Hi all..
I know there hasn't been much activity on this thread, but I was wondering
if I could up the ante. Because sometimes, life's just like that.
Would we (sudo) be willing to entirely host this event? Without BAPS..
I ask because the event's organizers would really like for there to be a
simple donation box somewhere off to the side in the space, for folks to be
able to donate directly at the event. This money would go to Oakland's
Anti-Repression Committee and National Lawyer Guild's Legal Workers (the
non-lawyer workforce part of the NLG).
Within BAPS, there has emerged some reservation amongst organizers that
having any other group (that is not BAPS) accept donations at an event BAPS
hosts, might abrogate our statement of financial principles that there be
no solicitation at the event. There's a confusion here that can't work
itself out until our next general meeting at the earliest, which isn't for
a while, and in the meantime.. the event needs to be promoted and have a
home that is assured.
So having Sudo solely host this event instead of BAPS, would solve a real
headache for us.
Are we down for this? I've already set the speakers and logistics up.. we
just need a home, and hopefully, be able to put it on Sudo's facebook.
alla best,
David
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:05 PM, johanna faust <female.faust(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> i agree awesome idea. and second the mention. keenly watching this
> thread.
>
> On 2/2/14, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jeremy - Of course! And we should.
> >
> > what does the rest of sudo think?
> >
> > On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Jeremy Entwistle <jwentwistle(a)cryptolab.net
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I think that's an amazing idea. How to do you feel about the mesh and
> our
> >> cryptoparty (2/23) being mentioned? As both are very practical methods
> of
> >> promoting secure and decentralized communications.
> >>
> >> On 2014-02-01 21:58, David Keenan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey all,
> >>>
> >>> The Bay Area Public School has scheduled a surveillance awareness
> >>> event on Friday 2/21 7-9pm in the common room entitled Spied Upon:
> >>> Surveillance & Resistance. I was hoping we (sudo) could co-host this
> >>> event with BAPS, because I think it'd be really cool if we start doing
> >>> more events together. BAPS can do most all of the setup, but it'd be
> >>> great if Sudo can do outreach too, since I think it'd be in the
> >>> interest of both communities.
> >>>
> >>> What do you think?
> >>>
> >>> There's a twofold focus on informants and technological surveillance.
> >>> Here's the Sudo Room calendar EVENT LINK [1]. Details are below -
> >>>
> >>> SPIED UPON: SURVEILLANCE AND RESISTANCE
> >>> Join us Friday February 21st 7-9 pm at the Bay Area Public School [2]
> >>> & Sudo Room
> >>> 2141 Broadway (enter on 22nd), Oakland - three blocks from 19th St.
> >>> Bart!
> >>>
> >>> Between the ever-present fear of informants to the profusion of
> >>> metadata collection and the construction of the Domain Awareness
> >>> Center [3] (DAC) in Oakland, the growing problem of surveillance has
> >>> made it into the mainstream dialog, but the people and communities
> >>> most affected are sometimes being left out of the conversation.
> >>>
> >>> Join us for an evening of ideas, discussion and questions about
> >>> solidarity in the face of this intimidation. How do we support one
> >>> another and our movements when being targeted by police, surveillance
> >>> and informants? What are the legal, community and political responses
> >>> that can best keep the larger "us" safe and allow our movements to
> >>> flourish?
> >>>
> >>> - SPEAKERS -
> >>> JASON KIRKPATRICK, filmmaker and activist, will show clips of and
> >>> discuss his upcoming film, _SPIED UPON_ [4]. Interviewing activists
> >>> across the world and telling his own personal story, Jason will take
> >>> us on a journey into one of Europe's biggest political surveillance
> >>> scandals, documenting growing movements of resistance to surveillance
> >>> along the way.
> >>>
> >>> ZAHRA BILLOO, Civil rights attorney and Executive Director at the Bay
> >>> Area COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS [5] (CAIR), speaks on the
> >>> use of informants in a post-9/11 context, their impact, the
> >>> community's resistance and lessons learned.
> >>>
> >>> RICHARD BROWN, Black Panther and member of the SF8 [6], will share his
> >>> history with undercover police and surveillance, imparting the 'long
> >>> view' of solidarity learned from a lifetime of activism.
> >>>
> >>> - PANEL DISCUSSION -
> >>> Q & A with the speakers will follow in conversation with
> >>> representatives from:
> >>> BAY AREA ANTI-REPRESSION COMMITTEE [7]
> >>> BAY AREA COALITION TO STOP POLITICAL REPRESSION [8] (at AROC)
> >>> LEGAL WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD [9] (NLG)
> >>> OAKLAND PRIVACY WORKING GROUP [10] (OPWG / anti-DAC)
> >>>
> >>> All donations gratefully received will go to the Bay Area
> >>> Anti-Repression Committee and the Legal Workers at the Bay Area
> >>> chapter of the NLG - two groups long supporting the Bay Area radical
> >>> community with legal and educational assistance. Thank you!
> >>>
> >>> Links:
> >>> ------
> >>> [1]
> https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/spied-upon-bay-area-premiere-baps/
> >>> [2] http://thepublicschool.org/node/36455
> >>> [3] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
> >>> [4] http://spiedupon.com/
> >>> [5] http://www.cair.com/
> >>> [6] http://www.freethesf8.org/who.html
> >>> [7] https://oaklandantirepression.wordpress.com/
> >>> [8]
> >>> http://araborganizing.org/campaigns-our-work/coalition-
> >>> to-stop-political-repression/
> >>> [9] http://www.nlgsf.org/national-lawyers-guild-mission-statement
> >>> [10] https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> >>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
> >>>
> >>
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> >
>
>
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>
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Join us for a night of statistics and machine learning for all levels of
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Greetings,
Tony here, visitor to SR several times now, most recently this Wednesday
night + Thursday morning. Wednesday evening (Jan. 29) in the vicinity of
530pm (PST) I swapped my unworking Dell Latitude D531 laptop for an even
older, yet reportedly functional Dell laptop with a gentleman whose name I
was told, & promptly forgot. I wanted to inquire, since I was unable to
come back to SR Wednesday night after my Spanish class as I had originally
promised, whether said gentleman was able to get the D531 working, & also
to let him know that I left a dock intended for use with said laptop in
the Sudo Room closet Thursday afternoon. Or, rather my friend Carl left it
there as I had to leave that morning before anyone w/ a key arrived to
open the back hack-chamber.
Please feel free to get in touch with me at this e-address
(longshanks(a)spaz.org).
Thanks & congrats on the great space-in-progress!
T.
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Not all who wander are lost.
Hi All,
One of my friends is building a company which is utilizing computer
vision/ml to transform biomedical research. Theyre funded and looking to
bring someone in with experience in computer vision/machine learning, is
anyone interested?
I've cc'd Joe in this email who's the hiring manager.
Ryan
At some point when I am able to walk again we have to recreate this amazing
Hungarian Bubble Sort Folk Dance during a SudoRoom meeting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4
WE MUST MAKE IT HAPPEN.
I'm sure the biohacking people could also suggest creative dance
performances simluating mitosis, meiosis in a way that is not sexually
offensive and PG-13 for children to watch too.
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Free Montgomery is an amazing organization that builds shelters for the
homeless and paints them beautifully. They do this from recycled building
materials... they're so neat!
They are having a benefit concert February 15th at Ground Zero in West
Oakland.
https://www.facebook.com/freemontgomeryart
Coming Soon To "Free Montgomery West Oakland".
Playing a benefit BluesFor the Homeless.
The "See Them Support Them" Concert.
The Great Fillmore Slim, Bobby Spider Webb
And The Free Montgomery Blues Band.
All to help and Support the Homeless....
When?....Saturday The 15th of Feb.
at 8pm @ "Ground Zero" 16th & Campbell St,
In West Oakland.........................................................gO!
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romy(a)snowyla.com
Hey all,
A few of us are planning to clean the space tomorrow, if you can lend a
hand at any time, during the day, or either before or after the meeting
(starts at 7pm or so) would be excellent.
On the table:
* Fridge
* Radio Room
* Tool wall and workshop corner
* Closet organization
* Removal of excess furniture
* Etc
Love and solidarity,
Matt
Hello all-
Is anyone interested in more brain-control hacking on McHawking (or wheelchairs in general) on February 22nd?
Emotiv is hosting a hackathon specifically for EEG control of wheelchair, to benefit a young man in Malaysia, named Albert Wong. Venture Beat has even covered it:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/20/wearables-with-a-purpose-emotiv-rallies-t…
We've been getting contacted a few times about it and are hoping to attend. I did the original hack with Jake back in 2010 at Noisebridge:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Controlled-Wheelchair/
And of course followed up this past August when McHawking was moved to Sudo Room. Here's the wiki page:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/McHawking_Robot_Hacking
I'd be curious if anyone else would like to attend and collaborate.
I guess the second (and bigger) question though would be how would people feel about loaning out McHawking for the day? It looks like the event is being held at 875 Howard Street:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/designathon-for-the-emotiv-insight-wearable-eeg…
Anyway that decision is of course up to members and I wouldn't feel comfortable unless at least one member was in attendance too! I'd be willing to spring for a van rental (or whatever was necessary for transport, BART might even be possible if the batteries are up to the distance).
Curious to hear everyone's thoughts and feedback.
Cheers
Steve Castellotti