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[sudo revenue] It is almost time - Sudouino Microcontroller

by Hol Gaskill

OK Folks, We've been talking about selling electronics kits as a revenue source basically since forever. I've been going back and forth on a design concept and am converging on one that achieves the folowing compared to other Arduino clones: A) lower cost B) more power C) increased hackability basically the controller chip hooked straight up to an array of 7x 500mA power transistors, with a heavy duty voltage regulator of voltage range selectable at time of purchase I am heading to sudo in a few minutes to draft a design for the first generation board, schematics of which which I'll send out in about an hour. If anyone is around sudo or near email and wants to collaborate, I'm using http://fritzing.org/download/ software which I just installed last night but seems to err on the side of being easy to use. Working capital requirements for this will not be very prohibitive, but I think a Kickstarter campaign would be a good way to get enough to bring costs down even further, not to mention get the word out. Who's good at those? I'll do the legwork, just need some tips&tricks. Cheers, Hol

12 years, 6 months

Fwd: important mail

by David Keenan

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:08 PM Subject: RE: important mail To: David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> No, David, I DO mean 2145 Broadway. The physical location is 2141 Broadway, but the mailing address should show as 2145 Broadway, Suite #9. That might have something to do with the mail problems. There is no box for 2141 Broadway. That said, most of the mail delivery people know to put it in the 2145 Box, and if it actually gets into the kitchen mailbox which is 2143 next to ours the kitchen folks put all mail that isn’t for them into ours, which is Box B closer to the building; however there is a fair amount of turnover and a lot of idiots out there, and it’s probably much harder to do commercial delivery than residential (which, as I noted before, I always feel safer directing mail to our home). Laurie *From:* David Keenan [mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:05 PM *To:* Laurie Cooperman Rosen *Subject:* Re: important mail Laurie, Thank you for letting us know our suite number. Can I confirm you really mean 2141 Broadway, not 2145 Broadway? As we were told 2141 Broadway was our address, and this is what we have been using for all our correspondence and event information. If in fact we have an entirely different legal address, that seems rather important to know - Best, David On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> wrote: Hi David No, it mostly gets tossed if it looks like junk mail, or marked return to sender or address unknown-return to sender if it looks important. At the beginning we got oodles of them all addressed to individual names of people from the original whole-floor tenant, but as we started renting out to individuals and small groups we knew the names of those folks. But over a 10-year period when we see certain company names or #s, such as T1 over and over again but can’t find anybody fessing up to using that name, we recognize and toss those that we have been seeing for many years. I have never seen anything addressed to the name Niki Shelly personally, but I’ll let George know to keep an eye out for that name, and he would remember if he recently saw something for it and will get back to you. Yes, if they address it to 2145 Broadway, Suite 9, we will know that it is for Bay Area Public School. The Sudo Room should be known as the “Art Suite” or “Art Room”. Most suites or very large officer have numbers, but a few have names taken from the former University Tenant --i.e. Robert Wenzel’s is known as “The Cave”, the suite at the top (to the right as you walk up) of the 2141 stairs is the “Library Suite” and the suite next to the ADA bathroom is the “Presidential Suite” (it used to be occupied by the president of University Creation of Spirituality who had the whole floor, and the Library Suite was really their Library); The Cave was their meditation room, the large front space off of your common area was really the “Conference Room” and the space where The Sudo Room was was really the room where they did all of their Art Projects! Laurie *From:* David Keenan [mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:27 PM *To:* Laurie Cooperman Rosen *Subject:* Re: important mail Thanks Laurie. It might possubly be addressed to 'Niki Shelley', a main organizer at our school, so do look out for that name. I wonder if there is a suite number for the bay area public school room? Adding this to our official address might clarify to you and George what mail is ours, i.e., in the event mail is adressed to individuals at the school rather than the school itself, which will no doubt occur, if it hasnt already. Do you have any mail for which you dont know where it goes? If so can we see that stack? Thank you, David On Friday, November 15, 2013, Laurie Cooperman Rosen wrote: Hi David- It comes to a mailbox downstairs in front of the Sound Room/Kitchen, and we would put it under your door. I collected the mail yesterday and there was nothing at all for Bay Area Public School. Let me know if there is any other unrecognizable name that it might come to and we’ll keep an eye out for it. It will be put directly under your door once we get it. Laurie *From:* David Keenan [mailto:dkeenan44@gmail.com <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com>] *Sent:* Friday, November 15, 2013 7:58 AM *To:* George; Laurie Cooperman Rosen *Cc:* Matthew Senate; niki; DZ Brazil *Subject:* important mail Good morning George & Laurie, The Bay Area Public School is expecting some very important mail (which should have already come) and I realize I actually have no idea where our mailbox is! Where does our mail get delivered? We need to check it today, and also every business day from hereon out. If there is a key to wherever it gets delivered, we'll need that asap, too - Thank you both kindly, David

12 years, 6 months

Fwd: This Wednesday: Grassroots Financing teach-in

by Vicky Knox

Yet another relevant event put on by the Sustainable Economies Law Center.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Christina(a)theSELC.org" <christina(a)theselc.org> Hey friends, I'm sending you an event announcement because at some point you've asked me questions about or expressed interest in crowdfunding, creative small business finances or something related. So I thought you might be interested to know that this Wednesday evening my colleague and I are running a little teach-in on legal issues pertaining to "grassroots financing strategies, or in other words, investment crowdfunding campaigns. The teach-in will take place at the Alchemy Collective Cafe's new location on Alcatraz Ave in South Berkeley. We're so excited to be partnering with an awesome new local worker cooperative to organize this and future events. See this eventbrite for more info and to register. There's no required registration fee, but because we're a small nonprofit we gladly accept donations via the eventbrite registration and at our events. Feel free to share the invite with other people. -Christina Christina Oatfield (415) 828-5627 mobile

12 years, 6 months

5MOF call for speakers this Thursday!

by Danny O'Brien

Hey, so in an attempt to be fractionally more organized for this week's 5MOF, if you have some cool project or thoughts or demos or rants or code or TARDIS rebuild, and would like to speak to an audience of many of your most loving peers, drop me a mail, and you can speak for five minutes on PRECISELY WHATEVER YOU WANT. It is fun, the audience is always amazing, and sometimes there are impromptu musical numbers. Thank you for your attention, humanlings! d.

12 years, 6 months

This Monday 18th is Techno Activism Third Monday, San Francisco -- with Morgan Mayhem, Laurie Penny, Jillian York, 6PM, EFF HQ

by Danny O'Brien

> TECHNO-ACTIVISM 3RD MONDAYS SAN FRANCISCO, THIS MONDAY AT EFF AT 6PM >> SELF-CARE FOR ONLINE ACTIVISTS https://www.eff.org/event/ta3m-nov2013 Being behind a computer screen might save you from the physical consequences of being an activist -- but what about the mental effects? For San Francisco's TA3M this month, we'll be discussingresources and practical advice for psychological and other health care. From filtering out the trolls and avoiding timezone jetlag, to dealing with PTSD among friends and ongoing global effects of the Syrian civil war. Joining us for the discussion will be security researcher Morgan Mayhem (@headhntr on Twitter), Laurie Penny (@pennyred) from the New Stateman and UK Guardian and co-author of Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens, and EFF's own Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York (@jilliancyork). Plus: a round-up of new and ongoing projects, info on the Jeremy Hammond decision, and a chance to network with your fellow cryptographers, lawyers, coders, and other involved parties. EFF's offices are at 815 Eddy St, SF, CA 94109. Please be punctual for 6PM -- if you arrive late, call x 118 from the door to be let in. A map of 815 Eddy: http://www.openstreetmap.org/go/TZHvUrLDP Techno-Activism 3rd Monday is a monthly meetup that happens simultaneously in 18 cities throughout the world. It brings together individuals interested in censorship, surveillance and open technology. This includes Amsterdam, Brighton(UK), Cambridge, Dakar, Durham, Kansas City, London, Madison, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Stockholm, Seattle, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC. For more info, see: https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays

12 years, 6 months

Dealing with funding

by Marc Juul

In thinking about funding for sudo room, I thought of couple of items that I believe sudo room has discussed before but never formally decided upon. I'd like to propose that we formally decide on the following: * All income and expenses should be open and transparent, including who gave us grants and how much, though anonymous donations from individuals should still be allowed. * sudo room should not allow recurring grants or major donations from other organizations to fund any recurring critical operations costs since that would give those organizations significant power over sudo room through their ability to defund critical operations. Critical operations costs are things such as rent, utilities. Stuff that is required for sudo room to continue operation. What do you think? -- marc/juul

12 years, 6 months

Conflict Resolution Proposal and Conflict Awareness 1, 2 and 3

by Patrick Schmidt

Dear fellow Sudoers, although my 3Dimensial Body left the continent and spontaneously emmigrated to Asia (Updates on Chinese Hackerspaces and Community Spaces to follow), my consciousness is still around. I was a little bit sad two weeks ago to read in the meeting minutes that one name alone was listed under "conflict resolution". I assume that this was done in the absence of our fellow sudoer. I find this a little problematic to be exposed like this and would propose the following: As conflicts (not wanting to talk about inner conflicts within one person) are always among minimum two entities, in case of a conflict all names of all parties involved should be mentioned, and not only the accused (especially in their absence). Conflict awareness 1 : Rejecting a person and not being able to handle a disagreement with compassion reveales a lot about one self. In 99% of the cases the Ego jumps in and goes with separation and rejection as the behaviour of the rejected entity triggers us, in other words: we subconsciously reject others because their behaviour reminds us on what we do not like about ourselves. In this context, lets expand our consciousness and our compassion, and next time we get angry ask ourselves: "what is it within me that is triggered right now by that persons behaviour" Conflict awareness 2 : Everybody lives in their own universe, and an interesting metaphor for people is to comparing them with atoms. In the quantum world of atoms strange rules reign, even things that contradict each other can be true in the same time. So this superposition of realities that contradict each other but simultaneously are true can be applied on human conflicts: both entities have their own side of the story which contradict each other, but yet they can still be true at the same time. (Lesson learned from the first public Sudo conflict) Conflict Awareness 3: Often during a conflict when the egos collide it can get nasty, especially when the ego feels threatened it will accuse, blame, judge,... A good strategy is instead of acusing a person directly, just talk about your feelings and your inner states what the persons behaviour made you feel. In this case, the argument which is likely to follow ("no, this is not true") is not valid, as your feelings are your feelings and they are true in your universe no matter what. ------------------------------------ just felt like sharing these lessons I learned, and I want to thank Sudo crowd for my personal development that especially the conflicts triggered, Im much more Zen, get angry much less at people, also do not identify with my anger but can see how the ego sneacks in... sending you cosmic love from the other side of our beautiful planet, Patrick

12 years, 6 months

forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by Eddan Katz

I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of Columbia. and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that. It is often forgotten that there was a first constitution of the United States after Independence before the one that people call the Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up moving to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC. It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the Confederacy that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 43, "We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With great propriety, therefore, has the new system supplied the defect. The general precaution, that no new States shall be formed, without the concurrence of the federal authority, and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such transactions." As population grew and the country was further colonized by the European settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting disaster. Different coalitions of states banded together to promote their collective interest at the expense of others. Those states excluded formed their own alliances and there were many cries of treason thrown around back and forth. Each cluster thought of themselves as the "us" and the others as the "them" until the "them" became the "us" and the "us" was "them". And so on. So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted to have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And this is how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the provision saying: "To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings." I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and arsenals and such, but I still think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster confuses themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the country adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and "them" into we - did the agreement amongst them create stability and mutual respect that made them united states.

12 years, 6 months

missing insulation for 3d printer extruder

by Jake

hello everyone, it appears that someone was cleaning up around the 3d printer and they decided to throw away or remove a lot of stuff that was in the bottom of the printer. this included the fiberfrax insulation for the extruder head!!!!! if you know where this material went, please bring it back to the printer, otherwise we will have to get new insulators from the manufacturer. thank you, -jake

12 years, 6 months

Meeting Notes 11-13-13 - Juice and Paranoia in Sudoland

by Max Klein

In what's being called an "incident of provocation" sudoers cathartically purged their souls of paranoid fears, and imbibed a Class-C schedule Drug - Vitamin C in lethal amounts. 3 pinneapples, 12 bananas, 25 apples, 60 pears, and clod of celery. -notconfusing Meeting Minutes https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013-11-13 ------------------------ Icebreaker: Give an example of how you are paranoid about security, or in general. Attendees: Max - wireless charging in toothbrush Daniel - whiteboard at home with a circle in the middle about privacy, maybe privacy is already lost Ed (einstein) - "not paranoia they really are out to get us" Matt - "people's safety" - Vicky - "losing my memory" - JC - "leave no digital trace" <-- until now - Anca - Jehan's mom visiting from Vermont - "cool housing community" - Tony - "texting while driving" - Elvin - paranoid about how social websites can log you into every website ever. - Marc - "wipe my harddrive and install a clean os before crossing a border" - Rhodey - autocompletion on security - yar - http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/?q=tor+bug+tracker - Line 16 - speaking in short sentences - Diku - "pitiless gaze of the future staring down at us." "lots of stray humans" - Dante - "posting stuff online" - Sam - "all my software efforts are in vain, because of hardware chipping" - Brandon - careful about porn more than anything. - 1. Announcements - Events for this week: https://sudoroom.org/calendar - Review the events for this week--what's happening? - Rackspace maybe wants to give us money? - We were recommended for a grant ;) - but requires W-9 forms, do we have that? - for the w-9 we need the board of directors (true? - unknown) - apparently there are still options - grant is approx $4000 - not 100% we would get it, but quite likely - Update on The Omni - The omni a space - everyone at a previous meeting agreed it was a good idea to pursue it further - its more difficult to buy, business mortgages apparently need 30-50% of 1.9million. lease at $13,000 per month for two years - Marc is getting more info from owner before he can propose a consensus item. - leasing triple-net means you are more responsible than a regular tennant. - updates to the wiki - Vicky is a superhero with regards to the wiki - categorizing the wiki into events/projects/stubs' - "the tortoise will win the race" - yar - "our long term goal is to turn the wiki into the front page"noisebridge-style - vicky invites people to work with her - on vicky time. (STOP. It's Vicky time.) - Board ratification is delayed in favor of antidramatic juice-a-thon - regret to inform beloved room that faust will not be accepting nomination at this time, due to unfortunate conflict; she hopes that this opportunity presents itself again in the future. she also expects to be there, albeit late, with cake. - julio accepts nomination - Y u no http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/annualreport/2008/_images/pic_board_of_d… - everyone not privy to this drama is thinking "thank goodness" - *It should look more like this: * *http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg*<http://www.shtig.net/consensus_spiral_4web_med.jpg> - New color laser printer :D - consent to spend less than $200 for the printer for toner - if someone wanted to donate. - it's awesome! - Are we incorporated? Can we start getting a real bank account and moving services off members' private credit cards? - Matt investigated a couple of credit unions. Makes a recommendation: - Do get an Internet Archive Federal Credit Union account (don't use it for too much) - Must pay for frequent debit transactions - Most services take charges. - Do get a Patelco Federal Credit Union account (use for debit, bills) - Skip - People's Federal Credit Union - Cooperative Federal Credit Union - "note that with credit unions you can often do transactions at a credit union not yours and have them post to yours, they are in cahoots as credit unions" - faust - we have 2 bitcoins, marc controls the wallet but will transfer it to us as soon as there is an "us" - rhodey - if theres no penalty for just go for it - Update from Timon and Marc on alcohol permit situation - Timon- Marc was right - get smashed for $35 with an average of 3 days noticed. - $35 with 3 days notice - Thankstaking potluck? - faust is in, ok faust, take it. - seeking date/time/deets 2. Articles of Incorporation - not approving board of directors (see above) 3. Finances - all our new cash == standing funds. hands off, act normal. - no exchequer? no bank balance info? - current exchequer team does not currently have access to online bank account (can't wait to move to patelco!). check from soex on its way after completion of contract, w-9, signatures, which will be presented to the group at the next meeting. 4. conflict resolution - Timon - constable/conflict steward. The conflict that neither of the two parties wanted to bring t o us. Elliot and Shake. Timon noted them, both of them declined to meet officially. - Shake is showing good faith by sharing some perspective. - the private portion is proceeding. - Shake speaks - he likes sudo room - he helped dj. at some point he was just working and elliot asked questions about an occupy oakland. he felt like he did explain to elliot, they even went outside. he felt like he wasn't welcome any more. then he found out he had a conflict on the agenda. "keep in mind that i do not want anyone to be uncomfortable because of me". says that because he is a political figure that there will always be oppoonents. now feels uncomfortable because he doesn't understand that why elliot. gives a message that he wants to be here and help - Eventually, sudo came around to realize that our actions during the meeting are not the best execution and interpretation of our Conflict Resolution procedure of the Articles of Association, ending the conversation about the details of any specific conflicts. - tl;dr shake tried his best but we can't do anything because the other person never showed up - If anyone has a conflict or wants to resolve things they may have heard or speculate with other members, reach out to the person in question, or find another sudoer to act as a mediator. mate made $128 5. After- Meeting Teamups - bank teamupu - juice meetup - 6. Action Items - marc -to investigate printer recoup cost - to message ar - timon -message art murmur mailing list about alcohol license s - 7. Additional Notes

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