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Re: [sudo-discuss] wiki: sudoroom food hacking

by Aaronco Thirtysix

*Romy Ilano* romy at snowyla.com <sudo-discuss%40lists.sudoroom.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Bsudo-discuss%5D%20wiki%3A%20sudoroom%20food%20hacking&In-Reply-To=%3CCAFqWQB8D93dsnSwXMSRaJCT0a9kF4tuJFf19nD5Oh%3DeF_izY_Q%40mail.gmail.com%3E> *Tue Apr 9 12:27:22 PDT 201* ------------------------------ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Projects/food I created a new sudoroom Food hacking wiki page I'm including starting points such as Max's Club Mate Idea I have a sodastream that can create carbonated water and I'm all for creating non-branded, non wasteful, healthier versions of soda and "energy drinks"... we can make soda the old fashioned way and even better, without high fructose corn syrup and "energy creating" petrochemicals...

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Community Democracy Project Wiki

by Troy Massey

Howdy all, Just posted a wiki that is a copy of our main flyer with a link to our website. ( Thank you Matt Senate :) Please take a look and give feedback. If you feel inclined to rewire a *real *democracy away from our false republican representative government...*GET INVOLVED !!!* See you on the flipside :) " You are the source of Freedom. The price of Freedom is awreness and action" Sincerely, Troy Massey SUDO Librarian 510.383.6117

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Wednesday potluck

by Raymond Lai

Hello Fellow Sudoers! Sounds like I missed some meal last Wednesday. :) >From the thread it sounds like folks might be more interested in pot lucks for Wednesday night meetings. I have no problem with that and would like to offer some fresh strawberry ice coconut cream (yes, vegan!) for tonight. Julio and I made this just sweet enough deliciousness to celebrate the return of longer days & warm weather. Sudo kitchen also has some raw ingredients which i will detail in another post a little later (this cafe has no wifi (how uncivilized)) so i am sipping a spotty connection from who knows where. Hack ur kitchens! Cheers, Ray

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Subvolo gigabit internet

by Julio Rios

A friend saw a flier for this ISP that provides very fast internet http://subvolo.com/index.html I don't know much about them, but it may help sudoroom scale in the long-term. Hopefully, others have stronger opinions than mine.

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the value of having a conflict resolution process

by Romy Ilano

This source is a little corporate-sounding at first but well-written. I think they discuss a chamber of commerce non-profit in an unnamed city. Does anyone find this useful? I relate to many of the topics. http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/AMMagArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=557 As I indicated in Leaders Working Together, "The cornerstone assumption remains: Collaboration does not mean we all have to agree, but we do have to maintain mutual understanding." Having a process in place to deal with inevitable conflict goes a long way in assisting a board in reaching that mutual understanding and preventing destructive conflict. CPR is such a process. And, while I've seen the process work effectively, one of the first things a board must realize is that it takes time to move through the steps and volunteer board members are often resistant to working through a seemingly lengthy process that may resolve an issue or problem within the board. In response to an interview question asked during my research, board members from around the country revealed: "Resolving disputes is a priority but dispute resolution is not." Hence, board members agreed that disputes are a part of the decision-making process but, nevertheless, they do not welcome a formal dispute-resolution process. Therefore, when I introduce the notion of implementing a process to resolve a dispute, I ask participants to weigh the alternatives. In other words, how do they feel about carrying the weight of a chronic problem through every decision-making exercise as compared to taking a little time away from the regular agenda to resolve the issue thereby pulling that particular weight from the board's shoulders? Generally, participants agree that it makes sense to resolve the issue and they also discover that collaborative problem resolution is designed as a simplified model with volunteer boards in mind and is well worth the time it takes. Imagine how far ahead the chamber would be in terms of time and money if they had taken a few hours to step back and resolve the real problem at the root of its conflict.

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heavy metal pantomine group for articles of awesomeness [silly]

by Romy Ilano

so, who's up for a heavy metal pantomine dance group of the articles of awesomeness? if there is a board of sudo directors present, you certainly don't want the board to be bored! ;) ROCK

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New Photos for SudoRoom phone + Inventory System

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/O:21 https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Inventory A picture speaks a thousand words. Thanks for working on such cool projects! I was raving about how simple and useful the inventory system is. And it's open source too! <3

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Connecting Oakland's Top 10 Social + SudoRoom [[Oakland positive mojo synergy]]

by Romy Ilano

I reached out to Michael Orange from Top 10 social in downtown Oakland. Their events are parties, have more up and coming young African American professionals, and are all around of a different, highly complementary vibe to SudoRoom. Top 10 social has held a lot of great art benefits--gallery benefits for the family of youth murdered in Chicago (that one made me cry!), a Game Changers project for filmmakers working on microdocumentaries.They also sponsor talks on food justice and bringing healthier options to the African-American community in Oakland and other urban areas. - I'm talking to Michael Orange to see what projects would make sense for Top 10 social and Sudo Room. I've known him for a couple of years, he's a great guy. - I threw around a few ideas that were brought up by various community groups and Sudo Room Members -- sudo room people helping community workshops fixing senior citizens' computers, bike fixing workshops, etc. - I'm waiting for Michael to reply--if they have space for us I think it would be a nice complement to SudoRoom! They are great folks, and I like how they are differnet from us. They dress up a lot nicer than we do,so they could be the yang to our yin or vice versa.

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Film fest auction for Noisebridge!

by Mitch Altman

Way cool Silent Auction item to raise funds for Noisebridge! 20 tickets to this year's San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival !! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Frameline37_Membership_Silent_Auction -- $400 value ! -- This is one of the biggest film festivals in the world! Each year, over 70,000 people for 11 days watch over 350 films made by cutting-edge independent filmmakers from around the world. This year's Festival (Frameline 37) runs from June 20-30. Please bid on this $400 membership to this year's Festival! Bidding ends on Tuesday, April 23rd, 11:59pm PDT. Your Frameline membership includes more than just the 20 tickets. See the certificate in the link for all of the benefits you will get when you win this item. Here is the wiki page for the silent auction bidding: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Frameline37_Membership_Silent_Auction Bidding ends on Tuesday, April 23rd, 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. Please bid what you can to help raise funds for Noisebridge, and you get to see lots of way cool films this summer in San Francisco! Thank you to Frameline for their incredibly generous donation to Noisebridge! Mitch.

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hacking personal safety (wristbands, electronics)

by Romy Ilano

what are ways people can hack personal safety? (wristbands, electronics) sorry to hear about that naomi =( my brother was jumped a few years ago while he was riding his bike through brooklyn. They choked him and held a knife to his throat. Not fun at all!

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In-n-Out California: Circulating Things and the Globalization of the West Coast [CfP 4/20]

by Eddan Katz

I think that many Sudo folk might have interest in submitting to this interesting looking event, especially Oakland Wiki. Paper proposals due Apr. 20. > In-n-Out California: Circulating Things and the Globalization of the West Coast > Organizers: Tiago Saraiva, Cathryn Carson, Massimo Mazzotti UC Berkeley, 5-7 September 2013 > > Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Office for History of Science and Technology and the Drexel University STS Center. > > Scholars interested in the history of the West Coast have thoroughly explored the material culture of California. Square tomatoes, rockets, dams, surf boards, cyclotrons, LSD, or iPods are all common ingredients in the making of historical narratives of the Golden State. Strangely enough, many such narratives have too much of a local flavor: they don’t fully acknowledge the global circulation of those things that have produced California. This workshop deals with the double process of getting things In-n-Out of California, pointing, for example, to the ways, on the one hand, that Californian agribusiness relied on a constant supply of new varieties of crops brought into the state by plant hunters crossing many disparate regions of the globe, while, on the other hand, its standardized products, be it oranges, avocados, or wine, were shipped to international markets and became cases in point in the globalization of food. We point to globalization in the double sense that those things were the result of multiple trajectories originating from all over the world converging in California, at the same time that many things found their way out of California to produce what is commonly perceived as the globalized world. We are well aware of the trickiness and looseness associated with the concept of globalization. Too frequently the buzzword is used uncritically to cover the lack of a proper understanding of concrete historical dynamics. Indeed, one of the aims of the workshop is to get some grip on globalization by exploring narratives from the ground up through the circulation of concrete things. Specifically, a quick look at the list of things we can identify with the presence of California in the world reveals the historical relevance of engineers’ and scientists’ work in putting them in circulation. It may be suggestive to think of places like laboratories as centers of circulation where things come in, are processed, and get ready to sustain new worlds. We expect spatial issues to play an important role in our discussions. We are interested in exploring the ability of California history to help us deal with the different scales involved in historical explanations at large. California has the potential to problematize taken-for-granted notions of what constitutes the local, the region, the nation, the empire, or the globe. It also promises a fertile ground for the growing community of scholars interested in transnational historical dynamics. We welcome approaches that reveal the intricate historical processes of circulating things and making California a global space. Papers dealing with the many obstacles involved in getting things In-n-Out, and offering a sober reminder that globalization is no teleological tale, are strongly encouraged: the multiple failed copies of Silicon Valley spread around the globe, or the many tropical crops that failed to thrive in the Californian Garden of Eden. The same example of the In-N-Out burger chain also suggests how standardized things, in this case fast- food, can retain their local identity and have troubles in getting out of the West. > > What travels attached to those things? Identities, skills, politics, markets, all contribute to make them thick things good to think with for scholars haunted by what globalization historically means. By calling for contributions from historians of science and technology, historians of the West, world historians, environmental historians, and Science and Technology Studies scholars, we want to establish the crucial place of California in globalization narratives and better understand the making of California. > > Paper proposals should be about 300 words, accompanied by a short author bio. The deadline for consideration is April 20. Successful proposals will be announced by May 15. In order to make for productive working sessions, paper prototypes (powerpoints accepted) will be pre-circulated. These should be detailed enough to present the author’s argument and materials, but also open and experimental to engage discussion. Paper prototypes are due on July 10. > > Travel and lodging expenses in Berkeley will be covered by the organizers. > A follow-up to the Berkeley event will take place at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 2014 to prepare a collective volume for publication. Travel and lodging expenses will also be provided. > > Please send proposals to all of the conference organizers Tiago Saraiva tsaraiva(a)drexel.edu, Cathryn Carson clcarson(a)berkeley.edu, Massimo Mazzotti mazzotti(a)berkeley.edu > > Tiago Saraiva, > Department of History and Politics > Drexel University > 3250-60 Chestnut Street - Suite 3025 > Philadelphia, PA 19104 > Phone: (215) 895-2463 > Fax: (215) 895-6614 > Email: tsaraiva(a)drexel.edu

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hist of tech orgs planning party

by Eddan Katz

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) - http://www.themade.org - based here in downtown Oakland [610 16th St.; Suite 230; 510-788-5702] and a group of other Bay Area technology history museums/archives/etc. are rounding up fellow travelers for a benefit party sometime this month. Do any Sudo folk have connections with MADE? Is there interest in trying to connect with these guys for the party? Any objections to finding a time to use the common space? > From: Raoul Duke <raould(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [The-MADE] how about a multi bay area 501(c)(3) party? > Date: April 9, 2013 3:17:29 PM PDT > To: the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com > Reply-To: the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com > > ok i'm emailing around some of them to see what they think, if it > sounds like something they'd like to do. if people on this list > already know people at any of the places listed below, or other such > places, please ping them as well? > > * the MADE oh wait > * stanford collection (you-all know them already, some are on this list, yes?) > * videogame history museum > * mv computer history museum > * sv igda (a little bit of a stretch, but they are nice and i've > tabled @ their events, and emailed them about this to see what they > think) > * folks who bring stuff to the California Extreme shows > * others? beuller? > > of course one important part would be to get sponsors! who knows of > good largesse? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The MADE Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to the-made-discussion+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Begin forwarded message: > From: Alex Handy <alex(a)themade.org> > Subject: Re: [The-MADE] how about a multi bay area 501(c)(3) party? > Date: April 9, 2013 3:05:00 PM PDT > To: "the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com" <the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com> > Reply-To: the-made-discussion(a)googlegroups.com > > Works for me. We're planning our own Kickstarter party in April, but beyond that... I think it'd be scheduled around the time when those folks are all in the bay area and free, which is likely once a year. > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Raoul Duke <raould(a)gmail.com> wrote: > like get the stanford folks, the Videogame History Museum folks, > invite the Berlin folks, etc. :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The MADE Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to the-made-discussion+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > Alex Handy > Founder/Director > The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment > 610 16th St. > Suite 230 > Oakland, CA 94612 > Dial #0230 to be buzzed in > http://www.themade.org > 510-282-4840 (Me) > 510-788-5702 (The MADE) > 410-2-31337-2 (mobile) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The MADE Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to the-made-discussion+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >

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Making Club Maté at Sudo Room for Sudo-Profit: A Business Plan

by Max Klein

Club Mate[1] is a carbonated tea drink which is hugely popular amongst European Hackers. I thought about importing it, but that would imply $3/bottle[2], which would leave us with slim profit margins. Let's try and make 10% of sudoroom's budget through profits. I am committing up to $300 in funding to this, in an attempt to make 100 bottles as a proof of concept. I need your assistance on any of the following sub-points. Accept to do the following or provide input on the wiki[3] and I'll write you a cheque as needed: ==Business Plan== Initial Funding: up to $300 Target Sales: $200 - $300 1. Make it. 1. Buy sufficient raw mate 1. for 50L ~ 100 bottles 1. Assuming 500ml bottles 2. We could also use 333ml bottles 2. Brew it 1. Will we need a vat? 1. Do we have a vat? 2. Can a metal worker at sudo make us a vat 3. Spice it if necessary 1. Following this guide[4] maybe 2. Or allow adventurous sudoer to blaze trail 4. Carbonate it 1. Bobby, David Wild's roommate does this 1. Ask him nicely 2. Pay him 2. Buy a soda-stream 5. Transport it too bottler 2. Bottle It. 1. Use as many recycled bottles as possible 1. Put call out for more bottles 1. Pay a homeless person worst comes to worse 2. Use the sudo capping machine 1. I believe its in the closet 3. Labelling 1. 2. Rock paper scissors can do this 4. Transport it to storage 3. Store it 1. We might be able to use the sudo closet 1. Does it require refrigerated storage? 2. Do we have a refrigerator 1. Find one or many on CL Free 4. Sell it. 1. Target price $2-3/bottle depending on investment figures 2. Always at sudo, but also at specialized events 3. At Oakland Nights live 4. At an events night fundraiser 1. Sober 1. Games tournament 2. Debate 3. Hackathon 2. Mix it with alcohol 1. At a sudorave. 2. One of the planned Movie Nights 5. At art murmur. 1. Have this ready by May 3rd. If there are there any other members from other Hackerspace that you think would be useful, please forward this email. Cheers Max [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate [2] http://club-mate.us/ [3] https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Sudomate [4] http://blog.makezine.com/2010/08/12/how-to-homebrew-club-mate/

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SudoRoom is open!

by Yardena Cohen

We're here, we plan on being open all day! Doing our best to fix things in the meantime. :)

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HDMI adapter?

by Yardena Cohen

Can someone please bring an HDMI adapter to sudoroom? Tamale is fucked up somehow and none of us can figure out why. Networking is broken and the SD card filesystem seems perfectly normal. We can't test with a console connection because we can't find our HDMI adapter. I know we had one once but it has disappeared. Can someone please bring one so we can get our door to work again? Thanks!

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Microcontroller events page... wiki made

by Romy Ilano

I'd like to roll all microcontroller / wearable electronics activities into this one wiki page. Added photos. Is there a way to feature these on the main page if we have room? =D <3 <3 <3 https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Projects/MicroControllerHackNight

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Window Office Available at 2141 Broadway

by Jenny Ryan

Hey sudoers, With new transitions in my life, I must regretfully give up my awesome office space at 2141 Broadway. It's a smallish window office that gets amazing light during the day, upstairs and across the way from Rusty/Andrew/Roshambo Media. Cost is $350/month plus about $25 utilities. I've been splitting it with Marc and Felicia Betancourt, and I know Felicia is still interested in a 3-way rent split. If you're interested in taking over the lease by May 1, please let me know asap! We can coordinate a tiny tour before you make a final decision. Hack the planet!! 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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wiki: sudoroom food hacking

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Projects/food I created a new sudoroom Food hacking wiki page I'm including starting points such as Max's Club Mate Idea I have a sodastream that can create carbonated water and I'm all for creating non-branded, non wasteful, healthier versions of soda and "energy drinks"... we can make soda the old fashioned way and even better, without high fructose corn syrup and "energy creating" petrochemicals...

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do we have a collection of SudoRoom projects on Thingiverse?

by Romy Ilano

http://www.thingiverse.com/romyilano/collections/sudoroom-things would anyone be into collecting all our work together? It would be nice to see what other people are working on or printing out. I'm interested in altering some existing arduino cases and making them more interesting! and then painting them. Looking forward to the 3D printing "Today I Learned" coming up

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Micro controller eat fresh fruits & veggie night

by Romy Ilano

Wow I'm looking forward to tonight's micro controller session! I'm going to make it an eat fresh fruits and veggies night for me! Ill hack and being extra for other folks --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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new sudoroom cartoon drawn with the sudoroom tablet!

by Romy Ilano

Anyone else drawing? let's start a drawing thread! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/File:SudoroomCartoon.png [image: Inline image 1]

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Woot :) The Kickstarter is funded :)

by Patrick Schmidt

Thank you so much for your support guys :) it just got over the 2000 mark, still hoping for it to go a bit viral (rent of the gallery is 1200). so it only helps me breathe for a month... until I find more people who are regular supporters. you still have the chance for about a day to become a Co-Founder of the Nyan Cat University, the first all inclusive University for anyone who wants to celebrate peace, joy, global connection, collaboration and creativity. I think Nyan Cat University is a big step forward for humanity ;) Nyan Cat University is potentially everywhere, it will be an awesome website with tutorials and the workshops can be held anywhere. If you could post and endorse the campeign just for the sake of helping a starving broke hacker on your facebook that would be really awesome. http://kck.st/YSnenO Saturday we are having a Community Art Show from 7-10pm entiteled " Networks in Transition", I hope many of you come out to celebrate. Saturday we open at 1pm, please feel free to come and HACK THE GALLERY, maybe someone could help with the website/ creating a wiki. thank you all for your moral suport, Patrick

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Radical Software book - Sudo room is about books, not just the internet! =D

by Romy Ilano

Has anyone read the Radical Software book in Sudo Room? I really like it. It was an independent movement dedicated to giving access to television outside of the mainstream media channels. A lot of their work involved creating manuals demystifying television equipment and sharing resources with various collectives. http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/volume1nr1.html [image: Inline image 1]

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Sudo room drawing // how to upload to wiki

by Romy Ilano

Hi here's a sudo room drawing! More to come How do I upload this to the wiki? --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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Anyone interested in working on building a TV feed site with me?

by rusty lindgren

Hello Peoplez, I am trying to build an open tv network to host our Trolls show, and I need the help of content engineers and admins. Want to set up some streaming... with promotion. Let me know, Rusty

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Help the new Berkeley hackerspace

by Mitch Altman

2 days remaining to help the new hackerspace in Berkeley get off the ground! Hack The Gallery can use a little Kickstarter love! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1728264969/how-to-make-your-dreams-come… Please help your new Bay Area hackerspace! Mitch.

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club mate / sodastream idea

by Romy Ilano

Hey Max, That's a great idea! I'm all for it. I have a sodastream from home that I can bring in for any Club Mate sessions. Should we set a time on the calendar for this? Club Mate was one of my favorite club drinks. It's too bad they don't have it here. They also sold it in extra large bottles so you didn't have to keep going back to the bar for more. Best, Romy

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Milliscope activated!

by Marc Juul

sudo room now has a milliscope (based on Noisebridge's enlarge-o-scope). It enlarges small, but not microscopic things onto a monitor! See photos and learn how to use it here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/O:28 Thanks to Jake (from Noisebridge) for donating the camera and helping build the milliscope. Thanks to Marina and Matt for buying the main component (old analog photo enlarger). -- Marc Juul

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3D printing demo for my grandfather?

by Cyrus Farivar

Do we have a printer? If so who would be willing to demo it for me and my (91!) grandfather? Ideally this week? --- Sent from my iPhone Cyrus Farivar +1 510 394 5485 (US) http://arstechnica.com/author/cyrus-farivar/

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Hack The Gallery! Networks in Transition Party next Saturday

by Patrick Schmidt

Hope I didnt double post now tried it on the announce list but got a strange message back. Dear friends, Saturday we are having a Community Art Show starting at 7. You can come and hack the gallery from 1pm on. At 1 I give amateur wordpress support on demand, at 4 there is a free class, this week probably polymer clay again, until we get the travelling hacker/artsts class rolling. In a couple of weeks a friend will give a lightroom class. At 6 we have a community projects and vision update. Only one more day to go with the kickstarter, have not slept all night but written Fb friends individually. I changed the kickstarter a bit, please consider pledging for the ebook or book or become cofounder of Hack The Gallery or the Nyan Cat University. please support the starving artists in our community ;) http://kck.st/YSnenO see you guys later, patrick

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wednesday meeting new pad @ https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting EOM

by Max Klein

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Wikileaks Plus D & the Kissinger Cables

by Eddan

now this is really dangerous... Add metadata search functionality to Wikileaks-released excessively classified diplomatic cables. Make this comprehensible to people who aren't foreign policy geeks and the Arab Spring will have been just warm-up practice. it seems like it would be very useful to better understand what Wikileaks means by their reverse engineering of the US gov metadata. it would be _monumental_ to further enhance this treasure trove with some natural language search and more sophisticated pattern recognition. Sudo-Leaks, anyone? [excerpt from http://wikileaks.org/plusd/about/] The Kissinger Cables <http://wikileaks.org/plusd/about/#tkc> The Kissinger Cables comprise more than 1.7 million US diplomatic records for the period 1973 to 1976. Dating from January 1, 1973 to December 31, 1976 they cover a variety of diplomatic traffic including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence. They include more than 320,000 originally classified records, including 286,000 full US diplomatic cables. There are more than 12,000 documents with the sensitive handling restriction "NODIS", 'no distribution', and more than 9,000 labelled "Eyes Only". Full cables originally classed as "SECRET" total more than 61,000 and "CONFIDENTIAL" more than 250,000. The records were reviewed by the United States Department of State's systematic 25-year declassification process. At review, the records were assessed and either declassified or kept classified with some or all of the metadata records declassified. Both sets of records were then subject to an additional review by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Once believed to be releasable, they were placed as individual PDFs at the National Archives as part of their Central Foreign Policy Files collection. Despite the review process supposedly assessing documents after 25 years there are no diplomatic records later than 1976. The formal declassification and review process of these extremely valuable historical documents is therefore currently running 12 years late. The form in which these documents were at NARA was 1.7 million individual PDFs. To prepare these documents for integration into the PlusD collection, WikiLeaks obtained and reverse-engineered all 1.7 million PDFs and performed a detailed analysis of individual fields, developed sophisticated technical systems to deal with the complex and voluminous data and corrected a great many errors introduced by NARA, the State Department or its diplomats, for example harmonizing the many different ways in which departments, capitals and people's names were spelled. All our corrective work is referenced and available from the links in the individual field descriptions on the PlusD text search interface: https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd. For more information on what WikiLeaks did to prepare the Kissinger Cables please see here<http://wikileaks.org/plusd/about/#ptk> . Not all records from the period 1973-1976 have been obtained. NARA claims diplomatic records for the period 1973 to 1976 chosen for content deletion were of a ephemeral character. These records were identified by the "TAGS" that were attached to them. TAGS ("Traffic Analysis by Geography and Subject") refers to the content tagging system implemented by the Department of State for its central foreign policy files in 1973. There are geographic, organization and subject TAGS. This system was developed to standardise search terms for departmental uses and was not static - TAGS were added and deleted as necessary over time. At review, all cables that only contained "temporary" TAGS, such as embassy logistical or staffing requests, were permanently destroyed. Tens of thousands of documents were irreversibly corrupted in this data set due to technical errors when the documents were moved as computer systems were upgraded, or so the US Department of State claims. This caused the content of the document to be lost, though the metadata is still available. These are often noted by a error message in the content of the document. The documents lost in this manner are most documents from the following periods: - December 1, 1975 to December 15, 1975 - March 8, 1976 to April 2, 1976 - May 25, 1976 to July 1, 1976 You can see the absence of these weeks by constructing a Timegraph of "TAGS" as this term occurs in the content of nearly every document: https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/graph Top Secret documents are also not available. During a migration of records the Department of State printed out all Top Secret documents for "preservation purposes" and the electronic versions were destroyed permanently. These documents now only exist as hardcopies and so are unavailable online in any form, even if declassified. The documents not deleted either remained classified (or were deemed unreleasable for other reasons), or were declassified and publicly released. For the former, a "withdrawal card" was provided giving some limited metadata about the document, the fields of which that were decided as releasable vary from document to document. This metadata provides some information about the document, for example the date and destination, that can be used for research purposes and also allows a detailed FOIA request to be made for the document. These FOIA requests can be directed to NARA's Special Access and FOIA staff. For more information about this, please see their online guide here <http://www.archives.gov/foia/foia-guide.html>. You will need the document number and the To and From information. There are nine different "Types" of document included in the Kissinger Cables. The majority are of type "TE" - telegram (cable), which are official diplomatic messages sent between embassies and the US Secretary of State conveying official information about policy proposals and implementation, program activities, or personnel and diplomatic post operations. From 1973 onwards diplomatic cables were mostly electronic, therefore most cables made releasable include the body (content) of the cable. However, the other types of documents are paper records, including airgrams and diplomatic notes. These are stored on microfilm (from 1974 onwards, as the Department of State did not microfilm documents until then) and so were not released with the full content of the documents, even if marked for public release. Although the body of the message is not available online the full index (metadata) is provided for those "P-reel" documents that were marked for release. Even though the whole document has not been digitised the metadata is still useful for research purposes and the documents can be requested under the Freedom of Information Act. For those documents on P-reel that were not declassified and released a P-reel "withdrawal card" is provided giving limited metadata. To access P-reel documents that have a withdrawal card you should follow the same FOIA procedure as for Telegram withdrawal cards. For the content of P-reel documents which have been released, the process depends slightly on which year the document you are requesting was created, but all requests should be directed to:archives2reference@nara.gov.

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Fwd: SOD Blitz 2013 Survey Project Announcement

by Daniel Finlay

For those of you interested in conserving our local wildlife, Our local oak trees are at risk by a strange, rapidly-spreading organism you may have heard of, being called Sudden Oak Death (SOD). While there is no cure, there are measures that can curb its spread. However, to make sure those measures are implemented efficiently, it is important to do an annual survey of the current spread of this tree disease. This involves people like you attending a training to collect suspicious bay leaves, and take notes so that they can be sent to the lab for diagnosis and geo-tagging. Information on attending such a training is attached. -Dan Finlay Begin forwarded message: > From: Douglas SCHMIDT <dschmidt(a)berkeley.edu> > Subject: SOD Blitz 2013 Survey Project Announcement > Date: April 7, 2013 9:04:10 PM PDT > To: Douglas SCHMIDT <dschmidt(a)berkeley.edu> > Bcc: somniac(a)me.com > > Friends of Matteo's Lab, > SOD Blitz season is upon us, and we need Citizen-Scientists like yourself help map the spread of Sudden Oak Death (SOD)! We are contacting you since you attended one of our SOD related workshops in the past and hope that you will participate again this year. Matteo Garbelotto's laboratory, in conjunction with the California Native Plant Society, are organizing this yearly survey project, which promises to be our largest ever. Come to a meeting in your local area, collect samples in your community, and have them laboratory analyzed for SOD. Thanks to support from USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation we are offering this program to you for free! > > The SOD Blitz project, updated meeting schedule, and local organizer contacts are available at www.sodblitz.org > Thanks for getting involved! > Doug Schmidt > > > For your convenience the meeting dates are: > > Santa Cruz - Friday, April 12, 7:00pm, > UCSC Arboretum, Santa Cruz, CA Map Link > Contact: Annie Murphy - PLN400(a)co.santa-cruz.ca.us > CNPS Contact: Brett Hall - brett(a)ucsc.edu > > Marin County - Saturday April 20, 10:00am, > Dominican University, 155 Palm Ave., > Joseph R. Fink Science Center, Rm 102, > San Rafael, CA Map Link > Contact: Karen Suslow - karen.suslow(a)dominican.edu > CNPS Contact: Kristin Jakob - kristinjakob(a)att.net > > East Bay - Two meetings to choose from: April 27, > 10:00am, Orinda, Garden Room, Orinda Public Library, 26 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA > Contact: Bill Hudson - wllhh(a)ymail.com > > 1:00pm, Berkeley, 159 Mulford Hall, UC Berkeley, Map Link > Sign Up at Eventzilla > > San Luis Obispo - Friday, May 3, 6:30pm, > SLO County Department of Agriculture, > 2156 Sierra Way, San Luis Obispo, CA Map Link > Contact: Kim Camilli - Kim.Camilli(a)fire.ca.gov > CNPS Contact: Lauren Brown - lbrown805(a)charter.net > > Carmel Valley & Monterey - Saturday, May 4, 1:00pm, > Garland Ranch Regional Park Museum meeting room at the ranger station, > Carmel Valley, CA Map Link > Contact: Kerri Frangioso - kfrangioso(a)ucdavis.edu > CNPS Contact: Brian Leneve - bjleneve(a)att.net > > San Francisco - Saturday, May 7, 9:00 am > Golden Gate Park Presidio & Golden Gate Park > Rec Room, SF County Fair Building, > Golden Gate Park near 9th Ave. & Lincoln Way, SF, CA > Contact: Eric Anderson - eric.anderson(a)sfgov.org > > Mendocino - Saturday, May 11, 10:00am, > College of the Redwoods, 1211 Del Mar Drive, > Fort Bragg, CA Map Link > CNPS Contact: Lori Hubbard - lorih(a)mcn.org > > South Bay - Two meetings to choose from: Saturday, May 18, > 10:00am, Montalvo, Location and Map TBA > Contact: Kelly Sicat - KSicat(a)montalvoarts.org > CNPS Contact: Arvind Kumar - arvind.kumar(a)cnps.org > > 1:00pm, South Skyline, Location and Map TBA > Contact: Jane Manning - skyline_sod(a)yahoo.com > > Penninsula - Two meetings to choose from: Saturday, May 25, > 10:00am, Burlingame Hills, Map Link > 120 Tiptoe Lane (off Canyon Rd.), Burlingame, CA > Contact: Steve Epstein - steve(a)burlingamehills.org > > 1:00pm, Woodside/Portola Valley/Emerald Hills, Map Link > Woodside Town Hall, 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA > Contact: Debbie Mendelson - sodblitz(a)gmail.com > > Atherton - Saturday June 1, 10:00am, Map Link > Carriage House, Holbrook Palmer Park, 150 Watkins Ave., Atherton, CA > Contact: Susan Finocchio - susanfin(a)earthlink.net > > Los Altos Hills - Saturday, June 8, 10:00am Map Link > Los Altos Hills Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA > Contact: Sue Welch - sodblitz09(a)earthlink.net > > Sonoma - Three meetings to choose from: Saturday, June 15, > 10:00am, Santa Rosa, Location and Map TBA > 10:00am, Sonoma, Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma, CA > 10:00am, Sebastopol, Location and Map TBA > Contact: Phyllis Turrill - rainbow3(a)comcast.net > > Napa - Saturday June 15 Map Link > UC Cooperative Extension Office, 1710 Soscol Avenue, Napa, CA > Contact: Bill Pramuk - info(a)billpramuk.com > CNPS Contact: Henni and Gerrald Cohen - hennic1044(a)gmail.com

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Good natured 3d printing fun

by Romy Ilano

I want to 3D print an arduino case with our epic articles of confederation written in rhetoric roman script up in the form of an epic heavy metal poem What do you want to print in 3D??? --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

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first friday - great alternative funding discussion - try reading HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS

by Romy Ilano

I didn't participate in the amazing alternative funding discussion going on in the main room friday night. wow! it was really neat.i overheard a tiny bit of it. http://www.hippiessavedphysics.com you'd like HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS it discusses the role of unusual self-help gurus like eckhard tolle during the 1970s. weird rich guys like that saved the discipline of quantum physics during a time of deep government cutbacks. a lot of those physics phds were unemployed and working in factories. very neat stuff, especially considering that quantum physics is used today for the most sophisticated bank encryption. i enjoyed the book even though i'm not a physics expert. the mixture of lsd + ESP studies and the colorful people is very entertaining to say the very least!

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I'm excited about the audio hacking TIL!

by Yardena Cohen

You guys I'm excited about our TIL today! Shani is here preparing for it. She has a background in composing chamber music and sound engineering and fun-looking electronic instruments that I've never even heard of before! It will also be a chance to catch everybody up on the Sudo Radio situation and learn about all the equipment in there. So come join us this afternoon! 2PM or earlier. ;) Also if you have any questions about audio that you want extra-researched answers for, you can bring/send your questions in advance and she'll spend time doing that. Isn't that awesome???

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TIL: Hacking Sexual Health

by Vicky Knox

Tonight during the general meeting I proposed the Today I Learned event "Hacking Sexual Health". I'd like to open up the floor to multiple facilitators interested in this topic area to help me lead either one TIL workshop, or a series of workshops if there is sufficient excitement. Hacking Sexual Health is intended for sexual and asexual people alike. So what does it mean to hack sexual health? Ruminate on it. :] My personal interest is hacking menstruation. I'd like to lead a workshop for creating cloth pads out of recycled clothing. The workshop is intended both for people who menstruate and for people who have friends who menstruate (and want to make them lovely presents!). We will go over different lady product options and have fun cost-comparisons for different products and unproducts. I will be reserving either April 27th or May 4th upon consulting my secretary. :P Please contact me if you are interested in developing your own workshop or helping me to facilitate menstruation hacking! ykciV PS: Clothing hackers, you know who you are!

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mwahaha - 6 or 7 new people from oakland art murmur signed up for "today i learned"

by Romy Ilano

mwahaha! i manually entered into the wiki and emailed 6 or 7 new people for "today i learned" we should get this zoho or something crm they were really into the 3d printing and audio sessions... i should have tried to get them to go to more stuff. maybe if you know someone who's interested, like a roommate,the best way to get them to sudo room is a "today i learned" class?

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Fwd: Agenda Announced for IDESG May Plenary Meeting <-- online identity workshop!

by aestetix

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh hai everyone! If you're one of the rare few who hasn't heard me rant about online identity, now is your chance! May 7-9: IIW workshop (Computer History Museum) May 9-10: IDESG Plenary (see forwarded email) There are two big events coming up in May that I feel are very important. The first is IIW (Internet Identity Workshop), an un-conference where people can collaborate on what they think and want to future of online identity to be. http://iiw16.eventbrite.com/ for more. The second is more personal to me, and the agenda email I'm forwarding, which takes place down the street from IIW with some crossover. It's the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, which is a bunch of government and corporation types trying to create policy for online identity. Pointing specifically to the "Use Case workshop", we want to bring as many people in favor of nym (online pseudonyms and anonyms) rights to educate the IDESG plenary, and make sure our views are heard. While we're already planning a few use cases, we think it's important that everyone has a chance to be heard, even if (especially if) you're non-technical. If getting to the south bay is a challenge for you, we're going to try to set up a carpooling system. Please let me know if you're interested. It's also worth noting that the IDESG plenary is completely free :) Cheers, aestetix PS: you can find more info on http://www.nymrights.org - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Agenda Announced for IDESG May Plenary Meeting Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:12:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Identity Ecosystem Steering Group Secretariat <idecosystem(a)trustedfederal.com> Reply-To: idecosystem(a)trustedfederal.com To: aestetix(a)aestetix.com IDESG Plenary <https://www.idecosystem.org/page/register-attend-4th-plenary-meeting> * Register to Attend * *Santa Clara * *Plenary Meeting* *May 9-10, 2013* *<https://www.idecosystem.org/page/register-attend-4th-plenary-meeting> * * *What:* 4th IDESG Plenary Meeting * *When:* Thursday, May 9 at 8:00 AM (PT) to Friday, May 10 at 5:00 PM (PT) o Held immediately following the IIW Conference which is May 7-9, 2013 nearby at the Computer Museum. * *Where:* The Network Meeting Center in Silicon Valley's TechMart o 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 122 o Santa Clara, CA 95054 * List of Area Hotels <https://www.idecosystem.org/page/4th-plenary-meeting-hotels> * Sponsorship Opportunities <https://www.idecosystem.org/page/4th-plenary-sponsorship-opportunities> *IDESG May Plenary Agenda* *Thursday, May 9, 2013* * 8:30 a.m.: Welcome; Introduction of New Leadership Team * 9:00 a.m.: Introduction of Management Council Work Planning Subcommittee o Work Planning Document o Work Products Adoption Process * 10:00 a.m.: Break * 10:15 a.m.: Use Case Workshop * 12:15 p.m.: Lunch on your own * 1:15 p.m.: Use Case Workshop continued * 3:45 p.m.: Break * 4:00 p.m.: NSTIC Pilots Update * 6:00 p.m.: Day One Wrap-up * 6:30 p.m.: Happy Hour *Friday, May 10, 2013* * 8:00 a.m.: Success Metrics o Organizational and Identity Ecosystem Health Discussion * 8:45 a.m.: Business Plan Subcommittee Value Proposition and Sustainability Planning * 9:30 a.m.: Terms and Definitions * 10:00 a.m.: Break * 10:15 a.m.: Committee Breakouts (6 at a time) * 11:45 a.m.: Lunch on your own * 1:00 p.m.: Committee Breakouts (other 6 committees) * 2:30 p.m.: Privacy Committee Report on PEM 2.0 * 3:30 p.m.: Break * 3:45 p.m.: Plenary Wrap-up: Work Plan Alignment with Plenary Results, Gap Analysis, and Next Steps *Stay Connected* Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/idecosystem> Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/id_eco_system> View our profile on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/NSTIC-Identity-Ecosystem-Steering-Group-4623…> View our videos on YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/idecosystem> Identity Ecosystem Steering Group Secretariat | www.idecosystem.org <http://www.idecosystem.org> Forward this email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=tj5tlvlab&m=1112039618867&ea=…> <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&mse=001I0y-z-nW30yzaTaEMHimRlsBi…> This email was sent to aestetix(a)aestetix.com by idecosystem(a)trustedfederal.com <mailto:idecosystem@trustedfederal.com> | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&mse=001I0y-z-nW30yzaTaEMHimRlsBi…>™ | Privacy Policy <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp>. 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new sudoroom dues survey: google forms edition (not reply to list)

by Max Klein

I know we all love Google like a relative (that won't leave us alone about our private lives), but it seems like a good idea to use their "Forms" for this survey IF you've already replied to list: don't worry about refilling it out, I'll migrate responses ELSE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WmLrkg0tmFf3Ny66IyCmyMfqLc43MzhyQlgEs_dtaU… IF interested in revamping questions: form is openly editable Max

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first friday guests-should we ask them if they'ere interested in classe son our wiki + email them?

by Romy Ilano

that's what i'm doing now. I'm adding them to the wiki too. do we have a cheezy CRM set up? anything open source that anyone has?

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Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Fwd: Priceless 2013: Calling All Artists!

by Patrikd

-------- Original message -------- Subject:[dorkbotsf-blabber] Fwd: Priceless 2013: Calling All Artists! From:Jean Rintoul <jean.rintoul(a)gmail.com> To:dorkbotsf-blabber@dorkbot.org Cc: hullo, dorkbot humans! apologies for cross-posting, but i wanted to make sure that those of you who may not be on false profit's mailing list saw today's call for applications for Priceless 2013's art grants :) see below for the official call, but basically we are seeking any art (or art-ish stuff, really) that will make priceless more awesome. this could be visual art installations, sculptures, interactive experiences, immersive environments, performance art, audio-visual extravaganzas, or...well, you tell us. we're doing some work to expand our art grants program this year and we really want to pull in a ton of applicants for anything anyone thinks might make the event more fun or beautiful. this could be the sort of thing that you would normally just do on the side of the esplanade at burning man for fun one afternoon, or it could be the creation of a beautiful interactive space in a dome off in the woods, or hey--we all still love (contained, code-approved) fire :) as the call notes, we're open to funding art projects that already exist, the creation of brand-new works, and projects destined for the playa. suggest a thing! i can almost guarantee that we'll be excited about it. deadline for applications is friday, 4/26. love, jean ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: False Profit <priceless(a)false-profit.com> Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM Subject: Priceless 2013: Calling All Artists! To: jean.rintoul(a)gmail.com An important message from False Profit, LLC Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Calling all artists! Dear community, Please help us spread the word far and wide! The Priceless art funding team is now accepting submissions for art installations at Priceless, False Profit's magical annual campout. This year it'll be July 4th - July 7th. Tell your artist friends to download the application and learn more at http://priceless.false-profit.com/art. We're looking for art that will make our event at Belden Town extraordinary: visual art installations, sculptures, interactions, and performance art. Priceless attendees particularly love art that's interactive, from large-scale and dramatic to intimate and whimsical. We fund art projects that already exist, the creation of brand-new works, and those destined for the playa. We want to showcase experiences that playfully engage and beautify, astonish and enlighten! Grant awards generally range between $150 and $350 and include one ticket, with occasional exceptions for larger project needs. If your project does not require any funding, please note that in your application. The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 26, 2013. Please submit your completed application to: art.priceless(a)false-profit.com Notification of acceptance is Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Tickets for the event will go on sale early May, please check back in a couple weeks for more information on the ticket page. Remember: A big part of what Priceless so amazing is what YOU ALL bring to the event. Can't wait to see what you crazy folks come up with this year!! With love, Priceless 2013 Crew and the rest of False Profit LLC follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Our mailing address is: False Profit, LLC 555 De Haro St #220 San Francisco, CA 94107 unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences Sent to jean.rintoul(a)gmail.com — why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences False Profit · 555 de haro st #220 · San Francisco, Ca 94103

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art murmur today

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, it's art murmur day. will folks be around sudo this evening? - marina

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This Sat 4/6 "Today I Learned": Audio Recording 101!

by Marina Kukso

Please join us at 2PM this Saturday (*4/6*) for the "Today I Learned" workshop "Audio Recording 101<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#Apr._6_Audio_Recording_101> " In this workshop, we'll go over the tools, terminology and applications you'll need to get crackin' on a variety of audio endeavors. Topics covered will include: - Audio rudiments and terminology - Analog v. digital - Types of recordings (documentary, instrumental, electronic, MIDI) - What you need to get yourself started on a project Location: Sudo Room: 2141 Broadway, entrance on 22nd St., take the elevator upstairs Date & Time: Saturday 4/6 at 2PM Supplies: Yourself (optional: recording equipment if you have it?) Cost: Free *...Next week's "Today I Learned": Clothes Hacking<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#Apr._13_Clothes_Hacking> !* This workshop is part of the series “Today I Learned,” a series of free workshops that take place every Saturday at 2PM at Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Check out the full schedule at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned and please forward widely.

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Fwd: [FC-discuss] Reminder: Register for the 2013 Free Culture Conference (Travel funding available!)

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

// Matt ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "Jennifer Baek" <baek01(a)gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular" <discuss(a)freeculture.org> Cc: "SFC Board" <board(a)freeculture.org> Subject: [FC-discuss] Reminder: Register for the 2013 Free Culture Conference (Travel funding available!) Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 9:16 AM Jut a reminder that if you haven't already, please REGISTER FOR FCX2013! Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference, FCX2013, at New York Law School on April 20-21st! The Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of student and non-student activists, thinkers, and innovators who are dedicated to advancing discussions on technology, law, and public policy. Through panels and keynote speakers, FCX 2013 will focus on current issues in intellectual property law, open access to educational resources, maker culture, and technology policy. Through workshops, the conference will revisit the core pillars of the free culture movement, examine the success stories from our movement, and identify new ways in which Students for Free Culture can advocate for a more free, open, and participatory digital environment. For more information about the conference, visit the conference website: http://fcx2013.org Through the generosity of our sponsors, SFC is once again able to offset student travel costs for this year’s conference in NYC. If you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC next month, please do not hesitate to fill out the form to request travel funding. We have some money and we want to give it to you. Here is the form: http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding If you have friends at schools that do not currently have an active SFC chapter but you think they should be at the conference, please pass along the link to them, too. Sometimes attending the conference is just the spark that someone needs to get out there and start a new chapter on their campus! If you have any questions, feel free to email board(a)freeculture.org or baek01(a)gmail.com Program details are below. Cheers, Jennifer -- Day 1 (April 20, 2013) 08:30 a.m. – 09:30 a.m. Registration 09:30 a.m. – 09:45 a.m. Opening Remarks 09:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. A.M. Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill (Berkman Center for Internet and Society) 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Getting Past Gridlock: What does Tangible Copyright Reform Look Like? How can copyleft advocates and copyright reformists make progress in effectuating change in United States copyright laws? This panel considers what smaller, achievable reform looks like, how it can be accomplished, and what next steps for the immediate future will be. Panelists will discuss: Are the objectives of the Copyright Act being met in practice today? How can reform, even at a small scale, benefit content owners, creators, and users? Moderator: · Parker Higgins (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Panelists: · Patricia Aufderheide (Center for Social Media, American University) · Karen Sandler (QuestionCopyright.org, GNOME) · Sherwin Siy (Public Knowledge) 11:45 a.m. – 01:00 p.m. The Future of Open Access Advocacy Open Access has been of great interest and importance to SFC for several years. This panel focuses on what open access means and what kind of advocacy work is being done in this area, as well as clarifying misconceptions of what open access is really about. Panelists will talk about their experiences with and perspectives on open access advocacy and discuss: What is the impact of OA on academic research and publishing? What are the core principles behind OA? How can people effectively advocate for open access causes? Moderator: · Adi Kamdar (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Panelists: · Nicole Allen (Student PIRGs/Make Textbooks Affordable) · Nick Shockey (SPARC/Right to Research Coalition) · Timothy Vollmer (Creative Commons) 01:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch 02:00 p.m. – 02:45 p.m. P.M. Keynote: James Vasile (Open Internet Tools Project, New America Foundation) 02:45 p.m. – 04:00 p.m. Makers, Hackers, and the World They Build Maker and hacker culture, highly collaboratory and extremely prolific, both adopt free cultural ideals, such as sharing, open source, collaboration, and remix. This panel explores how maker and hacker culture puts into practice these free culture ideals, as well as how makers and hackers build community and work towards social good. Moderator: · Trystram Spiro-Costello (Rutgers University) Panelists: · Catarina Mota (NYU ITP/openMaterials) · Alicia Gibb (NYCResistor/Open Source Hardware Association) · Daniel Reetz (DIYBookScanner.org) 04:00 p.m. – 05:15 p.m. The Changing Landscape of Online Speech and its Regulation Free speech is held as one of the central tenets of many online communities, but what is meant by it? In many online communities, censorship, freedom of speech, pornography, harassment, and hate speech are often conflated without consideration of who is given the power to speak. This panel will consider if, how, and when speech online should be regulated, and by whom.Panelists will also discuss whether Internet service providers should be held liable for user-generated content, and what such liability would mean for free expression online. Moderator: · Jennifer Baek (New York Law School) Panelists: · Molly Land (New York Law School) · Gabriel Rottman (American Civil Liberties Union) · Ari Waldman (New York Law School) 05:15 p.m. – 05:30 p.m. Closing Remarks for Day 1 Day 2 (April 21, 2013) 09:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Registration 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Unconference Welcome 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshops Session I · Open Access Advocacy Moderators: Nick Shockey and Matt Cooper · Wikipedia & Education Moderator: Lane Rasberry 12:00 p.m. – 01:30 p.m. Workshops Session II · Free Culture & Civic Engagement Moderator: Noel Hidalgo· The Future of the Org. Moderators: Kyra and Adelaida McInire 01:30 p.m. – 02:30 p.m. Lunch 02:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Lightning Talks/Presentations 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. SFC General Body Meeting

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Fwd: [OpenOakland Brigade] Forum: Technology Comes to Oakland

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

// Matt ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "howard dyckoff" <howarddy(a)gmail.com> To: <openoakland(a)googlegroups.com> Subject: [OpenOakland Brigade] Forum: Technology Comes to Oakland Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 5:19 AM FYI: Hot Topics: Technology Comes to Oakland As more technology companies move to Oakland, and as more companies build products designed to improve public processes, what will the impact be on our city? What would we like to see? Join the discussion! Monday, April 22, 6-7:30 p.m. California Federation of Teachers office, 1330 Broadway, Suite 1601 Downtown Oakland The League of Women Voters of Oakland sponsors monthly HOT TOPICS roundtable discussions to inform members and the public and to seek ways we can come together to address important issues facing our community. For more information, go to the League website: http://www.lwvoakland.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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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New infrastructure: Network scanner

by Marc Juul

We now have a network scanner! Here's the short of it: Drop some documents into it and end up as a pdf on the file server. It has an automatic document feeder, which is awesome Here's the guide on how to use it and more: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/O:73 -- Marc Juul

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Instant 24/7 access? Do we allow for this? And how?

by rusty lindgren

Hey Everyone, Just thought I would point this out, since it came up earlier in the dues thread. But, Marc's point(a very good marketing point about 24/7 access), has as a big security exception, we didn't really talk about, probably mostly because of time. Basically, it's easy for us to think "hey, we should let this person have access, because they seem cool, and we want to remain open," but even I get sketched out at night sometimes, and there are real safety issues at work here, and we should discuss them in relation to cost/benefits for the space. It's also entirely possible that we trust someone, and they just do something bad anyway. We don't really spend a lot of time thinking about this, but this is something we haven't had to really deal with yet, because we've had really shitty access up until now. I don't know if my survey asked this question properly, but I was trying to see if 24/7 access was worth more to people as a value, but I think for some people it could be a safety draw-back, and at least in 1 case this is true. I also am not sure it's really something we should be promoting, if we do decide on it being okay for members to do. If anyone wants to post about how they feel about this(I think it really is about feelings in this case, because it's about promoting membership and establishing wants/needs), then please feel free to reply here. Thanks, Rusty **

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fabulous friday films

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, during yesterday's meting we discussed doing film screenings on fridays. how would people feel about april 19th being the first day? i've started a wiki entry where you can add suggestions for movies: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Fabulous_Friday_Films - marina

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Biofridge

by Craig Rouskey

Hello all, last night at the general meeting Marc and I brought up the use of a small fridge at Sudo for use as a reagents storage fridge (bio fridge). 15 folks consented to the use of the fridge to store reagents associated with the propagation of Gonorrhea. THERE WILL BE NO GONORRHEA in the fridge, just the agar plates and broth we need to culture the organism at a later date in our community lab. I just wanted to see if there were any e-objections. If not, I will Devon and start storing reagents in the fridge. Craig — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone

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