What do you all think?
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From: *Nevada M.*
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2013
Subject: [!SUDO-INFO!] hosting benefit for legal fund?
To: "info(a)sudoroom.org" <info(a)sudoroom.org>
HI there,
I'm one of the folks organizing support for the two people who are facing
felony charges after the Trayvon Martin demonstrations this summer. We're
looking for venue where we might be able to host a benefit dinner + movie
showing, and somebody mentioned that I …
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they thought you all might be down. Is that something that you all might
be willing to host? We're putting together this effort on pretty short
notice, and we're hoping to have the event on the 15th of this month, but
if that date won't work for you all we'd definitely love to talk about
other dates, too! Thanks very much,
Nevada
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Hi,
I've never been to sudo room before, but I've heard great things about it, most recently at the East Bay Anarchist Book Fair and I have some math and programming reference books that I'd love to donate if you're interested in them.
Can anyone let me know if someone is there to let me in right now, or will be within the next hour? If not, can you let me know when would be a good time to drop by?
-Alex
For everyone who has been hearing this talk about getting an LPFM lisence
for sudoroom (which would be absolutely impractical, impossible and
inappropriate) you can stop wasting your time by acknowledging one fact:
the LPFM rules currently require "2nd adjacency" meaning there have to be
at least two empty notches on the radio dial (each odd tenth is a notch)
it is _possible_ to apply for a waiver of 2nd adjacency, but the only way
it is accepted is in extreme circumstances where there …
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overlap in an UNPOPULATED area. This does not apply to the bay area.
If you want to read about it, here's the link:
http://home.recnet.com/lpfm-second
there are zero FM slots in the greater bay area without a 2nd adjacent.
as someone who has helped several LPFM stations get started and stay on
the air, and who personally lobbied the FCC for the Local Community Radio
Act, I can tell you unequivocally that even if there were a frequency open
for sudoroom, we would be very foolish to apply for, let alone accept,
such a thing.
i really don't want to talk about it so please don't reply to me.
thank you
-jake
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https://sudoroom.org/social-web-alterna-verse-ideas-and-ramblings/ (please do feel free to edit and improve =)
Greets.
As a continuing learner of all things HTML, CSS and web design, usability and UX (User Experience analysis and UI User Interface design related) I wanted to post about a couple interesting web server and communication projects being developed in the aether:
Lorea.org ( http://lorea.org/?page_id=43)
N-1.Cc ( https://n-1.cc/g/hacklabs ) n-1.cc/g/lorea,
Pump dot io: a …
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Ideas about our organizing and collective democratic workplace . I.e. Pay model and work / class share model equality work place safe and equal profit sharing suggestions:
No BAWC http://nobawc.live.radicaldesigns.org/article.php?id=35
" The organizational materials include bylaws and policies from democratic workplaces. The purpose of this collection is to help existing and start-up democratic workplaces develop their structures by providing real-world examples from other democratic workplaces."
I am a single entity (one person) who also happens to work on designs that aren't just for "non profits" or social "change" yet I envy / would like to replicate the egalitarian profit sharing structure of such entities as the cheeseboard collective in berkeley, the Arizmendi Bakery in oakland and the Design Action.org organisation in Oakland: http://designaction.org/services/
I was also doing some research on Grassroots Economic Organizing vis a vis a model of structural worker bees (technology workers union, wobblies or IWW) and or a labor pool of skilled, willing and eager and fun and friendly workers who know tech and can also do skilled work (that pays) without a boss/ employee hierarchical structure:
these are some other ideas that I found:
http://www.geo.coop/about
"Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) is a decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots activists working to promote an economy based on democratic participation, worker and community ownership, social and economic justice, and ecological sustainability--a "solidarity economy"--through grassroots journalism, organizing support, cross-sector networking and movement-building and the publication of educational and organizational resources. Since 1991, GEO has edited and printed a bi-monthly publication called GEO Newsletter, providing news, analysis and an open forum on grassroots organizing to build and finance worker- and community-owned, democratically run, solidarity-based, ecologically sustainable enterprises and organizations. In 2007, due to the increasing challenges of print publication and our desire to reach a wider audience, we shifted to an all web-based publication here at www.geo.coop. GEO is a founding organizational
member of the Data Commons Project, a collaborative effort to create a shared, public database of the cooperative economy in North America"
The replication of Arizmendi:
http://www.geo.coop/replication-of-arizmendi
"steps : )
1)Establish an organizing group. This group will facilitate replication, but will not necessarily own the developed cooperative. In our current case the organizing group, the DSC, started as a volunteer study group. The DSC still works only part time on development, as our financial capacity to start a new business is not constant. One of the four of our current group has worked in a member bakery; the others have legal, financial, and organizational expertise.
2) Choose a business model to replicate. This involves not only choosing the right cooperative business, but also convincing its members to allow you to replicate it. What's in it for them? Would the replication compete with their business? Would it increase their visibility and therefore revenue? Is there any financial return? In our case the Cheese Board had the financial strength to request very little in return. The creation of more democratic jobs did align with their values, and the Association can now offer support services to them, but their willingness was primarily an act of solidarity and generosity. For other replications, including future business models the Arizmendi Association may pursue, the organizers may not be so lucky."
p.s. please accept my lack of proof reading as it's late and I have alot of ideas i just didn't want to throw away in the browser cache also: I wanted to share this and open the discussion up. Also : I have some minor ideas for weekly music/dancing/fund (FUN) raising ideas that would highly supplement the living and working stipends of those involved in the entity that is SR as it is and help ease the financial pinch of the Cost of Rent and Cost of Exisiting in DT Oak. (email me off list for a suggested idea and proposal).
Cheers!
Signed,
-Onaicul :o)
-"perhaps the only chance for the survival of humanity is the cultivation of subversive thought"
https://sudoroom.org/social-web-alterna-verse-ideas-and-ramblings/
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Running a listserv is a completely thankless job.
You're just witnessing how giovanni_re/john fastmail/john/john regan works. I don't think
he's a bad person. He's not assaulting anyone. He is genuinely excited about computers
and Linux and communities and free software. His usual mode is he joins a free culture/
community/open source software community mailing list, and then every few months or so
starts cross posting interesting links or forwarding emails from one list to the other,
no …
[View More]editing, just WHAM here read email from this other place, not realizing that if someone
wants to read email from the other mailing list, they would just JOIN that mailing list,
no need to forward it. He's been doing this for over 10 years. He'll be doing it
long after sudoroom is gone.
You usually don't notice what's happening because he's on a LOT of mailing lists, and annoying
each of the mailing lists is a lot of work, so he doesn't get around to forwarding stuff
to your mailing list until about a month in the cycle.
Sometimes he gets super excited about something ( RADIO! ) and starts concentrating on
your particular community, and boom you get the 10 emails in 1 hour problem you just saw.
Unknown how to properly deal with him. People don't join his list BerkeleyTIP so he feels
the need to branch out. Personally, I think it would help if he fixed the links on his site
that are broken and updated and are over 4 years old now. That would be a great start.
John, you have a perfectly good wiki over on BerkeleyTIP. You could update it with spectrum FCC
radio announcements. You've been trying to get inspire Noisebridge and Sudoroom to grab
some spectrum of their own. Getting your website in order would be a good start.
Best
Lovelle
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Get your own ILoveBeer.ca email, <yourname>@ilovebeer.ca!
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Hey all,
I'm working with Yusef (Andre) cc'd to host an informational meeting about
Timelist Group and their work supporting currently incarcerated, formerly
incarcerated, and families to break cycles of recidivism.
Check out the event on the calendar:
https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/timelist-meetingtraining/
Please join if you're interested, and contact Yusef directly if you'd like
to learn more.
// Matt
I'm working on a scale model of the Gale Crater on Mars as a volunteer for
Chabot Space & Science Center. It's going to show the Curiosity Rover (MSL)
landing sight, where it has travelled, and where it is headed.
I'm making the model by stacking up layers of 0.1" chipboard sheets topo
map style. Once it's built it needs to be painted to look like Mars.
I'm color blind, so probably not the right guy to do this finish work.
Also, don't have any experience doing a realistic looking …
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Anyone out there interested in helping?
--
-steve
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