- sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I did not see this message in my inbox until now, apologies for the delay: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:46 PM Subject: Lease To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)eddan.com>, George <travology(a)mindspring.com> Hi Matt- I haven’t completed the lease—originally I was just waiting for your address so I can print it out but after spending some time there this week (George hurt his arm—you might have heard about that story), we will need to add some additional clauses to the lease before printing it out. Often when I walk in there—and worst of all yesterday, right after George de-bugged the place—I was shocked to find huge trays of food (enough to feed probably 30 people!) just laying out there in the warm air, clearly stale. This is totally inappropriate—and gross! The common area was set up to be a place where people could have meetings, occasional special gatherings and possibly an additional receptionist desk for each of the businesses there. It is clear that while it is being used in its current manner that there will be no possibility of us being able to attract other tenants into that space to share it with you, and we can’t afford to get only what you and the public school are paying for the space without any ability to rent out more. We know that people are still sleeping there—often they wake up in the middle of the night and walk out the front door, because clearly they don’t know the rules and they violate the code and we are getting called (of course, these are folks who don’t belong there and shouldn’t have codes….they should just not have been there in the first place!). We don’t even know whether the people sleeping there are your members or not, but the fact that there is nobody to shut up the space at night and kick out the stragglers still in there is clearly a big problem and we are losing more and more sleep because of it. This will need to change. We will either need to put a curfew on the use of the common area space except in the case of special events, or require that somebody in authority come once at the end of the evening and shut the place up and make sure that everybody is out of there, doors locked, and the elevator shut on the top floor so that others (including those in 2141 corridor that seem to gravitate there) won’t have access to it. Even with your insurance, the liability issues are getting greater all the time based on the problem of the space being kept open and people who shouldn’t be in there hanging around throughout the night.. We are going to have to make clear in the lease, once and for all, that the common area is NOT a living room! It is not a place to put out food unless a special event is going on. A point was made to George about giving 24 hour notice before spraying again, and I will try to have him adhere to that in the future, but the point is that he shouldn’t HAVE to be doing that to begin with! Matt, you have always been quite reasonable and easy to deal with, but you have a life and can’t be there 24 hours a day, so we’ll have to put our heads together and come up with some additional solutions to make things work for everybody up there. Please let me know how you feel about this, and what steps we can take to move forward. Thanks- Laurie

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Checkbook missing, last seen at sudo meeting on weds

by Matthew Senate

Unable to find the book, I've issued a "stop payment" on the last two checks it contained. Everything is swell, our account is at: $10,472.40 // Matt On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:19 PM, mattsenate(a)gmail.com <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I'm cancelling them at the bank unless they turn up by the time I finish > looking through the recycling bin. > > // Matt > >

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Temescal Library Oakland Wiki Edit Party Tmrw 4/19 2-5PM

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Come hang out with us tomorrow 4/19 from 2-5PM for an Oakland Wiki Edit Party <http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Wiki_Events> at the Temescal Library<http://oaklandwiki.org/Temescal_Branch_Library> . It'll be an informal event where we'll be in a space set aside by the librarians for us edit content together, chat, etc. If you've never done this before or are unsure of what to do, volunteers will be on hand to help. If you can't make it tomorrow, we're having another Edit Part next weekend at the Chavez Branch<http://oaklandwiki.org/C%C3%A9sar_E._Ch%C3%A1vez_Branch_Library> . Details about both events are at http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Wiki_Events Best, Marina

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Checkbook missing, last seen at sudo meeting on weds

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

I'm cancelling them at the bank unless they turn up by the time I finish looking through the recycling bin. // Matt

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a graphic novel about net neutrality - call for authors/illustrators

by Danny Spitzberg

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/visualizing-net-ne… Pass it along! Hi, Romy!

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Cryptoparty this Sunday: Special Journalist's Edition

by Jenny Ryan

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Join us at sudo room this Sunday from 2-5pm for a cryptoparty - journalist edition. We'll overview tools for preserving anonymity, and demoing open source whistleblower tools such as SecureDrop. We'll also be going over the usual subjects, such as PGP email encryption, hard drive encryption ans mobile security. Learn more and view the soon-to-be-posted schedule here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty Cheers, Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTUPTnAAoJEHTWWpBUSeDhpyUH+gN5PMZrYVBt4waZaFt9IQKP n/pCRPjmCdBHlzhaJ0ooTGTTMv5wiV5xgbmSjfopiSlTO7IFt/8KWJOnX+kgWzBd 1yQ6Jtl3G4Tz+oHvmO8tNPOqjxZqa7giOV2tuLv7VGQBiOHfPdgFjzWG0+078+Z/ wFeECerZW6NwuoubST+SoCYJD7xipmoDApeW+tasA2HL7J8mAlMTOOCsVVJsnIpM aspWluEyXtUpoAc+sKc+UDvP/d2rTt7GNmScFLN+N1BMFUEV/03PLF7b2OVLnpbR otuR/hMZRxpZpdxBi8YMcl7ZAOLYlHFFKW737xorPdyBl3UUZ6ke10oJX7VHS7U= =fwQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Meet the Inventors of a 3-D Printer for Hyper-Complicated Candy | Design | WIRED

by Ibrahim Moss

FYI: Sugar high from a 3D printer? http://www.wired.com/2014/04/meet-the-couple-who-invented-a-3-d-printer-for…

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April 16th Meeting Minutes

by Jenny Ryan

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-04-16 - -- Facilitator: Matt Scribe(lets) (note-taker[s]): tunabananas, juul, etc ==Intros== Icebreaker question: What are three words that describe your future expectations of sudo room? * jenny (tunabananas) - sudo space forever!! * marc (juul) - hack the planet! * yar - I don't know... * scott - local fun robots * ivan - write more code * daniel - planet to hack * francisco - hack the future * noemie - a lot of sudo rooms * matt - work but not * steve - innovation community revolution * chrisb - * faust - interpellation manifestation revolution * don't stop doing ==New Members== * Francisco - has experience with noisebridge, enjoyed the food at the meeting ;) ** Q: Any advice for sudo room, coming from the noisbridge community (maybe what to do or what not to do) ** A: This coommunnity is really young and really different in many ways, the enthusiasm here is very contagious, good thing to have in any kind of organization. My suggestion is to not stop doing things, push forward, you know, initiative. ==To-Do== http://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomtg Please review on your own, skipping review for meeting tonight: * find accountant, file taxes [max emailing nobawc & selc] * renew lease [waiting on landlord] * get damn debit card number already * Fix sudoroom.org/chat (irc on site) * find new calendar app * Clean up network wiring, upgrade to new Cisco switch [Daniel?] * SeltzerCRM (website & door code) [jenny?] * set up venmo [liberty?] * Stripe [jenny] ==Announcements== preferably NONE - important/urgent things only == Bug Bomb Discussion (25 min) == Responding to bug-bomb poison released by landlord * half a dozen people in the common area * george said "i'm setting off bug bombs, you have 5 minutes" * he released the canisters with everybody still there * elliot threw them in garbage cans * george tried to fight him, fell down doing it (?) * stories conflicted? * witnesses keep promising to write it down and haven't ** audio recordings? * george trying to ban elliot (a sudo member) from the building * there are photos of the bomb * instructions say "leave 24 hours before reinhabiting space" * legally needed 24 hours notice, not 5 minutes (?) * several people were in the BAPS classroom and were not even informed * people reporting skin irritations from being at sudo * another version of the story: ** george tried to grab trash can from elliot ** george tripped doing that ** there was no actual contact between george & elliot === Ed's written account === I understand the landlard entered the premises a couple of days ago and gave folks 5 minutes to evacuate before setting off several bug bombs. I'm pretty sure that kind of behavior is illegal without at least 24 hours notice. I haven't noticed much sign of non-landlord related vermin in the room, but I don't spend extended amounts of time at the space. When folks objected to this intrusion I understand that the landlord set off one or more foggers in a garbage can, which, of course, rather defeats the purpose, particularly since Elliot bravely (if perhaps foolishly) took the still fuming trash can outside, I hope he's OK. Anywho, I stopped by the room last night to drop off a bag of bread and hung around gabbing for 20-30 minutes and noticed that my exposed skin was burning & itching and my lungs felt weird. I think I suffered from contact dermatitis, I took a shower as soon as I got home and threw all of my clothes in the laundry hamper even though I'd only been wearing them for a week or two, but I'm still feeling a bit of intermittent tingling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogger Personally, I suspect that a fair amount of the hoopla over exposure to household chemicals is overblown, even neurotic is some cases, but given the landlord's cavalier and abusive actions I surmise that he may have visited during the middle of the night and set off a large number of TRFs. Now I'm beginning to see why so many sudoers are agitating for a change of venue. Cue the music:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDo_Ub-s9U So if this has not been done yet, I recommend that all utensils and plates get washed and all surfaces get wiped down with a damp cloth. http://insects.answers.com/pest-control/diy-pest-control-how-to-use-a-bug-b… Clean Surfaces to Remove Residue Upon returning to the area it is important to properly clean the pesticide residue from all major surfaces. Counter tops, especially those that encounter food, cookware, and/or dishes, should be wiped thoroughly with warm soapy water. Carpets and rugs should be vacuumed, as should any cloth furniture that was not covered prior to fogging the area. Bedcovers, pillows, and any clothing left out during the treatment should be washed with detergent and hot water. Wood and tile floors should be swept and mopped to prevent pesticide particles from being shuffled up into the air. In the meantime, I suggest not using utensils, cups, plates, etc. without giving them a rinse first. ... Full email: https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2014-April/006008.html === Reasons to stay? === ** It's close to some peoples houses ;)? ** Priority one: The individual safety of our members ** Are there any alternative options? ** not having to move twice in just a few months * much better transit options in Uptown than off Temescal * Safety and health should be top priority ===Safety Vs. Convenience/Opportunities=== *How long? *"i think we should be leaving ASAP? If we can, we should." *maybe we should leave even if the omni doesn't happen ==Reboot== Sudo Reboot Plan (total: 35 min) ===Review reboot so far (5 min)=== ====cleaning==== * cleaning happened * people stopped before it was done * tool area sucks * CNC mill is fixed! * radio room needs attention so other people can use it ====fundraising==== * "we should hold some workshops and charge for them" ** who will do it? * raise the Gittip to $420/wk * still 4 days for $420 by 4/20 * outreach & messaging strategy? jenny will start this ** make infrastructure more accessible and effective (digital and physical) * more contributions to the global hackerspace community (open space iconography; labitrack inventory system, etc) ===Assess opportunities (15 min)=== * current space is too limited for current level of activity. it's about time for sudo space. * greater output, visualizing the trajectory forward (like a calendar) * descriptions of events on calendar should not be optional, same with contact point * encourage refocusing on projects when in the space (over extended socializing) * work on enabling easy access to essential tools * encourage folks to write down what skills they have and what they want to make happen (steve) ** user pages on the wiki have traditionally been used for this ** will be solved by the magic of email threads * find all of the sudo room people who don't know they're sudo room people yet * fix & upgrade sudo's network ** we need: One weekend. One or two people. One new beagle bone black. ** yar can show you what's there, doesn't know shit about networking tho ** "We can break it, together." - D. ===Create draft collective plan of action (15 min)=== Resolve dependencies: * Omni * Kicked out / new contract / move out? == The Omni & The Omni Collective (35 min)== ===The Omni Collective needs more help=== *Yar puts out a call for help as Sudo's delegate. ** New website, new pictures - mk30 has a good flickr set ** http://www.omni-oakland.org/ ** One issue is that the omni mailing list is closed and not archived ** Omni Wiki (password protection?) *** Shouldn't we value "openness over closed, proprietary processes" ** [omni-dev-public] *omnicollective(a)lists.riseup.net / omnidelegates(a)lists.riseup.net ====Proposal==== * Omni Collective should only have a public list * ALT: Omni Collective should only use the private list when absolutely necessary * ALT: Omni Collective list should have open (if moderated) subscription. Proposed potential move-in date: June 1 * Overview of 8th x Alice space * yeah it's pretty awesome ===Matt's Proposal=== * In order to resolve all baseline issues with ending our current rent agreement and entering into a new one, this proposal suggests: ** The Omni Collective finalize rental payment amounts for all members (with respect to and relative of deliniated private, public, and semi-private spaces of The Omni) in order to start collecting member collective rental contributions May 1 (early), building up money exclusively for a future lease's deposit or to each respective member collective's rental contributions (paid forward). ++ *** Omni Collective needs to move beyond the ambiguous "we're all friends" to more concrete terms of engagement ** The Omni Collective offer the following terms to the landlord for a final lease contract: *** 3-month move-out period for landlords from June - August **** During this period, the Omni Collective's member collectives are permitted to move in to the space and use both private and public spaces as they are made available through the landlord move-out, so long as these tenant activities place no substantial burden on other activities in the building. *** For the first 3 months (June - August), rent charge is waived *** For the second 3 months (September - November) 50% rent is charged to promote final build-out of space. *** Full rent is charged from month 7 (December) onward *** Lease length: 2 years (June 2014 - June 2015) * We're going to see this 3-6 month component as essential with negotiation tactics, will table for now, follow up after the next omni meeting and at the next sudo room meeting Phil: *Does our monthly nut also include collecting money for other likely expenses? **Cleaning service (daily, weekly, seasonal; inside, outside) **Paid OmniC employees (property manage **Reserves ***vacancy self-insurance (for when tenants miss payments), ***emergency repairs (like a broken elevator, leaky roof, toxic spills, plumbing, quake recovery), ***longer term building/property improvements (accessibility plan, *improving wiring and systems for higher power/data demands, upgrading kitchen to 21st century commercial standards, repaving of exterior walkways, painting/weatherproofing, industrial ventilation) *What does buildout mean here? **Wheelchair accessibility: building a ramp, maybe an elevator * Sudo is expected to share space with CCL, though this wasn't brought to sudo for formal consensus. ** "Personally, I was thinking BSL1 on the floor with SR, relatively fluid access.... although all the common space usages of SR that might be the first images you think of, will be in the common space. There probably won't be any dogs and likely fewer guitars (for better or worse)." *"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams * Delegation to attend next Omni meeting (April 24th): ** Steve, Faust, Daniel, Matt, Jordan, Jenny, && you? (you are welcome, please join) ** Smaller committee meetings - --> Location?: *Nothing specifically has been decided wrt conflict resolution, though sudo's conlict resolution policy has been looked at for inspiration *pictures of sudoroom's potential room: ** https://twitter.com/sudoroom/status/447553118415228928 ** https://twitter.com/sudoroom/status/447553436108591105 ===Update "draft collective plan of action" from above (15 min)=== ==Consensus Items== * Omni Collective should only have a public list * ALT: Omni Collective should only use the private list when absolutely necessary * ALT: Omni Collective list should have open (if moderated) subscription. Improved proposals: * Finalize space distribution (private, public, reservable space [eg; reserving the ballroom]) i.e. a map. ** Joel (TIL) is putting together this map, to send out a version the collectives can iterate on ** "Publish early and often", get a map, then interate. * Share a financial pro forma with collective members ** #1 or #2 priority from David's POV. It's together, but on a bunch of spreadsheets and changing all the time. ** Per collective as well as omni collective costs - eg; standing funds, running expenses [utilities, property tax, insurance, etc;] ** Standing fund growing as donations come in ** Parking is an issue - help strategizing on this is welcome and encouraged *** If we get insurance for the Omni Collective from Kelly S. Wright of State Farm, Matt will get a $10 or greater gift card for the referral! (The last one went to wood glue and krazy glue, inside the space now!) * Formalize "deposits" and proposed monthly payments for collective members * Collect first and last month payments and deposit from collective members starting May 1 * Agree on rules for shared space and how we deal with behavior of members between groups ** Open question. ** Andrew encourages folks to bring proposals directly to the Omni meetings, as the groups have demonstrated a remarkable ability to come to consensus on issues *** Marc thinks this is because the really hard problems have yet to be tackled. Some people are feeling pressured as they don't have enough information available about the project. * Propose changes to communication strategy in order to construct more shadow Omni meetings? * Ask groups to itemize hard & soft requirements. ** on a wiki. ** Including e.g. minimum sqft, minimum ceiling height, need for sink, etc. * Proposal: All events sliding scale down to $0 * How do we remove a collective? ^.^ ** There will be terms and conditions under which a collective would be made to leave ** OmniC delegate consensus vote ** See https://sudoroom.org/wiki/The_Omni/2014-04-03#Ratifying_Our_Foundational_Do… * Timeline, is June 1 reasonable? ** Collectives aren't sure, looking at other options ** Landlord has another prospective tenant, a theater company? that was hold that they won't get any information from the landlord until june 1. *** NOTE: This doesn't mean we have to /move/ June 1, we have to sign /something/ June 1. * Responsibility of the spokescouncil is to focus on building consensus among the collectives ==Conflict Resolutions== ==Action Items== * Steve to start census of sudoers * Jenny to propose outreach / messaging meeting (++ hack on infrastructure) * Omni-Oakland.org needs help - better photos, wiki ==After-Meeting Teamups== * outreach and accessibility (jenny) ==Appendices== question/topic defining or identifying the 'aggressor' in a conflict is being spoken about as if it were a simple or thing to do, or even a reliable skill to learn or acquire. from personal experience i for one have not known this to be the case, and i do not think it should be assumed to be so in discussions aimed at determining protocol. concepts such as 'safe space,' or 'aggressor,' are easily compromised by the wary and/or sociopathic individual, a personality type the set of whose members overlaps not infrequently, if memory serves, with the members of the set of individuals likely to be hackerspace-friendly, computer-literate, and/or familiar with and skilled at collective philosophical, artistic, cyber-political, or socioeconomic networking in the 21c, Bay Area style - -- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTUFQpAAoJEHTWWpBUSeDhezoH/jQ5Y1JnGojvvFrvj7J4YbnM nyjNN02/Y3YtH+0iS582dpvVqftrYKzdhEOlNs+mAiF4gwBr9icMe74rTpJv78Od 9ua3Jo2DUzgP0i+rqL5x8p2qRjB+HeUISGQmGNSpGqIS1A/ZPyUEcUrEP3o2taW0 31XwRTQtpLayvnGUPnrBI3AJqoHoqiHND+46c/p03kIUfwTJQ9g59Ws+2y+JTtUf picSZWPzuB1C7xzAdQBMbk00iBjxNLCAe0MPRH1yxKLMJ1JYGk2kvHsPPvph66Dm ELb1ikdxm2lWCkeCvIDHzOX0y/5fU3/KOhIV1uPVy3It3RMc1VM4SI98HjL0wss= =1xDi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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have Omni topic @ end if agenda..?

by David Keenan

If i can make it, ill be late, so if there's any way or if its not too late to have the omni topic near the end of the agenda..? if not i understand of course

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Fwd: [spaghettinight] OPEN HOUSEs @ PLACE (Thur April 17 or Sun April 27th)

by Marina Kukso

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Youtt <jyoutt(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:47 PM Subject: [spaghettinight] OPEN HOUSEs @ PLACE (Thur April 17 or Sun April 27th) To: The Spaghetti Night mailing list <spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net> OPEN HOUSEs @ PLACE for Sustainable Living 2 Dates: 2 Opportunities to learn more about PLACE DATE: Thursday, April 17, 2014 TIME: (5:00pm) - 9:00pm (Stone soup supper is: 5-6pm) OR: DATE: Sunday, April 27, 2014 TIME: 3:00pm - 7:00pm (Stone soup supper is: 6-7pm) We are hosting 2 Open Houses in order to reconnect with our community, highlight some of our accomplishments, outline the expanded vision and identify the different ways for you to participate. One on a weeknight and one on a weekend day. We are excited to announce that after three years building out PLACE for Sustainable Living, we have secured a new five year lease under our newly formed cooperative, OakLeyVille. This lease enables us to continue building our collective vision of a dynamic educational center for urban sustainability and regenerative practices. We will be celebrating this good news at our upcoming three-year anniversary event: Creating Commons Festival, Saturday, May 10, 2014. PLACE will continue to serve our educational and sustainability showcase goals, as Oakleyville will grow its membership into a multi-stakeholder cooperative serving its Workers, Makers and the Community at large. Please join us as we enter the next chapter of this co-creative place. THU, 4/17/14 OPEN HOUSE Schedule: 5:00-6:00pm — Meet & Greet & Stone Soup 6:00-7:00pm — Presentations: PLACE, Oakleyville Cooperative, & Affiliate Groups 7:00-8:00pm — Breakout sessions for PLACE Pods* 8:00-9:00pm — Report backs from breakouts and next steps SUN, 4/27/14 OPEN HOUSE Schedule: 3:00-3:30 pm — Meet & Greet (some snacks & tea) 3:30-4:45 pm — Presentations: PLACE, Oakleyville Cooperative, & Affiliate Groups 4:45-5:30 pm — Breakout sessions for PLACE Pods* 5:30-6:00 pm — Site Tour 6:00-7:00 pm — Stone Soup + Report backs from breakouts and next steps STONE SOUP: If you wish to drop off any veggies for the soup prior to the open house, email us at: info(a)aplaceforsustainableliving.org, with “Stone Soup” in the subject line. *PLACE Pods are smaller organizing groups with special functions of PLACE and Oakleyville. They include the following: Education (Youth & Adults), Programs (Partnerships, neighborhood activism, placemaking), Admin/Org Development, BUZZ (Marketing Comm.), Site Permaculture Design, Events, Facilities, Fundraising, Urban Gardening, Hearth, & Volunteering _______________________________________________ spaghettinight mailing list spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net Rabbit administers this list; email them at rabbitface(a)gmail.com if you have questions To subscribe new people, have them send an email to spaghettinight-join(a)tentacle.net To unsubscribe send an email to spaghettinight-leave(a)tentacle.net https://tentacle.net/mailman/listinfo/spaghettinight This list is dolphin safe

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [CCL] RE: Sudo Room Wednesday Meeting - CCL time?

by ahnon

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [CCL] RE: Sudo Room Wednesday Meeting - CCL time?

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Sudo Room Wednesday Meeting - CCL time?

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Important Weekly Meeting Wed 4/16 @ 7pm

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Hey all, A few critical topics to discuss include: * Major health concern with unscheduled bug-bomb poison released in kitchen by landlord during day with people in use of the common space, and related conflicts. * Moving spaces to 4799 Shattuck, aka The Omni with the Omni Collective http://omni-oakland.org * Sudo Room reboot, possible forking options. // Matt

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Biohacking the eye to see in the infrared

by Ryan Bethencourt

Thought this might interest the group, this is a very cool project that Matthew and a few other of the other biohackers have funded to biohack the eye to see in the infrared! > *From:* peyton rowlands <peyton.rowlands(a)scienceforthemasses.org> > *Date:* April 1, 2014 at 9:03 PM > *To:* Ryan Bethencourt <ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com> > *Subject:* Link Correction > Haha, I apologize. It would appear I accidentally sent you a link to a > picture of a hog I had on my clipboard rather than our ERG protocol. > Here's the correct link: > http://scienceforthemasses.org/2013/10/26/electroretinogram-setup-and-proce… > > On 4/1/2014 9:09 PM, Ryan Bethencourt wrote: >> >> I am one of a group of biohackers involved in a project to test the limits of human visual perception by increasing retinal sensitivity to NIR light. Our project, which we crowdfunded last Autumn with the Experiment (nee Microryza) scientific crowdfunding platform, is a pilot study using ourselves as the test subjects/data points of a brute force metabolic hack which we hypothesize will permit us to visually perceive radiant energy in the NIR range of wavelengths. >> >> Essentially, we intend to purge our bodies of a significant percentage of stored retinoids (vitamin A) via reduction of body fat and the adoption of a vitamin A deficient (VAD) diet supplied to us by Rob Rhinehart of Soylent fame, and supplement with the compound 3,4-dehydroretinol (vitamin A2) and retinoic acid. Based on research by Dr. George Wald, the man who discovered the role of vitamin A in phototransduction, and multiple murine studies performed on mammalian subjects, we hypothesize that this will result in the metabolic pathway normally used by the human body to produce photopsin and rhodopsin in the rods and cones of the human eye instead being coopted to produce porphyropsin, a phototransductive pigment described by Dr. Wald in his whitepaper "The Porphyropsin Visual System" that is sensitive to wavelengths of light far in excess of those humans are normally sensitive to on the NIR portion of the spectrum. >> >> The primary tool we will use to measure a shift in visible wavelengths quantitatively will be an open source electroretinography (ERG) device in combination with a homemade stimulator device that utilizes several LEDs of a known wavelength in the NIR. >>

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Re: [sudo-discuss] The Omni is happening - PLEASE REVIEW & DISCUSS!

by Yar

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > can you break down the costs for us? i followed the link to the wiki but didn't > see it. I remember $2k/month as one number being thrown around for sudo > room's share. Right now we are right around $1.5k/mo on gittip which does > not cover our current operating expenses. that said i'm sure membership > would skyrocket at the omni. can you summarize the numbers for us here? Sudo has pledged $2k/month. Keep in mind that unlike our current lease, this amount covers all expenses from rent to utilities to general maintenance, etc, which the Omni Collective will be responsible for. Our total monthly expenses are already close to that: $1,704.25 December $1,721.58 January $1,756.53 February $1,710.50 March $1,888.90 April I think the extra expense will be a no-brainer, will pay for itself, and will actually be a far better deal than what we're getting now for our money. :)

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EFF needs volunteer web devs for new action tool!

by Vicky Knox

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tech-volunteers-eff-needs-your-help

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The Omni is happening

by ahnon

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[+1 and a share] Hackerspace Design Patterns

by Matthew Senate

Hello Omni Collective representatives, member collectives, and interested parties, Please share this message with your collectives as a gesture of good faith and solidarity. For everyone who has or has not read the Hackerspace Design Patterns document, please consider doing so now (for the first time, or with today's eyes): http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Design_Patterns This document articulates some slices of the history, culture, theory, and praxis of hackerspaces, globally. The original patterns were derived from a survey in Europe, and interpreted by the eyes of Chaos Computer Club (CCC) community members eager to share with interested, curious individuals of the US. I share this with you now eager to construct shared language and receive invaluable feedback both from your interpretations and your own experiences, resources, and histories. I have some concerns about the current status of potentially entering a lease agreement through The Omni Collective. We are discussing the idea right now in the sudo room community. We will resolve or pass these concerns up through our representative, of course. Though I must share something auspicious. I understand The Omni Collective has about 10 member collectives: "*Aim for ten people* for a start." - *The Critical Mass Pattern* http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Critical_Mass_Pattern I thought it was an important and poignant time to send this document and message to all of you. Sudo Room, like all hackerspaces, deviates from the patterns at times in its own right, so we try to document as much as we can about our patterns on our wiki https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ Further information about starting hackerspaces is available on the Documentation page: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Documentation "Build! Unite! Multiply!" // Matt p.s. +1, the naive integer increment, as you may use it yourself, is a symbol of positive addition, a recognition of effort worthy of discrete exchange. Maybe a loose metaphor of a rising score, but not necessarily the score of a zero-sum game. p.p.s. There are a few stray edits of the patterns that deviate from the originals.

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Ok to screen this docu, on FF 5/2?

by David Keenan

Hey gang, I was contacted by the folks who put together a film on the 2011 uprising in Wisconsin, to see if Sudo/BAPS might host a screening on 5/2. I know this is a First Friday where Sudo normally has a bit of an open house.. I don't want to stop that, but maybe a film might add to the general melee of fun? If it's not appropriate, I can see if we can host it later on the weekend too. What do you all think? Of screening the film, and if so if it could be on 5/2 or should the film be screened on another day? Best, David --- Wisconsin Rising Do you remember before Occupy, when there was an uprising in Wisconsin<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-wisconsin-explained>? We do. That's why we're helping Sam Mayfield tour with her new film, *Wisconsin Rising.* Sam's film tells the story of the 2011 occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol building and the movement opposing Governor Scott Walker’s repeal of collective bargaining rights for workers.*Wisconsin Rising *details the continuing assault on democracy and workers rights across the United States, and how everyday people are fighting back. It is a 55-minute feature documentary with footage from the protests, news clips, and interviews with teachers, union leaders, elected officials, and others involved. This film provides an in depth look into what collective action has, and could, look like in the United States today. Robert McChesney calls *Wisconsin Rising* “the definitive film” on the events in Wisconsin and says “It captures the spirit and intensity of the dramatic events as they unfolded, and reminds us that we cannot predict the future, and we should not forget our past, even our recent past." This year, Sam Mayfield will be visiting campuses and community groups around the US. Each event will include an introduction by the director along with a screening of the film. The director will facilitate a discussion and Q&A following. If you would like Sam to come to your campus or community organization, please email Mike <mike(a)aidandabet.org>. * * * *More About The Film* Film website and trailer: http://wisconsinrising.com/ *Wisconsin Rising *tells the story of the largest sustained workers resistance in American history. In 2011, Wisconsin was the canary in the coal mine for America as newly-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped collective bargaining rights from the state's public employees, undoing eight decades of basic workers' rights. *Wisconsin Rising* catapults the viewer in to the days, weeks, and months when Wisconsinites fought back against power, authority, and injustice. Following conservative Governor Scott Walker’s announcement of his controversial ‘Budget Repair Bill,’ the people of Wisconsin rose up, occupied their state capitol and took to the streets as rarely before seen in American History. Their collective actions are the largest sustained gathering of any workers resistance in US history. Many say Walker’s bill is an assault on working people, unions and the poorest, most vulnerable people in the state. At a time when millions of American families feel the crush of debt and joblessness, while large corporations are seeing record profits, Badger State residents demonstrated the strength that comes from a shared sense of community and acting collectively. Happening on the heels of the revolutionary Arab Spring and months before the Occupy movement, Wisconsinites spontaneously occupied their state Capitol for weeks as never before seen in American History. *Wisconsin Rising* tells the story of how one state became an economic testing ground for the nation in a political environment where corporations have growing clout and ordinary citizens are losing their ability to obtain redress. While *Wisconsin Rising* highlights one state’s rejection of a conservative takeover, it is a microcosm of what is at stake in America today, at a time of fiscal crisis, ideologically-driven budgets and social reforms. *About Sam Mayfield* Sam Mayfield is a video journalist and documentarian from Burlington, VT. Since 2004*,* Mayfield has documented stories that remain untold in the dominant corporate media paradigm. Her video reports have been filed with outlets such as Democracy Now! and Free Speech TV. Her work has taken her to Mexico, India, West Africa, and Palestine. In 2011*,* Mayfield traveled to Wisconsin to cover the popular uprising against legislation gutting basic workers rights. She stayed for seven months, covering the story as it unfolded, ultimately producing from her footage the 55-minute feature documentary film *Wisconsin Rising*. Wisconsin Rising is Mayfield’s second documentary. In 2010*,* she made the 26-minute film, *Silenced Voices, *that tells the story of a young migrant farmworker who was killed while working on a Vermont dairy farm. Mayfield and two other Vermonters traveled to Mexico to return the boy’s body to his family. There they interviewed family and community members about the impacts of migration. *Silenced Voices* has been a useful tool in educating lawmakers and citizens in Vermont .

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Communique from the Further East Bay

by Joseph East Bay

Hello Sudoers, I wanted to introduce myself to the group. I'm Joseph, a Linux guy and community organizer from Concord. As many of you probably know, there isn't really much of an active geek scene out here and I'm trying to do what I can to change that. We recently launched Concord Wiki at http://www.concordwiki.org and a group of us are working on starting up a hackerspace over here. The blog for the project is http://www.eastbayhackers.com I've been over to Sudo Room maybe four or five times now and I've always been made to feel very welcome. I really enjoy the personality of the group and conversations that take place there. I'll be around Sudo Room usually on a Sun - Tues, and if any of you feel like coming to check out what we're working on over here, feel free to drop by or if you're curious send me an email.

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Fund-raising idea: Sudogames?

by Autonomous

The "Darkplaces" gaming engine I ported to the Raspberry PI that was released last month has been quite a success with thousands of downloads and positive reviews. I am about ready to release the next version of the engine along with a batch of open source games that will run in the engine. I was thinking that it might be a good opportunity at this point to ask for a donation. I would like to ask people to make a donation to Sudoroom (instead of me) to support ongoing community outreach efforts and in particular, to make a donation in support of the activities relating to "Sudo Kids." Also, the Raspberry PI Foundation announced last week that well over $1,000,000 in grant money is available to non-profits that support educational activities relating to teaching kids how to write software and work with technology. If this sounds like a feasible idea for raising funds then I would need a little help in preparing a pitch to submit with the donation request that describes what Sudo Kids is about and how Sudoroom works with the community. There is also a grant proposal that could be submitted to the Raspberry PI foundation. Here's the thread on the Raspberry PI forum: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=72301 Peace, Autonomous

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introduction

by Eric Peden

My friend Mike and I stopped by Sudoroom for the first time tonight. I hope to be spending more time there in the future, so I wanted to introduce myself (and him by proxy). We both have several years of medium-to-large scale IT experience: he tends toward the hardware side, I tend toward the software side. Sometimes it's nice to actually produce something physical and cool, though, and we're doing amateur-level fiddling with electronic bits and pieces. We're newbies, but enthusiastic ones, and hope to learn from and be inspired by what other folks are creating and hacking on. I'll stop speaking for him now: personally, I'm really excited about 3D printing and wearables and hardware hacking, and making those things more accessible to people. I'm also very interested in the Oakland open mesh work that's happening, and I hope to make it to one of the meetings soon. As I said, we stopped by tonight (I forget who came down to let us in, but thank you!). We mostly stayed out of the work space because we didn't want to interrupt anyone. Instead we perused the library then sat on the couches to talk hypersonic sound projectors and DIY solar panels. I was happy how conducive the environment felt to such discussions. Hi! -- eric

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Re: [sudo-discuss] The Omni is happening - PLEASE REVIEW & DISCUSS!

by Yar

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Phil Wolff <pwolff(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Would the Sudo Room be jointly and severally liable for operating expenses? > For unbudgeted expenses? My understanding is the Omni Collective will be liable and responsible for all the typical costs of being tenants and of day to day operations. In the short term (probably several years), the building will still belong to its current owners and most liability and risk for major disasters will be on their shoulders (such as earthquakes, the roof collapsing, etc). After that, if the collective is successful in buying the building, I believe those risks will still be for the Omni Collective and not for Sudoroom. That terrifying glorious day is still far away. Of course, we still carry the intangible risk that if the whole thing falls apart we'd need to find a new space, but that is seeming less and less likely every day. Is someone closer to the legal aspect of things reading this? :)

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The Omni is happening - PLEASE REVIEW & DISCUSS!

by Yar

For the past few months I've been Sudoroom's delegate to the Omni Collective. If you don't know already, the Omni is a huge building in Temescal, and the Omni Collective is a group of delegates from many groups whose goal is to acquire that building and move into it together. It's an amazing opportunity - the owners are quite eager to sell it for significantly below market value, and we've been negotiating a very reasonable rent-to-own agreement in the meantime. It's real, folks. All the money and legal pieces are falling into place. So far, 10 groups have officially joined the collective, shown active sustained interest, and pledged a monthly rent. The pledges add up to more than we would need to cover rent, utilities, maintenance and other expenses related to moving in. The collective is legally incorporated, we have a pro-bono lawyer, we're probably going to get our parking waiver for a use-permit, we have a 15 year financial plan (with the help of a local land trust), and we are very close to getting an interest-free loan to cover first-last-deposit. We will probably be able to MOVE IN by June 1! You can find more information here, including all Omni Collective meeting minutes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/The_Omni Sudoroom has had an informal discussion about this for a long time. We consented to send me as a delegate. But I am worried that the consent and commitment has not been full or formal enough given how serious and imminent things are getting. So I'd like to renew Sudo's consent and make it more properly consent-y. I will bring this to the next few meetings as well, but honestly not all of you have been going to Sudo meetings. So... Are there any objections to actually doing this? Are there any blocks? Anything else to say for or against this plan? Any questions? Now is the time to make them known. Now is the time to really talk about this. Thanks!

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Hacker Yoga starts this Tuesday!

by Noemie Serfaty

Hello Sudo list! Join Max K and I this Tuesday, April 14h at 7:30 pm for our first Hacker Yoga workshop at Earthtribe Yoga! Hacker Yoga is a participative yoga experiment, and is all about sharing tools to develop your own practice. If you're a yoga geek, find other yoga geeks to play and experiment with, share your experience and knowhow. If you're a beginner, come, practice, and discover how yoga can be hacked! The workshop will be followed by optional tea & set theory mini-lesson by Max! Recommended donation: 5$ No one turned away. Earth Tribe Yoga 1924 Franklin St Ste 210 Oakland, CA 94612 Hoping to see you tuesday! Noémie -- Noémie Serfaty 108 rue du Faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris Tel: 06 27 76 88 84 Tel: 01 71 50 51 82 noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Projector

by Yar

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:13 AM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I borrowed the short throw projector for a talk about bees that I'm giving > to a group of middle school students today at 2pm. > > I'll bring it back to SUDO directly afterwards. Does anyone know where it is currently? We can't find it this morning.

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Tax Update from the Treasurer with Pictures

by Maximilian Klein

See all at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_history<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_history> This is your treasurer *notconfusing* speaking. I'm a tax amateur, and you can too. This is a visualization of 2013 finances. When debit exceeds credit we had a negative month. 'netcum' is net cummulative money aka total cash in da bank. So if debit exceeds netcum, then our month costed more than we have in the bank. [image: 2013 finances.png]<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/File:2013_finances.png> On Apr 9th 2014, I went the Sustainable economies law center legal cafe to get some advice about how sudo should handle taxes. Here's what I learned: 1. Tax day for corporations is the same as for people - April 15th. 2. Every year we must file *something. Even if you become a federal nonprofit, which we aren't yet, you have to tell the govt that you don't owe anything. The basic things we **need to file'* are: 1. State Taxes: *Form 199*, probably 199N 2. Federales Taxes: *Form 990* Likely 990-EZ. 3. Those forms are actually not due until *May 15th*. 4. I will file these soon. It's highly likely we don't owe much cash. 3. 2013 was the year we switched from being "Eddan Katz" dba (doing business as) Sudo Room, to Sudo Room, the California non-profit public benefit corporation. 1. Eddan is not claiming the income that was receieved, and it was all transfered to the new corporation. 2. So the corporation will pay tax on it. 4. Since we are not 501c3 yet the money "donated" to sudo room are not actually donations, i.e. not tax deductible. 5. Corporations like us get 27 months after incorporation to file for 501c3. That puts our date at January 2016. 6. The sudo EIN is 46-4109670 Max Klein http://notconfusing.com/

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Tax Update from the Treasurer with Pictures

by Somebody

"Corporations are people my friend" :) Very easy to read, and well explained. Good job Max, thx! Maximilian Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Projector

by niki

Hey all, I borrowed the short throw projector for a talk about bees that I'm giving to a group of middle school students today at 2pm. I'll bring it back to SUDO directly afterwards. xo N

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Fwd: [nobawc-announce] Sign the Petition - CA Worker Cooperative Act

by Danny Spitzberg

Clicktivism at its finest ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Stephen" <steve(a)arizmendi.coop> Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:59 AM Subject: [nobawc-announce] Sign the Petition - CA Worker Cooperative Act To: "nobawc-announce(a)lists.nobawc.org" <nobawc-announce(a)lists.nobawc.org> > Hey NoBAWC community, > AB 2525, the Limited Liability Worker Cooperative Act, is currently working its way through committee in Sacramento. In order to help move this legislation along, we need to show state lawmakers that this bill has support. The great folks at Sustainable Economies Law Center have put together an online petition to make it super easy for you to do so. Currently there are only 66 signatures… We need to bump that number up! A link to the petition is below. If you want to find out more about the bill or to read the actual language, the link below will take you there as well. > http://www.theselc.org/ca-worker-cooperative-act > We are hoping to get as many signatures as we can by this Friday… so please take a moment to sign and then use your social media tentacles to get the word out there. > Thanks for your support. > -Steve

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo room internet status?

by Somebody

(Of course if Sudoers are okay w the idea.) Somebody <somebody(a)riseup.net> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo room internet status?

by Somebody

(Hmm... Perhaps we should try to use the Cisco 2960 that we have there so we can at least check connected switch ports. I volunteer to work w someone else that maybe interested on this potential project. ) Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Skipping next 3D Tuesday (Apr 15)

by Yar

I won't be here next Tuesday (April 15). I'll be visiting family for passover. But the printers will still be there, and are always free to use. Have fun without me!

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo room internet status?

by Yar

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: > Is the internet connection at sudo room down? > > I cannot access any of the servers on the sudo room IP. It's not down but it's been very very slow for several days. The uplink is saturated and we haven't figured out why.

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sudo room internet status?

by Marc Juul

Is the internet connection at sudo room down? I cannot access any of the servers on the sudo room IP. -- marc/juul

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Fwd: [hackerspaces] Interwiki \o/

by Matthew Senate

wiki nerds, rejoice! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: hellekin <hellekin(a)hackerspaces.org> Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:18 PM Subject: [hackerspaces] Interwiki \o/ To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss(a)lists.hackerspaces.org> Since the end of February, Wikipedia implemented the following Interwiki prefixes: Hackerspaces: to point to hackerspaces.org LibrePlanet: to point to libreplanet.org In the meantime, the hackerspaces wiki and the DIYISP.org wikis have been using lp: for libreplanet, hs: for hackerspaces, and diyisp: for w00t. Now that Hackerspaces: and Libreplanet: are officially supported, any wiki can start using those to link to their hackerspaces pages, etc. E.g., [[hackerspaces:NYCResistor]] will link to http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/NYCResistor You can also transclude contents from the hackerspaces wiki into your own: E.g. {{hackerspaces:User NoStinkinBadges}} (does that actually work? ,o) == hk _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss(a)lists.hackerspaces.org http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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Vator Splash competition: We need your help with a vote :)

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, As you may/may not know, a great conference is coming to Oakland early may called Vator Splash (they want to highlight a lot of the great and different startups growing up in Oakland and the surrounding east bay cities). I've really been enjoying their recent coverage (through live work Oakland) of some of the unique types of startups that are blooming in Oakland and the East bay. I was also wondering if you could do me a really big favor, we have one day of voting left (I listed *Berkeley Biolabs* this morning, so it's super tight) and we need all the votes we can get. Could you vote for us with one click? Any votes and sharing would be SUPER appreciated! If we're successful we get to present to a few hundred people and talk about biohackers and new technologies we're trying to build and get funded! *Berkeley BIolabs* http://vator.tv/competition/oaktown-tech-startup-competition#participants Thanks if you're able to help! All the best, Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 Conf Call: (650) 741 5013 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com http://www.litmususa.com/ http://berkeleybiolabs.com/ www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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what's on your hacker feed?

by Praveen Sinha

To me, the biggest challenge and also the most exciting part about being a hacker is staying up to date with shit: getting plugged into the right mix of theory and hands on. I'd love it if people out there would share their casual science / tech feeds or journals. Whether it's on twitter or blogosphere or fuck even if it's behind an academic paywall. Here's some of mine from my twitter feed just to get started: @techreview MIT tech review @EurekAlertAAAS <https://twitter.com/EurekAlertAAAS> Eurekalert is a GREAT science discovery feed @Medgadget <https://twitter.com/Medgadget> biomedical device news @hyperallergic <https://twitter.com/hyperallergic> nyc based art blog

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Fwd: [i-announce@ischool] Don't miss tomorrow's special lecture: "Toward Reproducible Computational Science" with Victoria Stodden

by Troy Massey

"Trust is the key to any relationship. It must be earned first through respect then through shared experience. Lacking either of these leads to half hearted interest." ( G )oogle ( M )onitors ( A )LL ( I )ncoming ( L )etters Begin forwarded message: From: School of Information <events(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: April 8, 2014 at 11:29:44 AM PDT To: i-announce(a)ischool.berkeley.edu Subject: [i-announce@ischool] Don't miss tomorrow's special lecture: "Toward Reproducible Computational Science" with Victoria Stodden Don't miss Tomorrow's Special Lecture at the UC Berkeley School of Information: Toward Reproducible Computational Science: Reliability, Re-Use, and Readability with Victoria Stodden Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm 210 South Hall The dissemination of reproducible computational research — where the code and data that generated the results are made conveniently available — is now widely recognized as a transformative movement within the scientific community. It is attracting attention not only from researchers but also from librarians and repository managers, journal editorial boards, funding agencies and policy makers, and scientific software developers. This talk motivates the rationale for this shift, and presents solutions I have been developing to facilitate reliable and re-usable computational research including: new empirical findings on changes to journal data and code publication policies; best practices for code and data release; the open source dissemination and access tool ResearchCompendia.org; and the "Reproducible Research Standard" for ensuring the distribution of legally usable data and code. Some of these results are described in the forthcoming co-edited books Implementing Reproducible Research and Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good. Victoria Stodden is assistant professor of statistics at Columbia University and serves as a member of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI), and on Columbia University’s Senate Information Technologies Committee. She is one of the creators of SparseLab, a collaborative platform for reproducible computational research and has developed an award winning licensing structure to facilitate open and reproducible computational research, called the Reproducible Research Standard. She is currently working on the NSF-funded project “Policy Design for Reproducibility and Data Sharing in Computational Science.” Victoria co-chaired a working group on Virtual Organizations for the NSF’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Grand Challenge Communities in 2010. She is a Science Commons fellow and a nominated member of the Sigma Xi scientific research society. She also serves on the advisory board for hackNY.org, and on the joint advisory committee for the NSF's EarthCube, the effort to build a geosciences-integrating cyberinfrastructure. She is an editorial board member for Open Research Computation and Open Network Biology. She completed her Ph.D. and law degrees at Stanford University. Her Erdös Number is 3. More information: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20140409stodden More upcoming events at the I School: April 21, 2014 - "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens", with danah boyd April 23, 2014 - "Changing the Nature of Work", Dean's Lecture with Arnold Lund May 8, 2014 - "DataEDGE Conference 2014", Conference -- _____________________________________________ UC Berkeley School of Information http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu Facebook: http://facebook.com/BerkeleyISchool Twitter: http://twitter.com/BerkeleyISchool -- This message was sent to i-announce(a)ischool.berkeley.edu Unsubscribe or update your options: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/options/i-announce@ischool.berkele…

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Fwd: Helpers needed : Software Carpentry Bootcamp for Women in Science and Engineering

by Marina Kukso

FYI! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Katy Huff <katyhuff(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:57 AM Subject: Helpers needed : Software Carpentry Bootcamp for Women in Science and Engineering To: pyladiessf(a)googlegroups.com Hello PyLadies, Software Carpentry <http://software-carpentry.org/> is a nonprofit organization for teaching scientists and researchers how to use computers more effectively. We teach basic python, databases, version control, and other skills. I and other female scientists are organizing a large Software Carpentry workshop running April 14-15 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (just up the hill from UC Berkeley). This one is targeted specifically at Women in Science and engineering ( http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-04-14-wise/). These dates overlap with PyCon, so while we've got the instructors we need, we're short-handed on helpers<http://software-carpentry.org/bootcamps/checklists/helpers.html>who can float the room to answer questions, deal with technical issues, etc. Mostly, all we can offer in return is a fun time, helping women to learn to code. There will also be a reception for wine, relaxation, and mingling. Would any of you be willing to join us and help? If so, please let me know and I'll fill in the remaining details off-list. Thank You, Katy Huff -- http://katyhuff.github.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyLadiesSF" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyladiessf+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pyladiessf(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyladiessf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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May is East Bay ShareFest Month - Call for events to be added to the calendar

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, May is East Bay ShareFest Month with a month of events all focused around sharing/collaboration. Details here: http://oaklandwiki.org/East_Bay_ShareFest The folks organizing this received a $500 grant from Shareable to promote this month of activities and part of the money is being spent to print a calendar of events. To add a sharing-oriented event to the list of events that will be included on the calendar, please fill out this short form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ah4uy_w_yjidb5WRWnx0E2AU8AVOxrGHJCHssKSk_u… deadline was listed as April 6th, so if you have an event that you'd like to include, please add it ASAP!) Best, Marina

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last night was awesome

by Yar

So we never made it out to First Friday. It was sorta rainy, a lot of us were burned out, Marc had spent 48 hours straight trying to fix a sudomesh bug, and I was focused on the TWAC show. But that's really ok because I don't know if FF could have compared to the quantity and quality of outreach we got from TWAC. The space was totally packed with rad queer women, a lot of whom were very excited about what we're doing and want to get involved. We had 3D printers running the whole time, did a bunch of impromptu tours and 5-minute speed classes in printing, coding, etc. Sudo provided a nice low-key hacking environment as an outlet during show intermissions. They raised over $1k for the camp - which, to reiterate, will be an entirely free event for women, trans & genderqueer people to learn and skill-share about activism and all kinds of life-hacking and other hacking. They don't use the word hacking but that's totally what it is. Sudo built hella good will with a community of great folks last night. Also for such a huge event (at least 200 people came through) cleanup went really well. We only had to do a little bit this morning - collect bathroom trash, take trash & recycling downstairs and some light vacuuming. Things we still need to do better: * have extra toilet paper ready ahead of time, do regular bathroom checks * bag/rebag all trash cans ahead of time * Make sure the air control system actually works - things get uncomfortable with that many people and no ventilation. Don't be afraid of pressuring George to actually go on the roof and double-check that the power switch is actually on. When we introduce Sudoroom to the audience, remember don't stray too far off message. Some major bullet points need to be: * we're entirely free, volunteer-run and always accept (need) donations to keep us open * we're a community space for everybody, you don't have to identify as an artist/activist/hacker * we do awesome projects that benefit the community * we are open and welcoming and always want more members - we tend to shut the doors when the show gets loud, which is understandable as we're trying to hack/concentrate, but it also can make people feel intimidated. So it helps a lot to just give specific strong invitations for people to come in and join. A few people suggested a large sign on our door saying as much. * please respect the space as our guests - please recycle your beer cans, please clean up spills, please never write graffiti on the walls or bathrooms - as tempting or legit as the message may be, Sudoers are accountable to the landlord and have to pay the price for it.

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Fwd: Automation Alone Isn’t Killing Jobs - NYTimes.com

by Romy Snowyla

Well I'm a software engineer now & I love learning .. I'm good at book learning & am an autodidact so I don't think things are so bad for me in the future But what about the rest of the job market? I've pondered this over the years. Can you retrain factory workers to be tech workers very easily? Some people with experience tell me no Interesting article Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Date: April 5, 2014 at 11:08:50 PM PDT > To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Subject: Automation Alone Isn’t Killing Jobs - NYTimes.com > > > http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/business/automation-alone-isnt-killing… > > Automation Alone Isn’t Killing Jobs > > Although the labor market report on Friday showed modest job growth, employment opportunities remain stubbornly low in the United States, giving new prominence to the old notion that automation throws people out of work. > > Back in the 19th century, steam power and machinery took away many traditional jobs, though they also created new ones. This time around, computers, smart software and robots are seen as the culprits. They seem to be replacing many of the remaining manufacturing jobs and encroaching on service-sector jobs, too. > > Driverless vehicles and drone aircraft are no longer science fiction, and over time, they may eliminate millions of transportation jobs. Many other examples of automatable jobs are discussed in “The Second Machine Age,” a book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and in my own book, “Average Is Over.” The upshot is that machines are often filling in for our smarts, not just for our brawn ― and this trend is likely to grow. > > How afraid should workers be of these new technologies? There is reason to be skeptical of the assumption that machines will leave humanity without jobs. After all, history has seen many waves of innovation and automation, and yet as recently as 2000, the rate of unemployment was a mere 4 percent. There are unlimited human wants, so there is always more work to be done. The economic theory of comparative advantage suggests that even unskilled workers can gain from selling their services, thereby liberating the more skilled workers for more productive tasks. > > Nonetheless, technologically related unemployment ― or, even worse, the phenomenon of people falling out of the labor force altogether because of technology ― may prove a tougher problem this time around. > > Labor markets just aren’t as flexible these days for workers, especially for men at the bottom end of the skills distribution. Through much of the 20th century, workers moved out of agriculture and into manufacturing jobs. A high school diploma and a basic willingness to work were often enough, at least for white men, because the technologies of those times often relied on accompanying manual labor. > > Many of the new jobs today are in health care and education, where specialized training and study are required. Across the economy, a college degree is often demanded where a high school degree used to suffice. It’s now common for a fire chief to be expected to have a master’s degree, and to perform a broader variety of business-related tasks that were virtually unheard-of in earlier generations. All of these developments mean a disadvantage for people who don’t like formal education, even if they are otherwise very talented. It’s no surprise that current unemployment has been concentrated among those with lower education levels. > > There is also a special problem for some young men, namely those with especially restless temperaments. They aren’t always well-suited to the new class of service jobs, like greeting customers or taking care of the aged, which require much discipline or sometimes even a subordination of will. The law is yet another source of labor market inflexibility: The number of jobs covered by occupational licensing continues to rise and is almost one-third of the work force. We don’t need such laws for, say, barbers or interior designers, although they are commonly on the books. > > Many expanding economic sectors are not very labor-intensive, be they tech fields like online retailing or even new mining and extraction industries. That means it’s harder for the rate of job creation to keep up with the rate of job destruction, because a given amount of economic growth isn’t bringing as many jobs. > > A new paper by Alan B. Krueger, Judd Cramer and David Cho of Princeton has documented that the nation now appears to have a permanent class of long-term unemployed, who probably can’t be helped much by monetary and fiscal policy. It’s not right to describe these people as “thrown out of work by machines,” because the causes involve complex interactions of technology, education and market demand. Still, many people are finding this new world of work harder to navigate. > > Sometimes, the problem in labor markets takes the form of underemployment rather than outright joblessness. Many people, especially the young, end up with part-time and temporary service jobs ― or perhaps a combination of them. A part-time retail worker, for example, might also write for a friend’s website and walk dogs for wealthier neighbors. These workers often aren’t climbing career ladders that build a brighter or more secure future. > > Many of these labor market problems were brought on by the financial crisis and the collapse of market demand. But it would be a mistake to place all the blame on the business cycle. Before the crisis, for example, business executives and owners didn’t always know who their worst workers were, or didn’t want to engage in the disruptive act of rooting out and firing them. So long as sales were brisk, it was easier to let matters lie. But when money ran out, many businesses had to make the tough decisions ― and the axes fell. The financial crisis thus accelerated what would have been a much slower process. > > Subsequently, some would-be employers seem to have discriminated against workers who were laid off in the crash. These judgments weren’t always fair, but that stigma isn’t easily overcome, because a lot of employers in fact had reason to identify and fire their less productive workers. > > In a nutshell, what we’re facing isn’t your grandfather’s unemployment problem. It does have something to do with modern technology, and it will be with us for some time. > > TYLER COWEN is professor of economics at George Mason University. > > > > Sent from my iPhone

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Too hilarious

by Thomas Levine

I can't make this stuff up. http://thegovlab.org/coke-creates-volunteering-app-for-local-do-gooders/ http://cdn.psfk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/8e1eb5bd-7d03-4c15-a205-50f4…

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Re: [sudo-discuss] free workdesk & hutch - yay? nay?

by Yar

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Danny Spitzberg <stationaery(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/4408735122.html and I just emailed the > person who posted to inquire about it > > yay? nay? yay but idk where we'd put it right now :/

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free workdesk & hutch – yay? nay?

by Danny Spitzberg

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/4408735122.html and I just emailed the person who posted to inquire about it yay? nay? D

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Job opportunity to teach 3D printing + cad to kids and adults in Oakland

by Max Ogden

HoneyBee3d, who recently opened a 3D Printing Store in Oakland and soon San Mateo are hiring CAD teachers for kids and adult classes email liza(a)honeybee3d.com to get details, they don't seem to have a job posting up www.HoneyBee3d.com <http://www.honeybee3d.com/>

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo reboot comic

by Yar

I swear I stayed awake for the whole meeting and I really don't recall "getting naked" being a primary bullet point in our agenda, or even a secondary bullet point. I'd have probably raised some questions or objections. At worst this is creepy. At best it's false advertising.

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car battery charger

by Yar

It's two days until art murmur. A number of folks said they'd look into getting a car battery charger, but who's done it? Any progress?

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