Hacksters.
If you ain't already heard there's a massive fish dieoff going on around
all over the bay due to oxygen getting sucked out of the water from a
combination of wastewater effluent and water that's too-goddam-warm. From
those who have been monitoring things like this during their entire
lifetime, they say they have never seen anything this horrible. Parts of
Lake Merritt look like a fish graveyard. Lots of large fish, skates,
sturgeon (the redwoods of the waters) washed up all over the bay.
If you want to see some visuals of the horror, here's some places to look:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/biodiversiphile/2917398642823053646/https://www.instagram.com/stories/damontighe/2917219146041116213/https://twitter.com/hashtag/LakeMerritt?src=hashtag_click
So. What do?
Hacker action:
The red tide algal bloom that was created due to the wastewater, etc seems
to be receding in Lake Merritt, and what few fish are left are congregating
in regions of Lake Merritt where there is a source of mechanical
oxygenation. So now is a good opportunity to head over there with a pump
and a battery/solar panel and bubble in some air around the fish.
Anyone want to meet over there today?
we will be preparing for this event TOMORROW SUNDAY AT 1PM
who's available to come meet up and help prepare lights and materials?
we're going to look through the many LEDs we have in sudoroom, and figure out a
way to make battery packs for people using these A123 cells i have a bunch of.
do you have rolls of LED lights that you want to donate? We are going to
solicit donations for Omni and get people to join sudoroom.
we need help making this event happen! Both tomorrow and on Wednesday at 5
-jake
On Saturday, Jake wrote:
OK the event is set for Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
We are going to meet tomorrow at 1pm (Sunday) in Sudoroom to prepare materials
so that Wednesday goes smoothly (in case anyone shows up)
Here is the text I sent to the East Bay Bike Party facebook group:
FREE: Light Up Your Ride for the Bike Party!
Wanna trick out your bike with LED lights for the Friday Sept. 9 ride?
Sudoroom Hackerspace (at Omni Commons) is having an LED lighting workshop in
time for the next Bike Party!
Bring your bike, your curiosity and your enthusiasm to Omni Common’s Bike
Mutation Station, and we’ll help you get your bike lighting super snazzy for
the ride: we’ve got helpers, workspace, soldering and hot glue, and surplus LED
tape and strings that we can help help you attach to your bike.
If you’re got spare LED light strings or tape, even broken ones or “scraps”, or
even just simple bike safety lights you want to fix or install, bring them to
the event to use or to share!
This is a family-friendly activity, biking families are heartily invited.
WHAT: Sudoroom’s Bike Mutation Station - Light Up Your Ride
WHEN; Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
WHERE: Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
HOW: Bring your bike and any parts / lights you may already have.
COST: Free, although donations to the Omni Commons gofundme are gladly
accepted: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-omni
our goal for this event is to pull lots more people into the Omni and sudoroom
to grow our community! and we're going to have to put in a bunch of work to
make it happen but i think it will be fun
-jake
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Yardena Cohen wrote:
> This sounds great! Thank you Jake for the initiative! I'm copying
> Omni's events list so they are aware of this plan. It would be helpful
> if the dates and times could be settled soon-ish since we are talking
> about highly shared and multiuse spaces.
>
> It would also be really helpful if Sudoers could use this opportunity
> to help fix up the entrance hall. Currently there is still a large
> pile of trash that nobody is sure what to do with, and a broken pew
> that could use repair to make it safe to sit on again.
>
> There will be a play rehearsal in the disco room on Wednesday and
> Thursday nights from 6-10pm but they should be ok, we've had busy
> events during their rehearsals before.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:23 PM Jake via sudo-discuss
> <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>> Peter and I want to host an event at sudoroom (and partially in the entrance
>> hall or ballroom/stage, since there will be a bunch of bikes and we'll need
>> space)
>> where we will invite East Bay Bike Party facebook group members/instagram
>> followers to come and add LED lights to their bicycles.
>>
>> The next EBBP ride is Friday September 9th in 8 days. I'm thinking this
>> event
>> should be wednesday or thursday. We will need help from whoever's
>> available!
>>
>> I want to have a pre-event preparation day with volunteers from this list,
>> to
>> go through the many LED supplies we have in sudoroom, and stuff we'll bring
>> from
>> home, so that when the event happens, we have lights, batteries, and
>> switches/LED controllers labeled and ready to wire up and hot glue in place.
>>
>> That pre-event preparation can be anytime people want to meet up, including
>> multiple days, so reply here if you're interested and available to meet up
>> at
>> sudoroom Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday afternoon, to prepare for
>> this event. Don't worry if you aren't good with electronics, I'll show you
>> what we need to do!
>>
>> Of course you'll be able to decorate your own bike too, but we want to focus
>> on
>> hosting new people from the EBBP community so that they can learn about
>> sudoroom and the omni, and hopefully DONATE and join us.
>>
>> So it's a community-building and expanding exercise. Who is available when?
>>
>> Also if you have rolls of LED tape or LED christmas lights that you want to
>> donate, now's the time!
>>
>> thank you
>> -jake
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Peter and I want to host an event at sudoroom (and partially in the entrance
hall or ballroom/stage, since there will be a bunch of bikes and we'll need space)
where we will invite East Bay Bike Party facebook group members/instagram
followers to come and add LED lights to their bicycles.
The next EBBP ride is Friday September 9th in 8 days. I'm thinking this event
should be wednesday or thursday. We will need help from whoever's available!
I want to have a pre-event preparation day with volunteers from this list, to
go through the many LED supplies we have in sudoroom, and stuff we'll bring from
home, so that when the event happens, we have lights, batteries, and
switches/LED controllers labeled and ready to wire up and hot glue in place.
That pre-event preparation can be anytime people want to meet up, including
multiple days, so reply here if you're interested and available to meet up at
sudoroom Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday afternoon, to prepare for
this event. Don't worry if you aren't good with electronics, I'll show you
what we need to do!
Of course you'll be able to decorate your own bike too, but we want to focus on
hosting new people from the EBBP community so that they can learn about
sudoroom and the omni, and hopefully DONATE and join us.
So it's a community-building and expanding exercise. Who is available when?
Also if you have rolls of LED tape or LED christmas lights that you want to
donate, now's the time!
thank you
-jake
*Hey Sudo! *
Tonight about a dozen people met face-to-face to lay out Sudo Room’s plan
help save this hackerspace and Omni Commons. Below is a summary of the
situation with bulleted action items. If you want to help, just email me
and say, “I’d like to help ____” and I’ll point you in the right direction.
*Where we are*
The Omni Commons building was bought with money from an anonymous donor who
will begin foreclosure proceedings on our building unless we pay them $900k
by December 1st. Sudo Room is receiving ~$1,000 per month that it pays to
Omni, which is half of our obligation of $2k /mo. That $1000 comes from 49
paying members.
*What we’re going to do*
Money - Our target is to generate $3000 on a monthly basis by November 1st.
Ⓐ Renew or upgrade your membership. ** If all current members paid
$60 /mo our financial goal would be complete. **
Ⓐ Call a current or past member from our member list to let them
know what’s happening and ask them to renew or upgrade their monthly
donation.
Labor - We need hands.
Ⓐ Volunteer to host/Co-host an event.
Ⓐ Make or share a piece of promotional art on Instagram.
Ⓐ Volunteer to do 4 hours of work for the Omni funding working group.
Ⓐ Volunteer to help one day with the Omni facilities and building
maintenance working group
Ⓐ Volunteer to help setup, run, or clean up after a scheduled event
Influence - We’d like to call on influencers to boost Omni’s fund raiser
and drive traffic to Sudo Room’s upcoming events.
Ⓐ Suggest influencers to the Sudo media working group that you think
you could reach out to who might signal boost us. Do not reach out to them
until you’ve talked to someone in the media working group.
*This is not a comprehensive list of all you can do. *But it’s a starting
point. If you want to help but don’t know which of these to do, just email
me and say, *“I wanna help.”*
Cheers!
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
Sudo Room,
Is next meeting going to be soon ?
I see that there is video. Is this the meeting going on now ? Looks like only one person
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Joma
it's like, it doesn't even have to be even anything tangible like a work
project. or an art project. it can be like the old sudoroom "today I
learned" meetups where we talked about what we learned that week!
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned
FYI today i learned was never a "teaching class" like the kind they use to
get funding and stuff for "teaching stem to people" from rich non profits.
it was pretty authentic and people were allowed to be as weird as they
anted to be.
Maybe we can get these started again, it's a lot easier since so much is
online now!
I did one a few years ago on comics, 3d printing and the universe
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#May_11,_2013_Comics,_3D_Printing_…
again it was NOT a teaching class to "teach STEM"
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/ComicsAndMore
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
HEY!
This *Wednesday, August 31st @ 8 - 9 PM* Sudo Room is hosting its first *in
person on-site* meeting in over two years.
Our agenda is pretty simple: We're going to discuss how closely Sudo Room
is meeting the financial obligations necessary to avoid losing our building
at the end of the year, and lay out plans to meet those obligations in time
to save the Omni Commons.
We will still welcome guests remotely at the usual link:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
You can donate and share the link to the Omni Commons fundraiser here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-omni
Cheers! See you this Wednesday night!
*Andrew R Gross, (he/him)*
412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>
