Yes, we probably should start thinking about some of these things. I'm
CC'ing sudo as well, since they may be able to help out with some of the
technological solutions.
A couple ideas I've mulled over in the past:
- Tags for equipment that shouldn't leave the building, a scanner at the
door that can detect them when they do, and a camera to record who's taking
it through the door. Could be combined with Marc's inventory system, of
course. (And could also be used to check out tools …
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- Motion or IR controlled lights to discourage stowaways (would need to be
sufficiently hard to disable). Plus maybe an overview panel (physical or
online) showing where and when movement was last detected in the building,
to assist people in closing up for the night.
- Lights illuminating the new bike parking when it gets installed
- Indoor bike parking with some form of access control (swipe card?)
- Equip outside doors with an alarm that starts beeping when the door stays
propped open for more than x minutes.
- How much video surveillance are we as a community willing to tolerate? Is
there an acceptable tradeoff between enhancing personal and property
safety, and respecting privacy? A static and well-advertized camera trained
at a piece of valuable infrastructure may be OK. A building-wide
surveillance system that can track people from room to room with facial
recognition presumably isn't OK. Can we agree on where that boundary lies?
- Put up signs to remind people that they are being video taped from the
apartment building across the intersection. That's a useful PSA for our own
community anyway.
Patrik
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Stan Osborne <stan(a)ana.com> wrote:
> Is it time for a physical security working group? If such a group was
> active, I would want to participate.
>
> The rate things are disappearing seems to be increasing. The addition of
> outside bike racks will advertise to the public the OMNI is full of
> laptops, smart phones, etc. leading to more visitors being her to case the
> place. Sometimes things are removed by friends who 'borrow' them with
> the intention of returning them, (This is less frequent than people
> dropping off stuff we don't need.)
>
> If anyone is interested i working on deterrence mechanisms, warning signs,
> vigilance training, a log of missing items, etc., let's find a time to
> meet regularly.
>
> Stan
>
>
> On Wed, December 3, 2014 9:38 am, Stephen Novotny wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Darin Bauer, a FNB volunteer, sent this message this morning:
> >
> > Im a food not bombs volunteer. My green REI bivi bag was likely taken
> from
> > my bags in the backroom today off of my bicycle. I was downstairs most of
> > the day. Im homeless jobless broke and have only recently returned from
> > being in the southbay for a couple of years. Can you give a heads up
> shout
> > out or something ? Im bunkered with the UCB tree camp right now , 2morrow
> > who knows... peace ... we need the rain i need my. Bivi...
> > _______________________________________________
> > discuss mailing list
> > discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org
> > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/discuss
> >
>
>
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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:38:07 -0800
From: Casey Callendrello <c1(a)caseyc.net>
To: noisebridge-announce(a)lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: [Noisebridge-announce] SDR Newbie Pre-Meetup - Dec 11, 7 pm
Hi, All.
Software Defined Radio, or SDR, is opening up the world of RF to a whole
new cadre of hackers. Now we can build new demodulation schemes with a
few mouse clicks, and explore a new kind of hidden world. People with
SDRs have done exciting things like decode GSM, track commercial
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On Wednesday, December 17th, Balint is running the inaugural San
Francisco SDR Meetup at Noisebridge. This promises to be an *awesome*
event. He is a pioneer in the field, having done a ton of work to unlock
the possibilities of SDR. His previous meetup, in the south bay, was
packed (20 people alone were streaming it)!
The week before, on *Thursday, December 11th*, I'll be hosting a more
informal gathering for people looking to enter the world of SDR. You
should attend if you'd like to learn the absolute basics. If you buy a
SDR before the meeting, we can help get it running. We'll talk, also,
about what SDR devices are doing and why they're different from the
radio in your car / boat / stereo bike.
Even more awesome, everyone who attends with the proper hardware will
leave with a working SDR setup, ready to participate in the following
week's meetup.
What should I do? Glad you asked! Easy!
1. Buy a SDR. The ones listed here are $20 and available on Amazon
Prime: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/
2. Get a job at a tech company. Whine until they give you a fancy
thinkpad or macbook. Install Linux or MacOS. Quit. Don't give the laptop
back.
2. sudo {apt-get yum port} install gnuradio gqrx rtl-sdr
4. Lastly, read some Things on the Internet:
Quadrature Signals: Complex but not Complicated:
http://www.dspguru.com/sites/dspguru/files/QuadSignals.pdf
The GnuRadio Tutorials:
https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Guided_Tutorials
Balint's SDR labs: http://files.ettus.com/tutorials/labs/Lab_1-5.pdf
See you all next Thursday!
--Casey
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Hi All,
I am a Sudoroom member, but due to involvement in a project have not been able to come to the Sudoroom since our move to The Omni. Hoping to come down soon, but noticed a post by Marc Juul to Niki about a solved card-swipe problem.
Does entry to the Omni now require use of a card? If so, how would I get one? If not, and numbers are pressed in, are the old password numbers still valid, including the universal one?
Would hate to come down and not be able to gain entry. Someone please …
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Best to everyone,Ira Brightman
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Dear Friends :
La Commune is thrilled to announce our first annual
Holiday Party & Bazaar
Saturday, December 13, from 12 noon to 6pm !
We will have food & drink available, & we'd love to work with other Omni collectives to set up a crafts bazaar like the ones we all remember from when we were kids.
We'll cap off the night with a book release party & poetry reading for the SF press Solar Luxuriance.
More details forthcoming -- till then, please save the date & drop a line if …
[View More]your collective would like to help with the bazaar, sell something, or know someone who might!
Love -- David Brazil (for La Commune)
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Hello sudo,
This is a little short notice, but I was hoping to host a village craft workshop this Saturday 5-7 pm, at the sudo room. I tried to put it on the calendar a couple weeks back, but Matt said it was broken or something... Please let me know if there are any conflicts, and I'll try to find another room. And please do attend the comics workshop if you're interested! The text of the invite is below.
~~~~~~~~~~
Hi everyone!
We're having our first comics workshop this Saturday (dec 6th)…
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Bring your sketchbooks, story ideas, favorite comic books and zines to share.
We'll kick off our first workshop with a brief demo where I spill the beans on how I make comics, start to finish.
Then we'll bind our own specially formatted half-letter size sketchbooks, to set you up for easy self-publishing.
Finally, we'll turn you loose to play drawing games with each other, discuss your stories, and browse through comic books + zines!
ALSO! FYI, on the very same day, Berkeley City College is hosting the "East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest," where you can get a taste of the bay area's vibrant zine community. I highly recommend going to the Zine fest before our workshop.
more info on the zine fest:
http://www.eastbayalternativebookandzinefest.com/EBABZ%20About.html
Hope to see you all on Saturday!
Stoked,
PX
Sent from my iPhone
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Hey sudo ers
Imagine a sudo room where you'd want to sit and hack for hours. A sudo were
you'd want to have enlightening conversations for hours. Read, Build, Saw,
Hang out.
All this can become a reality... if we change the damn lighting!
Is anyone interested in doing something about the slightly depressing
lighting in sudo?
I am. I think that if we change the lighting, it will be a small revolution.
It would be cool to be a group of fabulous people working on it!
I imagine that LED lights …
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could also scatter some smaller & cute directional lights here and there.
Let's start a light revolution thread!
<3
Noémie
--
Noémie Serfaty
108 rue du Faubourg du Temple
75011 Paris
Tel: 06 27 76 88 84
Tel: 01 71 50 51 82
noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com
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https://sudoroom.org/wiki/SudoKit
I'm working on an open sourced learning kit that's more physical than strictly digital
It will help people learn how to use the Sudoroom creatively . I'll be asking people for tips and contributions because I don't know anything !
That's sort of good because having the eyes of s beginner is good for teaching but it means asking a lot of questions
Sent from my iPhone
Hi Helen,
the truth is that there is no one in charge of the sewing machines, and if
you feel qualified to work on them and improve them, you should go ahead
and do that. If you can document what you're doing, it will help if you
can either do that on paper by the machines, or preferably by editing the
sudoroom wiki. If you are not familiar with Wiki editing, there are
people who can help you get started with that.
I brought in the Embroidery machine, and I know a little about how it
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all the machines working just right.
Note; one of them is a button sewing machine. I think it was mistaken
for a serger (which we do not have, but we want) so I am hoping it can be
returned and we can get a serger instead.
Also we have a very nice "juki" sewing machine that is apparently missing
its oil pan. I think oil pans can be made out of sheetmetal, or bought on
ebay, but anyway that machine would be a good replcaement for the older
machine on the wooden table, if we can get it to work better than that
one.
thanks you for your help!
-jake
On Fri Nov 28 Helen wrote:
Hello, I recently was invited to sudoroom to check out the sewing machines
and have tinkered with them a little bit. I've identified some problems,
missing pieces, etc. and want to keep working on/with them, but I'd like
to talk to anyone else who has used them or whoever brought them there. I
look forward to meeting y'all and I'm excited to get involved with the
space.
- Helen
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