As has been seen by others, I saw this last night on the stage and this is
not ok. A large candle on a piece of marble in the center of the stage.
Whomever has been leaving candles burning, please stop. Does anyone know
who this is?
More importantly, if anyone sees a burning candle or other flame unattended
please put it out immediately?
This is a basic safety and fire issue.
FWIW I saw one other new-looking candle in a large glass jar being stored
in the upstairs stage-right room (audio production room) so whomever is
setting these candles alight seems to be storing them there.
Whomever wants to burn candles please speak up or talk to the commons group
Thank you!
-d
Hi All,
I am a Sudoroom member working on putting up a website which will start a
major movement to accelerate health and life extension research (stem
cells, nanotechnology, The Human Genome Project, tissue engineering, etc.)
Mainstream scientists are saying aging and disease will be totally
conquered in about 200 years. Why should those of us now alive be left out?
We were on the moon in eight years; we had the atomic bomb in three years
from nothing but a theory. Scientific research can be speeded-up.
We also need to move quickly to evolve humanistically so we can handle the
coming changes. And, we need to make sure that poor people and poor
countries benefit equally, and at the same time, that the more affluent do.
These are the goals of the movement. We would very much appreciate a
volunteer who can help with putting up a website (or perhaps help in other
ways). If our project interests you, let me know by email.
Have a funny day.
Best,
Ira Brightman
Hi all,
We're having more than 40 people signed up for the Bioluminescence meetup
<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/219357264/>that I
scheduled at CCL for tomorrow evening. Just wanted to check if that's going
to be OK with the weekly Sudo meeting going on at the other end of the room
at the same time?
Do people feel we should try find another room for one of the two meetings,
or do you think we can handle having two biggish meetings going on
simultaneously? I want to make sure we can accommodate the needs for both
groups.
On our end, there'll be a bit of lecture with slides, a few short youtube
videos, some brainstorming, and a hands-on demo. I'm hoping we can keep the
noise level down during the brainstorming/socializing bits. We may wind up
doing some of the demos in the basement somewhere, because we need a dark
room and our storage room only fits a handful of people at a time...
Patrik
bumping this again. adding sudo-discuss.
On 12/28/14 3:24 PM, April Glaser wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm in search of the tax documents that we mailed to the state earlier
>> this fall. Was an electronic copy made, scanned and uploaded to the wiki?
>>
>> Many thank yous,
>> April
>> _______________________________________________
>> board mailing list
>> board(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/board
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Hi there -
I read about the sudo project while checking for events on the Occupy web
site. This is extremely interesting for me, and I'd like to help out
somehow.
I'm not sure if I will be able to go to meetings because I have mobility
issues, and it might just be too difficult for me to get there.
I have skills in these areas:
powerpoint
photoshop/graphic design
user guides and other technical writing
wordpress content management
light programming (html, css, some javascript and php for front end web
maintenance purposes).
exposure via coursework and various employment to java, as400 command
languages, command line interaction with linux/apache server, mega
proprietary systems in banking and health care sectors.
I live in Berkeley near the Ashby Bart station if you are developing a node
in that area.
Just let me know what you'd like me to do.
~ Elisa
Hello Sudoers!
See below for a link to Sudo Room's January 2015 rent invoice. Since so
many people are out of town for the holidays at the end of this month, we
thought it might be helpful to send rent invoices early. Please pay January
rent whenever you have a chance, and let the finances working group know if
you have any questions.
I will send an invoice for December's shared expenses as soon as we know
how much is owed by each collective.
Thanks and <3,
Sarah + Finances WG
Below please find a link to Invoice #91.
Amount due: $2000.00 USD
Due by: 2015-01-01
To view this invoice, please visit: https://waveapps.com/wx43st-ftxuev
I gave tours to 3 Newbies today, and Brendan was talking with them when I
left, but neither of us put it on the calendar.... Hopefully someone on
the to fill in since we had to leave. They were interested in getting more
involved with building efforts at the Omni, and might stick around for the
general meeting.
Names were Austin, Yu, and James.
Peace.
Hello Sudo-ers!
See below for a link to Sudo Room's invoice for shared expenses at the Omni
in December 2014. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions.
As a reminder, please pay your January rent invoice as soon as possible. We
know that the holidays are a busy time, so please be sure to pay both rent
and shared expenses by January 1. If for some reason you know you are going
to be late in paying rent, please let the finances working group know as
soon as possible.
Thanks so much!
Sarah + Finances WG
Below please find a link to Invoice #105.
Amount due: $512.13 USD
Due by: 2015-01-01
To view this invoice, please visit: https://waveapps.com/shqsmy-gty8ew
Hey folks,
Our new board nominees are: April, Leslie, 5c077 (Scott E), and scotts (4
total). Final ayes or nays for these candidates should be stated at the
next Sudo meeting (Weds. January 31st @7pm). Remember that the final number
of board members should be odd.
I am formally stepping down from the board, and Max has already stated his
intent to step down. That leaves the continuing board members as: Anca M,
Hol G, Jenny R, Julio R, Liberty M, Marc J [treasurer], Marina K, Matt S,
Naomi M, Romy I, and Troy M (11 total).
Liberty, Naomi, Romy and Troy: Do you still desire to be board members? I
ask because we didn't hear from you when the board was called together to
do tax/incorporation stuff recently.
Take care,
Vicky
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 3:42 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net> wrote:
> Seems like we need to decide if becoming a 501c3 is worth the several $100
> investment and mental energy.
>
> Consider this an open poll to determine if a 501c3 is the wise path for
> sudo: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/sudo501c3
Sudoroom already formally consented at a Wednesday meeting that we
want to be a 501c3. The question is when, not if. i.e. when we have
the time and money to apply.
1) Do we even really need 501c3? 501c3 is a means to an end. The benefit is
that large institutions wont donate or grant to us without it. The downside
is that it will cost several hundred dollars and is a PITA from a effort
point of view. Smaller institutions can donate to us and get their
donations tax exempted as long as they do, (and they can) argue that we are
in spirit a non-profit. So we should only get 501c3, if we think other
umbrellas aren't easier, and we see big donations coming in later.
1a) we need to determine the probability of getting such a donation from a
large instituion in the next year
2) Incorporating. It's not enough to just file papers because in a pinch if
we do not act and do all our board meeting officiating properly we could be
dismissed as a farce of a incorporation.
3) changing the articles of incorporation has to happen in sacramento and
is expensive and slow. it's easier to edit the by laws if possible.
4) we need to make records whenever the board of directors issues
dirctives, however small.
5) if we ever became so attached to the omni that it would break sudo
spiritually or financially to move out then we need to get a formal
contract with omni.
6) the IRS is allergic to nonprofits that use certain words like "tea
party" and surprisingly "open source" because they've been burned by those
types before.
7) treasurer does not have heightened financially responsibility than
anyone else on the board.
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
Firstly, been loving the emails about how to handle critique and how to make meeting better for everyone!
Second, is anyone going to the general strike assembly today at the omni? Would love to get some notes on it! I'll be stuck across the street :/
Lastly, OMNI got hit up by taggers last night, fairly hard. One is sort of pleasing aesthetically but obvi. they all got to get painted over. I can be at OMNI tmrw around noon to paint over it, does anyone know where paint and supplies are kept at the moment?
Xoxo
Scott
i'm surprised you're not a member yet! if you're a member you get an
access card to the building and can come into sudoroom any time you want.
you can always call the sudoroom telephone to see if there's anyone there,
510-858-7155
-jake
On Fri Dec 26th Romy wrote:
Is it open Sunday ? I'd like to photograph and work on the 3D printer if
possible for the upcoming SudoKit project ..
Best
Romy
Hi All,
There was discussion at a recent meeting about a possible New Year's Eve party next Wednesday, since it's also the date of the weekly meeting, instead of the meeting. Has anything been decided about this? If so what is the starting time, etc.
Have a funny day.Best to everyone,Ira Brightman
We have been offered a scanning electron microscope. I have accepted and
marc and I will go get it if it's still available.
I don't know if it has a spectral detector for EDS, but I got one at
Urban Ore yesterday for $25, so we can add that functionality if it
doesn't already have it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-dispersive_X-ray_spectroscopy
this picture was taken with a SEM like the one we're getting:
http://microscopy.tamu.edu/picture-of-the-month/PoM_708.jpg/image_large
here is what the machine probably looks like, based on a google search of
Jeol JSM 6400
https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Research/Facilities/XRayFacility/Microst…
we can put it on the border / neutral zone between sudoroom and CCL like
the CSAM and tesla coil.
-jake
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So, yeah, I can potentially grab a Jeol JSM 6400. You should look at pics. It is fairly large.
Right now it is in Santa Barbara. I don't have a good plan for moving it, or putting it somewhere (hopefully where
people can use it). The company that bought it was told it works when they bought it, but they never tested it. I
should note that I am talking to a few people and I'm hoping one of them works out.
I would need to get it Jan 19-20.
Does this still interest you?
Hi all,
If anyone has spoken with Matt Artz or anyone at the Oakland Trib, could
you let me know?
As part of his due diligence as a reporter, he is contacting all sorts of
bureaucrats downtown at the City about our permit situation and as a result
I am getting avalanches of emails from the City, there is confusions all
around generally and so I would like to speak with him if at all possible.
It's not his fault - I know he's just doing his reporter thing - but
because of inquiries I will now need someone totally reliable I can email
who can and printout a very large stack of paperwork and bring it downtown
to 250 on Friday 12/26 (tomorrow). If there are any volunteers who are in
town?
Happy Xmas!
David
Hello, Omni /Sudo Community-
I'm seeking an instructor who can teach me to handle doing clunky
(not-so-creative) stuff with .pdf's in an office setting, i.e., edit our
agency's fill-in forms. I could come to Omni for lesson(s) if that's best,
and equipt. available there too.
I am able to pay for instruction, rate DOE- negotiable.
Please reply to my email -- Thanks!
-Marcia C.E.
On Wed Dec 24 Benjamin Rupert wrote:
> Besides Cindy's concerns, we will also need a supply of liquid nitrogen.
> The detectors are liquid nitrogen cooled and need to be replenished
> daily on most instruments.
this only applies to an SEM using a Hyper Pure Germanium (HPGe) detector
such as we would be using for EDS. Regular SEMs use a photomultiplier
tube which does not use liquid nitrogen at all.
If we are lucky enough to get an SEM with a HPGe detector (or if we fit
one on there like the one I got from Urban Ore) we can plan ahead for
"science days" when we have our samples ready to analyze, and we can bring
in a quart of liquid nitrogen to last the day while we play with the
machine.
It's not a big deal. The only issue that's stopping me is the distance.
-jake
Our crowdfunding campaign is catching a lot of wind today. We passed $16k,
20%, and just got retweeted by:
Oaklandish (21.9K followers)
Shareable (22.3K)
Cory Doctorow (349K)
... in that order. A lot of people are watching us in the next minutes to
hours. These are precious moments! Let's see how much we can do by tonight!
https://omnicommons.org/donate
hi all,
our indiegogo campaign
<https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland>
is up to $15k! an anonymous donor agreed to match donations for a week -
but today's the last day! so if you haven't donated yet, your donation
today will get doubled!
love,
marina
ps - signal boost this! free doubling of money! huge deal!
lol I dunno what kind of "FTP" they're talking about! I am seriously
rotfloling. fyi, gig-seeking web peeps.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Katie Haberman <kdonaca(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2014-12-21 16:35 GMT-08:00
Subject: [sfchalkboard] Web Assistance
To: sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net
Hey Chalks!
Anyone down to either trade 3 hours of website assistance for a beautiful
stay in an Inverness cabin, or get reasonably paid? I have a pretty simple
design of a photo website that I need assistance with, some FTP involved.
Let me know, thanks!
Katie
Hello mesh people:
I am struggling with some fundamental networking concepts as I try to
discern between WDS, WDS Repeaters, WDS Bridges Repeaters, Bridge
Repeaters, Client Modes, Client Repeaters, etc. I've done the requisite
reading up with docs and forums, doing my best to discern reliable sources,
but what I'd really like to do is get a good understanding of what the hell
is going on on a somewhat technical level. Is there well respected
networking bible or something?
Any suggestions?
On Dec 19, 2014 12:48 PM, "yar" <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm willing to drive tomorrow in my car if someone else is willing to
>> fill out the form, be the contact, and keep me company for the ride.
>> Contact me off-list for the make/model. Yay!
Wow I'm getting a lot of responses! Y'all are great. I'm happy to wait
til next week or beyond, didn't really WANT to drive to SF, just
wanted to help. <3
Wow, look how simple that form is! It just asks:
* first & last name
* phone #
* email address
* ability to carry boxes
* make/model/year of car
* what saturdays you can pick up
I'm willing to drive tomorrow in my car if someone else is willing to
fill out the form, be the contact, and keep me company for the ride.
Contact me off-list for the make/model. Yay!
On 12/12/2014 9:18 AM, Romy@snowyla wrote:
>> "women specific gear" It's like a window to 1950s america
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Deno Vichas <deno(a)syncopated.net> wrote:
> yeah,, cuz so many guys wear things like sports bras... sounds like
> it's time of get off the computer and go outside...
Yeah, lots of guys do actually. You may have met some trans guys at
sudo. Have fun outside!
Hi, I'm working on a learning KIT project called SudoKit. It's to enable
learning at the SudoRoom that is fun
SEEKING:
collaboration in making this
fun
ideas for various placemats so that people can explore the space
ideas on how to get visitors to contribute to the collective instead of
only working on their own projects
It involves getting a placemat for every visit so that you can have your
own "space" to learn and work. It helps solve the "blank white first page"
problem (or if you are goth the first blank black page)
the idea is - keep you from spending all your time online or hunched over a
computer
- also it's like a "shadowbox" in a factory, you keep all your tools in one
place.
- physical world instead of the digital world exclusively
Here is the first draft
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/SudoKit#First_Draft
Here is how people would use it
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/images/f/fd/SudoKit_Sketch_-_the_mats.png
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
hi all,
we are creating a sudoroom 501c3/legal needs private email list. anyone
who is involved in the inner-workings of sudoroom is welcome to join,
but otherwise we are keeping the list closed, as per the recommendation
from a lawyer and realizing it's important to have security around some
things.
we talked about this at the meeting the week before last and ok'd it. we
will OF COURSE share all developments with the larger list. and no
decisions will be made without consult of sudoroom. it's just to make
sure we don't have a public list with private information on it.
let me know if you want to join or if you have any questions about the
list. and i'll add you or answer your inquiry.
all my best,
april
Unless someone volunteers to take it on. You'll need a car or you'll need
access to a car. I know we had Amgo's truck around for common use - maybe
someone could drive that each Saturday to get the meals? Fill out this form
if you want to help feed the revolution:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1a8yZ6gGqE98TPTNxhzVyUPfU8smPpNWJUhdZu2GrrE…
I'm out of town until January.
<3
fyi! Could someone forward to CCL?
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From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2014-12-18 9:32 GMT-08:00
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia
Library (New in December)
To: "wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <
wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available this month:
*Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elsevier_ScienceDirect>
*Royal Society of Chemistry Gold Access - chemistry journals
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RSC_Gold>
*Pelican Books - ebook monographs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pelican_Books>
*Public Catalogue Foundation - art books
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Catalogue_Foundation>
Many other partnerships are still available too...
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals>
Please notify your local community about the signups.
Accounts are open to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and
1000 edits. Signups mostly happen on English Wikipedia, UNLESS a local
Wikipedia
Library branch has been started, like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and
German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at
[[User:Ocaasi (WMF)]], ocaasi(a)wikimedia.org.
Thanks!
The Wikipedia Library Team
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
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Last year we got $4k from SoEx as a grant. They sent us this offer as a
previous winner to find out how to get more money in different places. I
can hook up anybody that wants to go.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Alternative Exposure" <alternativeexposure(a)soex.org>
Date: 17 Dec 2014 15:10
Subject: Opportunity for Upcoming Professional Development Workshop at
Southern Exposure
To: "Carey Lin" <ad(a)soex.org>
Cc:
Dear former Alternative Exposure Grantees:
I hope this message finds you well.
I wanted to let you know about an upcoming opportunity here at SoEx I'd
like to invite you (and any of your current/former project collaborators)
to apply to if you are interested. It is a 1-day intensive professional
development workshop offered by Creative Capital on February 1 and we are
accepting applications through January 4. It's a great resource and the
costs of the workshop are being subsidized so it's free to attend for
selected participants. As a former Alt Ex grantee I think you would have a
lot to contribute to this group session so I highly encourage you to apply
before the deadline. More information and a link to the application can be
found on our website here.
<https://www.soex.org/opportunities/open-call/creative-capital-professional-…>
Thanks and have a great holiday!
Carey
Hey all,
I'm having some trouble with shawn in the bookstore.
He comes in and makes a mess and is rude and obstinate when I ask him to
clean it up. In general he's pretty nasty to me and while I am sympathetic
to his situation I'm going to have to start asking him to leave the
bookstore when I am here.
N
fyi!
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:11:37 PM UTC-8, sameers wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> A group of us went to present at Castlemont recently and when I mentioned
> this to the folks at a meeting of the CSTA that I attended, their president
> introduced me to someone who's looking for help in recruiting a CS teacher
> for an after school program.
>
> Here are more details - pls email me if you have questions - the program
> is at Dewey Academy, and the schedule is:
>
> 1. Monday: 2-3p
> 2. Wednesday: 1230p-110p
> 3. Friday: 2-3p
>
> They are open to a group from Open Oakland attending to check the class
> out, even if we aren't going to apply for the job. Let me know and I'd love
> to co-ordinate a visit.
>
> Students receive grades that are decided based 65% on attendance and 35%
> at the instructor's discretion, once every 6 weeks. Dewey is a continuation
> high school <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_high_school>, so
> your students don't necessarily stay through the entire 6 weeks, though
> they have to in order to get a grade. You can decide your curriculum and
> pace entirely on your own. The current instructor, Seema Sharma, is a math
> high school teacher, and taught herself Alice
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28programming_language%29>, an
> instructional programming language to teach the kids. She has also used
> material from CodeHS.com.
>
> The program is run by EBAYC <http://www.ebayc.org/>, where the program
> manager of the after school program is Brooklyn Williams. She'll probably
> be responsible for hiring. I can also get you in touch with Seema.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sameer.
>
>
Hey all!
The Fundraising Committee just set up a Thunderclap to signal boost our
crowdfunding campaign in its last week.
It's highly likely that we're going to extend the campaign another 3 weeks,
but we need your help to make the message go viral!
What you need to do:
* Go to our Thunderclap URL here:
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/20506-crowdfund-a-commons-in-oakland
* Link your Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr profiles to the Thunderclap
* Add a personalized message or just opt to retweet/repost/reblog the
existing message
* That's it! Thunderclap will schedule the message to go out on December
30th!
Let's see how big we can grow our reach!
<3
Jenny on behalf of the Omni Fundraising Committee
Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California!
https://omnicommons.org/donate
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
I am looking for someone who can help me write an email in chinese, for
the purpose of specifying a technical design to a chinese factory. My
first attempt to communicate with a diagram did not work out.
If you or someone you know is available to help me translate an email, I
would appreciate it. I don't trust google translate to do a good job, and
I respect the engineers in China enough not to send them a computer
translation.
The information I need to convey is the wiring pattern for a pedal-power
generator which will be part of a product where people can power their
laptop (or television or whatever) by pedalling a stationary bicycle.
thank you!
-jake
At the next meeting I hope we can confront Chris for the last time and require him to leave Omni Commons and have his access privileges revoked along with his sudo room membership.
// Matt
Hey everyone. I'm up in Tahoe on weekends snowboarding.
Anyone interested in going?
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Snowboarding
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hello Noisebridge and friends,
As you may already be aware, in the post-Reboot world we lack -- and very
much need -- library shelving.
A lovely and spacious space has been set aside near the Fox Lounge for the
books, but shelving has remained elusive, especially in light of other
priorities. Plus we cannibalized the old shelves for other construction in
the space.
---
TL;DR: if you can help provide lumber and/or help with construction, or if
you'd just like to see this thing exist and can contribute money, please
email me. We'll be working on this in mid-January.
---
I believe that art has had a tremendously positive transformative impact on
Noisebridge, and I wish to continue that tradition by turning the library
construction into a work of art itself.
I propose the The Fibonacci Library aka Golden Spiral Bookshelves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
Submitted for your approval, a collaborative design for the new library
shelves.
Scotty did the original sketchup, Steve derived the calculations.
According to our specs, we will need roughly the following:
** 60 feet of 1/2" thick, 15" wide boards
** 90 feet of 1" thick, 16" wide boards.
The cost for this library will vary widely depending on the materials we
have to work with. I'd like to buy "real" wood, but cost may be
prohibitive. I'd LOVE to build a library with a combo of found materials,
but that may make the project very difficult.
If you have advice about materials procurement and utilization, I'm all
sensory-organs.
If you want to help, let me know -- we'll start gathering our forces in
January after many of us get home from CCC.
Yours,
Naomi
--
Naomi Theora Most
naomi(a)nthmost.com
+1-415-728-7490
skype: nthmost
http://twitter.com/nthmost
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:34 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Great strides have been made visavis debris and garbage ending up outside,
> and that is great. However, the newly-longer line of chairs chained up
> outside the building, while useful of course, frankly is starting to look
> too janky and an eyesore at this point.
>
> In order to improve somewhat the outside appearance of our building and the
> perception of neighbors, I would like to cut down on the number of outside
> chairs. Basically, I think we should remove all but the bench and the
> bare-metal chairs. IE, I think all the new white chairs should be removed.
> It's just too much.
>
> In addition, by the way, technically we do not have permission from the city
> to put any seating outside. I've looked at our property line and its not
> clear actually that it extends a few feet from the building. Even if it did,
> there is an easement with the city's sidewalk that means they have control
> over it.
>
> I appreciate the doocratic effort to provide more outside seating, but can
> we please remove these extra white chairs? Its overkill imo.
Ok so where are people supposed to sit then? Would they prefer we
sit/lie on the sidewalk instead?
Looking for a fun way to help out the Omni and meet new people while you're
at it? Come join the Welcoming Committee and help us ensure that new folks
walking through our doors are not totally confused!
I mean, a little confusion is okay, it's salubrious for creativity and
becoming, but we really need more hands on deck to give tours, answer
questions, create documentation, and generally be a welcoming face to the
Omni.
Our first planning meeting was rained out, so we're kicking it to next
week: *6pm on Thursday, Dec. 18th in La Commune.*
Add your ideas and inspiration to our wiki page here:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcoming_Committee or to this thread!
<3
Jenny
Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California!
https://omnicommons.org/donate
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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