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need verizon phone

by robb

anybody has a verizon phone for sale or trade? i need one

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lost electronic car key

by Jake

i lost my car key, i think outside of Omni on the sidewalk of 48th street when i squatted down to fix something on the ground. it's also possible it's lost inside sudoroom, on the floor or on a chair, although I looked as best I could but i was tired. it looks like a small black plastic car alarm remote, but there's no keychain or anything attached to it. it kinda looks like this: http://d2odvx3v4cbpyu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Tesla-Model… if you find it, or hear of someone who found it, please let me know. thanks! -jake

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Fwd: Last Call for Submissions: Round 10 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program!

by Jenny Ryan

These fine folks have previously awarded $5K grants to BAPS, Sudo, Material Print Machine, Birdhouse AND Liberated Lens. In short - apply for your group! BAPS and Sudo were winners in Round 7, so they can reapply. The deadline is 9/22. Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Southern Exposure <interntwo(a)soex.org> Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:17 PM Subject: Last Call for Submissions: Round 10 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program! To: jenny(a)thepyre.org Dear Jenny, The deadline for applications to Southern Exposure’s Round 10 Alternative Exposure is quickly approaching! If you know potential grantees already working on a project that could benefit from an AltEx grant, please help spread the word and share the information for this opportunity. If you were a recipient in Rounds 1-7, we encourage you to reapply. Whether you benefited from this grant last year or at Alternative Exposure's inception almost a decade ago, we know you would be a great representative of the program. Please forward this email, spread via social media, and encourage your artistic peers to look at this year’s brochure (attached as a PDF)! All the best, Mary Kate Anselmini Projects + Programs Intern Southern Exposure _____________________________________________ Round 10 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program *Southern Exposure's 2016 Grant Program, Alternative Exposure, Seeks Applicants Deadline to Apply: September 22, 2016* https://www.soex.org/alternative-exposure <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> Southern Exposure is now accepting applications for Round 9 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program. Alternative Exposure supports the independent and self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community−giving grants up to $5000. With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and additional support from the San Francisco Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund, Alternative Exposure offers direct support to Bay Area based unincorporated groups, burgeoning art and gathering spaces, publications, websites, collectives, events, and projects that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support. *MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY* Alternative Exposure was launched in 2007 and aims to fuel the energy of the Bay Area visual arts community and encourage the vibrant artistic activity that occurs on the ground level - artists or groups of artists making and presenting work in a committed but informal way. Now entering its ninth year, Southern Exposure has awarded $563,000 in direct funds to 151 Bay Area projects in the past eight years of the program. Since developing Alternative Exposure with Southern Exposure, The Andy Warhol Foundation has invested in the creation of a growing national network of regional re-granting programs - supporting The Idea Fund in Houston, Texas <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> ; The Propeller Fund in Chicago, Illinois <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> ; Rocket Grants in Kansas City, Missouri <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> ; The Precipe Fund in Portland, Oregon <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> ; and The Grit Fund in Baltimore, Maryland <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…>. The Foundation aims to support the independent creative activity of artists by partnering with leading artist-centered, visual arts organizations across the country. To find out more about the network of regional re-granting programs beyond the Bay Area visit warholfoundation.org <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…>. To learn more about the history of this program and the many projects funded by Alternative Exposure visit www.soex.org/alternativeexposure <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…>. *HOW TO APPLY* The Alternative Exposure guidelines are available to download from the Alternative Exposure website. All applications must be completed online by September 22nd, 2016. Please go to https://soex.submittable.com/submit <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> to access the online application. Please visit the Alternative Exposure website <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> to download a copy of the guidelines for review as well as the budget form. *Generous lead support for Alternative Exposure is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts* The Southern Exposure team is looking forward to receiving your applications. We can’t wait to learn about how you envision making impactful contributions to the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> *S O U T H E R N E X P O S U R E* 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 t: 415-863-2141 / f: 415-863-1841 e: interntwo(a)soex.org <ad(a)soex.org> / w: www.soex.org <https://soex-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1SUFmBUXz0HtZW3ARnt7P…> [image: beacon]

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Does sudo have a string of white Christmas lights

by Cere Davis

...I could borrow for a day?

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gopro hero or hero2 battery?

by robb

Daniel gave someone 2 broken gopros (hero2 & 3) who gave them to liberated lens. Daniel & i finally got around to trying to fix one (hero3), yesterday, & we succeeded by reseating a ribbon cable on the motherboard & cleaning the shutter's electrical contact, also, on the motherboard. does anyone has an original gopro hero or gopro hero2 battery that i could borrow to see if the other one can be fixed? i don't mind buying a battery but i'd rather not unless i know the thing can be fixed. thx

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Hey Tuesday

by Romy Ilano

I know the blog says all parties but the meetings are still on Tuesday right??? Sent from my iPhone

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Fwd: Omni Commoner - September 2016!

by Jenny Ryan

The Omni Commoner *Issue 6, September 2016* *omnicommons.org* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> The Omni Commons currently hosts thirteen collectives committed to the mission of equity and community. We’re actively recruiting new members for existing groups as well as entirely new organizations to collaborate with us. Please visit *omnicommons.org/wiki* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> to learn more, or contact *info(a)omnicommons.org* <info(a)omnicommons.org> with inquiries on how to participate! Community News *Help Us Buy the Building!* Our monthly expenses are on the order of *$17,000*, and the community is straining to make ends meet while simultaneously working to buy the building. We have the opportunity, finally, to proceed with the building purchase - but we need your help to raise funds for an appraisal ($4500) and fall rent expenses until we secure a mortgage! Contact us <info(a)omnicommons.org?subject=Re%3A%20Buying%20the%20Omni> if you can help! Visit our Donation Portal <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> to give a one-time or recurring donation via Stripe or PayPal, contribute to our Patreon <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> page, book the space <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> for your next meeting or event, join the Fundraising <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> or Commons <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> working groups to help us increase our revenue streams, and / or simply spread the word and share this newsletter! *Volunteer of the Month* [image: marcus.jpg] *Marcus* recently spearheaded the Omni Re-Use Sale - an exhaustive endeavor that involved clearing, sorting, and cleaning years of our accumulated cruft. He is a member of Art Bison and has been making the above-pictured Omni t-shirts :) We are so very grateful to be graced with his active, positive presence and generosity! *Join!* Are you connected to an aligned group looking for occasional or permanent space? We have space available and are actively seeking new member collectives to rent it out! Apply to be a member collective at* omnicommons.org/join <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> !* *Participate!* We’re always welcoming new volunteers to participate in various working groups - in particular finance, building & maintenance, commons (event management), and fundraising. Check the calendar for the next working group meeting, or visit *omnicommons.org/lists* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> to join the relevant mailing list. <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> DONATE NOW TO KEEP US GOING! <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> *Updates From Member Collectives* *Volunteer Guides & Mentors Needed!* *Global Communication Services/Youth Empowerment Services (YES) <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> *provides support for immigrant families in the form of language classes, youth music programs, health consulting, and after-school homework assistance. They are looking for volunteer guides and mentors to work with youth aged 8 to 18 in the areas of academic tutoring, English as a second language, arts & crafts, dance, music and planning entertainment. Contact them at 510.560.5520 or info.gscinc(a)gmail.com if you're interested in helping out! *Film Night “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” (2011)* *September 20th, 7-10pm in the Ballroom* *HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream?* is stunning audiences across the globe as it traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. The 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups. Co-director & co-producer Donald Goldmacher will be in attendance for Q&A after the film. Doors at 7pm, film at 7:30. $5 donation yes please? Free popcorn and snacks as usual! *New book release by Timeless, Infinite Light!* *Face Down* by Brian Whitener is an abject, fantastic inquiry into forging new ways of relating, set against the brutal materialist realities of empire. With unflinching wit, Whitener connects "literature's devices, knowledges, and affective relationships ... to the new problematics of experiencing, worlding, and its sensorium of trauma." *Available October, 2016 from the TIL website <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…>.* *Timeless, Infinite Light is an Oakland-basedsmall press and founding member collective of the Omni Commons. They describe their books as "spells for unravelling capitalism."* Donate much-needed items from our Wishlist - we are especially in need of cleaning supplies, and LED candelabra and flourescent-replacement bulbs! <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> Have a Question? Chances are the answer is already on our website or wiki at omnicommons.org - Come visit and send us a comment or feedback at *info(a)omnicommons.org* <info(a)omnicommons.org> or check out the calendar of ongoing events at *omnicommons.org/calendar* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> ! Recurring Events Monday *Fundraising / Buy the Building / Until the Revolution Working Group*, 6pm, Entrance Hall *Synthetic Biology, Biohacking and Cheese*, every other Monday at 7pm in Counter Culture Labs *Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Meetup*, 1st & 3rd Mondays, 7pm *The Art of Science, the Science of Art*, 4th Mondays at 7pm in Counter Culture Labs Tuesday: *Hardware Hack Night*, 7pm in Sudo Room *Biohackers and Mad Scientists Social*, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs *Birdhouse Art Collective Bi-Weekly Meetups* - every other Tuesday, 7pm, Entrance Hall *Sudo Mesh: Building the Peoples Open Network* - Weekly hacknights, 4th Tuesday general meetings - 7pm in the Disco Room *Film Night @ The Omni*, every other Tuesday, 7pm in the Ballroom *CCL Members General Meeting*, 3rd Tues. in March, June, Sep, & Dec in CCL Wednesday: *Sudo Room Weekly Social & Potluck*, 7pm in Sudo Room, 3rd Wednesday meetings *East Bay Homes Not Jails Meeting*, 7pm, Blue Classroom *Land Action General Meeting*, 7-9pm in the Basement Hall *Fermentation Station MycoFermentoOmniMondo*, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs. *Open Source Insulin*, 7pm in Counter Culture Labs *Lab Night*, 8pm in CCL *Hegel for Communists*, every other Wednesday, 7pm in the Treatment Room *Bay Area Public School Committee Mtg*, every other Wednesday, 7pm in the Blue Classroom *Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Timebank Monthly Meetups*, 1st Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Treatment Room *Bay Area Trans Writers W**orkshop**, *1st Wednesdays at 7pm in the Ticket Booth Room *Thursday:* *Omni Delegates Meeting*, 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 7pm in the Ballroom *Commons Working Group*, 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 7pm in the Entrance Hall *Bioprinter Project Night,* 7pm in Counter Culture Labs *Javascript Study Group*, 7pm in Sudo Room *Green Windows Weekly Creative Writing Workshop, *7pm in the Disco Room *Bay Area Applied Mycology (BAAM) Mushroom Lab*, 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 6:30pm in CCL Saturday: *Synthetic Biology project: Engineer an evolved bacterial sunscreen*, 10:30am-12pm in Counter Culture Labs *The EAST: A Solo Performance Laboratory*, 4:30pm, Disco Room Sunday *Open Insulin Lab Day*, 12-3pm in Counter Culture Labs - Regular meeting to do lab work. *Oakland Jericho: Prisoner Writing & Analysis*, 3-5pm in the Basement Hall *Community Democracy Project Weekly Meetup*, 6:30pm in the Basement Hall or Disco Room Featured Recent & Upcoming Events *Dance Battle for TURFinc* *September 10th, 12 - 9:30pm in the Ballroom* Ladies and Gents! We're so excited to invite you all to TURFinc's 4 year Anniversary Dance Battle! Turfin - Jookin - Poppin Dance Workshop from 1pm - 3pm Doors Open at 2:30pm for battles! 1 vs 1 All Style Tournament happening from 3:30pm-4:30pm - Make sure to Sign Up before 3:30pm All Battles starts at 3:30-9:30pm This is an All-Ages Family-Friendly event. Bring family and get inspired! Workshop + Entrance $30 General Battle Entrance fee = $15 before 3:30pm & $20 after *~ Register <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> ~* *Abolition of Policing* *September 17th, 11am-1:30pm in the Entrance Hall* Want to learn how to work toward eliminating the cops? Want to hear how we challenge the notion that policing keeps us safe? CR Oakland regularly offers this workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted various communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not depend on law enforcement. *Practice Your Paradigm Shifting: A Workshop* *September 17th, 12-3:30pm in the Basement* The challenges facing us are so big, and the answers we find will depend on the questions we ask. Here’s a big question: How can we shape a world that isn’t defined and determined by the economy at the expense of all the other aspects of life? Maybe the answer is not the economy, but the whole ball of wax: maybe it’s the paradigm, friend. Come workshop with us on how to let go of a paradigm of “progress” and brainstorm how we can participate more effectively in the cultural transformations upon which our collective survival and well-being depend. *Community & Youth Cultural Healing Ceremony* *September 17th, 4:30pm-1am in the Ballroom* (African Dance Performance by Youth) Love Consciousness Celebration features music, cultural healing practice through music, which collaborate with the goal of creating moments of joy leading to collective healing and community building. The music creates a higher state of consciousness; in this place of divine union as group we can become restored and then the collaboration ideas will begin to flow! *BioHack The Planet Conference* *September 23-25th, 10am-11pm in the Ballroom* As the BioHacker community grows, there is a need to disseminate information and facilitate interaction between individuals of different knowledge bases and areas of expertise. BioHTP is run by BioHackers, designed for BioHackers, with talks solicited from BioHackers. *~ Register: $50 Weekend Pass! <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> ~* *Angel & Jenny's Birthday Partay* *September 30th, 7pm-1am in the Ballroom* Angel and Jenny were born on this, the 30th day of the month of September. Come celebrate these humans’ existence on this planet - and yes, this is absolutely an excuse to party with your friends. All door proceeds go to the Omni. Sunday (continued) *Liberated Lens General Meeting*, 1st & 3rd Sundays, 7pm in the Basement *Open Circle: Families Fighting for Justice! *- Every 4th Sunday from 3::30-5:30pm in the Ballroom *Uniquely Yours - Creative Writing Workshop*, 4th Sundays from 7-10pm in the Disco Room Thanks for reading! *With love from:* Agua Viva Cafe <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> - A cafe dedicated to creating a warm, convivial entrance to the Omnii, aiming to open by fall 2016. Art Bison Design Collective <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> - a feminist collective that produces media for political and social events. *Bay Area Public School* - A free, self-organizing, anti-capitalist school with radical and contestatory politics. *Birdhouse Art Collective* - A new collective bringing art and artists to the Omni Commons. *Chiapas Support Committee* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> - Supporting autonomous health care and education in Zapatista communities. *Counter Culture Labs* - A citizen science and DIYbio space that is open sourcing biology. *Food Not Bombs* - Bringing free food to parks, political events, neighborhood gatherings, & social centers since 1991. Global Communication Services / YES <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…>: Supporting immigrant families through consulting, tutoring, and cultural exchange programs. *Global Womens’ Strike* - Omni Collective: International network working toward the return of military spending to the community, starting with women, the main caregivers everywhere. *Liberated Lens* - A radical film & video collective dedicated to social change. *Phat Beets* - A food justice group building farmers markets and gardens in North Oakland. *Sudo Room* <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> - A place to build, learn, reclaim technology for the people, and create alternatives to the tech industry. *Timeless, Infinite Light* - An Oakland small press focused on contemporary poetry and critical theory. <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f…> <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> <info(a)omnicommons.org> <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7…> *CopyLeft ** 2016 Omni Oakland Commons, All wrongs reversed.* You are receiving this email because you signed up for Omni's general 'announce' mailing list. *Our mailing address is:* Omni Oakland Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 Add us to your address book <http://omnicommons.us9.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=7b3df74e35ed3cfc94d1f7fcd&i…> Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Are Women Exiting Engineering Because Men Have All the Fun? - IEEE Spectrum

by Romy Ilano

I'm lucky I'm not in this trap .. i noticed women get mentored to do more non profit / social good and qa work Maybe open source is the only answer ? http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/are-wome… Are Women Exiting Engineering Because Men Have All the Fun? By Tekla S. Perry Posted 17 Jun 2016 | 16:00 GMT Photo: Paul Bradbury/Getty Images Where are all the women engineers? That’s a question that engineering educators and recruiters have been asking themselves for years now. Twenty percent of engineering graduates are women—but only 13 percent of the engineering workforce is female. It’s not a pipeline issue; engineering schools have been graduating women for a long time now. It’s been easy to blame women leaving the engineering workforce to balance the demands of family, but is that really it? Many have said there’s a culture problem, but what exactly does that mean? It turns out, according to a recent study, that at least a big part of it happens when women are in mixed groups that need to divide chores. Typically, the division pushes the routine or boring work at the women, the challenging or interesting work at the men. Researchers Caroll Serron at the University of California at Irvine, Susan S. Silbey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Erin Cech (who performed the research at Rice University but is now at the University of Michigan), and Brian Rubineau at McGill University conducted the study to try to get a better idea of just why women who made it through years of STEM education start migrating out of tech. The effort, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, looked at 40 undergraduate engineering students, male and female, spread among the four schools. The students were asked to write in diaries twice a month, from freshman orientation through graduation, about anything of interest in their lives. The researchers also conducted interviews with 25 students at each school during years one and four. In their paper, published in the May issue of the journal Work and Occupations, the researchers say the problem starts early—the first time engineering students are asked to work in teams. About the women, they write, “Their first encounter with collaboration is to be treated in gender-stereotypical ways.” Here’s one example they gave from student comments: There was this one case where, in our design class, two girls in a group had been working on the robot we were building in that class for hours, and the guys in their group came in and within minutes had sentenced them to doing menial tasks while the guys went and had all the fun in the machine shop. Once the women get out of the classroom, the researchers say, moving into internships and summer jobs, the problem continues. The women are assigned routine tasks while their male peers are offered more challenging opportunities. One example from a diary: So I’m two weeks into my research position and for the first time in my “working career” I’m really enjoying what I’m doing. The last two summers I’ve been working in an engineering internship position at X, the military defense government contractor . . .. The environment was creepy, with older weirdo man engineers hitting on me all the time and a sexist infrastructure was in place that kept female interns shuffling papers while their oftentimes less experienced male counterparts had legitimate “engineering” assignments. Ironically, the researchers noted, recent curriculum changes in engineering schools may be making the problem worse, not better. “Many engineering programs have introduced a greater emphasis on design and team-based learning in the classroom, in essence mimicking and modeling the worksite, not only because it is arguably more creative and effective work practice but also because it is assumed that this will complement women’s social talents and enhance their opportunities for persistence in the field,” they wrote. “We find, however, that a gender differential in students’ professional role attachment tends to be produced in exactly those collaborative encounters in team-based design projects.” Can this be fixed? The researchers suggest that engineering schools should consider “directed internship seminars” as one possible tool for ensuring that student internship experiences “are dissected to help people learn from the problems women face.” In the meantime, is there anything women can do to fight the problem themselves? Valerie Coffman, chief technology officer at on-demand 3-D printing and prototyping firm Xometry, says there is. After considering the study results, Coffman told me that, while this kind of thing likely happens all over, she is indeed willing to believe it happens more often in tech. “In situations like this,” she suggests, “you need to be your own best advocate and aggressively seek out the most interesting and challenging projects. If your male peers try to task you with menial work, you can tell them 'no'. They're your peers, not your bosses.” Sent from my iPhone

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Invoice 1458 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thanks for stewarding the commons! Omni Oakland ------------------------ Invoice Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1458 Invoice Date: 09/15/2016 Due Date: 09/25/2016 Terms: Net 10 Amount Due: $2,446.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [sudo-discuss] music gear lists / IRC / slack / whatever

by robb

i would just go to reddit's audio engineering <https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/>and, of coarse, rtfm :) On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Candace Lazarou <candacelazarou(a)gmail.com> wrote: > keeping my original question about recommended forums/lists, rescinding my > Electribe query because it WAS dumbass user error > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Candace Lazarou <candacelazarou(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey, I know a bunch of you folks are also musicians/music engineers - >> I've been recording and playing music for a while but am finally foraying >> into electronic music (which is weird for a musician/programmer, I know). >> Does anyone know of a good gear forum? Trying to avoid posting on >> GearSlutz so I don't have to look at the URL. >> >> Ex: I'm trying to figure out if I've got a buggy Electribe, or if my >> inability to deactivate the master effects bus is a user error. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >

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music gear lists / IRC / slack / whatever

by Candace Lazarou

Hey, I know a bunch of you folks are also musicians/music engineers - I've been recording and playing music for a while but am finally foraying into electronic music (which is weird for a musician/programmer, I know). Does anyone know of a good gear forum? Trying to avoid posting on GearSlutz so I don't have to look at the URL. Ex: I'm trying to figure out if I've got a buggy Electribe, or if my inability to deactivate the master effects bus is a user error.

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MRI machine

by Chris Murphy

Anyone have access to an MRI machine? A friend needs one. Thanks, Chris Sent from my iPhone

9 years, 8 months

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spell of monitors be gone

by Morgan Allen

Unless there are objections, Sam is going to pick up monitors for the Challenger Learning Center at Chabot Space and Science Center. There are approximately 12 small ones left, all VGA (I think). I think they'll be able to utilize all of them. Questions? Concerns? Field trip to Chabot? -- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: OpenPGP.js v.1.20121007 Comment: http://openpgpjs.org xsBNBFG3btUBB/9+/WJNOSIuc/praKPaPOweqXV5s7PGRD+HAnNWF/19YAY3 AFtfeoelhhY4sMJoobTaJzcZojznZ1kl/7UuuYCnbJO3Z9kaSMVrVxEZMSLe YmW8Hc4ZsTnl9f05DQFy8ABpAvMLmXJQXh63BbfzjFqNbSWQfLhrubSM2Elq xmN6EsmRyAuEeYlSnal+Di2MlViohpCbbagE2D6AZTUECIamTib6+DuLG4XO b4GGKHR9TXu2qS1VH6hqcvdEz2MDE5OqZzAnBgcF2dvcOdTk9gAOoR1T+qKj IJtg2X0ETbxcPqEXQoXE8VrxN0MLT5JQKTg26+csU4P2w0rEWsUsJombABEB AAHNJU1vcmdhbiBBbGxlbiA8bW9yZ2FucmFsbGVuQGdtYWlsLmNvbT7CwFwE EAECABAFAlG3btwJEG9pFLKaVEfeAAD7hwf+K8LN/kfgi8GTRLiTcuM+hSbm uAeiBY+VaJIQFLzoFlt8A0hBlLNPFNNmUDxdPrMErdHgZ7HtJW/6RANuBTti 5hr3EBguH1GQyK7BbUqJGvaEX4UNRej3uyX3ufXDsIB/3NsKaTyyu+SO0+Hv Cn2DwmlfSXcPhoarx6Turizn/WwgtTN3tqrMWxxiCKWydLH5xYuz+23BLMdc oF/zkbF+7ddFhmyfiFh4Ej9//tsfwPj2cACU3uLTrcwCo7IxUtkrqMF/fhlm LEqjhzDDjq9v7GNWb/5xB2xgTaucJ7/ljuS8nPlZqwCI8NlTgSqC8nyVLyjS yVtOzkItcS0UqyW1Mg== =V/Ia -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

9 years, 8 months

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Fridge income allocation

by Marc Juul

We have about $280 in income from the fridge since it began. That's not a lot, but at least it's not loosing money. How do people feel about having this income go to Omni for now? When Omni is doing better financially we could consider changing it to a sudo/ccl split. -- marc/juul

9 years, 8 months

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Need new multimeter!

by Marc Juul

All of sudo room's hand-held multimeters are nearly unusable. Does anyone have an extra they can donate? -- marc/juul

9 years, 8 months

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pcb etching materials

by robb

captain_morgan & i are trying to make some kits to raise revenue for sudoroom but the etching materials we have don't seem compatible on the chemical side (maybe they're expired?). we have boards but the photoresist isn't setting under the uv light so we haven't gotten to the etching phase. does anyone have any good photoresitive material we could use? thx

9 years, 8 months

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120V isolation transformer?

by Jake

does sudoroom have an isolation transformer? it's something that plugs into a regular outlet and outputs the same voltage, but it's isolating. we have a couple of universal AC converter boxes which provide 240VAC when you plug them into 120VAC but they are "autotransformers" and they don't isolate. I want us to have an isolating transformer so that when people experiment with AC-powered devices, they are much less likely to suffer a lethal shock and die. note: some voltage-regulator transformers are isolating, but since they distort the waveform in order to achieve the voltage stabilizing, they are not ideal for our purposes. thank you, -jake

9 years, 8 months

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where are the capacitors?

by robb

we got a large box full of capacitors from hayward hackers. i found the box they were in out in the entrance hall in a trash pile but the caps weren't in there. does anyone know where they went? cm needs some thx

9 years, 8 months

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Max B asked to leave

by robb

i saw Max B looking through the sudomesh gear and i told him that i thought he had quit the sudomesh project & asked what he was doing. He told me to "fuck off" and i asked him to leave for violating our safe space policy. He walked back in the front door after i walked him out the side door & when he saw me he claimed he wanted to grab a spool of ethernet cable. i told him to contact sudomesh to get whatever materials he claims are his. i noticed he took a pair of rj45 crimpers (blue handle) which he claimed were his. ~r

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] juki button sewing machine taken to urban ore?

by Helen Finkelstein

The white FNB truck is not used during the middle of the day on Monday. Give me a call then if you want to use it. 510 - 332 - 6535. Does anyone in FNB have any concerns about this? Helen On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote: > might be able to borrow a fnb truck > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > >> the button sewing machine is still labeled as sudoroom property! >> >> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160810_201612.jpg >> >> i will tell the buyer to wait until tuesday, but i don't have a vehicle >> that can transport the machine from urban ore back to omni. >> >> -jake >> >> >> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Jenny Ryan wrote: >> >> did it have a note on it saying as much? >>> >>> ken's boiler, which he was going to sell on monday, has also disappeared >>> - >>> and it had a note on it saying there was a buyer. i fear urban ore >>> overextended their stuff removal operation. marcus was stewarding that, >>> but >>> is currently in the hospital. i'm going to visit him tonight and will >>> clarify - if they did overextend, i'll call them and request their return >>> tomorrow. >>> >>> Jenny >>> >>> Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! >>> https://omnicommons.org/donate >>> >>> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >>> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." >>> -Laurie Anderson >>> >>> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining >>> it." >>> -Hannah Arendt >>> >>> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." >>> -Stéphane Mallarmé >>> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: >>> >>> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160810_201937.jpg >>>> >>>> i had someone ready to buy it for $200 (to sudoroom) >>>> >>>> and now it's at urban ore for $85 >>>> >>>> how did this happen? >>>> >>>> the buyer is coming monday. >>>> >>>> -jake >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> discuss mailing list >>>> discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org >>>> https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss >>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >

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We got over 100 CAT6 punch down keystone jacks

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hey Folks, Seriously, we have over 100 AT6 punch down keystone jacks donated to Sudoroom/SudoMesh. Each one of them runs for $6.99 on Amazon. If you would like to read the story about how this happened: This AM Laura and I went down the street from Omni to drop off some donations to de depot, and on our way back we saw a lady on her way to donate some stuff too. But, when I read the label of one of the boxes that read Panduit", my brain went in alert mode! :) So i asked her what was in that box, she opened it for us and saw all those connectors! She asked me, as you an artist? I said, not, but I know what these things are, and we can use them! : ) She gave us the box. And that is how we got them. :) Have a great weekend everyone! Daniel -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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juki button sewing machine taken to urban ore?

by Jake

http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160810_201937.jpg i had someone ready to buy it for $200 (to sudoroom) and now it's at urban ore for $85 how did this happen? the buyer is coming monday. -jake

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Interest in volunteering for Oakland Creek to Bay Day, Sept 17?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

A great opportunity to get out in nature, do something for the environment, help make our community a better place to live, and *be very publicly seen as a force for Good in our neighborhood*! The 21st Annual Oakland Creek to Bay Day <http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/FE/s/ID/OAK024743> is coming up Saturday, September 17. But *if we want to register as a volunteer group, and propose a specific site to work on, we need to register TODAY <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxmJHcUrUPLEyXjs1HKtX7M__XE1hYO8q…>.* *Speak up asap if you'd like to participate, if you have any ideas for a site to work on (here's the existing list so far <http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/FE/s/ID/OAK024743#locations>; we can propose more), and especially if you can help as volunteer (co-)coordinator! *I would love to participate, but September is looking to be a busy month for me, so I'd prefer not to be the sole volunteer coordinator Patrik

9 years, 8 months

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let's sell the JUKI sewing machine on Craigslist

by Jake

http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160820_162846.jpg http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160820_162855.jpg http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160820_162901.jpg http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2016-08/IMG_20160820_162907.jpg I want to put this on craigslist, table and all. I think Sudoroom does better with individual small sewing machines which can be maintained and moved more easily than these large industrial behemoths that don't work. If there are any objections please raise them now, otherwise I will put this thing on craigslist for $500 and negotiate to get as much of that as I can. Or do you know anyone who is interested, or any listservers we should advertise it on? -jake

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Re: [sudo-discuss] multiple lamp dimming with a single arduino

by robb

Dan Fredell's <http://danfredell.com/df/Projects/Entries/2013/1/6_DMX_Dimmer.html> 4 channel design uses a 20mhz clock On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > send links along with claims like this > > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, robb wrote: > > and >> why do you need a 20MHz crystal? >> apparently you need 20mhz for 4 stable channels when using the timer >> method >> >>

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Invoice 1419 from Omni Commons

by Omni Commons

Dear Sudo Room, Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment. Thanks for stewarding the commons! Omni Oakland ------------------------ Invoice Summary -------------------------- Invoice # : 1419 Invoice Date: 08/25/2016 Due Date: 09/04/2016 Terms: Net 10 Amount Due: $2,446.00 The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

9 years, 8 months

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multiple lamp dimming with a single arduino

by Jake

robb, since we got the zero-crossing detection working, now it's a matter of deciding how many lamps to control with a single arduino. I believe this instructable shows software that doesn't rely on the chip's timer being tied to the triac control pins, meaning that it could be used to control 8 or more triacs with a single plain arduino. http://www.instructables.com/id/3-channel-Dimmerfader-for-Arduino-or-other-… /* AC Light Control Ryan McLaughlin <ryanjmclaughlin(a)gmail.com> with slight modifications */ #include <TimerOne.h> // http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/Timer1 #define PINS 3 volatile int pinCount[PINS]; // make volatile to make available in interrupt volatile boolean zero_cross=0; // Boolean to store a "switch" to tell us if we have crossed zero int AC_pins[] = {3,4,5}; // Stup the pin numbers int AC_dim[PINS]; // Holds Dimming levels (0-128) 0 = on, 128 = 0ff int freqStep = 78; // Set the delay for the frequency of power (65 for 60Hz, 78 for 50Hz) per step (using 128 steps) // freqStep may need some adjustment depending on your power the formula // you need to us is (500000/AC_freq)/NumSteps = freqStep void setup() { for(int a=0; a < PINS; a++) { //set the pins to output pinMode(AC_pins[a],OUTPUT); pinCount[a] = 0; // keeps track of the time in the cycle AC_dim[a] = 0; // dimming level set to zero } attachInterrupt(0, zero_cross_detect, FALLING); // Attach Interrupt to Pin 2 (interrupt 0) for Zero Cross Detection Serial.begin(9600); Timer1.initialize(freqStep); // Initialize TimerOne library for the freq we need Timer1.attachInterrupt(dim_check, freqStep); // Use the TimerOne Library to attach an interrupt // to the function we use to check to see if it is // the right time to fire the triac. This function // will now run every freqStep in microseconds. } void zero_cross_detect() { // function to be fired at the zero crossing zero_cross = 1; // set flag to tell dimming function zero cross has occured } // End zero_cross_detect void dim_check() { // Function will fire the triac at the proper time if(zero_cross == 1) { // First check to make sure the zero-cross has happened else do nothing for(int a=0; a < PINS; a++) { if(pinCount[a] >= AC_dim[a]) { // Check and see if i has reached the dimming value we want digitalWrite(AC_pins[a], HIGH); // Fire the Triac delayMicroseconds(5); // Pause briefly to ensure the triac turned on digitalWrite(AC_pins[a], LOW); // Turn off the Triac gate (Triac will turn off at the next zero cross) pinCount[a] = 0; // Reset the accumulator zero_cross = 0; // Reset the zero_cross so it may be turned on again at the next zero_cross_detect } else { pinCount[a]++; // If the dimming value has not been reached, incriment the counter } } } } void loop() { // This is simply making all outputs cycle through bright-dark, out of time with each other. for(int i=0; i<127; i ++) { for(int a=0; a < PINS; a++) { int ii = i+42; //this is the bit that puts the blinking lights out of sync with one another if(ii > 127) ii -= 127; AC_dim[a] = ii; } delay(50); } }

9 years, 8 months

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I'm proud of Sudoroom !!

by Romy Ilano

Keep it up! Sent from my iPhone

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Membership block of Lone Ranger aka. Xer0Dynamite aka. Dreaming Forward

by Marc Juul

He showed up at the previous Wednesday meeting. I'm blocking this person's membership. He kept talking to us like we were total noobs in running a hackerspace and he was going to tell us all how to fix everything (though not taking on any tasks himself other than his organizational LARP game idea). He kept trying to tell us about how noisebridge is run even after I told him that we're no strangers to noisebridge. After reading some of his tweets I decided I'm just going to tell him he's not welcome at sudo if I see him again. Let me know if anyone feels like that's the wrong thing to do: https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/760708825934602240 https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/760710581926170624 https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/760711635363299329 https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/760714063710150656 https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/760717666256621569 https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/761043131710091264 https://twitter.com/Xer0Dynamite/status/761043565447225344 And his twitter blurb about himself: "...He comes from the future. Fought alone. Abandoned by the world I loved. Silver bullets from the uber-mind. Suicidal without some pussy." Here are his answers to member questions: Why do you want to be a member of sudo room?: The people here are good and want the place to succeed. I can save a well-staffed ship if it's sinking or make it better engineered if it is not. If you know already, what are you excited to do at sudo room?: Start a game that will self-organize the many conversations that happen here. If you know already, what are you excited to share with the sudo room community?: One and the same as above, as the project is a LARP (think Dungeons and Dragons crossed with Treasure Hunt), encouraging everyone to play. Have you ever been banned from another hackerspace? If so, when and why?: No. -- marc/juul

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seeking small CRT color TV/video monitor

by Jake

I'm looking for a non-LCD color video screen, somewhere between 5" and 8" diagonal size. I guess 7" would be perfect. I want to use it as the "dashboard" for my electric motorcycle. It will primarily show the view from a rear-facing videocamera, but i'm going to use an arduino to overlay information like speed and battery state onto the picture, videogame style. I look forward to enclosing the back of the CRT in transparent polycarbonate so that the yoke and other features are visible. i might have to use an LCD until i find the right CRT, but i think a CRT would be ideal for reasons of class and style. But it has to be color. if you know of a color CRT monitor in this small size range that's available (for free ideally) please let me know. I am expecting composite signal, but VGA would probably work too if i modified my signal plan. thank you, -jake P.S. if you're interested in an antique vacuum-tube television, make me an offer: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/atq/5739351649.html

9 years, 8 months

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wireless mouse found

by robb

hal, i think you may have left your wifi mouse in sudo i'll put it behind taz

9 years, 8 months

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do we want to fix some soda dispensers?

by robb

found some on craigslist https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/5740427145.html

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Memberships

by Xer0Dynamite

> Consider yourself unwelcome in the sudo room space pending a formal ban. Before you (Mark Juul, Morgan Allen, Lesley Bell) shoot yourself(ves) in the foot, I implore you to listen with your reason, rather than your reactivity. For example, there are no hackerspaces that are really thriving, do you know that? Further, the level of analysis needed to fix sudo-room's problems are not simple. I say this from someone who's managed hundreds of thousands of dollars, can legally call himself a Doctor, have the auspices of MIT, and has been watching the movement from high above to ensure that it doesn't fail. Sometimes trouble follows individuals not because they are guilty but because they refuse to compromise in a system that DEMANDS it. (In any event, you can sniff around further at <linkedin.com/in/majanssen>.) Hopefully, all of you took the time to read the important info in the message (SUBJ: "Memberships") whereby I explained the complexity of your explorations vis á vis the group known as Anonymous. Your judgments are COMPLETELY inappropriate pending *actually* asking me what my views are. Presumably, sudo-room doesn't require men to desire male bodies EQUALLY to a woman's or to think that someone DRESSING UP AS A GIRL has somehow magically acquired a uterus and all the struggles that WOMEN have in this world. I mean really give me a fucking break, because the word "inclusivity" can start to look awfully like marshmallow fluff when you have a lock on your door. (BTW, I will admit to having a preference on the M/F question). The same issue is present with noisebridge -- they screen people who silently match their political ethos/pathos. It's the kind deep and dangerous delusion that Christians have when they believe they're fighting for Jesus. This isn't a criticism of them, for I understand the difficulty of what I call REALITY (the street), but better to be trained and find heuristics to TRANSFORM these experiences than become another bourgeois hangout for (mostly) boys. You don't look incompetent, you look inexperienced. I never thought you were noobs, it's just that it would be very difficult to duplicate the analysis that's been done to make hackerspaces self-sustaining. It's akin to making a national _constitution_. You should consider that before you go excluding potential members who have offered to help. And finally, consider the part of the profile in which you apparently didn't have any problems or concerns: "suicidal". After the failure of Occupy, many of us involved in trying to make a balanced world are getting burned out. The pressures of living are high and the hopes are not. Hackerspaces were supposed to act as refuge and sanctuary for such fighters. But it is getting sidetracked by MEN who blow their load in each other's mouths and WANT TAX BREAKS. You didn't get it at all: I was called a fag in high school, so were my friends, who were more punk than I was. I can make legitimate use of that word and know far more about it than you who may just be looking to be "politically correct". Perhaps your interest in humanity in a joke, but it implies that there is at least one human who is on the brink of ending his or her life. If the aforementioned all jumped to on Juul's train of thought without due consideration, then my analogy was more apt than I had planned: you are like the rats congregating on that sinking ship. Truth and Justice. Marxos > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Xer0Dynamite <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 8/15/16, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: >> > sudo room allows ... ONE ... member to block the membership >> > application.... ...You cannot become a sudo room member. >> > There is no way to appeal this decision. >> > (emphasis mine) >> >> Please take a moment to review your idea of memberships. I understand >> your current policy as it is written. Are you aware that such a >> policy amounts to a tacit dictatorship? (One person can decide the >> fate of all future interactions.) >> >> Onto your other points. You decided to explore a little more than you >> were told in the membership application and it got you into jumping to >> some conclusions that aren't going towards truth (as you would >> otherwise, reasonably, expect). >> >> The twitter account you mention has no face as it is a shared account >> belonging to part of an activist collective called "Anonymous". More >> to the point, it is a space for those with no voice, like those in >> prison for crimes that your leaders do on an annual basis, the Native >> Americans (who shouldn't be expected to learn how to use the internet >> just to get justice). You apparently didn't wish to include those >> tweets. The profile tag line that *I* had placed there was "So >> transparent as to be invisible...." (and did not reference the female >> directly). That is, in fact, how you found it at all. Unfortunately, >> that tagline is no longer there. I'm still transparent, and you can >> ask me anything you want, should you decide to use your freedom that >> we've been fighting on your behalf for genuine inquiry rather than >> forming premature conclusions that serve neither me nor the future of >> sudoroom. We use this collective individuality as a counterpoint to >> the adverse collective personality that you under one now called >> "Annuit Coeptis" which you can find on the back of the US$1, >> left-hand-side. That phrase is ancient Latin for "We are looking over >> you" with the preposition "over" to imply, semantically, the notion of >> parentship. >> >> To the point, if you wish to go over all the tweets on that account >> one-by-one, we can do that, in the presence of your the sudo-room >> polit-bureau, if you'd like. I will admit, for example, that I had >> indeed tweeted that women should [collectively] stop sucking the cock >> of the anti-Christ. You got me. >> >> As has been communicated on several occasions by Anonymous, anyone can >> join this movement The membership application for the account in >> question is much more simple. I just have to give you the password >> and you are automatically in, there is no vetting process. ...But >> judging from your message, I assume you wouldn't be interested. Am I >> to understand, for example, that you have only seen the anatomy of a >> woman through approved and vetted processes and mediums, yourself? >> Please take a moment and reflect. >> >> The note on the profile that you *didn't* take into account that these >> are missives from the "uber-mind". Perhaps it is unfortunate that it >> makes reference to a part of the female anatomy in a manner of which >> you do not approve. I, myself, did approve, otherwise I would have >> removed it, and I further know the intentions of the person(s) who set >> that note in the profile believes and *fights* for women to be equal. >> How much have you yourself done that? (I should note that I cannot be >> certain that only the one individual set that profile, such is the >> nature of anonymity and aggregating activism.) >> >> I have to believe, for your sake, that your note was not sent strictly >> with your own personality in mind, but also a result of a collective >> consciousness in which you do not have complete control. Few do have >> control. Between your diet, the medical system, and the law, pretty >> much everyone has been p0wned. >> >> Towards some other points, I should attempt to reason with you on your >> current decision. Sudo-room, in its present state, is financially >> insolvent, has no business plan, has rent in the 10s of THOUSANDS of >> dollars and is in the ghetto. You do have need to save your ship from >> sinking. I am here on a raft shooting the flare that "I'm here". If >> you wish to continue to captain that giant ship on your own, I have to >> allow that. For that is my own personal policy: to allow others to >> fail -- if, when given the options and consequences of error, they >> choose to act on their own. Even then. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mark, >> aka Marxos, Captain Dynamite. >> >

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ac phase control

by robb

anyone know if this <http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/projects/controlling-ac-mains-with-a-microc…> zero-cross detect circuit is overkill or if this <http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/ACPhaseControl> one will work safely. not really sure what is happening w/the ac before the xero-cross opto on the 1st one

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i need a piece of thin sheet aluminum

by Jake

does anyone have some thin sheet aluminum, like 1/64" thick or so? like 24 gauge or so? I only need about a square foot's worth, or 6" by 24", or two pieces 6" by 12" would be enough. it should be bare aluminum color on at least one side. i'm making up missing trim pieces for a car. thanks! -jake

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Memberships

by Xer0Dynamite

On 8/15/16, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: > sudo room allows ... ONE ... member to block the membership > application.... ...You cannot become a sudo room member. > There is no way to appeal this decision. > (emphasis mine) Please take a moment to review your idea of memberships. I understand your current policy as it is written. Are you aware that such a policy amounts to a tacit dictatorship? (One person can decide the fate of all future interactions.) Onto your other points. You decided to explore a little more than you were told in the membership application and it got you into jumping to some conclusions that aren't going towards truth (as you would otherwise, reasonably, expect). The twitter account you mention has no face as it is a shared account belonging to part of an activist collective called "Anonymous". More to the point, it is a space for those with no voice, like those in prison for crimes that your leaders do on an annual basis, the Native Americans (who shouldn't be expected to learn how to use the internet just to get justice). You apparently didn't wish to include those tweets. The profile tag line that *I* had placed there was "So transparent as to be invisible...." (and did not reference the female directly). That is, in fact, how you found it at all. Unfortunately, that tagline is no longer there. I'm still transparent, and you can ask me anything you want, should you decide to use your freedom that we've been fighting on your behalf for genuine inquiry rather than forming premature conclusions that serve neither me nor the future of sudoroom. We use this collective individuality as a counterpoint to the adverse collective personality that you under one now called "Annuit Coeptis" which you can find on the back of the US$1, left-hand-side. That phrase is ancient Latin for "We are looking over you" with the preposition "over" to imply, semantically, the notion of parentship. To the point, if you wish to go over all the tweets on that account one-by-one, we can do that, in the presence of your the sudo-room polit-bureau, if you'd like. I will admit, for example, that I had indeed tweeted that women should [collectively] stop sucking the cock of the anti-Christ. You got me. As has been communicated on several occasions by Anonymous, anyone can join this movement The membership application for the account in question is much more simple. I just have to give you the password and you are automatically in, there is no vetting process. ...But judging from your message, I assume you wouldn't be interested. Am I to understand, for example, that you have only seen the anatomy of a woman through approved and vetted processes and mediums, yourself? Please take a moment and reflect. The note on the profile that you *didn't* take into account that these are missives from the "uber-mind". Perhaps it is unfortunate that it makes reference to a part of the female anatomy in a manner of which you do not approve. I, myself, did approve, otherwise I would have removed it, and I further know the intentions of the person(s) who set that note in the profile believes and *fights* for women to be equal. How much have you yourself done that? (I should note that I cannot be certain that only the one individual set that profile, such is the nature of anonymity and aggregating activism.) I have to believe, for your sake, that your note was not sent strictly with your own personality in mind, but also a result of a collective consciousness in which you do not have complete control. Few do have control. Between your diet, the medical system, and the law, pretty much everyone has been p0wned. Towards some other points, I should attempt to reason with you on your current decision. Sudo-room, in its present state, is financially insolvent, has no business plan, has rent in the 10s of THOUSANDS of dollars and is in the ghetto. You do have need to save your ship from sinking. I am here on a raft shooting the flare that "I'm here". If you wish to continue to captain that giant ship on your own, I have to allow that. For that is my own personal policy: to allow others to fail -- if, when given the options and consequences of error, they choose to act on their own. Even then. Cheers, Mark, aka Marxos, Captain Dynamite.

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sudo travel thread(s)

by Romy Ilano

Hey folks I ran into a beautiful SudoMember, and I'd like to start a sudo Travel thread. A lot of us are planning on traveling this year and the next year - some like me are aiming for Eastern Europe and Germany in 2017, others are planning Costa Rica, and I'm hoping even for Africa. If we are all traveling it would be cool to have a live teleconference from SudoRoom back with the folks at home and/or with the folks who are also traveling! I really miss you guys! Focusing on a health-related project and want to jam soon at SudoRoom evenings again ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

9 years, 8 months

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kids doing science at the Bay Area Discovery Museum (BADM) near San Francisco

by Jake

http://qz.com/726442/in-san-francisco-preschoolers-can-now-learn-stem-with-… A few weeks ago, at the Bay Area Discovery Museum (BADM) near San Francisco, 5-year-old Jack Stabenow climbed a step stool to peer into a machine that cuts cardboard with a high-powered laser. The red beam precisely followed a squiggly building design that Jack had just finger-drawn on a tablet computer. Jack’s goal was to make a building that could stand up to the wind of a nearby table fan. With his cardboard cut, Jack hurried to the assembly area where about two dozen other kids his age labored over teetering, but well-taped, creations. If these first attempts toppled in the breeze, that was to be expected. In fact, back-to-the-drawing-board was kind of the point. The kids were learning the cycle of design, prototype, test, and redesign that’s a hallmark of engineering. The museum staffers were testing a prototype, too. Last month, the museum launched America’s first early childhood “fab lab”—for fabrication laboratory—a suite of digitally controlled fabrication machinery, such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and milling machines. ...

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button sewing machine on craigslist

by Jake

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/tls/5726693149.html know anyone who wants it? i'm trying to get it out of sudoroom. -jake

9 years, 8 months

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Reminder: Tonight is our monthly meeting!

by Marc Juul

Tonight is the second Wednesday of the month. Come catch up on what's been going on with sudo and sign up some new folk for membership! There will be pizza and beer! -- marc/juul

9 years, 8 months

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Help pay off our rent!

by Jenny Ryan

Anyone can contribute any amount to help pay off our current debt for rent: $405.82! https://connect.intuit.com/portal/app/CommerceNetwork/view/419d5908-7c28-46… (let me know if this doesn't work, first time trying the Share Link feature) We have a tiny bit of savings, about $300, all from August payment, so/but/and I'd rather we try to square up collectively for now. Cheers, Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

9 years, 9 months

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Oakland Museum Bike Tour: African-American History bike tour next Saturday

by Romy Ilano

http://museumca.org/2016/bike-tour-august Hey everyone--> next Saturday there's a cool African-American bike tour! *Brainstorming* It'd be cool to do a SudoRoom/Omni style bike tour around downtown Oakland. I think it could stop by . I don't have a lot of time top lan this now but it's a thought It could stop by qilomboi http://qilombo.org ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Arif Shaikh banned from Counter Culture Labs

by jacob.statnekov

We could always add a robots.txt to our base folder so that search engines don't add it. It's basically a way to tell search engines to not index specific pages. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Johan Sosa <johan(a)thefunquantum.com> Date: 8/6/16 1:44 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> Cc: cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com, board(a)biocurious.org, sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: Re: Arif Shaikh banned from Counter Culture Labs Have we thought about the legal and ethical issues surrounding search engine accessibility of personal details in the asked to leave page? It seems the page is search engine accessible and nowadays many employers google people before hiring them. It may be more appropriate to leave out the last name and picture from search engine indexes unless the page is accessed directly or within Omni. -Johan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 4, 2016, at 12:35 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote: Just for the record: Arif Shaikh showed up for the Open Insulin meetup at CCL this evening (Aug/3/2016). We had discussed banning him at the Working Meeting yesterday, but wanted to verify his ban status at BioCurious first. Maureen talked to him, and he volunteered the information that he is currently permanently banned from BioCurious, which makes our decision a bit easier. (We would likely have banned him anyway otherwise, because several existing CCL members had already indicated that he made them uncomfortable, and that they would not feel safe having him work in the lab.) Since CCL honors ban reciprocity with other hackerspaces, I pulled Arif aside and informed him that he is automatically banned from CCL as well, and therefore the entire Omni building. He would first have to resolve his ban from BioCurious to be able to lift his ban at CCL. He may still participate in projects online over zoom (didn't see a point in banning him from that, or any way to enforce it anyway). I did forget to mention that he should also update his LinkedIn status to reflect that he is no longer an independent researcher at CCL and BioCurious. I've attached a picture from his LinkedIn page, which will be included on the Omni Asked to Leave page. Patrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCult Lab's Board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to CultLabsBoard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. <Arik_Shaikh.jpg>

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Arif Shaikh banned from Counter Culture Labs

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Just for the record: Arif Shaikh showed up for the Open Insulin meetup at CCL this evening (Aug/3/2016). We had discussed banning him at the Working Meeting yesterday, but wanted to verify his ban status at BioCurious first. Maureen talked to him, and he volunteered the information that he is currently permanently banned from BioCurious, which makes our decision a bit easier. (We would likely have banned him anyway otherwise, because several existing CCL members had already indicated that he made them uncomfortable, and that they would not feel safe having him work in the lab.) Since CCL honors ban reciprocity with other hackerspaces, I pulled Arif aside and informed him that he is automatically banned from CCL as well, and therefore the entire Omni building. He would first have to resolve his ban from BioCurious to be able to lift his ban at CCL. He may still participate in projects online over zoom (didn't see a point in banning him from that, or any way to enforce it anyway). I did forget to mention that he should also update his LinkedIn status to reflect that he is no longer an independent researcher at CCL and BioCurious. I've attached a picture from his LinkedIn page, which will be included on the Omni Asked to Leave <https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave> page. Patrik

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TED The Energy Detective AC power monitors

by Jake

I opened up the black box that connects to the current-sense transformers included with The Energy Detective (TED) power monitor kits. it contains a CS5460 chip which is a "Single Phase Bi-Directional Power/Energy IC" which has a digital (SPI) data interface. Unfortunately it does not have analog outputs, so it can't be used to convert the AC current signals coming into it into a simple DC analog value. http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/230848/CIRRUS/CS5460.html however, if someone finds a nice arduino library to talk to this chip, we can... wait no, that's pointless. the chip is connected to a PIC16F627A which is processing the data from the CS5460 and then sending it out over the power lines using a TDA5051AT "Home automation modem" chip: http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/TDA5051A.pdf "The TDA5051A is a modem IC, specifically dedicated to ASK transmission by means of the home power supply network, at 600 baud or 1200 baud data rate. It operates from a single 5 V supply." it transmits Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) data transmission using the electric power lines it's connected to. basically it communicates at 8.48MHz (somewhere between 6.08 - 9.504 MHz) in binary serial communications. so it should be pretty easy to figure out what it's saying. It could be that the box that the current sense transformers plug into just sends data (including its serial number, which is on a barcode label stuck to the box) and a displaybox (or our hack) picks it up or not. But it's also possible that it waits for a displaybox to transmit a signal telling it to turn on, or asking it to supply a measurement on-command. since we have displayboxes and these current sense boxes, we can find out if we want. and then we can measure power flow throughout the omni. -jake

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Re: [sudo-discuss] someone at sudo was a creep and it's a problem

by Zach

Hey all, I hope its okay if I add to the conversation here a little, which seems to be very thoughtful and productive thus far. I'm especially impressed at the intention to hear from the experiences of women, which is really cool. Kudos to the men that expressed the importance of our limited experience, and to the women who spoke up. I am not a sudo room member and am rarely I'm rarely in that space, but Jake mentioned me at the end of the first email and CC-ed me. As a member of Noisebridge and someone in the bay hackerspace communities, this is a subject close to my heart that I think it is helpful to think about it, and maybe we can offer some cross-hackerspace solutions to eachother. Since Jake mentioned this in the first email, here is the Noisebridge Anti-Harassment Policy: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Policy Now for my 2 cents: Note, there is nothing in there that states you cannot ask someone out at NB. However, I am strongly in favor of definitely limiting that behavior (as I voiced to my friend the other night) because women have complained to me VERY OFTEN about being sick of being hit on at Noisebridge. Almost all of the women hackers have left the space over the years, and I have friends that are women that used to used to hack there and have told me outright they will not return because of being hit on all the time (even with something as simple as "what are you working on?" and "Do you want a tour of the space?" being asked all the time, when they had been regulars for months, if not years.) A woman I was having a meeting with recently got interrupted by some pickup artist fool (in the middle of our meeting) and asked to lunch. Was this harassment? I'm not sure, but it was damn inappropriate. Kathy makes a solid point, saying "I think one thing that always comes up at sudo/ccl is where to draw the line between bad social skills and unintentionally harmful behavior." I would like to add that pickup artists and creeps are *very* skilled at *intentionally blurring this line* it is, in fact, what they might be best at. A lot of us don't have the best social skills, but when you go out of your way to interrupt people and ask someone out I think you are behaving inappropriately (talking about NB here). Do we decide to never ask people out at a hackerspace? One of my close friends who is an awesome hacker woman is an advocate of this, and it makes a lot of sense. However, If someone is showing prolonged interest in me, over the course of multiple visits to the space, then I would consider asking them out. What does that look like? I would say if a woman came over to me to ask about my projects, my personal life, etc. on multiple occasions and made it their business (not mine) to say hello to me all the time, then maybe I would ask her if she wanted to share a burrito. The problem seems to arise when *men* are initiating the contact over and over again, especially going into a different part of the hackerspace just to engage with women. The example Jake mentioned from the other night was a woman came to ask what a group of us were working on, and then later in the night was looking for some scissors for her sewing. I said she could use mine if she needed, which she seemed to appreciate. My friend suggested that I asked her out at one point later in the night because he thought she was into me. I had a) never seen her before in the space and b) had no reason to believe she was initiating contact with me beyond needing tools. She asked nothing of my personal life and did not join us in our projects or anything. So I told him I thought it would be inappropriate to ask her out, and advocated letting women have their space to work on their projects. Hopefully some of this info is helpful to share, I'm really glad you are all addressing this issue so thoughtfully! I am by no means an expert on any of this and am very open to hearing from others if the shared views are harmful in any way. Thanks for reading, Zach -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 8/3/16, Mary Ward <maryhbw(a)gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] someone at sudo was a creep and it's a problem To: "Kathy Buehmann" <kathy.buehmann(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Patrik D'haeseleer" <patrikd(a)gmail.com>, "Marc Juul" <juul(a)labitat.dk>, "Jake" <jake(a)spaz.org>, "Zach T" <organic_unity(a)yahoo.com>, "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com" <cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com>, "Tamari Kirtadze" <kirtadzet(a)gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 7:26 PM Hi All, I have interacted with Sean on many occasions and I have not found him to be threatening in the least. I believe that we are lacking a general enculturation program for the Omni. I personally was not aware that you cannot ask people on dates at the Omni or Sudoroom specifically. I am glad to know this so I don't make a similar mistake. Kind Regards, MarySent from my iPhone On Aug 3, 2016, at 6:34 PM, Kathy Buehmann <kathy.buehmann(a)gmail.com> wrote: I agree, I think we should hear Jake's female friend's account before moving forward. When he was speaking with me, he seemed very enthusiastic and excited to share his idea with those of us at the social. I did not mind him dominating the conversation as it felt that he was doing so more to convey his excitement than to try to quiet anyone else. He promptly left once he had finished "venting" (positive connotation) and I figured he'd be busy working on his projects again. I had not thought much about yesterday's conversation with him until now. I suppose after this interaction I probably would not go out of my way to share my own projects with him, but not out of spite or malice. More, he just seemed really into his own thing. I feel there are tons of people at CCL who would be psyched to hear about stuff I'm working on, so I'd simply choose to share it with them. His loss, from my point of view. That being said, he was not hitting on me, asking me out, preventing me from speaking, or anything that aggressive. If that had been the case I probably would have found someone else to talk to or worked on my computer until he left the conversation. I imagine it would have taken quite a bit for me to directly address him about it, whether verbally or with a hypothetical yellow card. I cannot think of anything off the top of my head that would spurn me to do this, short of him flat out insulting me or becoming physical in any way. At this point however I imagine many others in the conversation would notice and also take action. I'm not really sure what to do moving forward but wanted to share my perspective as I interacted with him last night. I personally have not had or witnessed any negative interactions with him and appreciate his enthusiasm and energy. I think one thing that always comes up at sudo/ccl is where to draw the line between bad social skills and unintentionally harmful behavior. The tricky thing is it depends on the person on the receiving end of it all. I know there have been a few peeps at ccl I don't feel super comfortable around, but if no one else seems to take offense then I'll attribute it to personal bias on my part and try to minimize contact. That being said I am rarely in the space alone with said people so maybe that would change my opinion. Wish I could attend the meeting tonight. Thanks for addressing this everyone and keep us in the loop. On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sean is a regular CCL member, and has been working on the liquid handling robot in the basement for almost two months now. I've interacted with him on several occasions. He is definitely enthusiastic and talkative, but he didn't strike me as a problem before. But then again, I'm not a woman either. I would really want to hear Jake's friend's reaction to this event, and the opinion of some of the other women in CCL he's been interacting with over the past several weeks. Patrik On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: Dear Sudoroom, sorry for streaming mode, i'm not sure how to talk about this. there's this guy who's been at sudo a few times during hardware hacking tuesdays. I think his name is Sean but i can't remember for sure now. he likes talking about his workout routine, and getting rich, and says he's going to invent bio-drones and says he's working on some secret project that's going to show to elon musk and it's going to make him super rich. well tonight he crossed the line from annoying to unacceptably creepy. tonight a friend of mine came to sudoroom so we could use the robot to cut holes in these christmas ornaments. It was a big project that took hours and a lot of focus. Sean (is that his name?) was on her like glue the entire time, trying to be helpful, talking to her. It made me uncomfortable, but she's a grownup and can speak for herself, but at the same time the power dynamic and assertiveness imbalance was quite stark and I really wanted to say something. But i didn't know what to say. the first time he went away for a minute, which was after what seemed like a long time, i said to my friend "you know, if anyone's bothering you here you can tell them to go away" because i couldn't think of anything better to say. maybe i should have offered to tell him to go away? but that would have only parried the problem that one time. Of course he soon came back. I think we were both trying to ignore him as best we could, and we did get some good work done thanks to Zack and Fenn, who are great. But eventually they left and it was just the three of us. I don't know what other things he said to my friend when i wasn't watching, but I did see him eventually ask her on a date. She told him no, and then he made it very clear to everyone that he was fine with that and not bothered by it at all, because he's not bothered by anything. I was super bothered by it. I wanted to tell him to leave right then, but I really didn't want to talk to him, I just wanted him to go away on his own. I guess eventually he did. I want two things. I want Sudoroom to ask this person to take a break from the space so that he can study up on our anti-harrassment policy and maybe write us an essay about why it's unacceptable to mack on people in sudoroom. and I also want us to look into how we can make it clearer to people like him, and to his targets, that sudoroom is expressly a safe place from this kind of behavior. I would like for there to be a sign that I can point to in moments like that, so that I don't have to try to say it with my own words, in front of other people. it's a complex issue, because if someone is being talkative and helpful they're not necessarily doing it as a creep move, so how do you know where to draw the line? We can remind people to check their own intentions, but maybe we need more ways for people who feel uncomfortable to get relief from unwanted attention without having to then engage the person in Lesson 101 right then. maybe we need yellow cards? to hand to people that say "please go to the fridge and read the entire sign reminding you about proper behavior in sudoroom. Do not ask any more questions of the person who gave you this card, they have other things they want to do now. thank you." Noisebridge seems to have a great vibe, at least the other night when I was there, Zach explained to one of our friends why it would be inappropriate to "ask someone out" at Noisebridge. I'm not sure how their anti-harrassment policy differs from ours, or what we could learn from it, but I would like for us to be more out-in-front of this issue so it doesn't come up anymore without being addressed. thanks for reading this, let's figure this out. I also interacted with this person. Definitely some weird ego problem going on there. Pointed out several times how skilled he is and all the things he knows and kept repeating how he does mixed martial arts in places where it made no sense to the conversation. He didn't seem threatening just really intent on making me understand how amazing he is, though the repeated references to his martial arts skills were definitely creepy. I saw some of his interactions with the robot arm group but apparently not the worst of it. This is definitely a case of someone who doesn't have a clue about social interactions, which isn't new to sudo, but couple that with his pushiness and I think we have a problem. There's asking someone on a date and then there's an evening of imposing yourself and making others uncomfortable followed by asking someone on a date when they're not showing any interest. We could talk to him about his behavior. We could couple that with a short-term break from the space (e.g. 1 month). It's unlikely that he'll come back to the space after a short term ban (few people do). Meet in sudo or on the sudo room riseup pad at 7 pm for a group decision on this. -- marc/juul _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCult Lab's Board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to CultLabsBoard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCult Lab's Board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to CultLabsBoard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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someone at sudo was a creep and it's a problem

by Jake

Dear Sudoroom, sorry for streaming mode, i'm not sure how to talk about this. there's this guy who's been at sudo a few times during hardware hacking tuesdays. I think his name is Sean but i can't remember for sure now. he likes talking about his workout routine, and getting rich, and says he's going to invent bio-drones and says he's working on some secret project that's going to show to elon musk and it's going to make him super rich. well tonight he crossed the line from annoying to unacceptably creepy. tonight a friend of mine came to sudoroom so we could use the robot to cut holes in these christmas ornaments. It was a big project that took hours and a lot of focus. Sean (is that his name?) was on her like glue the entire time, trying to be helpful, talking to her. It made me uncomfortable, but she's a grownup and can speak for herself, but at the same time the power dynamic and assertiveness imbalance was quite stark and I really wanted to say something. But i didn't know what to say. the first time he went away for a minute, which was after what seemed like a long time, i said to my friend "you know, if anyone's bothering you here you can tell them to go away" because i couldn't think of anything better to say. maybe i should have offered to tell him to go away? but that would have only parried the problem that one time. Of course he soon came back. I think we were both trying to ignore him as best we could, and we did get some good work done thanks to Zack and Fenn, who are great. But eventually they left and it was just the three of us. I don't know what other things he said to my friend when i wasn't watching, but I did see him eventually ask her on a date. She told him no, and then he made it very clear to everyone that he was fine with that and not bothered by it at all, because he's not bothered by anything. I was super bothered by it. I wanted to tell him to leave right then, but I really didn't want to talk to him, I just wanted him to go away on his own. I guess eventually he did. I want two things. I want Sudoroom to ask this person to take a break from the space so that he can study up on our anti-harrassment policy and maybe write us an essay about why it's unacceptable to mack on people in sudoroom. and I also want us to look into how we can make it clearer to people like him, and to his targets, that sudoroom is expressly a safe place from this kind of behavior. I would like for there to be a sign that I can point to in moments like that, so that I don't have to try to say it with my own words, in front of other people. it's a complex issue, because if someone is being talkative and helpful they're not necessarily doing it as a creep move, so how do you know where to draw the line? We can remind people to check their own intentions, but maybe we need more ways for people who feel uncomfortable to get relief from unwanted attention without having to then engage the person in Lesson 101 right then. maybe we need yellow cards? to hand to people that say "please go to the fridge and read the entire sign reminding you about proper behavior in sudoroom. Do not ask any more questions of the person who gave you this card, they have other things they want to do now. thank you." Noisebridge seems to have a great vibe, at least the other night when I was there, Zach explained to one of our friends why it would be inappropriate to "ask someone out" at Noisebridge. I'm not sure how their anti-harrassment policy differs from ours, or what we could learn from it, but I would like for us to be more out-in-front of this issue so it doesn't come up anymore without being addressed. thanks for reading this, let's figure this out. -jake

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eBay link for good LCR tweezers?

by Jake

I want to buy a set of inductance / capacitance / resistance measuring tweezers, for identifying surfacemount components. can anyone recommend a specific model or ebay link or whatever for one that actually works? I figure the quality varies widely. thank you -jake

9 years, 9 months

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etching circuitboards the easy way, at sudoroom

by Jake

Last tuesday at sudoroom I used the Phaser 8560 printer to print circuit patterns onto pyralux material (kapton coated with copper) and then etched them in ferric chloride. http://imgur.com/gallery/TbzsP the result was that I was able to make circuits very quickly and easily, even though it was the first time i did it this way. if other people want to etch circuits at sudoroom, I can help. email me if you want to coordinate. The circuit i made was single-sided but you can do multiple layer circuitboards pretty easily, obviously, by putting these back-to-back. if you wanted to be even more advanced, you could use the laser cutter to burn holes in the pyralux (assuming that works) and solder through those holes from layer to layer. also did i mention this material is flexible like paper? we can make wearables, cylindrical circuits, watches... -jake

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“Uber Against Hunger” Delivers Unused Food To Needy, Hits 1000-Meal Mark - Good News Network

by Romy Ilano

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uber-hunger-delivers-unwanted-food-need/ “Uber Against Hunger” Delivers Unused Food To Needy, Hits 1000-Meal Mark Terry Turner Jul 29, 2016 What could be more perfect than using the “sharing economy” to deliver food that people don’t want to those who desperately need it? That’s what the Unsung app sets out to do. Being tested in Austin, Texas, the app has delivered 1,000 meals that would have otherwise gone into the trash. The Unsung app works kind of like Uber’s ride-sharing service to “hack hunger,” as it’s creators say. RELATED: Tesco to Give All Unsold Food to Charity in its 800 UK Supermarkets Restaurants, grocery stores, or even individuals click on the app to announce they have food to give to the hungry. The app sends the information to nearby volunteer drivers who pick it up and deliver it to people in need. The app will even calculate the value of your food donation so you can declare it as a tax deductible contribution on your income taxes. Every meal that’s donated appears on the app’s live feed. This video shows how the app works. RELATED: Canadian Restaurant Offers Free Meals To Anyone Who Can’t Afford To Pay The app is expected to be available later this year as Unsung works to set up networks of users around the United States. (WATCH the video below from Unsung) – Photos: Unsung.org SEND The Sharing Economy To Your Friends, By Sharing This Story… Sent from my iPhone

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