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Gym equipment needs to be re-packed up, covered and removed

by David Keenan

Hi, someone unpacked the gym... I realize this is not obvious to many but for liability and consensus reasons we can't have the gym set up in a useable state. It was agreed that this equipment would be removed from the premises but that has still not happened.. it is just being stored, and hopefully, removed soon. I appreciate that someone wanted to set it up but please, put it back in a compact area and put the tarp back over it.. Contact me if you have any questions.. Best, David

9 years, 8 months

Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge?

by Lisha Sterling

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, I like to think that this event is pretty awesome whichever site you may go to. 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>

9 years, 8 months

netroots nation scholarship

by Praveen Sinha

Yo, I think it's important to prove folks like Bill O'reilly right and that the democrat party really is full of anarchists. Here's a scholarship for netroots nation conference in glamorous Phoenix http://www.netrootsnation.org/bnrapp/

9 years, 8 months

Calendar Display Project

by Phebe Polk

Hello, A project that I had wanted to build for myself, is a wall mounted google calendar display. At first I thought that I would need to work it out from scratch but then I googled and found that someone had already done it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Wall-Mounted-Google-Calendar/?… I would love to make one for the Sudo Room / Omni to display the Omni Calendar. It is important for people who visit during the day to be able to know what events are going on. I think it would increases the community involvement with the space. We could even set it up to alternate display of the calendar with posters from the different groups or a short comic explaining the safer spaces policy. The items listed for making this are: Equipment you will need - Home network (wireless if you can't run a cable to the Pi) - Raspberry Pi (I've used the model B) - SD card 2GB or larger - AC Adaptor (I used a USB wall charger for mobile phones check here http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#Power_adapters) - Micro USB cable - USB keyboard and mouse - USB wireless adaptor (MAKE SURE IT IS COMPATIBLE OUT OF THE BOX http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters) - HDMI cable - Wall mountable HDMI capable monitor or any monitor with some kind of HDMI converter - Wall bracket for your monitor I know that some of the things donated to the space are available for projects like this one. Are the monitors available for use? Is there any extra / leftover Raspberry Pi's? I am willing to buy/ dumpster dive for items that are needed for this project and not already in the space. I just want to start by asking what is already here that I can use. If you want to build this with me, then send me an email. Phebe PS - The Aperture Science sign someone was building looks really cool. I would love to talk to you about how you made it.

9 years, 8 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Saturday Space Availability (This Saturday)

by yar

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Alice Rosenthal <beehappysolutions(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My son’s best friend (Phoenix) is turning 9 in a couple of days and his mom (single, in school, no money) planned a Lego Building Birthday Party at a park this weekend but weather forecast predict rain for Sunday afternoon - all the invitations are out for 2 weeks so the date is in all the kid’s parent’s planners. She told me last night she is going to cancel the party because of the rain but I suggested that she might consider having it in the Omni - Ball Room or Basement or some room that is not in use. Hi Alice, if you look at the calendar, Saturday in the ballroom is pretty booked already: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/ I'm also not sure what our legal/insurance status is for entertaining large groups of kids. Copying the kids mailing list.

9 years, 8 months

David T showed up at the Omni today

by Ryan

Taller Ryan handled it well and awesomely. Major props to remote-Jenny, too. David T approached the smoking area today where Niko, Rachel, and myself were smoking. He asked Rachel for a cigarette and if the Omni could help him. Rachel gave him a cigarette and started asking him what kind of help he needed. He started expressing how he wasn't doing well, kind of like interfacing with reality stuff. I was pretty sure I knew who he was, but made sure, asking him his name. I asked him if he knew he was banned from the Omni. At this point, he said yes. I let him know that included the smoking area, so he was going to have to smoke the cigarette elsewhere. He seemed non-receptive to this and didn't move. I let him know that if he didn't leave, I was going to have to get some more folks. He said that someone had told him that he could come back now. I told him that's not true, and that he is still banned. He also expressed that he felt like he was having to "jump through a ton of hoops" and was questioning why he even came here. I went and got more folks. I started by coming out with one. He had still not left. I expressed to him again that he needed to leave and got no response. More folks started trickling out slowly, and Taller Ryan got pretty proactive and awesome, trying to help him through the process. In many ways, he seemed to be stalling, although I could not hear all of the conversation. Taller Ryan got in contact with Jenny, who had sent him an email on January 8th, which he has not responded to, about starting mediated conflict resolution. Niko and Laura pointed out to me that he never made it onto the bans page, which I have since rectified. He was not physically threatening, but he certainly would not have left without backup. Here is a link to the discuss thread of the incident which led to his ban: https://omnicommons.org/lists/private/discuss/2015-January/001498.html I have attached a picture of him. I do not foresee this being a continual issue. Just documentin'.

9 years, 8 months

notes from impromptu "Improving membership" discussion

by Matthew Senate

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Improving_membership Please add any notes if you have them. To review, we have a three-pronged approach: 1. Immediate hacks that can drastically improve the membership process 2. Changes to policy / definitions of membership 3. Building new systems e.g. https://github.com/sudoroom/sudo-humans to enable a more streamlined process that is not currently effective or possible. // Matt

9 years, 8 months

Saturday Space Availability (This Saturday)

by Alice Rosenthal

Hey Guys & Gals, My son’s best friend (Phoenix) is turning 9 in a couple of days and his mom (single, in school, no money) planned a Lego Building Birthday Party at a park this weekend but weather forecast predict rain for Sunday afternoon - all the invitations are out for 2 weeks so the date is in all the kid’s parent’s planners. She told me last night she is going to cancel the party because of the rain but I suggested that she might consider having it in the Omni - Ball Room or Basement or some room that is not in use. I thought this would be a really good opportunity for Omni exposure to people (parents) who might not otherwise get their butts over to the Omni. Also the kids could have a significant positive life long influence. About a week ago, I brought my son Aidan and Phoenix to the Omni. They played the video games on iPads quietly until Jake invited them to operate the Robot Arm. They had a blast. It it is possible and works with Jakes schedule I am sure the kids would love 60 seconds each spinning the knobs on the Robot controller. Now that I think about it - the boys were pretty jazzed about the 3D printers as well. This could be a real opportunity to teach novices how to write code for 3 D printing - my husband would show up for that. Ok - enough with my enthusiasm for having a kids b’day party at the Omni - what about getting the go a head from the people who say “yes” or “no”? Phoenix’s mom want’s to know who she has to talk to - to see if she (1) can use some space in the Omni as an alternative location if it indeed does rain on Saturday. Please contact me by phone (Alice 415-272-0596) or Sujata by email. I have no idea who to ask about using these other spaces. I guess you could send me a link if there is one location to check out overall scheduling for difference spaces at the omni. Thanks for reading. Alice the beekeeper PS did you guys hear that I am teaching an Intro to Beekeeping class at Counter Culture Labs on Sunday 2/15/15? 1 pm-4pm

9 years, 8 months

Standing vs sitting?

by Steve Berl

Wasn't there a discussion a few months back about the proper posture for pissing? https://news.yahoo.com/tenants-may-pee-standing-german-court-181317571.html -- -steve

9 years, 8 months

RAYC's membership

by Torrie Fischer

Hei, sudo room. I want to avoid as much conflict as possible here on discuss@ so I'll state up front that I would really rather folks talk to me in person or off list in response to this. I had every intention of coming to Sudo last night as I infrequently do to see whats up and hack on things and spend more time in the space. My knee disagreed to I went home instead. Had I made it I would've certainly blocked RAYC's membership. I plan on showing up at Sudo Room next week to have a legitimate block in person since phoning it in as I'm doing in this e-mail is bullshit and we all know that. I would appreciate it a bunch if others were around to hear me elaborate about my principled objection and give feedback if it has any standing. I also don't think its all that excellent of an idea to try and discuss this on a wednesday night when folks want to just get together and be positive, so I'll certainly be making more of an effort to be at the space before then for discussion. Again, I'm not going to respond to this on the list but feel free to poke me off-list or AFK :)

9 years, 8 months

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