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.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice for your outstanding balance on Dec 2016 rent, as well as January, February, and March 2017. Given numerous organizational transitions upon purchasing the building, we established a fresh Quickbooks account for the new bank account. Previous invoices #1514, #1533, #1550, and #1569 have been rendered void. Please pay this invoice instead.
The monthly total reflects the decrease consented to by the Omni Delegates upon Sudo Room's transition to becoming a fiscally-sponsored project of the Omni.
Payments to this account in the amount of $1,476.61 on 12/1/16 and $1,600 on 2/7/17 have been applied to this invoice.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
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Invoice # : 1020
Invoice Date: 02/06/2017
Due Date: 02/25/2017
Amount Due: $3,923.39
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Greetings All,
I have a collection of motors, motor controllers, joysticks, wheels, and wheelchair frames available. I find that I'm unable to spend the time that I used to on projects, and these are taking up too much space. Please email me if you're interested in using some for a project, joe(a)totallyshould.com
It would be fabulous if some money can change hands, but if you have a cool project pending and a specific need for this stuff, that's also good enough for me.
Thank you!
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thanks for stewarding the commons!
Omni Oakland
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Invoice # : 1569
Invoice Date: 02/15/2017
Due Date: 02/25/2017
Terms: Net 10
Amount Due: $2,446.00
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Hey ya'll
I've been MIA for a bit and trying to get back into things. Trying to host
a meetup for radical techies once a month, I was wondering what's the
process for doing that at Omni/Sudo.
Thanks!
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Gregg Horton
510-283-8734
gregghorton.com
I have it on good authority that at the weekly sudo hangout tonight at 7 pm
there will be mac & cheese of several varieties, including a gluten free
version, provided by the very generous rcsheets!
So come hang out, maybe bring something to drink, or maybe something to
show and tell?
--
marc/juul
Hello all,
I just received a request from the people over at The Village, the
encampment/occupation that was set up last week at the park on MLK & 36th.
They wanted me to ask if people at the Sudoroom were able to help them get
Wi-Fi set up over there. At one of last week's Assemblies Matt Senate
suggested that Sudomesh was probably able to provide hardware for setting
up an access point.
The latest info I have (a few days old) is that Eli's across the street
would be willing to share their connection, but I'm still verifying if that
case.
Would anyone interested to help be willing to either respond here, or
preferably via Signal (my number is 510-771-7463).
Thanks, I will report back once I know more details.
Sierk
Hi Erik!!!!!! so nice to hear from you!
I would love for you to have the event at Omni!! we have a booking system and
here's a link. I just looked at the calendar for you (which is the first step)
and it looks to me like February 19th is clear!!!!!!! That's assuming you want
the main ballroom, which i think would be awesome.
https://omnicommons.org/occupy
don't worry about the second tuesday thing.. just say that Jake from Sudoroom
wants to sponsor this event and that we want to reserve the ballroom for that
date. As soon as your request comes in, i'll push to get it confirmed.
I'm assuming we can collect donations of some kind to give to the Omni for use
of the space? Just whatever is normal for an event like this at Gilman i
guess. That's one of the questions on the form you'll see at the above link.
Also, sudoroom will be able to supply a lot of cool electronic STUFF for the
tables, so i think people who come to this will be very pleased.
-jake
note: sudoroom constantly has a big e-waste pile, and if you think the event
will add to the unwanted electronics pile, we should plan for someone to take a
truck to Universal Waste in Fruitvale after the event to clear it all out.
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Erik Miller wrote:
> Jake,
>
> I hope you have been well. Mitch Altman gave me this email address, and I
> have been trying to reach you over the past couple of years using what I
> think must be out-of-date contact information.
>
> I wanted to ask about how Sudo Room is doing and all that, but Mitch says
> it’s thriving. I’ve been to the website a couple of times and was amazed and
> amused to find out that (according to the website anyway) you are in the old
> Omni building. I worked for Nady Systems from 1986 to 1991, right during the
> time when it was a thriving venue for at first a pretty cool eclectic mix,
> and then later, pay-to-play hair metal.
>
> Anyway, 924 Gilman told me that the traditional 3rd Sunday in February would
> be fine, and I printed up a pile of handbills and started to go around
> promoting the event, an event page on Facebook that got really good
> attention, and my first physical stop being Ace Monster Toys’ open house
> night. I really want to lay into the “DIY Electronics” part this year, as we
> have attracted plenty of the “Musicians” part in the past couple of them and
> I want to balance it out and get back to the kind of thing where you and
> Mitch met, get the maker/hardware hacker/tinkerers interested. I have a
> variety of surplus components to give away, a bit of redistribution that I
> figured you would like.
>
> Anyway, right after my visit to Ace, Gilman’s booker told me that the day
> they had promised had been taken for an event that the landlord (The Caning
> Shop) was doing, and suggested February 26th, the following Sunday.
>
> Now they are telling me that there’s something going on that day and how
> about Saturday the 25th?
>
> It’s just a month away at this point and I need to be able to promote it with
> a definite date, and I would like a Sunday.
>
> My question: is there enough space for it at Sudo Room, and would you be
> interested in hosting the event this year? It would be on Sunday the 19th
> (the original date) or Sunday the 26th.
>
> Please let me know yea or nay ASAP, as our time frame to promote the event is
> ever narrowing.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik Miller
> Euthymia Electronics
> 510-872-9458
>
