Hi all,
I wonder if SudoRoom or Omni would like this ceiling fan w/light:
[image: 784036678.jpeg]
I bought it on a daily deal a few months ago, hoping to cool my living room
this summer. But unfortunately, my handperson says there is not enough
support for it in my ceiling. So I would like to donate it somewhere
worthwhile and of course, I thought of you guys.
I can drop it off in the next few days if it can be useful.
cheers
Hilary
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Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
www.a2zed.us
Oakland CA
Hey guys
I am not really having time to sit through presentations. I thought we
could film youtube videos (or hosted on any other server) that show what we
did or got done this week at SudoRoom.
This could be shared on Social media (with permission) and I guess the
biggest ask is that you show: what did I do and learn that was made
possible by SudoRoom?
The videos can be played at will if there is an online meeting, but there's
no need to sit through hours of presentations (there are already too many
of those already right?)
at some point I'd like to schedule a "this month I learned" or "today I
learned" it can be async.
11:20
<https://wnbcodingnight.slack.com/archives/C03G8CS79D5/p1709234415843999>
now that I think of it i might do this for the next session - i would even
think it'd be nice to record it and then put it up on the serve rin case
anyone is interested!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Got to Sudo a bit early yesterday for hack night and noticed one of the
benches was super tidy!
To whoever that cleaned it up- THANK YOU!
It inspired me to do a little tidy the bench opposite with the microscopes.
Again to whomever tidy-ed up, Thank you!
Sudo is a happier place when it¹s cleaner.
-Kent
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Kent Leech Illustration
http://www.kentleech.com
kent(a)kentleech.com
+1 (510) 504-0634
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Hello,
We'll have another meeting tonight. The topics I need input on as delegate are:
1. The proposed bylaw changes
2. Deb Gives membership
3. Any updates on our financial situation
We'll be meeting at 7pm, in sudoroom. There is also a video link at:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
Alex
Hi Sudoers:
See these Brabson Family Foundation Grants:
https://www.brabsonfoundation.org/eligibility
This grant is due March 1: (click on the proposal submission form below
for details.)
Can you help submit a proposal for one initiative by March 1 (Friday?)
There are several initiatives at sudoroom that seem worthy e.g.
- Women and non-binary coding night
- Repair on Tuesday nights
- Chromebook rescue
- Raspberry Pi Meetups monthly on Sundays
- (others...)
I'll help with text for the repair and chromebook rescue initiatives but
I need others to shepherd and submit the proposal. It can be more than
one person -- the more the merrier!
Cheers, -Peter
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DATE:
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Thank you for your interest in a Brabson Foundation grant!
The Brabson Foundation focuses on innovative/novel proposals with an
educational, scientific, or creative focus and it seems like your
project fits these qualifications.
Before you proceed, have the following documents in digital form ready
as they are required to be uploaded with each proposal submission.
1. Current W-9 tax form. Click here for blank W-9 [1]
2. IRS Non-profit Determination Letter
3. Budget
Note: The proposal cycle closes on 01-MAR of each year and reopens on
approximately 01-SEP. Proposals must be submitted during an active
cycle to be considered.
If in an active cycle, please proceed to the proposal submission form
[2]. Once you begin an application you will have 14 days to complete
it. If your 14-day window has elapsed you will need to resubmit your
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If you don't hear from the Board after submitting your proposal, please
feel free to use this link to contact us [3].
Links:
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Hello Folks, it just came to my attention that the OnionShare app needs
some translations, interested?
OnionShare: Translations needed before March 2nd
*"We need help with the following languages: Aymara, Kurdish (Central),
Tagalog, Danish, Basque, Georgian, Esperanto, Bengali, Norwegian Bokmål,
Filipino, Tibetan, Irish, Slovak, Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal), Slovenian,
Swahili, Italian, Russian, Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Chinese (Traditional), Finnish, French, Greek, Icelandic, Swedish,
Vietnamese"*
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/onionshare/#languages
Thanks!
Daniel
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:37:10 -0800
From: Jose Oyola Cortes <joyola(a)ucdavis.edu>
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Cc: Lee Martin <leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu>
Subject: [sudo-info] Re: Join Our Research Project: Recruiting Facilitators for
Embodied Virtual Reality Learning Experience
Greetings and I hope all is well,
I wanted to follow up on the email I sent regarding our research project
aimed at developing embodied pedagogical agents for virtual reality
learning experiences.
We are still in the process of assembling our team of expert facilitators,
and I believe your organization's expertise and experience would be
invaluable to our project. As a reminder, our goal is to create an
immersive learning experience for students from underrepresented
communities and low socioeconomic backgrounds.
The role as a facilitator in our would involve guiding learners through
simulated electronic assembly tasks within our embodied virtual reality
platform. This opportunity not only allows the contribution of cutting-edge
research but also provides a chance to make a meaningful impact on the
future of education.
If your organization is still interested in being part of our project,
please let me know your availability for a brief introductory call. I would
be happy to provide more details about the project and answer any questions
you may have.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to join our team. We truly value
your expertise and hope to hear from you soon.
Warm regards,
José E. Oyola Cortés
PhD Student & Graduate Student Researcher
School of Education
University of California, Davis
joyola(a)ucdavis.edu
Dr. Lee Martin
Professor
School of Education
University of California, Davis
leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM Jose Oyola Cortes <joyola(a)ucdavis.edu>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out to you because of your
> organization's expertise and experience in facilitating hands-on making and
> tinkering experiences and your commitment to supporting underrepresented
> and marginalized communities.
>
> We are embarking on an exciting research project aimed at developing
> embodied pedagogical agents capable of facilitating maker tasks in
> three-dimensional virtual reality making spaces. Our goal is to create an
> immersive learning experience for students who may not have access to
> traditional educational resources.
>
> To achieve this goal, we are assembling a team of expert facilitators and
> youth participants to interact together in an embodied virtual reality (VR)
> platform that our team is building. This platform, equipped with VR
> headsets and motion capture technology, will record verbal and motion data
> of facilitators and young people as they work simulated electronic assembly
> tasks. We will recruit our youth participants (13- and 14-year-olds) from
> historically under-represented and marginalized racial, ethnic, and
> socio-economic groups in the greater Sacramento area.
>
> Facilitator participation will involve 1 or 2 in-person visits to UC
> Davis, where you will don a motion capture suit and VR goggles, and then
> lead about five one-on-one sessions with a 13- or 14-year-old learner. Each
> session will last 15-20 minutes, and you would complete about five sessions
> in one visit day. We would also ask you to be available for one additional
> interview (via zoom) to collect feedback on your experience and our
> developing framework. Your expertise will be invaluable in helping us
> collect a rich and diverse dataset that will drive our research forward.
>
> The data we collect will be used to (a) understand how experienced
> facilitators guide learners through making experiences, which will aid us
> and others to better educators to facilitate maker experiences, and (b)
> help build a prototype virtual facilitator which will be controlled in
> "Wizard of Oz" fashion by a human facilitator “behind the curtain.”
>
> By participating in our project, you will have the opportunity to
> contribute to cutting-edge research -- your insights and expertise will be
> instrumental in shaping the future of this exciting set of technologies and
> pedagogies.
>
> We are looking for participants for dates between March 11 and April 30 of
> this year. If you or anybody in your organization is interested in being
> part of this research project, please reply to this email with your
> availability for a brief introductory call. We would love to discuss the
> project in more detail and answer any questions you may have.
>
> Thank you for considering this opportunity to join our team. We look
> forward to potentially working together to advance the field of virtual
> reality-based education.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> José E. Oyola Cortés
>
> PhD Student & Graduate Student Researcher
>
> School of Education
>
> University of California, Davis
>
> joyola(a)ucdavis.edu
>
> Dr. Lee Martin
>
> Professor
>
> School of Education
>
> University of California, Davis
>
> leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu
>
I don't usually put up links or tweets of cool things, but this is just
exceptional! This is a hardware project integrating light projection, a
special game arcade control and some game programming
\(^_^)/
https://x.com/udasan_koubou/status/1760888034315419839?s=20
Very cool isn't it? I am thinking a lot this week of what my north star is
at SudoRoom, and I think this is one of my north stars!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Sending this again because I sent it with no subject the first time. I
also made changes to the git repository with the bylaws so that the
mediawiki markup gets rendered properly.
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Hello,
The Omni delegates are currently discussing changes to governance.
Specifically, they are discussing changes to the bylaws, and putting
together a description of an Executive Director/representative-type
role.
The current proposed changes to the Omni bylaws can be found here:
https://github.com/sudoroom/omni-bylaws
It's in the markup language used by the Wiki. We will be finalizing
and consensing on these on Thursday, so please chime in if you have
questions or concerns.
We also have a very preliminary list of duties and powers that an ED
would need to have, and we can discuss those further at our meeting on
Wednesday. If someone would like to get involved in this further,
please let me know.
Finally we will also be consensing on Deb Gives membership. I have
only heard positive things so far. Let's discuss further at the
meeting.
Alex
(sudoroom delegate)
