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foxconn stepping it up with the mozilla OS

by Romy Ilano

this is pretty neat... http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/ Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of new engineers [image: Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of new engineers] Image by Imaginechina/Corbis June 24, 2013 7:34 AM Ricardo Bilton <http://venturebeat.com/author/rbilton/> Add a Comment<http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/#disqus_thr…> inShare <http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/> [image: MobileBeat 2013] <http://mobilebeat2013.com> *July 9-10, 2013* San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now<http://mobilebeat2013-MB2013boilerplateTOP.eventbrite.com/> When Foxconn announced its support for Firefox OS<http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-firefox-os/>, it wasn’t kidding around. The manufacturing giant said this weekend that hopes to recruit 3,000 software engineers<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2013/06/21/2003565268> to help it develop for Mozilla’s mobile operating system in its software center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. To put that number in context, the Kaohsiung center currently houses 300 workers, making the addition of 3,000 new employees a pretty massive investment. (The company had initially expected to hire from 500 and 1,000 workers.) As Foxconn said in a statement: “There will be no budget limit for fostering software talent.” The move is an important one for Foxconn, which is moving away from simply making devices for big foreign companies like Apple. instead, the company is pursuing what it calls a “‘eight screens, one network, and one cloud’ strategy,” which essentially means that wants to have a greater role in both the hardware and software design of the devices made in its factories. To put it simply: The Foxconn of the future will be a very different beast from the one we’re used to.

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This Friday 6-7pm DIY Bio - Counter Culture Labs General meeting at Sudo Room

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All Sudo and CCL Hackers/Biohackers, Just a quick announcement that Counter Culture labs will be having our general meeting this *Friday (last friday of the month as per usual) at Sudo Room in Oakland from 6-7pm (just booked in the Calendar). * All biotech enthusiasts are welcome to join and discuss the exciting new developments with CCL (we're getting ready to move forward on a new biotech community lab space, with a financial projection/total member discussion this friday), some of the recent discussions (and advice) we've had from Genspace+Hacker Dojo and most importantly, a discussion on some of the VERY cool projects that our members are working on or will be starting up once our new space opens! *Some cool stats on Counter Culture labs:* - Since forming with our first official meeting at Sudo room approximately 6 months ago, Counter culture labs membership has *grown to 76 members* - Counter Culture labs now has weekly working meetings, which Patrik had the foresight to lead the development of and Ahnon has successfully hosted at her home for many weeks to build CCL's infrastructure - VERY strong social media presence - Ahnon and Mary have led CCL's social media strategy with incredible zest and Patrik launched our meet up group which has grown extremely rapidly! - Great website coming soon - Naomi volunteered to lead the development of our website and any offers of help are welcome! - CCL has attracted an incredible amount of Scientists, MD's, Business People, Tech and Biotech enthusiasts and could possibly be the largest pool of scientists and MD's of any biohacker space that we're aware of thus far. This bodes very well for the future of the innovative projects and classes that will be developed at CCL and hopefully we'll all be able to take part as a positive force for change in our local communities and on a larger scale through biotech and science innovation! *Staying in touch with Counter culture labs: * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/east-bay-diybio https://twitter.com/CountrCultrLabs https://www.facebook.com/CounterCultureLabs “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts Bye from Miami for now! Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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many thanks to workshop weekend!

by Marina Kukso

thanks again to gil and JD from workshop weekend for organizing two days of truly excellent workshops and leaving the table in sudo room cleaner than it was before you got there :) best, marina

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missing facilitator names for upcoming "today i learned" sessions

by Marina Kukso

hi all, on a related note to the june 29th mystery facilitator issue, we have a number of upcoming sessions that don't have a facilitator listed: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned when creating new today i learned workshops, please ensure that you include your name and contact info (can be whatever form you choose - doesn't have to be email) so that we can get in touch with you about promoting the session, any scheduling issues, etc. if you are the person (or know the person) who is doing the following sessions, please add your name or contact me: June 29: How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video July 27: Attacking And Securing Your Wireless Network August 17: Hacking Blackjack - marina

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Facilitator of June 29: How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, the facilitator of next saturday's TIL "How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video" isn't listed on the wiki ( https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_29:_How_to_showcase_your_3D_… ). if you are the person who is doing this workshop or you know the person who is doing this workshop, let me know so we can discuss promotion. - marina

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be safe tonight

by johanna faust

please. -- *Be seeing you.*

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Security -

by johanna faust

*An Engineer's Diuers Obseruations Concernynge * *Security * *Made After Some Contemplation Of** * *SudoRoom* *Campus, Disposition, Maintenance, &c,* *That Are Deserving* *Of A Most Full * *&* *Rapt * *Attention* ❝ *Crime prevention through environmental design* * (CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts. As of 2012, most implementations of CPTED occur solely within the built environment. Changing the areas we reside in to deter criminals from committing acts in our communities is the main goal of CPTED. With urban design and the planning that goes into the creation of new and reformation of older communities, citizens in these neighborhoods and places of business can feel safer at all hours.❞ [Read more<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design>at Wikipedia] * *(1)* *The Overhead Light In The Entryway* The Landlord MUST replace this light and make sure that its operational. There should be no hesitation: you ask, he replaces. It should have been done yesterday. *(2)* *The Trees Across The Street* Get the City of Oakland to trim back the trees (hopefully) just around the street-lamps across the street. There are three lights up on the building across the street, meant to light the street: it could be much better lit. See the double-plus-good discussion on Anti-Blight, below. *(3)* *The Parking Deck Next Door* The building owner may be the owner of the parking deck. If he does, getting the lights that are busted fixed is as easy as it was in number (1). He is required to do it. And he should know this, if he has owned property for more than a month. Because he should know first or secondhand that if he does not fix it there is a damn good possibility (based on precedent in case law) that he will be financially liable for damages resultant from any further criminal activity. *if he’s not the same owner, then it’s a research question whether a property owner owes a duty of care to next door neighbors. I guess that would be why there are blight laws, huh?* *which means, if he does nothing, SRers may have a case against him for what has already occurred (?).* If it’s things like lights in the alley then there are 10 lights. There were 7 that were spaced at regular intervals as you go down the alley, mounted 15- 20 feet up on the wall of the parking deck. If they were there they would be shining light down into that darkness from where they are no longer mounted about 20 feet up. Only one non-functional one remains. Once you see it you’ll be able to see where the others were. Then there are the three lights whose bulbs are burnt out where the bank drive thru is (was?) down at the other end of the alley. *(4)* *The Intersection Of 22nd & Broadway* Street-lamps each have two super bright bulbs by means of which they light up the night. This in turn enables people to see other people at a greater distance than they would otherwise, and avoid interaction if that is prudent. At the intersection of 22nd & Broadway one of the streetlight's bulbs is out. On the SR side of the street. This does in fact make things more dangerous. The city has to replace it, and pronto -- same deal -- we need to bug the fuck out of them until they do it. *Conclusion* Three different departments and one council-person; one or two building owners. Call them once a day until its done. it is a principle of sound design that good lighting is essential to a secure building. building codes are written stemming from, and reinforcing, this. There are, consequently, social, political, and legal mechanisms whereby certain actions that prevent and/or counteract blight can be taken. The point is to do so with the least amount of delay or opportunity for that action to devolve into inaction, which leads to more blight, and directly and indirectly may result in harm to people or property. Which we do not want. Which is the point. *Further Instruction* Is it a part of fire code? The fire department requires trees be trimmed back so that people will not be able to break into other people's houses without being seen... *A Note Concerning Insistent Constituents* Without delving into the ethical underpinnings, that ism, without agreeing or disagreeing with this social principle, one can see that it is empirically true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Applying this to the situation at hand, the axiom becomes: if you keep bugging them, they will do it. SR has a landlord, who may or may not be the building owner. It also has a council-person, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's control of urban blight, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's trimming of trees. A month of hearing from someone every daywill probably motivate the necessary action. They are limited in the resources that they have, including attention. A kindly daily reminder/report of status will help focus that attention. as far as organizing the once a day calling *it’s important to actually reach them* *[what if you can’t? –ed] [i would be willing to go in person –ed] * come up with talking points or even specific phrases, ( like republicans do) such as “constituent service” remind them that there have been “five events in the past month *[accuracy check, please –ed] *requiring police intervention at SR”* [as i/we understand it -- i do not have all the details myself –ed]* *- the pepper spraying incident * *- the car break-in* *- the stolen ipad* *- the being held up at gunpoint* *- the guy messing with the keypad trying to get in* maybe give a status report such as X,Y and Z await action; A is scheduled for <day>,<date>; B is underway; C has been promised, but no date has been scheduled/estimated/committed to * a secondhand bit of info, FWIW: where SR is, at the edge of Koreatown Northgate, or KoNo, there are no beat cops because supposedly Northgate has the lowest incidence of violent crime -- but this is only because the city does not count armed robbery as a violent crime. KoNo has the highest incidence of armed robbery.* *[fontsize emphasis mine –ed]* *Notes On Finding Property Owners* Get APN zoom in on map (assessors map at http://www.acgov.org/assessor/maps2.htm) to get the parcel # (APN) then you can get more details here also take APN and/or other details and feed them in to http://rechart1.acgov.org I forgotten the exact method of feeding the APN into the link above to find the current owner, mainly because I can’t remember right now what the right combo of leading, trailing, and extra middle zeros to trim is, but we hack right? 3 quick ideas *1. Brute force – * try the different combinations of zeroes etc *2. Use knowledge that you have of a property already – * and feed it in to retrieve that property’s info to backward engineer the right format *3. Go to courthouse – * and look on their property info computers. They rarely have a queue and seem to be available for just this kind of use by the public. Unrestricted access 8:30-2:30 or 4 except for passage through the courthouse entrance: metal-detector for your person and the x-ray machine for your effects. *[following are the results of the Speaker's engaging in the above research technique –ed]* Parking deck 8-648-16-3 [Owned by “exempt public agency” per Assessor’s, so very likely city of Oakland] Parcel of SR building 8-648-1 Parcel facing Broadway at other end of block from SR 8-648-18 Middle of block and alley next to SR building 8-648-17 Having found out that the City of Oakland owns the parking deck next door, and they’re responsible for its blight makes me both more and less optimistic about whether they alone will fix the blight depending on my estimation of their willingness to fix their own problems. OTOH, since they are responsible to the citizenry in general, and they have geographic knowledge of problems via mapping crime and they are the landlords of the blighted property they arguably already have the kind of legal liability for what has happened recently, the kind that was mentioned above only in prospect for SR’s landlord. As I understand it, it’s established law that if a government is performing a function that isn’t unique to government (the set of which seems to be shrinking), that it has no sovereign immunity for doing it poorly. Please forgive the upcoming caps: WARNING: GO TO AN ACTUAL LAWYER IF YOU WANT A LEGAL OPINION RENDITIONED RENDERED. I only offer my opinion which is not withheld pending ransom retainer. (Sorry for the caps –CYA.) The point is court action possibly offers another stick (but it is a blunt instrument). A carrot might be to offer to help correct the situation, but that would be poisonous to relations with city unions, probably, even if a qualified person could be fielded. The greater point you already know well and practice: to think (sideways or whatever direction) to the extent you believe the issues are salient. Hope my modest thought offering is helpful. *see also wikipedia:* *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design* *and its reading list:* • International CPTED Association • European Designing Out Crime Association • Stichting Veilig Ontwerp en Beheer (the Netherlands) • California Designing Out Crime Association • Crime prevention and the built environment. • Washington State University CPTED Annotated Bibliography. Url last accessed May 6, 2006. • Oscar Newman, *Creating Defensible Space* (pdf) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996). Url last accessed May 6, 2006. • CPTED LinkedIn Discussion Group • SmartCode Module on CPTED • Secured by Design (UK) *N.B.: These are the near verbatim notes I took of an impromptu talk. They have been reviewed and edited by both the Scribe and the Speaker, & unless bracketed & followed by attribution, (as in "[...in respect of actionability alone these ideas are robust indeed. –ed.]") represent the ideas mostly in the exact words of the Speaker.*

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writers group - is anyone into this theory stuff?

by Romy Ilano

i was hesitating before sending this but then, maybe this will appeal to people. i'll not send stuff like this if it produces a strong negative reaction. it's a nice change of pace after all these kickstarters and porn discussions. https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/ Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance December 5-6, 2013 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Proposals due: Friday, 23 August 2013 This conference will bring together artists, activists and academics to stage new conversations about women of color and women of color feminisms across cultural forms too often perceived to be wholly distinct – hip hop and punk. Both hip hop and punk have received significant scholarly attention since the 1970s, but despite their near-simultaneous emergence in global cities wrought anew through multiple, devastating wars and global economic restructuring, rarely are the two brought into conversation with each the other. With this conference, we hope to disrupt status quo narratives and present wholly new analytic and aesthetic investigations about race, sex, and the creation of categories of deviance; race, gender, and sexuality in cultural studies and the politics of aesthetics; queer of color critique and women of color feminist epistemologies; social movements, activism, and art; norms of respectability, morality, and propriety and their politics of value; and, systems and structures of violence and human value. Perceiving a need for a greater nuanced comparative analyses and collaborations across disciplines or fields of inquiry, itself a topic of ongoing scholarship, this conference aims to break ground on what that looks, feels, and sounds like. We invite presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress, new media, workshops, panels, related to (or building on) the following themes/issues: • Genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and/or punk across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete genealogy, or singular origin story, for each) • Inter-genre corporeal practices and body aesthetics • Theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and/or punk cultures • Critical conversations on hip hop and/or punk organizing and disorganization • New media, web series, blogs, zines, and ciphers • Critiques and political polemics that imagine futurity or negativity (and the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms) • Disruptive youth cultures and oppositional activism, or their lack (e.g., can we necessarily presume disruption or opposition? what conditions are required? through what measures do we recognize these?) • The ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances (including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures) • Art and music inspired by hip hop and punk collaborations • Experimental hip hop/punk methodologies and pedagogies What to send: For individual proposals: Please send a 350-word (maximum) abstract of your conference contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference co-organizers. For collective/panel proposals: Please send a 300-word (maximum) description of the overall goal, vision, and content for the collective contribution. In addition, please provide no more than a 250-word abstract of each individual’s contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference co-organizers. All proposals must also include the following information: 1. Author(s) name, affiliation(s), and brief bio 2. Email address or preferred contact 3. Title of presentation 4. Key words Send proposals to HipHopAndPunkFeminisms(a)gmail.com with the following subject heading: abstract submission. Conference Co-organizers: Ruth Nicole Brown Karen Flynn Fiona I.B. Ngô Mimi Thi Nguyen All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a collection Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance.

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Open Source Printer Drivers? (like OpenWRT for printers)

by Matthew Meier

Random Thought: Has anyone ever attempted to make an open source printer firmware? Does anyone know if there are any active projects? -Wolfy

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TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM Albany Community Center

by Steve Berl

I meant to send this earlier, but spaced it out. If any sudoers are interested in either bringing in some broken stuff to fix, or in being a Fixit Coach, come on down to Albany on Sunday afternoon. If that doesn't work for you, we will be at the Temescal Branch of the Oakland Public Library on Saturday, June 22 from 12-3. See you there, Steve ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Peter Mui* Date: Saturday, June 8, 2013 Subject: TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM Albany Community Center To: fixit-clinic(a)googlegroups.com Hi Fixit Coaches: We're a "Go" for Fixit Clinic LII (#52) TOMORROW Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM at the Albany Community Center: here's the Fixit Clinic Coach lineup as far as I know: Elanor Jeff (and Samuel) Jessie Kent Mark Putzer (Chelle's Dad) Martin Peter Richard Roy Steve Any other coaches: please feel free to join in on the fun! I plan to get there about 12:30. See you there! Cheers, -Peter Peter Mui petermui(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'petermui(a)gmail.com');> 510 540 8318 / 408 647 5790 1715 Eola St. Berkeley CA 94703 --------------------------- Fixit Clinic at Albany Community Center Fix your broken stuff -- Or at least learn more about it disassembling it. Bring your broken, non-functioning things -- electronics, appliances, computers, toys, etc.-- for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We'll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family-friendly event: children are heartily invited! WHAT: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) at Albany Community Center WHEN: Sunday, June 9, 2013 1-4PM WHERE: Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA http://www.albanyca.org HOW: Bring: 1) your broken or non-working thing (carry-in only: no oversize items) 2) accessories and tools you already own that might be helpful (e.g. phillips head screwdriver) 3) any knowledge or advance research you've done on the issue 4) boxes, bags and/or small containers to organize (and carry away) parts. COST: Free! WHY: To make friends, learn how things work, and have fun! Facebook: "Like" Fixit Clinic: www.fixitclinic.org Join the Fixit Clinic Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/fixitfan Google+: Add Fixit Clinic to your circles and join the Fixit Clinic Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111525193946026734520/ WANNA HELP OTHERS at Fixit Clinic? Email petermui(a)gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'petermui(a)gmail.com');> --------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fixit Clinic" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fixit-clinic+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fixit-clinic%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com');>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -steve

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TIL - anyone interested in leading GIT for writers, non hackers (July 7)

by Romy Ilano

Hi - I probably won't be able to lead the GIT Version Control for Writers and Non Hackers on July 7th. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#July_7:_GIT_Version_Control_for_N… Is anyone else willing to step up to the plate? If not I will just delete this. I saw someone post https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_29:_How_to_showcase_your_3D_… This sounds suspiciously like an existing private company that is sniffing for VC money - If it is, could you please disclose this?

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EFF: Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad.

by Eddan Katz

another legal aspect of the sudo-mesh project is patent busting prior art research. ... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patent… > JUNE 21, 2013 | BY JULIE SAMUELS > Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad. Help Us Protect Mesh Networking. > Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was invaluable. We're still waiting to hear from the Patent Office on those applications, but our work is not done. We need your help again, this time to challenge dangerous patent applications that threaten mesh networking technology. > > Mesh networking allows users to form their own networks without a centralized infrastructure, making them inherently resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. Given recent revelations showing widespread surveillance of the phone calls and online activities of innocent Americans and others around the globe, the development of mesh networks more important than ever. Governments and commercial actors have taken advantage of intermediaries as “weak links” in order to censor, surveil, and disrupt communications and social movements. Already in the United States, cell towers have been deactivated in response to planned protest, while activists in countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria have suffered massive blackouts that shut down all access from within the country to the wider Internet. Mesh networking technology can help activists fight back. > > Wireless Mesh Networks > > For more than a decade the open-source community has been developing networks that use multi-hop connectivity to bypass the current ISP-dominated model of Internet access. These Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have tremendous potential for enabling the free flow of information without exposure to censorship and monitoring. Because they lack a central access point, mesh networks are also harder to take down, as the removal of one node won’t terminate the entire network. And WMNs, by not relying on infrastructure provided by ISPs, can provide connectivity in areas where that infrastructure is inaccessible, damaged, or prohibitively expensive. > > The open source community has developed innovative tools and applications of mesh networking technology including the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol developed by Freifunk, a system for internet access in remote areas of Afghanistan and Kenya (FabFi), and community controlled telephone systems in Nigeria, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, East Timor, and Brazil (VillageTelco). Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain and former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently advocated for the use of mesh networks to provide phone access during times of crisis when mobile networks are overloaded. > > The Problem > > Wireless Mesh Networking is still in its nascent stages, and the innovations and experimentation of the open source community are playing a vital role in advancing the technology. However, there has also been significant proprietary and military interest in the technology, and companies are seeking patents in many areas of WMN already explored by the open source community. We unfortunately know what can happen when overbroad patents get granted—the rise of patent trolls, lawsuits that can threaten growing businesses, and threats that target entire areas of technology. We don't want to see that happen to mesh networking. > > This is where you come in! > > We have identified several patent applications that we believe particularly threaten the free development of mesh networking technology. There is a danger that these patents, if granted, will lock up the basic mesh network infrastructure and restrict advancement of and access to the technology. > > We have been using the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure, which gives third parties an opportunity to tell patent examiners when they think a patent application shouldn't be granted. The procedure requires those third parties to submit publications predating the application that prove the ideas in the patent were not novel. > > Which is why we need your help. We are again partnering with Ask Patents so you can help us identify the best prior art to reign in these applications. While prior art for issued patents must date back many years, these are recently filed applications for which relatively recent publications may be helpful. Look at each “Request for Prior Art” we post to learn the exact priority date. > > Working together we can protect the mesh networking community from overbroad, illegitimate patents that threaten to stifle innovation and access to technologies that preserve personal freedoms. > > APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING WIRELESS MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS > > ADAPTING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR LAYER 3 MESH NETWORKS > > MESH NETWORK GATEWAY AND SECURITY SYSTEM

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A Public Service Announcement re: Sudo Bike

by Jenny Ryan

Tonight, we found the sudo room bike locked up outside the door on 22nd St. It had only a light chain locking it to the post. Then an evil man stole it! >.< ... Just kidding. Marc cut the chain with our boltcutters from home and brought it back up to the space. Please don't do this with the lovely bike Matt put together for us all with his very own sweat, tears, and freecycled parts! Or paint it hot pink! With 3D printed flair! On agenda for next week: Bike protocol :) Be well, 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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Mesh node map!

by Marc Juul

sudoers! With your support, the plan to mesh the world is progressing rapidly. If you are interested in becoming part of the mesh by hosting a mesh node in the near future, then please add yourself to the node map: http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ Hosting a node involves: 1. Letting us mount a router on your roof, or on the side of your house, or pointing out your window (they come in different sizes, but even the big ones are pretty small and unobtrusive) and run a single cable (choice of colors!) to your existing modem / access point / router. 2. Paying for the routers power usage. They use only 8 watts of power, which is less than 5.9 kilowatt-hours a month, which at an average bay area price of 22.8 cents each comes to about $1.35 a month. 3. Optionally paying for the router! $25 to $110 depending on distance to nearest other mesh node. 4. Optionally donating e.g. 10% internet bandwidth to the mesh if you already have an internet connection (strongly encouraged!). Add yourseeeelf!!!: http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ -- Marc Mesh the planet!

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full video of documentary on food justice in bay area

by Marina Kukso

hey all, a few of us went to a screening this evening of edible city, a documentary about the food justice movement in the bay area (and what was particularly awesome is that the filmmakers and lots of the people in the movie were at the screening and answered questions!). the whole movie is available here: http://ediblecitythemovie.com/help-us-grow/ - marina

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deformed cubesat

by Hol Gaskill

this is what happens when your carrier rocket crashes before your satellite gets up there: http://i.space.com/images/i/000/030/059/original/Phonesat-damaged-engineers… from story: http://www.space.com/21657-cubesats-test-launch-nasa.html could we build one that would hold up?

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Fwd: 2013 Annual WIKNIC This Sunday 6/23 at Lake Merritt!

by Marina Kukso

hey friends, if you are interested in all things wiki-related, join us for the 2013 annual wiknic this sunday by the gazebo at lake merritt for an in-person bay area wiki meetup. details below. - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:02 PM Subject: 2013 Annual WIKNIC This Sunday 6/23 at Lake Merritt! To: "oaklandwiki(a)googlegroups.com" <oaklandwiki(a)googlegroups.com>, oaklandwiki-announcements(a)googlegroups.com Hi everyone, Join all kinds of wiki enthusiasts, Oakland Wikiers, Wikipedians and beyond, for this year's Wiknic 2013! The Wiknic is a global annual tradition put on by Wikipedia volunteers to bring together volunteers who live near each other so that they can meet. This year, things are spicing up as Wikipedians and Oakland Wikiers will be co-organizing the event. Join us at 12:34PM on Sunday 6/23 near the gazebo at Lake Merritt! More details here: http://oaklandwiki.org/2013-06-23_Wiknic Tell your friends and see you soon! Marina

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Any sudoroom skaters ???

by Romy Ilano

I ran into a guy who visits sudoroom at the west oakland skatepark. The little kids are rad here!!! The park is a lot nicer and prettier since I first went two or three years ago Start a sudoroom nerd skate team!! --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Anyone at sudo?

by Marina Kukso

Door.sudo is returning an error.

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BEER IN THE FRIDGE?

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

Is it beer? Yes. Subiir batch 4, the best brew as of yet. Hoppy and well-carbonated IPA. It pops. Is it in the fridge? Yes. The drawer (mid-left, with a big sign) is now the place to get your beer-fix. Is it free? *No!* It's not free to make, and the hacker-brewers are not in a position to gift it. Please put in $2 per bottle in the little box in the beer-drawer (you will see it). It covers our expenses, and any amount beyond that, a) to invest in equipment for brewing larger batches and b) to sudoroom. Make a great day. Beerified. *Morten*

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6/19 Meeting Notes

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, we had a totally different kind of meeting tonight! it was simultaneous with dinner, with all of us loosely sitting and/or standing around the table, with informal facilitation, a rarely consulted agenda with a final check over the agenda to fill in notes and see if we missed any items. unfortunately, we still didn't have the financials included in the meeting, and a few things had not been followed up on from last time, but that's okay. we're getting better ;) so here are the rough rough notes!: *Check out the Meeting archives here: ** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes*<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Minutes> ''June 19 2013 Attending: [List Attendees] Len, Jenny, Max, Jordan, Bill, Ray, Timon, Marina, Jamie, Alex, Morten, Troy, Sarah, Sam *==Introductions==* ''*Let's get to know each other!*'' Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] * Introduction to purpose and format of this meeting *Brief personal intros (< 20 sec per person)* * [Go-around topic] performed 1/3 of the way in once we had a lot of people and enough people who didn't already know each other. *Icebreaker (10 min)* * [Pair/small group discussion on a topic.] eating dinner. *==Announcements (Consent Agenda)==* *''Use this section to briefly announce and consent to items that need no more details or discussion''* Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] (< 8 minutes) performed haphazardly throughout the night! :( :\ - This Sat/Sun: Workshop Weekend! workshopweekend.net - Patrick - clay. Marina and Hilary - computer in a box. - They still need volunteers! Volunteers get to attend workshops for free. - Cryptoparty debrief - 30-35 people! - lots of stuff installed! - good teacher to learner ratio. - two sections: email security (pgp keys) and mobile security (apps to secure phone messages etc.). also presentations about tor and anonymity vs encryption. - what was the advertising strategy? - DM on twitter to OO and they retweeted - physical flyers all around - for future events: - more advanced planning would bring more people - better pitch asking for donations for sudo - Sudo Kids: Any interest in coordinating further on Tues. nights? - Sudo-POSSE Party in cooperation with BACE Timebank. 3rd Fridays avalable? , first one in July. (Potluck Orientation Skillshare Swapmeet Event)- Lets invite public school, democracy project, oakland-wiki,... for a Meta Networking Event? - Sunday June 9 @ 7pm - Cleaning of Natural Decay - Use http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/ (ask Matt for admin access) - Tweet any space details @sudoroom - Email info(a)sudoroom.org - Interested in more inter-hackerspaces collab? Join Open Hack Night every Monday at 7pm @LOL (1234 23rd Avenue, San Antonio (east Oakland)). LOL is a POC, Queer and Women-organized hackerspace. It is radically inclusive--EVERYONE is a desired member! Their organizers want us to do more stuff at each others' spaces. :] :] - BACH event debrief: June 15th @ Noisebridge - BACH info: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces - Sudo Bike - ask Matt about borrowing it for a set period of time, or for donations to "Sudo Bike" - Every Thurs. at 7PM: Oakland Wiki meetup! http://www.oaklandwiki.org - Editathon at MLK Cafe - RADIO!!!! - sign up for a slot at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApmrUsz7z5DodDVaZnJ4TW1ndC1jd1… - contact marina for training, or test out the documentation: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_Radio - Counter Culture Labs (formerly known as East Bay BioHackers) - planning meeting last Friday, updates? *=== ACTION ITEMS ===* *''Use this section to review old tasks and propose new tasks. Keep topics brief - if topics are large, they can spillover into later discussion, after-meeting small group discussion, listserv discussion, or next meeting discussion''* Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] (< 30 mins) *Old Action Items:* - Door Access: Current status and next steps - keypad is down - unclear what the next steps are and who is working on this. - rfid tag is up - this appears to be the only consistently functional method of entry! - door.sudoroom.org goes down sometimes - unclear source of the problem (maybe? maybe i misunderstood!). - Document process for editing access codes & whether it's possible to have temporary access codes (Andrew) - Marina will follow up with Andrew - keypad is still down! this issue is secondary priority until the keypad is back up. - Add robots.txt for sudo room (open item for anyone to take on) MATT - not sure! - Not done - Find out who has the key to the cash box :) (Marina) - not done! ;_; - Ray will spearhead putting together curriculum for youth in the community - Bill suggests a workshop on security - this happened! it was awesome! such good publicity and an excellent job taking advantage of a current event to help people act on their principles! :D - Jenny will start a spreadsheet for churches, schools, and other community groups that we can do outreach to for people to sign up to meet with specific organizations. - not sure? - Tim will share the map of potential properties available for purchase. - no word from Tim :( - Jenny will write to School Factory about sponsorship opportunities. - Jenny spoke with Mitch at BACH about this...see notes below. *New Action Items:* * Jenny to call bank to find out about online access * Max to coordinate further with RPS * EVERYONE: CLEAN and encourage others to clean! Model good behavior and suggest cleaning to other people. It is our responsibility to help everyone in our community grow in their ability to act cooperatively :D * RE: School Factory. Mitch indicated that they were maybe not able to keep their space, so it's unclear whether they would still be able to fiscally sponsor us. *Postponed*: ''*items here are not for discussion, only for reference for later meetings so that we don't forget about them :)*'' *[Postponed] Talk to Danny O'Brien, intro from JC to Jordan, invite him to come to a future sudo meeting to share insight! **Straight to the source--but out of the country :( Will be back later this month and Jordan will follow up then. *[Postponed until necessary] Eddan - Reference letter from George *[Postponed until necessary] Jenny sync with Troy on library - Not yet but they will *Set up date for label-printing organizing of stuff event - Jenny!1 -troy **still need to set a date *[Postponed until someone throws Romy a massive love bomb] Romy to lead diagram for Articles of Association amendment *Romy to work with Troy to turn the articles into a flow diagram. Diagrams and drawings of sudo room members being passed around. *[Postponed until ?] Add articles to github (gitorious!!!!!!!? - https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room) <https://gitorious.org/+sudo-room%29> - Yardena is going to put these articles up *==Fiscal Solvency==* ''*In this section we review our current financial situation and budget, approve monthly budgets, and discuss any other finance-related issues.*'' Exchequer: We need a new exchequer Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] - Setting up co-exchequers - The future of the ex-chequer (items suggested from 5/29 meeting): - New exchequer (tasks): - Get on bank account - Follow up on deposits made - Presents budget during meetings - Coordinates with scribe to make budget available to all members [transparency] - Determine if per-member dues can be reduced - Forecasting longer-term budget - Exchequer tasks that could easily be done do-acraticly: - Coordinate new ways of paying - Investigate alternative sources of income - Encourage donations - Infographics? Coordinate with Romy :D - Bank Links - Documentation: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_room/banking (out of date?) - Update information about login to bank (might make this private) (20 mins) ** Pay your dues :)* * Review and consensus process: ** Fiscal Solvency Spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12x3ZUhDUmx2… ** Rent: $1500; Utilities: $220; Services: $50 **Target membership contribution: $88 per member (based on approx. 30 people) *==Amendments to the Articles of Association==* ''*In this section we discuss and review any proposed amendments to the articles of association: **https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association * <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association>'' Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] *==Conflict Resolution==* ''*In this section we address any conflicts that have gone through the conflict resolution process as described here: ** https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Reso… *<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Reso…> '' Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] Test Driven Governance: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Governance_tests *==Discussion==* ''Add any discussion or other agenda item spillover to this section'' Co-Facilitator: [List Co-Facilitator] - Friends, Jamie and Alex, from Rock Paper Scissors are interested in cataloguing and digitizing their zine library. - We discussed best practices and ideas and agreed that we would like to share a single cataloguing system if there is a good open solution. - Bill showed off the holdout's zine cataloguing tool on drupal. Its called Permazine and will be launching soon. - RPS is happy to have it hosted on our servers. They want to do more stuff together! - Their top requirements are: - End user experience for catalog entry and search - Multi concurrent entry - Folksonomy support - Sudo would ideally want an open source solution, but understand that's tough for cataloging software. - Jamie will: Contact the creator of permazine to see if that will suit their needs. - Max will: see if oclc will still give us wssl for free, and otherwise look at whether - SELC was interested in potentially renting space. SELC is moving into LOLspace 2-3 days a week and are subsidizing all of LOLspace's rent! - JC suggested idea of startup incubator in the office behind the reception area. He is looking for partners. He has a business and is currently discussing this issue with his employees. - Jenny happened to meet a masseuse from Santa Cruz who may be interested in an office at 2141. ==Post-Meeting Small Group Meetups and Discussion== Co-Facilitators: YOU! & ? * Adding labels to bottles :) *Scribe:** Convert notes to wiki page and email the list with a link to the notes page and a succinct list of highlights (including action items).*

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Re: [sudo-discuss] state of the room

by Yardena Cohen

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > looks good in here - thanks to whoever spent some time on it recently...are people still talking about cubbies or was that shot down conclusively or is it just lacking the initiative to procure? Any objections to putting that unassembled rack shelving up to the right of the milliscope? I see a pretty wicked arcade box coming together too...good to be back. Hol, will you be around later today? I have a lot of ideas for use of the space and would like to collaborate with you on it. I haven't been around the past couple weeks because of transportation issues (lost my car) but will try my best to make it there today. In particular, Romy and I bought that 5-shelf heavy duty set for the closet. It is meant to be the first of several such units (this one being only a test). My vision is that after we assemble a few of those in the far corner of the closet (to the left of the radio room) all the crap can go on those, and then in the newly cleared space we can stack those grey metal boxes as lockers - the ones I originally wanted to bolt to the wall. All we need to do is replace the locks on those! They are big but I figure people can share them for a flat rate per box. I'm less enthusiastic about having shelving out in the common area. I think we should try to better use the vertical space in the closet and let the common area be nice, clean working and meeting spaces.

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LocalWiki looking for interns!

by Marina Kukso

Hi all, LocalWiki has just started an Internship Program! We are now accepting interns for the summer and fall in development, fundraising, community building, writing & storytelling, and marketing/design. More details at http://localwiki.org/jobs/internships/ - Marina

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slim meeting minutes

by Matthew Senate

Announcements * Bill Cryptoparty - 1pm Sunday, at sudo room (2141 Broadway) ** How do you secure your information from prying eyes including the NSA!, coffeeshop cookie-jar theif!, malicious agents! Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. ** Not really part of a series, but we've had one in the past at Tech Liminal (~40 ppl). ** Short notice, but trying to harness energy and outrage around PRISM, blarney, etc in a way that's productive and insightful. * BACH ** This saturday at 5pm at Noisebridge (18th and mission in SF), BACH Roundtable. ** Read the notes: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces ** Join the list: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/bayareahackerspaces *Counter Culture Labs (formerly known as East Bay BioHackers) - planning meeting this Friday, discussing our by-laws, we're a new biohacking and science hacking space ** Check previous meeting for address: http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/ *** New posts on their way * Sunday at 5pm, writer's meetup at Sudo Room * Space behind elevator and adjacent (sharing a wall) with sudo room, near the bathrooms (former doctor's office) is available for rent, $1200 / mo, what to do? // Matt

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Re: [sudo-discuss] ATTENTION -- MUST READ

by johanna faust

i was not witness, GtwoG was: as i understand it a man was fiddling with the keypad trying to get in, looked up and was hastened off by the camera -- which G was happy was there to get his face -- --which it was not, as it had again been unplugged, because there are two usb slots and three items that have to go in them, and I am told a USB hub would lead to conflicts. so the keypad and RFID win, and we have no camera over the keypad, which means ppl just get buzzed in OR the door gets propped open.* which has to stop.* On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Johanna, > > I didn't know that something happened on Saturday. Would you feel > comfortable sharing more? > > Marina > On Jun 19, 2013 7:37 AM, "johanna faust" <female.faust(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> * >> * >> *ATTENTION:* >> >> *CAMERA, KEYPAD NEEDS TO WORK. DOOR NEEDS TO BE CLOSED. AT. ALL. TIMES.* >> >> *PERIOD.*** <<<<---------------period >> >> >> >> to that end, can we get another raspberry pie downstairs ? >> >> ASAP? >> >> >> >> **AHEM** >> >> paying someone $30 an evening for being the doorperson, is the only >> acceptable alternative to having these two working. there has already been >> another incident, last Saturday. AFAIK this makes FIVE. >> >> what are we waiting for?** >> >> i will try to drum up another plan b, which would be of neccessity a plan >> b that i understand, and IMHO inferior to a reasonably accomplished senior >> Sudoer's plan b. >> >> one more thing: >> >> considering that this list is public, i wonder if it isn't a breach of >> security for me to go into further detail? as the configuration, know, >> becomes vulnerable. >> >> >> >> *you guys are awesome, and have enabled a religious experience (no shit) >> -- a rite of passage for me. >> **i suppose i myself was waiting, among other things, to better >> understand how things work in this collective.* i think the success curve >> has flattened on that one. so if i am wrong, i trust someone will correct >> me. >> -- >> *Be seeing you.* >> >> >> >> -- >> *Be seeing you.* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> -- *Be seeing you.*

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space

by Hol Gaskill

makes alot more sense than pulling barstock around! glad to see we're moving forward on this with an ISS demo - i think the second prospective space mining company DSI pins their whole business model on 3D printing the parts close to the ore. Jun 1, 2013 11:53:14 AM, steveberl(a)gmail.com wrote: 3-D Printers in Space. Cool. >-steve > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: >NASA News Services nasa_subscriptions(a)service.govdelivery.com> > Date: Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:21 PM >Subject: Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space > > > You are subscribed to Space Station News for NASA. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space 05/31/2013 12:00 AM EDT > In preparation for a future where parts and tools can be printed on demand in space, NASA and Made in Space Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., have joined to launch equipment for the first 3-D microgravity printing experiment to the International Space Station. This e-mail update was generated automatically based on your subscriptions. Some updates may belong to more than one category, resulting in duplicate notices. Questions? Contact Us STAY CONNECTED: SUBSCRIBER SERVICES: >Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Help This message has been sent by NASA Headquarters · Washington, DC 20546 > > >_______________________________________________ >sudo-discuss mailing list >sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >

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new occuption in SF: #gezigardens

by Marina Kukso

hey friends, morten is building a yurt ( https://twitter.com/OccupyOakland/status/342041218806599681) over at a new occupation site in sf: gezi gardens. folks there want to build an ecovillage, which i believe is relevant to the interests of at least some sudoers. more info at http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/06/04/former-hayes-valley-farm-site-occup… on twitter at #gezigardens. - marina

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ATTENTION -- MUST READ

by Max Klein

OK point taken. New top priority for tomorrow AM is to troubleshoot the keypad. Can you please use less red, CAPS and smaller text size next time. My adrenal glans can only take so much. M ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com> > To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:36:58 -0700 > Subject: [sudo-discuss] ATTENTION -- MUST READ > * > * > *ATTENTION:* > > *CAMERA, KEYPAD NEEDS TO WORK. DOOR NEEDS TO BE CLOSED. AT. ALL. TIMES.* > > *PERIOD.*** <<<<---------------period > > > > to that end, can we get another raspberry pie downstairs ? > > ASAP? > > > > **AHEM** > > paying someone $30 an evening for being the doorperson, is the only > acceptable alternative to having these two working. there has already been > another incident, last Saturday. AFAIK this makes FIVE. > > what are we waiting for?** > > i will try to drum up another plan b, which would be of neccessity a plan > b that i understand, and IMHO inferior to a reasonably accomplished senior > Sudoer's plan b. > > one more thing: > > considering that this list is public, i wonder if it isn't a breach of > security for me to go into further detail? as the configuration, know, > becomes vulnerable. > > > > *you guys are awesome, and have enabled a religious experience (no shit) > -- a rite of passage for me. > **i suppose i myself was waiting, among other things, to better > understand how things work in this collective.* i think the success curve > has flattened on that one. so if i am wrong, i trust someone will correct > me. > -- > *Be seeing you.* > > > > -- > *Be seeing you.* > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >

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Crypto Party (Sunday)

by Ryan

Hey cryptographers! I've attached a flyer for the event. Let me know what obvious items I've no doubt left out.

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Maui Makers - B9creator

by rusty lindgren

Hey everyone, While I was in Maui I thought I would check out the only hacker/maker space, so I caught up with Jerry Isdale of Maui Makers yesterday, and helped assemble the B9creator 3d printer. Maui Makers just lost their location, so I drove out to Haiku, where all the gear is now. Haiku is close to the East side of the Island, and it's more remote, rainy and generally beautiful like the rest of the island. In Haiku, they had some really cool tools, like a laser cutter. I have a decent picture of a cool LED backlit wood box that Tony and Jerry built with a laser cutter. It was actually really not too hard to do(although, I mostly just took pictures). The directions are kind of like lego directions, you get pdfs for different components, there are some written explanations with pictures, and then a final assembly doc,...all and all, the design plans were clear and straight-forward and all lego-like. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see any printing, because the printing solution didn't come with the printer. So, If you do get one of those printers you need to order the printing solution. With the printing solution, the whole set-up is about 1300 bucks. It's a bit on the pricey side for a modest 3d printer, but it looks pretty high-quality when you unpack everything. The parts were solid in my hand and it includes a projector, so it doesn't seem overpriced. Anyway, I'll send those images around when I get back... I might stay a bit longer, but I haven't told my boss that yet ;) Heh, boss... what a weird word. I don't think they have that out here... very mellow. Cheers, Rusty **

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ATTENTION -- MUST READ

by johanna faust

* * *ATTENTION:* *CAMERA, KEYPAD NEEDS TO WORK. DOOR NEEDS TO BE CLOSED. AT. ALL. TIMES.* *PERIOD.*** <<<<---------------period to that end, can we get another raspberry pie downstairs ? ASAP? **AHEM** paying someone $30 an evening for being the doorperson, is the only acceptable alternative to having these two working. there has already been another incident, last Saturday. AFAIK this makes FIVE. what are we waiting for?** i will try to drum up another plan b, which would be of neccessity a plan b that i understand, and IMHO inferior to a reasonably accomplished senior Sudoer's plan b. one more thing: considering that this list is public, i wonder if it isn't a breach of security for me to go into further detail? as the configuration, know, becomes vulnerable. *you guys are awesome, and have enabled a religious experience (no shit) -- a rite of passage for me. **i suppose i myself was waiting, among other things, to better understand how things work in this collective.* i think the success curve has flattened on that one. so if i am wrong, i trust someone will correct me. -- *Be seeing you.* -- *Be seeing you.*

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Oakland Wiki Editathon at MLK Cafe in North Oakland Tues. 6/25

by Marina Kukso

Hi all, Please join us for an Oakland Wiki<http://oaklandwiki.org/Longfellow_Editathon>editathonnext Tues. 6/25 at MLK Cafe <http://oaklandwiki.org/MLK_Caf%C3%A9> in North Oakland<http://oaklandwiki.org/North_Oakland> . You may not know this, but sudo room is Oakland Wiki HQ (we meet every Thursday night at sudo at 7PM). If you want to learn more about the wiki, learn how to edit, and collaborate with others to add fun and interesting content to the wiki, join us at MLK Café <http://oaklandwiki.org/MLK_Caf%C3%A9> at 7pm on 6/25 for the first community editathon based in the Longfellow<http://oaklandwiki.org/Longfellow>neighborhood. This event will coincide with the weekly community Happy Hour hosted by MLK Café. Join us! Bring your books and/or your knowledge and we'll teach you how to share your knowledge on the wiki. Feel free to ask sudoers Dennis, Ivan, Diana, Julio, myself and many others if you have any questions (and please invite your friends!). - Marina

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Workshop Weekend this Sat & Sun 6/22-23 at Sudo Room!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Fellow Sudoer Hilary and I will be taking a computer apart this Sunday as part of Workshop Weekend! Please join us! Explore electronics, decorate a cake, create your own vanilla extract, learn to solder, and make a tie-dye t-shirt -- all in one weekend! Workshop Weekend, the festival of learning offering more than 20 short, hands-on workshops, returns on June 22-23 in downtown Oakland. Workshop Weekend is a family-friendly event for kids and adults alike, bringing together arts, crafts and engineering workshops, all taught by the bay area’s top makers. Pay $40 and take as many workshops as you like! I even have a coupon code to get $10 off admission: MARINA613 Come on down and take a hands-on workshop and make something cool! Here’s a list of some of the workshops being offered: - Hands-on Genetic Engineering - Learn DIY Doll-making - Taste Hacking - Computer Dissection - Arduino Automation Basics - Hands-on Nutrition - Make a Speaker from Scratch - DIY Coffee Roasting - Hands-on Anatomy - Build a Beetlebot Robot - Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream - Arduino Programming - ...and many more! Register online at http://workshopweekend.net/oakland/catalog - Marina

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Sudo-dscuss bounces (too many resipients) who can help?

by Patrick Schmidt

who can help with the list bouncing? thanks, Patrick

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Onion Pi Tutorial

by Ryan

A sweet tutorial on creating a dedicated TOR router with a Raspi! http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/

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Crowdsourced Radiation Mapping

by Ryan

You guys may have heard about this group doing DIY gieger counters and crowdsourcing their data collection to aggregate radiation levels in the followup to the Fukushima Disaster. They just reached 10,000,000 individual data points! Cool project! http://blog.safecast.org/2013/06/over-10000000-data-points/

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List with sudoroom projects only

by Romy Ilano

Is there a list discussing Sudo room projects only? I'd like to filter out all these kick starter and non profit projects by people outside of sudoroom --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Long Shot... but did anyone find a bracelet a few months ago at sudo room

by Andrew

A few months ago I lost a bracelet, it had a black strap with small dark stone in the center ( a black opal http://www.opal33.com/images/blackopalpic.jpg ). If anyone knows what I'm talking about, or happened to have found said bracelet that would be awesome. Thanks, Andrew -- --------- http://www.vagabondballroom.com

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Tabletop SEM Demo 6/17-6-27, Merritt College

by Jake

Hi - I just wanted to announce that Merritt Microscopy is having a hands-on demo of the Hitachi TM3000 Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope, Mondays through Thursdays starting this week, June 17th to June 20 and next week, June 24 to June 27. The event is open to the general public, with absolutely no prior microscope experience needed, and whatever samples you wish to bring. Hence, if there are any fungi or anything else you've been wanting to get EM images of, this is a great opportunity to do so. Here's the poster I put together, and some maps giving the location of campus. We are on the second floor of the D building, in Room D243. http://www.scribd.com/doc/148359131/Hitachi-SEM-Demo http://goo.gl/maps/v8v4m http://www.merritt.edu/sites/default/files/campusmap2008.pdf (Note that the second map is oriented with South on the up side, which is the reverse orientation of other maps.) Peter __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: * New Members 2 Visit Your Group Visit our website at http://bayareamushrooms.org/ Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use • Send us Feedback . [IMAGE] __,_._,___

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Fwd: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

by Eddan Katz

> From: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob(a)appelbaum.net> > Date: June 17, 2013, 6:45:23 AM PDT > To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> > Subject: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser! > Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> > > Hi, > > I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important > changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic > builds that allow us to verify that he is honest to actually having > serious usability improvements. I really mean it - the new TBB is > actually awesome. It is blazing fast, it no longer has the sometimes > confusing Vidalia UI, it is now fast to start, it now has a really nice > splash screen, it has a setup wizard - you name it - nearly everything > that people found difficult has been removed, replaced or improved. > Hooray for Mike Perry and all that helped him! > > Here is Mike's email: > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-June/028440.html > > Here is the place to download it: > > https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/ > > Please test it and please please tell us how we might improve it! > > All the best, > Jacob > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

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It's June 17: Pay your dues

by sudoroom.dues＠gmail.com

you have a number of ways to contribute: 1) online (via wepay): https://sudoroom.org/ 2) online (via gittip): https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ 3) in person (anytime): please drop cash or checks into the clear plastic box by the door that goes to the elevator 4) in person (at meetings): bring cash or checks to wed. meetings. and certainly i barely need to remind you of our *precarious month to month financial situation*. pay your dues!

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Fwd: [OpenOakland Brigade] Know anyone using BitCoin?

by Marina Kukso

FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: howard dyckoff <howarddy(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] Know anyone using BitCoin? To: Have you or someone you know had experiences with Bit Coin? Are you willing to share those experiences, even annonyously? I'm preparing an article for Oakland Local on the digital currency. I'm interested in : -- the ease of use -- places to use it -- concerns about security -- and if you'd recommend it for others. Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenOakland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGOPvtF4KgR-1ZoErvbQ8qt0nHDZ… . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Fwd: [lol-hackers] awesome mozilla paid fellowship

by Marina Kukso

this is relevant to our interests! - marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM Subject: [lol-hackers] awesome mozilla paid fellowship To: lol-hackers <lol-hackers(a)googlegroups.com>, Vera Yin <verayin(a)gmail.com> This joint knight foundation + mozilla fellowship looks really awesome and I almost want to apply myself. Stephany sent this over because they are encouraging under representated people to apply: http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lol-hackers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lol-hackers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lol-hackers(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lol-hackers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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workshop weekend

by Hilary Naylor

Hello everyone, Marina and I invite you to participate in Workshop Weekend! We're teaching “Computer Dissection Laboratory” on Sunday, June 23rd at 1:00pm. Workshop Weekend is a weekend-long event of short, 1 to 3 hour long workshops in subjects from exploring electronics to decorating cake with gumpaste flowers, and from 3D printing to learning to program and make ice cream with liquid nitrogen! It's a festival of learning with more than 20 hands-on workshops to choose from, all taking place June 22-23 in downtown Oakland -- pay $40 and take as many workshops as you like! The weekend is a family-friendly gathering for kids and adults alike, bringing together arts, crafts and making workshops, all taught by the bay area’s best instructors. Use our coupon code to get $10 off admission: HILARY613 Here’s a list of the workshops being offered: Hands-on Genetic Engineering Learn DIY Doll-making Taste Hacking Computer Dissection Arduino Automation Basics Hands-on Nutrition Make a Speaker from Scratch DIY Coffee Roasting Hands-on Anatomy Build a Beetlebot Robot Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Arduino Programming ...and many more! Register by going to http://workshopweekend.net/oakland/catalog We hope to see you there! Hilary and Marina --- Hilary Naylor www.a2zed.us Oakland CA

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [OpenOakland Brigade] [OpenOakland] Community Wireless Networks Across America

by Tony Barreca

There's an active Mesh Network project in Oakland once again, the central locus of which is at Sudoroom. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, howard dyckoff <howarddy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Most of the Mesh network activity was previously confined to SF. > > I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back. > > If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third > of a mile of each other.... pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased > gradually. > > And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae > was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago. I hope that pricing is better > now. > > The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer > and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that > could afford to setup mesh nodes. > > That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet > access for everyone. > > I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there > are few of them operating in East and West Oakland. We'd need a big > grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing. > > And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen. As an > example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this > year, had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened. > > But I don't want to be too negative here. I would definitely support this > effort. > > > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <eddie(a)codeforamerica.org>wrote: > >> Hey everyone! >> >> Checkout this cool project by Preston Rhea, from Open Technology >> Institute at the New America Foundation. He's thinking that Oakland will be >> one of the pilot cities. There are existing local mesh network projects in >> the area, right? People know how those projects are doing? This could be a >> collaborative opportunity. >> >> >> http://crowdhitch.millennialtrain.co/campaign/detail/1330 >> >> >> The project is to spread locally-managed community wireless mesh >>> networks around the country. I'll teach local technologists and community >>> organizers how to use regular Wi-Fi routers and free, open source software >>> to build their own community Internet infrastructure. >> >> >> >>> >>> The project will use Commotion <http://commotionwireless.net/>, a free, >>> open source software project designed to make it easy for anyone to set up >>> their own mesh network. We'll share tools and methods for participatory >>> technology pedagogy, and the routers that we set up together will remain >>> with the locals to seed their own mesh networks. With these seeds spread, >>> people in each city can continue to grow locally-managed Internet networks >>> and spur innovation on a shared platform accessible to any resident. >> >> >> -- >> Eddie A. Tejeda >> @eddietejeda >> 2012 Fellow, Code for America >> http://codeforamerica.org >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OpenOakland" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAALX_7Y--m8x0%3DnuHdvQWAOCRJ… >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenOakland" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGOPvtFSs8JtEGTapLhZfmK%3DxZ… > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Tony Barreca LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca Skype: tonybarreca Twitter: tbarreca Mobile: (510) 710-5864

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Sudo kids hit pop record with the writers group

by Romy Ilano

Wouldn't it be cute if the writers group could write a hit album with Sudo kids radio like all the top 40 pop factories do with their manufactured stars? It's Sudo room additive music engineering !!! --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Romy Ilano <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> > Date: June 16, 2013, 3:00:32 PDT > To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Subject: How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? : Planet Money : NPR > > http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/05/137530847/how-much-does-it-cost-t… > > How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? > > > Courtesy Universal > Getting a song on the pop charts takes big money. > > Def Jam started paying for Rihanna's recent single, "Man Down," more than a year ago. In March of 2010, the label held a writing camp in L.A. to create the songs for Rihanna's album, Loud. > > At a writing camp, a record label hires the best music writers in the country and drops them into the nicest recording studios in town for about two weeks. It's a temporary version of the old music-industry hit factories, where writers and producers cranked out pop songs. > > "It's like an all-star game," says Ray Daniels, who was at the writing camp for Rihanna. > > Daniels manages a songwriting team of two brothers, Timothy and Theron Thomas, who work under the name Rock City. "You got all the best people, you're gonna make the best records," he says. > > > Notes > > These are rough estimates based on interviews with industry insiders. The figures have not been confirmed by Rihanna’s label, Def Jam. > Here's who shows up at a writing camp: songwriters with no music, and producers toting music tracks with no words. > > The Thomas brothers knew producer Shama "Sham" Joseph, but they had never heard his Caribbean-flavored track that became "Man Down." > > According to Daniels, the brothers listened to the track and said, "Let's give Rihanna a one-drop! Like, a response to 'I shot the sheriff!" > > They wrote the lyrics to "Man Down" in about 12 minutes, Daniels says. > > To get that twelve minutes of inspiration from a top songwriting team is expensive — even before you take into account the fee for the songwriters. > > At a typical writing camp, the label might rent out 10 studios, at a total cost of about $25,000 a day, Daniels says. > > The writing camp for Rihanna's album "had to cost at least 200 grand," Daniels says. "It was at least forty guys out there. I was shocked at how much money they were spending! But, guess what? They got the whole album out of that one camp." > > A writing camp is like a reality show, where top chefs who have never met are forced to cook together. At the end, Rihanna shows up like the celebrity judge and picks her favorites. > > Her new album has 11 songs on it. So figure that the writing camp cost about $18,000 per song. > > The songwriter and the producer each got a fee for their services. Rock City got $15,000 for Man Down, and the producer got around $20,000, according to Daniels. > > That's about $53,000.00 spent on the song so far— before Rihanna even steps into the studio with her vocal producer. > > The vocal producer's job is to make sure Rihanna sings the song right. > > Makeba Riddick didn't produce Rihanna's vocals on "Man Down," but she's one of the industry's top producers, and has worked with the singer on many songs, including the two number one hits in 2010: "Rude Boy" and "Love the Way You Lie." > > When Riddick works with a singer, she'll say, "I need you to belt this out, I need you to scream this, as if you're on one end of the block and you're trying to talk to somebody three blocks away." > > Or maybe: "Sing with your lips a little more closed, a little more pursed together, so we can get that low, melancholy sound." > > Not only that, the vocal producer has to deal with the artist's rider. The rider is whatever the artist needs to get them in the mood to get into the booth and sing. > > "They'll have strobe lights, incense burning, doves flying around the studio," she says. (Yes, Riddick has had doves circling her head while she's working.) > > Rihanna is "very focused" Riddick says. So no doves. > > Riddick's fee starts at $10,000 to $15,000 per song, she says. > > The last step is mixing and mastering the song, which costs another $10,000 to $15,000, according to Daniels. > > So, our rough tally to create one pop song comes to: > > The cost of the writing camp, plus fees for the songwriter, producer, vocal producer and the mix comes to $78,000. > > But it's not a hit until everybody hears it. How much does that cost? > > About $1 million, according to Daniels, Riddick and other industry insiders. > > "The reason it costs so much," Daniels says, "is because I need everything to click at once. You want them to turn on the radio and hear Rihanna, turn on BET and see Rihanna, walk down the street and see a poster of Rihanna, look on Billboard, the iTunes chart, I want you to see Rihanna first. All of that costs." > > That's what a hit song is: It's everywhere you look. To get it there, the label pays. > > Every song is different. Some songs have a momentum all their own, some songs just break out out of the blue. But the record industry depends on hits for sales. Having hits is the business plan. The majority of songs that are hits — that chart high, that sell big, that blast out of cars in the summertime— cost a million bucks to get them heard and played and bought. > > Daniels breaks down the expenses roughly into thirds: a third for marketing, a third to fly the artist everywhere, and a third for radio. > > "Marketing and radio are totally different," he says. "Marketing is street teams, commercials and ads." > > Radio is? > > "Radio you're talking about . . ." he pauses. "Treating the radio guys nice." > > 'Treating the radio guys nice' is a very fuzzy cost. It can mean taking the program directors of major market stations to nice dinners. It can mean flying your artist in to do a free show at a station in order to generate more spots on a radio playlist. > > Former program director Paul Porter, who co-founded the media watchdog group Industry Ears, says it's not that record labels pay outright for a song. They pay to establish relationships so that when they are pushing a record, they will come first. > > Porter says shortly after he started working as a programmer for BET about 10 years ago, he received $40,000.00 in hundred-dollar bills in a Fed-Ex envelope. > > Current program directors told me this isn't happening anymore. They say their playlists are made through market research on what their listeners want to hear. > > In any case, to return to our approximate tally: After $78,000 to make the song, and another $1 million to roll it out, Rihanna's "Man Down" gets added to radio playlists across the country, gets a banner ad on iTunes ... and may still not be a hit. > > As it happens, "Man Down" has not sold that well, and radio play has been minimal. > > But Def Jam makes up the shortfall by releasing other singles. And only then— if the label recoups what it spent on the album — will Rihanna herself get paid. > > > > --- > > Romy Ilano > Founder of Snowyla > http://www.snowyla.com > romy(a)snowyla.com

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Re: [sudo-discuss] workshop weekend

by Hilary Naylor

Hi all, Enclosed is a flyer for the workshop that you may post or email to friends. The below message came from the Noisebridge list, and is very closely related to what we are trying to do in our workshop. It might be seen as the next step for those who participate in our workshop. cheers Hilary ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Glen Jarvis <glen(a)glenjarvis.com> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:07:53 -0700 Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] From NAND gates to Tetris... wanna do it? In doing research on MOOC, I ran into this video. It's a computer science program that I'm personally excited about. It's a *perfect* Noisebridge project. One can build a computer (from the scratch: NAND gates -> Chip Sets -> Hardware Platform -> Assembler -> Virtual Machine -> Operating System -> Compiler -> Tetris Game). Here is the Ted talk that I saw that introduced me to the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7YRHxwoDs Here are the course materials: http://shimonschocken.com/?page_id=65 http://www.nand2tetris.org/ This is incredibly good (and exciting) stuff. Is this already on the noisebridge calendar? Should it be? (+1 votes accepted). Kindest Regards, Glen -- "Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life as a dog does his master's chase. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still." --Henry David Thoreau --- Hilary Naylor www.a2zed.us Oakland CA

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Fwd: BBC News - Why are female record producers so rare?

by Romy Ilano

In addition to Sudo kids in the radio this is a good one... There are very few female producers in the industry. Famous female pop stars rarely write the words or produce their own music. They're chosen for their looks and are creations of mostly men ... It's be cool to get more women into audio engineering and djing at the sudoroom radio --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Romy Ilano <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> > Date: June 16, 2013, 9:46:33 PDT > To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Subject: BBC News - Why are female record producers so rare? > > http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19284058 > > Why are female record producers so rare? > > By Mark Savage BBC News entertainment reporter > > 29 August 2012 Last updated at 02:47 > > > More than 95% of record producers and sound engineers are men > Over the last few years, it seems women have dominated the music industry, from Adele to Lady Gaga, via Rihanna, who apparently can't leave the house without recording a hit single. > > But the story is not being replicated on the other side of the sound desk. > > While George Martin or Pharrell Williams are household names, only three women have ever been nominated for best producer at the Brits or the Grammys. None of them went home with the prize. > > Recording artist Regina Spektor, promoting her album Far in 2009, admitted to the BBC she had "never even seen the names" of female producers on her record company shortlist. > > "It didn't enter my mind to to look for one," she said. > > "I should put out a call and say, 'Where are you?'" > > She must not have found any - because when her follow-up album What We Saw From The Cheap Seats came out this year, she was the sole woman with a production credit. > > "It is a sad case," says Steve Levine, chairman of the UK's Music Producer's Guild. "I've only ever worked with one female studio engineer." > > "Oddly enough, there are a lot of quite powerful, high position females in record companies - my wife included - but less in the technical arena." > > > Trina Shoemaker won a Grammy for her work on Sheryl Crow's Globe Sessions album > They do exist, however. Trina Shoemaker is one of them. > > "The light bulb went off as a child," she says. "I would put albums on and I would just study their jackets. > > "I didn't actually care about the musicians, I cared about how it happened. Why did it come out of the speakers like that? Why does the needle go into that groove and make music come out of those cones? And who does that?" > > Inspired by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and her headphones, she left home at 18, skipping college to go to LA. She worked as a record company receptionist and a maid in a recording studio for seven years before finally getting a job operating tape machines in New Orleans. > > "My family didn't know what I was doing," she says. "They thought I was repairing stereos!" > > Eventually, Shoemaker became an apprentice to Daniel Lanois, who helped shape the sound of U2 and Brian Eno, and, in 1998, was the first woman to win a Grammy for sound engineering. > > Swagger > > These days, Shoemaker is in constant demand as a producer. So why isn't her story more common? > > "It's a renegade profession, it's an outlaw profession," says Susan Rogers - one-time studio engineer for Prince, and now an associate professor at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston. > > Women who want to enter the field face "a boys' club, or a guild mentality", she says. > > "You have to have a lot of swagger. A lot of swagger. If you don't, you won't be successful." > > > The BBC started training female sound technicians in 1941 > Even the successful ones face challenges, says Shoemaker. > > "A producer has to turn into the person that fits in with the band," she says. > > "If they're a bunch of guys and they're young and they're funny and they tell rude jokes, you have to be a woman who isn't shocked by that and can, as a matter of fact, crush them all with three words." > > Sexism may be one factor, but Prof Rogers believes the problem is more basic. > > "The bottom line is, women aren't interested," she says. > > "Right now, I currently teach engineering and production; and I also teach psychoacoustics and music cognition. In the psychology topics, the students are half women and half men. But in production and engineering, maybe one out of every 10 students is a young woman." > > > In the UK the situation is the same. The Music Producers' Guild says less than 4% of its members are women. And the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts says only 6% of the students enrolled on its sound technology course are female. That figure hasn't changed for three years. > > Yet the problem seems to be restricted to rock and pop. In the theatre, in Hollywood, in radio there are dozens of female sound engineers. Roughly one-quarter of the BBC's sound mixers are women. > > "There are no social barriers to a woman becoming a record producer," says Prof Rogers. > > "The more stringent and insurmountable constraint is the biological one. A man can, technically speaking, reproduce on his coffee break. It doesn't take all that long, and biologically it doesn't take much of a toll. For a woman, the opposite is true. > > "The typical lifestyle of a record producer is very intensive, very competitive, all-consuming. In order to be able to maintain that level of focus and attention and dedication to your craft, it has to come at the expense of reproduction." > > "The women who do get into it will do really well... until they reach that point in their late 20s where they say, 'Now its time to have a family'. I tell my female students it's going to come for them. It came for me, and I opted not to have children, to not get married." > > Shoemaker, a mother herself, can attest to that. > > "Having a baby was a big deal, a game changer," she says. "I was 39 when I got pregnant, so I was already well established, but it did change everything. It took me out of the running for a lot of jobs." > > "It's not about being the equivalent of men. It's just that I don't want to raise some weirdo son that ends up being a psycho because I was too busy making records to be a mama." > > Prof Rogers says some of her colleagues have tried to artificially boost the number of girls studying production, but its a practice she fights. > > > Susan Rogers now teaches students about production and engineering > "The last thing I want to see - because I have seen it - is to get young women into the programme who are less dedicated, less motivated and less capable of being good producers. All it does is make things worse for us. They do poorly, they're apathetic, they're not interested and it furthers the stereotype that women can't do this." > > Still, Mr Levine hopes more women do see the light. His theory is that they could bring new dimensions to recorded music. > > "If I have an observation, it's that a lot of the female engineers have a greater allegiance to the sort of passion a singer-songwriter has, and that comes out in their work. > > "They're much more sensitive to the delicacies of sound balancing. I think that's quite an important role." > > And Shoemaker, who can reel off the names of several female contemporaries, says she sees things improving. > > "Women are entering the field in drives now. There's maybe a 20-year curve before they're fully recognised. But look at doctors - they're pretty much equal now. > > "I don't know about pay scales, but if a surgeon walks in and it's a woman on her 800th cardiac surgery, I want her, not the young dude who just walked out of medical school. > > "So I think about the time I retire, we'll see a very level playing field." > > > > --- > > Romy Ilano > Founder of Snowyla > http://www.snowyla.com > romy(a)snowyla.com

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Sudo Kids this Tues 6/11: 6PM - ?? (Any 3D printer folks available?)

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Sudo Kids is resuming once again this Tuesady evening from around 6-6:30PM to whenever kids have to leave. We will once again have food, radio, clay/art, and this week, we would like to offer 3D printing. Would any of you be interested in demoing 3D printing for a few kids this Tuesday? If so, please let me know. Finally, if you have children in your life who would like to participate in Sudo Room in a child-safe environment with supportive adults - bring them! And if you're an adult who wants to be a part of Sudo Kids (whether it's helping with dinner or activities on Tuesday nights, doing outreach, or developing activities), please let me or Ray know. - Marina

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door wouldn't open - 500 internal server error

by Jake

i tried to get in by going to the URL (from my phone) and entering the password i have been using, and i got a 500 Internal Server Error. does anyone know why that is? I ended up giving up and pressing the intercom button, and someone actually came down the stairs to actually let me in. do we know what is causing this?

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