On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Andrew cardoza <threve35(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any calculations of how much money we would need to raise in the
> following months? if so, what will be the monthly goals?
> Also, what are we currently raising per month?
> What is the shortfall?
> where is the money coming from?
>
> events?
> from collectives?
> that kickstarter?
> grants?
>
> Who do I ask, if no one responds to these inquiries?
Just for the record, the best place to ask these questions is the
Omni's finance working group mailing list, which I've CC'd here.
finance(a)lists.omnicommons.org
https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/finance
I wanted to bring out the Type A to print magnets for Omni's
Collabazaar, but can't find any of the 1.75mm plastic we used to have.
Where did it all go? Did it get used or taken? Is it stored in a
special place or do I have to run to home depot or something?
it's 1:30AM and giant rats are fighting under the big wooden shelf covered
with rotting fruits and vegetables.
this is a seperate problem from the fact that at least one of the
containers is smelling really bad, and at least one is breeding fruit
flies.
-jake
I'm working on a radio project....is anyone able to bring a USRP (sdr) in
some night to help me test a specific software..... It would be a HUGE
help! Thanks...
-Brendan
Hey all,
Shawn Landden showed up today @ Noisebridge. Shawn was banned by
consensus in 2013 and has a criminal history crossing 3 states, having
been arrested for for assault, harassment, felony stalking, violating
restraining orders, and stalking.
Shawn knows full well that he is 100% NOT WELCOME at Noisebridge, and
showed up today with a scraggly beard apparently hoping he'd go unnoticed.
His photos along with all other information are on the Noisebridge 86
page https://noisebridge.net/86
Given his history of assault if Shawn shows up at either Noisebridge or
Sudoroom he should be asked to leave *IMMEDIATELY*. There's possibly
still outstanding warrants for his arrest, we're looking through public
records tonight.
Take care,
p
https://www.facebook.com/events/1661603590723647/https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/collabazaar-1-0/
I'm selling lots of cool stuff; LEDs, 'burnery' things, CHEAP! All
proceeds will go to the Omni.
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We'll be hosting our first of a potentially bi-monthly pop-up bazaar
featuring local artists, artisans and craftmakers. Stop by anytime in the
afternoon and peruse a phantasmagorical cornucopia of objects and
imbibements to titillate the tongue, warm the belly, inspire the mind and
adorn the body!
The mission of these Collabazaars is to create a sustainable model for
fundraising for the Omni's monthly expenses while simultaneously providing
local makers in our community with income and visibility to support their
continued creative / artistic / crafty / culinary endeavors.
As the sun sets, the Omni will metamorphize into a haunted house befitting
of its creepy cavernous and labrynthian corners!
Collaborators:
* Francisco Jimenez, Tucan Vinegars: Selling delicious homemade Costa
Rican-style vinegars. Free tasting
s available!
* Abby Normal Art by Antoinette Gaggero
* Liberation Food Coop: Fair trade, fresh-roasted coffee and a variety of
teas to sample.
* Youth Liberation Zines by STINNEY DISTRO
* Live painting by Nikki Lee Drumm
* Musical mosaics: Hand-crafted instruments that can be played and used as
unique art pieces.
* Kangs' Necklaces: Wire Wrapped Gems & Stones
* BerrytheMaker selling her household overstock of accumulated treasures,
cheap!
* Sudo Room's 3D printers will be printing out original magnet designs
throughout the day \o/
This event will be updated as vendors are confirmed. If you're interested
in running a booth (with a percentage of sales going to the Omni Commons)
at this or future Collabazaars, please contact collabazaar(a)omnicommons.org
Hi folks,
I've asked this question before in private with not a lot of good
responses, but I'll put it out to a wider audience. One of the things that
is nice about being a university is full online journal access.
For myself, in the past I've had friends inside a uni run an underground
proxy server for me so I can access said licensed content ("Right to Read
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html>" anyone?). UC
Berkeley offers the general public library access for $100 a year, which is
great but cost prohibitive for starving hackers
My question is: is there someway we can get hackerspaces and members forge
a path to having access to non-open access journals? Maybe through some
sort of library grant, or charity access, or something? My library
knowledge here falls short. But there are multiple great reasons for us to
do this:
* accelerate research and innovation at a grassroots/citizen
level. One of the biggest wins I see here is with citizen driven disease
research (austin just opened a medical hackerspace
<http://district.life/2015/10/02/launching-the-first-medical-makerspace-in-t…>).
Can you imagine what the cyborg group could do with a broader network?
* open access journals are great, but the coverage falls short
* for a lot of folks who have never had access to a university,
it's simply a matter of fair educational access
* it can encourage projects to re-invent journal access itself
Would love to hear ideas or possible points of contact!
Love,
Praveen
Hi All,
Below is info about a current project to archive something important and dear to me. Before there was Wired and the couch surfing interns who worked for Mondo and left to start Wired-- there was Mondo 2000. I remember reading an issue of URB magazine and noticing Mondo 2000 on the newsstand. Things every Black nerd needed to see at an early age was in Mondo, like: virtual reality, tech pioneers and mavericks, and even an article about Pamela Z.
To meet and share ideas with these folks was amazing. Names that should mean something if you believe in the real power of what we all strive to do. > > Captain Crunch, R.U. Sirius, Queen Mu, William Gibson, Mark Pesce, and more.
If you're interested in helping to digitize or what not, get in touch with them.
Best,
Scott R. Edmonds
Mobile: 1-510-928-3469
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> Date: October 27, 2015 at 5:49:53 PM EDT
> To: scott.edmonds(a)gmail.com
> Subject: Project Update #25: MONDO 2000: An Open Source History by R.U. Sirius
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> 25
> New Plan for completion
> Posted by R.U. Sirius
> For backers only
> Hi folks!
> Hope this finds you well. I’m under migraine (for real. 3 weeks). Health shit really has been getting in my way.
> Anyway, well, my hope that another very professional writer would join me in completing the Mondo 2000 section of the book appears to have not worked out. I gave it an extra month which is why you all have not heard from me sooner.
> My final plan to finish/crowdsource the book ought to work, if I can gather up all my skills as an editor at the end of the process. I’m going to push hard for speedy delivery. The plan should allow for that.
> Before I share the plan, this seems to be a good place to pick up volunteers to help… even though I haven’t heard back from the previous volunteers.
> This is the first place I’m sharing this new plan, except with a few folks personally. I’ll be looking elsewhere for volunteers too. You folks have been exceptionally kind. Thought you might like to participate.
> So first of all, the folks who said they would open my ancient discs so I could extract the content? We were going to do this, I think, in September. I’ve lost track of you and haven’t heard back. I have a note that makes me think it may have been Bryce Lynch who was going to help with that. Hoping this will shake the tree.
> Secondly, I’m looking for someone to scan all the issue of Mondo 2000 and a bunch of archival stuff … press clippings, ad brochures ad infintum. I’d need it done fast if possible and would prefer someone in the SF Bay Area. Even just the issues would be awesome.
> This this would be tremendously helpful and would improve on both the timing and quality, but if it doesn’t happen, I will work around it.
> Finally, if you have an urge to write something for the book… or to interview a Mondo 2000 participant who interests you, I’m opening it up to “outsiders.” See The Plan, below…
> The Plan
> I plan to take a lot of material from the magazine itself and weave the story telling around it. But also, add commentary geared towards the ideas etc. in the magazine. Even more fun, I think… I am inviting people who wrote for the magazine, a few other favored writers and the patient folks who contributed via Kickstarter to rummage through any magazines they may have and write about it. React to an issue or an article or just let something jar a memory and tell a story.
> It’s my hope to also have the issues all scanned, but in the meantime, if you have that resource (back issues) it’d be great if folks would get going.
> Naturally, I can’t guarantee that every bit of writing will get into the book, but it will get onto the website. Pre-Mondo issues of Reality Hackers and High Frontiers and a few archival bits are at Internet Archives… https://archive.org/details/mondohistory ... but I want to discourage too much focus on the old issues. I’ve got a shitload of writing already about the early years. If you want to participate and you have actual MONDO 2000 magazines, please use those. If I can’t get the magazine scanned soon (or at all) and if I can’t get my old discs cracked open, I will live with that. I’ll be setting a deadline for the end of January 2016 to collect materials. Thank you Thank you Thank you for your patience and support … and I hope a few of you might want to help in one way or another.
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Hello All,
I am going in a trip from Nov. 3rd to the 11th and I have no place to park
my car for that length of time.
If someone in the list living near BART would allow me to park in their
driveway or similar; between Richmond to SF Airport I would donate $50 to
Omni (https://omnicommons.org/donate.html). It will make me happier knowing
that I am donating that money Omni, besides that it will way cheaper than
paying the airport!
I would share the receipt of my donation with you.
Many thanks in advance,
Daniel
p.s. please feel free to email me directly to my email or ask me for my
number if you prefer to call. Thx!
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It's called "Forum Friends" - a mobile app for accessing and making posts
to internet forums.
Here is the link to install the beta version for Android:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.autonomous.forumfriends
A bit of history:
Internet forums are a grassroots alternative to mega corporate social media
sites and had their beginnings with dial-up bulletin boards in the days
before the internet came into existence. Today there are 10s of thousands
of internet forums with some having over 1.5 million registered users. And
there are now over a dozen good open source forum server platforms
including nodebb, a nodejs forum server.
Forum Friends is a multi-platform app written primarily in Javascript with
some Java and ObjectiveC code to support Android and IOS platforms. Forum
data is accessed and updated via a restful json api and data is cached
locally via indexeddb. The app also works with a nodejs server to securely
verify in-app purchases. The design enables many possibilities including
secure crypto messaging and pier-to-pier serverless message exchange over
private networks.
If someone would like to install it on their android phone or tablet and
take it for a spin, that would be great! Also, if there is a javascript
meetup this week I would like to attend.
Thanks,
Autonomous.
I attached a few screenshots.
