- sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org

by Vicky Knox

Hey everyone! The Sustainable Economies Law Center (the same place Marc, Eddan, Timon and I all went to for free legal advice) is an applicant in a competition in which they could win $20k from Sungevity! It's one of those popular vote competitions. If you're interested in voting, please see the details below, including what the SELC will do with that money (bottom-most section). ykciV ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christina Oatfield (Vicky's friend and a legal apprentice at the SELC) Hi friends! The nonprofit that I work for, the Sustainable Economies Law Center<http://www.theselc.org/> is a people-powered organization, sustained by generous and dedicated supporters in the community. I'm writing to ask you to take a minute to help SELC win $20,000 by casting your VOTE<http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> for us! I know, I know, I think these online voting schemes are really annoying, too, but we think we have a really good chance of winning this one and the publicity doesn't benefit any evil corporation, but rather, a really awesome local solar power company, Sungevity, which we are happy to promote through this campaign (my parents have been happy customers for years). When you vote, please also opt into the secondary step of "boosting" your vote which basically means you add on 10 extra votes. It requires that you provide a physical address. *Four Quick Steps: * - Click VOTE <http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> ( http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back) - Include your email and zip code - Select* Sustainable Economies Law Center* from the list of organizations and submit your vote! *Don't Forget to BOOST YOUR VOTE BY 10 EXTRA POINTS:* - Anyone: sign up for OurSungevity after you vote--it's *EASY and FREE*! OurSungevity is a online platform that allows you to spread solar in your community through different media (if you choose). You can even earn $500 if you refer Sungevity a new client. - Homeowners: sign up for an iQuote to get solar on your home.[image: Inline image 1] <http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> Vote on! *What will SELC do with this $20,000?* SELC believes communities shouldn’t BUY power. We should OWN power! We’ll create model policies and legal structures for community-owned renewable energy <http://www.theselc.org/community-renewable-energy/>. This includes viable replicable models, essential legal documents, and model policies for community- and cooperatively-owned renewable energy projects. We have some amazing volunteers and staff putting some extra time into creating this program currently, but we're looking to hire a dedicated attorney to really build up this program. *Who is funding this Competition?* Here at SELC, we're conscious of where we get our funding. Sungevity is an innovative solar company focused on creating the world’s most energized network of customers who power their lives with sunshine. Hugs, Christina

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Fwd: This Sat. 6pm: Organizing mtg to stop Oakland's mass surveillance system, NSA protest in SF

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: actionforprogress <actionforprogress(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:35 PM Subject: This Sat. 6pm: Organizing mtg to stop Oakland's mass surveillance system, NSA protest in SF To: ad hoc network <actionforprogress(a)gmail.com> Hi all, Please attend an organizing meeting to stop the warrantless surveillance of our communities this Saturday, Nov. 16 at 6pm at the Sudo Room in Oakland at 2141 Broadway at Broadway and 22nd st. The entrance is on 22nd St. Oakland City Council is trying to create a mass Orwellian surveillance center (called the Domain Awareness Center), that would allow police to track all residents and visitors. This center would centralize surveillance camera footage, phone calls, licence plate readings, and social media information for use by local and federal law enforcement. This will most likely lead to drones and facial recognition technology. The Department of Homeland Security is behind this project with a $7 million dollar grant to fund it. In the wake of the Oscar Grant, Trayvon, and Occupy revolts, as well as the continuing push by local elites to gentrify the bay area, such a project is paramount in the suppression of the local population. The ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and even the NY Times all agree that this is an unprecedented attack on our civil liberties. The NY Times basically warned its readers of the larger implications of these systems as they can spread to more cities. Oakland will be the leader in this tactic and it is a shame the city council has already gone forward as much as it has. We are organizing for a community response and rally for this Tuesday at City Hall to SHUT THIS PLAN DOWN! Please attend the organizing meeting this Saturday at 6pm to help us increase our numbers and make an impact. Recently we have seen working class people of color and activists from Oakland fight successfully against the proposed youth curfew. If we bring enough people to City Hall, we can stop this!!!! Thanks for all your good work, -Zaigham P.S. We will also discuss an upcoming protest in SF: Mass March Against the NSA Articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/oaklands-creepy-new-surveillance-prog… Attached is a flyer for this Tuesday's Rally at City Hall

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sudoroom.org may be temporarily inaccessible

by Matthew Senate

should be cleared up within 24 hours, hopefully it will resolve sooner and won't affect anyone's usage. // Matt

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Hosting an event at Sudo: How to create a community bank with your friends online Nov 27th 6 PM

by Alex White

Hello Sudo Room! I have been by the Sudo Room a few times now and love the space and really appreciate what a great resource it is. I would like to host an event at the Sudo Room about how to create a community bank online using puddle.com. Puddle is a website where you can create your own autonomous community bank. I met the co-founder of the company and he would like to come do a presentation and Q&A. (I'm just helping him find a space, and thought Sudo would be great.) I've never put together a meeting at Sudo, and am not a member, so I'm not sure what the protocol is, but I think this is very much in line with the philosophy of Sudo and I'd love to do it there. What do I need to do from here? Any help would be much appreciated. Here is an article about the site and what it is doing: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2013/08/05/creating-a-line-of-credit-wit… Thanks so much, Alex -- Twitter: Alex_C_White FB: Facebook.com/alexcarlwhite

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hoping for more transparency and inclusiveness around all the exciting developments

by Anthony Di Franco

I've been very busy and haven't made the time to come by sudo room for quite a while but I did last night and it was great to see familiar faces again. I'm also looking forward to meeting the people I've only seen on the list so far, and to congratulating people in person on all their hard work in keeping sudo room moving forward! And to being able to participate more in person in the future. I've been feeling out of touch with what's going on, especially after the drafting of the successful grant proposal. I tried searching my list archives to see if I missed anything about organizing this and it seems I didn't. Grant writing is something I want to learn more about and I would have liked to participate in the process and I would have made the time to if I had known about it. I'm still looking forward to Vicky's idea for a grant database and to contributing to that however I can. I have a conflict that prevents me from coming to the Wednesday meetings and my schedule is very tight otherwise, so I've been following the list and looking at the meeting minutes diligently to try to stay engaged. Despite that I've been unable to gather a clear sense of what's going on, and lately (not since early September according to my seach) I haven't seen the minutes appear on the list at all except for last week. I still won't be able to make it this evening, so I hope there will be minutes to read that the whole community is informed of. When I stopped in last night I learned in vague terms that there is an important meeting about securing a new space at the Omni happening on Thursday evening. If this is true, can anyone who is involved in that inform the community via the list about what is going on, and defer a final decision until there's broad consensus? The last I see about it from searching the list is from October 1st. While I appreciate the initiative and effort on the part of people moving this forward, (though I'm not sure who they might be,) I want to make sure that whatever decisions made that affect the whole community are still based on informed, explicit consensus by the whole community, which is fundamental to how sudo room works.

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Art Murmur After Party/Proposal/Planning/Properly/Promoter/Perhaps

by Phuckin' Phylean

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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The Holdout Computer Accessibility Project seeks Queer, POC and Women to help!

by Gregg Horton

Hey everyone, The holdout bookstore is seeking to create a range of computers with and emphasis on security and privacy. If anyone is interested please let me know and i'll include you in the discussion. http://theholdout.org/ Thanks!

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open access button launching nov. 18th - trying to get a big public message

by Marina Kukso

hi all, on nov. 18th open access folks are launching an OA button that will allow people to make a public comment every time they hit a paywall. they're trying to make a big splash and are asking people to sign up to make a coordinated social media message about the issue. here's a description and the link to sign up (from https://www.thunderclap.it/en/projects/5675-open-access-button-launch): *If someone hits a paywall in the forest, does it make a sound?* Every time you hit a paywall is an isolated moment of frustration, that is unlikely to shake the ivory tower of academic publishing. By putting these moments together using the Open Access Button, we will capture your individual moments of injustice and frustration and display them, on full view to the world. Only by making this problem impossible to ignore can we change the system. This project was started by two students <http://bit.ly/19QMpMD>, good friends frustrated by the current system and driven to change the publishing system we will have to work with. The project was made possible by the invaluable support of developers, advocates and the open access community at large. Our team has worked extremely hard in the past few months to develop a prototype which we’re finally ready to show to the world. At launch, the button will be able track and map every time a user hits a paywall, help them share their struggle and finally help them get access to the paper for free. Advocates can use the stories and data the button collects to push for change. Our data and code will all be available for others to use, improve on and do things we couldn’t have dreamed of. Everyone is affected by this problem, patients, students, doctors and academics. We need your help to make this problem too obvious to ignore. Please help us. Share this thunderclap, and download the button November 18th Find out more : http://bit.ly/1bEH7XT

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Re: [sudo-discuss] 3D Printer - needs new heating element

by Jake

Hol, you forgot to put any text in your post at all! please be clear of how you came to this conclusion. The heating element is a resistor glued into a block of metal on the end of the extruder. It has two wires which go to a connector a couple inches from it, and they go back to the machine. To test the heating element, one can unplug this connector and use a multimeter to measure its resistance. It should be something like 8 ohms, i don't know the exact value but 100 is too much and indicates it's bad. it was replaced a little while ago by a technician from the corporation that made it. If the machine is acting up about heating, we need to know whether the problem is with the heating or the temperature sensing. If the temperature sensor is reporting ambient temperature, it's probably working. if the temp sensor is working but the heating element isn't making it heat up, it could be the heating element (see test above) or it could be the connector near it, or the wires from there back to the main board, or where those wires connect to the brain. can you give more information about what you tried and what you observed? -jake

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

by Vicky Knox

WOOOAAAH!!! Could we all see a copy of what you wrote for the grant application? Maybe store it in the wiki for future reference as we continue applying for grants? :D :D

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo crowd

by Vicky Knox

Thank you, Eddan! :D Will you let us all know when you get those updates up?

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room Wiki/Wordpress beautification hack day

by Vicky Knox

Updates to the wiki! I began work on the wiki by categorizing pages so that they can eventually be clustered into single page portals and/or menus (similar to the Quick Links the main Mesh group page has <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh>). I started by going through All Pages < https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages> one-by-one, and categorized articles as Projects < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Projects>, subcategory Food Hacking < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Food_Hacking>, Events < https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Events> and Stub (for pages that may be abandoned or need expansion) <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Category:Stub>. I also did a little bit of spam rollbacking and prettied up the language in a few articles. Still on my list are to complete categorization of every page in All Pages, research a new template for the front page of the wiki and build out the Funding page Jenny started <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Funding>. Please let me know if you'd like to meet up and work on this with me!

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Sudo Room's Values, Participation, etc

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I've been thinking about some things and wanted to share a few thoughts: Reflecting on this: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Values I'm of the disposition that sudo room as a collective values "open, public discourses over closed proprietary processes" and I believe in good faith that this is held and executed by sudoers generally. I appreciate when folks want to offer positive acknowledgements, suggestions for improvement, and support to fellow community members. I also think that sudoers generally practice "do-ocracy over bureaucracy" with an added element of "access and transparency over exclusivity" in order to help that do-ocracy remain accountable and enable us to "solve real problems over hypotheticals, while respecting visions of the future." Ultimately, it is my perspective that sudo room's various participants are interested in acting based on "community and collaboration over isolation and competition" not the other way around. I do not think things are perfect, but I think by and large folks do a good job of these things and everyone is interested in improving. >From this point of view, I would like to express my excitement and encouragement for folks to reach out in various ways to add value to sudo room, and also to share and communicate at appropriate times. I firmly believe that the work executed on a recent topic, a particular grant application <http://soex.org/alternativeexposure/>, was appropriate, and that while a message indeed would have been fine or even nice, ultimately, it was brought to everyone's attention at the right time--just before it was due seeking help and when it was confirmed that sudo would actually be a recipient of funds. I barely even remember working on it--I believe I gave some feedback or something, or perhaps was distracted by something else, I don't know. To be honest, applying to grants can feel like a game of chance, so I didn't put emotional stock into it. In other words, I personally don't see any problem with folks reaching out on their own in order to add value to sudo room, especially when information is brought to light when the value-add is actually feasible or even confirmed. For instance, I think it's a great efficiency that Marc found a craigslist post for a free, modern, color printer, reached out to the poster, confirmed the pickup, picked it up, dropped it off at noisebridge, returned with a car to retrieve it from noisebridge, hauled it upstairs, cleaned the walkway area adjacent to the elevator, ran an ethernet cable, installed shelves, and plugged in the printer itself. It is unnecessary for him to have said anything about this for it to be a value-consistent value-add to sudo room. It could be nice, even advantageous to post it--maybe someone could have picked it up from noisebridge on their way home?--but in the end, it doesn't matter, and now this great resources is available for us to share and use. This to me is do-ocracy, and the minutia of timing the communication is less important if there is nothing to lose. Applying to grants gives us absolutely nothing to lose. I say: reach out. // Matt

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math literacy meetup wednesday night

by Mike Schachter

Hey everyone, a few people are going to meet up on Wednesday around 6pm at sudoroom to talk about math literacy stuff! Please stop over if you're interested, or another time in the future if you're not available. mike

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by Art McGee

Greetings, I'm curious, but would not this post have been more appropriate for the sudo-discuss list? I assume you may not be aware of it. As for your specific point about the American Civil War being about states' rights, that just makes me say hummmm... :-\ I'm going to do the Fanonian thing and not shout, since I'm too tired for that anymore, but I will just add that in the opinion of a lot of historians, some of them Anarchists, the "battle for power" between U.S. states and the Federal government is simply that, a battle for power, but it doesn't tell you anything about why the states want that power. It doesn't tell you anything about the motivating factors behind such a long-standing struggle, which, if you're unfamiliar with U.S. history, could lead you to the erroneous conclusion that it's a neutral "freedom" thing. It's not. I think you already know this, but your phrasing triggered my White Supremacy detector, so I had to respond. :-) Oh, and since I've now delurked and am posting on this discuss list, I'll just say that I live in Oakland but haven't as yet made it around to the sudo room in person (I'm hoping to change that in the upcoming year). Art McGee On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:50 AM, aestetix <aestetix(a)aestetix.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been lurking for a while, but this caught my attention. > Especially given that I recently watched the musical 1776. > > IMHO, we're at a turning point in history. I spent part of this > morning watching the testimony on healthcare.gov, and seeing the > interplay of lawyers and technologists. We seem to be sandwiched > between two paradigms: the NSA/Omnicorp merger from Prism and other > Snowden leaks, and totally unrealistic valuations of companies like > Snapchat, which apparently just turned down a $3 billion cash > acquisition offer from Facebook. That spells out a damned if you do, > damned if you don't scenario. > > The one common theme we've seen through the history of the US is the > battle for power between State and Federal governments. This is what > the Civil War was *really* about, why laws like the Civil Rights Act > of 1965 are so important, and why the most recent government shut-down > happened. And inherent to this power battle, for which there is no > "better" side, is the will of the people. How do we overcome the > tragedy of the commons enough to build a system that generally, kind > of sort of works? > > It's hard to practice what one preaches if there's no cost. For > example, it's easy to use Google/etc, until the government subpoenas > your email and search history and uses that as evidence (hidden via > State Secrets) to throw you in jail. I speak on this with several > friends who are either in jail or dead because of bad laws, and many > more who have been harassed, detained, in most cases for doing nothing > more than dissenting. > > This is why I agree strongly with Eddan about the notion of > neutrality. I haven't kept up with sudo room as much lately, partly > because I don't have the time/energy to engage in some of the > transitions that were going on. I'm beginning to get to a point where > I can re-engage with people working on projects tackling these kinds > of issues. I suppose we shall see what happens. > > Back into the woodwork, > aestetix > > - --- > > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSg9gZAAoJEOrRfDwkjbpTzNYIALdkLYpUOINBMdaoTgyfv5+d > 4mL38CWysMiceiA8AqMXUStiZOsp4aEiOgsYnSOrookSdnQbVbxPD10keH+0P4Jm > 7es9ibfvk5PT/Bj5IThB9pSsUpS3coeVVmOHScYnPVQzPGihIMpcMGcLaNpviZBE > BE9IOpK5EcBpgBh25mVqIFp6nJisuOq1mTgwAjHoZUOb+VxKbSLoCPaEVcHkpgVL > cvdMJSCSrk1rZVkTA0oWfMW57NRQY47z7e+tXm5xvkJXvJA2mYbcOgaQssnRqp0/ > wspCWOdP4ior8xvaQE7KrUQvj3JxbLOY8I92UhXC3Sj29BXw7xy3i08hoLUg6kY= > =42g2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > sudo-announce mailing list > sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-announce >

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Waste Management billz

by David Keenan

https://www.wm.com/myaccount/ account | amt 00012-86938-43003 | Amount: $224.28 00012-87014-63003 | Amount: $71.80 Total paid: $296.08 Confirmation Number: 69784810329 As I mentioned to some of you, I've paid for combined garbage and recycling for SUDO and BAPS from 9/15 til now. Basically I consider this my membership dues to each respective group for the past three months - essentially, ~$50/group/mo since Sept. or however that works out. I thought just paying this for SUDO and BAPS might kill two birds with one stone dues-wise, but going forward it's obviously way less confusing to have SUDO to take over the wm.com account and bill BAPS, and I'll just pay dues to each group like everyone else... Re: the wm.com login, I sent Matt this info a while ago, but at this point I'd like to change out the bound email address from my personal email to a generic sudoroom email (or at any rate, some other email) that sudo and baps can both check. Can someone volunteer a sudoroom or other email SUDO and BAPS can share for this purpose? Thanks, David

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Proposal: Juice Party Instead of Board Approvals Tomorrow

by Max Klein

Hello sudolings, Well, I don't know about you but I've been really anxious and tense lately about approving the Board. I've been hearing some closed door discussions about who should or shouldn't be on Board and it's been stressing me out. BUT there's no rush *we still have 82 days* to elect our Board. It's not the sudo spirit to make decisions under stress and possibly in a way that will split the community. I have faith that with more time this will ease. The huge irony is that everything I hear behind closed doors is the same. If you could see this from "God-mode", there wouldn't be any conflicts. And we have the luxury of being sudo-humans that don't get mired and stuck in that old-model politicking. We are deeply-introspective, ego-dissolvers, and cosmic-harmonizers. So here's the proposal: every body bring* 3 pieces of fruit* tomorrow to the meeting and somebody bring a juicer. And when it comes time to approve the board instead we will table it for a week and will just juice the juice 20 minutes. What do you think? Juicily yours and without confusion Notconfusing aka Max Klein +17074787023

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[consensus] Nominations for Board of Directors

by Jenny Ryan

Or, alternatively as suggested last night, Board of Those With Little Power and Great Responsibility (or something to that effect :) The following is a list of those who've accepted nomination to the board, and those who've been nominated but have yet to accept or decline: - Accepted: Max, Jenny, Naomi, Anca, Hol, Vicky [tentative], Marc, Matt, Luciano, Troy - Nominated: Rhodey, Marina, Liberty [tentative accept], JC, Len, Romy, Ryan B, Julio, Vian, Shake, Mitch, Brendan, Morten, Faust Please reply to this thread publicly or privately if you've been nominated but have yet to accept or decline. *At next week's meeting, we will go through and consent on each nominee. Those participating via the mailing list have one week to block any of the current nominations.* What's required of a board member? - the risks, not many risks if you are not paid - the only thing we have to worry about is if sudo room doesn't pay taxes then the treasurer will be liable for taxes - also board has responsibility to send in a document once a year to sacramento - not liable if sudo room goes into debt (except treasurer) <3 Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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THIS THURS: Beehive Collective presents their new mural "Mesoamerica Resiste!"

by Jake

learn about the ongoing plan to "develop" latin america for the benefit of the wealthy at the expense of the people and the environment: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:31:31 -0800 From: Sakura Saunders <sakura.saunders(a)gmail.com> Subject: THIS THURS: Beehive Collective presents their new mural "Mesoamerica Resiste!" WHAT: "Mesoamérica Resiste!" graphic story-telling about resistance to neo-colonialism and mega-projects in Mexico and Central America WHEN: Thurs, Nov. 14 6:30pm WHERE: 2135 Broadway, downtown Oakland WHO: Beehive Design Collective: beehivecollective.org MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE is the long awaited final instalment in the Beehive’s graphic trilogy about globalization in the Americas! This collaboratively produced educational illustration was created through an intensive process of grassroots research that started in 2004, when an initial team from the US, Canada, and Mexico traveled together from Mexico to Panama to meet with communities organizing against the mega-infrastructure projects of a regional integration plan then known as Plan Puebla Panama. 9 years in the making, the Mesoamérica Resiste graphic reflects the Beehive’s efforts to document and share diverse stories of communities defending their sovereignty and building alternatives to top-down development plans - especially organizing led by Indigenous peoples, who have fought back against colonialism and genocide for centuries. The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly-motivated, all volunteer, activist-art collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. We work anonymously as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, gathered and shared through first hand conversations with affected communities.

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SEE YOU SOON- SERGIO

by Sergio Racanati

Dear all sudo room, I thank you warmly for the availability given in my comparisons, for their kindness and for taking grnade hospitality and a great sense of community. I spent the beautiful day by sudo room. We expect in Italy. My email is: UTOPIARACANATI(a)GMAIL.COM SKYPE: UTOPIA.RACANATI CELL. (EUROPEAN) 0039 3405476497 FACEBOOK: SERGIO Racanati (The icond ADI is Facebbok A SCULPTURE MADE OF MANY COLORED WITH A FOUNTAIN LED). SEE YOU SOON WITH LOVE Sergio.

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Spectral Response Curves

by Peter Kwangjun Suk

(Also posted to Noisebridge. Skip if you are experiencing deja-vu.) Hello, Right now, I'm doing research for a specialized app to let consumers validate products that can be used to treat insomnia. Specifically, I'm working on a smartphone app that can act like a light detector for light in a narrow band around 470 nanometers. This is the frequency that has been shown to suppress melatonin secretion by the pineal gland. There are specialty products for avoiding late night 470 nanometer light exposure (light bulbs, screen overlays, glasses) but these are often very overpriced, and there is no convenient way to validate them. There are also "ordinary" products that serve the same purpose, but there is no good way for people to accurately test them. Currently, people can use a CD or DVD as an ad-hoc diffraction grating and look at the resulting spectrum, but even this isn't quite good enough. I've bought a narrow bandpass filter for 470nm light, and even products that have a spectrum that "looks good" (very little blue) can have hot-spots that leak large amounts of 470nm light, and it doesn't take much to suppress melatonin. (As low as 0.5 lux for prolonged exposures.) Looking generally at spectral response curves for digital cameras, it should be possible to "synthesize" a narrow band detector by taking the blue channel response and subtracting the red channel value. http://www.maxmax.com/images/Cameras/Technical/NikonD200_SpectralResponse.j… This should effectively produce a "synthetic" instrument that has a spectral response curve that would be the camera's blue response, minus its red response. Even more helpful, the user should be able to view a synthesized narrowband image of the product, to be able to spot leaks and hot spots. What I need: I would like help in scientifically measuring the spectral response curve of the "synthetic instrument." I already have a (tiny) 470nm filter from Thorlabs, and I'm already aware of Public Lab's DIY spectroscope. I would like to use more accurate equipment, however. It is important that I can provide accurate information about the performance of the app and use rigorous procedures for measurement so that users know they can rely on the instrument. Does anyone have the expertise and access to equipment to help me out? --SCZ -- There's neither heaven nor hell, save what we grant ourselves. There's neither fairness nor justice, save what we grant each other.

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contribute to the hackidemia book "little makers" about making & education

by Marina Kukso

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19USoHltLaqvn6C2eAlpqvy7u1XtAfW8JRgUr-oeH2s… - marina

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online civic debate facilitation tools?

by Marina Kukso

hey all, do any of you know of any useful tools for facilitating a civic debate (something like a presidential debate) online? http://backchan.nl/ would be good for submitting q's...but backchan.nl + google hangouts seems...not the best? any tips would be helpful. - marina

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Reminder: Tmrw (11/13) Consenting on Nominations for Board of Directors at Meeting

by Marina Kukso

just a reminder. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:49 PM Subject: [sudo-discuss] [consensus] Nominations for Board of Directors To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Or, alternatively as suggested last night, Board of Those With Little Power and Great Responsibility (or something to that effect :) The following is a list of those who've accepted nomination to the board, and those who've been nominated but have yet to accept or decline: - Accepted: Max, Jenny, Naomi, Anca, Hol, Vicky [tentative], Marc, Matt, Luciano, Troy - Nominated: Rhodey, Marina, Liberty [tentative accept], JC, Len, Romy, Ryan B, Julio, Vian, Shake, Mitch, Brendan, Morten, Faust Please reply to this thread publicly or privately if you've been nominated but have yet to accept or decline. *At next week's meeting, we will go through and consent on each nominee. Those participating via the mailing list have one week to block any of the current nominations.* What's required of a board member? - the risks, not many risks if you are not paid - the only thing we have to worry about is if sudo room doesn't pay taxes then the treasurer will be liable for taxes - also board has responsibility to send in a document once a year to sacramento - not liable if sudo room goes into debt (except treasurer) <3 Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Fwd: A very very quick favor for Janelle. Thaaaank youuu so much in advance!

by AnimationAmber .

not sure if this is the right list for this, but thought it should be forwarded. SELC as you guys know is awesome, they've helped us out at Bay Area Community Exchange as well. thanks! -amber ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Janelle Orsi <janelle.orsi(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:35 PM Subject: A very very quick favor for Janelle. Thaaaank youuu so much in advance! To: Janelle Orsi <janelle.selc(a)gmail.com> Hi Friends, The Sustainable Economies Law Center <http://theselc.org/> is participating in one of those fundraising campaigns where we'll get $20,000 from Sungevity<http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> if we can get enough people to vote for us. I don't love this style of fundraising, but I'm highly motivated by this one. The $20,000 will determine whether or not we get to keep my wonderful coworker, Caroline Lee, at SELC. She just graduated from law school and she is brilliant. If she stays at SELC, she'll be developing model legal structures for cooperatively-owned and community-owned renewable energy projects. If you can support this by voting, I'd be so grateful! *It takes 10 seconds to vote. Click here: http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back <http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back>* FYI, you need to enter your email address to vote, but if you'd rather not be on Sungevity's email list, you can always click "unsubscribe" in any email they send you. I read their "terms and conditions" to make sure. :o) Thank you so much! Janelle Orsi -- *Animator Mama You-Tube Channel <http://www.youtube.com/user/videocabulary/videos?view=0>* *Animator Mama on Tumblr <http://animatormama.tumblr.com/>*

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Mobile Device

by Liberty Madison

HELP! Does anyone have a mobile device I can use/borrow? My phone decided to catch on fire today (literally) 415.937.3785 Text/Talk About.me/LibertyMadison <http://about.me/LibertyMadison> #ThatTechGirl <http://www.instagram.com/LibertyMadison> is @LibertyMadison<http://www.twitter.com/libertymadison> Founder and Host @LifewTechnology <http://www.twitter.com/lifewtechnology>:Translating Tech </to> Talk OPRAH.com Next TV Show Host TOP 40 Finalist www.LibertyMadison.com<http://www.libertymadison.com/>

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Sudo Room Wiki/Wordpress beautification hack day

by Vicky Knox

Hey everyone! I would like to improve the user experience of our Wordpress and Wiki. I'm particularly interested in the latter, and making it more intuitively structured, poetic (in the literary discourse sense of the word ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics)), and UPDATED! I'm free to work on it either Tuesday or Wednesday, daytime, at SR. (I'd also be into working in the evening, but only if I can get a ride in a car, as I try to absolutely avoid biking in the dark with my laptop.) If you're interested in joining, please respond to the list with preferred days/times. ykciV

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Fwd: San Leandro Meet the CIO event report-back

by J Clark

Because inquiring minds want to know. > From: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net> > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] San Leandro Meet the CIO event report-back > Date: November 11, 2013 12:17:55 PM PST > > hey j. > i just got a link from someone for my talk at the San Leandro CIO event. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwlg9TAZ8o&feature=share&list=SP59j6gQK6OaB… >

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Fwd: [bayareahackerspaces-discuss] Oops! Correct Link Re: New Hackerspace Forming In San Francisco!

by Marina Kukso

hooray! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Love <john(a)curiousjohn.com> Date: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:59 PM Subject: [bayareahackerspaces-discuss] Oops! Correct Link Re: New Hackerspace Forming In San Francisco! To: bayareahackerspaces-discuss(a)lists.riseup.net https://github.com/wallacemax/sfhackerspace/blob/master/README.md Sorry about that. John Love <john(a)curiousjohn.com> November 11, 2013 at 1:55 AM There's a meeting tomorrow/Tuesday November 12th 7pm at GitHub HQ 3.0. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces I'd go but I'm on the east coats. If someone attends could you report back? Stay curious! @curiousjohn

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Whose bike?

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Sudo bike? // Matt

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sudo crowd

by Eddan Katz

http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-crowd As Vicky has already mentioned - the Legal Café that the Sustainable Economies Law Center hosted at LOLSpace was super-helpful for all of us who went. I had the good fortune of talking to Sushil Jacob of the EBCLC about the cooperative corporations he's been working on creating within the Green Collar economy initiative he's helping lead. More on that later. I also got to talk to Caroline Lee of SELC, who's a recent Berkeley Law grad who has been doing research on the JOBS Act crowdfunding provisions. She recently wrote about it on Shareable for those interested in more detailed information - http://www.shareable.net/blog/investment-crowdfunding-poised-to-take-a-gian…. I also learned of a the crucial Crowdfunding intermediary process going on at FINRA (Financial Industry Regulation Authority). Their portal for further information is at http://www.finra.org/Industry/Issues/Crowdfunding/ - and there's even a short form to send FINRA for those entities interested in being registered as crowdfunding intermediaries. http://www.finra.org/Industry/Issues/Crowdfunding/. I am planning on filling this out soon and sending it in case anyone else is interested in working on that. There is also a public comments period until Feb. 3, 2014 (all crowdfunding intermediaries must be registered with them). The request for comments is at http://www.finra.org/Industry/Regulation/Notices/2013/P370744; and unfortunately means going through another ~600 page document, which I have only started to do. If anyone is interested in further discussing this and all things related to crowdfunding, I will be moving this thread over to the Sudo-Crowd list. http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-crowd. There are some people outside of Sudo Room interested in participating in the coordination of these public comments and applications and so I'd rather have the discussion there separate from this list. I think that the combination of SEC comments, FINRA comments, and the SASB comments I mentioned earlier on reporting requirements for sustainability accounting really covers all the issues that need to be taken into account at this point to understand what a Crowdfunding platform might have to deal with. So please join the list. http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-crowd I'll be putting together more organized wiki pages with info on this and where people could collaboratively put these comments together. The scratch pages I had up somehow got deleted. sent from eddan.com

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e-discovery and digital forensics

by johanna faust

anyone out there expert at preserving electronicrecords so that they are official (that is, admissible) evidence? please get in touch with me. i am facing having to learn it otherwise. it will make all the difference. get in touch for details. -- *Be seeing you.*

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Noisebridge and sudoroom at the Aaron Swartz memorial hackathon

by Romy Snowyla

Eff speaking at the opening of the Aaron Swartz memorial hackathon at the beautiful internet archive Click to view interactively: http://360.io/uwb93P Captured with Yeah!

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Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon (TONIGHT-SUNDAY)

by Vicky Knox

I didn't see anything show up on this list, so here it is: TONIGHT: Internet Archives (until 10p) SATURDAY-SUNDAY: Noisebridge (11a-4p each day) For more deets, see the Noisebridge Wiki: <<< https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_… >>> For other more deets (such as the link to the shared pad), see: <<<http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/>>>

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"Made in China" Group Show

by Troy Massey

"You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action" Subject: Presented by Loakal at Ian Ross Gallery- Opens Friday! Reply-To: Loakal Gallery & Boutique <loakal(a)57-33.com> "Made in China" Presented by Loakal Opens November 8 View this email in your browser Made In China" Group Show Presented by Loakal Opening Reception: November 8, 7-10 PM @ Ian Ross Gallery (466 Brannan St., San Francisco.) The upcoming group exhibition, “Made in China,” presented by Loakal Gallery at Ian Ross Gallery, seeks to probe our society’s underlying assumptions regarding originality, intellectual property and the value of art. Curator Eddie Colla invited a group of established and emerging contemporary artists to create an original painting and send a photo of their work to a factory in China — a factory where reproductions of Monets and other masterworks are painted to be sold as kitschy home decorations in the West. The Chinese factory artists then reproduced the works based on the photographs and shipped them back to Ian Ross Gallery, where the original paintings and the Chinese “counterfeits” will be displayed side-by-side. The opening reception is free and open to the public. Many of the artists and the curator will be in attendance. RSVP on Facebook. Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr Pinterest Website Copyright © 2013 Loakal + fiftyseven-thirtythree, All rights reserved. You signed up for this email list to receive information about fiftyseven-thirtythree and Loakal Gallery & Boutique related news, events, and clothing deals. Our mailing address is: Loakal + fiftyseven-thirtythree 560 2nd St. Oakland, CA 94607 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

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A "Jedi" can apologize for being wrong. The sith "dealing in absolutes"."

by spectral imix

A "Sith"-like attitude insists on an innate "goodness" and "badness" (or more appropriately "us-ness" and "them-ness") in everything. The "Jedi" understand that no object or action is intrinsically good or evil. Intention and effect matter, turning black and white into shades of gray. The fundamental difference between the sides is not "good" and "evil". (Everyone has the potential for both.) The real difference is between a desire to control one's environment for personal power and security, and the desire to serve the greater good of all. A "Sith" believes in him/herself, forming temporary alliances only for the purpose of gaining greater personal advantage. A "Jedi" seeks and fosters the good in everyone, risking and sacrificing personal safety and reputation to benefit the whole. Their actions may occasionally resemble each other but their motivations are very different. The "Jedi" mentality DOES have "absolutes" of a sort. The preservation of life (particularly intelligent life), freedom (physical and intellectual), justice (without regard to status) and the like are enduring values for "Jedi"-like people. But they understand that the universe is morally neutral, that often one value is pitted against another by the unscrupulous, and that sometimes the best that can be done is a moral compromise. The "Sith" prefer to concretize their "morality". Disloyalty to THIS leader is wrong. Partaking in THAT specific activity is evil. An uncensored discussion of social alternatives is morally decadent. Categorically, without exception, never mind the intent. A "virtuous" act is always "good". A troublemaker is always "bad". A "Jedi" can observe the ethical situation, note changes, and change his mind about a good idea implemented badly, or a disreputable strategy that actually produces good. A "Jedi" can apologize for being wrong. A "Sith" cannot afford to be inconsistent for fear of losing credibility. Any change in allegiance must be framed and propagandized to appear as part of the plan all along. The "Sith" is about appearances rather than reality. The world is never black and white, but the "Sith" pretends it is. That is what is meant by "dealing in absolutes"."

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Meeting Minutes: Successful Fundraiser. Officially Incorporated, Won Grant.

by Max Klein

If you remember after last week's meeting we were anxious because we were $800 behind on rent. Now we have $5500 and are officially a Public Benefit Nonprofit Corporation. Let us take a moment to meditate on this week and the efforts of our members. Minutes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-11-06

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Oakland is the WikiVoyage "Destination of the Month!"

by Pete Forsyth

Hey all, I just noticed that Oakland is the WikiVoyage "Destination of the Month" -- awesome! Might be a good time to make sure WikiVoyage's pages point to Oakland Wiki where appropriate -- or just generally celebrate, dance in the streets…ya know? https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page -Pete

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dark mail kickstarter

by Anthony Di Franco

This seems good to support: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative "Along with preserving existing functionality, the team will build in support for the Dark Mail protocol. Dark Mail, a newly developed messaging protocol, is designed to provide end-to-end encryption of both the message itself and the email in transit. Because encryption will be integrated into the protocol itself, it will be invisible to the user. Dark Mail users will get the security of PGP without the cognitive burden; *if someone can use email today they will be able to use Dark Mail tomorrow*." *← Finally this* "The project will also include building, and releasing as F/OSS, the first Dark Mail compatible clients. We are planning to launch with clients for the desktop (Win, Mac, Lin), smartphones and tablets (iOS, Android)."

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Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

by Jenny Ryan

Super stoked to announce that both Sudo Room AND the Public School have each won a $4700 grant from Southern Exposure, an excellent nonprofit supporting the arts in the Bay Area: *Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in Round 7 of our Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In this round, Southern Exposure is awarding $70,000 to 16 projects at levels ranging from $5,000 to $2,400. With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Alternative Exposure supports the independent and self-organized work of artists and small groups that plays a critical and significant role in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. In the seven years since launching Alternative Exposure, Southern Exposure has awarded $421,000 in direct funds to 120 Bay Area projects.(http://soex.org/artistsresources.html <http://soex.org/artistsresources.html>*) This is a nice bit of cash that will very nearly provide the 3-month rent buffer we endeavor to have as a foundation, though we still need to build up Rainy Day, maintenance and operations funds. This also gives us significantly more to work with should we choose to move into a larger space in the next couple of months. It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a membership policy and long-term sustainability goals. Thanks to David Keenan for inspiring a down-to-the-wire grant-writing hackathon and making the process super fun and collaborative, and major props to Marc for excellent feedback and revisions. I'll write a blog post this weekend to publicly thank SOEX. And <3 to all y'all for making an awesome Sudo Room! <3 Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Party Final Take: $660 cash.

by Yardena Cohen

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Matthew Harbowy <hbergeronx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In the future, it might not be so wise to advertise the sale (future or > past) of alcohol in a public forum if you haven't obtained a permit via > http://www.abc.ca.gov/Forms/PDFSpc.html since the $1000 fine for holding an > unlicensed event would exceed any takings you might have had. > > This is the sort of accountability your board members should be watching > your back on, and the fact that none of your board-elect squelched or at > least turned down the gain on this despite the fact that they would be > personally liable for this, should be of particular concern, especially > since you have zero liability insurance. > > Not to spoil your fun or anything, but... is sudo room a frat house or an > adult endeavor? I realize this is the "Wild West" of Oakland, and all, and > the getting away with it quotient is high, but really? Hi Matthew, After reading this email I've nominated you to Sudoroom's board. Will you accept?

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"It Tastes Like Chicken" dep't: 3D-printed "phood"?

by GtwoG PublicOhOne

This might be of interest to biohackers and food hackers, and 3D printer hackers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24825582 "French physical chemist Herve This says every foodstuff is made up of a basic chemical mixture - and so it's possible to create nutritious dishes from powders, oils and liquids that contain the building-blocks of food, rather than conventional raw ingredients...." The video shows Professor This making up a fresh serving of something that could be cookie dough for Soylent Orange. At the end of the video, with a bit of garnish, it even looks like futuristic sculptureon the plate. No need for farm animals, no need for vegetables, no need for fruit, and fortunately, no need for eating worms. Professor This calls it "Note-By-Note cuisine" but I'd call it "phood." Whoever invents a 3-D printerfor using this stuff, like the food dispenser on Star Trek, is goingto earna fortune. "Burger, medium, with a pickle. Tea, Earl Gray, hot." Or at least, "Phood, orange with blue swirls, spicy." -G.

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[REMINDER] Legal Cafe Weds. 4:30!!

by Vicky Knox

[incorporation] [board] [501c*] [SELC] INCOMING TRANSMISSION: This is a reminder to join your fellow Sudo Room intergalactonauts at a free legal cafe with all of your questions regarding our impending doom/incorporation!!! (If you are not able to come, please reply to this thread with questions I can transmit through the darkness for you.) HOST: Sustainable Economies Law Center <http://theselc.org/> SPACE: LOL Hackerspace, 1234 23rd Avenue (23rd and International) TIME: 4:30-7:30p END TRANSMISSION [incorporation] [board] [501c*] [SELC]

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Fwd: Re: Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

by Eddan Katz

That is so excellent. Fantastic job to the folks who worked on it. I'm sure I speak for others as well, We'll be grateful for this major step for a while to come. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure! Date: 2013-11-06 08:49 From: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> To: "sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> I am so, so, so, so happy for sudo and the public school. We worked our freaking asses off those last two days all the way down to the wire. I am super impressed by Jenny, Marc, Sudo, and all of us. We fucking rock. David On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com [8]> wrote: > Super stoked to announce that both Sudo Room AND the Public School > have each won a $4700 grant from Southern Exposure, an excellent > nonprofit supporting the arts in the Bay Area: > > Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in > Round 7 of our Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In this round, > Southern Exposure is awarding $70,000 to 16 projects at levels > ranging > from $5,000 to $2,400. With major support from the Andy Warhol > Foundation for the Visual Arts, Alternative Exposure supports the > independent and self-organized work of artists and small groups that > plays a critical and significant role in the San Francisco Bay Area > arts community. In the seven years since launching Alternative > Exposure, Southern Exposure has awarded $421,000 in direct funds to > 120 Bay Area projects. > (http://soex.org/artistsresources.html [1]) > > This is a nice bit of cash that will very nearly provide the 3-month > rent buffer we endeavor to have as a foundation, though we still need > to build up Rainy Day, maintenance and operations funds. This also > gives us significantly more to work with should we choose to move > into > a larger space in the next couple of months. > > It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a > membership policy and long-term sustainability goals. > > Thanks to David Keenan for inspiring a down-to-the-wire grant-writing > hackathon and making the process super fun and collaborative, and > major props to Marc for excellent feedback and revisions. Ill write a > blog post this weekend to publicly thank SOEX. > > And <3 to all yall for making an awesome Sudo Room! > <3 > > Jenny > http://jennyryan.net [2] > http://thepyre.org [3] > http://thevirtualcampfire.org [4] > http://technomadic.tumblr.com [5] > > `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > > "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." > -Laurie Anderson > > "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of > defining it." > -Hannah Arendt > > "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." > -Stéphane Mallarmé > ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org [6] > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss [7] Links: ------ [1] http://soex.org/artistsresources.html [2] http://jennyryan.net/ [3] http://thepyre.org/ [4] http://thevirtualcampfire.org/ [5] http://technomadic.tumblr.com/ [6] mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org [7] http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss [8] mailto:tunabananas@gmail.com

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Re: [sudo-discuss] there are no LPFM slots on the FM band in the bay area, period.

by Jake

>> Just put a big fucking antenna on the roof and start broadcasting, if >> you don't, i will, god damnit. >> >> Stop overthinking things and do it. > > Why? So you can inflict a $20,000 fine on Sudo Room as quickly as > humanly possible? it takes a long time and a lot of work and listeners before you even get the ten-day warning, let alone an unenforcable fine. Don't forget that Berkeley Liberation Radio has been broadcasting for almost ten years now, interrupted more often by their own failures than by two FCC raids where the FCC basically snatched their equipment and fled like cowards. No one at BLR has ever been successfully "fined", and even the NAL (Notice of Apparent Liability) filed against Stephen Dunifer of FRB before them has just sat uncollected, like almost all NALs against pirates, for twenty years now. Stephen's very public response to the Notice of Apparent Liability was "Apparently not." The FCC's fine enforcement mechanism is to threaten to revoke your stations lisence. This works when they fine lisenced broadcasters for the seven deadly words or whatever, but filed against an unlisenced person it's a joke. Witness the fine against Daniel Robert of Pirate Cat Radio, which is an example of a person who put his full name all over everything and even corresponded with the FCC in the mail, making it personal. They haven't even collected anything from him. here's the story of pirate cat's fine: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/fcc-fines-monkey-man-radio-pirat… The point is, if sudoroom decides as a group to broadcast a signal from the roof or wherever (we can stream over the internet you know) then sudoroom can decide for itself whether it wants to keep going after getting a "ten day notice to cease broadcasting" If that EVER happens. http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-264276A1.html and if a broadcast is not coming from the building where sudoroom is, then it is not even a matter for sudoroom to have to decide on. Sudoroom can continue to have an internet streaming radio station and leave it at that.

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Table at Oakland Nights Live?

by Jeremy Dalmas

Sudo-ers, I mailed this list a couple weeks ago, but wanted to ask again. For the next Oakland Nights Live, on the evening of November 9th, we are having a series of booths to visit rather than a proper stage show. There will be a variety artists, performers, and informers who will interact with a few audience members at a time. We would love to have 1 or 2 people from the Sudo room have a booth or do a demonstration if any of you are excited about it. I'd be happy to answer any questions, and I can give you more info to anyone who is interested. Thanks for any interest and thanks in general for sharing the space with us. -Jeremy

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-SF] Page created for Berkeley edit-a-thon, Nov. 16

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Berkeley Wikipedia editathon on Nov 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2013/Nov16 ! Whether you've never contributed to Wikipedia before or you've been editing since ought four, you should come. - Marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle(a)kcoyle.net> Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:56 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] Page created for Berkeley edit-a-thon, Nov. 16 To: "wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org> I now have a page for the upcoming edit-a-thon. It will look very similar to the page for the previous one (ok, I copied most of it). Please add any edits that occur to you. I will run down and take a picture of the South Branch since the one on the BPL page doesn't have rights info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Berkeley/2013/Nov16 I hope some folks can make it. Note that this branch has been newly renovated and includes the tool lending library, one of the few of its kind. It also is next door to the Wat Mongkolratanaram Buddhist temple (known for its Sunday brunch, and whose article needs citations). I'll keep hacking away at the page over the next few days. kc -- Karen Coyle kcoyle(a)kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf

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math and machine learning classes

by Mike Schachter

Hi sudoroom! A little while back I mentioned an interest in starting classes that work towards data literacy, and wanted to give an update with some ideas and plans, with the hope that people who are interested in helping out or already doing similar things would come out of the woodwork. First - I've heard about the morning math meetups through the list and think it sounds great. My partner and I want to teach a hands-on curriculum for "Math Literacy" to interested people of all educational backgrounds. It would include everything from arithmetic to algebra to geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. I'm hoping to even have a basic introduction to plotting functions and working with arrays using web-based python terminals. I want to find interested students and teachers, so if any of this appeals to you, please let me know! I'm going to make a trip out to sudoroom probably in two weeks, perhaps we could meet up and talk about it. I'll be at Noisebridge this Tuesday as well. Second - I'm going to restart machine learning classes at Noisebridge, and am also looking for interested students and teachers. The ML wiki page, along with a link to join the mailing list, is here: https://www.noisebridge.net/Machine_Learning See you soon, mike

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Makers row in Brooklyn - do we have one in Oakland?

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, I thought you'd enjoy this fascinating documentary on Maker's Row in Brooklyn bringing back a manufacturing renaissance to Brooklyn. I'm wondering if we have anything similar here in Oakland? http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/29/5042118/small-empires-makers-row R -- Ryan Bethencourt http://www.litmususa.com/ http://berkeleybiolabs.com/ www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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EFF Speakeasy on Thursday

by Eddan Katz

> TO: funlist(a)eff.org [2] > SUBJECT: [FUNLIST] EFF SPEAKEASY ON THURSDAY > Funsters! EFF's biannual Bay Area members' Speakeasy is coming up on > Thursday, 11/7 from 6-8 PM! We're at Emperor Norton's Boozeland [3] > on > Turk and Larkin. We have the back half of the bar reserved, and Kurt > and Rainey will share a few remarks about NSA spying at 7 PM. > > It's already a big one. I hope to see you there! > https://eff.org/r.c6gQ [4] > +Aaron > > Hello! > > Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation staff for a drink at our fall > member meetup in San Francisco on Thursday, November 7th! Raise a > glass with the EFF activists, lawyers, and technologists working in > the trenches and connect with EFF members about protecting digital > innovation, privacy, and free expression. > > At 7 PM, EFF staffers will share brief remarks on our efforts to stop > unchecked NSA surveillance, and can answer other questions about > digital freedom issues worldwide. > > [5]Find us at Emperor Norton's Boozeland in the San Francisco > Tenderloin! It's just north of the Civic Center/UN Plaza BART stop. > This is a free gathering for members, donors, and guests. Space is > limited. Attendees must be 21 or older. No-host bar. > > Speakeasy: Bay Area > EFF Members-Only Happy Hour > Thursday, November 7th from 6-8 PM > > _See you there!_ > > Aaron Jue > EFF Membership Team > > Electronic Frontier Foundation, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA > 94109 USA > EFF appreciates your support and respects your privacy [6]. _______________________________________________ Funlist mailing list Links: ------ [2] mailto:funlist@eff.org [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton [4] https://eff.org/r.c6gQ [5] https://eff.org/r.c6gQ [6] https://www.eff.org/policy [7] https://mail1.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/funlist

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