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SPECIAL BAPS MEETING THIS THURSDAY, 11/21, 7PM @ 2141 Broadway

by DZ Brazil

Dear Friends : At last week's general meeting, the Bay Area Public School collectively decided to pursue the possibility of a new permanent physical location, in league with Sudo Room, Counter Culture Labs, and Timeless Infinite Light. This space is presently known as THE OMNI. We also decided to have a special meeting this week to further discuss this space. This meeting will take place this Thursday, November 21, 7PM at 2141 Broadway. All are welcome, so please join us to discuss this exciting prospect ! See you Thursday -- Love -- David

12 years, 2 months

GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY! OAKLAND IS NOW THE MOST EXCITING CITY EVAR! =) mor than 9000 agree! ?

by spectral imix

sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came In November 1945 German Pastor Martin Niemöller visited the former Dachau concentration camp, where he had been imprisoned from 1941 to April 1945. His diary entry about that visit and some subsequent speeches he gave imply that that visit triggered the thought that became this famous quotation. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm Was würde Jesus sagen? -- What would Jesus say? http://www.martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/4/daszitat/a46 Mayor Jean Quan says she's transparent, yet has not posted a schedule since June 2013 http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/i/TransparentGovernment/index… http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/Connect/MayorsSchedule/index.… However I'm sure many people are busy getting govt. city paychecks to make sure she's kept quite busy: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htm Shall we request a proclamation? "To request a proclamation from the Mayor's Office: mayors-proclamation(a)oaklandnet.com" Meanwhile DAC (DOMAIN AWARENESS ) is moving torward an orwellian state for Oakland citizens, normals, average tax payers and travelers who pass through the great City of Oakland: Martin Niemoller Poem They came for the Communists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Communist; They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew; Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object. updated to 2013: A city dweller of oakland's Poem They came for the homeless and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Homeless (houseless, golf courses (a future tent city) and un occupied mansions aside) They came for the Anarchists, Rabble rousers, Occupy folks, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Anarchists; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader; (still valid today) They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew; They came for the christians, catholics, conservative patriots,, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a religious zealot; They came for the immigrants, nomads, pagans and foreigners, and I didn't object - For I was born here [take your pick: (They came for the Queer, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a homosexual, transexual, bisexual, lesbian / gender challenged,) OR (They came for the heterosexuals, straight men and women, breeders, and I didn't object - I was Gay) ] They came for the criminals and Thieves, pimps and prostitutes, and I didn't object - For I was a "law abiding citizen". They came for the Drug Dealers, drug addicts, and I didn't object - For I followed all laws and bought my meds from Walmart or from my Rite Aid/Walgreens They came for the wierdos, agnostics, atheists, and I didn't object - For I was a normal. Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object. -Anonymous Circa November 2013 based on Martin Niemoller Poem links of interest: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/Mayor/a/ContactUs/index.htm http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm NYSE: CBG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Richard_Ellis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17 "Founded in 1969, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is a major intelligence, military, aerospace, engineering and systems contractor. It is involved in defense/military (DoD), intelligence community, and homeland security contracting, as well as selected commercial markets." http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=17 http://www.crocodyl.org/spies_for_hire/saic_science_applications_internatio… http://rady.ucsd.edu/beyster/about/ "The work of the Beyster Institute began in 1986 when, as part of the Foundation for Enterprise Development, it took on the commission to spread the visionary ideas of Dr. J. Robert Beyster, the founder of SAIC. These ideas have led to the development of many highly successful enterprises based on the potent combination of employee ownership and entrepreneurial spirit." http://publicintelligence.net/oakland-dac-saic/ Oakland Domain Awareness Center SAIC Contract Documents October 12, 2013 in California, Corporate, Intelligence Fusion Centers The following files contain the majority of the contract documents between the City of Oakland and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for construction of the City of Oakland/Port of Oakland Joint Domain Awareness Center. The documents were obtained via a public records request made by members of Occupy Oakland. http://littlesis.org/org/290/SAIC "SAIC Science Applications International Corporation" "A project of the Public Accountability Initiative. Basic Info edit Types Organization, Business, Public Company Website http://www.saic.com Revenue $9.0 billion Industries Defense electronic contractors" At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator. Spouse(s) Jack Berman (1956–1959; div.) Bertram Feinstein (1962–1978; deceased) Richard C. Blum (1980–) http://www.projectcensored.org/social-media-new-medium-terrorism/ http://www.projectcensored.org/u-s-senator-dianne-feinsteins-husband-sellin…

12 years, 2 months

Phuckin' Phylean - Art Murmur After Party/Proposal/Planning/Properly/Promoter/Perhaps

by Max Klein

I'm forwarding this message from Phuckin' Phylean (cc'd), who's having trouble signing up to sudo-discuss. Please reply-all or get in touch with her personally: _________________________________________________ Greetings Programs, The last party went pretty swimmingly for only being thrown together at the last moment. Just a week to plan ain't much in the nightclub industry but stranger things have happened that were successful but usually only on dumb luck! So, lets do the next one a little bigger, which means a little better planning and promoting equals a lot better partying and probably paying off for all involved in the long run. So, we need a small staff to run this smoothly, safely, and successfully without any risk of the typical trials and tribulations that could possibly become trouble for the venue. Positions (some paid, some volunteer): *Door-person (Outdoor greeter/bouncer) *Door-person (Indoor suggested donation "enforcer") *Bartender (Tips only basis) *Moderator (Communicating to the people/members translating to the event staff) *Promoters (Facebooking/posting/advertising/notifying/informing/flyering) *Security (Walking through casually and occasionally checking in with the front door and bar or bars to keep a general but casual eye on the happy but drinking patrons) *Host/Hostess (Not necessary but nice to have if they enjoy the position) *DJs (Must have their own music, music knowledge, gear, experience, and some following) Please text me back if interested or have any suggestions or commentary because I have no reliable internet access at the moment. (415) 794-7789 Phuckin' Phylean 15 years of promotion and DJing at your service -- The best way to contact me reliably is texting my Cell phone (415) 794-7789 or if it's before 9 pm call the Studio phone (510) 534-7068 Thanks and take care, Phuckin' Phylean Double "P" that is me with "F" that you hear but don't see "The only thing that brings me peace is the same phuckin' thing that won't let me rest, music." says I, Phuckin' Phylean is DJ Jezzebella! djjezzebella(a)yahoo.com djjezzebella(a)gmail.com phuckinphylean(a)gmail.com http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphylean http://www.myspace.com/phuckinphyleanlive http://www.myspace.com/dopesicktight http://www.sfgoth.com/djs/jezzebella/index.html

12 years, 2 months

Spare rasberry pi

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Anyone have a raspi I could buy from them asap to help out a friend? // Matt

12 years, 2 months

Arduino For Total Newbies workshop 5-Dec

by Mitch Altman

I'm giving another "Arduino For Total Newbies" workshop at San Francisco's newest hackerspace -- RockIT CoLabs, in Chinatown. Thursday, 5-Decemeber, 7:00pm - 10:30pm Learn Arduino. It's fun, it's easy. All welcome! Limited to 25 people. Registration now open! Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arduino-for-total-newbies-workshop-tickets-935… Mitch.

12 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

by Yardena Cohen

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:50 PM, David Barthwell <david(a)vergegraphics.com> wrote: > To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting anecdotes about > encountering black people in Oakland: Let's not forget that there are > actually some on this list. In fact, I'm one of them! On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > what are you saying David - all black people are robbers? On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > David - you're black, do you have any info on the relative safety from > mugging of black women and men? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I still want to know whether David has any info/ insights on the relative > vulnerability to mugging of white v black men. Are you serious? Is this for real?

12 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

by The Batkid

I too love a good email thread, but I'm not sure what's the point of all this is, besides humble bragging about how more miserable our respective origins are from some other entity on the Internet. By the time it gets to message 100 in this thread, there will be no sudoroom members left.

12 years, 2 months

Ladders, tables, and other horizontal surfaces

by rachel lyra hospodar

Greetings, sudo! It has been a long time since i have visited! I hope you have all been doing well. I am taking the time right now as the year draws to a close to reflect on the current state of things in my world. Perhaps you will indulge me in reading everything below. perhaps you are seeking a tl;dr in which case i will ask you, have you seen my folding plastic table? have you seen my aluminum ladder? have you seen my dreams for a shared space and a common future? I believe I left them laying around here someplace, possibly with my name scrawled across in marker. The table is about 3'x6', blown plastic, folds in half. The ladder is aluminum, 12' high or so, and quite nice. The dreams are like hair or cuticles, forever growing back even as i try to ignore them and focus on something tangible or 'important'. At the beginning of this year I closed Coyote, a shared art studio and retail space I had been managing in North Oakland. We closed in part because of the loss of one of our founding members, who moved back east to live closer to his family. We closed also because of a mismatch with the neighborhood, admitting reluctantly that where we wanted to have our art studio was not compatible with where we needed to do our retail work - to seek customers, and build paying business. We struggled to integrate into our neighborhood, making friends while seeking to understand the impact of gentrification. We struggled with an unscrupulous landlord, mounting costs and flatlining incomes, and we had to admit that the project wasn't working in its current guise. The upscale restaurant down the block sought our support, as we were closing, for a 'neighborhood meeting' about crime. When I pressed the owner (who had never before visited, in our year and a half in business) about what their concerns were, he told me that some of their patrons were being mugged on their way from the tony restaurant to the train station. I can't say that I was surprised. I wasn't surprised that the patrons of this restaurant had been mugged. The food is not cheap and the place is an oasis of genteel laughter in a neighborhood more attuned to sirens, car stereos, and the stacatto passage of these same folks in their cars on their way home to the hills. I also wasn't surprised that the restaurant owners, after completely ignoring the existence of their scrappy neighbors, after failing to welcome their new peers to the block, after ignoring that small business baksheesh of customer-trading, were still willing to hit us up to come to their 'community' meeting and talk about how to 'stop crime'. I ache for folks who suffer through being robbed with the threat of violence, or with actual violence. It sucks to have something like that happen to you. But. In the time that I bottomlined our business in North Oakland, we lost about 5% of our sales income in shoplifting. This is in comparison to basically nil in shoplifting losses in a similar store that I previously ran in San Francisco, near haight/fillmore. What's different? Income inequality. Sure, in a diverse place, folks of all different sorts encounter each other, and there is a lot that is healthy about that. In this region there do seem to be some entrenched group identities in the culture war, and I sometimes wonder which side I am on. I have watched friends and neighbors struggle as their food stamps are cut. I have listened to the pained conflict that grows up in their loving homes around money, when there is none. I wondered most especially which side I was on after George Zimmerman was let free, and marches passed my West Oakland house every day. I saw the notoriously violent OPD standing between me and these marches, as if to protect me. This more than anything else drove me to walk out my front gate and join those marches, to show with my body where my loyalties lay. I have watched the region that has nurtured me for the last decade sink into an inequality that I am led to believe is as deep and deeply entrenched (meaning the unlikelihood of people to transcend the circumstances into which they were born) as the period that preceded the French Revolution. Only whose head will roll? In the midst of these questions I was forced to confront the inadequacy of Sudo's best and most shining efforts. It is a place where I have made friends, many of whom stay in my orbit & community now as I re-orient. Sudo is also the only place where my hair was ever grabbed without my consent. It is a place where I have been accosted in a dark hallway by someone who repeatedly demanded my attention despite my demurrals, despite walking away. It is a place I have been yelled at in anger, as have many others. It is a place I have feared to bring friends. I watched a community struggle to set boundaries to protect its members, only to founder as it seeks to define what a 'member' is that deserves protection. I say these things not as a condemnation of sudo, and i hope they are not read as such. I say them as an honest person sharing some difficult thoughts, and i remind you dear reader that we reside within a culture that is structurally predisposed against this. It trains us to see critique as attack, to see critical thought as a threat, instead of what we hackers know as the fundamental strength we bring to any situation. We can think. we can assess. we can learn and grow and change, and we can evolve. We are meta. We are legion, and we cannot be contained. I read recently about this space starting in SF, and while i was gladdened to hear about Double Union, I am extra excited to imagine another space with such a strong commitment to inclusion. https://github.com/wallacemax/sfhackerspace I hope the east bay hackerspace scene continues to grow, evolve, and flourish. I understand sudo is changing right now as well. It is well for all things to change, and I hope that in this case the changes lead towards the causes of transparency in governance and inclusion for all, which i always understood to be some of the most fundamental tenets of sudo. be well, good luck to all, and always, R.

12 years, 2 months

Dec 5 2013 :: 2.Oakland’s Tech & Innovation Celebration

by Neil Planchon

Hello everyone On Dec 5 at the Port WorkSpaces at 101 Broadway (at Embarcadero) 2.Oakland celebrates Oakland based tech and innovation. Please join us for community building, fun, music and food at our end of year gathering. To learn more and register visit http://twopointoakland.com/dec-5-2013-2-oaklands-tech-innovation-celebratio… Cordially, Neil In community, Neil Planchon CPCC Life and Productivity Coach, Website Design and Technology Solutions - www.neilplanchon.com Founding Resident and Webmaster - Swan's Market Cohousing - Oakland CA - www.swansway.com Board member, Treasurer and Technology Team - Old Oakland Neighbors - www.oldoaklandneighbors.org Co-Chair and Technology Team - 2.Oakland - www.twopointoakland.com Steering Committee and Technology - OakX - www.OakXnow.com OnBoarding, CRM administrator, etc. - OpenOakland - www.openoakland.org (A Code for America Brigade) Steering Committee and Technology Team - Cohousing Research Network - www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org Former Board Member, National Tours Director and Fundraiser - Cohousing Association - www.cohousing.org

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Crime and its opposites: starting a microenterprise lending system.

by GtwoG PublicOhOne

Continued from my posting under the "crime" topic. How to setup a microenterprise lending systemand start a bank. 1) Find a local credit union or local bank whose management are willing to agree to the project. 2) Set up an account for this purpose. This can be done by any legal entity formed for the purpose. 3) Solicit funds from whoever. All the money gets deposited to the account. Bookkeeping keeps track of who's in for how much, in case someone wants to exit the system and withdraw their funds (with simple savings-account interest). The minimum to shoot for should be $120,000. Better, shoot for $250,000 which is the limit of a single FDIC-insured deposit account. The targets can go higher as more FDIC-insured deposit accounts are opened. 4) Whenthe targetamount is reached, it gets used to tie down a secured line of credit with the bank or credit union (or more than one as the case may be). The secured line of credit will probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% to 80% of the funds on deposit, but that's OK because it serves a specific purpose (per (12) below). 5) At this point, go into the 'hood and the schools and work with existing local organizations to seek out young people who have entrepreneurial smarts and who are seriously at-risk of opting into crime-world. 6) The secured line of credit is used for lending to the grassroots microenterprise startups. 7) Work with groups of kids to develop viable business ideas. Do the whole business planning exercise with them, teach them how to do it. Ideal case is that the first round of these won't depend on renting storefronts: rent is a huge expense and a business-killer unless gross sales can rampup quickly. Best if the group members can continue to live with their parents (to keep costs down), though this can't be taken for granted, and shared housing arrangements may be needed. 8) Each group that qualifies gets signed for a startup loan. The loan is actually taken with the bank or credit union. However, the loan is secured by the funds in the account under (3) above. This means zero risk to the local financial institution, and that's the key to getting their approval for the whole project. 9) The agreement between the organization and the groups it funds, is that 20% of their net profits, goes back to the organization to grow its pile of capital. This is in addition to repaying the loan to the local financial institution. (VCs are typically looking for 30%, so this is a better deal for the new startups.) In addition, the founders of these startups are obligated to help withoutreach and mentoring of others, after they themselves succeed. 10) If a new startup can't make a loan payment, the money is paid fromthe secured account. The risk is distributed proportionally across all of the contributors to the account. 11) Stay actively involved with each new startupthrough its first five years in business. If it survives its first year, it is most likely to survive the next four years. After five years,it is likely to continue successfully. 12) Per the agreement with the original financial institution(s), once a startup successfully pays off its starting loan, it becomes eligible for comparable credit directly from the institution. This is the step that leverages the startup fund to obtain independent credit for the startups after their first couple of years. 13) At this level the system runs steady-state: its ability to fund new startups is limited by its own funds. But that will change under (16) below. 14) Once the startups start succeeding, their contributions of 20% of net will grow the funds and enable more startups. 15) Once there's an asset pool of a couple million dollars, distributed across a number of FDIC-insured accounts, possibly at a number of institutions, then it's time to consolidate all of that money into one entity, and start a new financial institution. This is the point at which the community organization starts a bank. 16) The new institution starts with a decent chunk of capital, chartered for smallbusiness and startup lending. And then it becomes eligible to engage in "fractional reserve" lending, which multiplies the effective use of its money. If the reserve ratiois 10% assets to loans, that means $2 million in cash can theoretically produce $20 million in lending. Note, 10% is "conservative." In the US, the actual number is abit below 5%, which means $2 million in deposits can generate $40 million in lending capability, assuming that each borrower uses the new institution to hold its own deposits (this can be written into contracts with new startups). Reality is usually substantially below these theoretical maximums, but any multiplier is a good multiplier. 17) Fractional reserve lending is how banks "print money." It's an enormous engine for economic development. But instead of enriching a small number of investors, plowing it all back into the community enriches the community. 18) Last but not least, this could be a candidate for a Kickstarter, starting at step (1) above. However, 100% of funds raised should go direct to the initial account and to the lending program: this is not the place to generate jobs for the organizers themselves(that may take five to ten years or longer). And, to get back to the original "crime" topic, when at-risk kids start to see real opportunity in starting legitimate businessesor getting legitimate jobs working for their buddies, they aren't going to opt into crime-world. But the point of the exercise isn't just to lower the crime rate. The point of the exercise is to enrich the community so people can flourish rather thanbarely survive. -G.

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