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Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: [sudo-info] reaching out from google.org regarding an assistive technology hackathon

by yar

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Adam Munich <adam(a)aperture.systems> wrote: >> Instead of arguing, could we instead *be thankful* that google is willing to sponsor healthcare innovation, and not distributing the cash as dividends to their shareholders like most of corporate america? To me this just sounds like: "You can't criticize anything I do, because I'm rich". In theory, inviting shitty things to Sudo & Omni gives us a big opportunity to challenge them. But doing that without just getting co-opted would take a lot of work and struggle and I don't know if we have the resources for that right now, let alone the risk of failing to challenge them enough and just being complicit. Also, if we specifically reject this event and tell them exactly why, and what kind of things we'd like to see from them in the future, that's also a way to influence them. If they're really well meaning, they'd listen and take it to heart. But if all they really care about is money and prestige, then they'll just smile and move on and we didn't waste all our time and energy. Not holding my breath, personally.

9 years, 7 months

Fwd: Personal invitation to SAPPHO & SWEAT this SAT (11:30am, Lake Merritt Bandstand)

by Romy Ilano

hey sudoroom & noisebridge an artist friend of mine and a founder of a mycology (mushrooms as material) company is also a really cool person! She's doing this pride weekend performance event Saturday at Lake Merritt in oakland. I think this would be appropriate for the sudoroom & noisebridge crew LET'S KEEP THE BAY AREA WEIRD! -- Hi friends & accomplices, you're receiving this personal invitation because you are: 1) awesome & experimental & not afraid of weirdness 2) are fond of me, Chani Bockwinkel, Caroline Alexander, Sappho, Kate Bush, Ciara, and/or any number of other contemporary and historical goddesses. hehe. 2) live in the east bay or are not easy bay-averse 3) will forgive me for this because we all love each other and you know the drill: SF Chronicle has decided to cover Heavy Breathing <http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/fitness-for-your-brain/Content?oid=43…>, the summer conceptual fitness series i co-programmed, for the front page of their upcoming Datebook section. They're sending a journalist and photographer to our next session, THIS SATURDAY, and we'd love a strong showing of friends + participants for the occasion. Please come support!! :) Saturday's session is a one-hour weirdo fitness experience under the direction of Chani Bockwinkel and Caroline Alexander, that will involve stretching + dance-aerobic-type exercises inspired by the new work they have been developing around Sappho and Sapphic poetry + an awesome soundtrack featuring Kate Bush + Ciara + others. More details (from fbook invite): Get Sapphic on Pride Saturday with Chani Bockwinkel & Caroline Alexander!!! WHEN: Saturday, June 27, 11:30am - 12:30pm WHERE: Lake Merritt / Edoff Memorial Bandstand 666 Bellevue Avenue, Lake Merritt, Oakland https://localwiki.org/oakland/Lake_Merritt_Bandstand RSVP & QUESTIONS: heavyheavybreathing(a)gmail.com FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC DESCRIPTION: Imagine somatics + Kate Bush + Ciara: we'll get sweaty and circular, moving our A$$ muscles and feeling our insides together. Read at least one passage of Sappho (your choice; see resources below), and come ready to project yourself into history while invoking ancient greek women and contemporary goddesses. Wear gym shoes and an outfit that brings out your deep femme/tough exercise queen. RESOURCES: Anne Carson's "If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho": http://www.scribd.com/doc/82932076/Anne-Carson-Sappho-If-Not-Winter#scribd Poetry Foundation's Sappho resources: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ bio/sappho#poet <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fbio%2…> Poets.org <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FPoets.org%2F&h=2AQGtm8H6&enc=AZO…> Sappho resources: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sappho <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org%2Fpoetsorg%2Fpoet%…> Poems of Sappho (Julia Dubnoff, trans.): http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/ texts/sappho.html <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uh.edu%2F%7Ecldue%2Ftexts%2F…> THANK YOU!!!! xoxo Sophia

9 years, 7 months

Tonight! SELC Legal Cafe @ Omni, starts at 5:30

by Jenny Ryan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> Date: Jun 25, 2015 1:22 PM Subject: Re: SELC Legal Cafe @ Omni, June 25th! To: <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Cc: Tonight! Starting at 5:30. Come by and let's brainstorm legal structures for buying the building and sustaining for the long haul as a cooperative community! On Jun 10, 2015 11:23 AM, "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > A reminder to RSVP <http://www.theselc.org/omni_legal_cafe> to the > Sustainable Economies Law Center's legal cafe at the Omni on June 25th - > free legal advice for your collective or sustainable enterprise from a > bunch of rad attorneys and attorneys-in-collective/autodidactical-training: > > http://www.theselc.org/omni_legal_cafe > > Jenny > > Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! > https://omnicommons.org/donate > > `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." > -Laurie Anderson > > "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." > -Hannah Arendt > > "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." > -Stéphane Mallarmé > ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Friends, >> >> Last week, we hosted the Sustainable Economies Law Center's membership >> bash in the Disco Room. In exchange, they will be hosting a Resilient >> Economies Legal Cafe at the Omni on June 25th! >> >> The SELC is a group of rad lawyers who work on local policy change on >> topics such as cottage food laws, cooperative business structure, and >> alternative currencies. In addition, they also provide mentorship and >> co-learning fellowships for folks to pass the California bar and become >> lawyers without having to go to law school for an expensive degree. They >> are super awesome and I'm so stoked that they're down to help support this >> crazy project! >> >> Please RSVP for a slot at the following link: >> http://www.theselc.org/omni_legal_cafe >> > >

9 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: [sudo-info] reaching out from google.org regarding an assistive technology hackathon

by Vicky Knox

I'm no longer in town but I have something to say. I think this is a good opportunity to explore. I hear your concerns about their approach, Ryan. I am particularly irked by the inspirational music in the video. *shudders* That said, I would love to take this opportunity to transmit our collective concerns and critiques to them...call it "hacking their framing". :] Whether one likes it or not, these folks have a lot of power in shaping popular technology development and understandings into the future. While we may not revolutionize Google, we can at least encourage them to do their bidding in a way that is a little less evil. I'm happy that they're directly reaching out to hackerspaces, which means they may take notes. I'm also happy that they're reaching out to us because our social ecosystem is quite a bit more diverse than theirs and therefore has more potential for wisdom (I wonder, have they reached out to Mothership or LOL?). The tech industry (or any business that requires a steep social capital (whiteness, maleness, ability to work 40+ hours/week, etc.) in order to have a better (or any) chance at getting employed), after all, is largely ableist and culturally stagnant. Please excuse my nesting.

9 years, 7 months

Fwd: [sudo-info] reaching out from google.org regarding an assistive technology hackathon

by Jenny Ryan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Arie Meir" <ariemeir(a)google.com> Date: Jun 24, 2015 12:13 PM Subject: [sudo-info] reaching out from google.org regarding an assistive technology hackathon To: <info(a)sudoroom.org> Cc: Dear Sudoroom community, I'm reaching out from the philanthropic arm of Google, Google.org which supports non-profits aimed at technical innovation. In our attempt to expand opportunity and independence for people with disabilities we have recently launched a campaign <https://get.google.com/disabilitiesimpactchallenge/open-call.html> aiming to identify and support non-profits doing innovative work in the assistive technology space. The reason for this email is that in addition to the campaign,we are thinking of organizing a hackathon around mid-late august focused on assistive technology using this event <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_BQzJD9gpo> as a source of inspiration. The basic idea is to bring the need-knowers (people with disabilities and their families/caregivers) together in the same room with tech folks (hackers/makers/designers) and develop prototypes for affordable products that could serve the needs of the community of people with disabilities. We thought that the hacker community of Sudoroom might find it interesting/relevant and some folks perhaps wish to participate. We are trying to gauge the level of interest in something like this from the hacker/maker/developer community. Thoughts ? Ideas ? What should we think of to make this event more relevant/interesting to the folks involved ? With kindest regards, On behalf of Google.org, Arie Meir -- *____________* *Arie Meir *| Technology Portfolio Lead, Google.org | +1.209.565.3886 <1.209.565.3886> | ariemeir(a)google.com -- *____________* *Arie Meir *| Technology Portfolio Lead, Google.org | +1.209.565.3886 <1.209.565.3886> | ariemeir(a)google.com _______________________________________________ Info mailing list Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info

9 years, 7 months

Fwd: Important: No more bank payouts. Action required.

by yar

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gratipay Support <support(a)gratipay.com> Date: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:12 PM Subject: [sudo-accounts] Important: No more bank payouts. Action required. To: Gratipay Support <support(a)gratipay.com> Greetings! You're receiving this message because you're one of the nine people who have been withdrawing money from Gratipay 2.0 directly to your bank account. Our provider for bank payouts, Balanced Payments, is going out of business, and they stopped providing bank payouts last week. We tried pretty damn hard over the past couple months to migrate to a new provider for bank payouts, so that we could provide uninterrupted service for you, but we failed. Sorry. :-( Our backup plan is PayPal. To maximize the chance that you receive your payout this week in some fashion, we chose to configure your Gratipay account to send money via PayPal to the verified email address we have on file for you—the one you're receiving this email on—from now on. Please update the PayPal address on your Gratipay settings page as necessary, to ensure that we route your payouts properly starting this Thursday. If PayPal is not a good option for you, please get in touch and let's see what we can figure out. You've been very patient with us throughout the turmoil of the last couple months. While we can't quite say that we've fully survived the Balanced shutdown yet (due to its repercussions for us), it's a big milestone to be processing at all even though Balanced has in fact started shutting down. Thank you for believing in us as we continue rebuilding Gratipay! :-) As always, feel free to reply here privately, or join our public discussion on GitHub. chad ---- Chad Whitacre Founder, Gratipay +1-412-925-4220 (cell)

9 years, 7 months

we has mirrored ball

by Robert Benson

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9 years, 7 months

thursday: 7pm- Coed Algorithms at SudoRoom!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/coed-sudoroom-algorithms-as-poetry-and-art/ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/CoedAlgorithms First session of our Coed SudoRoom Algorithms as Poetry and Art! This is part of an ongoing Sunday Algorithms event at our sister space Noisebridge <http://noisebridge.net/> There will be comics, whiteboarding, and implementation of the basics to get this stuff into muscle memory. all genders welcome, although this is an event for adults who are passionate about computer science. We’ll be working on making graph algorithms beautiful and fun. This is poetry! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

9 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Morning meditation on Sudoroom.

by Robert Benson

that's a great drawing! On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:48 AM, <sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org> wrote: > Send sudo-discuss mailing list submissions to > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sudo-discuss-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sudo-discuss-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of sudo-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Rannette attacked someone physically for the second time > (WIld Cat) > 2. Re: Rannette attacked someone physically for the second time > (Marc Juul) > 3. Re: Rannette attacked someone physically for the second time > (Mitch Altman) > 4. Morning meditation on Sudoroom. (Romy Ilano) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:42:36 -0700 > From: WIld Cat <wildcatofthewoods(a)gmail.com> > To: Sudo room <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] Rannette attacked someone physically for the > second time > Message-ID: > <CAM2svHWGNkcEyufMnjF1NEGEk88O1bKqydNCTDU+= > iqNUzkm1g(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Rannette physically attacked a woman here today for the second time in one > month. Rannette was being very loud about an incrimiwhile but eventuallyg > thing when I asked her to not have that conversation in the space she began > screaming at me and another woman stepped in telling her to stop yelling > saying that she also needed to stop sleeping here and Rannette walked up to > her drawing her hand back like she was going to slap her screaming bitch in > her face then started screaming bitch at me. Threatening to leave and I > affirmed that she should leave. Then She attacked the woman physically by > checking her. We asked her to leave for violating the safe space policy and > refused for a while eventually left. This month I have sent multiple emails > about Rannettes behaivour to the mediation group and but i have gotten no > response. >

9 years, 7 months

Morning meditation on Sudoroom.

by Romy Ilano

https://flic.kr/p/uNpKif Think I'll make this into another t shirt! Thanks for being a hacker space with soul Sent from my iPhone

9 years, 7 months

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