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by mattsenate＠gmail.com

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/4212103197.html // Matt

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Door and Keypad Update and Need Help (Electronics Knowledge)

by Max Klein

Only last night I got the keypad running again, and was trying to insultate the wires to improve its uptime. So I coated two connections between the rasberry pi and the relay which is attached to the door. After coating, it seemed like I somehow failed these connections, because the software exited normally (opendoor.py was still being called and sent success messages), but the door was not opening. I tried to unglue them, but when i was taking off the glue, I disconnected one of the wires that was at this 3-way junction. Then I resoldered the wires but to no avail. So everything is totally broken now. Can you help with a multimeter and a solder gun Monday to hunt this down? I don't know how to test if there is current at point, nor why the two wires would split coming of the rpi, and then both go to same relay. BTW what's a relay (i've only heard the term)? Please tutor me in the ways of righteousness, notconfusing 7074787023

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Need a bike trailer/ride STAT

by Chris Bee

My friend is giving away a pair of vintage speakers, Wharfedale W60Ds.to be precise...thing is, they weigh 47 lb each which would make carrying them on my handlebars slightly hairy. Does anyone have a bike trailer I can use for a hour or so? Or, can someone drive over with me to pick them up (they're at 28th and Adeline). IMO sudo needs these speakers...as Walter Sobchek would say, they would really tie the room together. -chrisbee

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Bay Area Public School Meeting This Thursday 7:00pm 11/21

by niki

Hey all! The Bay Area Public School is holding a General Meeting again this Thursday in order to continue the discussion around the potential new space. At our last meeting we agreed that it was incredibly important to open up our collective conversations - we'd love to have members from other collectives engaged in investigations into the new space join us this Thursday, November 21st at 7pm in the Public School space @ 2141 Broadway. Niki

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hacker scouts new building grand opening party tomorrow

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, hacker scouts has a new building (Curiosity Hacked Oakland Lab Grand Opening Party!) at 6036 telegraph and they are having a grand opening party tomorrow from 2-5PM. the details are on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/357523141061153/ - marina

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What happened to half our books?

by Tom Fitzpatrick

A good third of the library seems to have vanished. Does any one have any ideas about what happened?

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Reminder: "Today We Learned" open co-learning afternoon from 2-5PM Sat. 11/23

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we'll be having "Today We Learned" open co-learning time at Sudo Room tomorrow from 2-5PM. Come learn and hack with us. Tiny amount of details at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned Best, Marina

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Sat. 6pm meeting to organize against Oakland's DHS-funded spy center

by John - SF Pet Sitters!

Oakland Privacy Group will be meeting again this Saturday at 6pm in Sudo Room's classroom to organize to stop Oakland's proposed Department of Homeland Security-funded spy center, the so-called "Domain Awareness Center". We had an /amazing/ show of support at Tuesday night's meeting at City Council, with more than 100 protesters showing up despite the rain and more than 80 people signing up to speak. It garnered lots of press - locally, as well as nationally - despite us only having had one planning meeting, a few days prior. I think many of us feel emboldened after our showdown with City Council and we are looking to come back 100x stronger the next time we square off with them. We'd love for you to attend the planning meeting, if you'd like to join forces or simply want to learn more about this creepy spy center. Here's a little background info on the spy center City of Oakland is trying to build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4uRpy_5V0Y http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-… http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/oakland-accepts-federal-funds-fo… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/oaklands-creepy-new-surveillance-prog… http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center Hope to see you there tomorrow! John

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Sudouino! - 1st draft PCB

by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Attached is a rough draft with a number of traces etc still to be resolved. The idea is to have 3 of the PWM pins hardwired (but easy traces to cut if you want) to 3 power output pins so it can be used to power things right out of the box, with the rest of the I/O pins terminated to holes that you can either solder pin headers through to use on a breadboard, or just go ahead and solder to the devices you're trying to run. Comments and suggestions welcome! Also looking for input on size and mounting hole spacing. Also interested in peoples' thoughts on whether to use special connectors for the I2C and SPI ports. Cheers, Hol

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Tonight at Sudo Room: Learn JS, Wireless Mesh Hack Night, Oakland Wiki Meetup & the usual hacking

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Tonight at Sudo Room we have a number of great things going on: - 7PM Javascript meetup <http://www.meetup.com/EBJavaScript/>: Come learn js with other people - everyone is welcome. - 7PM Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> meetup: Learn about the wiki and edit with other folks who are passionate about every part of Oakland, even the palm trees <http://oaklandwiki.org/Palm_Trees>. - 7:30PM Oakland wireless mesh <https://peoplesopen.net/> hacknight: Community-run p2p wireless internet for Oakland - these folks are helping make it happen. - all night long: the usual hacking and learning that we do all day every day! Also, our friends at the Bay Area Public School will be having their Supper Club weekly potluck from 6-7PM as usual in the commons room. See you tonight! - Marina

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Missing common room fire extinguisher - come back :(

by Marina Kukso

hi all, the fire extinguisher that used to live in the common room to the left of the kitchen (near the light switches for the common room) has gone missing. our landlord is unhappy that it's gone and it makes us less safe to not have a fire extinguisher there. if you have any information about its whereabouts or fate, please let us know. and if you have it, please bring it back. thank you, marina

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nptech.io <= the social good hackernews

by Marina Kukso

hi all, i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists! nptech.io is the hacker news for social good. let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we need this! - marina

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meeting minutes nov 20 2013 - board approvals - omni debate

by Max Klein

==introductions== ;question is what is delicious? marc, ben, max, eddan, jc, tom, hol, matt, bryce (hacdc woooo!), marina (defunct web service), romy, vicky, morten (hot steel), Noel Gallo, jon from urban strategis council (mama mia cornbread) ==updates== Action items from last meeting need to be completed. ==announcements== * Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar * info(a)sudoroom.org is a public-facing email! - * If you want to receive these messages, join the list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info - * Remember that people messaging this do not assume it will be posted publicly. Archives not public to respect their privacy. * Hamburg hosting Chaos Computer Congress (CCC) hacker convention, more social justice oriented, though there is still plenty of security stuff. Not sure if talks are posted yet. Equal parts hacking, socializing, three days, it's awesome. - * http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/ <- last years talk schedule - * https://tickets.events.ccc.de/ - * December 27th-30th, 2013 – Hamburg, Germany - * Only $100, airline now $1300. * Max is going to read a list of places and percentages. Guess what the statistics are! * Facebook post to start a mackerspace in basement of The *Buzzword* Hub: Oakland. #h#a#s#h#t#a#g#i#t#s#a#r#e#a#l#t#h#i#n#g# - * If you're interested in fielding the proposal, seeking something more like TechShop, less like Noisebridge? * Sudo room maintains a positive disposition, excited for enabling a creative community and hackerspace to flourish. ==fiscal solvency== *max comments since the treasurer of the board is the one person that takes on liability for sudo room, shouldn't that person be the exchequer with a finance committee to lighten bookkeeping. - * Only liability is whether the accounting is done correctly. Otherwise it's the general liability of being a board member. This is similar to Noisebridge. That being said, I am not a lawyer (IANAL). - * Max: It's all good. - * Matt needs to get bank accounts, Patelco and Internet Archive Federal Credit Union - * https//iafcu.org/ ==ammendments to articles of incorporation== *approve the board checb - Accepted: count 3 - Max K [treasurer], - Jenny Rcheck, - Naomi Mcheck, - Anca Mcheck, - Hol Gcheck, - Vicky Kcheck, - Matt Scheck, - Luciano onaicuL unknown human, no consensus, - Troy Mcheck, - Liberty Mcheck, - Marina Kcheck, - Julio Rcheck, - Romy check, - Marc J check - - First board retreat Jjimjilbang (찜질방) -- these are gender segregated :( - - HISTORY IS NOT EASILY OBTAINABLE - Declined: Jordan, Kerrie, Anthony, Eddan, Ryan B, Morten, JC - Nominated: Rhodey, Len, Vian, Shake, Mitch, Brendan, Faust - ==discussion== * Rackspace grant (not raytheon) - * Got a random email on info(a)sudoroom.org. They wanted info that we have since we just incorporated anyway. Marc sent in all the info. Say something if you think rackspace is wack (doesn't seem likely) or some reason not to get no-strings-attached cash. * The Omni update - Marc and Matt speak: - 48th and Shattuck - 21k sq ft - $16k/mo 2-3 years - Deposit $50k - $1.95MM sale price - collective of collectives, opportunity for community - - The opportunity on the table is to be able to engage in a lease that has a purchase option for this building. The landlord is seeking serious parties to create a genuine community space. Not anyone would - - Max dissents: - 0.6mi from MacArthur BART which means - exposing visitors to additional risk walking - further from E and W oakland, which means we will be less able to offer our services to those areas, which in turn is disproportionately affecting lower socioeconomic classes, which is against our mission. - not in downtown w/ 1st friday - more expensive and we have low finances - - Matt speaks: - Need to find bldg inspector and architect to check building - Opportunity is in having a community of other groups all in building - Find out more about guarantors, get specifics from landlord - Add contingency in purchase for permitting, inspection, etc - - Vicky speaks: - Look for welfare setup to avoid property tax - If have enough nonprofit sub-entities, can be exempt from property taxes - - Hol Speaks: - "Doubles down" on range from BART issue ie it is an issue. - - Matt speaks: - Not too into range from BART metric, many issues here, hard to find a good spot but continue actively looking for best option. - - Vicky - Discussing Rachel's thread about gentrifying effect. Temescal vs here, mugging, we have computer$ on our bodies. A business had customers robbed en route to BART. We would be perceived as gentrifiers in temescal. Would never walk down telegraph at night. - - Eddan on stack: - supports what Matt was saying, that is, not to pass up an opportunity. we said we wanted to connect with other groups. it would be valuable just to go through the research phases though. - - Vicky, - and third point. It would be a positive next step. wants to Take a step back from emphasizing the need to move. - - Matt: - I want to value everyone's participation and input. - - Max on stack: - offer to post this discussion to board and also vindicate matt - - Matt: - just make sure that this - - Vicky: - Do you feel like we are good faith collaborating? - - Matt: - Basically, yes. - - Marc: - 2 things going on. 1 is the omni. and yes its possibly its too expensive. but 2. we are increasing collaborating with other groups so that's good, it might not be the omni, but it is a good step to getting new place. - - REmote yar: - also doeSnt like tHe locatiOn but likeS the susainability part Of it - ** Sudouino* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudouino - - #*THISSHITISREAL* - - * Hol doesn't necessarily have to, but is asking to use the sudo name and such for this project. - * Marc: is it open hardware? Hol: Yes. Marc: Will chinese people suffer? Hol: No only the most local people will suffer. - ...break for bad religion lyrics: And *then* *you* *told* *me* *how* *bad* *you* *had* *to* *suffer*, *Is* *that* *really* *all* *you* *have* *to* *offer*?... - * Device has 7-pin holes, just like the sudoroom logo--it will fit perfectly! http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Logo - * What's different about this from an arduino? - * Power - * * *Aorta *(like the heart bit) Proposal - * bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum - vicky: i want that. - marina: is it free? - max: maybe. if not we can pay a bit - *marc: pay them in bitcoin - Matt will reach out to Jiwon. - - ------------------------------------ - - (^_^) // - supa-cato/ - (≧σ≦)/ - </(S) V / / * Gender and Inclusivity *collab more with rps *make a button that starts an I'm NEW HERE WELCOME ME ALARM. * Email list thoughts ** WORD of the WISE: Let's *Decode* this means, that we should help each other understand what's happening on the email list. To decode it. <- that was emphasis on the phrase, "Yep." ==conflict resolution== *nothing to do unless someone is pursuing an action against someone else and mediation has failed ==action items== * marc -- to investigate printer recoup cost * timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license * marc - tell oakland wiki folk to update calendar to every two weeks *if so, hol and max volunteer to be this first team with max treasurer and hol assistant treasurer *max to post omni debate to *mail those who were elected to board but not approved *matt to contact jiwon ===post-meeting teamups==

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Telling Oakland stories in Sudo space: my own part 1 of (?)

by Pete Forsyth

All: In the spirit of Rhodey's recent message,[1] I'd like to share an Oakland vignette of my own, about a pool league I recently joined. But first, here's why: I began to get especially excited about Sudo Room when I started to realize it aspires to be more than just a bunch of computer geeks coming together to hack computery stuff (awesome enough in itself) -- that it also wants to be a community that hacks *life* together. Meeting chefs and filmmakers was the first wave for me, and then I started hearing heatlfelt and inspired talk about stuff like social change and engaging with local government. Yeah! Many of us, though, are new, or newish, to Oakland. And we are people who want to have a positive impact on the world around us. But Oakland is a place with deep history and culture, and on a pretty basic level, it would be...impolite...to come to a party and immediately start trying to change what it is. So the desire to get to KNOW Oakland is one that resonates very strongly with me, as an important first step before contemplating ways to INFLUENCE Oakland. I think sharing stories is a powerful way (among others) to get to know something complex and multifaceted. Anyway, enough of the philosophizing. I want to tell you guys a little bit about the pool league I joined a couple months back. Apparently, there have been several Oakland/East Bay pool leagues over the last 30 years or so (where each team has a home bar, and competes weekly over a scheduled season). Right now, there's only one league (or at least, only one connected with this community). It's coed, it's a 30 week season (we're about 9 weeks in), it's run by a woman who has run an all-women's league but just started this one, and it will culminate in a trip to Reno for all participants. By now, having played against all the other teams, and can say I am truly the only white person in the league;[2] and I think I'm also unique (more or less) in my connection/familiarity with Internet/hacker culture. I've played in a pool league before, but it's been 10 or 15 years. As this league was forming, I heard about it from a number of regulars at my local bar in Emeryville -- the organizer, and a number of people who have ended up on various teams in the league. There was some buzz about it, and I ended up joining a team that plays out of an East Oakland bar. The first couple weeks passed pretty quietly. Weeks 3 and 4, though, got rowdy! Lots of arguments in various games, and of course, there was some inertia to it -- the overall mood became increasingly tense each night. I felt cautious about this -- as a newcomer, I was reluctant to be involved in the arguments -- I was still getting to know the vibe and the people. But that only goes so far. I felt a responsibility to the integrity of the game (I know the rules better than many in the league, who are more familiar with "bar rules" than "league rules"); and moreover, a responsibility to my team. I have to advocate for myself in my own games -- that's part of what I showed up to do -- and there are situations where I have to step it up on behalf of my teammates, too. To keep it short, weeks 3 and 4 were were it "got real" for me. In week 5, there was a new twist: my friend Eugene, who's recently been taking photography classes (and who hasn't played pool in a competitive context), had been asking about coming to take some photos, and was finally able to make it to a match. I had run this by the league coordinator and a couple teammates, so I was confident our bases were covered -- but after the hot tempers of the preceding weeks, I was nervous! Were we now in a new, hypercompetitive mode where the slightest detail is going to lead to a shouting match? Is it OK to introduce a new and unfamiliar element to a volatile situation? What kind of effect will it have? Fortunately, overall it was a super mellow night. Both teams seemed relaxed. I found myself lining up laid back blues tracks on the jukebox between my games, and caught several of my teammates and opponents nodding their heads or singing along throughout the evening. But one moment was an exception. I was watching a teammate's game, and felt a surge of adrenaline as a dispute broke out about whether her opponent had made a clean hit.[3] I had seen the shot clearly, and knew what I'd seen, but there were enough eyes on the table and enough people in the discussion that I was happy to sit back and watch it play out. But I did notice that Eugene, who had begun to hit his stride with the camera, was continuing to snap pictures. I was thinking this might be weird, but nobody else seemed fussed over it, so I stayed passive, just taking it all in. The players were raising their voices, talking over each other, captains and teammates had stepped up to the table to weigh in. Most of the 10 players present were involved in an escalating argument. After a couple minutes things started to wind down -- an agreement had been reached. The players got back to their game, but people continued talking about the shot. Eugene came close enough that I could grab his elbow. "What did you think of that?" I asked. Eugene and I have a shared passion for sports, and I was certain that he would have an opinion -- maybe not of the substance of the dispute, but at least something about the dynamics among the various players. But he gave me a blank look. "Of what?" In that simple statement, it hit me: between the jargon/etiquette of the game of pool and the cadence of the Ebonics,[4] there is a world I have come to know much better than I did a few months ago. I don't know that I understand it *well* -- I'm not sure if that's even possible without having grown up in this community! I still find myself in situations almost every day where I haven't the slightest idea what the people around me are talking about. But without realizing it, I had become much more highly attuned to what was going on, at least in that situation. Ever since, that moment has stuck with me. As I walk down the street, get a sandwich at the corner store, or ride the bus, I've been asking myself: how much of what I see and hear is fitting together? Do I understand what's going on here? Fully? Or a little bit? Who is trying to get whose number, what happened to that boy in school today, why is that woman laughing? What would I have been able to perceive when I moved here last spring? And I'm starting to realize: it's rarely true, actually, that I haven't the *slightest* idea. I might not understand everything, but as time passes I understand more. To me, that's pretty exciting, because beginning to understand helps unlock the possibility of participating in a relaxed and genuine way. And if I'm going to be here, it's important to me to *be here.* I'm curious to hear from others who are relatively new to Oakland, how your process of getting to know it is going. -Pete p.s. Want to help support the league...or have an itch to gamble? We have a raffle going on! Tickets are $1, and must be purchased by Thursday evening. The prize is a Thanksgiving turkey -- and I can inquire about Tofurky or other alternatives if necessary ;) Proceeds go toward making the Reno trip at the end of the season...well, the word that comes to mind is..."mo'betta." p.p.s. Want to PLAY in the league? I think some teams have lost players to shifting work schedules etc. Let me know, and I can see if there are openings! ---- NOTES [1] http://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2013-November/004593.html [2] Since race has been a sensitive issue lately, let me be clear: I believe racial relations have an important, maybe even central, role in Oakland history and culture. I have never had great exposure to any black community before, and am trying to take it in for what it is, and -- to the best of my ability -- leave preconceptions behind. I do not claim to be perfect at this. [3] If you're not familiar with the "ball in hand" rule in competitive pool: if you don't hit one of your own balls first (stripe/solid), your opponent can place the cue ball anywhere on the table and take the next shot. As you might imagine, sometimes it's very hard to tell which ball was struck first, so this is a common point of contention. [4] OK, I'm more than a little self-conscious about this term. I am eager for input! It's a term people seem to use casually in this community, but I'm not sure how it's taken elsewhere. I think it carries a lot of baggage. But, there's definitely a dialect here that can be difficult for me to understand. I'm not sure what are the best words to use for it.

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so... anyone wanna add to the SudoBook on github?

by Romy Ilano

https://github.com/sudoroom/SudoBook !

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Telling Oakland stories in Sudo space: my own part 1 of (?)

by Anthony Di Franco

Most of the time, sudo room is simply a good place to be around good people doing interesting and worthwhile things, one open to the community. But when it's at its worst, which it has been quite often during the last few days, it serves as a vehicle for fantasies of finding authenticity, righteousness, insight, and empowerment through discovery of and association with a stereotyped, exotic, mysterious other that read like they came straight out of an Allan Quatermain novel. Self-aggrandizing fantasies that patronize and dehumanize the people they feature as props and the suffering victims they use as human shields to deflect criticism. A while ago I tried to object to this tendency in oblique terms, and it led to a tremendous and tremendously bitter misunderstanding. Seeing this tendency be expressed more directly now makes me think it was more than a misunderstanding. This time I will be more direct and try to leave no possibility of misunderstanding. I struggled through outrage at the hypocrisy to find the words with which to object this time. I thought of Ivan Illich's warning<http://www.swaraj.org/illich_hell.htm>to American students headed to Mexico, which I often come back to. Eventually I remembered that Teju Cole, a more talented writer than I am, one in closer contact with more profound examples of what I object to, provided the right words here<http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-white-savior-i…> : *"The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege... I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly."* I have learned to respect sudo room in that sense (among many others), and I've developed a habit of keeping an eye on it from a safe distance, out of some similar kind of dire necessity (among many other reasons). Paraphrasing Cole with apologies: *"[Oakland] has provided a space onto which white egos can conveniently be projected. It is a liberated space in which the usual rules do not apply: a nobody from America or Europe can go to [Oakland] and become a godlike savior or, at the very least, have his or her emotional needs satisfied. Many have done it under the banner of "making a difference." To state this obvious and well-attested truth does not make me a racist or a Mau Mau..."* *"What innocent heroes don't always understand is that they play a useful role for people who have much more cynical motives. The White Savior Industrial Complex is a valve for releasing the unbearable pressures that build in a system built on pillage..."* [ellipsis again with apologies to Cole] *"But those whom privilege allows to deny constellational thinking would enjoy ignoring this fact."* It would be better if sudo room were always, as it usually is, simply a good place to be around good people doing interesting and worthwhile things, open to the community, *nothing more*. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>wrote: > All: > > In the spirit of Rhodey's recent message,[1] I'd like to share an Oakland > vignette of my own, about a pool league I recently joined. But first, > here's why: > > I began to get especially excited about Sudo Room when I started to > realize it aspires to be more than just a bunch of computer geeks coming > together to hack computery stuff (awesome enough in itself) -- that it also > wants to be a community that hacks *life* together. Meeting chefs and > filmmakers was the first wave for me, and then I started hearing heatlfelt > and inspired talk about stuff like social change and engaging with local > government. Yeah! > > Many of us, though, are new, or newish, to Oakland. And we are people who > want to have a positive impact on the world around us. But Oakland is a > place with deep history and culture, and on a pretty basic level, it would > be...impolite...to come to a party and immediately start trying to change > what it is. So the desire to get to KNOW Oakland is one that resonates very > strongly with me, as an important first step before contemplating ways to > INFLUENCE Oakland. I think sharing stories is a powerful way (among others) > to get to know something complex and multifaceted. > > Anyway, enough of the philosophizing. I want to tell you guys a little bit > about the pool league I joined a couple months back. > > Apparently, there have been several Oakland/East Bay pool leagues over the > last 30 years or so (where each team has a home bar, and competes weekly > over a scheduled season). Right now, there's only one league (or at least, > only one connected with this community). It's coed, it's a 30 week season > (we're about 9 weeks in), it's run by a woman who has run an all-women's > league but just started this one, and it will culminate in a trip to Reno > for all participants. By now, having played against all the other teams, > and can say I am truly the only white person in the league;[2] and I think > I'm also unique (more or less) in my connection/familiarity with > Internet/hacker culture. > > I've played in a pool league before, but it's been 10 or 15 years. As this > league was forming, I heard about it from a number of regulars at my local > bar in Emeryville -- the organizer, and a number of people who have ended > up on various teams in the league. There was some buzz about it, and I > ended up joining a team that plays out of an East Oakland bar. > > The first couple weeks passed pretty quietly. Weeks 3 and 4, though, got > rowdy! Lots of arguments in various games, and of course, there was some > inertia to it -- the overall mood became increasingly tense each night. I > felt cautious about this -- as a newcomer, I was reluctant to be involved > in the arguments -- I was still getting to know the vibe and the people. > But that only goes so far. I felt a responsibility to the integrity of the > game (I know the rules better than many in the league, who are more > familiar with "bar rules" than "league rules"); and moreover, a > responsibility to my team. I have to advocate for myself in my own games -- > that's part of what I showed up to do -- and there are situations where I > have to step it up on behalf of my teammates, too. To keep it short, weeks > 3 and 4 were were it "got real" for me. > > In week 5, there was a new twist: my friend Eugene, who's recently been > taking photography classes (and who hasn't played pool in a competitive > context), had been asking about coming to take some photos, and was finally > able to make it to a match. I had run this by the league coordinator and a > couple teammates, so I was confident our bases were covered -- but after > the hot tempers of the preceding weeks, I was nervous! Were we now in a > new, hypercompetitive mode where the slightest detail is going to lead to a > shouting match? Is it OK to introduce a new and unfamiliar element to a > volatile situation? What kind of effect will it have? > > Fortunately, overall it was a super mellow night. Both teams seemed > relaxed. I found myself lining up laid back blues tracks on the jukebox > between my games, and caught several of my teammates and opponents nodding > their heads or singing along throughout the evening. > > But one moment was an exception. I was watching a teammate's game, and > felt a surge of adrenaline as a dispute broke out about whether her > opponent had made a clean hit.[3] I had seen the shot clearly, and knew > what I'd seen, but there were enough eyes on the table and enough people in > the discussion that I was happy to sit back and watch it play out. But I > did notice that Eugene, who had begun to hit his stride with the camera, > was continuing to snap pictures. I was thinking this might be weird, but > nobody else seemed fussed over it, so I stayed passive, just taking it all > in. The players were raising their voices, talking over each other, > captains and teammates had stepped up to the table to weigh in. Most of the > 10 players present were involved in an escalating argument. > > After a couple minutes things started to wind down -- an agreement had > been reached. The players got back to their game, but people continued > talking about the shot. Eugene came close enough that I could grab his > elbow. "What did you think of that?" I asked. Eugene and I have a shared > passion for sports, and I was certain that he would have an opinion -- > maybe not of the substance of the dispute, but at least something about the > dynamics among the various players. But he gave me a blank look. "Of what?" > > In that simple statement, it hit me: between the jargon/etiquette of the > game of pool and the cadence of the Ebonics,[4] there is a world I have > come to know much better than I did a few months ago. I don't know that I > understand it *well* -- I'm not sure if that's even possible without having > grown up in this community! I still find myself in situations almost every > day where I haven't the slightest idea what the people around me are > talking about. But without realizing it, I had become much more highly > attuned to what was going on, at least in that situation. > > Ever since, that moment has stuck with me. As I walk down the street, get > a sandwich at the corner store, or ride the bus, I've been asking myself: > how much of what I see and hear is fitting together? Do I understand what's > going on here? Fully? Or a little bit? Who is trying to get whose number, > what happened to that boy in school today, why is that woman laughing? What > would I have been able to perceive when I moved here last spring? And I'm > starting to realize: it's rarely true, actually, that I haven't the > *slightest* idea. I might not understand everything, but as time passes I > understand more. To me, that's pretty exciting, because beginning to > understand helps unlock the possibility of participating in a relaxed and > genuine way. And if I'm going to be here, it's important to me to *be here.* > > I'm curious to hear from others who are relatively new to Oakland, how > your process of getting to know it is going. > > -Pete > > p.s. Want to help support the league...or have an itch to gamble? We have > a raffle going on! Tickets are $1, and must be purchased by Thursday > evening. The prize is a Thanksgiving turkey -- and I can inquire about > Tofurky or other alternatives if necessary ;) Proceeds go toward making the > Reno trip at the end of the season...well, the word that comes to mind > is..."mo'betta." > p.p.s. Want to PLAY in the league? I think some teams have lost players to > shifting work schedules etc. Let me know, and I can see if there are > openings! > > ---- > NOTES > > [1] > http://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2013-November/004593.html > [2] Since race has been a sensitive issue lately, let me be clear: I > believe racial relations have an important, maybe even central, role in > Oakland history and culture. I have never had great exposure to any black > community before, and am trying to take it in for what it is, and -- to the > best of my ability -- leave preconceptions behind. I do not claim to be > perfect at this. > [3] If you're not familiar with the "ball in hand" rule in competitive > pool: if you don't hit one of your own balls first (stripe/solid), your > opponent can place the cue ball anywhere on the table and take the next > shot. As you might imagine, sometimes it's very hard to tell which ball was > struck first, so this is a common point of contention. > [4] OK, I'm more than a little self-conscious about this term. I am eager > for input! It's a term people seem to use casually in this community, but > I'm not sure how it's taken elsewhere. I think it carries a lot of baggage. > But, there's definitely a dialect here that can be difficult for me to > understand. I'm not sure what are the best words to use for it. > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >

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Oakland City Council meeting

by Tracy Jacobs

Hey all you Sudo people I saw at the Oakland City Council meeting last night, I just wanted to thank you for staying so long and waiting to speak about the proposed Domain Awareness center. You are all really amazing. It was the highlight of my rainy exhausting workday today to hear Aesthetix on the NPR radio news, asking pointed questions to the city council and bringing lots of publicity to the issue. From that NPR report I learned that you all stayed until 1:00 A.M. ! to get your chance to speak, and for this you are my heroes! Thanks a lot for doing that! Tracy

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my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

by rhodey

Receiving and contemplating the perspectives of others is one of my favorite ways to burn metaphorical CPU cycles. The level of respect I show for differing perspectives is something I hope to never be content with, that is to say I believe it's an endless process and I'm still working on it. I have a tendency to keep my head stuck in projects and have realized is that I've been holding out on sharing many of my most valued perspectives, more specifically my experiences. It is my hope that through sharing experiences we can better understand how to conduct ourselves within Sudo Room and how we Sudo Room can better conduct ourselves within our local community. I arrived in the "bay area" May 1st by way of some airport in New England, in search of hackers, activists and uncomfortable experiences. After subletting an apartment in the mission for all of a month I moved to West Oakland. Since arriving in Oakland I've been robbed three times, to me each experience has been indescribably educational in its own way. However, my first crime related experience in Oakland was not a crime at all. There is a corner store within ~6 minutes walking distance from my apartment by West Oakland BART called Happy Times. To me it is usually a liquor store, but this day I felt like working through the night so I bought 2 large redbull energy drinks. Walking home holding the redbull as best I could in one hand I passed two African-American youths, one female, one male and both no older than 17. We passed each other and at this time I was about 20" from home then from behind me I heard "hey man, can I get a redbull?". I turned around to face the two of them with a bit of a guilty smile on my face, after all who the fuck really needs 32oz of redbull? Caffeine, other energy drinks, productivity and I all get along swimmingly, all the better if I can help someone else get things done. "Sure" I said, followed by "make good use of it" in an attempt to make the situation more casual. I walked up and handed him the redbull, his face lit up, he went nuts. **and I quote** "Oh man! Asking is so much better than stealing!" The smile stayed on his face as he continued celebrating, exclaiming all possible iterations of the above statement as I stood their dumbfounded. This continued for minutes until we parted ways, up the stairs and into the house I could still hear him talking with his friend. This was certainly not the first time he'd been told of this sentiment, but after ~17 years of living it was the first time he had ever believed it. There are at least 3 other experiences I would like to share in time, but for now I'll leave it at this. -- -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙

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Fw: Please come to the Public School meeting this Thursday !

by DZ Brazil

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ▲ Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Subject: Plz come to public school mtg Thurs 11/21@7pm // to discuss collectivizing to share space To: Hi there, Timeless, Infinite Light, Sudo Room, and Counter Culture Labs have been invited to the next Bay Area Public School general meeting at 7pm at 2141 broadway this Thursday November 21st to talk about forming a collective of collectives and how we could collectivize our resources to buy/lease a larger shared space. I think I just said collective too many times in one sentence. Oh well! We're going to go & we hope you can come too! If you could come by for even just a bit it would be really great, because it would be good for folks from all the groups to feel more interconnected and foster communication between the different collectives- just showing up would be great. As this is an open meeting of collectives, this would be a great time to invite other groups who might be interested in sharing space with us and who have similar vision and principles. Currently, the groups involved are: Timeless, Infinite Light & Manifest Public School SUDO Room Counter Culture Labs (CCL) Contemporary Art Museum of Oakland (CAMO) & Some of the groups that we had talked about reaching out to are: SPT SPD Salta / PPP Book Zoo Homestead Apothecary Spokeland (needs a new space, 501c3) Alchemy Collective ZIJI (open source buddhists looking for a space mystic archives, meditation room) Just Cause Phat Beets (needs a cafe) MOCO Black Hole Cinema & We also talked about possibly wanting to invite a radical kitchen group, a radio station (KEXP? KPFA? Rev Cafe's pirate radio station?) a co-working space So if you know anyone who's involved in any of these groups, or any groups you want to share space with, please fill them in on the vision we've been discussing and invite them to the Public School meeting! ∞ Emji Spero Timeless, Infinite Light

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SPECIAL BAPS MEETING THIS THURSDAY, 11/21, 7PM @ 2141 Broadway

by DZ Brazil

Dear Friends : At last week's general meeting, the Bay Area Public School collectively decided to pursue the possibility of a new permanent physical location, in league with Sudo Room, Counter Culture Labs, and Timeless Infinite Light. This space is presently known as THE OMNI. We also decided to have a special meeting this week to further discuss this space. This meeting will take place this Thursday, November 21, 7PM at 2141 Broadway. All are welcome, so please join us to discuss this exciting prospect ! See you Thursday -- Love -- David

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GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY! OAKLAND IS NOW THE MOST EXCITING CITY EVAR! =) mor than 9000 agree! ?

by spectral imix

sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came In November 1945 German Pastor Martin Niemöller visited the former Dachau concentration camp, where he had been imprisoned from 1941 to April 1945. His diary entry about that visit and some subsequent speeches he gave imply that that visit triggered the thought that became this famous quotation. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm Was würde Jesus sagen? -- What would Jesus say? http://www.martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/4/daszitat/a46 Mayor Jean Quan says she's transparent, yet has not posted a schedule since June 2013 http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/i/TransparentGovernment/index… http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/Connect/MayorsSchedule/index.… However I'm sure many people are busy getting govt. city paychecks to make sure she's kept quite busy: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htm Shall we request a proclamation? "To request a proclamation from the Mayor's Office: mayors-proclamation(a)oaklandnet.com" Meanwhile DAC (DOMAIN AWARENESS ) is moving torward an orwellian state for Oakland citizens, normals, average tax payers and travelers who pass through the great City of Oakland: Martin Niemoller Poem They came for the Communists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Communist; They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew; Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object. updated to 2013: A city dweller of oakland's Poem They came for the homeless and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Homeless (houseless, golf courses (a future tent city) and un occupied mansions aside) They came for the Anarchists, Rabble rousers, Occupy folks, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Anarchists; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader; (still valid today) They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew; They came for the christians, catholics, conservative patriots,, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a religious zealot; They came for the immigrants, nomads, pagans and foreigners, and I didn't object - For I was born here [take your pick: (They came for the Queer, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a homosexual, transexual, bisexual, lesbian / gender challenged,) OR (They came for the heterosexuals, straight men and women, breeders, and I didn't object - I was Gay) ] They came for the criminals and Thieves, pimps and prostitutes, and I didn't object - For I was a "law abiding citizen". They came for the Drug Dealers, drug addicts, and I didn't object - For I followed all laws and bought my meds from Walmart or from my Rite Aid/Walgreens They came for the wierdos, agnostics, atheists, and I didn't object - For I was a normal. Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object. -Anonymous Circa November 2013 based on Martin Niemoller Poem links of interest: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htm http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm NYSE: CBG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Richard_Ellis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17 "Founded in 1969, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is a major intelligence, military, aerospace, engineering and systems contractor. It is involved in defense/military (DoD), intelligence community, and homeland security contracting, as well as selected commercial markets." http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17 http://www.crocodyl.org/spies_for_hire/saic_science_applications_internatio… http://rady.ucsd.edu/beyster/about/ "The work of the Beyster Institute began in 1986 when, as part of the Foundation for Enterprise Development, it took on the commission to spread the visionary ideas of Dr. J. Robert Beyster, the founder of SAIC. These ideas have led to the development of many highly successful enterprises based on the potent combination of employee ownership and entrepreneurial spirit." http://publicintelligence.net/oakland-dac-saic/ Oakland Domain Awareness Center SAIC Contract Documents October 12, 2013 in California, Corporate, Intelligence Fusion Centers The following files contain the majority of the contract documents between the City of Oakland and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for construction of the City of Oakland/Port of Oakland Joint Domain Awareness Center. The documents were obtained via a public records request made by members of Occupy Oakland. http://littlesis.org/org/290/SAIC "SAIC Science Applications International Corporation" "A project of the Public Accountability Initiative. Basic Info edit Types Organization, Business, Public Company Website http://www.saic.com Revenue $9.0 billion Industries Defense electronic contractors" At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator. Spouse(s) Jack Berman (1956–1959; div.) Bertram Feinstein (1962–1978; deceased) Richard C. Blum (1980–) http://www.projectcensored.org/social-media-new-medium-terrorism/ http://www.projectcensored.org/u-s-senator-dianne-feinsteins-husband-sellin…

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Phuckin' Phylean - Art Murmur After Party/Proposal/Planning/Properly/Promoter/Perhaps

by Max Klein

I'm forwarding this message from Phuckin' Phylean (cc'd), who's having trouble signing up to sudo-discuss. Please reply-all or get in touch with her personally: _________________________________________________ Greetings Programs, The last party went pretty swimmingly for only being thrown together at the last moment. Just a week to plan ain't much in the nightclub industry but stranger things have happened that were successful but usually only on dumb luck! So, lets do the next one a little bigger, which means a little better planning and promoting equals a lot better partying and probably paying off for all involved in the long run. So, we need a small staff to run this smoothly, safely, and successfully without any risk of the typical trials and tribulations that could possibly become trouble for the venue. Positions (some paid, some volunteer): *Door-person (Outdoor greeter/bouncer) *Door-person (Indoor suggested donation "enforcer") *Bartender (Tips only basis) *Moderator (Communicating to the people/members translating to the event staff) *Promoters (Facebooking/posting/advertising/notifying/informing/flyering) *Security (Walking through casually and occasionally checking in with the front door and bar or bars to keep a general but casual eye on the happy but drinking patrons) *Host/Hostess (Not necessary but nice to have if they enjoy the position) *DJs (Must have their own music, music knowledge, gear, experience, and some following) Please text me back if interested or have any suggestions or commentary because I have no reliable internet access at the moment. (415) 794-7789 Phuckin' Phylean 15 years of promotion and DJing at your service -- The best way to contact me reliably is texting my Cell phone (415) 794-7789 or if it's before 9 pm call the Studio phone (510) 534-7068 Thanks and take care, Phuckin' Phylean Double "P" that is me with "F" that you hear but don't see "The only thing that brings me peace is the same phuckin' thing that won't let me rest, music." says I, Phuckin' Phylean is DJ Jezzebella! djjezzebella(a)yahoo.com djjezzebella(a)gmail.com phuckinphylean(a)gmail.com http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphylean http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanlive http://www.myspace.com/dopesicktight http://www.sfgoth.com/djs/jezzebella/index.html

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Spare rasberry pi

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Anyone have a raspi I could buy from them asap to help out a friend? // Matt

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Arduino For Total Newbies workshop 5-Dec

by Mitch Altman

I'm giving another "Arduino For Total Newbies" workshop at San Francisco's newest hackerspace -- RockIT CoLabs, in Chinatown. Thursday, 5-Decemeber, 7:00pm - 10:30pm Learn Arduino. It's fun, it's easy. All welcome! Limited to 25 people. Registration now open! Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arduino-for-total-newbies-workshop-tickets-935… Mitch.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

by Yardena Cohen

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:50 PM, David Barthwell <david(a)vergegraphics.com> wrote: > To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting anecdotes about > encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that there are > actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them! On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > what are you saying David - all black people are robbers? On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > David - you're black, do you have any info on the relative safety from > mugging of black women and men? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I still want to know whether David has any info/ insights on the relative > vulnerability to mugging of white v black men. Are you serious? Is this for real?

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Re: [sudo-discuss] my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

by The Batkid

I too love a good email thread, but I'm not sure what's the point of all this is, besides humble bragging about how more miserable our respective origins are from some other entity on the Internet. By the time it gets to message 100 in this thread, there will be no sudoroom members left.

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Ladders, tables, and other horizontal surfaces

by rachel lyra hospodar

Greetings, sudo! It has been a long time since i have visited! I hope you have all been doing well. I am taking the time right now as the year draws to a close to reflect on the current state of things in my world. Perhaps you will indulge me in reading everything below. perhaps you are seeking a tl;dr in which case i will ask you, have you seen my folding plastic table? have you seen my aluminum ladder? have you seen my dreams for a shared space and a common future? I believe I left them laying around here someplace, possibly with my name scrawled across in marker. The table is about 3'x6', blown plastic, folds in half. The ladder is aluminum, 12' high or so, and quite nice. The dreams are like hair or cuticles, forever growing back even as i try to ignore them and focus on something tangible or 'important'. At the beginning of this year I closed Coyote, a shared art studio and retail space I had been managing in North Oakland. We closed in part because of the loss of one of our founding members, who moved back east to live closer to his family. We closed also because of a mismatch with the neighborhood, admitting reluctantly that where we wanted to have our art studio was not compatible with where we needed to do our retail work - to seek customers, and build paying business. We struggled to integrate into our neighborhood, making friends while seeking to understand the impact of gentrification. We struggled with an unscrupulous landlord, mounting costs and flatlining incomes, and we had to admit that the project wasn't working in its current guise. The upscale restaurant down the block sought our support, as we were closing, for a 'neighborhood meeting' about crime. When I pressed the owner (who had never before visited, in our year and a half in business) about what their concerns were, he told me that some of their patrons were being mugged on their way from the tony restaurant to the train station. I can't say that I was surprised. I wasn't surprised that the patrons of this restaurant had been mugged. The food is not cheap and the place is an oasis of genteel laughter in a neighborhood more attuned to sirens, car stereos, and the stacatto passage of these same folks in their cars on their way home to the hills. I also wasn't surprised that the restaurant owners, after completely ignoring the existence of their scrappy neighbors, after failing to welcome their new peers to the block, after ignoring that small business baksheesh of customer-trading, were still willing to hit us up to come to their 'community' meeting and talk about how to 'stop crime'. I ache for folks who suffer through being robbed with the threat of violence, or with actual violence. It sucks to have something like that happen to you. But. In the time that I bottomlined our business in North Oakland, we lost about 5% of our sales income in shoplifting. This is in comparison to basically nil in shoplifting losses in a similar store that I previously ran in San Francisco, near haight/fillmore. What's different? Income inequality. Sure, in a diverse place, folks of all different sorts encounter each other, and there is a lot that is healthy about that. In this region there do seem to be some entrenched group identities in the culture war, and I sometimes wonder which side I am on. I have watched friends and neighbors struggle as their food stamps are cut. I have listened to the pained conflict that grows up in their loving homes around money, when there is none. I wondered most especially which side I was on after George Zimmerman was let free, and marches passed my West Oakland house every day. I saw the notoriously violent OPD standing between me and these marches, as if to protect me. This more than anything else drove me to walk out my front gate and join those marches, to show with my body where my loyalties lay. I have watched the region that has nurtured me for the last decade sink into an inequality that I am led to believe is as deep and deeply entrenched (meaning the unlikelihood of people to transcend the circumstances into which they were born) as the period that preceded the French Revolution. Only whose head will roll? In the midst of these questions I was forced to confront the inadequacy of Sudo's best and most shining efforts. It is a place where I have made friends, many of whom stay in my orbit & community now as I re-orient. Sudo is also the only place where my hair was ever grabbed without my consent. It is a place where I have been accosted in a dark hallway by someone who repeatedly demanded my attention despite my demurrals, despite walking away. It is a place I have been yelled at in anger, as have many others. It is a place I have feared to bring friends. I watched a community struggle to set boundaries to protect its members, only to founder as it seeks to define what a 'member' is that deserves protection. I say these things not as a condemnation of sudo, and i hope they are not read as such. I say them as an honest person sharing some difficult thoughts, and i remind you dear reader that we reside within a culture that is structurally predisposed against this. It trains us to see critique as attack, to see critical thought as a threat, instead of what we hackers know as the fundamental strength we bring to any situation. We can think. we can assess. we can learn and grow and change, and we can evolve. We are meta. We are legion, and we cannot be contained. I read recently about this space starting in SF, and while i was gladdened to hear about Double Union, I am extra excited to imagine another space with such a strong commitment to inclusion. https://github.com/wallacemax/sfhackerspace I hope the east bay hackerspace scene continues to grow, evolve, and flourish. I understand sudo is changing right now as well. It is well for all things to change, and I hope that in this case the changes lead towards the causes of transparency in governance and inclusion for all, which i always understood to be some of the most fundamental tenets of sudo. be well, good luck to all, and always, R.

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Dec 5 2013 :: 2.Oakland’s Tech & Innovation Celebration

by Neil Planchon

Hello everyone On Dec 5 at the Port WorkSpaces at 101 Broadway (at Embarcadero) 2.Oakland celebrates Oakland based tech and innovation. Please join us for community building, fun, music and food at our end of year gathering. To learn more and register visit http://twopointoakland.com/dec-5-2013-2-oaklands-tech-innovation-celebratio… Cordially, Neil In community, Neil Planchon CPCC Life and Productivity Coach, Website Design and Technology Solutions - www.neilplanchon.com Founding Resident and Webmaster - Swan's Market Cohousing - Oakland CA - www.swansway.com Board member, Treasurer and Technology Team - Old Oakland Neighbors - www.oldoaklandneighbors.org Co-Chair and Technology Team - 2.Oakland - www.twopointoakland.com Steering Committee and Technology - OakX - www.OakXnow.com OnBoarding, CRM administrator, etc. - OpenOakland - www.openoakland.org (A Code for America Brigade) Steering Committee and Technology Team - Cohousing Research Network - www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org Former Board Member, National Tours Director and Fundraiser - Cohousing Association - www.cohousing.org

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Crime and its opposites: starting a microenterprise lending system.

by GtwoG PublicOhOne

Continued from my posting under the "crime" topic. How to setup a microenterprise lending systemand start a bank. 1) Find a local credit union or local bank whose management are willing to agree to the project. 2) Set up an account for this purpose. This can be done by any legal entity formed for the purpose. 3) Solicit funds from whoever. All the money gets deposited to the account. Bookkeeping keeps track of who's in for how much, in case someone wants to exit the system and withdraw their funds (with simple savings-account interest). The minimum to shoot for should be $120,000. Better, shoot for $250,000 which is the limit of a single FDIC-insured deposit account. The targets can go higher as more FDIC-insured deposit accounts are opened. 4) Whenthe targetamount is reached, it gets used to tie down a secured line of credit with the bank or credit union (or more than one as the case may be). The secured line of credit will probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% to 80% of the funds on deposit, but that's OK because it serves a specific purpose (per (12) below). 5) At this point, go into the 'hood and the schools and work with existing local organizations to seek out young people who have entrepreneurial smarts and who are seriously at-risk of opting into crime-world. 6) The secured line of credit is used for lending to the grassroots microenterprise startups. 7) Work with groups of kids to develop viable business ideas. Do the whole business planning exercise with them, teach them how to do it. Ideal case is that the first round of these won't depend on renting storefronts: rent is a huge expense and a business-killer unless gross sales can rampup quickly. Best if the group members can continue to live with their parents (to keep costs down), though this can't be taken for granted, and shared housing arrangements may be needed. 8) Each group that qualifies gets signed for a startup loan. The loan is actually taken with the bank or credit union. However, the loan is secured by the funds in the account under (3) above. This means zero risk to the local financial institution, and that's the key to getting their approval for the whole project. 9) The agreement between the organization and the groups it funds, is that 20% of their net profits, goes back to the organization to grow its pile of capital. This is in addition to repaying the loan to the local financial institution. (VCs are typically looking for 30%, so this is a better deal for the new startups.) In addition, the founders of these startups are obligated to help withoutreach and mentoring of others, after they themselves succeed. 10) If a new startup can't make a loan payment, the money is paid fromthe secured account. The risk is distributed proportionally across all of the contributors to the account. 11) Stay actively involved with each new startupthrough its first five years in business. If it survives its first year, it is most likely to survive the next four years. After five years,it is likely to continue successfully. 12) Per the agreement with the original financial institution(s), once a startup successfully pays off its starting loan, it becomes eligible for comparable credit directly from the institution. This is the step that leverages the startup fund to obtain independent credit for the startups after their first couple of years. 13) At this level the system runs steady-state: its ability to fund new startups is limited by its own funds. But that will change under (16) below. 14) Once the startups start succeeding, their contributions of 20% of net will grow the funds and enable more startups. 15) Once there's an asset pool of a couple million dollars, distributed across a number of FDIC-insured accounts, possibly at a number of institutions, then it's time to consolidate all of that money into one entity, and start a new financial institution. This is the point at which the community organization starts a bank. 16) The new institution starts with a decent chunk of capital, chartered for smallbusiness and startup lending. And then it becomes eligible to engage in "fractional reserve" lending, which multiplies the effective use of its money. If the reserve ratiois 10% assets to loans, that means $2 million in cash can theoretically produce $20 million in lending. Note, 10% is "conservative." In the US, the actual number is abit below 5%, which means $2 million in deposits can generate $40 million in lending capability, assuming that each borrower uses the new institution to hold its own deposits (this can be written into contracts with new startups). Reality is usually substantially below these theoretical maximums, but any multiplier is a good multiplier. 17) Fractional reserve lending is how banks "print money." It's an enormous engine for economic development. But instead of enriching a small number of investors, plowing it all back into the community enriches the community. 18) Last but not least, this could be a candidate for a Kickstarter, starting at step (1) above. However, 100% of funds raised should go direct to the initial account and to the lending program: this is not the place to generate jobs for the organizers themselves(that may take five to ten years or longer). And, to get back to the original "crime" topic, when at-risk kids start to see real opportunity in starting legitimate businessesor getting legitimate jobs working for their buddies, they aren't going to opt into crime-world. But the point of the exercise isn't just to lower the crime rate. The point of the exercise is to enrich the community so people can flourish rather thanbarely survive. -G.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

by Chris Bee

You're right. You might get it again, hang on... I posted this earlier....it may seem somewhat out of context but I think it finishes well (or is at least relevant to the conversation)- "Except that it doesn't work this way. Based on what I've seen and experienced as a Oakland resident for the past 15 years, you're proposing putting another 300 well-armed and connected thugs on the street to deal with violent crime. Doesn't matter which side the thugs are on, they're going to do what they're going to do....aside from a few exceptions to the rule it's all they know how to do, and when they're operating under the color of public mandate really nasty things can happen. I've dealt with enough cops in different situations to know that at the end of the day they're simply another gang. Best to avoid them altogether and take care of yourself...that means not looking conspicuously wealthy (or easy to rob) in certain parts of town without acknowledging some level of personal risk. To do anything less is the height of irresponsibility and entitlement." For the record, I am a rapidly approaching 40 yo larger bodied male of fairly light complexion. I prefer to not align with any race or sexuality because I think it's arbitrary...I'm concentrating on being the best human I can be, and I think setting labels aside could help me get there. Or not. Time will tell, I suppose. I was robbed at gunpoint by two kids in 2006...it didn't happen because I was white and they were black, it happened because I was visibly drunk and they were opportunistic. Since then I have made it a point to not look like someone who would be worth robbing, as far as a) what I may be carrying b) my awareness of my surroundings and c) and how much potential I have to turn the tables on the situation. The first two ANYONE can do. The latter, maybe not so much...it has to do with how you carry yourself in certain situations. In other words- if you look shook you look like a much easier target. But if you look like you're on point and like you might be willing to dish out a little more than someone who wants to fuck with you, then you will generally be left alone. As far as what Rhodey said about helping sudoers helping sudoers avoid shitty situations of this nature, I can offer one huge piece of advice- most strong arm robbery happens near BART stations and transit hubs, so be especially aware when you're near one. That means paying attention to who is near you and what they're doing. Do NOT walk down the street chatting on your iPhone at 1 am in front of groups of strangers....almost every holdup story I've heard over the last few years started off this way, and there's absolutely no reason why it should. I should add that since embracing those three guidelines I have felt safer living in Oakland than anywhere else I've lived (and I've lived in a lot of different places). I definitely feel safer here than I did growing up in Millbrae....that may sound strange to some of you, but try being a freaky looking queer teenager there and tell me how that works out for you. I had WAY more stress there than I ever had in Oakland....had I known then what I know now I would have moved here a lot sooner. In short, at the end of the day YOU are responsible for your own safety. Not the cops, not Oakland at large. So be safe out there. -chrisbee On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:18 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org> wrote: > Just a heads up, this wasn't CC'd to the list which is what I assume you > intended to do :) > > -- > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > On 11/18/2013 09:14 PM, Chris Bee wrote: > > I posted this earlier....it may seem somewhat out of context but I think > > it finishes well (or is at least relevant to the conversation)- > > > > "Except that it doesn't work this way. Based on what I've seen and > > experienced as a Oakland resident for the past 15 years, you're > > proposing putting another 300 well-armed and connected thugs on the > > street to deal with violent crime. Doesn't matter which side the thugs > > are on, they're going to do what they're going to do....aside from a few > > exceptions to the rule it's all they know how to do, and when they're > > operating under the color of public mandate really nasty things can > > happen. I've dealt with enough cops in different situations to know that > > at the end of the day they're simply another gang. Best to avoid them > > altogether and take care of yourself...that means not looking > > conspicuously wealthy (or easy to rob) in certain parts of town without > > acknowledging some level of personal risk. To do anything less is the > > height of irresponsibility and entitlement." > > > > For the record, I am a rapidly approaching 40 yo larger bodied male of > > fairly light complexion. I prefer to not align with any race or > > sexuality because I think it's arbitrary...I'm concentrating on being > > the best human I can be, and I think setting labels aside could help me > > get there. Or not. Time will tell, I suppose. > > > > I was robbed at gunpoint by two kids in 2006...it didn't happen because > > I was white and they were black, it happened because I was visibly drunk > > and they were opportunistic. Since then I have made it a point to not > > look like someone who would be worth robbing, as far as a) what I may be > > carrying b) my awareness of my surroundings and c) and how much > > potential I have to turn the tables on the situation. The first two > > ANYONE can do. The latter, maybe not so much...it has to do with how you > > carry yourself in certain situations. In other words- if you look shook > > you look like a much easier target. But if you look like you're on point > > and like you might be willing to dish out a little more than someone who > > wants to fuck with you, then you will generally be left alone. > > > > As far as what Rhodey said about helping sudoers helping sudoers avoid > > shitty situations of this nature, I can offer one huge piece of advice- > > most strong arm robbery happens near BART stations and transit hubs, so > > be especially aware when you're near one. That means paying attention to > > who is near you and what they're doing. Do NOT walk down the street > > chatting on your iPhone at 1 am in front of groups of > > strangers....almost every holdup story I've heard over the last few > > years started off this way, and there's absolutely no reason why it > should. > > > > I should add that since embracing those three guidelines I have felt > > safer living in Oakland than anywhere else I've lived (and I've lived in > > a lot of different places). I definitely feel safer here than I did > > growing up in Millbrae....that may sound strange to some of you, but try > > being a freaky looking queer teenager there and tell me how that works > > out for you. I had WAY more stress there than I ever had in > > Oakland....had I known then what I know now I would have moved here a > > lot sooner. > > > > In short, at the end of the day YOU are responsible for your own safety. > > Not the cops, not Oakland at large. So be safe out there. > > > > -chrisbee > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:30 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> wrote: > > > > There is a class of discussions I feel comfortable having on a public > > mailing list and a class of discussions I feel more comfortable > having > > in person. While I agree that race and age are relevant factors in > being > > the target of crime, the target discussion is not a discussion I'm > > interested in having or intended to spur. > > > > What I'm more interested in exploring is the preventative measures > that > > can be taken to decrease crime at the society level and how Sudo Room > > can lend a hand. > > > > -- > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > On 11/18/2013 08:17 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote: > > > no way man! your age/ race / gender is super relevant I think for > > how at > > > risk you are for being hassled, and in what way. > > > I think gender is the most important. Super crazy people and > females > > > will rob ladies, but crazy people, females AND healthy, red-blooded > > > American bullies will rob boys. I would bet $70 that the three > > times you > > > were robbed, if I had walked by that corner instead of you, your > > robbers > > > would have said "hey girl, can I go w chu"? to me and I would not > have > > > been robbed. > > > > > > I also think it gets less fun to rob men as they get older. > > > > > > David - you're black, do you have any info on the relative safety > from > > > mugging of black women and men? > > > I would expect the same dynamic to play out - it's not that fun to > rob > > > women, it's not as cool of a story. What about the relative safety > of > > > black and white men? I think white men and women imagine they > would be > > > safer in a black neighbourhood if they were black, but I don't > believe > > > that. I'm pretty sure the main victims of black criminals are other > > > black people. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:59 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>> wrote: > > > > > > I am sincerely sorry that I've made you uncomfortable. It was > my > > > intention to share an experience that better helped me > understand > > > motivations for crime, not an experience with other ethnic > groups. > > > > > > Retrospectively I'd rather not have answered the last question > > because > > > it wrongly places focus elsewhere. > > > > > > -- > > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > > > On 11/18/2013 07:50 PM, David Barthwell wrote: > > > > To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting > > anecdotes about > > > > encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that > > there are > > > > actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them! > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:36 PM, rhodey > > <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Oh yes, it is worth noting that I'm a white male in his > > early 20s. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > > > > > On 11/18/2013 07:12 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote: > > > > > this reminds me of a comment I overheard on the bus > when I > > > lived in st > > > > > louis: > > > > > "I'm getting that government money man, fuck street > > money, it > > > > ain't even > > > > > worth it." > > > > > > > > > > ps are you a boy or a girl? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, rhodey > > > <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > >> > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>> > > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Receiving and contemplating the perspectives of > others > > > is one > > > > of my > > > > > favorite ways to burn metaphorical CPU cycles. The > > level of > > > > respect I > > > > > show for differing perspectives is something I > hope to > > > never be > > > > > content with, that is to say I believe it's an > endless > > > process > > > > and I'm > > > > > still working on it. I have a tendency to keep my > head > > > stuck in > > > > > projects and have realized is that I've been > > holding out on > > > > sharing > > > > > many of my most valued perspectives, more > > specifically my > > > > experiences. > > > > > It is my hope that through sharing experiences we > > can better > > > > > understand how to conduct ourselves within Sudo > > Room and how > > > > we Sudo > > > > > Room can better conduct ourselves within our local > > > community. > > > > > > > > > > I arrived in the "bay area" May 1st by way of some > > > airport in New > > > > > England, in search of hackers, activists and > > uncomfortable > > > > > experiences. After subletting an apartment in the > > > mission for > > > > all of a > > > > > month I moved to West Oakland. Since arriving in > > Oakland > > > I've been > > > > > robbed three times, to me each experience has been > > > indescribably > > > > > educational in its own way. However, my first > > crime related > > > > experience > > > > > in Oakland was not a crime at all. > > > > > > > > > > There is a corner store within ~6 minutes walking > > > distance from my > > > > > apartment by West Oakland BART called Happy Times. > > To me > > > it is > > > > usually > > > > > a liquor store, but this day I felt like working > > through the > > > > night so > > > > > I bought 2 large redbull energy drinks. Walking > home > > > holding the > > > > > redbull as best I could in one hand I passed two > > > African-American > > > > > youths, one female, one male and both no older > > than 17. We > > > > passed each > > > > > other and at this time I was about 20" from home > > then from > > > > behind me I > > > > > heard "hey man, can I get a redbull?". > > > > > > > > > > I turned around to face the two of them with a bit > > of a > > > guilty > > > > smile > > > > > on my face, after all who the fuck really needs > > 32oz of > > > redbull? > > > > > Caffeine, other energy drinks, productivity and I > all > > > get along > > > > > swimmingly, all the better if I can help someone > > else get > > > > things done. > > > > > "Sure" I said, followed by "make good use of it" > in an > > > attempt > > > > to make > > > > > the situation more casual. I walked up and handed > > him the > > > > redbull, his > > > > > face lit up, he went nuts. > > > > > > > > > > **and I quote** "Oh man! Asking is so much better > than > > > stealing!" > > > > > > > > > > The smile stayed on his face as he continued > > celebrating, > > > > exclaiming > > > > > all possible iterations of the above statement as I > > > stood their > > > > > dumbfounded. This continued for minutes until we > > parted > > > ways, > > > > up the > > > > > stairs and into the house I could still hear him > > talking > > > with his > > > > > friend. > > > > > > > > > > This was certainly not the first time he'd been > > told of this > > > > > sentiment, but after ~17 years of living it was the > > > first time > > > > he had > > > > > ever believed it. There are at least 3 other > > experiences I > > > > would like > > > > > to share in time, but for now I'll leave it at > this. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > > > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>>> > > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>>>> > > > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>>> > > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org <mailto: > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:18 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org> wrote: > Just a heads up, this wasn't CC'd to the list which is what I assume you > intended to do :) > > -- > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > On 11/18/2013 09:14 PM, Chris Bee wrote: > > I posted this earlier....it may seem somewhat out of context but I think > > it finishes well (or is at least relevant to the conversation)- > > > > "Except that it doesn't work this way. Based on what I've seen and > > experienced as a Oakland resident for the past 15 years, you're > > proposing putting another 300 well-armed and connected thugs on the > > street to deal with violent crime. Doesn't matter which side the thugs > > are on, they're going to do what they're going to do....aside from a few > > exceptions to the rule it's all they know how to do, and when they're > > operating under the color of public mandate really nasty things can > > happen. I've dealt with enough cops in different situations to know that > > at the end of the day they're simply another gang. Best to avoid them > > altogether and take care of yourself...that means not looking > > conspicuously wealthy (or easy to rob) in certain parts of town without > > acknowledging some level of personal risk. To do anything less is the > > height of irresponsibility and entitlement." > > > > For the record, I am a rapidly approaching 40 yo larger bodied male of > > fairly light complexion. I prefer to not align with any race or > > sexuality because I think it's arbitrary...I'm concentrating on being > > the best human I can be, and I think setting labels aside could help me > > get there. Or not. Time will tell, I suppose. > > > > I was robbed at gunpoint by two kids in 2006...it didn't happen because > > I was white and they were black, it happened because I was visibly drunk > > and they were opportunistic. Since then I have made it a point to not > > look like someone who would be worth robbing, as far as a) what I may be > > carrying b) my awareness of my surroundings and c) and how much > > potential I have to turn the tables on the situation. The first two > > ANYONE can do. The latter, maybe not so much...it has to do with how you > > carry yourself in certain situations. In other words- if you look shook > > you look like a much easier target. But if you look like you're on point > > and like you might be willing to dish out a little more than someone who > > wants to fuck with you, then you will generally be left alone. > > > > As far as what Rhodey said about helping sudoers helping sudoers avoid > > shitty situations of this nature, I can offer one huge piece of advice- > > most strong arm robbery happens near BART stations and transit hubs, so > > be especially aware when you're near one. That means paying attention to > > who is near you and what they're doing. Do NOT walk down the street > > chatting on your iPhone at 1 am in front of groups of > > strangers....almost every holdup story I've heard over the last few > > years started off this way, and there's absolutely no reason why it > should. > > > > I should add that since embracing those three guidelines I have felt > > safer living in Oakland than anywhere else I've lived (and I've lived in > > a lot of different places). I definitely feel safer here than I did > > growing up in Millbrae....that may sound strange to some of you, but try > > being a freaky looking queer teenager there and tell me how that works > > out for you. I had WAY more stress there than I ever had in > > Oakland....had I known then what I know now I would have moved here a > > lot sooner. > > > > In short, at the end of the day YOU are responsible for your own safety. > > Not the cops, not Oakland at large. So be safe out there. > > > > -chrisbee > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:30 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> wrote: > > > > There is a class of discussions I feel comfortable having on a public > > mailing list and a class of discussions I feel more comfortable > having > > in person. While I agree that race and age are relevant factors in > being > > the target of crime, the target discussion is not a discussion I'm > > interested in having or intended to spur. > > > > What I'm more interested in exploring is the preventative measures > that > > can be taken to decrease crime at the society level and how Sudo Room > > can lend a hand. > > > > -- > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > On 11/18/2013 08:17 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote: > > > no way man! your age/ race / gender is super relevant I think for > > how at > > > risk you are for being hassled, and in what way. > > > I think gender is the most important. Super crazy people and > females > > > will rob ladies, but crazy people, females AND healthy, red-blooded > > > American bullies will rob boys. I would bet $70 that the three > > times you > > > were robbed, if I had walked by that corner instead of you, your > > robbers > > > would have said "hey girl, can I go w chu"? to me and I would not > have > > > been robbed. > > > > > > I also think it gets less fun to rob men as they get older. > > > > > > David - you're black, do you have any info on the relative safety > from > > > mugging of black women and men? > > > I would expect the same dynamic to play out - it's not that fun to > rob > > > women, it's not as cool of a story. What about the relative safety > of > > > black and white men? I think white men and women imagine they > would be > > > safer in a black neighbourhood if they were black, but I don't > believe > > > that. I'm pretty sure the main victims of black criminals are other > > > black people. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:59 PM, rhodey <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>> wrote: > > > > > > I am sincerely sorry that I've made you uncomfortable. It was > my > > > intention to share an experience that better helped me > understand > > > motivations for crime, not an experience with other ethnic > groups. > > > > > > Retrospectively I'd rather not have answered the last question > > because > > > it wrongly places focus elsewhere. > > > > > > -- > > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > > > On 11/18/2013 07:50 PM, David Barthwell wrote: > > > > To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting > > anecdotes about > > > > encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that > > there are > > > > actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them! > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:36 PM, rhodey > > <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Oh yes, it is worth noting that I'm a white male in his > > early 20s. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > > > > > On 11/18/2013 07:12 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote: > > > > > this reminds me of a comment I overheard on the bus > when I > > > lived in st > > > > > louis: > > > > > "I'm getting that government money man, fuck street > > money, it > > > > ain't even > > > > > worth it." > > > > > > > > > > ps are you a boy or a girl? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, rhodey > > > <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > >> > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>> > > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>> > > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org> > > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org > > <mailto:rhodey@anhonesteffort.org>>>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Receiving and contemplating the perspectives of > others > > > is one > > > > of my > > > > > favorite ways to burn metaphorical CPU cycles. The > > level of > > > > respect I > > > > > show for differing perspectives is something I > hope to > > > never be > > > > > content with, that is to say I believe it's an > endless > > > process > > > > and I'm > > > > > still working on it. I have a tendency to keep my > head > > > stuck in > > > > > projects and have realized is that I've been > > holding out on > > > > sharing > > > > > many of my most valued perspectives, more > > specifically my > > > > experiences. > > > > > It is my hope that through sharing experiences we > > can better > > > > > understand how to conduct ourselves within Sudo > > Room and how > > > > we Sudo > > > > > Room can better conduct ourselves within our local > > > community. > > > > > > > > > > I arrived in the "bay area" May 1st by way of some > > > airport in New > > > > > England, in search of hackers, activists and > > uncomfortable > > > > > experiences. After subletting an apartment in the > > > mission for > > > > all of a > > > > > month I moved to West Oakland. Since arriving in > > Oakland > > > I've been > > > > > robbed three times, to me each experience has been > > > indescribably > > > > > educational in its own way. However, my first > > crime related > > > > experience > > > > > in Oakland was not a crime at all. > > > > > > > > > > There is a corner store within ~6 minutes walking > > > distance from my > > > > > apartment by West Oakland BART called Happy Times. > > To me > > > it is > > > > usually > > > > > a liquor store, but this day I felt like working > > through the > > > > night so > > > > > I bought 2 large redbull energy drinks. Walking > home > > > holding the > > > > > redbull as best I could in one hand I passed two > > > African-American > > > > > youths, one female, one male and both no older > > than 17. We > > > > passed each > > > > > other and at this time I was about 20" from home > > then from > > > > behind me I > > > > > heard "hey man, can I get a redbull?". > > > > > > > > > > I turned around to face the two of them with a bit > > of a > > > guilty > > > > smile > > > > > on my face, after all who the fuck really needs > > 32oz of > > > redbull? > > > > > Caffeine, other energy drinks, productivity and I > all > > > get along > > > > > swimmingly, all the better if I can help someone > > else get > > > > things done. > > > > > "Sure" I said, followed by "make good use of it" > in an > > > attempt > > > > to make > > > > > the situation more casual. I walked up and handed > > him the > > > > redbull, his > > > > > face lit up, he went nuts. > > > > > > > > > > **and I quote** "Oh man! Asking is so much better > than > > > stealing!" > > > > > > > > > > The smile stayed on his face as he continued > > celebrating, > > > > exclaiming > > > > > all possible iterations of the above statement as I > > > stood their > > > > > dumbfounded. This continued for minutes until we > > parted > > > ways, > > > > up the > > > > > stairs and into the house I could still hear him > > talking > > > with his > > > > > friend. > > > > > > > > > > This was certainly not the first time he'd been > > told of this > > > > > sentiment, but after ~17 years of living it was the > > > first time > > > > he had > > > > > ever believed it. There are at least 3 other > > experiences I > > > > would like > > > > > to share in time, but for now I'll leave it at > this. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > > > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>>> > > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>>>> > > > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>>> > > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org > > <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sudo-discuss mailing list > > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org <mailto: > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > > > >

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Rally this Tue. 11/19: Against Oakland's Planned Surveillance Center! 5:30pm at City Hall!

by Marina Kukso

Call to Action: Pack city hall & rally to stop the Domain Awareness Center in Oakland. (Please forward widely) Oakland City Council is building a surveillance center to aggregate video surveillance feeds from all over Oakland. The Domain Awareness Center<http://oaklandwiki.org/dac>(DAC), as it's called, will include a computer system that aggregates information from surveillance cameras and license plate readers across Oakland, and in the future may include facial recognition software and social media data mining. On Tuesday 11/19, City Council will be voting on a resolution that will allow them to move forward with a new contractor for the project (after the old contractor was found to violate an Oakland law that prevents the city from doing business with companies that are in the nuclear weapons industry) without issuing a new request for proposal (RFP). If the resolution fails, Oakland will have to issue a new RFP & potentially lose Dept of Homeland Security funds for the center. The NY Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-…>made the DAC national news, as similar centers are being considered in other cities. There's an opportunity to halt or slow down the construction of the DAC this Tuesday evening, so please join a planned rally at 5:30 and/or come to the City Council meeting itself. Meetings are open to the public & you can even sign up to speak<http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard…>(DAC is item #20). For more info: On the rally: https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcom… email actionforprogress @gmail.com) On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy> <actionforprogress(a)gmail.com>

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Dance at death guild night with Sudo and noisebridge

by Romy Ilano

Hey everyone :: would you like to have an epic goth night with sudoroom && noisebridge together at death guild tonight? Let's get out dance out , wear lots of make up and talk shop. I always prefer meetings where people can move instead of sitting still ...

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BREW SUBIIR THIS TUESDAY -> (! / ?) ?

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

Hey all, I want to get Subiir brewing started again, for three main reasons: - get some kick-ass brew out there to get donations to sudoroom - get better at brewing - and most importantly,* to equip more people to brew with the Subiir setup.* *Tomorrow, Tuesday the 19th happens to be a good day to brew. 6pm to 11pm (it's okay to not be there the full session). If you are down, let me know!*If noone can join I won't host, due to reason #3. I would get all materials for 8 gl of California-style pale ale and have everything ready to start at 6pm. We can be done in 5 hours, meaning having the brew tapped into fermenters and have everything cleaned up. So its 5 hours of learning about brewing, getting "certified" to brew Subiir, and having a good time - let's have dinner and drink beers during the session. Of course, the session will be free because it's about beer. Make a great week, Morten

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Public School Meeting about The Omni, THIS THURSDAY, 11/21 @ 7PM

by DZ Brazil

Dear Friends : The Public School is meeting to discuss the possibility of collective acquisition of The Omni space this Thursday, November 21 at 7PM at 2141 Broadway. We'd like to invite all our Sudo Room friends & comrades to join us at this meeting -- if we are going to move ahead on this project we're going to have to start getting together to talk about it ! Hope to see you there -- Love & solidarity -- David Brazil ________________________________ From: "sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org> To: sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:20 PM Subject: sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 13, Issue 31 Send sudo-discuss mailing list submissions to sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org You can reach the person managing the list at sudo-discuss-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sudo-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Did your weekend start with a flat tire? (Morten H. D. Fuglsang) 2. Re: "Today We Learned": Weekly Colearning Sat. Afternoons 2-5PM Starting this Sat. 11/16 (Marina Kukso) 3. Help me with my desks (Thomas Levine) 4. Re: Phuckin' Phylean - Art Murmur After Party/Proposal/Planning/Properly/Promoter/Perhaps (johanna faust) 5. Re: Meeting Notes 11-13-13 - Juice and Paranoia in Sudoland (johanna faust) 6. missing insulation for 3d printer extruder (Jake) 7. Re: forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings (Patrick Schmidt) 8. Conflict Resolution Proposal and Conflict Awareness 1, 2 and 3 (Patrick Schmidt) 9. Re: Dealing with funding (Hol Gaskill) 10. This Monday 18th is Techno Activism Third Monday, San Francisco -- with Morgan Mayhem, Laurie Penny, Jillian York, 6PM, EFF HQ (Danny O'Brien) 11. Re: Dealing with funding (The Batkid) 12. Re: Dealing with funding (David Keenan) 13. Re: Dealing with funding (Jenny Ryan) 14. Re: Dealing with funding (Hol Gaskill) 15. 5MOF call for speakers this Thursday! (Danny O'Brien) 16. Fwd: This Wednesday: Grassroots Financing teach-in (Vicky Knox) 17. Live demo refuting quantum mechanics, invitation (fwd) (Jake) 18. Rally this Tue. 11/19: Against Oakland's Planned Surveillance Center! 5:30pm at City Hall! (Marina Kukso) 19. Fwd: important mail (David Keenan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:40:07 -0800 From: "Morten H. D. Fuglsang" <vallebo(a)gmail.com> To: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Did your weekend start with a flat tire? Message-ID: <CALbJKfPwAmQ2NOAcriAN1LmK6A1mOCah21S6eaenir+g4d3pZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Then come to Biketopia's second annual bike drive, TODAY! From 2 to 6 pm. 1752 Alcatraz. Free bike check-up, snacks, drinks - while supporting your friendly neighbourhood community bike workshop. See you there! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Biketopia <colin.moss(a)biketopiaworkshop.org> Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:18 AM Subject: Second Annual Fall Bike Drive! To: morten(a)biketopiaworkshop.org You're invited to our Second Annual Bike Drive Fundraiser! View this email in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9602d&id=26c7c05769…> [image: Biketopia Bike Drive Flyer] Biketopia's Second Annual Fall Bike Drive is sponsored in part by the following local businesses ... Sweet Adeline Bakery Gecko Gecko Thai California Eatery Manifesto Bicycles Oakland Missing Link Cooperative East Bay Bicycle Coalition The New Parkway Bart Bike Station Downtown Berkeley Bike Link Next time you're in one of these businesses, thank them for helping us out! *Copyright ? 2013 Biketopia Community Workshop, All rights reserved.* Your are receiving this email because you are a member of Biketopia or you signed up at the shop. *Our mailing address is:* Biketopia Community Workshop 1752 Alcatraz St Berkeley, Ca 94704 Add us to your address book<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9…> unsubscribe from this list<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=7124c935e2da35a…> update subscription preferences<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Live demo refuting quantum mechanics, invitation (fwd)

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello friends of Unquantum, I am doing a live demonstration of the gamma-ray unquantum effect that refutes the photon model of light. It will be at the Chit-Chat Cafe, 5 West Manor Dr, tomorrow Monday night November 18th and Monday night November 25th at 6 to 7:30 PM. The poster for the event and details of this work are at http://www.unquantum.net This issue is important even if you are not a physicist. Not all of you are "friends of unquantum;" some are foes. Some of you will think this unquantum effect is impossible, so this is your chance to see it for yourself. I will video the event to post on Youtube, and will field all questions and feedback. Please forgive me for the following: This is a mass mailing and not personalized. I only do these mailings for important events. I may have sent some of you this notice earlier. The poster on my website has me with my electric guitar. I did it that way to appeal to a wide audience. I will also play a musical instrument I made at the end of the event. For some of you it is a long drive, but I reviewed my list and did not want anyone to feel left out. Each event will be unique but each will demonstrate gamma-rays defying the photon model. If you know anyone who would be interested I hope you will please inform. Thank you for your interest. Eric Reiter Unquantum Laboratory http://www.unquantum.net Pacifica, CA, 94044 650 738 9255

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Dealing with funding

by The Batkid

> Would like to return to the idea that we should be generating other revenue > streams into the picture of whatever standardized reporting format we choose. The simplest, most efficient, and most rewarding revenue stream is if members sign up for auto pay of their membership dues. That's really all there is to it.

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[sudo revenue] It is almost time - Sudouino Microcontroller

by Hol Gaskill

OK Folks, We've been talking about selling electronics kits as a revenue source basically since forever. I've been going back and forth on a design concept and am converging on one that achieves the folowing compared to other Arduino clones: A) lower cost B) more power C) increased hackability basically the controller chip hooked straight up to an array of 7x 500mA power transistors, with a heavy duty voltage regulator of voltage range selectable at time of purchase I am heading to sudo in a few minutes to draft a design for the first generation board, schematics of which which I'll send out in about an hour. If anyone is around sudo or near email and wants to collaborate, I'm using http://fritzing.org/download/ software which I just installed last night but seems to err on the side of being easy to use. Working capital requirements for this will not be very prohibitive, but I think a Kickstarter campaign would be a good way to get enough to bring costs down even further, not to mention get the word out. Who's good at those? I'll do the legwork, just need some tips&tricks. Cheers, Hol

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Fwd: important mail

by David Keenan

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:08 PM Subject: RE: important mail To: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> No, David, I DO mean 2145 Broadway. The physical location is 2141 Broadway, but the mailing address should show as 2145 Broadway, Suite #9. That might have something to do with the mail problems. There is no box for 2141 Broadway. That said, most of the mail delivery people know to put it in the 2145 Box, and if it actually gets into the kitchen mailbox which is 2143 next to ours the kitchen folks put all mail that isn’t for them into ours, which is Box B closer to the building; however there is a fair amount of turnover and a lot of idiots out there, and it’s probably much harder to do commercial delivery than residential (which, as I noted before, I always feel safer directing mail to our home). Laurie *From:* David Keenan [mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:05 PM *To:* Laurie Cooperman Rosen *Subject:* Re: important mail Laurie, Thank you for letting us know our suite number. Can I confirm you really mean 2141 Broadway, not 2145 Broadway? As we were told 2141 Broadway was our address, and this is what we have been using for all our correspondence and event information. If in fact we have an entirely different legal address, that seems rather important to know - Best, David On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> wrote: Hi David No, it mostly gets tossed if it looks like junk mail, or marked return to sender or address unknown-return to sender if it looks important. At the beginning we got oodles of them all addressed to individual names of people from the original whole-floor tenant, but as we started renting out to individuals and small groups we knew the names of those folks. But over a 10-year period when we see certain company names or #s, such as T1 over and over again but can’t find anybody fessing up to using that name, we recognize and toss those that we have been seeing for many years. I have never seen anything addressed to the name Niki Shelly personally, but I’ll let George know to keep an eye out for that name, and he would remember if he recently saw something for it and will get back to you. Yes, if they address it to 2145 Broadway, Suite 9, we will know that it is for Bay Area Public School. The Sudo Room should be known as the “Art Suite” or “Art Room”. Most suites or very large officer have numbers, but a few have names taken from the former University Tenant --i.e. Robert Wenzel’s is known as “The Cave”, the suite at the top (to the right as you walk up) of the 2141 stairs is the “Library Suite” and the suite next to the ADA bathroom is the “Presidential Suite” (it used to be occupied by the president of University Creation of Spirituality who had the whole floor, and the Library Suite was really their Library); The Cave was their meditation room, the large front space off of your common area was really the “Conference Room” and the space where The Sudo Room was was really the room where they did all of their Art Projects! Laurie *From:* David Keenan [mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:27 PM *To:* Laurie Cooperman Rosen *Subject:* Re: important mail Thanks Laurie. It might possubly be addressed to 'Niki Shelley', a main organizer at our school, so do look out for that name. I wonder if there is a suite number for the bay area public school room? Adding this to our official address might clarify to you and George what mail is ours, i.e., in the event mail is adressed to individuals at the school rather than the school itself, which will no doubt occur, if it hasnt already. Do you have any mail for which you dont know where it goes? If so can we see that stack? Thank you, David On Friday, November 15, 2013, Laurie Cooperman Rosen wrote: Hi David- It comes to a mailbox downstairs in front of the Sound Room/Kitchen, and we would put it under your door. I collected the mail yesterday and there was nothing at all for Bay Area Public School. Let me know if there is any other unrecognizable name that it might come to and we’ll keep an eye out for it. It will be put directly under your door once we get it. Laurie *From:* David Keenan [mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com>] *Sent:* Friday, November 15, 2013 7:58 AM *To:* George; Laurie Cooperman Rosen *Cc:* Matthew Senate; niki; DZ Brazil *Subject:* important mail Good morning George & Laurie, The Bay Area Public School is expecting some very important mail (which should have already come) and I realize I actually have no idea where our mailbox is! Where does our mail get delivered? We need to check it today, and also every business day from hereon out. If there is a key to wherever it gets delivered, we'll need that asap, too - Thank you both kindly, David

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Fwd: This Wednesday: Grassroots Financing teach-in

by Vicky Knox

Yet another relevant event put on by the Sustainable Economies Law Center.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Christina(a)theSELC.org" <christina(a)theselc.org> Hey friends, I'm sending you an event announcement because at some point you've asked me questions about or expressed interest in crowdfunding, creative small business finances or something related. So I thought you might be interested to know that this Wednesday evening my colleague and I are running a little teach-in on legal issues pertaining to "grassroots financing strategies, or in other words, investment crowdfunding campaigns. The teach-in will take place at the Alchemy Collective Cafe's new location on Alcatraz Ave in South Berkeley. We're so excited to be partnering with an awesome new local worker cooperative to organize this and future events. See this eventbrite for more info and to register. There's no required registration fee, but because we're a small nonprofit we gladly accept donations via the eventbrite registration and at our events. Feel free to share the invite with other people. -Christina Christina Oatfield (415) 828-5627 mobile

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5MOF call for speakers this Thursday!

by Danny O'Brien

Hey, so in an attempt to be fractionally more organized for this week's 5MOF, if you have some cool project or thoughts or demos or rants or code or TARDIS rebuild, and would like to speak to an audience of many of your most loving peers, drop me a mail, and you can speak for five minutes on PRECISELY WHATEVER YOU WANT. It is fun, the audience is always amazing, and sometimes there are impromptu musical numbers. Thank you for your attention, humanlings! d.

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This Monday 18th is Techno Activism Third Monday, San Francisco -- with Morgan Mayhem, Laurie Penny, Jillian York, 6PM, EFF HQ

by Danny O'Brien

> TECHNO-ACTIVISM 3RD MONDAYS SAN FRANCISCO, THIS MONDAY AT EFF AT 6PM >> SELF-CARE FOR ONLINE ACTIVISTS https://www.eff.org/event/ta3m-nov2013 Being behind a computer screen might save you from the physical consequences of being an activist -- but what about the mental effects? For San Francisco's TA3M this month, we'll be discussingresources and practical advice for psychological and other health care. From filtering out the trolls and avoiding timezone jetlag, to dealing with PTSD among friends and ongoing global effects of the Syrian civil war. Joining us for the discussion will be security researcher Morgan Mayhem (@headhntr on Twitter), Laurie Penny (@pennyred) from the New Stateman and UK Guardian and co-author of Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens, and EFF's own Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York (@jilliancyork). Plus: a round-up of new and ongoing projects, info on the Jeremy Hammond decision, and a chance to network with your fellow cryptographers, lawyers, coders, and other involved parties. EFF's offices are at 815 Eddy St, SF, CA 94109. Please be punctual for 6PM -- if you arrive late, call x 118 from the door to be let in. A map of 815 Eddy: http://www.openstreetmap.org/go/TZHvUrLDP Techno-Activism 3rd Monday is a monthly meetup that happens simultaneously in 18 cities throughout the world. It brings together individuals interested in censorship, surveillance and open technology. This includes Amsterdam, Brighton(UK), Cambridge, Dakar, Durham, Kansas City, London, Madison, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Stockholm, Seattle, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC. For more info, see: https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays

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Dealing with funding

by Marc Juul

In thinking about funding for sudo room, I thought of couple of items that I believe sudo room has discussed before but never formally decided upon. I'd like to propose that we formally decide on the following: * All income and expenses should be open and transparent, including who gave us grants and how much, though anonymous donations from individuals should still be allowed. * sudo room should not allow recurring grants or major donations from other organizations to fund any recurring critical operations costs since that would give those organizations significant power over sudo room through their ability to defund critical operations. Critical operations costs are things such as rent, utilities. Stuff that is required for sudo room to continue operation. What do you think? -- marc/juul

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Conflict Resolution Proposal and Conflict Awareness 1, 2 and 3

by Patrick Schmidt

Dear fellow Sudoers, although my 3Dimensial Body left the continent and spontaneously emmigrated to Asia (Updates on Chinese Hackerspaces and Community Spaces to follow), my consciousness is still around. I was a little bit sad two weeks ago to read in the meeting minutes that one name alone was listed under "conflict resolution". I assume that this was done in the absence of our fellow sudoer. I find this a little problematic to be exposed like this and would propose the following: As conflicts (not wanting to talk about inner conflicts within one person) are always among minimum two entities, in case of a conflict all names of all parties involved should be mentioned, and not only the accused (especially in their absence). Conflict awareness 1 : Rejecting a person and not being able to handle a disagreement with compassion reveales a lot about one self. In 99% of the cases the Ego jumps in and goes with separation and rejection as the behaviour of the rejected entity triggers us, in other words: we subconsciously reject others because their behaviour reminds us on what we do not like about ourselves. In this context, lets expand our consciousness and our compassion, and next time we get angry ask ourselves: "what is it within me that is triggered right now by that persons behaviour" Conflict awareness 2 : Everybody lives in their own universe, and an interesting metaphor for people is to comparing them with atoms. In the quantum world of atoms strange rules reign, even things that contradict each other can be true in the same time. So this superposition of realities that contradict each other but simultaneously are true can be applied on human conflicts: both entities have their own side of the story which contradict each other, but yet they can still be true at the same time. (Lesson learned from the first public Sudo conflict) Conflict Awareness 3: Often during a conflict when the egos collide it can get nasty, especially when the ego feels threatened it will accuse, blame, judge,... A good strategy is instead of acusing a person directly, just talk about your feelings and your inner states what the persons behaviour made you feel. In this case, the argument which is likely to follow ("no, this is not true") is not valid, as your feelings are your feelings and they are true in your universe no matter what. ------------------------------------ just felt like sharing these lessons I learned, and I want to thank Sudo crowd for my personal development that especially the conflicts triggered, Im much more Zen, get angry much less at people, also do not identify with my anger but can see how the ego sneacks in... sending you cosmic love from the other side of our beautiful planet, Patrick

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forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by Eddan Katz

I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of Columbia. and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that. It is often forgotten that there was a first constitution of the United States after Independence before the one that people call the Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up moving to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC. It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the Confederacy that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 43, "We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With great propriety, therefore, has the new system supplied the defect. The general precaution, that no new States shall be formed, without the concurrence of the federal authority, and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such transactions." As population grew and the country was further colonized by the European settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting disaster. Different coalitions of states banded together to promote their collective interest at the expense of others. Those states excluded formed their own alliances and there were many cries of treason thrown around back and forth. Each cluster thought of themselves as the "us" and the others as the "them" until the "them" became the "us" and the "us" was "them". And so on. So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted to have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And this is how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the provision saying: "To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings." I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and arsenals and such, but I still think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster confuses themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the country adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and "them" into we - did the agreement amongst them create stability and mutual respect that made them united states.

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missing insulation for 3d printer extruder

by Jake

hello everyone, it appears that someone was cleaning up around the 3d printer and they decided to throw away or remove a lot of stuff that was in the bottom of the printer. this included the fiberfrax insulation for the extruder head!!!!! if you know where this material went, please bring it back to the printer, otherwise we will have to get new insulators from the manufacturer. thank you, -jake

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Meeting Notes 11-13-13 - Juice and Paranoia in Sudoland

by Max Klein

In what's being called an "incident of provocation" sudoers cathartically purged their souls of paranoid fears, and imbibed a Class-C schedule Drug - Vitamin C in lethal amounts. 3 pinneapples, 12 bananas, 25 apples, 60 pears, and clod of celery. -notconfusing Meeting Minutes https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-11-13 ------------------------ Icebreaker: Give an example of how you are paranoid about security, or in general. Attendees: Max - wireless charging in toothbrush Daniel - whiteboard at home with a circle in the middle about privacy, maybe privacy is already lost Ed (einstein) - "not paranoia they really are out to get us" Matt - "people's safety" - Vicky - "losing my memory" - JC - "leave no digital trace" <-- until now - Anca - Jehan's mom visiting from Vermont - "cool housing community" - Tony - "texting while driving" - Elvin - paranoid about how social websites can log you into every website ever. - Marc - "wipe my harddrive and install a clean os before crossing a border" - Rhodey - autocompletion on security - yar - http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/?q=tor+bug+tracker - Line 16 - speaking in short sentences - Diku - "pitiless gaze of the future staring down at us." "lots of stray humans" - Dante - "posting stuff online" - Sam - "all my software efforts are in vain, because of hardware chipping" - Brandon - careful about porn more than anything. - 1. Announcements - Events for this week: https://sudoroom.org/calendar - Review the events for this week--what's happening? - Rackspace maybe wants to give us money? - We were recommended for a grant ;) - but requires W-9 forms, do we have that? - for the w-9 we need the board of directors (true? - unknown) - apparently there are still options - grant is approx $4000 - not 100% we would get it, but quite likely - Update on The Omni - The omni a space - everyone at a previous meeting agreed it was a good idea to pursue it further - its more difficult to buy, business mortgages apparently need 30-50% of 1.9million. lease at $13,000 per month for two years - Marc is getting more info from owner before he can propose a consensus item. - leasing triple-net means you are more responsible than a regular tennant. - updates to the wiki - Vicky is a superhero with regards to the wiki - categorizing the wiki into events/projects/stubs' - "the tortoise will win the race" - yar - "our long term goal is to turn the wiki into the front page"noisebridge-style - vicky invites people to work with her - on vicky time. (STOP. It's Vicky time.) - Board ratification is delayed in favor of antidramatic juice-a-thon - regret to inform beloved room that faust will not be accepting nomination at this time, due to unfortunate conflict; she hopes that this opportunity presents itself again in the future. she also expects to be there, albeit late, with cake. - julio accepts nomination - Y u no http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/annualreport/2008/_images/pic_board_of_d… - everyone not privy to this drama is thinking "thank goodness" - *It should look more like this: * *http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg*<http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg> - New color laser printer :D - consent to spend less than $200 for the printer for toner - if someone wanted to donate. - it's awesome! - Are we incorporated? Can we start getting a real bank account and moving services off members' private credit cards? - Matt investigated a couple of credit unions. Makes a recommendation: - Do get an Internet Archive Federal Credit Union account (don't use it for too much) - Must pay for frequent debit transactions - Most services take charges. - Do get a Patelco Federal Credit Union account (use for debit, bills) - Skip - People's Federal Credit Union - Cooperative Federal Credit Union - "note that with credit unions you can often do transactions at a credit union not yours and have them post to yours, they are in cahoots as credit unions" - faust - we have 2 bitcoins, marc controls the wallet but will transfer it to us as soon as there is an "us" - rhodey - if theres no penalty for just go for it - Update from Timon and Marc on alcohol permit situation - Timon- Marc was right - get smashed for $35 with an average of 3 days noticed. - $35 with 3 days notice - Thankstaking potluck? - faust is in, ok faust, take it. - seeking date/time/deets 2. Articles of Incorporation - not approving board of directors (see above) 3. Finances - all our new cash == standing funds. hands off, act normal. - no exchequer? no bank balance info? - current exchequer team does not currently have access to online bank account (can't wait to move to patelco!). check from soex on its way after completion of contract, w-9, signatures, which will be presented to the group at the next meeting. 4. conflict resolution - Timon - constable/conflict steward. The conflict that neither of the two parties wanted to bring t o us. Elliot and Shake. Timon noted them, both of them declined to meet officially. - Shake is showing good faith by sharing some perspective. - the private portion is proceeding. - Shake speaks - he likes sudo room - he helped dj. at some point he was just working and elliot asked questions about an occupy oakland. he felt like he did explain to elliot, they even went outside. he felt like he wasn't welcome any more. then he found out he had a conflict on the agenda. "keep in mind that i do not want anyone to be uncomfortable because of me". says that because he is a political figure that there will always be oppoonents. now feels uncomfortable because he doesn't understand that why elliot. gives a message that he wants to be here and help - Eventually, sudo came around to realize that our actions during the meeting are not the best execution and interpretation of our Conflict Resolution procedure of the Articles of Association, ending the conversation about the details of any specific conflicts. - tl;dr shake tried his best but we can't do anything because the other person never showed up - If anyone has a conflict or wants to resolve things they may have heard or speculate with other members, reach out to the person in question, or find another sudoer to act as a mediator. mate made $128 5. After- Meeting Teamups - bank teamupu - juice meetup - 6. Action Items - marc -to investigate printer recoup cost - to message ar - timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license s - 7. Additional Notes

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Help me with my desks

by Thomas Levine

Hi, Firstly, I want to get rid of my current desks and non-chairs. Here's what they look like. (They're sized so I can use them while sitting on the floor.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_jq7klTEotEb2NJLTFLa3BDNnc/edit?usp=shari… I quite like them, but I want something more portable. If you'll use/hack them, you can have them and/or the cushion that I sit on. In case it affects your interest, you can easily take the legs off the desks. Secondarily, I'm going to replace these desks with a lightweight contraption that folds up into a tiny thing that I can carry on my head. In order to construct this new desk, I need to acquire some tempered hardboard, so I'm looking for someone to take me to Home Depot. http://timebank.sfbace.org/reqs/3081 Tom

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"Today We Learned": Weekly Colearning Sat. Afternoons 2-5PM Starting this Sat. 11/16

by Marina Kukso

hi all, join us for "today we learned," weekly collaborative learning and hacking at sudo room every saturday afternoon from 2-5PM. work on stuff on your own or with someone else...bring a project..bring questions.. we'll also have a projector set up for anyone to share something they're working on or to share something they've learned. a tiny amount of more information is at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned looking forward to seeing you, marina

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Did your weekend start with a flat tire?

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

Then come to Biketopia's second annual bike drive, TODAY! From 2 to 6 pm. 1752 Alcatraz. Free bike check-up, snacks, drinks - while supporting your friendly neighbourhood community bike workshop. See you there! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Biketopia <colin.moss(a)biketopiaworkshop.org> Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:18 AM Subject: Second Annual Fall Bike Drive! To: morten(a)biketopiaworkshop.org You're invited to our Second Annual Bike Drive Fundraiser! View this email in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9602d&id=26c7c05769…> [image: Biketopia Bike Drive Flyer] Biketopia's Second Annual Fall Bike Drive is sponsored in part by the following local businesses ... Sweet Adeline Bakery Gecko Gecko Thai California Eatery Manifesto Bicycles Oakland Missing Link Cooperative East Bay Bicycle Coalition The New Parkway Bart Bike Station Downtown Berkeley Bike Link Next time you're in one of these businesses, thank them for helping us out! *Copyright © 2013 Biketopia Community Workshop, All rights reserved.* Your are receiving this email because you are a member of Biketopia or you signed up at the shop. *Our mailing address is:* Biketopia Community Workshop 1752 Alcatraz St Berkeley, Ca 94704 Add us to your address book<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f9…> unsubscribe from this list<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=7124c935e2da35a…> update subscription preferences<http://biketopiaworkshop.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=7124c935e2da35aff97f…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Unity !

by Romy Snowyla

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