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Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools - Salon.com

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http://www.salon.com/2013/09/15/diane_ravitch_school_privatization_is_a_hoa… Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools Sunday, Sep 15, 2013 04:00 AM PDT Our public schools aren't in decline. And "reformers" with wild promises don't care about education — just profits Diane Ravitch Topics: Books, Education, Editor's Picks, public schools, Teachers, Waiting for Superman, Charter schools, Race to the Top, No Child Left Behind, Melinda Gates, Gates Foundation, Oprah Winfrey, Media Criticism, Technology News, Business News, Life News, News, Politics News (Credit: Lightspring via Shutterstock/Salon) Excerpted from "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools" As long as anyone can remember, critics have been saying that the schools are in decline. They used to be the best in the world, they say, but no longer. They used to have real standards, but no longer. They used to have discipline, but no longer. What the critics seldom acknowledge is that our schools have changed as our society has changed. Some who look longingly to a golden age in the past remember a time when the schools educated only a small fraction of the population. But the students in the college-bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools. There are more remedial classes today, but there are also more public school students with special needs, more students who don’t read English, more students from troubled families, and fewer students dropping out. As for discipline, it bears remembering a 1955 film called “Blackboard Jungle,” about an unruly, violent inner-city school where students bullied other students. The students in this school were all white. Today, public schools are often the safest places for children in tough neighborhoods. The claim that the public schools are in decline is not new. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Anti-intellectualism in American Life,” Richard Hofstadter characterized writing on education in the United States as “a literature of acid criticism and bitter complaint . . . The educational jeremiad is as much a feature of our literature as the jeremiad in the Puritan sermons.” From the 1820s to our own time, reformers have complained about low standards, ignorant teachers, and incompetent school boards. He noted that anyone longing for the “good old days” would have difficulty finding a time when critics were not bemoaning the quality of the public schools. advertisement There is a tendency nowadays to hark back with nostalgia to the mythical good old days, usually imagined as about forty or fifty years ago. But few people seem to realize there never was a time when everyone succeeded in school. When present-day critics refer to what they assume was a better past, they look back to a time when a large proportion of American youths did not complete high school and only a small minority completed four years of college. In those supposedly halcyon days, the schools in many states were racially segregated, as were most colleges and universities. Children with disabilities did not have a right to a free public education until after the passage of federal legislation in 1975 and were often excluded from public schools. Nor did schools enroll significant numbers of non-English-speaking students in the 1940s and 1950s or even the 1960s. Immigration laws restricted the admission of foreigners to the United States from the early 1920s until the mid-1960s. After the laws were changed, the schools began to enroll students from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia, Africa, and other parts of the world that had previously arrived in small numbers. Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were not required to accept children with physical, mental, and emotional handicaps; when there were relatively few students who did not speak or read English; and when few graduated from high school and went to college. Indifferent to history, today’s corporate reformers insist that the public schools are in an unprecedented crisis. They tell us that children must be able to “escape” their “failing public schools.” They claim they are “for the children,” unlike their teachers, who are not for the children. They would have the public believe that children and their teachers are in warring camps. They put “children first” or “students first.” Their policies, they say, will make us competitive and give us “great teachers” and “great schools” in every community. They say they know how to “close the achievement gap,” and they claim to be leading “the civil rights issue of our time.” Their policies, they say, will make our children into “global competitors.” They will protect our national security. They will make America strong again. The corporate reformers play to our anxieties, even rekindling dormant Cold War fears that we may be in jeopardy as a nation if we don’t buy what they are selling. The critics want the public to believe that our public schools are a clear and present danger to our society. Unless there is radical change, they say, our society will fall apart. Our economy will disappear. Our national security is in danger. The message is clear: public education threatens all that we hold dear. Recognizing that most Americans have a strong attachment to their community schools, the corporate reformers have taken care to describe their aims in pseudo-populist terms. While trying to scare us with warnings of dire peril, they mask their agenda with rhetoric that is soothing and deceptive. Though they speak of “reform,” what they really mean is deregulation and privatization. When they speak of “accountability,” what they really mean is a rigid reliance on standardized testing as both the means and the end of education. When they speak of “effective teachers,” what they mean is teachers whose students produce higher scores on standardized tests every year, not teachers who inspire their students to love learning. When they speak of “innovation,” they mean replacing teachers with technology to cut staffing costs. When they speak of “no excuses,” they mean a boot-camp culture where students must obey orders and rules without question. When they speak of “personalized instruction,” they mean putting children in front of computers with algorithms that supposedly adjust content and test questions to the ability level of the student but actually sacrifice human contact with a real teacher. When they speak of “achievement” or “performance,” they mean higher scores on standardized tests. When they speak of “data-driven instruction,” they mean that test scores and graduation rates should be the primary determinant of what is best for children and schools. When they speak of “competition,” they mean deregulated charters and deregulated private schools competing with highly regulated public schools. When they speak of “a successful school,” they refer only to its test scores, not to a school that is the center of its community, with a great orchestra, an enthusiastic chorus, a hardworking chess team, a thriving robotics program, or teachers who have dedicated their lives to helping the students with the highest needs (and often the lowest scores). The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as “human capital” or “assets.” One seldom sees any reference in their literature or public declarations to the importance of developing full persons to assume the responsibilities of citizenship. Of equal importance are the topics that corporate reformers don’t talk about. Seldom do they protest budget cuts, no matter how massive they may be. They do not complain when governors and legislatures cut billions from the public schools while claiming to be reformers. They do not protest rising rates of child poverty. They do not complain about racial segregation. They see no harm in devoting more time and resources to standardized testing. They are not heard from when districts cut the arts, libraries, and physical education while spending more on testing. They do not complain when federal or state or city officials announce plans to test children in kindergarten or even pre-kindergarten. They do not complain about increased class size. They do not object to scripted curricula or teachers’ loss of professional autonomy. They do not object when experienced teachers are replaced by recruits who have only a few weeks of training. They close their eyes to evidence that charters enroll disproportionately small numbers of children with disabilities, or those from troubled homes, or English-language learners (in fact, they typically deny any such disparities, even when documented by state and federal data). They do not complain when for-profit corporations run charter schools or when educational services are outsourced to for-profit businesses. Indeed, they welcome entrepreneurs into the reform community as investors and partners. If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform. If parents understood that the reformers want to close down their community schools and require them to go shopping for schools, some far from home, that may or may not accept their children, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform. If the American public understood that the very concept of education was being disfigured into a mechanism to apply standardized testing and sort their children into data points on a normal curve, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform. If the American public understood that their children’s teachers will be judged by the same test scores that label their children as worthy or unworthy, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform. If the American public knew how inaccurate and unreliable these methods are, both for children and for teachers, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform. And that is why the reform message must be rebranded to make it palatable to the public. The leaders of the privatization movement call themselves reformers, but their premises are strikingly different from those of reformers in the past. In earlier eras, reformers wanted such things as a better curriculum, better-prepared teachers, better funding, more equitable funding, smaller classes, and desegregation, which they believed would lead to better public schools. By contrast, today’s reformers insist that public education is a failed enterprise and that all these strategies have been tried and failed. They assert that the best way to save education is to hand it over to private management and let the market sort out the winners and the losers. They wish to substitute private choices for the public’s responsibility to provide good schools for all children. They lack any understanding of the crucial role of public schools in a democracy. The central premise of this movement is that our public schools are in decline. But this is not true. The public schools are working very well for most students. Contrary to popular myth, the scores on the no-stakes federal tests— the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — are at an all-time high for students who are white, black, Hispanic, and Asian. Graduation rates are also at an all-time high. More young people than ever are entering college. Even more would go to college if the costs were not so high. Of course some schools and districts have very low test scores and low graduation rates, and this has always been true. Most of these schools and districts have two features in common: poverty and high concentrations of racial minorities. The combination of these two factors is associated with low test scores. Children whose parents are poor and have low educational attainment tend to have lower test scores. Children who are poor receive less medical attention and less nutrition and experience more stress, disruption, and crises in their lives. These factors have an ongoing and profound effect on academic performance. That is why poor children need even more stability, more support, smaller class sizes, and more attention from their teachers and others in their schools, but often receive far less, due to underfunding. Unfortunately, many people are unwilling to address the root causes of poor school outcomes, because doing so is either too politically difficult or too costly. They believe it is faster, simpler, and less expensive to privatize the public schools than do anything substantive to reduce poverty and racial isolation or to provide the nurturing environments and well-rounded education that children from prosperous families receive. Instead, the privatization movement nonchalantly closes the schools attended by poor children and destabilizes their lives. The privatization agenda excites the interest of edu-entrepreneurs, who see it as a golden opportunity to make money. But it is bad for our society. It undermines the sense of collective responsibility for collective needs. It hurts public education not only by attacking its effectiveness and legitimacy but by laying claim to its revenues. The money allocated to privately managed charters and vouchers represents a transfer of critical public resources to the private sector, causing the public schools to suffer budget cuts and loss of staffing and services as the private sector grows, without providing better education or better outcomes for the students who transfer to the private-sector schools. Reformers in every era have used the schools as punching bags. In one era, progressives complained that the schools were obsolete, backward, mindless, rigid, and out of step with the demands of the modern age. Then, in their turn, came anti-progressives or “essentialists” who complained that the schools had grown soft, standards and curriculum had collapsed, and students were not learning as much as they once did. At the beginning of the twentieth century, reformers lambasted the schools, saying they were too academic and ignored the economy’s need for trained workers. In 1914, Congress passed the first federal legislation to encourage industrial and vocational education so that schools could prepare young people for jobs on the nation’s farms and factories. In the 1930s, with millions of people out of work, reformers blamed the schools for their inability to keep students enrolled and out of the ranks of the unemployed. Reformers called on the schools to be more attentive to the needs of adolescents so as to entice them to stay in school longer. The New Deal created the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration to provide education and training for young people during the Depression. In the 1940s, reformers complained that the schools were obsolete and were failing to give students the skills they needed for life and work; “life adjustment education” became the reformers’ battle cry. In the 1950s, reformers said that the schools had forgotten the basics and needed to raise academic standards and return to time-honored subject matter disciplines. In the 1960s, reformers said that the schools were too academic and that students were stifled by routine and dreary assignments; the reformers wanted more spontaneity, more freedom, and fewer requirements for students. At the same time, the civil rights movement achieved major gains, and the schools became the focus of national legislation and Supreme Court rulings that required desegregation. In the late 1970s, a backlash against the reform ideas of the 1960s and early 1970s led to the rise of minimum competency testing and, once again, a return to the basics. Despite the pendulum swings, despite the critics and reform movements, the American public continued to be grateful for public education and to admire its community schools. Then came the 1980s, with a stern warning in 1983 from the National Commission on Excellence in Education that we were “a nation at risk” because of the low standards and low expectations in our schools. Our national slippage was caused, said the commission, by “a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.” This mediocre educational performance was nothing less than “an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.” The alarmist rhetoric was excessive, but it was enough to generate media attention and caused many states to raise their graduation requirements. In response to the dire warnings in the 1983 report, standards, testing, and accountability became the national agenda for school reform. Many policy makers agreed: set higher standards; test to see if students have mastered them; hold back students or prevent them from graduating if they don’t pass. There was no research to support these strategies, but they were widely accepted anyway, as were proposals to reward the schools that succeeded on state tests and penalize those that did not. The first Bush administration embraced these ideas, as did the Clinton administration. The second Bush administration made testing and accountability the federal agenda with passage of its No Child Left Behind legislation. Somehow, in the midst of all this nonstop controversy and criticism, the public schools continued teaching generations of students. And somehow, despite the endless complaints and policy churn, the American economy continued to be the largest in the world. And somehow, American culture continued to be a creative and vibrant force, reshaping the cultures of other nations (for better or worse). Our democracy survived, and American technological innovations changed the way people live around the globe. Despite the alleged failures of the schools that educated the vast majority of them, American workers are among the most productive in the world. After the publication of “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform” in 1983, public discourse about the nation’s educational system settled on the unfounded belief that America’s public schools were locked into an arc of decline. Report after report was issued by commissions, task forces, and study groups, purporting to document the “crisis” in American education, the “crisis” of student achievement, the “crisis” of high school dropouts, the “crisis” of bad teachers. News magazines like Time and Newsweek published stories about the crisis, television networks ran specials about the crisis, editorialists opined about the causes of the crisis. The steady drumbeat of negative journalism had its effect: Public opinion about the quality of American public education dropped from 1973 to 2012. In 1973, 58 percent of Americans felt confident about the public schools, but by 2012 their approval rating had dropped to only 29 percent (which still was higher than public confidence in banks and big business, which stood at 21 percent, or Congress at 13 percent). In striking contrast, Americans whose children attended public schools continued to have a very high opinion of their own schools. In another Gallup poll in 2012, only 19 percent of the public gave an A or a B to the nation’s public schools, but 77 percent of parents awarded high marks to their own public school, the one they knew best. Two-thirds of respondents said they read mostly “bad stories” in the media about public schools. So, the parents who had the most direct experience with the schools thought well of them, but the relentless negative coverage by the media very likely drove down the general public’s estimation of American public education. More recently, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated its considerable energies to persuading the public and policy makers that the nation’s public schools are failing. In 2005, Bill Gates told the nation’s governors that the nation’s high schools were “obsolete” and “broken.” At that time, he wanted to redesign the American high school by making schools smaller, with the goal that every student would be prepared to enter college. Three years later, his foundation abandoned its small-school initiative, having spent $2 billion to persuade districts to replace their comprehensive high schools with schools too small to offer a balanced curriculum. Despite this setback, Gates remained certain that the public school system was obsolete and broken. The solution, his foundation now believed, was to develop new evaluation systems that could identify ineffective teachers so that there would be an effective teacher in every classroom. In 2012, Melinda Gates was interviewed on the PBS “NewsHour.” When the interviewer asked her what was “working and what can scale up,” she responded: If you look back a decade ago, when we started into this work, there wasn’t even a conversation across the nation about the fact that our schools were broken, fundamentally broken. And I think that dialogue has changed. I think the American public has woken up to the fact now that schools are broken. We’re not serving our kids well. They’re not being educated for the — for technology society. The Gates Foundation and others financed a lavish, well-coordinated media campaign to spread the word about our broken public schools; its leading edge was a documentary film called “Waiting for Superman.” The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don’t matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them. It was released in September 2010 with an unprecedented publicity campaign, funded in large part by the Gates Foundation, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The film was also the centerpiece of a week of programming on NBC, which the network called “Education Nation,” as well as the subject of two programs on Oprah Winfrey’s popular television show. The film told the story of five children who were desperate to enroll in privately managed charter schools and whose hopes depended on winning the lottery to gain admission. Each child was adorable, and the viewers’ emotions became engaged with their plights and their dreams of escaping from awful public schools (and in one case a Catholic school). The film painted public schools as failures whose teachers were self-centered, uncaring, and incompetent. The statistics in the film about poor educational performance were misleading and erroneous, as was its idyllic portrait of charter schools. Yet the producers and promoters of the film made sure it was viewed as widely as possible, giving free screenings throughout the country to parent groups, state legislatures, even to the national conference of the PTA. “Waiting for Superman” provided the charter school movement with a degree of public visibility it had never had. It also gave the movement a populist patina, making it seem that if you were concerned about the plight of poor inner-city children, you would certainly support the creation of many more charter schools. The film burnished the claim by charter advocates that they were involved in “the civil rights issue of our time,” because they were leading the battle to provide more choice to poor and disadvantaged children trapped in low-performing public schools. The film’s narrative, as well as the larger public discussion, was directed away from the controversial issue of privatization to the ideologically appealing concept of choice. Reformers don’t like to mention the word “privatization,” although this is indeed the driving ideological force behind the movement. “Choice” remains the preferred word, since it suggests that parents should be seen as consumers with the ability to exercise their freedom to leave one school and select another. The new movement for privatization has enabled school choice to transcend its tarnished history as an escape route for southern whites who sought to avoid court-ordered desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. To advance the privatization agenda, it was necessary never to mention the P word and to keep repeating the C word. After all, the public had no reason to be enthusiastic about the takeover of one of its essential public institutions by private financiers and entrepreneurs. Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders? The only way to accomplish this sleight of hand was to pursue a skillful public relations campaign that drummed in the message, over and over, that our public schools are failures, that these failures harm our children and threaten our nation’s future prosperity. Repeat it often enough, and people would come to believe that any alternative would be better than the current system. Once that message sank in, Americans would be ready for the antidote: eliminating the public schools they had long known and cherished as the centers of their communities. The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations issued a report in 2012 intended to provoke fears that the public schools not only were failing but endangered the future survival of our nation. Joel I. Klein, former chancellor of the New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state in the administration of President George W. Bush, were co-chairs of the task force that produced the report. The report warned that the nation’s public schools were a very grave threat to national security. It recited doleful statistics showing that students in the United States were not leading the world on international assessments but scoring only in the middle (but not mentioning that this was the same complaint that had been expressed in “A Nation at Risk” thirty years earlier). It asserted that employers could not find qualified workers and that the schools were not preparing people to serve in the military, the intelligence service, or other jobs critical to national defense. On and on went the bill of indictment against the public schools. The task force offered three recommendations. One was that the states should adopt the Common Core standards in mathematics and reading, already endorsed by forty-six states. Since the Common Core standards have never been field-tested, no one knows whether they will raise test scores or cause the achievement gap among different racial, ethnic, and income groups to narrow or to widen. One study, by Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, predicted that the standards would have little or no effect on academic achievement; he noted that “from 2003 to 2009, states with terrific standards raised their National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by roughly the same margin as states with awful ones.” Loveless reported that there was as much variation within states, even those with excellent standards, as between states. The task force’s second recommendation was that the schools of the nation should have a “national security readiness audit” to see if they were doing their job in preparing students to meet the nation’s economic and military needs. This seemed like a hollow attempt to revive Cold War fears, given that there was no military adversary comparable to the Soviet Union. The report did not suggest what agency should conduct this audit, what it would cost, and what would happen to those schools that failed it. The key recommendation of the task force, whose members included leading figures in the corporate reform movement, was that more school choice was needed, specifically the expansion of privately managed charter schools and vouchers. If it were true that the nation faced a very grave security threat, this was not much of a call to arms to combat it, since most states had already adopted the Common Core standards and were increasing school choice in response to the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program. Perhaps the most curious development over the three decades from “A Nation at Risk” to the 2012 report of the Council on Foreign Relations was this: what was originally seen in 1983 as the agenda of the most libertarian Republicans — school choice — had now become the agenda of the establishment, both Republicans and Democrats. Though there was no new evidence to support this agenda and a growing body of evidence against it, the realignment of political forces on the right and the left presented the most serious challenge to the legitimacy and future of public education in our nation’s history. Excerpted from “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools.” Copyright © 2013 by Diane Ravitch. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. 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planning for sudoroom year of the snake art party

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/january-first-friday-year-of-the-snake-art-party hey guys - i'm planning a post oakland art murmur year of the snake exhibition / collaborative art making night. this will be january 3, 2014 after the art murmur, so art murmur refugees and caome to sudoroom, make art and be merry there will be projections - would like some help - and live drawing. I would like to make this as decentralized as possible so it isn't just a bunch of people staring at one guy drawing or one DJ... and i'd like to involve art and music from surrounding collectives as well. Let's talk about this. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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blog: wild animal photography of SudoRoom

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/stencil-art-in-sudoroom/ Stencil Art in SudoRoom SudoRoom isn’t just about technology – it’s also about art! On Christmas Eve the wild creative animals of SudoRoom left their marks. As a nature photographer i was able to catch remnants of their outbursts. I heard there’s a stencil party in January 2014. Bring your own dresses, t-shirts, helmets, over the shoulder boulder holders, bicycles, goggles of boxes, and more… and let the wacky SudoRoom animals “spray” their creations wherever! Stay tuned to this blog for more news. [image: No DAC in Oakland]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo-2.jpg> No DAC in Oakland t-shirt stencil [image: SudoRoom Stencil]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo3.jpg> We’re going to have a t-shirt party in january… come and stencil it! [image: SudoRoom Stencil]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo2.jpg> SudoRoom Stencil – this could well be on your t-shirt! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Recommend an ISP!!!!! + Official SR Recommendations?

by Vicky Knox

PEOPLE. Though I would like to support their local business, I am sick of LMI's ultra slow Sonic connection! :[ And I don't want to sell my soul to Comcast. Webpass has mixed reviews. Etc., etc. Where do I go? help!!!!! I just want to dust off poor old neglected Transmission and watch some thought-provoking films! D: This all said, I'd like to get an initial temperature check on the idea of Sudo Room making official recommendations for IT services and publishing those recommendations on our websites as a public service. Thoughts?

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Dec 25th Meeting - Kopimism (a)Mass(ing) - with Yoga before and Zen meditation after.

by Max Klein

Salvē! Quid Agis Sudum, Bollocks to: "no meeting because of Christmas." Give a stiff finger to religion in hackerspaces by Kopimist amassing with me. I will be there to meet, and even 30 mins before to lead some Yoga, and 30 mins after to lead some Zen meditation (no experience necessary). -notconfusing

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Things sudo needs...

by Yardena Cohen

Happy holidays from your friendly neighborhood hackerspace! If you are wondering what material gifts Sudo needs right now, please consider: * TALL LADDER - a member of our community graciously stored her ladder here for a year and let us use it, but she's taken it back and now we cannot reach many high places in our space. * RICE COOKER - we had a couple of them but they were left on all night and broken. Please help us feed ourselves - this thing pays for itself! * EXTENSION CORDS - we spend a lot of time futzing around and swapping the same extension cords between the same 4-5 areas. It would be so much more efficient if we had a few more long ones. It would also be safer, since some of the cords floating around here don't have a third grounding prong. I'm sure there's other things! Please reply with more!

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Re: [sudo-discuss] cnc mill

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

I replaced the rotary took shaft, but for some reason tube quick release bit holder keeps falling out of the mill? Can't figure out why the magnetic attachment is performing so weakly. Any thoughts? // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jack Kern" <jack.w.kern(a)gmail.com> To: "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: "hol(a)gaskill.com" <hol(a)gaskill.com>, "Yardena Cohen" <yardenack(a)gmail.com>, "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] cnc mill Date: Mon, Dec 23, 2013 08:49 Hi Jake, Apologies I don't keep up with the list that frequently.. I'm out of town till the 5th but I can provide help via email for now just email me directly (off the list) so it goes right to my inbox. Other than myself, Matt and Hol know the most about using the machine at this point. My basic process:- First figure out how you're going to mount your stock material - Load up cambam on the controller machine (unless you're writing gcode some other way) and set the stock properties to be the same size (in mm)- Set the top of stock surface to 0 with a stock offset as this makes aligning the machine coordinates easier - Create or load the geometry you want to cut and create the toolpaths in cambam- Make sure to set cambam's gcode post-processor to "mach3"- Generate your toolpaths and export the gcode (nc files) - Turn on the power to the CNC machine controller - the main power supply switch it is the hardest to reach and is on the back of the grey control box that the steppers are connected to. (Don't flip the little toggle switch on the same box though, I believe I have it taped to the on position because that disconnects the USB interface) - Turn on power to the motors via the small black box on the side of the stand holding the controller computer.- Load up the CNC controller on the controller machine (Mach3) you shouldn't get any errors about not being able to talk to the machine, if you do you need to kill mach3 and check the USB connectivity including that toggle switch I mentioned previously. - Finally with the machine on and Mach3 open, click the big flashing red safety button in the interface and then click REF ALL HOME to return the machine to its home position and reset it's machine coordinates - To jog the machine the controls are the four arrow keys for the X/Y axis, and page up and page down for the Z axis. Always watch what you're doing and try not to clip any stock/mounts on the surface or you risk breaking the machine/bit etc - Load the gcode for your part into mach3- Jog the machine to where <0,0,0> should be relative to your stock material (it should be the same origin as in cambam, I usually set this to the top, center of my part I'm cutting out, unless something else makes more sense for the work to be done) - Once you align the origin for the part, zero out each axis in mach 3 and then click REGENERATE TOOLPATHS (if you don't do this the paths will exist in the coordinate system that was set up when you loaded the gcode) you need to do this any time you change the machines coordinates. - If you need to change cutting bits you always need to re-zero the Z axis to the top surface, and then REGENERATE TOOLPATHS again.- Finally carefully jog around the boundaries of the part in mach 3 with plenty of height above the z axis to make sure you're not going to clip any mounting hardware while milling. - Now you're ready to start milling.. I typically start at about 50-70% of the default feed rate. - Jog the CNC to roughly the origin again (slight higher than the part)- Put on some goggles if you want to get all up in there - Start the spindle motor- Start the shop vac- Click run!- Hope everything doesn't explode Good luck! I will try to set up some tutorial sessions in the new year. Jack On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote: I have two replacement parts, I will bring them by tonight On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: the transmission cable that goes from the overhead motor to the spindle was disconnected last I looked - might have to track it down. good luck! Dec 13, 2013 05:47:47 PM, yardenack(a)gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jake jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: >> anyone know how to use the CNC mill? I am thinking of going to sudo tonight >> to mill something and it would be easier if someone can show me how to do >> it, rather than figuring it out. >> or is there a wiki page for the thing? > >I know I replied on IRC, but for the benefit of future >readers/archivers/crawlers: > >https://sudoroom.org/wiki/CNC >https://sudoroom.org/wiki/O:55 >https://imgur.com/a/461VK >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Who to contact about using SudoRoom for workshop space?

by Peter Werner

Who does one contact about putting on events at SudoRoom? Alan Rockefellar and I are interested in doing a mushroom ID and microscopy workshop (which we've done in the past at Noisebridge) at SudoRoom at some point after Xmas. Anywhere from the last week of December to the second week of January. Peter

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Available Christmas

by Garrett Smith

What's everryone doing over Christmas? I'm available that day, I'm pretty sure. -- Garrett @xkit ChordCycles.com garretts.github.io

12 years, 4 months

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Read Aloud anyone??

by Mark Perlin

Anyone want to participate in a read aloud of One Hundred Years of Solitude? Readers would alternate chapters over a couple days, although just listeners are welcome. The book is amazing! My schedule is open Tue and Wed. Rock

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Death guild tonight at DNA lounge

by Romy Snowyla

Hey hackers Let's hit the dance floor tonight at DNA lounge tonight Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [sudo-discuss] cnc mill

by Yardena Cohen

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > anyone know how to use the CNC mill? I am thinking of going to sudo tonight > to mill something and it would be easier if someone can show me how to do > it, rather than figuring it out. > or is there a wiki page for the thing? I know I replied on IRC, but for the benefit of future readers/archivers/crawlers: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/CNC https://sudoroom.org/wiki/O:55 https://imgur.com/a/461VK

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudouino328 PCB Design

by Hol Gaskill

Hey Jake, No FTDI chip onboard for this one, just shown on the attachment to help lay out the connections which are 6-pin TTL serial. I'd like to keep everything through-hole for the first sudouino so it can work as a kit for newbies, and since I personally don't even know how to SMD solder, all the work done on it so far assumes no SMD components. I remember encouraging you a few weeks ago to take the lead for the sudouino 2 board around the ATMega32U4 as you've suggested using this chip previously. I think there are many cool things that can be done with it, so I look forward to seeing what you come up with to accompany that chip. In the meantime I'll continue work with the 328p as planned in order to bring this board online as soon as possible. As far as connectors, I probably won't use any myself and I think we should sell some boards without them. I do agree with Steve on having an option for screw terminals for the switched loads, and either a screw terminal or a barrel jack for DC power input to the board. Whatever we think would be the most popular, I'll space the holes accordingly so the PCB design will accommodate either way. So it looks like we're up to 8+ different packages based on 3 different choices - 3,3V / 5V, kit / pre-assembled, bare holes / terminals. What kind of connectors would the most people use for power in and out? Cheers, Hol Dec 22, 2013 12:47:17 PM, jake(a)spaz.org wrote: Hi Hol, > >I have lots of opinions and advice about this design, but i would like >more info about the state of the project first. For example i am curious >whether this thing will have a USB port or use the 6-pin serial header >like a Boarduino. > >I have a bunch of Atmega32U4 chips that you can use for this project. >True that they are surfacemount but it's not harder to do than >through-hole, in fact it can be much easier even for newbies. I have >syringes of solder paste, although it can be done with regular solder >easily. > >here's a video of someone doing it with hot air (note: they fool around >with the narrow stream of hot air, but you can just do it in a blast with >a regular hotair gun in much less time) >http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2Z7nCAxS2Rg#t=548 > >the nice thing about the atmega32U4 chips (besides the fact that I will >donate them to the project for free) is that they have native USB, which >means your boards can plug straight into a computer like an arduino >leonardo. Also they will be able to pretend to be other devices, like a >keyboard, mouse, printer, disk, or whatever you want. > >specifically about the SAE connectors, I am against them. I think the >board should just have 1/8" holes for wires to be soldered into. > >-jake > >Hol wrote: >Almost done w/ PCB design. That's an ATMega328p processor and a ULN2003 >for power output up to 3.5 amps out of the box. Still need to add some >connectors for I2C and 12V, 5V. I usually use SAE connectors >http://www.vetco.net/catalog/images/G-QD-10-2.jpg for my 12V loads but we >could solder on a barrel jack, or just ship it with holes for DIY >soldering of connectors. Suggestions? > >

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Sudouino328 PCB Design

by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Almost done w/ PCB design. That's an ATMega328p processor and a ULN2003 for power output up to 3.5 amps out of the box. Still need to add some connectors for I2C and 12V, 5V. I usually use SAE connectors http://www.vetco.net/catalog/images/G-QD-10-2.jpg for my 12V loads but we could solder on a barrel jack, or just ship it with holes for DIY soldering of connectors. Suggestions? Cheers, Hol

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sudoroom 3D printer back online!

by Jake

last night I replaced the hotend on the sudoroom type-a-machine 3d printer. after that i spent a bit of time attempting to print and kept running into problems, which i'll list. it seems that some of the PLA we have that came from type A machines is clearly labeled to be printed at 190-220 degrees! I have always used 185, but i guess this is a new formula. When i set it to 205 it still seemed too cold, so i ended up using 220. You should set the temperature in the slic3r before you export your gcode. There are other ways to do it, but if you know them you don't need me to tell you. the other issue is that our spools of filament are dusty! it's gross. And all that dust goes into the extruder and jams it up. The nozzle is only 0.35mm diameter! so clean the filament spool first (DO NOT GET PLA WET) and keep a dust-catcher on the filament before it goes into the machine. I put one on there last night. something like this would be fine, if we had the right foam, but for now i just cut some acrylic fabric and wrapped it around the filament with some copper wire to hold it on there. It should work but check it once in a while, or when changing spools. someone had put tape over the old tape on the platform in a very chaotic and haphazard way. Also there were a few melted spots on the platform where a hot extruder had been rammed into the platform and created a little vulcano. I carved the raised spots off the platform with a flat-edged blade, leveling them off, and then i re-arranged the tape properly so there is NO OVERLAPPING OF TAPE and only one layer of tape. It is necessary to maintain the platform any time you're trying to print if it is not already good to go. I didn't re-level the platform so if someone else wants to do that go ahead. It seemed a bit higher on the left than on the right. I like to get a perfectly cylindrical object and adjust the z-height so it just barely rolls under the extruder tip, and then try in four corners of the platform to compare the height. now join the sudo-prints mailing list! http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-prints -jake

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sudoroom mailinglist just for printers!

by Jake

Sudoroom has so many printers, it's hard to keep track! 2D printers, 3D printers, label printers, and even screenprinters! there's some sort of weird flyer-duplicating machine that makes only green ink but is really cheap to use, there's that new fancy COLOR laser printer... so here is a new list, sudo-prints(a)lists.sudoroom.org if you know how to use one of the printers at sudoroom, including the CNC machine (hey it can print in wood) please subscribe to this list! then we can put labels on all the sudo printers that say "have questions about using this machine? noticed something you think others should know? do you know how to use it and want to help others? write to sudo-prints(a)lists.sudoroom.org !!!" your present for joining this list is that you get to hear about the sudoroom 3d printer, latest news, a post that i will write right now. -jake

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudouino328 PCB Design

by Jake

Hi Hol, I have lots of opinions and advice about this design, but i would like more info about the state of the project first. For example i am curious whether this thing will have a USB port or use the 6-pin serial header like a Boarduino. I have a bunch of Atmega32U4 chips that you can use for this project. True that they are surfacemount but it's not harder to do than through-hole, in fact it can be much easier even for newbies. I have syringes of solder paste, although it can be done with regular solder easily. here's a video of someone doing it with hot air (note: they fool around with the narrow stream of hot air, but you can just do it in a blast with a regular hotair gun in much less time) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2Z7nCAxS2Rg#t=548 the nice thing about the atmega32U4 chips (besides the fact that I will donate them to the project for free) is that they have native USB, which means your boards can plug straight into a computer like an arduino leonardo. Also they will be able to pretend to be other devices, like a keyboard, mouse, printer, disk, or whatever you want. specifically about the SAE connectors, I am against them. I think the board should just have 1/8" holes for wires to be soldered into. -jake Hol wrote: Almost done w/ PCB design. That's an ATMega328p processor and a ULN2003 for power output up to 3.5 amps out of the box. Still need to add some connectors for I2C and 12V, 5V. I usually use SAE connectors http://www.vetco.net/catalog/images/G-QD-10-2.jpg for my 12V loads but we could solder on a barrel jack, or just ship it with holes for DIY soldering of connectors. Suggestions?

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Fwd: hackerspace burn-out

by Chris Bee

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Bee <hotelcompany(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] hackerspace burn-out To: Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com> I agree with everything on that list, and speaking for myself I think I deal with those issues well enough...I'm pretty good at compartmentalization, and can recognize when the issue lies within me and not assign blame or heat where it's neither needed nor warranted. But... I'd like to add "failure to grasp or acknowledge the DIY aspect of hackerspaces." This is directed towards people (NOT sudoers) who seem to regard sudo as a go-to for broken shit that they have no intention of fixing themselves...I don't mind helping people as long as a) they want to be involved with the process of getting their gear working again and b) don't expect me to put whatever I'm doing at the moment on hold to give them my undivided attention. This has probably happened to all of us at one point or another...I'm getting better at setting boundaries but sometimes I feel like I have to be short with people who I really don't want to alienate but who simply aren't going to get the message any other way. One thing I've started doing is wearing a large pair of headphones, which is a cue I picked up from juul....if that doesn't send a clear signal that "I'm here temporally but somewhere else psychically" then I figure it's okay for me to let whoever is trying to drag me into their project what's really going on. -chrisbee On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Romy Snowyla <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > Unrealistic expectations > One bad evening improperly distorting perception of hackerspace as a whole > Lack of sleep > Unrealistic understanding of basic human social dynamics > Personal conflicts > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 17, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Craig Rouskey <craigrouskey(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > What are the causes of burnout? > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > >> we all go through cycles of hackerspace burn out. >> >> would it be nice to have a 2 minute therapy session on dealing with it? >> my hackerspace burn out cycles follow my life. It's easy to be cynical and >> burned out if you overdo things, or if you don't communicate - i think i'm >> back on the up and up though! >> >> >> ============================= >> >> Romy Ilano >> romy(a)snowyla.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >

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New sudoroom t shirt test (color from on demand start up zazzle)

by Romy Snowyla

Hi I got the new test sudoroom zazzle shirt. It was about $24 Advantages Looks nice People can choose the exact color fit and style - huge problem for small people like me since most shirts are too big Fast! I got this up and printed in a week with minimal time and effort I didn't have to put any up front costs and I'm broke so that's nice We don't have to deal with shipping or inventory Disadvantages Very small profit for sudoroom : we'd make $2-3 a shirt Tied to a commercial service T shirts are all new and cost $20-30 So we can't use used clothes stencils or mass producs on cheap $2 a pop hanes shirts It's not silkscreen Sent from my iPhone

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the bike situation @ sudo

by Chris Bee

Hey sudologists- It seems that we have become a locus of sorts for bikes in various states of disrepair, and they're starting to pile up in sudo. Until we (or I) can get on top of the situation, can we keep the bike population where it's at by holding off on donations/projects for the time being? Or, can we come up with a better storage solution for the less likely candidates for immediate rehabilitation? We're currently at seven bikes in sudo proper, which is awesome on one hand but slightly overwhelming on the other. (side note to Jenny- this does not apply to you, I agreed to help you with your fuzzy blue Grover bike and that's still on...I'm currently waiting on the tools to get 'er done. Inshallah.) -chrisbee

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datashield power strip is shite

by Jake

I plugged my laptop into this weird power strip thingy, a Datashield Model 85, that is from the Beige era of computing. i noticed a while later that it was not powered - so i hit the reset button on the power strip, and it clicked and came back on. after the third time i figured it was no good, and needed to be repaired and not used until then, so i was going to unplug it. But i saw something else was plugged into it, from far away via an extension cord. The new color laser printer! Oh Noes!! the poor printer was getting turned on and off repeatedly due to this bullshit powerstrip thing. So if the laser printer is upset now, it may be because of repeated on and off, which they don't like. I recommend it be plugged into a reliable power socket, so it can be on or off, and if left on it can go to sleep without being suddenly off and on again all the time. -jake

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A College Kid Couldn't Afford a 3D Printer, So He Built One Himself

by Eden In Oakland

http://mashable.com/2013/12/20/deltaprintr-3d-printer/?utm_cid=mash-com-g+-… A College Kid Couldn't Afford a 3D Printer, So He Built One Himself Deltaprintr Makes 3D Printing Affordable Show As List By Samantha Murphy Kelly1 day ago When college student Shai Schechter didn't have access to an affordable 3D printer on his SUNY Purchase campus in New York, he set out to build his own model — one that would still crank out 3D-printed objects, but at a much lower cost. "We have a laser- and powder-based 3D printer at school, but it costs about $500 for a bucket of powder and that only lasts for about one or two prints," Schechter said. "It's never used because it is so expensive and classes weren’t offered that much in the curriculum." He approached his sculpture professor about building a new 3D printer that uses plastic instead, and sought the help of three good friends. Schecter and his business partners launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring their low-cost design to the masses; the project nearly sold out of preorders in the first week alone. While a new MakerBot 3D printer costs $2,000, the Deltraprintr is significantly less: $475 unassembled or $685 assembled. It's available in two sizes, either 2 feet high (large) or 2.5 feet (extra large). "We are targeting educational institutions first, so people can learn how to assemble them," Schecter said. "When you buy a MakerBot, and you read a manual about how to use it, you don't learn a lot about how the printer and technology works. This is why we are offering the assembly manual on Kickstarter, too — we want people to really get their hands on it." The Deltaprintr uses three stepper motors, located under the acrylic platform where the objects are printed. Motors control the carriages that move the hot end and ultimately create the 3D-printed objects. Since a Deltaprintr design doesn't rqeuire as many parts as other 3D printers, the savings are passed on to consumers. "MakerBot uses belts to move the print head, but ours uses a fishing line," Schechter said. "With the fishing line, you can expand it to make it taller if you want by changing the aluminum rods. It allows it to go faster than the MakerBot and is more accurate. It allows it to go faster than the MakerBot and is more accurate." Although the Deltaprintr team is focusing on getting the product off the ground as an educational tool, it's eying the mass market, too. "We want it to have a place in education, but it's still for the everyday user," Schechter said. "We have a lot of ideas that we plan to execute in the next year to make the Deltaprintr even better and lower the cost even more." Image: Mashable, Christina Ascani Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. BONUS: I 3D Printed a Gun Topics: 3D, 3d printer, 3D printing, Apps and Software, Gadgets, kickstarter, Tech

12 years, 4 months

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A College Kid Couldn't Afford a 3D Printer, So He Built One Himself

by Eden In Oakland

http://mashable.com/2013/12/20/deltaprintr-3d-printer/?utm_cid=mash-com-g+-… A College Kid Couldn't Afford a 3D Printer, So He Built One Himself Deltaprintr Makes 3D Printing Affordable Show As List By Samantha Murphy Kelly1 day ago When college student Shai Schechter didn't have access to an affordable 3D printer on his SUNY Purchase campus in New York, he set out to build his own model — one that would still crank out 3D-printed objects, but at a much lower cost. "We have a laser- and powder-based 3D printer at school, but it costs about $500 for a bucket of powder and that only lasts for about one or two prints," Schechter said. "It's never used because it is so expensive and classes weren’t offered that much in the curriculum." He approached his sculpture professor about building a new 3D printer that uses plastic instead, and sought the help of three good friends. Schecter and his business partners launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring their low-cost design to the masses; the project nearly sold out of preorders in the first week alone. While a new MakerBot 3D printer costs $2,000, the Deltraprintr is significantly less: $475 unassembled or $685 assembled. It's available in two sizes, either 2 feet high (large) or 2.5 feet (extra large). "We are targeting educational institutions first, so people can learn how to assemble them," Schecter said. "When you buy a MakerBot, and you read a manual about how to use it, you don't learn a lot about how the printer and technology works. This is why we are offering the assembly manual on Kickstarter, too — we want people to really get their hands on it." The Deltaprintr uses three stepper motors, located under the acrylic platform where the objects are printed. Motors control the carriages that move the hot end and ultimately create the 3D-printed objects. Since a Deltaprintr design doesn't rqeuire as many parts as other 3D printers, the savings are passed on to consumers. "MakerBot uses belts to move the print head, but ours uses a fishing line," Schechter said. "With the fishing line, you can expand it to make it taller if you want by changing the aluminum rods. It allows it to go faster than the MakerBot and is more accurate. It allows it to go faster than the MakerBot and is more accurate." Although the Deltaprintr team is focusing on getting the product off the ground as an educational tool, it's eying the mass market, too. "We want it to have a place in education, but it's still for the everyday user," Schechter said. "We have a lot of ideas that we plan to execute in the next year to make the Deltaprintr even better and lower the cost even more." Image: Mashable, Christina Ascani Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. BONUS: I 3D Printed a Gun Topics: 3D, 3d printer, 3D printing, Apps and Software, Gadgets, kickstarter, Tech

12 years, 4 months

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Peer Production Project

by Eddan Katz

Hi Sudo folk. Happy Holidays. Hope everyone's getting some quality time with friends and family. and Happy New Year to those of you already heading off somewhere for vacation. 2141 Broadway Looking ahead to 2014, this email is about buying and rental possibilities for the current building 2135-2143 Broadway with actual numbers. If you'd like to get in touch with the landlords directly, you can email Laurie Cooperman Rosen at lscoop(a)comcast.net; or call George Rosen at 510-504-4259. I wanted to update everyone on a meeting Matt & I had with the landlord earlier this month about the possibilities regarding renting/selling/co-op equity of the building where Sudo Room and the Bay Area Public School are currently located. Matt - please correct any of the information that I may have missed or gotten wrong in the inset text below. Since the Bay Area Public School and Sudo Room may (or may not) imminently be moving to the Omni or other location, a new list has been created to further discussion and coalition-building that will continue to take place in the current space at http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall. This proposal, to be very clear, does not and will not interfere with any of those plans to move nor with plans to stay at the current location decided by the collective of collectives. Below are the notes regarding how much the southern section of the 2143-2145 Broadway have been rented for in the past, how much they're willing to rent each room individually, the whole floor as a whole, and a graduated occupancy/rate proposal that gives time to attract other potential collaborators visiting the space, and getting a reduced price for the rental of that whole section of $6,500/month for 3 months. Otherwise, according to the proposal discussed, rental of the floor will go up to the market rental price of $8,500 at the end of that 3 months. The other option that has been discussed is putting together a co-op sale where groups and individuals can buy equity in that section of the building, either as a real estate transaction, or as crowd-funding equity shares. Group and individual ownership will participate in any profits and in the governance of the building. Peer Production / Sudo Hall The resulting community will be provisionally called Peer Production. In order to honor the pivotal role that Sudo Room and the other people that first moved into this building have accomplished for the community, the proposed discussion list will be called Sudo Hall. It will also be a priority of the Peer Production project to reach out to the innovative and inspiring stories of the other tenants that are already in the building - including Sound Room, Uptown Kitchen, Yummmeee, and the Pan Theater, among others. In terms of values, integrating with the community we're in and remaining inclusive to attract a broad spectrum of types of people will take priority over political posturing and ideological orthodoxy. The community invitation to join is intended to be welcoming to for-profit, non-profit, small partnership, crowd-fund equity start-up, cooperative corporation, and any other structure under which people best think they can get done what they want to achieve. The objective of Peer Production {Sudo Hall} still aspires to the core of Sudo Room's early description: Doing stuff together to make our community more openly accessible. Peer Production, I believe, is the common thread of the innovative and socially conscious projects that have emerged. If you'd like to talk about this further or just find out what's going on - you can join the Sudo Hall mailing list at http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/hall. We'll take it offline from the sudo-discuss list, but I just wanted to let folks know that this discussion just got started. First order of business is getting more photos and more data about the place. Sudo Room has started a good page at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/2141_Broadway and hopefully there can be more valuable and useful information that will be available through Peer Production and Sudo Hall. > 2135-2143 Broadway > Dec. 6, 2013. 5pm. > > George Rosen. > Matt Senate. > Eddan Katz. > > ---- > Sudo-Hall > > University used to pay $14,000 for the whole floor. > EBMC paid $6,500. 8% annual increase. > > Sudo Room. $1500 > Robert. $1,000 > Dance Studio. $1,100 > Public School. $950. > Room next to it. $950. > Yellow Room $2,500. > Corner Room. $2,200. (access to roof). > > total now at $8,500. > willing to do $6,500. > > > ---- > extra notes > building $5.3 million. > 1.2 million fees. > > Buy - income stream. $4 million for whole building. > > losing $65,000 per year by them being empty. > > $1 million selling price for Sudo Hall wing. > > > Need to do pictures of rooms. & sq. ft. > send photos. > Non-profit rental. > > $6,500 x 3 mos. > whole floor - to start with - $13,000. >

12 years, 4 months

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Happy t shirts and decentralized sudoroom processes

by Romy Ilano

I'm happy that the t shirt idea is spawning all sorts of creative designs! It's like a github source code. Everyone is tweaking the idea I'm excited to see what weird creative things happen next Thanks sudoroom. ! Sent from my iPhone

12 years, 4 months

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Tmrw (12/21): Today We Learned: Weekly open, chill co-learning at Sudo Room from 2-5PM

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Tomorrow (and every Sat.) from 2-5PM at Sudo Room <http://sudoroom.org>we'll be doing "Today We Learned <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned>," weekly, open, super chill co-learning. What is co-learning? It means that you bring something you're working on or something you want to learn more about, maybe some other folks are interested in it as well and want to collaborate, or maybe you see what someone else is working on and want to help with that. Well what can you bring to learn about? Anything! One time when we were doing a similar event at LOL space <http://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com>, someone brought a broken clock and we tried to figure out how to fix it. Many times folks work on programming stuff. Sometimes we follow rabbit trails and try to explain and understand things like "well how do computers really work." If it's a thing to learn, we can learn it. We also have a projector set up if anyone wants to demo anything - anything - so you should feel free to bring something that you'd like to share. See you tomorrow! Marina

12 years, 4 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] 2nd OMNI trip: Thursday 3:30pm TOMORROW

by David Keenan

Newly-updated list of attendees tomorrow: *Sudo Room*: Max Klein, Matt Senate, Jordan Cohen *SALTA*: Sarah Pritchard *Bay Area Public School*: Alana Siegel, Lara Durback, and I Margit Galanter (dancer) Liz Leger (visual artist) Ali Tonak (activist) Katherine Harr (tenants' rights activist) Best, David

12 years, 4 months

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Proposal to Galvanize

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I have a proposal I'd like some feedback on and to discuss at the next meeting at the public school this Thursday (7pm right?) *Proposal: * Out of the attendees of these meetings (including folks on the list below), to find some number of interested collectives, individuals, organizations, small businesses, etc to rent the $900-$950 / mo. office adjacent to the Bay Area Public School (BAPS), sharing the common space with BAPS and the Sudo Room at 2141 Broadway in Oakland. For instance, at ~18 equal parties, this room can be rented for $50 / mo. I am personally interested in coordinating several folks to use part of the space as "sudo coworking" with a few small desks for individual work. The intention of this rental is multiple-fold: * To no longer delay in solidifying collaboration between various groups--i.e. for other folks to join BAPS and the Sudo Room by sharing space now. * To commit to investing (minimally) financially in a venture that requires communication, collaboration, and sharing. * To engage in a learning experience about our ability to co-operate and grow. * To provide an opportunity to groups that currently do not have a space to galvanize their community. * To be able to fruitfully engage in a comparison between various group rental options including The Omni, 8th and Alice, and even 2141 Broadway. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/The_Omni https://sudoroom.org/wiki/8th_and_Alice https://sudoroom.org/wiki/2141_Broadway https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Spaces *List (in no particular order):* - * Timeless infinite light<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Timeless_infinite_li…> - * sudo mesh<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#sudo_mesh> - * Prelinger Library<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Prelinger_Library> - * Local Flavor<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Local_Flavor> - * Planting Justice<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Planting_Justice> - * Spokeland<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Spokeland> - * Fix-It Clinic<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Fix-It_Clinic> - * CorpWatch<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#CorpWatch> - * Sudo Co-Working<http://space.sudoscience.org/index.php/Possible_Groups#Sudo_Co-Working>

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Fwd: [Double-Union] DU partnership with Lesbians Who Tech (and the people who love them)

by Marina Kukso

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lillie Chilen <lillie.chilen(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:07 PM Subject: [Double-Union] DU partnership with Lesbians Who Tech (and the people who love them) To: doubleunion(a)lists.doubleunion.org Double Union is partnering with an awesome organization, Lesbians Who Tech, to get the word out for their first summit<http://lesbianswhotech.org/summit/>, this February 28th in San Francisco. They're offering Double Union members and friends a 25% discount for tickets with the code LWTDU. The event is open to queer women and the people who love them, so feel free to share the discount code with other technically-inclined people who you think could benefit! More details + registration: http://lesbianswhotech.org/summit/ All the best, Lillie -- Lillie Chilen @lilliealbert ('li-lee shuh-'leen) _______________________________________________ Doubleunion mailing list Doubleunion(a)lists.doubleunion.org http://lists.doubleunion.org/listinfo.cgi/doubleunion-doubleunion.org

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Is anyone else on Diaspora (social network)? I am romyilano

by Romy Ilano

https://joindiaspora.com/u/romyilano Is anyone else on the social network Diaspora? As we recall, this was developed at Noisebridge and was indirectly involved in another unfortunate suicide =( I'd like to get going on this social network again. If you are interested in connection, please get in touch.

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meeting inside the actual sudoroom last night + the new guy's points

by Romy Ilano

hi, i actually enjoyed the meeting last night that was inside the physical SudoRoom. It was nice! it was a lot warmer, more intimate, and it was cool to just be around SudoRoom "stuff". I think the new guy, he was in the neighborhood, and he made some good points about trying to show people the value of actually going to SudoRoom. I think we have to somehow redo some of the page, make the benefits more graphical and tangible. Instead of mentioning an RFID key in dense wiki text, we need to show someone using it and then entering the building, someone in a situation where they are bored on a Sunday morning and "just happen to be in the neighborhood" with tons of plywood! =D I'll get to work on it later this week. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Why Is Processed Food So Bad for You?

by Romy Snowyla

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3747105/ Why Is Processed Food So Bad for You? The Blog Michael HobbesAug 13, 2013 I make a mean marinara sauce. I sauté onions, garlic and bacon (yes, bacon) for 10 minutes until they sweeten and become crisp, then add a big glass of red wine, a can of chopped tomatoes and generous pinches of salt, basil, oregano and rosemary. Then I leave the room. When I come back two hours later, the sauce is thick, sweet and almost purple. I throw in a handful of fresh basil leaves -- done. I've been thinking a lot about my marinara this week because I've been reading Michael Moss's Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Tricked Us. Company after company, product after product, Moss shows how Big Food formulates products for maximum addictiveness and overeatability. Oreos, Cheetos, Lunchables, Wonder Bread, they're all the same Iowa corn and Brazilian sugarcane, just liquefied, dyed and processed into different shapes and colors. The same week I read Moss's book cataloguing how Big Food is trying to kill us, I read David H. Freedman's Atlantic cover story about how it's also going to save us all. According to Freedman, big food companies -- the same ones Moss accuses of nutritional euthanasia -- are actually de-fatting, de-sugaring and de-salting their products one by one. McDonald's is using whole-wheat buns, Cargill is selling a fullness-inducing tapioca starch, Stevia is everywhere. It's a great article, and Freedman's butchering of sacred foodie cows (Michael Pollan! Farmer's markets! Granola!) is both essential and effective. But when it comes to his core argument, that America's obesity problem is going to be solved by better processed food and bigger corporations, I'm not convinced. That's not because I think it's impossible to make a healthier Oreo or Pepsi or Lunchable -- it wouldn't actually be all that hard. Nope, corporations won't make us healthier because capitalism makes it impossible for them to do so. Bear with me, I'll explain. 1. Scale, Speed And Shelf Life Let's say I want to start selling my marinara, and I want to turn it into an industrial food megabrand -- another Ragu, Hot Pockets, Lean Cuisine. The first thing I have to do is make it in huge batches and make each of those batches taste the same. No more willy-nilly tossing of spices, no more adding whatever veggies are in the fridge. I need to standardize every single element, from the weight of the onions to the heat under the pot. To keep costs down, maybe I cut the simmering time in half, use salt instead of hours to make the flavors come out. Moss notes that herbs are up to 10 times more expensive than salt in industrial cooking, so that's the first no-brainer modification. The next problem is shelf life. Those Lunchables might look all crisp and fresh when you grab them out of the refrigerated aisle, but they sat around at room temperature for at least two months before they got there. Warehouses, wholesalers, truck beds, stockrooms, my marinara is going to need a lot of help not to go bad in all that time. That means preservatives (most of which, according to Moss, are derivatives and modifications of salt), chemicals, coloring agents to save my marinara's magenta as it trundles across the country. So now my sauce has been made in huge batches, jarred, shipped and shelved. It's in the supermarket aisle. I win! But wait. Thanks to all the preservatives and additives, my marinara tastes like an old sock. I go back to my simmering pot, add a glob of vegetable oil, a dash -- OK, a deluge -- of high fructose corn syrup, some thickeners and emulsifiers so it has that pasta sauce-y texture, and it's ready for the store again. Before I grew up and started cooking, I thought the pasta sauce I bought at the store was the same as the one I could make on the stove. I was just paying a bit extra so a factory worker somewhere did the chopping, seasoning and simmering for me. This is how our economy is supposed to work, right? I don't knit my own clothes, I don't build my own house, I don't weld my bike together from parts. Why should food be any different? There's a scene in Moss's book where he goes to a Cargill facility and they make him a slice of industrial-scale bread without any salt. The texture, the taste, the color, everything is wrong, Moss says. It tastes like a piece of tin foil. This scene confused me. When I make bread at home, I use about half a teaspoon of salt for an entire loaf. If you cut the salt out of my homemade bread, yeah, it's bland and a bit puffier (Alton Brown teaches us that salt counteracts the effectiveness of yeast), but it's still bread, not some horrifying replicant. But my bread, the one I spend the better part of a day kneading and proofing, is stale before I can eat about half of it. Wonder Bread, with 27 ingredients, half a teaspoon of sugar and 7 percent of your daily allowance of salt in every slice, lasts on the shelf for two weeks. Processed food isn't bad for you because the products -- pasta sauce, macaroni and cheese, white bread -- are inherently sweet and salty. It is bad for you because it is inherently industrial. Supermarket supply chains are long, slow and and unforgiving, which means everything you buy at one has to be made in massive batches, perfectly standardized, capable of sitting at room temperature in a glass jar or plastic bag for months on end. If you took that kind of abuse, you'd need chemical assistance too. 2. It's the Capitalism, Stupid My marinara sauce is now mass-produced, shelf-stable and OK-tasting. Sure, it's got some extra salt and sugar, but it's still one of the healthier brands on the shelves. The only problem is, no one is buying it. Every other brand of pasta sauce at the supermarket has way more sugar and fat than my sauce, and they taste way better. To get people to switch to my sauce, I'm going to have to add even more sweeteners (sugar) and flavor enhancers (salt). One of the most tragic sequences in Moss's book is the story of Kraft in the early 2000s. The company, reeling with power from its huge market share in cereal (Raisin Bran), cookies (Oreos) and packaged pastas (the eponymous mac and cheese), started taking health and nutrition much more seriously. It added extra labels (alongside the minuscule USDA-mandated serving sizes, it listed nutrition facts for the whole package) and stealthily reduced the salt, sugar and fat in its most popular products. It even cut the calories in Oreos and started selling them in 100-calorie packs. And then Hershey's invaded. Starting in 2003, the chocolate company launched a line of S'mores cookies that were fatter and sweeter than Kraft's newly trimmed-down Oreos. Kraft started to lose market share. It had no choice but to retaliate. And that's how we got Banana Split Cream Oreos, Dairy Queen Blizzard Creme Oreos and Triple Double Oreos. They tasted better than normal Oreos, they had more sugar and fat and, not coincidentally, they sold better. Does Hershey's even make cookies anymore? The story of Kraft is one of the reasons I find Freedman's "How Junk Food Can End Obesity" article so unconvincing. All of the major food companies -- from Pepsi and General Mills right down the line to Monsanto -- are publicly traded. They're big, they're multinational, they're corporations. This means the only thing that matters to them is profits. This isn't a normative description or a moral judgment, it's just a factual description of their corporate form. In a dilemma between earning more profit and protecting public health, profit will win. In a dilemma between earning more profit and anything, profit will win. Again, not a judgment, just a description. Freedman profiles the Carl's Jr. Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich, a not-fried, not-sugared, not-terrible-for-you sandwich sharing menu space with fries and sodas. With the right marketing, the right "Would you like to try" push from employees, America might just start eating it. And, Freedman argues, just might get a little slimmer, a little healthier. That's a nice scenario, and it might even happen, and yay if it does. But Freedman doesn't walk us through the scenario where Wendy's or Burger King launches a similar fish burger, one that's fried, salted and sugared, that has triple the tartar sauce, that because of these modifications tastes better. What can Carl's Jr. do except retaliate in kind? Two years ago, the New Yorker ran a feature detailing how Pepsi (and its subsidiary, Frito-Lay) were launching a "we're healthy now" makeover. Less sugar and salt, more vitamins and whole grains. They even hired a guy from the World Health Organization to implement his own science-backed health standards right through the soda-and-potato-chips family. And then, like Kraft before it, Pepsi buckled. The minute U.S. sales fell to third place (after Coke and -- the horror -- Diet Coke), Pepsi launched an all-hands-on-deck marketing campaign to go back to selling its old sugar water staple. Two years after the healthy makeover, Pepsi's CEO told shareholders, "We refocused our efforts on our key global brands and categories in our most important developed markets to drive profitable growth." This is annual report-ese for, "we marketed the hell out of our unhealthiest products." Pepsi traded the guy from the WHO for Beyoncé. The stock soared. And that's how it goes. Processed food companies are like drug addicts, promising "next time it'll be different, watch!" when they're euphoric on market share and rising stock prices. As soon as they crash back down, they're right back to their old habits: cheap sugar, loud marketing, bogus health claims. This is why Moss's book and, in a different way, Freedman's article are so depressing. Companies aren't evil, they're not greedy, they're not pernicious. They're just companies. As Moss points out, they're as addicted to crappy food as we are. Freedman's right that just because a food is "processed" doesn't necessarily mean its bad for you. And just because something is organic or local or homemade or "natural" doesn't mean its good for you. But I can't help but notice that a Starbucks muffin has 500 calories and that the one I make at home has 140. Ragu, the No. 1 pasta sauce in America, has almost nine teaspoons of sugar, more than a day's recommended amount of salt and as much fat as a milkshake in each jar. Freedman would probably point out that my marinara sauce is not particularly healthy (wine and bacon, after all, are just foodie forms of salt, sugar and fat) and, serving for serving, must be more expensive than $2-per-jar Ragu. He might argue that in a few years, Ragu or General Foods or Kraft will offer a pasta sauce that's nutritionally identical to mine, and that I'd be a snob not to buy it. And he might be right. But for now, neither of us can escape the reality that food, like everything else we buy, is designed to be cheap to make, to last forever and to taste better than the next product down the shelf. And also like everything else, after you buy it, you're on your own. For more by Michael Hobbes, click here. For more on diet and nutrition, click here. Sent from my iPhone

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Sudo Room Flyers

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Created a Flyers page on the wiki, let me know if there is already a page of similar content that you know of! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Flyers I listed a flyer I made that I've printed and taped up around sudo room to remind folks of the room's purpose and values. // Matt

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lost notebook and david graber's "the democracy project"

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Lost these two together, any one find them by chance? Thanks, Matt

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Where Are The Commons? A short blog post about liberating space..

by Andrew

Hey Sudoers, I wrote a short blog post about that talks about my thoughts on liberating space and why places like Sudo Room are so important.. http://hackerspa.com/where-are-the-commons/ Full text: I recently came across this article<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/opinion/what-tech-hasnt-learned-from-urba…>. The basic argument is that the tech industry, while increasingly using the terms like “commons” “town hall” and “community center”, is in practice creating more spaces cut off from the public for employee use only. The disappearing commons is not a problem caused by the tech industry. The tech industry is just following along with the city’s already poor urban planing. There are very few places that are even available at all for public use in the Bay Area. In Oakland, you’ve got the library (where funding is being cut left and right). You’ve got “public parks”, but we all know what happens <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcJeDBIixA> if you try to stay past curfew in a public park. There are some Recreation Centers<http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/opr/s/facility/>but these are mostly for sports and rentals. Where are the commons? Where are the places I can go to have a meeting with friends and collaborators without having to pay $3 for a cup of coffee? Or places where I can go to stay warm and chat with neighbors when the house is cold and lonely. It is not just the tech industry that thinks in terms of acquiring space instead of liberating it. Even in Berkeley, where there are loud echos of the cultural revolutions of 60′s and 70′s, people have large homes and small or non existent commons. We need to liberate more space. In Oakland, as the steel industry left, spaces that were once industrial centers became repurposed. In the past decade there has been a migration of artists coming to Oakland specifically because of the variety of space that’s available. What is also happening (mainly through the work of post-occupy activists) is that space is being repurposed for the commons. Organizations such as Sudo Room<https://sudoroom.org/>and The Bay Area Public School <http://bayareapublicschool.tumblr.com/> are leading the way in this movement. But things are just getting started. One day I would love to see a true community center in every neighborhood. Where people can go to talk, create, plan, and most importantly share resources. Sure the tech industry has created walled off cities for Goolers, Mozillians, and Twits (?), but what’s the alternative for them? Large fancy strip malls with $15 burritos? Just as they have used the collective wealth off their companies to provide for the needs of their employees, we must use the collective wealth of our communities to provide for the needs of our friends, neighbors, and comrades. -- ------- Andrew Lowe

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Those who be going to the omni tomorrow.

by David Keenan

(original message to sudo-discuss bounced due to too many recipients) I arranged with John Givens a second trip to the Omni tomorrow, Thursday 12/19, at *3:30pm*. If folks need rides and things let me know I might very well be able to pick you up or drop you off somewhere - Newly-updated list of attendees tomorrow: *Sudo Room*: Max Klein, Matt Senate, Jordan Cohen *SALTA*: Sarah Pritchard *Bay Area Public School*: Alana Siegel, Lara Durback, and I Margit Galanter (dancer) Liz Leger (visual artist) Ali Tonak (activist) Katherine Harr (tenants' rights activist) Again, the address: 4799 Shattuck @ 48th in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, about 9 blocks north of MacArthur bart. Meet in front of the door right at the corner. As before, if you're planning on coming, please do RSVP with me first - as this is not an open house, but a relatively small group - and, please don't publish online any photos or video you take, but only share them privately. Best, David / 415-430-8362

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Are you ready to rumble for tonight's meeting sudoroom ?

by Romy Snowyla

I'm geared up with my new Sudo room t shirt Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [BAPS-Organizing] 2nd OMNI trip: Thursday 3:30pm TOMORROW

by Alana Siegel

I can come tomorrow too. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:39 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Updated list of attendees tomorrow: > Sudo Room: Max Klein, Matt Senate, Jordan Cohen > SALTA: Sarah Pritchard > Margit Galanter (dancer) > Liz Leger (visual artist) > Bay Area Public School: Alana Siegel, Lara Durback, and me. > >

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2nd OMNI trip: Thursday 3:30pm TOMORROW

by David Keenan

Hello all, I arranged with John Givens a second trip to the Omni tomorrow, Thursday 12/19, at *3:30pm*. If folks need rides and things let me know I might very well be able to pick you up or drop you off somewhere - Those who have expressed an interest in attending: Sudo Room: Max Klein, Matt Senate, Jordan Cohen SALTA: Margit Galanter Bay Area Public School: Alana Siegel, Lara Durback, and me. Jen Angel (?) Max / Tooth - let me know if you also can / want to come check it out? Again, the address: 4799 Shattuck @ 48th in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, about 9 blocks north of MacArthur bart. Meet in front of the door right at the corner. As before, if you're planning on coming, please do RSVP with me first - as this is not an open house, but a relatively small group - and, please don't publish online any photos or video you take, but only share them privately. Best, David / 415-430-8362

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Apparel stocklots supplier

by lelza

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Membership Benefits Discussion

by Marina Kukso

hi all, we've been having discussions around membership and access. as part of that discussion, i volunteered to consolidate some of the various ideas for benefits that we can tie to membership. check out the suggestions, add your own, keep a discussion going: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Membership_Benefits_Discussion - marina

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hackerspace burn-out

by Romy Ilano

we all go through cycles of hackerspace burn out. would it be nice to have a 2 minute therapy session on dealing with it? my hackerspace burn out cycles follow my life. It's easy to be cynical and burned out if you overdo things, or if you don't communicate - i think i'm back on the up and up though! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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theme for wednesday's meeting

by Romy Ilano

Hey I'd like to set a theme for wednesday's meeting Especially if we have to discuss legalities and board of d. stuff. I'm going to play MC5 (not too loud) and wear black. Also as the holidays approach is this going to be the last meeting of the year for many people? That means anyone who can should try to show up -- and give hugs! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: OPEN CALL: Let's Get Giving to RPS

by Romy Snowyla

This is an inspiring newsletter from non profit collective rps down the street Another organization worth checking out and supporting Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "Rock Paper Scissors Collective" <Rock_Paper_Scissors_Collective(a)mail.vresp.com> > Date: December 16, 2013 at 5:47:33 PM PST > To: romy(a)snowyla.com > Subject: OPEN CALL: Let's Get Giving to RPS > Reply-To: "Rock Paper Scissors Collective" <reply-0706cfa763-cf8c608d39-c462(a)u.cts.vresp.com> > > > > > WE NEED YOU TO HELP BUILD COMMUNITY. > Holy Moley! This is our Tenth Year? > > You know what we do: Zines, Handmade Goods, Art Labs, Sewing Labs, Classes, Youth Programs, Community Collaborations, Events (& cupcakes), Partnerships, our Gallery ... and sooooo much more! > 10 smackers helps supply our sewing lab > $25 prints a ZINE for a collaborative event > $50 gives a public High School Student a Mini-grant > $100 funds a community arts therapy session > $250 creates a community event > $500 (baba-boom) kicks off our new Artist in Residency Program! > *Every dollar contributed buys a ticket in our RAFFLE for a > "Guided Tour of Oakland Gallery Frieds" > > Any bux will HELP us ROCK OUT to the max! > Click on the button below to DONATE before year-end. > (via any credit card or PayPal account) > > > > or mail in a tax-deductible check to: RPSC 2278 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612 > > > Want to be involved but no cashola? > Attend a RPSC volunteer orientation. > Every 1st and 3rd Thursday at 6 pm and 3rd Fridays at 2 pm. > NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY! > rock paper scissors collective is a volunteer-run organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to strengthen local communities and encourage sustainable practices and alternative models. We promote the sharing of ideas, skills, and resources through the celebration of art, craft, education, and performance. Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law under IRS EIN # 80-0694281 > > community -[at]- rpscollective -[dot]- org > 2278 telegraph ave., oakland, ca 94612 > 510.238.9171 > Hours: 12 - 7pm, Wednesday - Sunday. Closed Monday and Tuesday. > > > > Click to view this email in a browser > > If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: Unsubscribe > > Click here to forward this email to a friend > > Rock Paper Scissors Collective > 2278 Telegraph Ave > Oakland, California 94612 > US > Read the VerticalResponse marketing policy. > >

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Nice Open Hardware Portable Speakers--Can we get it sub $100?

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Just referred to this http://www.crowdsupply.com/blueshift/helium Seems the kit will ship out for $180 without the speaker--any wizzes got ideas about bringing that sub $100? // Matt

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Fwd: OMNI tomorrow (Tues) 1pm AND Thursday (12/19)!

by Matthew Senate

tour the omni tuesday or thursday! please RSVP on this thread. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM Subject: OMNI tomorrow (Tues) 1pm AND Thursday (12/19)! To: max Phat Beets Produce <max(a)phatbeetsproduce.org>, Jen Angel < jen(a)aidandabet.org>, Mara Poliak <marapoliak(a)gmail.com>, margit galanter < margitgal(a)gmail.com>, Sweet Tooth <blackholecinema(a)gmail.com>, camoo(a)googlegroups.com, Bay Area Public School Organizing < bayareapublicschool-organizing(a)googlegroups.com>, Kathleen Frumkin < kathleenfrumkin(a)gmail.com>, Lauren O'Connor <loco.lark(a)gmail.com> Hi all, Sorry for the last minute nature of the scheduling here, but *those on this list that can come tomorrow at 1PM, please do!* If not, I'm arranging a second viewing on Thursday 12/19. Address: 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609<https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=4799+Shattuck+Avenue%2C+Oakland%2C+C…>(@48th St., ~9 blocks north of MacArthur BART.) Those who I know *can't* make Tuesday - that is *Max* (Phat Beets), and *Margit* (SALTA) - and anyone else who is interested but not yet responded, please let me know your availability, if you can? If Thursday is not good, I might be able to do Wednesday too. Re: Thursday, after 10AM is preferable for the owners, but if it has to be earlier, I can probably convince him. Alternatively, we can go by in the Thursday evening too, although if we go Thurs eve we will then have to relocate the previously scheduled weekly Public School Omni meeting to somewhere closer by the Omni - perhaps at the Lanesplitter's one block away? - if that has to happen, I'll let everyone know. Max Margit and Tooth, feel free to email me directly or it might be easiest if you guys give me a ring/text so I can lock this second viewing down? Those expected Tuesday: Jen Angel Lauren O'Connor Kathleen Frumpkin Nico Peck Alana Siegel Lara Durback Claiborne McDonald Thursday? Max? Margit? Best, David / 415-430-8362 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "camoo" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to camoo+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Bank Statement & Deposit

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Deposited the Southern Exposure grant check for $4,700 along with a $60 membership check and $40 from the donation bin. Total balance in our account: $5,190.40 // Matt

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Fwd: OMNI tomorrow (Tues) 1pm AND Thursday (12/19)!

by Matthew Senate

okay one update ;) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM Subject: Re: OMNI tomorrow (Tues) 1pm AND Thursday (12/19)! To: max Phat Beets Produce <max(a)phatbeetsproduce.org>, Jen Angel < jen(a)aidandabet.org>, Sweet Tooth <blackholecinema(a)gmail.com>, camoo(a)googlegroups.com, Bay Area Public School Organizing < bayareapublicschool-organizing(a)googlegroups.com>, Kathleen Frumkin < kathleenfrumkin(a)gmail.com>, Lauren O'Connor <loco.lark(a)gmail.com>, SALTAisDance <saltaisdance(a)googlegroups.com> Another update (sorry to spam y'all with updates, just trying to make sure we're all on the same page as we zero in on Thursday timing) Attending thus far - *Tuesday 1pm*: Jen Angel Lauren O'Connor (photography collective) Kathleen Frumpkin (BAPS) Nico Peck (BAPS) Claiborne McDonald (BAPS) *Thursday* (exact time still to be set): Max (Phat Beets) - ? Margit Galanter (SALTA) - ? Mara Poliak (SALTA) - best after 1:30pm Alana Siegel (BAPS) - best after 3:30pm Lara Durback (BAPS) - best after 11am Tooth, you down for either of these days..? Best, David On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:23 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Quick update - Alana can't make it that early on Tues, & her schedule is > after 3:30 on Thursday, if that's something that works with other > Thursday'ers? > > Best, > David > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Sorry for the last minute nature of the scheduling here, but *those on >> this list that can come tomorrow at 1PM, please do!* If not, I'm >> arranging a second viewing on Thursday 12/19. >> >> Address: 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609<https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=4799+Shattuck+Avenue%2C+Oakland%2C+C…>(@48th St., ~9 blocks north of MacArthur BART.) >> >> Those who I know *can't* make Tuesday - that is *Max* (Phat Beets), and >> *Margit* (SALTA) - and anyone else who is interested but not yet >> responded, please let me know your availability, if you can? If Thursday is >> not good, I might be able to do Wednesday too. >> >> Re: Thursday, after 10AM is preferable for the owners, but if it has to >> be earlier, I can probably convince him. Alternatively, we can go by in the >> Thursday evening too, although if we go Thurs eve we will then have to >> relocate the previously scheduled weekly Public School Omni meeting to >> somewhere closer by the Omni - perhaps at the Lanesplitter's one block >> away? - if that has to happen, I'll let everyone know. >> >> Max Margit and Tooth, feel free to email me directly or it might be >> easiest if you guys give me a ring/text so I can lock this second viewing >> down? >> >> Those expected Tuesday: >> Jen Angel >> Lauren O'Connor >> Kathleen Frumpkin >> Nico Peck >> Alana Siegel >> Lara Durback >> Claiborne McDonald >> >> Thursday? >> Max? >> Margit? >> >> Best, >> David / 415-430-8362 >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "camoo" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to camoo+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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