- sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org

by Peter Mui

Hi all: RU going to Omni today or sometime soon? Can you check if there's an umbrella at Sudoroom, perhaps near the table on the floor? Phil Chin texted me early this morning: "Peter, I just realized that I left my umbrella at Sudo Room. It should be on the floor where I was sitting..." TIA, -Peter

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cancel jake

by Angela Miller

i propose we cancel jake. he has been gaslighting, manipulating, and mentally abusing me for a long time now. it violates the safe space policy.

2 years, 6 months

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updating the 3D printer wiki - people are asking about using it again

by Romy Ilano

we have really stale information - I know from talking to people that we have a lot of new 3D printers. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Printing#Overview I'll try to update the wiki and figure out the manuals for the new printers we have ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 6 months

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Women non binary night video short

by Romy Ilano

https://youtube.com/shorts/2z2LK3PDSE8?si=jzeKOhIiVy9uRDmP Sent from my iPhone

2 years, 6 months

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do we have an airbrush painting set at SudoROOM?

by Romy Ilano

Just checking - I'm guessing we don't but we might right? https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Airbrush ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 6 months

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moving to the basement

by Yardena Cohen

I propose that Sudoroom and Sudomesh take over the three (of four) basement rooms being vacated by Village of Love, paying a combined $1500 for them. In the past decade, Sudoroom has failed to scale its community to the size required to pay for its current space. It's been perpetually in debt ever since, never had any budget left over to invest in hacking, and had to ask forgiveness from Omni many times, putting the building in greater jeopardy. Besides its size, one of the nicest features of the current spot is natural sunlight - but virtually all Sudo gatherings happen after dark. We are paying for something we don't use. Omni is coming under increasing community pressure over the fact that majority-white collectives underpay for the biggest nicest spaces in the building, while pushing more diverse collectives into less desirable corners. This will be one way to make right. Downsizing is good for us, good for omni, and good for the newer BIPOC-led collectives that omni is trying to recruit. If sudoers agree, maybe a good timeline would be to announce intention to complete the move by February 1.

2 years, 6 months

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Article about public mesh networks

by Peter Mui

Article about public mesh network initiatives in other U.S. Cities, highlighting NYC mesh: https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/alternative-broadband-networks-…

2 years, 7 months

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Sudo Room's October meeting is Weds. 10/4 @ 8 PM

by Andrew R Gross

Hey everyone. Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 4th at 8 PM is Sudo Room's October meeting. You can attend in person or at http://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles *Agenda:* - Ideas to make Sudo Room more active and welcoming - Show-and-tell Let me know if you'd like to add anything to the agenda. *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

2 years, 7 months

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[sudo-info] Donate materials to Sudo Room? (fwd)

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 20:33:28 +0800 To: info(a)sudoroom.org Subject: [sudo-info] Donate materials to Sudo Room? Hey Sudo Room! My name is Tiffany, I work at a healthcare materials startup Eztia and we're giving away / disposing of some chemicals. I'm wondering if Sudo Room may want to adopt the following? Medical grade silicone, liquid Part A and Part B - Elkem Silbione Gel 4660 A E3 Thermoplastic elastomer (styrene-butadiene copolymer), Kraton D1116, 500 g Please let me know! Thank you, Tiffany

2 years, 7 months

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2023-09-27 sudoroom meeting notes

by Jake

we had a meeting, notes are here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2023-09-27

2 years, 7 months

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

by Omni Commons

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Anybody around this morning (Sunday)?

by Anca Mosoiu

Hi there, I need a couple of resistors and a capacitor for my Autumn Lights project, and I suspect I can find them in our massive electronics parts bins. Unfortunately, I don't have a working keycard. Is anyone around who can let me into SudoRoom? Thank you, Anca. -- -=-=-=- Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal anca(a)techliminal.com

2 years, 7 months

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Fwd: Proposal to remove CLP

by Andrew R Gross

Hey Sudo, Below is Yar's proposal to eject Community Liberation Programs (CLP) from Omni. The short version is that the active members of every other collective have concluded that CLP has left Omni unable to function, and that our last recourse is to eject them. If you've followed along, I hope it's been clear that I've tried to mediate compromise, and that I recognize that the events which have led here are a damning collective failure. With that said, I think this is the appropriate action. Considering the dramatic nature of the proposal, everyone involved would like to get the strongest, most unambiguous collective agreement on this possible, both over email and at tomorrow's meeting (*Weds. Sept. 27th @ 8 PM,* in person and at http://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles). If you've heard any of CLP's complaints, understand that supporting this motion is NOT a dismissal of those criticisms. It isn't even an agreement with the charges that their leadership has acted with ulterior motivations. It is simply a recognition that CLP's presence is a barrier to Omni's ability to address any of its existential problems.. *I hope everyone will join me in looking forward eagerly to actually addressing the many problems that CLP has cited with Omni* after resolving the state of ferocious, bitter paralysis we're in. If you have any questions, I encourage you to call me or talk to me in person. The email chains are endless, but I'm happy to answer any questions and make the case for why this is necessary. If you agree with the proposal to eject CLP, please include in your message *"I endorse the proposal to eject CLP"* to sign onto it. Like this: With great disappointment, *I endorse the proposal to eject CLP.* *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:01 AM Subject: Proposal to remove CLP To: consensus at omni <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> With a heavy heart, I think CLP and Omni should part ways: 1) CLP act against omni's best interests. They blocked TANC for months, giving shifting, dubious reasons, moving goalposts, and outright lies. They sent their own people to TANC to vote against omni. All this helped to alienate one of omni's last chances to succeed. TANC is critical to omni - we are desperate for new people and energy. They are willing & ready to volunteer, even as the building's future is so uncertain. Their mostly-BIPOC membership is a promising source of new faces to carry omni well into the future. All the TANC people I've met so far who belong to DSA, are part of the anti-zionist faction within DSA. Their mission of building tenant power is extremely aligned with all our values. By sticking it out this long, TANC show more dedication and faith in omni than probably any applicant ever. They don't want to rent - they want to join, to share in the burden and the responsibility of co-ownership, and we've had hardly any new member applications all year. These opportunities are so rare and special, to work against them is highly irresponsible, maybe a death blow. 2) CLP make omni less safe. the practice of singling people out for bitter personal attacks, is adding invective to our meetings and is actively driving more people away - BIPOC in particular. CLP is not the only source of this, and other problematic behaviors from other groups should also be dealt with, but they are a major one. If we can't retain people, we are doomed. The way they went after Silver is especially bad. Silver does some of the most thankless and valuable work here, and got attacked over it. They stalked Silver's housing, used private info given in confidence at bogss interviews, combed through 7 years of social media looking for dirt. What little they found was used in a series of targeted, wildly disproportionate and unprincipled public call-outs. Silver now feels unsafe at omni. 3) CLP engage in bad faith. they act as a "vanguard" who think they know best and push others around. they send authoritative, one-sided pronouncements which assert lies as facts, with no avenues for dialogue to arrive at the real truth. their answers to present-day conditions are to dredge up last year's fights. they reject the most viable solutions in front of us while offering no realistic alternatives. When challenged, they make threats, switch to rules lawyering and change the subject. To function, omni decision making must move like a ouija board, but CLP treat it like a dart board. 4) CLP sabotaged BOGSS. it should have been created as a vehicle for all women, nonbinary & BIPOC, to connect and wield power. But it didn't effectively mobilize anybody outside CLP, and it seems increasingly likely this was by design. we should keep BOGSS but seriously rethink the strategy, to increase broad participation. 5) CLP are a liability to getting a loan. their blog posts endorsing terrorism, dictators and vanguardism - these are things loan officers will immediately see as red flags. not because it offends bourgeoisie tastes or the US state dept, but because they see a community that is unstable, conflict-prone, less likely to be focused on business, and more likely to drag them into a mess. it's not what we need right now. 6) CLP use people. They claim to care about our marginalized members, but don't act like it. They abuse identity politics to consolidate power. They seem to attract decent well-meaning people with radical book readings, legit associations and direct service work, but then groom those members' good intentions to carry water in the vanguard's fights with other leftists They manipulate Palestinians, put words in their mouths, and endanger them by openly celebrating Hamas. They misconstrue boycotts to confuse people about the actual targets. They purposefully exposed young people to a traumatizing spectacle to make them feel more isolated than they are. They abuse People's Programs' blog as a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime. They brought conflict to other orgs in the past. It's what they do. At omni, they gave us a "love bomb" of 6 months of hard work, and now are doing the same. 7) CLP is toxic to the left. they seem bent to drive wedges between groups, sow discord where none is warranted, keep people isolated and scared by spreading rumors, and prevent a movement from coalescing without them on top. the 9/21 meeting made this crystal clear. all the groups at that meeting had common cause and shared goals & values, but CLP used trolling and baiting to create a spectacle in which the opposite felt true. 8) CLP support the Iranian regime, a position Iranian feminists in our community so far universally describe as "like being a nazi" or worse. Listening to them is not islamophobia or harassment based on national origin, it's not "down with the Iranian" - it's "down with the enemy of Iranians", siding with oppressed people against their oppressors. If we heed the warnings of Iranian feminists about what kind of character, judgement and worldview it takes to to side with that regime, we see the through line connecting every other behavior above: cynical, conniving, cruel. I can think of only one compelling reason why CLP should not be removed: they're a BIPOC-led group. This is important, especially for Omni, and makes their removal a much tougher call. But it's the right call. I truly believe that a white-dominated org doing the same things listed above, would have already been removed sooner. The fact we gave CLP benefit of the doubt for so long, is to Omni's credit, but there is no more doubt, and it's time to do our duty to our project. To get through the next few months, omni needs unity and clarity and positivity. CLP has nothing to offer here. It's time to part ways. I recommend the delegates: 1) delay the upcoming bogss congress 2) affirm by majority vote, that CLP cannot dominate bogss 3) vote by consensus minus one to remove CLP 4) vote unanimously to accept TANC 5) hold a new bogss congress including TANC members

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Reminder: Pledge [Pledge No.] from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions. Thanks for your business! Omni Commons ---------------------------------- Invoice --------------------------------- 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 US +1 5105456582 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 3009 Date: 09/01/2023 Due Date: 09/25/2023 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $2,000.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill To: Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94607 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** 08/01/2023 Balance Forward $1,850.00 Other payments and credits after 08/01/2023 -1,850.00 New charges (details below) 2,000.00 Total Amount Due (activity through 09/01/202 2,000.00 **************************************************************************** Date Activity Qty Rate Amount 09/01/2023 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T ____________________________________________________________________________ SubTotal: $2,000.00 Tax: $0.00 -------------------------------------- Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 Total Amount Due: $2,000.00 Greetings Sudo Room! This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the commons! Love and solidarity, Omni Commons Finance Working Group

2 years, 7 months

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Fixit Clinic in today's Boston Globe

by Peter Mui

Fixit Clinic featured in today's Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/27/opinion/diy-repair-boston-fixit-clin…

2 years, 7 months

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Sudoroom meeting this Wednesday September 27th

by Jake

dear Sudoroom, we have an important topic to discuss as Sudoroom because the delegates are discussing an important topic very soon, possibly as early as Thursday. Let's meet on Wednesday at 8PM, primarily online although I hope some of us will be in the space for the meeting. Last time someone joined the meeting anonymously and was putting things in the notes that were distracting from the meeting. I propose that we don't allow anonymous participation at this next meeting, for various reasons. If someone needs to participate without revealing their identity, they should have someone who is not anonymous represent them. -jake

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meeting notes from 2023-09-20

by Jake

Sudoroom had a meeting from 8pm until almost 11, meeting notes have been copied from the pad and are here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2023-09-20

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Scooter wheels and motors etc

by Jake Watters

I have a bunch of big strong fast electric scooter wheels and motors and tires, and controllers. If you are willing to take several boxes of them or all of them please contact me. I don't have room for them right now. Any money donated for them will go to sudoroom. -jake

2 years, 7 months

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sudoroom meeting Wednesday at 8PM

by Jake

Just to bump this issue, the delegates are still talking about it and the one group "CLP" are still trying to block TANC from moving in. The delegates are emailing about this to try to quell the confusion around this issue, so now is the time for Sudoroom (and all omni collectives) to meet and discuss it in order to make sure that their delegate (me and/or Andy) can go forward into the next delegates meeting (which might be sooner than normal) to discuss it. Can people make it to an in-person meeting on Wednesday night at sudoroom? As always there is the video link portal at this link, which connects you to the room over video and audio (try it anytime) https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles Previous meeting notes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meetings#Meeting_Notes_Archive Wednesday night meeting at 8? Or thoughts about the situation described below. To be clear, I think the question is going to come up of voting to remove CLP from Omni Commons, so we need to make it clear for our delegates what our position is on that. -jake On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, Jake Watters via sudo-discuss wrote: > Just to clarify, TANC has already been voted in according to our bylaws: > https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2023-September/004001.html > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 13:07 Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss < > sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote: > >> Just to clarify, TANC is Tenants and Neighborhoods Councils. They're a >> local tenants union who helps organize renters to form unions in and >> between apartment buildings to challenge rent increase or otherwise push >> back against property managers. I reached out to them last year when I was >> looking for advice in dealing with bad behavior by my property manager, and >> attended one of their meetings. I support their work. https://baytanc.com >> >> CLP is Community Liberation Programs: >> https://www.communityliberationprograms.org/. I don't know much about >> them, honestly. They organize programs around diverse socialist goals, >> which sounds like something I'd completely support, but I think it's >> misguided to block TANC from joining Omni, particularly on the charge that >> they're not outspoken enough about Palestine. I don't think they've >> provided any evidence for the claim, and it's also creating a lot of >> conflict within Omni that seems super unproductive. >> >> Especially because *Omni is facing foreclosure at the end of the year* if >> we don't find a new lender. We need a strong financial base of support from >> member collectives in order to convince a credit union to loan us money to >> avoid losing the building. I don't want to pick a fight with CLP, but the >> consensus process is meant to encourage discussion and persuasion, and >> blocks are supposed to be used for matters of urgent necessity. >> Filibustering a new collective's joining or using a block because you >> haven't been successful persuading others is not a good-faith use of the >> consensus process, imo. Which is why I think Sudo should endorse a proposal >> to use the consensus-minus-one clause to proceed with inducting TANC into >> Omni. >> >> Does anyone disagree? If so, can you please offer a counter proposal to >> resolve this dispute. If there is no block on the motion, then I believe >> whoever represents Sudo at the next Thursday Omni meeting will register our >> collective as being in support of the motion to disregard CLP's block on >> TANC joining. >> >> -Andy >> >> >> <https://baytanc.com/> >> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* >> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 8:44 PM Karissa McKelvey <krmckelv(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> There are a lot of acronyms here I have no idea what's going on. but this >>> is exactly why consensus-1 exists >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 2:56 PM Z Silver Zahn via sudo-discuss < >>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I really thinks it’s inappropriate to ask an organization that Omni >>>> dosent have that much of a relationship to spend their energy looking into >>>> who TANC is , what omni decision making model is etc. I hope CLP steps up >>>> to these demands they imposed on PYM . >>>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 2:29 PM Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss < >>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I strongly, strongly endorse Yar’s proposal, and while I’m trying to >>>>> take a break from Omni politics, I would be willing to make an exception if >>>>> there’s anything I can do to help break this impasse. >>>>> >>>>> I am neutral on ejecting or suspending CLP. I’m happy to try and >>>>> resolve things with them if they’re willing, but I wouldn’t mind seeing >>>>> them go if they continue to demonstrate a lack of consideration for the >>>>> consensus process. Tanc’s approval has taken far too long, imo. >>>>> >>>>> It’s frankly shitty to spend so much time denigrating and occupying the >>>>> limited resources of a group that helps renters stay in their homes. >>>>> >>>>> Andy >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 2:20 PM Muirén Ní Sídach via sudo-discuss < >>>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I get the picture. >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >>>>>> More options at >>>>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >>>>> More options at >>>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >>>> More options at >>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >> More options at >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >> >

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Hackathon | TED AI

by Romy Ilano

https://www.ai-event.ted.com/hackathon Sent from my iPhone

2 years, 7 months

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A kind word for Yom Kippur

by Andrew R Gross

Today is Yom Kippur, when we're encouraged to take a moment to apologize to the people around us for anything unkind we've said or done. With all the drama going around, I just wanted to do that: if I've done or said anything that has gotten under the skin of anyone reading this, feel free to let me know and I'll give you a sincere apology. Our words have a lot of power, and I try to use mine for good. Let me know when I fall short, and I'll keep trying. Hugs and high fives, Andy *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

2 years, 7 months

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Reminder: Pledge [Pledge No.] from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions. Thanks for your business! Omni Commons ---------------------------------- Invoice --------------------------------- 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 US +1 5105456582 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 3009 Date: 09/01/2023 Due Date: 09/25/2023 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $2,000.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill To: Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94607 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** 08/01/2023 Balance Forward $1,850.00 Other payments and credits after 08/01/2023 -1,850.00 New charges (details below) 2,000.00 Total Amount Due (activity through 09/01/202 2,000.00 **************************************************************************** Date Activity Qty Rate Amount 09/01/2023 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T ____________________________________________________________________________ SubTotal: $2,000.00 Tax: $0.00 -------------------------------------- Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 Total Amount Due: $2,000.00 Greetings Sudo Room! This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the commons! Love and solidarity, Omni Commons Finance Working Group

2 years, 7 months

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Scheduling BOGSS Congress (fwd)

by Jake

Hello sudoroom, BOGSS is an Omni Commons member committee, aka the BIPOC Oppressed Genders Safe Space committee. As the email below states, the committee needs members who are people of color and/or people who face gendered oppression. Information on how to participate is listed in the forwarded message below. BOGSS is described here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/BOGSS ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:22:32 -0700 From: BOGGS Committee <boggscommittee(a)gmail.com> To: consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org Subject: [sudo-info] Scheduling BOGSS Congress Good evening, We are scheduling the next Omni BIPOC Oppressed Genders Safe Space (BOGSS) Congress to elect the next BOGSS Committee for the next six months. To be in the congress, you must be a person of color and/or someone who faces gendered oppression. If you are interested, or you have any interested members in your collective, please reply directly to this email directly with your name, pronouns, member collective or working group affiliation, and the best form of contact (phone number, email). Thank you, Danielle BOGSS Delegate

2 years, 7 months

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Reminder: Pledge [Pledge No.] from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions. Thanks for your business! Omni Commons ---------------------------------- Invoice --------------------------------- 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 US +1 5105456582 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 3009 Date: 09/01/2023 Due Date: 09/25/2023 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $2,000.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill To: Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94607 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** 08/01/2023 Balance Forward $1,850.00 Other payments and credits after 08/01/2023 -1,850.00 New charges (details below) 2,000.00 Total Amount Due (activity through 09/01/202 2,000.00 **************************************************************************** Date Activity Qty Rate Amount 09/01/2023 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T ____________________________________________________________________________ SubTotal: $2,000.00 Tax: $0.00 -------------------------------------- Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 Total Amount Due: $2,000.00 Greetings Sudo Room! This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the commons! Love and solidarity, Omni Commons Finance Working Group

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Photos from last night

by Peter Mui

Photos from last night’s 2023-12-19 Sudoroom Tech Tuneup Tuesday Hardware and SoftWEAR Hacking Night https://photos.app.goo.gl/hHifBwLHF6w3hBv76 Thanks to everyone who participated, -Peter

2 years, 7 months

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Craftsmanship.net at sudoroom for Hardware and SoftWEAR night

by Peter Mui

Jeff Greenwald, Contributing Editor for Craftsmanship.net says he's coming to sudoroom tomorrow night, they're going to have an entire issue dedicated to repair. Can the first person there put the Fixit Clinic sandwich sign outside? If Jeff gets there before me, can you please host and help him? He says he's bringing a macbook with a loose keycap. Many thanks, -Peter

2 years, 7 months

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Convert Your Chromebook to Linux?

by Peter Mui

Hi: Do you have (or do you know someone who has) an old Chromebook? We can help install Linux on it; then you can have a real fully-functioning general purpose laptop instead of one running crippled ChromeOS. We'll be doing this to a bunch of old Chromebooks tomorrow (Sunday 9/16) 11-2 at Sudoroom, so come on by and bring yours. (See background here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JSbGXhJFJeABWVOn1wO4M6bPT-gPBLV4oQ85xMy…) Hope to see you tomorrow, -Peter

2 years, 7 months

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chromebook flashing jig

by Jake

Hi Thomas I saw you mentioned in an email to Pi.BerkeleyLUG about the chromebooks talking about a "jig" to program them did you know that Paige laser cut a piece of acrylic to go with some pogo pins, and a map of the EEPROM chip's connections on the bottom of the motherboard? the idea is that with this hardware, we should be able to reflash the chips without taking the motherboard out - just take off the bottom cover, remove the write-protect screw, and press this jig onto the board and flash it It's in my locker but we can look at it together and try to get it working, and then just power through the whole stack of chromebooks with it here is that email thread: https://sudoroom.org/lists/hyperkitty/list/sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org/thread… and here is the map of places to connect on the board: https://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2023-05/20230521_185814.jpg -jake

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Pi.BerkeleyLUG at Sudoroom Sunday 9/17 11AM

by Peter Mui

See below: Sudoer Tomas Lopes is also a member of the Berkeley Linux Users Group (BLUG) and has moved his monthly Raspberry Pi-focused (but not exclusively RPi) meeting to Sudoroom; you might consider this a weekend variant to the Tuesday night Hardware and SoftWEAR hacking nights. Come join us Sunday for good fun and great company! -Peter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Digest for berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:12:10 +0000 From: berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com To: Digest recipients <berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com> berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com < https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> Google Groups <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overv…> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overv…> Topic digest View all topics < https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> * Pi.BerkeleyLUG: And now we're back. Meeting this Sunday 17.09.2023 <#group_thread_0> - 1 Update Pi.BerkeleyLUG: And now we're back. Meeting this Sunday 17.09.2023 <http://groups.google.com/group/berkeleylug/t/556ecf1d53def5c0?utm_source=di…> tom r lopes <tomrlopes(a)gmail.com>: Sep 14 12:42PM -0700 So I'm back. Survived. With all the limbs I had before. Pi meeting this Sunday 17.09.2023 from 11am to 2pm at SudoRoom in Oakland. SudoRoom is in a shared building so press the buzzer or call me at 510 9842455 to get entry. Virtual meeting at meet.jit.si/ Pi.BerkeleyLUG. Oftentimes we go past 2pm but this time I think I need to leave at 2pm. I'll know Sunday morning. No agenda this month. The stack of Chromebooks is still there. I had a thought to make a jig to flash them easier. Maybe I'll work on that. Hope to see you there. Thomas Back to top <#digest_top> You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page < https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…>. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to berkeleylug+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com.

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Circuit Launch Tonight

by Peter Mui

A reminder that we're all hanging out at Circuit Launch Build Night every 3rd Friday of the month -- that's tonight! Everyone's invited: https://www.meetup.com/circuit-launch/events/ (Hopefully) see you later, -Peter

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Pi.BerkeleyLUG at Sudoroom Sunday 9/17 11AM

by Peter Mui

See below: Sudoer Tomas Lopes is also a member of the Berkeley Linux Users Group (BLUG) and has moved his monthly Raspberry Pi-focused (but not exclusively RPi) meeting to Sudoroom; you might consider this a weekend variant to the Tuesday night Hardware and SoftWEAR hacking nights. Come join us Sunday for good fun and great company! -Peter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Digest for berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:12:10 +0000 From: berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com To: Digest recipients <berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com> berkeleylug(a)googlegroups.com < https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> Google Groups <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overv…> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overv…> Topic digest View all topics < https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> * Pi.BerkeleyLUG: And now we're back. Meeting this Sunday 17.09.2023 <#group_thread_0> - 1 Update Pi.BerkeleyLUG: And now we're back. Meeting this Sunday 17.09.2023 <http://groups.google.com/group/berkeleylug/t/556ecf1d53def5c0?utm_source=di…> tom r lopes <tomrlopes(a)gmail.com>: Sep 14 12:42PM -0700 So I'm back. Survived. With all the limbs I had before. Pi meeting this Sunday 17.09.2023 from 11am to 2pm at SudoRoom in Oakland. SudoRoom is in a shared building so press the buzzer or call me at 510 9842455 to get entry. Virtual meeting at meet.jit.si/ Pi.BerkeleyLUG. Oftentimes we go past 2pm but this time I think I need to leave at 2pm. I'll know Sunday morning. No agenda this month. The stack of Chromebooks is still there. I had a thought to make a jig to flash them easier. Maybe I'll work on that. Hope to see you there. Thomas Back to top <#digest_top> You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page < https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…>. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to berkeleylug+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com.

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thursday night

by Jake

anything going on in the space tonight?

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important Omni Commons issue we need to discuss

by Jake

Dear Sudoroom, There is an issue of great importance to Omni Commons being discussed on the public Consensus email list, and Sudoroom needs to convene and discuss our position so that our delegate can represent us in this discussion. Basically a relatively new member collective of Omni (CLP) is unilaterally blocking TANC (Tenant And Neighborhood Councils) from joining Omni Commons. https://baytanc.com/ They have given shifting reasons for their opposition but it's starting to look like CLP is actually some sort of radical group that is trying to control Omni. They literally say so on their website: "Omni Commons Reorganization Program May 2022-Present (Oakland, CA) Our organization was invited to be a part of the Omni Commons in May of 2022. CLP has revitalized the work at the Omni, making efforts to engage the local community and host events in the space. We are seeking to revitalize and revolutionize the space as a base for building revolutionary power and programs in the East Bay." https://www.communityliberationprograms.org/our-programs This needs to get figured out right away. TANC has the enthusiastic approval of all collectives of Omni except for CLP and they were ready to move into the building and start paying rent (something that CLP does not do at all) which is something we really need if we have any hope of keeping the building. Meeting notes from September 7th delegates meeting: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2023/09/07_Delegates Public archive of Omni Consensus mailing list for September: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2023-September/date.html We (sudoroom) really need to discuss this -jake (sometimes delegate of sudoroom) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:22:50 -0700 From: Z Silver Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com> To: Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> Cc: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, communityliberationprograms <communityliberationprograms(a)proton.me> Subject: Re: [omni-consensus] Follow-up 9/7 Delegates Meeting Over the past few months, TANC has been diligently working through the Omnis collective process to propose becoming a collective organization within Omni. Unfortunately, CLP has launched a counterattack aimed at blocking our proposal from moving forward. I would like to highlight some concerning actions that CLP has taken, which have raised alarms within the Omni community and appear to be driven more by personal political agendas than the collective interest of Omni. CLP's actions have stirred deep mistrust among the collectives, but I believe this issue should be framed as CLP versus TANC, rather than Omni versus TANC. The nature of the concerns raised by CLP should be shared with the collectives during our meetings rather than springing them on us without prior consensus. During our recent meeting, CLP raised concerns about the composition of TANC's membership, specifically that it is predominantly made up of DSA members. DSA, a nationwide socialist organization, had previously disbanded the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) from decision-making roles in one of its chapters. It's essential to clarify that this viewpoint does not necessarily reflect the beliefs of East Bay DSA, an organization that we collaborate with and host at Omni. During the meeting, many articles and pieces of information were presented hastily, making it challenging to understand the full context. It was also mentioned that TANC originated from DSA but diverged due to shifting political views, which led to its independent organizing. Members of TANC at the delegate meeting clarified that some of them were not affiliated with DSA, and those who were represented a small portion of TANC's overall membership. However, CLP continued to press for more information about DSA, turning the discussion into an examination of DSA rather than focusing on TANC as a collective. CLP's actions demonstrated a lack of trust and an unwavering fixation on their assumptions. This behavior can be seen as gaslighting and hindered our efforts to build a productive relationship. It denied us the opportunity to truly connect and collaborate. Such accusations, withholding valuable resources from a mission-aligned collective, resembles an abusive weaponization of power. CLP's motives remain unclear, but their tactics bear resemblance to colonization—imposing a superior ideology on others. It is worth noting that every other collective expressed support for TANC joining Omni, and I personally have built trust and enthusiasm for this prospect. However, CLP has remained private and closed off in the past year, contributing to a sense of isolation. In addition to gaslighting and a fixation on a superior ideology, CLP weaponized the suffering and struggles of PYM as a defense mechanism. They implied that PYM must grant their blessings to TANC if they were to change their vote, without obtaining consent. Amirah, a Palestinian individual who joined the delegate meeting for the first time to support the media lab proposal, initially felt solidarity but became uncomfortable when her words were used for political gain. She asked CLP to respect her country and remove it from the conversation, a request that was ignored. CLP's actions sought to undermine TANC and Omni as a collective. During this discussion, another delegate, John, was facing an urgent situation, but CLP did not pause their agenda to acknowledge his safety. CLP's behavior has become hostile, harmful to the Palestinian struggle, and exploitative of Omni's volunteer labor. In light of these developments, I propose that we move forward with voting by consensus, with the exception of one vote against. Furthermore, I suggest suspending CLP's voting power until the end of 2023. During this time, I hope CLP can gain clarity regarding collectivity, rebuild trust, and foster better relationships within Omni Commons. On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 9:21 AM Sarah Lockhart <sarah.ee.el(a)gmail.com> wrote: > to follow up on Patrik's thoughts -- in re PYM having had regular meetings > and events at Omni: both TANC and EBDSA have regular events and meetings at > Omni. TANC, currently, has more frequent use of Omni for events than > CLP does. These facts were what had led me to hope that, like the > stereotypical bumper sticker, CLP could "coexist" with TANC as a member > collective. > > It appears that the problem isn't TANC or DSA using Omni's space and being > present at Omni on a regular basis, as I would have assumed CLP would have > expressed opposition to their events prior to this. > > So it seems that CLP's concern is over TANC becoming a member collective > and participating in building governance? I am wondering what specific > things, if any, there are concerns about in that regard? > > Sarah L > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 3:33 AM Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> A quick correction first: you may have missed this in the chat during the >> delegates meeting, but some of the TANC representatives very explicitly >> identified themselves as NOT being part of DSA. I believe it was also >> mentioned that most of TANC's membership is not part of DSA. >> >> I definitely did not get the impression that the TANC folks were >> dismissing CLP's questions, or were being disingenuous in their answers. I >> felt that CLP was being adversarial in how they questioned TANC from the >> start, but that the TANC folks did their best to answer questions and >> clarify the relationship between TANC and DSA, the national DSA's >> banning to its Palestinian WG, and the East Bay DSA's opposition to that >> ban. >> >> I asked at the meeting whether there was a record of EBDSA speaking up in >> favor of the Palestinian WG. Someone forwarded me the following doc >> afterwards, which contains a resolution by the EBDSA to reaffirm their >> "Commitment to the Liberation of Palestine and to Endorse the statement For >> an Internationalist DSA": >> https://www.eastbaydsa.org/general-membership-meeting-april-30-2022/ I >> think that definitely satisfies my own concern that the East Bay branch of >> the DSA at least should not be tarred with the same brush when it comes to >> their position on Palestine. >> >> CLP kept bringing up as justification of their veto against TANC that >> they wanted to respect the Palestinian Youth Movement's boycott of DSA >> (PYM has held regular meetings at Omni before), to the point that the only >> Palestinian present at the meeting got frustrated and asked the >> participants to leave Palestine out of this. Has anyone actually *asked* >> PYM whether they have an opinion about TANC? >> >> I really wish CLP had brought up this objection to TANC based on their >> association with DSA sooner, because that could have avoided a lot of >> wasted effort, confusion, and frustration. Omni has been in discussion with >> TANC for two months, and we've already made some significant space >> rearrangements to be able to accommodate them. If you were "alarmed by the >> pressure to agree with the rest of the Omni collectives", perhaps that's >> because none of the other collectives had heard a word about this >> issue with DSA before, and CLP's veto of TANC seriously adds to Omni's >> existential financial crisis. >> >> Patrik >> (not affiliated with TANC, and had to ask someone what DSA stands for...) >> >> On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:08 PM communityliberationprograms < >> communityliberationprograms(a)proton.me> wrote: >> >>> Good morning everyone, >>> >>> On September 7th, we held a delegates meeting to discuss various topics, >>> including the decision to vote for TANC to join as a member collective. We >>> posed a question to TANC representatives about how many of their members >>> are in DSA, due to DSA's decision to bar their Palestinian Working Group >>> from national leadership. They deflected the question by claiming that TANC >>> is not a DSA project—despite the attending members admitting to being in >>> DSA themselves, TANC being originally founded by DSA members, as well as >>> having approved an official partnership with EBDSA in March 2021. It is >>> hard for us to seriously consider inviting an organization into power at >>> Omni when they are already dismissing a fellow member collective's >>> questions in their own candidacy meeting, and being disingenuous in how >>> they represent this information. We were alarmed by the pressure put on >>> us to agree with the rest of the Omni collectives while we have >>> legitimate concerns that need to be addressed in order for our membership >>> and community partners to feel safe bringing TANC into Omni's >>> decision-making processes. Stating that CLP based our vote on "guilt by >>> association" is an unfair analysis of the situation; CLP membership's >>> concern stems from our fundamental organizing principles and mission. The >>> reaction we received from TANC's membership when we asked for transparency >>> was unprofessional. We ask that other member collectives respect our >>> decision in this process. >>> >>> In solidarity, >>> >>> CLP >>> _______________________________________________ >>> consensus mailing list >>> consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org >>> https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> consensus mailing list >> consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org >> https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >> > _______________________________________________ > consensus mailing list > consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus >

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Sudo's September meeting is Wednesday, September 6th!

by Andrew R Gross

As always, participate in person or remotely from 8 - 9 PM! http://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles We will be discussing plans to do a member outreach event at Temescal Brewery on the 21st of September! We'll also discuss our complicated, onerous new member process. If you'd like to add something to the agenda, reply below! Cheers, *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

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[Donation] Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB RAM, Pisound Audio and MIDI Interface hat, and case

by Muirén Ní Sídach

MIDI 2.0 development for Arm64 lags way behind, so I'm switching to Intel and-or AMD architecture. Who do I talk to about donating my Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB RAM, Pisound Audio and MIDI Interface hat, and case? Image link to my build here: https://wp.me/aeX3Aj-75 Technical specs here https://blokas.io/pisound/

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Hardware and softWEAR* Hacking Tuesday is tonight

by Jake

Hi everyone, You're getting this email either because 1) you're on the sudoroom discuss email list, or 2) because I BCC'd you directly. Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever, in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email) ALSO NOW FEATURING: SoftWEAR hacking too: the Media Lab / Sewing area at Omni Commons (in the basement) is also active so bring your fabric and textile projects and technical repairs; we've got heavy duty and serger sewing machines available. You're also welcome to bring your own machine to have it checked out and tuned up for tip-top operation or to just sew alongside others. in the past few weeks, we've had about 5-15 people over the course of the evening, not including remote participants who logged in through telepresence Here it is on the sudoroom page: https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/ I am usually there by 8PM but people do show up before me! if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the video chat link at the end of this email! We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway! You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here: https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here: https://sudoroom.org/humans and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here: https://sudoroom.org/donate if you can't make it in person: join the jitsi videochat with the room, and chat with each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles see you soon! -jake

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[sudo-info] Rent-Free Housing in Berkeley for Shop Manager/Handy Human (fwd)

by Jake

I know this might look like spam but it is actually a real opportunity for someone who wants to manage a makerspace in exchange for housing! -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 11:53:38 -0700 From: Jason Price <jason(a)stochasticlabs.org> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Subject: [sudo-info] Rent-Free Housing in Berkeley for Shop Manager/Handy Human Dear Sudo, Greetings! Could you please share the following unique opportunity among your communities, colleagues, and circuits? Flyer attached. Thank you, Jason *** Stochastic Labs <http://stochasticlabs.org/>* (*located just a few blocks north of the UC Berkeley campus) is currently looking for a* very part-time shop manager and all around handy human *to keep our building and workshop in tip-top shape! *This live-work position includes* *a fully private, beautiful 1-bedroom apartment,* rent-free, all utilities included, in one of Berkeley's most sought after neighborhoods. You will have 24-7 access to all onsite tools, including laser cutter, 3d printers, shopbot etc. Stochastic Labs supports world-class artists, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs working at the uncharted intersections of their fields. This is truly a dream opportunity to engage with, support, (and build!) an incredible community of creative and dedicated innovators. *To apply: *Please send resume/cover letter to work(a)stochasticlabs.org highlighting any specific carpentry, handyperson, and shop experience. -- Jason J Price, PhD Program Manager Stochastic Labs <https://stochasticlabs.org/> pronouns: he/him/his

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Laptop De-Branding?

by Jonathan Cadle

So, I had an idea that I wanted to run past everyone: What if we invited people (both within Sudoroom, and perhaps some of the creative/art groups at the Omni) to redecorate our giveaway laptops? My reasons for suggesting this are as follows: - It's fun - It's an opportunity to introduce other Omni people to Sudoroom - People who might not be comfortable coming to sudoroom for technical stuff might be interested in a creative project, and find us friendlier than they'd expected - A lot of the laptops just have IT stickers on them indicating machine iDs and such, that don't mean anything anymore. What do you all think? Would a weekend be good for this? Maybe a Saturday?

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[Outreach Porject] Linux for Seniors

by Muirén Ní Sídach

I've been thinking about network and computer access for seniors this for a couple of years, and recently finding a YouTube channel named Linux for Seniors gave me just the little extra push I needed. https://www.youtube.com/@linuxforseniors I've committed to trying to be regularly present and helpful at sudo room on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday evenings, so if anyone is available with knowledge about what hardware is available their help would be appreciated as would the support of those experienced with configuring systems for people with visual and physical disabilities.

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Sudoroom on Matrix

by Jonathan Cadle

So, I was looking into setting up a Matrix space for Sudoroom (I think it'd be a great way to improve internal communication, and could be a helpful collaboration tool on software projects), and I was surprised to learn that there is already a Matrix channel (not space) already set up, with integrations with the IRC channel, video chat, and the website. I was wondering who set this up, and if they'd be interested in combining our efforts to set up a more robust Sudoroom presence on Matrix.

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Reimagining the new member process

by Andrew R Gross

Hey everyone, I've been focusing on serving the membership working group for a few months, and I'd like to highlight some issues I see with our new member joining process. *1. It's not clear what membership means.* Longtime sudo room members have told me that membership isn't necessary to participate, it's just a designation that allows you to weigh in on consensus proposals and endorse members. This isn't the impression the word has with any new members I've spoken to, though. The term for most people signifies belonging, and an allowance to attend events, and this misunderstanding is particularly accute in my experience when dealing with BiPOC folks, women, anyone new to tech or hackerspaces... just anyone who doesn't arrive with a preexisting sense of belonging to the dominant cultural ingroup. *2. The new member process puts up a lot of barriers to joining.* When people discover Sudo Room, they often arrive with a sense of excitement to dive in, and then when I start walking through the steps, I watch all that excitement dissipate. The endorsement process, for instance, feels like a massive mud patch on a foot track. It seems to interrupt people's ability to focus on learning about who we are by creating an open-ended social challenge. Once again, I don't think tech bros who show up or have been members since the begining experience this at all, but if you're new to the town, or you've never been part of a hackerspace, this is stressful and confusing. I felt this way when I joined, and a new member just told me exactly this: they're non-white, their non-male, and they've never felt like tech spaces were built with them in mind. They really went outside their comfort zone and met people at events and got the endorsements, but it seems to be working completely against our interests to put up an obstacle that selectively filters people like this. Then there's a long wait where nothing happens, and often no one ever tells a new member that their membership was approved. As an exercise I would like to invite people to respond to this email and answer these two questions: *What roles you think exist in our community?* and *What processes are effective for helping people enter into it?* I'm not interested in hearing defenses of the current system. That's not the exercise. Imagine we're starting from scratch. Maybe, we'll come to find that the current system actually fulfills certain aims well, but I don't want to frame this as a change, I want to imagine the process for helping people become at home at Sudo from a blank page. Cheers, Andy *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

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high-speed oscilloscopes for sale (need work)

by Jake Watters

A friend of mine is selling some four high-speed oscilloscopes that need work. They are posted on ebay but you can make an offer directly if you want and i'll pass it along "4 Tektronix digital oscilloscopes? 2xTDS540, 2xTDS520 in various state of repair. One converted from picture tube to LCD. Likely enough good parts to assemble 2 working scopes and part out the rest for good money. 2Ms sampling rate" https://www.ebay.com/itm/285452652435 -jake

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Last Month's Income & Expenses

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Roll Call - who's here this week?

by Romy Ilano

(Just got back from traveling & an illness) Are folks still at Burning man and travelling in Europe for the Chaos Congress? [Trying to figure out this week at SudoRoom] Since so many folks were travelling, or going to the Burning man festival maybe we can have a small 5 minute "today I learned during my travels" segment for fun at a meeting or at the hardware hacking tuesdy. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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help make electronic door access latches for omni

by Jake

Hi everyone, Omni Commons needs some rooms locked up with electronic locks. I volunteered us to make everything and all the software. We can ask for some rent relief or other favors in exchange for making this stuff, because otherwise they were going to spend money that we don't have, to buy stuff that wouldn't work. Who wants to help with this stuff??? We have a bin of keypads and another bin of solenoids and another bin of servo motors, and plenty of arduinos. The plan is to build a couple of these things and tune up the software and get them going, and install them on the rooms. I'm thinking an N600 wifi router flashed with openWRT and python, with an Arduino plugged into it over USB. The Arduino connects to the numeric keypad and solenoid latch, and a beeper. The software on the arduino can be basically this: https://github.com/jerkey/doorkeypad/tree/twocol-eeprom and then the N600 linux machine can host stuff like what i made recently for the omni front door magstripe reader (ask me about it) so that people from the events group who are not technical can add and remove codes from the systems. here is what Phillip from the events group has put together to describe what they want the system to do: Feature List: ● Remote access by Omni events staff to unlock or see if the door is currently closed/locked ● Ability for Omni events staff to admin the system for these doors ● Numpad next to door for renters to quickly unlock with 4 digit pins ● Timeline recorded of each door access for lookup later by Omni event staff ● (optional) log of when door is closed Feature Expectations: ● Omni events staff admin abilities ○ Delegate additional admins ○ Add/remove renters with a pin access ○ Set dates when renter pin starts and stops working Planned Doors: ● DJ booth above bar with sound system control ● Tech room side of stage where sound equipment is stored

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Re: help make electronic door access latches for omni

by Jake Watters

basically there will be about three parts of the project: 1. hardware on the sudoroom tables (wiring stuff up and making things talk to each other and fiddling with early software tests) 2. copying the basic hardware setup a couple of times and making a third or fourth spare setup, for fiddling and hacking and maybe additional doors after the needs specified by the events group 3. writing more software together and concurrently writing notes on how to use it, and composing instructions to send to end users like people in the events group 4. installing the hardware at the required doors and configuring and testing 5. writing emails to events group people explaining how the system works and handling their replies and ongoing tech support requests. I will be back in two weeks and ready to work on this stuff in person!! butt in the meantime if anyone wants to get started (especially on the software) let's not hesitate! I've been writing lots of software remotely. if you want to see the CGI door access stuff i've been working on which will be pretty relevant to this project, send me your github username so I can grant you access as for the hardware, people can start by grabbing an N600 router and flashing it with openWRT and installing python and configuring things... or you can find a working arduino and wire it up to a numeric keypad and a couple of LEDs and a beeper for testing, and that involves a bit of soldering and software flashing. -jake On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, ch1rxpy3 via sudo-discuss wrote: > I can't commit to the entire project but I do need to work on networking > skills and would be interested in flashing a router. What sort of machine > would we want to use? > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Aug 25, 2023, 4:00 PM, Laura Wesely via sudo-discuss wrote: > >> Thanks for including me in this! I am very eager to support by lending >> what I can: some time, brute force, impeccable instruction-following, and >> strong executive functioning and spacial reasoning skills. >> >> Beyond that I lack technological knowledge and experience to be of much >> help. >> >> I short: tell me what to do and put me to work. you not short >> >> XO >> Lo >> >> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 15:08 Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Omni Commons needs some rooms locked up with electronic locks. I >>> volunteered >>> us to make everything and all the software. We can ask for some rent relief >>> or other favors in exchange for making this stuff, because otherwise they >>> were >>> going to spend money that we don't have, to buy stuff that wouldn't work. >>> >>> Who wants to help with this stuff??? >>> >>> We have a bin of keypads and another bin of solenoids and another bin of >>> servo >>> motors, and plenty of arduinos. The plan is to build a couple of these >>> things >>> and tune up the software and get them going, and install them on the rooms. >>> >>> I'm thinking an N600 wifi router flashed with openWRT and python, with an >>> Arduino plugged into it over USB. The Arduino connects to the numeric >>> keypad >>> and solenoid latch, and a beeper. The software on the arduino can be >>> basically this: >>> https://github.com/jerkey/doorkeypad/tree/twocol-eeprom >>> >>> and then the N600 linux machine can host stuff like what i made recently >>> for >>> the omni front door magstripe reader (ask me about it) so that people from >>> the >>> events group who are not technical can add and remove codes from the >>> systems. >>> >>> here is what Phillip from the events group has put together to describe >>> what >>> they want the system to do: >>> >>> Feature List: >>> >>> ● Remote access by Omni events staff to unlock or see if the door is >>> currently >>> closed/locked >>> >>> ● Ability for Omni events staff to admin the system for these doors >>> >>> ● Numpad next to door for renters to quickly unlock with 4 digit pins >>> >>> ● Timeline recorded of each door access for lookup later by Omni event >>> staff >>> >>> ● (optional) log of when door is closed >>> >>> Feature Expectations: >>> >>> ● Omni events staff admin abilities >>> >>> ○ Delegate additional admins >>> >>> ○ Add/remove renters with a pin access >>> >>> ○ Set dates when renter pin starts and stops working >>> >>> Planned Doors: >>> >>> ● DJ booth above bar with sound system control >>> >>> ● Tech room side of stage where sound equipment is stored

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ewaste / dump run

by Paige P

Hey, I mentioned to the building working group that we need to do an ewaste run, and Silver said they could help us out. Where do we normally go for ewaste and does anyone from sudo want to help? The building working group meets on Sundays. Im not available then but can help add more stuff to the pile from our unsorted areas. Paige

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Fwd: Solidarity with LGBTQ Singaporeans! Sun 8/27

by Yardena Cohen

Sunday August 27th 2pm @ Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco Join our protest in solidarity with LGBTQ Singaporeans, who are under many threats from fascism in their country, including some of the same right wing theocrats pushing anti-trans laws here in the USA. For full details, please see https://safetyforsingapore.com/ Please forward/re-post/share widely! Numbers matter and every body counts, so please show up to support! We'll be nice and give you covid-safe air hugs. RSVP if you'd like a reminder Sunday morning or rides to BART ;)

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Invoice 3009 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thank you for stewarding the commons. Love and solidarity, Omni Commons ---------------------------------- Invoice --------------------------------- 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 US +1 5105456582 https://omnicommons.org Invoice #: 3009 Date: 09/01/2023 Due Date: 09/25/2023 Terms: Net 25 Amount Due: $2,000.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill To: Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94607 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************** Account Summary ***************************** 08/01/2023 Balance Forward $1,850.00 Other payments and credits after 08/01/2023 -1,850.00 New charges (details below) 2,000.00 Total Amount Due (activity through 09/01/202 2,000.00 **************************************************************************** Date Activity Qty Rate Amount 09/01/2023 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T ____________________________________________________________________________ SubTotal: $2,000.00 Tax: $0.00 -------------------------------------- Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00 Total Amount Due: $2,000.00 Greetings Sudo Room! This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the commons! Love and solidarity, Omni Commons Finance Working Group

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Anti-surveillance rally in SF on Tuesday?

by Jonathan Cadle

Has anyone else heard about this protest someone is organizing at Moscone Center on Tuesday? Apparently it's opposed to Project Nimbus? I got an email about it, and was wondering if anyone else was planning to check it out.

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