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From: transcultural cinema <transculturalcinema(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 2:05 PM
Subject: [omni-discuss] Becoming Omni Commons - All Hands On Deck! Aug 9th
@ 2pm-6pm Calling all Organizers, Facilitators, Helpers, and Omni Lovers!
To: becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org
Hello!
*We invite you to join us on Sunday, August 9th at the Omni Commons.* We
are assembling a *Volunteer Design & Facilitation Team* that will plan and
steward a collective visioning and planning process with all of Omni
Commons. This future process, which we are calling *BECOMING OMNI COMMONS*,
will seek to:
* expand and transform our collective sense of possibility
* clarify our shared values
* examine our cultures, narratives and processes
* create priorities to move towards more sustainable and supportive ways of
being together and being in the world
* design an action-calendar for our visioning and planning process
A plan for BECOMING OMNI COMMONS will be presented to the Omni Commons
delegates council (our governance body ;) and actualized as soon as
possible.
*The details:*
*Who: *You! Anyone interested in joining our *Volunteer Design &
Facilitation Team* (described above)
*What: *A fun four-hour facilitated, preparatory meeting, followed by
DINNER!
*Where:* Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609 (and possibly
on-line if you cannot be physically present)
*When:* *Sunday Aug 9th 2pm-6pm *(you must arrive on-time and stay for the
entire session)
*Why:*
*Given our present circumstances:*
* We are in a serious financial pickle right now.
* We have an opportunity to potentially buy the building very soon.
* We are struggling with interpersonal conflict, overwork, and burnout.
* We have never had the opportunity to engage in a visioning process since
moving into 4799 Shattuck a year ago.
*We need to:*
* Reform our processes to be inclusive of as many perspectives as possible.
* Align our work and our organizing with our ideals and our politics.
* Provide a safe platform for constructive criticism and reflection.
* Invest openness, patience and respect for the diversity of perspectives
and experiences of all of those who have been involved or impacted by Omni
Commons in some way or another.
*How:* If you'd like to join the team and can attend the meeting, RSVP to
becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org and share any important requests or dietary
needs.
*Sunday, August 9th @ 2pm-6pm at 4799 Shattuck, Oakland. RSVP to
becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org <becoming(a)lists.omnicommons.org>*If you
cannot make it and would like to participate, please fill out this survey
by August 2nd: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BXGHX2N
Love and solidarity,
Laura Turiano, Yar Cohen, Sarah Pritchard, Julio Rios, Dusty Mabry, Matt
Senate, Joe Liesner, Libbie Cohn
p.s. Join our email list for the Volunteer Design and Facilitation Team
here: https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/becoming
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Hey now that we are preparing for cyberwizard, and there are people
learning, I'd like to point out that the monitors long the wall are
underutizlied.
we have about 12-15 ... I'll write a blog post about this with
instructions. It seems really common sense but isn't always. (unless
someone else does!)
a 2nd monitor is great for people who are learning to code, especially if
they have an IDE open and are using videos.
Guests and members visiting sudoroom should bring special outlets for their
computers. I'm unsure what chrome or linux folks use - I have a mac so I
have my own setup.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
(see full image)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1606507732938924/
We had another experimental session involving fitness and art at the omni upstairs from Sudoroom
It went over my Head at some parts but there was a redefinition of fitness : fitness is not only about body fat but also mental health and the ability to survive and reproduce in rapidly changing environments
We taped alternate eyes to our own and spent most of the session with eyes closed as we imagined alternate realities .
Instead if an aerobics or spinning class we listened to a computer discussing the future and imagining sensations of augmented realities
The future was discussed as we stretched and writhed and the need to find new realties and ways of being !
As you know the omni Collective is a unique place. Many events that occur here wouldn't happen anywhere else
While I was doing fitness I ran into moms and dads preparing a benefit for Muhammad and emad at the solidarity Cafe. I think they're activists who got into trouble 😢
https://instagram.com/p/5nP0EUIUtj/
There are kids playing in the omni ballroom and people chatting in Spanish and folks of all religions doing bake sales to help these guys
It's nice ! Thanks omni and Sudoroom. ! Oakland needs you
We don't want Oakland to become what happened to the sf mission and Dolores park ❤️
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I spent the afternoon getting the basics of node down .. I've reviewed it and even worked on it at work but I just sat down and reviewed everything using a treehouse video node js course that comes gratis with my sf public library membership
It took a few hours in between errands. There were people there it was nice to talk and even music
I used a spare cheap monitor to learn: wish I did that earlier ! We have dozens of monitors on the wall!! It's useful for learning with online video !
By studying the right way I got the basics down which saves time for later
The exercise had me building a simple node website modifying js to find information about student status and building a template website system
It's cool there are so many node people at Sudoroom . I'm normally a mobile Programmer on iOS so I don't usually touch website sfuff
I forked q basic Virtual Dom Code branch from Substack to Learn more
I'd like to use this info to build an open source web interface for my women who code project : it's a database of cool female film directors and films that pass the bechdel test
Later id like to push out some open source web & mobile projects . It's easier than it used to be
I try to combine art with code so i drew a cat in JavaScript forest
Later I'll clean up this email and then make it into a personal and Sudoroom blog post
Thanks Sudoroom !!
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It appears to me as though the unspoken mission of the Omni collectives is
to provide infrastructure for groups that share the Occupy mission. Perhaps
the role of the Omni is not to be an umbrella organization that comprises
the various collectives. Instead, maybe the Omni's role is and has always
been to provide much needed infrastructure to local community activists
groups.
While considering this thought, I stumbled upon an article from Non-Profit
Quarterly which describes the need for such organizations, to wit:
http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2008/01/25/why-every-foundation-should-fund-i…
Love & Solidarity,
robb
LulzLux
let thar b Lulz
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Hellos,
*Good News!*We now have a total of 10 new data drops at the second floor
where the computers for the public are.
Four computers are already setup and ready to use. The other six are
already active, so it is matter of bringing more computers to the table and
set them up.
The second one from the left was not booting up, and since I had a bootable
USB with Debian 8 with me; well.. I installed Debian on it. User name: user
Password: user Root's password: user -Feel free to modify that if one wish
or if it required. I just wanted to have it running at least.
I removed all the extra unnecessary and/or unsafe equipment that was there
on that table.
Excuse me that it was brought down to one of the tables at Sudo, but I was
too exhausted that I just wanted to go home.
*ALERTS:*
DNS: At the time that I left the building, 5pm, there were some DNS issues.
DNS was not resolving.
Pinging Google's DNS IP 8.8.8.8 worked, but not when trying the domain
name. The issue seemed intermittent.
BANDWIDTH: Also, I ran a few speed tests and they area about 20Mbps /
1.5Mbps.
Thanks Hassan, Sierk, and Francisco for your help during these three days
of work.
Daniel
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Got a color laser printer but no cable :(
it looks like this:
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basically a 50 pin male-to-male isosceles trapezoid
thanks
robb