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)
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/commit/00f5cbeb3961f7d2880913993eab…
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)
I can't get to SudoRoom this Tuesday, but I can go this Monday. I miss
seeing everyone!
Wondering if we should have a once a month or once every few weeks "Today I
Learned" or "I did this at SudoRoom"
Perhaps we could do it at a potluck or something?
I'm focused all in on the light projection / augmented reality stuff that I
was into last year. Don't have much time for anything else!
Over the years I've gotten much more satisfaction starting, completing and
learning from little completed mini projects at SudoRoom. I will try to
post more social media but that just isn't my thing. I'm a creator!
*Romy Mimi Ilano*
*romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>*
Hello,
I am not sure if I had been scammed or not.
A while back when I asked in this list for suggestions about domain
companies I received a direct email from someone who said it was Charley
Sheets.
At the time, even though I was a bit hesitant that I couldn't verify via
phone, I went ahead and did business with this person. Transferring some
domains and sending some payments. At the time, I thought I would be
helping him to build his portfolio to become a domain seller.
But, now that I need to make a DNS record (that has to be through him, that
was the inconvenience that I accepted) I emailed several emails and I am
being ignored.
Even though it is embarrassing for me to write this here in the list,
Chaley please confirm through the list if that is you the one that holds
the email address: *rcsheets(a)picote.ch <rcsheets(a)picote.ch>* or not.
Thank you, and I apologize if that address is in fact yours and it makes
you feel uncomfortable, but it's been two weeks and I am still being
ignored.
Did I get scammed?
Daniel
Don't forget about the Omni Open House tomorrow! Come to Sudoroom and hang
out all day, to greet the new people who will come through and ask what we're
about!
We'll be playing with the synth the whole time I hope
-jake
Hello,
There will be a sudoroom meeting tonight. The meetings are currently
happening on a weekly basis because of the ongoing Omni crisis.
Topics we can discuss:
* There are discussions ongoing with CAST (https://cast-sf.org/), and
I can summarize the communications we've had with them.
* Omni recently admitted a new group as tenant (Deb Gives) who wants
to become a member.
* There are potential funding opportunities that we could apply for.
Call for sudo volunteers.
Alex (current delegate)
As you all know I've been super interested in light projection. I'm in the
works with folks to put a permanent light projector on the mezzanine so we
can have continual video projected of art, videos and event games that
people play during hardware hack night.
This is a form of augmented reality and I'm super interested in Museum
design -
https://exhibits.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Guide-to-Exhibit-Develop…
*Museum design* seems like the perfect format for SudoRoom. We have so many
interesting books, electronics, and vintage computers everywhere... I can't
recall a time when we set something up like a proper museum exhibit, so
that people who weren't part of the inner circle would have a clue about
what cool electronics history or experiment was before them!
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/03/01/how-museums-are-stepping-up-exhi…
I'd like to expand this eventually into both physical museum design
(placarsd, tables) but also virtual reality stuff. I'm pretty swamped right
now with work and personal projects but FYI this will be my north star for
the months to come.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:09:10 -0800
From: Jose Oyola Cortes <joyola(a)ucdavis.edu>
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Cc: Lee Martin <leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu>
Subject: [sudo-info] Join Our Research Project: Recruiting Facilitators for Embodied Virtual Reality Learning Experience
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
Proposal: At this Tuesday's Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night: can we put
some energy into improving the front door bell / buzzer / video system
so we can make Omni Commons more welcoming? A first step: move the
existing bell further back in the lobby so it can sound louder in
Sudoroom and in the media lab? -Peter
Hi Sudoers:
Sudoer Thomas Lopes hosts the Berkeley Linux Users Group Raspberry Pi
interest group (Pi.BerkeleyLUG) this Sunday (tomorrow) at Sudoroom:
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At SudoRoom from 11am till about 2pm this Sunday. Call or txt me for
building access if you need. 510. 984. 2455.
I've got a new high resolution camera module that old like to try. 54MP.
(Can't find 4k at decent price)
And a pcie multiplier which I'd like to try on the Pi 5 to see if I can
get fast Ethernet and storage at the same time.
Other project will be fixing a Lenovo laptop. This has the WiFi removed
and if you plug in a non Lenovo card it will refuse to boot. There is a
WiFi whitelist in the BIOS. So I would dump the BIOS and parse it out
with UEFI tools in Linux and apply a patch then write it back.
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Come out tomorrow and support Thomas!
Cheers, -Peter
