recall I proposed changes to our membership process in our articles of
association 7 days ago, based on a discussion with null and deilann.
We discussed at the meeting and made just a few minor changes.
Eske also edited the changes and added some clarifying language. I edited a
bit of this language, most of which is friendly to my original proposed
changes.
Here it is:
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FIm…
I hope we can come to consensus on making this change tonight.
// Matt
p.s. If you want to engage with some more radical changes we hope to make
in the coming year, please see the beginning of an entirely new membership
policy I've started here:
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FFu…
Does anyone have a chance to pick these up? I've got to be at work, but it
would be great if someone could get these. Probably takes at least two
people, and a truck.
Thanks!
Patrik
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Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:19 AM
Subject: New on Craigslist: Free Lockers (concord / pleasant hill /
martinez)
To: patrikd(a)gmail.com
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Hi all,
Expect outages to the upstairs kitchen and the stage mezzanine particularly
while we troubleshoot these two circuits.
It's possible for safety reasons power may need to be turned off to other
circuits. If so an announcement will be made.
Sorry for the late notice but it's not easy to get qualified electricians
in who will not charge an arm and a leg, so I hope everyone can roll with
this (please contact me with any questions)
David
Hullo LOL Space and Sudoers,
I write to let you all know about an unconference I'm co-organizing in
June after the American Library Association Annual Conference in San
Francisco. It's a two day event, June 29-30 at Noisebridge :)
I'm working with the Library Freedom Project, an partnership among
librarians, technologists, attorneys, and advocates to teach librarians
about surveillance threats, digital rights, and privacy-protecting
technology.
Here's our call for participation: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/?p=286
If any of you all know librarians who may be interested please share, or
if you're available to help with and of the privacy tools trainings or
have an idea for a workshop/way to help, please shoot me an email.
april(a)libraryfreedomproject.org
We're still hashing out the schedule, but we're very excited to invite
tons of local luminaries to speak on these emerging issues in libraries.
And even more stoked that this conversation is happening at Noisebridge.
We'll have skill shares, conversations on patron privacy, discuss issues
of access, radical archiving, copyright, community outreach, and more.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Monday.
All my best,
April
--
0x54FC570B
Hi! When I first wrote the email below, I figured that February 11 would
give you plenty of time to discuss and make a decision. I've been sending
things to the wrong addresses like a dork, though. So, if you can, I'd love
to hear back from you by Monday 16 February with a yay or a nay. Thank you!
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From: Lisha Sterling <lisha(a)geekswobounds.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:39 PM
Subject: Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge?
To: info(a)sudoroom.com
Hello Sudoers!
Long time no see! It's been great to watch what's been going on in Sudoroom
life, the move to Omni-Commons, the crowdfunding campaign, the classes and
all the rest through the telescopic lens of the Interwebs. I miss you guys,
though and look forward to visiting when I'm down in Oakland again.
Today I'm writing to ask if you guys would be willing to be our host site
for the Oakland site for the International Space Apps Challenge April
10-12, 2015.
My colleague Lindsay Oliver is moving down to Oakland on March 1, and since
she'll be a new local, we decided to celebrate her move by asking for the
Oakland Space Apps license. Now that they've said that she can run that
event, we need to find a site and hunt down sponsors to fund it. I thought
about a couple different possible hosts, but then it dawned on me that
Sudoroom and the Omni-Commons would be a WAY better site than any other I
could think of.
What we would would need from you is SPACE. Well,actually, we need space
and internet and electricity.
We will find sponsors to pay for food, beverages, and prizes (NB: We don't
do cash prizes. We celebrate collaboration, not competition). If you guys
have leads to help us find those sponsors, that's always appreciated, but
not at all required.
What you get: The awesomest hackathon of the year in your space, exposure
to people who don't normally show up to hackerspaces but would probably
love yours, mention in any press we get for the event, and of course,
listing as a major sponsor of the Oakland site of ISAC.
International Space Apps Challenge is a global hackathon with over 80 sites
worldwide. This will be the fourth year of the event, and Geeks Without
Bounds has been involved since the very first one. NASA curates challenges
that have ranged from jewellery making to data hacking, educational
development to interplanetary network design. There is literally something
for everyone at a Space Apps Challenge, and it is our absolute favorite
hackathon of the year. (Considering that we may do as many as 25 in any
given year, that's saying something.)
Geeks Without Bounds is a nonprofit organization fiscally sponsored by the
School Factory. We support humanitarian open source projects through a
combination of hackathons and an accelerator program where we take
promising projects through a six month series of mentorships to help them
reach sustainability. In the first year of Space Apps, GWOB ran the
flagship event at Tech Shop in San Francisco. In the second year we
organized three sites including Glasgow, Scotland and Krakow, Poland. Last
year we were involved with 5 different sites around the globe. This year we
will be organizing just two: Oakland, CA and Greensboro, NC. (Although
people that we trained up will be taking over organization of sites in
every city where we've organized Space Apps events in the past!)
GWOB hackathons are always a little different than the stereotypical
hackathon event. You can read more about our take on the form at
http://gwob.org/why-i-love-hackathons/ And because GWOB was deeply involved
in the original design of Space Apps when it first started, the global
organization shares many of our core values, meaning that if you enjoy
Space Apps in one location one year, you will probably enjoy it at other
locations in other years just as much.
We hope that you will say YES and that we can hack space with you and the
9000 or so Space Apps hackers around the world and on the ISS this year.
Please let us know your answer by February 11, so that if you are not able
to host us, we will still have plenty of time to find another location.
Thank you!
--
Lisha Sterling
Executive Director, Geeks Without Bounds <http://geekswobounds.org/>
telephone: 425-610-8636 hangouts: lisha(a)gwob.org
schedule a meeting with me <http://doodle.com/lishevita>
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Soenke <soenkeveirls(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok.
> For the record...
> If this is how you all are going to conduct ourselves, and treat each other,
> I don't really want to be a part of it anymore.
> This is absurd.
> I thought we were trying to be better people here.
> But I suppose I was wrong.
>
> Extremely sarcastically, I apologize for speaking up.
>
> Have a good weekend everyone.
Hey Korl, with nothing but respect, I was just trying to express
solidarity with Ryan without making it about you. To me this is about
having a safe space where people aren't assaulted or misgendered.
There is nothing personal against you here. I hope you can learn to
see that.
Sudoroom's values that we agreed on way back in 2011 include "safe
space over ideology". Omni's values clearly say that we center the
perspectives and prioritize the needs of survivors of assault, and of
trans people struggling against transphobia. Our safer space policy
says that we "prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged
people’s comfort."
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Associationhttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/Statement_of_Solidarityhttps://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy
I think the best thing our community can do right now is show support
for Ryan in this moment. I'm sad that we are getting distracted by
other things. Policy details have their place, but not if it just
multiplies the trauma of assault with the additional trauma of not
being fully and unambiguously supported by your community when it
happens.
At the risk of continuing a heated thread, I must repeat this: I don't
find Ryan's tone offensive our uncalled for. Ryan is speaking from a
place of vulnerability and immediate experience, and I would ask
others who are coming to this from a place of distance, abstraction
and polite discourse to please have more humility, compassion and
forgiveness towards a recent survivor of assault and of multiple axes
of oppression at Omni.
Just two days ago Ryan hosted an "empathetic listening circle" at
Omni. The idea was to be a place for people to open their hearts and
hear each others' raw words. Just listen. Without immediately replying
with advice, redirection, or contradiction. He hosted this because he
really needs that right now, and I believe many of us direly need it
as well.
Can we please have another round of empathetic listening right now,
with priority going to immediate survivors of assault? I believe that
is the key to continuing this conversation respectfully without
shutting it down entirely. Thank you.
A quick note to acknowledge Rayc for enthusiastically accepting a bunch
of stuff I brought in on Thursday (including two Apple TVs, random
packages of nails, screws, molly bolts, an electric drill that works but
is missing a chuck--I have drill bits but have to find them, etc.), and
to David B who accepted a bunch of books and some bowls (may you have
warm foods in your belles!). Also a request: if these things were not
found to be welcome and useful, please let me know. My intent was to
contribute, not to dump.
j.
I just want to point out here, in case anyone hasn't figured it out yet,
that Al Sweigart is trolling us.
Our safe spaces policies and our methods of implementing them have been
working well. Just because someone like Al wants to theorize about a
super-intelligent hyper-evil entity that would take advantage of our
process doesn't mean that we actually have that problem.
Al, you are not part of our community, in the sense of participating in
the space in a positive and caring way. Please stop inserting yourself
into our discussions.
Torrie, for you to be responding to Al's trolling as if he respresents
sudoroom in any way is extremely unfortunate. I encourage you to research
his effects on noisebridge in the past.
thank you
-jake
fwding this to sudo and cdc as well
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From: Ryan <yandoryn(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry
To: "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>, David
Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com>
Perry, who as far as I know is not affiliated with any collective in the
space, was at the Omni until late last night. He was heavily inebriated and
reeked of alcohol.
In attempting to talk with me, he got incredibly touchy-feely and further
invaded my space, getting so close that I could feel his breath on my skin.
I informed him loudly that touch needs to be consensual in the space and
that he should ask me before touching me. I told him that the safe space
policy is next to the front door and that he should read it. I managed to
get away from him, but he followed me outside.
Ribre (sp?) was outside with her guitar and he sat down next to her,
invaded her space, and tried to strike up a seemingly very uncomfortable
conversation. She told him that whatever he was talking about was something
that he'd have to deal with on his own, not with her, and that she cannot
deal with drunk men, and that they make her unsafe. Instead of ceasing the
conversation, he got closer and tried to tell her that they needed to
continue it.
He continued in this vein for a while longer, until I loudly informed him
that the conversation was not consensual and he needed to stop. He started
to argue with me, however RAYC was able to defuse Perry and lead him away
from the interaction.
I spoke to Kwe and Juul before they left, to make sure I had backup if I
needed to ask Perry to leave the building. Eventually, I was the only
member left in the building, so I asked RAYC to shut down the building for
me, and that I was only comfortable vouching for him and Nicholas. RAYC got
Perry to leave.
I spoke with David Keenan this morning, explaining the situation, and DK
said that he has spoken to Perry in the past about his behaviour,
specifically his behaviour when under the influence of alcohol. I will let
DK speak more to that.
Is anyone aware of a collective that Perry is involved with? In my
conversation with DK, he said that when he spoke to Perry he said he was
with FNB, but was probably lying, as he didn't even know where the kitchen
was. Regardless, I ask that Perry be banned from the Omni, pending
mediation, as his actions clearly violate our safe space policy and he
refused to take action to alter his behaviour.