Hi there,
I'd like to propose a meeting of the new board of directors at Sudo
Room. We need to have a meeting in order to finalize our board
nominations and approve various steps in moving forward with becoming a
federal non profit.
If you are or you believe you are a member of the board please fill out
this poll to find a time to meet.
https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/2015_sudo_board_/
If you have a list of current board members, please share it asap!
All the best ever, April
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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
Hi all,
I just threw several dozen bottles and cans in the recycling bins. If
someone wants to pick them out and cash them in, feel free!
There's a big blue recycling bin in CCL that I originally bought because
the Fermentation Station said they wanted more bottles. But inevitably, I'm
the one who winds up having to empty and clean that bin every week anyway.
So - IT'S FREE SEASON ON EVERYTHING WITH A CA REFUND VALUE! If the
Fermentation station empties the bin in CCL, that's great. If someone else
wants to come empty it on a regular basis, that's just fine with me too.
Just don't leave a mess for us to deal with afterwards. Please put all
non-refund recyclables in the small recycling bins, and all non-recyclables
in the black trash bin.
Thanks!
Patrik
I just saw these and thought they were pretty cool:
Google cardboard (https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/). Low tech
virtual reality glasses assembled by cardboard. They can be bought from
google or the designs can be printed out, assembled DIY.
- Louis
All electrical appliances (toasters, microwave, hot water maker) in the
kitchen have been temporarily moved to Sudo Room, following the electrical
breaker powering the upstairs & la commune tripping with increasing
regularity.
This circuit powering the kitchen used to be on breaker #8 of the subpanel
in Rise Above (west wall), now it is on #7 moved by Steve Bloom. Unfo it's
now tripping way more than it een used to before, and hi-amp appliances in
the kitchen such as toasters etc almost immediately trip the circuit. At
this point this is a hazardous condition and an electricians are being
called to try and resolve this.
Please do not put any of these appliances back into the kitchen circuit
until this electrical problem has been addressed. And contact me if anyone
has any questions. Thank you :)
Best,
David
Anyone interested in reaching out?
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Date: 2015-02-05 15:35 GMT-08:00
Subject: [sfchalkboard] Your awesome organization + my awesome student...
To: sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net
Chalkmeisters!
I have a handful of motivated, fantastic high school students from Richmond
who need to find a one-week internship / work shadow experience in an
organization or company in the first week of April. Makers, designers, bike
mechanics, social justice-- would love to expose them to something beyond
Citibank and Sephora...
Get in touch if you work somewhere cool and would be willing to share it
with a teenager.
Lizzy
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Hi all,
I removed a space heater found in the upstairs 'treatment' room and stowed
it below the stairs in the bunker room. Please everyone, do not connect any
space heaters upstairs, or any high-amp-load device upstairs. For now the
circuit has been left off pending a qualified electrician visiting.
As stated in my email, this circuits powering the upstairs rooms currently
has issues, is currently tripping constantly and any high-amp device sets
it off.
I also think there maybe should be no space heaters in omni, they suck an
incredible amount of electricity. I would rather we run the furnaces. There
is for example a furnace in Sudo/CCL that has never been turned on.. What
do people think about no space heaters?
Best,
David
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
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>