- sudo-discuss - sudoroom.org

by David Keenan

Hi all, Expect outages to the upstairs kitchen and the stage mezzanine particularly while we troubleshoot these two circuits. It's possible for safety reasons power may need to be turned off to other circuits. If so an announcement will be made. Sorry for the late notice but it's not easy to get qualified electricians in who will not charge an arm and a leg, so I hope everyone can roll with this (please contact me with any questions) David

11 years, 2 months

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unconference after the ALA in June

by April Glaser

Hullo LOL Space and Sudoers, I write to let you all know about an unconference I'm co-organizing in June after the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco. It's a two day event, June 29-30 at Noisebridge :) I'm working with the Library Freedom Project, an partnership among librarians, technologists, attorneys, and advocates to teach librarians about surveillance threats, digital rights, and privacy-protecting technology. Here's our call for participation: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/?p=286 If any of you all know librarians who may be interested please share, or if you're available to help with and of the privacy tools trainings or have an idea for a workshop/way to help, please shoot me an email. april(a)libraryfreedomproject.org We're still hashing out the schedule, but we're very excited to invite tons of local luminaries to speak on these emerging issues in libraries. And even more stoked that this conversation is happening at Noisebridge. We'll have skill shares, conversations on patron privacy, discuss issues of access, radical archiving, copyright, community outreach, and more. Wishing everyone a wonderful Monday. All my best, April -- 0x54FC570B

11 years, 2 months

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Fwd: Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge?

by Lisha Sterling

Hi! When I first wrote the email below, I figured that February 11 would give you plenty of time to discuss and make a decision. I've been sending things to the wrong addresses like a dork, though. So, if you can, I'd love to hear back from you by Monday 16 February with a yay or a nay. Thank you! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lisha Sterling <lisha(a)geekswobounds.org> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:39 PM Subject: Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge? To: info(a)sudoroom.com Hello Sudoers! Long time no see! It's been great to watch what's been going on in Sudoroom life, the move to Omni-Commons, the crowdfunding campaign, the classes and all the rest through the telescopic lens of the Interwebs. I miss you guys, though and look forward to visiting when I'm down in Oakland again. Today I'm writing to ask if you guys would be willing to be our host site for the Oakland site for the International Space Apps Challenge April 10-12, 2015. My colleague Lindsay Oliver is moving down to Oakland on March 1, and since she'll be a new local, we decided to celebrate her move by asking for the Oakland Space Apps license. Now that they've said that she can run that event, we need to find a site and hunt down sponsors to fund it. I thought about a couple different possible hosts, but then it dawned on me that Sudoroom and the Omni-Commons would be a WAY better site than any other I could think of. What we would would need from you is SPACE. Well,actually, we need space and internet and electricity. We will find sponsors to pay for food, beverages, and prizes (NB: We don't do cash prizes. We celebrate collaboration, not competition). If you guys have leads to help us find those sponsors, that's always appreciated, but not at all required. What you get: The awesomest hackathon of the year in your space, exposure to people who don't normally show up to hackerspaces but would probably love yours, mention in any press we get for the event, and of course, listing as a major sponsor of the Oakland site of ISAC. International Space Apps Challenge is a global hackathon with over 80 sites worldwide. This will be the fourth year of the event, and Geeks Without Bounds has been involved since the very first one. NASA curates challenges that have ranged from jewellery making to data hacking, educational development to interplanetary network design. There is literally something for everyone at a Space Apps Challenge, and it is our absolute favorite hackathon of the year. (Considering that we may do as many as 25 in any given year, that's saying something.) Geeks Without Bounds is a nonprofit organization fiscally sponsored by the School Factory. We support humanitarian open source projects through a combination of hackathons and an accelerator program where we take promising projects through a six month series of mentorships to help them reach sustainability. In the first year of Space Apps, GWOB ran the flagship event at Tech Shop in San Francisco. In the second year we organized three sites including Glasgow, Scotland and Krakow, Poland. Last year we were involved with 5 different sites around the globe. This year we will be organizing just two: Oakland, CA and Greensboro, NC. (Although people that we trained up will be taking over organization of sites in every city where we've organized Space Apps events in the past!) GWOB hackathons are always a little different than the stereotypical hackathon event. You can read more about our take on the form at http://gwob.org/why-i-love-hackathons/ And because GWOB was deeply involved in the original design of Space Apps when it first started, the global organization shares many of our core values, meaning that if you enjoy Space Apps in one location one year, you will probably enjoy it at other locations in other years just as much. We hope that you will say YES and that we can hack space with you and the 9000 or so Space Apps hackers around the world and on the ISS this year. Please let us know your answer by February 11, so that if you are not able to host us, we will still have plenty of time to find another location. Thank you! -- Lisha Sterling Executive Director, Geeks Without Bounds <http://geekswobounds.org/> telephone: 425-610-8636 hangouts: lisha(a)gwob.org schedule a meeting with me <http://doodle.com/lishevita>

11 years, 2 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by yar

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Soenke <soenkeveirls(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ok. > For the record... > If this is how you all are going to conduct ourselves, and treat each other, > I don't really want to be a part of it anymore. > This is absurd. > I thought we were trying to be better people here. > But I suppose I was wrong. > > Extremely sarcastically, I apologize for speaking up. > > Have a good weekend everyone. Hey Korl, with nothing but respect, I was just trying to express solidarity with Ryan without making it about you. To me this is about having a safe space where people aren't assaulted or misgendered. There is nothing personal against you here. I hope you can learn to see that.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by yar

Sudoroom's values that we agreed on way back in 2011 include "safe space over ideology". Omni's values clearly say that we center the perspectives and prioritize the needs of survivors of assault, and of trans people struggling against transphobia. Our safer space policy says that we "prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort." https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Statement_of_Solidarity https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy I think the best thing our community can do right now is show support for Ryan in this moment. I'm sad that we are getting distracted by other things. Policy details have their place, but not if it just multiplies the trauma of assault with the additional trauma of not being fully and unambiguously supported by your community when it happens. At the risk of continuing a heated thread, I must repeat this: I don't find Ryan's tone offensive our uncalled for. Ryan is speaking from a place of vulnerability and immediate experience, and I would ask others who are coming to this from a place of distance, abstraction and polite discourse to please have more humility, compassion and forgiveness towards a recent survivor of assault and of multiple axes of oppression at Omni. Just two days ago Ryan hosted an "empathetic listening circle" at Omni. The idea was to be a place for people to open their hearts and hear each others' raw words. Just listen. Without immediately replying with advice, redirection, or contradiction. He hosted this because he really needs that right now, and I believe many of us direly need it as well. Can we please have another round of empathetic listening right now, with priority going to immediate survivors of assault? I believe that is the key to continuing this conversation respectfully without shutting it down entirely. Thank you.

11 years, 2 months

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a small, varied contribution

by J Clark

A quick note to acknowledge Rayc for enthusiastically accepting a bunch of stuff I brought in on Thursday (including two Apple TVs, random packages of nails, screws, molly bolts, an electric drill that works but is missing a chuck--I have drill bits but have to find them, etc.), and to David B who accepted a bunch of books and some bowls (may you have warm foods in your belles!). Also a request: if these things were not found to be welcome and useful, please let me know. My intent was to contribute, not to dump. j.

11 years, 2 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by Jake

I just want to point out here, in case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, that Al Sweigart is trolling us. Our safe spaces policies and our methods of implementing them have been working well. Just because someone like Al wants to theorize about a super-intelligent hyper-evil entity that would take advantage of our process doesn't mean that we actually have that problem. Al, you are not part of our community, in the sense of participating in the space in a positive and caring way. Please stop inserting yourself into our discussions. Torrie, for you to be responding to Al's trolling as if he respresents sudoroom in any way is extremely unfortunate. I encourage you to research his effects on noisebridge in the past. thank you -jake

11 years, 2 months

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Fwd: Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by Ryan

fwding this to sudo and cdc as well ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan <yandoryn(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM Subject: Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry To: "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> Perry, who as far as I know is not affiliated with any collective in the space, was at the Omni until late last night. He was heavily inebriated and reeked of alcohol. In attempting to talk with me, he got incredibly touchy-feely and further invaded my space, getting so close that I could feel his breath on my skin. I informed him loudly that touch needs to be consensual in the space and that he should ask me before touching me. I told him that the safe space policy is next to the front door and that he should read it. I managed to get away from him, but he followed me outside. Ribre (sp?) was outside with her guitar and he sat down next to her, invaded her space, and tried to strike up a seemingly very uncomfortable conversation. She told him that whatever he was talking about was something that he'd have to deal with on his own, not with her, and that she cannot deal with drunk men, and that they make her unsafe. Instead of ceasing the conversation, he got closer and tried to tell her that they needed to continue it. He continued in this vein for a while longer, until I loudly informed him that the conversation was not consensual and he needed to stop. He started to argue with me, however RAYC was able to defuse Perry and lead him away from the interaction. I spoke to Kwe and Juul before they left, to make sure I had backup if I needed to ask Perry to leave the building. Eventually, I was the only member left in the building, so I asked RAYC to shut down the building for me, and that I was only comfortable vouching for him and Nicholas. RAYC got Perry to leave. I spoke with David Keenan this morning, explaining the situation, and DK said that he has spoken to Perry in the past about his behaviour, specifically his behaviour when under the influence of alcohol. I will let DK speak more to that. Is anyone aware of a collective that Perry is involved with? In my conversation with DK, he said that when he spoke to Perry he said he was with FNB, but was probably lying, as he didn't even know where the kitchen was. Regardless, I ask that Perry be banned from the Omni, pending mediation, as his actions clearly violate our safe space policy and he refused to take action to alter his behaviour.

11 years, 2 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by yar

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Ryan <yandoryn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a fucking woman, thank you, and when I'm sexually assaulted it > should also be easy to ban someone. For the record, Ryan, I think your tone is perfectly justified here.

11 years, 2 months

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Missing Phone and Camera too

by Kazoo

Hey Omni! Thank you for hosting us last night! The event went well despite the rain:) Bad news is my cellphone (iphone4 with painting of woman case) and a small digital camera all went missing. If you see either one, please let me know. Thank you! Kazoo * I make independent media <http://www.igg.me/at/pn2015>* On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Found it! > > It wasn't in the ticket booth room, but it was lurking darkly betwixt the > two sets of doubledoors.. sneaky! > > thanks all! > David > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ru just looking for the dolly or the filing cabinet on the dolly? In >> either case I guess, I remember moving some such device to the ticket booth >> room for the White Festival event. Hope that helps. >> >> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I was planning on taking this to Reed Brothers today to rekey so we >>> could have a safe place to store our important documents and petty cash. >>> >>> However as of last night at least, it appears to have disappeared from >>> the ballroom. I have done a quick walk around the building and asked around >>> but it cannot be found. >>> >>> We really need this and that dolly, too. If someone took it or >>> repurposed it, can you please let me/us know asap? >>> >>> Love, >>> David >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >>> >> >

11 years, 2 months

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calling a sudo board meeting

by April Glaser

Hi there, I'd like to propose a meeting of the new board of directors at Sudo Room. We need to have a meeting in order to finalize our board nominations and approve various steps in moving forward with becoming a federal non profit. If you are or you believe you are a member of the board please fill out this poll to find a time to meet. https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/2015_sudo_board_/ If you have a list of current board members, please share it asap! All the best ever, April -- 0x54FC570B

11 years, 2 months

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help find dolly & fire-safe 2-drawer file cabinet (missing from Omni ballroom)

by David Keenan

Hi everyone, I was planning on taking this to Reed Brothers today to rekey so we could have a safe place to store our important documents and petty cash. However as of last night at least, it appears to have disappeared from the ballroom. I have done a quick walk around the building and asked around but it cannot be found. We really need this and that dolly, too. If someone took it or repurposed it, can you please let me/us know asap? Love, David

11 years, 2 months

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Recycling: Please come cash in our bottles & cans!

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Hi all, I just threw several dozen bottles and cans in the recycling bins. If someone wants to pick them out and cash them in, feel free! There's a big blue recycling bin in CCL that I originally bought because the Fermentation Station said they wanted more bottles. But inevitably, I'm the one who winds up having to empty and clean that bin every week anyway. So - IT'S FREE SEASON ON EVERYTHING WITH A CA REFUND VALUE! If the Fermentation station empties the bin in CCL, that's great. If someone else wants to come empty it on a regular basis, that's just fine with me too. Just don't leave a mess for us to deal with afterwards. Please put all non-refund recyclables in the small recycling bins, and all non-recyclables in the black trash bin. Thanks! Patrik

11 years, 2 months

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low tech oculus rift - google cardboard

by Louis Huang

I just saw these and thought they were pretty cool: Google cardboard (https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/). Low tech virtual reality glasses assembled by cardboard. They can be bought from google or the designs can be printed out, assembled DIY. - Louis

11 years, 2 months

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All kitchen appliances moved to Sudo, due to kitchen electrical issue

by David Keenan

All electrical appliances (toasters, microwave, hot water maker) in the kitchen have been temporarily moved to Sudo Room, following the electrical breaker powering the upstairs & la commune tripping with increasing regularity. This circuit powering the kitchen used to be on breaker #8 of the subpanel in Rise Above (west wall), now it is on #7 moved by Steve Bloom. Unfo it's now tripping way more than it een used to before, and hi-amp appliances in the kitchen such as toasters etc almost immediately trip the circuit. At this point this is a hazardous condition and an electricians are being called to try and resolve this. Please do not put any of these appliances back into the kitchen circuit until this electrical problem has been addressed. And contact me if anyone has any questions. Thank you :) Best, David

11 years, 2 months

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Can worker cooperatives alleviate income inequality? | Al Jazeera America

by Romy

Don't usually send internet links but this looks rad http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/13/worker-run-cooperatives.html Sent from my iPhone

11 years, 3 months

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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] Your awesome organization + my awesome student...

by Vicky Knox

Anyone interested in reaching out? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elizabeth Gore <elizabeth.d.gore(a)gmail.com> Date: 2015-02-05 15:35 GMT-08:00 Subject: [sfchalkboard] Your awesome organization + my awesome student... To: sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net Chalkmeisters! I have a handful of motivated, fantastic high school students from Richmond who need to find a one-week internship / work shadow experience in an organization or company in the first week of April. Makers, designers, bike mechanics, social justice-- would love to expose them to something beyond Citibank and Sephora... Get in touch if you work somewhere cool and would be willing to share it with a teenager. Lizzy -- *"If you fear it, walk towards it." - James Baldwin* To learn how to edit subscriber settings, visit: https://help.riseup.net/en/lists/list-user/subscribing

11 years, 3 months

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Electrical issue - please no space heaters right now, at least upstairs

by David Keenan

Hi all, I removed a space heater found in the upstairs 'treatment' room and stowed it below the stairs in the bunker room. Please everyone, do not connect any space heaters upstairs, or any high-amp-load device upstairs. For now the circuit has been left off pending a qualified electrician visiting. As stated in my email, this circuits powering the upstairs rooms currently has issues, is currently tripping constantly and any high-amp device sets it off. I also think there maybe should be no space heaters in omni, they suck an incredible amount of electricity. I would rather we run the furnaces. There is for example a furnace in Sudo/CCL that has never been turned on.. What do people think about no space heaters? Best, David

11 years, 3 months

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Gym equipment needs to be re-packed up, covered and removed

by David Keenan

Hi, someone unpacked the gym... I realize this is not obvious to many but for liability and consensus reasons we can't have the gym set up in a useable state. It was agreed that this equipment would be removed from the premises but that has still not happened.. it is just being stored, and hopefully, removed soon. I appreciate that someone wanted to set it up but please, put it back in a compact area and put the tarp back over it.. Contact me if you have any questions.. Best, David

11 years, 3 months

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Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge?

by Lisha Sterling

Hello Sudoers! Long time no see! It's been great to watch what's been going on in Sudoroom life, the move to Omni-Commons, the crowdfunding campaign, the classes and all the rest through the telescopic lens of the Interwebs. I miss you guys, though and look forward to visiting when I'm down in Oakland again. Today I'm writing to ask if you guys would be willing to be our host site for the Oakland site for the International Space Apps Challenge April 10-12, 2015. My colleague Lindsay Oliver is moving down to Oakland on March 1, and since she'll be a new local, we decided to celebrate her move by asking for the Oakland Space Apps license. Now that they've said that she can run that event, we need to find a site and hunt down sponsors to fund it. I thought about a couple different possible hosts, but then it dawned on me that Sudoroom and the Omni-Commons would be a WAY better site than any other I could think of. What we would would need from you is SPACE. Well,actually, we need space and internet and electricity. We will find sponsors to pay for food, beverages, and prizes (NB: We don't do cash prizes. We celebrate collaboration, not competition). If you guys have leads to help us find those sponsors, that's always appreciated, but not at all required. What you get: The awesomest hackathon of the year in your space, exposure to people who don't normally show up to hackerspaces but would probably love yours, mention in any press we get for the event, and of course, listing as a major sponsor of the Oakland site of ISAC. International Space Apps Challenge is a global hackathon with over 80 sites worldwide. This will be the fourth year of the event, and Geeks Without Bounds has been involved since the very first one. NASA curates challenges that have ranged from jewellery making to data hacking, educational development to interplanetary network design. There is literally something for everyone at a Space Apps Challenge, and it is our absolute favorite hackathon of the year. (Considering that we may do as many as 25 in any given year, that's saying something.) Geeks Without Bounds is a nonprofit organization fiscally sponsored by the School Factory. We support humanitarian open source projects through a combination of hackathons and an accelerator program where we take promising projects through a six month series of mentorships to help them reach sustainability. In the first year of Space Apps, GWOB ran the flagship event at Tech Shop in San Francisco. In the second year we organized three sites including Glasgow, Scotland and Krakow, Poland. Last year we were involved with 5 different sites around the globe. This year we will be organizing just two: Oakland, CA and Greensboro, NC. (Although people that we trained up will be taking over organization of sites in every city where we've organized Space Apps events in the past!) GWOB hackathons are always a little different than the stereotypical hackathon event. You can read more about our take on the form at http://gwob.org/why-i-love-hackathons/ And because GWOB was deeply involved in the original design of Space Apps when it first started, I like to think that this event is pretty awesome whichever site you may go to. We hope that you will say YES and that we can hack space with you and the 9000 or so Space Apps hackers around the world and on the ISS this year. Please let us know your answer by February 11, so that if you are not able to host us, we will still have plenty of time to find another location. Thank you! -- Lisha Sterling Executive Director, Geeks Without Bounds <http://geekswobounds.org/> telephone: 425-610-8636 hangouts: lisha(a)gwob.org schedule a meeting with me <http://doodle.com/lishevita>

11 years, 3 months

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netroots nation scholarship

by Praveen Sinha

Yo, I think it's important to prove folks like Bill O'reilly right and that the democrat party really is full of anarchists. Here's a scholarship for netroots nation conference in glamorous Phoenix http://www.netrootsnation.org/bnrapp/

11 years, 3 months

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Calendar Display Project

by Phebe Polk

Hello, A project that I had wanted to build for myself, is a wall mounted google calendar display. At first I thought that I would need to work it out from scratch but then I googled and found that someone had already done it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Wall-Mounted-Google-Calendar/?… I would love to make one for the Sudo Room / Omni to display the Omni Calendar. It is important for people who visit during the day to be able to know what events are going on. I think it would increases the community involvement with the space. We could even set it up to alternate display of the calendar with posters from the different groups or a short comic explaining the safer spaces policy. The items listed for making this are: Equipment you will need - Home network (wireless if you can't run a cable to the Pi) - Raspberry Pi (I've used the model B) - SD card 2GB or larger - AC Adaptor (I used a USB wall charger for mobile phones check here http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#Power_adapters) - Micro USB cable - USB keyboard and mouse - USB wireless adaptor (MAKE SURE IT IS COMPATIBLE OUT OF THE BOX http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters) - HDMI cable - Wall mountable HDMI capable monitor or any monitor with some kind of HDMI converter - Wall bracket for your monitor I know that some of the things donated to the space are available for projects like this one. Are the monitors available for use? Is there any extra / leftover Raspberry Pi's? I am willing to buy/ dumpster dive for items that are needed for this project and not already in the space. I just want to start by asking what is already here that I can use. If you want to build this with me, then send me an email. Phebe PS - The Aperture Science sign someone was building looks really cool. I would love to talk to you about how you made it.

11 years, 3 months

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Saturday Space Availability (This Saturday)

by yar

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Alice Rosenthal <beehappysolutions(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My son’s best friend (Phoenix) is turning 9 in a couple of days and his mom (single, in school, no money) planned a Lego Building Birthday Party at a park this weekend but weather forecast predict rain for Sunday afternoon - all the invitations are out for 2 weeks so the date is in all the kid’s parent’s planners. She told me last night she is going to cancel the party because of the rain but I suggested that she might consider having it in the Omni - Ball Room or Basement or some room that is not in use. Hi Alice, if you look at the calendar, Saturday in the ballroom is pretty booked already: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/ I'm also not sure what our legal/insurance status is for entertaining large groups of kids. Copying the kids mailing list.

11 years, 3 months

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David T showed up at the Omni today

by Ryan

Taller Ryan handled it well and awesomely. Major props to remote-Jenny, too. David T approached the smoking area today where Niko, Rachel, and myself were smoking. He asked Rachel for a cigarette and if the Omni could help him. Rachel gave him a cigarette and started asking him what kind of help he needed. He started expressing how he wasn't doing well, kind of like interfacing with reality stuff. I was pretty sure I knew who he was, but made sure, asking him his name. I asked him if he knew he was banned from the Omni. At this point, he said yes. I let him know that included the smoking area, so he was going to have to smoke the cigarette elsewhere. He seemed non-receptive to this and didn't move. I let him know that if he didn't leave, I was going to have to get some more folks. He said that someone had told him that he could come back now. I told him that's not true, and that he is still banned. He also expressed that he felt like he was having to "jump through a ton of hoops" and was questioning why he even came here. I went and got more folks. I started by coming out with one. He had still not left. I expressed to him again that he needed to leave and got no response. More folks started trickling out slowly, and Taller Ryan got pretty proactive and awesome, trying to help him through the process. In many ways, he seemed to be stalling, although I could not hear all of the conversation. Taller Ryan got in contact with Jenny, who had sent him an email on January 8th, which he has not responded to, about starting mediated conflict resolution. Niko and Laura pointed out to me that he never made it onto the bans page, which I have since rectified. He was not physically threatening, but he certainly would not have left without backup. Here is a link to the discuss thread of the incident which led to his ban: https://omnicommons.org/lists/private/discuss/2015-January/001498.html I have attached a picture of him. I do not foresee this being a continual issue. Just documentin'.

11 years, 3 months

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notes from impromptu "Improving membership" discussion

by Matthew Senate

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Improving_membership Please add any notes if you have them. To review, we have a three-pronged approach: 1. Immediate hacks that can drastically improve the membership process 2. Changes to policy / definitions of membership 3. Building new systems e.g. https://github.com/sudoroom/sudo-humans to enable a more streamlined process that is not currently effective or possible. // Matt

11 years, 3 months

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Saturday Space Availability (This Saturday)

by Alice Rosenthal

Hey Guys & Gals, My son’s best friend (Phoenix) is turning 9 in a couple of days and his mom (single, in school, no money) planned a Lego Building Birthday Party at a park this weekend but weather forecast predict rain for Sunday afternoon - all the invitations are out for 2 weeks so the date is in all the kid’s parent’s planners. She told me last night she is going to cancel the party because of the rain but I suggested that she might consider having it in the Omni - Ball Room or Basement or some room that is not in use. I thought this would be a really good opportunity for Omni exposure to people (parents) who might not otherwise get their butts over to the Omni. Also the kids could have a significant positive life long influence. About a week ago, I brought my son Aidan and Phoenix to the Omni. They played the video games on iPads quietly until Jake invited them to operate the Robot Arm. They had a blast. It it is possible and works with Jakes schedule I am sure the kids would love 60 seconds each spinning the knobs on the Robot controller. Now that I think about it - the boys were pretty jazzed about the 3D printers as well. This could be a real opportunity to teach novices how to write code for 3 D printing - my husband would show up for that. Ok - enough with my enthusiasm for having a kids b’day party at the Omni - what about getting the go a head from the people who say “yes” or “no”? Phoenix’s mom want’s to know who she has to talk to - to see if she (1) can use some space in the Omni as an alternative location if it indeed does rain on Saturday. Please contact me by phone (Alice 415-272-0596) or Sujata by email. I have no idea who to ask about using these other spaces. I guess you could send me a link if there is one location to check out overall scheduling for difference spaces at the omni. Thanks for reading. Alice the beekeeper PS did you guys hear that I am teaching an Intro to Beekeeping class at Counter Culture Labs on Sunday 2/15/15? 1 pm-4pm

11 years, 3 months

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Standing vs sitting?

by Steve Berl

Wasn't there a discussion a few months back about the proper posture for pissing? https://news.yahoo.com/tenants-may-pee-standing-german-court-181317571.html -- -steve

11 years, 3 months

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RAYC's membership

by Torrie Fischer

Hei, sudo room. I want to avoid as much conflict as possible here on discuss@ so I'll state up front that I would really rather folks talk to me in person or off list in response to this. I had every intention of coming to Sudo last night as I infrequently do to see whats up and hack on things and spend more time in the space. My knee disagreed to I went home instead. Had I made it I would've certainly blocked RAYC's membership. I plan on showing up at Sudo Room next week to have a legitimate block in person since phoning it in as I'm doing in this e-mail is bullshit and we all know that. I would appreciate it a bunch if others were around to hear me elaborate about my principled objection and give feedback if it has any standing. I also don't think its all that excellent of an idea to try and discuss this on a wednesday night when folks want to just get together and be positive, so I'll certainly be making more of an effort to be at the space before then for discussion. Again, I'm not going to respond to this on the list but feel free to poke me off-list or AFK :)

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new hardware hack night: tuesday (first one tonight)

by Marina Kukso

hi folks, there's a new hardware hack night - tuesday! first one is tonight. here is the event on our calendar: https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2015-02-03/ best, marina

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bandsaw blade

by Jake

apparently the blade for the bandsaw at sudoroom is broken. do we have any more? what about a hacksaw?

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Share and Tell: a community speaking event

by Marina Kukso

hi all, sudoer kelsey breseman is organizing a low-stress, inclusive, short talks night in berkeley. lots of great details about what the event will be like here: http://www.meetup.com/APIs-to-Electrons/events/220269710/ you should sign up to give a talk! works in progress, ideas, things you've been working on are all welcome. this will a supportive, collaborative environment where people want to hear what others have to say. best, marina

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Show high school seniors what a hackerspace is

by yar

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Karissa McKelvey <karissa.mckelvey(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey sudoers > > I'm teaching a web programming class of about 20 high school seniors > (17-18 years old) who live in Oakland. They are primarily people of > color and underprivileged in some way, having reached hardships enough > to find themselves at a continuation high school due to bad grades. > > I'd like to bring them on a fieldtrip to sudo room/omni for an hour or > two so they can see the tech, get a tutorial on 3d printers & see one > in action. Maybe if people wanted to show off their projects they're > working on, that'd be cool too! > > Anyone interested in this sort of thing? Thanks for writing, Karissa! That sounds great and I'd love to help. What timeframe were you thinking? If we set a date & time now, maybe we can start organizing people around that. I'm down to give tours and teach an intro to 3D printing. What are other sudoers down for? I'm also including the "Omni Kids" email list. I'm not sure, but there's a small chance that we have to wait until our legal situation is clearer since we haven't yet passed a fire inspection and we don't have an ADA bathroom. Hopefully someone on this mailing list knows for sure what we're able to commit to right now! Hope to keep in touch :) yar

11 years, 3 months

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giant robot

by Jake

hi all, i got a really fancy motor controller and a bunch of really fancy motors with encoders built-in, and it all works together.. and I think we should consider making another robot. Here is the controller: product sheet: http://spaz.org/~jake/bxi/BXi-Tool-Controller-Debuted.pdf huge operation manual: http://spaz.org/~jake/bxi/BX300HIFMan.pdf basically the brain can control six motors, which i have, with very precise motion control and tracking, for example for the joints of a giant robot. The motors I have are a couple of sizes, but I think we should go big and use the 500W (2/3 horsepower) motors, so the thing can be expected to cart its own batteries around and be autonomous. never mind, this is a dumb idea. but i do have the motors and controller, and i may be able to get more. I guess we could build a 4x8 foot laser cutter or something mundane like that. -jake

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Disability Hack Night!

by Ryan

Just announcing that the first disability hack night is happening in sudo this Saturday at 4pm! It hasn't synced to the omni calendar yet, but I'm planning this to be a recurring event every first saturday of the month. More info: https://sudoroom.org/events/disability-hack-night-2015-03-07/

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Electrical work currently being done for La Commune (affecting panel for Kitchen / Upstairs_

by David Keenan

The tireless volunteers Steve Bloom ( stevebloom55(a)gmail.com ) and I believe Rayc ( what is is email - anyone know? ) are in the midst of decommissioning electrical runs from to La Commune, from the panel in Rise Above that also feeds the oft-tripping breaker to the upstairs. All, before touching this panel, please attempt to communicate first with Steve or Rayc regarding whether it safe to do. Specifically, all, NEVER reach your hand inside a panel that does not have a cover plate on (covering the electrical wires and connections), even if it is only to flip a breaker. Instead, at a minimum, put the cover plate back on first. This panel includes the oft-tripping breaker for the Kitchen and TIL etc offices - #8, so please pay heed. Steve showed me that he decommissioned breakers # 7 & 11. Breakers 3&4 were I believe decomissioned by an electrician hired by Rise Above. #8 is the one that always trips and needs to be worked on / rewired to prevent this Please see the photo below for reference.. thanks! [image: Inline image 1] David

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Intention To Block

by Ryan

I would like to block St. Nik for 1 month. I would like him to get a better feel and understanding of sudo's culture and values before he becomes a member, and to feel like he has a longer period of time in order to do this.

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a movie night

by April Glaser

Hi everyone! Is there still weekly movie night? What does one have to do to book the basement to screen a film? I'd like to screen the Battle of Algiers with a friend of mine (she's a local prof of film studies) soon down there. Anyone interested in that? Luv, April -- 0x54FC570B

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Working on electrical? Please alert others

by David Keenan

The following is for building & human safety: 1. Please email the discuss and building groups PRIOR to beginning work on electrical, with the following infos: - your ph# and email - brief description & location of work being performed including relevant (sub)panel - anticipated date, & length of outage if any 2. While you are working, leave a note on the relevant panel with your name, ph#, & email, as well as instructions as to what breakers must be left off while you are working. 3. When you have to leave, do not leave any exposed wiring: Panel covers must be put back on, outlets covered, etc. 4. Please send a message to discuss & building lists with the status of the work, what was changed, what breakers are re/dis-connected and to what, etc, if it is finished and if not when/what is needed to do so, etc. Hope that is agreeable to all? David

11 years, 3 months

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Intro to Beekeeping at OMNI Collective - Counter Culture Lab

by Alice Rosenthal

INTRODUCTION TO BEEKEEPING CLASS Once you’ve had a fantastic romantic Valentines day - You’ll be ready to get moving forward on your new years resolution to “Keep Bees”! Don’t worry if you don’t have a place to keep them - you’ll get lots of creative idea from this lecture. Yes, this is the place to start. Come ready for some fascinating facts about our most important agricultural helper, and learn what you need to know to get going. Wear comfortable clothes - they make you feel better, but don’t wear wool or perfume as they make honeybees aggressive. Save the Date: February 15th, 2015 1pm - 4pm (perhaps later) Save the Location: The Omni Collective: Counter Culture Labs 4799 Shattuck Avenue,Oakland, CA Make a donation to cover the cost of life: $35 suggested. RSVP’s appreciated: BeeHappySolutions(a)gmail.com <mailto:BeeHappySolutions@gmail.com> Come by bicycle, bus or car - street parking is tough. Bring Snacks made from anything made by the help of a bee. I’m going to bring some accidentally fermented honey wash water.

11 years, 3 months

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Intro to Beekeeping at OMNI Collective - Counter Culture Lab

by Alice Rosenthal

INTRODUCTION TO BEEKEEPING CLASS Once you’ve had a fantastic romantic Valentines day - You’ll be ready to get moving forward on your new years resolution to “Keep Bees”! Don’t worry if you don’t have a place to keep them - you’ll get lots of creative idea from this lecture. Yes, this is the place to start. Come ready for some fascinating facts about our most important agricultural helper, and learn what you need to know to get going. Wear comfortable clothes - they make you feel better, but don’t wear wool or perfume as they make honeybees aggressive. Save the Date: February 15th, 2015 1pm - 4pm (perhaps later) Save the Location: The Omni Collective: Counter Culture Labs 4799 Shattuck Avenue,Oakland, CA Make a donation to cover the cost of life: $35 suggested. RSVP’s appreciated: BeeHappySolutions(a)gmail.com <mailto:BeeHappySolutions@gmail.com> Come by bicycle, bus or car - street parking is tough. Bring Snacks made from anything made by the help of a bee. I’m going to bring some accidentally fermented honey wash water.

11 years, 3 months

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Help design a circuit for sudoroom's hardware hacking tuesdays!

by Jake

I have always loved the idea behind Circuit Hacking Mondays, which happens at Noisebridge every Monday for the past n years. Sudoroom will be having Hardware Hacking Tuesdays from now until t, and we need to come up with some stock kits for n00bs to put together to learn how to electronics! seeing as we just got a huge donation of stuff (listed below) I say we come up with something that uses these excellent, FREE recycled components that would otherwise end up in a landfill or our lungs. It helps greatly that the components just happen to be perfect for... DIY micro-music synthesizers!!! picture this: a kit you can put together at sudoroom which, when you're done, makes awesome musical sounds and maybe sequences with a bunch of dials to turn and buttons to push. your mission: design a cool kit using the parts we have plenty of! the winning designs will be made into actual circuitboards sent out for fabrication and zillions of people will build those kits! we have unlimited potentiometers (board-mounted with a long enough shaft to turn with fingers) unlimited board-mounted buttons (four-pin, either SPST or DPST) unlimited piano-style DIP switches (two and eight positions) unlimited op-amps (250MHz bandwidth OPA354 i believe) unlimited 74HC14 schmitt triggers (six oscillators of any frequency) RCA jacks, headphone jacks, LM1877 audio amplifier chips and all the resistors and capacitors you could possibly need your design should not include a microcontroller, just passive parts that go together and make noise. Input will be 5 volts DC, output will be line-level audio for going into amplified speakers. we have lots of logic chips like 74HC163 four-bit counters and 74AC351 8-input multiplexers - so it should be easy to add a sequencer to your design! if you have plug-in breadboards, bring them in, it will make it easier to prototype this stuff. see you on tuesdays! -jake On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote: > Sounds like we should come up with a little electronics kit that uses as > many of these as possible, and then sell or give them away as soldering > 101 kits. > > Patrik > > On Jan 31, 2015 1:39 PM, "Jake" <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > yesterday I brought a pickup truck load of electronics to sudoroom: > > 20000 20000 ohm pots > 20000 board-mount buttons > thousands of op-amp chips > boxes of RCA jax and headphone jax > hundreds of 87c52 microcontrollers...! > spools of surfacemount capacitors and resistors (mostly 0805 size) > 1,000 74HC14N (for hex oscillators!!) and lots of other interesting chips > thousands of 25V lectrolytix 220 470 1000uF > a thousand NDT3055L general purpose NPN transistors > a thousand LM1877 audio amplifier chips > hundreds of LM1881 video sync seperators (for overlaying text on video!) > rails and rails of DIP switches (piano style, 2 pos and 8 pos) > many assembled circuitboards with cool stuff on them, including FPGAs! > boxes and boxes of 4x6" backlit monochrome LCD displays... > > what should we build with all this stuff? > > now i gotta design a board that uses those things to make music for a hardhack tuesdays kits... > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > >

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electronics donation!!!!!

by Jake

yesterday I brought a pickup truck load of electronics to sudoroom: 20000 20000 ohm pots 20000 board-mount buttons thousands of op-amp chips boxes of RCA jax and headphone jax hundreds of 87c52 microcontrollers...! spools of surfacemount capacitors and resistors (mostly 0805 size) 1,000 74HC14N (for hex oscillators!!) and lots of other interesting chips thousands of 25V lectrolytix 220 470 1000uF a thousand NDT3055L general purpose NPN transistors a thousand LM1877 audio amplifier chips hundreds of LM1881 video sync seperators (for overlaying text on video!) rails and rails of DIP switches (piano style, 2 pos and 8 pos) many assembled circuitboards with cool stuff on them, including FPGAs! boxes and boxes of 4x6" backlit monochrome LCD displays... what should we build with all this stuff? now i gotta design a board that uses those things to make music for a hardhack tuesdays kits...

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Re: [sudo-discuss] sudo-discuss Digest, Vol 27, Issue 27

by Oren Beck

Re: Replace Sudo elec outlets with GFI I may be able to lower the Drama Levels by suggesting that folks Hardware Hacking on mains voltage use a WAY LOWER amp breaker for their Hackery; http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/cb-1605/5-amp-push-to-reset… Either shell out a few bucks to buy one& slap it into a power strip... or scavenge a similar/lower rated one from some scrapworthy device. Idea is- the 5er or lower will pop WAY before risking anyone else getting shut down. I had a "test box" with Variac. volt&amp meters and switch selectable breakers from 1/2 to 15 amps for test/hacking and it saved a lot of headaches let alone preventing damages:> HtH Oren Beck

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Donation Inventory

by Nikola Capp (via Google Sheets)

Attached: Untitled spreadsheet.pdf Sent using Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ Hey, all the boxes on the main table of sudo, a MESA donation by Jake, is beig sorted nd put away, and as it goes heres a preliminary inventory of whats going on with it.

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Invoice #132 from Omni Oakland Commons

by Sarah Pritchard

Hi there! See below for a link to Sudo Room's invoice for January's shared expenses at the Omni. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions. For your reference, here is the breakdown of the Omni's total expenses (utilities, taxes, & insurance) from this month: - PG&E: $691.74 - EBMUD: $390.09 - Waste Management: $60.21 - Building Insurance: $660.00 - General Liability Insurance: $188.16 - Director's & Officer's Insurance: $302.00 - Taxes: $595.62 The utilities are split evenly between member collectives and tenants. All of our taxes and insurance are shared between member collectives only. Let me know if you have any questions, and please pay Sudo's portion of the shared expenses as soon as you're able. Thanks and <3, Sarah + Omni Finances WG Below please find a link to Invoice #132. Amount due: $433.72 USD Due by: 2015-02-01 To view this invoice, please visit: https://waveapps.com/qv2frm-tjm6xh

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Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV

by Ed Biow

No Jake, that TV has a big green stripe going through the middle. From what I've read on the web it might be something we can fix by mucking with/cleaning connections, but it is probably new panel time, which is unlikely to be worth the effort with a box of that vintage. I'll schlep in the TV I have & the mount. e - > Message: 26 > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:54:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> > To: sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV > Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1501291250020.62936(a)pe2950.spaz.org> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi Ed, > > the flatscreen TV mounted near the 3d printers says it works but i have > never tried it. I will try it and determine whether it's ewaste or not. > > there's another huge display that RAYC was playing with, we should do the > same thing. I think it would be nice to have several working mounted > screens around. > > As for the one you are offering, I think you should bring it in, and it's > great that it has a mount because we should put it up right away. > > I am excited to have more of this type of infrastructure in sudoroom > because i think there are a lot of limitations to projectors that can be > overcome by having screens like this around. -

11 years, 3 months

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Replace Sudo elec outlets with GFI

by David Keenan

Hey all, Someone was experimenting with electrical stuff and tripped breakers... I think Sudo's standard outlets should be rewired with GFI outlets if this will cut down on this happening - I will volunteer to replace these with one other who knows electrical (Whitney? Jake?) if it can be budgeted. Is this agreeable to folks?

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Re: [sudo-discuss] TV IV

by Jake

Hi Ed, the flatscreen TV mounted near the 3d printers says it works but i have never tried it. I will try it and determine whether it's ewaste or not. there's another huge display that RAYC was playing with, we should do the same thing. I think it would be nice to have several working mounted screens around. As for the one you are offering, I think you should bring it in, and it's great that it has a mount because we should put it up right away. I am excited to have more of this type of infrastructure in sudoroom because i think there are a lot of limitations to projectors that can be overcome by having screens like this around. -jake On Wed Ed wrote: > I know we have a couple of broken TVs in the sudoroom. Does anyone > know if they are solid waste or if they can be fixed? > > Anyway, I inherited a 32" "Dynex" LCD TV from a deceased friend that I > have no use for if we want to use that instead. It isn't great (720p), > but it works. Should I bring it in or would that just increase ambient > clutter? I think I have a wall mounting bracket for it if we want to > put it somewhere else. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phcOXphCUQo

11 years, 3 months

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Show high school seniors what a hackerspace is

by Karissa McKelvey

Hey sudoers I'm teaching a web programming class of about 20 high school seniors (17-18 years old) who live in Oakland. They are primarily people of color and underprivileged in some way, having reached hardships enough to find themselves at a continuation high school due to bad grades. I'd like to bring them on a fieldtrip to sudo room/omni for an hour or two so they can see the tech, get a tutorial on 3d printers & see one in action. Maybe if people wanted to show off their projects they're working on, that'd be cool too! Anyone interested in this sort of thing? -- Karissa karissamck.com 'The kids call me Special K. Hopefully they just think I'm special'

11 years, 3 months

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self-animating CGI people with flexible personalities

by pat xu

hey sudoers, I met a guy named Chris Shaw about a week ago. He is the second person I've met at the omni who came through because of the East Bay Express article!!! (: Chris wants to know if anyone wants to talk with him about the code he's developed for auto-animating emotions and speech in CGI characters. It's basically the next level in creating virtual CGI people with very flexible, self-generating behavior: applications include NPCs in video games (of course), next-gen conversation bots like AIM's SmarterChild back in the day, and even therapeutic tools to help autistic children practice emoting. http://vimeo.com/113120097 http://vimeo.com/113571986 the same tech can be used to animate animatronic robots. He's looking for collaborators to develop applications for this tech. If anyone's interested in playing with the technology or has questions for Mr. Shaw, you can contact him at: xophershaw(a)gmail.com ! Howl, px

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