Hi,
To repair a hazard in Omni’s kitchen basement, water and gas service to
omni will be disconnected this afternoon for up to one hour. Service should
be restored by 3pm. Until this time please do not use bathrooms / water, or
turn on gas-fired heat.
I will apprise this thread once water and gas service has been safely
restored.
Best,
David // 415-430-8362
Gas-fired furnaces and space heaters will need their pilots re-lit.
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2445
Date: 12/01/2021
Due Date: 12/25/2021
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $26,000.00
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Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
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****************************** Account Summary *****************************
11/01/2021 Balance Forward $24,000.00
Other payments and credits after 11/01/2021 0.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 12/01/202 26,000.00
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<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
12/01/2021 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
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Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $26,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
Hello my name is Lovi, and I am a consulting gardener and Sacred Geometry artist and am from Portland and San Francisco. I grew up in Portland and move to SF when I was a teen. I graduated in SF and studied Environmental Education up north at a very progressive college (Black Lives Matter!). My father's family is from Oakland and SF.
I have been a part of several collective environments including DIY community bike shops such as Bike Farm in Portland(2017-2018), and Food Not Bombs in SF(2000-1), Olympia(2007-8), and Bellingham(2010-11). As well as the biking communities in Portland and SF. I have lived extensively off-grid with only solar power in the woods as well.
I had been working at Noisebridge and will again but am taking a break for a couple weeks as I was putting too much time in working on their laser cutter ventilation without being able to make art and the pressure of that and mourning family from SF who have passed started getting to me very bad when I moved back just a month before. The quietness of Sudo Room appeals to me at the moment but I hope to help Sudo grow in membership by helping out the website with copywriting and design help, and also printing promotional signage or other graphic design and in other ways participating in boosting membership and involvement
I have been working with the laser cutter these last few days, and I can now cut through 1/8th inch acrylic in one pass. There are improvements to be made but I won't digress.
In my life broadly I am a plant geek but have been focusing more on tech and art these last few years. I've been using Linux since 2011. I'm studying JavaScript. For art I have made glow in the dark black light reactive sacred geometry screen-prints, and have moved on to laser cutting in last few years as it is more exact and I like to help teach people about the actual patterns in the universe and natural history through my art. Broadly I wish to inspire folks to cultivate a sense of environmental, alchemical, and universal awareness through my art.
Hail Gaia
someone is trying to join this list and says they haven't received an email
regarding joining the list.
Does a moderator need to approve people joining the list? Is the server
working properly?
thank you
-jake
Sudoers, any objections to omni spending $12k now (plus $12k later) to
fix our roof? Deal of the decade IMHO. Can we consent on this by
tonight? Also, who's tonight's delegate?
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [omni-finance] EBC roof fix quote & skylight quote
To: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com>
Cc: consensus <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, building
<building(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, <finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
<finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
David I thought you were gonna tell me when you were meeting Mike at
Omni! You promised me like 3 times! Boo. But regardless, thank you.
I think Omni should jump at this opportunity. $12k for a 7-year
guarantee on the whole roof, plus another $12k that we don't need to
pay until refi? AND skylights? It's a no-brainer to me. It's a chunk
of our current savings, and we'll need to be extra frugal after this,
but 100% necessary.
Hardest part may be finding 7 dry days in a row, and 3 volunteers to
commit to being there 3 days in a row. I can to commit to being one of
them - can 2 other people commit to that also?
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 1:58 PM David Keenan via finance
<finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org> wrote:
>
> MaryAnn's son Mike was kind enough to return to omni recently and quote a medium-term fix to the roof that he is willing to guarantee for 7 years.
>
> While he was on the roof, he also suggested replacing the skylights and provided that as well in a separate quote.
>
> The above 2 quotes are not dependent on one another. They are linked below, along with 2 pictures of prior roof samples:
>
> EBC quote-Omni skylight-replacement_2021-11-18.pdf
>
> EBC quote-Omni Roof Repair_2021-11-18.pdf
>
> EBC-worksample1-roof.jpg
>
> EBC-worksample2-roof.jpg
>
> Roofing quote:
>
> - $18.5K; he said he is willing to knock $4K off the the roof quote price if we can provide three volunteers who "know how to roll paint".
>
> - Takes 3 days to execute and needs 7 days of dry weather,
>
> - Could do in next two weeks otherwise probably would be next year
>
> - Needs 50% down to schedule
>
> - The quote is high-level and not as-yet very specific. He did mention the rubber-like substance he was going to use to lay over the roof (and use to feather up a few areas to prevent pooling), but unfortunately I can't recall the name of the product - I've asked him to follow up with that information.
>
> He estimated the weight of the additional roof layer to be ~400lb. That's not so much and so just speaking personally, I am not as concerned about the structural impacts of the weight of the additional layer as I would otherwise be, though others may be concerned (since it's also true we don't know how many layers of roof we presently have, as we have not yet cored the roof.)
>
> Skylight replacement quote:
>
> - $8.945.21 incl. donating his labor time (!) to Omni.
>
> - Needs 100% down to schedule as skylights would be custom-ordered.
>
> My thoughts:
>
> Mike seems incredibly nice. Both quotes are substantially lower than a typical roofing or skylight replacement quote. However, each quote nonetheless still represents a significant expense to Omni obviously.
>
> Safer DIY might (not yet determined) be willing to e.g. front Omni the 50% needed to engage the roof quote, provided it was paid back by Omni, say at least by the time of Omni's refi.
>
> Best,
> David
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Hello!
A friend referred me to Sudo to see if anybody could maybe help me out in
fixing my laptop. It's a 2014 macbook pro, the battery had been fussy for a
while, then I didn't use it for a couple months and it started getting
slower with the mouse freaking out frequently. Then my friends cats knocked
a small amount of water onto it which I cleaned up, and now it wont turn
on. The charger also won't charge it.
Hopefully it's just an issue with the battery, what do ya'll think?
Thanks so much,
Juhlz
Does anyone have login access to the Sudo Room instagram account?
https://www.instagram.com/sudoroom/
It appears to be abandoned but I would like to begin posting about hack
nights to get people and the space activated. If we can't get access to
this account I may create a new one.
--
*Don Hanson*
https://d0n.xyz
Hi, I’m Ron - Food Not Bombs volunteer and cook. I found an iPad 3 this week, but it’s locked, needs Apple ID and password for activation. Anybody know how to bypass this? Thanks.
Ron
Tuesday night around 10PM, two people came into Sudoroom while we were having
"Hardware Hacking Tuesdays" and one of them said he had been there before, and
he said his name was "El" or "Ellis". He was about 5'10" and had short black
dreadlocks and no glasses. I don't remember his friend's name, but he left
after not too long.
El asked for help with setting up speakers, asked if he could use the computer
for something, asked for various tools and seemed to be working on something
like hacking a piece of network gear that had been in the e-waste pile, which
seemed normal enough for someone coming to hardware hack night. We helped with
various requests but mostly he worked on it by himself.
He had his phone connected to the speakers near the laser cutter, and a few
times I had to ask him to turn down the music because it was making it harder
for us to talk to each other, but it wasn't a big deal.
He asked if he could smoke inside, which was one of several times the topic of
fire came up. Apparently at some point he said "I like to set things on fire"
but I didn't hear that. We told him that people don't smoke indoors and
someone took him outside and showed him the side doors so he could smoke out
there, and then he came back in. He went out and came back in a couple of
times.
Around 12:45 AM, I got up to go to the bathroom and when I got to the door to
the hallway next to CCL's entrance, it was closed, so I opened it and he was
standing there and said "there's a fire" and I turned and looked and there was
a paper shopping bag on the floor that was on fire. I yelled and stomped out
the fire and the others came to help. He said "You locked me out. You stole
my phone". I told him to gather his shit and we escorted him to get his phone
and other items, and I escorted him to the door and made sure he had all his
stuff with him and he left. I was unable to get a picture of him.
After he left I looked at the area where he was standing, and there had been a
sign or paper on the door that had been entirely burned, as well as the paper
bag set on fire. I poured water on everything and made sure there was no fire
left. Myself and the others present then went around the whole building to see
if there was anyone else inside the building.
The side doors (on 48th street) were not latched, although they were mostly
closed. We should probably try to make those doors close automatically.
If anyone else has information on "El" aka "Ellis" please speak up. One person
said "Well that's horrible. That guy has been to sudo many times before"
good night
-jake
