That was a great discussion!
I love yar’s nuanced view too. But since I am pro woman I would say - if you are a woman, it’s probably best if you do -not- join a working group/committee or volunteer for stuff. You probably also are better off not doing anything related to teaching or education unless you really really want to.
What the world needs is more smart women building projects and reaching the alpha states. Women and minorities carrying the unnecessary burden or making the world more diverse through endless committees and consensus and meetings are -not- what the world needs. We already have more than enough of those.
Get ye to a room of your own! You do not need to mentor young women or care for kids or teach. Remove yourself from all volunteer and charity committees - these (through religion) are overstaffed with women already. We need -fewer- women doing volunteer work and more women doing raw cool projects to save the world!
(I know this viewpoint is controversial but I’d like to make the world a better place =D)
Since it's hard to meet folks in Person, we are all working from home and stuff, maybe we can all start a bunch of cool online tutorials asynchronously for the community. It always seems to be a demand right?
I'm just throwing it out there - maybe someone in the javascript meetup can start it? I found the Bechdel test movie database has a cool online repo
https://bechdeltest.com/api/v1/doc
Since it's hard to meet folks in Person, we are all working from home and stuff, maybe we can all start a bunch of cool online tutorials asynchronously for the community. It always seems to be a demand right?
I'm just throwing it out there - maybe someone in the javascript meetup can start it? I found the Bechdel test movie database has a cool online repo
https://bechdeltest.com/api/v1/doc
ok NFTs aren't cool or making money anymore! we can talk about them again!
Just kidding, (actually I'm not), but Jake did make a good point that NFTs aren't ecological.
I was involved in the early days of NFT (d'oh) since I live here. I'm interested in jump starting any kind of digital printmaking, online or in person art gallery through SudoRoom for the common good! It's a topic brewing, but whew, thankfully nobody is making money on NFTs anymore.
ok NFTs aren't cool or making money anymore! we can talk about them again!
Just kidding, (actually I'm not), but Jake did make a good point that NFTs aren't ecological.
I was involved in the early days of NFT (d'oh) since I live here. I'm interested in jump starting any kind of digital printmaking, online or in person art gallery through SudoRoom for the common good! It's a topic brewing, but whew, thankfully nobody is making money on NFTs anymore.
the other day when Fitz was there I remembered some of the tricks needed to get
our monster Yaskawa robot to work.
I made some updates to the wiki.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Giant_robot_arm
Here are some pictures:
https://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2022-05/robot.html
we replaced the battery in the robot arm (behind the connectors in the base,
this battery is to preserve memory in the position encoders) and the battery in
the computer cabinet (to preserve its configuration memory and "disk" when it's off)
but a couple of the position encoders on the arm are not happy and it's doing
this:
https://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2022-05/20220531_205803.jpg
although sometimes it doesn't even get that far.
Anyone interested in learning how to get this machine going? I don't want to
be the only one who knows
-jake
Does anyone on this list want an ergonomic keyboard? It doesn't belong at
Sudoroom but is worth something to the right person.
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/
take it and make a donation! or tell a friend! or just take it.
it's cluttering the space
-jake
I have some thoughts about helping new members get up and running at SudoRoom.
- I haven't been participating in discussions as much as I could have because I get everything in a big email summary. It's hard to see when people are replying to me, I guess over the years I forgot there's an easy web panel board. Maybe we could link to this more directly?
https://sudoroom.org/lists/hyperkitty/list/sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org/
- Helping out women and non binary folks
Over the years people have asked me to help get more women and cool people get involved in hackerspaces. This is a noble cause, but a lot of the approaches like celebrating diversity etc. might not be the right approach for hackers and nerds. How do you get more women and minorities and hackerspaces while keeping the spirit of the hack? It's quite complicated, true, because SudoRoom is not for everybody.
There was a time when there were a lot of brogrammers working on startups who were interested in joining. They were not interested in any social good causes or making the world a better place - I think they were looking more for something like WeWork, and that was fine! Maybe they could join a "tech incubator space"
At the same time there has been a cool drive to get more minorities and women into tech spaces. I think this is very cool! It's obviously "complicated", with so many social and class and gender structures going on. I've seen a lot of these initiatives, and there are some easy wins that nobody can deny that mostly focus on:
(A) People trying to break into tech to get a good job that pays well. These initiatives have a lot of corporate and branding pep talks. They have their place, and we definitely want to help people learn to fish so they can fulfill their basic needs. These kinds of initiatives involve a lot of interview training, career development initiatives, and basic intro to coding or git courses. I should know because as a self taught programmer I participated in these, and I benefitted a ton from these!
The downside to career-focused tech diversity causes is that they focus on money and careers. We all know that the obvious money and career topics are actually not the best choices for people who are truly interested on creating and learning about programming. Even for long term career growth you want people who want to learn programming, not just how to build websites on Ruby on Rails and javascript shopping ecarts.
(B) Initiatives around teaching local youth to get into tech or workshops to tutor kids. Who can argue against these? It's very feel good.
The only downside with teaching and volunteering with kids is that the pressure is heavily set upon women in tech to lead these, and I personally don't think there is anything about women that makes them more appropriate for taking care of kids or teaching them. Also, societally we need more male or trans folks to teach kids for diversity as education below the university level is heavily skewed to females.
So if SudoRoom wants to tackle the diversity topic, I think we have to find a more unique way to do this. (A) careers for minorities breaking into tech and (B) educating women are well served by people outside of hackerspaces. (A) and (B) are not what SudoRoom is particularly great at, and I do not see how most people can become their best hacker doing either (A) or (B) when they are not suited to it.
We also come to one of Omni Commons' greatest weaknesses - a love for administration and endless meetings. I know it's the nature of the space, but I'd like to help get people who are hackers to come and hack here without having to get involved in endless meetings and discussions. A hackerspace should provide an environment in which hackers can come, socialize but also reach their ideal flow state and creativity. If people are going to a lot of administrative meetings, are coordinating meetups, or hyping other hackerspaces in red states in the United States, that doesn't leave them the opportunity to develop themselves as hackers and create and add to the vibe of the space. (It is also extremely irresponsible to hype any place in a red state at this time, or tell any hackers it is a good idea to move there, especially women or anyone who has a woman in their family. Women are literally getting prosecuted for murder for having miscarriages! oh my!)
OK so this was all long winded but the gist of it is:
Let's try to get the diversity ball rolling in hackerspaces in a non obvious way, something different from the diversity non profit complex. Let's help people get ramped up and into the flow state. Let's free women from the obligation of volunteering to educate kids or do noncreative work. Let's make complex technical projects easy to understand and ramp up on, and not cage women and minorities into endless beginner's projects in the name of making technology more accessible for all. There are many ways to make things better, and one of those ways is being the best hacker you want to be!
Hi everyone,
The weekly meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 PM. You can join in person
or at
*https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
<https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles>*
I don't know what's on the agenda, but stop by. There's always stuff to
discuss (plus show and tell!)
If you have anything else to add, feel free to add it to the agenda:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep.
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
Hi! I'm thinking of starting a Blender learn together meetup/online Course. Ideally this should be during a weekly or semimonthly/biweekly night (not even sure).
What would be cool is if we made tutorials that were very SudoRoom specific, such as constructing a 3D model of the SudoRoom space, or creating a SudoRoom logo in 3 dimensions. Also, this would be a cool way to get video editing and the light projection stuff wrapped up into the SudoRoom projects!
Dear Sudoroom,
As delegate I have to represent the interests of the sudoroom membership on
issues that affect everyone. I haven't got a lot of responses to other
proposals i've put forward.
I want to remind everyone that the best way to stay involved with omni-wide
decisions is to join the consensus email list, and even attend delegates'
meetings if you like. They're open to everyone.
Below is a proposal to let the events booking group have a fund made from money
that events bring in, that they can make use of with less supervision, in the
interests of improving the process of putting on events. It's an important
moneymaking group at Omni and I trust them to do a good job with it.
If nobody objects then i'll say Sudoroom is in favor of this proposal.
-jake
sudoroom's delegate to the omni commons
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 15:21:57 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org>
Cc: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: Re: [omni-consensus] Fwd: Proposed budget process for the events team
Yes, ideally all collective members would take an active interest in
every detail of Omni's operations.
In practice, the delegates often have to use their own judgement to
figure out which things need to be escalated to the status of a "full
community-wide proposal" and which things are just minor operational
changes which fall reasonably within the parameters of prior consensus
decisions. That's the balance we've struck in our own pragmatic mix of
direct vs representative democracy. I would welcome proposals to add
more clear structure around this. Tbh this proposal is my attempt at
creating some structure which solves some of that problem.
I am not a delegate and I don't really care either way. I just want
other folks to consider it, and the consensus list is the place to
start those conversations.
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:07 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
>
> Is this not a proposal that delegates need to put before their collectives? Or
> do the delegates have the ability to decide on their own? I don't understand.
>
> -jake
>
> On Tue, 31 May 2022, Yardena Cohen wrote:
>
>> I would like the delegates to consider this proposal. Instead of event
>> income going directly to omni's general funds, the events team would
>> get its own bank account, make regular transfers of $6k/mo (when
>> available) to omni checking, and keep any surplus as an independent
>> operating budget. The events team would decide what to do with this
>> budget. What do you all think?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, May 26, 2022 at 8:15 AM
>> Subject: Proposed budget process for the events team
>> To: events at omni <events(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, finance
>> <finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
>>
>>
>> Hey all, I'd like to float an idea for you all. What if the events
>> team had its own money and could set its own budget? My idea is that:
>>
>> * events wg gets its own bank account
>> * all event income goes into that account
>> * all event expenses come from that account
>> * events wg can make its own internal/autonomous decisions about who
>> gets access to that account and how money comes/goes (as long as
>> decisions are transparent and standard 501c3 rules are followed)
>> * events wg makes a regular transfer of $6k each month to omni's general funds
>> * beyond that, all funds are kept by the event wg
>>
>> I think that, over time, this bank account would grow, and the events
>> group would be able to do great things with it. This would hopefully
>> lead to less micromanaging from the delegates / the rest of the omni
>> community and remove some pressure by setting clear and finite
>> expectations. Decisions about work should be made by the people doing
>> the work. Leftover money could also be used to pay stipends to enable
>> more people to do work who aren't independently wealthy.
>>
>> What do you all think of this idea?
>> _______________________________________________
>> consensus mailing list
>> consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org
>> https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus
>>
Hi everyone,
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or 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 of
any means you can invoke.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in case you didn't know, there is definitely a covid surge happening right now
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 the
telescreen (linked last in this email)
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there soon after 6pm.
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 after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate 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, join the jitsi videochat with the room, and chat with
each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
Dear Sudoroom,
Tonight I will not make it to Hardware Hacking Tuesday but I suspect people
will probably be there, although i haven't seen any announcements.
This email is a reminder that we need to discuss the BOGSS proposal at the
Sudoroom meeting tomorrow night, and figure out what questions and/or
amendments we want to send our delegate (me) to the Delegates' meeting on
Thursday.
People have already said things about it, both directly to me and publicly, and
I have my own amendments to propose, and we can talk about all of those
tomorrow night. I know everyone is busy (I am too!) but this is a pretty
important issue for Omni that we need to engage with as much as possible.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 20:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Sudoroom,
Today I voted in behalf of Sudoroom in favor of the MOP proposal, and they are
now a member collective of Omni Commons. I emailed about them on April 20th
but didn't hear anything back, so I hope everyone is okay with that decision.
Today a proposal was introduced for a new committee to be formed at Omni
Commons to value and protect the safety and interests of BIPOC/Non-Men.
this is the original proposal in PDF form:
https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/attachments/20220505/ab900701/a…
this is an editable "cryptpad" and
we are requested to "please leave comments in red"
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/6IhZqwyXxN6CrEvtiljmnqTa/
actually this is a cryptpad copy of their document just for sudoroom, and I
will forward our discussion to Rafiq to integrate our input.
Other collectives are asking questions too, so if you want to be more engaged
in the discussion, please join the [omni-consensus] list! But definitely make
discussion here in the sudoroom list and get engaged.
If Sudoroom members have concerns or objections, we need to communicate them
promptly and work toward agreeable amedments. It is not an option to simply
reject the proposal, but rather if you have specific concerns then we need to
work with each other to address those concerns and come up with something
agreeable.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Hey all, I'm boosting this email with a new subject line so that it's
clear to readers - this contains an important new proposal!!!
Brief summary: this proposal forms a congress of BIPOC and non-men
from all Omni's groups, who then elect a small committee which has its
own seat on the board, its own delegate, and a few specific powers
related to addressing racism and sexism. This is an important step
towards making omni representative and accountable! This finally
begins to put our Statement of Solidarity into action!
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: rafiq.ali <rafiq.ali(a)protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2022 at 12:16 PM
To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
I added a little note at the beginning on our proposal and the events
from 2 weeks ago. Happy to provide a short statement. In general, I
appreciate the apologies made and think this can be a growing
opportunity to forge a stronger collective. If it's possible, we can
open discussion on the proposal this week if enough delegates have had
a chance to review with the idea of approving at the next delegate
meeting (or worst case, the one after).
As mentioned earlier, we are proposing the creation of a safe space
Committee (see attached). We appreciate and accept all
feedback/comments/concerns.
In struggle,
Rafiq
CLP
Hi everyone,
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or 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 of
any means you can invoke.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in case you didn't know, there is definitely a covid surge happening right now
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 the
telescreen (linked last in this email)
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there soon after 6pm.
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 after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate 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, join the jitsi videochat with the room, and chat with
each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
Hey, as I mentioned last week I won't be able to make it today, but if any
wnb from this list want to stop by it’s totally fine! Night will still keep
being WNB only. If you don’t have a key, knock on the door, It seems
there's always people at Omni C on Monday evenings, so getting in should
not be an issue.--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
I'd just like to leave this up here, some copies of the old forrest mims notebooks. I didn't do a lot of soldering and circuit building when Radio Shack was still a thing, but people here at SudoRoom told me that these were in circulation.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/sets/72177720299391640
I'm thinking of making a version of engineering notebooks similar to forrest mims. they could be tailored so that they're down to earth and appeal to people who BIPOC / cool independent women who don't necessarily want to care for children or become mothers / and more!
here's the sudoroom pick and place machine
https://youtu.be/uTxdMl-Mct4
-jake
On Wed, 25 May 2022, Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The weekly meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 PM. You can join in person
> or at
>
> *https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
> <https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles>*
>
> I don't know what's on the agenda, but stop by. There's always stuff to
> discuss (plus show and tell!)
>
> If you have anything else to add, feel free to add it to the agenda:
> https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep.
>
> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>
Hey all, I'm trying to organize a massive "stuff removal" from omni
next weekend (Saturday June 4). So far there are two large piles of
"removal candidates" in the northwest basement and northwest entrance
hall:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/File:Entrance-hall-junk.jpghttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/File:Basement-junk-2.jpg
If you'd like any of these things to STAY, you should MOVE it from
these piles in the next week!
If you'd like any other things to GO, you should ADD it to these piles!
If you'd like to HELP remove things next Saturday, either by carrying
things outside day-of, finding new homes for things in advance, or
arranging trucks to take them various places, then that would be
AMAZING!
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2022 at 6:21 PM
Subject: Stuff that's going away - maybe in a week?
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
We now have two large "junk piles" - northwest entrance hall and
northwest basement. I believe almost everything that is "in question"
about whether it stays at omni is now in these two piles.
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/File:Entrance-hall-junk.jpghttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/File:Basement-junk-1.jpghttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/File:Basement-junk-2.jpg
Could I pretty please ask that anybody who still wants stuff in these
two piles, please claim and move them in the next week?
We have a work party scheduled for next Saturday June 4. I would like
for this to be a junk removal party. How do we all feel about this?
Would folks be able to arrange trucks to pick up whatever's still
there in a week?
I feel a sense of urgency because Village of Love is about to pay us a
bunch of money to move in and occupy both of these areas.
Hi Pauldogg,
I saw your application for membership to sudoroom - we are in the process of
improving the instructions on that page so people realize that the first steps
to joining sudoroom are things like joining the sudoroom-discuss email list,
and coming to the space!
I sent you an invite to the email list and you should join and say hi there,
and meet other people and hear about the events we have. You can come to the
space on Tuesday night for Hardware Hacking Tuesdays for example, or a meeting
on Wednesday (usually?) and JavaScript Thursdays. Or just write an email to
the list asking when anyone else (a member) might be in the space and willing
to host you so you can see the space and start meeting people.
thank you!
-jake
Hi everyone,
The weekly meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 PM. You can join in person
or at
*https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
<https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles>*
I don't know what's on the agenda, but stop by. There's always stuff to
discuss (plus show and tell!)
If you have anything else to add, feel free to add it to the agenda:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep.
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
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We are reaching out to our like-minded community members to invite you to
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Last night was fun! 4 ppl showed up, including some from this list!
I won't be able to make it this coming Monday since I'll be coming back
from a trip, if any wnb from this list want to be in charge I'm totally
fine! It seems there's always people at Omni C on Monday evenings, so
getting in should not be an issue.
I created a Slack Workspace for the WNB Coding Night:
https://join.slack.com/t/sudoroomwnbco-x885869/shared_invite/zt-19inm31eb-g…
Feel free to join if you're a woman/nb!
BTW I wasn't able to use my card to get in, it seems there's a new lock
with a number combination? Or it was already there and I didn't notice. The
card light got green but nothing. Someone indoors opened the door for me.
When I first got the card I was able to open the door.
--
julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
On Tue, 24 May 2022, Juliana A via sudo-discuss wrote:
> BTW I wasn't able to use my card to get in, it seems there's a new lock
> with a number combination? Or it was already there and I didn't notice. The
> card light got green but nothing. Someone indoors opened the door for me.
> When I first got the card I was able to open the door.
Hi Juliana, the box with the number combination on the front door is for when
the electronic system doesn't work at all, it contains a physical key.
I maintain the electronic system for the front door and you can call me
whenever you're at the front door and can't get in, and I can help figure out
what is not working and remotely open the door for you. I emailed you my
number before. It is (415)555-1212. You can also have root access on the door
control system if you want it and can connect over ssh and do everything I can
do.
according to the logs, the card system was used a lot last night and worked
(only one try) for a lot of people. It shows that your card worked twice:
May 23 18:47:52 localhost node[661]: #ANNOUNCE"invictus"julianaA<julianaferreira(a)gmail.com>|addedbyjakeTueMay1019:37:09PDT2022
May 23 18:47:52 localhost node[661]: Access granted on Mon May 23 2022 18:47:52 GMT-0700 (PDT)
May 23 18:47:58 localhost node[661]: #ANNOUNCE"invictus"julianaA<julianaferreira(a)gmail.com>|addedbyjakeTueMay1019:37:09PDT2022
May 23 18:47:58 localhost node[661]: Access granted on Mon May 23 2022 18:47:58 GMT-0700 (PDT)
if the electronic system is not working it's a big deal and I come to the space
to fix it.
the door latch is getting "sticky" and sometimes you have to pull harder to get
it to open. Note that the door handle will not turn with the electronic
latch.
people forget that the door handle does not turn and think it is not unlocked,
but it is unlocked, just pull it open.
-jake
I'm looking for a square 4-pin JST connector and I CANNOT find one. I can't
find a simple 4-pin connector with 2 rows.
I need one to match the receiving connector in these pictures. It appears
to be a 2 mm pitch in the PH family or something similar. But like I said,
I cannot find ANYWHERE that sells a 4-pin connector in this square
arrangement.
Nothing would make me happier than for someone to share a link and ask how
I didn't find it in a minute. It seems like such a simple part!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yX732MGJEMbTF6c1A
Thanks,
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
Does anybody have access to a magnetic stripe card WRITER? They are
more expensive than the small reader type we have on the front door.
If not, they are like $90 online.
Hello!
I am looking for a freelance product development engineer who has experience working with IOT, microcontrollers, and custom circuitry.
The project is an accessory for a musical instrument that is going to be scaled up and linked together for a large band of 100-200 instruments. There are prototypes that are about ~80% of the way finished, but we need another person with experience to really dial it in now. This is paid work, and we anticipate the project lasting between 1-3 months, but maybe less. The end product is going to be relatively high end for a professional band, so we really are looking for an engineer with experience, not your homie who likes to tinker with things.
Let me know if you are interested, or if you know someone who may fit the bill, thanks!
Regards,
Andrew
415-297-2535 (text is fine)
P.S. This is my first time posting here, so let me know if there's a better list for this kind of thing, thanks!
Sudoroom members if you have any objections to this proposal please speak up
otherwise I will assume Sudoroom is in favor
-jake (delegate of sudoroom to omni commons)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 19:00:25 -0700
From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: [omni-consensus] Proposal for warning letter to Mike Tenuto about
skylights refund
This is something we've discussed during the last two delegates meetings.
Hope we can take a vote on this tomorrow:
- Propose to ask our Lawyer Jesse to send a letter to Mike requiring
hime to refund Omni the money we prepaid for the skylights ($9800) by the
next delegates meeting June 2nd. If funds have not been received by then,
Omni will file a bond claim against Mike's contractor surety bond to
recuperate our money that way. Mike is also invited to arrange a time with
Omni to come reclaim the windows he brought in which are currently lying
loose on the roof.
Patrik
Hey, we had a chill first night last Monday! Kira brought a laptop for
donation and I was assessing some laptops that live at sudoroom from this
project Laptops for All! I'm messaging Jenny who is responsible for this
project already, but here's some pics.
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Hi everyone,
The weekly meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 PM. You can join in person
or at
*https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
<https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles>*
I don't know what's on the agenda, but stop by. There's always stuff to
discuss (plus show and tell!)
If you have anything else to add, feel free to add it to the agenda:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep.
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
It's a 2013 laptop; 4GB of RAM, two CPUs, and a built-in Radeon HD 8240
GPU. Not very fast, and the battery doesn't hold much charge. But it's
been reliably doing home server work for the last year!
Is this something sudo would be interested in having?
~ Kira
1st WNB coding night tonight! 🎉 If you identify as women/nb, come over!
Not sure how many will stop by, but excited! Will get there at 7, I think I
have everything I need, but what's the best way to contact any of you if
something comes up? Email this group?
Will report back how it went!
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Anyone want to help a recent transplant to find the candidates that match
my politics for this upcoming election?
I'm aware that Omni and Sudoroom are required to be apolitical entities to
maintain their tax status, so I want to be clear that I'm asking for
individuals to give their personal advice on where to find voting guides
and what candidates I should inform myself about. No one's personal
opinions in this email constitute any kind of endorsement by Omni or
Sudoroom.
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
I'll be unavailable to host Hardware Hacking Tuesday this coming week, can
someone else do it? it's easy, you just host and onboard new people (not
babies, i mean people new to sudoroom) and explain to them the simple concept
of how things work here
-Jake
In case my request gets lost, sending here a request to add the event we've
been talking about. Description is below, I think I would need that
Wordpress password to add it by myself, I looked at GitHub and I don't
think it's over there. Up to you folks, I'm fine with getting the password
or someone just adding the text below. I would like to add it to the wiki
as well.
The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons,
> invites all women/nb people for “Coding Owls - A WNB Coding Night”: bring
> your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if
> you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking!
> If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never
> coded before!). And if you're an intermediate programmer looking for a
> challenge, we can help you find problems to work on. No computer? No
> problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders of all abilities are
> welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly
> recommended. Coding is more fun with friends! Join in person if you’re in
> Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
>
> Your host: Juliana A. (pronouns she/her) is originally from Brazil, has
> been living in US for 10 years and has been working as a software
> engineer since 2020, after finishing a software engineering bootcamp for
> women/nb people only. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL,
> JavaScript, React, Typescript.
Coding Owls - A WNB Coding Night
> Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time
> Sudo Room at Omni Commons
> 4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland
> Virtual: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Does sudo room have a photocopy machine or risograph? Or just access to one
at Omni Commons? Or does anyone have access to one that can make copies for
free? Just wanted to print some flyers for the WNB night and spread around
in the neighborhood.
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
Hey, that's my first email to the group👋 I sent the same msg below to `
info(a)sudoroom.org` and got some answers from Jake and Andrew, who told me
to post here. So here it goes:
---------------------------------------
Hey, this is Juliana, a bit about myself, I'm originally from Brazil, have
been living in Oakland for 10 yrs, and in the last 3 ones I got more
involved in the tech world. In 2019 I joined a software eng bootcamp and
since 2020 I've been working as a software engineer. I never imagined I was
going to work in tech one day, much less be a software engineer. Having a
non-tech background and being a person from several underrepresented groups
in tech make it hard to imagine that's even a possibility.
Anyways, it's because of that that I've been trying to volunteer more and
more to help the community to conquer what I got, and that's where Sudo
Rooms gets in. I've heard about Sudo Room maybe 3 years ago but never had
the opportunity to be part of an event (cause pandemic..). I would love to
help organize some kind of event with women/nb only and have a "coding
night", where we can help each other in coding projects or even help ppl to
learn how to code. I see you folks have a JS night, so it would prob be
something similar.
I emphasize the women/nb only because this is a real barrier in tech, I
studied in a women/nb only bootcamp and that totally made a difference.
Even when men are allies and empathize with beginners, It's all about
seeing that other non-men can do that and feel empowered by that.
About my skills, I'm still Level I but have been working with Ruby on
Rails, Python, SQL, React, Typescript. I'm full stack although I prefer
backend :) So far I've volunteered/attended events from Techtonica, Women
who Code, Wnb.rb, Ruby for Good, Lesbians who Tech, PyLadies, etc.
My linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianaalmeida78/
My twitter @JFArebelyell
Let me know if this is something Sudo Room would be interested in hosting!
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julianaferreira(a)gmail.com
I changed the subject line to the other thread we were talking about, with a
public information monitor in the main entrance hall. I agree that sudoroom
should have one too.
Personally I don't like raspberry pi's, they're too expensive and I dislike
broadcomm...but if we have them then i guess they're good for this purpose and
are power-efficient. We have tons of monitors and can totally dedicate one on
the sudoroom tables, facing the entrance, for a welcome screen. I recommend
fixing the pi onto the back of the monitor and making the whole thing easy to
pick up and move around.
As for the entrance hall, it's the same basic idea, and so we should keep that
in mind and work on both equally.
We might even put a monitor outside the front door! If it gets vandalized, we
can recycle it and put another one out there, we have so many monitors it's not
a problem.
-jake
On Wed, 11 May 2022, Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss wrote:
> I think we should set up a digital sign visible through the front doors,
> and use that for all sorts of general community communication. I'm going to
> try to find a small, light monitor, a Raspberry Pi, and a power source and
> then figure out how to mount it to the inside of the door, although
> realistically I have no timeline for this project, so if someone else wants
> to just take that idea and run with it, have at it.
>
> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:27 AM Lucas Gonze <lucas(a)gonze.com> wrote:
>
>> A sign on the door would work socially. IMO it would also be a good
>> approach to mitigation.
>>
>> The sign would be something like this:
>>
>>> The current asymptomatic positive rate is: FOO%
>>> Masks are required when the rate is greater than: BAR%
>>>
>>
>> The problem is that somebody needs to do the work to update that. Maybe
>> there is a no-maintenance approach, like:
>>
>> Masks are required when the asymptomatic positive rate is greater than:
>>> BAR%
>>> See http://FOO for the current rate
>>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:05 AM Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss <
>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just getting over it, and I can attest: in the best case scenario it
>>> totally fucks up your month because you have to cancel so much stuff and
>>> can't go into work.
>>>
>>> Also, that link to wastewater testing is about the hundredth time during
>>> the last two years that I've wondered why I'm learning a piece of what
>>> feels like critical information for making good decisions from informal
>>> word-of-mouth. We can trace the virus through waste-water!?!?! SINCE
>>> WHENENENENNE!!!!f AHGHGGH WHY ARE WE DOING SO BAD AT FOLLOWING THIS AND
>>> COMMUNICATING RISKS!!!!!!1
>>>
>>> Okay. I'm good. Patrik, thank you for sharing this.
>>>
>>> I think we should base the masking requirement on the asymptomatic test
>>> rate and then just have a sign on the door and an email that goes out when
>>> the masking policy returns to effect or goes out of effect.
>>>
>>> *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
>>> 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:43 PM Patrik D'haeseleer via sudo-discuss <
>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> With the discussion around masking, let me just forward this email that
>>>> I sent to the Omni discuss list yesterday...
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>> From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM
>>>> Subject: Covid numbers rising rapidly around the Bay
>>>>
>>>> For those of you who have gotten used to thinking that Covid is over -
>>>> here's a reminder that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic!
>>>>
>>>> The two metrics that I personally put most stock in these days include
>>>> wastewater monitoring, and *asymptomatic* test positivity rates.
>>>>
>>>> Covid levels in East Bay wastewater have been rising rapidly over the
>>>> past few weeks, and are now back at levels we've seen during the main
>>>> Omicron surge early January:
>>>>
>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…
>>>> <https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…>
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know, only UCSF reports asymptomatic test positivity rate,
>>>> which is currently around 3.4% - see
>>>> https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/dashboard Meaning that if you are in a
>>>> room with 30 perfectly healthy looking people, there will likely be at
>>>> least one who has an asymptomatic infection and may be infecting others.
>>>>
>>>> The good news is that infection fatality rate has dropped to almost the
>>>> same level as the flu, thanks to vaccinations, protection from prior
>>>> infections, and improved drugs to treat Covid patients. It is still a
>>>> pretty nasty disease though, so do yourself a favor, and keep that mask on
>>>> indoors and whenever you're in a crowd!
>>>>
>>>> Patrik
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>>>>
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>>>
>>
>
With the discussion around masking, let me just forward this email that I
sent to the Omni discuss list yesterday...
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM
Subject: Covid numbers rising rapidly around the Bay
For those of you who have gotten used to thinking that Covid is over -
here's a reminder that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic!
The two metrics that I personally put most stock in these days include
wastewater monitoring, and *asymptomatic* test positivity rates.
Covid levels in East Bay wastewater have been rising rapidly over the past
few weeks, and are now back at levels we've seen during the main Omicron
surge early January:
[image: image.png]
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…
<https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CalSuWers-Dashboar…>
As far as I know, only UCSF reports asymptomatic test positivity rate,
which is currently around 3.4% - see https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/dashboard
Meaning that if you are in a room with 30 perfectly healthy looking people,
there will likely be at least one who has an asymptomatic infection and may
be infecting others.
The good news is that infection fatality rate has dropped to almost the
same level as the flu, thanks to vaccinations, protection from prior
infections, and improved drugs to treat Covid patients. It is still a
pretty nasty disease though, so do yourself a favor, and keep that mask on
indoors and whenever you're in a crowd!
Patrik
Hey all,
I currently am getting over covid. I should be good to host next week but I
shouldn't come in this week. Is anyone willing to host this week?
Thanks,
Charles
Hi,
An acquaintance of mine is a documentary filmmaker. He's in the Bay Area now, and is looking for people to interview at a hackerspace, about Silicon Valley -- positive or negative or nuanced or whatever. I told him about Sudo Room and CCL, and he thought it would be a good place to interview people, if people there are OK with it, and if there is anyone there who would like to be interviewed (especially women and POC).
Cheers,
Mitch
Hi everyone,
The weekly meeting is scheduled for tonight at 8 PM. You can join in person
or at
*https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
<https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles>*
Among the topics to discuss are:
- an omni proposal to form a bipoc and oppressed gender safer space working
group
- Our code of conduct and statement of purpose (available here: About - Sudo
Room <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/About>) will be up for its final review.
If no one issues a block, it will be formally adopted. If you haven't read
it yet, please do!
If you have anything else to add, feel free to add it to the agenda:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting-keep.
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
when I got to Sudoroom, a guy named Patrick was here and not wearing a mask. I
welcomed him to sudoroom but I mentioned that building policy is presently that
everyone has to wear a mask. He asked me who's in charge and who made that
rule, and I explained how Omni is run by delegates from the individual
collectives etc, and that we were complying with the law I believe.
I would appreciate an update on our situation so that I can answer questions
about our mask policy more accurately, if anyone can help me with that.
As for Patrick, he explained that his "spiritual choice" (he doesn't like
religion) is to not wear a mask ever. Then he said that if this is our policy,
then he will gather his stuff and leave and never come back.
I asked if he wanted me to contact him if our policy changes, and he said no,
and left.
-jake
Hi everyone,
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or 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 of
any means you can invoke.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
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 the
telescreen.
Jenny put it on the Omni calendar:
https://omnicommons.org/blog/events/hardware-hack-night-3-2022-03-01/
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there soon after 6pm.
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 after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate 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, join the jitsi videochat with the room, and chat with
each other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake