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Contribute to (social) science on diversity & meritocracy in tech

by J Graber

Spreading the word: My sociologist friend is looking for people in tech to interview for her dissertation (themes: diversity, meritocracy), her email is copied below if you're interested in contributing your story to this study, or know someone who might be. Cheers, Jay ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sigrid Luhr <sigridluhr(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:01 PM Subject: Dissertation Help To: Hello friends, As you probably know, I'm currently interviewing folks who work in the tech industry as part of my dissertation. After exhausting most of my own contacts, I'm reaching out to you. Do you know anyone who works in the industry in the Bay Area who might be willing to sit down for an interview with me? I'm casting a pretty wide net right now in terms of who I interview, so if you think someone might be a good fit for the study, they probably would be! Gere's a little blurb that I've been using to send out to potential respondents (feel free to copy and paste to send to friends you know): My name is Sigrid Luhr and I am a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. I am currently conducting interviews with tech workers living and working in the Bay Area as part of my dissertation research. Broadly, the project centers around diversity and narratives of meritocracy within the tech industry. If you are interested in taking part or have any questions about the study, please let me know. Interviews typically last an hour and mostly cover work experiences and perceptions of the tech industry. The interview itself can take place at a time and place most convenient to you (most take place in coffee shops). And, as is the case with most sociological research like this, I will never use your name or any identifying information in my dissertation or anywhere else. Please get in touch with me at sigridluhr(a)gmail.com or 301-655-8153 if you have any questions or are interested in participating. Thank you! -- Sigrid Luhr 301-655-8153 <%28301%29%20655-8153> sigridluhr(a)berkeley.edu

9 years, 1 month

front door brute forced open

by robb

the front door was open by operation of the smaller door being left ajar and the larger door being closed which caused the smaller door to stay open. upon inspection, i discovered that one of the bolts holding the vertical bar, that locks the smaller door closed, was missing & the vertical bar assembly was dangling loosly on it's other bolt. i rebolted the assembly back down but i think it may be time to install the lower bar on the smaller door, that goes into the floor to secure the door from the top & bottom. i've been told there's a place in emmeryville that sells commercial door parts. i'll try to find out where it is. ~r

9 years, 1 month

Fwd: [sudo-info] Know this about Python

by danarauz＠gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Nordeen <alex(a)guru99.co> Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [sudo-info] Know this about Python To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hi, Did you get my email below? Looking forward to your kind response. Regards Alex On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Alex Nordeen <alex(a)guru99.co> wrote: Good Morning, I am Alex Nordeen Editor at Guru99. Our Goal is to provide Fun and Free Education for ALL I was doing some research on Python and I came across your page *https://sudoroom.org/events/python-meetup/ <https://sudoroom.org/events/python-meetup/>* I want to highlight that we recently create tutorials on Python that took 160+ hours to create with beautifully annotated screenshot, and is very comprehensive. The tutorials are created by a Google veteran and I have personally edited them. The course covers - Python Basics like Introduction, Environment setup and Install Guide. - It also introduces Main Function, Variables, Strings, Tuple, Conditional Statements, OOP Concepts, and Loop. - We also touch on advanced topics like Regex Tutorial, OS Module, Shell Script Commands, and XML Parser. Do you feel it could be a good fit for your audience? Might be worth a mention :) *Here is the Link: **Python Tutorial <http://www.guru99.com/python-tutorials.html>* I'd love to know what you think! Sincerely, Alex Nordeen You may Unsubscribe <alex@guru99.co?subject=Unsubscribe%200000000081D7E45EB816FA41AD667ACE755FFD1124232200&body=Please%20don%27t%20change%20the%20subject%20of%20this%20message%20and%20make%20sure%20you%20send%20it%20from%20the%20address%20it%20was%20received%2E> to stop receiving our emails. _______________________________________________ Info mailing list Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info -- Daniel Signal: 415.336.9143 <https://whispersystems.org/> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

9 years, 1 month

Notes from last night's meeting... looking forward to 3/1! 5 minutes of fame

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wednesday-party-meeting-notes/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

9 years, 1 month

Radical Software - early experiments in television

by Romy Ilano

A nice video about Radical Software, a magazine and "tv hacker" movement from the 1970s. The print magazine, I learned about it reading an old copy at Sudoroom :) the first time I went here. Radical Software - early experiments in television https://youtu.be/hIXlB1CHmOQ - It's really cool how she talks about how they did their own version of show and tell, which is what we'd like our five minutes of fame to become. - The fresh way people viewed television is so refreshing, it's too bad what television later became. did television ever reach its potential? I read that when people made sesame street or educational tv they had this idealistic hope that tv could decentralized stuff and create this kind of futuristic utopia. Sort of like what happened to the internet. I'm going to dig further, it was also a video journal. Should we try to do a video journal? People were favoring podcasts at the meeting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Software "The video journal was begun with a questionnaire sent to a wide variety of interested people. The first issue was a creative editing of the answers to the questionnaire plus some additional special articles. The most outstanding element of *Radical Software* video journal was the style and emphasis used in editing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing>. The content itself was a call to pay attention to the way information itself is disseminated. And it was a call to encourage a grassroots <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots> involvement in creating an information environment exclusive of broadcast and corporate media <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_media>. It became immediately important and popular as it grasped fully what a lot of people had been concerned with and thinking about; giving its introduction a synchronicity of the ideas of the day.[*citation needed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]" ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

9 years, 1 month

5 minutes of fame sign-up

by Romy Ilano

Hey this is the sign-up sheet for the next 5 minutes of fame: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF_2017-02-22 So feel free to sign up! It would be good to promote each segment periodically the closer we get to the date. Did someone say that they were going to do a green screen? https://sudoroom.org/events/february-5-minutes-of-fame/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

9 years, 1 month

Fwd: Valentine's Workshop series tomorrow

by Patrik D'haeseleer

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:55 PM Subject: Valentine's Workshop series tomorrow To: "counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com" < counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com>, "cclmembers(a)googlegroups.com" < cclmembers(a)googlegroups.com>, CCL board <cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com> Come join us tomorrow 6-10pm for an evening full of Valentine's workshops with the mad scientists at Counter Culture Labs. And please help spread the word through your favorite social media platforms... Individual workshops are $10-15 each. Please sign up on Meetup through the links below: 6-7pm: Celebrate Spring with the Guerilla Grafters <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237467189/> 7-8pm: Build a Steampunk lamp <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237569620/> 7-8pm: Grow edible mushrooms <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237624863/> 8-9pm: DIY cosmetics <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237570032/> 9-10pm: Mad Science cocktails <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237573051/> Patrik

9 years, 2 months

Fwd: [liberationtech] Cybersecurity Lesson for HS Girls 02/25

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yosem Companys <companys(a)stanford.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:46 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Cybersecurity Lesson for HS Girls 02/25 To: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu>, swb-public(a)lists.securitywithoutborders.org Cc: Maggie Rose Engler <mengler(a)stanford.edu> From: Maggie Rose Engler <mengler(a)stanford.edu> Hi all, I'm part of an organization called Girls Teaching Girls to Code that aims to introduce computer science concepts to female high school students in the area. On February 25, some of our high school liaisons are hosting their own hackathon, and they're really excited about it. During the workshop portion of the event, they are looking for people to give a brief overview of some basic security concepts, as well as exercises for them to complete. For example, the lesson could consist of a presentation followed by simple CTF problems. It should last about an hour altogether. The *total time commitment* would be probably be around *3 hours in total* on the morning of *Saturday, February 25 *(I haven't confirmed exactly whether it will be 10 to 11 AM or 11 AM to 12 PM, plus transit time to the *MuleSoft Headquarters *in *SF*). If you're at all interested, please email me! We need a few more sets of hands to make this workshop a success, but I have a lot of experience in designing curriculum for this age group, and I'd be supporting every step of the way. Thanks! Best, Maggie -- Maggie Engler B.S. Candidate in Electrical Engineering Minor in Mathematical & Computational Science Stanford University | Class of 2017 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu.

9 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] How do we help SudoRoom become more project-based?

by Romy Ilano

T'Da! the 5 minutes of Fame event on March 1st is officially in action I made a cheesy Facebook Events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/723568701146101/ Let's do this! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Steve Leach <stevenaleach(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds great, personally I like the idea of having to get pull a > presentable survey of my project together every now and then, it would be a > useful exercise. > > On Feb 7, 2017 1:48 PM, "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: > >> Mark, >> >> This is wonderful! I would love to help out with the 5minutes of Fame at >> SudoRoom. >> >> >> I'll spread the word as well. The project-based show and tell wouldn't >> necessarily exclude people who are doing teaching events either - they >> could also do a presentation on how they got a cool Women Who Code event >> started, etc. >> >> I'm looking forward to this! >> >> Best. >> >> Romy >> >> >> >> ============================= >> >> Romy Ilano >> romy(a)snowyla.com >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey! >>>> >>>> I look back on my involvement in SudoRoom and Noisebridge and *I was >>>> most happy and having fun bouncing off ideas with people when working on >>>> projects.* This also contributed the most fun to SudoRoom and shows >>>> what is unique about the space. >>>> >>>> I got sucked into a bunch of interesting events, especially around >>>> teaching and helping lead Women Who Code meetups. That was very fun! I >>>> socialized with a lot of cool people and had good times. There were nice >>>> conversations. >>>> >>>> But these kinds of activities ultimately did not produce any tangible >>>> results that I could build upon. I am not interested in being an event >>>> planner or a teacher, although those are noble activities! >>>> >>>> *How can we help make SudoRoom a bit more project-based? *By putting >>>> new potential members on the path to creating projects, i think this would >>>> help with our retention. >>>> >>>> I keep mentioning again and again to new people that it's not so much >>>> fitting in with the people, having people hug you or going to events where >>>> everyone looks exactly like you that's important... meetups are all over >>>> the bay area. it's really the projects that suck people in and help them >>>> add diversity to the space. >>>> >>> >>> Some of us had been thinking about having a 5 minutes of fame every >>> month/week where people can show their projects. Maybe we could do that and >>> encourage that presenters invite other people to work with them? >>> >>> How about first wednesday's? Every first wednesday of the month we have >>> a 5mof? >>> >>> Noisebridge has 5mof on third Thursday's. >>> >>> Who wants to help make the first sudo room 5mof happen on Wednesday >>> March 1st? >>> >>> Here's how folks can help: >>> >>> * INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS! >>> * Sign up for a 5 minute spot to show / talk about something! >>> ** It can be anything! Just think of this as show and tell, with the >>> show part being optional :) >>> * Sign up to help set up audio and video in advance >>> * Sign up to help set up chairs / pews before the event and/or move them >>> away after >>> * Bring food, snacks or drinks for sharing >>> * Bring plates, bowls, cups or cutlery (we have some but not enough) >>> >>> I put a tentative schedule here: >>> >>> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF >>> >>> Just reply in this thread if you want to help out or present! >>> >>> -- >>> marc/juul >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >>

9 years, 2 months

Oakland City siren testing tomorrow (Friday) at noon

by Marc Juul

One 90-second test scheduled at noon and another 90-second test at 12:15 pm. DON'T PANIC -- marc/juul

9 years, 2 months

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