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Is anyone here next week? I haven't taken any of next week's info down on lu.ma/sudoroom

by Romy Ilano

Hey is anyone here next week? I have left up the two meetups on https://lu.ma/sudoroom I haven't had time to do a lot of tweeting, but will try... I'm out of town next week! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 4 months

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Sudoroom tonight: KQED and More!

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Heads up that KQED is going to be at Sudoroom tonight to get advance footage for a Fixit Clinic event Jan 22 at KQED headquarters: https://www.kqed.org/events/4915/fixit-clinic Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Host and Producer of KQEDs The Bay podcast <https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay> will be bringing a clock to be looked at tonight; that and the other items we might see are at bit.ly/itemcheckins Also: someone (Patrik from CCL?) left a Samsung un48J5200AF 48” TV (If it’s Patrik’s: “It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black,”) We also still have the 55” 4K TV, Toshiba Model K550WDR1 / Toshiba 55l621U disassembled: when power is applied It displays the splash screen with the logo, and then goes out. It’d be great to get at least one of these TVs working so we can use it to telepresence people in to sudorooom. And we’re building out a core of stewards for Sudoroom’s Chromebook/laptop refurbishing, conversion to Linux and long-term support program. I plan to bring some converted and convert-able Chromebooks to play with tonight. (see http://bit.ly/cbsave.) Let’s put on a great show! See you later, -Peter

1 year, 4 months

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Old Sudo-er/synth head coming visit the Omni Thurs & Fri

by lewis_black

Hi all, I used to live in Oakland 9 years ago (wow…), of when I used to attend hack nights at Sudoroom and participate in festivities. I play my own blend of modular psytech. I brought a small backpack hardware setup. If anyone wants to jam between now and Friday nite. Also planning on taking my battery-powered rig to Dolores park or Lake Merrit to play a set, which is usually a consistent 137bpm. Control voltage and analog contraptions highly encouraged. Cheers. And continue hacking the Planet ✊🖖 Oh, a link to my music can be found here: https://on.soundcloud.com/tvfeR3bSHFEyRr4s7

1 year, 4 months

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Wrong time listed for Hardware Hack Night

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: The time needs to be updated here: it says 7:30 to 11:45: who can update that to 8PM-11PM? https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-fix-it-clnic-2024-12-03/ Sincerely, -Peter

1 year, 4 months

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50" TV for Sudo?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

I have a 50" TV that I'd like to donate to Sudo. It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black. I don't have time to chase down the issue, but maybe someone there can diagnose the problem during one of the FixIt clinics. Shall I drop it off? Patrik

1 year, 4 months

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Meeting | it's so rainy 🍁

by William Myers

Hello everyone, I think we aight to have a meeting today despite the cold rain. Who can come out? I'm sorry I didn't call this earlier, I've just started a new job and I've been so busy. Anyone know how useable the sudo room is with the work being done? See you soon, drive carefully with all the wetness. William

1 year, 4 months

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Interesting Thesis Talk Fri 12-06 Noon via Zoom

by Peter Mui

Both Sudoroom and CCC members might be interested in this UC Berkeley PhD thesis talk Friday at Noon: attend via Zoom or in person at 306 Soda Hall. -Peter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: NanoNews: ME Ph.D. Seminar - Fri 12-06 Noon / Kamyar Behrouzi Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:20:03 -0800 From: Avi Rosenzweig <victorr(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> To: nano-news(a)lists.berkeley.edu, de-nse-students(a)lists.berkeley.edu, msegrads06(a)lists.berkeley.edu, physics-nanosubset(a)lists.berkeley.edu, colloquia(a)physics.berkeley.edu CC: nseggfaculty(a)lists.berkeley.edu Hi Folks, Kamyar is giving his PhD seminar this Friday, yay! 306 Soda Hall 12pm See details below and send your morale support his way :-) Avi > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Kamyar Behrouzi <kbehrouzi(a)berkeley.edu> > > Hope you are doing well, I’m giving my PhD seminar this Friday from > noon-1pm in Soda 306 room. The advertisement is attached, it’s my > pleasure to have you in my talk. Please share the details with Nano > community if it’s possible. > Thanks > Best Regards > Kamyar > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > ME Ph.D. Seminar 🎓🎓🎓 > > > *Ph.D. Seminar* > > *Kamyar Behrouzi* > /(Ph.D. Candidate)/ > > *AI-Assisted Plasmonic Biosensing* > > *Friday, December 06**, 2024* > *Noon - 1:00 PM* > *306 Soda Hall > Zoom Link: > **/https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/94546676505?pwd=Kp9lB0rIS17EVaFPxA75YLul9DQFSd.1/* > > *Abstract:* > > Join my PhD seminar to explore how advanced biosensing technologies > are paving the way for personalized healthcare. Despite remarkable > breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, such as AlphaFold, the Nobel > Prize-winning protein structure predictor, medical diagnostics lag > behind due to limited access to high-quality data. Current tools > primarily measure basic vital signs, overlooking the wealth of > biochemical information essential for precise health monitoring. My > research addresses this gap by developing simple, affordable, and > highly sensitive optical biosensors. Highlights include a colorimetric > approach for at-home protein detection, enhanced by the coffee-ring > effect and deep learning, as well as ultra-sensitive nucleic acid and > protein detection using plasmonic nanoparticles arranged at > exceptional points. These innovations are further refined through > AI-assisted phase sensing and integration with photonic circuits for > compact, scalable designs. This work bridges the divide between > advanced sensing technologies and practical medical applications, > offering new possibilities for accessible, individualized diagnostics. > > Committee Co-Chair: /Prof. /*Liwei Lin *(ME) > Committee Co-Chair: /Prof. /*Boubacar Kante *(EECS) > Additional Member: /Prof. /*Dorian Liepmann *(ME/BIOENG) > Academic Senate Representative: /Prof./*Ming-Chiang Wu *(EECS) > > Facebook > <https://berkeley.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=755d1128798673f9f3bb3e0…> > > > Website > <https://berkeley.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=755d1128798673f9f3bb3e0…> > > > > /Copyrights © |Fall 2024| |Mechanical Engineering| All rights reserved./ > > > > > > > > > ******* Avi Rosenzweig Physical Sciences Division College of Letters & Science Dean’s Office 101 Durant Hall MC 2920 UC Berkeley Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute 548 Sutardja Dai Hall MC 1726 voice 510.643.6681 message 612.888.7938 I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary. -----John Milton To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nano-news+unsubscribe(a)lists.berkeley.edu.

1 year, 5 months

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cheap electric vehicle projects available

by Jake

Hi everyone, I seem to be plagued with too many electric vehicles, from about 10-20 years ago. They are really cool and fun to drive, but they need work and I'm out of space and time to store and work on them. Most of them are 2002 Toyota RAV4 EVs, which many people don't even know were ever made. Here's the wikipedia page on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#First_generation_(1997) If you have a place to park a project car and interest in working on one, please let me know. If you are a PG&E customer, you can get up to $4000 (depending on your income) for buying a used EV like this (whether it drives or not) I will be fixing mine and my friend's over the next few months and I can help you fix yours too. Just let me know if you're interested. -jake

1 year, 5 months

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roof tar mess + free store/CALLI event on Friday Saturday

by Paige P

Hi, The roof repairs are still going on, and we are getting A LOT of the tar debris in sudo room. We did some cleanup Saturday and Monday, but I'm sure there will be more debris coming down, and it will be a lot of work to get the lab benches clear again. We put up one more tarp, but more would be great to cover all the lab benches. Also Thurs/Friday Free Store + CALLI (building owners) are running this event. If Sudo Room has items wanting to give away, we could join. I'll be there on Friday if anyone would like to coordinate. [image: signal-2024-12-02-100232_002.jpeg] Paige

1 year, 5 months

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How to make a Mini-XLR to 3.5mm cable?

by Nicholas Sun

Hi all, I've been trying to find a Mini-XLR Female to 3.5mm Female adapter but I haven't been able to find one. There were a few on Amazon but the reviews all said the left and right audio were reversed... My current idea is to instead purchase a Mini-XLR Female replacement head and solder on a 3.5mm Female head with attached cable. But I see different cable styles attached to the 3.5mm, there is a 2 cable version and also 3 cable version? And it sounds like this is Mono vs Stereo? But the XLR talks about "Ground, Hot, and Cold" and I can't tell how this maps onto the 3.5mm cabling? If we have any people knowledgeable about audio cabling would love help untangling this mystery, thanks!

1 year, 5 months

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Request to join sudo room

by Hex

Gr33t1ngs I’m Hex Ripley [it / its] I came in yesterday (nov 26) for the fix it clinic, had a lot of fun meeting y’all and working on to virtual machine set ups, working on the upstairs 3D printer, & helping come up with a solution to fix the roof rack cargo box. I’d like to be a member to contribute monetarily and with labor. I love doing electronics repair and I want to make use of my skills in a way that can help others. I’d love to participate in the fix it clinic regularly & also I’d be happy to work on the laptops in order to get them functioning for donation, teach people some electronic troubleshooting & repair should the opportunity be available. Also happy to be additional hands on any facilities work. Basically I think y’all are cool and I’m here to be useful :) Want to mention that I live in Guerneville, happy to drive in & also would be happy to carpool people who live in the Sonoma/Marin area as well. Current projects I’ve got going: I have an IBM Thinkpad 701c (the one with the cool keyboard!!!) that I want to restore - failing that, it will be up-cycled with a more modern motherboard & screen, preserving the keyboard. Other Projects in various stages of incompleteness: - USB-C to Barrel Jack chargers - search.server.lgbt (my SearxNG instance, google/ddg search proxy) - 2010 Lenovo ThinkServer Rebuild (may end up in a colocation center… eventually?) - Ender 3 repairs (never ending ;-;) - iPhone powered Pwnagotchi case - Mini Model M keyboard cyber deck - punk.lgbt (lgbt / womens healthcare resource directory, not up currently, looking into threat model)

1 year, 5 months

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How this Rooftop Grew 20,000 lbs of Food in Oakland - anyone know this guy

by Romy Ilano

https://youtu.be/lczgUj4InX0?si=Bcl4yUdxnin3ZLpG This is really cool there’s this guy in Oakland growing tons of food on his roof does anyone at Sudoroom know him it be cool to feature him on our page and maybe say hi I don’t know if he’s open to that though he looks sort of busy but this is really cool we could possibly do a collaboration inspired by him and work with Counterculture Labs Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom

by Jake

Dear Sudoroom, It's been almost three years since this telescreen was set up with Jitsi, on the wall in sudoroom. A few months ago the computer got taken, so I set up a new one, and Matty is trying to get the automated software working again so it's automatic and turns the screen off when no one is joined. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Bigtv How do people feel about the telescreen? Do people like having this in place so that people can connect with the space from elsewhere? How could it be improved? Also a reminder, we have a telephone and the number is I-HACK-AT-386 For a while the telephone was switching off but i recently made something that automatically reboots it when that happens, so it should be pretty reliable now. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:18:15 -0800 From: ruin mechanic via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Reply-To: ruin mechanic <ruinmechanic(a)gmail.com> To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom! Rejoice in the hacker wizardry of the new Telepresence Portal Jake and I wrapped it up today and hackerspace futurism has been achieved the monitor will turn on if any Sudoers join the jitsi chatroom and it will shut off if everyone leaves the chat here is the source for the chat client app powering it https://github.com/sudoroom/jitsi-telepresence-portal hooray! -matty/interrupt On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:50 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > wow, this has progressed a lot! > > tonight, in the jitsi chat, which is here: > https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles > > matt and me (to the entertainment of everyone passing through sudoroom and > working in there) have been chatting and co-hacking, and i've been learning > npm/node/react web stuff. > > basically we installed the jitsi SDK repo and ran it, and then hacked it > to go > to the meeting room we've been using instead of the default setting - and > now > we're adding a function to it to automatically control the screen power > (screensaver) depending on whether someone is in the "room" or not. > > we're also sharing a tmux window in the machine (the one controlling the > big > TV) and teaching each other lots of stuff. And neither of us are > physically in > the space! > > It's the most exciting saturday night i've had in a long time! > > If anyone else is interested in this kind of social hacking, speak up and > i'll > ping you if it happens again. Or just join the jitsi room (linked above) > and > leave it open until someone starts talking to you. > > last night (friday night) we had a bunch of people join the chat!!! > including > a couple of people who randomly hadn't seen each other in almost 5 years! > It was basically a party, including whoever was in sudoroom, and like 6 > different people who rolled through the jitsi chat. > > -jake > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Jake wrote: > >> awesome! I believe this is what Matty is working on too >> >> https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-web-sdk >> >> that was so much fun with everyone talking to each other tonight! >> >> -jake >> >> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Marc Juul wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:54 PM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 1:37 AM Jake wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've set up a jitsi terminal on the wall in Sudoroom! >>>>> >>>>> It's a big TV made by Hitachi, and it has a feature where it can go > into >>>>> "power saving" mode when the HDMI signal is lost. That means the > screen >>>>> can power down when DPMS puts the monitor to "sleep". It has a webcam >>>>> that's clearly labeled, and on a hinge so it can easily be aimed down > at >>>>> the floor if people are shy, and it has a Jabra USB speaker/microphone >>>>> thing which should hopefully provide good speakerphone > functionality. I >>>>> have the computer setup to start firefox, and i have firefox set to > open >>>>> the jitsi page, where permissions are already enabled for > webcam/audio. >>>>> The only remaining need is to automatically wake the monitor from > sleep >>>>> (using "DISPLAY=:0 xset force dpms on") whenever there is anyone else >>>>> detected in the jitsi "room" >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I wrote a short program that can trigger a command based on downstream >>>> bandwidth usage: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/sudoroom/bw-trigger >>>> >>> >>> So it turned out that the library I used doesn't really work for UDP :/ >>> >>> The correct solution is definitely to have a client that joins with > XMPP. >>> Information is sparse but I found this code that I believe is for >>> stress-testing that should be modifiable into what we need: >>> >>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs >>> >>> Relevant code in: >>> >>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs/blob/master/src/Participant.js >>> >>> -- >>> marc/juul >>> >> >

1 year, 5 months

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Newsletter December 2024 up

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/december-2024-newsletter/ This is a condensed place to see what's going on at SudoRoom would love it if people had short blurbs about their projects/. photographs of them doing hackerish things around town! =D ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Fwd: Clio's Writers-in-Residence Program

by Romy Mimi Ilano

Do you guys know Clio's bookstore? This is pretty neat, and they have a great screen-free bookstore and are now offering a cool writer in residency. This is cool because it's great to offer a place for smart creative people to cowork. This might be a cool thing to offer at SudoRoom and Counterculture labs Like - hey! have some free time? Why don't you cowork with these cool creative people during such and such times. This is more appealing in amny ways than a class or workshop. *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Clio's <timothy(a)cliosbooks.com> Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM Subject: Clio's Writers-in-Residence Program To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> Daytime hours for writers, scholars, and others Calling all writers, scholars, and workers-from-home! Are you tired of working alone and at home? Clio's has something for you! *Beginning in January, 2025,* Clio's will be opening its doors during select daytime hours for writers, scholars, and other laborers to bring their projects (and their computers!) to the shop and work there. *If you want to become one of Clio's writers-in-residence,* seek to use our collection for research, or simply need a quiet and beautiful spot where you can work on your laptop for a few hours every week, contact us through the button below. Please include relevant information about projects you are working on and days/hours you seek access to Clio's residency program. *We have a limited number of spots available *and a very reasonable (and sliding) fee scale. We even have scholarships for those in need! Clio's Residency Program <info(a)cliosbooks.com?subject=Application%20for%20a%20Clio's%20residency> [image: Facebook] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Twitter] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Link] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Website] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> *Copyright © 2024 Clio's Books. All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* 353 Grand Ave Oakland CA 94610 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/profile?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbcba4a…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> .

1 year, 5 months

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Re: Events – Sudo Room listing outside events and hopefully this inspires people to meet other members and take back with they get to our nights or even start a new evening

by Romy Ilano

1 year, 5 months

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Events – Sudo Room listing outside events and hopefully this inspires people to meet other members and take back with they get to our nights or even start a new evening

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/ We have some events from other nearby nonprofits and cool organizations like the spire or critical mass on our website The stuff is mostly hidden now unless you go to our calendar, but I was just thinking that it would be really cool to go to an outside event like the Spijer clothing swap and then come back to Sudoroom and work on what you exchanged at the clothing swap like repairing zippers and so during our hardware night or a women and non-binary night This calendar isn’t meant to take people outside to Sudoroom and make them never come back but to inspire us because our location is the best thing about us Also thinking long-term, that it would be cool to hang out of these other places and tell them about Sudoroom because a lot of people don’t know about us especially people are new to the area We don’t market ourselves enough as one of the cheapest hardware open hack nights in the Bay Area. We should also try to compete with the idea of just being totally socially, isolated and alone doing on your stuff in your garage or in your house we can see that remote meet ups. Don’t have quite the same spice as meeting in person and randomly walking into someone working on their hardware project Hope this gets us more involved in our outside community. There’s so much good stuff going on in Oakland and the best thing about Sudoroom is that you can physically meet people in person and that you were actually in Oakland, which is one of the best cities in the United States right now. Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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SudoRoom is also now on mastodon! https://sfba.social/@sudoroom

by Romy Ilano

https://sfba.social/@sudoroom We are now on Mastadon as well as BlueSKy! Thanks to openVibes and when folks have time we can double post to both accounts! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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NEW MEETUP SERIES: PAPERCRAFTING + PROGRAMMING + AI & WHATEVER just before hardware hack night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/new-meetup-series-papercrafting-programming-ai-whateve… ANNOUNCING A NEW LEARNING HOW TO LEARN PAPER CRAFTING + ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING AND MATH WHATEVER ELSE SERIES RIGHT BEFORE OUR HARDWARE HACK NIGHTS ON TUESDAYS! We kept talking about this but we’re finally going to do it! Why not meet up right before hardware hack night and do some hardcore whiteboarding and paper crafting around ephemereal topics like artificial intelligence! At the end hopefully we’ll have something cute to take home, or at least post on the walls. The risks we take using razor blades and hazards of paper cuts are outweighed by the reverse exercises we do to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome and relaxation of gluing and folding to create something tangible. Come join us for early evening 7-8:30 pm papercrafting sessions on Tuesdays – we’ll experiment and see how well this goes! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Newbie building an LLM model ai

by Romy Ilano

Hi I’m studying how to build my own LLM for fun. I’m thinking this would be a fun study group for either Monday (women and non binary night) or even hardware hack night as I’m interested in making paper models of the concepts (maybe with pictures of cats on them) to make these concepts stick ! Anyone else interested ? I’ll try to start a study group. Maybe we can meet right before hardware hack night and do pure whiteboarding no online classes or screens Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes & gives free clothes to moms!

by Romy Ilano

New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes & gives free clothes to moms! It's on Broadway and 15th street (almost a straight shot past the cute triangle building park) from our garage. They're accepting clean donations and have really nice clothes and even furniture! Here are some photographs below. If you want to donate or buy nice stuff check them out. I also like how they have a donation program where moms can come and get free stuff once a month. https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/albums/72177720322167516/ @nextround_hub ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Hardware Hacking Tuesday is tonight

by Jake

Tonight we'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever, in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email) in the past few weeks, we've had about 10-20 people over the course of the evening Here it is on the sudoroom page: https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/ I am usually there by 8PM but people do show up before me! if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get in, call our telephone to get someone to let you in! (442)252-8386 is our phone number, which spells "I HACK AT FUN" We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway! You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailing list! click here: https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here: https://sudoroom.org/humans and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here: https://sudoroom.org/donate If you want to join by video link, we'll have a Jitsi screen up at the following address: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles hopefully it's not in Dutch but if it is, you can figure it out. see you soon! -jake

1 year, 5 months

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Project Placeholder: Film page

by Romy Ilano

I created a placeholder for future film projects at SudoRoom. https://sudoroom.org/projects/film-projects-at-sudoroom/ They can include animation and filmmaking, as well as presentation but can also involve hardware hacking on selfie sticks, DIY green screens, AI in filmmaking and more! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Do we want 6 old Mac Laptops?

by Anca Mosoiu

A friend of mine is trying to get rid of 6 old macs. Is this something Sudo would be interested in? They are 2011-2015 vintage. Anca. -- -=-=-=- Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal anca(a)techliminal.com

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SudoRoom is now on Bluesky

by Romy Ilano

https://bsky.app/profile/sudoroom.bsky.social Hey folks SudoRoom is now on Bluesky! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Happy Holidays! Trying to put together some projects at SudoRoom examples

by Romy Ilano

Hey folks, happy holidays! I'm trying to put together some samples of projects at SudoRoom. https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Projects Do you have a short overview of your project? I know it's hard but I can volunteer to "grill" you =D - What is it? - Why did you do it? - How did SudoRoom help you do it? Any photographs would be great?! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Nikon Kodak DCS 460 camera

by Jake Watters

I'm going through the junk under the stairs and there's a Nikon Kodak DCS 460 camera with no lens https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/cameras/item/kodak-dcs-460 And lots of other stuff! Come get stuff or it's going to get e-wasted and recycled. Anyone want a dresser?

1 year, 5 months

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Meeting notes + moving stuff work party?

by Paige P

Hi everyone Please check out the meeting notes from last night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2024-11-21 Some todos we have *space todos* - clear out all things stored under the staircase (the "computer" library?). This is on request of the fire inspector. Given this is a lot of stuff, I think we should do some e-wasting. CALLI is helping us, we just need to put it in the trash room - CCL gives a cut of profit from equipment sales to whoever does the work to post items on craigslist. If anyone is interested in doing that work in Sudo Room, speak up! - We could cart some stuff over to the entrance hall and promote a buy nothing day with the free store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day. Free Store doesnt have capacity to store a lot of electronics but no problem if we bring whatever isn't taken back into sudo room or ewaste - talk to CC about doing sewing programming out of Sudo Room for the rest of the year. If that's agreed to, then we need to make some space in Sudo Room for this - make a Sudo Room sign and lighting for our new entrance *nonprofit forming todos* - Finalize bylaws - Find new insurance plans - Hire someone to do admin work *communications todo* - (re)create a discord? Right now we have a channel on the Omni slack. I see there's some open source discord alternatives but I haven't used any. Paige

1 year, 5 months

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Fwd: Dev Summit 2024!

by Ajay Tallam

Hey sudo room members!!Just a reminder that the Nonprofit/technology Software Development Summit is happening right now (Nov 20-22) here in Oakland ! We're heading to happy hour now and will be in summit mode for the next few days! <https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24>If you haven't registered yet: - Sign up on the waitlist - Let me know when you've done so - I can help get you off the waitlist - I have free discount codes for sudo folks if cost is a barrier Best ways to reach me: - Signal: ajay.61 (preferred) - Email: here (will check less frequently) Much love, ajay ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ajay Tallam <senorajay(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 17:01 Subject: Fwd: Dev Summit 2024! To: Ajay Tallam <atallam(a)gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Allen Gunn <gunner(a)aspirationtech.org> Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 14:18 Subject: Dev Summit 2024! To: Ajay Tallam <senorajay(a)gmail.com> Hello! I hope this finds you in a good place in another challenging year. And speaking of years, it's once again that time of this and every year: Dev Summit is happening for the 21st time in November :) We'll be hosting it in person in Oakland 20-22 November. And I'm writing to see if you might be able to join us. If you are game, we would love to see you there. If you can make it, here is the friends-and-family registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779040470017/?discount=aspirationfriendsfam24 Please let me know if you might be able to join. Hope to see you in November! thanks & peace, gunner PS Full information is here, including our COVID protocols, on which we welcome feedback and questions: https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24 -- Allen Gunn Executive Director, Aspiration www.aspirationtech.org Aspiration: "Better Tools for a Better World" Read our Manifesto: https://aspirationtech.org/publications/manifesto Follow us on... Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@aspirationtech Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aspirationtech.bsky.social

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Our leaky roof and warpage installed

by Kent Leech

Hi folks, Last night myself and Avery deployed the tarp from last year over the SW corner of Sudoroom. I also placed available buckets nearby on the big table so they can be positioned to catch drips. While they will catch a fair amount of water, inevitably some will puddle. From my memory, the low spot is near the standing drill press. The chrome wet-dry vac is nearby and sucks up the excess water very well. When full, I've dumped it outside the side entrance. If anyone can check on the drips this evening, that would be most helpful. Also, the excess water will eventually need vacuuming up. I¹m not available until after thanksgiving. Regards, Kent ----- Kent Leech Illustration http://www.kentleech.com kent(a)kentleech.com +1 (510) 504-0634 --

1 year, 5 months

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New inspiration post on innovation in Nigerian cinema

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/nollywood-nigerian-innovation-in-cinema/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Re: Any interest in an Oculus Rift S?

by Jake Watters

From Reddit: "Have you tried envision with the rift s yet? It should still work with monado afaik. https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/ https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality_linux/s/5ic5NGIVi4 On Sun, Oct 27, 2024, 18:58 Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote: > there does seem to be linux support for it now! > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality_linux/comments/13xv4gl/how_to_use_t… > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM Thomas Lopes <tomrlopes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah I was naive when I bought it. I thought that Linux support was just >> around the corner and upgrading video card would also be easy. I didn't >> know about the video card shortage at the time. >> The valve index was and is much more expensive. >> >> I may have an Nvidia 980. I don't remember if I've ewasted it already. >> >> Thomas >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 12:08 PM Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Thomas for dropping this off last night! It looks like it >>> needs a Windows 10 PC to use it, probably with a decent graphics card. >>> >>> Is anyone willing to set up such a computer for sudoroom so we can have >>> this thing in the space for people to play with? >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'll play with it! Sounds cool! >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 18:36 Thomas Lopes via sudo-discuss < >>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift_S >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone make use of this? I have one in box I would like to >>>>> donate. But I know you already have a lot of stuff. >>>>> >>>>> Anyways I'll bring it by tonight. >>>>> >>>>> Thomas >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >>>>> More options at >>>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >>>>> >>>>

1 year, 5 months

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Small but important admin task for Sudo

by Sarah Lockhart

As Sudo embarks on its journey for independence from Omni, one thing that would be very helpful to do is to change the billing account for Sudo’s Digital Ocean subscription. Currently, as a result of something Yar did a year or so ago, Sudo Room’s DigiOcean monthly payment is being paid out of Omni’s general checking account. It should be paid out of the Sudo account. For the past year or so, I have been transferring the $43.90 (on average) from Sudo’s account to Omni’s account to reimburse Omni. However, it would be simplest if this autopayment was made from Sudo’s account so that no one has to transfer anything, because very soon I will not be around to do this. Best, SL

1 year, 5 months

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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November 16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley

by Juliana A

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ben Rosenthal <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM Subject: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November 16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley To: <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hi Friends - Join us for the second BUSD Fix-it Fest! A Free Community Repair Event Saturday, November 16, 1-3:30 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School 1781 Rose Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Learn to repair your broken items and help reduce waste in our community. Register your item in advance (recommended), volunteer, or find more info: https://bit.ly/fixitfests We will provide a workspace, tools, and guidance from a volunteer “Repair Coach” to help you disassemble, troubleshoot, and hopefully fix your item. Categories include: clothing, electronics, bicycles, small appliances, toys & sporting goods, jewelry, ceramics & shoes! Location & Accessibility: MLK Jr. Middle School, 1781 Rose Street, Science Building (enter through west gate across from Edith St.). Wheelchair accessible. Bike parking. Accessible by AC transit. Street parking only. COVID Policy: Masks are welcome. Rooms will be ventilated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As part of the BUSD Fix-it Fest, (Berkeley Unified School District) middle school students enrolled in MakerSpace classes will learn about repair during a weeklong unit in the classroom. This event (the second of three repair events being held during the 2024–2025 school year) will provide an opportunity for school & community members to learn how to repair household items. The third event will be held: February 8, 2025, 1–3:30 pm, Longfellow Middle School 1701 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702 Organized by: BUSD Climate Literacy Initiative and BUSD Middle School MakerSpace Programs In collaboration with Transition Berkeley, Nimble Repair, & Culture of Repair Hope you can come. Invite your friends, too. - Ben -- Thanks for keeping the bay communal, collective and rad. You got this e-mail because you're on the SF Chalkboard list: https://chalkies.website/ Unsubscribe or manage your subscription at https://lists.riseup.net/www/suboptions/sfchalkboard -- julianaferreira(a)gmail.com she/her

1 year, 5 months

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Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration

by Romy Ilano

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bhangra-beats-night-market-inaugural-city-of-s… Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration We’ve been trying to do more “field trips” outside of SudoRoom with the intention of continuing the inspiration at museums and events with creating nights during the week Let’s get some ideas for holiday decorations at this dance party ! Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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Sudoroom tonight? (Wednesday)

by Jake Watters

I'll be going in and hanging out and maybe some others will come too

1 year, 5 months

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I've added the San Francisco, San Jose, & east bay bike parties to our calendar - let's recruit bike party people again!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/others-events/bike-parties/ FYI I've added auxiliary bike party events (Fridays) to our SudoRoom calendar. If we want new members or people dropping by, it's a good idea to "market" to these folks - we had a great time when they came in a while ago to hack on their bikes all at once. https://sudoroom.org/when-the-bike-party-came-to-sudoroom/ what's nice is that the themes change every month for each of these 3 bike parties, and it's a new opportunity for people to be creative especially with costumes. It would also be a good idea to document "starter projects" (I never got around to work on my own bike personally and might add to the wiki) ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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has anyone created Christmas / new year's decorations or costumes at SudoRoom or Noisebridge?

by Romy Ilano

I'm looking for stuff to put on the sudoroom events pages and blog - has anyone created new year's celebrations or costumes? Religious decorations? Winter solstice pagan celebration LED costumes? If you'd like to share your photos we would love it! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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spire has a buy nothing - clothing swap on Black Friday - should we do something similar

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/black-friday-clothes-swap-the-spire/ Discussed this with Paige on Monday - November 29 (black Friday) the Spire down the street is having a clothing swap. This sounds like we could do some kind of measured donation on the same day to the free store (we don't want them to be overwhelmed) ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Can you help fixing this tv? fixit clinic

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/fix-it-clinic-tv-can-you-help/ Can anyone help out with this fixit project? around a tv? Marc, and Mike opened up a 55″ 4K TV and discovered inside it’s a Toshiba Model K550WDR1 rebranded as a Best Buy Toshiba 551621U - When power is applied It flashes on briefly, shows the logo, and then goes out. Normally this would indicate a power supply issue, but after a little online research some people think the problem might be a firmware issue. *Can someone help to find firmware we can try to flash on this* *TV to see if that resurrects it?* <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_8281.jpeg>Examining the wounded television <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_20241105_224834.jpg> <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_20241105_222750.jpg> ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Should we create a lending library of stuff we actually don't want people to return?

by Romy Ilano

We have a lot of stuff? Should we create a lending library of stuff we don't actually care if people return or not? This would have less maintenance costs and effort than if we had a lending library of stuff we really want back (and we'd have to manage late fees etc) *a members-only "lending library" would help marketing our* - This could serve as a* big marketing plug for SudoRoom -* Hey be a member! You get access to our (wink wink) lending library where you can borrow stuff on the honor system - We could make a page where we give each item (like a cute glue gun) pretty stickers and a name. "Borrow Homer the glue gun! She has created universes you have never seen!" and have little animated cartoons ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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Do we have an extra standing desk converter I can borrow

by Romy Ilano

So we have an extra standing desk converter? They go on top of regular desks and look like this https://desky.com/products/zero-standing-desk-converter Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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Network switches

by Thomas Lopes

Anyone can use these: 8 port gigabit Netgear GS-108 2 8 port 100Mbit w/ 4 ports POE TP Link TL-SF1008P Otherwise I'll e-waste. Thomas

1 year, 5 months

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Looking for volunteers - Women in Tech Dinner -Tuesday, December 3rd from 5:00 – 7:00pm

by Romy Ilano

I can’t make this one but it looks like it’s a great cause and volunteers who want to inspire a younger folks in Oakland https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz515XvNoMMTXGuHENMhed-m9LsJuNQyk… Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 5 months

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Folks I updated the blog with some new blog posts

by Romy Ilano

Do you have any stories of project syou've worked on and how SudoRoom helped you out? - brainstorming a guide for total newcomers. It should have a flow chart and make it really obvious how to plan your projects, how to ask for help https://sudoroom.org/blog/ We are not "marketing" ourselves well enough for a big advantage that we have - we are nerds who offer an affordable hackerspace with ties to the community. Also holidays are coming up and people will be working on lights decorations for various religions, especially the christian and christian orthodox ones! and new year is a biggie. Has anyone worked on xmas lights before at the SudoRoom / new year's even decorations or costumes? that would be nice to feature on our blog ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 5 months

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StupidHacks Spiel

by Ethan Hu

I'm inviting y'all to StupidHacks (aka stupid hackathon 9) - attendance wasn't enough to warrant using both NoiseBridge and Sudoroom so it'll be in NoiseBridge only for this semester! Here's the blurb I sent attendees - our slack is at https://join.slack.com/t/stupidhacks8/shared_invite/zt-2tganat7o-1_n3tXhqs3… Also if you know any affordable but good places to cater from (near bart) with a budget of ~$150 please lmk ASAP! <blurb> Welcome to stupidhacks! Please join our stupid slack ASAP! Invites have been sent to your email, but reply if one has not. *Updates will be given regularly there - please turn on notifications*! Check-in instructions for November 17th: The event will be held *on Sunday November 17th, with me departing from UCB ~10AM *at Noisebridge in SF (272 Capp St). 1. To go to Noisebridge, take BART from downtown Berkeley to 16th st. mission. 2. Turn right (towards 17th st) on Capp. *Don't worry about getting lost - at the beginning of the event we will ask early comers to meet at BART! Later attendees may accompany directors as they shuttle catering back and forth.* 3. A link will be released for remote attendees! If you aren't feeling good please only attend remotely! Trust me, the experience is just as good online. Sponsors (mostly parodies of actual startups that sponsor hackathons): 1. "AI" sponsor: Your project should include matrix multiplication or some LinAlg-related joke in addition to wasting energy in general. 2. "Cryptocurrency" sponsor: Any overly convoluted data structures or methods of storing data in general qualify. Wasting power by itself also qualifies. </blurb> Best Regards, -- Ethan Hu (he series) ASUC Senator 412 Eshleman Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720 Associated Students of the University of California <http://www.asuc.org> ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu

1 year, 5 months

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fellowship opportunity on open tech for social + environmental research

by unixjazz

Dear sudoers, I’m writing to let you know of a fellowship opportunity for community organizations and researchers working with common technologies for socio-environmental research. The goal of the fellowship is to bring graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and members of community-based organizations with new perspectives to socio-environmental research with open technologies. **Application deadline is Dec. 15, 2024.** The fellowship is designed to: - Encourage translational and integrative work involving social + environmental research with common technologies; - Provide a space for fellows and network members to collaborate on common research issues, challenges, and solutions. Fellows may be: - Graduate students conducting research with open technologies on socio-environmental issues; - Post-docs with existing community projects in Science and Technology Studies, Open Science, and/or Socio-environmental research; and/or - Community practitioners who are interested in integrating common technologies into their environmental justice work. The SEEKCommons project website contains all the necessary fellowship information, including the application link: https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html https://seekcommons.org If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I try to be present every Tuesday at Sudoroom! Best wishes, LF (on behalf of the org. team)

1 year, 5 months

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Intro & project

by Tara Odorizzi

Hello! I recently discovered Sudo Room while searching for some support on a project I'm working on, and just became a member. I'm excited this community exists! I'm creating an immersive art project for an event in New York in a couple of weeks. The premise is that participants are traveling between dimensions via an interdimensional travel agency but their mirror selves hijack the service. I am hoping to create a few things, including a voice modulator that I can mount inside a mask and a rumble pack kind of thing that can be attached to the bottom of a chair. I'd like to sync the vibration in the pack to an audio track, along with some lights. I'm a graphic designer by trade with a pretty diverse skillset, but sadly building something like this is not (yet) in my toolbox. I was planning on coming to the event on Tuesday night and would be very very grateful if anyone were willing to help me. In exchange I'd be happy to do a trade or to pay or make you cookies or write you a poem or petsit or teach others something if I can. I know lots of design tools, can paint, draw, and other not so technical things! Thanks for reading and hope to meet you soon. Tara

1 year, 5 months

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Tonight: help fix the Toshiba TV

by Peter Mui

Hi sudoers: There’s a Toshiba 55l621U 55” 4K TV in sudoroom I’d like to put in service as the new jitsi and discord telepresence monitor. But it’s currently not working: it flashes on briefly and then goes out. Normally this would indicate a power supply issue, but I’ve done a little online research and some people online claim the problem might be a firmware issue, e.g. see https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/toshiba-55l621u-wont-turn-on-properly.… Can you do some more online sleuthing and see if you come up with a plan of attack for fixing this TV? And let’s try to put our heads together tonight at sudoroom and get this puppy working: I’ve already got a rolling stand for it. Sincerely, -Peter

1 year, 6 months

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North doorway entrance to Omni

by Jake Watters

We've been asked by the new building owners to start using the other doors to enter the building! I'm talking about the double doors on the north side, which open onto the sidewalk of 48th street. We need to fix the outdoor light above that entryway, and clean the area maybe with a power washer, and make the whole doorway more inviting. Volunteers? There is a new web link to buzz those doors open, please email me if you don't have that link yet! -jake

1 year, 6 months

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