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This September 2024 newsletter is gonna be updated over the month...

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/september-2024-newsletter-continuously-updated-this-mo… I guess the theme of this month is - thank you guys for sticking together. and thanks for surviving. we can only survive so much as we have each other! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Think Simple, think wise

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/invisible-technologies-rainbook-appropriate-technology… Invisible Technologies, Rainbook Appropriate Technology 1977 <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-11…> Be resourceful, clever and wise. Some inspiration from Rainbow way back from 1977 From Rainbow Appropriate Technology, 1977: INVISIBLE TECHNOLOGIES The best technologies are often the invisible ones-where people have figured out how to avoid problems rather than to solve them. Often all that is required is a perceptual change such as seeing grasshoppers as an airborne mobile protein harvesting and conversion unit-a food source-rather than a destructive pest. Or living near where we work rather than building better transportation technologies. Or eating lower on the food chain so you don’t have to pay for or grow food for the conversion losses of meat animals. Or planting trees rather than air conditioners. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-11…> The second-best technologies are also invisible. They’re based on people’s skills and relationships rather than machines -the skilled calligrapher drawing a line or carpenter cutting a line rather than needing a jig or machine: good neighbors rather than locks on doors; caring for the ill or elderly at home rather than in a Home; hiking rather than mini-biking: an auto mechanic or piano tuner’s ear rather than a tuning machine. But there’s always a range of skilis and scales and situations where things need to happen, and we’re interested in expanding the range of tools for situations that have been neglected, and learning when there are good reasons for choosing one scale rather than another. One size can’t fit every situation well, and a technology that tries is likely not to fit any well. Having to solve problems without money usually results in people getting resourceful and finding creative ways to use wbat is already there. Money usually makes us lazy and we end up paying for our laziness and second rate solutions to problems. Appropriate Technology repeatedly contains good examples of a.t. equipment and ideas. Here are some of the interesting projects they’ve covered recently. • A Nigerian project making medical aids such as arm splints, spinal jackets and cervical collars from broken plastic drain-pipes. The products are made by marking the pipe with a paper template, cutting out with a hacksaw and handstretching the plastic softened over a flame. The resulting equipment works better than previous products, as they can be easily adjusted by a nurse or doctor for a perfect fit for every individual and are waterproof, strong, cheap and reusable. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-11…>*Nigerian medical devices* - A candle-making merry go-round that produces 600 candles per hour with a single operator (could be solar heated?). - Nethouse horticulture in Botswana, where it is noted that a high percentage of a plant’s water requirement is not for growth but to cool it during respiration. Nethouses shade and cool, reducing water use by 2/3, and keep birds, insects and hail out. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-11…> Be resourceful, be clever, be wise. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-02-at-11…>Think Simple, Think Wise ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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open source embroidery software – there is none! – Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

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Ask HN: What happened to hackerspaces? | Hacker News

by Romy Ilano

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37981294 Sent from my iPhone

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we had fun looking over SIgnal's open source code - does anyone know any Signal People?

by Romy Ilano

we had fun looking over SIgnal's open source code this week. We're going to explore their repositories, they create a lot of cool libraries. They used to hang out at SudoRoom from time to time, but that was a while ago. I'm not proposing we do advertising or anything, but they are totally open source and share so much - is there any way any of them would be interested in coming in and giving a lightning talk? Messaging and surveillance is in the news lately and they are neat, it would be cool to just have a roundtable and whietboarding ... ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Omni and EB PREC/CALLI

by Paige P

Hello, I wanted to give a recap on what's happening with Omni Commons building sale and operations. Earlier this month, Omni Commons had three options to prevent foreclosure. The most promising option was to sell the building to CALLI (an affiliate nonprofit of EB PREC https://ebprec.org/). Once EB PREC confirmed they were able to fund the purchase, there's been a big push to work as fast as possible to finalize, given we are on a tight deadline to prevent foreclosure. *Acronyms: CALLI stands for Collective Action and Land Liberation Institute, and EB PREC stands for East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperation. CALLI does not have any projects under its belt yet, but its board are all current staff at EB PREC. Everyone currently renting spaces in Omni Commons are getting offered leases to stay. These leases are still in negotiation, and that's the main work that's left for us to do right now. Sudo Room is being offered a 34 year lease to stay in the bocce ball court space. We will have to pay more, but we are also going to have some well-needed commons upgrades (roof renovation is planned, bathroom renovations, rat proofing, etc all to come!). Also there will be some new much needed help in managing the building day-to-day and in conflict resolution. How the building is operated will ultimately be decided by CALLI, but there's lots of back and forth and they really want to work with us on this. Some plans include creating separate entrances and exits for SR and CCL, and restricting access hours + full building access. The entrance hall will continue to host the Free Store for now, with plans to add a cafe again up front later. That is not the focus right now though as there is this big hurry just to meet foreclosure legal work deadlines and finalize collective + tenant leases. This is really exciting, because just a month ago we were at a super severe risk of foreclosing. We still are cutting it really close, with us currently having received a notice of default from the foreclosure agency, and for us being in property tax default. The consensus among the building was that foreclosing would not be worth the uncertainty, difficulty, and harm to the community that the building being bulldozed would likely cause. So that EB PREC was able to step in at this short notice with the funds at hand, and a willingness to dedicate all this time into making something work out is really unbelievable. All of the meeting notes are public on the wikis if you want more info, but also I'm happy to share more info as requested. Omni Commons meeting notes: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Meetings Sudo Room meeting notes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meetings Thanks, Paige

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Sudo Meeting Tonight

by William Myers

It's been suggested that we have a meeting tonight to discuss the final steps transferring the building. I'm not sure we have a ton to talk about but I'll be on at 7pm Today. I'll send the link when it starts. William

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Folks, this week we have events going on 5 days a week! we are no longer a Tuesday only shop!

by Romy Ilano

https://lu.ma/sudoroom (I also have links on the SudoRoom.org page, but it kept crashing the other week) thanks for all the energy!!! we are now a 5 day a week space! hopefully as more people join, we can be 7 days a week! woo hoo!!!!!!!! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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UC Berkeley events started - starting up "sudoRoom" field trips so we can be inspired by lectures,

by Romy Ilano

https://events.berkeley.edu/events/event/260794-refactoring-cs-education-in… oh yeah! UC Berkeley just started session and i was thinking of doing a SudoROom field trip and coffee for all the folks in the upcoming semester - 1. i think the idea is "be inspired at UC Berkleey" then take your i nspiration back to sudoroom or noisebridge and hack on something 2. [11:39 AM] there's nice stuff like this which was yesterday! https://events.berkeley.edu/events/event/260794-refactoring-cs-education-in… Stay tuned ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: [Admin Copy] Events this week at SudoRoom Hackerspace

by Romy Mimi Ilano

Meet Real People Solving Real Prroblems Most of our events are in-person, with little pressure to share LinkedIn profiles or go 100% transactional. We favor doing things with our hands, solving problems by coming up with solutions on the fly, and learning face to face instead of through screens. Virtually none of our events have slides either. [image: Image] *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: SudoRoom <sudoroom(a)calendar.luma-mail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:18 PM Subject: [Admin Copy] Events this week at SudoRoom Hackerspace To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> 8/26 – Octavia Butler predicts the future (Agents and debates with robots and more) – Women &… <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SudoRoom <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> Events this week at SudoRoom Hackerspace - 8/26 – *Octavia Butler predicts the future (Agents and debates with robots and more) – Women & Non-Binary hack night <https://lu.ma/cin107ny>* 7-9 pm Monday – get your hands dirty and control the future - 8/27 Open Sewing and Making lab <https://lu.ma/5akloqgd> 2-11pm! so you can start in the afternoon - 8/27 Lynn Conway Hardware Hack Night <https://lu.ma/lvoudjla> 8-??? - 8/29 – Thursday mornings 9-11am –* Coffee & Algorithms: REVOLUTION! <https://lu.ma/63kxcvnu>* - 8/30 –* Design your own Museum Exhibit with Open-Source Blender <https://lu.ma/63kxcvnu>* – A 30 minute remote meetup teaser for an in-person Blender event https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/ Thank you all for your support! <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>

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Events this week (newsletter) with signups

by Romy Ilano

- 8/26 – *Octavia Butler predicts the future (Agents and debates with robots and more) – Women & Non-Binary hack night <https://lu.ma/cin107ny>* 7-9 pm Monday – get your hands dirty and control the future - 8/27 Open Sewing and Making lab <https://lu.ma/5akloqgd> 2-11pm! so you can start in the afternoon - 8/27 Lynn Conway Hardware Hack Night <https://lu.ma/lvoudjla> 8-??? - 8/29 – Thursday mornings 9-11am –* Coffee & Algorithms: REVOLUTION! <https://lu.ma/63kxcvnu>* - 8/30 –* Design your own Museum Exhibit with Open-Source Blender <https://lu.ma/63kxcvnu>* – A 30 minute remote meetup teaser for an in-person Blender event - 8/19 Monday – *OCTAVIA BUTLER & OPEN-SOURCE AI: RAG & VECTOR DB – WOMEN & NONBINARY HACK NIGH*T <https://sudoroom.org/events/women-nonbinary-hack-night-2024-08-19/> *we continue our open-source AI workshop focused on Octavia Butler* (see some of the prequels <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>) https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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"we rule because we don't make you look at LinkedIn profiles or do powerpoint presentations"

by Romy Ilano

trying to play on our strengths :) https://sudoroom.org/another-scene-from-media-lab-hardware-hack-night/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: [Host Copy] Looking forward to a short but sweet remote meetup

by Romy Mimi Ilano

We're starting this in an hour with some UX designers - it's going to be super short, but I think ti'd be fun to have an in-person ux workshops at some point at the omni and sudoroom. *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Romy Ilano <noreply(a)luma-mail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM Subject: [Host Copy] Looking forward to a short but sweet remote meetup To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> Thanks, looking forward to a short but sweet remote call! If this link doesn't work we will resort… <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> SPECULATIVE DESIGN IN URBAN PLANNING in Oakland (A remote meetup TEASER) Aug 23, 4:30 PM PDT · Virtual <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> *Looking forward to a short but sweet remote meetup* Romy Ilano Thanks, looking forward to a short but sweet remote call! If this link doesn't work we will resort to zoom. https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles This will mostly be around brainstorming in-person UX meetups in our space in Oakland. Any online meetups will be purely for brainstorming and directing energy to in-person meetups. Non-Profit Mission Note that *SudoRoom is a non-profit*, so we limit promoting for-profit companies such as Artificial Intelligence startups, etc. And since our mission is to serve Oakland I am focusing a lot of the brainstorming topics to enrich our awesome, diverse city, which is the best example of American values and definitely has a small-town feel that is completely lost in most of US suburbia. While we're poor, we are sexy. I have spoken to other folks, and for-profit hackathons or corporate meet-ups simply do not have interesting UX collaborations as they are not a priority there. I've noticed that tech meetups unfortunately default to treating UX designers are photoshop jockeys who are there to make pretty screens and not much else. Since we're a social good non-profit it is possible to make really kickass UX however you want, which is actually good in the long run for UX Designers' portfolios! Speculative design is an option. We just ask that we keep the focus on non-profit tools and on social good as that's part of our mission. Slides Slides exist to be ignored and make us fall asleep but I made some here in case we have to go beg for funding. [image: Image][image: Image][image: Image][image: Image]more links - Reimagining Urban Planning: Urban Planning & its relationship to Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=C8bv2MO8DKNQlOBY&v=VE6LE4HEY_E&feature=you… View Post <https://lu.ma/ep/ep-1P7BgcWh3D?utm_source=email> You received this email because you are part of SPECULATIVE DESIGN IN URBAN PLANNING in Oakland (A remote meetup TEASER) <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0?utm_source=ep-1P7BgcWh3D> on Luma. To contact the host, reply to this email. <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>

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Slides are meant to be ignored but these are great I swear - Urban planning workshops brainstorming

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/brainstorming-in-person-ux-to-solve-real-problems-and-… ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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brief remote event 8/30 - DESIGN YOUR OWN MUSEUM EXHIBIT WITH OPEN-SOURCE BLENDER

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/design-your-own-museum-exhibit-with-open-source… DESIGN YOUR OWN MUSEUM EXHIBIT WITH OPEN-SOURCE BLENDER CREATE YOUR OWN EDGY 3D MODELS OF MUSEUM EXHIBITS IN OPEN-SOURCE BLENDER *Sudo Room* 4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland Events <https://sudoroom.org/locations/sudo-room/> <https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.84124,-122.264125&z=14&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=U…> *Date/Time* Date(s) - 2024/08/30 *11:00 am - 11:30 am* *Location* Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org/locations/sudo-room/> *Categories* - blender and more 3D modelling <https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/blender-and-more-3d…> - online <https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/online/> - sudo room events <https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/> - Sign up at https://lu.ma/rgfxvcxf An online Friday check-in on creating your own museum exhibits using open-source blender tools at our North Oakland Hackerspace, SudoRoom. We will be using open-source tools such as Blender for this quick online meetup and hope to move it to in-person! See our Wiki 3DModelling <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/3D_Modeling> which we’ll be updating as the week goes on. EXHIBITS FOR ADULTS There’s a lack of museum exhibits, especially for science, targeted primarily at adults. That’s unfortunate since adults are responsible for voting on stuff that can include climate change, destruction of the environment, and designing streets that are deadly and hit little kids with big SUVs. Why don’t we make some exhibits just for adults, the kids are all right and know what’s up, but we have to make the adults understand that the world needs to improve and become a better place for all! See our Wiki:ScienceForAdults <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ScienceForAdults>which we’ll be updating this week. BRIEF ONLINE LONG IN-PERSON MEETUPS This is a brief online overview in preparation of an in-person, non-hybrid event at our wonderful hackerspace in Oakland, SudoRoom! Because it’s always much better to meetup face to face without screens. LEARN MORE ABOUT PAST EVENTS This is a continuation of the Dioramas Hack Night: We are not Coconuts <https://sudoroom.org/dioramas-at-sudoroom-hack-night-preparation-we-are-not…>meetup we had earlier in the month. We will be creating a private online link closer to the meetup date! *Flyer Credit:** Oakland Museum of California **History of California Exhibit <https://museumca.org/on-view/gallery-of-california-history/>** on Chinese Railroad Workers* ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Sudo Member Meeting

by William Myers

Hello Everyone, We should have a meeting tonight to talk about the changes coming to Sudoroom. *We'll have to discuss: * - The new lease - potentially sponsoring CC so she can continue working in the basement See you there William

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hacker food isn't only about pizza and junk - introducing dabi kolo

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/dabo-kolo-ethiopian-hacker-snacks/ OUR LOCAL ETHIOPIAN BODEGA DOWN THE STREET HAS THESE HEALTHY DELICIOUS DABO KOLO SNACKS! Hacker snacks aren’t only chips, pizza and junk food! At our recent hardware hack night we had some super-healthy Dabo Kolo fried dough snacks from our bodega next door. It’s an Ethiopian place down the street that has a cute cat and sells injera (we’ll be talking to them more in further blog posts). These dabi kolo fried dough snacks have less than five ingredients and they are all real, so they pass the Michael Pollan “Is it real food?” test! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_1677-1.jpeg> <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image.jpeg> Incidentally, the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia just built a huge metro rail line <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Light_Rail>, the first in Africa I think? There’s nothing more cyberpunk than public transportation! We are down the street from the MacArthur BART and next to two bike share stations run by Bay Wheels as well. There are over 20,000 folks from Ethiopia and Eritrea in Oakland <http://At our recent hardware hack night we had some super-healthy Dabo Kolo fried dough snacks from our bodega next door. It's an Ethiopian place down the street that has a cute cat and sells injera (we'll be talking to them more in further blog posts).>. This is a place where you can get Ethiopian coffee, injera bread, and authentic meals along with all sorts of healthy sweets and snacks. OAKLAND RULES BECAUSE IT’S SMALL TOWN AMERICA AT ITS BEST *We love Oakland,* and being physically located in the most diverse, warmest and most all-American small town vibe place in the entire United States is something that SudoRoom hackerspace is proud of. While we’re proud to be part of the hacker community, we aren’t “just another” hackerspace. While Oakland has problems, it is also the most unique and interesting place in California in our opinions, with a wealth of talent. Unlike most places in America, it’s easy to walk or bike past dozens of locally owned businesses, so SudoRoom and Oakland Temescal have a small-town mainstreet feel you wouldn’t find in other places in the USA. You really get to know the local business owners here in a way that’s simply not possible in the other cities with more clean-cut reputations. And our local businesses aren’t *only *centered around yoga studios and chain store coffee shops – Oakland has Korean grocery stores visited by real working class Korean folks, same with the Yemeni and Ethiopian and Eritrean grocery stores. We’re down the street from the East Bay Center for Reuse <https://www.creativereuse.org/> where teachers get discounted art supplies*(gee, I wish they didn’t have to spend their own money to teach kids but that’s another matte. At least they are still teaching art and not some soulless corporate multiple choice STEM module like in other places in the USA)* and hardcore Korean noodle joints. HOW TO MAKE DABO KOLO AT HOME ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Lease discussion

by Elaine Jeffery

Hi all, When are we going to meet to talk about what we want and don't want on the new lease? Thanks, --Elaine

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Retaining media lab under sudoroom

by cc OrangeLush

This is CC as a member of sudoroom I want to make a proposal to retain the Media Lab (the same square footage that SMAC occupied) as a sudoroom resource. I have the funds available (with a little extra for improvements) to pay for the extra square footage that would be added to sudoroom lease. This has been a last minute award of funding for me and I can put in a more detail proposal by week's end but a this time I want to put that on the table for tonight's meeting. Cecelia "CC" Mosher-Clark 510-478-6900

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Fwd: [Admin Copy] SUDOROOM IS MADE OF PEOPLE (AUGUST 2024 NEWSLETTER)

by Romy Ilano

Hi folks, this went out to the 59 new people we have on our lu.ma/sudoroom mailing list. lu.ma/sudoroom I'm impressed at how many people signed up, and we've been cross-posting to arts-focused local mailing lists like Decentered instead of the usual tech meet and greets and discord channels. If you could direct people here for sign-ups instead of meetup.com, that'd be great. Our meetup account is closing down in a few weeks. I'd love to just have all the sign ups be on our wordpress, but the site keeps going down (working with jake on that), and I might make copies of this newsletter on hashnode (https://sudoroom.hashnode.dev) but here it is. We also have cofffee and whiteboarding Thursday mornings, which is getting a good response! So we can escpae our monday and tuesday exclusive sign ups. EVENTS THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE Sign up on our lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup! 8/19… <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SudoRoom <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SUDOROOM IS MADE OF PEOPLE (AUGUST 2024 NEWSLETTER) EVENTS <https://sudoroom.org/events/> THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE Sign up on our <https://lu.ma/sudoroom>lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup! - 8/19 Monday – *OCTAVIA BUTLER & OPEN-SOURCE AI: RAG & VECTOR DB – WOMEN & NONBINARY HACK NIGH <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb>*T <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb> *we continue our open-source AI workshop focused on Octavia Butler* (see some of the prequels <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>) - 8/20 Tuesday – 2pm – 11pm – *Open Sewing & Making Lab <https://lu.ma/8nbgql52>* note that the hours are longer and extended! - 8/20 Tuesday 8pm-11:45pm – *The Wonder of Panoramas – Hardware Hack Night <https://lu.ma/z11o2ctd>* *we explore physical and virtual panoramas in virtual reality and on paper* - 8/22 Thursday Morning – 9:30am-10:15am – *Clique-y Algorithms <https://lu.ma/15elstji>* – Whiteboard & Coffee Series – *putting the soul back in soulless graph theory algorithms* - 8/23 Friday 4:30-5:00 pm – *Speculative Design: Urban Planning around SudoRoom & Temescal <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0>*– *a short but sweet teaser online (remote) for an in-house UX session later this month* ------------------------------ MOTTO: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY <https://sudoroom.org/appropriate-technology/> *Appropriate technology reminds us that before we choose our tools and techniques we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them unobtainable.* - Rainbow Magazine, 1977 - [image: Image] ------------------------------ HACKING A MIDI CONTROLLER <https://sudoroom.org/hacking-a-midi-controller-at-sudoroom-thank-you/> Shantea Controls hacked their midi controller to make rad music with help from Jake during hardware hack night! [image: Image] ------------------------------ OCTAVIA BUTLER THEME WITH OPEN SOURCE AI After being stuck doing dozens of joyless customer sentiment analysis and storefront chatbot examples, we decided to put the open-source and soul back into our Women & Non-Binary workshops with some *Octavia Butler <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>*themes <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>! Instead of mindlessly adding AI models, we also discussed the implications of open-source and transparency and read over some papers. Just about everyone was able to leave the evening with an open-source generative AI model and some code that ran whether they were on a Mac, windows or linux machine! [image: Image] *This upcoming Monday we continue for session two with RAG and vector databases <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb>*! <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb> ------------------------------ BUILDING A VIRTUAL REALITY SUDOROOM ON OPEN-SOURCE A-Frame Visit us in virtual reality on your headset at https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ – Chat with Romy if you want to contribute and learn A-Frame for open-source webXR <https://sudoroom.org/xr-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-webxr/> [image: Image] https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ ------------------------------ INTRODUCING SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-pho…>INVOLVING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD We’re starting with a short but sweet remote meetup next Friday <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-pho…> with an introduction to *speculative design <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-pho…>*. Eventually these will move to in-house workshops led by talented UX designers involving projects like “body-storming”, exploring the diverse immigrant neighborhood of Oakland, and imagining new technologies beyond our wildest dreams! [image: Image] Use AI to imagine walkable streets, electric scooters, and immigrant food stands to create a healthier, more locally focused, and just Oakland! ------------------------------ NEW POSTS THIS WEEK - *Note from our successful whiteboarding Session – Rust & Algebraic Datatypes* led by Jade from Noisebridge – https://sudoroom.org/algebraic-data-types-in-rust-whiteboard-style-kung-fu-… - *Slices of Life from our Hardware Hack Nigh*t – https://sudoroom.org/slices-of-life-from-hardware-hack-night/ - *Our first successful collaboration at the Museum with Noisebridge’s Aaron* – we even have a print handout from this collaboration on “Where is the Math in Art?” https://sudoroom.org/where-is-the-math-in-art-print-handout/ - We’re adding more fine arts into SudoRoom Tech and Analog hardware projects with links to art on display at the Berkeley and Oakland Museums – https://sudoroom.org/dioramas-at-sudoroom-hack-night-preparation-we-are-not… we are not coconuts and we are note a remote-first hackerspace! ------------------------------ ROBOTS CAME TO PLAY AT SUDOROOM Robots can be friends too! (from our last hardware hack night session <https://sudoroom.org/slices-of-life-from-hardware-hack-night/>) – The BEAM robot is up and running and you can see more robot projects as we update our Robot <https://sudoroom.org/robots/>project page. ------------------------------ PROJECT PAGES New project pages on various topics, please email us what you are working on! - Robots https://sudoroom.org/robots/ - Math & Art & Beyond https://sudoroom.org/math-art-beyond/ - XR https://sudoroom.org/xr-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-webxr/ Permanent Newsletter Link <https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/> <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>

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What happened to SudoRoom ?

by Anonymousemail

Found this funny video from 2013 as I will be back in the Bay this week. I completely forgot about the guy who comes in past the 3 minute mark, he used to scare the shit out of me ! https://youtu.be/oAP4ygtM37s?t=198  What times are best to visit for open hours in the next two weeks ?  I am no longer a member from back in the day. Dillon  

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SudoRoom Newsletter for August 2024

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Starting a very casual algorithms whiteboarding Thursday mornings at the sudoroom space

by Romy Ilano

Super casual, will try to remove it from the traumatic job interview process as much as possible! This will be in-person only (no remote or hybrid!!!!!) and get people on the whiteboard ideally people can start off exploring the neighborhood shortly after or right before the session (we have some cute coffee places nearby) and hopefully some art should come of it https://lu.ma/15elstji Join us for some casual Yerba Mate or coffee Thursday morning at the beautiful SudoRoom hackerspace <https://sudoroom.org/events/whiteboard-coffee-clique-y-algorithms/> in Oakland down the street from Oakland’s Temescal <https://localwiki.org/oakland/Temescal>gourmet ghetto! We’ll be focused on an *in-person whiteboarding session* on graph theory around the *topic of friendship cliques*.(No hybrid or remote participations for this one! we value human interaction!) This is for people of all levels, since everyone is at all levels of practice. If you’re rusty on graphs, then start on your trees, and if you’re rusty on your trees, then brush up to linked lists. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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Depressing topic, but this would be a cool science project at SudoRoom, how to detect if your drink has been spiked

by Romy Ilano

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-18-year-old-developed-a-test… Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 8 months

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Decentralized Web Meetup this eve!

by Ajay Tallam

Hey all! It was great to see some of you at DWeb camp <https://dwebcamp.org/> (for the rest of you, I'd _highly_ recommend checking out all dweb future meetups, and esp coming to camp if it happens again!), and either way, we'd love to invite all the sudoers to come hang out with us thurs 8/15@5p at MeloMelo! here is the link to the DWeb Afterglow (special session of Weality Check!): https://weco.io/p/28011 [image: image.png] I was thinking of hosting this at omni, potentially in sudo, to help raise omni awareness, and to have a bigger space, but felt simpler to keep it at our usual time/space. And, would love to have y'all come to coimagine everything, including potential future tie-ups! warmly, ajay

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Building out a webVR (webXR) SudoRoom - do you have goggles?

by Romy Ilano

Does anyone else have a Quest or a VisionPro? You can view SudoRoom virtually and transport in portals https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ This is a simple tour of SudoRoom and a work in progress! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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Algebraic Data Types in Rust Whiteboard Style! Kung Fu at our Women and Non-Binary hack night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/algebraic-data-types-in-rust-whiteboard-style-kung-fu-… Algebraic Data Types in Rust Whiteboard Style! Kung Fu at our Women and Non-Binary hack nightSummarizePosted on: Romy Ilano <https://sudoroom.org/author/romyilano/>August 13, 2024 <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-2.jpeg> <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-2.jpeg>Starting off with a wikipedia entry and whiteboarding from there with Jade!Humans and Whiteboards First! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_9927.jpeg> As you know, after holding a session on “Learning how to Learn <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/LearningToLearn>“, we realized that the best thing about SudoRoom is that we love tech but want to *use our tech wisely* for the forces of good. We decided to switch to a whiteboard first format with no online or hybrid component, just a bunch of human beings face to face during our Rust session at women and non-binary hack night! It was a little different. Of course we still had laptops nearby, but mostly closed, and a tablet if we absolutely had to look things up online. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9931.mov>Whiteboarding at Women & Non-Binary Hack Night What resulted as a cool “jam” as just about everybody was able to grab a whiteboard marker and participate! We were nervous… would this work? We set up the whiteboards, laid out the tables, and hoped people would be into this freestyle form of symposium! Mothball and Jade led us through a journey of all their favorite ins and outs of Rust and even the Haskell programming languages. Algebraic Data Types: Let’s Start with the Wikipedia Definition! Jade explained that even though the initial definition of “algebraic data types <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type>” in the wikipedia entry has language that’s a little scary if you’re not deep on math or computer science, you can just take apart the definition piece by piece to learn while in a conversation with others. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-2.jpeg>Starting off with a wikipedia entry and whiteboarding from there with Jade! It feels a lot less intimidating if you can ask people in person, and sketch things out in examples. Plus people who work as engineers could give out examples (like a URL builder out of an enum in Swift), creating a mini-symposium of happy, smart people drawing things out on a big whiteboard for fun! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-12.jpeg>Talking about Recursion and Stack Overflow in Whiteboard It’s nice to step away from the computer screen and discuss recursion and stack overflow. So much less dry than an online class, and these notes I took were outside of the whiteboard fray! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-4.jpeg>Functional programmers LOVE recursion! This was also a fun way to get embedded engineers in dialogue right before we went down the rabbit holes journeying from Rust to Haskell (!) But for the others at the women and nonbinary hack night, it’s nice to get down lowwwww and talk about memory in these systems programming languages and even the exotic, weird languages like Haskell. <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-11.jpeg>Things get Weird in a Good Way Some parts got pretty wild: I think at this point Mothball was showing us how they used an enum (algebraic data type) in Rust to do math for all natural numbers… I think it was a “Reverse Polish notation” calculator? Can you imagine using enums to do all your addition of natural numbers? <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-3.jpeg> The notes had us on a discussion of pattern matching in Rust with algebraic data types. When you wield algebraic data types the right way, you can do tons of pattern matching and avoid uncertainty and errors, especially in data structures that handle stuff like network calls! The pattern matching can avoid tons of boilerplate code and if/else statements and totally nasty crashes! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-9.jpeg>Pattern matching is awesome in Rust! And it makes invalid states totally unpresentable!!!!!!! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-7.jpeg> The notes get a little wacky here, but what was nice was that we could take notes and investigate later. https://gist.github.com/CMCDragonkai/9f5f75118dda10131764 <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-Notebook-5-5.jpeg> And it was so nice! Everyone stood physically closer to each other, and even though a lot of us were noobs at Rust and had never touched Haskell, the advanced people made it easy for senior and advanced beginners to understand. Even people who usually program C were able to join in! <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9930.heic> Fun times! We look forward to more in-person meetups. Why meet online when everyone is sick of online meetings? Is it really healthy for people to only socialize and do hacking from a discord channel in their bedroom, when it’s so much nicer to connect with people in person in a crazy hackerspace like sudoroom? we say YEAH! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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Bimonthly meetings?

by Cere Davis

Hey We're really approaching the deadline wrt saving Omni. I propose that we try and have meetings more often during this time, to more quickly address consensus decisions to new questions that come up. With that said, should we meet this Wednesday at 7p? We could make this fun and perhaps some of us meet in-person with some food potluck style. Thoughts? Cere

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recap + CAST / OMNI buyer due diligence meeting tonight

by Paige P

Shreya from CAST is hosting another CAST x Omni meeting tonight (Tuesday 8/13) 6-7PM. The topic today is "transitioning out of the building and/or buyer due diligence." *Recap of what we are discussing in CAST and delegates meetings* A short recap is - Omni is still trying to prevent looming foreclosure (soonest auction sale would be Sep 6). The two tangible options to do so are through Phillip Bell/City in Motion (CiM) or EBPREC. CiM proposal is more progressed at this point, and funding for it (through a loan) is secured, but EBPREC's, if approved by their board, would be a safer option. At this point, it is pretty certain that both options would mean Omni's whole current board (delegates and officers) would step down and be replaced by new board members. Current Omni Commons members would no longer controlling operations. If foreclosure ends up happening, the collectives will be looking for different places to rent. It is unsure if any profit will be made after foreclosure. If there is any profit, one proposal is to donate any funds to Sogorea Te. There have also been vague proposals of how to split up the money amongst collectives, or keeping it in the Omni nonprofit. This is a big change that we are going to have to decide on very soon, and I hope we get as many people involved in the discussion as we can. For more info, I think last week's meeting is a good overview of where we are at now: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2024/08/08_Delegates. *how to join the meeting tonight* It is a hybrid meeting, with CAST joining remotely. We have it set up conference style in one of the Omni basement rooms (pictured below). If you'd like to attend from your own device, reply to me and I will share the zoom link. [image: Basement_2017.png] Thanks, Paige

1 year, 8 months

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Here's the event posting for the weekly meeting

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/sudoroom-general-meeting/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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Could we get the sudoroom meetings (online or not) on the calendar?

by Romy Ilano

I apologize, I haven't been able to make them the past few years. When is the next sudoroom meeting? Is it hybrid? I would like to show that we have events going on that aren't only on Tuesday or Monday :P and spruce upt he rest of the week ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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I'm spicing up the projects landing page on the blog - could you show any cool projects your'e doing?

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/projects-3/ This is a shambles as it is... ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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Fwd: [Host Copy] Looking forward to the Octavia Butler AI meetup tonight!

by Romy Mimi Ilano

Luma has a nice feature where we can send attendees a pre-game email. We can make a habit of this with the hardware hack night meetups as well! *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Romy Ilano <noreply(a)luma-mail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 10:49 AM Subject: [Host Copy] Looking forward to the Octavia Butler AI meetup tonight! To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> SudoRoom prefers face to face discussion, so we'll minimize going over videos and presentations… <https://lu.ma/qk5mqs6s?utm_source=ep-N3XmNc4Jnd> Octavia Butler Inspired AI Workshop (Women & Non-Binary Night) Aug 12, 7:00 PM PDT · Sudo Room <https://lu.ma/qk5mqs6s?utm_source=ep-N3XmNc4Jnd> <https://lu.ma/qk5mqs6s?utm_source=ep-N3XmNc4Jnd> *Looking forward to the Octavia Butler AI meetup tonight!* Romy Ilano SudoRoom prefers face to face discussion, so we'll minimize going over videos and presentations while we're at the session. Looking forward to a fun *in-person* event. Downloads - We'll be using Ollama for the demo - Please download it on your laptop https://ollama.com/download - Have your IDE ready - Favorites are Microsoft Visual Code We'll be whiteboarding the rest along with the class. Food for thought We have posted some interesting videos to watch before or after the event. https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/ There are some nice clips of Ms. Butler herself speaking on Democracy Now in 2005! Regarding Parking: As you know, there's an epidemic of car vandalism. - Don't park on Telegraph around the Omni. - Bay Wheels bike share is the best option, the residential streets to the east of Shattuck are quite wealthy and less vandalized for some reason parking and then biking is a great solution. - Park a 5 minute walk on Dover street between 47th and 44th (the fancy residential across the street on Shattuck - Also around the large Walgreens parking lot at 5055 Telegraph is much safer too. - OmniCommons serve folks in need with food not bombs, etc. so be considerate of members and people hanging out in the front. They are not going to harm you or your car. View Post <https://lu.ma/ep/ep-N3XmNc4Jnd?utm_source=email> You received this email because you are part of Octavia Butler Inspired AI Workshop (Women & Non-Binary Night) <https://lu.ma/qk5mqs6s?utm_source=ep-N3XmNc4Jnd> on Luma. To contact the host, reply to this email. <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>

1 year, 8 months

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Looking for info on Sudo Room lease or similar agreements for external funding organization

by Dane

Hey Sudo Room, I want to check if there is an official lease that Sudo Room has with Omni Commons in terms of leasing the specific space that Sudo Room does at this time ? or even an unofficial lease Is Sudo Room considered a "fiscally sponsored project" of Omni Commons in terms of 501c3 relations ? Without Omni Commons, does Sudo Room exist as a legal entity ? (501c3 stuff) I am checking in with a community organization that is oriented towards community land trusts about finding a partner organization to join Omni Commons in potentially paying off the mortgage in exchange for equity, etc. The organization is non-profit 501c3 that is oriented towards preventing the usual capitalist development of land (preventing Omni Commons from being turned into "Omni Condos" or "Omni Shopping Mall", etc.) and they work with Sogorea Te' <https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/> Indigenous Land Trust, among other groups. *Can I find a Sudo Room lease or other formal/informal document that explains how much Sudo Room contributes/pays each month and for how much usage of Omni Commons ? * I think we (Sudo Room) contribute *$ 2000* each month to Omni Commons ? If I can show a formal or informal lease to this group, they can utilize it to see how the space is structured with the current groups/entities. Dane P.S.- I want to check on how I can get my Sudo Room wiki account <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Welcome> approved ?

1 year, 8 months

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Announcing Panorama theme for August 20 hardware hack night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2024-08-20/ THIS WEEK’S THEME: THE WONDER OF PANORAMAS - Sign up at https://lu.ma/z11o2ctd Panoramas have enchanted people since the dawn of humankind, with people painting 360 landscapes in caves to give the illusions of a “virtual reality.” Panoramas have existed as theme park-style wonders back to Shakespearan and Victorian times, allowing people to experience the wonder of visiting far-off lands (When Thomas Cole Caught ‘Panoramania’ at the Met <https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/thomas-cole-panorama>). THE PANORAMA AT THE LASCAUX CAVE IN FRANCE The theme for tonight’s SudoRoom will be panoramas in physical form through paintings and a trip through time to see their use in children’s toys, on light projections, tv screens and onward to modern augmented and virtual reality! Outside of that you can also do anything and everything! Solder, sew, and more HACK ON ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING <https://sudoroom.org/hardware-hack-night/> ○ *Projects:* can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection art, to people building their own microchip boards! We provide the space, tools and peer learning – you bring your project and enthusiasm! *○ Group Sewing:* Learn to do simple mending or get help with technical fabric and textile projects. In addition to regular machines our Sewing Lab features heavy-duty industrial sewing machines and sergers. Our in house sewing guru CC has worked for Academy or Art College, Tesla, SuitX, and Zipline and has vast sewing machine repair and maintenance experience; bring your own machine to tune up for tip-top operation and sew alongside others. *○ General Repair:* Fix it Clinic’s weekly Oakland residency: bring your broken, non-functioning things – electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, fabric items, etc.– for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We’ll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. First-time repairers and “Fixing Families” are heartily invited. Learn more at https://www.fixitclinic.org/ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/HardwareHackNight [image: hardware hack night]PEOPLE USING THEIR HANDS TO MAKE ALL SORTS OF FUN STUFF ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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Re: we are low on lead solder

by Kent Leech

63/37 is great to work with! My fave, but 60/40 works well too. I¹ll ask the folks at the radio museum; they might have a spare roll of 60/40. -Kent ----- Kent Leech Illustration http://www.kentleech.com kent(a)kentleech.com +1 (510) 504-0634 -- From: Mitch Altman via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Reply-To: Mitch Altman <maltman23(a)hotmail.com> Date: Fri, August 9, 2024 at 1:56 AM To: Jake Watters via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>, Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: we are low on lead solder > For what it's worth, my favorite solder is also: 63/37 (Pb/Sn) rosin core > 0.02" diameter. 60/40 is also nice. But, after years of searching, I found a > lead-free solder which both works well, and which has fumes that don't hurt my > (very sensitive lungs): > Chip Quik WW100Ge.020 1LB > This is available at both Mouser.com and Digikey.com . > > Its composition: Sn/Cu0.7/Ni0.05/Ge0.006 (called "Germanium doped"). > > I still like solder with lead more, but, this germanium doped solder is quite > good! > > Cheers, > Mitch > > > > > > > From: Jake Watters via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 23:58 > To: SudoRoom <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] we are low on lead solder > > lead free solder sucks! and we are pretty low on non-lead-free solder. > > If anyone has extra rolls of regular lead solder (often labeled "rosin core" > or Pb 63) and you want to store it at sudoroom, it will help. > > people new to solder often get frustrated when they don't realize they're > trying to use lead-free solder, which sucks. Also the flux is toxic compared > to the literal pine sap that's in regular solder. > > -jake > _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list -- > sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org To unsubscribe send an email to > sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org More options at > https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/

1 year, 8 months

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New blog posts from sudoroom this week: Octavia Butler clip, august hack moments, and whiteboarding rust & Swift

by Romy Ilano

* Early aguust hardware hack night moments https://sudoroom.org/early-august-hardware-hack-night-moments/ Great clip from Octavia butler - https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/ Whiteboarding at swift & Rust women's night - https://sudoroom.org/rust-swift-whiteboarding-women-non-binary-night/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 8 months

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we are low on lead solder

by Jake Watters

lead free solder sucks! and we are pretty low on non-lead-free solder. If anyone has extra rolls of regular lead solder (often labeled "rosin core" or Pb 63) and you want to store it at sudoroom, it will help. people new to solder often get frustrated when they don't realize they're trying to use lead-free solder, which sucks. Also the flux is toxic compared to the literal pine sap that's in regular solder. -jake

1 year, 9 months

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An idea - 💡 why is SudoRoom unique in this place and time and history and how has it uniquely impacted you?

by Romy Ilano

An idea - 💡 why is SudoRoom unique in this place and time and history and how has it uniquely impacted you? Thinking of a series of blog posts with people (we can use anonymous pseudonyms) There is nothing like SudoRoom and no place on the world that is like Oakland. We are the most original city in the United States 🇺🇸 If we express that it will also segue nicely into the unique projects we’ve made. I don’t think our mix of Brains and creativity can be found in quite the same way on another hackerspace !

1 year, 9 months

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Missed Opportunities: Reaching out to the arts - Adding SudoRoom to arts-focused community lists + visiting Museums

by Romy Ilano

I have been adding sudoRoom events to the Decentered Arts list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1eX21lRIMOl3LLUhanRptk0jWbKoyZJV… It's a great place, and there are artists hanging out and doing slide shows of their art in people's homes. I think a missed opportunity that I could have done better on is reaching out to people in the arts who need a place to work and play. Artist are natural hackers. We do have a large ballroom, ideal places for weekly meetups of slides and artist stuff. And artists often build stuff with robots and explore areas like agumetnd reality. *We should always focus on what makes us special* if we only focus on "hackers" and biotech we have stiff competition, as Noisebridge is more well-funded and has more active nights (we love them though) Also, as Peter explained to me, UC Berkeley and Laney nowadays have extremely clean and well-equipped makerspace labs, and of course stuff is closer on campus. Due to gentrification we have also lost a large contingent of cool happy go lucky artsy mathematician and computer science types, and we're not in downtown Oakland. But the arts scene is pretty big in Oakland, and artists are hackers! I could have done better on this! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 9 months

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Fwd: Calling All Sports Fans 🏀

by Romy Ilano

============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: SFMOMA <membership(a)sfmoma.org> Date: Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 12:22 PM Subject: Calling All Sports Fans 🏀 To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> Show us your fan-made artwork! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [image: SFMOMA Members] <https://sfmoma.prospect2.com/lt.php?x=3DZy~GE7JIOe5Hz6-N9NVOhtAXQiiQTylxY2k…> <https://sfmoma.prospect2.com/lt.php?x=3DZy~GE7JIOe5Hz6-N9NVOhtAXQiiQTylxY2k…> *Bring Your Fan Art to Share and Display!* All artworks will be displayed on Sunday, September 1 As we soak in the spectacular feats we've been watching during the Paris 2024 Olympics (Go Simone Biles!), SFMOMA is gearing up for our many sports-related fall exhibitions. In the process, we've been learning how art can express the raw emotional experience of sports and play. And now we're opening up the call to our community, thinking about how our very own Bay Area sports teams inspire us year-round! *SFMOMA seeks fan-made artworks* that reflect on, reimagine, and celebrate the people and culture of Bay Area sports. *On September 1, 2024*, we invite artists to bring their works to share during a one-day display in SFMOMA’s Gina and Stuart Peterson White Box. At 3 p.m., artist David Huffman will select up to 15 works as finalists for possible presentation in Steps Coffee <https://sfmoma.prospect2.com/lt.php?x=3DZy~GE7JIOe5Hz6-N9NVOhtAXQiiQTylxY2k…> on Floor 2, from October 2024 to February 2025. 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Next week's theme (though you can hack on whatever you want on Tuesday) - Octavia Butler, AI & print zines!

by Romy Ilano

https://lu.ma/qk1nn0m7 https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2024-08-13/ HARDWARE HACK NIGHT! THEME: OCTAVIA BUTLER OCTAVIA BUTLER IS OUR THEME ON THIS HARDWARE HACK NIGHT AS WE MIX AI, PRINT MAGAZINES, AND MORE! *This week’s theme:* Print is hardware too! And what better muse can we imagine than *Octavia Butler,* science fiction Goddess. We’ll have a pre-hardware hack night presentation on creative ways to mix print with electronics, use artificial intelligence in the most open source and ethical way, and work on our SudoRoom print zine! Throw in some 3D models into the mix too! *e are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked!* ○ *Projects:* can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection art, to people building their own microchip boards! We provide the space, tools and peer learning – you bring your project and enthusiasm! *○ Group Sewing:* Learn to do simple mending or get help with technical fabric and textile projects. In addition to regular machines our Sewing Lab features heavy-duty industrial sewing machines and sergers. Our in house sewing guru CC has worked for Academy or Art College, Tesla, SuitX, and Zipline and has vast sewing machine repair and maintenance experience; bring your own machine to tune up for tip-top operation and sew alongside others. *○ General Repair:* Fix it Clinic’s weekly Oakland residency: bring your broken, non-functioning things – electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, fabric items, etc.– for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We’ll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. First-time repairers and “Fixing Families” are heartily invited. Learn more at https://www.fixitclinic.org/ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/HardwareHackNight ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Zoom Meeting 6PM Tonight with CAST

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: There are a couple of efforts in progress to try to stave off foreclosure but things are day-to-day at this point: to get an up-to-the minute info on the latest status you’re welcome to attend a Zoom Meeting 6PM Tonight with Shreya from CAST. Please email me back directly for the Zoom link ASAP, certainly before 6PM. Sincerely, -Peter

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Sudoroom meeting tonight

by Jake Watters

Let's have a sudoroom meeting tonight at 7pm Lots of stuff to talk about! Unfortunately our delegate William is not available but we can take notes

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a new print handout on "where is the math in art"

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/where-is-the-math-in-art-print-handout/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Zoom Meeting 6PM Tonight with CAST

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Foreclosure is six days away: if you have any questions about transitioning out of the building you’re welcome to attend a Zoom Meeting 6PM Tonight with Shreya from CAST. Please email me back directly for the Zoom link ASAP, certainly before 6PM. Sincerely, -Peter

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who's going to noisebridge bday today??

by ajay t

hey friends! I *just* found out about this, might be fun, might be good networking, etc. (And networking is always a good way to make people aware of omni and our needs!) https://noisebridge.net/wiki/NB15 I'm in NW oakland (near berkeley) and would love to catch a ride with others, also down to bart together, though i'm at a n berkeley potluck until ~start time. warmly, ajay (feel free to signal me, ajay.61)

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Outside trip to thrifting the. Return to the media lab

by Romy Ilano

When I get here was really nice what if people went in mass to eighth Street and then took the train back to Omnicom in the afternoon maybe on the weekend and modified the fines that they found there https://goldengatexpress.org/106970/multimedia/haight-it-or-love-it/ Gator Talk: Haight it or love it – Golden Gate Xpress Sent from my iPhone

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Preparations for next Tuesday's hardware hack day - we are not coconuts!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/dioramas-at-sudoroom-hack-night-preparation-we-are-not… ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: Of Possible Interest: SF Foundation Community Impact Fund

by Peter Mui

(Forwarded from Jack Soares as an FYI. Jack runs the Friends of the Oakland Tool Lending Library; they might be interested in renting at Omni someday. -Peter) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Of Possible Interest: SF Foundation Community Impact Fund Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:17:13 +0000 (UTC) From: To: CC: Peter-- The San Francisco Foundation's Community Impact Fund offers low-interest loans to nonprofits. One of the loans in their current portfolio was made to a nonprofit for a building renovation. If Omni Commons hasn't already looked into it, it might be worth reviewing... Bay Area Community Impact Fund <https://sff.org/what-we-do/investments/bacif-for-applicants/> Bay Area Community Impact Fund The Bay Area Community Impact Fund provides nonprofit organizations and social enterprises with low-interest, lo... <https://sff.org/what-we-do/investments/bacif-for-applicants/> --Jack.

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