Hi Sudoroom people!!
As Sudoroom's delegate to the Omni Commons it's my job to report back the
collective will of Sudoroom regarding important topics like: new members of
the Omni Commons! CLP is applying and we, Sudoroom, have to decide how we feel
about them joining the commons.
In two weeks, the delegates' meeting will happen and I will be asked to report
the position of Sudoroom. If we don't figure that out in an email thread or at
a sudoroom meeting, i will have to make something up!
Yet another reason to attend our awesome Sudoroom meetings on Wednesday
evenings at 8PM, on Jitsi or in person at the space!
-jake
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 22:24:23 -0700
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
To: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Cc: Communityliberationprograms(a)protonmail.com
Subject: [omni-consensus] Fwd: WCK/CLP intro
Hi all, I'm forwarding this to omni's "consensus" list because it's a
proposal that affects the whole community!
I think CLP would be great as a new member collective at omni. They
are paying $200 for their current 10x10 storage unit and are willing
to pay omni the same for relatively unsecured space in the basement,
which is totally reasonable - generous even! They would also bring in
an active community of volunteers, which would be huge for omni.
Meeting Billy and Rafiq this weekend was a pleasure.
It looks like there are now several new member collective proposals in
the pipeline, which is awesome! I hope that we can use this
opportunity to practice onboarding new groups in a way that is as
frictionless and accessible as we can, and also invite this potential
new generation of omni member collectives to co-create the process
alongside us.
Our next delegates meeting is in ~2 weeks, April 7th. Typically for
important proposals (like a new member collective), we would have one
meeting to discuss details, give delegates another 2 weeks to bring
the proposal for discussion among their groups, and then come back for
(hopefully) full consensus at the next meeting, which would be April
21st.
I think it'd be great for folks to have conversations and ask
questions in the meantime so that we can all be prepared for the big
meetings once they happen. Thanks all :D
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From: deskhandle via commons <commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM
Subject: [omni-commons] WCK/CLP intro
To: commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org <commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Cc: Communityliberationprograms(a)protonmail.com
<Communityliberationprograms(a)protonmail.com>
Hey everyone, this is Billy with Community Liberation Programs,
formerly known as Worker's Community Kitchen.
We are a socialist organization that creates dual power programs in
partnership with community members.
Currently we have a water delivery/ unhoused encampment commissary
program as well as a community garden program both in Hayward.
We have a program in Berkeley which works directly with the community
at People's Park to organize crucial material support and gear up in
defense of the upcoming eviction.
We also have a reading group starting in the SF Mission as a
preliminary step to bring folks together for a new program forming
there, and another working group investigating a new program centered
in Oakland Chinatown.
We are really excited to be invited to join the new phase at the Omni
and are particularly looking forward to supporting fund raising
efforts through event planning. We were already working on creating a
summer film series as a fund raising event for our organization and it
seems aligned to use this as an opportunity to support the Omni as
well.
Additionally, we were told that we could potentially move some stuff
around in the area pictured below to take up a roughly 10 x 10 space
for our storage. Currently we have a storage unit in Berkeley so we'd
love to move that over here and start being in the space more
regularly!
We can send a delegate to the regular meetings and are ready to start
event planning!
I have CC'd the primary CLP email address to make sure it is put in
the communication loop!
All the best!
Billy
Hi everyone,
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or because I BCC'd you directly. Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for
those who want to come hack on whatever in person, or through telepresence of
any means you can invoke.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 4-10 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through the
telescreen.
i haven't put it on the Omni calendar (don't know how?) but it's on the
sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there soon after 6pm.
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you need to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
bonus: join the jitsi videochat with the space tonight, and chat with each
other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
So at this stage I sent out plans to cool artists
The Omni ballroom is ideal for light projection room environments
https://www.flickr.com/gp/miromi/25u9SM
Just sharing some plans!these would be ideal for pepppe to take selfies in similar to a museum and I’m wondering how to figure audio into this
What’s really nice is that while there are commercial free ish mobile phone apps for distorting the projectors for these light projections it’s not too difficult to build our own !
These rooms could rotate and have stories and be immersive plays or informational stuff and even gasp educational 😎
Sent from my iPhone
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You and all the other sudoroomers are invited:
https://www.meetup.com/Circuit-Launch/events/284488726/
-Peter
ROBOT BUILD NIGHTS ARE BACK!!
Monthly Robotics Build Night from 5:30pm Friday evening at Circuit Launch.
Join us virtually or in-person
Over the course of the year we fell in love with collaborative work sessions
with mixed in-person and virtual peeps! Point a webcam at your workbench or
stream your screen, come work on projects with us wherever you are in the
world! Join our Discord Server (https://discord.gg/dx2PYa5gPY) if you want to
attend virtually.
Bring a project or discover one here!
We provide the space, tools and peer learning - you bring your project and
awesomeness!
Equipment use outside of the soldering and debugging gear requires
certification.
U18s welcome with a participating adult.
Fixit Clinic: Repair projects are also welcome and encouraged
Peter Mui from Fixit Clinic (https://fixitclinic.blogspot.com/) will be on
hand. Bring your broken, non-functioning things – electronic gadgets,
appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, fabric items, etc.– for
assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We’ll be available for
consultation on broken items with workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to
help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. First-time repairers and
“Fixing Families” are heartily encouraged to attend.
We also have a full Sewing Lab and our mentor CC will be there to help if you
have a project that needs some stitching, as well as her vast sewing machine
repair and maintenance experience.
Looking forward to seeing you in the Lab!
https://sudoroom.org/why-we-love-sudoroom-hardware-hack-night/
I think basically there is no such thing as radio shack or the weird stuff
warehouse in sunnyvale anymore. everything is online except for weird
holdouts like the SudoRoom hardware hack night.
so now a blog post about that! it's just nice to be tactile and talk in
person. It's like going to a library . imagine how horrible it would be if
there were only ebooks and no more physical books!
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Going forward, I'm going to anthropormorphize the heck out of all our cool
equipment! The silver screen is named Fabian, and the light projector is
named Homer.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ProjectionMapping#Equipment
I think I'm going to do a series of interviews where I talk to each
equipment piece and ask them about their lives, their power equipment and
how we can connect to them and do weird projects.
And then a "person on the street" type deal where I interview various
SudoRoom members and ask them what cool things we could do with each piece!
Anyway Fabian the silver screen is totally silver! and according to Jake we
can do real 3D movie son him!
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi everyone,
you're getting this email either because you're on the sudoroom discuss email
list, or because I BCC'd you directly. Tonight I'll be hosting Sudoroom for
those who want to come hack on whatever in person, or through telepresence of
any means you can invoke.
Remember that Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that
EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
(if you want to eat something you should go outside)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 4-10 people over the course of the
evening, not including remote participants who logged in through the
telescreen.
i haven't put it on the Omni calendar (don't know how?) but it's on the
sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2022-02-15/
that says 7PM but I try to be there soon after 6pm.
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call me or someone else who's there to let you in! Email me if you don't
have my phone number. Actually a great way to get our attention is to join the
video chat link at the end of this email!
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it after 10PM anyway
because of diminishing returns :)
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailinglist! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you need to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
bonus: join the jitsi videochat with the space tonight, and chat with each
other as well as a giant TV screen/speakerphone on the wall of the space:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
(don't worry if you're the only one in the "room", others will join eventually,
and if the camera is pointed at the floor, just yell until someone comes and
talks to you and then ask them to aim it back up into the room)
see you soon!
-jake
Hi Hilary!
thank you for thinking of me! Those items should go to ewaste, the place I
went to recently was great and drama-free!
Computer & Technology Resource Center
620 Page St
Berkeley, CA 94710
Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed
https://ewastecollective.org/contact/
(415)883-1428
-jake
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022, Hilary Naylor wrote:
> Hi Jake,
> Seems like we're getting some new members and lots of interest in
> hardware hacking!
> I've been helping a Village member get rid of some of the tech "clutter" in
> her home and wondering if these items should go to eWaste (recycling?
> where?) if anyone would like to hack them:
> Mac G4 iBook (OS Leopard)
> Macbook 1,6 2006 (OS Snow Leopard)
> HP ScanJet 5370C (no drivers available)
>
> The laptops power up and applications run, but they are very insecure.
>
> Your advice?
>
> thanks
> Hilary
>
> ---
> Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
> www.a2zed.us
> Oakland CA
>
