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by Ben Burke

Hello, David and Alice have found a way to get us a free replacement compressor for the walk-in freezer at omni. But the way involves manual labor and we need your help. We have to help remove the replacement compressor and the entire walk-in that it is currently attached to from a bar in San Francisco. David, Joe, and I helped Alice with it today. It will require at least 4 more hours of work. If you are available to help tomorrow (the 23rd), please let us know. Sorry this is so last minute, but we do need your help. Thanks, Ben

11 years, 10 months

Invite: ArtBuzz Games (Thursday) & LAST Expo (Weekend)

by Danielle Siembieda

Hi Art/Tech/Science Folks - I wanted to share with you two last minute events the end of the week. Would love to see some of you. THURSDAY ArtBuzz: Games about the Art World6:30 - 9:00 Betti Ono in Oakland (BART friendly)Basically these are drinking games for the art community to laugh at themselves. Free if you use my code DanielleFriend THURSDAY - SATURDAYLeonardo Art Science Technology (LAST) ExpoThe Lab in San FranciscoHighlight - Symposium Saturday 10/25 2 - 6 pmSpeakers' biographies: Chris McKay, Bruno Olshausen, Christine Peterson, Charles Chiu, Piero Scaruffi Introduction by Leonardo ISAST 2:45pm Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Institute for Neuroscience) on Neuroscience 3:30pm Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on Nanotechnology 4:15pm Charles Chiu (UCSF School of Medicine) on Infectious Diseases and the Ebola epidemics 5:00pm Piero Scaruffi (Author) on Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity2:00pm Chris McKay (NASA Ames) on Space Exploration and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Anyways, I hope you can make it! Please share with your communities. Best, Danielle Siembieda siembieda.com

11 years, 10 months

Job at Exploratorium: Afterschool Tinkering Educator & Research Assistant

by Vicky Knox

omg! Deadline is Halloween! http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/jobs/afterschool-tinkering-educator-rese…

11 years, 10 months

embroidery sewing machine needs needles

by Jake

we got the embroidery machine working!!! it's totally awesome. tl;dr we need needles! who will order this ebay item? http://www.ebay.com/itm/25-MEISTERGRAM-INDUSTRIAL-EMBROIDERY-MACHINE-NEEDLE… it takes a little coordination though, because it's an industrial sewing machine with a clutch pedal to engage the motor - and it's very powerful. So it will sew very rapidly and you have to steer the needle around the pattern at a rate matching the sewing rate. it's kindof like driving a ferrari in that way. anyway, it came with a single needle and it is broken now. We need more needles!!! we have plenty of everything else. it uses weird needles - they are the normal length (1.5") but their upper shank is 1/16" diameter which is smaller than standard sewing machine needles. http://www.sewingmantra.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sewing-machine-needl… the machine is a Meistergram model M'100 and it uses the same needles as the M700 / M800 like the ones in the ebay item are for. if you order these needles, write to the list so we don't end up with 50, although i'm sure we'll need them if we use it enough. -jake

11 years, 10 months

Massive LED Project at Noisebridge needs your help!

by James Sundquist

Dana and I have a grand idea for setting up easily programmable LED displays at Noisebridge in a massive matrix. What we need are donations of panels, which will be purchased and shipped by Mitch on his China trip. See our nicely organized wiki page for details, source code, and more info. https://noisebridge.net/wiki/LED

11 years, 10 months

Please update your address information on hackerspaces.org

by Robert Chu

It still reflects the old address. Thanks, cheers, and HAX THE PLANET!!! - RAYC _ RAYC .. RAYC P.S. Also plan on syncing to work on the eeg in the near future. :D

11 years, 10 months

Board Meeting: Monday Oct. 27th, 7pm

by Vicky Knox

The results of the poll are in! Please bring a snack to share! :]

11 years, 10 months

stuff.sudo - TAG ALL THE THINGS!

by Marc Juul

Our inventory tracking system is now up and running again! Go to: http://stuff.sudo Create labels by filling out the form and hitting "save and print" (remember to look at the preview of the label before printing, you have to manually hit enter in the description textbox to create newlines). Stick the label on the item, and you can either scan the QR code to go to the item's wiki page, or look at the ID on the printed label and for e.g. ID 42, go to: http://o.sudoroom.org/42 When you print a label it will come out of the label printer next the the wooden 3D printer. If it doesn't work, ensure that the label printer is on (it should have a green light) and connected. The software has been updated to the latest codebase so it should crash less and will automatically restart if it does crash. The code is here: https://github.com/sudoroom/labitrack Unfortunately (or fortunately) our old database was lost in the mists of moving (or maybe it wasn't but I couldn't find it) but the wiki pages remain, so it should be easy enough to create redirects. -- marc/juul

11 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Backspace Space proposal

by yar

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's not your fault, it's not anybody else's fault either. I really > hope the confusion isn't interpreted as bad faith or a lack of > support. We all need to get better at that, of course, but also get > better at forgiving each others' mistakes, in the spirit of jubilee. I want to just reiterate this in light of the past few days of conversation. I have heard a lot of different narratives about what happened with Backspace over the past few months. I don't claim to know exactly what happened anymore, but it seems to boil down to a huge string of communication failures that resulted in Backspace paying for space to operate, yet having no space until now. At Thursday's meeting, the subject of past-due utility bills came up, but it seems apropos to mention that lots of Omni groups have not paid utility bills, or even rent, and one of the amazing potential things about Omni is our capacity to be a non-evil landlord - each according to their ability and their need. It's clear that most backspace folks are WORKERS whose primary concern is being able to see their clients and students and make a living wage. It's also clear to me that the primary benefit of having Backspace at Omni is NOT the money they'd bring in, but the new people, energy and perspectives. It would REALLY SUCK if we lost all that by fighting with them over money. Other than money, the only other concern I'm hearing about this proposal is about space. While I have expressed concerns about "enclosure" in the past, Backspace's plans for the den or "storage room" are NOT enclosures. They're stewardship of commons. This is exactly the model I always dreamed of for our building! Finally, there's BAPS. I think it might help to separate BAPS' pragmatic need to host many evening classes from BAPS' position as a roving "nomadic" group without dedicated space, and both from the concept of "enclosure". Because it seems to me like Backspace's pragmatic needs are similar to BAPS - to assemble in spaces and occupy them for a finite period, for classes and 1-on-1 sessions. So what are the ways we can frame this as a collaboration rather than a competition? I think these problems would get solved a lot faster if we were all able to trust each other, the best path to building trust is for Backspace to begin operating at the Omni ASAP, and the best way for that to happen is to show support and forgiveness all around. Thanks.

11 years, 10 months

Dustin

by niki

A fellow named Dustin has been spending the last several days hanging out all day in La Commune. I talked to him today and explained that we're not yet open and that, while he's here, he needs to either be vouched for by someone who is a member of a member collective or attending an event or otherwise involved in work related to the Omni. I told him that I was leaving at 7pm and he'd need to find someone to vouch for him at that time or else he'd have to leave. He said ok. I mentioned this to him again around 7:15 and he said that someone at Sudo said he could be in the building until 10pm. I told him that this was not the case, and explained again our pre open to the public access policy. He walked away from me saying "You're the only one who has said that to me." heading back inside the building. He said that "the guy with dreadlocks" told him he could hang out here. I went and got Chris B and Mary from CCL and we approached him together. Chris told him that he wasn't vouching for him and that he should leave. Mary and I both told him that we'd be open to the public eventually but that we just are not at the present moment. He left and said he wasn't coming back. Just sending this email so it's on the record. I'll try to add to the wiki, as well. Niki

11 years, 10 months

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