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Fwd: [Wikimedia-SF] CC Salon in San Francisco Thursday, March 27: free culture and social justice

by Marina Kukso

FYI! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kat Walsh <kat(a)mindspillage.org> Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:06 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] CC Salon in San Francisco Thursday, March 27: free culture and social justice To: San Francisco Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org> https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42332 CC Salons are coming back March 27! Come join us: Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:00 - 7:30 PM PST Cafe Royale, 800 Post St, San Francisco, CA >… [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Move cleaning weekend to 29-30

by Yardena Cohen

I formally propose we move cleaning weekend to the 29th/30th. The Public School was going to host a talk in our common area on Saturday night, the 22nd: "Sylvia Federici and George Caffentzis on Capital, Labor and Reproduction at the Bay Area Public School" Because of our landlord's rave plans, they had to find another venue. So it's going to happen 7pm at the Omni. The "Collective of Collectives" is going to use this as an opportunity to introduce more people to that building earlier in the … [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Fwd: Now accepting proposals for Open Source Bridge 2014!

by Jenny Ryan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Open Source Bridge" <info(a)opensourcebridge.org> Date: Mar 13, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Now accepting proposals for Open Source Bridge 2014! To: "Jenny Ryan" <jenny(a)thepyre.org> Cc: Submit your Open Source Bridge proposal today! View this email in your browser<http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=46d72c6c2733a75b61cfcf5ad&id=293aeaf32f…> Submit your talk proposal today! We're thrilled to … [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] $ sudo reboot

by Yardena Cohen

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > Also relevant to reboot and an ongoing concern of mine - the shop area. Is > it big enough to be useful as a shop? How does it compare to other > hackerspaces? Does it need to be co-located with the main space or does it > make sense to have it offsite? If we added a satellite workshop somewhere > else, would the space be more usable for other purposes and make moving > everything less of a … [View More]priority? Thanks for asking this, Hol. I've been sad about the shop area for a while. Some parts have been getting some love recently, and I'm very happy about that! Other things have disappeared and become harder to find. My last straw was last night, when one of our community members came by with a simple need, to file and hacksaw something. We found one very large file but not the smaller file we used to have at some point. We could not find any hacksaws at all. I know we had some before. It felt very symbolic. How can a hackerspace not have a hacksaw? We literally cannot hack! Personally, having all of these different elements in one physical space greatly increases the value of everything. While he was visiting he told us about the exciting solar panel project he was working on, and found potential leads for writing controller software for it. This was a conversation that wouldn't have happened if the shop were offsite, and I can't help but wonder how many more of these interactions we miss out on, by not having a good enough shop area. While there are challenges to having sawdust and metal shavings in the vicinity of laptops and food preparation, I think it's well worth meeting them. Noisebridge has a wonderful shop area - at last month's reprap building party, Miloh showed me some wonderful tools that had stayed around since 2008! All they had to do was enclose it. I think for our new space, an enclosed work area is a must. I'm afraid of sawing anything at Sudo because it commits me to then spending 10 minutes trying to track dust down behind a thousand nooks & crannies. And I'll still never get it all. People who came just to hack on some Javscript will leave coughing and rightfully upset. We took the cheap-upfront route, and we've been in debt ever since. Another example: our particle-board floor has been a huge limitation. I can count a number of projects, including a metal-printing one, which didn't happen or moved elsewhere because you just can't do it safely over our floor. It's unsanitary, a dust/germ/toxin magnet, hard to sweep, hard to vacuum, hard to find things you drop, easy to dent... We could learn something from Double Union, a space that recently opened in SF. When they rented their room, the very first thing they did was tear out the carpet and seal the floor in hard resin. Imagine the pain we would have avoided if we'd done that in our current "Art Studio"! Well worth the money, IMO. Which, speaking of money, my observation is that a lot of people who were involved in Sudo's early stages - 2011 & 2012 - were hoping for the fab & maker angle, and were disappointed by our meager facilities and started putting their money & energy elsewhere. I think reaching out to this crowd should be a component of our reboot. Our values and energy are so important - let's try this again. :) [View Less]

11 years, 2 months

#FreeBassel Day SF Event this Saturday @ Wikimedia

by Stephen LaPorte

Greetings Sudoers, This Saturday, March 15, is a #FreeBassel <http://freebassel.org/> Day event in San Francisco at the Wikimedia Foundation offices. If you don't know Bassel Khartabil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil> (known online as Bassel Safadi): he is an open web developer and dedicated Internet volunteer who has been imprisoned (without charge) in Syria since March 2012. He was Creative Commons lead in Syria, played a large role in the translation of CC … [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Fwd: [sudo-info] invite to tweet at #radicalcolophon + open mic event on friday!

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: anna moreno <contact(a)annamoreno.net> Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:10 PM Subject: [sudo-info] invite to tweet at #radicalcolophon + open mic event on friday! To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hello everyone, My name is Anna Moreno. I am an artist from Barcelona, Spain. I am in SF now, I have been invited by SFMOMA to make an edition of my project Radical Colophon for the symposium Visual Activism. It will take place this weekend in the Mission. My … [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Sudo Room WordPress social networks blast! + PAGE NOT FOUND :[

by Vicky Knox

I love it! That said, does someone know how to fix the PAGE NOT FOUND that shows up in the "Social" plugin on the WP? If yes, could you show me how? THX!

11 years, 2 months

Things that happened at tonight's meeting

by Yardena Cohen

* The landlord's rave plans for the 22nd are looking like a more serious conflict than we thought. We floated the idea of postponing this cleaning weekend to the 29th/30th, but haven't made a decision. * On the next First Friday (April 4, 8pm-2am) we have the opportunity to share the space with a fundraiser for TWAC, "Trans & Womyn's Action Camp": https://twac.wordpress.com/ They'll have a pay-what-you-can policy, it will be compatible with our values and with the open-house component of … [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Join BORDC & EFF for a screening of: Terms & Conditions May Apply

by David Keenan

Wish I could go, but y'all should! My/our comrade Matt Kellegrew is panelling. Should be good! [image: Bill of Rights Defense Committee] This Thursday, March 13, come out see BORDC Legal Fellow Matthew Kellegrew and EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman discuss civil liberties after a screening of the groundbreaking documentary <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4taIHAaLdKE>*Terms and Conditions May Apply <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4taIHAaLdKE>** <https://www.youtube.com/… [View More]

11 years, 2 months

Feminist 3D printing art project

by Vicky Knox

Anyone familiar with this art project? I pulled the link from the Strike Debt Party email I just sent to the list, and PMd the sender seeing if they knew about us or Double Union. http://wemakemeteorsnotmoney.tumblr.com/

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