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Server racks need to be temporarily covered TODAY

by David Keenan

The roofer did not do the last skylight b/c the server rack was exposed. He is coming back tomorrow at 8am to do it, so the servers need to be covered. My reccomendation is to take a piece of plywood or one of the spare hollow core doors under the stage, and cover it with that. (It is ok to use the new, clean piece of plywood if it is not cut and we can put it back where it lives tomorrow afternoon.) The roofer also left some tarps for us in case we wanted to use those, which are left on the railing of the server platform. Please - DO NOT RELOCATE these tarps? As they must be returned to the roofer tomorrow. They can be used to cover the servers if need be - they shouldn't really go down the floor though as the servers will then overheat. I guess they can go down a bit over the cool side, but not the hot side. :) David

11 years, 2 months

Proposal for temporary tenant in one basement office

by D. Scott Nanos

Dear fam, please take a moment to consider this proposal, I really think it will be great for everyone! I'm going to add the top portion to the riseup pad later tonight. Love, Scott _____________________________________________ Proposal: To provisionally rent out the small office (closest to shattuck) located inside the basement reading room to the forthcoming music/recording collective (temporarily titled "Omni Music Project", or "OMP"), for 400$/month, which, once the collective has finished soundproofing the space, will be a common room again. During the first *3* months of tenancy (this proposal is only for a tenancy, and specific # of months can be decided before approval,) the OMP will be working, solely, on soundproofing the ballroom at no cost to the OOC, provided that the OOC pay for the materials (for the ballroom only), and that the OOC allows the OMP, at no cost, to throw a large fund-raiser concert in the ballroom upon completion, in order to help get the collective off the ground. This particular labor will be organized as the "ballroom soundproofing wg" or something similar, and will be open to any/all OOC members. The OMP also requests, as a condition to this provis. proposal for tenancy, that the OOC not rent out the rest of the office spaces, since the OMP eventually plans to use one as a control room (that can still be used for small meetings etc. by OOC members), and keep the rest as completely free common spaces (ex: classrooms for BAPS, meeting rooms, quiet rooms). It should be noted that, while keeping these spaces common, the two other offices could still generate revenue for the omni (ex: a physical therapist or acupuncturist could rent out one of the office spaces for 5 hours, one day a week. Once soundproofed, these rooms will be really conducive for prospective tenants like those mentioned above.) [end of proposal] ________________________________________________ More Information about the OMP: During these first *3* months, the OMP will have a weekly meeting devoted to figuring out the details of our internal organization, and begin planning for acoustically treating and soundproofing the basement reading room. Some things are already set in stone (to the extent that any open collective can set anything in stone): Organization: 1. this collective will be completely open. Anyone can join by *paying* monthly dues of $100 and coming to the weekly organizing meeting. In order to accommodate as many folks as possible, dues can be paid not only in cash, but in labor hours. a sliding scale of monthly dues would look something like this: (the exact numbers are TBD) 1. $100/mo and weekly meeting attendance 2. $50/mo " " + 2 hrs labor/week 3. $25/mo " " + 4 hrs labor/week 4. $0/mo " " + 8 hours labor/week labor hours that will go towards monthly dues must be evenly distributed between work for the music collective and work for the OOC at large (ex: a tier 2 member would contribute 1 hr work/week for omni and 1 hr work/week for music collective). furthermore, the OMP will have a financial aid process, so as to make the collective conducive to anyone who wants to be a part of it. Ex: if someone wanted to be part of OMP who works 40 hrs a week at a low-paying job, takes care of a child, and couldn't afford to pay any money, we would not ask them to work 8 hours a week in order to be a part of the collective. 2. In addition to paying dues, members will need to take free (and/or donation based,) classes (or test out,) in order to have access to instruments, live sound equip, and recording equip. This access structure will be split up into two groups, and members are free to be part of both groups. The first *access group* will be really easy and accessible, requiring perhaps only one free/donation class on how to wrap mic cables, properly handle amps, etc. Upon completion, members of this group will have unrestricted access to the Omni's communal instruments as well as the OMP's live sound cables, amplifiers, live mics, and can use the basement reading room as a rehearsal space (provided there are no BAPS classes, etc. that need to use room). The basement reading room will also be hardwired with two room mics, connected to an easy to use 2- or 4-track recorder, which will allow any member of the collective to make live demo recordings, on-the-fly, inside the basement reading room. This small-scale recording system will also be public access, allowing for OOC members (who aren't part of OMP) to make recordings of classes, reading groups, important meetings etc. The second group would involve access to the above but also include unrestricted access to the control room soundboard and the higher end recording equipment. This would require *5* more free/donation classes (or test outs), that would train members on recording software, hardware, and proper care of control room equipment. While anyone in the OOC who needs it (ex: for a small meeting) can have access to the control room, only people who have gone through this training will have unrestricted access to the control room equipment. The need for this differentiation in access is to ensure that expensive equipment doesn't get unnecesarrily damaged, and to allow folks who aren't interested in recording to quickly utilize everything else the OMP will offer. 3. The OMP, through BAPS, will provide *1-2* free classes that will support the development of the OMP but also be fun for everyone. One example of this will be "instrument and music/sound equipment repair" class, in which folks attending can bring in their own broken equipment to repair, or help repair lots of broken donated equipment that the OMP will need to fix in order to become fully operational. 4. The OMP plans to share all work tasks/roles between all collective members on a consistent, rotating basis. Ex: a member of OMP would be responsible for cleaning and organizing the space, then switch to bookkeeping a *week* later, then be assigned to scheduling after that. This will help to avoid organizational hierarchies and promote transparency inside the collective. 5. All profits will be shared equally amongst every active member of OMP. In addition to fundraising, the OMP will generate capital by providing recording (and possibly mastering, production,) services to bands, musicians, etc. OMP will employ a "three thirds" model for dispersing money generated from the sales of each recording: 1/3 to recording artist(s) 1/3 to a specific community service, advocacy group, non-profit, etc. 1/3 to OMP Use of Space: The OMP plans on soundproofing and beautifying the entire basement reading room and all three office spaces, which will all be common spaces, and none of these modifications will change the current functions. However, one office space, which will serve as the studio's control room, will undoubtedly be less useful to the OOC at large, due to the size of the soundboard, speakers, computers and other equipment etc, but it will have a comfy couch and be really great for small meetings, phone meetings, quiet reading, etc. The work that will be done by OMP to the basement reading room will actually improve the current functions of the space, allowing for multiple BAPS classes to occur at once (ex: one in an office, one in the reading room,) and provide more quiet and intimacy for folks wanting to use the space for meetings, reading, and working. The OMP will also build two modular bookshelves on wheels that will live inside the basement reading room. This will benefit everyone! The basement reading room will house more books, the room will be even quiter, and the OMP can use these bookshelves as go-bos (go-betweens) to use for live recording during available hours. Plus they will look super cool. A few additional bookshelves along the walls may also be added or built into the reading room, at no cost to the OOC. As far as scheduling, the OMP is confident that there will be some limited daytime hours available for recording, but, even if this can't be achieved, the basement reading room will be so thoroughly soundproofed that all recording and live music could easilly take place between the hours of 10pm-10am. The OMP will also provide the OOC with another upright piano, which will be accessible to anyone and live somewhere in the basement reading room. This will help greatly in ensuring space for OOC members to have meetings and work in the ballroom, since anyone playing unscheduled music in the ballroom can easilly relocate to the basement. In order to ensure modularity and common space in the basement reading room, the OMP will very likely need to secure a small, lockable closet in the basement. If space permits, this closet could also be used for other items, non-OMP related. Ballroom Recordings: The OMP also plans to hardwire the Ballroom for live recording at no cost to the OOC. This will be used for: 1. recording live events and concerts in the ballroom 2. renting the ballroom out for live recording purposes (non-event related) since this will be provided by both the OOC and the OMP (ballroom space and recording equip.), the OMP would like to split the money earned from these services with the OOC, at a percentage to be determined at a later date. These services will help to provide additional money for both the OOC and OMP, since, once completed, the OOC can offer to provide a HQ recording of every ballroom event, at a reasonable cost to the renter determined on a case-by-case basis (ex: cheap/free for sponsored events, more expensive for high-profile lectures and concerts). The OMP would also like to store copies of all recordings in order to start a public "Omni Sound Archive", or to provide copies of all recordings to someone(s) in the OOC interested in undertaking such a project. What the OOC gets: -Free Soundproofing of the Ballroom and Basement Reading Rooms (+ offices) [OOC pays for cost of materials for ballroom only] -additional cash-flow for OOC by offering to make HQ recordings of rental events in the ballroom -beautification and improvement of functionality of the basement reading room -2 modular bookshelves for the basement reading room -another piano for the basement reading room -free classes thru BAPS -an omni sound archive -a sheet music, music theory, and music lit. library -possibility for a radio/podcast set-up (which could still be a sudo project but take place in OMP control room) -a ready-to-use, public access recording setup in basement reading room for meetings, reading groups, classes -a new music/recording collective that ANYONE can join, complete with a fully functional professional recording studio/rehearsal space, -$400 a month starting ASAP, which will increase when the OMP eventually proposes to become a voting member of the OOC

11 years, 2 months

Please donate to Ada Initiative to support hacker and makerspace women!

by Liz Henry

Hello sudo-ers! I'm writing to ask you to donate to Ada Initiative as part of my campaign to make hacker and maker spaces a more welcoming, safe, and inclusive environment for all women! Here is my post about how Ada Initiative was a catalyst for Double Union: http://bookmaniac.org/make-hackerspaces-better-support-ada-initiative/ I respect your work at sudo room in making it a safer space for women and other under-represented people in our community. I wonder if you would like to have a look at Ada Initiative's resources? Please donate! Here is the direct donation link: https://supportada.org/?campaign=hackerspaces I am shooting for a goal of $4096 and will match the first $1028 if the goal is reached! HACKERSPACE POWER! Best, Liz p.s. Tomorrow, Wed. afternoon from 4-6pm, I am hosting a Hackability meetup at Double Union. You are welcome to come by! We are going to test drive a prototype WHILL powerchair, talk about our wheelchair and mobility/accessibility hacks and modifications, and make plans for future hack days to work on our accessibility and mobility related projects. http://doubleunion.tumblr.com/post/97665817909/sept-24-4pm-hackability-meet… -- Liz Henry lizhenry(a)gmail.com "Electric ladies will you sleep or will you preach?" -- Janelle Monae "Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ

11 years, 2 months

DK's phone = perma-dead

by David Keenan

very cool looking obliteration, but in case anyone needed to get ahold of me I wanted everyone to know that my phone is no more. Extremely smashed-o. I'll letcha know when I have a new one. I'll be at omni tomorrow afternoon on through the evening. Love, love love d

11 years, 2 months

skylights in Bocce ball court

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Surprise, surprise - the skylights in CCL are already done! So much for making sure everything got safely moved to the side... Patrik

11 years, 2 months

Proposal: quiet time reading group (free of internet)

by Romy Ilano

Hi, I read an article in the newspaper about the popularity of reading groups. Their focus is on reading a book/pdf/print for a focused 30 minutes. No internet surfing, no computer monitors if possible (unless you're reading an ebook). I'd like to do something similar at SudoRoom. Is anyone interested? It could be for 30 minutes this Thursday evening from 6:00-6:30pm. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 2 months

robot wants a router tool so it can carve wood

by Jake

the robot was asking me last night "when can i start carving statues out of wood? or at least carve SUDOROOM into a piece of wood?" i answered, sadly, that i didn't have a router for it to use. But maybe one of you robot-lovers wants to get it one? This would be ideal: http://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DWP611-Torque-Variable-Compact/dp/B0048EFUV8 it also doubles as a human-usable tool. I don't know if we have anything like this already but if not, let's get something. I already wrote a program to write SUDOROOM with a sharpie, we could just use the same program with the router to carve pieces of wood... -jake

11 years, 2 months

robot hacking - help crack the code!

by Jake

brendan and I have been working on a python program to pretend to be the disk drive of the robot (which connects to it over serial) the hope is to be able to save and load programs from the robot to a normal computer, like the 3d printer (to which it is presently attached) i hooked up a logic analyzer to spy on the conversation between the robot and its disk drive, and the results are here: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/floppy-loadafile.logicdata there are other .logicdata files in there too, some don't have the session configured to decode the serial data (4800 baud, EVEN parity, inverted) you can read the analyzed data with Salae Logic, a free download. OR just read the python program we wrote: https://github.com/jerkey/yasnac/blob/master/src/engine.py on line 36 we answer the robot's request to LST the files by sending the following text: (in the program it's constructed from two strings) "\x02\x13\x00LST0001123.JBI \x00\xfc" this works (the robot responds with ACK) but it we change ANYTHING it doesn't like it and says NAK NAK NAK i thought the last byte would be a checksum, but the whole thing does NOT add up to something divisible by 256, and furthermore if I change the file name (123.JBI) to 124.JBI AND change the last \xfc to \xfb, it fails - which means it is not using a simple checksum (right?) help figure this out! we need to be able to send the robot arbitrary filenames and have it accept the packet (and then we can start sending the program data) -jake

11 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omnilogistics] Stage Lights from CR Event

by Danny Spitzberg

I'll be there at around 1pm and can help as much as I can... any clues/descriptions of the lights/boxes? On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:59 AM, <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey friends!! > > I haven't heard anything from anyone re: the stage lights that CR rented > that > have gone missing. > > Will someone be at the Omni today who can help Jess locate them? > > She will be there in an hour (I am stuck working in SF so can't be there). > > N >

11 years, 2 months

Latin America Tech Meetup Inaugural Event

by Mitch Altman

SF: Latin America Tech Meetup Inaugural Event Tuesday, September 23, 6:30pm to 9:30pm Featuring several interesting tech folk. FREE WeWork Golden Gate, 25 Taylor St. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/latin-america-tech-meetup-inaugural-event-sf-t…

11 years, 2 months

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