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Re: [sudo-discuss] [CCL] Lend a hand with moving some gear for CCL & Sudo, 2pm today?

by Robb Anonymous

I'm available but don't have any gas to get to Hayward. On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > [image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> This message is eligible > for Automatic Cleanup! (patrikd(a)gmail.com) Add cleanup rule > <https://www.boxbe.com/popup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxbe.com%2Fcleanup%3Ftok…> > | More info > <http://blog.boxbe.com/general/boxbe-automatic-cleanup?tc_serial=22218765689…> > > Anyone available to help move some gear for CCL and Sudo Room this > afternoon? Do let me know as soon as possible if you have access to a truck > as well, otherwise I'll probably wind up having to rent a UHaul. > > We'll be picking up a set of sturdy metal shelves, a spot welder, and > various boxes of electronic components in Hayward. We need to be *at* the > storage space in by 2pm, 77 Traynor Str. in Hayward. > > Thanks! > > Patrik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Counter Culture Labs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to counterculturelabs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >

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10 free IKEA desks

by Adam Munich

I know a person who wants to get rid of 10 very good condition IKEA desks particularly this one http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S69006410/ There in San Leonardo. Is anyone interested in this?

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"Empathy for Computer Scientist" - A tutorial-essay.

by Maximilian Klein

Dearest Sudoers, I've been writing a piece called "The Universal Empathy Machine: Nonviolent Communication Explained with Mathematics and Computer Science" <http://notconfusing.com/universal-empathy-machine/> < http://notconfusing.com/universal-empathy-machine/>, and I'd be curious to get your feedback on it because if you're on this list you're an exemplary of my target audience. It's intended for the intersection of people who love machines and logic, and care about good communication. Here's an excerpt: > 0. The Universal Empathy Machine > > Empathy is not sympathy. What’s the difference? Think of the Universal > Turing Machine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine>. > It is a machine that accepts a program and data, and runs that program on > that data. In this way it can simulate all programs on all data. Let us > think of a human as a program and human experience as data. *Sympathy > then, is running your program on someone else’s data. Empathy is running > their program on their data.* As you can see the results of the sympathy > and empathy computations are not guaranteed to be identical. In a nutshell > Nonviolent Communication is about becoming the Universal Empathy Machine, > to be able to emulate the architecture of an arbitrary person given an > arbitrary experience. > Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

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Lend a hand with moving some gear for CCL & Sudo, 2pm today?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Anyone available to help move some gear for CCL and Sudo Room this afternoon? Do let me know as soon as possible if you have access to a truck as well, otherwise I'll probably wind up having to rent a UHaul. We'll be picking up a set of sturdy metal shelves, a spot welder, and various boxes of electronic components in Hayward. We need to be *at* the storage space in by 2pm, 77 Traynor Str. in Hayward. Thanks! Patrik

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LLVM aficionados anywhere?

by Adam Munich

Howdy hackers, My friend is looking for somebody to write a compiler in LLVM for his new CPU architecture, which consists of a bunch of separate cored with their own scratchpad memory and the ability to interact with each other. He hasn't had luck poaching people from Google and such, but needs to get this done by November for DARPA. Are any of you interested in very funky computer architectures? If so I can make the connection! Cheers, -Adam

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sudoMesh marketing - github code for landing page

by Romy Ilano

the "m" word.. marketing! One of the coolest projects is SudoMesh. it's hard to explain it, but once people find out what it is, they love it I hacked an html5 template and put a landing page up here. feel free to fork and modify https://github.com/sudoroom/sudoMesh-Landing-Page you can push out using the gh-pages branch and see the result here: http://sudoroom.github.io/sudoMesh-Landing-Page/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: Yay

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/networking-cyberwizard-institute/ sorry if I sent this 360 panorama link around already... it's really nice to show to people who can't make it to sudoroom Cyberwizard institute @sudoroom <http://360.io/VVcHWS> Click to view interactively: http://360.io/VVcHWS Captured with [image: 360 Panorama] <http://occipital.com/360> Sent from my iPhone

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Omni Door card-swipe might be iffy

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, The Omni Door card-swipe system seems to be working at the moment. However, be aware there might be an issue that resurfaces. I came upon the front door system and it was not working. This was strange because Marc was granting access to a gaggle of folks maybe an hour before. The laptop was off, the switch was off, and all the cords were a tangled mess. I re-built a new little shelf for the laptop/server, power strips, switch, etc that are in the southeast corner of the front room of the building. Everything is neatly organized, let's keep it that way! The magnetic stripe card reader was giving me such guff! It really didn't want to work, and I tested every single component to try to figure it out. I swapped to a new USB hub with a power supply several times, but on my last try it miraculously went from non-working to working. I have no idea why. I did, however, build a theory for the color code of the magnetic stripe card reader: - Red LED - power is on, problem with connection - Yellow LED - power is on, no connection - Green LED - power is on, connected - UNLESS the green LED turns off after just one swipe, in which case: - No light from LED - no power, possibly low power, or something else is happening I can't explain. // Matt

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Networking!!!! Cyberwizard Institute | Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/networking-cyberwizard-institute/ Sent from my iPhone

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Anyone at Defcon this week?

by lewis_black

Greetings all, Are any Sudoers at defcon this year? I just got to lost vegas, and am prepping for the conference opening tomorrow. Would love to re-connect and share the experience with you. please drop me a line if you find yourself here. lewis_black(a)protonmail.ch -Luis "Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California omnicommons.org/donate?v=es" Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.

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Cyberwizard Institute – Adventures in HTML & VIM | Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

Thanks for bringing the magic back https://sudoroom.org/cyberwizard-institute-adventures-in-html-vim/ Sent from my iPhone

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Cheap place to stay for fellow French biohacker?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Any recommendations for a cheap place to stay for a visiting biohacker from La Paillasse in Paris? Anyone willing to put him up for a few days? Thanks! Patrik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: WordPress <wordpress(a)counterculturelabs.org> Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:24 AM Subject: [Counter Culture Labs Contact] From Sébastien Treguer To: info(a)counterculturelabs.org Name: Sébastien Treguer Email: streguer(a)gmail.com Comments: Hello, I'm Sebastien from France, where I'm involved in a bio-hackerspace called La Paillasse. I heard about you from Mitch Altman that I met many times in Paris. What you are doing at counter culture lab seems really cool and interesting. I will be around SF from the 5th of August, for the INNS conference (near SFO airport) from 8th to 10th and a workshop I'm working on about Deep Learning and Neural Networks at Stanford on the 11th. I would be happy to meet you on the 5th evening or 6th evening. However I would need to find a cheap place to stay in the area. Would you have any recommendation? Best regards, Sébastien

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gots slide pots for omni dmx controller?

by Robb Anonymous

yar mates, i need some nice 10k or so slide potentiometers for an arduino dmx controller <http://www.deskontrol.net/blog/small-arduino-dmx-controller/>that will be permanently installed in the omni ballroom, maybe some switches too. we're broke right now, an 8 channel relay/dimmer <http://www.ebay.com/itm/360717697832> is arriving next tuesday (no time to order from china neway), 3 mega 2560s arrived today and we are almost done with a months long soundwall installation. additionally, we're accepting most any lighting donations, especially stage & led :) thx robb lulzlux let thar b lulz

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show any new visitors our Wiki projects page!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Projects Also, if a visitor comes here, try to get them to bookmark this site or email them a link to this site. A lot of stuff that has happened at SudoRoom isn't immediately apparent when you scan the room! A lot of stuff we have is temporary. Better yet, see if people can join our wiki even as outsiders and add interesting tidbits. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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RPS Collective visiting SudoRoom Thursday night

by Romy Ilano

Hi RPS Collective is visiting SudoRoom Thursday night. I feel we should literally put out the red carpet for them. We have a lot we can learn form them. I'd love to see them in our space, but that's really up to them. Things they do well that we could learn from - work with youth in a genuine, non superficial / non tokenistic way - this is hard to pull off with most hackerspaces. their programs have this magic combination that treats young people as equals and it feels authentic. much more so even than most public education programs - work well with mainstream and older women while still being quirky themselves es- this is something that's hard to pull off for many hackerspaces and collectives. - integrate sewing and crafts in an authentic way - this is not our strong point. - celebrate the arts in a unique way - that doesn't just include hipsters. i hope everyone can be extra accommodating to them. they are cool. I used to volunteer with them even though I was never a member. by the way they are looking for monthly donations for the ac transit youth bus passes -> https://www.facebook.com/rpscollective/posts/1024557754235237 Hey so speaking of that youth program, We need some monthly AC Transit Youth Bus passes. Anyone want to sponsor? 20 bucks each. Tax deductible donation to get youth creative <https://www.facebook.com/#> ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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(low priority) mom hackers in the space

by Romy Ilano

could someone arrange to have mom hackers to come in the space? I know this is sort of sexist, but instead of them being seen as human beings, they will spend the whole time talking about how they are stereotypical mothers, and they buy mom things, and do things that moms traditionally do like take care of kids and care of their husbands. then they will work on a project that involves: charity child care something with refugees we can do this for PR then when the whole thing is over we will take them in the back and take off their shackles and tell them they are not just mothers but human beings! their lives do not revolve around baby pictures on Facebook ! they will not have to watch romantic comedies or work on craft and scrapbooking projects but be fully fleshed human beings with careers, interests and lives!!! liberation! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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(low priority) burning man style interior designer

by Romy Ilano

*could someone who is really good at interior design and is down with burning man come in and dress up SudoRoom so that it looks charming like a $500,000 burning man set instead of just a workshop where smart people come to hack things?* I suck at this stuff and i have a lot to do but I will try my best to add more "blinky lights" elements to the space. *I think a similar analogy is that of a real artist's studio versus how you present the artist's studio when a patron comes in. * *usually these places are a mess of broken bottles and stuff and look disgusting, but when you have this gallery walk through day, people tidy things up and you make it look like an upscale fashion boutique on valencia street in the mission* ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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cyberwizard institute blog post -> javascript live right now!

by Romy Ilano

please add to the blog as you can! https://sudoroom.org/intro-to-javascript-cyberwizard-institute/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Love live stream of JavaScript today at the cyber wizard institute

by Romy Ilano

(see full image) Live stream & video of JavaScript https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIqOIWkk0lQ #Cyberwizard institute @sudoroom Sent from my iPhone

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cyberwizard blog post: videos -> vim and html

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/cyberwizard-institute-adventures-in-html-vim/ *Here is a second cyberwizard blog post - it has adventures in html and vim* please pass around / watch / direct people to it and see if they can donate too this is the real stuff that makes SudoRoom special. I don't know of too many other people who would favor teaching newbies and random people vim alongside beginning html. I don't know anyone else who takes time to explain the history of unix while teaching the command line... it's really nice! and then please ask people to donate! http://sudoroom.github.io/donateNowSplashPage/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Lost Phone... (+ subliminal-message).

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hellos Sudoers-Meshers, *If you need to get in touch with me, please use my email address.* Lost Cellphone: It's been a few days now that I have lost my cellphone. For almost two months now I have been careless about keeping the phone on, and even to carry the phone with me. And even though that the feeling that we are under constant illegal surveillance is awful; I still need that thing to communicate with the rest of the world (textsecure, redphone). Anyhow, If you found a Samsung Nexus 4, with some tape on the front camera lens; please let me know. Changes are that I may have left it at Sudo, by accident. Regardless: it is good that at least I backed up about a three months ago. Too bad that Prey Project cannot tell me where it is, perhaps because it is without charge right now. But, it is good that at least it is encrypted. Many thanks, Daniel p.s. intended subliminal-message: secure your phone, 'cuz the changes of getting lost are high. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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quick! could someone drop by and do a demo with the 3d printing key app

by Romy Ilano

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/this-app-lets-anyone-3-d-print-do-not-duplicat… hey dudes! could someone who is usually too busy to sudoroom but loves us come in and do some kind of thing on our 3d printer with this 3d printer that prints "do not copy" keys? It would be a nice blog post and if you make it extra snarky but not mean it would pump a cynical hacker's ego. Plus it would get al to of people who talk about hackerspaces to look at us and give us donations! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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1x idea : project with little girls learning electronics through jewelry

by Romy Ilano

This is sort of terrible and evil but we need moneCould someone do a 1x thing wihh little girls in pink where they learn electronics through jewelry ? This is harmful and terrible but it's what people like. After we take lots of photos and the girls Potential is destroyed (just kidding ) you can sneak them into the back and tell them they can play with unisex toys ! Sent from my iPhone

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Anyone with kids ? Interested in a techno afternoon dance party

by Romy Ilano

Hey are there any Sudoroom members or friends with kids who can --also-- take care of them and watch them here Would you be interested in a fun parents with kids techno dance party at the omni alongside an art event ? I'm talking to some people who are dj wihh kids .. Sent from my iPhone

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Construction Work Party - Saturday at noon

by yar

Omni Commons is throwing a work party this Saturday August 8, 12-6pm. We welcome volunteers who'd like to work on: - rehanging doors, putting on closers & panic bars - learning how electricity works - laying ethernet cable - fixing other small things around the building All skill levels welcome. We will feed & teach you. If you can, RSVP to volunteers(a)omnicommons.org. Otherwise, just show up! Omni Commons 4799 Shattuck Oakland CA 94609

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something "for kids"

by Romy Ilano

would anyone be interested in doing something "for kids" or people who are most likely 1x visitors? this is a large swathe of the public - a lot of cool people are simply curious about hackerspaces, but many who visit are probably just going to drop by, look at something cool like a raspberry pi or a 3d print out and then never come back again for donations etc. it would be cool to just make special projects just for these people and schedule "visiting sudoroom" day maybe from this group we could harvest repeat visitors, but most likely we won't i think stuff that would qualify would be: - arduino music projects - raspberry pi proejcts - anythignt od o with kids - "gardening with kids", "learning to make games with kids", "kids making artificial kids", "artificial intelligence with kids", "kids creating mind control objects for parents" - something with a lilypad - a 3d printing project that's easy These 1x visitor kits should come in attractive boxes that are clean, and when they visit the space should be tidied up a bit i think we should probably do something like this once a quarter. it would be probably better than a party, or should be coordinated with a party.. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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can anyone drop by and work on an arduino project in the next 2 weeks?

by Romy Ilano

hey i know there are people who love sudoroom and who are busy are any of you working on any arduino or raspberry pi projects? would it be possible to make an appearance and blog about it? I think there's a general interest from mainstream people to see someone working on a raspberry pi project, bonus points if it's something *kid friendly.* if you could come in, work on it ,blog, and make something creative, I think it would really help the sudoroom! bonus points if you make it something unique and a little different from the run of the mill "I worked on a n adruino/raspberry pi" project all over the internet lately... <3 much love, Romy ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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blog post with cartoon notes and video from the first cyberwizard weekend: please pass around

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/cyberwizard-institute-first-weekend-cartoon-report/ hi here are cartoon notes and videos from the first cyberwizard institute weekend it's so fun! - please pass this around on social media, email to cool people. not necessarily all at once or today -> just throughout the week. this keeps awareness of the cool stuff going on at sudoroom <3 - https://sudoroom.org/cyberwizard-institute-first-weekend-cartoon-report/ - add to the blog post if you can. ok if you don't want to pass it around don't do it. but stuff like this is cool!! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Cyberwizard drawing

by Romy Ilano

(see full image) Sent from my iPhone

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"Is Silicon Valley Saving the World or Just Making Money?" interested in doing an opinion piece on our blog similar to the nighttime?

by Romy Ilano

Could we feature four or five members similar to this nytimes piece? i will interview people, do some portraits, starting with troy ;) - we at SudoRoom come from a unique perspective of activism, social causes and art. I think we can add to the conversation. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/22/is-silicon-valley-saving-th… Silicon Valley has “a greater capacity to change the world than the kings and presidents of even a hundred years ago,” one wealthy Facebook beneficiary supposedly told <http://www.gq.com/story/silicon-valley-is-a-lie?fb_ref=Default> a tech conference last year. Many tech luminaries think they are ”doing God’s work <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/upshot/can-technology-save-the-world-expe…>.” But are the innovations coming out of the Bay area really creating a new and better world, or just making lots of money for a few people? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Need someone to give tour to a volunteer coming tomorrow Sunday between 12pm -1pm.

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello all, Tomorrow Sunday a friend of mine is coming to visit and to volunteer at the Omni for first time. But, I just learned that I cannot be there due to another meeting that I have at 1pm in SF. My intention was to give her an introduction of whats the Omni about; and then to introduce her to Matt and Yar or whoever that is working on repairs of the building. She is doesn't know about construction, but if she is tough what to do, she would help with that. So.... is there someone interested to be there for her (Mary S.) between 12-1pm? I'd appreciated it, I double book myself. Many thanks in advance, and please let me know so I can tell her your name. Daniel -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Announcement: we now have 17 netbooks ready for use

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello All, I would like to announce that now we have 17 Asus Eee 1201n netbooks for us to use. Yay! :) This set of netbooks is part of the donation we received several weeks ago. Most of the netbooks had keyboard keys missing, others with broken displays, and one or two with bad hard disks. A THANK YOU NOTE: Many thanks to Hilary for not only donating brand new keyboards for each notebook, but also for installing them. Also thank you to Max-b and Alex for working on fixing and testing them. Thank you, Daniel -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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MRI 3D Printing - Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/MRI_3D_Printing So there are a lot of projects at Sudoroom that we don't really talk about that much projects that are started and not finished but they're still there and there's still a lot of documentation about them on the wiki In the next few weeks I would encourage everyone to mention any unfinished projects in the hopes that it might pick the interest of someone outside of Sudo Then inspire them or make them join Sudoroom or have them add to the project and even finish it I'd like to put these projects in a little bucket and have them be a little more prominent on the page One example here I have is this link that I had we had a very lively discussion about owning your MRI scans and modifying them with free open source software and drinking them and then printing them on the 3-D printer The discussion was lightly and we didn't get that far unfortunately but we do have a bunch of MRI scans And we have a bunch of discussions on how to take the scans and use free software or very cheap software but mostly free software to create 3-D models that can be printed on the 3-D printing machines that are at Sudoroom This is really valuable information and it shouldn't be lost It can be used for students who are in high school or senior citizens were studying or anyone who just wants to know more about their body to learn how to use a 3-D printer into something tangible There is also an interesting active aside discussion which I should probably summarize and document and put on the wiki about how Americans don't always on their medical records and that the cost of these MRI scan sometimes aren't very clear or that it's not always crew the people that they're allowed to get a copy of the MRI scans and play with them That's an entire discussion that was very political and very interesting because that's what we discussed at Sudoroom We don't just go into technology we also discussed like broader social issues and even spiritual ones So I'm going to in the next few weeks like this up as one of the unfinished her ongoing projects on there might be someone who is 1000 miles away who can't even afford to get access to an MRI of a real person that was recently taken and they might be able to use my MRI and they can use that to him at least skills on the software and give your thoughts on the topic and do a creative project or just learn how the body is made or Orla just use this is like a more interesting example of a 3-D model I think the way that the MRI topic was handled was very unique to how we do things that Sidoroom We discussed a lot of social issues we talked a lot about politics we bring a lot of Susoroom into things but we also do have a good knowledge about business models since a lot of us are starting These conversation shouldn't be lost Keep on building and fighting the good fight not every project that we do is finished but not every unfinished project is unfinished forever Sent from my iPhone

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Sketch for people's open / sudomesh

by Romy Ilano

So i'm starting a series of comics making the pseudo-mesh project easier to understand it's one of those things at once people get it they really support it But it's hard to build an emotional connection if the ideas are too complex at first But once people get it they love the complexity and it's really fun way to get people to understand how networks and Internet are in government and industry all interact So if you could just get over that hump and make the stuff more accessible it be cool I know that people have said it should be in JavaScript since there's so many programmers to do JavaScript in Oakland if there's anyway that we could make a few more JavaScript projects at bridge onto the Lua That would be cool it wouldn't even have to be anything to do with networking I know you guys want to be open source code that's used in Greece Slovenia and South America but we could at least have marketing pages or even learning pages and JavaScript that link to the Lua I'll just throw some more ideas up on the wall but I don't want to create more work for everyone but this time it is I hope it's up in the right direction because after the original Complexity is overcome people really love all the different directions and sophistication that come with the sudomesh project Sent from my iPhone

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Cyberwizard Institute: Retrospective | notconfusing

by Romy Ilano

Hope we can get some nice notes wihh the second session http://notconfusing.com/cyberwizard-institute-retrospective/ CYBERWIZARD INSTITUTE: RETROSPECTIVE Cyber Wizard Institute The Cyberwizard Institute (CWI) was a free programming school based out of Sudo Room, running for the month of January 2015. The proclamation that I saw on their website before I volunteered to teach there was: The idea is to be an anti-bootcamp. Anyone can participate. It’s free. We’re going to try hard to have lecture notes, assignments, and lecture livestreams up online. It will be primarily self-directed, but with guidance from higher level wizards. As a founding member of sudoroom since 2011, but suffering from a recent malaise in my hacktivism, this was the perfect project to reinvigorate my involvement. What most appealed to me was the idea of an anti-bootcamp, because I’ve wanted to make clear to world the distinction I care about between start-up culture and technology. I wanted to do something metaphorically akin to hijacking the stereo system at a $4-coffee-wifi-shack and making a public service announcement that the computers are not just fancy TVs, but programmable instruments of self-empowerment, which, in addition, can be used for non-commercial purposes. Meeting Every Day Without any formal advertising, each sudoer leading CWI was pleasantly surprised when 27 wizardlings showed up on the first day (14 women and 13 men from my count). When I remarked this to CWI’s originator @marinakukso, she responded that “when you offer a free programming class, with no experience required – people want that”. I recall some apprehension when we introduced ourselves, and there was the occasional naïve posturing of people who claimed themselves as programmers with the phrase “I know HTML”. But the need to impress quickly disappeared as we sat down to struggle with them in installing Linux on the laptops they’d brought. The next day I was nervous with anticipation to arrive at an empty room after all we had shown fresh minds was that computer programming was about inexplicable Ubuntu hurdles. Still, with only a slightly leaky attendance most wizards did come back for more. And we went right on with teaching them bash. We continued to meet for 5 hours daily with lectures and hackerspace-esque hands-on floating help from higher level wizards, which we dubbed “social code”. Our rhythm was found quickly, and only half way through the month CWI was feeling so magical, it received coverage in the East Bay Express: “Many coding bootcamps in the Bay Area charge tens of thousands of dollars in fees, which can be seen as restricting access to what has become essential for finding a job in technology, let alone moving up in Silicon Valley’s so-called “meritocracy.” Kukso explained that Cyber Wizard Institute’s mission is very much aligned with that of Sudo Room, which is to give everyday folks the opportunity to understand and create the technology in their lives. “For a lot people who consider themselves nontechnical,” Kukso said, “a lot things relating to technology or coding seem mystical or secret, our perspective is … everyone can learn these types of things.’ Pedagogical Questions Yet towards the end, I started to question the effectiveness and importance of CWI. From the beginning as facilitators we quipped that “anti-bootcamp” reallly meant “bootcamp”. And the calendar began by reflecting that. Day 1: Install Linux Day 2: Unix and Bash Day 3: vim Day 4: HTML Day 5: javascript Day 6: Networking Day 7: Node.js Day 8: Git etc… Which is exactly the way that substack, Oakland’s pre-eminent “unix philosopher,” would have it. Yet, that was before the collaborative aspects took over and I began to try and think about how I would teach a less trained non-programmer version of myself what I know now. I mixed in: (click to view the recorded lectures) Day 1: Install Linux (I counted 5 Ubuntu installs) Day 2: Turing Machines Day 3: Emacs Day 4: Python, (notes) Day 5: Functional Programming Day 6: Data Analysis Day 7: SQL Day 8: Map Reduce Day 9: Algorithmic complexity Day 10: Set Theory, (part 2) Where substack was spreading his knowledge of artisinal web-buildery, I was attempting to proselytize a world of Mathematical elegance. At times I was worried this felt interfering and competitive to the wizards. However the final projects did come to life, instigate solely from the intrinsic motivation of the new-wizards. On the last day arduino hacks and personal-itch websites really had materialized. After speaking to those who made it all the way through the month, they spoke of a brighter perspective than my own: perhaps we inadvertently succeeding at being an anti-bootcamp. The Medium Was Always The Message As another facilitator @Johnnyscript, at the ending Cyberpunk Masquerade Wizard Initiation Ceremony, said we showed them what it coding is actually like – many differently opinionated hackers running around without too much top-down organization. We delivered the essence of the hackerspace more accessibly than just happening upon a room of silent geeks staring down. Our package, despite being a bit dishevelled, did form a solid curriculum, although it was not refined as something that you might pay $17,000 for. Yet it also was not an altar for silicon-valley start-up-ism. Taken together, we find a point that I am surprised that I missed. Whereas programming bootcamps are normally Cathedrals, as Eric Raymond might put it, we built a Bazaar. Notconfusingly yours, Your humble newb-druid. Cyberwizard Institute II “Will there be another Cyberwizard Institute?” many are asking. Likely, but it is as-yet unplanned because volunteer work is tiring. If you have the intitiative or want to hear about an inititiative, join our discussion tracker on github. Sent from my iPhone

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Sudomesh - flashback !

by Romy Ilano

Ah! An old sudomesh article . Hope to Sketch stuff out for sudomesh again when I have free time Sent from my iPhone

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late night sudo human art before i go

by Romy Ilano

I got through some node.js lessons today on treehouse, it was awesome. definitely check out the chaulkers videos, they are nice, I should have been doing other stuff!!! I have a coding interview sample to turn in. i have to study for some more stuff. i made a nice learning repo, and i will probably use it for tutorials at SudoRoom and Women Who Code. it's nice to just get into node slowly for easily accessible command line tools. https://github.com/romyilano/late-night-node-sessions before i left i made some late night art: https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/19567991254/ I usually draw animals at sudoroom but for some reason I drew purple and maroon dancing humans who are probably naked. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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created a shell sudoroom marketing - splash page for everyone to use and fork

by Romy Ilano

http://sudoroom.github.io/donateNowSplashPage/ https://github.com/sudoroom/donateNowSplashPage it points to the sudohumans page. Hi I overcame any issues I had with marketing and css / web design to make a shell SudoRoom Donate Now splash page. It's sort of like Marketing but not. I grabbed a slideshow and you can modify it and use it... I feel so dirty now that I used jQuery ;) ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Minimalist space ?

by Romy Ilano

I work well when learning in clean minimalist empty areas. Do you think it'd be kosher to carve out a clean minimalist space in the Sudoroom ? Sent from my iPhone

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todo // comic of our financial straits

by Romy Ilano

*Financial Straits! :* We have $1031 in the bank. Our minimum expenses are ~$2400 per month and as of July 2015 we are making $1820 per month through stripe and gratipay. That means we have 1.78 months until we run out of cash. Donate now! <https://sudoroom.org/donate/> my to do: make a comic about this. there will be humans i don't think it's very clear to outsiders how important the gittip was to us, and all the internas and how hard we are working on sudohumans. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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sudoroom visitor report: todo / blog post of the javascript meetup last night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Javascript Last night I dropped by the SudoRoom JavaScript meetup. - *mental state:* I was honestly extremely fatigued, as I have been skipping a few hours of sleep in the past few weeks. Each hour shaved off my sleeping schedule seemed like a tiny thing I was really tired, so I was unable to socialize much with everyone. Despite that it was cool just being around other people who were learning and hacking. I was actually trying to get other work done too, and I don't have time to go deep into javascript. But being around the community at SudoRoom and knowing that *Oakland is javascript cit*y <https://oaklandwiki.org/javascript> got me over my "issues" with JavaScript. I chatted with people, continue to be unable to get some components of sudo-humans installed since I have a mac. (it's the canvas installation and node gyp rebuild that's hitting me) I'll try to get back to that later and help out. So I just went through a tutorial while brushing up on javascript with online learning. I've worked with node.js before, and it's a little hard for javascript beginners to get into since it's so involved but with a little practice I'm able to work it. I've started using node.js for simple scripting jobs. I mostly work as an iPhone programmer but it's nice to be able to do scripts in python and node.js to do busy work. I went over this tutorial, so this is the rough equivalent to a ruby on rails app: http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2013/node-express-mongo/ it's nice having had the web background in ruby on rails through the rails bridge outreach program. they're the people who first got me using git and github and heroic several years ago before I decided to focus and learn programming. I'm not a rails person but it's something I'd like to get under my belt. I don't claim to know everything but i was able to get a rudimentary mongo db down with the tutorial's help I learned how to push node.js out to heroku. When I first met substack and Sudoroom i was at a hackathon and working on a node.js learning app for kids. It was a cool hackathon and substack makes learning javascript and node.js fun while throwing in a lot of art. at that time I don't think heroku supported node.js so we were using nodejitsu. but now it does, which i learned result so it doesn't look like much but i got to understand the inner workings of node.js express.js and the various frameworks. I'm not saying that it's healthy to dive into the frameworks first without knowing the language fundamentals (or relearning them after you've forgotten them) but I'm also actively reviewing stuff like inheritance, modeling objects in javascript and so on on the free access to the treehouse learning site that i get through my publicly funded san francisco library card. http://arcane-savannah-2963.herokuapp.com/helloworld i wasn't able to understand hooking up the app to the free mongodb database on heroku. that probably isn't hard but id din't want to spend the rest of the night looking around. it was nice and quick. http://arcane-savannah-2963.herokuapp.com/userlist i'm trying to focus but it's hard, so now i feel i've gotten past my very superficial reviews of node.js now I'm around a lot of really talented people who do a lot of work in node.js so I can ask around, and I'm capable enough now (I hope) to do a lot of self-learning and not have to be dependent on too much coursework or even a book. one of the hardest things to deal with is how quickly the languages and frameworks update. i'm primarily a mobile phone developers who's self taught but i'd like to do more web stuff and back end work, since I enjoy the speed that comes with web development. it takes a little longer to do UI on the mobile phone, and although UI is important it's a different nature and not as vital on a website. (someone will probably argue with me) so although this looks pathetic: it was nice http://arcane-savannah-2963.herokuapp.com/ nice because I was around a lot of javascript people, I got over my fear of node.js and javascript, and i'm on my way to making small web node.js hacks that are useful for different things <3 ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Cyber wizard students on the Sudoroom. Blog ?

by Romy Ilano

The cyber wizard institute starts tomorrow Would a student a day be interested in blogging what they are learning ? It doesn't have to be long but it would highlight what's going on at Sudoroom in a positive way Sent from my iPhone

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Multi thread programming is like running an anarxhist hacker space

by Romy Ilano

(see full image) So much benefit but so much rebellion ! Sent from my iPhone

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Important Omni decisions

by yar

Your delegates to the Omni have lately been me, Jenny Ryan and Matt Senate. We would love more people to fill this role. We also need help making decisions which represent Sudoroom. Not enough people have been coming to meetings. Last night there were only 2-3. Other members were doing important work throughout the building, which is great but we still need to participate in Omni decisions. Here's some of the open proposals to the Omni delegates: * Finance & fundraising working groups should act quickly to buy the building * Omni should become a 501c3 * Delegates should meet weekly again * Global Womens Strike should become a member collective * Black Hole should take responsibility for their fire hazards in the basement * Use the red stage area in the basement for bike parking * Post a clear policy about using the shower Each of these proposals uses a consensus process - first we talk about the issues in order to learn what everybody's needs are. Then each collective can say yes, abstain, or block (and give a good reason). Since few people showed up to last night's meeting, I'm not sure what we're supposed to say. Should members resort to voting by email? It would help if people with concerns could make them known somehow, and people with positive feelings also. Thanks.

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do members have access to storage in any of the servers at sudo?

by danarauz＠gmail.com

can someone please tell me if members have access to server storage? basically what I am looking is for a 20GB shared folder with full permissions; local access. thanks in advance! daniel -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Fwd: Share: Step into Cultural Equity - Community/Conversations - EAP's Fellowship

by Romy Ilano

Hello everyone! Katherin is cool & used to volunteer at Rock Paper Scissors Collective. She relayed me an opportunity for a 9 month fellowship program that would be cool for any creative artists in the area! From: Katherin Canton <katherincanton(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:43 AM Subject: Share: Step into Cultural Equity - Community/Conversations - EAP's Fellowship To: Good morning colleagues and friends, We are at a critical moment in the Bay Area and I'd like to share an opportunity to co-create a space and community to help process and take action toward cultural equity for the region. Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area <http://www.emergingsf.org> hosts a 9-month long Fellowship program (personal/professional development) and the application deadline is Monday August 10, 2015. I was a Fellow in 2011-2012 and it was a transformational experience then and continues to be one of those long lasting treats I offered myself for my personal and professional development. *My ask of you today is to encourage a friend/colleague to apply by August 10th, you may be the boost towards their transformational experience this year:)* Please contact me if you have questions: Katherin(a)emergingsf.org / C: 510-393-8580 www.emergingsf.org *Emerging Arts Professionals / San Francisco Bay AreaInvites you to apply for the 2015-16 FELLOWSHIP* OVERVIEW // The Fellowship curriculum, a nine month program, is designed to enrich and expand the professional skill-sets of emerging and mid-level leaders working in the Bay Area’s arts and culture field. ARE YOU READY TO // Expand your professional capacity for leadership Develop a national understanding of the arts field Develop a stronger cross-sector professional network Expand your capacity for collaboration Prototype an emerging model for leadership DEADLINE EXTENDED to Monday August 10, 2015. Emerging Arts Professionals/SFBA is a network focused on empowerment, leadership, and growth of next generation arts and culture workers in the San Francisco Bay Area through knowledge sharing, learning opportunities, and partnerships. By supporting today’s emerging models and mindsets, we hope to generate a path for individuals’ meaningful and sustainable work and to stimulate a vibrant, integrated, and evolving arts and culture sector. http://www.emergingsf.org/fellowship/2015-16-fellowship/ | Application form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gFt-0gAEvhXVKj7PmdBpcZQmlMTQf_w_5SjB869erJ…> Much appreciated, Katherin *Katherin Canton* *Home:510-338-6324 <510-338-6324> * *Findings: **@streetscapes_KT <https://twitter.com/streetscapes_KT>* *Thoughts: **katherincanton.blogspot.com <http://katherincanton.blogspot.com>* *Portfolio: http://katherincanton.carbonmade.com/ <http://katherincanton.carbonmade.com/>* LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/katherincanton/> Vayable::Take a tour of SF with a local <https://www.vayable.com/experiences/9066-photography-in-the-mission>

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Fwd: [omni-discuss] Potential member group proposal guidelines fr Global Women's Strike

by yar

Hi Sudoers, The group "Global Women's Strike" wants to become a member collective of the Omni Commons. They are willing to start participating right away, and postpone a decision about dedicated space. Here is more information about them. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lori Nairne <Lori(a)allwomencount.net> Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:48 PM Subject: [omni-discuss] Potential member group proposal guidelines fr Global Women's Strike To: consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org, discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org Hello Omni Commons. Here are the answers to your ‘potential member group’ questions. We look forward to hearing from you. Lori, for the Global Women’s Strike. Potential member group proposal guidelines In preparing a membership proposal for your group to join Omni, please make sure to include the following points. You can answer using these questions directly or incorporate them into a format that suits your style. 1. Mission statement What do you do? What happens in the world because you exist? (1-3 sentences) Global Women’s Strike (GWS) is a grassroots multiracial women’s network whose strategy for change is ‘Invest in caring not killing’; we want resources to go to the caring of people and the planet, not to war and occupation. We campaign to make visible and establish the value of unwaged and low-waged caregiving work in the home, on the land and in the community, including justice and survival work, and to press for resources for that work. We organize autonomously as women, and within GWS as women of color, LBTQ women, women with disabilities, and sex workers, while working with men and others to attack the power relations among us and support all our struggles against capitalism. 2. Origin and group history How did you start? What have you done? (1-3 sentences) The Bay Area group was founded in 1976, Women of color, lesbian women and sex workers are in our core in the Bay Area. The US PROStitutes Collective, which is part of the GWS network, has been organizing for decriminalization of sex work and for resources so no one is forced into prostitution by poverty. Legal Action for Women has provided legal services to women and some men, including from a converted bus in the Tenderloin and Mission in SF. Queer Strike (formerly Wages Due Lesbians) was founded in 1978, organized a Lesbian Mothers Day in the Park in 1984, opposed police violence in the LGBT clubs, and most recently helped the campaign to get Chelsea Manning honored by SF Pride. We do ongoing work supporting the grassroots movements for justice vs. occupation in Haiti and Palestine. We are campaigning for a living wage for mothers and other caregivers. 3. Participation in the Omni Why are you interested in becoming a member? How does your group intend to use the space? What are your needs? (less than 5 sentences) We have had a good experience organizing several meetings as well as a film screening at the Omni. We are interested in becoming a member because it is clear that the Omni is a movement space and, especially given the difficult times, it is vital for those of us at the grassroots to be able to share space and ideas, and to support each other. We want to be part of building and promoting the work of the Omni. We need space for our work on projects and campaigns, meetings, self-help legal casework. Our needs are for a small space for our own meetings and projects, and use of larger collective space for meetings and events. 4. Group finances and paying rent What does your group do to support itself financially? What is your best plan for contributing your potential share of rent to the Omni? (less than 5 sentences) We are a volunteer-run organization, and we depend on in-kind and other donations to function. Our core members make regular monthly contributions. We have applied for and received grants for specific projects. We would continue to seek funding from our supporters as well as grants, and to organize fundraising film screenings and other events to contribute towards rent. We get speaking fees at times from colleges, and we sell literature, t-shirts, and accessories related to our campaigning. We can contribute $300 per month to the Omni and we are planning to help raise more funds as we can and as we work together. 5. Dedicated space If your group would like some dedicated space at the Omni, what square footage and what features are you looking for? Which specific rooms do you feel might be suitable? (1-3 sentences) If possible, we would prefer a small secure office space where we can keep a computer and other equipment, and hold a desk, table, and some chairs. This would provide some privacy especially for the casework we do, and for phone and Skype meetings and regular center work. 6. Other contributions to the Omni This question should inspire some imagination. We are exploring ideas to pay rent and purchase the building in the long-term. The basic plan is for each group paying a share of rent. Potential plans include groups sharing profit from their activities, producing Omni events, and booking other events. What is the best-case scenario for using the Omni space to further support your group? (less than 5 sentences) We had a successful screening at the Omni where we raised funds for the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and brought in an audience that packed the space and was overwhelmingly people of color. We see organizing other films and varied events to not only fundraise but also to bring people who might not yet know of the Omni or connect with it. One idea we have discussed with Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike is to have a Rock Against Racism event. This would make people more aware of the work the Omni is doing as a community/communal space. We agree with profit sharing from our activities. In using the Omni space we will expand the reach of the Omni as well as our campaigning work, and will help build the movement for change. 7. Additional Is there any other information that you think would be useful for us to know about your group? (as many sentences as you like) We fought against welfare reform which was brought in by Clinton and has increased poverty and homelessness for women, children and men. We recently launched an international petition campaign demanding a Living Wage for Mothers and other Caregivers and are involved in an effort to support legislation in Congress to attack women and children’s' poverty. We have a justice work focus. US PROS been involved in legal case work with sex workers in the Bay Area, including Oakland, and recently on winning the removal of a discriminatory regulation in the California Victims Compensation Program, which denied compensation for sex workers who have been raped and brutalized. In SF we have a history of organizing against violence against sex workers – from police violence and racism to serial murders. For example, when a serial rapist was targeting women in the Mission in San Francisco, he was arrested because sex workers came forward and identified him, but a judge let him out on bail; we became involved in a 2-year campaign monitoring the court, and ultimately he was convicted. It is our view that women should be protected, though we oppose the death penalty, support closing all SHUs, and fight against torture conditions in prison. web: http://uspros.net/ We work with men who are part of Payday men's network web: http://refusingtokill.net/ We are (and have always been) anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-every discrimination and anti-capitalist. We want an end to the capitalist market which is ruining our lives, health, and the earth.

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$10 MyNet N600 wifi router (compatible with sudo mesh firmare)

by Marc Juul

Maximum two per customer. This is not quite as good as our recommended TP-Link N600 (internal instead of external antennas) but it's $10 instead of $40 sooo... Actually if a few people are willing to buy the maximum two per customer the mesh will buy them from you. -- marc/juul

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Got $2? Fix Our Drill Press

by Ryan

Currently, the key to our drill press is MIA. This means that we can't change the bit. It's a very, very sad story. However, if someone had an extra $2, they could buy us a universal key: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/381281147276?lpid=82&chn=ps That would also allow us to use a lot of our hand drills that require a key. If someone else doesn't get it one, I'll try to next month. -- Currently Reading <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/35215676?utm_med…> [image: Book Cover] <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/35215676?utm_med…>

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Big set of FREE lockers available in SF

by Patrik D'haeseleer

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/zip/5145788634.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IFTTT Action <action(a)ifttt.com> Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:03 PM Subject: New on Craigslist: Metal lockers/ scrap (financial district) To: patrikd(a)gmail.com Metal lockers or scrap metal either way they are free and will be available from July 29th- 31th. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. Time- 10am- 3pm Location- Corner of Sutter and Powell st.- San Francisco (In loading zone on Sutter st, between Starbucks, an [...] >From search: craigslist SF bay area | for sale search "lockers" via Craigslist http://ift.tt/1Jtx1N7 <http://email.ifttt.com/wf/click?upn=jGHDfwvrKDxaofcg5GVulue5E2KdnYaVYN59jAh…> [image: IFTTT] <http://email.ifttt.com/wf/click?upn=jGHDfwvrKDxaofcg5GVuluKbPpI-2FS0lavZIKU…> Put the internet to work for you. Delete or edit this Recipe <http://email.ifttt.com/wf/click?upn=jGHDfwvrKDxaofcg5GVulqZbq5Ob51WMw-2B5VP…>

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