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Bay Area Public School Meeting This Thursday 7:00pm 11/21

by niki

Hey all! The Bay Area Public School is holding a General Meeting again this Thursday in order to continue the discussion around the potential new space. At our last meeting we agreed that it was incredibly important to open up our collective conversations - we'd love to have members from other collectives engaged in investigations into the new space join us this Thursday, November 21st at 7pm in the Public School space @ 2141 Broadway. Niki

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hacker scouts new building grand opening party tomorrow

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, hacker scouts has a new building (Curiosity Hacked Oakland Lab Grand Opening Party!) at 6036 telegraph and they are having a grand opening party tomorrow from 2-5PM. the details are on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/357523141061153/ - marina

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What happened to half our books?

by Tom Fitzpatrick

A good third of the library seems to have vanished. Does any one have any ideas about what happened?

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Reminder: "Today We Learned" open co-learning afternoon from 2-5PM Sat. 11/23

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we'll be having "Today We Learned" open co-learning time at Sudo Room tomorrow from 2-5PM. Come learn and hack with us. Tiny amount of details at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned Best, Marina

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Sat. 6pm meeting to organize against Oakland's DHS-funded spy center

by John - SF Pet Sitters!

Oakland Privacy Group will be meeting again this Saturday at 6pm in Sudo Room's classroom to organize to stop Oakland's proposed Department of Homeland Security-funded spy center, the so-called "Domain Awareness Center". We had an /amazing/ show of support at Tuesday night's meeting at City Council, with more than 100 protesters showing up despite the rain and more than 80 people signing up to speak. It garnered lots of press - locally, as well as nationally - despite us only having had one planning meeting, a few days prior. I think many of us feel emboldened after our showdown with City Council and we are looking to come back 100x stronger the next time we square off with them. We'd love for you to attend the planning meeting, if you'd like to join forces or simply want to learn more about this creepy spy center. Here's a little background info on the spy center City of Oakland is trying to build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4uRpy_5V0Y http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-… http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/oakland-accepts-federal-funds-fo… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/oaklands-creepy-new-surveillance-prog… http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center Hope to see you there tomorrow! John

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Sudouino! - 1st draft PCB

by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Attached is a rough draft with a number of traces etc still to be resolved. The idea is to have 3 of the PWM pins hardwired (but easy traces to cut if you want) to 3 power output pins so it can be used to power things right out of the box, with the rest of the I/O pins terminated to holes that you can either solder pin headers through to use on a breadboard, or just go ahead and solder to the devices you're trying to run. Comments and suggestions welcome! Also looking for input on size and mounting hole spacing. Also interested in peoples' thoughts on whether to use special connectors for the I2C and SPI ports. Cheers, Hol

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Tonight at Sudo Room: Learn JS, Wireless Mesh Hack Night, Oakland Wiki Meetup & the usual hacking

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Tonight at Sudo Room we have a number of great things going on: - 7PM Javascript meetup <http://www.meetup.com/EBJavaScript/>: Come learn js with other people - everyone is welcome. - 7PM Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org> meetup: Learn about the wiki and edit with other folks who are passionate about every part of Oakland, even the palm trees <http://oaklandwiki.org/Palm_Trees>. - 7:30PM Oakland wireless mesh <https://peoplesopen.net/> hacknight: Community-run p2p wireless internet for Oakland - these folks are helping make it happen. - all night long: the usual hacking and learning that we do all day every day! Also, our friends at the Bay Area Public School will be having their Supper Club weekly potluck from 6-7PM as usual in the commons room. See you tonight! - Marina

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Missing common room fire extinguisher - come back :(

by Marina Kukso

hi all, the fire extinguisher that used to live in the common room to the left of the kitchen (near the light switches for the common room) has gone missing. our landlord is unhappy that it's gone and it makes us less safe to not have a fire extinguisher there. if you have any information about its whereabouts or fate, please let us know. and if you have it, please bring it back. thank you, marina

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nptech.io <= the social good hackernews

by Marina Kukso

hi all, i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists! nptech.io is the hacker news for social good. let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we need this! - marina

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meeting minutes nov 20 2013 - board approvals - omni debate

by Max Klein

==introductions== ;question is what is delicious? marc, ben, max, eddan, jc, tom, hol, matt, bryce (hacdc woooo!), marina (defunct web service), romy, vicky, morten (hot steel), Noel Gallo, jon from urban strategis council (mama mia cornbread) ==updates== Action items from last meeting need to be completed. ==announcements== * Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar * info(a)sudoroom.org is a public-facing email! - * If you want to receive these messages, join the list http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info - * Remember that people messaging this do not assume it will be posted publicly. Archives not public to respect their privacy. * Hamburg hosting Chaos Computer Congress (CCC) hacker convention, more social justice oriented, though there is still plenty of security stuff. Not sure if talks are posted yet. Equal parts hacking, socializing, three days, it's awesome. - * http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/ <- last years talk schedule - * https://tickets.events.ccc.de/ - * December 27th-30th, 2013 – Hamburg, Germany - * Only $100, airline now $1300. * Max is going to read a list of places and percentages. Guess what the statistics are! * Facebook post to start a mackerspace in basement of The *Buzzword* Hub: Oakland. #h#a#s#h#t#a#g#i#t#s#a#r#e#a#l#t#h#i#n#g# - * If you're interested in fielding the proposal, seeking something more like TechShop, less like Noisebridge? * Sudo room maintains a positive disposition, excited for enabling a creative community and hackerspace to flourish. ==fiscal solvency== *max comments since the treasurer of the board is the one person that takes on liability for sudo room, shouldn't that person be the exchequer with a finance committee to lighten bookkeeping. - * Only liability is whether the accounting is done correctly. Otherwise it's the general liability of being a board member. This is similar to Noisebridge. That being said, I am not a lawyer (IANAL). - * Max: It's all good. - * Matt needs to get bank accounts, Patelco and Internet Archive Federal Credit Union - * https//iafcu.org/ ==ammendments to articles of incorporation== *approve the board checb - Accepted: count 3 - Max K [treasurer], - Jenny Rcheck, - Naomi Mcheck, - Anca Mcheck, - Hol Gcheck, - Vicky Kcheck, - Matt Scheck, - Luciano onaicuL unknown human, no consensus, - Troy Mcheck, - Liberty Mcheck, - Marina Kcheck, - Julio Rcheck, - Romy check, - Marc J check - - First board retreat Jjimjilbang (찜질방) -- these are gender segregated :( - - HISTORY IS NOT EASILY OBTAINABLE - Declined: Jordan, Kerrie, Anthony, Eddan, Ryan B, Morten, JC - Nominated: Rhodey, Len, Vian, Shake, Mitch, Brendan, Faust - ==discussion== * Rackspace grant (not raytheon) - * Got a random email on info(a)sudoroom.org. They wanted info that we have since we just incorporated anyway. Marc sent in all the info. Say something if you think rackspace is wack (doesn't seem likely) or some reason not to get no-strings-attached cash. * The Omni update - Marc and Matt speak: - 48th and Shattuck - 21k sq ft - $16k/mo 2-3 years - Deposit $50k - $1.95MM sale price - collective of collectives, opportunity for community - - The opportunity on the table is to be able to engage in a lease that has a purchase option for this building. The landlord is seeking serious parties to create a genuine community space. Not anyone would - - Max dissents: - 0.6mi from MacArthur BART which means - exposing visitors to additional risk walking - further from E and W oakland, which means we will be less able to offer our services to those areas, which in turn is disproportionately affecting lower socioeconomic classes, which is against our mission. - not in downtown w/ 1st friday - more expensive and we have low finances - - Matt speaks: - Need to find bldg inspector and architect to check building - Opportunity is in having a community of other groups all in building - Find out more about guarantors, get specifics from landlord - Add contingency in purchase for permitting, inspection, etc - - Vicky speaks: - Look for welfare setup to avoid property tax - If have enough nonprofit sub-entities, can be exempt from property taxes - - Hol Speaks: - "Doubles down" on range from BART issue ie it is an issue. - - Matt speaks: - Not too into range from BART metric, many issues here, hard to find a good spot but continue actively looking for best option. - - Vicky - Discussing Rachel's thread about gentrifying effect. Temescal vs here, mugging, we have computer$ on our bodies. A business had customers robbed en route to BART. We would be perceived as gentrifiers in temescal. Would never walk down telegraph at night. - - Eddan on stack: - supports what Matt was saying, that is, not to pass up an opportunity. we said we wanted to connect with other groups. it would be valuable just to go through the research phases though. - - Vicky, - and third point. It would be a positive next step. wants to Take a step back from emphasizing the need to move. - - Matt: - I want to value everyone's participation and input. - - Max on stack: - offer to post this discussion to board and also vindicate matt - - Matt: - just make sure that this - - Vicky: - Do you feel like we are good faith collaborating? - - Matt: - Basically, yes. - - Marc: - 2 things going on. 1 is the omni. and yes its possibly its too expensive. but 2. we are increasing collaborating with other groups so that's good, it might not be the omni, but it is a good step to getting new place. - - REmote yar: - also doeSnt like tHe locatiOn but likeS the susainability part Of it - ** Sudouino* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudouino - - #*THISSHITISREAL* - - * Hol doesn't necessarily have to, but is asking to use the sudo name and such for this project. - * Marc: is it open hardware? Hol: Yes. Marc: Will chinese people suffer? Hol: No only the most local people will suffer. - ...break for bad religion lyrics: And *then* *you* *told* *me* *how* *bad* *you* *had* *to* *suffer*, *Is* *that* *really* *all* *you* *have* *to* *offer*?... - * Device has 7-pin holes, just like the sudoroom logo--it will fit perfectly! http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Logo - * What's different about this from an arduino? - * Power - * * *Aorta *(like the heart bit) Proposal - * bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum - vicky: i want that. - marina: is it free? - max: maybe. if not we can pay a bit - *marc: pay them in bitcoin - Matt will reach out to Jiwon. - - ------------------------------------ - - (^_^) // - supa-cato/ - (≧σ≦)/ - </(S) V / / * Gender and Inclusivity *collab more with rps *make a button that starts an I'm NEW HERE WELCOME ME ALARM. * Email list thoughts ** WORD of the WISE: Let's *Decode* this means, that we should help each other understand what's happening on the email list. To decode it. <- that was emphasis on the phrase, "Yep." ==conflict resolution== *nothing to do unless someone is pursuing an action against someone else and mediation has failed ==action items== * marc -- to investigate printer recoup cost * timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license * marc - tell oakland wiki folk to update calendar to every two weeks *if so, hol and max volunteer to be this first team with max treasurer and hol assistant treasurer *max to post omni debate to *mail those who were elected to board but not approved *matt to contact jiwon ===post-meeting teamups==

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