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Fwd: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements

by Jenny Ryan

Apologies that my own statement is lackluster at best >_< but, i think y'all know me by now. should we use our loomio account to poll the membership? anyone wanna create a way for members to weigh in on this proposal? Jenny Ryan 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:09 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] Candidates Statements To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Dear Omni Comrades, Roberto Martinez has withdrawn as a candidate for President of the Omni Commons. The remaining candidates and their statements are below. Delegates should forward these statements to your collective’s internal mailing list and seek your collective’s counsel on how to vote. The vote will take place at the Thursday, April 23, 2020 Omni Commons Delegates Assembly/Executive Board meeting. Thanks to everyone for your cooperation, Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez CANDIDATES *PRESIDENT * *John Torok - *Candidate Statement of John Hayakawa Torok for Presidency of the Board of Directors, Omni Commons Hi! My name is John and I am a Wage Slave and a Debt Peon. (Hi John!) I participate in the Omni member collective, the Global Women’s Strike. I am also a recovering Catholic, a recovering lawyer, and a recovering academic. While I am an expensively educated and highly indebted activist, I identify as a worker and a member of the working class. I have been active in the community including helping start up the Asian American Bar Association of New York over thirty years ago. While a graduate student at Columbia Law School I became severely emotionally depressed and following expulsion transferred into Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program where I completed a dissertation on immigration policy enforcement during the Cold War. During the last financial depression I was hired by the California Employment Development Department and right away became a union shop steward with a strong focus on grievances by fellow workers living with disabilities who sought reasonable accommodations. California Unemployment Insurance is thus my state day job. I now serve on the EDD Director’s Statewide Disability Advisory Committee. I agree that state worker and anarchist is a contradiction in terms. However I participated in Occupy Oakland and identify increasingly with anarchist philosophy. There I became familiar with and known to many Oakland activists and organizations. Previously, I was involved in communes, collectives and cooperatives on and off over thirty five years. I lived in housing collectives in Santa Cruz and Brooklyn, NY over a dozen years. I participated in both a Santa Cruz and the Park Slope food coops. My short organizing jobs have been in small self-governing collectives. Lastly, while still in New York I served 10 years on the board of directors of the Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. as it transformed from a grass-roots ACT-UP-like formation to something akin to an Asian American Gay Men’s Health Crisis. In Occupy Oakland from 2011 I was active in the Queer People of Color/People of Color and Labor Solidarity Committees. Informed and inspired by the Occupy moment, I have helped start up and run three social justice grass roots Bay Area organizations since 2012, the Oakland Privacy (Working Group), the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly, and most recently the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee. I am and have always been very excited about the utopian experiment that is the Omni Commons. I am thrilled for the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with all the Omni Commons collectives and their members to build a sound basis for a long-term sustainable future for this critical Oakland cultural and revolutionary community. I am eager, willing and able to use my organizing and union leadership and legal trainings, and with your help, to make our Omni Commons a domestic and international model for what we utopians can both imagine and make happen in the real world. Thank you for your support. John Torok, Union Shop Steward, EDD San Francisco Building SEIU Local 1000 District Labor Council 743 (San Francisco) SEIU 1000 Delegate to Alameda and San Francisco County Labor Councils, AFL-CIO Member and Labor Representative, Alameda County Workforce Development Board 510-480-6153 *TREASURER * *Jenny Ryan - *Hi, I'm Jenny, and I've been both the Omni Secretary and Omni Treasurer since.. actually, I don't remember. Since ~2015. Last year, I petitioned to be paid for this gig (which often encompasses dozens of hours per fiscal quarter - keep in mind we are also the fiscal sponsor of 6 other groups), and for transparency can report I received $1,945 from Omni in 2019. I very much want other officers to take on these roles - but to be honest, we've never taken these 'official' positions very seriously. At most, they are needed for signatures. All decision are still made by the delegates. Very little responsibility is required, other than reflecting the decisions of the board - aka, the delegates. Officer roles and responsibilities were expounded upon in Laura's proposal, passed in 2019, to facilitate more responsibilities in these roles. But no greater power in comparison to the spokescouncil. I am totally fine with continuing to be Omni's treasurer and upholding those responsibilities - but I seriously urge others to consider working with me and other board members to step up right now and support the board if you're able! I am happy to train _anyone_ interested in joining the finance team, for instance. You can find my work here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Finances and my credentials at https://jennyryan.net Much love, and I look forward to building the new world with you all, Jenny Ryan *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting* 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net *SECRETARY* *Robb Benson - *If elected Secretary of Omni Commons, I intend to begin creating summarized minutes of the delegates meeting notes for approval at the following delegates meeting and transparently report, to the best of my ability, the substantive decisions and actions of the working groups. Additionally, I’ll commit myself to furthering my understanding of our reporting duties to external entities, in particular, with regards to activities and events of the commons working group *Mai Sutton - **My motto when it comes to collective decision-making is "Easy things should be easy, hard things should be doable." I'm involved in several non-hierarchical organizations, have facilitated hundreds of meetings, and have been a community organizer for nearly a decade. I previously worked at the **Electronic Frontier Foundation* <https://www.eff.org/>* (EFF) and **Shareable* <https://www.shareable.net/>* as a policy analyst and writer, and have since been a self-employed doing this work. I'm also the Digital Commons Fellow with the **Commons Network* <https://www.commonsnetwork.org/>*, an EU-based advocacy organization for the commons. * *I've been involved with Sudo Mesh since October 2017 as a contributor and steward of the project. Sudo Mesh has also long been a pillar organization of Omni. Several of its members contribute their time and expertise to maintain the building and its wireless network. We are currently applying to become an official Omni member collective. * *I'm running for Secretary because I want to ensure that Omni complies with its legal obligations as a 501c(3) corporation and its internal governance process. I only started to attend the Omni delegates meetings in early March and the collective I'm a part of isn't even an Omni member yet. Despite that, I decided to run for Secretary. I deeply care about Omni as a community resource and space for art and radical organizing. I recognized that there were several core Omni delegates that have been involved for a long time and seemed to be burning out. I thought it would be helpful for others like myself to step up. * *I plan on attending the Omni delegates meeting regularly anyway. If I can help Omni out by putting my name on the official filings, and be there to organize board meeting agendas and elections then I would be happy to do so. * Thanks for facilitating this process! Mai _______________________________________________ consensus mailing list consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/consensus

4 years, 8 months

Bird Charger

by Leela Hann-Soden

Hi Sudo folks! Does anyone know if there is a Bird charger lying around that I could use for today? I have a liberated Bird but no charger; I see there is a Bird at Sudo, but I don’t see the charger for it (42V 2Amp). I hope this is the appropriate messaging platform for you all. Thanks, Leela

4 years, 9 months

Payment confirmation: Invoice 2035 (Omni Commons)

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4 years, 9 months

URGENT (covid-19 related) - Someone that could help with a small research, please?

by danarauz＠gmail.com

(Hello, please excuse me if the email below has gone already into this email list. I think I sent it to a wrong address, so that is why I re-sending it. Thank you! ) ---- Hello Folks, I know this is off topic, but COVID-19 is not discriminating, and or waiting for us. I am volunteering with a small group trying to get ventilators (in the thousands) to our folks in NewYork, but it is being difficult task. Right now *we need *find out the *European CE Certification Number for each *of the following two items: - *Aeomed VG 60* - *Aeomed VG 70* I have contacted the EU Trade commission and I was informed that their database doesn't have that kind of information. But, it should be found on the devices themselves, as part of their requirements. Please forward this email to anyone that you may think can help us to gather this information. Also, while on it, we are looking for a warehouse in NYC were the supplies can be stored. Many thanks for your help, and stay safe. Daniel Signal/WhatsApp: 413.336.9143 *For more direct emails, please use: danarauz(a)protonmail.com <danarauz(a)protonmail.com>.*

4 years, 9 months

Fwd: [omni-consensus] Corrected List of Candidates

by Yardena Cohen

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez <enapoyo(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:46 AM Subject: [omni-consensus] Corrected List of Candidates To: <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Dear Omni Comrades, One candidate has withdrawn, so a corrected list of candidates is below. Delegates should inform your collectives. Thanks, Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez CANDIDATES President: Roberto Martinez John Torok Treasurer: Jenny Ryan Secretary: Mai Sutton Robb Benson

4 years, 9 months

Sam Tepper online concert at 3 today

by Lesley Bell

He's working on doing this in the future on platforms that are not Facebook. https://facebook.com/events/s/virtually-sam-and-ashley/648132942640172/?ti=… For anyone who doesn't know, Sam is/was an early Sudoroom member who has spent the past few years primarily working on music and performance in New Orleans. Thought I'd let you guys know :)

4 years, 9 months

Fwd: [omni-discuss] Omni Member Application — Sudo Mesh

by Yardena Cohen

Hey Sudoers, what do you all think about the mesh project becoming an Omni member collective? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mai Sutton <mai.ishikawa.sutton(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:20 PM Subject: [omni-discuss] Omni Member Application — Sudo Mesh To: <consensus(a)omnicommons.org>, <discuss(a)omnicommons.org> Cc: <info(a)peoplesopen.net> Dear Omni Collective Delegates, Below you will find Sudo Mesh's application to become a member collective of the Omni Commons. We welcome your questions and any and all input you may have about our application! I plan to be present at the Omni Delegates meeting tomorrow, April 2, to formally present our application and receive your feedback. Best, Mai --- OMNI MEMBER APPLICATION - SUDO MESH What do you do that makes a difference in the world? Sudo Mesh develops software and assembles hardware systems to build open community networks. We are building open technology that helps connect our neighbors, support local businesses, and enable community collaboration and cultural production. In the event of a natural disaster or state censorship, community mesh networks can be a resilient means of communication and sharing of information. Our projects include People's Open Network, a community-owned and -operated non-profit digital network in Oakland and disaster.radio, an off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware. Briefly recap your history as an organization. Meetings to build the People’s Open Network began in January of 2013 at Sudo Room. Several founding members of the project, including Marc Juul, Jenny Ryan, Daniel Arauz, Lesley Bell, Jehan Tremback, Jake Sternberg, and Matthew Senate, continue to be involved to this day. We have continued to build off of the contributions and experiments of people who have been involved over the years. Our accomplishments over the last seven years include: Development of our own version of mesh routing firmware, SudoWRT, which was built off of existing open source operating system OpenWRT in addition to open source mesh routing protocol Babel. Organized six Build Your Own Internet (BYOI) events where we’ve hosted hands-on activities and presentations about how the internet works and our digital network commons initiatives. Installed 30+ antennas and routers in homes and businesses to become wireless nodes in People’s Open Network. One includes a node at the Internet Archive building in Richmond, CA, which we placed there in order to distribute gigabits of donated, free bandwidth. Raised over $180,000 in grants and individual donations to support our work, including a $30,000 donation to Omni Commons and a $10,000 donation to Sudo Room (where we have hosted our meetings and storage for years). Laptops for All (another Sudo Mesh project) has given out dozens of laptops to high-need individuals. Our most active projects are the People's Open Network and Disaster Radio. People’s Open Network empowers communities to build and operate their own wireless networks without relying on last-mile ISPs. Using our design built on open source software, off-the-shelf hardware, and open educational materials, small groups of people can utilize existing bandwidth to share their internet connections and cover public and underserved areas. Those who connect to the network are not customers, but community members, encouraged to learn, participate, host a node or contribute to code. Disaster Radio is an off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware. It is being designed to be rapidly implemented in disaster areas by anyone who can follow written instructions, acquire the necessary components, and mount a nominal number of nodes. The nodes will be small, entirely self-contained units running low-bandwidth web apps that anyone can access with a WiFi-enabled device. We are designing them to be solar-powered. What is your incorporation status? (501c3? Unincorporated Association? etc.) We are an incorporated 501c3 organization as Sudo Mesh, with EIN 46-4226376. We have our own bank account with UNIFY Credit Union, including sub-accounts for each of our projects. How do you make decisions? We are currently undergoing a transition in our decision-making process, which has been slowly evolving over the last two years. Until 2018, major decisions were made by in-person votes at weekly Tuesday night meetings by those actively involved in Sudo Mesh projects. Otherwise, decisions were made on an ad hoc, individual basis by those who had the capacity to work on different aspects of a project. For the last two years, we have been experimenting with the decision-making platform, Loomio. We collectively selected active members as “Stewards” who are empowered to vote on any major decisions, particularly those involving financial expenditures. We are also using Loomio to discuss ideas and proposals before they go up for a vote. Currently, proposals must be approved by consensus of approved Stewards. Stewards are not able to block if they are the sole person opposed to the decision — they must work with the proposer to come to a proposal that works for them. This has largely worked for us, but we still lack many protocols that could ensure a stable governance process. For example, we do not have minimum involvement requirements for those to remain as Stewards. We hope to address such issues in the coming months. State your goals for becoming an Omni member collective. How would your presence in the Omni contribute to its purpose and Statement of Solidarity? We believe in the power and potential of the commons as an alternative to capitalism, which justifies the extractive, violent, and depraved treatment of humans, animals, and the Earth. Networked communication has not only become critical for people to access and share information, it’s a necessity for community connection, social justice organizing, and to inspire and disseminate stories and art. Sudo Mesh is a small project out of many thousands of digital commons organizations that are fighting for a more just and equitable internet. Our goal is to build network infrastructure that is truly owned by and for the public, with a more specific aim to create technology that addresses the information and communication needs of Bay Area neighborhoods. Sudo Mesh has also long been a pillar organization of Omni Commons. Several of its members have and continue to contribute their time and expertise to maintain the wireless network in the space. Our members have helped with building maintenance and we have also used the space for our BYOI events. Our donation of $30,000 to the Omni Commons in 2018 is also a testament to our commitment to support Omni as a critical community resource in Oakland. Explain how you will finance your Omni membership dues/rent. We currently have some savings that would allow us to pay our membership dues for the near future. However, we will continue to apply for grants, seek individual donations and other recurring sources of funding to fund our work and all our expenses, including our rent and Omni membership dues. Describe what dedicated physical space (if any) you need. What will you do in the dedicated space? What can you do in shared space? Will you need to make any modifications of the building? Include floor plans if that makes your proposal clearer. We already use some space in Sudo Room: a walk-in storage space in the southeast corner mezzanine. We have considered using more space at the Omni as a regular workspace, but we currently do not have plans to expand our use beyond that space. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss

4 years, 9 months

Social thread

by Taylor Alexander

I've got a roommate who would be at risk if I got the virus, so I am going to skip the Tuesday meetups for a while. If someone is there on Tuesday please let Ross know I can help him more once this thing blows over, but I invite him to email me directly and we can collaborate remotely. But we're all expected to socially isolate more than normal, so I thought I would start a social thread for anyone interested. What have y'all been doing to stay sane? I've started scheduling video calls with friends I'd otherwise see in person. I have been getting a bit more time to do 3D printing and other stuff like that though. Anyone working on something fun to pass the time? Taylor

4 years, 9 months

SF Community Resources in response to COVID-19, by SFGH UCSF.

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello, I was asked by a friend to share the link below. She works at a UCSF hospital. SF Community Resources in response to COVID-19 Compiled by the SFGH UCSF Community | Updated 4/01/2020 Please email nhi.tran(a)ucsf.edu or philip.herrera(a)ucsf.edu to update or add local resources & services https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoH6ePZifPy9F7Ho90z0lY2PyamW5yMkPtv3HDe… Thank you, Daniel

4 years, 9 months

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