Hi,
I'm a hacker and computer science student from Switzerland. I'm also a
member of Fixme, a hackerspace in Lausanne.
I'm planning to come to San Fransisco from August 6 to August 9 with two
friends. They are also CS students.
We're looking to a place to lodge and everything is crazily expensive,
especially for some students. Do you have any ideas, any contacts or any
spare couches to help us?
Happy Hacking,
Sacha Bron – Binary Brain
PS: I just saw you need money to survive. I gave you $20, hope it will help!
(Adding the Sudomesh email list)
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Mitar <mitar(a)tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Maybe we can get the EFF to help launch a campaign for device freedom
> > to make the manufacturers aware that this is important?
>
> I think this would be really important. To start building a coalition
> here. Their open wireless project is also impacted by this. Do we have
> any information from their side what they think about this? Maybe a
> common meeting should be organized and options evaluated.
>
>
> Mitar
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We need 44 of them. Come help please.
It's holes through 2-inch joists in the ballroom mezzanine floor, for
routing romex. Took me 5 minutes of hard muscle work just to do one.
Involves power tools, sawdust, noise, awkward standing positions, and
fabulous fun.
Heya
Does anyone have a lil Micro servo motor I can borrow for a minute? The
ones the run off of just 5v low amp power? I have one on order but need to
test some teensy/arduino code in a hurray before they arrive.
Thanks
Cere
Hello Sudoers and Noisebridgers,
There are about six Cisco switches that I have been asked if we are
interested on getting as donation.
The model I can read off the attached photo is:
4- Cisco Catalyst 3750 24 Ports - 2x1G SFP (transceivers not included)
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/hardware/qui…
The others 2 that I think may be:
1- Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 Ports - 2x1G SFP (fiber transceivers not included)
1- Cisco Catalyst 2850 24 Ports - 2x1G (fiber transceivers not included)
If interested please let me know ASAP, since I have to reply to the person
offering this items.
He has been waiting for three weeks or so; for us to answer. He emailed me
today again.
Thanks,
Daniel A.
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Dear Sudo Room,
Here is your invoice for rent at the Omni in August. Let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise, please pay as soon as you're able.
Thanks!
SP + Finances WG
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Invoice # : 1103
Invoice Date: 07/20/2015
Due Date: 08/01/2015
Terms: Due on receipt
Amount Due: $2,000.00
The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email.
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Hi all,
This Wednesday evening, from 7-10pm in the ballroom, Alternative Exposure
will be holding a grant information session for new applicants. If anyone
is interested in attending to give a short summary of what your group's
been up to since being funded by Alternative Exposure, it would be highly
appreciated! Also come if you're interested in applying for a SoEx grant -
they love the Omni and have been really supportive of our initiatives.
Grants are awarded to projects and organizations that do not yet have
federal 501c3 status. CyberWizard? Sudomesh? Omni itself??
via
https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/alternative-exposure-grant-informat…
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"Join the Southern Exposure team to learn more about Round 9 of Alternative
Exposure, a grant that has helped scores of initiatives like those that
comprise The Omni. In fact, several Omni groups have received awards from
Alternative Exposure, including Birdhouse, Material Print Machine,
Publication Studio, Public School, and Sudo Room! Join us for a night chock
full info about how best to secure funding for your independent artist
project!
Note: Attending an information session is encouraged but not required to
apply for an Alternative Exposure grant. Information sessions are free and
open to the public.
More Info about AltEx can be found at
https://www.soex.org/alternative-exposure"
<3
Jenny
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Location:
Second floor computer area.
Issue:
HP Switch at the second floor turns off, often.
Temporary Correction:
Push the extension cable connector into the outlet (under the table) and it
will turn back on.
Situation:
This regular issue can be annoying to the end user, due that computers will
loose internet connection.
Marc J. mentioned that perhaps power for the switch should come from the
light fixture nearby, and remove the extension cord that is currently
feeding the switch.
Matt S. also had similar experience, he mentioned to me last week.
Call:
Can someone with electricity knowledge go there and check/fix the situation?
Additional Note:
I have not swap switches to make sure that is not the switch.
I suggest that if the main switch in the server area is Cisco, so then to
have same maker at the second floor. Just to have same routing protocols
between the two.
Also, I recall that several months ago I cleaned up the configuration of a
couple of Cisco switches and they are stored in the two post switch rack in
the server area. Feel free to take one of them, if needed.
Many thanks in advance, and please reply to this list if you will/worked on
this ticket. :)
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From: transcultural cinema <transculturalcinema(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 2:05 PM
Subject: [omni-discuss] Becoming Omni Commons - All Hands On Deck! Aug 9th
@ 2pm-6pm Calling all Organizers, Facilitators, Helpers, and Omni Lovers!
To: becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org
Hello!
*We invite you to join us on Sunday, August 9th at the Omni Commons.* We
are assembling a *Volunteer Design & Facilitation Team* that will plan and
steward a collective visioning and planning process with all of Omni
Commons. This future process, which we are calling *BECOMING OMNI COMMONS*,
will seek to:
* expand and transform our collective sense of possibility
* clarify our shared values
* examine our cultures, narratives and processes
* create priorities to move towards more sustainable and supportive ways of
being together and being in the world
* design an action-calendar for our visioning and planning process
A plan for BECOMING OMNI COMMONS will be presented to the Omni Commons
delegates council (our governance body ;) and actualized as soon as
possible.
*The details:*
*Who: *You! Anyone interested in joining our *Volunteer Design &
Facilitation Team* (described above)
*What: *A fun four-hour facilitated, preparatory meeting, followed by
DINNER!
*Where:* Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609 (and possibly
on-line if you cannot be physically present)
*When:* *Sunday Aug 9th 2pm-6pm *(you must arrive on-time and stay for the
entire session)
*Why:*
*Given our present circumstances:*
* We are in a serious financial pickle right now.
* We have an opportunity to potentially buy the building very soon.
* We are struggling with interpersonal conflict, overwork, and burnout.
* We have never had the opportunity to engage in a visioning process since
moving into 4799 Shattuck a year ago.
*We need to:*
* Reform our processes to be inclusive of as many perspectives as possible.
* Align our work and our organizing with our ideals and our politics.
* Provide a safe platform for constructive criticism and reflection.
* Invest openness, patience and respect for the diversity of perspectives
and experiences of all of those who have been involved or impacted by Omni
Commons in some way or another.
*How:* If you'd like to join the team and can attend the meeting, RSVP to
becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org and share any important requests or dietary
needs.
*Sunday, August 9th @ 2pm-6pm at 4799 Shattuck, Oakland. RSVP to
becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org <becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org>*If you
cannot make it and would like to participate, please fill out this survey
by August 2nd: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BXGHX2N
Love and solidarity,
Laura Turiano, Yar Cohen, Sarah Pritchard, Julio Rios, Dusty Mabry, Matt
Senate, Joe Liesner, Libbie Cohn
p.s. Join our email list for the Volunteer Design and Facilitation Team
here: https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/becoming
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Hey now that we are preparing for cyberwizard, and there are people
learning, I'd like to point out that the monitors long the wall are
underutizlied.
we have about 12-15 ... I'll write a blog post about this with
instructions. It seems really common sense but isn't always. (unless
someone else does!)
a 2nd monitor is great for people who are learning to code, especially if
they have an IDE open and are using videos.
Guests and members visiting sudoroom should bring special outlets for their
computers. I'm unsure what chrome or linux folks use - I have a mac so I
have my own setup.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
(see full image)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1606507732938924/
We had another experimental session involving fitness and art at the omni upstairs from Sudoroom
It went over my Head at some parts but there was a redefinition of fitness : fitness is not only about body fat but also mental health and the ability to survive and reproduce in rapidly changing environments
We taped alternate eyes to our own and spent most of the session with eyes closed as we imagined alternate realities .
Instead if an aerobics or spinning class we listened to a computer discussing the future and imagining sensations of augmented realities
The future was discussed as we stretched and writhed and the need to find new realties and ways of being !
As you know the omni Collective is a unique place. Many events that occur here wouldn't happen anywhere else
While I was doing fitness I ran into moms and dads preparing a benefit for Muhammad and emad at the solidarity Cafe. I think they're activists who got into trouble 😢
https://instagram.com/p/5nP0EUIUtj/
There are kids playing in the omni ballroom and people chatting in Spanish and folks of all religions doing bake sales to help these guys
It's nice ! Thanks omni and Sudoroom. ! Oakland needs you
We don't want Oakland to become what happened to the sf mission and Dolores park ❤️
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I spent the afternoon getting the basics of node down .. I've reviewed it and even worked on it at work but I just sat down and reviewed everything using a treehouse video node js course that comes gratis with my sf public library membership
It took a few hours in between errands. There were people there it was nice to talk and even music
I used a spare cheap monitor to learn: wish I did that earlier ! We have dozens of monitors on the wall!! It's useful for learning with online video !
By studying the right way I got the basics down which saves time for later
The exercise had me building a simple node website modifying js to find information about student status and building a template website system
It's cool there are so many node people at Sudoroom . I'm normally a mobile Programmer on iOS so I don't usually touch website sfuff
I forked q basic Virtual Dom Code branch from Substack to Learn more
I'd like to use this info to build an open source web interface for my women who code project : it's a database of cool female film directors and films that pass the bechdel test
Later id like to push out some open source web & mobile projects . It's easier than it used to be
I try to combine art with code so i drew a cat in JavaScript forest
Later I'll clean up this email and then make it into a personal and Sudoroom blog post
Thanks Sudoroom !!
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It appears to me as though the unspoken mission of the Omni collectives is
to provide infrastructure for groups that share the Occupy mission. Perhaps
the role of the Omni is not to be an umbrella organization that comprises
the various collectives. Instead, maybe the Omni's role is and has always
been to provide much needed infrastructure to local community activists
groups.
While considering this thought, I stumbled upon an article from Non-Profit
Quarterly which describes the need for such organizations, to wit:
http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2008/01/25/why-every-foundation-should-fund-i…
Love & Solidarity,
robb
LulzLux
let thar b Lulz
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Hellos,
*Good News!*We now have a total of 10 new data drops at the second floor
where the computers for the public are.
Four computers are already setup and ready to use. The other six are
already active, so it is matter of bringing more computers to the table and
set them up.
The second one from the left was not booting up, and since I had a bootable
USB with Debian 8 with me; well.. I installed Debian on it. User name: user
Password: user Root's password: user -Feel free to modify that if one wish
or if it required. I just wanted to have it running at least.
I removed all the extra unnecessary and/or unsafe equipment that was there
on that table.
Excuse me that it was brought down to one of the tables at Sudo, but I was
too exhausted that I just wanted to go home.
*ALERTS:*
DNS: At the time that I left the building, 5pm, there were some DNS issues.
DNS was not resolving.
Pinging Google's DNS IP 8.8.8.8 worked, but not when trying the domain
name. The issue seemed intermittent.
BANDWIDTH: Also, I ran a few speed tests and they area about 20Mbps /
1.5Mbps.
Thanks Hassan, Sierk, and Francisco for your help during these three days
of work.
Daniel
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Got a color laser printer but no cable :(
it looks like this:
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basically a 50 pin male-to-male isosceles trapezoid
thanks
robb
linux install folks, any audio conflict caused by the below event?
On 2015-07-24 14:10, ▽ ∞ ✳︎ wrote:
> Hi Sudo,
>
> _Timeless Infinite Light_ is trying to book music show in the basement with some local Oakland bands on August 7th from 8pm-midnight. Tho, the event probably won't actually start until 9pm. We're worried about a potential sound-bleed conflict with Sudo's Linux Install Event from 6pm-11pm.
>
> I emailed Matt Senate and Jenny Ryan twice about this and never heard back from them, and would like to proceed with booking the event before the time-slot gets snapped up. Please get back to me asap-I'd love to make this work out if possible!
>
> Here's the details for the event:
>
> ***
>
> HEALERS/DAISY WORLD TOUR KICK-OFF SHOW
> OMNI COMMONS BASEMENT
> 8PM
>
> _Performances by:_
> Healers | healers.bandcamp.com [2]
> Daisy World | daisyworld.bandcamp.com [3]
> + one or two others TBA
>
> _***Timeless Infinite Light will bottomline this event and lock-up after, if you have any questions, please email us at forever(a)timelessinfinitelight.com_
>
> ***
>
> ALSO, MAYBE YOU CAN HELP US WITH SOMETHING? TIL IS NO LONGER ABLE TO LOGIN TO THE OMNI CALENDAR. :(
> I tried to login to the Omni Calendar as forever(a)timelessinfinitelight.com and realized that our username is no longer valid. CAN SOMEONE HELP US WITH THIS?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Emji Spero
> _Timeless Infinite Light_
> forever(a)timelessinfinitelight.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Info mailing list
> Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info [1]
Links:
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[2] http://healers.bandcamp.com
[3] http://daisyworld.bandcamp.com
$eeking Minecraft Coding Instructor to teach a few 10-12 year old boys and girls how to code mods.
Parent trying to organize affordable rate for financially challenged famalies and still make it worthwhile for instructor.
Hoping to pay $40 an hour for 1-2 hour sessions. Could meet at Sudo room or hackerMoms in berkeley.
Email if interested and think you posses the knowledge, creativity, passion and patience for leading this type of adventure.
Alice the beekeeper.
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I'm so proud of sophia ! So the cool heavy breathing event Sunday at the omni was featured in New Yorker magazine !
You all should come!!
Facebook.com/heavyheavybreathing.
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> From: Romy Ilano <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>
> Date: July 24, 2015 at 6:57:01 AM PDT
> To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com>
> Subject: Sweating to Sappho - The New Yorker
>
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sweating-to-sappho
>
> Sweating to Sappho
>
>
> The participants shook to a Nicki Minaj song, did push-ups against partners’ backs, and learned a dance routine that began with a wild-eyed reach. PHOTOGRAPH BY LISA RYBOVICH CRALLÉ
> Chani Bockwinkel was wearing silver striped leggings with a pink, flowered silk muumuu because, as she said, “I feel as the instructor you’ve got to bring it.” The photographer and member of the feminist dancers’ collective SALTA read her favorite lines from Sappho, as translated by Anne Carson:
>
> For she who overcame everyone
> in beauty (Helen)
> left her fine husband
>
> behind and went sailing to Troy.
>
> “Helen’s not a passive trophy here,” Bockwinkel explained. “She has her own agency, her own desires. Sadly, that’s radical for this period of writing. So, yeah, the hope for this class today is how can we be Sapphic about it and feel our desires rather than just trying to achieve something externally?” She turned up the volume on a Dusty Springfield song. “So let’s embody that deep femme drive.” The bodies inside the Edoff Memorial Bandstand, on the shore of Oakland’s Lake Merritt, began to writhe. “Do you feel loose, heavy, buoyant?” The music changed. “We’re going to pick up the pulse here, step-touches!”
>
> The class, “Sappho and Sweat,” was the second offering from “Heavy Breathing,” which its co-founders describe as “a summer series of free critical theory seminars in the form of absurd, artist-led conceptual fitness experiences.” The idea came to Sophia Wang, a dancer who recently completed her Ph.D. in literature, last year. She and Lisa Rybovich Crallé, a multimedia artist, were collaborating on a sculptural installation when they took a long walk up a hill and discovered that discussing Aristotle’s conception of topos while huffing could be uniquely stimulating.
>
> “Of course, the body and the mind work together all the time, but it’s easy to forget the body when you’re in deep thought, or on your own,” said Wang during a class break. The Heavy Breathing kickoff, at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in June, drew about four hundred people for a marathon of Laughter Yoga, Sonic Meditation, and a “Get Pumped Up for Nothing!” session with the gay-night-club performer-turned-multimedia-performance-artist Julz Hale Mary. One session in the series combined Emily Roysdon’s essay “Ecstatic Resistance” with—naturally—resistance training, and another one, scheduled for later this summer, will offer participants the chance to discuss global risk practices while trying out Reichian somatics inside a bouncy castle.
>
> Only a dozen people had come for “Sappho and Sweat”—the Pride Festival was in high gear across the Bay in San Francisco—but the attendees were indeed perspiring. “So who are the contemporary people that embody this femme goddess vibe?” Bockwinkel asked as she turned on a Eurythmics song. “We’ll do jumping jacks and call them out.” She blew her gym-teacher whistle.
>
> “Frida Kahlo!” someone shouted.
>
> “Beyoncé!”
>
> “Annie Lennox!”
>
> “Jane Fonda in ‘Barbarella’!”
>
> Then it was time to embody someone on the list. A young woman with blonde pageboy bangs, wearing a gold shirt the texture of popcorn, began to wriggle on the floor. “Call out someone we all can be!” Bockwinkel said.
>
> “Angela Davis!” The group strutted.
>
> “Now I’m going to pass out these excerpts of Sappho, and you’re going to read them to your partner, while squatting or lunging.” When that was over, everyone shook to a Nicki Minaj song, did push-ups against partners’ backs, and learned a dance routine that began with a wild-eyed reach that Bockwinkel said reminded her of a move the British art-pop star Kate Bush would do. “Kate Bush feels it in a way that looks very Grecian to me,” she said.
>
> There was a cooldown of improvised goddess poses. “This is a chance to play with archetypes. Which feel powerful to you, and which feel like flat boring clichés that you don’t want to participate in?” Everyone gathered in a circle. “So, I kinda would love to hear what came up for you,” Bockwinkel said.
>
> “When you move while listening to the poetry, you find the rhythm in your body, which is cool,” said Rachel Simkover, an Oakland resident.
>
> “That is cool!” Bockwinkel said. Then she made some points about how, rather than objectifying her lover with external descriptions, Sappho uses small, specific details that let the reader inhabit the female gaze. “She doesn’t describe the lover as, like, ‘my blonde, beautiful lover,’ ” Bockwinkel said. “Instead it’s ‘Your skirt makes me want to weep.’ ”
>
> As the class broke up, no one seemed ready to write a dissertation, but the informal reviews were good. “It’s cool to think of being in your body as a feminist act,” said Sara Linck, a North Oakland dancer, pasta salesperson, and tenants’ rights worker.
>
> Adrian Leong, an intern at the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in Berkeley, towelled off. “Embodied learning is new to me, but now it is something I very much want to explore,” he said, his cheeks flushing. As he and the other participants filed out of the bandstand, Bockwinkel stood with legs hip-width apart and chin lifted high, and offered them parting verse:
>
> I simply want to be dead. Weeping she left me
>
> with many tears and said this:
> Oh how badly things have turned out for us.
> Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you.
>
> And I answered her:
> Rejoice, go and
> remember me. For you know how we cherished you.
>
> Watch: Dancers in the Metropolitan Opera House’s performance of “Onegin.”
>
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I don't believe so, Robert. But you could leave it under a pallet that
has a load of equipment that we want to be semi-mobile and it wouldn't
take up much extra space.
On 07/23/2015 07:37 PM, sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org wrote:
> From: Robert Benson <sf99er(a)gmail.com>
> To: Sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Pallet Jack for the Omni?
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> can you fold the pallet jack up and lean it against a wall?
>
I know it's difficult, but thanks for sticking together. Jenny and other
SudoRoom members have been doing a lot of sh!twork like writing grants,
cleaning and getting stuff done -- it's hard work!
I haven't been able to be part of any financial committees, but I know it's
important even if it's not always fun.
I'm passing along a notice from RPS Collective. After 10 years they are
being forced to leave their space on Telegraph and 23rd
It's very cool that the Omni is trying to buy the building. I can only see
the rent going up steeply in Oakland in the near foreseeable future. Not
only due to gentrification but also to many other macroeconomic factors.
If anyone has time to help reps collective with their move you can email
community(a)rpscollective.org
After more than a decade in the same location, we are being forced out of
our space on Telegraph and 23rd to make way for a new vision of the
transforming neighborhood. The Collective's long time landlord plans to
charge market value for the space, well beyond what we can afford as an
all-volunteer run nonprofit. Eleven years ago we could afford market value
for the space, but thanks to our success in building a vibrant community in
downtown, market rate is now far out of reach. The increase will more than
triple our current rate.
Eleven years ago, downtown Oakland was home to mom and pop shops,
socio-economically diverse, occasionally dangerous; a sometimes eccentric,
sometimes wonderful, and always dynamic community. A group of artists,
crafters, organizers and makers found a vacant little storefront among a
sea of vacancies. With a little volunteer elbow-grease and fundraising
effort, the Rock Paper Scissors Collective (RPSC) was born — a destination
where the community could come together, organize, share skills, knowledge
and create. ALL were welcome in the space.
In the following years, a group of underground and outsider galleries,
including Rock Paper Scissors, created the First Friday Oakland Art Murmur.
Artists could showcase their work to an organized audience and share
promotional materials, local crafters could sell their work, experimental
performers could establish and gain recognition for work with little
bureaucracy. Payment was on a sliding scale so no one was left behind
because they were unable to pay. These types of intentional and inclusive
actions drew international attention as First Friday grew to be one of the
best-attended arts events in the country, drawing upwards of 20,000
visitors to the area every month who spend tens of thousands of dollars on
art, music, and food supporting Oakland businesses and artists.
Oakland became a city known to foster creativity thanks to the work of so
many collaborating individuals and groups. The Downtown, Uptown, and KONO
districts became more attractive for tourists, restaurants, and independent
shops. While the original spaces that created the artistic explosion in
Oakland have closed down, Rock Paper Scissors Collective continues to
foster the spirit of building community through the celebration of art,
skillshare and performance.
Building an exciting, creative, and challenging neighborhood has been a
long term project. Telegraph Avenue is rapidly transforming, and enjoys its
current attractiveness due in large part to the events started by Rock
Paper Scissors Collective. We are the only founding gallery that remains in
business despite First Friday’s massive success, and we receive no money
from the event beyond what sales we make. First Friday is a locus of Do It
Yourself (DIY) and Do It Together (DIT) art, but we are one of the few
galleries in the area that fully embraces emerging and outsider artists. We
provide a space for everyone to feel comfortable and invited.
This space has become attractive to wealthier tenants BECAUSE of the years
of hard work we have put in building a community of engaged artists,
musicians, and performers, and as a reward we are being kicked out to make
way for a wealthier class of renters. Will they share RPSC's dedication to
making art accessible for everyone? Will they be as community focused? Will
they stand in solidarity with the people of Oakland, as we have?
We have been a reliable, consistent tenant for over ten tumultuous years,
as businesses opened and closed, as the country went through war and
recession, as Oakland and the Bay Area went from boom to bust and back
again. We have hosted thousands of shows, concerts, and classes, on
everything from Street Art to programming, from activism to zines,
featuring artists and musicians from around the East Bay. We are being
priced out of our space not because of anything we have done, but simply
due to the cold calculus of gentrification. There is more money to be made
in this space from something other than community-driven art, and that is
enough and more than enough to push us out the door.
Rock Paper Scissors Collective will continue, despite this. We remain
committed to fostering an inclusive artistic community accessible to
everyone regardless of their income level, perceived ability, or
socio-economic status. We will find a new space here in Oakland, and
continue to build and support a diverse community of artists, crafters,
performers and makers. We will continue to provide space, materials and
time to all residents of Oakland, and to forge connections and solidarity
between movements, people, and organizations. The only way to push back
against the rising tide of inequality and injustice is TOGETHER.
Please contact us with any suggestions or ideas about our current
circumstances. Only with the help and support of the community can we
continue to ensure a safe and open space for everyone.
—Rock Paper Scissors Collective
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi all, I just added three older TV tuner cards on the "free stuff" page on
the wiki. (Does anybody else use this page?
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Free_stuff )
They're not useful for broadcast TV any more, but I think they could be
used with certain kinds of cable TV, to set up a MythTV server. Let me know
if you want to mess with 'em -- I'd like to get them off my hands.
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]] on the wiki
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From: yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 1:20 PM
Subject: Next steps for buying the Omni: 3 proposals from the
fundraising working group
To: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Hello Omni Commoners! Did you know that we could seriously buy the
Omni in the next few months? There are people with a lot of money who
want to give and/or lend it to us. All we have to do is create the
legal structures to make this happen. The fundraising working group
has been meeting for the past month to talk about the details, and
we're informally calling ourselves the "Buy the Building" working
group (aka the "Until the Revolution" working group). We meet on
Mondays at 6:30 PM. There are still many details to figure out, but
we're ready to make some initial proposals to the Omni delegates, to
be decided at the next scheduled delegates meeting, which is Thursday
August 6th:
PROPOSAL #1: The Omni community should decide if we actually want to
buy the building
PROPOSAL #2: The Omni should apply for federal 501c3 status
PROPOSAL #3: The Omni delegates should go back to meeting weekly.
There is a lot to do, and decisions will need to be made quickly.
We are going to have more proposals soon. In particular, we think the
land beneath the building should be given to a Community Land Trust.
But we don't have all the details ready for a formal proposal yet.
There's no delegates meeting scheduled tonight, but we will be meeting
at 7pm anyway to provide information and answer questions. Please
come. This is very important!
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This is awesome Marketing ! I know it's sort of cheesy but if we can make getting radicalized non scary lets do it
Sent from my iPhone
Computers upstairs status:
Get got some donated LCD flat displays and three old Dell Optiplex 320 (1GB
and 2GB RAM, I know RAM is low but they seem ok for Internet browsing and
light stuff).
Anyhow, here is how we are at the second floor computers area:
4 Machines running
2 Machine that need mouse + keyboard
So, if someone...could donate two USB mice and two USB keyboards that would
be super!
Oh yes... thanks Hassan fro helping carrying the stuff and Ed Biow for
installing Linux on these new (used) boxes.
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Hi Patrik and Bill,
The pictures look to contain some good stuff, although i'm sure the
shelves are pretty useful and are not pictured. I am busy right now but
maybe someone else with sudoroom can drive a truck up there to get stuff
here are the pictures:
http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/hayhackers/
-jake
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> Hi Jake,
> There was lots of interesting stuff in the storage room that you might want to have a look at yourself, including lots and lots of electronics components, a spot
> welder, boxes full of old IR security sensors, and three giant Summagraphics graphics tablets (18"x12" work area, 1000 lines/inch resolution).
>
> They also have several heavy duty 7ft tall metal shelving units. I think we'd love to have a number of those for CCL, but I couldn't fit the uprights into my car.
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
> Hi Patrik and Bill,
>
> I am not available this tuesday afternoon, but Patrik can use the truck, and that way he will be able to pick up whatever we need to get.
>
> Patrik, you drive stickshift i'm sure. Please call me to
coordinate.
>
> -jake
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I may be able to drop by myself tomorrow afternoon, but I won't have much space to transport stuff in my small car. Do you think we'll be
> able to just tag things
> for pickup later?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrik
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:01 PM, William Nye <nye2(a)email.com> wrote:
> Hello Jake, this is Bill, who was telling you about all the “stuff”
> in HayHacker-Carolyn's Hayward storage unit.
> Rather suddenly, John, Carolyn’s husband, just texted me that
> he can open it up at 2:30pm tomorrow (Tue), and I would be
> able to assist also.
> Can you and/or anyone make it then (or later Tuesday)?
> Can you tell some CCL members too? Thanks. -Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:09 AM
Subject: [omni-consensus] Global Women's Strike
To: "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, "
consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Hi all,
I've been in communication with members of the Global Women's Strike for
the past several months regarding potential Omni membership.
*Please read and distribute among your collectives the potential member
proposal that they sent out!*
I have asked them to attend one of the delegates' meetings in August in
order to discuss / answer any questions but *PLEASE* let me know if you, or
any member of your collective, has a question, concern, etc, that I can
attempt to get answered before that time.
Since our next regular delegates' meeting is not until August 6th, this
should be plenty of time for people to review and respond to the proposal.
This is an incredible group of activists who have done a tremendous amount
of important work over the past 40 years. They are being evicted from the
space they've worked out of for many decades in SF and I would love it if
we were able to provide them with a home.
<3
N
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From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Subject: A man forced himself into my car last night
To: "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
...outside the Omni on Shattuck around 3am. He seemed nice and was asking
if I had anything to eat. I was rummaging in the backseat for foodstuffs
when he opened the door and got into the car with me, moving into my space.
Thankfully, Maxamillion was on his way out the door and pulled him out of
the car. The man proceeded to grab him by the hair and they were at a
standoff shouting until I got in the middle, broke them apart, and we
jumped into the car and drove off.
~6'4", wearing grey sweats, possibly a Jamaican accent, and tiny braids a
bit past shoulder-length.
Be careful out there, friends.
Jenny
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Friends,
Friday will be my last day in the Omni for an indefinite period of time
while I address a couple of personal issues that are bound up with my
increasingly problematic behavior, aggression, stress, anxiety,
interpersonal conflicts, and burnout.
I realize that I take my leave at a critical juncture, and intend to
continue remotely helping with the following:
* Building/Finance bookkeeping
* Ethnographic research of other commons-based projects
* Legal entity research and fundraising work
* Several of Omni's IndieGoGo perks
* Brainstorming on a new booking/calendar system
* Procuring necessary documents from David Keenan and organizing them at
htps://omnicommons.org/cloud
* Visioning (I believe my distance will enable a more coherent perspective
to contribute to these important conversations)
* Followup and resolution of all outstanding working group action items
(primarily for Commons, Building, Fundraising aka 'Until the Revolution',
and Finance).
* sudo mesh <https://sudomesh.org> documentation, finances, regular email
updates, organizing node mounts and public outreach (i realize i've been
dropping the ball on this but would like to shift my focus back to other
projects dear to my heart)
Things I've been responsible for that others will need to step up to help
with include:
* Paying sudo's rent / utilities / insurance bills,
* Finance updates at weekly sudo meetings,
* Acting as an Omni delegate for sudo room,
** Omni proposals and announcements at sudo room meetings,
* Regular Costco runs for general Omni supplies such as toilet paper, dish
soap, etc;
* Purchasing materials for building-related projects,
* Helping with many events renting space
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Booking_System> at the Omni,
* Maintaining the ever-buggy Omni calendar
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Calendar_System>,
* Co-facilitating monthly Open Circle meetups
<https://omnicommons.org/connect> with Antoinette, supporting families of
victims of police violence,
* Weekly front door shifts (Thursdays 2-6pm) and pestering Omninoms to
volunteer to be a front door greeter,
* Documenting working group meeting minutes on the wiki and general wiki
maintenance,
* Various communications and relationships I intend to hand off to the
appropriate people,
* Organizing work parties for Building projects,
* Creating a direct point of contact with neighbors around the Omni,
* Figurehead role of Secretary of the Board of the Omni Commons and Board
Member on behalf of sudo room.
Things I've already dropped the ball on:
* Proper onboarding of new sudoroom members
* Monthly Cryptoparties <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty> (Third
Sundays in sudo)
* Facilitating the Welcoming working group
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcoming_Committee>
* Facilitating the Communications working group
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Communications_Working_Group>
I love you all very much. Please know that I'm not doing this out of spite
but rather out of love for this project, this community, and myself. I
apologize to anyone I've hurt over the course of this project and hope to
recontinue building and dreaming with you all once I've healed myself and
risen to a better place than where I've been.
I will be at the community meeting tomorrow evening to discuss the
Fundraising WG's proposals for moving forward to buy the building, and
Friday evening to help out with the Digital Detox event that will be
utilizing much of the building. I will be travelling in Europe and visiting
my family for the entirety of August. Please get in touch directly if you'd
like to talk about anything.
With love and solidarity forever,
Jenny
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
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hi a few years ago I did a failed started up - > made a healthy eating app
for kids, bentorock.com
it was an iPhone app, tried to get kids to eat healthy by drawing and
making art on their phone
sudoroom has so many great chefs and cool folks... would it possible to
blog one of our potlucks, and do some kind of cartoon health related event
during a member meeting?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I was asked by Chi-Lan to forward this to any who may be interested. If you are, please contact Chi-Lan, who's email is given below.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Free passes to IDF15 and the MakerSpaceDate: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:17:49 -0700From: Chi-Lan Tran <chilan(a)wip.org>To: mitch(a)cornfieldelectronics.com
Hi Mitch,
I’m Chi-Lan and I work with WIP! If you recall last year, I reached out to you last year regarding free passes and Maker packs for IDF14. Again this year, we have free one-day passes (and discounted full passes) for the event, and I'd like to invite you and your group to come to IDF. Can you send this offer out to your mailing list?
Like last year, we’re helping our friends at Intel with the MakerSpace at IDF15 San Francisco from Aug 18-20. The Maker Space will be an interactive place within IDF that has demos, hands-on activities and challenges, and you can win prizes and giveaways! You’ll get to build things using Intel tech and tools, play with gadgets and toys, and walk out of the Maker Space with something you’ve created! Here’s a video from the Maker Space last year at IDF14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUB2PD6wLI&mc_cid=1ec0593630&mc_eid=18a3f7…
We have some cool offers for you:- free one-day passes to enjoy with our code CPDSSG10- a discounted full conference pass for $695 with our code BUBSSG10
You can register for these passes at http://idfregistration.com.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at chilan(a)wip.org. Hope to see you at the Maker Space this year!
Thanks,Chi-Lan
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ats/5135762910.html
If anything is incorrect here, I'll take it down or edit
I think there's a slow period in July-August, especially when school's out
and people are traveling
If anyone is interested in any more outreach do tell! For me the huge
advantage SudoROom has are the hours, the people, the punk rock mentality
and... the late hours!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Large drops from our CNC shop. 3/4" shop maple.
http://imgur.com/a/uBhxX
Free in Hayward, 1424 west winton ave at Saklan, around the back of the
building.
IS THIS OF GENERAL INTEREST? If you think it's not, or you think it is,
please let me know. We have scraps of useful size to get rid of fairly
often and I'd love it if they could be used, but if ppl don't want to
know I won't spam the list.
Rachel1.0
Dear Sudo Room,
Here is the invoice for Sudo Room's shared expenses at the Omni in July 2015. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions.
The Omni is in a tight financial situation right now, so please pay your invoice before August 1 if possible.
Thanks so much,
Sarah + Finances WG
------------------------ Invoice Summary --------------------------
Invoice # : 1096
Invoice Date: 07/20/2015
Due Date: 08/01/2015
Terms: Due on receipt
Amount Due: $345.30
The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email.
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Dear Sudo Room,
It is amgo. To help clear up the epaper trail, I changed your April rent invoice to reflect all the internet payments you have paid on behalf of Omni minus the one month of wifi payment each collective owes. Sudo paid $1080 for eight months of wifi. $2000 rent - $1080 for past wifi payments = $920 RENT
On top of that you owe $135 for your share of WiFi. This brings the total to $1055.
Your accidental payment of $870.73 on March 2nd is subtracted from that total so that now you owe $184.27.
You emailed Finance WG explaining it this way:
Matt accidentally deposited $870.73 on March 2nd that should be detracted from rent.
*** Internet was $135/month, from July-February (8 months) = $1080, minus sudo's share (1/8) = $135. $1080 - $135 = $945
*** $870.73 + $945 = $1815.73
*** $2000 rent - $1815.73 = $184.27 rent for April
You can think of it in whichever way is clearest for you. I am doing it this way to make it clear on the books.
Thanks so much for covering the wifi and being a rad collective and prompt rent payers.
xoxo
amgo
------------------------ Invoice Summary --------------------------
Invoice # : 1006
Invoice Date: 03/25/2015
Due Date: 04/01/2015
Terms: Net 30
Amount Due: $184.27
The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email.
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Dear Omni Financiers,
I just sent you all invoices for monthly expenses and June rent at the
Omni. Please let me know if you did not receive your invoices.
For your reference, here is a breakdown of the shared expenses in May:
*Utilities:*
- PG&E: $587.23
- EBMUD: $478.60
- WM: $140.36
*Taxes & Insurance:*
- Building insurance: $661.00
- Property taxes: $797.28
- Business tax: $181.35
Starting this month, the shared expenses are calculated by subtracting $100
for Optikallusions' contribution and then dividing utilities by 7 member
collectives and 1 tenant. The taxes and insurance are split evenly between
the 7 member collectives.
Let me know if you have questions about any of this. Otherwise, please pay
your invoices as soon as possible.
As always, if you know you will be late paying your rent and/or shared
expenses, please let the Finances Working Group know so we can plan
accordingly.
THANK$$,
Sarah + Finances WG
Psst..
[spaghettinight] sys-admin job
from: Boris Fain boris.fain at gmail.com
Hi all -
If anyone wants to pick up a little extra cash, I'm posting this position.
If you have run and installed Linux yourself you are 1/2 way to the
skill-set and we can train you for the rest. It's a flex gig very chill for
the right person.
Linux systems administrator, part time:
InterX inc is looking for a part-time sys-admin. The continuous duties are
fairly light, with periods of occasional burst activity (upgrades, etc.).
You will be responsible for a small (300 cores) HPC cluster, and occasional
EC2 spillover. You will also occasionally interact with vendors. User
complains are fairly light, but are expected to be addressed within 48
hours. As there's on-site activity local candidate is preferred though much
of the work can be done remotely.
Relevant skills:
Fluency with Linux and cluster configurations. Rocks Clusters experience
desired. EC2 and StarCluster experience a plus. Fluency in basic scripting,
system maintenance and backup strategy a must.
This is probably best suited for a graduate student who wants to make some
money on the side.
(This Techno-Activism Third Monday will, confusingly, be on TUESDAY 21ST
this month. Don't forget to update your calendar! And feel free to
forward this on to anyone you think may be interested.)
Join Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda in a discussion about the EU Copyright
Evaluation Report, and the prospects for better global copyright in the
21st Century.
The European Union has begun the process of evaluating its current
copyright law with a view to updating it. As part of that process, Julia
Reda, the Pirate Party member of the European Parliament, prepared an
extensive report recommending a number of reforms, including liberal
licensing of government works, measures to safeguard the public domain,
a harmonisation of copyright term length across the EU, explicit
allowances for linking, parody, quotation and data-mining, and limits to
legal restrictions on bypassing DRM. This month the Parliament voted to
accept the report, with some amendments.
Julia Reda will be at this month's San Francisco TA3M to talk about her
work as the report's author, and next steps in reforming copyright in
Europe, the United States, and the world.
Date: Tuesday, July 21st
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
More info:
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That really sucks! Has this happened before?
I ended up working w/ the micology group in the kitchen after we cleaned up the casein experiment. I left my backpack and laptop bag in the CCL and thought it better to go up and get it after 20 minutes unattended--just in case..Couldn't afford to lose my laptop. I hope they found the lost items.
Alan
On Jul 16, 2015, at 05:34 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One of the video documentary people who were visiting us during the cheese making workshop at CCL this Monday lost a black backpack with 2 Canon lenses, his ID and credit cards.
If anyone saw it, please let us know!
Thanks...
Patrik
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Friends,
There have been some issues over the last few days with people disrupting
the space, that it has become necessary to restate the access policy of the
Omni.
During the hours that La Commune is open (Tue-Sun 12-6pm) the bookstore is
open to the public. Outside of those hours, the Omni is NOT open to the
public and the door is to always be shut closed, not latched open. During
those closed hours, the Omni is open to members of collectives, or to their
guests who must be accompanied by members at all times. During events,
such as BAPS classes, the point person for the event is responsible for all
the participants who are not members.
Other volunteers are working on door access tomorrow at noon if anyone
wants to help make the building more conducive to having a safe
environment.
Love,
Julio