https://sudoroom-360.glitch.me
I'd like to do something sophisticated here...
man, let's build a VR sudoRoom and save it!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Sudoers:
As always we successfully repaired lots of stuff at Hardware and
SoftWEAR Hack Night last week.
Typically on Tuesdays we have lots of new people visiting the space and
it can be intimidating if you don't know anyone and don't know where to
go and what to do.So can someone try to arrive early, say, 7:30 or so to
greet people for Sudoroom or sewing downstairs in the Media Lab and get
them started on their projects?
Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is
working by dialing it 2) put the Fixit Clinic sandwich sign out on the
sidewalk.
This week we have no item check-ins at https://bit.ly/itemcheckins but
we typically get lots of walk-ins. And Hilary writes that they are
bringing two Chromebooks to convert to Linux:
Hi Peter,
I have two old (5+ years) chromebooks that have passed their EOL
(2022 and 2021) but are still working ok (the trackpads tend to fail on
these cheap models). However, my senior clients (I volunteer at Ashby
Village) cannot use them to login to their Kaiser account (they get a
message "please update your chrome browser"!). …I remember reading about
a plan to refurbish that bypasses the EOL problem. Do you know anything
about this?
thanks
Hilary
1. Lenovo N22-20 ; Model Name 80SF
2. Samsung 501C ; Model Code XE501C13-K02US
Can someone look out for Hilary and get them started disassembling the
Chromebooks to remove the write protect screws? (The entire process is
outlined here: bit.ly/cbtuning )
Many thanks, -Peter
This is a great introduction to the opera for newcomers, and it's only $10
for a ticket to the SF Opera. Really fun, great stuff, and you get to dress
up too!
https://www.sfopera.com/buy-tickets/dolby-familys-opera-for-the-bay/
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
2 events tomorrow. whiteboards as much as possible, no watching lots of
youtubes of projects Other People Work On.
-> Tuesday there's going to be a special pre-hardware hacking espidoe on
augmented reality outside of the burning man art / gameing silicon valley
world with a focus on the vennice and cannes immersive biennales.
more on that later but i'll also do a presenttion on stuff WIHTOUT youtube
links or surfingt the web. gonna describe it and whiteboard it all the way!
TOMORRPW:::
https://lu.ma/980wqwdw
Literary Digital Creator Afternoon (Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality)
https://lu.ma/4jijdicl
An early afternoon jaunt to work on a quick XR (Augmented reality / Virtual
Reality) piece inspired by the a literary work. An example is the Eurydice
<https://youtu.be/cn56ix7xKEc?si=woQw3_u2MEIic3c->piece that was shown at
the Venice Bienniale.
Literary Inspiration for a Digital World
<https://sudoroom.org/events/18159/>
Hopefully at the end of the session we'll have something we can share
across all headsets and phones in augmented or virtual reality (one
possibility is webXR which we've played around with to showcase Sudoroom
here https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me )
Inspiration: Octavia Butler
We'll be taking a look at Octavia Butler's science fiction Eartheed trilogy
which was one of the inspirations for Kara Walker's piece Fortuna and the
Immortality Garden (Machine)
<https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/fortuna-and-the-immortality-garden-machin…>
currently on show at the SF Moma museum.
Women & NonBinary Coding/Hacking Night
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hello SUDO Community,
I have an update on the foreclosure, I have attached a letter from CAST,
which also summarizes all of the updates. Basically Mulberry has told us:
1. X organization intends to pay off Mulberry Trusts’s loan to Omni
Commons of approximately $873,973.00
2. Here is a $10,000 non-refundable deposit to show we are serious.
3. Attach a copy of Omni's Board Resolution noting the agreement between
Omni and the organization paying off the loan.
4. If we do not hear from you by Tuesday, May 14th at 12pm, we will
direct the foreclosure trustee to file the paperwork.
CAST appears to be willing to work with us even if the foreclosure is
filed. But we also have the option to comply with Mulberry's requirements
and fundraise to purchase the building with funding from another source
within the 1 week timeframe. We will likely be entertaining proposals from
Peoples Programs and City In Motion at tomorrow's board meeting.
Please let me know if you have any questions, or ideas or insights.
Best
William
> I’m sorry for the delay on this. It turns out that the LOI should be
submitted by CAST to Omni Commons. We will turn around and submit this for
consideration by Omi Commons.
I wanted to highlight a few things:
-
I believe we have till Sunday evening or early Monday morning to share a
signed LOI for purchase to the Trust. This is to be accompanied by a
$10,000 check. We then have 24 additional hours to submit the full payment
to the Trust at which time the title is released to Omni Commons.
-
If this timing cannot be met, the foreclosure action will be undertaken
and there is 90 days to pay down the loan. The clock would essentially
start on Tuesday the 14th.
CAST has the ability to pay $10,000 for the deposit but not the balance
within 24 hours after that. Given this reality, we will let the Trust know
of our plans to pursue an LOI with Omni Commons and the need for additional
time to secure the balance of funds. This assumes that they advance to
foreclose.
- CAST would like to sign an LOI with Omni Commons as quickly as
possible so we can pursue funding to meet the 90 day foreclosure window. We
will not negotiate to assemble a partnership for purchase.
We encourage Omni Commons to explore all options.
-
People’s Program and City In Motion have both expressed interest and
have reached out to CAST. I will respond to both and encourage them to
speak with Omni Commons directly.
-
We recommend that you determine, separate from CAST, if their offers
are viable and you wish to sell the building to either of them. We don’t
want to hold you up if you are able and prefer to resolve the matter
immediately.
https://sudoroom.org/events/18159/
LITERARY DIGITAL CREATOR HACK AFTERNOON (XR / VIRTUAL REALITY / AUGMENTED
REALITY)
CREATE AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY PIECES WITH INSPIRATION FROM THE ARTS
AND LITERARY WORK!
*Date/Time*
Date(s) - 2024/07/29
*5:00 pm - 6:00 pm*
* - Sign up here at https://lu.ma/980wqwdw <https://lu.ma/980wqwdw>An early
afternoon jaunt to work on a quick XR (Augmented reality / Virtual Reality)
piece inspired by the a literary work.Hopefully at the end of the session
we’ll have something we can share across all headsets and phones in
augmented or virtual reality (one possibility is webXR which we’ve played
around with to showcase Sudoroom
here https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me
<https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me/> )HIGHLIGHTWe’ll be taking a
look at Octavia Butler’s science fiction Eartheed trilogy which was one of
the inspirations for Kara Walker’s piece Fortuna and the Immortality Garden
(Machine)
<https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/fortuna-and-the-immortality-garden-machin…>currently
on show at the SF Moma museum.“The child in each of us Knows
paradise.Paradise is home.Home as it was Or home as it should have
been.Paradise is one’s own place,One’s own people,One’s own world,Knowing
and known,Perhaps even Loving and loved.Yet every child Is cast from
paradise-Into growth and new community,Into vast, ongoingChange.” - Octavia
Butler, the Parable of the Sower*
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
there have been members whose windows have been smashed - my first
suggestion is to tell guests to park on the opposite side of Telegraph in
the more ritzy residential neighborhood and walk 10-15 minutes
have people had luck in the Macarthur bart parking structure
how about parking by the piedmont police dept and then taking a rideshare
or bikeshare?
I have a guest who's coming who is driving all the way from Sonoma!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Sudoers:
This week we have one person (Lily) signed up with a bunch of stuff (see
https://bit.ly/itemcheckins) and we typically get lots of walk-ins too.
Typically on Tuesdays we have lots of new people visiting the space and
it can be intimidating if you don't know anyone and don't know where to
go and what to do.
So can someone try to arrive early say, 7:30 or so to greet people for
Sudoroom or sewing downstairs in the Media Lab and get them started on
their projects?
Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is
working by dialing it 2) put the Fixit Clinic sandwich sign out on the
sidewalk.
Many thanks, -Peter
Due to funding there are no good science museums in the Bay Area or California in general that are fun for adults! They are mostly geared to kids and parents for some reason
I propose we create mini science exhibits aimed at people 18 and above! Let’s create the science museum exhibit that is not geared for teaching kids’ let’s make it as complex or simple as we want it to be … just make it for adults !
https://sudoroom.org/events/make-xr-in-person-workshop/
A short, sweet early evening “let’s make augmented reality, virtual reality
and more” with VisionPro, open source headsets, quest, webXR etc. at the
SudoRoom Hackerspace!
- If you simply must use social, sign up at https://lu.ma/50veey96
We promise you there will be no slides you have to sit through. We will
have whiteboards and chalkboards to shake things up with your virtual
reality!
This will be an in-person event only, not remote!
- For adults only, 18 and over!
Check out the wiki which we’ll be building up this month:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/XR
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://lu.ma/c4oqkxnvhttps://sudoroom.org/events/women-nonbinary-hack-night-2024-07-22/
This evening we'll have a cool guest, Jade, who will talk about some fun
advanced topics on the *Rust Programming Language* with our wonderful
speaker Jade, a passionate Rust enthusiast!
On RUST
This evening we'll do a deep dive on* algebraic data types*! ADTs are a hot
new computer science concept *("new" == from the '90s )* which Rust uses to
make its representation of data...
*Plan for the evening:*
*T*alk about the theory of algebraic data types (struct as product, tagged
enum as sum)
Visual learning for basic sum types (Option and Result)
Let's put it into practice! Group design effort for a Result for an example
application.
We guarantee it will be fun even if you aren't a big rust programmer.
See https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Rust <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Rust>
*also:** You can also hack on stuff like audio sound engineering, sewing,
or other cool things during and after the talk! You don't have to code
because this is the hack night not the "coding only" night!*
https://sudoroom.org/events/wnb-coding-night-2-2023-08-28/
About Us
The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons,
invites all Women/NB people for “WNB Coding/Hacking Night”: bring your
computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you
have coding/hacking-related questions/bugs or just keep company while
hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve
never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for
a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on.
No computer? No problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders/Hackers
of all abilities are welcome! All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a
WNB friend is highly recommended. Join in person if you’re in Oakland
Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time
Sudo Room at Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Avenue – Oakland
Ring the bell when you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck)
and someone will open for you.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/events/math-afternoon-crafting-and-sewing/
We had such a nice morning math today! We decided to have a math-ternoon
next Tuesday where we use computers as little as possible!
(note this will be for those 18+up)
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Sudoers:
We successfully repaired Joshua’s air mattress last week at Hardware and
SoftWEAR Hack Night!
This week we have one person signed up with an internet radio (see
https://bit.ly/itemcheckins) and we typically get lots of walk-ins too.
Typically on Tuesdays we have lots of new people visiting the space and
it can be intimidating if you don't know anyone and don't know where to
go and what to do.
So can someone try to arrive early say, 7:30 or so to greet people for
Sudoroom or sewing downstairs in the Media Lab and get them started on
their projects?
Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is
working by dialing it 2) put the Fixit Clinic sandwich sign out on the
sidewalk.
Many thanks, -Peter
https://lu.ma/sudoroom
This is the new sudoorom lu.ma page
As always this should not replace the main wordpress blog which is our
events page
https://sudoroom.org/events/
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://lu.ma/2llyntn4
The meetup.com page is costing $45 a month... not sure how useful it is
compared to lu.ma, which most other meetups are switching to. What do you
guys think? I'm probably going to turn off the meetup.com page and go
there, in the bay area it's all lu.ma lately since they have a free tier.
we should be putting our main meetup stuff on our wordpress blog and not
rely on a platform...
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Sudoers:
You / any sudomesh people here might be interested in this $15M grant
that OaklandUndivided just got from the California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC).
https://www.oaklandundivided.org/news/cpuc-awards-oakland-15m-broadband-inf…
Maybe we (sudomesh?) should offer to work with OaklandUndivided?
If there is a separate sudomesh-related list: please forward this to
that list.
Sincerely, -Peter
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: danarauz <danarauz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Subject: FYI: Omni Commons's website main page has two broken links
To: <sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, sudo-sys(a)lists.sudoroom.org <
Sudo-sys(a)sudoroom.org>
Dear Omni's Web 'Mustard' :), two links at the Events section of the main
page need to be updated:
https://omnicommons.org/index.html#events
"
*Events*
*You can request space <https://omnicommons.org/calendar/request> for your
own event, or come to an event on our calendar
<https://omnicommons.org/calendar>.*
"
*The drop down window of the top menu has these that work:*
*Calendar:*
https://airtable.com/app2DwPw0H2HKsiWv/shrxXjo869sxBzHmr
*Book an Event: *https://airtable.com/app2DwPw0H2HKsiWv/shrlK0lnDblYnim9I
Thanks,
Daniel
Hi! I created an account on the humans subdomain as "plasticbugs" on June 4th of this year to set up a recurring membership donation. I'm not able to log into the humans portal with my saved credentials (from 1password) and am not getting a password reset using my email address or my username. Is someone on this list able to help me recover my account? TIA!
Hi Sudoers:
We have two people signed up with broken items for Hardware and SoftWEAR
Hack Night tonight (see https://bit.ly/itemcheckins) and we typically
get lots of walk-ins too.
Tuesday nights we have lots of new people visiting the space and it can
be intimidating if you don't know anyone and don't know where to go and
what to do.
So can someone try to arrive early say, 7:30 or so to greet people and
let them into Sudoroom or the Media Lab and get them started on their
projects?
Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is
working by dialing it 2) put the Fixit Clinic sandwich sign out on the
sidewalk.
Many thanks, -Peter
In the tradition of Matt Senate's morning math, I'm starting a morning
session, quick and easy, of morning math in-person at the Sudoroom Tuesday
morning 7/16 7-7:45am.
I probably won't make it online, but it's a possibility!
Event will be bring your own coffee, kept drama free, with as little
screentime as possible, only using the whiteboards if we can and no
laptops.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
hey sudo fam!
tl;dr-*RSVP and Details:* https://partiful.com/e/ETeelPOFIeD1tDYaR6qp
I am _really_ excited to invite y'all to our potluck tonight, it's in
collaboration with the Internet Archive/Dweb Camp, and looking at how we
can bring regenerative concepts to how we use technology. I would love to
have anyone interested in tech and a better world come, and join the
discussion!! And you can invite your friends of course :)
*longer invite!Date:* Monday, July 8th, 2024
*Time:* 6-8:30 PM
*Location:* a PLACE for Sustainable Living, Oak-land
*Description:* Join the Bay Area Permaculture Guild for our Midsummer
Gathering! This month's event features a potluck dinner followed by a guest
talk on integrating permaculture perspectives into digital systems, and
touches on the work towards a decentralized web, presented by noms (Naomi
Joy Smith).
*Overview from noms:* How can permaculture design connect with our
socio-digital patterns, and what does mission-aligned tooling look like
from the perspectives of earth care, people care, and fair share?
noms is a Pākeha from Aotearoa, currently involved in designing local-based
projects including community-owned data farms and pop-up digital hygiene
sessions. They currently support the DWeb Camp <https://dwebcamp.org/>
event team and contribute to Socialroots.io, a cooperative building network
coordination tools.
This gathering is a warm invitation to anyone interested in these topics,
whether you're a newbie or seasoned permaculturist. Come to connect, share,
and take some full exhales.
*What to Bring:* Yourself, your friends, potluck items if you can, and your
reflections on the question: What can tech learn from permaculture design,
and how can we integrate tech into our permaculture designs?.
*Accessibility:* While the bathroom is on the ground floor, The venue is
not wheelchair accessible as there are ~6 steps up to the venue, Please let
us know if you have any specific access needs.
*Health and Safety:* We follow all local health guidelines and encourage
attendees to be mindful of their health and others. Masks are welcome,
Please stay home if you're feeling sick and there are no other requirements
for attendance.
*Other things we're thinking about* (not part of our discussion this month
but for the future!)*:*
- What is Permaculture?
<https://oaec.org/our-work/projects-and-partnerships/permaculture/what-is-pe…>
- DWeb Camp <https://dwebcamp.org/> (This event's inspiration! What
would a privacy-first, open source, web look like? join us!)
- Resources/directions to explore decolonization in permaculture:
- https://agrowingculture.org/
- https://decolonialfutures.net/ (doesn't centre permaculture as much)
- https://learn.perma.earth/2024/06/17/colab-podcast-episode-5/
- https://permaqueer.com/blog/sopermaculturehey (especially the
statement right at the end)
- Decolonizing the Internet:
-
http://ojs.decolonising.digital/index.php/decolonising_digital/issue/view/D…
- https://whoseknowledge.org/issues/digital-infrastructure/ (they have a
lot of resources on their website too)
- https://gida-global.org/
*Stay Connected:* Our Linktree (SF Bay Permaculture Guild
<https://linktr.ee/eastbaypermacultureguild>)
*Upcoming Event:* Free virtual Book Club starts the day after our potluck,
7/9! RSVP and Details
<https://earthactivisttraining.org/event/book-club-5th-sacred-thing/>
(Starhawk's "The Fifth Sacred Thing <https://amzn.to/4cDRj7i>")
much love,
ajay
I haven't contacted them but it looks like this circuit board manufacturer is
willing to make boards for us in exchange for "promotion"
if the promotion is as simple as putting the fact that they donated production
of the circuit boards onto the circuit boards, maybe we can design a board,
like a musical badge or something, that people can build at sudoroom
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 5 Jul 2024 15:45:51 +0800
From: PCBWay Online Services Team <marketing05(a)pcbway.com>
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Subject: [sudo-info] Sponsorship Proposal for Your Event
Hi,
This is Ava from PCBWay, deeply attracted to your event.
We would like to sponsor your event with free PCB prototyping in charge of a slight
promotion, would you be interested in working with me?
2024-07-05
-----------------------------------
Best regards,
Ava Wang
Marketing Department
Email: marketing05(a)pcbway.com
Tel:86-18106544221 | WhatsApp:86-18106544221
[1535016244717t.png]
PCBWay.com | Follow me on Twitter and Instagram.
During the Depression era the government funded journalists, artists and
photographers etc. to document how americans ate at the time. One of the
things they noted was the community cookbook, which was a book of community
recipes that were gathered and published, its proceeds donated to a charity.
https://whatamericaate.org/single.essay.php?kid=164-593-1
Do we have a kind of cookbook? Why don't we assemble one. The recipes don't
have to be for food. It can also be "If you want to make the 1980s robot at
SudoRoom work you have to kick it several times"
=D we could put it up on gumroad
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://x.com/sudoroom/status/1808010842811912589https://sudoroom.org/fun-and-games-with-rust-and-memory-oh-my/
an excerpt:
We embarked on our epic analog Learning Rust journey at SudoRoom
hackerspace, this time during the women & nonbinary hack night. Last week’s
session was really great to kick things off, and the format continues — no
slides, no presentation on a computer monitor, just people talking face to
face.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Yes, the meeting will be at 6pm June 27th, CAST will not be there in
person, so we can meet in the basement meeting room, or maybe at sudo
depending on how many people show up.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM Chrisantha Perera <chrisantha(a)alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
> Tomorrow being Thursday, Jun 27th, correct?
> I like to specify, sometimes I don't know what interval of time Mailing
> List Moderation takes.
> -Chrisantha
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:46 AM William Myers via sudo-discuss <
> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>> CAST (Community Art Stabilization Trust) is offering to have a meeting to
>> talk to the larger OMNI community, the meeting will likely be tomorrow at
>> 6pm.
>>
>> You will be able to ask questions, and understand who they are and what
>> their mission is.
>>
>> Is anyone at SUDO interested in showing up to meet them?
>>
>> William
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>>
>
Should there be a faq on tours on the front page of our site with a fill out form?
We should also make a page “how SudoRoom is good and a potential site for educators “ - I’ll try to get on it!!!
SudoRoom overs a unique tactile experience and get kids and adults off screens and phones which parents are paying top dollar for nowadays 🤪🙈
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 1, 2024, at 13:45, Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Ahlad!
>
> Thanks for writing us! We would love to have you, that's what Sudoroom is here for. We will be having an open house event (as we do every week) this Tuesday evening at 7PM. We'll be there until midnight.
>
> There is also a general meeting at the building this Tuesday so there will be even more people. You should have no trouble getting in, but just in case, our phone number is (IHA)CKA-TFUN or you can call me personally at i
f that helps.
>
> You should check out our membership page at https://sudoroom.org/membership and join our discuss email list at https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
>
> see you soon!
> -jake
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024, Ahlad Reddy wrote:
> > Hello, my name is Ahlad. I am an Oakland resident and teach engineering and design at a local
> > public school. I’m looking for a makerspace to work on personal projects and build community
> > with others. I’m wondering if you offer any tours of the space for prospective members.
>
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https://x.com/sudoroom/status/1806752419071791260
we'd like to connect with #hackerspace
<https://x.com/hashtag/hackerspace?src=hashtag_click> in dense urban world
cities with great culture - know some folks in Tokyo, Berlin. Any folks in
London or Paris? Beijing?
Going forward I'd like to concentrate any "remote" efforts on reaching
folks who are - not in their houses - part of a cool hackerspace - in a
world city with public transportation such as Mexico City, Tokyo, London,
paris.
Do you know any?
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Come listen to a fundraiser pitch about bike locks for Oakland Community
bike shops and have some good food. And please pass this on to whomever
you know might be interested![image: Screen Shot 2024-06-27 at 4.21.07
PM.png]
we started the let's learn Rust! series at the women and non binary night
but it became such a hit that people came during tuesday's hardware hack
night and now there is a coed (co binary :P ) Rust salon group ongoing.
The construct of the meetups are simple:
- no laptops opened
- no videos
- no presentations
- print if possible
- people talk face to face
Let's keep this going!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Everyone!
CAST (Community Art Stabilization Trust) is offering to have a meeting to
talk to the larger OMNI community, the meeting will likely be tomorrow at
6pm.
You will be able to ask questions, and understand who they are and what
their mission is.
Is anyone at SUDO interested in showing up to meet them?
William
https://sudoroom.org/face-to-face-learning-with-rust/
I had so much fun learning RUST during our women and non binary night with
the chalkboard. totally no painful associations with work, job interview
whiteboarding, etc.
Do we have a big stash of extra chalk? Just checking
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Sudoers:
I arrived for Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night / Fixit Clinic at 8PM
last week and there were a bunch of people waiting outside with repairs.
Can someone try to arrive early say, 7:30 or so to greet people and let
them into Sudoroom or the Media Lab and get them started on their projects?
Extra Credit: 1) confirm that the VOIP phone number 442-252-8386 is
working by dialing it 2) put out the sandwich sign on the sidewalk
Many thanks, -Peter
https://sudoroom.org/face-to-face-learning-with-rust/
Our RUST learning experiment started out well during the Women and Non
Binary night. People have been suggesting we try something unique, and
there are so many RUST enthusiasts around me, and so few “getting women
into RUST” workshops out there, that we decided to try it out. A big
potential stinker was that I wanted to learn with an offline mode on, as I
am suffering from a massive case of internet addiction. I want to use
technology effectively and for food, and the mass of information and
distractions is seriously getting in the way of me learning new stuff.
So for this meetup as part of the “Learning how to Learn” experiment, I
suggested we do this meetup with:
- *No* presentation slides
- *No* online videos
- *No *hybrid/remote element
- *No* laptops open (if possible) with people doing face to face
- People should be able to whiteboard what they learned
- No social media during the event
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I wasn’t sure what to expect, and wasn’t sure people would show up but
people did!
Nobody present was currently programming in RUST, but they knew a lot of
people who did. We went through printouts of a Gentle Introduction to RUST
and actually had fun comparing RUST to different programming languages.
One person worked a lot in C, another in python, and it was fun going over
the computer science concepts like memory management and garbage collection
as a way to get to know RUST.
Also, in a world where there’s a lot of pressure to mint programmers out to
make commercially viable products, it was fun just to look at a programming
language intellectually before making a commercially viable widget. It
feels like even in school people are being pressured to make monetizable
stuff without stopping to smell the flowers.
Working with paper printouts and no laptops worked out surprisingly well.
We used the internet sparingly, through a laptop only checked by one
person, and talked things out slowly before jumping online.
The chalkboard had a weird psychological effect of making things fun and
spontaneous for some reason. At this point in history it is completely
dissociated from work, school, or even in-person coding interviews. It’s
like doing leetcode with crayons on construction paper, and was very
freeing! Also, being forced to write the concepts and code on a chalkboard
forces you to really repeat and check if you understand what you’re
studying.
Of course there were also the people. We spent a lot of time talking about
our experiences in other programming languages, and describing horrific
concurrency bugs in other languages that would cause people to run
screaming and yelling to Rust. One girl had a lady friend who wrote a bash
script application that was really crazy large that existed just to catch
bugs in her original programming bash code. It was also a nice way to talk
about the importance of pointers, and understanding how they worked.
This series is going well and also enabled us to connect better with each
other in person. Sometimes when you’re in person or online, having that
laptop with all those infinite distractions keeps you away from the
mission. We look forward to continuing this focused and exciting session
going forward.
Since SudoRoom has such a hardware hackerspace focus, some people were even
investigating doing independent hacker projects of embedded RUST. It’s
looking good so far!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hey all
A small group of us will be meeting to further explore laptops for all on Wednesday, starting at 8. All are invited but we are especially prioritizing this as time space for femme presenting and NB people.
-July
I am thinking about investigating wordpress for a forum.
I'm finding that going straight to Discord isn't ideal though, I have seen
how it both helps (in minimal ways) and hurts spaces like Noisebridge
(building community long term, prioritizing face to face to face, focusing
on people present instead of remote people interfering without
contributing).
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I noticed a bunch of people had tried to sign up for this list, but hadn't
returned the verification email they got.
So I went ahead and manually added them. Welcome, new people, to the sudoroom
discuss email list!
-jake
someone just reached out in concern about a dream catcher in sudo room.
Someone said it was just left on the table, but even having it somewhere
haphazardly or randomly hung in SR would be disrespectful/appropriation.
Did someone indigenous bring it in? If not they should probably take it
home, or if they are then we should work to find a more intentional place
to put it.
Paige
Tonight's East Bay Bike Party starts at West Oakland BART and ends at
North Berkeley BART the route seems particularly Sudoroom friendly so if
you want to join (or just watch) tonight might be a good night.
This month's theme is "Storybook Characters and Fairytale Creatures" so
there will no doubt be some interesting costumes:
https://www.facebook.com/events/864540958840870
See the complete map here.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1KLlG8TXpkBi6X4Q8Yqk2pi2NEFxNh1g&g…
I've often thought these rides would be great places to recruit new
members for Sudoroom.
-Peter
Hi Sudoers:
Riffing off last night’s Sudoroom visioning meeting: what if part of
Sudoroom’s mission was to expand the number of software developers in
the area using AI this enabling a vision for "local software"?
Train people who are technically savvy and interested in solving
problems for themselves and people around them, but don't want to become
fully-fledged programmers.
See this medium post for background:
https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software
-Peter
Hi Sudo Room and SMAC,
CCL gave us some rat traps and I set them up in the locations pictured.
They are somewhat close together, because those were areas where theres poo
evidence, but may make sense to pick different spot. I havent set up traps
before so dont know.
I can volunteer checking the traps on Mondays and Saturdays. But we need to
be checking every other day so more people will need to volunteer too.
Please let others know if you move traps or if you notice one is set off.
SMAC has some cats they bring in time to time downstairs (who are also
helping us with this issue), so we should keep basement door closed/ be
ready to disarm the traps temporarily as needed.
Paige