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by Morgan Allen

Huge thanks for everyone who stepped up to speak last night! We had 4 signed up, then another 4 volunteered. Thanks to Robb to helping with A/V as usual, cannot do it without you. We need a host for next month as both myself and Marc are unavailable. I can help out up until the event but won't be available after May 1st. Thanks to everyone who came out!

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[OMNI-ACCESS] Please stop disconnecting the front door computer!

by Jenny Ryan

Heya omninoms, I'm really sorry to make this yet another semi-distressed plea to all in the commons, but it's the kind of issue that warrants widespread dissemination: There is an extension cord above the wooden chest next to the cafe counter along Shattuck in the entrance hall close to the main entrance. This cord runs the door server, which is critical to 100+ members' access to the building. It has been messed with twice this week, both times resulting in rather disruptive access issues for many. On Monday, the orange extension cord running there was suddenly and mysteriously replaced by a white extension cord (and disconnected from said cord). Today, that extension cord was replaced by some shitty power strip with no extension cord enabling the strip to even stay in the outlet (so it fell out and all non-physical key access was unavailable). This extension cord also runs the wireless access point providing internets to the front of the building. It is not swap-out-able. For those in the building when this issue arises, the correct measures are: * Check that the ethernet and power are connected. * After all is plugged back in, test your card to see if the door computer is up * If your card doesn't work after several swipes (namely noticeable by the lack of a 'happy' or 'error' sound and lack of a red or green light), then you need to power cycle the door computer. * The door computer is a BeagleBone Black that lives in the metal box enclosure to the upper right of the door. There's a PeoplesOpen.net sticker on it, I believe. Most people will need to stand on a chair to get it open. * When you look in the cabinet and observe that the beaglebone black (basically a ~3x5" circuitboard to the far left of the cabinet) has no blinky lights, the solution is to unplug both USB plugs from the white cylinder by the 12v battery, and then plug them back in. ** There is a sweet diagram visualizing this that Lesley drew and which we taped to the inside of the enclosure last night. Of note - clearly, the door computer should be connected to power securely through conduit, and connected to a much better wireless access point than the crappy DLink router that is the current ethernet connection. The Sudo Mesh crew is working on this sometime over the next two weeks. PM me if you have some skills in this area and would be down to help! <3 Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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#5MoF Live Stream

by aaronco36

> oops new url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUUWLUMf55s Thanks for streaming tonight's 5MoF! :-) In listening to it so far, those deep-voiced aliens depart from Planet SudoRoom for good starting at 2:43 and the volume-level gets a distinct boost at about 15:47 into the playback. Haven't yet listened to the rest of this, but am sure it'll be great. -A aaronco36(a)sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

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#5MoF Live Stream

by robb

Come join us for another #5MoF at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpe6uiFdVDU

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Javascript night field trip!

by Lesley Bell

Hello all, So, it has come to my attention that this round of SFNode is going to be in the East Bay for the first time--and looks like it is going to be rather interesting <https://www.meetup.com/sfnode/events/231483341/>. Numeric computing with JS! And another talk on stop motion animation in electron by some guy named Morgan Allen... It's at 6:30 PM at 5980 Horton Street, Emeryville, CA, this coming Thursday. I'm planning to be there, so the regularly scheduled JS night at sudo will resume next week. L

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tables with outlets on them

by Jake

i think this might help with the extention cord situation, since we can install outlets in the table legs and power the table from a drop-cord from the ceiling (yes that is allowed, can you believe it) On Wed, 3 May 2017, robb wrote: > looks like 6 could replace our current table setup (4 in middle & 2 on ends) > > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Alexander Papazoglou <papazoga(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> They look like these >> <https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-1138-WOOD/Packing-Tables/Packing-Tab…> >> to me, but missing the bottom shelf, which would provide extra rigidity. >> The ones in my link do have electrical receptacles and adjustable height. >> >> Alex >> >> >> 2017-05-02 15:18 GMT-07:00 <hol(a)gaskill.com>: >> >>> is it just my eyes or are those holes for electrical receptacles in the >>> legs?? >>> >>> On 2017-04-28 12:00, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote: >>> >>> We do need one sturdy table to mount the sheet metal bender on - or did >>> someone already find a home for that one? >>> >>> Patrik >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Are we interested in these? For sudo or elsewhere in omni? >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> Date: Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:46 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [sudo-info] (no subject) >>>> To: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> >>>> >>>> The benches are 3' x 6' and about 3' tall. >>>> They are from a small company in Concord. >>>> I think there are 5 or 6 available. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >

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5MoF taking a hiatus?

by Marc Juul

I'm not able to promote and help host the 5MoF this coming week nor the next one in June due to work/travel. Unless someone else pops out of the woodwork, 5MoF is taking a hiatus. What needs to be done: * Promote the event in advance to ensure people show up * Get people to sign up to present interesting things * Show up at least two to three hours before the event and help set up the audio/video/lighting Robb has helped with the physical setup and teardown for the past two events, especially audio and lighting, so perhaps he'd still be up for helping? I'm happy to explain everything involved in setting up and live-streaming. If no-one takes this on then 5MoF will take a two month hiatus. -- marc/juul

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Patchwork pub server at sudo!

by Lesley Bell

Hi everyone, Substack and I set up a patchwork pub server on the sudoroom server yesterday. If you'd like an account, pm me for an invite code. L

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Payment confirmation: Invoice 1020 (Omni Commons)

by QuickBooks Payments

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Does mesh want about 18 radios?

by Gregg Horton

My work is tossing about 18 of these Radwin 2000 radios. Does the mesh project want them? If so I could ask. -- Gregg Horton 510-283-8734 gregghorton.com

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Sudoroom New Gate: Wire Fencing This Friday

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello Folks, Just you are on the know. My friend Mike Wilson (not a Sudoer, but kindly building us the gate at the server area) has planed to come this Friday to do the wire fencing. Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions. Daniel Signal: 415.336.9143 <https://whispersystems.org/> WhatsApp: 415.336.9143 <https://www.whatsapp.com/download/> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Invitation to present art, demos and projects at FIGMENT Oakland on June 10th

by Rick Abruzzo

Hey Makers, Hackers, Developers and Educators of Sudo Room, My name is Rick Abruzzo and I'm the co-producer of FIGMENT Oakland. As I understand it, there won't be a 5 minutes of fame this coming month so, I reaching out personally to Sudo room Discuss List to invite all of you to bring art, projects, demo and installations to our event at Mosswood Park on June 10th. FIGMENT is a free participatory arts and creative culture event in Oakland, CA providing an open forum for every type of artist, helps build a creative community, and fosters participatory and public art and creative culture of every sort. FIGMENT demonstrates what the arts can be: participatory, bursting with creativity and completely free, born from the desire to share imagination and invention between artists and the public. Our event is run by an all-volunteer staff and accepts no sponsorships and allows no vending, we are first and foremost here to serve the community and inspire attendees to think of art in the reach of everyone I'm reaching out to Sudo Room because your organization is full of creative people who like to share and educate, and I believe FIGMENT would be a great place to inspire the next generation of creators. To get a better idea of the nature of the projects and performances we host, please take a look at our photo galleries from 2014 and 2015. Also feel free to reach out and ask questions. If you have a project you think would be awesome to share go ahead and submit at our artist portal. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Rick Abruzzo Co-producer, FIGMENT Oakland -- FIGMENT Oakland: oakland.figmentproject.org Oakland Awesome Foundation: awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/oakland/ Dancehall of Beautiful Radiant Things: dancehallofbeautifulradiantthings.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Portfolio

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Internet is back up

by Marc Juul

Our normal internet is back again. speedtest says: 80 mbps down / 20 mbps up

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Proposal: Safer DIY Spaces group as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model

by Jenny Ryan

Hey sudoers, Last week I met with the Safer DIY Spaces group, which the delegates approved to provisionally fiscally sponsor under a grant-making model back in December. At the Delegate's Meeting on Thursday, there was consensus to provisionally approve the proposal, with full approval pending some time to check in with the individual collectives. They have been doing incredible work (providing consulting and walkthroughs for dozens of spaces in danger as well as participating in shaping future code compliance policies at the city-wide level) and have many more spaces they're still working on. However, the grant-making model of fiscal sponsorship has been rather unwieldy (they need to submit a grant request to allocate their own funds, which Finance then signs off on, then Finance has to write checks out to them, etc etc). This proposal is to fully fiscally sponsor Safer DIY Spaces as a project-based model, enabling them to write checks and make debit card purchases from their own subaccount (which is where their funds have already been going). This was the proposal Laura sent to Consensus on Dec. 14th, which is being modified to provide sponsorship under a project-based rather than grant-based model with an adjusted admin fee of 5% (which is the same fee we charge Real Vegan Cheese): https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2016-December/000984.html The above-linked proposal contains more info about the project, its mission, activities, origin story and organizing structure. They have been meeting weekly at Omni since December. Check signers on this account are to be Isaac Amala and Sinuba Dreem. This sponsorship agreement would be applicable retroactively to April 1st, 2017 with an admin fee of 5% (same as Real Vegan Cheese). If we could pass this at the next Delegate's Meeting on May 4th, that would be wonderful and enable them to access their own funds in a more timely fashion, as much of their work is time-sensitive (eg prepping spaces for surprise inspections, life-safety improvements, etc) If you have any further questions, the DIY group can be reached at: saferdiyspaces [AT] gmail [DOT] com (cc'd) Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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looking for a laptop that doesn't suck

by Jake

i'm looking for a decent modern laptop with a screen resolution greater than 1400x900, which has a decent backlight and good keyboard and touchpad. Ideally it's pretty cheap. I can't figure out what brand to get because apparently both lenovo and dell cant make a decent keyboard, and apples are generally way too expensive for me. please consider replying off-list to avoid clogging peoples' inboxes! thank you, -jake

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Anyone have these plugs/cables?

by Marc Juul

Need them to get the old HPLC working. One is a weird assymetric 6-pin RJ11 derivative. Even knowing its name would be useful. For the RS232 cable we need normal DB9 at the other end. For the IEEE 488 cable we need male on both ends. -- marc/juul

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Backup internet connection now active

by Marc Juul

Thanks to Will we now have a backup connection active! The ISP service person could not solve the problem and will come back tomorrow to continue his attempt. -- marc/juul

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"4 Machines for free" - Craigslist.

by Steve Leach

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/6102037113.html Bullard Vertical Turret Lathe, Maho MH 800 T, Pratt & Whitney Lathe, and Devlieg Jig Mill

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Internet still down

by Marc Juul

We spent some time troubleshooting today and we had to conclude that the problem is not with any of our gear or wiring. Either the new modem is also not working or the wiring is messed up outside of Omni (possibly the fault of the construction across the street) or the equipment at AT&T / LMI (our ISP) is messed up. This will likely take days to fix so we are trying to arrange for a backup internet connection tomorrow. We will likely have some form of internet tomorrow evening. Technical details: The new modem lit up one of its two DSL connection lights, meaning that one of the two phone lines connected. It then lit up its Internet light which I believe means that it has an IP layer link to something at the other end. Connecting directly to the modem gives an IP via DHCP and I can ping the modem, but trying to reach the outside world fails. traceroute fails with the statically assigned external IP of the modem (which is stored in the modem's flash memory). LMI did not give us the admin password to the modem (grrr) and don't have 24/7 support. We attempted a factory reset, which reset _something_ since it lost memory of its external IP and the Internet light stopped coming on, but did not reset the admin password to the factory default (at least as specified in the manual). After an attempted factory reset again only one of the DSL lights came on. We then went to the box where the phone lines come into our building (in the phat beats room) and tied in a new, short, connection directly to the box and connected the modem. Again the same behaviour: Only the DSL1 line lit up. As I write this email I'm realizing that since I didn't disconnect the existing phone cables running from the phone-line connection box in the phat beats room and to the server room, if that cable has been half-chewed over by critters then it might be creating a short which wouldn't be remedied by simply adding a new connection on top :/ I'll do another test where I untie the existing connection first. Assuming it still fails I will call our ISP tomorrow. Will from the mesh group should have an unlimited 4G modem waiting for him in his PO box which he will lend to Omni after he comes home from work tomorrow and we will hook it up so we can have some amount of internet until it's all sorted out. -- marc/juul

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internet down

by Yardena Cohen

I can't physically be there but seeing complains that the internet is down at Omni. I can't remotely access any machines there. Is anybody able to go check? Thanks.

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Fwd: [omni-consensus] GCEA proposal

by Jenny Ryan

Hey sudo, Up for omni consensus, a proposal to lock the Classroom (the room between the entrance hall and the ballroom along shattuck) up for consenso at the next delegates meeting on May 3rd. I am wary to say yes as GCEA is currently 5 months behind on rent ($250/mo) and part of the rationale was that "every other collective has locked rooms". Also, i have not seen any attempt made to store project items in a locked cabinet, and the group was effectively not present in the building from January through March. Finally, Global Womens Strike and Chiapas Support Committee, who have been members much longer, would like a room of their own and have never been late on rent ($564 and $200, respectively) or gone inactive from delegates meetings. This is the proposal and those are my thoughts. Plz discuss. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Laura Turiano" <scylla(a)riseup.net> Date: Apr 20, 2017 4:27 PM Subject: [omni-consensus] GCEA proposal To: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Cc: Proposal from GCEA for 4/20/17: > > We are in the process of renegotiating our lease. One of our concerns is > that the room we have been using (the classroom behind the children’s > room) is not secure. We agreed to try using the room without a lock, but > multiple items have been stolen including activity folders with personal > information, chargers, books, art supplies and a stapler. We intend to > use the room to hold documents, a laptop, projectors, children activity > folders and other valuables. > > Our proposal is to add a lock with a code to the doors to the room. > Anyone who wants to use the room when it is free can get the code from > us. We have discussed this with BAPS and they are in agreement with this > arrangement. > > We appreciate your attention to this request. > > Thank you in advance. > > Best Regards, > > Almaz > > > > _______________________________________________ > consensus mailing list > consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >

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Greetings earthlings! SudoRoom Meeting wednesday - wanna do an animation Jam?

by Romy Ilano

Hey Cere, everyone - I'm happily back from Budapest. Saw some great stuff there, didn't realize that it's where Tesla started his career as an electrical engineer after a series of fleeing gambling debts and dropping out of school. =D I've been messing around with various (non open source) animation programs. It would be cool to do a jam around a cartoon for SudoRoom and/or Count Culture Labs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHg_PLGXUC0 I have Moho Pro /Anime Studio and MotionArtist, which spits out HTML5 clickable comics. If anyone is interested it'd be cool. It'd also be cool tot hook any of these animation projects into some kind of hardware display, nam jun paik or bill viola style: http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/flashback-story-behind-nam-june-paiks-digi… ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Free -80 C lab freezer (if you move some stuff)

by Marc Juul

Counter Culture Labs has a free full size -80 freezer available. It is actually an older -86 C freezer but it now "only" comes down to -80 C. It's working but it should really have a new air filter installed before being put to use (nothing special, just to prevent dust getting into the compressor). We're getting a slightly newer model. What we need in return is for you to pick up our new freezer at a lab at UC Berkeley, bring it to Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, and then of course pick up our old freezer for your own use. The freezer you'd be getting measures: H: 200 cm W: 110 cm (includes handle) D: 94 cm The one you'd be moving for us is almost the exact same dimensions. Be aware that these are _very_ heavy. They cannot be allowed to lie down at any point (they will break). Tilting them up to 30 degrees is ok, but that's it. You'll probably want a forklift or a bunch of strong folk and some hefty ropes. If you want this freezer we need a firm commitment by late Sunday evening. -- marc/juul

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Interwebs still down

by robb

It been almost 24 hours since we've been able to connect. Rebooting router does nothing

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Do we want this cart?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Let me know asap...

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