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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:52:15 -0800
From: Shifra de Benedictis-Kessner <shifra(a)temescaldistrict.org>
To: Jake(a)spaz.org
Subject: Meeting re how the BID can best support Omni Commons
Hi Jake!
I am the new Executive Director for the Temescal BID, and I'd like to
set up a meeting with you and/or any other decision makers at Omni
Commons to get to know your organization, and learn how I can best
support you. I've shared some of your events on Facebook, and taken a
short tour of your space (as well as attending the Bicycle Music
Festival after-party in your space!). But I'd like to know best how to
talk about all your amazing organizations, as well as your over-arching
mission.
I offer marketing and promotions support to all the organizations and
business in the district, as well as coordinating the cleaning, and
graffiti removal in all the different zones. I am eager to hear your
issues, challenges, and successes.
I'm also interested in finding out if Omni Commons rents out space for
events on a regular basis, and if I could possibly publicize. People
frequently approach me for meeting/event space available in the
district.
And on a different note, the storage unit that the Temescal BID's clean
team uses will be demolished in less than 4 weeks to make way for the
development at 51st and Telegraph. The BID is urgently looking to find
the team a new storage unit in the district, and we are willing to rent
one. We are definitely interested in both temporary
and permanent solutions given the urgent need. The team needs a space on
the ground floor, ~200-250 square feet. The team needs access 5 days a
week (M-F) starting at 8am and ending at 2:30pm. Do you happen to have
any extra space available?
Please let me know when you would be available to meet? Omni Commons is
an important stakeholder in the Temescal BID.
Best,
Shifra
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Shifra de Benedictis-Kessner
Executive Director
Temescal Telegraph BID
4430 Telegraph Ave #49
Oakland, CA 94609
510 860-7327
shifra(a)temescaldistrict.org
www.temescaldistrict.orghttps://www.facebook.com/temescaldist
Greetings Sudo Room!
This invoice for January rent should be paid before the end of the month if possible. It's going to be tight going into 2016, but we're simultaneously in our final round of negotiations to purchase the building!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance WG
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Invoice # : 1207
Invoice Date: 12/14/2015
Due Date: 12/28/2015
Terms: Net 30
Amount Due: $2,000.00
The complete version has been provided as an attachment to this email.
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people have been using the embroidery machine lately. you might notice a
piece of fabric on it with practice runs on it, and a black piece with
SUDOROOM in green thread.
the machine works perfectly. if you want to learn how to use it, I can
show you anytime i'm there, including every tuesday evening starting at
7pm.
For now you need to use a stencil to get lettering. (although you can
certainly try to freehand stuff) There are a couple of sets of letters
you can set up to spell out your name or whatever.
you could also take a thin piece of wood and carve a design into it, and
use it as a stencil. You could also (easily) 3D print a stencil with the
design of your choice on it. There is probably also a way to use the
laser engraver to make a stencil, although the groove in the stencil
should be a bit wider than the laser beam. Probably the right settings
and the right wood would produce a good stencil after a single pass.
Also, the embroidery machine can be used as a sewing machine, in which you
can move the fabric in any direction (not just in a straight line).
The catch being that you have to move it yourself and it won't guide you
or help you keep a pace.
The hardest part is controlling the speed using the pedal.. It's like a
clutch on a sports car, it takes some getting used to. Let me know if you
want a lesson.
-jake
I brought in a Panasonic KX-P2180 Dot Matrix printer a while ago, and
someone found some tractor-feed paper for it.
I want to use it to print lines from IRC when someone says
12:34 < jerkey> !print 12:33 < sudobot> DOOR EVENT: RichardStallman swiped into the building
the printer will actually print that line onto the paper and advance one
line like a typewriter.
this is what a dor-matrix printer looks like in action:
(ours will be printing lines of text, not graphics)
https://youtu.be/qlEUrEVqDbo?t=28
so i got a USB to parallel converter, and i plugged it into the desktop
computer next to the 3D printer. It comes up as /dev/usb/lp0 because of
kernel module usblp, which sees the hardware and makes that device.
If i become root, i can do
echo "hello world" > /dev/usb/lp0
and it will print "hello world" to the paper, and advance to the next
line.
this works a couple of times, but then the printer stops printing, and
then the command doesn't exit, until you press a button on the printer and
then it prints SOME of what you sent it, and you have to press the button
again and again... it makes no fucking sense.
I experienced this in the past too, playing with the same kind of printer,
probably under DOS, and I never figured out what the fuck was wrong.
any ideas? the printer is still set up on the desk if you want to play
with it.
-jake
December, January and February are always a little awkward for USian
Techno-Activism Third Mondays. December is very close to the holiday
break. The third Monday in January is MLK day, and in February it's
President's day.
We're going to take a break in December, and we'll announce plans for
January and February in 2016 (hint: those plans may well have the word
"Tuesday" in them).
For now, many thanks to everybody for your talks, your questions and you
support in 2015, and see you next year.
d.
I can share their contact info with people who are interested.
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Subject: [omni-helpdesk] computers, motherboards, parts from a local
non-profit org
To: info(a)omnicommons.org
Greetings, Omni Folks!
We are a nearby nonprofit organization, getting ready to move our
office to another location, and we have a large pile of computer stuff
that might be of some use to some of the people in your group.
If you're interested, might be better for me to set up a time when you
could stop by and meet with our I.T. person who could show you
everything that is up for grabs.
We're here M-F, 9am-5pm. I manage the office, and am here every day
during those times.
Let me know if you're interested!
I was asked to give a run through on using the laser cutter, if anyone else
is interested please stop by, 3pm on Friday.
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Inspiring course taught by my bro Adeola on Brooklyn . Reminds me of cool public school courses!
https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/bisr_course/love-is-a-weapon-gandhi-tolsto…
Love is a Weapon: Gandhi, Tolstoy, Kallenbach and nonviolence | The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Before Gandhi became the Mahatma, he was Mohandas. Living in South Africa for over twenty years, the young lawyer-turned-activist campaigned for the rights of migrant workers from India, fighting alongside the British in wars against the Boers and the Zulu Kingdom. It was in these harshest of racist, imperialist battles that young Gandhi began to develop the thought and practice that would become his signature in later years.
During these years in South Africa, Gandhi formed friendships with the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Prussian-Jewish architect, Hermann Kallenbach. Out of their unlikely friendship, Kallenbach and Gandhi founded the Tolstoy Farm, a retreat which acted as a laboratory for experimenting with techniques of nonviolence both as theory and as a practical way of living.
In this course we look closely at Gandhi’s South Africa years―a time of both racial warfare, and great love and friendship―to understand the source of the philosophies and practices that would later inspire many currents of the civil rights movement in the United States. While many analyses of Gandhi and his thought focus on ideas and influences from Braminical and Jain sources, this course will focus on the South African moment and this archive in particular.
Main texts for the course will include the collected writings of Gandhi, The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-bearer of Empire, by Desai & Vahed, Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You, correspondence between Tolstoy and Gandhi, and Gandhi and Kallenbach. We will also read supplementary texts, which provided inspiration for Gandhi’s practice, such as Thoreau on civil disobedience, John Ruskin’s “Unto this Last,” and Plato’s Apology.
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