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.
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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
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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
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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
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service for you, but we failed. Sorry. :-(
Our backup plan is PayPal. To maximize the chance that you receive
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Please update the PayPal address on your Gratipay settings page as
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Balanced shutdown yet (due to its repercussions for us), it's a big
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As always, feel free to reply here privately, or join our public
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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!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
that's a great drawing!
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> 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.
>
Okay, cool, we will come on Tuesday.
Mike and I talked about meeting there the earlies possible, he mentioned
even 4pm would work for him. But, I have to confirm the time to him on
Tuesday, since I don't know how early I can leave from work that day.
I will try to message the list, so you know.
Thanks,
Daniel
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Lesley Bell <zvezdalune(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, 5' should be long enough. I'm planning to be at Sudo Tuesday for
> hardware hack night, so I could be there if he came in the evening.
>
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