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by Jake

I guess the ban is formally "dissolved" by decree of the Executive Director, after a threat not to talk about the ban, along with instructions not to talk about the dissolving of the ban. Sudoroom, please lets have a meeting and talk about what is going on. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 11:34:50 -0800 From: Jamal Taylor <lemmeeducateyou(a)gmail.com> To: jake(a)spaz.org Cc: Paige P <pgeplan(a)gmail.com>, maydayjt(a)riseup.net Subject: Re: Temporary Ban from Omni Commons Good morning, After a few conversations I have informed the board that it is my position in the role they have asked me to occupy that it is your right to have a full response and a list of the complaints. In that regard, and given the nature of the complaints a full investigation will take place. This will take time and a series of conversations with those that have made complaints against you and a review of emails and messages that have been sent. Once that fact finding is completed you will be given a notice of the complaints and an opportunity to make your responses. You may not interfere with the investigation in any way, nor may you attempt to unduly influence board members or witnesses. Following your written response, after the notice, I will review the facts and inform the board and you of my dispensation. Once this action is complete you may appeal my final dispensation to the board. This notice is not a public notice, nor is it a tool to generate any additional controversy. The ban is dissolved with the stipulations set forth above. Have a great day! On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 6:38 PM Jamal Taylor <lemmeeducateyou(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Good evening, Jake, > > I want to take the time to send this correspondence to invite you to make > time to speak with me if you need more clarity on this decision. > Accountability can feel dysregulating, sometimes confusing, and emotional. > We want to make sure that you feel supported as you engage in much needed > reflection. In the face of the serious nature of complaints that have been > made against you it is imperative that you sit with the fact that these > events noted have not been isolated, nor or they limited to one person. > > Additionally, it has been brought to my attention that there are a series > of emails going back and forth in your collective. The email that I am > responding to has also been shared with an entire collective. I want you to > reflect and think about what goal you had in sending this message rather > than reaching out to me or a member of the board. Did you think it showed > that you were reflective of the decision that was made? I want to mention > that not only is this counterproductive, but it distracts from the ability > of the organization to focus on the pressing matter of foreclosure. This > self-centering behavior that invites additional conflict into this space is > unwelcome and quite frankly is not indicative of an individual that has > stopped to think what additional harm might be caused. I invite you to > truly think how you are continuously centering yourself and quite frankly > consuming valuable space for healing. > > As a final thought I want to mention very directly that sending messages > inquiring about who made decisions relative to your behavior, to an entire > collective, is counterproductive and borders on retaliatory conduct. I also > want to name that additional accountability action will be taken where > repeat behaviors occur during this ban. I say with a spirit of sincerity > that love is liberatory, and I am happy to meet and chat with you in that > spirit. I am happy to walk you through what might also help to lessen the > time period of the ban. Feel free to reach out. I would once again admonish > you to discontinue retaliatory or harmful behaviors that may in fact > continue to perpetuate a cycle of harm or distract from the business of > focusing on foreclosure. > > I wish you a season of reflection and healing. > > Jamal > > On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 1:04 PM <maydayjt(a)riseup.net> wrote: > >> Jake, >> >> Yesterday's Omni Commons delegates accountability meeting voted to >> temporarily ban you from all communications and access to Omni Commons >> for a 3 month period (effective until March 7, 2024). >> >> This decision was made given a history of harm, including >> conflict-escalating behavior, disrespect, racist comments, and a lack of >> accountability. Your behavior has been unacceptable, and mediation >> sessions with you have been ineffective. >> >> If you choose to participate in an accountability process until >> resolution, we will welcome you back to the space after the 3 month time >> period. We will follow up with you on this process. >> >> In the meantime, we offer you space to sit with yourself, and >> self-reflect on harm done. We hope you come back with a commitment to >> listen deeply and learn from complaints made rather than acting >> defensively. >> >> We appreciate all the work you have done here and hope you do the work >> required to be a part of this community. >> >> To schedule a time to collect belongings, or if you have further >> questions you may contact Jamal. >> >> John Torok >> Liberated Lens Film Collective delegate >> On Behalf of the Omni Commons Delegates Assembly >> >

2 years, 1 month

1/5/24 Accountability Meeting 6pm - 9pm

by Z Silver Zahn

Reminder this upcoming Friday all members of collectives are invited to a facilitated accountability meeting. January 5th, Friday 6pm to 9pm at Omni Commons. YOU’RE INVITED : We are hosting a huge meeting again for all members and collectives to talk about what is not working and how we can move forward with making our decision of how we will move forward with our upcoming foreclosure. We can also move forward talking about our status of boycott and talking about the harm we have caused and received at Omni Commons. Omni has invited you to join a video meeting on Google Meet. Join the meeting: https://meet.google.com/des-hkce-hof Dial in (audio only): ‪(US) +1 567-334-1148‬ PIN: ‪934 912 442#‬ Other numbers: https://tel.meet/des-hkce-hof?pin=5240178658114 [image: Omni Commons (1).jpg]

2 years, 1 month

Fixit Clinic at Hayward Library Saturday 11AM

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: We’ve got a Fixit Clinic this Saturday (Jan 13) at the Hayward Main Library: can you coach people trying to repair? Sign up at http://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup. WHAT: Fixit Clinic MLIX (1059) USA-CA-Hayward Hayward Main Library WHEN: Sat, Jan 13, 2024 11AM to 2PM WHERE: 888 C Street Hayward, CA 94541 https://www.hayward-ca.gov/public-library https://hayward.librarycalendar.com/event/fixit-clinic-13312 https://www.facebook.com/events/872188044562622/ - It’s our inaugural Fixit Clinic at this beautiful new Library that opened in Sept. 2020. - We’re graciously hosted by Fixit Coach extraordinaire (and now, Hayward Librarian too!) Sandra Stewart. - The City of Hayward has a free parking garage right behind the Library and it’s a .25-mile walk from Hayward BART. This is another in the network of ongoing in-person repair events throughout the SF Bay Area: we can and should promote and encourage people to keep repairing through Sudoroom / Omni Commons on Tuesday evenings. Sign up at http://bit.ly/inpersoncoachsignup so that we can have lunch for you. And if you know anyone else who would make a good Fixit Coach: bring ‘em along! Hope to see you Saturday, -Peter Peter Mui @ Fixit Clinic www.fixitclinic.org - Fortifying joyous, resilient communities through all-ages do-it-together hands-on fix-n-learn community disassembly and discovery 408 647 5790 fixitclinic(a)gmail.com ======== P.S.: There’s another Fixit Clinic at the Redwood City Library the following Saturday (Jan 20): https://www.redwoodcity.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/72825/2638 …and at the Millbrae Library Sat Feb 3: https://smcl.bibliocommons.com/events/65876ebdb6d9893800850f44 Hope to see you at those too. P.P.S.: Join the Global Fixers Server on Discord, an online resource for knowledge sharing and training amongst repairers where we broaden skills, share skills, cross-train, and bring items we’re struggling to repair on their own: follow the instructions in this Google Doc: https://bit.ly/joinglobalfixers -p

2 years, 1 month

Re: Temporary Ban of Jake from Omni Commons (fwd)

by Hilary Naylor

I agree with Andrew. Jake has always been responsive and helpful to me. I can't believe such allegations about someone like him. Hilary --- Original Message --- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 15:55:52 -0800 From: Andrew Werby <awerby(a)juxtamorph.com> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Temporary Ban of Jake from Omni Commons (fwd) To: sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org This is total crap. Jake is the heart and soul of SudoRoom, and I really don't think he's a "racist". It looks like Omni is circling the drain, and Jake's been one of the few clear voices trying to salvage the situation. But it looks like the "collective" would rather engage in fruitless internal conflicts than pull together and figure out a solution to Omni's problems. If this stands, I'm gone, and I doubt I'm the only one. AW --- Hilary Naylor, Ph.D. www.a2zed.us Oakland CA

2 years, 1 month

Can we veto bans?

by Romy Ilano

There are many who disagree with most of the Omni bans but we usually don’t have a voice because we don’t have time to sit through meetings and are just making stuff Could we call a quick counter ban meeting Thanks, Busy making and doing Sent from my iPhone

2 years, 1 month

hey sudoroom! let's dance together!

by Romy Mimi Ilano

https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/01-05d.html <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/01-05d…> I'm turning 48 - you're all invited to hang out at goth event Dark Sparkle (it's only $5) at DNA Lounge Friday night! Hoping to introduce tons of SudoRoom and Noisebridge folks to each other and be way more social this year!!! I'm making a resolution to reach out to people more, socialize more with folks, connect people I know. I dunno why I haven't been doing it lately. it makes sense!!!!! Hope to see you there! *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>*

2 years, 1 month

Updated invitation: Omni Commons Accountability Retreat *Reminder* @ Fri Jan 5, 2024 6pm - 9pm (PST) (sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org)

by Z Silver Zahn

This event has been updated Changed: title Omni Commons Accountability Retreat *Reminder* Friday Jan 5, 2024 ⋅ 6pm – 9pm Pacific Time - Los Angeles Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ztn-tmqk-rpk?hs=224 A retreat organized for accountability & visioning.We are hosting a huge meeting again for all members and collectives to talk about what is not working and how we can move forward with making our decision of how we will move forward with our upcoming foreclosure. We can also move forward talking about our status of boycott and talking the harm we have caused and received at Omni Commons. The meeting can be hybrid but we encourage people to show up in person.https://meet.google.com/des-hkce-hof Dial in (audio only): ‪(US) +1 567-334-1148‬ PIN: ‪934 912 442#‬ Other numbers: https://tel.meet/des-hkce-hof?pin=5240178658114 Organizer Z Silver Zahn natashazahn27(a)gmail.com Guests Z Silver Zahn - organizer admin(a)sketchboardco.art jacqigalea(a)gmail.com consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org patrikd(a)gmail.com yardenack(a)gmail.com pgeplan(a)gmail.com maydayjt(a)riseup.net xuplankton(a)gmail.com ebfnb(a)lists.omnicommons.org epikurewicz(a)gmail.com sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org wevebeenwaitingforus(a)gmail.com pallavi.kidambi(a)gmail.com atallam(a)gmail.com admin(a)sketchboard.co lathag1350(a)gmail.com arg5029(a)gmail.com aidanhill(a)protonmail.com arnoldoga(a)gmail.com blue393(a)lmi.net cclarent4799(a)gmail.com daniel.g.tutt(a)gmail.com hefinkel(a)gmail.com jcocasiojr(a)gmail.com jharrison(a)thevillageoflove.com joshhubbard997(a)gmail.com junenelsonx(a)gmail.com lemmeeducateyou(a)gmail.com m.ni.sidach(a)gmail.com Nancy K qeazye(a)gmail.com rcm00189(a)gmail.com romy(a)snowyla.com ronwei(a)yahoo.com susansilber07(a)gmail.com theresa_halula(a)yahoo.com Tuan Nguyen guqinone(a)gmail.com View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NmIzdDgzMGQ5dHQ0… Reply for sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NmIzdDgzMGQ5dHQ0… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

2 years, 1 month

Old crusty repo for a SudoRoom visual novel game

by Romy Ilano

This is an ancient repo about 11 years old. But why not resuscitate it? I moved it to the sudoroom github : https://github.com/sudoroom/SudoRoomRenPyGame Anyone willing to participate? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 1 month

meeting notes + other announcements

by Paige P

Hi Sudo Room, Here are the meeting notes from last night https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2024-01-03 A few things we forgot 1. We forgot to discuss the media lab proposal. Jake shared the email thread, but here is a direct link to their proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PT-IinygR9IsPa7GP-XbtZQwwAAdVt0suNMw0Om… There shouldnt be a vote today, but this delegates meeting is a time to ask questions and make comment or requests on it before voting the week after. If you have questions please forward them to Eric and/or me for the delegates meeting. 2. mentioned in notes but reminder there is an all hands meeting tomorrow https://sudoroom.org/lists/hyperkitty/list/sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org/thread… 3. Also there is a maker fare at Omni on the 20th, Sudo room was asked to table! Theyre also taking calls for other people who want to table or perform: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1mCqsFrrmi/ Easy ideas I was thinking is showing off our modular and visual synths. Or running a fixit clinic in sudo at the same time? Please send ideas and availability to help at the event.

2 years, 1 month

Meeting tonight at 8 PM

by Andrew R Gross

Hey! Do we have a meeting tonight? I'm planning to come at 8 PM since this was when we've done them in the past. Is anyone else planning to be there? I'm going to repost a proposal I introduced in a separate email: " *I would like to submit a proposal: I think Sudo Room should hold elections for a "board of responsibility and limited power" in late February.* Our meetings are frequently long, disorganized, and acrimonious. We have no meaningful systems of accountability. We experience the same challenges with effectively organizing ourselves and finding consensus again and again and again. And I think in this context, we should go back to basics. Most organizations use variations on the same structures: a few people are selected by the collective to assume the primary responsibility for key functions like running meetings, maintaining infrastructure, providing a key contact for member concerns and arbitrating disputes and allegations of violations of a code of conduct. I think it's somewhat quixotic that we as a group persist in using unconventional tools that have consistently failed us (catastrophically, imo) in our attempts to execute Sudo Room's statement of purpose. I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'm not proposing that we discard our ideals of horizontal power distribution. I think the elephant in the room is that we don't have a horizontal power structure. A few people hold the power to assert their will unilaterally, and most people only have enough power to derail a meeting, but not enough to bring it back on track. Perhaps if we rebuild trust and teach more people how to make themselves heard, a board will become unnecessary and we can effectively execute the vision that we're unsuccessfully trying to execute now. But I think it is long, long past time to actually make substantive changes to how we operate, and agreeing to have a consistent meeting chair and a membership coordinator, etc. selected by the collective sounds to me like simple common sense. *This proposal is now open for discussion at tomorrow's meeting (Weds. 1/3) and ongoing discussion and revision. If there is no block, it becomes eligible to be accepted at our February meeting on Weds. Feb. 7.* *"* *Andrew R Gross, (he/him)* 412.657.5332 - shrad.org <http://www.shrad.org>

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