Downtown, Chinatown, east or west is fine." Please let me know, if you are interested so I let her know. Many thanks in advance, Daniel Signal: 415.336.9143.

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Fwd: [omni-consensus] omni delegates meeting tmrw 3/26

by Jenny Ryan

Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:12 PM Subject: [omni-consensus] omni delegates meeting tmrw 3/26 To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> hi, just a reminder that the delegates decided to meet weekly at the last meeting if using a browser or mobile phone app, the address is: https://meet.jit.si/omninom if calling in from a POTS phone or using voice only dial: 1-512-402-2718 PIN: 5832 24366# _______________________________________________ consensus mailing list consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus

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Biohackers develop open source COVID-19 diagnostic kit

by Autonomous

Biohackers at BioFoundry in Australia are making their own experimental COVID-19 test kits, which purport to diagnose the disease in just 30 minutes, and which patients can potentially perform themselves. The open-source (OS) community proposes ditching the expensive capital > equipment in favor of a reaction that requires only a set of biological and > chemical reagents in a single tube that gives a reliable diagnosis. We are > currently sourcing the reagents to replicate the experiments being shared > within the community. BioFoundry proposes setting up the facilities to > synthesize the required biological reagents at scale, while collaborating > with our sister company Argent Scientific to source the required chemicals. > We would then focus on producing self-diagnosis kits to fill the diagnostic > gap in Australia, before moving our focus to Africa and South-East Asia to > help support their containment efforts as well. https://foundry.bio/coronavirus-covid-19/

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COVID-19 Live expectancy on surfaces: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello folks, During the delegates meeting last week someone was asking about the COVID-19 live expectancy on surfaces. Here is a study regarding that: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 Screenshot of the study results graphs: https://danielarauz.com/cv19/cv-19_on_surfaces.jpg Stay safe! Daniel

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Corona Virus Tech Handbook

by Hannah O'Rourke

Hi all! Hope you’re all safe and isolated - I found this, seems to be the best resource for organising efforts around Corona virus: www.coronavirustechhandbook.com <http://www.coronavirustechhandbook.com/?fbclid=IwAR3jkY_J_Zk8bdXyARGgL0xR_U…> All the data and graphs you could ever want, tips for remote working, tools for organising mutual aid groups, and crowdsourced specialist advice for doctors, teachers, charities, all kinds of things. Have a look.

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