Hi all,
I've been meaning to design and laser cut a contraption for our Science
Sideshow at the Cal Academy NightLive LIVE
<http://www.calacademy.org/nightlife/nightlife-live-june> event this
Thursday evening, but I'm rapidly running out of time.
Anyone able to give me a hand?
Basically, I found these vases that look just like giant test tubes - long
cylinder with a rounded bottom. So now I want to make a giant test tube
rack, and have them sitting at our booth with some food color and …
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steaming away. Would look awesome!
I got about halfway through designing the thing in Inkscape, but I've never
dealt with designing fasteners for plywood before. Needs to have a wide
base so it doesn't tip over, but also needs to be hangable from a wall, so
the base may need to be removable.
If I were to order this through Ponoko, I'd probably go with something like
their 1/4 inch amber bamboo plywood
<http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/226-bamboo-amber-3-ply>.
Is there any plywood at Sudo? Recommendations for a good place to buy nice
plywood?
Patrik
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For the Wikipedia + library nerds in the house.
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Date: 2015-06-09 15:52 GMT-07:00
Subject: Wikimedia-SF Digest, Vol 76, Issue 2
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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 09:53:40 -0700
From: Sylvia Ventura <sventura(a)wikimedia.org>
To: wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-…
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Teen Tech Center
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Hello Bay Area fellow Wikipedians,
The San Francisco Public Library and the Mozilla's HIVE Learning Networks
are launching a new Teen Tech Center in SF called The Mix.
The Hive Learning Network is a global community effort of Youth Servicing
Organizations led by the Mozilla Foundation. The HLN champions digital
skills and web literacy through connected learning. They have a presence in
11 cities including Bangalore, Vancouver and Mombasa, and growing fast with
10 new cities to launch by end of 2015.
This is a pilot program to help us/WMF evaluate if this is a viable
mechanism for the movement to engage with youth and help build future
community of Wikipedians.
The SFPL agreed to host a Wikipedia Station to help youth navigate and use
our projects as well as potentially contribute to them. This program will
be ran by the staff of The Mix - I am looking for someone(s) to train their
staff on becoming a Wikipedian and a guide to the youth in their program.
If you are interested, please feel free to ping me via email, I can share
more details.
The Mix launches next Wednesday June 18th - ideally we would like to have a
Young Wikipedian's in Training booth for back to school - sept 2015.
Thank you!
Sylvia
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Sylvia Ventura
Strategic Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
sventura(a)wikimedia.org
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: ken osborn <misterkenosborn(a)gmail.com>
>
> The other possibility is to talk to the Oakland PD and see if they
> would have a patrol car in the area on a regular basis.
I'm not sure our universe contains big enough N's or O's to respond to
this appropriately.
Hey everyone,
I'm Lily at Brainbot! We're making a wearable mindfulness device that
vibrates when you are stressed or distracted, using awareness of your
real-time HRV signals to help guide you back to a place of calm and focus.
We're based in San Francisco and working on our fourth prototype design.
We've raised some angel funding and in July we'll join HAX - a hardware
accelerator based in Shenzhen, China - for a three-month program to rapidly
prototype and go to production on our device. …
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back in San Francisco to launch!
We're looking for a great hardware engineer to come along on the ride - we
offer a lower salary than Apple but substantially more equity for the right
person - and the chance to create something from scratch at the earliest
stage.
Send us an email at team(a)brainbot.me if this sounds like something you
might love to do.
We're particularly looking for some combination of the following
interests/skills/experience:
Arduino prototyping
Biosensors
Embedded systems
Digital signal processing
Rapid prototyping
Manufacturing
Soft goods and industrial design
PCB layout and design
Mindfulness or meditation practice
Thanks for reading. Let us know if you have any questions!
--Lily
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Hi friends,
I'm writing to let you all know about an un/conference at Noisebridge on
June 29-30, Digital Rights in Libraries. You're all super invited, and
we also have a call for volunteers (keep reading)!
We've got some killer speakers lined up:
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…
For more info, please check our our press release and poster that I've
pasted below! Also, the Library Freedom Project has had some fun media
lately (here
<http://www.…
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and here <http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa>
and here
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/03/usa_freedom_act_before_s…>),
if you're curious.
Additionally and importantly, we could use a few technology trainers to
help with some of our open sandbox privacy tools sessions. We know a lot
of librarians want to build some skills, and so in these sessions we
were hoping to have ample technology trainers available to help
participants learn as much as possible.
The times we're looking for people to come by and help are:
Monday, June 29 @ 2-3
Monday, June 29 @ 4-5
Tuesday, June 30 @ 2:30-3:30
Tuesday, June 30 @ 5:30-6:30
Let me know if you might be available or have any questions. Also let me
know if you know someone else who might be interested. Or anything at all.
Peace. And thanks a million. <3 Oakland.
April
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DRiL
*Librarians Convene With Leading Anti-Surveillance Advocates and
Technologists In San Francisco to Defend Digital Rights â June 29-30,
2015*
Librarians, technologists, and privacy activists and are gathering in
San Francisco on June 29-30 to strategize about initiatives to protect
reader privacy, reform digital lending, combat censorship, and champion
access to information technology in light of emerging concerns over
government surveillance, censorship, and other forms of electronic
exploitation of personal data.
The two-day event
<https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…>,
which will take place at San Francisco's iconic Noisebridge hackerspace,
falls directly after the American Library Association's Annual
Conference; it's also being held in San Francisco this year.
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, who are leading lawsuits challenging the legality
of the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, will
present, along with experts on copyright and the future of digital
lending from Creative Commons and the Internet Archive. Technologists
from the Freedom of the Press Foundation (where Edward Snowden is a
board member) and Mozilla will be onsite providing in-depth technology
training at the hackerspace. The event also features librarians from a
number of libraries, including the San Francisco and Oakland Public
Library systems, as well as Oakland-based Hack the Hood, speaking on the
challenges of providing access to technology and training for Bay Area
youth.
Librarians have long been working on the front lines of information
activism and their communities' right to research. Whether by providing
access to technology and the Internet, as well as free education, or by
standing firm for over a decade as staunch opponents of the USA PATRIOT
Act, librarians are at the grassroots of the Internet freedom debate and
are uniquely plugged into serving the information needs of local
communities, especially those that lack technological or financial
resources.
The conference is being organized by the Library Freedom Project, a
recent grantee from the Knight Foundation that is a partnership among
librarians, technologists, attorneys, and advocates to teach librarians
about surveillance threats, digital rights, and privacy-protecting
technology. The Nation Magazine recently featured
<http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa> the work
of the Library Freedom Project as a cover story.
Â
What: "Digital Rights in Libraries"
Date: June 29-30, 2015
Where: Noisebridge hackerspace, 2269 Mission Street; San Francisco
Website:
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__libraryfreedomproject.…>
Â
*Contact:*
Alison Macrina
alison(a)libraryfreedomproject.org <mailto:alison@libraryfreedomproject.org>
April Glaser
april(a)libraryfreedomproject.org <mailto:april@libraryfreedomproject.org>
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