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Invoice 2052 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 # : 2052 Invoice Date: 04/01/2020 Due Date: 04/25/2020 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $4,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[URGENT] Omni Commons Response to Current Climate (was re: "Omni as a distribution point")

by Jenny Ryan

Hey all! While I'm replying to Roberto's message, I'm also cc'ing various Omni mailing lists (including member collectives): Yes, I think we should be a dropoff point - but only if the organizers will staff it *fully* and abide by *extremely high hygiene/sanitization standards*. We all need to be talking more about next steps as a community place-based organization. I've revived our Slack channel here so we can have real-time conversations: *Click Here To Join Chat! <https://join.slack.com/t/omnicommons/shared_invite/zt-coe108tt-rd~SdFHo_DN_…>* *Questions for the community:* - *Should we send a request to our mortgage lender to belay payments for a month or two?* We have $30K as bare-minimum operating reserves (which I'd rather not touch), and an additional $15K in the kitchen fund. Our checking account is currently at a little over $3K, with March mortgage and utilities paid, but we are not receiving ~$1K in member collective payments, and half our necessary monthly income (~$5K of ~$11K) comes from event rentals... that have all been cancelled... - *Builders/handypeoplez: *I have put out a call/request for someone to install the touchless soap dispenser i bought last year - it is powered by rechargeable C batteries and needs to be mounted onto tile with masonry drill bits - all materials (dispenser, batteries, charger, masonry bits and drill) are in the secure storage; foaming unscented hand soap is in massive quantities in the cleaning closet (please lock! but share combo lock code liberally with trusted folks who won't steal all the TP ;) - it could also be wired to existing electrical. I personally can't do it as I'm currently a probable asymptomatic vector of covid-19. At my home in W Oakland, we have a box of N95 masks (I believe CCL ordered more?) and lots of food as well as herbs and some meds, so ping me if you need and I will leave it outside our door for you <3 Can also order things online if anyone needs and doesn't have the resources right now. - Per requests from Robb, I have purchased 4 bottles of 70% Isopropyl alcohol with spritz bottles, as well as a dozen air filters. Who is currently regularly at Omni (Robb? Sierk? AB? anyone else?) that can be my point of contact for delivery updates? If you think of other things we need you can make a purchase request here: https://omnicommons.org/budgetrequest *Some relevant announcements:* - CCL has recently purchased various supplies for decontamination and cleanliness. Also a good resource for people with questions about the virus. Patrik, lmk if you need to go halfsies with Omni on the sanitizer dispensing station - if CCL is strapped, that is - cuz Omni will be in coming months. - *Please donate* to Omni <https://omnicommons.org/donate> and/or Sudo <https://sudoroom.org/donate> right now! Also, consider making a donation to CCL member (and my former beloved housemate!) Craig, who is working on a vaccine - he is currently trying to raise $1500: You can send PayPal donations to: finance(a)renegadex.bio - or Venmo: Craig-Rouskey <https://venmo.com/Craig-Rouskey> - I'll be sending out a financial report with coming-month prospectives by the end of March. This is one of my priorities right now, and I'm downshifting my full-time job and other gigs to do it and will not be charging my $25 bookkeeper contract rate for those hours. I am concerned about the lack of financial support from events (most all of which have been cancelled or postponed), as well as from Phat Beets (4 months unpaid rent, $2,518) and FYE (1.5 months unpaid rent, $525) - PB & FYE - please let us know how your orgs are doing and what we can do to best support you and in turn, Omni Commons as a whole! - Current costs and recurring income sources have been regularly updated on the Finance Wiki Page: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances *Additional Resources:* - COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources- Huichin/Oakland <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1q8gPladEOi0vI8oU7Z37AYJQsy22SKd…> - https://bayrising.org/organizingduringcoronavirus/ - https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/ - https://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/alameda_county_food_banks.html - Alameda County Public Health Deptartment's COVID-19 resource hub <http://www.nikki4oakland.com/r?u=Qw7BN9spnH2-QGQihzneFoQv17feW3ezjwg15mnJvs…> - http://www.alamedacounty.info/content/housing-and-renting-aid - Bay Area Financial Solidarity <http://Tiny.cc/covidmutualaid> Mad love & solidarity - and hope to see you on the chat! (link above) <3 jnny On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:07 AM Roberto Martinez via commons < commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > I got a request about using the Omni as a location for dropping off > donating goods. Are we doing something already? If not are we open to have > the Omni as a drop of place? > > I’ll ask them to submit a formal request and take it from there. > > Thanks, > RM > > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* Cc Raye <viviraye(a)gmail.com> > *Date:* March 15, 2020 at 8:16:01 PM PDT > *To:* Margot Brennan <margot(a)seedsandstones.org> > *Cc:* Roberto Martinez <rcm00189(a)gmail.com> > *Subject:* *Re: Omni as a distribution point* > > > Hi Roberto, > Thanks Margot for connecting us. > Some of us are trying to coordinate some mutual aid and wanted to suggest > a centralized location for dropping off donated goods that could then be > redistributed. > Do you think Omni might be open to this for some period of time? > Would we need to have designated times? > Looking forward to being in touch if y'all are open to this. > Thanks! > Cici > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 8:07 PM Margot Brennan <margot(a)seedsandstones.org> > wrote: > >> Hi Roberto, >> >> Cc'd on this email is Cici who has a question for you all about possibly >> using the space for something. Cici, this is Roberto my contact for the >> Omni. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Margot >> > _______________________________________________ > commons mailing list > commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons >

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Mesh Local Services Hackathon NOW IN-PROGRESS!

by Jenny Ryan

Join us this weekend to build local services for peoplesopen.net! People's Open Network endeavors to provide communication services, so that it offers value to its users beyond mere connectivity to the Internet. What can be done to help strengthen ties among Oakland residents, and to benefit the community? Services (such as maps, file-sharing, email, contacts, and calendar) should be provided based on existing free/open source software. See some ideas and examples here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services Chat with us here: https://peopleopen.net/chat Coordinate here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/hackathon Post code here: https://github.com/sudomesh Learn more about deploying services on the network via this tutorial: https://github.com/sudomesh/babeld-lab/blob/master/services_guide.md This is a 48-hour ongoing hackathon - we welcome participation in any form, even if you don't code! Mad love and, as always, HACK THE PLANET! Jenny

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Free surgical masks with Seeed orders

by Morgan Allen

Seeed studios is offering free surgical masks with orders (to cover shipping). Get shut-in hacking supplies and donate masks! Win Win! https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2020/03/19/support-for-the-seeed-community…

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Vive base station

by devin chalmers

I discovered as I prepared to shelter-in-place that one of my Vive base stations is on the fritz. Anyone have one they're not using, to help a buddy quarantine in the metaverse?

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Open Source Tech Projects re: COVID-19

by Jenny Ryan

Some tech initiatives to combat the Covid-19 pandemic: - Wuhan2020 is an open source project similar to Covidbase. It was started in early Feb to help Wuhan. Some of the code base may be useful and the list of suppliers for various of hardware supply may come in handy. https://github.com/wuhan2020/wuhan2020/blob/master/README_EN.md - Project Open Air: Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies: https://www.projectopenair.org/ (FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670932227050506/) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ - European effort to implement the Chinese health code with disposable IDs to balance between privacy and data collection: https://github.com/disposableidentities/healthcrisis/blob/master/README.md Stay safe and hack for good! <3 Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net

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Don't come in! Hardware Hacking Tuesdays in cyberspace!

by Jake

Since we all have to keep from leaving our homes except for safe and essential activities (including exercise) Don't come to sudoroom for Hardware Hacking Tuesdays until further notice! That said, we should try to get together on IRC chat in #sudoroom apparently you might be able to join by using this web portal that Adam wrote: http://civilpedia.org/c/?&channel=%23sudoroom you can also use freenode https://webchat.freenode.net if you are familiar with the terminal, you can run Irssi which is what I do, and I use mosh and tmux or screen to keep my session open even when my computer or phone is off and I can get into the same session from my phone or computer, so it's always the same experience see you in cyberspace! -jerkey (aka Jake in meatspace)

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Shutting Down the Omni?

by Carl Gorringe

Hi, Is anyone considering shutting down the Omni to protect spreading the coronavirus? -Carl

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Intent: Solar Punk meetup on Friday's

by Mark Perlin

Sudo Discuss List, A regular meetup on Fridays on solar punk is proposed. All of us are sick from the legacy dogmatic patterns that permeate all our mainstreams. This meetup will focus on design to realize the nearly forgotten promise of solar punk.

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

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Payment confirmation: Invoice 2006 (Omni Commons)

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Looking for a broken SLR or 35mm camera

by Adam Munich

I'm looking for a broken 35mm or full frame camera if anyone has one, to extract the shutter assembly from.

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IRC #sudoroom logs

by Jake

can someone send me logs of the IRC channel #sudoroom for as far back as you can go? please do so off-list, thank you -jake

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Fwd: Robot Free To A Good Home

by Tim Dobbs

Hi Sudo Room, CCL is looking to donate our large liquid handling robot in order to free up some space in the lab. Would you or anyone you know like it? It's important that any organization that CCL transfers the robot to is also a 501(c)(3). Here are some specifics about the robot: Capabilities: - Liquid handling - Freezer with automated door - With a little TLC, could carry out many basic biology assays and operations, like plate incubation, PCR, SDS-PAGE, and centrifugation. The robot includes: - Robot frame made of 80/20 aluminum bars - A gantry with a pipette mounted to it that can move in 3-dimensions, plus actuate the pipette aspirator. All dimensions have limit switches on them - A Smoothieboard <http://smoothieware.org/smoothieboard> to run the 3D-movement motors - An Arduino Uno to manage electrical relays - A Raspberry Pi 2 that can be used to communicate to the Smoothieboard and Arduino - A top-loading freezer for storing samples. Parts included to automate opening and closing the freezer. - Custom-built table with deckspace for robot operation and storage space underneath - Various pieces of labware, including a microcentrifuge and custom-cut acrylic to allow the robot to manipulate petri plates State: - Robot moves in 3 dimensions. The motor for the pipette jogger has been shown to work, but is currently not connected - All of the other, non-movement components are included but not assembled - No software provided, but we can definitely share the documents we've generated as we learned how to use it I've attached a few pictures and a short video <https://photos.app.goo.gl/GhuH4GS2qNGuR58M9> of the robot picking up a pipette tip and ejecting it to help get an idea of the way it operates. That said, the robot is very hacker-friendly, so alternative uses are doable. If you've got any leads, reach out to me, the CCL Board, or the CCL Space Committee. Hoping to find a good home for this robot! -Tim

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Invoice 2035 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 # : 2035 Invoice Date: 03/01/2020 Due Date: 03/25/2020 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $4,000.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Remaining jobs for Omni insurance inspection

by Laura Turiano

Thanks everyone for your efforts so far! *Remaining jobs to finish by early Thursday morning, in vague priority order, and probably not exhaustive* * Shattuck and 48th st doors - adjust panic bars and door hardware so they open easily * Remove or safely store fluorescent tubes that are in corner of EH * Put a gas shutoff wrench by gas meter if there isn’t one * Safely store boxes of batteries in sudo * Install smoke detectors (in locked storage) * 48th st hallway - rehang fire extinguisher, paint and install baseboards and or molding if we have, remove blue tape, final mop, leave completely clear (bonus points if you can mop/scrub the hallway to the bocce court with TSP while you're at it) * Matt, Monk, electrical crew - fisnish mapping electrical system, covering open panels, emergency lighting and exit signs installed and functional, wiring, replacing eh fixtures, etc * *BASEMENT - organize onto shelves or get rid of all stuff in piles; Make basement look like storage, not event space; store Ken finish removing stuff, organize printers, remove all shiny stuff from ceiling, remove and store all extension cords * * Finish painting wooden windows * Remove/paint over small amount of graffiti on outside of building towards 48th st doors * *Finish and install awning * * Move stove remnants, other metal from basement kitchen to EH for metal waste pickup on Wednesday * Bocce court bathroom - clean and organized, w compost and trash cans * 48th st hallway - *rehang fire extinguisher*, paint and install baseboards and or molding if we have, final mop, leave completely clear * Stage left bathroom -*paint stained side of ceiling w glossy white*, also stalls. remove graffiti on mirror, general cleaning * Disco room - *finish painting*, *clean plexi floor*, remove mirrors that aren’t hung to dump or store safely, restick Marley (tape in cabinet is disco room - Luka watched video on how to lay properly. If there isn't time for this just layit out flat over the floor ) * Small classroom- remove excess chairs, boxes in front of electrical panel, cobwebs, straighten out * Bathrooms cleaned * Ballroom bar - final sweep and organize * Trash room - should look organized w minimum stacked cardboard * Make sure Shower is not dripping * Entry area to bocce court organized * Get rid of all trash piled in sudo * Basement northwest corner (where Village stuff was) ceiling water damage - cover and potentially replace damaged ceiling tiles * Remove hanging wires in den. If time, prime and paint ceiling * Sudo mesh area organized * Move Stage section upstairs * Fix broken stair steps * Disco room door - Wash w tsp; if time, prime and paint w grey in the storage * *Wednesday evening - fisnish up any work in progress, general cleaning and organizing so everything is in its place, organize trash cans in rooms (a trash, recycling and compost can grouped together, except bathrooms need one compost and one trash) and put in bags/liners * * *

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Can we run another network drop to the laser cutter printer?

by Robert Chu

Seems to have been removed.

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Remaining jobs

by Laura Turiano

Remaining inspection prep jobs Power wash exterior Inc wooden window sills Sand, patch, paint wooden window sills Replace broken window in eh Replace missing window skate (ace hardware on grand has them per mike Tenuto) 48th st hallway - finish priming, paint, baseboards, remove blue tape in ceiling, molding if time, final mop Matt, Monk, electrical crew - mapping electrical system, covering open panels, wiring, replacing eh fixtures, etc Remove piles of stuff remaining in basement Set up printers in media lab - at least organize so they look like they are functional Basement Couches upstairs - black one to dump Move Stage section upstairs Fix broken stair steps Paint white wall in eh mezz w eh white - all prep done Disco room - finish painting, clean Marley, clean plexi floor, restick Marley ( tape arrived yesterday ). Lib lens said they would take on a lot of this Eh mezz bathroom finish cleaning walls and baseboards w tsp, rinse w water, prime and paint w gloss white. Cover all graffiti Clear out/clean shelves next to fridge in eh mezz Den printer to dump pile Move stove remnants, other metal from basement kitchen to eh. Clean out trash room - everything except trash bins to dump pile Rent large truck for dump runs on Monday w possibility of follow up trips on tuesday Put a gas shutoff wrench by gas meter if there isn’t one Was new water heater installed w earthquake bracing? WEDNESDAY - general cleaning, finish jobs Other details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJ6HRW32KeqP9ZCWXjCvXPqoNmHmyt4dIR41EZN… Sent from my iPhone

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Payment confirmation: Invoice 1978 (Omni Commons)

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IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ

by Laura Turiano

Hi everyone, After I asked our insurance agent why our property insurance will be going up $800 this year, she sent the following reply from the company: /On a side note, it appears the condition of this building has drastically deteriorated over the years. The current condition of the building is below average and is unacceptable. We will remain on this account for one more year but please be advised that we will be setting this account up for nonrenewal. If the insured is able to provide proof of building updates and proper maintenance, we may be able to review this account again for eligibility. In additional, updates would allow us to approach other carriers for alternate quotes./ *If we lose our property insurance and are unable to find another company (unlikely and, if we can, the rate will be high), we will probably not be able to refinance and we will lose the building. * ** Our agent thinks they are basing their evaluation of the building condition only upon seeing the exterior, possibly on google street view. That is why they have asked to do the inspection that I have already told you about. I think that will happen on Thursday 2/13 We need all hands on deck over the next 2 weeks to make the building look as good as possible, inside and out. That means: - fire safety equipment all in working order, NO clutter, no fire hazards - condition of any wiring as good as possible - exterior condition as good as possible, no graffiti, clean, EH windows fixed and window sills repaired and painted, new awning up - any roof trouble spots fixed - general interior condition should look as good and safe as possible, general painting where needed, everything clean and in working order - fixing anything that could be seen as a safety hazard. I propose an emergency meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm to get organized to tackle these things. Laura

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2019-nCoV is a synthetic hybrid of SARS and AIDS

by Jake

We then translated the aligned genome and found that these inserts are present in all Wuhan 2019-nCoV viruses except the 2019-nCoV virus of Bat as a host [Fig.S4]. Intrigued by the 4 highly conserved inserts unique to 2019-nCoV we wanted to understand their origin. For this purpose, we used the 2019-nCoV local alignment with each insert as query against all virus genomes and considered hits with 100% sequence coverage. Surprisingly, each of the four inserts aligned with short segments of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) proteins. The amino acid positions of the inserts in 2019-nCoV and the corresponding residues in HIV-1 gp120 and HIV-1 Gag are shown in Table 1. The first 3 inserts (insert 1,2 and 3) aligned to short segments of amino acid residues in HIV-1 gp120. The insert 4 aligned to HIV-1 Gag. The insert 1 (6 amino acid residues) and insert 2 (6 amino acid residues) in the spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV are 100% identical to the residues mapped to HIV-1 gp120. The insert 3 (12 amino acid residues) in 2019- nCoV maps to HIV-1 gp120 with gaps [see Table 1]. The insert 4 (8 amino acid residues) maps to HIV-1 Gag with gaps. Although, the 4 inserts represent discontiguous short stretches of amino acids in spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV, the fact that all three of them share amino acid identity or similarity with HIV-1 gp120 and HIV-1 Gag (among all annotated virus proteins) suggests that this is not a random fortuitous finding. In other words, one may sporadically expect a fortuitous match for a stretch of 6-12 contiguous amino acid residues in an unrelated protein. However, it is unlikely that all 4 inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein fortuitously match with 2 key structural proteins of an unrelated virus (HIV-1). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf

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front door latch not working, people locked out

by Jake

Omni door electronic latch is not letting people in, building is locked and people are trying to get in for a class can someone with a key go there and let them in? -jake

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Sudoroom meeting Wednesday 2/5 7pm !?!?!

by Yardena Cohen

I'm calling it! Hope to see you all there! Some items to discuss: * cleaning for insurance inspection (urgent) * omni meetings (someone should go) * money (not enough) * new members (people waiting) * key card list (needs pruning) * big projects (kitchenette? epoxy floor?? pallet racks??) * planting trees in the floor (not urgent) * breeding mouse-cockroach hybrids & putting them in charge * techno-pessimism support group

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Fwd: [sudo-info] Getting started

by Zac R

Hello, I just wanted to find if the software Thursday night events were going on currently or any other frequent opportunities to get involved beyond the Tuesday Hardware nights? Thanks, Zac ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [sudo-info] Getting started To: Zac R <zrobin16(a)gmail.com> Hi Zac, right now the best time to meet others at Sudo is Tuesday night hardware hack night. It seems to be the only regularly occurring event right now. If you want to find people to talk about software, you might try the sudo-discuss mailing list.

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payphone on the front of omni

by Jake

there's a payphone mounted on the front of Omni, by the front door. When we installed it, it was working and when you would lift the receiver, it would connect to the asterisk server in the rack, and say "Press 1 to connect to Sudoroom, press 2 to connect to Counter Culture Labs..." and there were VOIP phones in CCL and sudoroom that would ring when it was used.... I wanted to set it up so the phones could beep the door open while someone was on the line. Presently the receiver on the payphone is broken, but we have a replacement. I am willing to repair the phone and get the system back up and running, if someone with software skills is interested in helping tune up the asterisk server and configure the phones indoors. We also need to clean the graffiti off of the phone. This needs to happen ASAP as there will be a building inspection by the insurance company and we need the outdoors to look good. The alternative is to remove the payphone and maybe "someday" put it back but that would be a step back. Is anyone interested in collaborating on this? Obviously the priority is to clean the appearance of the phone and replace the handset, so that it doesn't detract from the appearance of the building. -jake

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