A mixture of local tech and global activism this month!
We'll be hearing a quick update from the SANDSTORM.IO team, a local start-up
that's building a usable and secure way to install popular server apps on a
personal, private machine.
And we'll be chatting with TA3M-SF favorite MELISSA CHAN, Al Jazeera's
correspondent in Beijing, the Middle East, and most lately investigating what
happened with the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. We'll talk about what it's
like to be targeted for digital …
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to protect themselves, and what a modern grassroots activist movement looks
like.
Date: Monday, May 18
Time: 6:00pm-7:15pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
More info:
https://sandstorm.io/http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2013/melissa-chan/https://citizenlab.org/2012/07/from-bahrain-with-love-finfishers-spy-kit-ex…
What is this again? Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal
meetup to connect activists and technologists who are interested in the
challenges of surveillance and censorship, and anyone interested in free
and open technology. TA3M happens all over the world, from Amsterdam to
Tokyo. You can find out your local meetup here:
https://wiki.openitp.org/events%3Atechno-activism_3rd_mondays
Want to receive these TA3M-SF updates regularly? Join our mailing list
at: https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf
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Ladies,
Want to teach tinkering? The Palo alto arts center is looking for a
fem-hacker!
Cheers,
-Adam
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From: "Catherine Ray" <rinray1(a)gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2015 9:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Palo Alto Art Center looking for female,
tinkering teacher
To: "Adam Munich" <adam(a)aperture.systems>
Cc:
Know anyone who might be interested?
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From: "Susan Holmes" <susanatstat(a)gmail.com>
…
[View More]Date: May 16, 2015 7:54 AM
Subject: Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Palo Alto Art Center looking for female,
tinkering teacher
To: "Rin Ray" <ray.catherine.e(a)gmail.com>
Cc:
Hi Rin,
Any interest in tinkering?
Susan
Susan Holmes
Professor, Statistics and BioX
Director, Mathematical and Computational Sciences
102, Sequoia Hall,
390 Serra Mall,
Stanford
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~susan/
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From: Nancy Blachman <nancy(a)googleguide.com>
Date: Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Palo Alto Art Center looking for female,
tinkering teacher
To: Joshua Zucker <joshua.zucker(a)gmail.com>, Jessa Lee <jessahlee(a)gmail.com>,
Emily McCullough <emily.m.mccullough(a)gmail.com>, Zandra Vinegar <
ch3cooh(a)alum.mit.edu>, David desJardins <david(a)desjardins.org>, Susan
Holmes <susan(a)stat.stanford.edu>, Jane Manning <jmanning(a)gmail.com>, Lori
Beraha <l_beraha(a)hotmail.com>
Can you suggest any women for this position?
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From: Amanda Klimek <amandart(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:10 PM
Subject: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Palo Alto Art Center looking for female,
tinkering teacher
To: dorkbot <dorkbotsf-blabber(a)dorkbot.org>
Forwarding this, which was sent to me through my art group. I currently
also teach at Palo Alto Art Center ( ceramics) and can vouch that it is an
awesome place to work. If interested, please reply to the contact in the
below paragraph and not to me, thx!
"Hi, Would you know of any women artist/engineers interested and available
to teach summer classes in the first two weeks of August at the Palo Alto
Arts Center? It's $1600 to teach 4 classes. I really wanted to teach the
classes and to be in CA, missing friends so much! But my PhD
studies/symposium around this time will be too much. And there was an offer
to stay in Mountainview, but it fell through.
I really would like to have another woman to teach the classes as it took
so long to get girls interested in the class. Descriptions are below, but
feel free to use the descriptions to fit the teacher's interests. Materials
list is due this week but I can send that in. Also I can send curriculum to
the teacher. The main component is the battery and motor and teaching
thinking about invention and how things work. No kits, everyone's project
is unique. Can be instrument-building too, teaching about sound. I've done
this in the past. Most materials are recycled, free, that the Art Center
collects. Lots of playing with hot glue--volunteers help kids with this.
Also they have a lot of cool materials in the basement including the
motors. Please let me know and I can pass a teacher's name along to Palo
Alto Arts Center, thanks!
Feel free to have any one interested call me with questions: 212-300-7970 (on
East coast time).
Andrea
PALO ALTO ARTS CENTER--- first two weeks in August through 14th 2015
Tinkering: Moving Art –Ages 5-6yrs Contraptions, kinetic art, do-hickeys
and thing-a-ma-bobs. This fun class will teach students basic mechanical
principles, safe use of tools, and above all inventiveness. A safe and fun
way for your girl or boy to learn basic skills and develop confidence.
Instructor is an accomplished kinetic artist.
Basic Electronics for Moving Art—Ages 10-13yrs We'll put things in motion
with batteries, motors, magnets, and more. Students will learn how to make
simple circuits for kinetic art and invention. A wonderful variety of
materials and tools will be used to construct with and explore. Instructor
is an accomplished kinetic artist.
Art & Engineering—7-9yrs Engineer art that moves. Learn how to build
working kinetic sculpture using a wide variety of great materials. Kids
will learn basic mechanical principles, safe tool use and especially
innovative thinking. Instructor is an artist and engineer."
--
Amanda Klimek
www.amandaklimek.com
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Hey folks! I've been in and out due to serious health problems, but I'm
hoping to be spending more time at the Omni soon.
However, there's one thing that's really concerning to me...
Since moving into an electric wheelchair for the most part, the delegate's
meeting is rather inaccessible. I understand making the basement accessible
would be a rather large feat and I don't expect it to be done overnight.
However, considering the delegates meetings are such a Big Deal, I was
wondering if we …
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attend.
But... Severe lack of space, Batman!
I understand the the ballroom isn't always a viable option because having
it reserved every Thursday night isn't opportune. The adjacent rooms are
too small and also not always accessible. La Commune would end up with the
meeting constantly being interrupted and the acoustics aren't great for a
meeting.
Using sudo/CCL might work (cc'ing sudo on this) but then it shuts down
sudo/CCL's ability to have events at this time *and* means people have to
stop hacking.
Another option would be to try and kind of "live cast" the meeting
somewhere else in the building that's accessible, but that brings up two
concerns: weirdly removing disabled folks from the meeting itself into a
kind of segregation, and privacy concerns surrounding recording.
Now that the delegates meeting is only every other week, maybe it is
feasible to have it in the ballroom, and then if we need the ballroom for
something else try and find another space in the building that's wheelchair
accessible before defaulting to the basement.
(cc'ing commons working group as well, and consensus)
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nice engineering student from Clemson looking for affordable hacker houses
in east bay or sf
Could anyone email me so I could pass his email to you?
the prices are quite high in Berkeley for students ($700 a month) -> does
anyone have suggestions for price friendly places in the East Bay like East
Oakland that are safe and full of cool hackers?
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:02 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Please don't do anything important until the DNS finishes propagating.
> Avoid any important mailing list messages, wiki edits, blog posts,
> etc. I will send an update when we're done. Thanks!
Ok, all should be well now. If you have any trouble please email
sudo-sys(a)lists.sudoroom.org. Thanks!
Hey all,
You are receiving this message on the sudo-discuss mailing list or because
you are listed as a member of the sudo room!
Tonight at our weekly meeting, we discussed and consented on a
clarification of our delegates to the Omni Commons for Sudo Room:
In an effort of improving communication between sudo room members and the
rest of the Omni Commons community (as well as vice-versa), please see that
the following list of folks are currently empowered to act as delegates of
the sudo room …
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- Brendan Reddy-Best b.d.reddybest(a)gmail.com
- Julio Rios julio.rios(a)gmail.com
- Matt Senate mattsenate(a)gmail.com
- Jenny Ryan tunabananas(a)gmail.com
- Yardena Cohen yardenack(a)gmail.com
If you would like to participate as a delegate for the sudo room to omni
commons, simply:
1. be a sudo room member
2. ask at a sudo room meeting, where a quorum of sudo room members
consents to this proposal
3. be added to the sudo room's omni delegates email list:
https://lists.sudoroom.org/admin/omni-delegates
// Matt
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Anyone know these folks? They are seriously kicking CCL's butt as most
popular Kickstarter to come out of Oakland right now...
Looks like it's a tiny Linux board, about half the size of a Raspberry Pi,
and much cheaper. Very slick.
They've raised $1.2M in a week so far...
Patrik
Hi all,
Bit torrent released a p2p messenger today! I know you're the type of crowd
who likes security, so I figured it'd be worth sharing.
http://labs.bittorrent.com/bleep/
Cheers,
-Adam