we are being asked for submissions to the April Omni Newsletter!
send submissions to Natasha Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com>
-jake
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:00:00 -0700
From: Natasha Zahn <natashazahn27(a)gmail.com>
To: Omni Commons <occupy(a)omnicommons.org>,
consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: [omni-consensus] Omni Newsletter Updates!
Hello Omni Collectives!
There's so many wonderful things going on at *Omni Commons*~
We hope to share any updates, ideas, dreams, reflections Omni collectives
and Omni community members may have to offer. Newsletter will be sent April
2022.
*Updates can include :*
- ongoing projects
- collectives updates
- working group's report backs
- inspiring infographics
- photos
Please email any information you would like submitted by *4/1/22 at 12pm.*
If you would like to support the creation of the newsletter please feel
welcomed to collaborate<3
With Conditional Love,
Silver
Greeting fellow internet defenders!
eQualit.ie is seeking an experienced Android mobile developer to
contribute to the development and rapid growth of CENO Browser
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ie.equalit.ceno&hl=en_CA&gl=US>
– a novel and open source technology designed to work in networks
experiencing extreme censorship and disconnections from the Internet.
Built on <https://github.com/censorship-no> Mozilla’s Firefox for
Android, CENO Browser utilizes the Ouinet library
<https://github.com/equalitie/ouinet> to retrieve and share web content
peer-to-peer over Bittorrent’s DHT. Want to help people living in Iran,
Myanmar, Russia, China and countless others around the world access
digital content freely? This is the team you can do it with!
Apply at: https://equalit.ie/job-post/mobile-dev-dweb/ !
*The role*
Working within a tight-knit team of engineers, user research and UI
design partners, as well as other colleagues from eQualitie, your duties
will include:
* Migrating the existing browser base from Fennec to Fenix
* Implementing UI improvements in the CENO Browser Android app
according to provided wireframes
* Unit-testing code for robustness, usability, and general reliability
* Bug fixing and improving application performance
* Maintaining the highest level of defensive programming practices
* Listening critically and giving viable feedback to team members,
managers, and outside groups
* Documenting work toward long-term maintenance and reproducibility
* Being on time with product timelines and deliverables
*You should:*
* Have experience with Android app development (experience with mobile
web browser development a strong plus)
* Have experience in a test-driven approach to software development &
version control with git
* Be reachable for at least 2 hours on working days between 9am – 5pm CET
* Have experience in network programming (HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP) and
familiarity with peer-to-peer (BitTorrent) technologies
*Nice to have:*
* Published at least one original mobile app
* Java project experience
* Enjoy delving into other people’s code, debugging and improving it
* Excellent development credentials and years of experience working
with a variety of technologies
* A strong desire to work on free and open-source software
*About us*
eQualitie is a small company run on not-for-profit principles. Our goal
and motivation is to promote and protect human rights in the digital
age. We solve complex technical problems for improving digital defences,
introducing privacy to online activity, enabling freedom of expression
and association online. This project builds on knowledge and technology
from https://censorship.no
*How to apply*
Please send your *resume and a cover letter via
https://equalit.ie/job-post/mobile-dev-dweb/* explaining how your
experience and motivation match our requirements. Please include your
Github username or another platform where we can see your previous
projects .
eQualitie welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We are a
remote-first company and offer flexible working arrangements. We are
keen to hear from people who consider themselves under-represented in
the software, technology or FLOSS communities – even if they feel they
meet only some of our needs. You can read more about our principles
here: https://equalit.ie/values
--
Jenny Ryan
CENO / OuiSync Project Manager, eQualitie
https://censorship.no ||https://equalitie.org
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbc16cXrN2I/?utm_medium=share_sheet
Got stuff on the Instagram account @sudo.room
- spoke to Josh gross - we should make a general folder for SudoRoom activity and populate it then curate stuff and put it on the blog
- have an s video hdmi for the projector - it works nice and is stronger than my laser light
- there are cute apps that do distortion so that we can do easy projection mapping live on the projector
- would like to get artists physically in the space
- josh had cool ideas about people doing teleconferencing and collaboration from other cities ! I’m burned out on zoom calls and long distance collaboration but he got the fires going again.
- still pondering the idea of a crude theme park
Sent from my iPhone
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbc16cXrN2I/?utm_medium=share_sheet
Got stuff on the Instagram account @sudo.room
- spoke to Josh gross - we should make a general folder for SudoRoom activity and populate it then curate stuff and put it on the blog
- have an s video hdmi for the projector - it works nice and is stronger than my laser light
- there are cute apps that do distortion so that we can do easy projection mapping live on the projector
- would like to get artists physically in the space
- josh had cool ideas about people doing teleconferencing and collaboration from other cities ! I’m burned out on zoom calls and long distance collaboration but he got the fires going again.
- still pondering the idea of a crude theme park
Sent from my iPhone
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!
