the day after or before payday:
let's bring some weird cartoonists to SudoRoom.
we will draw comics for adults, I would like to try at least diagramming
how to use the 3D printer.
(it wasn't very obvious to me that there was a usb cable and sd card insert
last time. guess I got distracted)
;)
I will censor any drawings of sarcastic topless cats with any ounce of
negativity. it's all ohm. just kidding!
https://www.facebook.com/events/751643538266451/
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hey folks!
My health (as it is wont to do) is getting in the way of me doing a lot of
things right now. The kind of multiple doctors appointments every week and
a lot of unfortunate illness.
I was going to go to the center for creative reuse and get some stuff that
we could print sudo's logo on, but I have not had a chance to do so and
stuff and things are going to get in the way of me doing it tomorrow now,
which ended up becoming the plan after all the doctors.
Won't even be able to make the meeting. :/
If someone else could pick up some cool stuff under an inch thick that
could have sudo's logo printed on it (I was thinking of looking for tiles,
coasters... I'm sure you have a good imagination) that would be super totes
amazing awesome.
However, the offer to make delicious fruit beverages still stands, if
produce appears at my house. That should still be feasible. Also, if I get
info, I can still put together copy that people can send to mailing lists
and stuff and things.
Rob? Thank you!!
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It's the guy with the brown haired beard and long hair (pulled back)
> that's been at sudo a lot lately. And ya, he's the bomb! I've seen him
> doing a lot of voluntary cleaning around. Can someone help me out with his
> name….?
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:20 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ..to whomever(s) cleaned out the trash room this week.
>>
>> That was so so great. I and many others at Omni are immensely grateful
>> for this. You are what makes this project work.
>>
>> Much love, whomever thou art!
>>
>> David
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> discuss mailing list
>> discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org
>> https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss
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>>
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Hey all,
I'm excited for the sudo room fundraiser party next Friday (a week from
tomorrow) on May 1st, but we still have things to do to make it happen!
See our "partypad" for more info: https://pad.riseup.net/p/partypad
@DONE
* Fermentation station has stirred up some witchly brew and 'bucha!
* Robot arm is operational and being prepared to make SVG portraits!
* Party-time sound system is up and atom in sudo room proper!
* Rob, Luis, Shawn, (and you??) are practicing up a storm for the premier
performance of our hit group "New Oakland Scavenger Co Electric Spazm
Champions" (which meets every Weds @5pm and Sun @12noon) -- it's like a jug
band without the jugs, and instead with pretty much any instrument you want.
@TODO
* Jenny will ping yar re: magnets
* Jenny will ping Ray to make liquid nitrogen ice cream!
* juul will order stickers from psprint!
* Ryan will write invitations
* Ryan will make non-acloholic cider
** Everyone should bring apples (or any fruits) to sudo for Ryan!
* Rob will spearhead lights
* Rachel will coordinate auction
* ? will contact Adam M about hosting a magical musical spectacle!
* Joel will bring ice cream makers for vegan ice cream!
* Rachel will bring waffles!
* Jenny might make deviled eggs!
* ? will check and re-stock our first aid supplies!
* ? will provide excellent/appropriate/relevant/"cool" audio sources in DJ
fashion!
* & MORE!!! WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO???
// Matt
now's your chance to learn how to make an android app
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:13:46 -0700
From: Barry Fruitman <barry(a)fruitman.me>
To: noisebridge-announce(a)lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: [Noisebridge-announce] Android 101 is coming to Noisebridge
Do you love to code? Are you into Android? Do you want to learn to write your own apps? If you answered YES to these questions then come to Noisebridge on Tuesday
May 5 from 6 - 9PM, when I'll be teaching an introductory course for Android beginners.
First I'll explain the basics of Android development, then we'll dive right in and write your first app. We'll spend the first couple of hours working together; in
the third hour I'll open the floor to discussion and advice on your app ideas. By the end of the class you'll have built a few apps and have enough knowledge to
start writing your own apps!
Important: Please pre-install Android Studio on your laptop before the class.
About me: I'm an software engineer working at Amazon Music. I've worked with Android for the last five years and love it so much that I want to share my knowledge
with other eager app developers.
Email me at barry(a)fruitman.me for details or join the Slack domain android101.slack.com.
See you there!
Barry
I found the modem. We should return it and get our $150 back.
it's at about eye level on the equipment rack nearest the wall, upstairs.
It doesn't have a power adaptor plugged into it, but i'm sure there's a
nice 12v 1 or 2 amp power adaptor up there that goes with it.
Max, can you tell them that we have it and we'd like to return it for
credit? You can contact me to actually deliver it to them.
thank you
-jake
On Thu Apr 16 Maximilian Klein wrote:
FYI, sonic.net (our original ISP at sudo and the omni) charged our card
$150 because we did not send back the modem, which I wrote to the list
about one month ago. C'est la vie.
From: Sonic.net Billing <billing at sonic.net>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:01 AM
Subject: Sonic.net Invoice #7734422 <ooc at sonic.net>
4799 SHATTUCK AVE
OAKLAND, CA 94609-2032
Charge overdue RMA for SRA06DD04 149.00
Hi Everyone!
Come and join us for a fun night where you will get a chance to learn about
PCB assembly and operate the Pick & Place machine! Upon finishing the
workshop, you will feel so empowered and ready to make your cool ideas come
true. Optional registration at
http://www.meetup.com/Hardware/events/221984919/
Instructor: Danny Chen, Seeed Manufacturing Specialist
Agenda:
7:00 7:30 Talk about the PCBA process
7:30 8:00 Live demo with pick and place machine
8:00 9:00 Hands on operation of pick-and-place machine/Q&A
If you have a hardware project in progress, you are more than welcomed to
bring it along and see how we can help you improve it. Looking forward to
seeing you there!
Mengmeng
--
Mengmeng Chen
mengmeng.chen(a)seeed.cc | @mengmengdotchen
<https://twitter.com/mengmengdotchen>
the giant robot arm is again functional.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Giant_robot_arm
unfortunately, in the process of repairing it we reset the memory and
god-mode is no longer enabled, so we have to figure out which registers to
edit to get it working again. Hopefully Ben can help, he figured it out
the first time.
yay robot!!!
-jake
Dear all!
Optik Allusions is putting together a short film festival at the Omni
towards the end of May!
https://omnicommons.org/…/OptikAllusions_Short_Film_Festival
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/OptikAllusions_Short_Film_Festival>
Submissions are open till May 10th!
And we'd love it if you put the word out that we welcome submissions.
Our requirements:
- Films that are under 20 minutes.
- We'd like to feature works of local videographers, professional or not,
and of all ages.
- We'd like it to be a platform for points of views that are usually
silenced.
Put the word out or send us your wackiest masterpieces!
Thanks and love
Noémie
Hey any sudofolks played with these sdks yet?
It's all interesting / I'm not that interested at the moment though in looking at tons of links of what other people are doing (I can google that)
Is anyone at Sudoroom doing stuff ???
Sent from my iPhone
are "building materials" short for construction dust? what are we even
taking about here? the most olfactory offensive substances i've encountered
we're compost methane - which has been fairly sever at times.
things we could do:
1) clean bleach all trash/compost bins/buckets
2) sweep & mop all construction areas after work is done for the day.
3) cover all building materials with tarps/cloth
4) set up/install fans/ventilation
5) make sure fans are on prior to events
I'm sympathetic to the tension that exists for SudoRoom - are we a
hackrrspace or a social worker community outreach center?
I think it's cool to make suggestions, but it's cool also to respect
boundaries.
People were pushing for SudoRoom hackers to become at risk youth mentors
and outreach coordinators. While I respect that work, i think there are a
lot of cool folks involved in social work who are great at that stuff. It's
certainly not easy! and not for everyone.
As a woman I'm often pressure to be involved in initiatives for educating
children in ways I don't feel hacker men are. It's almost like a second or
third job! I guess it's just part of societal expectations =D
Overall it's a good thing though. It's cool being around activists, social
workers, etc. It might be nice to push the lines, but it might also be
unhealthy for social workers to interfere too much and not let hackers be
hackers.
Educating kids is great, but this is a primarily adult space with a lot of
dangerous stuff. The pressure on female hackers especially to provide free
babysitting and childcare for random children is also an understandable
misunderstanding but needs to be gently pushed back.
thanks for being diverse!
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hello friends,
Someone came in today who was very concerned with our efforts to make our
space truly accessible - she was particularly concerned with building
improvements and the impact on those with chemical sensitivities. She was
also concerned with the sound system at today's event as there were some
issues w/it that made it difficult for people to hear.
She asked us to not use any materials that will inhibit those with chemical
sensitivities from accessing the space and to create communication around
our accessibility and needs.
She asked to see our plan for how we will do this. We don't have this
scoped out currently and I'm wondering if someone would be willing to take
on the task of researching this issue and making recommendations to the
building Working Group as well as drawing up a basic outline for providing
greater accessibility.
Can someone volunteer for this?
xo
N
from my perspective the greatest challenges that we face on this issue are
organic in nature. keeping lids on compost, regular disinfecting & improved
ventilation might be a good 1st step.
i'll bleach the trash room after the trash goes out pm
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> 1. Event: Cartoonist Conspiracy Evening at SudoRoom Thursday
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> 2. Fwd: Event: Cartoonist Conspiracy Evening at SudoRoom
> Thursday Nights (Romy Ilano)
> 3. Is anyone blogging their hack projects? (Romy Ilano)
> 4. The harry potter room in sudo is now locked (Marc Juul)
> 5. San Francisco Music Venue Struggles to Stay Open as Rents
> Rise (Romy@snowyla)
> 6. ParaView - simplify MRI 3D models (Romy@snowyla)
> 7. Re: The harry potter room in sudo is now locked (Ryan)
> 8. Re: The harry potter room in sudo is now locked
> (Patrik D'haeseleer)
> 9. Re: The harry potter room in sudo is now locked (Ryan)
> 10. Accessibility Liaison? (niki)
> 11. Re: [omni-discuss] Accessibility Liaison? (Ryan)
> 12. Re: [omni-building] [omni-discuss] Accessibility Liaison?
> (Laura Turiano)
> 13. Re: [omni-building] [omni-discuss] Accessibility Liaison? (Ryan)
> 14. Re: [omni-building] [omni-discuss] Accessibility Liaison? (niki)
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> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:48:50 -0700
> From: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com>
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> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Event: Cartoonist Conspiracy Evening at
> SudoRoom Thursday Nights
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> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cartoonist-Conspiracy-SF/84395061271?ref=aym…
>
> Hi, I used to be in a cool group called the Cartoonist Conspiracy SF.
>
> It dissolved, but it was a group of super Nerdy and talented cartoonists.
> We did a lot of comic book jams at the Church Coffee shop as well as the
> Cartoon museum and Rock Paper Scissors Collective.
>
> *I'd like to have an informal cartoonist jam that runs alongside the
> Counter Culture Labs and Sudoroom thursday night.*
>
> I'm putting it in the calendar and if anyone objects I'll take it down.
>
> I'm keeping it super short, but the idea is that before I or any other
> cartoonist leaves the space we have at least one cool cartoon related to
> the:
>
> - hardware hacking
> - mushroom / fungus growing
> - artificial cheese creating
> - 3d printing
> - yoga dancing
> - naked autonomous activist poetry reading
> - graffiti techno bear woodshed making
> - etc.
>
> that goes on at SudoRoom.
>
> Much love! I'm going to tell the Cartoonist Conspiracy this too.
>
>
> =============================
>
> Romy Ilano
> romy(a)snowyla.com
>
I actually *do* believe that this can be dealt with in a practical and
reasonable way which is why I put this to the list.
I admit exasperation, however, with the critique that the community just
doesn't care enough / is not sufficiently interested in making the space
accessible.
The community is not some amorphous / boundless resource *nor* is it some
perfect ideological object.
It's real human beings in real space / time navigating all manner of
confusing / complicated relationships.
I guess I was hoping that someone would be interested in assisting with
addressing these concerns practically even if it's only to identify what we
can / cannot do rather than simply write it off as yet one more way in
which we're failing every day to live up to our "values".
I think it's reasonable to say that we haven't found someone who has the
time / energy to take this on right now and that people who have concerns
around these issues should perhaps wait to engage with us until we're in a
more solid place.
N
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Brad Borevitz <brad.borevitz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> can these issues be dealt with in a practical and reasonable way without
> resorting to the exasperated cop out reference to ideological
> perfectionism? and why all the antagonism?
>
> if there are limited resources (and there are) then real issues need to be
> prioritized and dealt with in turn according to some sense of what is most
> important and what effects the most people. can the case be made that
> addressing chemical sensitivity is urgent and should be prioritized over
> other concerns?
>
> chemical sensitivity is a controversial diagnosis without support from
> science based medical organizations like AMA or WHO. i don’t know much
> about it but from a quick wikipedia search it looks like there is some
> evidence that it can be psychosomatic. which is not to say it isn’t real or
> current science could be wrong, just that there doesn’t now seem to be any
> consensus or compelling evidence. that might explain some people’s
> dismissal.
>
> but if there are potentially dangerous chemicals (maybe occupational
> health as safety regulations should be a guide here) being used around the
> omni without adequate ventilation and without informing people of where and
> when they might be exposed to these, that seems like an immediate issue. at
> the very least those using such chemicals, should have an obligation to
> notify others (signs and disclosure to omni general meeting) and a making a
> plan to isolate, mitigate and provide necessary ventilation.
>
> and if perfume bothers people then those using it should be made aware and
> act with some consideration of other people around them. it’s just like
> being loud. in a crowded space that is shared without good ways to
> partition and isolate activities, we should be aware of the way we effect
> each other as we use the space. these distractions, though they may be at
> the level of annoyance rather than emergency, have real effects on the
> ability of the space to be effectively shared. take them seriously, but
> don’t exaggerate their significance by making them emotionally laden
> contests over control, authority, attention ...
>
> b
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:52 AM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok. I will write her back and tell her that because not every person who
> enters the doors of the Omni is able to occupy a place of absolutely pure
> ideological perfection, we will not be addressing these issues in any
> meaningful way.
> >
> > N
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Ryan <yandoryn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's not just one person or one situation. And it's not always in an
> aggressive way. And it's not just an issue of not caring (although I have
> experienced that). It's an issue of feasibility.
> >
> > I've heard snowball arguments. I know that Material Print Machine tries
> their hardest to be chemically sensitive but cannot function without some
> volatile chemicals that can cause problems.
> >
> > If we got some serious ventilation going on, maybe we'd be able to deal
> with CCL and sudo. But the 3D printers could be an issue.
> >
> > And the few times I've tried to broach this subject, I have hit hard
> walls. I've also had a lot of support. But I've also heard a lot of people
> basically say "it'd be too hard to care about such a small minority."
> >
> > I just think that anyone who is going to be dealing with this at the
> Omni needs to know that not everyone is on board and that they're going to
> hear some really insensitive stuff. From people you might not expect. My
> request to have the Omni ban simply spraying of perfume in the space left
> me in tears about ready to leave the space because of reactions like this
> from many members.
> >
> > I did have a specific issue with one member who I try not to interact
> with now, who followed me out and proceeded to become aggressive and tell
> me I can't survive in the real world, but that was handled for the most
> part. That's not the issue, though.
> >
> > I don't know. My brain isn't really functioning well (brain fog yay) but
> I think anyone dealing with accessibility at the Omni, especially things
> people are less versed in than physical (which is bad enough to deal with)
> should be well aware that while some people may be totally on board, there
> are some people who are solidly against.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net>
> wrote:
> > I would like to know who said that, Ryan, so that we can have a
> conversation with them about their attitude.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> >
> > On 4/19/15 8:09 PM, Ryan wrote:
> >> The consistent reaction I've gotten from the community at large is "We
> don't actually care about people with chemical sensitivities and would
> actively block any attempts to make the space more accessible to those with
> respiratory problems who are 'asking too much.'"
> >>
> >> So, it might be best to be honest with her, rather than pretend like
> the Omni is actually going to actively work to be accessible.
> >>
> >> Sorry if this sounds pessimistic, but eh.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 8:06 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello friends,
> >>
> >> Someone came in today who was very concerned with our efforts to make
> our space truly accessible - she was particularly concerned with building
> improvements and the impact on those with chemical sensitivities. She was
> also concerned with the sound system at today's event as there were some
> issues w/it that made it difficult for people to hear.
> >>
> >> She asked us to not use any materials that will inhibit those with
> chemical sensitivities from accessing the space and to create communication
> around our accessibility and needs.
> >>
> >> She asked to see our plan for how we will do this. We don't have this
> scoped out currently and I'm wondering if someone would be willing to take
> on the task of researching this issue and making recommendations to the
> building Working Group as well as drawing up a basic outline for providing
> greater accessibility.
> >>
> >> Can someone volunteer for this?
> >>
> >> xo
> >>
> >> N
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Saw this open source 3D software that would be great for the MRI project ! In this months make magazine
This helps us get over our road block of reducing the triangles in our models & making them printable.
Anyone have time to test it out????
http://www.paraview.org/
Sent from my iPhone
This is too bad! I always wondered why submission
Couldn't cross pollinate more with Noisebridge next door
I guess Sudoroom is lucky to be in the Omni now
With all the other collectives!
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30216-san-francisco-music-venue-struggle…
San Francisco Music Venue Struggles to Stay Open as Rents Rise
Sub Mission in San Francisco. (Photo: Julie Blaustein/Flickr)
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Tucked at the corner of 18th and Mission Streets in San Francisco's Mission District - one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by gentrification - lies an independent art and music gallery called Sub Mission. Like many art and music venues in San Francisco, Sub Mission has taken a blow at the hands of the city's latest wave of gentrification - a blow so hard that the gallery might close down. Its plight exemplifies the drastic cultural changes sweeping San Francisco, and the heavy toll that gentrification takes on arts scenes.
Sub Mission has been around for 12 years. It started as an art gallery on Mission and 24th Streets, but soon began to incorporate music into the space since some of the artists had friends who were in bands. Eventually, Sub Mission became more of a music venue. Nine years ago, Sub Mission moved to its current location at the building on 18th and Mission, which provides a bigger space for music shows. These days, Sub Mission mostly offers live music, including hardcore punk and metal concerts, but it also has art shows. It emphasizes booking up-and-coming bands, providing an opportunity for emerging musicians to showcase their work in front of an audience. On its second floor, Sub Mission houses art studios, which are not open to the public.
Now the venue is having trouble staying afloat. Its lease is up, meaning rent will increase, according to Txutxo (pronounced "Chucho"), a visual artist who handles Sub Mission's bookings. On top of that, "We have a problem with the city that's asking us to do some improvements in the building," Txutxo told Truthout. Among those improvements are building an elevator for the second floor, and adding sprinklers and an additional exit. Currently, there is only one door at the front of Sub Mission for entry and exit. Some of their music shows, such as one with Boston Strangler last February, draw large crowds, so having only one exit poses a safety problem. Sub Mission hired an architect to draw construction plans for adding necessary improvements to the building. The plans are mostly done but the city has yet to give Sub Mission a permit to do construction.
"With all the new restaurants, and techies and new businesses going up, the value of the place goes up. So rent is increasing."
In addition to waiting for the city to grant a construction permit, Sub Mission is being hurt by high rents. "This area, with all the new restaurants, and techies and new businesses going up, the value of the place goes up. So rent is increasing," Txutxo said. Sub Mission's rent has increased 10 percent every year, hovering in the $9,000 to $10,000 per month range for the past few years. Now that the lease is up, Sub Mission will have to pay an extra $3,000 per month - totaling more than $13,000 per month - until it finds a new lease. With the lease expired, the new rent conforms to the current value of property, which keeps going up as the area gentrifies. The landlord - with whom Sub Mission's owners have a good relationship - offered another lease but as long as everything in the building is up to code and all necessary improvements are made.
In order to do the necessary construction, Sub Mission would have to close down temporarily. That would mean less income coming in even as their rent - along with property values in the area - increases. However, as a small business without a large budget, this makes it hard for Sub Mission to stay afloat. "Because we are a small business - and not even a business that makes a lot of profit - we don't have the budget," Txutxo said. With the city taking a long time to grant the permit, "you're never going to know if your money is going to be spent on rent, on trying to survive, and waiting for the permits," he added.
City delays and rising rents caused by gentrification are squeezing the small budget of Sub Mission. As Txutxo put it, "Everything's coming at once."
The venue can probably make it until the end of May - but after that, it will be hard to stay afloat. Unless Sub Mission receives its construction permit, this cultural institution may have to shut down.
Sub Mission is also a Latino-owned and operated gallery. They have also hosted many Latino and Filipino rock bands from the San Francisco Bay Area. The venue's closing would contribute to the ongoing displacement of Latinos from the historically Mexican and Central American Mission District. A study conducted by the Council of Community Housing Organizations and the Mission Economic Development Agency found that 8,000 Latinos have left the Mission District in the past decade. In 2000, Latinos comprised half of the Mission's population. Today, they are less than 40 percent of the neighborhood's population and, should this trend continue, their numbers could drop to a third.
The Farm
Sub Mission's struggle is reminiscent of another art center that was also in the Mission District - The Farm. Its story is told in a documentary called Farmcore. The Farm was started in 1974 by Jack Wickert and Bonnie Shirk as an art and community center, which thrived as a place for multicultural activities. It housed a two-acre community garden, a barnyard with animals, an art gallery, a large performing arts space and a children's preschool.
However, beginning in the mid-1980s, it struggled to stay open because its landlord, Marilyn Goode, continuously increased rent and refused to sign long-term leases or sell the property. Around the same time, San Francisco's punk scene was dealt a major blow when the last big venue to hold all-age shows - On Broadway - closed down.
Rising rents and gentrification bring in new, wealthier residents to areas that traditionally host live music.
In need of revenue, The Farm began hosting punk rock shows beginning in the summer of 1984. Several well-known punk bands performed at The Farm, including Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Black Flag, MDC, DRI, Circle Jerks and Butthole Surfers. It soon became the biggest venue for punk shows in San Francisco during the mid-1980s and a vital part of the punk scene that developed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with New York City, the Bay Area was a breeding ground for the punk subculture.
Aside from being a genre of rock that emphasizes minimalistic instrumentals and short, energetic, fast-paced songs, punk is an anti-establishment subculture. Punks typically embrace radical left, particularly anarchist, politics and a do-it-yourself ethic in their lyrics, lifestyle and even activism. Rather than go through record labels, many punk bands will self-produce records and distribute them independently or through alternative channels.
But in 1987, The Farm was forced to close down once the landlord evicted the venue. Its closure dealt a blow to the Bay Area's punk community.
Local and Nationwide Cultural Changes
The story of artists and musicians being displaced from cities is not a new one nor is it limited to San Francisco. Sub Mission's struggle is just one example of how rising rents and gentrification are hurting the city's arts and culture scene. Other artists and creatives are being hurt with high rents and evictions. One artist commune in San Francisco's Mid-Market area was recently slapped with an eviction notice by its landlord Jennifer Chen. Like the Mission, Mid-Market is also heavily gentrifying. On top of that, several tech companies, such as Twitter and Spotify, have their offices there. In 2011, the City of San Francisco granted tech companies tax breaks in exchange for locating their offices in the city. This has accelerated gentrification and displacement of lower-income residents in the area.
As of March, median rent in San Francisco for a one-bedroom apartment is now $3,400 per month, slightly down from $3,460 in February. For two bedrooms, it's $4,580 per month. San Francisco is still the most expensive US city to live in, especially for artists.
Rising rents and gentrification also bring in new, wealthier residents to areas that traditionally host live music. Oftentimes, these more well-to-do residents will file noise complaints with the city about the venues.
Jason Perkins, who owns Brick and Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco and the New Parish in Oakland, told SFGate, "We have had several people move in behind us and the next day they are calling the police." He went on, "We have people moving in who look upon this as a bedroom community. They have to go to bed so they can get up in the morning and get to the Google bus."
As people continue to be displaced from San Francisco, public resistance grows.
The Chapel, which is a combination of a bar, restaurant and music venue in San Francisco's Mission District, has received several noise complaints from neighbors. What is also notable about the Chapel is that it's located on Valencia Street, which is a particularly gentrified street in the Mission, with several cocktail bars and high-end restaurants flanking the area. The class divide is so palpable on Valencia that local online publication Uptown Almanac called it "San Francisco's premier boulevard of bullshit."
Sub Mission, on the other hand, has not been hit with noise complaints like other music venues. "We have pretty good relations with our neighbors," Txutxo said. They also have decent soundproofing. The people who work at Sub Mission, including Txutxo, are all artists and know people in the area. So when complaints do arise, "we address them in the right way," he said. But their situation is unique compared to other venues.
San Francisco's arts and music scene is not the only one harmed by gentrification. Artists are being pushed out of other metropolitan areas, leading to significant cultural changes that many would argue are not for the better.
One example is Seattle, the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix and '90s grunge bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. Currently, median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Seattle, Washington, is $1,600 per month and $2,050 for two bedrooms, making it the 10th most expensive major city to live in. Like San Francisco, Seattle is also experiencing a tech boom. Its rising rents are also pushing artists out of the city. Seattle neighborhood Capitol Hill exemplifies this change. The former blue-collar neighborhood "became a home to artists and the gay community decades ago," according toSeattle Times reporter Tricia Romano. However, "luxury apartment buildings such as the Sunset Electric on 11th and Pine, with one-bedrooms that rent for more than $4,500, seem to open weekly, filling up with more affluent residents, many of them tech workers. Once the province of the starving artist, a fifth of the neighborhood's households now make more than $100,000 a year," Romano reports.
Why It Matters
Making art does not always pay well or pay consistently. So to support their work, artists often take side jobs. Since cities have a higher concentration of jobs in one area, this makes it easier for artists to perfect their artistic craft and pay the bills.
However, big cities are not always necessary for musicians to do their work. For example, Palm Desert in Southern California is home to a hard rock scene known as desert rock. It was birthed by parties in remote desert areas in which bands used someone's (typically the host's) generator to power their instruments and amplifiers. Since there were no clubs, this was the way bands performed live and played for free. The Palm Desert scene birthed bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and Yawning Man. The scene is also showcased in Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's "Sonic Highways" series on HBO.
It's not just that artists need cities to live and create - cities need art to add character.
However, as author James Lough points out in Art Pulse magazine, big cities provide "creative collisions, encouragement and support of like minds, and mentorship." He writes, "The right city encourages free exchange of ideas, which relies on a city's intellectual atmosphere, its open-mindedness and tolerance of difference. Often, institutions within the cities help provide this tolerance, institutions that appreciate, nurture and showcase artists and their work. Examples of such institutions are galleries, cafes with literary readings, performance venues like theaters, concert venues like CBGBs and Max's Kansas City, and even living spaces like New York's Chelsea Hotel."
Musicians need live venues to not just perform, but also promote and sell their music, build a fan base, and even perfect their craft by analyzing what works with different audiences. For example, heavy metal band Pantera pioneered a unique style of groove metal - with heavy rhythmic riffs that influenced the new wave of American heavy metal from the 1990s to the early to mid-2000s - because of the many times they were able to play live. As Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo explained in a VH1 documentary, "The late '80s, writing heavy metal songs, a lot of bands would save the money riff for the end or for the middle or whatever. But we saw that the money riff moved people. So it's like, 'Why not make the whole damn song the money riff?'" He added, "The proof's in the pudding. We gigged so much that it was all about attitude and the bond with the audience, you know. And that's what was special about us."
Even before the advent of heavy metal, jazz musicians played at nightclubs in cities like New York City and San Francisco during jazz's heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. Musicians like jazz drummer Gene Krupa and saxophonist Charlie Parker displayed their chops at nightclubs, attracted fans and generated a vibrant urban nightlife that influenced modern American music.
African-Americans who lived in cities like New York City and Chicago, along with Blacks who migrated to the North from the South during the early 20th century, created and brought jazz into urban areas. Jazz became popular, particularly among middle-class Whites, during the Prohibition era (1920 to 1933) in which the ban on alcoholic drinks gave rise to underground speakeasies in numerous US cities. These speakeasies became live venues for jazz music and interracial mingling between Blacks and Whites - which was controversial during an era of racial segregation. New York City and Chicago were cultural centers for jazz - and crucial to its development - since they had large populations, a high concentration of African-Americans, and ample live venues to play the music and bring large numbers of people together.
Resistance to Gentrification
While arts and culture scenes continue to be hurt by gentrification, there has been some good news on the housing front. As reported by Truthout in March, Station 40, an activist housing collective in San Francisco's Mission District, was facing eviction. Recently, the landlords of Station 40 - Ahuva, Emanuel and Barak Jolish - halted the eviction and agreed to start a fresh discussion with tenants on how to sell the building in a way that lets the tenants stay in their home. Station 40 residents say that, using a mediator, "We will also be working with the San Francisco Community Land Trust and Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) to craft a viable offer that they can present to our landlords, who are now willing to consider selling our building - 3030 16th at Mission Street - to the land trust, thereby ensuring that it remains qualitatively affordable forever. In the meantime, for the foreseeable future, we can continue renting." The land trust will own the property the building sits on while residents get to stay by paying a long, lower-cost lease. This makes the building affordable for tenants.
For the time being, Station 40's supporters are not planning any protests or other forms of public resistance. However, their fight is not over. They told Truthout:
Our work is far from done. "Resisting our eviction" was and always will be only one piece of the struggle. It is intimately connected to the struggle against Maximus, the "monster in the Mission" proposed for right across the street from us, on the hotly contested intersection of 16th and Mission Streets. As we all know, when one corner is transformed into a luxury development, such projects ripple out to steal and destroy whole blocks, whole communities. It is tied, too, to the struggle to stop police from "cleaning up" the neighborhood and especially killing more people, since we know that police go hand in hand with gentrification.
Recently, a Chinatown single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel was served an eviction notice by a real estate investment group. SROs typically house recent immigrants and low-wage or transient workers. They encompass three-quarters of Chinatown's housing stock and have been largely immune to the displacement happening everywhere else in San Francisco. The reason for the eviction was residents hanging laundry outside their windows, which is a common practice in the neighborhood. After a protest in solidarity with the SRO residents being evicted, Mayor Ed Lee quickly intervened and halted the eviction.
As people continue to be displaced from San Francisco, public resistance grows. According to a recent poll, 65 percent of San Francisco voters said they would support a ballot measure that halts development projects in the Mission for a year - in other words, a moratorium - while a plan is created to help businesses and nonprofits avert displacement. Only 26 percent said they would oppose it.
Additionally, San Francisco Supervisor London Breed recently proposed legislation that would save the city's music venues from noise complaints. The measure would, among other things, require developers to work with entertainment venues before beginning construction, ensure that potential residents near entertainment venues are informed of its activities before moving there and prevent venues from being deemed a "nuisance" if they are operating within their permit. So far, the measure is making headway and could be approved.
The community has also stepped up to support Sub Mission. Nearly $4,000 has been donated to its GoFundMe page and it's still active.
Vibrant art and culture require supportive environments to thrive. If those environments are hit with rising rents, gentrification or excessive noise complaints, then that undermines the ability of artists to live and create - undermining the character of a city. It's not just that artists need cities to live and create - cities need art to add character. Art and culture make cities more interesting places to live in. Moreover, they can also be the breeding grounds for art that people come to know and love. Hip-hop, for example, was an urban subculture started by Black and Latino youth in the Bronx before it became the global cultural phenomenon that it is today. By displacing artists and shutting down entertainment venues, gentrification not only hurts artists - it also hurts cities.
Full disclosure: The author's band has a performance booked at Sub Mission.
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I started a new blog today > It's empty but I'd like to monitor my progress
at SudoRoom
http://www.snowyla.com/hackBlog/
Probably going to fill it up with these two:
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/MRI_3D_Printing
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/UnderstandingTools
The SudoRoom site and blog is looking a little bare lately... I love the
wiki but this will hopefully help build up momentum for the 3D printing MRI
stuff. <3
*In the long term I'm going to try to graduate from these expensive ready
made maker kits in arduino that are springing up everywhere.*
They are cool but since we are at a hackrrspace it's better to learn how
to hack without having to spend a ton of money on fancy stuff!
- My focus is on hacking for adults.
*Children are cool but they have enough people helping them out *
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Charley Sheets <rcsheets(a)acm.org> wrote:
> I like to make one-time donations by paying some of Sudo Room's bills.
> When Omni sends invoices, anyone can pay all or part of the invoice
> online using a credit card.
For now, people can also make direct one-time donations to Omni at
https://omnicommons.org/donate which forwards to
https://omnicommons.tilt.com/buy-the-building
Not really the same thing as donating to Sudo, but at least it's
already set up and ready to use.
FYI, sonic.net (our original ISP at sudo and the omni) charged our card
$150 because we did not send back the modem, which I wrote to the list
about one month ago. C'est la vie.
From: Sonic.net Billing <billing(a)sonic.net>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:01 AM
Subject: Sonic.net Invoice #7734422
<ooc(a)sonic.net>
4799 SHATTUCK AVE
OAKLAND, CA 94609-2032
_______________________________________________________________________
Description Unit Price Total
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Charge overdue RMA for SRA06DD04 149.00 149.00
Total: 149.00
is there an easy way for people to make a one-time donation to sudoroom
using a credit card?
I only see a link to gittip on the main page, which is a great thing but
WAY too complicated for people making a one-time donation, especially if
they don't want to link their social media to donating to a "hackerspace".
I want to do some activities at Hardware Hacking Tuesdays where people pay
for materials, but i don't know how to accept donations on behalf of
sudoroom with a credit card.
Also i think it would benefit us to have that functionality right there on
the website.
-jake
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/MRI_3D_Printing#Humanity
OK So I started this 3D printing/open source medical scan wiki
- *Where can we upload our open source MRI files to share with each
other at SudoRoom?*
I could always set up something on DropBox as last resort, but is there any
way to do this not at SudoRoom?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
i was attempting humor w/the term "hoard". i have been gathering all the
optical things i can find/hack but the laser is the only thing i can think
of that was just laying around sudo. i will try to refrain from humorous
comments as i am missing my mark. cheers
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're going to hoard, please ask. I too am interested experimenting
> with a lot of the optics that are lying around. Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Robert Benson <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> whoops. apologies. thought it was the 1 u pulld fum laser disc player n u
>> wer dun wit it.
>> NOTICE: please be advised, i am hoarding lighting and optical gadgetries
>> for dmx project
>> :P
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>>> Super userdoers:
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>>> I have a little toaster oven that I use for reflow soldering that I'd
>>> like
>>> to donate (at least for a while). Right now its on the white shelf next
>>> to
>>> the drill press.
>>>
>>> Feel free to use it for whatever (but probably not things that are
>>> edible). Or feel free to move it. Or feel free to tell me you don't
>>> want
>>> my toaster oven and I should take it home. I dunno, I'm new here.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
I'm trying to reverse engineer the "OK google" functionality implemented in
my phone.
What do you suppose I do with those feature / data sets? Since "OK google"
responds to my voice independently of the rate of speech, methinks they are
using a combination of regression analysis and discrete time warping.
But, it's seemingly both speaker and pitch independent too, so there must
be something else going on. There's no way they implemented a full Hidden
Markov Model inside the phone's DSP, (it wouldn't make sense for just one
hotword).
Thoughts?
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Hey all,
As we ramp up again to begin work on the cafe, it's extra important that
people don't dump their things in La Commune - even temporarily.
Currently, there's a huge pile of wood that was left there last week which
has yet to be moved. There's also another huge pile in the hallway by the
trash room that needs to be moved asap. This is a fire hazard.
Moving forward, I'll assume that anything left in La Commune is up for
grabs / trash and will dispose of it / give it away / sell it / etc.
I am going to start with that pile of wood if it's not moved today!
Niki
whoops. apologies. thought it was the 1 u pulld fum laser disc player n u
wer dun wit it.
NOTICE: please be advised, i am hoarding lighting and optical gadgetries
for dmx project
:P
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> Super userdoers:
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> I have a little toaster oven that I use for reflow soldering that I'd like
> to donate (at least for a while). Right now its on the white shelf next to
> the drill press.
>
> Feel free to use it for whatever (but probably not things that are
> edible). Or feel free to move it. Or feel free to tell me you don't want
> my toaster oven and I should take it home. I dunno, I'm new here.
>
> Ben
>
I tried sending this message directly to Rob but got a message that it was
pending so I'm sending to the sudo list - sorry:
Hi Rob!
Could you move that big pile of wood that's in La Commune today? The shop
opens at noon and it would be great if they could be moved out by then.
They're currently under one of the tarps along the North wall in front of
the Poetry section.
Thank you!
xo
N
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/UnderstandingTools
OK that's it! I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm done with doing these 50
half-started sophisticated arduino projects and music controller kits.
I'm not even sure what a screwdriver is, I'm such a code person. Starting
a basic "understanding tools" and comic web project for the other afflicted
folks.
;)
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
(whoops, sent this from my uni email not on the list. it bounced)
Howdy hackers,
Over by ed's PC I had a helium neon laser and power supply in one of
the pull out drawers. I can't seen to find it anymore, and
interestingly enough, the drawer as well.
If anyone spots an NEC HeNe laser tube and power supply from Laser
Drive Inc, it's mine.
Cheers,
-Adam
Howdy hackers,
Over by ed's PC I had a helium neon laser and power supply in one of the
pull out drawers. I can't seen to find it anymore, and interestingly
enough, the drawer as well.
If anyone spots an NEC HeNe laser tube and power supply from Laser Drive
Inc, it's mine.
Cheers,
-Adam
Thought I'd like to share this. I can't even remember all these things
happening!
It's so nice to see foreign folks visiting the Oakland area.
The only
thing I usually remember about 2009 is a series of personal meltdowns and
getting stuck
with some nasty taxes.
I think I'm even in this comic. Wonder if there are any other cartoonists?
I'd like to eventually sketch more adventures in and out of SudoRoom.
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/10/fiction/lao-area
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/HardwareHackNight
I'm frankly not a hardware person. I've had a hard time grappling with
stuff -- as a kid for some reason my dad never involved me with tools,
maybe because they wanted me to do office work.
I like being around people using wrenches for some reason, I don't know
why but I always end up getting distracted at hardware hack night!
I thought about it, if I stop by hardware hack night I'd like to get back
on the right foot. I'm going to try to study and draw the tools that are
there, and just get familiar with doing very basic things before embarking
on any expensive projects.
This sounds so silly, but really basic things like making simple movements
with tools.
I guess that's how I learned how to snowboard, that's how I learned to put
snow chains on my car tires.
See you tonight!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
haven't seen the press actually running yet. hope it's working.
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> someone has davids phone at the omni...but I can't call him
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Super userdoers:
I have a little toaster oven that I use for reflow soldering that I'd like
to donate (at least for a while). Right now its on the white shelf next to
the drill press.
Feel free to use it for whatever (but probably not things that are
edible). Or feel free to move it. Or feel free to tell me you don't want
my toaster oven and I should take it home. I dunno, I'm new here.
Ben
Hey guys,
Haven't really kept in touch since the move from your broadway location to
the omni, but I've got a project I'm working on at my friends shop
(building a large steel stage set) and we need to use my DC drill press
that I've left on loan at Sudo.
I'm not sure exactly when I'll have time to come pick it up this week but I
wanted to give a heads up that I will be doing so. Hopefully someone has
one they can swap out for anyone working on machining projects at the
moment?
Cheers,
Jack Kern
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You are hereby cordially invited to join the...
New Oakland Scavenger Co Electric Spazm Champions.
Bring your scavenged or hackmade inspiraments.
Every Weds @5:00pm and Sun @12:00noon @The Omni.
Old Timey Garb Encouraged
I don't see any info in the wiki about a couple of people who were recently
asked to leave. I'm looking specifically for the steward / mediator for the
conflict with Nick. You can email me with info offlist if so desired.
Thanks!
N
wanna stick em to a stick (mobile) or just stick em up & drive em w/arduino
/ bare or diffused?
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> 1. Re: FW: The White House Announces a Week of Making this June
> 12-18 (Rachel Wolfsohn)
> 2. Re: FW: The White House Announces a Week of Making this June
> 12-18 (Mitch Altman)
> 3. Re: major purge of machine tools, hand tools, necessary and
> unnecessary stuff - Saturday 10 to 4 (fwd) (Patrik D'haeseleer)
> 4. Re: Arduino Bootloader on the ESP8266 (Cere Mona Davis)
> 5. Re: Arduino Bootloader on the ESP8266 (Rachel Wolfsohn)
> 6. Call for Auction Items!!! Help Fund sudo! (Rachel Wolfsohn)
> 7. Re: Today 4/4/15: Pidgen and Daren have been temp banned for
> safer spaces policy violations (Sonja Trauss)
> 8. sudo lights! (Jake)
> 9. Seeking info about people recently asked to leave (niki)
> 10. Re: Gear from BioCurious up for grabs/sale (Patrik D'haeseleer)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:08:30 -0700
> From: Rachel Wolfsohn <rawjnana(a)gmail.com>
> To: Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com>
> Cc: Sudo-Discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, NoiseBridge
> Discuss <noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net>
> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] FW: The White House Announces a Week of
> Making this June 12-18
> Message-ID: <1428613711197-96f6c29e-06b3c146-949fef65(a)gmail.com>
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>
> I agree with you both! It compartmEntalizes us, and dulls our fire to
> forget
> that...I'd be down, I'm not scared. I think such missing essence is every
> reason
> to bring it there!
>
> But to what end? What would ones function be there?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Cere Misc < cere.misc(a)gmail.com [
> cere.misc(a)gmail.com] > wrote:
> I assume the A is for Art? If so, I agree that too much is left out
> without it.
> Yes, would be cool to "be involved", but I have the same reservations as
> you.
> -Cere
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Mitch Altman < maltman23(a)hotmail.com [
> maltman23(a)hotmail.com] > wrote:
> Does someone at Noisebridge and/or Sudo Room want to be part of the
> National
> Week of Making?
>
> If so, there's a link at the bottom of the email from the White House
> (copied
> below), but which I'll add here, too:
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/nation-of-makers
> [https://www.whitehouse.gov/nation-of-makers]
>
> I think it would be really cool to be "officially" involved. But there are
> two
> things that make me uncomfortable:
> 1) "STEM" is a term created by the US military -- it leaves out the very
> important "A", which many have added to make it more relevant, and moves
> things
> away from the military: STEAM
> 2) There is involvement from various government agencies, many of which are
> cool, but one of which is: Department of Homeland Security.
>
> Best,
> Mitch.
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------SUBJECT: The White House Announces a
> Week of Making this June 12-18
> DATE: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 17:07:12 +0000
> FROM: Santoso, Stephanie <Stephanie_M_Santoso(a)ostp.eop.gov> [
> Stephanie_M_Santoso(a)ostp.eop.gov]
> TO: Mitch Altman
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I wanted to make sure that you saw the following exciting news about the
> Week of
> Making and the National Maker Faire!
>
>
>
>
>
> Announcing a Week of Making this June 12-18
>
>
>
> By Tom Kalil and Stephanie Santoso
>
>
>
> Last year, on June 18, President Obama hosted the first-ever White House
> Maker Faire [http://www.whitehouse.gov/maker-faire] and issued a call to
> action that ?every company, every college, every
> community, every citizen joins us as we lift up makers and builders and
> doers
> across the country.? By democratizing the tools and skills necessary to
> design
> and make just about anything, Maker-related events and activities can
> inspire
> more people to pursue careers in design, advanced manufacturing, and the
> related
> fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and
> possibly
> take their creations to the next level and become entrepreneurs.
>
>
>
> Today, in preparation of the one-year anniversary of last year?s Faire, we
> are
> excited to announce that the White House will celebrate a ?Week of Making?
> this
> summer from June 12-18. The Week will coincide with the National Maker
> Faire
> here in D.C., featuring makers from across the country and will include
> participation by federal agencies including: the Department of Education,
> National Science Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development,
> U.S.
> Small Business Administration, Institute of Museum and Library Services,
> National Institute of Standards and Technology, NASA, Corporation for
> National
> and Community Service, Department of Homeland Security and the Smithsonian.
>
>
>
> At last year?s Faire, President Obama welcomed people of all ages who are
> funneling their ingenuity into amazing projects, developing creative
> solutions
> to important problems and bringing their innovations to market. He met
> Lindsay
> Lawlor, who built a 17-foot, talking robotic giraffe named Russell, and he
> met
> teenage sisters Camille and Genevieve Betty, whose motto is ?Who needs a
> paper
> route when you can start your own robotics company?? He talked to
> entrepreneurs
> such as Marc Roth, who was homeless in San Francisco before taking classes
> in
> design and prototyping at a digital fabrication studio and maker space.
> After
> only several months of classes, Marc was able to open his own custom
> laser-cutting business. As the President put it, ?Today?s D.I.Y is
> tomorrow?s
> Made in America.?
>
>
>
> [
> https://cloudmagic.com/b/v6/attachment/download?method=cstream&resource…
> ]
>
> Lindsay Lawlor introduces President Obama to Russell, the Electric Giraffe
> at
> last year?s White House Maker Faire. (Photo Credit: Pete Souza).
>
>
>
> The President announced a large number of commitments
> [
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/18/fact-sheet-president-…]
> made by the Federal government, mayors, educational institutions, companies,
> and non-profit organizations to expand opportunities for engaging students
> STEM
> through making, supporting makers who want to become entrepreneurs and
> make it
> easier for individuals to learn 21 st century design and fabrication
> skills around the country. Twenty-one Federal
> agencies committed a suite of services for people interested in
> engineering and
> manufacturing, including expanded access to start-up grants, making it
> easier
> for makers to manufacture their products domestically, and business
> mentoring
> and training. More than 150 colleges and universities, over 125 libraries
> and
> more than 90 mayors pledged to take steps to help advance making in the
> United
> States.
>
>
>
> To continue to expand upon this effort, here are some ways that you or your
> organization can help:
>
>
>
> ? Individuals can volunteer to mentor and share their skills by hosting
> workshops
> or classes in areas of their community that have fewer opportunities for
> designing, developing and prototyping projects.
>
>
>
> ? K-12 school districts can create opportunities for interactive, hands-on
> STEM learning
> [
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/12/new-resource-bringing-making-edu…]
> in and outside of the classroom. Schools can also establish maker spaces to
> empower students to design and build, and solve real-world problems.
>
>
>
> ? Colleges and universities can establish on-campus spaces
> [https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/11/making-makers-cleveland] that
> are accessible to students, faculty and the broader local community to
> tinker, design, build and invent. They can share best practices with other
> educational institutions through networks and communities of practice
> [
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/10/higher-education-institutions-res…]
> .
>
>
>
> ? Companies can encourage making in their community through design and
> engineering and help designers, inventors and other aspiring entrepreneurs
> [
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/manufacturing_and_innov…]
> create American jobs by navigating the transition from prototyping to
> manufacturing.
>
>
>
> ? Mayors can join the Mayors Maker Challenge
> [
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/15/challenging-mayors-help-make-dif…]
> and encourage companies, foundations, non-profits, schools, libraries and
> museums to get involved with product development and manufacturing. Local
> leaders can also back initiatives that make it easier for entrepreneurs to
> manufacture their products locally.
>
>
>
> And no matter who you are, you can get involved by hosting an event,
> workshop or
> activity during the Week of Making in your community or submit your
> project for
> the National Maker Faire.
>
>
>
> By working together, we can provide every child and adult in America with
> the
> tools, technologies and resources they need to be part of the creative
> process
> and invent, create, and make a better, stronger, and more innovative
> future.
>
>
>
> If you or your organization has plans to support students, inventors,
> designers,
> builders and other makers in your community, let us know by completing
> this form [https://www.whitehouse.gov/nation-of-makers] . We look forward
> to announcing progress on the President?s call to action
> during the Week of Making. You may also contact us at maker(a)ostp.gov [
> maker(a)ostp.gov] .
>
>
>
>
>
> Tom Kalil is Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation at the White
> House
> Office of Science and Technology Policy.
>
> Stephanie Santoso is Senior Advisor for Making at the White House Office of
> Science and Technology Policy.
>
>
>
>
> Stephanie Santoso
>
> Senior Policy Advisor for Making
>
> White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
>
> ssantoso(a)ostp.eop.gov [ssantoso(a)ostp.eop.gov]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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BioCurious is doing a spring cleaning and getting rid of some equipment. Do
we want any of these? Let me know!
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eric Harness <eharness(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:16 PM
Subject: E - waste and equipment that must leave
Here are the photos of the equipment that must go, photos below. Red needs
repair green works. Green we are going to sell, red we are going to
Recycle.along with the hoods. I will run this to the recycling on April
12th. All of these will be removed on the 12th. Duane I know you feel
passionally about the shaking incubator but unless it is repaired it cannot
stay no exceptions on this one. sorry.
Centrifuge (In working order but works stops randomly)
Shaking incubator (Needs repair)
Shaking water bath (Heating element dangerous)
Apple computer (Needs repair)
Hitachi Spectrometer (Needs repair)
Gas chronograph (Needs repair)
HPLC (the recent acquisition and the old HPLC) (Needs repair)
Tecan Spectrometer (Not working) (No Photo)
1970's balence Functional maybe but have not checked
NEW -20 Needs a good home works but as is has a defrost cycle (Blows
every 20 amp fuse in our building If we want to use it we need a higher amp
breaker)
Deconstructed machines in office
Laser from Q-PCR machine (looks Functional but cannot tell powers up but
need on/off control signals from computer)
2 printers (Non-functional)
A couple of non-functional heat blocks.
Photos
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Inline image 7][image: Inline image 14][image: Inline image 16][image:
Inline image 12][image: Inline image 15]
Dana donated a spool of warm-white LED tape, and another spool of
addressible LED tape, to sudoroom.
looks like about 5 meters of each.. so where should we set them up?
the white LED tape is simple, it just turns on and lights, but the
addressible stuff will need to be connected to a microcontroller of some
kind to control it. Who will step up and do that? I can help with the
power supply and wiring if you do the software.
-jake
