Hi all,
As some of you may know, I've been involved in the Nation of Maker
initiative to create a national 501(c)3 umbrella organization for
makerspaces. If folks from Sudo are interested in being more involved in
this process, let me know, and we can get you in touch.
Some of the ways you can help out would be by writing a letter of support
on behalf of Sudo. Maker/hackerspaces around the country will also be
organizing "Maker Meals" where they invite their neighbors to sit down over
a meal or potluck. If anyone in Sudo would like to help organize such a
"Maker Meal" together with CCL, please let me know! I don't think we have
enough free energy to do one of these by ourselves right now, but we are
definitely planning to write a letter of support. We're targeting all this
for the week of November 15, when there will be a big announcement planned
for the Nation of Makers initiative. The email I attached below has much
more info on everything that is going on with Nation of Makers, Maker
Meals, letters of support, etc.
Along the same lines, I recently reached out to Oakland Makers to see if
they were still alive. They were very active two years ago or so, with a
ton of support from the City under then-mayor Jean Quan, but it seems they
mostly went dormant for the past year. To my surprise I got an immediate
email back from Hiroko from 25th Street Collective, suggesting we set up a
conference call or meet up with Karen Cusolito from American Steel and
Danny Beesley. If anyone would like to be involved in reviving Oakland
Makers (and maybe put some more of our own stamp on it!), please let me
know...
Thanks!
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Coy, Andrew B. EOP/OSTP <Andrew_B_Coy(a)ostp.eop.gov>
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:09 PM
Subject: [ACTION ITEMS] Overview of Opportunities for Nation of Makers
To: "patrikd(a)gmail.com" <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Dear Makers:
As you all enter the final stretch between now and November 15th there is a
growing number of action items and ways for you and your organization to
get involved. For your benefit in cataloging and prioritizing, please find
a list of top-line items below:
1. Build the Movement In Your Community!
a) *Makers Meals* – organized by you to happen during week of November
13th-19th
* <http://www.google.com/>*
*CLICK HERE <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2JwW1v2PEFIVzdMYXRzcVoyYms>*
b) *Letters of Support* – written by your organization about the maker
movement and Nation of Makers (see attached) *[DUE: NOVEMBER 10th]*
* <http://www.google.com/>*
*CLICK HERE <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2JwW1v2PEFINVc4VHpNU2lhbms>*
c) *Media / Op-Eds* – to be published on or after *NOT BEFORE*
November 15th
* <http://www.google.com/>*
*CLICK HERE <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2JwW1v2PEFIcGJIV1RNaGNkYVk>*
2. Nominate Individuals to Serve!
a) *Board of Advisors / Board of Directors* – help build out the
organization by identifying those who are uniquely positioned to serve from
within the community (click here for MORE INFORMATION
<http://us14.campaign-archive2.com/?u=99d61ca81b9620dadd00edd4e&id=1b04c3412…>
/ *click here to NOMINATE
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScU9nhts4LKcTp6mKuuijTP3IzZXmXSTRz…>*)
*[DUE: NOVEMBER 4th]*
3. Join the Whole Group Conference Calls!
a) *Thursday, November 3rd @ 8pm* * [TONIGHT]*
o Date: Thursday, November 3rd
o Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm ET
o Call In: (888) 330-1716
o Code: 4031673#
b) *Wednesday, November 9th @ 8pm ET* *[LAST WHOLE-GROUP CALL BEFORE
ANNOUNCEMENT]*
o Date: Wednesday, November 10th
o Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm ET
o Call In: (888) 330-1716
o Code: 4031673#
4. Join the Conversation Online!
a) *Email Newsletter*
o Link to sign up for the Mail Chimp: http://bit.ly/nom_email_signup
o To ensure the email does not get automatically filtered out of your
inbox, folks have suggested making sure to add the
NoMTransitionGroup(a)gmail.com to your contacts list to avoid missing any
emails
b) *Slack Channel*
o Email NoM Transition Group (NoMTransitionGroup(a)gmail.com) and they will
be able to directly add you to the channel.
Looking forward to seeing what you all as a community are able to
accomplish but in the lead-up to the November 15th announcement and in the
weeks, months, and years that follow! It’s wonderful to see the maker
community rising to the next level of organizational capacity!
Please *feel free to forward this email on to any makers you think should
also be receiving it* as my email list is by no means comprehensive and I
am sure I am missing folks that would like to be receiving it!
Andrew Coy
Senior Advisor for Making
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President | The White House
whitehouse.gov/ostp | acoy(a)ostp.eop.gov
Advanced Introduction to GnuPG
<https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Advanced_Introduction_to_GnuPG#column-one>
<https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Advanced_Introduction_to_GnuPG#searchInput>
Neal Walfield is giving a technical talk on GnuPG. His bio, and the
abstract for the talk, can be found below. He give this talk in earlier in
the week at OpenDNS, so this is your chance to catch it at Noisebridge!
[edit
<https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Advanced_Introduction_to_GnuPG&acti…>
]When??
Thursday, 11/03/2016, estimated at 7pm. Talk runs 45 minutes, free to the
public, and ends with a Q&A that typically runs just as long. Bring your
questions!
[edit
<https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Advanced_Introduction_to_GnuPG&acti…>
]Abstract
GnuPG is a powerful tool. In this practical presentation, I will start with
an overview of OpenPGP, the messaging protocol that GnuPG implements. Then,
I will explain GnuPG's architecture, some good practices, and some neat
tricks. This talk is specifically targeted at people who already have a
basic understanding of how GnuPG works, and are interested in understanding
what's under the hood.
[edit
<https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Advanced_Introduction_to_GnuPG&acti…>
]Bio
Neal has been hacking on and contributing to free software for over 20
years. Among other projects, he has contributed to GNU Hurd and GPE (the
GNU Palm Environment). After g10code's highly successful fund raising
campaign at the end of 2014 for GnuPG, he was hired by Werner Koch to work
on GnuPG. During the past two years at g10code, Neal has implemented the
new trust on first use (TOFU) trust model, and fixed GNOME Keyring to
better interact with GnuPG, among other things.
Trying to slap a demo together for Hackaday SuperConf and I forgot to order
the battery I need and won't be able to get one in time so hoping someone
might have something I can borrow or buy.
Looking for a ~110mAh battery similar to this.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13853
I think there are some small drones that use tiny lipos like that, maybe
someone has an extra. Need something by Thur morning.
Thanks
Hi all,
I was referred to your group by a colleague. I work on photo shoots and we are looking to have a robot made for it. The image being shot is young people in a class room scanning the robot in a 3D printer. The shoot will take place in the bay area.
Here are the basic requirements for it:
Cannot be proprietary, must be unique
Does not have to work (but must look like it does)
Appropriate for high school age kids
Be approx 12” high
We are open to someone who already has one built or someone who can build one. We need it by next Friday.
Please email me at cole(a)blueceiling.com <mailto:cole@blueceiling.com> if you are interested and we can discuss the cost of rental/building, details of the robot, etc.
Thanks so much for your time! Hope to hear from some of you.
Best,
Cole Church
http://www.meetup.com/OpenLate/events/234006159/
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
6:30 PM
135 Bluxome, San Francisco, CA (map)
Neal Walfield is giving a technical talk on GnuPG. His bio, and the
abstract for the talk, can be found below.
Abstract
GnuPG is a powerful tool. In this practical presentation, I
will start with an overview of OpenPGP, the messaging protocol that GnuPG
implements. Then, I will explain GnuPG's architecture, some good practices,
and some neat tricks. This talk is specifically targeted at people who
already have a basic understanding of how GnuPG works, and are interested
in understanding what's under the hood.
Bio
Neal has been hacking on and contributing to free software for over 20
years. Among other projects, he has contributed to GNU Hurd and GPE (the
GNU Palm Environment). After g10code's highly successful fund raising
campaign at the end of 2014 for GnuPG, he was hired by Werner Koch to work
on GnuPG. During the past two years at g10code, Neal has implemented the
new trust on first use (TOFU) trust model, and fixed GNOME Keyring to
better interact with GnuPG, among other things.
by "jake's co-working station" robb means "the pair-programming station"
which is a desk on wheels with two monitors, two keyboards, and two
computers arranged symmetrically so that two people can use the same
computer.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/
there are three UPS at the pair programming station. One is the one that
the station is plugged into, which does not have a USB port, just the
weird DE9F socket that may have this pinout:
http://www.diger-mobile.narod.ru/pic/apc_conn.gif
or this:
http://www.junradio.com/mid/UPS/image003.gif
there's another large UPS on the floor which got rained on and stopped
working, which is unfortunate because it has USB and i actually had it
working on a rooftop system, protecting that system from unexpected power
failures (it would safely shut down when power went out, and turned back
on when power returned) but maybe it could be fixed
and the third UPS is a weird 12v thing like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Battery-Backup-Supply-BU3DC000/dp/B004RRX1CGhttp://cache-www.belkin.com/support/dl/p75319-b-bu3dc000-12v.pdf
it doesn't have any alarm outputs (unless you count the LEDs) but since it
serves the DC output directly, we can monitor battery voltage the same way
it's done at the front door computer - that is, it's 13.7VDC when AC is
present but it will go down if the power fails.
-jake
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, robb wrote:
> there's a working 12v ups by jake's co-working station
>
> is ccl onboard with locking the door?
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
>> We definitely want a door. I have all the stuff for it ready to go. Got
>> delayed because the RFID readers i ordered from china was defective.
>>
>> The door to stage and basement can be default locked with only a few
>> people having keys (for now, we can RFID them later if needed). They are
>> not fire doors.
>>
>> The door near the bathroom needs a panic bar and an electric strike and an
>> RFID reader and magnetic card reader and a beagle bone black and a battery
>> backup and a box to mount it on the wall. We have all of this. Some minor
>> woodworking will be necessary to install the electric strike.
>>
>> I haven't tested the new shipment of RFID readers yet.
>>
>> --
>> marc/juul
>>
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