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by David Keenan

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

10 years, 10 months

unconference after the ALA in June

by April Glaser

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

10 years, 10 months

Fwd: Would Sudoroom like to host International Space Apps Challenge?

by Lisha Sterling

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! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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>

10 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by yar

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.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by yar

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_Association https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Statement_of_Solidarity https://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.

10 years, 10 months

a small, varied contribution

by J Clark

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.

10 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by Jake

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

10 years, 10 months

Fwd: Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by Ryan

fwding this to sudo and cdc as well ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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.

10 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] Proposed Safe Space Ban: Perry

by yar

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Ryan <yandoryn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a fucking woman, thank you, and when I'm sexually assaulted it > should also be easy to ban someone. For the record, Ryan, I think your tone is perfectly justified here.

10 years, 10 months

Missing Phone and Camera too

by Kazoo

Hey Omni! Thank you for hosting us last night! The event went well despite the rain:) Bad news is my cellphone (iphone4 with painting of woman case) and a small digital camera all went missing. If you see either one, please let me know. Thank you! Kazoo * I make independent media <http://www.igg.me/at/pn2015>* On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Found it! > > It wasn't in the ticket booth room, but it was lurking darkly betwixt the > two sets of doubledoors.. sneaky! > > thanks all! > David > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ru just looking for the dolly or the filing cabinet on the dolly? In >> either case I guess, I remember moving some such device to the ticket booth >> room for the White Festival event. Hope that helps. >> >> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I was planning on taking this to Reed Brothers today to rekey so we >>> could have a safe place to store our important documents and petty cash. >>> >>> However as of last night at least, it appears to have disappeared from >>> the ballroom. I have done a quick walk around the building and asked around >>> but it cannot be found. >>> >>> We really need this and that dolly, too. If someone took it or >>> repurposed it, can you please let me/us know asap? >>> >>> Love, >>> David >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >>> >> >

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